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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26
The coweoY IN rHg EAsT.

The Indians he sashed and gashed and slapped
and Slew aud slaughtered;
He'd boot and shoot the bowling Ute. who squealed
and reeed and tottered;
He'd bang and whang at every gang of robber
and marauder
The horse thief strung on the limb he hung, and
thus kept law and order
In every fight Big luck he struck. and never met
disaster;
In glen and den. mid brutes and men. he never
found a master;
No cash or slash could ever dash against his front
terrific,
No foe could stand his red right hand that sugged
so scientific
The rattlesnake he punched and crunched; he
overthrow the bison;
He sought and fought an awful lot each beast
meath the horizon
No scaror jar could ever mar, no harm could ever
get him,
But want of breath aud speedy death o'ertook all
things that met him
But TO the toxin he came for fame he moved into
the city:
He fell, ah well grieve to tell-the pity-oh, the
pity
He'd hit and split his head. and get bruise at
every crossing,
And the herdic man and the moving van his
mangled form was tossing
Whenever he crossed the street his feet with
wheels and things we're tangled
And his frame became bloody shame. all manned
and mussed and inangled;
He'd fall and sprawl right thro' it all. his bones
all dslocated
With most Of his face stuck on the wrong place
and both of his feet msmated
And soon II came to pass the gas the big gas
house exploded
And he-ah me!-was hit you see, he didn't know
it was loaded
Oh, my 10 the sky he shot high as war con
tractors bounties,
And his scattered frame was found they claim, in
nineteen different countiesl
IS. w. Foss in Yankee Blade
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26

When il comes to stories Of queer dreams
the person most reticent about this form
of self-reyelation is likely to think if not to
speak of some extraordinary experience in
the Land of Nod. When Dr. Holmes saw
huge fishes boiled to rSgs bob through the
bubbling brine" in his famous nightmare
of hot day he set "reminiscences going in
many a brain crossed by thoughts of rash
suppers like his own. Two men drifted
upon the topic somehow the other day. and
one confessed to terror oft repeated in his
dreams of the roof falling down upon him.
"My favorite nightmare" returned the
other, sis of a huge dog rushing at me to
devour me. But | always bravely take
hold of his jaws, tear them apart and so
save myself from destruction" The first
speaker smiled sheepishly: 1--WE dreamed
that myself hundreds of times" said he,
'and never spoke of it. didn't suppose
anybody else ever dreamed such foolish
thing Boston Transcript
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26
Monometrlo Queen Victoria.

It gives one quite a shock to learn that
Queen Victoria is "monometric" Profess
sor Karl Vogt says so. In his recent memoir
Of DR.. August Wilhelm Hoffman, he di
yides women generally into 'polymetric
and monometric ladies'" and says the
queen is in the mono" class woman
Of this species, says he, always selects one
man whom she constitutes her measure
or ideal of all other men of the same office,
social class or profession. For the queen
of England says the old republican phi
losopher there existed only one perfect
husband, the prince consort; only one con
summate flower of craftsmanship, Lord
Dsraeli Beaconsfield; and only one ideally
complete natural scientist Auguct vii
helm Hoffman,"
The loyal Englishman will ask what the
queen had to do with the late DR. Hoff-
mann. When she made her Rhine tour
with Prince Albert after their marriage,
she expressed an eager desire to see the
rooms in which her husband had lived
during his student days at Bonn. They
were inhabited at the time by Dr. Hoff-
mann, and the queen found the then pri-
vatdozent at the university busy at q
chemical experiment. The scientist, as
Professor Nogt punningly says was a
Hoffman, (courtierly NAM in nature as
well as in surname" The young queen
was charmed with his talk, concluded
that there was no other such chemical re
searcher in the world, and this was the
reason why he was called in lS4s to the
Royal College of Chemistry in London.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26
The Telephone In War.

j. j. Carly says that the possibilities Of
the telephone will be as great in war as
they have been in times OF peace. He tells
how, not long ago, the general manager OF
the telephone company in Buffalo assem-
bled in less than half an hour the en-
tire board of trade of that city to attend a
meeting on an important subject, and the
meeting could only have been called by
the aid of the telephone. Mr. Carly is OF
opinion that this should suggest to our
military authorities the utility of the tele-
phone in the mobilization of the various
state militia organizations. With a tele-
phone in every block, in every city of the
land, it would be possible to assemble all
the state militia of this country in few
hours. In Germany the telephone, like
the telegra Nh and railroads, is controlled
by the government, and telephone officials
are assigned to a regular place in the field,
to be ta,eA on the commencement of hos
tilities.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiser
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26

There's aoide difference
between the help that's talked of
and the help that's guaranteed.
Which do you want, when you're
buying medicineP
If you're satisfied with words, you
get them with every blood-purifer
but one. That one is DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. With
that, you get a guarantee. If it
doesn't help you, you have your
money back. On this plan, a medi-
cine that promises help is pretty
sure to give it.
But it's because the medicine is
different, that it's sold differently.
It's not like the sarsaparillas, which
are said to be good for the blood
in March, April, and May. At all
seasons and in all cases, it cures
permanently, as nothing else can,
all the diseases arising from a tor
pid liver or from impure blood.
It's the best blood purifier, and
it's the cheapest, no matter how
many doses are offered for dollar.
With this, you pay only for the
good you get.
Can you ask moreP
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26

a son Of the late Congressman John S.
Newberry, Of Michigan, and is thirty-five
years old. His father left him a fortune
something over 81 ,0OO, 900, his mother got at
least twice as much, his brother Truman is
worth at least 81 500 OO0-in short, the whole
Newberry family is very rich Harrie r.
married Miss Hattie Dudgeon, daughter of
a wealthy miller of Kalamazoo, and he and
his wife became leaders in society as soon
as he entered the diplomatic service.
He was in early life a noted amateur
athlete, is a sixfooter, broad shouldered
and vigorous, which counts for a good deal
in diplomacy, as the principal business of
American officials abroad is to make
good appearance. He has been in Spain
long enough to be familiar with its Ian
guage and literature, is looked upon by
Spaniards as virtually the minister, and
he and his accomplished wife are at the
head of American society in Madrid.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26
A PlncI,v Wnnnn.

One evening Mrs. Haver, of Columbus,
o., heard noise in her kitchen and secur-
ing revolver went to investigate and
found a man with a handful of silver
knives and forks. Put those things back
in the drawer" she commanded, pointing
the revolver at the thief He did so very
quickly. "Now turn your pockets inside
out, you have got some more" ordered
Mrs. Haver. The fellow had summoned
his courage by this time, and he refused TO
comply with the command Mrs. Haver
was determined to make him do as she
wanted, and advanced upon him. The thief
made dive for the door, and succeeded in
getting out, but Mrs. Haver followed and
cried, stop or I'll shootr He stopped
and she held the weapon over him until a
policeman who had been summoned by a
neighbor arrived. philadelphia Ledger
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26

Newberry, who is
far better known
to Spanish digni-
tarie S generally
than any Ameri-
can minister for
many years. In
deed. he did most
of the work of a
ministey d uri n g
the incambency of
) General Cru b b
who was unfamil.
lar with the du-
ties of his office
and the language
of the country.
Mr.. Newberry is
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26

The official report in the German reichs-
tag by Commissioner Major Caede showed
that the Russian army, according to the
plan of mobilization for 1899, on war
footing was 2,579,OOO That of Germany
was only 2.SOO,OOO or 1900, 600, including
IN, $50 drilled reserve men. That of France
was 3,226,OOO and 114OOO drilled reserve
men. Germany had two or three hundred
thousand men fewer than France. The
army of Austria, with Hungary, had a
war footing of 1,15OOOO, and that of Italy
100000, so that the triple alliance powers
have 100000 in all, against $685. 900 of
Russia and France-that is, about $50, 900
men fewer
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26

There is said to be growing demand
among the working classes of Liverpool
for books of technology. The report of the
Lyceum library shows that fiction is still
far in the lead in popular favor. The num-
Der of works of this class circulated last
year was 1866, while the classics found
only 25l readers, and books relating to
languages 230. Works on the drama found
no more than 305 readers. Poetry is nearly
three times as popular, for there were S54
readers in this section. The larger figures
after fiction are magazines l0,Os3, history
4,2Ol, travels 1886, antiquities 1862, and
theology 1923
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26

Il like the revolving bookcase best, - the
eminent person said. But no book likes
to be left on a shelf too long, / fancy. 1t
wants to be handled and busted every now
and then. 1t wants society; books are very
like men"
The poet took up the idea at once.
Eyes, books are very like men. The date
of publication is advertised in both cases:
and title is of the first Importance"
"And |, the mere boy added, "have
known a man who was very like a book. /"
''In what respect2" asked the poet
eagerly.
Hall calf" was the laconic answer
Barry Pain in Black and White.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26
Pay the Price of the
Royal for Royal only.

Actual tests show the Royal Baking
any other brand on the market. If an
other baking powder is forced upon you
by the grocer see that you are charged
the CorrespondingIy lower price.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26
A weaIthy American piplomat.

Since Minister Grubb returned to his |
New Jersey home American affairs in
Madrid have been in charge of Harrie r. !
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26

An English etymologist deduces an ar
gument for the superiority of woman from
the fact that while the word "him'' can
only be used as a substantive, the CORE
spending word her can be used also as a
qualifying pronoun. You can say for in
stance, Il love her because of her eyes,"
but you can't say, Il respect him because
of him biceps." Well, all we have to say
is that the inventor of such fantastic
theory as that would be quite capable of
writing an essay on the moral character of
a molecule. New York Tribune
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-11-26

We think we value health;
but are all the time making
sacrifices, not for it, but of it.
We do to-day what we must
or like; we do what is good
for us-when we have to.
We could live in full health,
do more work, have more
pleasure, amount to more, by
being a little careful.
CAREFUL LIVING is the thing
to put first; let us send you
a book on it; free.
Scorr h BowNE, Chemists, ga South sth Avenue,
New York.
Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion Of cod liver
oil-all druggists everywhere do. 81.
The morning call., 1892-12-29
CLEARING THE CALENDARS.
DismissaIs the Present Procedure in
the Police Courts.

The Police Judges are working hard 10
clean up their dockets before January /,
1898. when they step down and out, with
the exception of Judge Joachimsen, who
was reelected. AS result, the smaller
cases OF misdemeanors are being dismissed
in a manner that delights the hearts of the
culprits.
Call Officer So-and-so" Is the order. The
call at the courtroom door is made in ton e
of voice that reaches to tie outer edges Of
the crowd, Ten seconds elapse and then
the bailiff says mo answer" the court says
Dismissed" and the culprt walks out
smiling and happy. A minute later Officer
SO-and-sO walks into the courtroom and
explains that he was busy in another court.
Cant help It," says the court. The
case has been dismissed. No one here TO
prosecute. Go on with the next case
And so it went yesterday until the courts
adjourned.
1t was good thing for the criminals that
the Judges were in hurry, but it was lit
tie rough on justice and Oh the public, At
the present rate of dismissals the incoming
Police judges will find a clear calendar, and
1t may be, after all. good thing. for it has
been notorious fact for years past that
anywhere from 90 TO 250 cases stay on the
calendars from week to week, until finally
the witnesses get tired coming to court, and
when the defendants counsel, realizing this
fact, at last answers Ready" there is no
one to prosecute.
The excuse has always been that the
courts were so crowded that II was impossi-
BILE to keep track of all the cases, and il the
new Judges come in with clean sheet be-
fore them Ii will be possible. il they attend
to business. to dispose OF the cases quickly
and In order. This will be big advantage
to the innocent who want TO be heard and a
menace to The guilty who hope TO escape
punishment by delay
The morning call., 1892-12-29
Whipped BY q Woman.

Police. police! Help! Take her off ~
cried n. S. Writ. one of the hangers-on
around the police courts. yesterday after
noon, as he lodged rain of blows showered
upon him by an irate female, who punctu-
ated her punches in his face with language
more forcble than polite.
You'll steal q cents from me. will you ?"
shouted the woman, who was one Mrs.
Russell, well known to the police, and then
she hit him again. The usual crowd that
loafs about Dunbar alley gathered around
the man and woman, aud urged the latter
on In her efforts TO disfgure the object of Ter
attack. Finally Writ escaped, leaving be-
hind him weil-worn and badly battered
silk hat, and then the woman made speech
to the crowd. in which she related in maud
lin tones her wrongs.
According TO her story she had been for
six months saving up 1-cent pieces until she
had gathered together Al cents and with
this amount Of money she sent Writ shop
ping for her on Christmas. The seductive
eggnog caused Writ to spend 81 cents of the
money intrusted 10 his care and as he could
not repay the amount in cash the woman
concluded to get satisfaction by giving him
a whipping. There were no arrests, but an
awful lot of fun for the spectators.
The morning call., 1892-12-29
The New PraYer-Rnnk.

"A few copies OF the new and revised
prayer-book Of the Episcopal Church In the
United States. authorized by the late tri-
ennial general convention. were received
by local bookseller just before Christ
mas and were eagerly snapped up by
chance buyers. Had there been a thou
sand copies available they could easily
have been disposed OF. 1t will probably
be a couple of months yet before the
churches OF California can be supplied.
The demand for the whole United States |.
expected to exceed 100000 copies, and the
publishers are working with augmented
forces in order to supply The demand.
In this connection il 10 stated that So
ciety has been formed among the wealthy
laymen OF the Episcopal Church for the pur-
pose OF furnishing, gratuitously, to each
clergymen Of all the denominations in the
country handsome edition OF the new
prayer-book. Not they say. for the purpose
OF proselyting. but TO show that The
church's claim that the book affords good
foundation for an ultimate union of al
Christian churches is a valid one.
The morning call., 1892-12-29
CONVICT PAUL'S ESCAPE.
The Connection TaIbot's Victim Had
With the Affair

Al DAMS. not D'Anis as frequently pub
lished. the individual who was shot one
week ago last Saturday by Alexander Tai
bot. has been discharged from the Receiv-
ing Hospital and sent to the County Jail for
safe keeping. There are so many suspi-
cons Of Danis being petty thief, burglar
and even murderer, that Chief Crowley
has thought it better to hold the slippery
fellow for while longer.
Talbot is in custody and the detectives
expect 10 show that he and Danis mur-
dered groceryman Hldebrand some weeks
ago and that the shooting of DAMS by Tai
bot was the outcome CT quarrel after the
murder.
DAMS was once a guard at San Quentin
penetentiary during Warden McComb's
reign and he was subsequently discharged
for derelicti0n of duty. He is the guard who
was accused at the time of facilitating the
escape of Convict Paul, the electrician of
the prison.
Paul had full charge Of the PRISONS
electric plant and trimmed all the lamps on
the grounds.
1t had frequently occurred that when the
lights did not work well during the night
Paul was taken from his cell and allowed
TO set them IN proper running shape. One
afternoon, 1t was subsequently learned,
Paul broke oil the lower end Of the carbon
in one of the outside lamps so that it would
flicker and 60 out about midnight. Guard
DAMS went TO release Paul that be might fix
the light, and the two marched outside the
prison walls. That was the last seen by
the prison people of their prisoner.
Danis gave the alarm an hour after his
prisoner got away, and he claimed that he
did not do II sooner for the reason tnat
Paul, as he claimed, had knocked him sense
less with blow from sandbag.
There was nothing to show that the pris-
oner had harmed or attacked his guard, and
it was believed by many that DAMS had
willingly connlyed with the prisoner to
escape.
This idea was strengthened considerably
when Danis, some days later, was observed
with several hundred dollars in his possess
sion and playing poker at San Quentin
point.
The morning call., 1892-12-29
THAT COFFEE COLONY.
Ihe Names of About Two Hundred
Subscribers Already Deceived

Inc Names of About Two Hundred
Subscribers Already Received.
Inc proposition to start colony of young
men with the object of cultivating the coffee
plant in Guatemala has been received with
enthusiasm.
Since the article appeared In last Thurs
days CALL the Office of Fred Ward, one of
the orlginators OF the scheme, at 216 San
some street has been crowded daily from
morning till night by young men asking for
information. and numerous letters have
been received from the country districts
approving the plan.
Already about 200 names appear on the
subscription list, which is being added to
every hour. and it Is being seriously con-
sidered whether it would not be advisable
to make the number Of subscribers 1000 in
stead Of 500.
The time seems ripe for such an under
taking and not single objection has been
raised to the scheme as outlined In The
CALL.
Mos, of the subscribers so far are Native
Sons, who are going into it heart and soul,
and are working hard TO get others TO SUBJ
scribe.
The plan Is so simple that people can
easily comprehend that it is no land fake,
but has been gotten up in large measure
1Or phllanthropc purposes, or IN other words,
to afford deserving young men who have not
the chance of striking out for themselves
here an opportunity TO earn for themselves
competence through their own individual
labOrs.
No salary or compensation whatever Is to
be paid out, and no money will be paid in
until the colony is firmly established by the
requisite number of subscribers being OBJ
tanned and bank designated for depositing
the funds.
Whoever is appointed treasurer will have
to give reliable bonds and he will have to be
approved by the stockholders.
Several hundred have stated that they
will sign the subscription list soon.
The COnsui-General of Guatemala is ready
to answer any questions as to the climate,
soil, ETC., that may be put TO him. The
Guatemala Government will admit all sup
plies free OF duty and give other c0nceS-
sions.
Mr.. Ward has received an official commu.
nication from the Office of the Nicaragua
Consul offering to give land in that country
on very favorable terms and subsidy OF
cents tree In berry.
ln this proposition the organizers see
fatal objection in the fact that one of the
conditions is that the colonists must become
naturaliZed citizens.
The morning call., 1892-12-29
A Stack of Divorces.

In the divorce case OF Frank Barnard We.
Eliza Barnard. the plaintiff having de-
manded a jury trial. a postponement was
ordered by Judge Trout until January Is.
Louisa Simons has given notice that she
will move for a modification Of the decree
of divorce which she obtained in November,
1885, from Joseph Simons, a saloon keeper.
She desires the possession OF both her chill
dren. One has always been In her custody.
The other recently ran away from his father
on account Of his stepmother's cruelty.
Fanny M. Rains has asked TO be divorced
from Stephen j. Rains and be allowed to
resume her maiden name of Fanny Cooper.
They have one child, a daughter, nearly
three years of age. She alleges that at the
time of the marriage, which took place in
Los Angeles in April, 1889, her husband
had another wife living.
John III. NJ. Montell has filed complaint
for divorce from Mary S. Z. Montell.
Lucy Goree has been granted divorce
The morning call., 1892-12-29
THEY GOT ALL HE HAD.
An Englishman Caught by the Quick
Man With the Shells.

Thomas Hicks, an Englishman, was STROLL
ing around Sutro's gardens day or two
ago and got lost. he accOsted a man he
met in one of the walks and asked him to
direct him to the nearest railway depot
The man was very obliging. aud offered to
accompany Hicks to the depot.
The two men had not walked very far
when the stranger called Hicks attention
to two men who were bending over little
table and appeared to be engaged in a con-
troyersy The stranger insisted upon going
over and learning the nature of the trouble,
and Hicks accompanied him.
1t was the old. old story of the shell game.
The confederate claimed he had won, the
manipulation OF the shells denied il, and the
question was left to the Englishman TO de-
eide.
1t cost him S45. all the money he had, to
decide the matter. and then to save himself
from being badly beaten, he took the shortest
cut out OF the grounds. After waiting tw o
days he concluded 10 appeal to the police,
and did so yesterday. Just what Captain
Lees said cannot be recorded, but be init
mated that men who were robbed aud vol
unfairly gave the robbers sixty hours the
start of the police did not have sense enough
to 60 around railway curve and get back
alone. HOwever, the police are On the look
out for the accommodating stranger and his
eonfederates. and Mr.. Sutro has been noti-
ned that his beautiful gardens are beng Z
used by bunko men.
The morning call., 1892-12-29
Licensed to Marry.

The County Clerk issued marriage IL
censes rs follows yesterday:
Frederick Z. Loomls and Ella M. Stetson
26-27.
James f. Campbell and Mary f. Gregg 47-36.
William walters and Anna Miller, 26-2I.
Antonio l.. SOareas and Isabelle Sou, a. 25-22
Joseph TrOle ana Mary KeSnar, 2S-28.
David f. Capeli and Mary o. Brien, 23-I8.
John Nj. MeLane and Rose Mclaughlin,
27-22.
Giuseppi Amonte and Maria q. Marino, 26-2l.
George Wagner and Kate Buelna, 30-29.
John A. Blohm and Anna Dorgeloh, 1881.
William l.. Maule and Emma l.. Cooper, 3O-25.
John A. BURNETT and Mary NJ. O'COnnell,
27-25.
George NJ. Johnstone and Mary H. McClunle,
$3.50.
Lemuel II. Lucas and Amelia c. Rotger, 2S-24
Augustus Manuel ana Jennie l.. Clark. 24-lS
Salmon Schwartz aud Mary GObeIman, 25-1S.
Fong King Chew and Yock King, $3.50.
Eeecham's Pills for a bad Liver.
A poolroom for the exclusive use of
women Is to be opened at Covington, Ky.