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SWIMMING CATTLE. Great Herds Are Made to Cross Western Rivera. How Sometime* Coonmed In Get tbe Gnttl# Aero*» That Call# tor Great Skill In th# Cowboy#. Day» two A Task tine of the cattle shipped to the market are bred in Texas, and, Many Chicago taring remained there two years, are to Montana and there fed on driven the ranges for two more years. They bring a better market price by this method, as the short curly grass of Montana is most nutritious, and that, combined with the more northern cli mate, makes better beef. From the pan Handle of Texas, where begins tho great range of Farwell A Taylor, stretching away for two hundred and twenty-five miles, to their other range in Montana, sixty miles north of the Yellowstone, is eleven hundred miles, snd this distance is traveled by the great herds from May to August The route passes through Colorado, Wyo ming and Montana, and twelve to fif teen miles are made daily. The driest portion of the trail is found in Colo rado. Herds have been driven a dis tance of eighty miles without water and with the loss of but a few; then when water is reached care must be taken to prevent overcrowding and crushing. swum—the North and South Platte and the Yellowstone, the most dangerous of all being the Yellowstone, with its awift current and uncertain and changeable bottom. Usually no greater number than forty-five hundred are driven in one herd, and the swimming of one of this size across the Yellowstone is no easy task; two days are sometimes con sumed, with the constant attention of fifteen to twenty cowboys, the number allotted to such a herd. At times the cattle will readily take to the water, entering a few at a time and following the spare horses of the cowboys that are driven ahead. At other times they turn back or bunch together in the stream &Dd circle about, thereby en dangering their lives. Then the cow boy must swim out with his pony and stop this "milling" process. He takes great risk, and it sometimes happens that one is drowned. At the Yellow stone crossing near Miles City, on one occasion, a cowboy and pony disap peared in the water and were never seen alive; it was thought tbat he had forgotten to loosen the saddle-girth, thus impairing the animal's power to swim. Another was thrown over the Three large streams are head of his horse and only by great ex ertion prevented the animal, which had turned on its side, from drowning. Strange as it seems, horses and mules will attempt suicide by drowning. At the Yellowstone river, use is made of several islands, and this year the cross ings were remarkably successful; the cattle took to the water readily, swam easily and landed on the islands! then, by a little urging, made for the other bank and reached it about one mile below the starting point They presented the appear ance of a large fish-hook, the curve being near the landing point; two to five were abreast, there was no crowd ing, and but a few swam back to the near bank. Borne few mired in the soft bank, and before extricating themselves one had lost its life through over-exertion. In this herd were steers. A "cow and calf" herd is troublesome in the extreme, each cow looking out for her calf and all bellowing at the top of their voices; some turn back and cause a rush to the rear, and all must be started again. When the cattle get in this restless and stubborn mood about swimming the cowboys sing to them in a low, plaintive manner, which has a quieting effect; this is also done on stormy nights when a stampede is feared. The cattle swim much better when the sun is in their rear, and the crossing is always so timed. It seems strange that these south ern-reared eattle can endure the se vere Montana winters, where the ther mometer drops to forty and fifty de grees below zero; but they do endure the cold, succumbing, however, to the spring blizzards when they are in the worst condition to battle with the storms.—Collier's Weekly. THE MAGUEY PLANT. tom# of th# Use# of th# Century Ototat In Mexico. Of all the products of Mexico none is more curious and interesting than the maguey or so-called century plant On the fgreat plains outsido the City of Mexico thousands of acres are covered with magueys planted in long rows at regular intervals. Tho uses of the maguey are manifold. The leaves are used for thatching the houses of the poor; the spike at the end of the leaf furnishes, with the fiber attached to it, a needle and thread ready for use; pa per is made from the pulp, and twine from the fiber, and the wood is em ployed in many waya But most im portant of all is pulqu«, the national drink of Mexico. This is made by fer menting the juice of the Agave Ameri. cana or maguey. Enormous quantities of pulque are drunk, a train laden with the liquor leaving Apam daily for the City,of Mexico. Most of the crimes committed by the natives are to be at tributed to over-indulgenee in pulque, or some of its kindred producta To an untrained taste it is not a very pre possessing drink. It looks like milk and water, and smells like rancid meat. But it is said to be wholesome, the Mexican attributing as many virtues to it as the Scotchman does to whisky. The Agave Americana, the juice of which on fermentation yields pulqus, also produces mescal, a strong alco holic spirit distilled from its root. The sugar cane yields by distillation a strong intoxicant to which the ap propriate name of aguardiente (burn ing water) is given.—Arthur Inkers* ley, in Chantauquan. —Otto IL of Germany was The Red, on account of the color of his hair and the fioridnçss of his^Bomplezkm. ~ TO IMPROVE YOUR LOOKS. «Jevloes for Making tho Complexion Hot- An tor and Adding to Physical licautf. Vanity furnishes the inspiration for many of the inventions of the patent office. One of these is a mask of very thin rubber, designed to be worn on P the face at night. It causes profuse perspiration, which washes impurities out of the skin and makes the complex ion clearer. Sun tan is quickly re moved, so it is claimed. Another device for producing dim pies, according to the Cincinnati Com- ^ mercial Gazette, is a woman's idea. It la a wire mask, likewise to put on when going to bed. By an arrangement of ■crews, pencils of wood, very blunt, are made to press upon the cheeks and Chin at the points where dimples are desired. Uncomfortable? Why, of But, as the French say, It is worth while to suffer for beauty's sake. False busts, hips and calves are made of rubber, to be blown out like bal loons, and in many other styles, while the young lady of build hopelessly Bkcletonesquc may procure a complete stuffed jacket which fills out her form at every point to the extent requisite for counterfeiting desirable embon point. If one is so unfortunate as to lack a nose he can obtain a false one of papier mache, artfully enameled to imitate One kind of imitation pro boscis is attached to a spectacle frame, ■o that the owner puts on his counter feit nasal organ in adjusting his glasses. Masculine vanity is concerned in the genesis of about eighty patents for various kinds of mustache guards. One such is a gold plate with a spring, which may be fastened to any drink ing vessel at a moment's notive. Another is especially designed for beer glasses. A tube connecting with it goes down deep into the beer, so that the mustachcd drinker is able to avoid the foam. course. the skin. Other guards are destined io be worn like spectacles somewhat, with wires to pass to the back of the cars of tho wearer, and hold them on. The shield for the mustache is of gold or silver, or of fine gold wire net. THE ITALIAN PEOPLE. A View Ot Their Present Condition and Prospect« for the Future. What are the prospects of the people? That depends in the present case large ly upon the people themselves. A peo ple that are not united will never bear taxation patiently, because a disunited people cannot be commercially pros perous, and, therefore, cannot afford to pay the taxes. The difference between north and south Italy, or between Pied mont and Sicily, are not, indeed, like those between Ireland and Ungland, largely religious, but they are certain ly radical, and the gulf between the easygoing, but passionate, children of the two Sicilies and the hardy moun taineer and stalwart cultivator of tho Piedmont plains is almost as wide as the chasm between the Teuton and the Celt. Victor Emanuel's favorite unifier of Italy was the army, but, says tho Fortnightly Review, it lias turned in the hands of his successor into a disin tegrator. It was all very well to move the army up and down Italy when the army was a symbol of common libera tion from which so much was expected; but now the tyrants are gone there is no longer halo of romaneo about the army, nothing but army bills. The tyrant now is the tax collector. Undoubtedly the people have a griev ance. Tlie taxes have been not only cruelly but unjustly exacted. The col lector has entered Sicilian cottages, backed by the police, and, seeing tho pot-a-feu smoking, argued that those who could afford to eat could afford to pay a "supplement" or excess tax, and if it turned out there was no money, the officers of the law have been known to seize tho dinner and throw it out the window, under the noses of the poor peasant and his hungry family. There was no redress for the subjects of Hum bert any more than for those of Bomba, when his police, under the brutal Manisalco at Palermo, dragged tho wives and daughters of the Palermitans out of bed, stole their jewelry and ar rested their husbands and brothers on fictitious charges. People will always rise against misgovernment and oppres sion, whether the government calls it self republican, monarchial or any other. A PIE-EATING HORSE. Hf nai Been Known to Refuse Outs for Pie and Is Fat and Sleek. Leonard Jacobs, a pie peddler of An sonia, Conn., has one of the most re markable horses in Connecticut. Other towns have boasted of horses that chew tobacco, chew gum or drink beer, but Jacobs' horse will eat pie, says a local exchange. The horse is twenty-three years old. Jacobs' pies come from New Haven, packed in cases, and in trans portation some of them generally get broken and cannot be sold. One day Jacobs threw a broken pie on the ground near the horse's head, mal smelled of it, touched it with his tongue, lapped it up and ate it with relish. Then Jacobs began to feed pies to the horse. The horse soon got to like them, and would even refuse oats when pie was to be had. The habit has grown on him, until now, when Jacobs says "pie" to him, the horse will turn his head and wink expectantly. He has a decided preference for mince pie, and tho more raisins and currants and cider there arc the better he is pleased. Apple pie is a great favorite with him. Most bakers put grated nut meg into the apple pie, and this doesn't seem to agree with the equine taste. Pumpkin pie he likes and cranberry tarts are an especial delight. Peach, apricot, berry and prune pies are ac ceptable, but unless tho prunes are stoned he will not touch prune pie after the first bite. The horse is fat, sleek, and youthful in his movements, and Jacobs expects to keep him on the pie cart until he is long past the age when most horses are turned out to grass for the rest of their days or are carted to the horse cemetery by the side of the n»nrkv waters of tho Naugatuck river. The ani A LESSON IN POLITENESS. A lieve proud blood, writes Ladies' may sure you on ble eyes have more be lies. to lip all ways and good you of in An lnt *r*«t>iis Incluent ner8 of c,lilllrer > who are not taught by their P arents to conduct themselves ro P erl y in pub'ic places is very slron K- A gentleman yielded to this temptation on a New York elevated car recent ly under circumstances which may be Phoned to him, though doubtedly he exceeded his right " r ' as sitting, as he delates in the ^ ew ' ork Tress, in a car in which all sea ^ s were taken. A stout woman, dressed, sat opposite him, hold' injr a sma11 toy between her knees, As tlic car stopped, a person who sat next the gentleman got out, and a workin ff carrying a big bundle, came in > atul started to take the vacant Beat ' Travel In Mew York City. The temptation to correct the man un But the woman with the boy was too quick for her. She pushed tho boy quickly into the scat, just before the girl could take it, end looked compla cently about her, as if Bhe could not see the girl at all. The gentleman might then have risen and given the girl lm own seat, but he did not. He put his arm around the boy's waist, lifted him to the floor, aQd said: "Now take off your hat, and offer your seat to that young lady." The boy ran to his mother's knees. The girl hesitated, but took the seat as the gentleman beckoned her to it. And then the mother of the child burst out into a violent denunciation of the man's "ungentlemanly" conduct. "And let me tell you, sir," she said, finally, "don't you ever meddle with people's children again!" "Madam," responded the gentleman, "if mothers do not train their sons to grow up as gentlemen, some one else should. How do you expect that boy to respect his mother's sex, when his mother sets him the example of de spising other women's claims to courtesy?" . Bow holy me. Bhe fed. let was the the the till to up, on it HIS FATHER'S BUSINESS. Boy Gave So Many Armant» of It That Ile W », Called a Palltlclao. When the man who canvasses for names for the city directory knocked at the door on the top floor of a Har tem tenement house it was opened, says the New York World, by a small boy, bright eyed and ragged, with that expression of premature agedness on his face that makes the children of the criminal classes look old enough to be their own fathers. In reply to questions the boy gave the name of his parents. Then came a puzzler. "What's yer popper's business?" in quired the directory man. "Business?" "Yes. What does he do for a living?" The boy laughed. "Oh," he said, "he steals lead pipe off roofs, and some times he breaks into houses. Say, yer ain't a policeman, are you? Well, that's all right. Popper ain't got no regular business. Sometimes he lies along the waterfront and robs drunken sailors and sometimes he sandbags people. To day he's trying his hand at picking pockets on the Bowery, but I guess he'll get pinched, because he generally does at that game. Don't put him down as a pickpocket, mister, for he's a regular greeny at that." The directory man scribbled some thing in a notebook and moved away. The boy called after him curiously: "What did yer put popper down ns, mister?" The directory man said noth ing, but i*^*.d up the book, in which was written: "Jones, John, politician, 19264 Ave nue A," and moved off to the next flat. of of in it CLIMATE AND TONGUES. Some Carious Effects Noted In the Ragged North and Sunny South. Gutturals predominate in Norway and Russia, whereas, far to the south ward, in sunny Italy, there is a pro fusion of such euphonious names as Palermo, Verona, Campobcllo, and so forth. Even in the British isles, cover ing so few degrees of latitude, there is a marked difference between the "burr" of the Highlander and the soft speech of the native of southern Eng land. A theory which may partly account for these climatic effects is based upon the contrast of the stillness which usu ally pervades southern lands with the stormy inquietude of northern coun tries. Cloudless skies for months at a time characterize the climates of Italy while a firmament entirely free from clouds is rare in Norway. It requires, of course, greater effort to be heard in regions which are swept by winds and storms than in still south ern latitudes, and to be heard distinct ly amid the noise and confusion of the elements words must be used wbich contain many consonants. Among the inhabitants of more trop ical climes the tendency is toward soft and musical cadence, and travelers re late that in regions in South America, such as Peru and Venezuela, where at mospheric disturbances are rare, the natives almost chant the phrases of salutation. A Natural Quootloii. A Cincinnati paper reports that the agent of a clock-dealer in that city called one day on a good German citi zen of the "Over-the-Rhine" district, and endeavored to sell him an eight day clock, salesman, "this is a remarkable clock. It is not only beautiful, but it is most useful. Why, this clock will run eight days without winding.' opened his eyes, vinding!" he exclaimed, a créât glock. ▼ill run eight days vidout vinding, how long vill he run if you do vind him?" "My dear sir," said the The German "Eight days vidout "Vy, dot it is But tell me dot—if he Very Methodical. Germans are nothing if not methodi Ilerr von Osten-Sackcn, a lieu tenant of Hussars, recently wouDded himself mortally by accident, doctor told him he had only three hours to live, whereupon, after making his will, lie drew up the official report ! of his own death and sent it to his su cal. The perior officer TALMAGE ON HEHEUI1Y. A Thooaaud Years Cannot Obliterate Faaa* Ilf Characteristic#. Now, the longer I lire the more I be lieve in blood—good blood, bad blood, proud blood, honest blood, thieving blood, heroic blood, cowardly blood, writes Kev. T. DeWitt Talmagc in the Ladies' Home Journal. The tendency may skip a generation or.two, but it la sure to come out, as in the little child you sometimes see a similarity to a great-grandfather whose picture hangs on the wall. That the physical and mental and moral qualities are inherita ble is patent to anyone who keeps his eyes open. The similarity is so striking sometimes os to be amusing. Great families, regal or literary, are apt to have the characteristics all down through the generations, and what is more perceptible in such families may be seen on a smaller scale in all fami lies. A thousand years have no power to obliterate the dilference. Tho large lip of the house of Austria is seen in all the descendants and is called the Hapsburg lip. The house of Stuart al ways means in all generations cruelty and bigotry and scusualily. Witness Queen, of Scots. Witness Charles I. and Charles II. Witness Jumes I. and James II., and all the others of that im perial lino. Scotch blood means persistence. Dutch blood means cleanliness and good breeding. English blood means reverence for the ancient. Welsh blood means religiosity. Danish blood means fondness for the sea. means roaming disposition, blood means fervidity. Roman blood means conquest. The Jewish faculty for accumulation you may trace clear back to Abraham, of whom the Bible says: "He was rich in silver and gold and cattle," and to Isaac and Jacob, who had tbs same family characteristics. . Indian blood Celtic REVENGE OF THE FAT WOMAN. Bow 8he Got Rather Mora Than Kran with the notwsen-the-Aets llora. Apropos of tho theater, I saw *ome thing one other night within the last seven that filled me with a totally un holy glee, says a writer in the Wash ington I'ost. A woman sat in front of me. She was decidedly plump—in fact, Bhe was what Illinois people call corn fed. She was bareheaded, too, by the way, aud before the play began and after every act she had to stand up and let a man who sat near her pass out. It was a tight squeeze every time, and as the man did not say "Pardon me," "Beg your leave," or anything else to show the faith that was in him, I could see the tide of that fat woman's wratli rise till its crimson edge made tho strug gling fringe below lier back hair bristle indignantly. At last the play was over, and the man wanted to rush out to join two women friends-undoubtedly he'd have called them "lady friends"— whom he had noticed near. But did he rush? Well, if he did his rush wasn't visible to the naked eye. That fat woman sat down and put on her rub Ders. Then she replaced her gloves which she had taken off. Then she stood up, blocking the passage, while she put on her hat, adjusted her veil, and but toned her cloak. And all the while the man was dancing with impatience, un able to get out, and the two "lady friends" were passing out tho door. At last the fat woman moved, and the man — well, inasmuch as nothing so much angers a man as a punishment he knows he deserves, you can imagine how he looked. For my part, I thought it was delightful, and if I ever meet th» < fat woman I mean to tell her so. a HOW PEANUTS GROW. The Maple Food or the Circus Baqulrae Bat Little Cultivation. All boys, and a good many of their sisters, are fond of peanuts. Every body knows that no circus is complete without them, but probably not many boys, nor girls either, know just how they grow, says tho New York Times. The peanut is supposed to be a native of Africa, where it forms the chief food of certain regions, but it is found, too, in South America and Europe, the spe cies varying slightly in the different countries. Here in the United States it is cultivated chiefly in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. The seed planted is the meat kernel, and care is taken not to break the skins. The plant grows like a vine, and the nuts hang on to it like pea pods. A single vine will, it is estimated, produce about one hundred nuts, if it is of the average good condition. At this rate the yield per acre is forty bushels. Three varieties of these nuts are grown here—the white, the red and the Span ish. They are readily distinguished, as they have individual characteristics. The next time you eat a peanut with two kernels very white, with pink skins, you will know it is of the whit« variety, which is the most important. The shell of the red nut sometimes holds three or four dark kernels, and its skin is of a decidedly dark red, so you cannot mistake that; while th« Spanish nut is so much smaller, with a lighter skin than either of the others, that it will not be mistaken for either. Nearly five million bushels of peanut* are used in this country every year. as so is a re at the of the ▲ Gruesome Nicht'» Reeding. Two college girls at home for their spring vacation conceived a brilliant idea the other day. Every girl knows the pleasure of reading or listening to "creepy" stories and being so fright ened that one daren't look over one's shoulder. They determined to try this delicious sensation to the uttermost pos sible to them. They sat up all night, with plenty of candj' and a substantial luncheon, and a pile of books from which to read to each other. These stories included Kipling's "Bind," Poe's "Murder in the Rue Morgue;" tho Death of Nancy Sykes," Bulwer's "House and the Brain,"and parts of the "Tale of Two Cities." In the morning two very sleepy and somewhat cross young women declared that one would not believe how difficult it was to sit the is he ! down in cold blood and make up one's su- [mind to be scared. 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