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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
Guards Around Treasures.

Few people who gaze upon the
treasures inclosed within the fragile
glass cases near the main entrance Of
the National Museum dream that any
material protection guards them from
burglarious and predatory paws, save
that a watch is kept, as matter Of
course, by persons in charge. Gold
and silver by the hundredweight ara
there exposed TO view, while the in
trinsic and historical.value Of the ex-
hibits mounts up into the millions. Yet
all is open, with only thin sheets OF
crystal between the avaricious visitor
and the precious property of the
American people.
Let the would be robber try it then /;
let him wait. and when he is perfectly
certain the guard is not looking, lay
hands on so much as one small copper
penny of historic date exposed behind
the glass Lol an alarm rings through
the building, and from all sides the at
tendants flock to the rescue. The thief
learns too late for profitable informa-
ton, that each copper, silver or gold
piece in every case has separate at
taehment to the burglar alarm in the.
building. The accessibility of the costly
objects is only apparent; the entire
police of Washington is guarding them
day and night.
In the same way with the major as
we'll as with the minor treasures in the
Smithsonian museum. Gold and silver
articles and ornaments, jewels and
vases, everything of value, in fact, are
guarded in the same way. 1t is practi-
cally an impossibility for anybody TO
get away with them Washington Star
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
where the ASS Amuses Crowd.

The common people of Cairo resort to
the exhibitions of mountebanks who
teach camels, asses and dogs to dance.
The dancing of the Ass is diverting
enough. After he has frisked and capered
sufficiently his master tells him that the
sultan means to build great palace. and
will have to employ all the asses in car
rying mortar. stones and other materials.
Upon this the ASS falls down with his
feet upward, closing his eyes and extend
ing his chest as if he were dead.
The owner loudly bewails his loss, and
appeals TO the bystanders for aims to
make it good. Then, having collected
as much as possible. he announces that
the ass is not really dead, but being sen
sible of his masters necessity has played
trick to secure provender.
He commands the ass to rise, but the
brute remains motionless in spite of all
the blows he can give him. At last he
proclaims that by virtue Of an edict Of
the sultan all the handsome ladies are
bound to ride out the next day upon the
coneliest asses they can find in order to
see triumphal show, and that the ladies
are to entertain their belsts with oats
and Nile water. These words are no
sooner pronounced til an the ass rises up,
prances and leaps for JOY
The master then declares that the ass
has been pitched upon by the warden Of
his street to carry his deformed and
ugly wife, upon which the ass lowers
his ears and limps with one leg as if
lame.
The Snowman, after remarking that
his donkey is great admirer of hand
some women, commands him to single
Out the prettiest one in the company, and
the well trained beast completes the
show by going about among the people,
and finally touching one of the prettiest
of the women with his head, to the great
amusement Of the crowd.-Youth's Com
naninn
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

"Ohl tbs time should talk to your mother
Sweet Mary" says l.
oh don't talk to my mother" says Mary,
Beginning TO cry;
For my mother says men are deceivers,
And never, know, will consent;
She says girls in hurry who marry
AT leisure repent.
Then, suppose should talk TO your father,
Sweet Mary" says 1
"Oh! don't talk TO my father" says Mary
Beginning 10 cry;
"For my father lie loves me - dearly
He'll never consent shall GO
II you talk to my father. says Mary.
Hell surely say No g."
Then how shall get you. my jewel,
Sweet Mary says !,
IF your father and mothers so cruel,
Most surely IN die g"
oh! never say die. " says Mary.
"A way 10 save you See:
Since my parents are both so contrary
You'd better ask me-
Samuel Lover IN Chicago Mar
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
one way to Get New Toys.

The two children of we'll known
writer, whose temper is as quick as his
heart is generous. are used to receiving
armfuls of toys after they have been
punished for any nlisdemeanor. OF late
they have been very good, or their
fathers mind has been uncommonly
calm and unruffied. and as natural
consequence the stock of pIaythings has
run low One afternoon the mother
overheard the curly haired boy saying
to the blond little girl, as they sat on
the floor and raced a three legged horse
against a wooden COW with two broken
horns; Cant we plague papa some
how tonight, Bessiel We really must
fix it SOS TO get whipping. New
York Recorder
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If there is any man in the city who is par
ticularly proud of the Flood building q is
Admiral Cornelius OConnor A source of
great satisfaction TO this gentleman were the
mailing facilities OF the building 1t is only
necessary to drop letter iii at the fifth story
when, "m New York style,n as 0'COnnor
SAYS, sit is taken out at the ground floor by
the carrier A gentleman in one of the
upper stories is in the habit of mailing checks
to New York every week. Some time ago he
received a telegram from New York asking
why certain check which ought 10 have
been mailed four weeks had not arrived.
The local man telegrnphed that the check
had been sent as usual, and, fearing that
something was wrong, stopped payment.
Not long afterward he was again informed
that the usual check had not appeared. In
the meantime complaints were getting COM
mon in the Flood building that letters sent
from there were not delivered.
One day recently the gentlemanly sender
of checks, whose faith in the eighty foot
high mail box had never wavered, dropped
his letters in the mail box, and had the Curl
osity to look into it. To his surprise the box
seemed to be full 10 the top. Thinking it
strange that so much mail matter should
leave the building i'll one day, he mentioned
the fact to some of his neighbors, and an ex-
animation was made of the attenuated pillar
post at each story, and it was found chat for
the lower two stories only the box was clear
of letters. The upper three were full Then
the truth dawned ON the check sender. An
expert was sent for, and he dropped an iron
weight into the top of the long box. There
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

A family in West Waldoboro wouldn't
give a continental to find a gold mine
on their rocky acres; that is not as
long as the smelt swims the briny wa
tiers. During the winter this family
captures over six tons OF smelts. They
dispose of their catch in the city mar
kets, and receive from seven to fourteen
cents per pound therefor Lewiston
JOurnal
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

Before a young man marries he
should learn not to ask foolish ques-
tons
What, my angel" exclaimed a
youthful husband bursting into the
kitchen, doing the cooking yourselff
What is i'll"
why, Edgar, how foolish of you'll
How in the world can tell until see
what it turns outr-Youth's Compan-
ion.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

was a trou frou sort OF sound, and IN a few
seconds about 500 letters were shot into th.,
mail box at the foot Of the elevator and ali
over the door. An examination of the new
York styl Of mail box showed that por-
ton Of the inside lining of the box had be-
come loose, and, projecting across the box
had arrested one letter after another until
they had piled NJ three stories high.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
Receipts of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The revenue of the Brooklyn bridge
amounts to a million and quarter dot-
lars year, derived almost exclusively
from fares. The other items of revenue
during 1890 were $50. 600 from rentals
and S13, 600 from telegraph and tele-
phone companies. The lightest month
in the year for business on the bridge
is July.-New York Sun.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

DUMPLlNCS.
POT PIES.
PUDDlNGS.
CAKES.
4. DOUGHNUTs
BISCUIT.
MUFFINS.
WAFFLES.
CORN BREAD.
GRlDDLE CAKES.

Can always be made with Dr. Prices Cream Baking
Powder And while cakes and biscuit will
ure they will be found aky and extremely light and fine
grained and full of holes biscuit
from ammonia baking powder Prices Cream Baking Pow
der produces work that beyond comparison yet
than the aduerated ammonia or alum powders
DR. Prices stands for pure food and good health
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

There is tract of forest trees in
southern Oregon embracing about
$1,000 square miles, which, cut and
sold at SO per 1000 feet, would pay
the national debt twice over 1t is
estimated that the amount of merchant
able timber standing will reach 400,
600, 000 600 feet.
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.Lnnrnnlistlc Enternrisc.

The art of making paper has reached a
point where trees may be cut down, made
into paper and turned out as newspaper
al within thirty-six hours.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-18
DEATH AT The END.

WouSd were dead and lying in my grave,
AZ rest from frctting doubts and carking caresi
De kind. o Heaven, and listen TO my prayers;
Qrnnt me the only favor that crave
SIX feet by three OF earth to hide my dust.
ask no tombstone or memorial bust;
I ask for death; what Is beyond I'll brave
Lathe of good or evil have wrought:
No happiness or pleasure have known
But it hath been with sorrow intersown;
An hath slipt from my grasp that most sought
Ny life, though short in years, Is long in grief:
Night follows day, but brings relief.
And passing years have only sorrow brought
There is one goal to which courses tend;
The way lies over mountains, torrents, plains,
Through velvet pastures and quiet country
lanes.
Eosome the pleasant scenes enjoyment lend,
While others weary toll up rocky slopes
Dejectedly, and almost void of hopes.
1.us one fate waits for all-Death at the End.
Chambers Journal
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Christmas Figuring.

Biffers-Im a pretty good hand at
figures, but there's one thing L can't IN
derstand about Christmas
Wiffers-What's that?
BiffersHow is it that everybody
gives more than he gets, and yet nobody
gets as much as he gives? Hang me if /
can see what becomes of the surplus!-
New York Weekly.
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Explicit.

TIasperated Property Owner Ito organ
grinder)-W What'n you take to clear out2
Organ riuder (coolly)-Me takka me
time.-Epoch.
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-16
500 Rward 500.

The readers of the ARGUS will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all its stages, snd that is catarrb.
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-16

MOLINE Republican Journal: The
Rock Island Ution is mistaken if it
thinks its policy of attempting to put up
Gest for attorney general is not under
stood by The republicans of Moline and
elsewhere. If Gest is nominated for at
torney general it will deprive Rock Island
county of all chance of having republi-
can candidate for congress next year.
The Gest organs announcement follows
closely upon the rumor that Moline re-
publicans are likely to propose csndi-
date for the latter Office, and it looks as if
the Unions action is governed by the
anything to beat Moline" spirit.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-16
BRIGHT HOPES BLASTED.
M'kINLEY,s PROTECTION" FOR
NEW YORK HOP GROWERS.

They Rushed to Him for Protection and
Now Prices Are Lower-why the Duty
Does Not Heip-we Export Hops-The
Farmer Not In It
Somehow protection for the farmer
never seems to work. There are hops.
for example. Last year the hop grow
ers of New York state went to Washing
ton to get higher duty, claiming that
they were suffering disastrous COMPETE
ton from German hops. The Hop
Growers association of Madison, Oneida,
Otsego, Franklin and Schoharie coun-
ties had representatives before the Nc
Xinley committee to ask for a duty of
twenty cents a pound, the duty being
then eight cents. They succeeded in
getting duty of fifteen cents a pound,
and today they are selling their hops at
considerably lower prices than prevailed
at the time when they were before Nc
kinley's committee.
And why? Well. we produce more
hops than we consume at home, and we
export large quantity every year and
the crop this year is very large. One of
the very men who pleaded so earnestly
for higher duty admitted that he sold
his entire crop in London and got ia
cents pound net, while he was offered
only eleven cents pound in New York.
Still he wanted protection" from Ger
man hops, although he boosted that he
had shipped to England, right on the
open London market, and competed and
got four cents a pound more than any
German hops in the London market.
How protection" could help him in
such case he did not explain.
And protection has not helped the hop
growers. 1t was stated before the Nc
Kinley committee in March, 1890, that
| the price of American hops was then from
| fifteen to twenty cents pound; they are
quoted today in the New York market
at from thirteen to seventeen cents, and
prices have been going down of late.
The crop has been much larger than was
estimated, and as the surplus has to be
exported it is very natural that prices
should drop
This state of things has had de-
pres sing effect upon the growers. One
| Of them writes to The Cultivator and
| Country Gentleman to suggest that
"what is wanted is thoroughly organ
lied society, with laws like those of the
Modes and Persians, and perfect unity
Of action" in order that the growers
may make ''good sales at paying prices"
Zone thing more" says this CORE
spondent, docs the grower stop to con-
slider that when he takes fifteen cents
for his hops and urges them upon the
dealer at that price, he is taking just
the amount of the protective tariff He
would not, when the tariff was eight
cents, have been in hurry about taking
| that sum; he would have hesitated,
thinking that he certainly should have a
margin over the price foreign hops could
be in ported for"
That protection has not helped the hop
growers is perfectly natural. Let any
one examine our exports and imports for
the past twelve years:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-16
For over Fifty Years

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-16
THE resignation OF Hon. Henry W.

THE resignation Of Hon. Henry W.
Blair, of New Hampshire, as envoy ex.
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary
to China has just been accepted by Presl :
dent Harrison, with appropriate expires.
sions of regret and esteem. The New
York Sun comnen, as follows:
Mr.. Blair was appointed and confirmed
in February last For reasons well known
to everybody. it has been his fortune to
exercise the functions of his Office at
Washington rather than at Pekin. For
nearly eight months he has been. as q
minister. decidedly more extraordinary
than plenipotentiary. His func-
tons have been confined to draw
ing his salary and signing the
receipts for the same. There has been
an attempt on the part of some of Mr.
Blairs friends to give the impression that
he has conscientiously refused to receive
81 600 month from the government as
pay for work which Minister DENLY was
performing. In the absence of conclusive
evidence we cannot credit this report. II
Mr.. Blair has not had the salary in view,
why has he remained in Office for eigh,
months? Certainly not from public spirit
or for glory.
At all events, the Hon. Henry w
Blair, released at last from official cares.
is at liberty TO turn his attention to the
suppression Of the rum traffic ON the high
seas; and may good luck attend himl
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-16
{ Should b. In livery House.

j. B. Wilson, 81 Clay street, Shsrps-
burg. Pa, says he will not be without
DR.. Kings New Discovery for consump.
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wife who was threatened with pneumonia
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clans had done her no good. Robert
Barber. of Cooksport. Pa. claims DR..
Kings New Discovery has done him more
good than anything he ever used for
lung trouble. Nothing like it. Try it..
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-16

With such a large expectation it is
folly 20 imagine that a duty on the
small quantity imported can raise the
prices of the domestic product. One fact
can be stated which is absolutely con-
elusive on this point. The hops import
ed in 1890 were invoiced at the average
price OF only sixteen cents pound; this
year the price was forty-two cents; and
furthermore, we imported $500, 900 less
in 1891 than in 1890. Just the condition
of things that the hop growers wanted
to bring about-fewer foreign hops at
much higher prices in order to raise the
prices OF their own product. But, alas,
prices have fallen, for on articles which
we export largely tariff is not worth
the paper it is written on.
German hops sell in our markets reg
ularly at from ten to twenty cents a
pound higher than the American for the
simple reason that hops have different
f1avors, and to make certain kinds of
beer the brewers must have German
hops Il is purely question of flavor;
the quality of the hops is not involved
The brewers themselves admitted in
Washington that American hops are
quite as good as foreign. Hence they
use only about one-tenth as many for
eign hops as American.
And thus the bright hopes that the
hop growers built upon the Mckinley
tariff have been blasted. The farmer is
distinctly mot in it.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-16

DAVENPORT Democrat: Congressman
Cable, of Rock Island, is determined at
whatever cost to give the people of that
city pure water. Mr.. Cables father was
one of the benefactors of Rock Island
He furnished the money to build tie
present water works Of that city. Garry
ing out the evident intention of his father
Congressman Gable is generously looking
to it that perfect system of wholesome
water supply is secured. tbs hoped that
Rock Islsrd will be as fortunate as Dav-
export has been in getting an abundant
supply of the most wholesome article.