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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19
A Chinese Opinion.

1t is impossible to understand these
barbarous people, One thing is certain;
if they do thing they do it with all
their might. Thirty years ago they had
a big civil war. The whole country was
turned into military camps and battle
fields, and everybody, even to the WON
en- folk, were engaged in the war in one
way or another, and one army numbered
100000 men. And now there are
young men, old enough to vote, who had
never seen a company of soldiers in their
life.
In fact these people seem to think
that another war will never break out,
especially in their part of the world.
A person can travel clear across the
American continent without seeing a
soldier, and follow the main lines of
travel too. In fact, at the present time,
there is only about one soldier for every
1000 persons, while Russia has one sol
der to every ninety. Picking Gazette.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

The Society for Political Stady was
formed about five years ago, its object
being the study of municipal govern
ment. After the first year a course of
historical study was undertaken by the
advice of the committee, but it was
unsuccessful, and when Mrs. T. B.
Wakeman became its president the cur
rent topics of the day were taken up,
and the society has hourished ever since.
1t holds weekly meetings at the house of
one of its members, Mrs. Johnston, on
Stuyvesant square, and after the read
ing of paper discussion follows. Mrs.
Wakeman is eminently fitted to be the
president of this wide awake society, for
she is a strong advocate of women's
clubs and keeps up with the newest
ideas on serious questions. Formerly a
member of Sorosis, Mrs. Wakeman re-
signed some years ago, finding her
household duties and family cares re-
quired her exclusive attention, but now
that her children are grown she has re-
sumed her interest in various public
questions, and besides being president
of the Society for Political Study she is
a member of the Womans Suffrage
league and the Ladies' Health Protective
association, and, with other energetic
and philanthropic women, is trying to
form a bureau of justice for the purpose
of having women present at the trial of
women in court.
The bureau when fully organized will
hire respectable women to be present on
these occasions, so that no woman will
/ be tried alone without one sympathizing
woman by her side. Mrs. Wakeman is
a member of the old Ludlum family that
| has lived on the same land at Oyster
Bay, l.. L., for about 200 years. Since
her marriage she has lived in this city,
part of the time in Harlem, but she now
lives in cozy, homelike house in West
Nineteenth street. She has three chill
dren-a married son and two daughters,
one of whom is a clever artist. Mr.. T.
B. Wakeman is brilliant lawyer, and
takes an active interest in the scientific
/ temperance question, and is member
of the Nineteenth Century club.
Mrs. Wakeman has sweet, bright
face, with deep earnest eyes and dark
hair that is just beginning to turn gray.
She is an earnest advocate of clubs for
women, and says that she wishes every
woman might belong to at least one.
They give woman something to think
about besides mere material necessities,
enlarging their minds and making them
more companionable to their husbands
and brothers. York World.
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HARRY GHENT, SPLINTER,
Just Now abe Center OF Attraction
in England.

The winner of two Sheffield handi-
cap short distance running races in
Eng and is just at present the center
OF attraction in athletic circles in the
old country. He is without any ex-
ception the greatest runner of his day,
and English sporting papers say that
his record is only surpassed by Harry
Hutchens, the king of all modern
sprinters. Client was born in Darling
1ngton, Eng, about twenty-nine years
ago. He stands feet 1917 inches and
weighs about no pounds In his earl v
days he won several minor handicaps,
but did not come into prominence till
he ran second to M. johnson in the
Eastern Sheffield handicap in 1886, be-
ing beaten one-half yard. On April IL,
1887. he won by two yards a Sheffield
handicap off the S5M yard. Hutchens
being scratch, 771a yards. Every
man in the final had Start on Client.
The following Sheffield handicap, May
81, 1887, he also won and made his fast
record, which remains the next best to
Hutchen's best run. He had 81 yards
start Hutchens was scratch, II
yards. Client ran his 122 yards in Ii 3-5
seconds, or six yards inside evens at
1872 yards. He then Immediately chal-
lenged Hutchens, who had just arrived
from Australia and was in questionable
condition. The match was made, and
on Sept. 10, 1887, over 10000 were at
Lille Bridge grounds to see the con-
test The result was no race,
and all remember of the destruc-
ton of the grounds by the mob.
After considerable talk another race
was made and run Oct. 20, 'S7, Just out
side Newcastle, when Client won, run
ming 100 yards in 11% seconds. This
race was undoubtedly a gate affair.
In 1888 Client was backed for a lot of
money in a quarter mile sweepstalxe
handicap at Ellsworth, and should
have won, but was interfered with by
McWilliams at the turn and lost. He
was then put through good thorough
training, but could never get his sprint
ing speed back. AS he has nice book
making business of his own, Client
quit the business and opened a pub
at Chesterfield. In '89, when Steve
Farrell, of America, challenged any
one in England for a quarter-mile,
Client accepted but only for 300 yards.
The next handicap after his fast time
in S7, Gnent was put on the same mark
with Hutchens at Sheffield, and the
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19
The Mexican Messiah.

Prima facle, Ireland has not only
good claim, but really the best claim to
be the Tlapallan of the Mexicans. 1t is
the most western part of Europe; it is
insular, and in the earlier centuries of
the Christian era was known as the
''Holy Island" Between A. d. 500 and
A. d. 500 it was the most active center
OF missionary enterprise in Europe, and
its missionaries were conspicuous above
all others for their daring maritime adj
ventures. 1t is natural, therefore, to
suspect that Ireland may have been the
home of Quetzatcoatl, and, if that were
So to expect that early Irish records
would contain some references to him
and his extraordinary voyage.
Upon this the inquiry suggests itself,
Do the early Irish chronicles, which are
voluminous and minute, contain any
thing relating to missionary voyage
across the Atlantic at all corresponding
to that which Quetzatcoatl must have
taken from some part Of western Europe?
To one who, step by step, had arrived
at this stage of the present inquiry, it
was not little startling to come across
an obscure and almost forgotten record,
which is, in all it's main features, in
most striking conformity with the Mex
lean legend of Quetzacoatl. This is the
curious account of a transatlantic voy-
age of certain Irish ecclesiastic named
st Brendan in the middle of the Sixth
century-about A. d. $50. The nara
tive appears to have attracted little or
no attention in modern times. but it was
widely diffused through the middle ages.
-Dominick DAILY in Popular Science
Monthly.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

When Senator Malone, of Virginia.
came here in March, 1881, to take his
seat in the United States senate the
whole country was excited as to his
party utilization. The senate was close
On the little Virginian everything
depended. The Democrats hoped to
capture him. So did the Republicans.
The attentions which the new senator
was shown were very amusing, and he
enjoyed them so much that he delayed
the declarations of his political position
for some weeks While things were in
this uncertain condition and the whole
country was wondering, Mr.. Malone,
sitting in his room one evening, received
a card.
"Show the gentleman up" he said.
The man, who was perfect stranger to
the senator, entered, put his hat on
table, shook hands and sat down and
proceeded at once to business in this
style:
my name is p T. Barnum. You
have probably heard of me. am Just
starting out on my summer tour with
the greatest moral show on earth.
have called to make you plain PROPOSE
ton. If you will travel with me this
summer | will give you $40, 900 month.
| have got Jumbo, the biggest elephant
ever brought to the United States, and
with you my attractions will be com
plete. Will you accept"
Malone is a proud Virginian and
millionaire. But he didn't get angry.
He replied politely, declining the propo-
sition, and the great Snowman withdrew.
This story is told by the senator. Wash
ington Letter
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

Will gloves go back to the Renaissance
for styles, as the cloak has done? You
know they wore these gloves all covered
with embroideries and precious stones;
the cuff, widening as it reached the arm,
was an incrustation of gold and silver
and precious settings. 1t was heavy
gauntlet, not a glove. 1t is not likely
that these will take, as we say in fashion
parlance. Women will have the good
taste to cling to the plain kid glove,
which shows the perfect shape of the
hand. The buttoned glove is now in as
much favor as the musquetaire 1t is
owing to the very long sleeves worn with
every gown, except with full dress.
The tan colors are worn less and the
light shades more. Did you not often
wonder where the kid skins come from
to make all the kid gloves in the world?
When / see the mountains of gloves sold
at the Louvre and the Bon Marche in
the bargain season l wonder if there
isn't way of manufacturing skins, or
if there are not kids which, like sheep
who are sheared every year, can be
skinned and have skin grow on again
for next years faying.
Wells are no longer worn down to the
tip of the nose, but all over the face.
The kinds of tulles and nets sold for veil
ing are innumerable. The beauty spot
yelling is the most becoming; not the
spots, but the netting itself. Everybody
wears it here. Then there is fancy net
ting, studded with steel, gold and silver
beading and espangles. Some of them
are as thick as the old fashioned Chan
lilly veil which our grandmothers wore.
French women have never taken kindly
to the white veil They are one of the
indications by which we single out a
foreign woman. Nor do they incase the
front hair with an illusion to keep it
down or to keep the ringlets from I'M
curling. That, l think, is an American
fashion.-Paris Cor. Brooklyn Eagle.
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''you know you are breaking the rules
when you are on the stage between
acts. Besides" he continued with
smile, ''all the standing around in the
world will never make premiere of
you"
Nannette joined the other girls con-
siderably abashed, and wondered if
everybody knew how badly she wanted
to be a premiere.
When Nannette went up to the stage
for the final act she was early as usual.
But group of children were earlier
still. How happy and careless they
scent Laughing and romping in
mimic rehearsal. there was nothing to
indicate that a single ambition of their
young lives was ungratifed.
Nannette gazed at them almost en-
viously, wondering for moment if it
was not better to be like them or her
sister coryphees than to be tortured by
ambitions that probably would never
be gratlfied. ''No," she said, finally,
under her breath, with an emphatic
stamp of her little foot, 'no; when
they are my age some of them
will feel exactly as l
do. 1t is the way of the world" When
she had reached this philosophic con-
clusion Nannette FASTENED to her place,
and soon, with sea of faces spreading
out before her, she was dancing her
very best, which was so much better
than most of the others did that a large
share of the applause was for her,
though she didn't know it.
Presently the premieres entered, and
as Nannette watched every motion
critically, her ambition to become a
solo dancer almost suffocated her. She
felt that before she went home she
must pour out her soul to some one or
go wild. While she was thinking to
whom it would be best to go, the act
ended and the painting premiere adj
vanced to make her exit where Nan
nette stood. Their eyes met and the
great dancer smiled kindly. Here was
her opportunity
$40 you suppose, MIN selle," she be-
gan in voice tremulous with appre-
hension, that l can ever be great
dancer like you?"
"Certainement, ma petite chere. Zare
ees no raison Wy you not make one
splendid premiere;" and the great
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

Nannette's hand. Eyes, tbs plain that
you are to be premiere-soon-to
morrow And the girls all burst out
laughing at the good joke on the little
coryphee who was dying o. take Mdlle.
Franzonis place.
Nannette walked away in disdain,
and presently when the ballet music
struck up and Sig. Romeo said $50 on,
go on" she had the satisfaction of
showing the audience that none Of the
other girls could dance as she could.
And while her thoughtless companions
were gathered in groups at the sides,
gossiping, Nannette watched every
step of the premieres, fully convinced
that some day she should excel the best
things they were capable of.
At the close of the act Nannette did
not retire with the other girls to the
dressingroom, but wandered aimlessly
about back of the scenes. She crossed
now to the right of the stage and was
suddenly struck with an idea. Sitting
on box near the first entrance, with
her beautiful yellow hair streaming
down over her shoulders, was the
leading lady waiting for her cue.
"How lovely she looks" thought
Nannette. "PierrOtt says she is as
good and kind as she is beautiful;
perhaps she would help me-"
Poor little Nannette! Her 1uttering
heart was as tilnid as her ambition was
overwhelming. Before she had nearly
screwed her courage to the sticking
point the leading lady's cue was given
and the opportunity lost.
At this moment the stage manager
came across from the other side.
Hadn't you better go down to your
dressing-room?" he said, kindly-every
one spoke kindly to Nannette because
she was always prompt and obliging-
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19
He Felt Embarrassed.

A passenger on a Woodward avenue
car was trying to crowd out by the front
door when an acquaintance stopped him
and said:
you act as if you were making a
sneak"
80 am, a" was the reply.
'Who fromW
"Colonel -, out there"
Zone of the incest old fellows in
town"
YES, know I've just built new
house. He'll ask me all about it, and
as he's got loud voice everybody will
hear every word he says"
But what if they do2"
"Why, hang it, man, he'll ask me
what it's mortgage for the very first
popl Lemme uUi"-Detroit Free
Press.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

People who strive to elevate certain
classes in the social fabric often find, to
their surprise, that these very persons
jealousy guard the barriers of class dis
tinctions. The following illustration Of
that fact is given by the author of ''Four
Years in Rebel Capitals"
A Richmond lady had maid who,
devoted and constant to her mistress,
still burned with curiosity for a sight of
everything pertaining to Mars Lin
kum's men, and especially for "de
skule."
For swift, indeed, had newcomers been
to preach the gospel of Alphabet, and
negro schools seemed to have been
brought in by every army ambulance,
SO numerously did they spring up in the
captured capital So early one day
Clarissa Sophia donned her very best,
and with shining face hied her like any
thing but snail to school
Very brief was her absence; her return
reticent, but pouting and with unduly
tip tilted nose.
1t soon came out that the teacher had
begun by impressing the children with
the fact that all present were born free
and equal, and that each of them was
quite as good as she was.
"Wa' dat yo's sayin' now?" interrupted
Clarissa Sophia "Yo' say Use jes' ekal
as yo' is?'
Eyes, said SO, and / will prove it to
you"
"Ho! faint no need" was the response.
"Reck'n is, sho' huff But does yo' say
dat Use good as missus, my MISUSE"
Certainly you are"
Den Use jes' gwine out yere, right
off, cried Clarissa Sophia, suiting action
to word "Ef Use good as my missus,
Use goin ter quit, feer jes' know she
ent 'soshiatin' wild no SIGH white trash
like you isl
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19
An Old Story with a Modern Hero.

One day when DIR. Brooks was calling
at the house of a parishioner a little boy
of the family, who had been under the
awe of DR.. Brooks as long as he could
remember, ventured to ask the great
man, ooh, DR.. Brooks, were you in the
arkY' His mother endeavored to hush
him up, but the boy went on, "Oh, l
guess you wasn't, cause the animals
was all in pairs, and if there was an
other like you it would a sinked the
arkr-Boston Transcript
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

An official weekly In Germany calcu-
lates how an invalid workingman can
live for 300 days in the year from the
seventy-fve dollars allowed him by the
Old Age and Invalid Insurance fund !:
First breakfast, SLIPS annually; sec
ond breakfast, $3.50; dinner, $18.75
afternoon coffee, $3.50; supper, SIS;
rent, SLIPS; clothing, $4.75.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

The governments money is still
printed on hand presses-rather clumsy
pieces of machinery, with long levers
that move to and fro at every impress
sion. The work of steam presses is not
considered satisfactory for the delicate
process of printing the nations promises
to pay.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

Earrings that bore the miniatures of
the dear friends or relatives of the
wearers were quite fashionable at a
very early day, and in many cases they
were attached in the form of pendants.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

two have been kept on the scratch
mark ever since. He was then handi-
capped to give Jack Gibson four yards.
Hutchens wins this spring have caused
hese two to be separated, however,
and in the last cap Hutchens gave
Client two and one-half yards.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

An Italian Psychologist of repute,
named Mosso, has demonstrated by ex-
pertinent that thinking causes a rush
Of blood to the brain, which varies with
:he nature of the thought.
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dancer patted the little coryphee
encouragingly on her plump cheek.
The final triumph of the Hunchbaclx
of Paris was tame and stilted in com
parison with the happiness which
shone in Nannette's bright eyes as the
curtain went down on the drama, be-
hind the scenes.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

The injury of prodigality leads to this.
that he who VIII not economic will have
to agonize. -Confucius
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19
Lived in a Boarding Honse.

Dentist-How did those new filings work
that put in your teeth last month";
Spooner twho boards)-All right, I guess.
l haven't had chance to try them yet
Lowell Citizen.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

'She said was no ladyp
"The ideal What reply did you maker
81 told her I'd slap her face and scratch
her eyes out if she didn't take it back. ~
Lawrence American
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

reduced gentlewoman in New York
earns her living by experimenting novices'
dinner parties.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

Toff Wall and Chesterfield Goode
have been matched to fight in the Pei
lean club, London, England, in Novem-
Der, for a purse of zero.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19
The Little Lamb at Play.

"You will certainly come to some awful
ending" said the eve to her offspring.
Il have made ba-a-h-d beginning, that's
a fact replied the lamb. Washington Star.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19

Norvin Green estimates Jay Goulds for
tune at S60,000,000. This is considered
moderate
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the shade. This drama had no hero,
and required none. All its in
terest conferred in clever little
coryphee who was in truth
the character she impersonated.
To this heroine the name ''Nannette"
is appropriately applied, for she is
pretty, petite, and of French descent.
The other characters IN the drama
We're sundry people in the play to
which the public was admitted, but,
though their costumes and makeup"
were the same as seen from the front,
their alternating characters in this
real drama seen from behind were
vastly different and infinitely more
correctly drawn.
When Nannette arrived at the theater
on this evening she was more than
usually full of the one ambition of her
lile-to become premiere. She was
the best coryphee in the company-the
stage manager had said as much-and,
though no one else was aware of the
fact, she had practiced until she could
stand on the tip of her left toe every
bit as long as Mdlle. Cornalba could.
Nannette was thinking of all this as she
drew on her black tights and height
ened the color of her plump cheeks.
When she finished dressing she went
up the narrow stairs leading to the stage
and gazed out between the wings.
Just then there was round of APP
plause in appreciation Of a certain bit
of humor from Carriclfergus, and Nan
nette knew that the entrance of the
ballet was not due for ten minutes yet.
She walked around 20 the rear of the
stage-setting and came upon group
of gypsies,
"Come, Nannette," one of them said,
merrily, "come and have your fortune
told"
Nannette held out her hand. Glow
/ wish they were real gypsies," she
said to herself; ''then / would know
for sure whether /"
"Ah, good fortune, indeed" ex-
claimed the girl who was bending over
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"TodSins9 Todzins2 Let me see."
ooh, you don't remember him. He was
the fellow who lent you some money. New
York Sun
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-02-27


NJ search ~ knowledge rare
nsied millionaire
rn,,ses he attributed % his success In
HE
win looks % honest pride
Ana pleasure no replied;
moxel Il. sir entirely 20 my brave and helping
wife"
asked an artist great
n he would also state
u.x ~ Lad won q glory that would never. never
fade.
~ lighted up his face;
Ms answer came npace;
..ro IN inspiring wife. sir my achievements
must 10 laid"
asked scholar high
4. az would tell me why
n name and fame resouNNcu 70 Inc corners o.
the earth
..Almy success IN lie
l. due my noble wife,
IA answered. II, without her. would nave been
Of little worth"
asked good man. too.
Wny he was led 10 DO
rhe things that helped so many 10 higher.
swecter ME.
Hss features brightly shone:
with rlalness In hls tone
We said: I'm simply trying to be worthy Of
my wiz
asked o. All around
VINO wealth and jos had found.
rbcir reasons for the blessings and successes
Of their lives.
Not one was there who thought
He lad the glory wrought
An proudly gave the credit TO their brave and
loving wives.
And then met tramp
Who bore the awfu stamp
o, wretchedness and misery and wickedness
and strife.
Ana asked him whence II came
with curses on her name
y. rroared: "Oh, stranger, what am Is owing
10 my wife,
II &. Dodge. in Coodall's sun.