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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16
Mistakes In Life.

~ NE Of the most improbable Of spending time
III Is the practice, to which many persons are ad-
IN dicted, of broodng the mistakes has made
~ in life, and thinking what he might have been OF
achieved If he had not DONE times just what
did do Almost unsuccessful man, looking
past career Is inclined to think that would have been
wholly different but for certain slips and bunderscertan
hasty. consdered acts into which was betrayed al
most unconscousy and without suspicion of their
quences.
AS he thinks of all the good things of this word-honor
position power and nhuence-of which he has been de-
prved in some mysterious inexplicabe way he has no
patience with HIMSELF and is painful and humatng
does not mpcate others-friends and relatves-n his
oiSappontments Perhaps education has never been
free from mistakes mistakes indeed Of every kindhe
1mputes the blame to his early training, which habits
OF thoroughness and accuracy again. of sefreiance
and independence Of thought been implanted
Perhaps calling chosen for him by his parents with
out regard to his peculiar talents and
or, II he was allowed to choose for himself it was whan
MS judgment was immature and unfit for the responsdv
The result was that the square got into the round
hOe or the triangular into the square hole or tho
round man squeezed himself into the triangular hole
NOW, the fact is that, in all these mishaps tharo s
nothing exceptional They just what befa-a or in
part-eVery man who Is born in civilized country No
circumstances under which any has been horn or
ntted FOR career have been entirely happy "
view OF these considerations it has been Justly said +o
see man. poker In hand, a day. dashinp at tho
Goals and moodiy counting the worlds mistakes
M Is neither dgnlhed engaging spectacle: and o
sympathy flags with the growing conviction that peonIn
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

constantly apt attribute state OF tnnss ~ one s+
~ ondit,on or mischance which, sooner or later must
49, hnonad from some inherent weakness and opehness
to attack. 1t may be noted that where men themselves
attribute III success or mschance to separate dsunct S
takes-as for instance, to the choice OF certain
hove n observe them trace all character they see na
If failure had not come such uncture 1t must nave
come at some other certain flaws in the mans ma
ture-that mistakes simply mark occasions "nen Nc was
tasted We see in a career a hundred chances thrown
away and wasted not all accident though the actor
looking back does not why he chose the Wronghe
being the last to remember that crisis Is the occasion
for hidden and predominatng influences 10 declare
themselves that his mistakes WERE In manner AheS
abe-William Mathews, in Success
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16
Early Preoocity OF Great Men.

The young Mozart was seated in his
cradle, composing scherzo In B minor
for the left hand.
What doest thou, mein lieber kind ~
inquired the coming maestro's mother,
In very fair south Germanese.
The child wonder waved her aside
with his chubby fist.
"Mutter," he said in vexed though
prattling tones, you hat interrupted
de flow of chenious. / was chust hold
Ing sustained seventh, sostenut cum
largo. ven you proke In upon me NIT
your idle 1nquirings" He paused and
rested his dubious, head on his tinv
hand. L cannot take oop my work
again yet am not in de humorinss
for it. We're Is my bother
ut is warming in de ofen,' replied
his doting parent 4 will prinR it 90
quickly"
And as she stamped heavily from
the room the child artist puckered his
tiny lips and skilfully whistled, for the
first time in public, a wooden shoe
march that was In perfect rhythm with
his maternal parents ponderous foot
steps.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16
On thu Use of the Imaainatioa.

IN practical age the Imagination is apt to get less than
its DUE We want naked facts think we do and I'M
agnative people insist upon clothing them IN gay ap
4 pare consequently whenever lose sight OF fact
we suspect the imagination Of having of with it. and
raise hue and cry with fine indignation against the
decever Yet the art of living to every subordinate
art ina gnation is the indispensable quality. For
Of it We fail not merely in sympathy and courtesy,
In toeraon in all the minor graces but even in actual
truhulness of thought and demeanor So far 1t from
reality to consider Imagination the Of fact that
without 1t fact be properly apprehended much less
red with neghbors The greatest fact Of social life
is the fact that all different and it follows from
this that without the power to picture different mind
from incapable of communicating the
simplest feeling. If you define Imagination the
faculty Of seeing what is not there may take away its
character without contradiction; but this is the
description Of satisticans the poet that lives In each Of
US knows better. And II we come down to the
amenities the small change of life, the Imagination calls
to ceaseessy for employment Formal courtesies
base money passed about among stupid people only until
they found OUT the couresies that will stand every
test and pass current in all emergencies must be the
fruits of genuine traffic between mind and mind in
which every interest is active and every want Is taken
into account And this only be got by sending the
Imagination on its travels for us.-London Guardian
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

II 1--we rapidly In the telephon1c age II mas oe0n
~ ! truthfuly said that crowd much more
NV work into the day than our most industrious
forbears did. Invention has given US many
hands. Time and space have been conquered so that
the modern Of 60 has accomplished infinitely more
than the who lived to the patriarcha age and from
this point Of vew has earned the rest which his grand
father would dreamed Of enjoying at hreescore
Whether this be not many of the finest achieve
ments in business craftsmanship literature In all ac-
tivites, have been wrought by men long past Co. NO
strong will accept 60 the arbitrary limit Of his amb
ton and working ability.
Writers who have discoursed most knowingly on the
obligation Of the aged leave the active have not
undertaken to fix the year for retirement The youth who
anxious push his way into the working world thinks
that s old at 40 and should be preparing to on
the retired list In the fierce competitions Of modern life
lie probable that the Of retirement Is gradually fall
ing The theory Is worth the investigation of the curious
gtatscian Asked when he considered to be in the
prime of life PRmerston replied "Seventyn nine but as
have entered my eighy-thrd year. perhaps myself
little past it, Such is the view Of old this deli
cate subject
Many retire too early, and like the old horse
for the march and the battle The habit of work
holds to the accustomed and tasks. This
plains why the great lawyer the multmilonaire
chant remains at his post long after his prime The powers
of whose lives have been very active likely to de-
cline rapidly in retirement the result of idleness and
ennuL
Nothing is SO injurious unoccupied time. The hu-
man heart Is like milestone; If you put wheat under it, it
grinds the wheat into four you put wheat grnds
on, but then It's itself it wears away."-Phadelphia
Ledger.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

by numbers Of friendly blacks pulling
on long tow lines, he conquered the OBJ
stacles without an accident All the
way up he sounded charted and photo
graphed the dangerous places, and
made report which would enable an
army to follow where he had gone
At Arenberg he divided his stores
and having assigned his white aids
thelr tasks, went on against the rising
HOOD to Name, put the seventy tons
ashore, and then, with his chart tn
guide him, shot the rapids down stream
to his base. At the falls of Patassi
where his colored guide, Lancine took
the boats through in turn, they were
carried seVenty-three hundred feet in
three minutes and twenty seconds, and
accomplished in a few hours what had
taken month in ascending.
On the second trip Captain Tanfon+
was seriously i'll; but although thoro
was hospital only a few hours down
stream, and the nearest upstream
doctor was sixty days ahead, he TONIGHT
on the fever and accomplished his
mission.
On his route and in a canoe trip on
the upper river he collected a mass Of
SaluaoIe information, charting the
moods and examining soils and crons
lie visited cities that were nonulons
three centuries ago, and are inst rooo7,
ering from the prostration which fol-
lowed when the slave trade swpnt
away their people. He found them
say GaoGao, and many others-eapor
LOT commerce with the outside world
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16
Too Much for Poor H,n-

An Indian caught his first glimpse
Of natural gas Are few days ago
near the territory line. He looked into
the stove and all he could see was a
pile of, red-hot bricks. through the
crevices Of which the blue flames were
curling. He said nothing, but before
starting home he went to a yard and
bought lot Of brick and hauled them
home. He burned up six boxes of
matches and all the dry wood his wife
had cut trying to get the bricks to
burn and finally hauled them back and
told the yard man they were mo
good"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16
His Heart Is Too Tender.

After working as a deputy snerlh
for two days, George Mintzer made up
his mind that the job didn't suit him.
and went back to his old position 81
superintendent of Dickinson Square CD
Moyamensing avenue, between motifs
and Tasker streets, Philadelphia.
Il tried being a deputy sherln lo1
two days, and came to the conclusion
that I didn't like the place" said NIX
Mintzer, who was found busily Gu
gagged in removing snow from 'n'
walks around his watch box.
"You see, 1t was like thls-1 on'
took the place ON trial. Senator Vafe'
whom 1 have known since he was
boy in knickerbockeds, offered me ,on
job as deputy sheriff. 1t pays $l'VVs
year, which is $500 more than ~
for looking after the square.
"Well, after working for two Gays .
got Disguised with serving Writs "
people who were in hard luck, so Jus
resigned on the spot. None OF that y.
me. I am 81 years old, and suess
that my heart is too soft for depug
sheriff. I would rather be shoVelins,
snow and watching the children =
play than going around with Writs an'
summOnses.
II guess I'll be content with
work for the balance Of my hte'
is enjoyable, at any rate. There Is =.
more satisfaction in pushing Nv
mower and planting flowers than ne
is breaking mems hearts with WIN
and attachments"
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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16
ANCIENT ENGLISH INNS
Some Have Been in Rxistero.

some Have Been in Rxistaro
Nearly a Thousand Yeara, ~
somehow one always hears with 20.
greet that one of Englands lannon's o,d
moss-grown' ivy-clad inns is about to
DC demolished. The Old King Of Pru ~
STA hostelry is the latest to mass u.s. -
tne nousebreaker's hands. This n'S
Inn is In F1nchley, and from 175-
wnen inc place was built until tbe
present day the license has baan 'u ,e
tne keeping Of one family-nerbo - -
England. "nna4s Of
The Old King Of Prussia Ia a r,o
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

1t is no longer the fashion to blame
the dime novel for the exploits Of run.
away boys. Indian fighting and gold
digging are no longer the gilded paths
to glory. The up-to-date way 10 DIFF
ferent. A New York letter tells that
a fond Gotham mother had her two
boys restored to her after they had
been away for two whole days. The
boys are IA and IS years old respective
ly. The mother blames Andrew Car
neg1e, Charles M. Schwab and JohA
w. Gates for their eScapade. "rhey
had been reading" she explained,
chow Mr.. Schwab started In life with
a single gallus, carving cheese In a
country delicatessen shop, and how at
terward he made a million q minute.
Carnegie and Gates yellow literature
was also attractive to them. If Mr..
Carnegie could accumulate such a be-
wildering number of millions by start
ing on a 30-cent capital, why not
they? Not having an iron works to
sell to a shipbuilding company, the
boys started to work In a laundry at
So week. They were agitating a vat
Of soiled clothes with a stick when
the police found them for me-" Run.
ming away from home to work In an
honest employment Is a good many
shades better than running of to fight
Indians or hold up stage coaches. Car
negie and Schwab are not perfect mod
els. There Is plenty in the careers Of
each to be criticised. II the lives Of
these two men have any practical les
son at all for the average boy Of this
commercial age, it is that the boy and
the business must grow up together,
each part Of the other. This pair Of
runaway boys whom the police found
"ag1tating a vat Of solled clothes with
a stick" had found an opportunity and
knew what to do with it. If the police
never found boys doing worse than
this, there might be roster hopes for
the worlds future. Nobody in the
world has as good chance to become
a master Of the laundry Of business
as the boy who 10 not afraid to begin
by 'agitating a vat of soiled clothes
with stick" Here's luck to this pair
Of boys and the hope that the police
may never find them in a worse bust
ness.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

N. Roche, French ex-minister of
commerce, estimates that in the event
ct general European war France
must expend $6p000OO0 per day during
lts continuance. In 1871 she had to pay
not only the cost Of her own armies
In the field but to contribute a mill
tard'' Of francs, or $2OO,OO0,oo0 as an
indemnity to Germany. For crushing
eAs freedom of the. Boer republics, for
the dubious profits Of turning uneasy
seighbcrs into sullen and impoverished
subjects, Great Britain spent upon the
SOufh African war $50 for every acre
ct the two republics. The CiVil War
cost the United States the additional
Of 81. TOO. 100000 to her public debt.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16
Made No Oinsraro.

l suppose Lizzie Oletimer ia o,oa 4.
p leSp year." said the soft-spoEe n
.o. oon,t suppose It makes mucb A..
t tsrence 10 her," replied the me1,oI
S az every chance she saw for afte0S
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

Physicians are constantly discover
Ing some popular pastime or mode Of
attire that injuries health. But the av-
arage Of human life remains about the
same.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

It begins to look as IL consumption
lad had It's day, Without waiting to
note what effect X-rays or any OF the
new forms OF light may have upon de-
eeroy1ng II. It % evident that the most
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

Enjoy the pleasures Of life when
you have a chance, or when you get
ready to enjoy them you may find
them missing.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

When in doubt consult your mother.
That advice applies to children, gen
orally but 1t applies especially to girls.
Your mother, young woman, has had
ehe advantage Of experience which you
lack. She knows the ways of the
world, which you do not know, You
zee things from your point of view. It
Ii necessarily a narrow point of view.
Your mother knows. She has gone bv
the way you are coming. Happy that
daughter who conhdes in her mother
Happy she who can go 20 her mother
with her little secrets and misglvInps
her girlish hopes and fears, and talk
Of these. freely assured that mother
viii understand and advise tenderIv
and sensibly and rightly. Happy that
mother who has won and kept her
daughters confidence, who knows how
important it Is to listen sympatheticaI-
Iy to her daughters doings and plans
HAPPY the mother who has not driven
her daughter away by speaking of the
gfrlish notions as SILLY" and ''prepos-
ferrous" or by scolding the girls petty
delinquencies. The bond between
mother and daughter should never be
broken. The bond of comraderIe be-
tween the two is natural one. If it
binds them together the daughters
problems become the mothers prob
lens and the solution will be a wise
one. "A son is a son till he gets a
wife; daughters daughter all the
days of her llfe"-if the bond holds
true. The old song says: "a boys
6ast friend is his mother" That's true.
But mother is In q peculiar sense the
best friend Of q daughter. And the
giri who forgets this is likely to make
a mistake in life. Ask your mother.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

The Limousine" Is described as a
cross between an automobile and a
sleeping car There must be something
doing when q limousine goes into a
muck pond.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

President Roosevelt says the editor
IN necessary and useful. Now let him
prepare to lose the votes of "Veritas,"
PRO Bono PublIco," Zone Who
Knows" and old man "Vox PopulI,"
not to mention space writers and all
egotistic correspondents to whom the
editor Is always an idiotor.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

We are glad to learn that this new
germ, kunzite ts not a mysterious at
fair ct all, but just spodumene, some
times known as triphane. and perfectly
aarmiess when not hungry.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

One advantage Of depending upon
Che Missouri mule in war Ia that no
disguised jap would dare to get near
enough TO blow him up with dynamite.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

'Lccalization Of hostilities' and 'ad-
nAinistrative entity" are two more de-
hghtfully vague verbal morsels to roll
under the diplomatic tongue.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

1t Ii anticipated that several Of the
Southern States win soon pass savings
bank laws similar to those of New
York and the New England States.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

1t is announced that the United
States recruiting statIoass will con-
dnue to accept young men s feet 4
inches high as recruits and will not
eOr the present require them to touch
the mark at feet Z inches. It is
pleasant to know that three inches
makes not the slightest difference In q
mans ability to discharge a KraR-
5Orgensen. and from time immemorial
hasn't 1t been maintained that q little
man is more pugnacious than a big
Sns3 Little men are more high-tem-
pered; they will fight quicker and
longer. 1t is etsy to comprehend why
they do it. 1t is because they won't
be put en-" They fear that you labor
under the impression that because
they are small they are not as likely
% maintain their rights with the same
Armness az a bulkier man, and they
mean to undeceive you.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

topic of discussion. The tendency toward a
common tongue Is and has been for years most strongly
marked by the spread of the English language Mulhas
statistics of dozen years old beng the latest ayaabel
snow the spread of languages for the ninety years
the last century At the beginning of century the
languages of Europe spoken by 100000 people
IN 1880 they were spoken by 4O1OOOOOO increase of
nearly 100 per The four principal in 1901
were French Russian German and Spanish The French
amounted to 1914 per cent and the Spanish to 1872
disappearing peoples amounted only 1877 But in 1870
the standing was: ~
English. PIT per cent Russian and German oooh 20
per cent French 1877 per cent Spanish O7 per cent
the remainder divided between Italian and Portuguese
nne NUMBER Of Engsh-speakng people had grown from
10 Ill German and Russian speaking peo
pie from about 100000 to 100000 each and
speaking people from 31,45O,OOO to 81 100000
The English language had risen from fifth n ers+ ,
ana was spoken by at least 80 per more peop
any oe european tongue. OF the increase Of about OF
ooooOo Engsh-speakng people, about 7ooOo0o0 wero
the United States.-Indianapols News '''0 "@'e al
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

4 woman never tires OF shopping as
long as her hair stays In curl.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

serious seourge of our northern latl
tude is already more or less under the
control of physicians. In New England,
where the registration has been fairly
accurate, the decrease Of the death
rate from this disease has been so per
cent in the last half century, the rate
Of decrease being far more rapid In
recent years. The, reports from New
York are to the same effect. Where
blocks Of houses were formerly infect
ed with tuberculosis conditions are 30
changed that the city has been able to
reduce It's death rate from this dis
ease nearly one-half in the last twenty
years. Strange to say, cold outside
air, once thought to be so pernicious
TO congumptives, 1s now regarded az
one of the best remedies. The treat
ment is heroic, but 1t works for an ap-
petite, and this, coupled with nourish7
ing food, is sure to make good blood,
which IL exactly what the patient
wants. In fact, cold air seems to be a
popular remedy Just now for many Ills
Not far from Wellesley College is a
hospital for crippled and otherwise de-
formed children. These children are
living in barnltke shack, and while
protected from drafts they are allowed
free exposure, especially at night, to
plenty Of pure, cold air. The expert
ment is novel, but 30 far the improve
ment in the anaemic children has been
marked. It may be that civilization
will have to take step or two back
ward in order to advance In the right
direction; that some Of the luxuraes
now enjoyed by the rich are not 80
desirable after all, and that health and
the happiness which comes from
health are to be bought more easily
than most Of US dream,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

On the stage of life the leading lady
= usually the cook.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

War would probably be the most
horrible thing in the world ii it were
not for the comic valentine.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

Sermons would be shorter IL they
had to be; practdeed before they were
preached.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

In a successful matrimonial firm the
husband isn't "full'' partner.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

A man must be mighty crooked
these days to get into the penitenttsrr.
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- PRTa. . lie. 81, Ia.

CALDWELL, .............m IDAHO.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16

Chronic complaining makes '0us
luck all the tougher.
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The Chief LANGUAGE,

lTH the increasing intercourse Of the nations
" the old question Of q universal language comes
" " up-at least in the German Misunderstanding a
topic of discussion. Tha
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-04-16
Ace of Retirement.

n y q live rapidly in the telephone age 1t has bee
~ \ truthfully said that we can crowd much NOR
wv work into the day than most industriou
u forbears did. Invention has given US man.