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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-07
CHAPTER XXI.
Old SeadoR Wounded.

'tIs that boat or light on shore2"
eft is boat, you see she is to the
right of Chinook Point and there lie a
wide channel of river there"
"She may bring the soldiers"
81 hope to God she will. Those
fellows are reinforcing their strength
and we can't hold out much longer
against them"
Thus spoke Old seadog. A hand to
hand fight had just taken place on the
water and while the encounter was a
draw the northsiders knew that their
strength was being exhausted while
that of their enemy was being in
creased by force of numbers.
The only hope of the northsiders was
the arrival of the state troops. The
militia was not ordered out for the pur-
pose of taking part in the fight, If it
could be avoided, but to patrol the
river and prevent bloodshed.
The state maintained the right of its
citizens to fish to the middle of the
stream wherever that might be determ-
ined to be, and claimed the right to
protect their life and property north of
that point.
1t was question of boundary line
and as is usual where there are disputes
about such matters, each side constant
ly encroaChed on the rights OF the 9TH
er. The first bloodshed had brought
out the worst element of the southside
and they determined to drive back or
destroy, even to the line of the north
shore.
The boat came slowly down the river.
The belligerent fishermen watched it
with intense interest on both sides.
81 hope to God she brings the SOL
disers," repeated Old seadog az it came
nearer and nearer. "Gabe Jarvi will
take care of them," casually remarked
a southside leader to his companion.
1t did contain the soldiers, and the
reader already knows Of it's movements,
and the treachery of its pilot.
Azter the boat passed away to the
south of the island, the rorthaiders re.
Taxed into feeling almost hopeless.
The night was cool and calm, but an
unusual darkness settled down upon
the waters. The stars shown out and
gave forth shadows that darkened the
surface of the water. A black veil
hung above il like q mantle. The
eontending fishermen lay upon their
oare and arms. The first blush OF
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-07


the American camp at the time when
men and encouragement were lacking.
Il came to fight for American indie
pendence," was the reply.
What can you doT
'"Try me-"
Try him they did, with the result
that individually he did more to aid
the struggles for liberty than could
regiment of troops. Kosciuszko it was
who built redoubts and breastworks;
Kosciuszko it was who by his knowl-
edge Of engineering constructed ram
parts and forts; Kosciuszko it was
who planned and completed the works
at West Point.
At the close Of the war he returned
to his own Poland that he might aid in
bringing to her the blessings Of liberty
that he had already helped another
land to win. But his fight was in vain.
At the siege Of Warsaw, when he fell
covered with wounds, when the Rus
slams were entering the city, he ex.
claimed, THE end of Poland"
His words proved prophetic. Years
afterward when Emperor Paul Of Rus
STA set him free from the prison where
he had long been confined, offering
him his own imperial sword, the pat
riot said sadly:
~ have no need Of a sword, since
have no country to defend"
The end Of Poland was not the end
Of the cause Of liberty. From the par
t1tioned land with no freedom Of her
own the words and deeds of her brave
patriot have gone through the whole
world, animating other lands to love
Of liberty. One act will not measure
the value Of a mans service to the
cause he fights for. Warsaw fell, but
Thaddeus Kosciuszko's memory will
live as long as man remembers the
name of liberty.
1t is not the name of the victor that
the goddess Of fame inscribes on her
golden tablet. It is the name Of him
who fought for right.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-07

The inventor says this umbrella
leaves the hands free. The dotted
lines show how it may be shifted &C
cording to the direction Of the rain.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-07
Worse and Worse.

my wife and went to call on the
Dumleys last night. l can't imagine
anything more tiresoms than spending an
evening with them"
"You can't? Wait till they come to
spend an evening with you."-Philadel.
phia Press.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-07

ThaddeuS
Kosciuszko, the
volunteer In the
American war Of
independence, the
defender Of War
saw, the capital Of
his native land.
"Whatdo you seek
here 2" Washington
had ask ed him
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-07
Simply an Excuse

But what reason have you for
wanting to marry meP
II love your
That's no reason; it's an excuse"
Scraps.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-07

After boy has learned trigonome-
try. and cube root, and Greek, he still
has to learn how to mark his ballot.
With a girl, it's different.
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Sarcasm.

Il have here" said the g-haired
visitor, "a poem wrote on Niagara
Falls"
1.-The ideaw exclaimed the editor;
land how did you manage to keep
your paper dryT'-Philadelphi
Ledger.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-07

a Little Lesson
In Patriotism

~,- ,,,,.,, :.

No name on the scroll Of the defend
ers Of country and liberty is blazoned
more brightly than that Of the young
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-07

It Ii generally more profitable to reck-
on up Our defects than TO boast of our at.
tainments.-Carlyla.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15
STRANGER TO THE FLAG.
Backwoodsman of Alabama Who Had
Never Seen the National
Emblem.

A man was discovered in COOSa COun-
ty, Ala, last winter who had never seen
the American flag. What is more, he
had not the least perception Of what i
meant and was much astonished when
this was explained to him.
The incident happened in the longleaf
pine country in which the Raul lumber
company is operating, near the little
backwOOdS town Of Juniata. A party Of
the government foresters vas encampel
in the woods beside the road. A large
flag tied to a saping pine announced the
site as a government camp.
One evening a little old man came
down the road driving a yoke of steers.
and stopped to inquire whether the
party would like to buy some pork. He
got out Of his cart, sat down on a stump,
and after a moments conversation, his
eye caught sight of the flag on the sap
ling. He looked at it in a puzzled way.
then asked what it was. The men
thought at first that he was joking, but
it was soon apparent the question was in
good faith.
That's the American flag, man.
Haven't you ever seen the flag before?"
No, he had never seen a flag of any
kind before. He had heard there were
such things, and once he had seen a pc
ture Of a flag on a poster, but that was a
long time ago, and he had almost for
gotten about it. He had lived in the
woods all his life, and had never been
more than Is miles from home. He
wanted to know what the flag meant,
and listened in silence when this was
explained to him. He did not know how
to read or write, and had never heard
that the Fourth of July was any differ
ent from any other day.-Collier's
Weekly.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15
GET SUNDAY PAPERS,.
Trolley Lines Aid Newsdealers in Ex-
tending Business in Country
Hitherto Isolated.

The circulation of Sunday newspa-
pers has largely increased among the
farmers Of territory near Chicago. The
rural mail carriers make no deliveries
On Sunday, but many of the enterpris-
ing IeWsdealers who get their papers
early in the day have Sunday country
routes where the farm houses are close
together. In some instances the Sun
Gay paper are delivered by the trolley
lines that run past many Of the houses.
Iney run on Sunday as we'll as on other
days, and many farm houses that for
merly were cut off from the world on
sunday now spend a portion of the day
reading the big papers that they get
fresh from the city. The farmers are
taking a large amount Of reading mat
ter. The rural carriers are doing more
and more of this class of business. Not
only does the average farmer take his
own county paper, in many instances
two or three Of them. but he subscribes
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15
HER HUNGRY CHILDREN.
Grave Constitutional Taints and Dis.
orders Prevalent in the Great
City of Glasgow.

In Glasgow recently writes DR.. An
drew Wilson. according to a London pa
per. 800 children from four selected
schools were examined. Of these, 10 pc.
cent. suffered from diseased glands
mostly of a tubercular character, and
therefore indicating a grave constitu-
tiOnal faint. Four per cent. showed def
mite lung troubles, and heart disease pre-
vailed in five per cent. of those exam
iEed. The throat and nose suffered to
the extent of 81 per cent. Of the children
and skin troubles were reckOned at near
ly nine per cent. The deformed chest,
which is the result of poor bone nOurish-
ment, was found in Is per cent. Glasgow
has always had a reputation for the pre-
valence of ricketts, and allied bone disOr-
ders. With regard to defective ears, the
proportion was 81 per cent.
Nov these records can, of course. he
paralleled in most other big centers OF
population. We may legitimately as
sumo that to-day a terrible amount OF
physical deficiency prevails among chill
dren and social refOrmers are naturally
inquiring regarding the means to be
adopted by way of relief, cure and pre-
vention Of such crying evils. One phase
Of the remedy is undoubtedly found in
the question Of feeding and clothing.
The Poo ChilGren's Dinner Table soci-
ETY. in Glasgow gives to about 1000 chill
dren one meal daily during the winte.
months, and other agencies on a smalle.
scale supplement this work.
1T is all philanthropic, all admirable,
but it only touches the fringe of the case,
aSd every year requires a repetition OF
the charity. We get no forrarder' in the
matter, n when we read of children
whose midday hunger is appeased by Il
bowl of tea (Which is not a food, un-
sweetened and destitute of milk, taken
with bread without butter, we may well
cease to wonder that child life goes tC
the wall in this terrible struggle for ex-
istence."
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15
O'Brien and Obliterated.

Congressman George D. McCreary, O
Philadelphia. tells a story of something
that happened to him while he was trav
cling in Ireland. An Irishman cam
down a hill driving a cart, the side O
which had been lettered with the wore
"O'Brien." The letters, however, hac
been displaced, and the visitor, seeing
this, said to the driver j~estingly:
What is your name?"
"O'Brien is my name" was the ready
response.
All" replied the other, "is that so,
There is nothing to show it."
Yes" was the reply, Its on my cart
1T might nave been," answered the
other, but it's obliterated now"
1T isn't O~bliterated," rejoined the in,
dignsnt Irishman, Its O'Brien."
We'll, it was O'Brien," answered the
other, but it's Obliterated now"
And they parted without settling thu
neutrality-suspicious. Herald.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15
The Purchase of Wives.

Wives are still obtained by purchase
in some parts OF Russia. In the district
of Kamyshin, on the Volga, for exampIe,
this is practically the only way in which
marriages are brought about. The price
of a pretty girl from a well-to-do family
ranges from 500 to $500, and in special
cases a much higher sum is obtained. In
the villages the lowest price is about SIS.
1t is customary for the fathers of the
intending bride and bridegroom to bag
gle for a long time over the price to be
paid for the lady. A young farmer
whose father cannot afford to pay for a
wife for him need not think OF getting
married.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15
REAL "SMOOTH ARTICLE"
Neat Little Scheme That Secured Some
of a Smart Hotel Mans
Money.

A cOuntryman whose general apIear
ance branded him as of the wayback
type stepped into a State street hotel al
9:15 O'Clock Saturday morning, and go
ing up to the proprietor, who was at the
desk. asked if a man named Charley Nc
Carthy boarded there.
The hotel keeper scanned the list oi
regular boarders and replied in the neg.
alive. relates the Hartford Conn
COurant.
That's funny" remarked the coun,
tryman, a half-frightened expression
coming into his face, 1.-The mar I'm talk
ing about told me he had boarded here
for years"
Il guess he was |stringing' you" re-
marked the proprietor. for don'i
know anyone who has boarded here TO,
any length of time"
The stranger then told the following
story:
Il live out near Willimantic, and |
met this fellow. who said he was on.
buying cattle for the Hartford markets.
He had bought quite a lot and wanted
TO u W or three more, and he
wanted to borrow 500. He had an hon
est face, and I let him have the money
He promised to meet me. mere at ten
O'clock"
WELL, I guess you had better give VI
hopes OF seeing Mccarthy. In all prob
ability he was a crook said the hotel
man.
Then an argument ensued, the stran-
ger reiterating his ability to read az
honest face and the hotel man INSISTING
on the probability of Mccarthy being
a crook. The upshOt of it all was that a
bet Of 500 was made on the appearance
of Mccarthy.
The money was staked about ten min
utes Of ten O'Clock, and two minutes be-
fore the hour a man rushed in, greeted
the cOuntryman cordially and handed
him 500, thanking him for the loan.
well" said the cOuntryman. Il guess
| win. l thought could read human ma
ture."
The hotel man realized hat he had
been trapped, but he handed the money
over to the winner with this injunction:
You're slick, but jlst get out of here
quick as you can, or I'll break every bone
in your bodies"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15
KING EDWARDS SECRETARY
Private Correspondence of E~ngland's
Monarch Is a Task Requir-
ing Great Labor.

Should you by any chance receive an
autograph letter from King Edward or
Queen Alexandra, the royal signature
may be there. but they know nothing oil
the contents, beyond the fact of having
said to their secretaries, Write thus
and So" declares the Boston Herald. To
be the private secretary of popular SOW
ereigns is no sinecure. Fifty or sixty let
ters a day is the average of her majesty's
correspondence" while the kings
duty" is doubled by state papers for his
signature, which no one, of course, can
save him the labor of writing. Royalty
reads a letter and often limits its super
vision to a laeonic no or yes, scrawled on
the margin; then Lord Knollys and Miss
knollys, the queens confidant, will take
it and do the rest. King Edwards skill
full right hand man expands this into the
diplomatic style with which most people
are familiar and long believed direct
royal dictation. Such very private notes
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15
HOW RATTLESNAKE STRIKES
Wonderfully Swift, But Not Always
Accurate, Hence Not Always
Fatal.

1t may seem absurd to claim that there
are cases where the bite of a rattle
snake is not fatal. Yet, such have hap
pened and to understand these it is nee
essary only to understand the manner
in which this reptile strikes, writes A.
w. ROlker, in Pearson's Magazine.
The spectacle of a rattlesnake at bay
is one a beholder never forgets. The
great, long body lies coiled into a tense
spiral, the very embodiment of wicked
ness. Poised in air, the White-bellied
fOrebOdy is bent into a hOrisOntal S,
rigid as an iron bar. Raised from the
middle of the spiral is the tail, CULVER
ing like a twanged banjo string and
emitting a rattle like steam escaping
from the pet cock of a radiator, or like
the sound Of a moving machine in a
distant hay field. Awe inspiring. the
dread, fiat, triangular head, eyes gleam-
ing black and cold as icy steel, is ready
to strike. AS the gruesOme mouth opens
wide and pink, the long, thin poison
fangS arise from a horizontal position
and stand upright, like a pair Of slen-
der, curved, needle-pOinted shad bones.
ready for business. Like a flash, far
too quick for the eye to follow, the
snake strikes, sending home his fangs
an inch or two and in hat same friction
of an instant he has squirted a table
spoonful of canary-yellow, viscOus
fluid into the wound, and lies coiled.
ready for a second attack.
In this incomprehensibly swift at
tack lies the answer why sometimes the
bite of a RATHER is not fatal. For. so
wonderfully swift Is the attack, that a
bite may be imperfect, leaving only a
pair of tiny needle p%unctures with just
enough venom to make a victim serious
~ i'll.
Another reason why a rattlesnake's
bite is not always fatal is that, temper
arily, the reptile may be without
venom. The snake may have exhausted
its poison on a previous enemy, in which
case it would ave to wait several days
before the deadly fluid has reaccumuIat-
ed. Or, again, the viper's fangs may
have suffered accident. They may have
been broken off, and require time for
new growth. In any case, certain it is
that a rattlesnake's poison applied in
the proper way will do it's work, and
that only the most expert and prompt
assistance will save a victim.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15

It Is Stated That English Decorations
Are Now Being Sold at Cut
Rate Prices.

All markets are liable to ~fiuctuatiOn,
and hat for war medals is just now
experiencing a violent swing back OF
back OF the pendulum. That these sou
Eenirs will eventually recover their
former values scarcely admits of doubt.
says the Kansas City Journal. For one
thing, they grow older and historically
more important. Fer another, there is
always the possibility that a drop in
prices may induce a fresh lot of collect
ofs to enter the arena. Fol the no.
ment, however, the market is some
what upset by the death Of a great col
iector, who spent freely. Dealers with
an eye to the main chance bought con
siderable quantities Of medals, and for
a line turned them over again at a
good margin OF profit. Now they find a
~slackened demand, and themselves the
holders Of goods on which they cannot
TeallZe anything like the prices at
which they acquired them. There is
nothing tor it, apparently, but patience.
Unique examples are probably quite
worth their money to-day, but they
must possess exceptional associations.
Of this type are the bugle and four
'%A VI II ~fidJci ouy. III
sounded the charge at Balakl2va. They
were sold in 1898 for G781. AS much
as 31,081 has been given for the pen
lnsular gold cross, but that was prob
ably exceptional, and G550 is a later
figure. When Nelson won the battle Of
the Nile, Alexander Davidson was so
annoyed that no medal was presented
to EnSland'S naval hero that he had
one struck on his own account, in gold.
silver, bronze and pewter. The gold
specimen which he gave to Nelson was
SOLD three years ago at the King street
rooms and brought ESQ. For the Vic
tOrlan cross the highest price obtained
at the same mart was 100 guineas. This
was given to a member of the Shannon
naval brigade, and is doubtless more
valuable OF account Of the exceptional
character OF the act of gallantry which
IS recorded. The trophy, it is interest
ing to record, was once pawned for five
shillings. To-day a Victorian cross is
worth from Gao to ESQ.
South African war medals nave been
dumped on the market. When they
were first issued they were worth G5
at auction. Now a medal with six bars
can be got for ten shillings. Crimean
medals with four bars are to-day 80
per cent. cheaper than they were five
years age The highest price paid for
a private soldiers Peninsular medal
was for one with 13 bars. This brought
so guineas, and afterward ESCAPED" in
the post. Old Indian medals are high
1y esteemed, and an officers. worth in
trlns1cally something like half a crown,
has been known to fetch G66. The fall
at the present time. as has been sug-
gested, is among the more mediocre
class of decorations. Collectors of med
ais are numbered by the hundreds, and,
therefore, there is a level Of values be-
You'd which descent is practically i'm
possible. Perhaps the kindest way OF
putting the present position is to say
that there has been a pause in the up
ward movement, and a sagging which
was inevitable, pending the entry of
some new Richmond into the field.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15
INGENIOUS FILIPINO YOUTH.
Dishonest Means of Obtain
ing Money.

When a Filipino boy earns the sun
of ten dollars gold a month, he is then,
according to Filipino customs, rich
enough to marry and raise a family. SO
We were not surprised to have our neigh
Dor. the colonel. drop in Il evening
to consult us about the selection of a
wedding present for his table boy. Sew
erAl of us had long known Beppo. and
We considered the colonel fortunate 10
retain so faithful and loyal a boy. We
advised the colonel to give him money,
but no.. the colonel wanted to buy some
thing for the boy to keep and the pur-
chase was put off till after the wedding.
Then Beppo failed to return to serve
the dinner. but then everybody takes a
holiday when he takes unto himself a
wife, so Beppo was forgiven. writes a
Manila correspondent Of the New York
Post.
Next day. with a view to buying the
present. the colonel went to the trunk
where he kept his surplus funds, and be-
hold his stores had diminished. The lock
was intact, so whoever had taken the
money must have a key to the trunk.
The police We're notified and Beppo
was rounded up. On his person was
found a key with fitted the trunk and
thus was the faithful, much-trusted
Beppo prove guilty. He told the judge
that he took only what he needed and.
in most cOmmendatOry tones, asserted
that he had left $40 gold in the TRUNK
for the colonel.
He needed the money to get married:
S1S for % rria 100 hire $40 for tho nripSf
and ceremony. and So pesos for the
brides rousseau.
The boy was sent to Bilibid prison
and the trOusseau, all that was left of
the spOils, was sent to the colonel. We
hear that his wife and daughters are
coming on the next transport to join him
and we are looking forward to their
making use of that Filipino trOusseau.
but a point of still greater interest to is
is the fact that Beppo's family thinks
that even though he must remain at
Bil.bid for the next six months, his pO-
sition at the %colOnel's is still open to him.
and in true Filipino style the prisoners
family has arrived at the colonel's-the
bride, her mother and two sisters-and
they have installed themselves in the
servants quarters. We wonder how the
colonel will explain to his wife and fam
lily the presence of such a harem.
Poor Beppo, in true Filipino fashion.
had been honest through a long period Of
servitude and like all his little brown
brothers," when he needed money be
helped himself, but, bear in mind, he
took only what he needed and left some
for the colonel.
OF a truth they are a strange people.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15
as the king and queen do send to their
families or intimates are discreetly
burned, or buried in archives, from which
it would be lese majestic to unearth them.
Trout That Are Not Trout.

Theodore Gill, of the Smithsonian in
stitution, in calling attention to the
misnaming Of our native fish by early
settlers, instances among others the
trout The Pilgrims, finding in New
England streams a fish that reminded
them of the trout of England, gave it the
same name, although Izak Walton would
AVE old them that it was not a trout
but a char. In Maine ~landlOcked sal
mon, and in certain lakes another sal
monid fish, were also called trout. In
the south the name trout was given tc
black bass. In California a peculiar fish
was named trout, apparently for nc
other reason than its possession of spots.
The ella river trout is not a trout at all.