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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-23
EXHIBITION OF SHOOTING.

Captain A. H. Hardy, champion
quick shot of the world, representing
the Peters Cartridge Co., will give an
exhibition of fancy shooting with rifle,
revolver and shot gun at College
Grounds, Saturday, October 23rd at
2 o'clock. The exhibition will be free
and everybody is invited. Captain
Hardy will perform some wonderful
feats, and it will be we'll worth any
body's time to attend his performance.
With a rifle he hits small iron wash
ers, thrown into the air, pennies,
marbles, etc, even shooting through
the small hole in the washer, which is
pasted over with paper; hits small,
wooden ball three and four times,
and a tin can five times; hits small
objects with rifle in all sorts of posi-
tons while looking into mirror; also
shoots objects with rifle resting at
hip, elects % cartridge from rifle,
reloads and hits it while it is in mid
air. This is no doubt the most diff
cult trick performed by any expert.
Captain Hardy concludes by giving
an limitation of gatling gun, then
shoots the profile of an Indian head,
Uncle Sam, a rabbit, or anything
suggested by the audience. The
splitting of cards edgewise is one of
the least difficult of Captain Hardy's
accomplishments.
With a six-shooter in each hand,
he hits two objects at distance of
20 feet, one swinging and the other
stationary, shooting both revolvers at
the same instant. He then shoots
small objects with the revolver up
side down and in other positions, u.s.
ing either hand.
He will demonstrate the cleanliness
of Peters ammunition, and show a
clean rifle barrel after firing more
than two hundred rounds of Peters
% semi-smokeless through it, Cap
tain Hardy's wonderful shooting must
be seen to be appreciated, and Peters
ammunition must be used before it's
great superiority over other makes
can be fully understood. Eleven
o'clock today.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-23

gives the best reasons for eating more
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-23
THE FIGHT Is STARTED.

The local option campaign is on in
Washington county. According to the
Signal of that city, the liquor dealers
tried to line up the business men of
Weiser against local option. The bus
mess men wouldn't line up and the
fight is on. A warm campaign is
promised, one Of the features of
which will be a two-evening debate,
Mr.. A. A. Brown and Rev. e. A.
Paddock representing the "drys" and
Mr.. j. B. West defending the "wets."
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-23

duces a big-boned, well-devel-
oped, mentally energetic race.
His experiments prove that
good oatmeal such as Quaker
Oats not only furnishes the best
food for the human being, but
eating it strengthens and en-
larges the thyroid gland-this
gland is intimately connected
with the nourishing processes
of the body.
In conclusion he says
1t seems probable therefore
that the bulk and brawniness of
the Northerners (meaning the
SCOTCH has been in some
measure due to the stimulation
of the thyroid gland by oatmeal
porxidge in childhood. -
The Scotch eat Quaker Oats
because it is the best of all oat-
meals.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-23
NEW USE FOR sAGEBRUsH.

Utilizing with improved apparatus
an old principle in wood distillation
demonstrations are being made in
Salt Lake City of process by which
sagebrush is forced to yield in vari-
Gus chemicals a value of 5000 for
each 1000 pounds.
The products of this distillation
are: Charcoal, 81 bushels; wood
alcohol, II gallons; acetic acid, 465
pounds; acetone, SO pounds; wood oil,
100 pounds; creosote oil, GIG pounds;
pitch, ~ pounds; calcium carbonate,
81 pounds.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-23
DAIRYMEN ORGANIZE.

The dairymen of the Boise Valley
perfected an organization to further
and advance the interests and devel-
opment of the industry. Mr.. ]. K.
Moreland is president and j. H. Nc
Laughlin is secretary of the new or
ganization. The members will meet
the second Saturday in each month,
when subjects of interest and i'm
portance to dairymen will be dis
cussed.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-23
CITY DOES GOOD BUSINESS.

The city received check for SO
Wednesday from the Government rec
lamation fund for a gasoline engine.
The engine originally cost the city
500. The government some time ago
needed an engine on the reclamation
work and rented the engine from the
city. For the time it was rented the
government paid the city $66 rentals.
Now by the sale of the engine the
city gets SIS more, or $141.00, all
told, for it. That is about the best
business deal the city has made in
many a long day.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-23
GOOD PLACE FOR cAMELs.

Governor Glasscock of West Vir-
ginia, while travelling through Ari-
IONA, noticed the dry, dusty appear
ance of the country.
Doesn't it ever rain around here?"
he asked one of the natives.
"Rain?" The native spat. Grain?
Why, say, pardner, there's bullfrogs
in this yere town over five years old
that hain't learned to swim yet
Everybody's Magazine.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-23
BONDS VOTED.

The election in the Nampa- Meri-
dian district to vote bonds for the
amount of $4,000 with which the
Ridenbaugh canal should be cemented
in that part where the breaks oc-
Cured this year and where they are
apt to occur, went strongly in favor
of the bonds. The vote was as fol-
lows:
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-23

Terms OF safe are as iotioWA. I'm all lanuS
selling for $4,000 per acre or less, one.tenth
Of the purchase price and first years in;
terest deferred payments, cash on day Of
SALE the balance in eighteen annual install.
ments at six per cent interest On all lands
selling for more than s2s.oo per acre. two
tenths Of the purchase price and first years
interest on deferred payments cash on day
Of sale, the balance In sixteen annual In
stalmcnts at six per cent interest.
Al lands sold subject to the harvesting
Of crops planted before date OF sale on lands
leased.
BY order Of the State Board Of Land Com.
missioners.
NJ. l. CHURCH,
Register.
Dated Oct. Is, 1909.
O.zg.N.I1
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-23
STATE LAND SALE.

Notice is hereby given that on Saturday,
November 20, 1909, the following described
tracts of land belonging to the State OF
Idaho and situated in Canyon County will be
Court House at Caldwell, Canyon County
Idaho, at 10 o'clock A M. of said day, to-wit:
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-16

in life where a man or a woman can not be himself if he will. Of course. to be oneself, to live one's own life, sometimes lead to jail or a peniten- tiary. In other words, it all depends upon what the man or the woman is and what his real life would be. If he is a normal person with normal desires and right aims, there is no vocation nor occupation in which the man cannot live his own life. It is because we do not dare to be our selves in one sphere that we fly from it and try to live in some sphere where we imagine the task will be easier.
 We doubt very much if Mrs. Froh- man will be happier fin domestic pur- suits after her tolerably long exper- fence on the stage than she was there; we doubt very much the young countess enjoying her artistic life more than she did the other one; and we can hardly imagine the Countess of Warwick being really contented among the suffragettes who storm the halls of parliament in London.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-16

ma Goldman in advocating the semi destruction of society and civiliza- tion.
 If we could perform a character autopsy on these three women, or through some mental alchemy re- duce them to their original elements as in laboratory. we would probably reach in each case the same result and a very simple one. says the Los Angeles Times.
 No actress ever forsook her art in order to find reality and be herself who was a real artist and had any love for her art. Mrs. Frohman may have won plaudits upon the stage, but there not one particle of the real artistic afflatus ever reached her mind. If real love of art had set her soul on fire she would have found  plenty of opportunity to be herself, to live her own life upon the stage. If she was inspired with the real ar tistic spirit she could find no sphere of of the stage where she could be herself and live her real life.
 If the Countess Cassini is a real artist and has felt the call of art touch her inmost nature, it is no wonder she leaves society with all it's pleasures to take up an exacting and exceedingly laborious life. If she has not this call to the stage she will find as little satisfaction
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-16

Chicago hit upon a proposition to pre- vent their sale except to such per sons as secured permits to carry them from the chief of police. Law yers declared this to be unconstitu- tional and an ordinance to this effect was not put in force.
 They are wrestling with the sub ject in New York state just now, and bill is before that states legislature which proposes that manufacturers of levolyers and dealers who sell them at retail must keep a record of the weapons sold with names and ad- dresses of the purchasers. Such a plan would certainly keep the police in touch with those who own pocket firearms and might be the means of accomplishing much good in correct ing the evil of their promiseuous sale and the carrying of them about.
 Perhaps there would be many a thug or other person who would hes itate about buying a pistol and toting it with him wherever he went if he knew that the fact he had such weapon in his possession would be- come public knowledge almost inn mediately after the purchase.
 One thing Is certain. Public au- thorit,es must cope with this mex cusable and dangerous practice in some way. The sooner a solution of the question is found the better it will be for all. for gun toting leads to many murderous assaults and serious rowdyism of other sorts which would never happen if it were not for handy presence of revolvers State legisla- tion would not seem to be necessary to handle this matter although it might be the most effective way. It would seem that the cities could tend to 1t through ordinances of their own. And there is a fine chance for some city father in some place in the land to gain fame by shaping up an ordi- nance which will effectually mlnin- 1 ize this evil
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-16

there as she did in the society she is leaving.
 If we knew intimately the life of the Countess of Warwick we would no doubt find the influences that drove her out among the suffragettes of WhitechapeL There is unreality on the stage and everywhere else for the man or woman who has not the moral courage to be himself in what ever sphere of life he is placed There is little enjoyment of life to be found under any circumstances otherwise than in ones being his real self and living the real life that is naturally implanted in him.
 It is one of the queerest things in life. one that has puzzled philosophy and religion is that so few find the sphere in which they would best fit and where they would be most like ly to find their happiness. As Pope's little line expresses it. Man never is but always to be blessed" We see this criss-crosing of the way of life at every turn in our every day ex- perience. Men and women are un- satisfied where they are and reach ing out for satisfaction in some sphere where they are not. It is not so much the fault of society, or of circumstances, or Providence. or any other extraneous influence. Ht is most ly in ourselves. There is not a sphere
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-16
THE GROWTH OF PHOENIX.

OF PHOENIX.
 Says the Arizona Republican: A condition is prevalent in Phoeuix now for the first time at this season of the year. More people are coming to town than are going out, and many of them are coming to become residents. Usually at this season of the year the outflow of the winter population is swift and uninterrupted. There has been no counter current.
 The winter resident is fitting now as he always has gone and as he al ways will fit at this time of the year from a tropical or sub-tropicaI residence, but for every one who goes. one is coming now. not for reas sons of climate or health.
 This state of things was brought to the attention of the least observing on Saturday night when the streets were thronged as they had been at no time during the winter, not even on Christmas eve-as they had not been since the territorial fair nights.
 Building is proceeding even more rapidly than last fall when the record was breaking every day. The houses are generally of good character and almost all of them have either been engaged in advance or are sold or rented before the carpenters vacate them.
 Phoenix has been growing for the last three years, but at times. almost mperceptibly except to the close see fng. Now, anybody with his eyes open can see 1t grow.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-16
WHY THIS
 plScONTENT2


 Three women Lave placed theu- selves in the limelight in rather pc culiar way. First we read of Mrs Frohman, an actress. who is abandon ing her husband with the acknowl edged purpose of forming other mari tai ties. This stage artist $ seeking & separation with the idea of securing a husband who will permit her to live q quiet life She is tired of the stage. She finds it's life hollow. hypo- critical and unsafisfying.
 On the other hand we have the Countess Marguerite Cassini, whose life has been like that of an exotic in the swirl of society. dissatisfied for the reason that it is hollow and full Of hypocritical pretense. One flies from the stage to society in order to escape hypocrisy and prensense: the other one crosses her on the way from society to the stage in order to find reality in art
 Then we have the Countess of War wick, who, like 'pythoness pos sessed or ranting female moved to preach" abandons her life among the titled nobles of England to plunge into the socialistic anarchism in the English metropolis to vie with En-
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-16

The sooner the tarir legislation is completed the sooner will the indus trial conditions see improvements in the country. The low rate of inter est now prevailing in the eastern money centers indicates that great en terprises are hesitating. With the fl
 nal completion of the new tariff schedules activity and accompanying prosperity are confidently expected.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-16
AFTER THE
 GUN TOTERS.

All over the country is the thought pressing home with force that some thing must be done to regulate and control the sale of pocket firearms and the carrying of such weapons.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-16

STAG CANON FUEL COMPANY
 Dawson Coal and Coke. UnexceIled for Domestic Purposes.
 Ask Your Dealer For 1t. General Sales Office E. p. & S. w. Building, Fl Paso, Texas.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-16

old Papers for sale at The Review office.
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 busy hy e will o t #  the ke e a ~ G sonsheN N dog o h a a O of n it. 8 5 H thrSg There will | regular boxng i the md the will b chosen tn men
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Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

be fed into 1t that fast.
The eighteen men include one man TO
care for each mule and eight who do the
trenching and man the gun. They are
armed only with pistols, on the theory
that with small arms they will not be
tempted to abandon the machine and look
out for themselves when action is brisk
their particular vicinity. TIT enemy's fire,
however, is not likely to hold out against
them very long. unless they are opposed
by another imilar piece Of artillery, since
in actual work their single CUR can throw
$50 bullets in twenty-six seconds, which
would make a good many holes in a COM
pany of men who stood up against II.
The shooting even at this rapid rate can
be done with considerable accuracy, In a
recent test by the Third battalion squad,
life-sized silhouettes five yards apart close
enough to make seventy-four hits out Of
one loading of $50 cartridges. AS the fig
ures were lying and kneeling and the dis
lance was 1900 yards, or more than a
mile, the showing is considered very good.
The training OF the men In the han
ding OF the gun is largely a matter of
speed. With Pete in the best OF condition,
the squad can start, with the mule packed,
run to the firing point, 100 yards away, I'M
pack the gun and put it together, dig a
trench deep enough to shelter it and the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
British Home Comforts.

In the British concession where l live
is a large public park where the mill
tary bands given open-air concerts. and
It has also golf grounds, tennis courts
and parks for foot ball and cricket. To-
night the club is giving a dance, and
by turning off the electric light In my
room l can see the bare necks and short
sleeves OF the Tienstin foreign ladies
who are whirling about in the arms Of
their partners over the way. The British
and American settlement has a public
school for its boys and girls and also d
swimming bath. The French concession
has a cathedral, a town hall and a park,
and the Russians are building up a city
over the river, the stores Of which are
marked with Greek signs.
One of the largest of these foreign cities
belongs to the japanese, 1t Ia several
miles in circumference, and is being rap
idly covered with substantial brick build
ings, all put up since the Boxer rebellion.
There are many Japanese merchants who
have come here to engage in trade with
the Chinese, and there are some large i'm
porting firms with Japanese capital.
The Germans have a fine concession,
including a magnificent building just
erected for the German Asiatic bank.
They have a club called the Concordia'
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

gunner and commence firing in the space
Of fifty seconds. This would be impossible,
Of course, II the gun were not made in
such a way as to be very easily put to-
gether.
The gun itself consists Of a barrel about
six inches in diameter and three feet long,
set upon a metal tripod. On this tripod
is a seat for the gunner, who can hold his
position at the breach while the discharge
is being made. The caliber OF the gun is
the same as that OF the ordinary army
rifle, but the actual barrel Is encased in a
Jacket Of water TO keep it cool. This water
Jacket has to be refilled frequently and
water is always carried as a part Of the
outfit, so that a hotboX will not incapaci-
tAto the gun.
The sighting apparatus is at one side
and the sights and range finders are ven
more complicated than they are on the
ordinary rifle. Two miles is the farthest
distance at which the gun is useful, but
by means OF the apparatus accurate aim
may be taken at life-size figures that far
away. The range finders used for this
long distance work are separate machines
and are carried in a different pack from
the gun, along with the signal flags and
water boxes.
The cartridges are fed into the gun by
a canvass belt which runs through a
groove behind the barrel and $50 rounds
are carried in a belt. When the end Of
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
big Traffic Center.

Tientsin is the New York Of North China.
1t is the chief port for the Great Plain
and the thickly settled regions north and
west Of Picking. Tributary to IL Is a popG-
lation OF 100, 100000, or more than all the
people of the United States, and it's con-
nection with this vast mass Of consumers
is rapidly being opened up by railroad. 1
came here from Manchurla on the I'M
perial Chinese railway, going through the
great Chinese wall at Shan-hai-kwan, and
/ shall go in a comfortable train on 10
Picking. A road from there is now build
ing which takes one northward through
the great wall to Kalgan, Mongolia, and
which will eventually be connected with
the Trans-siberian railroad. Another road
has been projected from here south
through the most thickly populated parts
OF China down to the Yangtse, and in time
Tlentsin will have tracks radiating from
her as our roads do from Chicago. This
city has now perhaps a million people.
What It viii have in the future l dare not
predict.
Just now business is bad all over China.
The low price OF silver and the finan-
cial distress which has prevailed through
out the world have stopped the progress
the city was making up until about two
years ago. This is only temporary, and
flemish will soon be again on the boom.
The great powers of the western world
fully realize the Importance of this city,
and they have business representatives on
the ground. There is a large territory
outside the native settlement which has
been taken by them. Much of this was
seized just after the Boxer rebellion, whom
China was forced to submit. As 1t is now,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
Profession for widows.

I asked DIR. Kin from what classes Of
society her students came. She replied;
from every grade OF Chinese society.
We have the daughters Of merchants, aud
also of some high officials One of our
students is a slave girl. We have many
widows, and I look for medicine to be-
come a favorlte profession with such
women in the future. The condition of
the Chinese widow is not as bad as that
of the widow of India, but 1t is often UNI
happy. She must live with her parents
in-law. and II they are not kind she may
be a drudge or a slave. Some Of our
widows are very young. and some have
families at home. With a medical educa-
tion they can earn their own living"
AS we visited the classrooms / saw a
Chinese professor teaching the anatomy
of the brain, with a human skull on his
table. and was shown a white skeleton In
a case at the back of the room. / hap
pened to glance at the feet of the stu
dents, and remarked that they were un-
bound The doctor replied:
None of our girls are allowed to com
press her feet. Thsytake their b~Andages
off when they are admitted, and are re-
joiced at their freedom. Many OF the more
advanced OF them have never bound up
their feet, and 1 believe that this will be
the case with all Chinese girls in the not
far distant future"
FRANK q. CARPENTER
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

the canvas strip is fitted into the groove
the gunner sights the gun, holds down the
trigger and does his best TO stick to the
seat while 200 deaths a minute are belch-
ing out at the other end OF his machine.
1t is not difficult to see that the speed
of the gun while actually firing would not
count for much unless it could be rapidly
loaded and for this purpose there il a belt
filling machine which is in itself an In
genious contrivance. The cartridges are
fitted into a brass slide, which let's them
drop down one by one in front Of a rod
moving bach and forth like 4 piston. The
spaces in the belt are opened by a little
metal strip that is pushed in flat and
then turned so that 1t comes out in such a
way as to extend the holes in the belt
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

ana a gun n part OF every battalion OF IN
fantry. Before this. the use of the quick
firers was rather in the nature of expert
ment. Now there is no more doubt as to
their value and they will be considered
necessary. The Third battalion OF the Six
teenth infantry, stationed at Fort Crook,
has one of these new guns, and during
practice early in the summer at the Ash
land rifle range encampment tried it in
action.
Lieutenant o. Z. Miohaelis was in COM
mand, and under him had three nom
commissioned officers and eighteen men.
The gun outfit is carried by ten mules.
The best mule in the squadron is a white
one named Pete" whose ability to gallop
at a b~reak-neck speed while loaded with
a pack OF machinery is famous, The out
fit the mules carry consists OF the gun,
a loading machine and tools for keeping
It In order. and water TO cool the barrel,
all Of which is piled on the back OF PETE
on the other nine are water. spades and
trenching tools and 5000 pounds Of am
munition. Sixteen thousand rounds OF am
munition would last the machine gun Just
thirteen and one-t5ird minutes II 1t could