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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Particulars have just been published
of wonderful series of underground
caves in the Stalden district of Can
ton Schwytz. The existence of these
places had before been vaguely
known. but they have now for the
first time been fully explored by a
party which went down provided with
5000 yards of rope ladders, acetylene
lamps, rugs and provisions for eight
days. They were underground for two
full days, penetrating for a distance
of $500 yards through vast halls
brilliant with stalactite and other
crystals, and with other great recesses
branching from them There were
also found swift subterranean tor
rents. powerful enough to work great
industrial undertakings.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

manned senior officer until July 2, 1893
There was fear of war with
France, and Washington, who had left
the presidency fifteen months earlier
was made lieutenant-general and com
mander-in-chief; and ON March 3, 1893,
the army was enlarged, and the rank
of general was created for him. He
never was commissioned in that rank
however, and died ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The army had been enlarged mean
time, its authorized strength being
placed at two regiments of artillerists
and engineers, four regiments of dra
goons, forty regiments Of Infantry
and one regiment and one battalion of
riflemen. Its total was 2,447 officers
and 1924 men. MajorGen. Alexander
Hamilton was senior officer.
When the danger of war was over
the army was cut down with great ra.
pidity, the act of May IA, 1900, looping
men off right and left. until only two
regiments of artillerists and engin-
GERS, two companies of light dragons
and four regiments of infantry remain
eut anu Ol THESE james WILKINSON
again took command as senior officer.
The army consisted then of 31S Off.
GERS and Ais men; but only a year
later this number was further reduced
to one regiment of artillerists and two
regiments of infantry. with a strength
O. 241 officers and 3,046 men.
The army remained at this size for
six years, with Wilkinson still in
command, until on April 10, 1908, the
strength was placed at ia officers and
9,147 men, divided among a regiment
of light artillery, regiment of artil-
ierists, regiment of dragons, seven
regiments of infantry and one regi-
ment of riflemen.
Gen. Wilkinson was relieved as COM
mander-in-chief in January, 1872. Gen.
Dearborn succeeding him for the war
with Great Britain, Many additions 10
the army were authorized during that
war. the greatest strength reached be-
Ing 3,495 officers and 1919 men, in
zone regiment of light artillery. a corps
OF artillery, a regiment of rangers and
Sc. fencibles.
At the end of the war the strength
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Henry X. Bliggers was an inventor.
An inventor, be 1t known. Is one
who inyents. The things he invents
need not necessarily go any farther
than the stage of being invented. A
true inventor rises above all paltry
considerations of actual working, of
pecuniary return. Sufficient unto him
Is the fact that he has evolved some
thing that was either hitherto unac-
eomplished or unthought OF.
So with Henry X. Bliggers. He
struck a new idea during the recent
coal famine. 1t was not briquette,
nor an oil burner, nor a mechanical
board of arbitration that should get
it's pictures in the papers. To him
the great demand was for smoke
consumer. He figured that enough
smoke was wasted every day to keep
the population of the world hot for
whole year. So he collected all his
springs and pipes and wheels and
things, and built little shed in the
back yard. There, from the remains
of two unsuccessful airships, a sink
less submarine boat and defective
hydraulic pump he constructed a
smoke consumer that worked wonder
fully on paper. He computed the thing
by algebra and demonstrated it by
geometry. There simply was no reason
why, If so much smoke should be de-
livered over a given area of the fire.
box, beautifully bright and even
flame should not result. Figures do
not lie, and Henry X. Bliggers had
figures that showed air pressure and
foot pounds and caloric units till you
couldn't rest. So practical did his in
vention seem that he had little trou-
BILE in assembling small party of
financiers, who promised to back the
invention If it was success.
The day for the test arrived, and
Bliggers had the backyard all cleaned
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03
The Gold Seekers Claim

To cheerily chat on a mountain climb,
Or bid me partake of his frugal store.
He passed" they said, Fat the break of
day,
And his last words were: 4 will patient
be-
For, though l am worn and battered and
gray,
There are riches untold awaiting me- +"
And, knowing his kindness was ever the
same.
l judge that Up There he has sold his
claim.
The hills of the West are trodden by
these,
The ancient prospectors. both worn and
gray,
Who are ''staked for grub" ere their
picks they seize
And toll and hope till they fade away;
And each of them knows where the hills
are lined
And scanned and streaked by wealth
untold
And each is rich in his simple mind
As he dreams of the day when his claim
shall be sold;
And / have a notion these children of
hope
Are the richest of all on any slope.
Alfred j. Waterhouse, in New York
Times.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

This expensive night guard of the
sultan has been maintained by him
only since the recent assassination of
the royal couple of Servia. OF course,
the timorous ruler of Turkey always
has been particularly well guarded at
night, but the murders at Belgrade,
scared Abdul Hamid almost out of his
wits, and he Immediately determined
that he would surround his bed cham.
Der with the most vigilant men who
could be secured, and make it to their
interest to protect him. The command
of the special night guard is entrusted
to eight of the sultans most trusted
generals, two of whom are on duty
every night. Owing chiefly to this
and other precautions that the ruler
has adopted recently, 1t is estimated
that the weekly expense Of running
Yildiz Kiosk is over $4,000.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

He went to the West when his life was
young,
And now he was old and wrinlkled and
gray,
Yet still he wandered the hills among,
Prospecting for gold in the old, old way.
81 hain't got money! to me he said
But | allays can git grub stake or so,
An | don't mind sayin', just on the dead,
That the richest rock of 1t all know;
An when | have sold that claim" said he,
You bet I'll be rich as the richest be-"
met him again in later day
/ have met of his kind a hundred or
more
A little more wrinkled, little more gray,
Yet seeking for gold in the gray rock s
store.
81 know where 1t is he said to me;
THE secret Is mine, an | guard 1t we'll
An you safely can gamble, when me you
see
You're viewin' a nabob positive swell
For I'll sell it soon'-how his eyes would
shine!--
An the worldll be pleasant for me an
mine"
l wandered that way in a later time,
But the old prospector was there no
more.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03
MOnarChS of the Sea

When the America won the first in
ternational yacht race at Cowes,. Eng
land, fifty-two years ago, the world
little knew at the time that on farm
at Point Pleasant, Bristol, r. l.,
two children were playing who would
give yachting and rapid navigation
generally, an all-round, far-reaching
impetus such as, in all the wide world,
they had never felt before The elder,
John B. Herreshoff, a sandy-haired,
blue,eyed, earnest-looking boy of ten,
although foredoomed to life of
blindness, could then see, and had
already begun to whittle out pretty
toy boats, Only three or four years
later he built his first boat for ae-
tual use, which was considered a
marvel of beauty and speed At f1f-
teen, his eyesight failed him forever,
but he would not let anything dis
courage him. so he continued TO study
boats, and to build them, too. The
younger, Nat" a rather reddish-hair-
ed, ruddy-faced, roguish fodder of
three, at the time of the Cowes con-
TEST, was Holeu cnieHy LOT all HTepfes-
sible inclination TO run away to the
shore near by, at every favorable op-
portunity, and lie down on his back
in the sand and kick his heels exult-
antly in the water. He was found
often asleep in this position by his
anxious mother, one chubby hand
clasping a wisp of seaweed, the other
full of wet sand, with the rising tide
washing his bare feet. Whenever he
was missing he was first sought for
on the shore, where, If he was awake
and saw that his movements were
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03
Birds Queer Death Song

There is queer bird in the jungles
of northern South America which is
called the paul. by the natives, but
is known to science as the galeated
curasson. 1t is chiefly remarkable be-
cause it sings its own death song.
1t does not really sing, but makes a
deep humming noise, which sounds
very much like the Spanish words Eel
muerto esta aqui"-'9The corpse lies
here
1T is while uttering this lugubrious
chant" said a South American tray-
eler, that the paul. usually meets
it's death, for the hunter can then
easily track it to its retreat and 1t
falls victim, as the Indians say. to
its own death song"
If the paul. gets suspicious. Il
Immediately ceases humming. and
that is sure indication to the hunter
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

The domestic servant never bios
somed more brightly and conspicuous
ly In every possible point of view than
she does at the present time. That
she challenges criticism and actually
disarms 1t is a fact that Is quite as
we'll known as that one and one make
two.
That she is anxiously awaiting an
opportunity for mental and intellectu-
al development cannot be denied by
the most skeptical people in the land,
be they employers or not, If they will
but take sufficient interest in the mat
ter to give it but a superficial glance
in passing. It must be admitted by
the most prejudiced person that the
serving damosel reveals ordinary am
bition when she avalls herself of
every opportunity to practice upon
her mistress piano or mandolin.
Therefore, she should be encour-
aged to develop her musical talents.
In the hope that she may ripen into
fireside genius capable of rendering
Spohr and Schumann In such a man.
ner as to cause her to frown on the
policeman and the butchers acolyte,
and at the same time teach her to put
finer quality Of energy into the cen
trifugal stroke under which the buck
wheat cake leaps into ineffable beauty
and the pork and beans sparkle until,
to the astronomical mind, they are
the very Castor and Pollux of the
kitchen. 1t should be the duty of
every member of every woman's club
from one end of the country to the
other to provide a clavier for her
cook to practice upon, and to impress
the Importance of this move upon
all her friends, to the end that the in
tellectual side of the pot and kettle
Joan of Arcs romantic nature may
have an opportunity to develop along
intellectual lines.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

years. In 1882 a battalion of mounted
.angers was authorized, the strength
OF the army being $50 officers and
o,s4o mon; in 1888 the rlfemen were
discontinued and a regiment of ORA
goons enlisted, the authorized strength
being placed at 500 officers and $685.
men; three years later, when second
regiment OF dragons was provided,
me strength became SAT officers and
1910 men, and two years later still, In
1888 anotheru (eighth) regiment of
infantry having been formed, 1t was
placed at 735 officers and IL ,S04 men.
The Mexican war was fought very
largely by volunteers, but the regu-
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

that the bird has seen him, or scents
danger. In such case, the only
thing for the sportsman to do is
to remain perfectly still The bird
may become treasured after WAITING
while, and again begin to call. "Ths
corpse lies here" 1t can then be eau
tiously approached and killed.
IL it is only wounded, the "pauil'
usually escapes, though it cannot fly
much better than the ordinary domes
tic fowl. II is very fleet of foot, and
will outrun the hunter until 1t is losl
In the dense underground of the
jungle.
In the mating season, the male
paul. is the most pugnacious OF
birds, and will fight its own kind
whenever 1t meets them. Often the
fight ends in the humiliation of both
combatants.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

vas fixed at 674 officers and lilo
men, in a corps of engineers, a regi
ment of light artillery, corps of ar
hllery, eight regiments of infantry,
and one regiment of rinemen: and
Major-Gen. Jacob Brown became
senior officer.
After another six years the army
was reorganized. with a STAFF corps,
four regiments of artillery and seven
of infantry, the total strength being
b4o officers and 5,5So men. When Gen.
Brown died in 1928 Gen Macomb was
directed to take command of the army
tho first officer ordered to that duty,
the earlier commanders-in-ch ex-
cepL Washington. being merely seniors
for the time being.
Macomb held office for thirteen
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03
Ant.Reslstina Trees.

Trees have no foes like the white
ant of Australia, The pests encamp
in myriads of brown mounds around
the boles of forest monarchs. and set
down to the siege of a tree. They
enter into possession of it. eat its
heart out, till nothing of its sap and
wood is left save what has been turned
into brown dust and a shetland
at the end of their work die amid its
ruins.
Only one handsome myrtaceous
shade tree, growing on the coast of
New South Wales, offers them gal
liant and prolonged resistance This
is the turpentine tree; some virtue
which it possesses renders 1t distaste-
full to the white ant. Turpentine piles,
dressed only in their own natural
clothing Of bark, have been known to
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03
philanthropy indeed.

WELL" said the dripping fellow cit
izen to the other dripping fellow citi-
zen on the twenty-ninth day of the
rain, there's one thing about this
weather. It's good for the crops" And
then and there the other dripping fell
low citizen did raise and otherwise
elevate his umbrella, and did with
the said umbrella Stay, murder, kill,
destroy and otherwise eradicate the
first dripping fellow citizen, and it
was a blamed good thing.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03
ROYAL conins.

Sarcophagi for Car Alexander II
and his wife Maria Alexandrowna.
are nearly ready after being in the
workmen's hands for twelve years
The czar's sorcophagus is cut out of
an enormous block of green jasper
rom Siberia; the czarinas from a
block of pink rhodonite from the Ural
mountains.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

noted he would generally spend his
time in watching passing ships or
sailing chips or toy boats.
When older grown he attended the
primary, intermediate and grammar
schools, and. later, the high school,
under the principalship of Thomas w.
Bicknell, now living in Providence,
who says he was always well-behaved
and studious, only an ordinary pupil
in grammar, reading, spelling or his
tory but bright in physical geography,
Algebra, geometry, and chemistry, and
remarkably keen in natural philos-
ophy. AT this time he was tall for
his age, thin, rather slender, some
what loosely built, and had a notice
able forward inclination of the head
which became more and more pro-
nounced from habit he had of close
ly watching rivals in his many boat
races, craning his neck in order to see
them from under his boom.
Mr.. Bicknell says that the mother
of the young Herreshoffs, although
very busy woman, managed 10 visit
the high school two or three times a
' eek on an average, and encouraged
her children, some of whom were
blind, in all ways possible. My
mother" said John B. Herreshoff to
the writer, in 1899, lis eighty-eight,
and still enjoys good health. If have
one thing more than another to be
thankful Tor, it is for her care in
childhood and her sympathy through
lie, She is one of the best of
mothers, and feel that | owe her a
debt | can never repay" She has
since died.-Success.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

It is asserted that neither male nor
female convicts in British prisons are
permitted to see a mirror during the
period of their incarceration. Why
in the world hasn't Mrs, Maybrick de
mahded her release on the ground of
"cruel and unusual punishment"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Confectioners now sell educational
chocolates, in cakes marked off into
squares, each showing a letter of the
alphabet. 1t is easy to believe that
children will prefer them to the old.
fashioned building blocks.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Lillian Bell wrote IN her wishes for
her baby: May the public pass her
by In utter Ignorance and never know
of the existence of my little maid /"
But the baby has been introduced to
the public before she is three weeks
old.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

The three French professors who
think that they can cross the Atlantic
in balloon from the Canaries to
Trinidad, British West Indies. are in
no wise to be compared with the three
wise men of Gotham who went to sea
In bowl.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03
Streets Named for Musicians.

Paris is considering the advisable
ity of naming two new streets after
Wagner and Verdi. New York and
Boston have no unsteady named
streets Chicago has streets named
after Schubert, Beethoven and Mozart.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Now that the Seryians have taken
to shooting and throwing bricks at
King Peter, he probably will revise
his view about the desirability of get
ting rid OF unpopular rulers by the as
sassination route.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

One of the principles enunciated at
the dressmakers' convention is crystal
clear even to a man. Another thing "
said one of the speakers, as she rapid
ly reviewed the issues pending discus
sion, another thing is that we ought
to raise prices"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Prof. Stagg of Chicago states that
during the past ten years the great
newspapers have been steadily Inn
proving"-in spite of the lack of a
Pulitzer school of journalism.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

If China will promise not to let
Great Britain have any more terri
tory Russia will agree not to take any
more territory than 1t has already de-
cided to take.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

King Edward sent gold pin lately
to shoemaker in Brooklyn who made
a pair of boots for him when he was
in this country in 1860. And yet they
say princes have short memories.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03
a FRUGAL citizu,.

A Rumford Falls (Me) man drove
to the drinking tank of iced spring
water provided on the square by the
w. c. II. u, recently. and filled two
Jugs with the water for use at his
home.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

At It's launching the new cruiser
Maryland slid off the ways and sat
down in a mud bank the moment it
touched the water. Evidently the
Maryland is fully qualified for naval
honors,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Canada is steadily drawing immi-
grafton from the United States. By
the time annexation Is ripe the Amer
lean farmers will be In possession of
the better part of the dominion.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

jacques Lebaudy, emperor of the
Sahara, has just bought himself a
throne, but the Moors have not let
him stay on shore long enough to sit
in 1t yet.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03
Mice cannht on civ paner.

A woman in South Deerfield, Mass,
has discovered new use for the
sticky fly paper. She found that if a
mouse put his foot on the paper he
would put the other foot on and it
would hold him fast.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

When it comes to using an electric
whip on balky horse it really seems
as though human beings were making
an unfair use of their scientific SUI
periority.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Prof. Langley is becoming almost
as good loser as Sir Thomas, yet
no one has thought of giving him
banquet or clubbing hi-u a jolly good
fellow.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03
German Bank canital.

The aggregate capital of 122 Ger.
man banking institutions is. according
to the German Economist, eS5425e.
600. More than half of this capital ia
located in Berlin.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

While there were some very excel
lent papers read before the American
Pathological Society. most of the men,
bers are willing the society should be
judged by its fruits.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Nobody is taking any particular in
terest in the strike of the gold miners
in Colorado. It is the coal strike that
affects the public.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

No matter how many times the air
ship problem is solved, it remains as
much mystery as ever.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

DR.. Wiley says the time is coming
when the human race will have Meth
er hair nor teeth. What will second
childhood be like then?
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Possibly the decision Of the govern
ment to cease making pennies is the
FIRST blow at the slot machine octopus.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

An Italian naval officer could not
withstand the attacks of newspaper.
What kind of defense would he make
in war?
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

A New Jersey man, II years old,
married woman of 80 "just for
joke" and still refuses to admit that
the joke is on him.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Following the heavy floods of water
in stocks mildew has appeared In
New Jersey corporations, and the
years crop is seriously affected.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

After holding off for eighteen years
the sulky record has given in to Lou
Dillon.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

One of the London dailies is print
ing special edition for women. A
newspaper divorce is one of the posi-
hilities of the future.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Tell man that he is smoking too
many cigars, and If he thinks he's
smart he'll answer: I'm smoking
only one."
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

The world will give the sultan credit
for being seriously annoyed at the
slaughter of those $4,000 Bulgarians.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Ones favorite sin looks awful wick
ed when committed by somebody you
don't like.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

Next to keeping a good resolution
the hardest thing to keep is good
bank balance.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

AS to Manchuria, Russia also is op-
posed to a policy of scuttle.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

China is still opening port and moth
ing in the bottle.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03
UNCLE SANS FORCES
HISTORY OF THE ARMY OF THE
UNITED STATES.

Enlarged and Reduced at Necesslty's
Demand, II Has Gone Through Many
FIuctuations-The Various Corn
manders.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-12-03

preserve their soundness In even tere-
do-infected waters for a period ex-
tending over thirty years.