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CALDWELL TRIBUNE
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CALDVXLL
IDAHO
New York detectives found *20,000
In a mattress. It was well feathered
Incidentally, It will be noticed that
Alfonso XIII has put a decided crimp
In the thirteen hoodoo's record.
Now that the Corey-Oilman wedding
la over the earm will resume Its nor
mal and regular rotation upon Itn
ax la.
Every man hopes some day to run
across doughnuts as good as the ones
he UBed to steal from the pantry shelf
when he was a boy.
Perhaps It will please you to hear
that England has erected a statute to
the memory of your old friend and
neighbor, John Smith.
When a man Is caught In the act of
picking a woman's pocket and arrested
It seems perfectly safe to speak of him
U an "alleged pickpocket."
Berlin Is to hare a world's fair In
1913. How does It happen that Japan
haa not demonstrated her progresslve
ness by having a world's fair?
The way some of the doctors of |he
country are talking about the Incom
petency of other doctors Is enough to
discourage one from gettlug sick.
That woman who married a burglar
■he captured In her home has probably
done more to frighten burglars away
from the city than all the courts have
been able to do.
A soldier of fortune who had fought
ander eighteen different flags died a
few days ago from overindulgence In
dumplings. Peace hath her dangers no
less terrible than war.
An Insane woman who had $67 was
throwing It away on a street corner the
other night Why don't you ever get
•round when something like this is go
ing on. Instead of waiting to read about
It?
John L .Sullivan's definition 'of a
molly-coddle Is "a feller who says 'Oh,
fudge,' when he should land left or
right to Jaw." Still, to men about the
size and heft of John most of us would
prefer to ' say "Oh, fudge."
Algernon Charles Swinburne, the
English poet, who has recently cele
brated his 70th birthday, is writing a
tragedy, with Cesare Borgia as the
central figure. Evidently Mr. Swin
burne's taste for cheerful subjects has
not Increased with his yeara.
Whatever others may think, a small
boy of New Hampshire has the proper
opinion of his mother. He has sent a
photograph of her to the managers of
a New England beauty contest, with a
brief note declaring that she Is not
only the most beautiful woman, but the'
beat mother in the world.
The conviction at Wilkesbarre of
eleven undoubted members of a society
known as the "Black Hand" should
serve a good purpose. Too long have
the members of such organizations
been assured of Immunity from punish
ment because of the suplneness of
American police departments as long
a* the crimes of violence were commit
ted only upon the persons and proper
ty of fellow countrymen of the perpe
trators.
It Is said of the late Dean Huffcutt,
Governor Hughes' legal adviser, who
committed suicide as a result of a ner
vous breakdown from overwork, that
he was one of the most brilliant men
ever graduated from Cornell Universi
ty. And In his comparatively brief
career since hla graduation he has ful
filled the bright promise of bis youth.
He seems to have had one conspicuous
falling, however, and that was bis in
ability to appreciate the Importance of
occasional rest and recreation from ex
acting intellectual pursuits. It is said
of him that he never took a vacation.
They reckon 111 who count on Mother
Nature's carelessness as a bookkeeper.
Antiquities have to give way to the
needs of the present. The Egyptian
Council of ministers has approved the
plan for raising the Assouan dam across
the Nile, a change that will Increase
by two and a half times the amount of
water that can be stored In the irri
gation reservoir. The raising of the
dam will remit In the submerging of
the Island of Phlltea and the flooding
of the ruina of the temples. The Isl
and Itself Is a small granite rock about
• thousand feet long and 600 feet wide.
It was the scene of the worship of the
goddess Isis. Many pilgrims from va
rious parts of the aadeut world vis
Ited the shrine when the religion of
. Isis was most widely spread. The
worshipers of other gods built temples
near that of Isis, so that there ap
peared on the small Island a splendid
collection of examples of the best arch
itecture of the various periods in which
they were erected. The enlarged dam
will make possible an annual Increase
of the cotton crop of Egypt amounting
to between eighteen and twenty million
dollars In value.
Four boys left their homes sudden
ly and clandestinely, with the avowed
purpose of seeking their fortunes In
Kerada. They did not let their par
puts know tboir destination until two
days after their disappearance, ?'»:• fear
they would be recalled. It is presum
ed that by this time tbey are tasting
the first fruits of liberty. We wish
them well. It Is highly proper for old-.
er and wiser heads to wag dolefully i
and predict all sorts of "bad ends" for
boys who run away from home, but
what man Is there of full stature who
cag blame them? We all know what
the boyish wanderlust is and how It
gets Into the blood at the springtime
of year. Many staid old codgers even
to-day look about at the trees and the
meadows and feel the call of the wild,
and long for the exultation of the open
places. And many and many more
staid old codgers remember in a mist
of sweet memories times when they
themselves started to "run away" and
seek their fortunes In the big wide
world. A little more misty and a little
more sweet Is the memory of those fu
tile enterprises which left the dirty
and penitent boy on his knees with
his head in his mother's lap sobbing
for the very Joy of being home again.
We all know the wanderlust of boy
hood. It Is a very natural and a very
commendable emotion, for it indicates
spirit and enterprise and ambition to
Jo great things alone and unafraid. We
have all felt the wanderlust in ma
turer years that called us out Into life,
sometimes alone and sometimes In the
companionship of a loyal friend who
shared our timorous adventures. And
how many are there of gray-haired
old men in the world to-day who would
not feel that the price of the long strug
gle was not too dear If they could only
return again along the weary years to
sob for Joy at being In the old home
and penitent at a mother's knee. Those
boyB are all right. They do not now
realize the aching hearts they have
left behind, but the heritage of liberty
Is their* and they are off to the fish
ing pools, the swimming holes, seeking
whatever adventures may lie In their
paths. Mark Twain understood the
wanderlust when he told us about Tom
Sawyer and Huck Finn. It is boyish
nature. If all goes well, those boys
will be back again not a bit the worse
for their premature contact with the
world of selfishness and hunger. But
under whatever skies they wander we
sigh for their opportunities. We, old
er grown, still know the fascinations
of the wanderlust
££
Rinning in the Bar«.
The buzzing, ringing or whistling in
the ears—tinnitus, with the accent on
the second sylluble, It is called—is
often a most distressing and nerve
racking condition.
The occasional temporary buzzing
that one often has us an accompani
ment of the latter stages of a cold in
the head is disagreeable enough, but
not Intolerable ; but when this noise
goes on hour after hour, day after
day, week after week, without a mo
ment's cessation, it grows maddening.
It Is the last thing that is heard before
going to sleep, the first thing on wak
ing in the morning, and when a mo
ment's consciousness comes In the mid
dle of the night, there Is that same
sound—a ringing of brazen bells, It
may be, or a tinkling, or the slow
breathing of a, locomotive at rest, or
the shriller sizzle of escaping steam,
or a continuous hum, now a bass, uow
a treble, but always and forever a hum
without a second's intermission.
Tinnitus is probably always due to
some disturbance of the nervous
mechanism of the ear, and In the ma
jority of Instances is associated with
deafness. It may be due to the action
of certain drugs, such as quiulne, but
then of course it Is only temporary.
Sometimes it occurs only when one Is
lying down ; the cause of this may be
that a faint but constant ringing be
comes audible only when everything
Is still ; or It may be due to slight con
gestion, the blood flowlug to the head
more readily and in greater volume
then than when one sits or stands.
The most common form of head
noises is that associated with chronic
catarrh, lu these cases the disease
of the mucous membrane passes from
the throat t brough the Eustachian
tube Into the drum of the ear, causing
deafness and tinnitus. The two go to
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gether, but the noises, being more evl- I
dent to the sufferer, arc usually com
plalned of i^fore the hearing falls. I
The treatment of head noises Is often'
most difficult and not Infrequently
baffles the skill of the most ex^rlenc
ed aurists. The first and most lmj>or
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tant thing is to. determine .what pro
duces the ringing in the ears. If the i
cause can be found and removed, as '
when it is due to an- a.ceumuiation of
wax In the ear, well and good; hut if
It occurs with deafness due to Incura
ble changes In the ear Itself, the pros
pect of complete relief is less eneour
aging. But even intractable cases
sometime« cured by persistent and in
telltgent treatment Of course this
treatment must be carried out under
the care of a skillful physician 'or
there is nothing more foolish than
smateur treatment of ear disease*.
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Youth's Companion. " t
It's tough even on the six-footer wheh
he has one foot In the gravtk
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Opinions of Great Papers on Emportant Subjects.
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THE AKT OF CONVERSATION.
O people so greatly change? Is sprightly con
versation a lost art? Was there a time
when everyone in society was gifted ver
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
persons who gain a reputation of being most agreeable
people, because they talk sympathetically to anyone with
whom they are brought into Juxtaposition at a dinner or
other social function, "there are others, deficient in this
gift who can only say -Really,' 'Indeed' and 'Oh' people,"
the writer aflirms, "are the despair of the dinner-giver."
But these people do not constitute a new species. Lord
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, In one of his essays, more than
half a century ago, complained that "Humming, hawing
and drawling are the three graces of our conversation."
To prepare for talking, one must begin thinking. A
man or a woman who is interested in people, In events or
In books, should have no difficulty in finding subjects of
conversation or in making observations likely to be weil
received. The best talkers naturally, are people of cul
ture, but. culture may be acquired out of college as well
as In. The days of the French salons are gone never to
return. The habitues of the salons were men and'women
picked for their brilliancy of mind and speech, or for
some other trait that made them Interesting in society.
But not all of them were equally gifted, some of
them were better listeners than talkers. There
is a refuge for the Individual addicted to society,
but without hope of succeeding as a talker—let him lis
ten sympathetically to others who talk, and he will not
lack appreciation.—Milwaukee Wisconsin.
T
PLAIN SENSE FOB AUTOMOBIL IS TS.
HR automobile is not going to be regulated
by i>ersecntlon. It has come to stay. It
may be largely used for pleasure Just now,
but Its practical value is manifest and In
sures Its permanence. When a business
man can cover twenty to thirty miles In an
hour or two and do In that time work that
it would take him a day to do with a horse and buggy,
It is Just as idle to attempt to suppress that advantage
by legislation as to attempt to suppress the Introduction
of railways or any other labor-saving device. The more
reasonable the law—and by that we do not mean the
more lenient, but the greater the liberty allowed consist
ent with the rights of the rest of the community—the
more satisfactory will be the results to the non-automo
biling portion of the community. An excessively high
speed ought not to be tolerated where it endangers any one
but the occupants of the automobile; but what consti
tutes a high speed ought not to be measured by the per
formance of some broken-down cart horse.
On the other hand any automobiiist who habitually
and unnecessarily puts In Jeopardy the lives of others,
who runs at high speed over narrow roads where the
shying of a startled horse may cause an upset, who
dashes through crowded thoroughfares or past cross
streets where the approach of another vehicle is ob
scured, ought not only to be dealt wltb by the courts
much more severely than is customary, but to be made
to feel that he Is an outlaw among representative auto
lnobillsts. An enlightened selfishness dictates such a
course no matter how disagreeable| it may be; for the
conduct of those automoblllsts who do offend Is so out
rageous and so Inexcusable that unless It is clearly dem
INDIAN GIRL'S "COMING OUT
"In the early part of one September,
I announced among the Apaches that
my daughter, Eva, having attained wo
manhood, should put away childish
things and assume her station as a
young lady," says Geronimo, the fa
mous old war chief of the Apaches, in
the story of his life. At a dance of the
tribe she would make her debut, and
theu, or thereafter. It would be proper
for a warrior to seek her hand In mar
riage.
Accordingly Invitations were issued
to all Apaches and many Comanches
and Kiowas to assemble for a grand
dance on the green by the south bank
of Medicine Creek, near the village of
Nalche, former chief of the Chokonen
Apaches, on the first night of the full
moon In September. The festivities
were to continue for two days and
nights. Nothing was omitted in the
preparations that would contribute to
the enjoyment of the guests or the per
fection of the observance of the relig
ious rites.
To make ready for the dancing, the
gras-s ou a large circular space was
closely cut. When the night came the
singing was led by Chief Nalche; and
Geronimo, assisted by his medicine
men, directed the dance.
First Eva advanced from among the
women and danced once
women ana uancea once round the
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1°? "' accompanied by an
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flr ' ™ , e# r ? U " . ca>np
fire. This ceremony lasted about an
i lour
xt ' medicine men entered,
Kt '." )pe f to walst ' their bodies
U fantastically, and danced the
T"* 1 f*""* They were f ° IIowed
" daucCT * who amused the aud '
''"I!! Kr, a v "
ire'JVV " iembors of the tribe Join
f? bmda "" daneCd ln 8 clrcle rouna
f T"'. ? ( ° T * * ^, A " the
""T ' of „ he , trlbe were to toke
!" U " 8 Ja "?' "" d whe , n 11 was
end , ,H <*,**• old P«»Ple retired
'T™ ^ ^ gan " ,
The warriors stood. In the middle of
The warrior, a*
the circle, and the ladles, two and two,
danced'forward" and designated some
warrior to dance with them. The dune
Ing was back and forth on a line from
the center to the outer edge of the cir
cle. The warrior faced the two ladies,
and when they danced forward to the
center he danced backward ; when they
danced backward to the outer edge he
followed, facing them.
This lasted two or three hours, and
then the music changed. Immediate
ly the warriors assembled again in the
center of the circle, and this time each
woman selected a warrior as a part
ner. The manner of dancing was as
before, only two instead of three
danced together.
During this dnnce, which continued
until daylight, the warrior, If dancing
with a maiden, could propose mar
riage; and If the maiden agreed, he
would consult her father soon after
ward and make a bargain for her.
Upon all such occasions as this,
when a dance is finished, each war
rior gives a present to the lady who
selected him for a partner and danced
with him. If she is satisfied with the
present, he «ays good-by. If not, the
matter is referred to some medicine
man or chief, who determines the ques
tion of what is a proper gift For a
married woman the value of the pres
ent should be two or three dollars ; for
a maiden the present should have a
value of not less than five dollars.
Often, however, the maiden receives a
very valuable present
During this "lovers' dance" the med
icine men mingle with the dancers and
keep off the "evil spirit*. "
WIVES WHO LIVE IN FEAR.
t Their Huabatnda Are Engineers
They Are Always Uneasy.
When railroad wrecks occur the fire
man may Jump, but the engineer. If he
Is faithful to his trust, must stay by
the throttle. To do this means death
Inmauy cases. Xo one knows this better
than the engineer's wife. The engine
men say that they become Indifferent
to danger and lose all dread of acci
dents # and death. Their wives h
seems, are the ones who live most U
fear.
Engineers' wives are not happy—if
they love their husbands. Many of
them will admit that a shadow rests
on their lives if you ask them in con
fidcnce. Their husbands, perhaps, do
not know It
"1 do not care to make my husband
miserable, what little time he Is at
home, complaining of his profession,"
said W engineer's wife. "1 never knew
onstrated that automoblllsts as a class will not protect
the offenders the demand for restrictive legislation will
become even more general than it has been. The autist
needs to exercise common sense as well aB the authori
ties.—St Paul Pioneer Press.
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THE COST OF WAR
VERY century lives are wasted In war at
the rate of 20,000,000 In Europe alone—an
average of 200,000 every year. Two and a
half million men fell on European battle
fields during the first half of last century
alone; and this slaughter cost Europe the
colossal sum of $(1,850,000,000. Each victim
cost $2,600 to kill.
In the Boer war each Boer killed cost England $25,000.
The dally expense of the Russo-Japanese war amounted
to more than $1,000,000 every day on the Japanese side;
while the Russians had to foot a bill for $2,500,000 every
day—and this for a period of eighteen months! Now
try to figure out what this war cost Russia and Japan.
To the uctual cost of carrying on war must be added
the expense of preparation. The greater European na
tions every year spend many hundreds of millions of dol
lars each, preparing for war. It costs $5,000,000 to build
a modern battleship. A hundred-ton cannon costs $75,
000 a single discharge of these monsters burns up
$1.500, and they can be discharged only a few hundred
times, then they are worn out.
Is this not an insane waste of both human lives and
money? Why do nations go to war, anyway? Because
of Jealousy, mostly. The great commercial nations, es
pecially, are mutually distrustful, always afraid that the
other will gain greater wealth and territory. Japan is
looking with Jealousy upon America, since we have ter
ritory (the Philippines) near Its doors. England is Jeal
ous of Russia. Germany and France are always ready to
fight should one or the other extend its Influence In
Africa.—Illustrated Home Journal.
H
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THOUSANDS FIGHT AND TRIUMPH.
ARDLY a 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 "despondency" la given
as the cause. That one word eloquently
sums up the story
But all the despondency that triumph» in
this way over the weakness of the few is Infinitesimal
compared with that which is dominated and beat down
by brave hearts every day of the year. Those who want
to take their own lives have no monopoly of thla feeling.
Thousands and thousands of men feel It come over them
at times. The causes of it are infinite. But they do not
yield to it because they canot afford to. The husband
with a wife and children to provide for bravely puts it
aside for their sake and his own. The woman whose
life is often a mere mechanical routine fights it down
that those whom she loves may not be Infected with her
cheerlessness.
These are the silent wars of which we do not read in
the newspapers, but In which men and women reach the
supreme heights of heroism. The other kind of war
has more of noise and pageant and music. But In real
grandeur it cannot compare with the victory of a single
human soul over the weakness that leads tp despon
dency or the despondency that ends in death.—Chicago
Examiner.
of an engineer quitting the business for
his wife or anyone else but once. I
heard of a man who gave up the road
at the solicitation of his sweetheart
But after they had been married a few
years he went back and was killed ln
a wreck."
"My husband has been an engineer
on a fast mall train for nearly thirty
years," said a woman with an unhap
py face. "I have found that being an
engineer's wife Is kind of semi-widow
hood. The only time that I am abso
lutely sure that I am not a widow is
the two or three days out of each week
that my husband is at home.
"When we were first married he ran
a switch engine in the yards and was
at home every day. There wasn't so
much danger of accidents In that I
hoped that he would always run one
of these busy little engines with a
headlight on both ends.
"But my husband was ambitious like
other engineers. He was not satisfied
with work in the yards. I shall never
forget the day that he came home and
told that he had been promoted to the
road. He seemed very much pleased.
I hid my feelings and made an effort
to share his pleasure with him. He
ran a freight engine for a few years. I
Then he was advanced to a fast pas
senger engine."
The woman stopped talking for a mo
ment and looked at the clock.
"It's 3 o'clock now ; let's see. He la
near the town of L now. A few
miles this side of the place Is a bridge
across a river. I am always afraid
of that bridge during high water."
She said that she had learned her
husband's schedule by heart Every
hour of the day she knowB Just where
his train should be at that time. Bh«
has been over bis run many times and
knows the location of every bridge,
every high embankment and every dan
gerous curve.
"The life of an engineer's wife 1«
mode up of many sad farewells. Bach
time that I see my husband leave It Is
with the thought that thla may be his
last trip. I believe th»t I owe my
gray hairs to those hundreds of time«
that I have had to aay good-by." —Kan
sas City Star.
A man never cares a great deal for
the pictures taken of him when he was
a baby.
A faahlon hint Is about the only kind
some women will
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E. BORAH
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
General law practice. Office, Pioneer build
ing.
BOISE, IDAHO.
ÇRIÏTITHS A GRIFFITHS
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Real eitate. stocka bond« and securities ne
gotiated. Office ln Odd Fellow building.
CALDWELL. IDAHO.
JOHN C. RICK 1. M. THOMPSON
P>ICK * THOMPSON
ATrORNEYS-AT-tAW
General law practice. Office, Caldwell Bank
ing & Truat Blag. Bell pbnne, No. 28B.
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W. GIPSON
NOTARY PUBLIC
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Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Both Phones. CALDWELL, IDAHO
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Attorneys-at-Law
Office ln the First National Bank Building
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Attorneys-at-Law
Office, Rooms 2 and 3, Egleston Block. Inde
pendent Phone No. 133.
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Architect and Superintendent
Little Block
CALDWELL, IDAHO
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Attorney-at-Law
Both Phones.
Rooma S and 4, Little Bldg. CALDWELL
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Osteopath
Graduate Still College, Des Moines. The only
three-year graduate Osteopath practicing in
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