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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04
KEEP IN CONDITION.
Your Physical and Mental Equipment
Determine Your Success.

Your Physical and Mental Equipment
Determine Your Success.
The real material with which you
build your career Is in you. Your own
self 10 your greatest capital. The Sc
cret Of your future achievement is lock-
ed up in your brain, in your nerves,
in your muscles, in your ambition. In
your determination. and in your ideal.
Everything depends upon your physi-
cal and mental condition. for that gov
ems your vitality, your vigor, and your
ability to do things. The amount Of
physical and mental force you are
able to use in your vocation will meas
ure your ultimate success, and what
ever lessons this force, or the effect
iyeness of your achievement capital,
will cut down your usefulness in life
and your chances Of success. Achieve
ment does not depend 80 much upon
the size of the deposits you have in
the bank as upon the amount Of capt.
tai you have in yourself, the effective
ness with which you can use 1t, and
the power you can bring to your voca-
ton. A man who Is weakened by Ill
health, or who has sapped his energy
by excessive use of tobacco or alcohol
or in any other way, has small chance
for success when pitted against one
who is sound and vigorous in every
organ and faculty.
Nature Is not sentimental or merci-
full. II you violate her law, you must
nav the penalty, though you sit on a
throne; king or beggar is all the same
with her. You cannot plead weakness
or handicap as an excuse for failure.
She demands that you be ever at the
top of your condition, that you always
do your best, and will accept no ex-
cuse or apology.
A weakness anywhere mars ones
whole career. 1t will rise up as q
ghost all through ones Network NOR
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04
Philadelphta's Potato Patch.

An adaptation Of the Pingree potato
patch idea is said to have met with
success in Philadelphia. 1t Ia In
charge of the superintendent of va
cant lot farming" His annual report
shows that the utilization of vacant
lots by partly disabled and decrepit
or by otherwise idle people has
brought good returns. Over 5000 peo-
pie. including 40 orphan children,
were given employment on these va
cant lots last year and brought re-
turn of 5000 on each quarter-acre
garden at nominal expense of $1,000,
each dollar invested in instruction,
tools and seeds yielding a return Of
from SIS to ST. The usual obstacle in
the way of success of this scheme has
been to find people who were willing
to make use of the opportunities Of
fered.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04
OPP WAYS OF MANAreE.
Something About the Rapidly yamiSHl
ing American Seacow.

Something About the Rapidly yamlGhS
Ing American Seacow.
Many hundreds Of people have visit
ed the aquarium In the last few
months and have seen the manatee,
or seacow, but unless one knows some
thing about this rare and curious
beast, its round, piglike body padding
around its tank, can have aroused but
little interest, says the New York Post.
Years ago these aquatic animals
were very abundant in the warm wa
tiers Of Florida, but they were 90 re-
lentlessly killed for their flesh and for
their oil that they have become very
rare indeed, and the fine for killing
one is $500. ..H
The ancestors Of these creatures
doubtless lived on land, but manateeS
have so long forsaken terrestrial habits
that they are even more changed than
seals. The whales probably are derived
from the same ancestors as these sea-
cows. There are no external signs of
hind limbs in the manatee, but under
meath the skin several small, useless
bones, close to the vertebrate, are all
that is left Of the hind legs and feet.
In almost all mammals there are
seven bones in the neck, but the man
atee has six. The bones of these crea-
lures are very heavy and solid, and,
indeed, the ribs used to be carved
and sold as ivory. The upper lip is
one Of the most curious structures Of
this odd animal. 1t Is very thick and
swollen and is split up the center-a
harelip in fact. But the manatee
makes good use Of this fact, and as
both sides Of the split are roughened
with stiff bristles 1t is an easy matter
for this eater Of seaweed to reach out
without moving its body and to browse
on the filaments, the two parts Of the
lip acting like pair Of forceps.
The male manatee has a strong tusk
in each jaw, but in the female, while
the tusk extends four or FIVE inches
into the skull, it never breaks through
the skin, and SO is perfectly useless.
At distance, when one Of these crea-
lures raises its head above the water,
it looks remarkably like human be-
Ing, and many stories Of mermen and
mermaids are doubtless founded on
such a basis.
The method of capture Of these I'm.
wieldy creatures is interesting. Spe-
cial nets are made. exactly fitting the
stream for which they are intended
After it is thought that the manateez
have assembled for the purpose Of feed
ing, the net, the meshes Of which are
about a foot square, 10 stretched
across the creek. 1t Is fastened firmly
at one end and only loosely at the
other. When the manatee strikes the
net he blunders ahead, thrashes around
and the loose end Of the net giving
way the creature is entangled and il
then rolled ashore.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04

tifying, condemning and convicting one
of past error. Every indiscretion or
vicious indulgence simply opens leak
which drains off success capital.
OF what use is great success capital,
of mental and physical equipment, if
you are not wise enough to manage
it to the best advantage, and to make
it last until your success is assured?
1t is sad to see young man try to
win high place with a broken-down
constitution, or with his faculties half
trained, and his success army COM
pletely demoralized, his prospects ruin
ed by a shattered physique. The sad
dest thing of all is that wise living
might have made fulfillment of ambi-
ton possible, and enriched the world
with noble, well-rounded life.
The great problem, then, which ev-
cry one has to face, Is how to geper
ate energy, how to conserve it, and
how to keep oneself always at the top
Of his condition-Success.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04
QUEER FRAUD ALLEGED.

Young Mexican Furnished Mexican
Poems to Indian School in Kansas.
A young Mexican Of many aliases
was arrested late Saturday afternoon
at the postofiice by Deputy United
States Marshal Brighton, charged with
one of the queerest frauds that has
ever come to the notice Of the Fed
eral officers here, says the Los Angeles
Times. For a week the officers have
been looking for man who Is men
toned in the warrant as Peter Koxas,
but who gave the name of Lindsey
when arrested, and Is also known az
Jose Algeron.
This fellows game was a double
headed proposition. Some time ago
he wrote to the superintendent Of the
government Indian school at Law.
renee, Kan, alleging that he had in
his own family and among relatives
and friends Indian children to the
number Of forty or fifty whom he wish
ed to send to the school at Lawrence.
How he succeeded so successfully in
"working'' the officials there is yet to
be made plain, but, nevertheless. they
forwarded transportation here for the
alleged young full bloods.
Now for the trick. Mr.. Koxas-
that's his official name so far-went
forth into the highways and the by
ways and collected a band Of between
forty and fifty Mexican youths Of the
peon class. He told them that he
would furnish transportation to Kan
sas to work there for So day, pro-
vided they would pay him 81 apiece
in advance for their jobs and the ride.
OF course, he did not send the whole
fifty in bunch-his operations cover
ed some little time.
The Indian children" began arriv-
ing in Lawrence, and one look at them
caused a falling of the jaw Of the
superintendent, for he knew full well
real from a bogus redskin at any
age. He would like to see the school
fuller, to be sure, as these offers from
prolific Californfans had made promise
that it would be-but no. this stock
would never do. He could not look
for increased appropriation for his
school on the strength Of this bunch
of poems.
The Kansas officials conveyed their
suspicious of fraud to the officials here,
and the work Of tracing the traficker
in young Mexican boys was begun.
In the meantime Koxas sent similar
letters to a government Indian school
in Colorado. This superintendent was
on the lookout, and wrote decoy let
tiers to Koxas, who was arrested while
receiving one Of these.
The "rake-off" the Mexican made
was the 81 a head which he collected
from the youthful poems for whom ha
succeeded in occurring TRANSPORTATION.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04

S same with prints and Jewels These things are VAL
1ut they must needs be rendered infinitely costly
dttor undressing by the collector The cult Of first
cartons Is commercial matter in which The cradn,+ ana
u tne collector make the market price It 10 not
SEN that moves the collector these things for he
Acnange or sell his boosted Dckenses or SCOTS for
other volumes by other authors which ha con,drs oUa
he Is actuated wholly by this abomnabe mania,
know 1t and grin in their sleeves SO to speak, and
on MIN until they, too, become infected by the dis
ease, and 80 the madness goes round -
science of collecting colossal monument to the
10y VI human nature 1t Ia well known fact that col
ec'ns oulis the moral facilities have known phatelisa
Honnv e most aoominabe tricks in what is known as
swaps and is that you cannot trust china
Nanenr 70 china maniac But the craze for china Ia
more or less decent in comparison with more unworthy
aas sucn as that developed by tobacco manufacturers
~ Stuatng the collection Of gaudy cigarette pictures
ana oemoraAzng the youth Of the land 1t is pity some
one Will not collect colectors-and dispose of them
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04
LANDLUBBERS on SHlPBOARO.
~~~~~~~~~~

When the United States monitor
Arkansas anchored off Memphis on Its
trip up the Mississippi River a year
ago. family-father, mother and
seven children-went on board the
queer steel vessel. The father, the
new York Sun says, held two of his
boys by the hands, and as they were
SHOWN about by one Of the appren-
uce seamen he pointed out objects Of
interest
mat thar is the turtle, Johnny" he
eald, pointing to the big turret with
TIE tWelve-1nch guns sticking out.
goodness, paw" said Johnny. "Jes'
look what long front legs it's gotv
They call hit a turtle, Jimmy"
paw" explained, because it can turn
clean over on its back an go after the
enemy all spraddled out. 1 reckon"
AT Paducah, Kentucky, a country
man boarded the Arkansas with a
knowing air. He walked round for
some time, going over the ship three
or -FOUR times, but looking mostly at
'ne nghting top. His eyes seemed fas-
cihated by that part Of the vessel, and
the seamen noticed that he looked ex-
pectant, as If he thought something
was going to happen there. Finally
ne turned to one Of them.
"Pardner," said he, when do they
call time nex'w
The sailor did not understand him.
and said so.
"Hoin't that the fghtin' top" he
Inquired.
Yes" replied the sailor.
"Wall." said the Kentuckian, "then
nalnt you-all goin' to give US a few
rounds?"
what do you meanT the sailor
asked asked Supposing the visitor wanted
'ne en- to fire the big guns for him.
mean l come on this here steam
Doat 10 see a fight" said he, zen
"snted to see hit. I've heerd tell a
aIoie lot about the way you fellers
. nsnt with the mitts on, an want to
&c UT done. So reckon as how it's
Few rounds"
r, Ihen the sailor understood. The
VS. ,Sitor thought the fighting top was
e ring where the ships men boxed.
No. WHAT'S this here thingT asked a
So NY, pointing to the winch used for
SvIsong the boats. A seaman told him
what it was.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04

"My stars!' he exclaimed. do you
lift the enemy's boats clean outen the
water SOS to get a good aim at 'em?"
Don't you have any ramrods to
them -barrels" was the question
of another Kentuckian, as he inspect
ed the big twelye-inch guns.
One Of the ships jokers gravely told
him that they pulled out the mainmast
when they needed ramroad, and that
the last time they used it the gun went
of accidentally and blew the main
mast into Posey County, Indiana,
which explained why the ship had no
mainmast then.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04

M especial 1lty TO spell without any apparent Ill.
MAN ,ection the names OF those in the company; to
- I accounts; to point out words thought Of by per-
cons present; tell exactly the hours minutes seconds;
" distinguish the married from the SINGLE" ETC. While this
harmed pig was performing in Dublin armed rufhan
invoke into the room slew the animal with his sword as
ultpd Bisset himself and unnerved the unfortunate
animal trainer that he took to his bed and died within
few days.
naturalist who Is in charge of fine museum assured
mo that he had horse in field sieze and work
with his teeth handle Of pump in order water some
thirsty COWS which lowing lamentably over the wa
rass trough This naturalist had also seen young half
Aedged sparrow which had fallen out of the helped
hack by its parents thus They thrust straw i1so the
little derecs beak and, selling themselves each end of
II they few up with the nesting above nest and then
dropped him gently into 1t!
In Ffeshire village sparrow had laid her eggs and
half reared her brood In last years swallow nest On
the return of the swallows the original builder
tried to take possession of the with the help not of
Its mate only but Of number Of other swallows Their
combined efforts to dsodge the sparrow being van they
hold council Of war, which sentenced the usurper to
death only the little band which had tried to storm
the nest the whole flock of swallows fetched building
material and in short time walled up the criminal and
her brood to perish mlserably.
In nest In the Of one Of the windows OF a
house srathendry brood of swallows hef reared
when young sportsman, disappointed in duck shooting
fired at of these birds and shot both the parents
Of the nesngs Fearing that the brood would perish
starvation he about to them from the
try them in the house, when he amazed to
find the work Of taken out Of his hands by the
Of the flock of swaows They took it in turn to feed
the orphans till they full hedged and able to provide
for themselves!
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04
Alwaxs Figure in Trade.

"Of course, the goods I make are
usually taken out in trade" said the
facetious manufacturer.
Indeed? What do you maker"
Pocket books" PHILADELPHIA
Ledger.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04
Pledge Might Have Saved Him.
Socrates had just drained the hem

socrates HHu just NIdlHSU IHV HSIH-
lock.
"How foolish I was" he exclaimed.
81 should have told them I swore of
at New Years.
Bewailing his thoughtlessness. there
was nothing left but to await the re-
sult,-New York Tribune.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04

There aren't enough adjectives in
the English language to enable a girl
properly to describe her first beau.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04
UNCONSCIOUS ASSIMILATION AND PLAGIARISM.

DV III r. q MT8FHWNs
When two decades and more ago a Chicago
clergyman pleaded unconscious assimilation az
an answer to an allegation Of plagiarism the
plea was sneered at as involving an impossible.
ity. Unconscious assimilation however, Ia an
ordinary mental process. Culture makes ordi
nary mental processes automatic in like manner
as training does walking. For this reason in
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04
Denaa Formulation.

Asia contains more than half Of the
people Of the world.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04

George Washington's reputation for
truthfulness may have been due to the
fact that he never traded horses
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04
COLLECTING FAD THE HEIGHT OF FOLLY.

BY n. B. Marriott Watson.
1t seems quite practicable to start coIec-
ton in anything under the sun. The fancier has
nothing better to do than to take up the newest
idea. have known people to collect pipes walk
ing sticks hairpns, cats and matchboxes The
! art Of collecting stamps not being found difficult
enough in its original form, the fancy set to
work to make 1t more SO. Some ingenious per-
son discovered that stamps had different num-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04

be Of perforaons and characterized by different
ters and finally that whole blocks them had
ing water marks. Conceive the delight Of the brother
hooi 1t possible enlarge the art Stamp COL
lectors could surmount hill after hill in their to-
wards the ideal and still find their goal mac
cessbe
Once developed to this point there no holding
phlately back. Emporiums all hands and hun
dds of thousands Of dollars spent annually in the
cult.
Coins have In way sort of in themselves
And collections of pictures also might be tolerated If col
Iectors hung them their walls and admired them But
the man who buys the pictures to stack them in his
lars has passed from the dignity Of the connoisseur
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-06-04
u.eyfls OF ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE.
BY r. p. O'connor, N. p,

The sensation Of London about the year 1890
was Seats OPERA" conducted by Scotch shoe,
maker named Bisset, who had taught these crea.
lures to play tunes on the dulcimer as an accom-.
paniment to their own squalling. His greatest
+ success, however, was with a pig which was
seen for two or three days by many persons of
espectability to spell without any apparent Ill.
lection the names OF those in the company; to
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-25
NOTICE
To M. M. Johnson:

To M. M. Johnson:
You will take notice that on the
18th day of April, 1904, the Par
kersburg and Ohio Valley Electric
Railway Company will make appli-
cation by petition to the Circuit
Court of Tyler county, West Viz
ginia, at the Court House of said
county, to appoint Commissioners
to ascertain q Just compensation to
you as the owner Of the following
described real estate, lying and be.
Ing In the District Of Union In the
County OF Tyler and State of West
Virginia. which Is proposed to be
taken by said Railroad Company for
the construction of Its railroad, to-
wit: All the following parcel of
real estate lying and being In the
District of Union In the County OF
Tyler and State of West Virginia,
through which said company's
railroad Is located, and described
particularly as follows, to:wit. A
strip of land thirty (3S feet In
width, being fifteen (19 feet on
each side OF the center line OF the
road of said Railroad Company,
containing 545.1ooo acres. Begin
ming at the point where the centre
line of said railroad as located
crosses the boundary line between
the lands of Robert P. Johnson and
NJ. NJ. Johnson In said District of
Union, County of Tyler, West Viz
ginia, thence al degrees SO minutes
E 7e1 feet to the point where CEN
ter line of said survey crosses the
boundary line between the lands OF
NJ. M. Johnson and the lands Of
Samuel Wells.
Yours &c.,
Petersburg and Ohio Valley Elec.
tric Railway Company,
By JOHNSON & MARTIN,
III mo It's Attorneys.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-25
More Riots.

Disturbances of strikers are
not nearly as grave as an individ-
ual disorder of the system. Over
work, loss of sleep, nervous ten
sion will be followed by utter col
lapse, unless reliable remedy is
Immediately employed. There's
nothing so effective to cure disor-
ders of the liver or kidneys as
Electric Bitters. Its a wonderful
tonic, and effective nervine and
the greatest all around medicine
for run down systems. 1t dispels
nervouness, rheumatism and neu'
ralgia and expels malaria germs
Only SOC and satisfaction guaran'
teed by D. A. Henderson,, drug
|gist.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-25
Farmers are Organized

The farmers of j fferson county
are taking the initiative 10 organic.
Ing a local branch of the American
Society of Equity, having for Its
main object the advancement of
the farming interests by withhold.
Ing crops from the market until a
profitable price can be obtained for
them The organization Is new
ore. with headquarters In Indian
apolis, and claims member ship of
100. oooIiarmers In Ohio and Iudi.
ana chic fly.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-25
Proper Treatment of Pneumonia,


Pneumonia is too dangerous a
disease for anyone to attempt to
doctor himself, although he may
have the proper remedies at hand.
A physician should always be call
ed. 1t should be born in mind,
however, that pneumonia always
results from a cold or from an at
tack of the grip, and that by Civ
ing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
the threatened attack OF pneu-
monia may be warded off. This
remedy is also used by physicians
in the treatment Of pneumonia
with the best results. DR.. w. j.
Smith,, of Sanders, Ala, who is
also a druggist, says of it: II have
been selling Chamberlain Cough
Remedy and prescribing it in my
practise for the past six years. !
used it in cases of pneumonia and
have always gotten the best re-
suits" Sold by G. W. Grier.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-25
Do You Want Strength.

If you want to increase your
strength you must add to and not
take from the physical. In other
words, the food that you eat must
be digested, assimilated by the
nerves, blood and tissue before be-
Ing expelled from the intestines.
Kodol Dyspepsia Gre adds to the
physical. 1t gives strength to and
builds up strength In the human
system. II Is pleasant to the taste
and palatable, and the only combi-
nation of digestants that will digest
the food and enable the system to
appropriate all of Its health and
Strengthening qualities. Sold by
Opera House Drug Store
Stotler & Corbett Props.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-25
Happy, Healthy Children.

ANY child can take Little Early
Risers with perfect safety. They
are harmless, never grippe or sick
en-, and yet they are so certain in
results that robust constitutions
requiring drastic means are never
disappointed. They can not fail
to perform their mission and ev-
cry one who uses DeWitt's Little
Early Risers prefer them to all
other pills. They cure biliousness
Sold by Opera House Drug Store,
Stotler & Corbett, props.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-25

The weather today has been
quite showery.
Mrs. James Oaks and brother re.
turned yesterday from Indiana.
Talmage Marshal Is Ill at his
home on South Wells street. Tai.
mage Is threatened with typhoid
fever.
The election yesterday very much
resembled the landslide that &C.
Cured just north of the city
Wednesday.
Mrs. J. L. Silcott and little
daughter, of Parkersburg, are
guests of Mrs. A. L. Miller, OF
Catherine street.
The many friends of Hszel Rus
sell OF Benton street, who has been
Ill for several days will be pleased
to learn she Is much improved.
j Miss Nellie Black returned home
yesterday from Parkersburg. Miss
Nellie, has just graduated from the
Mountain State Business College.
u S Deputy George w. Sine
returned to the city last evening
from Parkersburg, where he has
been for the past two weeks on
official business.