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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

A soldier Of fortune who had fought
under eighteen different flags died a
few days ago from oyerindulgence in
dumplings Peace hath her dangers no
less terrible than war.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

Berlin is to have a worlds fair In
1918. How does 1t happen that Japan
has not demonstrated her progressive
ness by having worlds fair2
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

An insane woman who had $67 was
throwing 1t away on street corner the
other night. Why don't you ever get
around when something like this is go
Ing On, instead of waiting to read about
1t?
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

Perhaps 1t will please you to hear
that England has erected statute to
the memory of your old friend and
neighbor, John Smith.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

The way some of the doctors of the
country are talking about the incom-
potency Of other doctors is enough to
discourage one from getting sick.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

That woman who married burglar
she captured in her home has probably
done more to frighten burglars away
from the city than all the courts have
Z been able to do.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

: Every man hopes some day to run
across doughnuts as good as the ones
he used to steal from the pantry shelf
when he was a boy
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

1t Is said of the late Dean Huffcutt
Governor Hughes legal adviser. who
committed suicide as a result of ner.
vous breakdown from overwork, that
he was one of the most brilliant men
ever graduated from Cornell Universi.
V. And In his comparatively brief
career since his graduation he has full
Allied the bright promise OF his youth.
He seems to have had one conspicuous
failing, however, and that was his in
ability to appreciate the Importance of
occasional rest and recreation from ex-
acting intellectual pursuits. 1t is said
Of him that he never took a vacation.
They reckon Ill who count ON Mother
Natures carelessness as a bookkeeper.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

onstrated that automobiles Will not protect
the offenders the demand for restrictive legislation
become general than it has The autist
needs to exercise well as the author-
ties.-St Paul Pioneer Press
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

When a man is caught in the act Of
picking woman's pocket and arrested
1t seems perfectly safe to speak of him
as an "alleged pickpocket."
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

Now that the Corey-Gilman wedding
In over the eartn will resume its nor
NAL and regular rotation upon Its
axis.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

Four boys left their homes sudden
~ and clandestinely, with the avowed
purpose of seeking their fortunes In
Nevada. They did not let their par
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

Iut III the uespondency That riumphs In
this way over the weakness Of the few inhnitesma
compared with that which is dominated and beat down
by brave hearts day of the year. Those who want
to take their own lives have monopoly of this feeling
Thousands and thousands feel 1t come over them
at times The causes of 1t infinite they do not
yield to it because they afford to- The husband
with wife and children to provide bravey puts II
aside Tor their sake and his own. The woman whose
life Is often mere mechanical routine fights 1t down
that those whom she loves not be infected with her
cheeressness.
These are the silent Of which we do not read in
the newspapers but In which and reach the
supreme heights Of herosm. The other kind OF war
has more of noise and pageant and music But in real
grandeur cannot compare with the victory single
human soul over the weakness that leads to despon
dency or the dependency that ends deathChlcago
Examiner.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

A man never cares a great deal for
the pictures taken Of him when he was
a baby.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

incidentally, 1t will be noticed that
Alfonso XIII has put decided crimp
In the thirteen hoodoo's record.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03
PLAIN SENSE FOR AuroMoB111srs.

HE automobile is not going to be regulated
by persecution. 1t has come to stay. 1t
may be largely used for pleasure Just now,
but its practical value is manifest and in
sures Its permanence. When business
man can cover twenty to thirty miles in an
hour tpyn and Ia In, Int
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

New York detectives found $4,000
In q mattress. 1t was well feathered.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03
THE COST OF WAR.

VERY century lives are wasted in war at
the rate Of 100000 in Europe alone-an
average Of 100000 every year. Two and
half million men fell on European battle
fields during the first half of last century
alone; and this slaughter cost Europe the
colnssaI sum of SR sh0 OOo 600 Haoh ,uio4iu,,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03
THOUSANDS FIGHT AND TRIUMPH

ARDLY day passes that the newspapers
of this city do not report one or more sui
cides or attempts at suicide. In the vast
majority Of cases dependency" is given
as the cause. That one word eloquently
sums up the story
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

A fashion hint is about the only kind
some women win take
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

persons who gain reputation of being most agreeable
people, because they talk alphabetically anyone with
whom they are brought into juxtaposition dinner or
other social function there Others deficient in this
gift who can only say Really, Indeed and oh people,"
the writer airms "are the despair of the
But these people do not constitute new species Lord
Edward Buwer-Lytton, in one of his essays more than
half century ago. complained that "Humming, having
ana drawing are the three graces conversation
10 prepare Tor talking one must begin thinking.
man or woman who is interested In people or
In books, should have difficulty in finding subjects of
conversation or In making observations likely be we'll
received The best takers naturally, people Of cu
ture but culture may be acquired of college well
as In The days Of the French salons gone
return The habtues Of the salons and women
picked for their briancy of mind and speech or for
some other trait that made them interesting society
But not all of them equally gifted, some of
them were better listeners than takers. There
is a refuge for the Individual addicted to society
but without hope of succeeding talker-let him
ten alphabetically to others who talk and he will not
lack Observation-Disclosures Wisconsin.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03

It's tough even on the six-footer when
he has one foot in the grave
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-03
THE ART OF CONVERSATION.

! ~ people SO greatly change? Is sprightly con-
Versatlon a lost art? Was there time
when everyone In society was gifted YER
bally! One OF the chapters Of the revised
edition OF Manners and Social Usages' is
devoted to "Society's Small-talk," and con-
tains the observation that while there are
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15

os the groups and bass-reliefs up in their pid!0''
completed ,, r,. money
for six weeks. They haven't written 10 me =, ra
bro+ter has come over to tell me this, so tleIo
wouldn't be anything on paper; rather thah -, w.,
or cable he has come across the ocean Anu - -
have had no money for six weeks, anu L
the whole business now. l have done theSe i7
,,res: they are the nude form They are coNeITo IA
one way so that there will be nothing snocAl, rs
about if: but they the human form. hu'
has gone back and have sent over Whoie Io' ~ y.
photographs and he has told ME the POLITICIANS ur W
not care about sculpture. and that 1t would huI'
their morals if they saw nude leg Of man, per
haps. And they are going to close me oli' "
all this effort Of mine is going to ruin
Il thought perhaps the politicians would say u,
when they saw the statues. that they were "o'
what they wanted: they wanted some WorkHeh
with spades. and So I cabled ana Sau
Answer me if you anything about my ne a.'u
about this work. and answer me- is 1t because the
statues are nude or'what is the matter that you
do not send money ard have ordered me not u
so on?' - e.o-
He never answered. I wrote him letter ai'tr
letter when was in my bed sick there; wrote
him every three days: l could not help IT, Went
ON another month. I stayed ther August anu
through the month of September, and did not et'
an answer. I went then TO Moret. my WIFE Win
me and we all pretty well done uf'-and 'le'
was no letter from Huston. | sat down ana caoitu
him again. I don't know how much spent III
cables hut ii never did any good.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
POOLING A SCULPTOR.
HozU O.. G.. Barnard Has Treated BIZ
Pennsylvania TricksterS.

One of the most disagreeable Of the many un-
pleasant features of the Pennsylvania Capitol
dal is the manner in which George Gray Barnard
sculptor was treated by the architect of the build
ing and, as part Of record of the case. have
reproduced the most interesting portions the
timony given by Mr. Barnard before the Capitol
Investigation Commission.
n the first part OF his recital Mr. Barnard told
Of being summoned 20 HustOn's Office and Of his
conversation with him regarding the work. He
planned out all the groupings in few minutes, he
said. and gave his reasons for depicting human
emotions in his marble figures. On hearing this
the architect promised 10000 for the work.
The sculptor then went TO tell Of the events
which led up to his finally agreeing TO do the work
for S1GoOo0. and how Governor Stone had stood by
him when he asked TO have his bond reduced from
$4,000 10000 The bond furnished by
Baltimore bonding company, which not only de-
first advance TO Barnard but took his two works
of security and compelled him 10 insure his
life for So, 600
Mr. Barnard then went tell how Huston. in
accordance with the contract. rent him $4,000
month but soon began 10 withhold payments.
the building OF his studios and with his workmen
Camoring for their pay.
Huston visited Barnard in February of 1903 and
then according to the sculptor. contracted to buy
The Prodigal Son" for $500
Of the subsequent visit OF the Rev s c. Histor,
the architects brother. Mr.. Barnard said:
He came over in August he said: You didn't
take IL seriously about that ''Prodigal Son?
said Yes; go look at it, and he did. Good
heavens! Barnard he said, this viii never do IN
the world! Ny brother is enthusiast about your
work: he just said # enthusiastically; he never in
tended you should go ahead and do this for s25,Oo0
He went ahead and told a story to illustrate
Il, which / will not tell you.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
HOW IT HITS THE POOR.

But the average wage Garner. who lives in
rented house and does not receive "A tax bill
every October, Will DEM this. He will tell you
out of him is the man ,who pays the city taxes.
and that It really dos not concern him how
much Old Moneybags has 20 pay. He admits
that the grocer. the butcher, the drygnods man
and the tailor, W7lO supply liIn and his family
with the necessaries Of life. have also to pay
taxes. But he would look at you with fndul-
poor wage sarner--pays ten times Of the
taxes that collected every year than all the
landowners in the city put together He simply
cannot see that The man Of wealth. who owns the
building in which his butcher does business,
carefully assesses the butcher, who in turn
sesses his customers for every dollar Of taxes
that paid TO the city upon the building
cupled by the butcher OF course he does not
get tax bill; .he wealthy landowner gets that
all right. But who pays the tax bill in the end?
There is no doubt about the fact that the butch
pays that bill in his rent and there is still
less doubt about the fact that the wage Garner
pays il also with little added in the price of
the meat he buys. The fact is that every time
he buys a pound Of meat for himself and his
family he pays a proportion of the cityS annual
tax revenues. In the same way he is assessed
landlord Of every dealer from whom he buys the
necessaries of life.
This is why the revolution which is Being
brought about in the City's methods of account
ing, by which Controller Metz expects to be able
millions of dollars year that are now
being wasted and stolen ought 10 interest the
poor man, who has no property. even more than
the tax bills that the poor man in the end has to
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
A CHAMPION GLOBE TRoTTER.

more has crowded more adventure and daring
into fifty years life than almost any other living
man Among many amazing feats of travelling he
has iOuTneved from Peking to Calais by land, rid
den horseback from Russia to India. explored
the prisons Of the far west of Siberia and the
mines of Eastern Siberia and has travelled
from the klondike to London by way of Bering
Straits Before he forty he had covered one
million miles. and to-day he has advanced far in
his second million. He has been rescued from death
i'm the Arctic seas by Il whacr racing for three
wears over floating Ice foes. with fierce Tchukchis
sci. he has spent four DAYS without food drink.
in the parched desert of Beloochistan: has been
and nearly killed by fanaticaI
Cinnamon. and has lived for two months on
vvalrus BeIing Straits. Disgusting food, val
rus he saws, you cant get the hair out OF it.
When you have three obstreperous hairs IN your
throat YOU experience a lively time. can tell you:
perhaps his narrowest escape from death was in
Beloochstan when he was stabbed by fanatic for
the sole reason that he a European.-Ttt Bits.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
BLAMED THE OFFICE BOY.

we went to the house and I showed him the
letter in typcwriting. saying, forbid you carrying
on anything in marble until they all in their
place in plaster He said: oh, that was the Once
boy that did that I told the office bog to ie you
to put them in their places I'm the old grange
We'll I forgave him. They took 10 Paris
and gave big dinner, and they talked Of my
work and praised il, and. - course. felt better.
remember that AZ fiye minutes of l. o'clock Hus-
ton took out his watch and he said: tfnticn'n. ~
just minutes of u and / want to say that II
could sign my name to any one of those statues
down that old grange IN Morce would give my
life Up tonight Mr. Barnard. that VIII show YOU
~ hat 7 think Of YOUR work and how feel about
your work for I know to have don" on" of those
statues means Immortality IN reputation. 40 man
say than that
Then came perhaps the most pathetic part OF the
story told by the sculptor who was dup"d BY iius-
ton For fourteen months he said, from late In
1895, he was without money because Huston held Up
payments For three months his workmen had
served without A Penny's pay. feeling that the
American government was In some way behind the
work For FIVE months longer they worked. then, in
July Of 1906. the sculptor being reduced almost -
starvation. Barnard went TO the south Of France
get money pay his In this WAY ho raised
$20To Continuing ne told tho committee:
Just before the dedication of the Capitol
learned that there had been trouble with some
chandeliers, and then so much money for model
OF a chandelier that I would have done for hun
dred dollars. The thing went until last MAY, or
a month ago. and commenced 70 realize
and more why Mr. Huston had stopped my
money.
Here had been fourteen months that ! was with
out money. and twelve months Of those | spent IN
the southern part Of France collecting antiques in
order TO make a living. I have been IN almost
every village and almost every yard In France col
them to Jew merchants In Paris and selling them
for what ! could get. I made enough money out OF
that that I able to send ~ wife and chill
dren over and come over myself and also 20 settle
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15

Of the Board of Aldermen and the five borough
presidents, constituting the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment, every year try by legeIue-
main to satisfy the demands made by the CITY ,
great spending departments without mourning
public dIspleasure by increasing the tax rate
1t is by introducing a system of segregalet
budgets that Controller Metz expects TO ehecS
his promised revolution in the keeping aLd
stating OF city accounts, whereby he hopes -
evolve a system II controlled expenditure ina
Will place the city'S business upon the SIN.
basis that of a private corporation. ilh9
change of system has already been introduced III III
a tentative way. Last year experiment Ws Was
made in preparing the budget of the board ol
Health with the full cooperation OF that He
partment. The number of specified purposes loI
which the budget appropriation was grallleu W. M'n
increased from eleven to twenty-nne. rms StTt
the segregation will be carried stll iutIn,
and over one hundred specified purposes Ht
fined. Similar experiments are being trleu @ Ili''
year in the preparation of the budget dPpiD pIto,
priations for six other city departments Nueh
the system is applied TO all the uePaIl
mentS the Controllers annual report can w
made to explain clearly not only the purposes
for which money granted, but also to Wilat @
extent the city received tangible results Ho'H
each item in the expenditure for the year
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
PAID ALL HE OWED.

Every I owed paid They said they
would have waited until the end and Mr. Bailey
had been asking 10 and could fix
It: but ! could not fix fl and I could leave all
those I had six studios fun Of things; but
settled all up, and here I am. and there is your
story.
Il saw in the papers that the state was going 10
vote 5000 and I cabled that l could not
accept II under any conditions I have asked
any money from Mr. Bailey ali this time. except
the $500 that | said l ought TO have. | had to
pay 5000: mad to pay my men. They were new
rnoulders- l went out with my antiques and
made enough to pay the 5000 for those duplicate
casts, making the morey in the way have stated
Mr. Bailey said that the state would not be reSpOn-
sible for the money and that I would have to see
Mr.. Huston. / did write to him. for I thought the
architect responsible lie represented the
state. I thought.
7 said Unless you send me $500 you will never
get my sculpture No, l did not say s.. 800: only
said part OF il l said. I will take 300 for the
actual work done, without extras the absolute
cost said. You send me that: it must be paid.
and that is all / wanted.
Il dd want the state to vote mo extra
money. The cruel thing about this matter is this
That the marble group is being finished in Italy
for me TO work at. and there has been $4,000 In
the treasury here 20 pay it, kept from the
sake OF the go" that was due them That work
has been twelve months lying there and those men
without their money. 1 could not understand why
they kept that $1,000 back. | was losing time and
could not be working at it.
And then. as told you. that fourteen months
that spent in snow ice, II I could only have
have accomplished something. dont YOU See?'
Worst of al though, in the scuiptor's estimation
what he had to give up In France that he
might devote the rest of his life work for his
country. After his first group completed ar
lists and critics invited studio ard thew
were amazed at the beauty of what he had to
show. The French government at offered 70
buy seven figures for the Luxembourg Galleries.
Il was offered everything TO stay in France"
the sculptor said in concluding his tragic recital
II offered the of the Legion Of Honor
and a magnificent studio with a garden and or
cfard attached. If l would only stay. But | de
clined all these honors. saying, 1 have learned my
art and now ! going back TO work In and for
nv own country The American Architect
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
THE ANNUAL BUDGET.

1t is only necessary II look at the way in
xhicn the city's annual budget is made up to
understand the reason why there is such an
amazing lack of control over expenditure. The
trouble is that the city authorities are as help
less the taxpayer 10 decide upon the basis OF
last years work what win be necessary for this
Heads Of departments are In the habit of asking
for an appropriation just as much bigger than
the one they had the year before as they think
they can get. The amount that is actually re-
Qu.red 20 carry the work Of their depart
Saen1s does not enter into consideration at all.
They are sure they can wisely spend every dollar
they can get. The Board of Estimate and Ap-
portionnient Is just az much in the dark in
coming TO a conclusion to how much the
various departments require for the years work
There are accurate details of the expenditures
Ct the previous year 10 guide them. All the
board knows is that much money went TO
each department, and that il was all spent
Not having any good reasons to advance TO
the public TO warrant increase in the tax
Vate. the Mayor, the Controller. Tia Mxp>46ent
New-York tribune., 1907-09-15
CITY'S ACCOUNTS
CONCEAL FACTS
IMPROPER EXPENDITURES
-!SkIIFULLY COTERED Up.
Nczc System of Bookkeeping Beng
Introduced to Mend
Matters.
Matters.

After Controller Metz was elected TO once
about two wears ago. ne frankly admitted that
ne found himself in the position Of every prl-
,a-o citizen who tries 10 get at the financial
position of the city by examining the records
He Indignantly declared that lit Impossible
70 obtain information unless the seeker himseif
turned hookkeeper" After few months he got
tired of sending for bureau heads or ordering
special Investigations in order find out things
that ought TO be stated in the accounts. and
thus expressed himself regarding the manner in
which statistics We're compiled:
Because they have never done things sys-
tematically they tell fne they cannot do 1t; be
cause they have never done il before they are
not going to begin To do II now
But the Controller went further and gave his
opinion upon the effect of this lack of system
that he found in the city's financial department
He said
The existing method of keeping. the citys
accounts serves only to conceal the facts;
method will be found present the facts so that
shey will he intelligible anybody who can read
if l do nothing else during my term of office.
After discharging the duties Of Controller for
eighteen months Mr. Metz again took the public
into his confidence upon the same subject He
had evidently acquired in the meantime collslo-
cradle definite knowledge of the extent TO Whlch
the existing system served only 10 conceal the
facts" for he said in public utterance only d
few months ago:
Ii A business man running the NlIN OF
New York he could in twenty-five years time
run the city effectively without having to collect
any taxes by simply cutting off waste ana eA-
traNagance and by building up revenues
Run the city effectively in twenty-five years
! time without collecting any taxes Ana YET
f1 \ few weeks time the call VIII go forth 10
every raxpayer in the greater city TO pay up ms
proportion Of S14Ooe0Oo0 required to carry on
the citv-S administration for the current year
controller Metz must have discovered more
concealed facts in the city's system OF keep
ing accounts than the general public ever
dreamed Of And Vet the pubhc mas dlScoNere'
,.F hes concealed facts.