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The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-06-05

On Saturday, the Both, Memorial Day,
the Odd Fellows, Knights Of Pythiasy and
Miners Union joined in parade, march
ed to the cemetery, and decorated the
graves with very nice lot of flowers
from Boise.
The number Of cases of measles which
have been in the town, have diminished
considerably Mrs. w. r. Powers, who
has been seriously i'll, is now out Of dan
ger.
We have received our mail here every
night now, (instead of the next morning)
for two nights May the good work con-
tinue.
Mr.. E. H. Birkett came here for the
summer, not long ago, from Canada,
with his friend Colin Oxford. He will
return to Kingston in the fall.
Mr.. James Hore has returned from
Africa, where he has been the last two
years.
Mr.. Ed Smell had his shoulder dislo-
Gated Tuesday. While riding across the
bridge his horse slipped and fell on him.
The coon show on Tuesday night at
tracted a fairly large crowd, and was
very good. The music of the band and
also OF the orchestra, which played dur
ing the show, was especially enjoyed,
The K. of P. entertainment and dance
came off with great splendor last Friday
night The entertainment started few
minutes after seven O. clock and for three
hours the large audience was lost in list
ening to the sweet strains Of music from
the singers and players and to the touch
ing words of the recitations, Mr.. j. j..
Benefits words on the good of the order
and his recitations afterwards were given
in his usual fine style which always wins
great deal Of applause. Praise should
be given to the pathetic poem which
Lizzie Hoskins rendered and which
brought tears to Dukes eyes. Mrs.
Wills number was especially enjoyed by
all, as were both Mr.. D. Oates and Mr..
SnelPs song. Mr.. Shores Sing Me to
Sleep" with piano accompaniment and
violin obligato was especially enjoyable.
Little Freddie Andrews piece was given
in a very forceful manner for such a
small boy, and was as pleasing as Mrs.
Smiths laughing piece, which set the
audience to laughing as hard as the
speaker herself. Margaret Slattery'
piano solo was played with expression
and showed good technique. The cantata
by ten little girls was very successful and
showed the good preparation they had re-
ceived from Mrs U. g. Baker. The
novelty of the evening was the musical
selections by the stringed quartette COM
posed Of Messrs J. E. Mcdonnell, @. B.
Kelley, A. Davidson and r. Mcdonnell.
The pathetic ditties rendered during their
spasm were as follows: Looking Through
the Knot-hole in Fathers Wooden Leg"
"It Won't Get Well if You Pick 1t, "
"Why did They Build the Ocean so Near
the Shore?" and, Shifting Fathers
Grave to Build the Sewer"
The floor was cleared about ten o'clock
for dancing and from then until about
four O'Clock a. M, the crowd danced to
the strains of Sloper's orchestra. A very
nice supper was served about midnight
in the Odd Fellows Hall.
DeLamar people were very much pleas
ed to see a number from Silver City and
Dewey down to the entertainment and
dance. Their numbers, added to the
crowd of DeLamar people, made the par
ty very much of a success.
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LET THE BOYS FIGHT.
There's a Reason for It, Says Rev. j..
 H. Holmes.

Rev. John Haynes Holmes thinks it is natural for boys to fight and that they ought not to be interfered with. Talking to the Mothers club at the Hotel Martha Washington the other afternoon, he said:
 People used to think that children were totally depraved, conceived in sin and born in iniquity and the whole idea of child training was based on that hideous theory. Today we have gone to the opposite extreme, and we assume that children. are perfectly good. Both these theories are wrong. The child recapitulates the history of the race and as primitive man was 8 liar and fighter, so children are apt to be liars and fighters. Darwin tells us in his autobiography that as boy he was an inveterate liar. He told lies simply for the fun of it. Yet there was no man living in the nineteenth century more consecrated to the course of perfect truth than Darwin. The lying was simply bit of race
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Chapel of the Ascension, London.

SIdPSi VI liiS HSSSi'SIOii! -oi'aS'f. Shields began work on his paintings. The little building has been open for a few weeks now to the general public.
 As one enters a7d looks around one may see the whole story of the Bible told by the pictures on the four walls. The scheme begins over the gallery arch with the creation of man, fol- lowed by the union of man and wom- an. On the south wall is pictured The Goodly Fellowship of the Prophets, beginning with Enoch, caught up and delivered from a vio- lent world flowing with rivers of blood, ending with Malachi, who looks back on his predecessors, and points across the space of the chapel to the north wall to John the Baptist and his suc- cessors, the Glorious Company of the Apostles Some are preaching, others praying, prophesying, confessing sins, beholding the beatific visions, or standing triumphant as martyrs. Be- low the Prophets and the Apostles are small subject pictures; above, in inti- Ildlc ISlcllOll Wllbl tICoC lSulCS, ul angels performing missions of mercy and judgment; while alternating the figures are large paintings, giving spiritual renderings of the familiar stories of the Gospels, and of the in- cidents of the Acts of the Apostles.
 But it is to the east wall where eyes are first directed and are held by the pictures which give the keynote to the whole of the designs-the concep- tions of the Crucifixion and of the As tension. Subject paintings surround them, and many figures, such as those of Faith, Hope, Love and of Patience the final virtue.
 MT. Shields began his career as an apprentice to firm of lithographers and went through long period of the direst poverty. Finally one day while down and out" he wandered into an exhibition of paintings in Man chester and decided to become an artist He immediately went home and made water color sketch which not only sold for $45, but brought an- other commission to the needy youth.
 A few years of this work brought him an order to illustrate "The Pill grim's Progress" He took the con- tract at so low a figure that he soon found that he was reduced to a bread and water diet. A little later he exc cuted some designs for an edition of Vanity Fair" which greatly pleased Ruskin.
 From this time on the path of the young artist toward success and fame was a smooth one. He came to Lon- don in 1874, when his reproductions of his drawings of town and rustic children were selling like hot cakes.
 In 1889, when Mrs. Russell Gurney was looking for an artist capable of carrying out her ideas for the decora- tion of the chapel which she was to build, it was to MT. Shields that she turned. Five years later, when the little house of rest and communion was completed, he set to work on his 14-year task.
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ing generations a limitless supply of food and fodder.
 For human beings the product of the cactus is said to have more food value than any other vegetable, con taining more of the minerals and salts iron, potassium, manganese, calcium. magnesia and soda-that are upbuild- CTS of the nerve cells.
 The thornless cactus will be ready for the market in the spring of 1909, when there will be half a million of the plants flourishing Some idea of their present value may be gained from the knowledge that MT. Burbank sold five leaves for seed to an Austra- lian company for $5,000, with the pro- ceeds from which he built a new bun galow at Santa Rosa.
 The wonderful plant has been devel- oped with great secrecy, but now Mr. Burbank is ready for the world to know all about it and to await expect antly for the proof of the cactus pud- ding in the eating thereof
 For many years Mr. Burbank has been considered by horticulturists the first of the worlds many experiment. CTS for the improvement of fruits and vegetables. He is not and does not claim to be botanist; his work is in- tensely practical and he resembles Thomas A. Edison in the respect that he applies rather than creates theo- ries
 Born in little Massachusetts town in 1S49, he spent his boyhood on farm and early began his attempts to change plant life. The first result of his studies and labors was the we'll known Burbank potato, a great i'm. provement over potatoes in cultivation at the time it was originated.
 With little special education, in the academic sense, for his work, he was forced into outdoor life by his delicate health and devoted his whole time to experimenting. In 1875, when he was 26 years old, he realized the advantage of the California climate for his work and removed there. The most famous of his productions is perhaps the stoneless prune. He also has originat. ed several varieties of plums that are great improvements. Apples, peaches. nuts, berries and trees, grasses. grains and flowers all have been the subiect of his investigations toward ereatey use for mankind, and all have haer improved or experiments with them are III progress that promise improve ment soon.
 MT. Burbank's work was carried on for years at his own expense but of late he has received $1O,OO0 a vear from the Carnegie fund. He is unn.r ried, lives quietly on his littIe nIace in Santa Rosa, and seldom leaves if except for the delivery of lectures at Leland Stanford university. where he is special lecturer on evolution n, for some business connected with bis work.
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CUSTOMS OF THE WEDDING.
Diverse and Interesting Origins of
 Rinu, Veil and Rice Throwing.

The little customs that have come to be a part of the marriage ceremony have had diverse and interesting origins. The ring has played an i'm portant part.
 With the coming in of Christianity it was no longer placed on the right foretinger, but on the left third fin ger. The priest, or in some cases the groom, first put it on the thumb, say ing, lin the name of the Father" on the forefinger, adding fin the name of the Son." on the second finger, continu- ing, ''in the name of the Holy Ghost; then on the third finger with Amen, and there it remained.
 The bridal veil originated in Bible times and was worn until all the pub lie ceremonies were over. In the An glo-Saxon wedding ceremony square piece of veil was held over the head of the bride to conceal her embar- rassment.
 In the later Bible days during the period between the betrothal and the
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ODDL0NDON CHURCH
HOUSE OF WORSHIP WHERE
 SERVICES ARE NEVER KNOWN.
Place to "Rest Awhile and Commune with Ones Own SouP'-Fourtee Years Required to Deco
 rate It's Interior.

London-In the very heart of this city, not for distant from the Marble Arch, there stands one of the strang- est temples of worship in the world. It is called the Chapel of the Ascen- sion, and it contains no pulpit, no altar, no font, no band of choristers. No services are held in it, and no priest or minister crosses it's threshold except as visitor. The chapel is place not of Christian routine and service, but sim ply where man or woman may rest awhile and commune with his own soul amid pictured walls,'' as the no tice which hangs over the door says. The chapel is the idea of Mrs. Russell Gurney, who, during her lifetime, was a member of one of the best-known families in London. She received her inspiration from a small chapel in Florence and conceived the idea of building place of communion in the heart of London, set apart for rest and filled with consecrated art
 But while the purposes of the chapel itself are unique, more remark dDIe Sll1l dlS luS IellSlOuS that cover it's walls from floor to cell ing. For 14 years Frederic Shields, the famous English painter, and friend and contemporary of Ruskin, Dante, Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown, has devoted his whole time and thought to their execution. Although the task is not yet complete, there are but few vacant spaces on the walls of the lit tie building. Very nearly 200 paint ings, Illustrating the scriptures, have emanated from the fertile brain and gifted brush of this artist.
 The chapel was finished in 1894 after considerable difficulty had been experi- enced by Mrs. Gurney in finding site that suited her. In that year MT.
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TH0RNLEss CACTUS
PROF. BURBANK TO COMMERCIAL IZE HIS GREATEST TRIUMPH.
California Plant Wonder-Worker Transforms Thorny Growth Into Nutritious Food for Man
 and Beast.

San Francisco.-LuGher Burbank. who has illumined the, world with floral sunshine and made men glad be- cause of the fruits and vegetables he has coaxed from the earth with scien- tific genius that spread his name and fame throughout the nations, is about to commercialize his greatest tri- umph."
 What the California plant wonder worker proposes to do seems to many impossible, but, viewed in the light of his past achievements, almost any thing may be expected from this crea- tive king of the farm and gardens of Santa Rosa He proposes to feed man and beast on cactus plants.
 MT. Burbank is about prepared to flood the markets of the world with spineless, thornless, fruit-bearing, nu- tritious cactus that will prove diet ary boon to mankind and will tickle the palates of pigs, cattle, sheep and horses.
 What MT. Burbank has done is to produce from the cactus a plant des- tined to be of inestimable value as forage and also as food. At a model nursery established for the propaga- tion of his discovery in the Salton Sea district of California there are now 1900 of these growing, fourishing plants As a result of his long and pa- tient labors he has produced several varieties, which, reproducing from the leaves broken off and thrust into the ground, will yield through succeed
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these strange cradles drifted to ths land
 Another disaster, well remembered by New Workers, was the burning of the Seawanhaka off Wards island on June 20, 1880. Forty were lost in this disaster
 June appears to have been fruitful month for steamboat fires, for preced- ing the burning of the Seawanhaka by few days was the burning of the Stonington steamboats Narragansett and Stonington, sister ships, after they lad been in collision in mid-sound during a dense fog on the night of June Il, 1880.
 By far the most terrible steamboat disaster that ever occurred in New York waters was that of the burning of the General Slocum. Of the 5000 excursionists aboard most were wom- en and children. Only one other steamboat disaster in the annals of American steam navigation surpassed the horror, and that was when the Mississippi river steamboat Sultana burned in 1866, with a loss of 1,600 lives
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ness from old wounds received during the war, the captain found himself in want A petition bearing some of the best-known names in New York was sent to congress, through President Roosevelt, an old friend of the cap tain, asking for an increase in pen sion. Although congress had ad- journed, 1t has not become known, to Chicago Friends of Anderson, at least, whether the plea was successful.
 Capt Anderson comes from an old sailor family and has sailed on every sea of the globe. In 1861, while in New York, he heard that Capt. Fries son, the inventor of the Monitor, was having difficulty in obtaining crew for his strange craft. Anderson imme- diately enlisted.
 At the battle with the Merrimac the guns of the Monitor were double-shot- ted, and creating terrible havoc on board the enemy's boat. After the civil war Capt Anderson continued in the navy until old age and feeble health compelled linn to retire.
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ways are of metal, the steps being covered with ribbed sheet rubber to make them safe. Not a carpet or a rug is to be found on the boat. The rails surrounding the stairways are of galvanized iron pipe, and around the walls an ornamental grill of metal work has been incorporated in the de- sign. The stanchions supporting the decks are all of iron, and the netting of the railings Is of wire mesh instead of that of the usual rope variety. Bed steads of brass or renameled iron are fitted, and all clothes lockers are built of steel.
 Can Be Made Unsuitable.
 In case of collision the Jamestown would stand as good chance of keep ing afloat as the best boats af1oat, as she is divided into six water-tight compartments, thus conforming to the most rigid requirements of the steam boat inspectors and the marine under
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AS & RESULT OF THE SkOCUff DlSASTER

Some of the late improvements for making life on the water more secure are worth referring to right just here. For instance, device known as a "tell-tale" fire detecting system is op- erated on such steamers as the Hen drick Hudson, c. w. Morse and Adj rondack, on the Hudson, the Boston line steamships Yale and Harvard, the Fall River liner Plymouth, etc. It utilizes patent thermostats and therm- ostatic fire alarm boxes in various parts of the vessel, which give instant alarm in case of fire. There are dozen or more stations at which points are placed boxes similar to the ordinary hotel annunciator. A fire in any section will mechanically start a bell ringing in each annunciator, and transparent disc therein, with the name of the point on the vessel where the trouble lies immediately lights up. On some vessels every stateroom is equipped with these thermostatic de- vices.
 Large quantities of what is known as composite board, a substance re- sembling wood, but which is said to be unburnable, now is utilized in the fin ish of ceilings, cabin panels, and even in the separation of enc stateroom from another, being made, use of wherever large or small jointless sur faces are required. New and improved systems of boat davits, and also of dis engaging gear, for lowering ships boats quickly and safely have been put on the market and have been read fly adopted. In fact, the steamboat owner, when he realizes the merit and value of such adjuncts to the safety of his ship and passengers, is quick to make use of them.
 Awful Toll of Human Life.
 Undoubtedly most of the steamboat wrecks and fires in local waters could
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wedding, the bride remained with her friends and could communicate with her affianced only through tine friend of the bridegroom"
 Throwing shoes originated in the old Jewish custom of handing to the pur- chaser of land an old shoe as a token of surrender or renunciation. The brides father gave shoe to the hus- band or threw it after him to signify they surrendered to him all authority over their daughter.
 Throwing rice symbolEed fruitful ness and plenty, from it's general dis tribution over the world
 Taking the husbands name orig mated in Roman times, though the date is unknown. When Julia married Pompey her name became Julia of Pompey. Modern women omit the of in the name.-Chicago Examiner.
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tive portholes, the ports in the holds of steamboats are now large enough for the heaviest man to get out of if necessity should arise.
 It has cost owners a lot of money to do these things, and such as did not feel inclined to follow the orders of the steamboat inspectors when their boats were inspected had to send their boats to the marine graveyards, to be broken up for the old metal contained in their outfit. At least 25 New York steamboats which were being used when the Slocum met her fate four years ago have disappeared since the steamboat laws have been enforced Such vessels as were built since the Slocum disaster were largely of steel and now that the Jamestown has proved a success all steamboats built for the local service that do not come up to her class in safety certainly will merit criticism
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have been prevented if the safety de- vices now in use, as well as the method of construction followed in re- porated in their design. But to get the present Improvements there had to be an awful toll of human life. The first serious disaster attended by burning to a Hudson river steamboat was that of the Swallow, one of the clippers of her day, which met her fate on April z, 1S45. Forty persons lost their lives. The Swallow was running as a night boat at the time, and had left Albany at six p. m. in a binding snowstorm. She carried $50 passengers. Off Athens the vessel struck a rock and almost immediately broke in two. As she careened the cabin stoves were upset, setting fire to the joiner work, and the vessel was a mass of flame in a very few mo- ments' time. The steamboats Roches- ter and Express, which were following the Swallow, aided in taking off many of the passengers.
 The burning of the Henry Clay ap- palled the nation. The Clay was a new boat, of superior speed, which was running on the day line between New York and Albany. She was pit ted against the Armenia, which had been in service for some years, and many races were indulged in.
 The boats were crowded when they left Albany on the morning of July 2S, 1S52.' The Clay ran into the Ar menia an hour after the steamers had been under way, and this necessitated slight delay on the part of the Ar menia. This gave the Henry Clay an advantage of several miles, which the Armenia could not overcome, and hence the leading vessel was enabled to make her landings in advance and
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" VIEW YORK.-There recently oc- cured the fourth anniversary Of the burning of the General X Slocum, when 900 lives were
 lost As result of that trag
 edy and without the knowledge or the general public great changes nave taken place in the construction, the manning and the operation of the steamboats belonging to the port of New York and elsewhere, the net re- suit Gf which has made travel by water in this country the safest mode of transportation in the world. Last year, for instance, the loss of lives on the railroads of the United States reached 10000. By steamboat the to- tai was 505, and of these 129 were from accidental drowning and 63 were from suicide and other causes which fould not be averted, leaving only 313 lives lost that come within the scope of possible prevention. During the year 1907 there were 357 7S51.S6 pas sengers carried on steamboats in American waters.
 So extensive and so radical have been the improvements made in building and equtpping American steamboats since the Slocum disaster that it may safely be said that it is only the question of a comparatively short time when steamboats will be practically unsuitable as well as un- burnable. One company has built a fireproof indestructible steamboat, which has proved a huge success, and it now remains for the companies do- ing business around New York to copy or improve on this model. That this will be done is certain.
 JamestoWn's Construction.
 The fireproof steamboat is the Jamestown, whicE, it was expected would be used in New York waters this summer. She is large passen- ger craft, built last season for service on the Potomac during the exhibition She is 150 feet long and in general de sign follows the usual plan of our American river boats, differing from them only in the kind of material used in her construction. Passengers walk on steel decks, and no effort has been made to furnish the cabins with cumbersome upholstered furniture or of paneling them with heavy and high ly-polished hard woods Linoleum is used as a floor covering. That in the main saloon is of the standard battle ship grade, of a thickness exceeding one-quarter inch. On the exposed parts of the deck is laid interlocking rubber tiling, which makes hand some appearance as well as being agreeable to the feet.
 All the upper works are of steel and even the pilot house and the of ficers' rooms are of this material, with corrugated metal partitions between the sleeping apartments The stair