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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24
Wasteful Ways of Saving.

Do not try to save money by
Doing without your luncheon, even
If only for once. This will injure your
health.
Walking home after a days shop
ping. You can get more money, but
you cannot get new constitution
after yours has been undermined.
Sewing in the twilight. Artificial
light is cheaper than oculists' bills.
Wearing thin clothing. Flannel is
cheaper than druggists prices.
Using cheap soap. 1t will cost you
something In cold creams and suffer
ing to remedy the harm it does.
Going about in thin shoes. Leather
is cheaper than quinne and porous
plasters, also than case of pneu-
monia.
Trying to do the work Of the uphol-
sterer and the carpet layers. You may
never feel like doing any work again.
Overworking. Nobody will thank
you. You will be so cross that the
very people for whom you are saving
the money will hate you, and your
husband will wish he had married a
spendthrift.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24
Packing Pork.

Clean the barrel thoroughly until all
bad odors are removed. Then cover
the bottom with three inches of salt
and pack in a layer Of pork, closely fill
ing the space and covering the whole
layer with salt three inches Deep
Pound it down solid with an ak and
start another layer, keeping on in the
same way until the pork is all packed.
Cover the whole with one-half bushel
of salt and let 1t stand few days,
after which clean cold water should be
added. A float with a fat stone on top
will keep the meat from rising above
the surface. This plan requires more
salt than commonly used but is very
sure for keeping meat.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24

cream shade is this: Make some starch
in the usual way, and to four and a
half ounces of starch put one and a
half ounces of yellow ochre. This
quantity will suffice for two pairs Of
curtains. Scald the ochre, and directly
the starch is made add it, taking care
not to put in the sediment, which is
rather sandy. Never iron lace cur
tains. Spread a sheet on the floor or
on grass and lay the curtain on It,.
Pull into shape and fasten the sheet
and curtain down with drawing pins
or weights. This properly done, the
curtain will look as when new.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24

The snatf1e bars meet at the center
under the lower jaw Of the horse and
are hinged by a rivet, the overlapping
ends Of the snaffie bars being recessed
to form smooth joint. An overdraw
check guard, consisting Of a curved
chin bar connects to the snafle bars.
An overdraw check bit passes through
slots in the upper end Of the check
guard. The inventor claims that the
overdraw check, when connected to
either snaffie bit or to stiff mouth
piece bit, is humane in its action, does
not force the jaws of the horse open
to an extent to interfere with the prop
er breathing, will not pinch the sides
Of the mouth of the horse, and will
not chafe and irritate the animal.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24
Write Cheerful Letters.

Letters mean q lot to some people,
and most of us are glad to receive
them, but never very fond of replying
to them. Perhaps more than anyone
else do 1.-The old folks at home" look
for news Of boys and girls now scat
tered far and wide. Frequently, too
frequently. the absent son and daugh-
ter neglect this small duty. They don't
mean to forget, but they don't realize
the peculiar loneliness felt by old peo-
pie when their children have left home
for homes and, perhaps, children OF
their own-and the letter-writing is
postponed for another day.
Again, 1t seems quite impossible for
some people to write cheerful letter
One feels lnstinctiyely that the read
ing of a certain letter will give one
q bad At OF the "blues." and 1t does.
why will not people keep their gloomy
thoughts of paperi The unfortunate
recipients cannot possibly sympathize
to the proper extent-not knowing ev-
cry particular-and It only has the ef-
feet Of making them thoroughly miser-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24

We know a farmer who has not less
than 500 invested in old plug horses,
says Chicago Inter Ocean. Ringbones,
spavins. wire cuts, curbs, ETC., are con-
spicuous when you look over his herd.
He has ten or a dozen head, and none
of them can be depended upon for a
decent days work. This man thinks
he needs lots of horses with which to
do his work, and he bought this assert
ment because they were cheap. We
know another farmer with only three
head that cost $500, but they are good
ones, and he can do more work in a
day with them than the other man can
with his ten head. The moral is, Keep
less horses, but have good ones.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24
sheep ON Small Farms.

A Western writer says: A small
grass farm for sheep should be d.
vided into small fields of five to ten
acres each, according to the size Of
the farm and the number Of sheep
The land devoted to sheep should be
fully stocked to use the pasture to the
best advantage, and forage crops
should be provided for fall feeding
when pasture fails. and the sheep need
a little extra feed to put them In good
condition for winter.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24

the boards where cut next to the post.
Strong hooks and screweye serve as
fastenings at. the other end of the gate.
1t costs but little to arrange several
Of the handy gates about the farm,
and they will be found useful. The il
lustration shows the idea clearly.-In-
dianapolis News.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24

able, in nine cases out of ten, over an
imaginary woe which belongs to some
body else.
Consider 1t duty to write cheerful
letters, and, If you haven't anything
cheerful to say, hunt till you find some
thing. You won't have a very long
search. If the sun doesn't shine to-
day, it will tomorrow, OF the day
after
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24

Three causes operate to produce val
ley frosts, which are: First, the air,
made cold on clear nights, becomes
heavier, rolls down the hillsIdes and
settles at the bottom. Second, the
winds do not reach the valleys, which
allows unobstructed radiation of heat.
Third, the richer soil Of the valleys
Induces a later and more succulent
growth. thereby promoting more rapid
evaporation.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24

and, If universally
used, there would
be no more run
away horses. This
driving bit con-
tains the ordinary
] Of in t ed mouth
piece, with rein
rings attached, the
rings and mouth
piece being pivot
ed together to a
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Practical Poultry Houses.

A practical poultry house may be
built Of four upright piano boxes.
The backs and ends which come to-
gether are removed, together with two
Of the tops. The two remaining tops
ERE inclosed at the middle end of the
house and at the front, and small
door made in the gable end of one,
which portion of the house Is used for
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24

In nearly every case curtains tinted
cream look to better advantage than
pure white curtains do. whether view
ed from the interior or from the ex-
terror. A simple recipe for giving the
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24
Controls the Horse.

A Seattle inventor has devised
driving bit which places the horse I'M
der the complete control of the driver,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24

the storage of grain. A sloping roof
Is built over the entire structure, and
the building covered with waterproof
paper. thus cutting out any possibility
of trouble in the way of leakage or
drafts which might result from the
joining. Two windows are made in
the lower front of the house facing
the south, and directly under each
window a busting box is made, which
will afford the fowls much pleasure,
as they enjoy the sunshine. Roosts
are placed at one end and in the mid
die. and nest boxes on the side oppo-
site the windows.
Arranging the window Garden.
How often do we notice shelf
filed with small plants in the window
garden, many varieties grouped pro-
miscuously until the characteristics Of
each are entirely destroyed. Arrange
each class Of plants in separate
clump and you will be surprised to
note the difference in their appear
ance. Take such plants as. prlmroses,
cyclamen, yiolets and ferns and ar
range them alternately on the plant
shelf. Now group all the ferns in the
center of the shelf, the tall sword fern
in the middle, with the broad-leaved
sorts next, and the beautiful maiden
hair fern and other dainty varieties
dropping from the edge of the shelf.
On one end of the shelf, at a little
distance from the ferns, group the diff
ferent varieties Of primroses in such
manner that contrasts In foliage and
blossoms will be readily noted. On
the other hand, arrange the cyclamen
blossoms, nodding daintlly above the
dark foliage, and the great difference
between the careless and artistic ar
rangements will be at once apparent.
Good Fence Gate.
Where the farm Is divided into a
number Of fields it is often somewhat
Of a laborious task to pass from one
field to another, and especially when
animals are to be driven from one Sec
ton to another of the farm. A gate
such as here described is easily placed
in section of any division fence,
whether Of wire, rails or boards. Ar
range the point of opening so as to
have firm corner posts, then make a
gate four feet wide; light post Is set
before the ends of the boards are cut
If the gate is erected as part Of a
board fence. Two strong strips are
nailed on the gate portion and three
strong strap hinges are fastened on
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-24
This and That.

A shell from 12-inch gun makes Its
hight OF nine miles in forty-two sec
pndA
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Silver on the UPGRADE.

The, price of silver has risen to u
cents an ounce, and the Secretary of
the Treasury declines to take any at
that price. In order to secure the sill
yer bullion that he needs for the coin-
age of subsidiary pieces he will prob
ably have to pay at least 72 cents.
India and the rest of the siIver-using
countries in the east make by their
demands the price of silver, and Mr.
Shaw's comparatively small orders do
not cut a great figure.
In 1873 silver was at premium, and
the silver In a silver dollar was worth
a trife more than face value. The
ratio then of silver to gold was 1892
to 1. Then began the decline and fall
off of the despised white metal until
In 1902 a silver dollar was intrinsical-
ly worth but 40.S cents. The ratio
then was 1915 to 1.
In the year 1902 India began to call
for more silver, and there has been a
pretty steady rise ever since in price.
The metal in a silver dollar is now
worth 55.7 cents in gold. From 52.7
cents per ounce the price OF silver has
risen to 70 cents, but it has got to go
to $1.29 per ounce before silver and
gold are at parity in the output of our
mints.
Possibly half the distance to parity
may be crossed, but 1t is scarcely prob
able that the market will fully vindi-
cate the heaven-born ratio of 16 to L.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Uncle Remus' MAGAZINE.

Joel Chandler Harris and his asso-
ciates will soon put before readers It
magazine that promises to abide with
us, for it is to be typical of the south,
of interest to the north, national in
scope" Magazines have been started
in the south, but their courses were
soon run. The Age-Herald has full
faith that a magazine edited by Uncle
Remus will come to stay.
1t will stay because all Anglo-Saxons,
to say the least, love Uncle Remus.
They love him because he is an op.
timist, because he believes man is a
man every time and every where, be-
cause his ideals are of the noblest and
broadcast sort He is an American who
holds a high place in American litera.
ture. He is, therefore, the right man
in the right place when he becomes
the active editor, not merely the fig
ure-head, OF southern magazine. IL is
the one chance the south has to estab-
lish and maintain magazine Of worth
and popularity.
Behind Uncle Remus will stand a
strong business organization, and al
together the prospect is that in March
next magazine will be published that
will be alike unique and permanent.
| Mr.. Harris will push his pen and won.
| derful imaginative powers while his
capitalistic associates push their dol
lars and business sense, and the sue
| cess of the enterprise seems fully as
sured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
KING MENELIK'S BIG TOY

as singing. they approached and marched
past the Negus. There were thousands of
them. Every province mad furnished its
contingent, and when the forced labor of
each lot was completed many fell in be-
hind the procession and kept on to the
end of the journey.
An Ethiopian banner fluttered above the
crowd. 1t was fastened to the body of
the locomotive. When the big machine
appeared at last at the summit O. the
gorge a terrific shout rent the air. The
Emperor stood up, took step forward
and made gesture of salutation.
Il thought it would be bigger" was
his comment when he saw it at closer
range.
Behind the locomotive came Serkis, who
fell to his knees at his masters feet 1t
had taken him twenty-eight days to drag
the engine thither from the coast at
Dire-Daona, reaching an elevation Of
nearly 5000 feet above sea level.
Locomotives, unfortunately, have their
caprices as well as despots. Some weeks
later, when tracks were laid at Adds
Abeba, the locomotive refused to operate.
Oil and charcoal were consumed in vain.
1t wouldn't bulge.
1t took weeks of overhauling before
they got the engine going at last. BY that
time Menelik had lost interest in it.
Il realize" said he that will see
nothing serious until the real railway
reaches here from Jibouti."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
Fame usually costs more than it is
worth.
Among other literary stars we find the
asterisk
Kleptomania is the highest type of the
art of stealing.
Some men are born leaders and most
women are born drivers.
pauper gets more real enjoyment out
of life than a miser does
A wife at home may be worse than a
breach-of- promise suit in court. 4
When the young man courts an heress
he thinks his fortune is maid.
His Satanic majesty smiles every time
a woman marries a man to reform him.
cause she doesn't know as much as she
might
This may be the land of the free, but
anything worth having is seldom offered
to us that way.
Every time man files an application
for patent he imagines he is going to
revolutionize things.
Many man is in the bachelor class to-
day because the girl in the case had been
taught to say No"
Probably the easiest task a business
man is ever called upon TO accomplish is
to induce an employe to accept an in
crease in salary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Cost of Livinq.

1.-THE amount of a mans living expense
account is usually limited by the amount
of his wages or salary" said an observ-
ant gentleman yesterday.
Even in these prosperous times in the
Birmingham district we find men seuf-
fling along complaining of necessary
economy with fairly good salaries, while
can recall the time in Birmingham
when these same men managed to live
on half the salary they receive now
and seemed to live very we'll During the
hard times in Birmingham when business
was at a very low ebb and salaries We're
necessarily small and one was lucky to
get any salary at all, it was hard for
many people to make living. Many of
them were unable to make a living, but
hundreds of people managed to exist very
well.
Now, every man who wants to work
is getting good pay for his services, but
am afraid the majority are finding
it hard to live in real comfort The great
trouble with most men is that the 'neees-
stiles of life always keep just little
in advance of the mans ability to pay,
it matters not what his salary is.
"As a mans earning capacity Increases
his wants increase, and those wants
nursed in the mind, become necessities"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Alabama and Canada.

While Alabama permits those who
do not vote to escape a needful and
important tax, thus Offering pecun-
larry reward for neglect of the elective
franchise-while Alabama is doing
that and is accommodating in that way
fully 100000 DISTINGUISHED whites, the
Canadian parliament is about to pass
bill providing for compulsory voting.
The gulf between the Alabama policy
and the Canadian policy is very wide
and deep, and there are some who say
democratic government cannot long
exist when citizens become Indifferent
to their political duties. A non-voter,
an absentee, is presumably asleep to
his share in the government.
Canadian public sentiment calls for
a compulsory voting law. Absenteeism
from the polls is to be punished by ac-
tual disfranchisement for term of
years. The Belgians tried the plan,
and they still retain it, although at
first it was enforced with difficulty.
Some of the Belgians, when dragged to
the polls by the police, voted burlesque
tickets. Belgium has perhaps become
accustomed to compulsory voting.
The question has not in Canada be-
come at all partizan. The proposition
is supported by men in all the parties
: in the Dominion. Absenteeism is to
be reduced to a minimum if law can
do it--law and public sentiment.
Alabama's policy needs amendment,
and the legislature certainly should
submit proposition to be voted on
by the people. Give the people a
chance to say what they think of
plan that leads to the disfranchise
ment of nearly one-half of their friends
and neighbors between the ages of 81
and DO. Give the people a chance to
express their opinions at the polls.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
CORN.

I By Sidney Lanier.
| Today the woods are trembling through
and through
| With shimmering forms that flash before
my view,
Then melt in green as dawn stars melt in
blue.
The leaves that wave against my cheek
caress
Like womans hands, the embracing
boughs express
A subtlery of mighty tenderness
| The copse depths into little noises start,
That sound anon like beating of heart.
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart
| The beech dreams balm, as a dreamer
huns a song;
| Through that vague wafture, expirations
strong
Throb from young hickories breathing deep
and long
With stress and urgence bold of prisoned
spring
And ecstasy of burgeoning.
Now since the dew-plashed road of morn
is dry,
Forth venture odors of more quality
And heavenler giving. Like Joves locks
awry,
Long muscad1nes
Rich wreathe the spacious foreheads OF
great pines,
And breathe ambrosial passion from their
vines.
pray with MOSES, ferns and flowers
shy,
That hide like gentle nuns from human
eye
To lift adorng perfumes to the sky.
| hear faint bridal signs of brown and
green
Dying to silent hints of kisses keen
AS far lights fringe into a pleasant sheen.
l start at fragmentary whispers blown
From undertakes of leafy souls unknown.
Vague purports sweet, of inarticulate
tone.
Dreaming of gods, men, nuns and brideg
between
Old companies of oaks that inward lean
To join their radiant amplitudes of green
l slowly move, with ranging looks that
pass
Up from the matted miracles of grass,
Into yon veined complex of space
Where sky and LEAKAGE interlace
So close the heaven of blue is seen
Inwoven with a heaven of green.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18

I was only face in the crowd-a face
that shone like a star in the throng
of other faces; some Worn with care.
others old and hideous; still others hard
and bitter-cruel faces. wicked faces. dis
sipated faces, and faces that told the
story of hundred varied en- )tions. The
one face was that of lame girl who
picked her way modestly through the hur-
rying people, with lowered eyes and a
shrinking manner. 1t was n sweet face.
pale and resigned but aglow with a light
which can only come from 4 beautiful
soul. The girls clothes were mean. She
was evidently returning to her home after
a day of toll in some office Or department
store, tired and heartsicl1, PERHAPS, but
still hopeful. 1t must be lreary life that
she leads-a long, hard struggle FOL bread
and always there is the bitter thought
that she is deformed The rnaa of wealth.
who scatters his millions to the right and
the left, seldom reaches a case like this.
Money would be worth while if The pos
SCISSOR could say to the crippled girl
Here is enough to keep You in comfort
for life. Your days of toll and suffering
are ended"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18

river improvements are likely to regard
the disappearance of an independent rail
way as further proof of the vanishing of
competition. Hence the Importance in this
instance of seeking in the Mississippi
river and others a means of control Of
freight rates from the interior to the
seaboard.
Whatever the soundness of such argu-
ments, there is bound to be a strong popu-
lar expression of the view that waterways
are, after all, the best means by which
to keep down railway rates. Once this
idea becomes clearly defined, it will not
be difficult, in the present state of pub
lie opinion, to get a popular force back
of it which will record itself in the APP
preparation of many additional millions OF
dollars a year for the Improvement Of
the leading waterways of the country.
1T behooves the railway authorities of
the country to take into account the pos
sibilities of such developments. A deep
draught canal extending from the upper
lakes to the Mississippi, both from Du-
luth and from Chicago or Milwaukee, is
only one of the many projects which have
long appealed to commercial, Industrial
and engineering foresight, as inevitable
developments with the growth of the
country. The waterways connecting Lake
Erie with the Ohio river, through the
state of Ohio, have always the possibility
of being reconstructed to meet modern
conditions. The survey has already been
made for connecting the eastern end of
Lake Erie with Pittsburg, south through
Pennsylvania. The contracts fos the deep
ening of the Erie canal are gradually
being worked out. These instances are
typical of advances, which means much
for the transportation interests of the
country as a whole"