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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21
Curious Viii Making.

A New York court has established
the validity of will of a citizen OF
that State, who left his entire pro-
perty, about $4,000 to the United
States Government. The New York
law prohibits requests of more than
a certain proposition of a mans es-
tate to the religious or charitable in
situations when he has near rela tives
living. In other words, a man can
not buy peace for his conscience by
adding another wrong to those he
has before committed. The first
duty of property is to provide tor
those naturally and legally depend
ent on the man who owns it. The
law will not even allow man while
living to impoverish himself SO IA to
leave his family in want. If this is
often in practice it is because exist
ing laws are not enforced. What he
cannot legally do while living the law
will not help him to do when dead.
But giving to the Government where Il
man has no near relatives, and those
more Distant that he has, is another
matter. The court probably held in
this case that the man was right in
thinking he as nearly related to the
entire American people, and had as
much obligation to them, as he had
to the few distant relatives who after
death would claim what they had
while living done nothing to prove
they could properly have any interest
in. People who do nothing for their
distant relatives while living ought
to he restrained by sham from profit
ing by their deaths. Where there are
near relatives the laws ofmost States
make more just disposition of pro-
perty than it's owners themselves
would probably make. The law re-
cognizes supposed natural affection,
which events often show does not
really exist.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

THE way to establish trade with the
Mexicans is to send agents among
them, not only to sell things, but to
teach the purchasers how to use them.
The agent must be not only a sales
man but a teacher. And that is what
he Is not at the present time. He
represents both IL tool company and n
hair-oil syndicate. and If he can reap
. rich harvest OF commissions by vend-
ing hair-oil he uevotes his energies to
that trade and drops the tool trade.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

NATURE produces but one kind OF
electricity known to scientists Or
observers. the only difference in tho
currents being greater or less proper.
tions in the quantity OF the current or
IN the electro-motive force. voltage or
tension OF the current. There is no
difference between the electricity pro-
duced by chemical action in the cells
OF battery and that produced by
magnetism in the armature OF a
dynamo or that produced by flash Of
lightning. Popular theory has pict-
ured several kinds Of electricity. when
in fact there is but one.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21
To Remove Disfiguring Marks.

The fashionable woman finds it
little difficult at this time of the year
to keep clean. and it is by no means as
inexpensive an operation as it is usual
~ supposed. She walks out in her blue
coat with its heavy trimming of black
fur and comes home with broad black
band around her throat that soap and
water will not remove even if prayer
accompanies it. The finer your skin
the more difficult is this mark to get of,
and it is usually best done AS they re-
commend at the Turkish bath-by the
uss of a lemon; just halve it and rub
the raw part around your throat exact.
~ as if it were a cake of soap. You
are determined not to get rheumatism.
and SO you wear black silk underwear.
No matter how expensive it is. no mat
ter how many times it has been wash.
ed. wherever your stays or belt band
press against it you are marked-nOt
necessarily for life. but until you get
somebody to scrub you of with small
brush. Half the women 60 to the
Russian bath to get these marks Oh
them. because the gentle vapOr and the
hard rubbing will soon cause them to
disappear. Half the women in New
York would ask If they dropped dead
on the street that their clothes might
not be taken off them, and the reason
can be ENTHUSIASTICALLY. " Sun.
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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

IT is the duty OF every citizen sum-
montd before the grand jury at any
time or in any case to refuse TO answer
any question outside the grand jury
room. Only grand jurors have a right
70 put questions. Any one, no matter
what his pretensions. undertaking to
bully, bride or intimidate By disten.
tentiOn or threats OF arrest any one
into answering questions outside the
grand jury room may be punished if
tho right steps be taken before the
criminal judge
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

The tendency OF every race track i 8
toward degeneracy. An honest jockey
Il rare bird. but strict management
holding the whip aggressively. can
compel honest races. One corrupting
influence is the close connection be-
tween the betting shed and the stables.
The average book on an interesting
event is 5000 Multiplied by forty the
wagers are something like 1920, OOl.
Half Of it is the money OF amateurs
and stragglers. who accept the book
makers dictum us to the favorite aud
back him.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21
rHE courts in England are stern and

The courts in England are stern and
anssntimental. One OF the fashion,
able guests at SANKEY'S wedding who
stole several valuable silver spoons
from the room in which the wedding
presents were exhibited was arrested
and sentenced to two weeks imprison-
0ent She was Il widow with great
wealth and prominent light in the
highest circles OF London society. In
the United States her theft would
have been called by the fashionable
name OF kleptomania and she would
have been handed from the courtroom
- her carriage with u humble apology.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

EVERY little while some one is kiln.
ed while sleeping on railway track.
Or course the remedy for this is for
each legislature TO pass n law to the
effect that people shall not use rail.
way track for sleeping purposes.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21
A Peculiar Kind of Warfare.

Making war on Indians is unlike
any other war making in which arm
les engage. Finding them, not fight
ing them is the difficult problem to
solve. II the reader will consider
that the theatre Corporations in any
Indian OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in Wy
oming, Dakota. the Indian Territory
and Texas, or Arizona-is about as
large as the New England States with
New York added; that each of these
possible theatres OF war is an unin-
habited wilderness; that they are
without roads. and often impenetra-
bic for hundreds of miles because OF
arid deserts or impossible mountain
ranges; that while all parts OF each
Territory are to the Indian as fnnil-
lar as the paths of the home orchard
are to the farmer and his children,
it is and of necessity must be an I'M
known land to the best-informed
white man; that in these trackless
wilds the Indian had no fixed habita-
ton; that upon being discovered by
his enemy the direction of the trail
he takes is a matter of indifier-
ence to him; that where night finds
him is his home, and that his sub
sistence and clothing are always with
him-if all these and collateral mat
ters depending on them are consid-
cred, an idea can be formed OF how
difficult it is to make successful war
on the Indian. -
In war the Indian, though partial
ly civilized, revcrts to his worst
phase OF savagery. Much has been
written as to the false sentimentality
which crops up in the discussion of
the Indian question by humanita-
rians and lovers OF fair play, which
it is not intended here to repeat.
But it may properly be observed
that it is worse than nonsense to
urge that the Indian regards the
white intruders as the descendants of
those who, two centuries and more
ago, came to this country and by
might deprived the Indians of the
lands and hunting fields, and is
through his children pursuing the
"red man toward the setting sun. -
The Indians's knowledge of his
tory scarcely extends beyond
one generation. His white enemy is
served in war as is any other enemy,
and for the same reasons. He has no
inherited animosities dating from the
time of the Pilgrim Fathers. Nor
does he feel gratitude for kind usage
shown to his ancestors or to himself.
The annuities paid him are looked
upon as tributes exacted by fear or
someless worthy principle, and kind
ness shown him are those by whom
they are shown are weak and afraid
OF him.
Fortunately for the whites, the In.
| dams in their warfare are not in the
habit OF attacking our so.cnlled forts
on the frontier, else the horrors Of
past wars would equal in any yea,
i the fearful pictures of the Indian mu
tiny against the English. Our front
ierforts have often been at the mercy
of the Indians. but the capture in any
instance could not have been made
without great loss of lite, and it il
characteristic of the race that they
are slow to ttack when certain death
awaits any great numbers. They are
brave where supersticious beliefs
make chances of safety greatly in
their favor, but will not take the risks
that satisfy the civilized WARRIOR
Gen. Wesley Merritt, U. S. A.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

THE miserable thief who steals a
pocket book is babe in influence and
and example compared with the BUSH
mess man who, under the outward
sesming OF honor and probity, defrauds
his associates out of thousands. 1t Is
not the money. it is the loss OF faith in
business integrity that is involved. for
these lie at the foundation OF all BUSH
no9u transactions.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

In Wyoming the women have voted
20 long that NOBODY thinks anyth ing
about 1t. From all accounts women
60 TO the polls just as simply and
naturally as they go to the postoifice
or the railroad station. And from
present observations they look very
much like other women.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

DIR. GIBIER, at the Pasteur Institute
in New York, believes that as human
beings can be rendered proof against
smallpox by vaccination. so dogs can
be rendered proof against hydropho-
bia by incubation.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

ON more than one occasion che mists
and physicians have shown that the
present fashion OF having bodies
roughly embalmed shortly after death
throws serious difficulties in the way
Of chemical analyses in cases OF sus.
pectsd poisoning.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

DO NOT read anything upon which
you wish to pass Il iair judgment until
you are in Il pleasant frame OF mind.
No production, however meritorious.
iavorably impresses tho reader who is
vexed, irrita.ed and uncomfortable.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

VIZ have come to pretty pass when
Judges high and low shut their eyes to
the real issue Of a case, and upon some
trivial by-point give justice slap in
the face.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

WHAT strange survivals Of old forms
OF speech we constantly meet with.
1t is said. for instance, that there are
still some old settlers in Chicago who
drink "
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

INVENTORS who have business tact
and ability may make some money
but they are never regarded rs public
benefactors or as deserving the hoHors
due to professional patriots.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

Kansas will raise 40,OOQO00 busheA
OF wheat this year. 80
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21

modern watering places, beware how you
make lifelong covenants
Another temptation lowering all around
our watering places is the intoxicating bev-
erage. am told that it is becoming more
and more fashionable for women to drink
l care not how well a woman may dress, il
she has taken enough of wine to flush her
cheek and put glasses on her eyes, she is
intoxicated. She may be handed into a
&, 500 carriage, and have diamonds enough
to confound the Tihanys-she il intoxicat-
ed. She may be graduate of q great in
stitute, and the daughter Of some man in
danger Of being nominated for the presid-
ency-she is drunk. You may have larger
vocabulary than have, and you may say
in regard to her that she is ''convivial," or
she is MERRY" or she is FESTIVE" or she
is ''exhilarated," but you cannot with all
your garlands Of verbiage cover up the
plain fact that it is an old-fashioned case Of
drunk
Now, the watering places are full Of
temptations to men and women to tipple
At the close of the ten-pin or billiard game
they tipple. At the close Of tho cotillion
they tipple. Seated on the piazza cooling
themselves OF they tipple. The tinged
glasses come around with bright straws.
and they tipple. First they take eight
Wines" as they call them; but slight
wines'' are heavy enough TO debase the
appetite. There il not very long road
between champagne at five dollars per
bottle, and whisky at five cents glass.
| Satan has three or four grades down
which he takes men to destruction One
man he takes up, and through one spree
| pitches him into eternal darkness. That is
rare case. Very seldom, indeed. can you
| find man who will be such fool as that.
When o man goes down to destruction
The Dickinson press., 1890-06-21
Old Age at Last.

Well known phrases are sometimes SO
sad, SO mysterious in the minds of little
people who are making their first ac-
quaintance with grief. A child whose
dear grandpa had been taken suddenly
i'll was one morning asked by neighbor
if he were any worse.
81 saw the doctor hurrying over to
your house little while ago." said the
good but thoughtless woman, "and
thought your grandpa might be worse. "
"Hc isn't that" said the little thing,
her lips quivering. "He's dead"
"Dear, dear nie!' cried the neighbor.
~ didn't know lie was SO sick"
"Mamma said he had cold last night, .
explained the little mourner, "and the
doctor said-oh, don't know just what,
but it was cold, and then old age set
in, and grandpa died."-Youth's Com
paniOn,
The Dickinson press., 1890-06-21
A Neat Swindle.

A peculiarly suspicious Individual
named Mack was in charge Of the City
hall cigar store, when two dapper looking
young men entered. One carried in his
hand an envelope, which was addressed,
but not sealed. "Can you give me ten
dollar note for these ten bills?" he asked.
''rhc old lady wants to send the money
in this letter."
The ten dollar bill was Immediately
given to the young man, who apparently
put it in the letter. Mack counted the
bills given in exchange and found only
nine there. "There is only so in this,''
said he.
"Oh, how can that be?' said the young
man. The old lady must have made u
mistake. Iput the $40 In this letter and
have sealed it. I don't want to open the
envelope again. Will you just hold the
letter with the $40 and 1 will take the 80
to the old lady,"
Mack thought that fair enough, as lie
believed he saw the young man put $40
i'll the envelope. He still holds It. 1t is
addressed to "H. Ed Idme, Bingham
ton, N. Y" 1t was not long before Mack
opened it, but blank paper was all it con-
tained.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Dickinson press., 1890-06-21
Glasses in a broadway Car.

1t might not have been strange in these
days of myopic misery, but the passen-
gers in Il Broadway car smiled little
and thought it was funny when they
looked about to find that every one of the
nine passengers (four men, three women,
a young girl and q boy) was wearing
spcctacles. And then a man i'll middle
life in, and everybody watched him
while he drew his newspaper from his
pocket, took out his spectacle case, put
on his spectacles with deliberate care and
looked all about him to find every pair
of eyes in the car smiling at him from
behind like disks of glistening glass.
Everybody looked just little moro
amused than before, and when the con-
tluctor came in to collect his fares, with
apair of gold trimmed glasses pcrchcd up
on his nose, the young girl looked at the
boy and giggled, the boy smiled broadly
back, while the old gentleman called out
with Boythorn roar: "Bless my soul!
We're all in the same basket!':-New
York Evening Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1890-06-21
Tho Baby Was Dead.

~ had a strange experience the other
day. said Mr.. Friend, the Woodward
avenue photographer. "a woman came
in here carrying a baby in her arms and
said she had an engagement for pic
ture of the child. 1 said all right and
told her to get it ready. Then she went
to the dressing room and 1 asked my
operator if he had made an engagement
for that hour. He said he had, and 1
told him it was all right, to go ahead. l
let him attend to it and sat down to read
my morning paper. could sec the wo-
man from where sat in Il mirror that
hung opposite, and as she placed the
baby in the chair and attempted to pose
it noticed something was wrong, as
neither she nor the operator could han
die the child. went to their assistance,
and then saw that the baby was dead"
"Was it dead when she brought it
tlere?'
"Ycs, and she carried it in her arms,
taking the street car to our door. She
had no one with her and did not seem to
think it was anything out of the way.
But excuse me. l don't want another
such experience as that. ."-Exchange.
The Dickinson press., 1890-06-21
energy in Advertising.

Thoroughness, industry and tact are
necessary in writing and keeping up
series Of paying announcements. Read
ers nowadays demand variety in what
they read, whether it be in their literary
matter, their news or their advertise
ments. Monotony tires them. Rrevity
and spice are absolutely essential to sue
cess in advertising. Every merchant
can, with profit, study the methods en-
ployed by large advertisers in attracting
attention to their wares. It is not neces-
sary that the style Of any one of them be
copied literally, but points can be se-
cured from each and all which will be
Of assistance in working up series of
remunerative announcements. Each ad-
vertiser should use such suggestions as
come In his way for all ther6 is in them,
adapting them to his own particular
needs. Above all things never advertise
your competitor by scolding about him.
.4drerttse your olc,l goods and get all the
return you can for your money. Don't
get into rut.
The Dickinson press., 1890-06-21
Drcssmakers, Percentage.

The fashionable dressmaker, it is stat
ed, demands of the retail dry goods
stores a percentage on even the smallest
purchase. In order to allow this the
merchant must raise the price of all his
goods as much beyond the regular retail
price as is the amount of her percentage.
She frequently buys goods for her Gus
toners, and on these she clears her per-
centage. But the merchants trouble
does not end here.
Every excuse for changing goods pur-
chased by customers will be resorted to,
and as soon as a change is made all al
lowance of percentage is demanded.
Some old merchants descended from the
Scotch, who are famous as a nation for
asking and giving the full worth of
money paid, have steadily resisted the
demand of dressmakers to tax customers
for their benefit, and have been boy
cotted In effect in consequence. The
merchant, in this case, Is money loser,
as thousands of dollars of custom Is thus
turned away from his door, but he is
saved much petty annoyance. New
York Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1890-06-21
Death Rate of Ministers.

Comparing tho death rate of ministers,
in respect of the causes of death, with
tho mortality of other men, the following
results are obtained: OF s6,331 clergy
men, 1870 died of infectious diseases. The
usual experience of an insurance COM
pany would have made the number 230;
that is, the mortality of tho clergymen
was only 70 per cent. of the ordinary
death rate. Tho death rate of physicians
from these diseases was 127 above tho
usual rate, pointing to the greater danger
Of contagion in the case of the physician
than in that Of the pastor.
OF lung affections, excluding consump-
ton, 311 clergymen died, instead of 1898,
tho number expected from mortality
tables. Physicians died of such diseases
115 per cent. above the average rate. Be
tween theages of 26and 45 the mortality
Of Roman Catholic clergymen compared
with Protestant ministers Of the same age
was as 1877 to 100, while between the ages
of 4G and 65 the difference was as 154 to
100, and between the ages of G5 and s. as
11S to 100. How to explain this striking
difference is no easy task. 1t is suggest
ed that it may be connected with the life
Of celibacy followed by the priests, also
with the rigid penances of Catholic eccle-
siastics, which, especially in the case Of
young men, reaptto derange the diges-
tive organs.-Medical Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1890-06-21
Ten Pins in Hawaii,

1t was unique game of ten pins 1
was wont to play in those days. Small
natives swarmed like bees whenever I
went abroad; you sec, was the one
haoli-or foreigner-who had unlimited
leisure, and they knew not at what mo-
ment it might suit my fancy to embark
upon some erratic expedition such as
they delighted in. At a moments notice
Icould command a troop Of horse worthy
of an outlaw chief II l retired to the
billiard hall to amuse myself with the
light and airy cue, the windows and
doors commanding the four sides of the
table were certain to be darkened with a
cloud of witnesses. But I am forgetting
tho ten pins.
There was small Kanaka for every
pin, and one for each ball. These in
some mysterious way hung upon the
wall at the far and fatal end of the bowl
ing alley, at the imminent peril of life
and limb. Whenever I made ten
strike, which positively did OCCASION
ally, it was invariably received with
deafening round of cheers-not emitting
the "tiger." But still was not happy,
for l always feared to find the alley,
after the atmosphere had cleared a little,
strewn with Hawaiian slain.-Overland
Monthly,
The Dickinson press., 1890-06-21

1t is curious to note that the supposed
repressing tendency of Quaker life should
have developed two such poets, Taylor
and 7. Buchanan Read; Benjamin West,
the first American painter of European
fame, and Hovenden, the American who
is doing the most important art work in
the country at the present time. From
the time of Gen. Miflin and Gen. Greene
to the surrender of Vicksburg by the
Confederate Lieut.. Gen. John G. Penn
berton, of Philadelphia, Quaker blood
has developed some splendid fighting
qualities, and the numerous instances
with which the world is familiar would
seem to throw some doubt on our cher
ished theories as to the effect of training
and surroundings to make the human
sapling inclined the way the twig has
been bent.-Philadelph Inquirer.
The Dickinson press., 1890-06-21
A Temple of Serpepts.

The small town of Werda, in the king
dom of Dahomev, is celebrated for its
temple of serpents, long building in
which the priests keep upwards of 1000
serpents of ali sizes, which they feed
with birds and frogs brought to them as
offerings by the natives. These serpents.
many of them of enormous size, may be
seen hanging from the beams across the
ceiling, with their heads hanging down.
ward and in all sorts of strange contor-
tions. 1t often happens that some of
these serpents make their way out of the
temple into the town, and the priests
have great difficulty in coaxing them
back. To kill a serpent Intentionally is
a crime punishable by death, and if a
European were to kill one the authority
of the king would scarcely suffice to
save him. Many of the monsters in the
Serpent Temple" are large enough to
epfold a large kin their coils.-St. Louis
Renuhlie.