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

1t is a queer case. His real oifense was
persistent lettering on certain streets
much frequented by ladies and attempting
to force acquaintance Ii got to be a
nuisance. One man thrashed him. An
other had him arrested, and as 'mashing"
is rather vague charge and hard to prove,
he was sent up for vagrancy. The TRUSTEES"
(convicts who handle new prisoners) had
lots of fun with him. He positively re-
fused to battle in their presence, but they
soon had him in the tub When he came
out his elegant suit, silk hat and embroid-
cred linen were gone and in their place
was the striped suit.
"Are these for me2 he inquired in the
faintest of voices
"ln course dey are" was the unsympa-
thetic response from his convict mentor
ibid yer tink dey was made in Tranby
Croft fer der Prince o. Wales? Slide in"
He slid, and was soon in his lonely cell
He could not eat bite at the first meal
but his appetite came TO him in the course
of day The warden announced to him
that his work would be mending the roads
and at last accounts he was trying hard to
get bondsmen while his appeal was consid-
cred
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

YOU. I have means of my own, and
have--well, might say had. great ex-
pectations; but my father, who is several
times a millionaire, has taken it into his
head to fit me with a wife. ! prefer to
choose one for myself. If you will be
content to share what / have, Philip
Briggs does not care for more"
sBriggs-Philip!" cried Gwenny, re-
leasing herself from his grasp end look
ing at him wonderingly. us your fa-
theirs name John?"
"Yes.
''And he lives in Philadelphia"
eyes"
Gwenny burst into q peal of silvery
laughter. "Do not feel vexed, Philip"
she said at length. 81 am only laughing
at the similarity of our positions. My
father chose a husband for me in the
same way. and it was to escape discus
sion of the matter that took these few
weeks rustication. Mrs. Cooper is my
old nurse, and have called her 'aunty'
from the time could toddle around. She
was married from our house. Her bus
band had very little money and father
bought this farm and stocked it. But.
oh! think, Philip dear, how your father
and mine will chucklel You are Philip
Briggs, and II ann Gwenllian Spriggs."
Boston Budget
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

Young Husband-My dear, some Of
my garments are sadlyi in need of buttons.
Young Wife--Yes. my love, / noticed
that, and have sent for my mother. She
is a splendid hand at sewing ON buttons.
-NeNr York Weel,lr.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
FOR ANNOYING LADIES.

The San Francisco Authorities Have Put
Young Miller Away for Four Months.
A very good looking man indeed is Will
liam Dean Miller. alias John ID. Miller, and
few days ago he was as well dressed as
any man in San Francisco. but now he
wears striped clothes and brogans, for he
is in the house of correction for four
months on charge of vagrancy, yet he
was popular drummer for a liquor house
and claims to be worth $4,000
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
shooting NIocking Birds.

Alabama papers are calling attention to
the wanton destruction of knocking birds in
that state Large numbers Of them are shot
every spring and summer. Chicago Times.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

She looked up inquiringly, and at some
thing she read in his eyes, dropped her
own, while a flush overspread her face
and neck.
"Gwennyr he said desperately, and
took her hand. The fingers trembled in
his, but were not withdrawn e''Gwen-
ny" he said, I'VE are TO part today. DO
you know that love you dearly"
do you, Philip" she mNrmured, but
did not look up.
''Gwenny," lie said, Il have been sail
ing under false colors, but innocently
enough. have way among my gen
tleman friends of using my initials, and
so am called among them p. b. or Mr..
b. When your aunt asked my name !
said Mr.. b., and did not care to unde-
ceive her; but | desire no concealment
from you, unless you do not care for me.
Then we will part as we met; but | shall
be changed man"
He waited for a reply. There was a
slight tightening Of her fingers on his as
she half whispered:
you must know that care for you,
Philip
Nov, said the exultant Philip, "you
must let me speak to your father today.
Il fear you may find him rather OBJ
stinate," she said. He sets an undue
store by his daughter"
Il can satisfy him of my position in
society and that am able to maintain
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

We do our own work, with new type aud
presses, and therefore have better facilities than
any other Office in Kootenai county
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

Everyone knows that the English
sparrow is valiant warrior, but every
one doesn't know that he is also an able
tactician. II any one will watch them
going to roost among the ivy vines at
shutdown they can easily verify the as
sertion. Several thousands Of them
make their home in the ivy vines that
cover the old brownstone church at
Thirty-sixth and Chestnut streets. and
though there are hundreds OF square
feet of shelter there is apparently not
sufficient room for all. There are al
ways lot Of stragglers who arrive to
find the suggest and warmest roosts
under the leaves pre-empted by the
wise and early birds. The late corners
dart in one place after another, only to
be driven out again. 1t was very
cold evening q couple Of days ago when
half dozen belated gray pirates made
q persistent search for lodging under
the ivy leaves, but each time were
driven out. Then they flew to the roof
of the church and put their heads to-
gether in noisy discussion that lasted
fully a minute. Then, as if by a pre-
arranged signal, they few in the air,
uttering shrill choruses of alarm and
warning. Hundreds Of little yellow
and gray heads were poked out from
under the leaves and hundreds of shrill
voices inquired the cause OF the hub
bub. The alarmists redoubled their
wild cries and gyrations. There was a
and in an instant the air was
filed with screaming sparrows. The
conspirHtors watched the result of their
plot for minute, then picked out the
best beds in the lodging house, and
there was half dozen wise early birds
on the outside with cold feet and some
additional wisdom. - Philadelphia
p1.ee2
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

Early in January Of the present year
n woodsman engaged in chopping some
az the monster oaks in the northern part
az the great ~Black Forest" Germany,
and who had built fire against large
dead oak preparatory to partaking of
bis midday meal, was surprised to see a
serpent OF gigantic proportions crawl
from the log as soon as the rotten wood
had rot we'll warmed through. The
dav was bitter cold, and the snake only
made a few yards over the frozen
yround when his convolutions became
smaller and smaller, and he finally
ceased to wriggle, and quietly coiled up
near q large pile OF brush.
The sturdy German chopper, who had
been more surprised than scared, waited
until the creature had become thor
ouchly benumbed with cold, and then
approached and dispatched him with an
ave. Measurements showed the Shiny
creature to be twenty-seven feet six
inches in length, and nearly fifteen
inches through the body in the middle.
Just back of the immense head, which
was eleven inches in length and almost
as broad, a little gold ring had been put
Through the skin. 1t was in the form of
two rings rather than one, being shaped
not unlike the figure 8. One part OF
the ring was through the skin, while the
other was through hole in asman cop
per coin bearing date of l7l2.
One side of the coin was perfectly
smooth. with the exception Of these let
ters and figures, which had evidently
been cut on it with pocket knife, the
workmanship being very rough: Louis
Krutzer, b. G. o., 1TS1.
Some Of the older inhabitants Of the
aBlack Forest remember Of hearing
their parents tell Of -Krutzer, the ser
rent charmer.- and they all unite in de-
claring that this gigantic serpent was
formerly the property Of the old
-charmer. and that it was at least l15
vears old when killed by the wood
chopper on that cold day Of January,
1901 st Louis Repftblic.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06


A fellow felt particularly rich, and
he took Kate 10 dinner at--well one Of
the best places in modish vogue. The
dinner came to 1854; nice little bill,
you sec. To pay for It lie produced q
$50 bill--just the very same bill that
had come from his publishers check,
the cashing Of which Tad made him
feel so rich.
Dear me.' said Katie.
In course Of time the waiter brought
back the salver heaped up with the
change in paper and silver, with gold
piece or 80.
@Going 10 count all thatG said Katie.
Business is business" said he. Its
mere self.protection to count it."
ITS O first-class place, and they don't
make mistakes as a rule.
@But they sometimes do. They
count for themselves aud / count for
1nyself."
Whereat he counted. tt transpired,
oh wonder that there was $50 ON the
plate, 50 besides and nothing out for
the dinner.
-Say, began he. but Kate stopped
him.
1T isn't your affair."" said she; they
count for themselves and you count for
yourself.
"Honsensel'
@Not a bit Of II. They give cashier
o big salary; why should you do his
work 2"
But, Katie, the poor fellow would
have to make it good out of his own
pocket"
"That cashier commands salary and
confidence in proportion to the degree
Of honesty and accuracy he displays. 1t
will just about be worth his place to be
exposed in so heavy a mistake. Neither
business nor justice demands your
pointing out the error he has made and
charity forbids it.
He began to get muddled, but he
ended by returning the excess OF money.
And the cashier was discharged. Phil
adeEphid Press.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

sun hats, or one or two great fluffy
rosettes Of tulle, lace or transparent
or French crepe.
Ruches are worn upon bonnets as well
As dresses; they surround the crowns or
are sewed upon the brims, forming a
becoming finish.
Conical crowns have almost superseded
the bakers crowns so fashionable last
summer, although these are still seen
upon the null and gingham hats. The
cone-crowned hats remind one Of those
in abe pictures OF Mother Goose or Of
the prophetic Mother Shipton.
The washable hats Of null, lawn and
gingham are the freshest, daint;est things
imaginable; some Of them are made with
shirred crowns and brims drawn upon
heavy cords and edged with rutiies Of
the same or narrow Valenciennes lace.
A lovely hat for girl Of four years Of
age is Of pale rose tinted French batiste
cut in Irregular scaIlops upon the edge,
each scalIop edged with tine narrowest
Italian Valenciennes lace; the crown IS
full, finished with futed rufile and
buttoned to the brim with tiny pearl
bullet buttons. This style commends
itself to practical mothers, as it is so
easily taken apart and Numbered.
The selection of children's shoes is a
matter of grave Importance; the feet Of
growing children are always dispropor-
tionately large and the habit of compress
sing them into shoes much too small is
TO be deprecated. 1t causes the feet TO
be misshapen, and, besides, makes it
very uncomfortable for the child. Com
nonsense shoes should be adopted, with
low broad heels and not too pointed toes
Low shoes of ooze calf are both pretty
and comfortable for warm weather.
Patent leather is only fit for full dress,
as it wears very badly and in the sun it
draws the feet to an almost painful de-
gree Ckicago Neos.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06
PIN MONEY WELL INVESTED.

Twenty New York shop girls win be
sent to Stamford, Conn, for two weeks
vacation every fortnight during the re-
mainder Of the summer. Their vacation
is provided by the self-denial Of the
young ladies attending Miss Aiken's
Stamford Seminary. When Miss Aiken's
pupils returned to school after the Christ
mas holidays she suggested to them that
instead of spending their pin money for
confectionery and trifes dear to the
heart of school girls they contribute it to
a fund to be accumulated for tie pur-
pose of sending some of the New York
shop girls into the country IN the sum-
mer. They readily consented, and, be-
sides, gave two entertainments, by which
several hundred dollars more was raised.
The visitors will be boarded in farm
house about two miles frcm Stamford
village and all expenses will be paid.
Twenty girls will be accommodated at a
time, and after remaining two weeks will
be sent home and twenty more will come
to take their places. Miss Aiken pro-
poses to establish permanent society
among the 1000 ladies who have at
tended her school during the thirty-six
years she has kept it in Stamford, each
one to pledge 81 year to fund to send
New York girls into the country. The
Stamford society will work as an auxil-
larry of the New York society, which will
have charge Of sending the girls to SIAM
ford this SUMNER Chicago Post.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06
ROW ro nREss cHrLnnEr.

What an immense variety in chil1ren's
garments is to be seen in gay shop win
dows and upon the little toddlers and
the girls OF larger growth. Like the big
people, the little ones wardrobe is in a
transition stage, the changefulness of the
weather rendering it rather hazardous to
blossom out fully fedged in spring attire.
A new hat is almost the first thing which
inaugurates the coming Of spring, and
the large ones of chip, rice straw OF
fancy braid are almost covered with
flowers that are an exact reproduction,
save the odor, of natures own hand
work. The bachelor-button is a great
favorite at the present time, the bright
hue matching in color the eornaower
tint Of the camel's-hairs, the Henriettas
and the serges. COwslips aud daffodils
nod upon leghorn hats, and white clover
blossoms are wreathed upon country or
seaside hats Of wide-brimmed rough-and-
ready straw.
Corn-husk braid Is novelty and IS
exceedingly light and pretty; some Of the
misses hats are made Of brsmbles or
rose stems woven in and out and sur
mounted by a great American Beauty
rose which svays % and fro as If from
its own stalk
Stiff Upright loops Of wired velvet OF
ribbon are the sole trimming upon many
uf the iaEuty tubans aud the shelteEing
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06
A NEW INDUSTRY ron woMEN.

In his magazine Wick calls attention
10 an association Of women started IN
business 10 undertake by contract the
care OF London conservatories, window
boxes. balconies and small gardens by
the year, season or month. The mem
beers of the association will themselves
attend to all orders, employing men for
the digging and rough work only.
Plants will be received and tended at
the premises Of the association during
the absence of the owner from town.
The title of the new business is the
Women's London Gardening Associa-
ton.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

''Ladies are to be afflicted with the
old-time hoop skirts again." said a
fashionable modiste the other day, s'just
as surely as they have been emancipated
from the thralldom OF the hustle. They
have already become fashionable in a
modified form. If you will take the
trouble to watch the lower part of the
skirt of any expensive spring costume
you will perceive that it stands out
stiffiy. That effect is produced by a
band skirt, which is nothing else than
a very narrow hoop skirt. Soon it will
get wider, however, and grow from its
present limit Of foot until the hoops
multiply on each other and form the old
fashioned cone reaching to the waist.
Fashion has no compassion on us wo-
men; we might as well submit with q
good grace. "-Nasa0ilk AaSrieGa.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

Tho Washburn Is Moen Company,
at Worcester, Mass, is making Sc
rics Of experiments which promises
to transform the rod and wire busi-
ness. Copper is now used altogether
in rods and wire where great strength
and resistance TO tension are required.
Steel lacks this tenacity. II Is stated,
however, that the company's experts
have discovered process by which
steel can be tempered so as TO possess
this necessary tcnacity, and that steel
wire has been actually made which
will stand all the strain and tension
that copper wire will. 1t can be man
ufactured, Il Is believed, at a much
Jess cost than the present figures for
copper, aud its success would cause
decided drop in that metal. Despite
the secrecy of those who have had the
experiments in charge gossip about
them has been current for some time
among the brokers, and speculation
as to their influence on the market is
rife. The late Mr.. Moen, it is under
stood. was the aetive spirit in this
matter. and the new plant which the
company is starting at Chicago is sup
posed to be intended for the extension
Of the business which would result
from the success Of these experiments.
The willingness Of the company to
part with its barbed wire patents to
he trust is explained By this new in
iustry.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

Some idea of the magnitude Of tho
postal service may be gathered from
the fact that tho combined length Of
the railway postal routes OF the coun-
try Is lii,557 miles, While the trans
porations of mails on those routes in
1880 reached the enormous total Of
1sG,515, 1854 miles Germany, which
comes next, only has 81, 522 miles and
a total transportation Of 50, 267, goo
milo, per anumn. But while tho rail-
way service is ono of great magnitude,
there are the stOr-routo and steamboat
services, which extend over 251, 1902
miles. with u total annual Transports
ton of over II, 600 600, 900 miles, To
carry on successfully this immense
service requires the work Of over
10000 persons. The postal CORES
pondcnco Of this country with foreign
lands falls little below that OF Ger
many. or the 90, 900, 900 pieces sent
abroad last year 10, 100000 were car
rled by vessels of foreign register.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

A company has recently been organ
lied In New York city which proposes
10 make its principal business tho
preservation Of the health and comfort
VI citizens. II proposes TO establish
an institution to be known as a
"IIealthory," similar in its nature to
institutions Of that nano IN London
IL IL proposed to make this an adjunct
of the Board of Health. Three chem
lists will be employed TO make analyses
of food, to conduct experiments us to
the value of various food preparations
aud to make examinations of any aud
all articles Of diet which may be sub
mittcd TO ascertain whether they may
be safely used or not. One Of tho
provisions Of the company is that it
will hold onch year an exposition OF
food products.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06
4 HUNDRED YEARS TO COME.

NJ mnlh LADB rE,cEn
Where, whore win DO ne birds that SIM
A hundred years 10 Gomez
Tho flowers thnt nov IN beauty ipfinG.
A hundred years 70 coInpl
Tho rosf cheek.
Tho lofty brow,
The heart that bdats
80 unfoklg nowY
Whore. where will 10 our hopes ana fear
JOYS pleasant SMILES and Sorrows tears.
Ahuuaucd years 70 conner
who'll proas for gold this crowded street.
a hundred years 10 coInd2
Who'll tread ynu aisle With willing foot.
A hundred Year, 10 conner
Pale trembling ago
Aud hsry youth.
And childhood with
Us brow Of truth;
The rich. ho poor, on land and sra
whore will the mighty millions DO,
A hundred years 70 conner
We all within orr graves viii sleep
A hundred y0arB 70 come
No living soul for us viii Woop,
a hundred years 70 GOMEZ
And others then
our lands viii till,
And other men
Our homes VIII OIL
And othor blrds win sing "a gay.
And bright tbs sun shine 10 to-day,
A hundred years 10 come.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

Charles Emmott, the Oldham (Eng-
land) cotton spinner, who is to marry
Lady Constance Campbell, daughter
OF the Duke of Argyle, IS the son of a
man who began life ms factory
operative aud is now the head Of n
millionaire firm. II Is told of old
"Rrcadbaskct' Emmott that no used
TO take his dinner along with him,
wrapped ii handkerchief, when he
went to The Liverpool aud Manches-
ter markets, and so saved tho eighteen
pence which he would have had TO
pay had no dinod at nn inn.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06
QUEEN NArHALrE's BEAUTY A MrsrAI

QUEEN NATHALTE's BEAUTY A MISTAKE.
A royal person about whom London
gossips are busy just at the moment is
Queen Nathalie. She has been seen
driving in Plccadilly and it is reported
that she is stopping at the Savoy Hotel.
It has been customary to represent this
modern Mary Stuart as the most beauti-
full woman in Europe, possibly in order
TO carry out the resemblance between her
and that unfortunate queen whose
beauty, like that of Helen of Troy, has
become recognized standard by which
the claim of loneliness may be judged.
Perhaps in the case of Nathalie the
wish to make her appear beautiful has
been the father to the thought that she
is; and beauty in woman against
whom the fates war is, we know, the
most potent element in melting ro-
mantle feeling in her behalf. Sooth to
say, Nathalie is big, black browed,
red checked dame with large black eyes,
and her general appearance is SO far
from that of the woman to whom she
has been likened that she is decidedly
coarse. Boston Transcript.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.


Boston has Inaugurated an outdoor
gymnasium Tor women. Il is situated
on the Charles River embankment' ana
surrounded by high board fence. An
suitable appliances for exercise are sup
piled, together with q running uncA
having eight laps to the mile. A cry
ordinance has been passed that WIN
allow the arrest and punishment OF those
who even stop ia teams to watcn the
gymnasium classes ut work.--F'eayu''e'
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06
and noLhlng . boz. bul alam.

! ] could fnd nothing 10 say. but stam-
Hered:
-What horrible thingr
Then. after q while. added:
LET us returnl The night has grown
chill"
And we walked back toward the
hotel. ~ Translated for The San Fran
cisco Arg0ndut from the french.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

An English naturalist who has been
out 70 see the whale in his native pas
lures estimates that q fnll-grovn whale,
driving ahead at fun speed, could
break down any breakvater ever built
and that the sweep Of his lower Jaw y
equal b the force Of q thirty-hcEse
power engine VOEking at fan speed
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

There is a curiosity near cOrdelc, Ca,
in the shape Of pine tree. It begins
from the ground as two separate and
well-developed trees, and continues 50
fer . distance Of fourteen feet, when
they JON and go upward as one.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

During the scventy-dvo years that
The American Bible Society has been
I'm existence II has received in lcgacics
and contributions 100000, and
riffs Of Bibles and special funds con-
tribnied made up a grand total Of
$50. sGl, 900. Four general distribu-
lions Of Bibles have been made in the
United States. Every eighteen cents
expended have represented n copy Of
che Scriptures. At tho last general
distribution, beginning in 1882, g.
00O,0 600 Bibles IN twcnty-seyen lam
guages were sent out.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06
THE SENTINEL
PUBLIEIED WEEKLY AT
EAzoo CITY, MISSISSIPPI.

Tho losses by fire in the Jersey plne
forest last spring arc estimated at
5000, 600, and the average annual loss
~ forest fires in the state Is put at
81, 900. 900. This loss is much more
than tho nero value Of the wood re-
marks tho Boston Transcript "Ihe
soil Il impoverished by these perlodi-
cal burnings, which 80 deprive 1t OF
vegetable matter that It's capacity for
producing timber is much dlmipishcd.'
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06

N. many gin. . Tsls last rear sErssdsa
1l,6Oo, 00o