Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-03-01

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act SO there should be no possible diff
fculty hereafter for man to identify
his own wife and, as a natural conse
quence, enable him to know her from
the hired girl or church sister either
in the dark or in daylight. Then there
are lots Of socalled grass widows who
pay sad havoc with the peace and hap
piness Of old bachelors. The fact is,
it is impossible for the uainitia'ed to
tell whether those same pretended grass
widows are such 10 reality, or unmar.
ried women sailing under false colors,
unless they are branded or ear-mark ed.
I have always labored under the belief
Il am so totally inexperienced in such
matters) that all married men knew
their wives and that it was not neces- !
sary for the Legislature to pass an en-.
ablinS act by which they could identify
their better halves at a glance. / have
fully Intended to cast my bark on the
sea of matrimonial bliss, but since this
bill has been introduced before such an
intelligent body Of Legislators as con-
vened at Boise City this winter, l with.
draw; back out. My aspirations have
vanished into thin air! My ambition
blasted! my hope gone forever! In
fact, since the bill didn't pass, would
not know which one of the boys I was,
and might, through ignorance and no
identifying mark, mistake some other
mau's wife for my own. weaken on
the experiment.
COUNTY SEAT.
In regard to county scat will say
this, that the removal would simply be
putting it on wheels. 1t would have
been better to have divided The county
than to move the county seat. There
seems to he very little prospect Of an
nexation, OF least this session of Con
grcss; and So far as can see, our only
prospect of annexation is by adding
the southern port n of Idaho to the
State of Nevada and the pan handle to
Washington Territory. l think if prop
er efforts had been msde last fall we
might have been annexed to Washing
tou this winter and in that event could
have saved the county the unnecessary
expense Of an unnecessary eleciorpnext
June. A far as 1 can tell, majority
of the people in this section favor re-
moval, and unless the matter is proper
: y explained Moscow will win. I-would
have preferred division to removal and
the only objection or rather the main
objection l have to removal is that the
same work will have to be done over
next session of the Legislature. Anoth-
err objection to removal is, If the county
is divided there will be not foot of
e the original county of Nez Perce in the
! new county. Apathy on the part Of
e the people south Of Clearwater will lose
|, them the county seat. Since the ex.
I pense of new buildings and removal
:. does not fall upon the people a. large
n great many will favor removal on the
q ground that they have not so far to
o travel aud no ferriaga to pay. The
j, mileage in the long run would be the
same the county would have to stand,
= but you know the selfshness of the
4 human family and each man would
! have the county seat at his door if pos
$ sible. 1t is we'll enough to stare facts
in the face. The arrangement that
Moscow is glacier in white, and mud
hole in summer will not hold good to
the general mass out north, from the
fact, that whether glacicr or mud hole
they have to 60 through there to attend
: court. 1t is admitted by the advocates
of removal that there is no permancy
= to it.
I Snow disappearing. Weather fine
: and stock smile at the bare ground.
More some other time Fp