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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11

They relate to MS from Boulogne sur
Mer, in France, remarkable incident
of fidelity. A Danish princess, one of
those fairy beauties of the north who
seem to draw their peculiar charm from
the melancholic splendor of their climate,
one of those Ophelias. with limpid eyes
as the blush crystal of the Scandinavian
lakes, had friend faithful, devoted,
loving, patient, whom she has deserted
in a moment of forgetfulness. Leaving
suddenly, when ascending the outside
bridge to the steamer, she forgot her
friend, the post faithful companion of
her youth. 1 splendid black dog, with
beautiful di fhining hair; from that
time the ssor animal, standing erect
over the fences of the mole, barks furi-
ously after the waves, jumping joyously
as soon as can be perceived afar the
smoking shaft of steamer, which he
always thinks will bring back ashore his
beloved owner.
He is always waiting, hopeful and
above all true and faithful, though con-
solated and petted by the gloved hand of
the beautiful and romantic English
misses who gave him sweet names, call
ing him ooh, you dear, faithful friend
Sweet boy" And over there, afar, afar
in the north, the fairy Scandinavian
feels some inexpllcable want Some
thing is missing TO her; she does not
know what it is; it is the unconscious
regret of the faithful companion desert
ed affair. Baltimore American.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11

Brisbin Skies lives at the Gap, Ian
caster county. He is at least seventy
five years of age, and is yet able to sit
well in the saddle, and when he goes fox
hunting, which is almost daily at this
season of the year, he eats but one meal
and then dashes off with as light heart
as the next one and only eats again
when he returns late in the evening. He
always makes it rule to never eat be-.
tween meals. He has now twenty-seven
foxes penned up. He usually catches
from thirty to forty in a season and then
lets them ont in the spring. He has been
as successful this winter as in any winter
past. There are few who can ride bet
ter or have a keener sense of the fun
which fox hunters experience in a hunt
or chase. West Chester (Pa.) News.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11

The Rev. William G. Herbert, pastor
Of the High Street Methodist Episcopal
church, was called upon Thursday night
to unite blind couple in wedlock. They
We're Mr. w. Tuck Lovely, of Annapolis.
and Miss Mary Lee, Of Baltimore county.
The marriage was performed at the
brides home. and was witnessed by sew
eral relatives Mr.. Levely, the groom.
is young and has a beardless face. He is
a piano tuner. The bride is young and
handsome, She is an accomplished per
former on the piano and is well edu-
Gated. Both were educated at the MARY
land School for the Blind, and it is said
that the courtship began while thew were
IN that institution. Baltimore Sun.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
THE KOOTENAI HERALD
Issued Every Saturday By
S. D. TAYLOR, Proprietor.
SOAP and steel.

The steel manufacturer is subjected to
some rather singular annoyances at the
hands of his customers. For example
the other day a Pittsburg manufacturer
received a complaint from firm which
uses good deal of his steel that there
was something wrong with the last con-
signment of steel sent, inasmuch as the
men alleged that it was soft. This sur
prised the manufacturer, as large guam
titles of the same steel had given salts
faction elsewhere, and he himself went
to investigate the matter.
He was still more surprised when he
found that the steel was soft after heat
ing and submission to the usual bath.
The blacksmith before whom he made
the test and the other worlmen stand
ing around took little pains to hide their
enjoyment Of the experts discontinue.
"You see, it is soft" said the black
smith, with grin, and for moment
the manufacturer was at a loss what
more to do. Then an idea struck him.
sis this bath all right?' he asked, and
without waiting for an answer he
plunged his hand into the trough and
fshed up good sized lump of soap. No
steel will harden in a soapy bath, and
the mystery was at an end. OF course
the blacksmith, who had played the
trick, was discharged, and he confessed
a rival manufacturer of steel had given
him $50 to put the soap in the bath
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11

Mollie, an old piebald mule, had a re-
markable adventure in Cincinnati. Her
owner, Charles Cole, had led her into the
stable yard. Suddenly the treacher0ns
earth caved in and buried the animal
under mass of rock and dirt twenty
feet high. Cole escaped falling into the
pit. An hour later the exhausted mule
showed her head 200 feet away at the
mouth of sewer only two and one-half
feet in diameter. She was assisted in
emerging from the sewer. She had been
almost skinned alive. Her rough hide
was scanned and dotted with numberless
gashes from which the blood flowed.
Great bruises appeared on her sides and
abdomen, while her legs were SO strained
that she could hardly stand.
Nevertheless Mollie was very much
alive, as she betrayed by ''Yee-A aaw-w!'
of triumph and nonchalant twill of
her short tail. The animal had emerged
in ravine near Gilbert avenue. Her
trip through the rock bound sewer was
somewhat aided by the downward slope
of the channel and by the. slight stream
of water which fabricated the masonry
of the lower side. Nevertheless, MolIie's
escape was most surprising one, and
probably never equalled in the line of
animal adventure. - Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
An old nirectorr.

John McPhersop's directory of Phila-
delpbia, publishedIin 1850, has been unt
earthed Among the prominent names
it contains are these; "Franklin Benia-
min, his excellency, Franklin court;
Morris Robert, merchant, 101 Market
street; Rittenhouse David, 109 Arch
street; Hamilton Alexander, $50 Second
street" Although on the title page
Macpherson spells his name in that man
ner, in the body of the work his name
appears as John Nc. Pherson, broker, 4
Chestnut street That all the people of
the town were not in sympathy with his
work is inferred from these entries: Il
shall not give my name" 43 Stampers
alley. Il won't have it numbered" 47s
Green street. II won't tell you my
name. " "What you please" 40 and 80
Market street.-New York World.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
MIR. Redpath,s sympathies.

The truth is James Redpath was a
man of intense feelings and strong
sympathies, which were always ready
to go out to all whom he believed to be
wronged and oppressed. He was an
ardent abolitionist. Few men ever
labored more for the cause of the Irish
people. His regard for President Davis
was Of the same sort. 1t was sympathy
for the one southern man who wa~s>das-s
franchised and prescribed Sor a'pdHtTcal
act in which he had been engaged in
common with many thousands of his
countrymen. Mr.. Redpath in all he did
was consistent with his own ardent
nature and overpowering tenderness for
the weak and the oppressed. He never
violated its unities, no matter how
strange his conduct in some instances
may have appeared. He was true to his
own heart all the way through. -Gew
Orleans Picayune.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11

A case of interest to school teachers
came up in Crawford county court re
Gently. A teacher in one of the schools,
Miss Alice Bentley, attempted to correct
a boy named Guy McClintock, who was
smearing ink over another boys face
Young McClintock picked up a slate
and struck the teacher in the face, seri-
ously injuring her and incapacitating
her for school duties. The board of di-
rectors disposed of the case by suspend.
ing the boy for one term. Friends of
Miss Bentley then had the case brought
into court 1t was tried and a verdict
of guilty of assault was rendered. -
Meadville Pa.l Tribune.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11

A passenger ON the 1925 o'clock ex-
press for Boston, which had just arrived,
was standing in the doorway of one of
the coaches, one of his hands resting in
the groove where the door closes. A
gust of wind or the swinging of the car
caused the heavy door to close with con-
siderable force, catching two of the
mans fingers The sharp edge Of the
door or the edge of the metal lock am
putated the fingers almost as smoothly
as would a surgeons knife. The second
and third fingers were taken off at the
first joint.
The injured man was Martin Free
man, a New York business man. He
was taken up town by Hackman Dun
lap, who was requested to drive to some
physicians Office rs soon as possible. The
offices of Drs. Mailhouse, Bissell, Russell
and Bacon were visited, but all were out.
Finally Dr. Hawkes. was found at his Of
fee, and he dressed Mr.. Freeman's
wounds. New Haven Register.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
The Grip in Japan.

One remarkable popularity of the grip
in Japan was its prevalence among the
upper classes, whereas tine cholera sc.
lected its victims among the poorer
people. Some idea Of the extent Of the
epidemic may be gathered from the fact
that at Yokohama the sufferers officially
reported numbered over 10000, and it is
estimated that the unreported cases
throughout the prefecture We're nearly
twice as great. OF the 1870 600 inhabitants
of Kobe, $4,000 We're attacked by tile
disease. In Toxic the epidemic ragged
with great virulence, and similar reports
come from some of the Chinese cities.
San Francisco Call
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subsaribed or superscribed.

Many arssbhe pitfalls which lie in the
path of the man who sits down to make
his will. In case recently tried in the
probate court the witnesses were stated
in the usual words to have ''hereunto
subscribed their Names" but it happened
that these witnesses signatures were
written in the margin and somewhat
higher than these attesting words.
Hence arose the grave question, Could a
signature be said to be subscribed when,
strictly speaking, it was superscribed?
1t is easy to conceive a judge of rigidly
logical tendencies who would have de
cided that there had been in this case no
proper attestation.
Fortunately Sir G. Parker Butt, forti-
fed by a DECISION of Lord Campbell, de-
cided that though it might seem
strange Interpretation to put upon the
word subscribe" to hold that writing
the witnesses names above the testators
signature in the margins was a com
pliance with the act, yet in the eye of
the law the word Subscribe" ''simply
means signing the name without any
reference to its position ON the docu-
ment. London News.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11

Really, she said, after a mutual
friend had introduced them, you must
call on me, Mr.. Duede / shall be very
pleased to see you"
But my experience in calling has
not been a very pleasant one, p" he said,
trying to be funny, for what with irate
fathers, listening brothers, athletic dogs
and inquisitive mothers, am nearly
worn out"
"Then l know you won't object to
call on me, " she said sweetly, for we
never had dog; father was shot while
stealing chickens; mother is paralyzed
and cannot speak a word, and my
brother is serving a life term in Auburn.
| know you'll come. "
But he didn't. He went around ask
ing his friends if the girl was crazy
New York Evening Sun.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
WHY Hair Turns Gray.

The hair retains its natural shade up
to middle !ife if nothing interferes with
its growth, and after that period it be-
gins TO lose its color Graying after
that time cannot be checked, and no
medicines should be taken to check the
process. If before this period it changes
it is probably due to some local or gen
eral cause that should be removed. If
the hair becomes gray in places and
not in Others it is due to the disturb
ance Of nutrition, and the best thing is
to get the blood to circulate there more
freely. The only advice that can be
given in premature grazing of the hair
is to get the scalp into as healthy a con-
dition as possible, and see to it that the
general system is good - Yankee Blade.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
He Didn't Like the Dead rarch.

Among those who watched the Sher-
man funeral procession was little boy
to whom soldiers are a delight, but too
young to see in the Grand Army veter-
ans anything except a lot of tiresome old
fellows whose endless lines were SO long
in getting by that his mother took him
home before he had seen the glittering
uniforms for which his soul hungered
This of course displeased the boy, and
that night he bitterly criticised the ar
rangenent of the procession. His IA
theirs attempt to explain matters availed
nothing. Other professions, he said.
were much be@ter, for in them the sol
diers came first and the Grand Army
last, and little boys and their mammas
didn't lose anything by going home
early.
Icould have stood it." he said at last,
eff those old men hadn't made their
bands play over and over a tune that
sounded like You've got to see us!
You've got to see us! You've got to see
usP That made me madr'-New York
Times
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
masonic Apron to Go to Jerusalem.

The Rev. DIR. H. M. Wharton received
a Masonic apron from South Carolina,
which he is to present to the master of
the lodge at Jerusalem, the birthplace
of Masonry. Some time ago the Jeru-
salem lodge sent a gavel made of olive
wood to the South Carolina Masons,
who now send the apron in return. The
present, valuable one, is of lambskin,
bordered with black velvet and fringed
with silver. The square and compasses
and the all seeing eye are stamped in
gold. DR.. Wharton is Mason, and ex-
poets to have a pleasant time with the
members in Jerusalem He sailed with
his party for Palestine Wednesday,
Baltimore Sun.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
Pity the RIind.

A blind man who plays sacred music
upon an ACCORDION is perambulating the
streets of Windsor. His af1iction at-
tracted some time ago the attention of
her majesty the queen, who while tax
ing a drive saw him in the street and
compassionately gave him a grat,itv
lie now bears upon his breast placard
with the rather ambiguously worded in
scription:
Bind from inflammation. Assisted
by her majesty the queen. London Til
Bits. ~
Professor John Tyndall, the famon.
British scientist, did not marry until he
was 6S, when he welded Lord Hans.
tons eldest daughter. He is now III hiz
eightieth year. - '-A''
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11

Jim Canlee, an old Lyme trapper, has
caught an unprecedented number Of
muskrats this year. He sinks half barrel
near the runs Of the rats to the level Of
the ground, half fills it with water, and
then on floating pieces of boards in the
tub places small pieces of carrots. When
the muskrat jumps in after the bait he
can't get out, and he leaves the trap set
for another victim. Mr. Candee has
caught as many as six rats in single
barrel in one night Hartford Times.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
UNcLg oEMPsYs pREAM.
Through the Good Nature of some Col.
Iege Students 1t Comes True.

Through the Good Nature of some Col.
lege Students 1t Comes True.
On the waters of Buzzard's bay plies
busiiy from one fishing ground to an
other a little boat which has a peculiar
history.
Several years ago an old negro went
to the shores Of this bay to make liv.
ing for himself and his wife. They
were very poor, but their cabin was
clean and Uncle Dempsy was the most
honest and jolly of fishermen, with all
the kindly courtesy of his race.
He knew every foot of the shore,
could tell by certain mysterious signs
known only to himself just when the
bluefish would go out or the suue-
leagues come in, and could guide the
boats directly to the lodges where the
rock bass had hidden
The boatmen who took out parties
of amateur fishermen always secured
Dempsy as a helper when they could
get him, in order to use his marvellous
skill. They paid him but a trihe for
his services.
The old couple did not grow rich.
Indeed, they had hard struggle to
live. One summer Dempsy was hired
at a low rate by boatman, who took
out almost every day the same party, a
half dozen young men from Harvard
on their vacation.
The young fellows became fond OF
the patient, kindly old man to whom
they owed the success of their fishing.
One day they said to him, What do
you want in this world, Dempsy2"
His eyes twinkled.
"a boat, sah," he said promptly !;
"a big boat Hold twenty gem'men.
| dreamed bout flat boat las night.
| dreamed | come out in my cabin,
m dah it was in de cove, anchored.
Dat boat q cost two hundred dollahs,
sab Fit fob de king to go fishin' in.
Painted white, wild blue stripe m
white N blue flag, N cabin all com
plete. Ef dat boat had been real
Uncle Dempsy d been rich fob de rest
oh his life
The young men laughed and left
Dempsy in his cabin. Then one of
them said
1--WE have plenty of money to waste
on our own amusement. We can afford
to do this thing. We owe much to the
old man, and this boat will give him a
livelihood for the rest of his days.
What do you say, boys2"
The result was that one of them ran
down by train to New Bedford that
afternoon. 1t was easy to find boat
answering the description which the
old man had given, and to order her to
be painted white and blue
a week later the old negro was reused
at daylight by tremendous pounding
on his door He came out. Nohuman
being was in sight; but on the bay, an
chored just in front of his cabin, was
big boat, painted white and blue, and
on the stern in gilt letters the name
Dempsy's Dream.
She still floats, a pleasant reminder
of the kindly good will that gave and
the honest service that earned hor.-
Chicago Mail.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11

When Mr.. Andrew Young returned
from Alaska last fall he went out to his
ranch on Youngs river to dig his pota-
toes, Passing hollow tree he noticed
several bushels already gathered. He
looked around the patch, but saw no
signs of anyone having disturbed the
ground, and to solve the mystery watched
the tree. He was soon rewarded by see
ing flock of bluejays ahght on the tree,
and each bird had potato in its bill.
which was dropped into an opening in a
limb and passed on down to the ground.
He procured sacks, and as fast as one
was filed another was put at the place,
and in this way the birds harvested fifty
bushels Of potatoes for him from various
patches around the country. Astoria
(Ore.) Express.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
A Hairless Horse.

Now and then a very curious speci-
men is found among the desert horses
of Australia. The oldest of these that
ever saw was huge, ungainly beast
without hair upon it. 1t was cut out
of wild herd and roped in by sta
ton hand. who sold it for plug of to-
bacco to some man riding along the
road past the homestead. The latter
tanned the hairless horse, taught it
few commonplace tricks and showed it
all over the colonies. He was said to
have taken 100000, though he spent
il as fast as he got it. | saw the ami
NAL many times. 1t was rather well
shaped when it filled out. and having
no name, but a high neck and crest, it
had something of the appearance OF
horses in antique sculptures or bronzes.
It's skin was perfectly smooth and shiny
and a dark notified brown in color,
and the poor thing seemed very intelli-
gent and docile. Forest and Stream.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11

More than a century ago the Acade-
mic Royale DIES Sciences at Paris passed
a resolution that they would no longer
entertain communications about dis
coveries of perpetual motion. They
included in the same prohibition the
duplication of the cube, the trisection
of the angle and the quadrature of the
circle. Men had worked for centuries
on the theory that the discovery of
perpetual motion was possible, nor did
this authoritative opinion to the CON
trary alter their views. And they are
still working ut it, and probably will to
the end of time Hundreds of patents
have been granted for machines for the
purpose, and the widespread and con
tinued existence of the fallacy is clearly
shown by the scores of designs and in
complete models in the patent Office at
Washington. Chicago Herald.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11

Workmen are just finishing what is
claimed will be the longest board fence
in the country. 1t surrounds J. 0. Stuy-
vesant's new deer park at Tranquility
n. j.. and viii be when completed
twelve miles long. The sawmill at Al
lamuchy has been running continually
cutting out the boards. The fence is ten
feet high, and is made of hemlock an
inch and half thick 1t will cost
$4,000.
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where Land Is open 10 settlers.

Public lands are still to be had, tax
ing states and territories containing
them in alphabetical order in Alaska,
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Califor-
mia, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa,
Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mime
Bota, Mississippi Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada. New Mexico, North
Dakota. Oklahoma, Oregon, South
Dakota, Utah. Washington, Wisconsin
and Wyoming, or in little over half
of the states and territories taken to-
getheT. st. Louis Globe-Democrat
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noston,s rast speaking Preacher.

Two hundred and forty words a min
ute, four words every second, is rate of
speed which seems almost beyond the
power of sa%Ailation, yet that was the
lneasnreSgf f7SF-Tsrrentl Of eloquent ex-
position and appeal poured forth in st.
Paul's church Monday by the Rev. DR..
Phillips Brooks. Try to equal it read
ing from a printed page in a converse
tional tone, and then imagine the inn
mensely increased difficulty of the task
in large church, before great congre-
cation, and without the guidance even
of written note. The business men.
for whom the service was especially de-
signed, had been assured that the dis
course would be short, and so it was in
time, for it was finished in twenty-five
minutes, but the report made by two
stenographic reporters covered 5000
words and gave the extraordinary aver
ages with which this paragraph opens
Boston Journal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-05

Both Are Held by Judge Kimban for the
Grand Jury.

Thomas Grigsby. alias GREASY Tom" and
James West. one of his companions, the negroes
arrested on the charge of robbing Mr. James
Hardy in Judiciary Square about six weeks ago.
as heretofore published in The STAR, were ar
raigued in the Police Court yesterday charged
with highway robbery. Grigsby plead guilty
and West was defended by Lawyer Hewlett.
Mr.. Hardy described the occurrence, telling
how one man stopped and asked him the time
and another man hit him. He was robbed Of
his gold watch and chain, bunch Of keys and
about 60 cents.
Witness could not identify the prisoners.
although the man who asked him the time was
about the size of West.
Detective Block testified to the confession of
"Greasy Tom" and told of the conversation he
had with West and Grigsby and the statements
of the latter eliminating the former
Tom told witness that he hid in base
ment when the officers shot at him and he re-
manned there until the officers passed. Wit
ness said that when the prisoners faced each
other they got into a wrsngle. each accusing
the other of different crimes. and West accus-
ing Grigsby Of making sand bags. The latter
then accused the former of helping him.
Policeman Jamison and Special Officer Fer
guson also gave testimony. They identified
the men being about the size of the neil
whom they saw the night of the robbery.
Policeman Pearson testified to a conversation
he had with West and the recovery Of the goods
afterward.
Judge Kinbali held the prisoners in $4,000
bail for the grand jury.