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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
The Mouse and the sage.

Once upon a time Mouse went to a.
Sage and said:
Tell me, o. Wise Man, a Remedy for
my Trouble. l am so small that people
look upon me with contempt"
BE content, o, Mouse, was the reply
OF the Sage, after Reflection. IF your
size was increased ten fold men would
simply shout ''Ratsl" at you.
Moral. There are worse Corns than
those which come to us.-Detroit Free
Press.
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Man of shnrt Eirnres.

A Washington correspondent says: "The
number of tall ladies now in society in this
city is noteworthy" He says nothing about
the number of 'short" gentlemen now in
Washington society, but it is believed they
greatly outnumber the tall ladies.-Norris-
town Herald
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Russia's Cotton Imports.

Russia imports annually 100000, 900
pounds of cotton, chiefly from America
and Egypt, but it is believed that recent
acquisitions of the car in central Asia
are excellently adapted for cotton raising.
Some has already been grown at Khiva
and Bokhara, and an extensive system of
irrigation is being created to develop
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
He Knew About It.

Sunday School Teacher-Now tell me
what is duty2 Little West Ender Gust
back from Europe)-It's something you
don't pay unless you have to.-Philadel-
phia Record.
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If Shakespeare had only known about the
Baconian cipher when he wrote his plays,
there can be no doubt that he could have
made them fit a great deal better than tley
do-Lowell Citizen.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29

The spirit of Capt Kidd lately told a
medium that he buried no treasure at all.
He said he intended to, but he paid plumb.
er's bill in fit Of absent mindedness. Pitts.
burg acknowledgement
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29

An exchange says that there are no M
crobes in tobacco That sounds reasonable
enough, but the man who drags ont a Single
nail, a shoe lace and a baggage check from a
five cent plug would prefer few good
healthy Observation-Disclosures State journal.
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Prison officials urge parents to give the
boys trades. Only eighty-nine of the $50
convicts received last year in the eastern
penitentiary of Pennsylvania had trades
when brought there.
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Iikelv.

A street railroad in the Argentine Republic
runs sleeping cars over its route. The idea,
it is believed, originated in Philadelphia
Providence Journal.
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MIXED Hin All Around.

Young Enthusiastic Artist -Gnnocently)-I
presume, Miss Fitzdook, you paint9
Miss Fitzdook indignantly, misappIying
his remarks)-Sir! Do you intend to in
suit
Young Artist very much embarrassed)-
Oh, pom my word, Miss Fitzdook, don't
think for a moment l alluded to the paint on
your face.-Judge.
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Consolation.

Condemned Man Ito his lawyer long
sentence, sir; to be sent to states prison for
life
Lawyer inclined to more hopeful view)-
Yes, it does seem long, but perhaps you won't
live "a great while.-Life.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
Not the Assistanee He wnnted.

N"e the Assistance He Wanted.
You look all broken up, Wilkins.
am l called upon old Barkins
last night for a loan"
Wouldn't he help you outp'
Yes. He did help me out-with his
left foot too. That's what has broken,
my back and spirits. "-Munsey's Week.
ly. Z,
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In vonr EXERCISES avoid devoting too

III your tAtICIsts dNUIu utFOVIHB UOO
much time to one kind of work. Do
not spend all your time, for instance,
on the horizontal bar or on the parallel
bars. What all would-be gymnasts
should strive for is a symmetrical de-
velopment of their muscles.
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People have learned how to make
tea as we'll as to drink it. In its first
stage one Englishman had it served up
as greens, the water in which it was
boiled thrown away.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29

1t is estimated that the total number Of
books in all the American public libraries
is 81 100000.
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"She twined herself around the strong, res
olute man as the slender vine clings to the
mighty oak for protection and support, y
Popular NOVELETTE,.
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WHOLE NO. 1145.

nay Dlack nature leaves out they make
up III ulrt When friend dies they rouge
lheir iaces with tar and ashes This pious
esinpol ol grief they leave to wear off A
o'aii VINO could kiss squaw in mourning
could do anything. The Wala is indie.
pendent of the United States government.
ne pays no taxes, sends no letters, wants
no education, and never heard of the "Great
rather" at Washington When the acorns
are ripe ne pounds them to flour, and for
the rest lives on what he can pick up. He
can eat Il raw cricket and relish it. could
tell Of other things he eats, but will hold
my peace. If there is any sentiment at
tAched to him | don't want to knock it out,
! ne nearer you get to this kind of Indian
the 1arther off seems the sentiment. But
lie can make bnsket which will hold
water, and in which he boils his acorn -four
TO an astringent lnush
Inc Indian man here when at home is,
as regards the sex we call "fairer," master
OF al he surveys under his roof tree. It
may be one or four, AS regards marital
Lles lie IS elastic, lie lords it, she drudges.
Wheh pabyappcars she strapsit to Al shin
gie, swathes all but the head in bandages,
hooks 1t to her back and goes forth to
labor, The baby SO arranged looks like
e NV TAHypllan mummy. 1t
seems contcnted. | never heard one cry.
When she is gathering the fall acorn crop
she hangs board and baby on the bough of
tree and when the wind blows the
cradle will rock'
Everybody here goes to bed Mt o'clock
put the owls and coyotes These tiiasipated
creatures rrvel III song, hoot and howl al
mght. We breakfast at O'Clock a. III. A
mountain man is usually good hunter,
good carpenter, good uxman, a good
miner, a bit Of farmer a fair cook, u
scamster-lndeed handy at all work ex-
cePt dressing up, That he rarely does.
ne rene Of some devout feeling on Sun-
usy may prompt him to put on clean
shirt. -1". H.. .H5 PRENTICE MILFORD
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AMRIDEXrROuS MEN

The late j. A. Wales used both hands iu
making those famous cartoons Of his. He
worked rapidly either way, but preferred
to use his left hand rather than his right.
Stephen Gi,;,rd the great lhilanthropst,
used both hands with equal facility, al
though he had Il great aversion TO exhibit
ing the faculty i'll the presence OF company.
Some Of the best baseball players are
two handed men. Ikilroy, Clements, Tit
comb, Slattcry, Gctzein, Tom Brown and
Bill George all use the left hand naturally.
Napoleon could, on Il pinch, usc the pen
with his left, but this was an acquired
rather than II natural faculty, due to au
accidental injury to the thumb of the right
hand. @&l
Nearly every first class telegraph operator
in the country is ambileXtrous through nc.
quircment The right hand is used on the
key and the left to ''checli or dispatches
with pen or pencil.
John IIabbert,ll, the author OF "Heen's
Babies is Il two handed man. When en-
gagged Oh a long article he changes from
one hand to the other every fifteen or
twenty minutes and So avoids fatigue.
Capt. Charles King, the novelist docs the
greater part Of his writing with his left
iliS ulGSi tuOHRllIs are CfolNtNi
he thinks, when the right lobe uf his brain
calls for the use of the motor muscles Of
his left side and vice versa
Urrabict,t, of L'Illustrntion,b better known
under his non dc plume of "Nierge," is not
only able to write with each hand at the
same rate of speed but he can write TWO
letters ut once. The penmanslip of one is
running Italian, and the other back hand.
j. O. Dawson, the marine artist, is am
bidcXtrous He lays on with his right
hand and does the finer work with his left.
One of his peculiarities, it is said, Is that
he invariably paints the hull and spurs OF
vessel with his left hand and the sea with
his right.
Senator Wocott, of Colorado, signs com
mittec reports with his left hand and at
taches his signature to letters with his
right The senator has his cleft handed
week. and his fright handed" week--that
is he will use the pen for six days with
one hand. and for nnothcrsix days with the
other. .," 49, .,' s.
Professor George Martin Lane, Pope pro-
fcssor of Latin in Harvard, when Mt the
blackboard begins to write with his left
hand. and rubs along until he reaches II
point in line with his face Then he shifts
the chalk from his left hand to his right
and continues writing until he reaches the
end of the blackboard.
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BARON SoEDESsKJoLn. longitude 40 dcgs.
4, min. 80 sec This is probably the ne;r-
est point to the pole ever reached by man,
savage or civilized.
or this years expeditions the most in
teresting to Americans is that of the Kite,
Il whaling vessel, which sailed from New
York recently, carrying Lieutenant Robert
f. Peary and Professor Angelo lIeilprin,
of the Academy of Natural Sciences in
Philadelphia. The former thinks he cnu
find Il smooth route through middle Green
land to its northern coast, md thence lay
out IL route to the pole, and the latter is to
ascertain the physical facts about the re,
gion. They will go into winter quarters
early, and expect to do their principal work
next year. Greenland's interior is |. huge
icecap, of which Fridtjof Nansen crossed
the southern part in 1885, and lieutenant
Penry went some distance into the interior
in 1856. He designs to repeat that trip and
then 80 North along the center Of the ice.
cap.
DR.. Nansen, the Norwegian scientist, de
signs following the course Of the Jeanette,
and thinks he can avoid the errors Of her
maaagei.. Another expedition is that of
the Danish government, and is command
ed by lieutenant Ryder, of the Danish
navy He purposes to explore the eastern
coast OF Greenland. And lastly Baron
Norlenskjnld, whose experience on the
north coast of Europe and Asia qualities
him for the task, purposes to explore the
mysteries OF far southern ice, and get rs
near the south pole us possible.
J. II. BEApLE
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rudlmtuts of education in Il Wisconsin
country school, At eleven he became a
monk III st Nincents abbey, Pennsylva
MIA y thirteen lie entered the scholasti
cute OF the order ut St. Benedict, tiscardin4
his baptismal name and adopting that of
Innocent. At twenty-lhree lie was or
tlaiued priest He gave 50 much promise
Of usefulness that .Archabbot WINNER, of
st. Niuceut's. sent him to Rome, where he
was enrolled i.s Il student of the ''Sapicn2a"
during four years.
He graduated at the age Of twenty seven
with the highest honors Of his class, and
received the degree OF doctor OF divinity.
Returning TO America, Father Innocent
successively occupied positions of profess.
Or project of the seminary, procurator,
prior, and master of novices At the age
OF thirty three he was elected first abbot OF
the newly erected abbey OF st. Benedict,
at Atchison. His bencdiction and install
!ation took place on the feast of St. Bene-
dict, March 81, lS17. Besides st. Bene-
diets abbey and college. n dependent
house Of the order at Burlington, Ia, is
also under his care. In addition he is first
visitator of the American Casincse Congre
CATION Of Bcnedictincs, Il position ranking
next to that of president OF the congrega-
ton.
The American Casinese congregation
takes its name from Mount Casino, in Italy,
where st. Benedict founded the first mon
astcry of the order which bears his name,
in the Sixth century, and is SO called to
distinguish it from the Swiss branch.
Abbot Wolf is u native of Schmidthei1n,
Rhenish Prussia. His parents brought
him TO America in 1851, when he was eight
years old, settling in Wisconsin.
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~ NEVER HEARD ONE CEY.

Thirty years more growth will make
them sixty or seventy feet high. All this
country for miles is a great timber garden.
A rage has set in for taking up timber
lands. In the summer people from San
francisco and other cities come up here
hunt. fish, enjoy the bracing air and grand
scenery, and lay the foundation for future
fortunes by taking up timber lands. Tho
law allows 1G0 acres to the individual The
campers wife also rates as an individual In
these cases. The campers como in wagons
with their Kettles and provisions. They
spend weeks in these mountains, and fire.
quently carry back deer horns, pelts and
bear skins, which they buy OF the mount
aineers, us proof that game has fallen be-
fore their cash.
Bears are heard of Il great deal when the
mountain man talks. | think a city man
man here could pack rifle year, travel
up hill and down about 500 miles, and re-
turn home tlecrless and bearless These
forests N the summer are very dangerous
to wander about alone in, because you may
In the bushes be taken for Qeer or bear
BY n San Francisco Almroa and shot. On
the whole, bears nre safer in the bush than
men.
Indians are indigenous here ulso. They
are dangerous If approached too closely, on
account of the ilsectiverous products wan
dering over them. They arc Wnllits, and
wear the cast off rags of civilization. Some
OF their women were about the house yes
terday packing away old lumber. Tho
girls were getting old nails out of other
old lumber. Standing on the veranda,
saw moving mass of old boards about
two feet in thickness going along the road
A squaw was under the boards-the pro-
pelling power They were balanced on
her head | could not have carried the
load. These are not red Indians; they are
black.
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higher up TO dig their houses out of the
suoN or iuCs them crushed to the ground
by 1t, Some of these people are sheep and
cattle men who own summer ranges for
their stock They drive their herds up in
the summer and back to the plains, one or
TWO hundred miles distant, in the fall.
Sheep Will traye! over the snow il it is
hard enough to bear them When they
strike snow the KNOWN. sheep make good
time. They make for the feed which they
know lies Il good many miles ahead down
on the eastern slope OF the Sierras, where
the snow has melted off The sheep men
put these knowing ones ahead OF the band.
Where there is no snow they feed ieisurely
rs they go along, raise great dust and
clamor and eat down 10 the grass roots.
Sheep driven through Tuolumne county
are taxed five cents per head. The Sonora
and Mono toll road expects a cent per
head
The pine trees about us average ninety
feet in height. One Of them in Central
park would be monarch of all it surveyed.
There are nine in a group, close to the tav
ern, Of that height. | will not dwell on
their beauty and grandeur 1t would be
tiresomc The lumbermen long ago cut
down the best. They were much higher.
When the country below was full Of min.
ers their sawmills buzzed everywhere in
these mountains. The waste of timber
then was woful. They would leave half of
one of these magnificent trees to rot, using
only the thickest of the trunk. The young
pines which have since sprung up grow
very rapidly. Near the house is clearing
on which grain was raised ten years ago.
1t is now thickly covered with pines twenty
md thirty feet in height.
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4 Search fur Columbus Lantling Place.
A novel expedition is the one just set on
foot by the Chicago Herald. That paper
has sent Walter Wellman, the widely
known Washington correspondent; Charles
Lederer, an artist of recognized ability,
and corps of assistants to the West In
dies to discover the spot where Colum
bus made his first landing on he shores Of
the New World, and there to erect a monu-
ment in his honor. The mystery rs to the
landing spot has never been solved. The
only positive evidence available is that left
by Columbus himself i'll his journal.
Many books and papers have been writ
ten in support of the various theories, but
no one has ever done what The Herald cX
pedition was organized to do-take the
Journal OF Columbus and all the other evil
dence which hls been accumulated by the
researches of historians, photographers
and cartographers, and apply it by Il care
full exploration Of the islands. The Herald
expedition, if successful i'll locating the
spot where Columbll, first erected his
cross and took possession OF the land in the
name OF Ferdinand aud Isabella, will there
place Il handsome monument, and deposit
in the corner stone many interesting docu-
,nents and copies OF the leading daily news
papers of the United States.
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ARMY AND NAVY NOTES.

The American saddle is now being used
by the British mounted infantry
The Danes have Il protected cruiser, the
lielsla, nearly completed. \ sister ship is
10 be built at Copenhagen.
The Spaniards, through their minister
OF marine, Admiral Beranger, are begin
nlng spirited naval policy.
Rear Admiral D. L. Braine commanding
the brooklyn navy yard, will be G2 years
old and will be placed on the retired list
May2.
The British army costs the neat sum of
SlT,0o0,OoQa year. This is $40, coo, 900 more
thnn Germany pays for the support of her
soldicry
Greece made two important additions to
her navy last year One of these was the
turret ship Psnra and the other the Spet-
sin II sister ship.
Emperor William II continues to shake
up the Prnssiun officers corps He has
Just retired three more major generals and
one lieutenant general.
The queen of Madagascar has made Il
start in forming navy, her first vessel be-
ing the Ambohimango, of $50 tons burden
and SEQ horse power, which was built in
France.
Col. Dcbanse and NJ. Schneider, the di.
lcctors of the Gail and Creusot works, re.
spectively, declare that it is unnecessary to
replace steel guns by bronze cannon in
view Of the adoption of smokeless powder
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divided wIth the Abbott books t l,e love
Of AL the fourteen To sixteen year olds Of
the decade before the war.
Benson John LOSING WAS born Feb. l.,
1918, in beel:n4all, Duchess county, n, II,
and his t4thcr died there WHEN he vas an
infant; so the s0M Wis carly appreuticed to
matchmaker ia poughkeepsic, He
mastered the trade, worked ut it some
years, and then brcame part owner OF the
Ppusttkecpslc Telegraph. III writing for
TINS he discovered lis true vocation and
thereafter devoted lis life to illustrations
IN language and engruVings, Having
mastered the cngraver'- art and worked
on various publications lie began that
series Of works which made him famous.
In 1902 his Pictorial Field Book OF the
Revolution appeared it, thirty numbers
In lSio-l he prepared iar The Art journal,
Of London, his series on the Hudson river
The same years also he issurd his Life
and Times of Philip Schuyler" III 1862 lie
began his pictorial Field Book Of the
Civil War in the United States which was
completed in 1860, ,c0utcmpor4neously with
Il similar work on the war OF iSl215 He
published twenty-five other works OF the
same nature, largc and small, besides con-
tributing extensively to llarpcr's Muga-
zine and doing other literary work. He
leaves two sons, farmers, and Il daughter
who is All artist Of merit
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r YOU KNEW.

Dear. il you knew what tears they shed,
WHO live apart from home and friend,
To pass my house, by pity led,
Your steps would tend.
And If you knew what jubilees
Begets, in sad souls, IL friends glance,
You'd look up where my window is,
As il by chance.
And il you dreamed how q friends smile
And ncnrncss soothe u heart that's sore,
You might be moved to stay awhile
Before my door.
Then if you guessed | loved you, sweet.
And how my love is deep and wide,
Something might tempt your passing feet
To come inside.
-Alice Horton in M,rray's Mrra--ac.
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CHARMS or THE ARCTICS,
PRESENTATIONS OF THE FROZEN RE-
GloNS FOR EXPLORERS.

-Four Expeditions Now En- Route for the
North Pole and One for the South
fole-Prcri"ns Attempts and Their Re
suits.
1t is net e;lsy TO explain in a popular
article why amy one should be eager to
reach either pole Of the earth except us
matter of mere curiosity, but nnvigutors
have been trying it at frequent intervals
for nearly four centuries, and this summer
five expeditions will ss;,rt-four for the
north pole aud one for the south 1t is
some slight satisfaction, however, 10 learn
that there has been Il steady gain, though
very Slow one. and that in 1852 Two men
reached Il point within less tlIan 400 miles
from the north l"le-to wit, latitude So
dcgs, ~ min .a u5z &c.,.
We may name Sebastian Cabot rs tile
pioneer, and lis oHiect uHd that uf his
Successors for over three centuries was
t" find lhe northwest Vr northeast route
to Asia. Within the Si&teeuih cent
ury fr'Aisher, Davis WiIouguhy, Chan
ce!!or, Barcuiz and others searched
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4 Kangaroo i'll the Prize Ring.

The ranks Of the "siuggers" are con
stantly recruited by eager aspirants for
fistic honors, but it has remained for Aus
tralia to bring forward a candidate who is
Il brute by nature as well as by training. A
kangaroo has been tutored at Melbourne
to contend with professional pugiiists in
regular prize fights. "Joey" proves very
apt pupil, having learned to box in most
scientific style, while he seems to enjoy tkd
contest to the full The kangaroo beat a
professional man at the first trial.
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A WESTERN GIRL IN NEW YORK.
She Has Had y singularly Adventurous
and Successful Career

She Has Had u Sineularly Adventurous
and Successful Career.
One Of the most remarkable young won.
en- of the time is Cynthia NJ Westover,
secretary .: Street Commissioner Beattie,
of New York city. In variety of accom-
plishnents there is scarcely her equal any
where among women. Her father was a
geologist and expert miner, and the child
learned to ride almost before she could
walk. She rode with her father all through
the western mountain and mining regions
from Mexico to the Canada line in his pros
pecting journeys During these years the
child became an expert shot and horse
woman, and learned the Spanish language
besides.
Once, when little girl, she shot dead an
Indian who had his tonlahnwk upifted
over the head of white woman Again,
when her fathers camp was surrounded
by hostile Indians, she galloped out upon
her pony and brought relief The redskins
saw her, but they were used to meeting the
child riding about after the cows and did
not disturb her. She had played many
time with the little Indian children and
thus won the good will OF the older ones.
These years were the making of Cynthia
Westover. They gave her health, practical
knowledge and splendid independence and
self reliance. She was so much ut home
with the shy wild creatures Of the wood
that she learned their calls, and they came
to her like domestic birds and animals.