davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1907-12-20
IDAHO.

y y
her years work has been pros
porous. Over many fair acres
which were desert a year ago, the
desert has vanished and the har-
vest has come to gladden. the
toilers. She is growing into a
great agricultural state; in a few
years more she will dispute for
supremacy with many an eastern
state which long has been fam
GUS for nothing else so much as
her fertile acres. The miracle of
the waters. In more than one
place the snags have been cleared
from the river, and the channel
deepened, and men have rejoiced
that a way has been provided
through which in rude boats they
could send their little harvests
to market. 1t is different up in
Idaho. There the great Snake
river which through uncounted
centuries has made it's lordly way
to where it merges with the
greater Columbia; it's clear wat
ers and impelling energy being
the more accenuated by its blast
ed and dead banks, has been in
duced to forsake its channel, to
flow out upon the desert, to
quicken it to life; to bring out it's
latent strength, so that those
banks are now in their season
clothed with emerald and gold.
1t is a transformation such as
the wild tribes that built their
rude wickiups on its banks and
fished in it's blue waters for ages
never dreamed OF. And the land
responds in a way that makes
clear that it was retaining it's
strength and fertility, through
all the centuries when man did
not knew how to reduce them to
his use. Such grain, such fruits
and flowers, such a luxurience of
growth seem to be so many
voices speaking in reproach of
the ignorance OF man that he has
not sooner called in the right
way to them to do their part.
And there is a statlier flow to
the great river in autumn when
its help is no longer needed, as
though it was conscious that it
henceforth was to flow through
green fields and hear the songs
of happy children as it held it's
way to the sea.
In few years more with her
harvests, her sugar, her fruit
Idaho could without other re-
sources becomes a greater and
richer state than either Of many
famous agricultural states Of the
east. But she has other sources
of wealth, real wealth, which
make sure a convenient market
for the products of her soil. Her
mines show no sign Of failure.
She has gold and silver and lead;
within her own boundries she is
perfectly equipped to support
unassisted great population,
and to enable them togrowrich-
er and richer as the years roll on.
And her people are a strong,
SPLENDID race, alert in all fields
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went This time he found magnificent collection
of the orchids growing in native burying ground,
among exposed bones and skulls.
1t was no easy matter to obtain permission to
remove the plants, especially of the skulls
had to be removed with them. However at last the
natives consented, sending with the consignment
little idol to watch the spirits of the departed
This time the orchids reached their destination
Inferior varieties, which the agent had been per-
mitted to gather in addition to the specimens desired
for the Governments garden, were sold in the open
market at prices ranging from twenty-six to one
hundred and forty-eight dollars each.
Many such plants will grow in swamps, which the
natives themselves regard with dread the home of
fever and mosquitoes To go in search of the orchids
is often to face death. One agent, detained at
Panama, went to look for an orchid he had heard
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at Stockholm during the festivities arranged for the
marriage of his son the Crown Prince During these
gaieties Nine. Christine Nilsson would appear in
opera one night, and i would sing in concert the
next at the Royal Theater.
Before the arrival of the Crown Prince from his
wedding journey, the King showed me over the
palace which had been specially decorated for the
and myself were invited to the court ball given IN
their honor. Neither one of us had court train,
and we were at wits end to know what to do,
for we both wanted to go. Every dressmaker IN
Stockholm was busy night and day; it was too
late to order Our trains from Paris. will write
to the King about it, said Nine. Nilsson And she
did. "Your Most Gracious Majesty" she said in her
letter, Miss Thursby and have no flaps to
to the court ball. What shall we dor"
Come without them. OsKAR," was the answer
we got back the same day. And we appeared and
had beautiful time.
An incident that occurred the day King Oscar
showed me through the palace displayed clearly his
kindness of heart We had been talking OF music,
and l spoke of his poetic ideas and acquaintance
with it.
Il learned all that know from Berg, the teacher
of Jenny Lind, was his answer. After that |
could see that he was thinking of something and
presently he said, wish you would go to see Berg;
he is very old and lonely now
So went, and found him living at the top of
house. and that he had not been out for fifteen years.
taught Jenny Lind. When was through the poor
old man wept and said ITO think that great artist
should come and sing to me- when have heard no
one for fifteen years." When spoke of the great
debt we owed him the teacher of Jenny Lind, who
had given much happiness, he answered with
modest gentleness, mo- She got nothing from me;
she had everything within herself,
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Missions Chilly Reception

THOSE first appearances of Nine. Nilsson in Stock
i holm were not very bright; it a of
prophet in his country. The night after she sang
in Faust" with reception cold ice, had
tremendous But she was very generous;
she had it all from box and after the concert
she said, You are fool to go back to America,
when you are so we'll received here" But the at
ttude of the public changed toward her later, and
she came into her own.
meeting with Prince Alexander of Hesse, favorite
cousin of the Queen of England, whose father, be-
lieve, would have been heir to the throne of Den
mark. but for the fact of his blindness, which made
him ineligible, according to the constitution of the
country. Prince Alexander has inherited the af1ic
ton, and is almost entirely blind. His great hap
piness is music, and he has composed some really
beautiful songs set to the words of Kate Greenaway
and dedicated to the Queen of England.
One night in Paris, the day before was to sail for
America, recent autumn returning late from an
tertanment, was told that man had been waiting
for hours to 1t proved to be Prince Aexan-
der. He told me that as boy at school in England
he had heard me sing at the Crystal Palace. The
years, and he insisted that delay my sailing that he
pered, g You must it is royal command" Finally
l agreed. During the dinner he would turn to me
and say, "To think that l am dining with the Miss
Thursby whom heard boy! No voice has
touched me yours did. little thought l should
have the honor of meeting you"
Some have said that the reward of singer is at
the end of her song never. Longfellow knew bet
ter than that, when he wrote 1.-The Arrow and the
Song" The applause of the moment is all very
grateful but the memory of the song that is left in
the hearts of friends that it has raised up for is
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of, and was carried back from the swamps to die.
The difficulties of the work great the
dangers One collector was known to wade up to his
waist in mud for fortnight, seeking specimen
of which he had heard, and another lived among the
Indians of Brazil for nine months, peering through
the tangled jungle for a lost variety.
To obtain the orchids that grow on trees, the col
lector must hire certain of woodland with the
trusted climb the and gather the plants, the
wastefu1 plan of cutting down the trees is adopted,
and he gathers his specimens from the fallen trunks
The forest being often inland, the plants, after
being collected must be carried to river sea- In
one case they were carried for six weeks mems
backs from the mountains to river, then six weeks
in canoes with twenty portages and then conveyed
over the ocean.
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TIME prices sometimes paid for and
orchids seem exorbitant, but when the figures
put by the side of the hardships endured
to procure the plants they to be reasonable
enough.
An official of the Botanic Gardens at Washington
tells of the perseverance displayed by agent for
that institution.
This agent sent to New Guinea some years ago
to look for dendrobitm, then very For months
he dwelt among the natives faring they Jared and
living under the most trying conditions But he
secured about four hundred of the coveted plants
and loaded them little schooner. Then think
ing his mission accomplished, he fastened away with
his trophies. But on putting into port in Dutch
New Guinea he had the misfortune to see his vessel
burned to the waters edge.
He was ordered to go back for more plants He
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the best of ALL for that is the song without ending
The first time that l saw the old Emperor William
with some Plymouth church people The older
ones had gone on to Berlin and left another young
woman, her brother, little boy, and myself on the
Rhine. Some said that the Emperor was to be
in Wiesbaden, counted our pennies and set out
to see him. After a very frugal supper and break
fast at Cobenz for cash was limited, we took
the train. Standing about the door of COM
partment before the train started in the way that
Americans soon learn to do to keep objectionable
people out, a nice looking man searching
for seat. His face was so genial and kindly that
with one accord we decided to let him in.
but new friends even worse. do you
speak English" the boy asked.
"Of course do; am an American" he answered
1t was Billy Florence, and when he heard what
the Emperor. And no man could have been kinder.
Lining us up in a outside the kursaal Mr.
Florence lowered over us until the Emperor ap-
peared, smiling and ruddy. Then Baden in
its heyday fashionable resort, and the present
Emperor, slim boy, constantly seen in the
of whom is the Crown Princess of Greece
Foresaw New York's Growth
n FAURICE STRAKOSCH was marvellous man
lV1 and always ahead of his time. He it who
proposed building an opera house at 4oth-st, New
time people declared him crazy because of the idea of
putting great place of amusement so far up town.
But he the possibilities and the great future of
New York. and the very plans that he projected for
the building of that opera house, which were pub
lished at the time in The Graphic" weresadopted
has ever been given him for the inspiration.
When was singing in Lepsic under his manage
ment, Mr.. Strakosch heard Wagner for the first
time, and foresaw the great hold that his music
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bound to have on the American public He engaged
all the members of the company then singing
there for tour of the United States. The con-
tracts were made out and he sent word of the
undertaking to his brother, Max Strakosch, who
wrote back that American audiences would not
listen to Wagner So the plan abandoned.
1t the with him in the selection of voices.
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An Inconvenient Brother"

THHE quantest experience that | had under Mr..
i Strakosch's management at Prague. AS
result of it had to leave the town without giving
my final concert.
A rather wild looking but very determined man
came to my hotel and insisted that his sister,
who had gone to America years before ballet
dancer and had never been heard of again. To
make matters more uncomfortable, he produced
photographs of her that really resembled me.
seemed in such sympathy with his story that
concluded the wisest thing to do was to leave town.
But the matter was actually brought up later in
New York. l was away from the city, when my
sister received note to come to police headquarters
The American consul at Prague had taken up the
case. The photographs were brought out again,
and she questioned. Mr.. French who then
Chief of Police, exclaimed before she through,
We'll, what kind of an American consul is this,
anyway, who doesn't know Miss Thursby?"
Years went by. 1 had sung in concerts all over
Europe and America and never once heard of Mr..
Gray whose interest was associated with my begin
nings. One day got church paper with the word
Gomez written it in blue pencil and signed
Gray The address given Old Mans Home,
so l trud ged over to the other end of Brooklyn. A
this Emma?" he asked He had lost his money
through business msfortunes but assured that he
had remained ppy through it all and if ever have
seen beautiful Christian character his was one.
Il have followed your whole career in the papers,,
he said that morning, land have prayed for the
hour that l might hear you sing
1t was tender privilege to me to sing to the old
all his familiar favorites, and when / heard
that he dead went and sang at his funeral
angels Ever Bright and Fair that he had loved
we'll
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He discovered by intuition what singers would
please, and the French right when they called
him the Christopher Columbus of voices. Nine.
Patti, whose teacher he was for seventeen years,
owes to him the debt of her great career; Nine.
Nilsson was drilled by him; and he it who first
heard Nine. Melba as pupil of Nine Marchesi, knew
the in store for her, and engaged her the
spot Had it not been for his sudden death, Maurice
Strakosch would have been the to introduce her.
He knew as much about music as he did about
managing. There was set of scales and exercises
that he wrote that he called 1.-The Vocalists Ten
Commandments y; those he made practise every
day, and l have never found anything like them.
They were the ones that he used with Nine. Patti,
and it from him that she and others who studied
with him learned the secret of how to preserve the
voice. One instance of this in practising very
high rims; he would always make sing them an
octave lower. But how do know that will have
l would ask him.
You will have them, and you will have them
fresh, because you have saved them would be his
answer. And he was right.
Both Costa and Benedict told me that Mr.. Stra-
kosch did all the rehearsing for Patti to save her
coming the opera house. He drilled her in all her
operas, taught her. managed her, and never left her
until her marriage with the Marquis de Caux, to
which he strongly opposed The breach be-
tween them on this account was never healed.
His wife, who Amalie Patti, the sister of Nine.
Adelina told me that when Nine. Patti sang in
Gounod's Romeo and Juliet at the Grand Opera
in Paris after his death, she sat and wept she lis
tened to think that the beautiful work of her hus
band would never be credited to him. He taught
Nine. Patti every role in which she made success.
Those that she learned after their separation
and all unfortunate and to this day she sings
the cadenzas that he wrote for her.
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Colorado EIks Celebrate.

Leadville, Col, June 14.-Leadvflle
lodge of Elks, numbering over a thou
sand, have prepared the cate eel
ebration ever held by the order in
the West on the occasion of the annu-
al convention which opened TO-DAY
with a great parade of local and visit
ing members and other organizations.
The city is decorated on an unprece-
denied scale and the citizens have ar
ranged for the greatest gala time il
the history OF Leadville during the
next three days.
A ball this evening will round up the
first days festivities. Tomorrow the
thousands of Elks will go on a trip
through the Yak tunnel. during which
a banquet will be served hundreds of
feet underground. After inspecting
the mines the Elks will return to the
city for an old fashioned social ses-
sion. Sunday will be devoted to ath-
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Two-cent Rate in missouri.

Jefferson City, Mo-, June 14,-The
new two-cent passenger a r act and
the maximum freight rate law will be
in full force and effect on all railroads
operating within the state after today.
Although threats have been made
by some railway officials to test the lie
gality of the new statutes il the
courts. it is not believed that any ser
ious attempt to do this will be made,
a majority of the roads having consid-
cred it the part of wisdom to ac,
q~uiesce in those enactments, rather
than become involved in long and ex-
pelsive litigation and exasperate the
legislators to pass even more restric-
tive and stringent laws.
the maximum freight rate law is ST
milar in many OF it's provisions to the
act of 1905, which is now in litigation
in the federal courts. An injunction
which is still pending has prevented
tne enforcement of the latter statute,
which is repealed and rendered void
by the new law. The latter reduces
the freight rates heretofore charged
about 25 per cent. and makes the tar
ifs practically the same as are paid
by shippers in Illinois n Indiana.
Penalties are provided in the new
law under which a violation of its
provisions may incur criminal prose
cutions in any county of the state.
AS a result of the enforcement of
the two-cent passenger fare law, near
ly all the roads of the state will dis
continue special Sunday trains to
Kansas City n ST. Louis and other
excursions which have beer run week
Iy in past years. The roads also threa
ten to do away with all homeseeker's
excursions to Missouri points.
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MR.. DOOLEY ON THE
PRICHARD OPINION

From Albuquerque Journal.
Have We heard the latest NANNY.
festo from Gin'rul George Washin'ton
Abraham Lincoln Prichard?" asked
Mr.. Dooley, laying aside a somewhat
odoriferous corncob.
'Man1yfesto?" evchoed Mr.. Hen.
nessey, in some bewilderment. Il
wudent know wan if l met it in Ire
land"
''Thrue for ye," 81 id Mr.. Dooley,
LAS 1 Expected. Ye ought fer to read
the Awlmanack N git up to date.
'Tis a docymint that will become ia
nous. l seen all about it in the Awlma
mack. Misther Prichard, second only
in learnnin' to the other imminent
gang barristher, me ould frind frum
Pulaski, was quietly approached from
behind be a representative iv the Anvil
manack, an afther bein' relieved iv
his handkerchief an a little small
change. was asked what he thought,
if indade he had wint so far as to in
dulge in hat somewhat dangerous
pastime.
II think says Misther Prichard,
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caressin' his goaty, hat h state
mint that 1 tould the and commission
er that / believed me former state
mint was slightly dif'runt from me
previous position he says, which it
was not he says. That's what l stat
ed in the furrst place. he says. Re.
garrdin' the Bonham & Holt land
DEAL he says, the commissioner ask
ed me wud it be legal, as plainly stat
ed be the law, fer to allow two men
fer to imploy sixty-two men fer to
aich git wan hundher an sixty acres
iv land
"tAfther c~onvarsin' with Misther
Bonham an Misther Holt say Gin
'rul Failure Prichard, I informed he
commissioner plainly hat 1 cud see
no irregularities in the ~perceedin's
whativer. In fact l cudent see thin
at amy price. l had no Jacks befure
me fer to INDICATE hat Bonham al
Holt was goin' to gobble the whole
bunch. The Jacks was all behine me.
Whereas an accordin', / tould the
commissioner ne says, in hoe cure
ka, alias capias, quod jurandum, the
law says aich an ivry man may have
$50 acres. 1 hereby give it as me opi1-
yum that aich an ivry man may have
100 acres, he IA
Thin what lie Misther Reid say?'
he zoe on. 'Regarrdin' the PinnSylva-
ny Divilopement comp'ny deal, he
say that t~ichnikely the law has been
complied with, bat he knows it is a
bunco game completed be the prev
ious ADMINISTRATION Here was an
opin confession. How foolish. 1 niver
made wan. 1t amt good pollyticks-
The MAJ is a chucklehead what can't
see the d~iff'runce.' he says.
"Wot do o think iv the charges
that you an the rist iv the Plumber
bund air grafthers, includin' mesilf?'
asks the rayportner fer the Awlma-
mack. maxim goo-goo eyes at a land
shark that was lookin' in the wi7der.
"Regardin' this delikit matther,'
says Misther Prichard, I won't say
what 1 might say if I dident say what
/ oughtent to say fer fear I will con-
thradick mesiIf.' he says But I don't
hardly behave it. he says. What
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jap to Visit Coast.

Washington, June Alt is report.
ed that Viscount Aoki, the japanese
ambassador to the United States, viii
leave Washington tomorrow for the
Pacific Goa in order to make a tho
rough Investigation of the alleged dis
elimination and mistreatment of his
countrymen. 1t is believed that the
visit will have an important bearing or
the future relations between the Unit,
ed States and Japan. The inspection
will nearly all the important
centers of Japanese population from
Los Angeles to Seattle and will prob
ably occupy several weeks. Masano
Hanihara, second secretary to the en-
bassy and one or two other members
of the staff will accompany the am
bassador.
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MAKING tbs DESERTS BLOOM.
Mexico and Canada Interested in what
is being lone in Dry Farming.

Mexico and Canada Interested in what
is being Done in Dry Farming.
Prof. H. W. Campbell, of Lincoln,
Nebraska known everywhere as the
father of farming for the <semi-arid
region, has just gone to the Canadian
northwest under the auspices of the
Canadian government tic lecture for
three weeks telling what is being done
in the western states to make farming
new movement in the West that Prof.
recently made an extensive tour of
Old Mexico on the same kind of an
errand, the government having large
tracts of and which it is desired shall
be brought under cultivation. He has
also Just made two trips to California
on the same work, and the past whit
er has lectured in a half dozen states
where farming the semi-arid lands has
become a reality.
Such has been the success of the
nav movement in the west that PRO-
Campbell is almost as well known in
Canada and Mexico as in the states.
1t is reported that opportunities for
this special kind of farming are many
in these neighboring countries.
1t is perhaps yer stating the mat
ter to advertise that the desrts are
a-bloom with verdure, but it is true
that a work of vast Importance has
Doen 0On6 III recent years III QomO0
strating what can be accomplished by
proper methods of cultivation in grow
ing fine crops where only small grass
was known before and in doubling and
trebling ordinary crops on old land,
and the work is only fairly begun. 1t
an almost indefinite expansion
of the tillable area of the West and
the creation of millions of new farm
homes. If the process is to continue
as now seems probable, then the So
called semi-arid West is to witness in
the next decade the most marvellous
development of any country in all his
tory. The prejudices which have stood
in the way of progress nave been brok
en- down by the realities of dry farm
ing success.
In this movement for the develop
ment of the agricultural of
the West it is significant that the bu-
siness interests are standing Loyalty
by the progressive and intelligent
plain farmers. In the adoption of the
best methods of tillage, in utilizing
land before barren and in making sure
of good crops without regard to the
amount of annual rainfall. the farm
ers have just put a double cinch on
prosperity that cannot be broken by
all the croakers and knockers.