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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-31

law Had the supreme court not
declared this law to be unconstitutiona
the people Of Wisconsin at the next
elect on would almost surely have
rebuked the party that pas, ed il The
spirit Of iair play has fixed biding
place N the public heart Nopoli ical
party can DO an unfair and unjust acf
simply because it has he power to DO
it, and escape the lash Of public
opinion.
Philadelphia Press: Tbs IS themo-t
rightful decision and will nulIify one
OF the most infamOuslt lad schemes,
that even the democratic parts has
been cspon-ible for. The rebuke these
democratic gerrymanders have rece we'd
in " isconsin, ought % teach a lesson
to those who seek 10 perpetrate The
same infamous steal elsewhere
Philadelphia Record: Carelessness
or ch'canery in mattess relating to
legislative apportionment Is frowncd
upon by the courts as the lawmakers
of Wisconsin have learned from the
suprems court dec sion just handed
down. The abuses that have grown
UP around appOrtionment by legisla-
lures are 50 serious that some radical
remedy will sooner or later have to be
sought out and applied.
GAINESVILLE Republican:
Sing a song Of Democrats,
Mostly fan Of rye.
Going ont TO Madison
Feeling pretty fly;
But when the gerrymander busted.
What lively muss
Every mothers's son OF them
Began to kick and cuss.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-31

By resolution OF the state convention held IN
loas, the delegates from the counties Of Rock aud
Milwaukee shall bee apporlioned 90 aud elected by
the assembly disiricts as they existed under the
apporionment of 1857 as follows. Rock county
first district 5;secoud district. 3sthird district
Milwaukee county, first district, ., 1ec0ud dis
district e sixth district 8 seventh district .;
eighth district 3, ninth district 3. tenth district
. eleventh district 4 : twelfth district 2.
The chairman " the several county committees
are requested 20 see thar the conventions are
called o. elect delegates 10 accordance with The
foregoing, and as the state central committee
act as the committee on credentials, il is re
qncstcd that credentials ~ delegates elected be
forwarded % THE committee a- soon possible.
IT. G. PAYNE.
Chairman
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-31

The expense OF the extra session Of
the legislature to correct the gerry
manders will cost $4,000. Viii the
economic reform administration draw
this from the savings Of the state treas
ury
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-31


districts The Herald is OF the opinion
the apporionment Of 1887 is still in
force and holds good until a valid re-
apoorttonment is made. Districts are
simply division Of the state to give
equal representation and by the con
sutution creating them remain so until
reformed on the basis of a new census
The supreme court says such re.
diSuicting has not been done. There
can hardly be change then until the
legislature meets ana performs that
duty.
TnE Free Coinage bil, is dead. With
an Overwhelming maiorag inthe House
democrat, dare int pass the neas
ure. After three day, debate it was
just saved being tabled rs the vote Of
the speaker but there Is enough oppo.
sition TO prevent Is being voted on
again. The speaker declines TO
make rule prohibiting tilibu>tering
and nus force the bill. to vote unless
majority of the House express such a
wish and that cannot be secured. Demo-
cratic harmony is not cemented by this
state of affairs. but the country VIII
heave a sigh Of relief thai another
serious crisis has been passed
TIE poor old democratic party is in
sore straits to head of the tidal wave
tending rCpubicanward this fall al
ways backing the prohibition party Il
means Of drawing republican votes
managers If the farmers alliance whict
promised s. much two years ago but
has since gan ag'ee, fostering eve
third party movement, that could posi-
bly, be detrimental 70 The hated repub
licans. thes ,u.l lind themselves graiu
ally ippiug 70 the rear Il is DIES
perate case that viii make democrat
call ON the dspi,ed aegla for ad, bu
tLot is Just what lhe1 are dong now
ltis deep 'a.d n9t aa1 Appealing t,
the negro prJeos lew Mi require ii
piomsey T. caan,e aet Il /, the for
nation IF an EN- ae Pension Partl
eket witch Fred D1u2la~ a candidate
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-31

The blind staggcrs have struck the
state democratic press
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-12-31
ADVERTISING:
ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY.
ELLIS WILL BE COMMISSIONER.

In the supreme court at Boise
City last week Justice Morgan
delivered a decision in the man
damus proceedings against Wesley
B. George, to compel him to issue
certificates of election to Cunning
ham and Otterson. The Populists
elected county commissioners for
Logan county bya vote of the whole
county. The board Of canvassers
canvassed the vote by districts and
certificates were issued to those hav-
ing the highest number of votes in
their respective districts. The
court decided that the auditor should
have given certificates to the candi-
dates receiving the highest number
of votes, and the writ of mandamus
is made peremtory to compel Aud
itor George to issue certificates to
Cunningham and Otterson, and the
certificates heretofore given to Ford
and Fuller are declard void. This
settles the question how to count
votes for commissioners. Commits
sioners are elected by the county
and not by the districts which they
are to represent, though one com
missioner must come from each dis
trict; in other words, the success full
candidate for the district is the one
who has the highest number of votes
in the whole county for that dis
trict, and 50 on.
The decision settles q similar CON
commissioners Of this county can
vassed the vote by districts instead
of by the county at large. 1t SC
happened that by this course w. j
Pilling was counted in as commits
sioner of the Sd district, he having
been defeated in the county at large
by Geo. E. Ellis The decision
gives the office to Mr.. Ellis.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-12-31
TAXATION OF lNAERIrANoss.

Idaho and every state in the I'm
ion should pass a law for the taxa
ton of inheritances. Experience
has shown the extreme difficulty of
fixing the taxation upon those most
capable of bearing the burden.
When an attempt is made to tax
credits, capitalists and bankers adj
vance the rates of interest; when
the tax is placed upon houses and
lands, the landlord figures it into
the rentals he receives from his ten
ants; when it is levied upon stocks
of merchandise, the merchant
marks up the price Of his goods
But when it is placed upon the in
heritances of the wealthy, it cannot
be shifted; the state becomes one Of
the benefciaries-society merely
exacts 1.-THE of that which it owns
in entirety.
If our Idaho legislators want to
lift the burden of taxation from the
the poor and place it upon the rich,
here is their opportunity, Laws of
this character have been in applica-
tion in five states since 1885, and
in Pennsylvania for a much longer
period, while laws providing for the
taxation Of inheritances going to a
liens have been in force in some
for more than half century.
During the year 1888 England
raised 93, $685. by taxation of in
heritances; in 1889 Pennsylvania
received $1,378,468 in the same
manner, and in New York, where
such law has been in force since
1885, the yearly inheritance tax has
never fallen below the figures quo
ted for Pennsylvania. 1t would
seem then it would be well for
all states to enact similar laws.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-12-31

THE supreme court of this State
last Monday decided the legislative
question as relates to the apportion-
ment act. The court unanimously
decided that the Governors procla-
nation was not good, and in elect
ting members Of the legislature, the
constitutional, and not the legisla-
tive apportionment was the one to
follow. This settles the question
and the next legislature will stand
as follows; Senate-Republicans, 6;
Democrats, s; Popluists, 4; House
Republicans, 20; Democrats, 10;
Populists, s.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-12-31
A NEW GLACIAL DISTRICT.
Discoveries made in Idaho by two
Worlds Fair Agents.

James Wendall and Lycurgus
Sarsfeld, two Boston scientists,
have returned to this city from the
eastern part Of Idaho county, where
they have been investigating the re-
ported discovery of several glaciers
and glacial lakes. f. B. Schermer
horn, an agent of Worlds Fair
Commissioner Wells, was the disco
verer of this surprising phenomena
and the scientists reports agree with
the description given by Scherm-
erhorn.
Mr.. Wendell said that he and
his companions passed over miles
of territory which had never been
marked by the footprints of modern
man, though the discovery of pecu-
liar human and animal bones led
them to believe that at some period
r--l---.--. Ms had me.1a that
unknown land their habitation.
Continuing, Mr. Wendall said
that the silence of the dark gorges
through which they passed was APP
palling. Animals were scarce, and
in some instances the deer were so
fearless that they would allow the
explorers to come within a dozen
feet of them. The grandeur of the
scenery, said Mr.. Wendall was un-
excelled anywhere in the known
world. The two men climbed one
Of the eleven high peaks that are
not marked upon the carefully COM
piled maps, and as they assembled
its precipitous slopes discovered
many lodges of low grade gold and
silver ore.
The eleven peaks were snow-cap-
ped, their SUBMITS towering above
the line Of perpetual snow. The
glacial field extended 1000 feet a.
bove the snow line. In area it was
nearly as large as the Alpine glacial
field, but not so deep. The ice was
dense but generally as clear as crys-
tai. Beneath could be seen a series
of fifteen glacial lakes.
After securing many specimens
Of the fora, fossil fauna and miner
ais of the ghostly region, together
with a sackful Of the honey-combed
human bones, the naturalists re-
turned to civilization via the town
Of Shoup.
Old settlers say the places visited
by Wendall and Sarsfeld have not
been previously by prospectors be-
cause they were the haunts of muir
derous Indians for many years.
Several miners who went out to-
ward the snowy peaks never return
ed, and many wierd tales Of blood
were related Of the unknown land.
During the last few years numer-
Gus parties have attempted to reach
the distant mountains, but as they
were mounted they could not pene-
trate the rough country. Wendall
and Sarsfeld were on foot, and they
devoted seven weeks t. the inter
esting trip. Three of the mineral
specimens secured by Sarsfeld are
Of good tin ore. New York Times.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-12-31

MONTANA took on the robes of
Statehood only a few months before
Idaho, but ever since little Ida came
into the union, Montana has exhib-
tied a jealousy of a peculiar nature.
She does not propose that Idaho
shall outrank her in the production
of political curiosities. Montana
led off with two legislatures. Idaho
went her bunch better and elected
four United States senators. Mon
tana called the turn by pointing to
the fact that one of her legislatures
attempted to flee the state to the
hithermost parts of the Union.
And seeing that Idaho was about to
come to the front with double leg
islature of her own, Montana I'M
earthed a returning board curiosity.
The supreme court a few days ago
mandamased the democratic return
ing-board of Choteau county to count
the votes of Box Elder precinct and
give the republican candidate for
the legislature a certificate, But
when the sheriff came to 'damas the
board, Lo! and behold, it had fled.
The democrat has the certificate and
will likely be seated by this little
trick. A senator hangs in the bal
ance. With the democrat seated,
that party has majority over all.
Without him, the populists hold the
balance Of power. The democrats
also need the Montana sanator to
control the United States senate,
The Montana menagerie will be
watched with great interest.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-12-31
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

The Idaho legislature meets next
Monday. One of the subjects OF
greatest interest to come before that
BODY is the location of the state ag-
ricultural college. One of the rea-
sons of this is that it carries with it a
big donation. There are 50, 900 acres
of school land set aside for the col
lege, which is worth at least 81, 800,
600. Then the national govern
ment gives $4,000 to $4,000 more
while the state will have to donate
money to put up the buildings and
start the institution, making it one
of the richest endowed colleges in
the West.
Among the ambitious aspirantS
for the location areMountain Home,
Weiser, Idaho Falls. Grangerville
and Lewiston. Although perhaps
least able to put up money to secure
the institution, Mountain Home is
the most deserving point mentioned
in this connection. North Idaho
having the University should not
ask for the college. Bingham coun-
ty already has one public institu-
ton and should not have two while
other counties have none. This
should dispose of Idaho Falls. Gran
gerville is off a line of railway,
and students would have to travel
through two states to reach it from
most sections Of the state. This mar
rows the contest down to Mountain
Home and Weiser. The former is
centrally located in the great arid
region, both in point of altitude and
geographically. They are building
great reservoirs for irrigation there
and making other improvements, SC
that it is admirably located for an
experimental station, such as an a
gricultural college should be.
If Kootenai County is not in the
race THE HERALD would suggest tC
the members of the Legislature from
this county that they give favorable
considerations the claims Of Noun
tain Home, the metropolis Of FL
more county.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-29
Mothers and Politeness.

For the decline of politeness in one re-
spect women are to blame. They have
permitted the practical ignoring of that
law which commands home courtesy.
Children are not now taught to honor their
father and their mother, and neither the
tone of society nor its securities have been
improved by neglecting those domestic
good manners which sweeten and strength
en- life at its very roots.
This dereliction supposes another-rude
fathers and nagging mothers who replace
their artificial public manners with icy
sarcasms, provoking silences and irritable
complainings at hone. And true polite
ness depends upon an undertaking habit
No man is polite enough, no man is human
enough, whose public courtesies have not
their origin in the gracious sweetness gen.
Grated upon its own hearth.-Amelia K.
Barr in Lippincott's.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-29
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK
Ga, Santrv That Made a Fu.s.

Whether callantry is at all times a good
thing to displ Ny in public is question that
was debated m, satally by car full of people
in Broadway FlTday night. The car was
bound down town, and at Fourteenth
street it was comfortably filed. 1t was
nearly IL o'clock, and the outpouring
crowd from the Star theater supplied
enough more passengers TO pack the car
from door to door. Three or four men
were seated, and half a dozen women, all
young, vivacious and apparently robust,
were standing Everybody was good ma
tured, and as the car bowled along there
was not the slightest manifestation of dis
comfort. But there was one very gallant
young man who could not let well enough
alone. He was packed snugly between two
women, whose skirts almost concealed the
lower portion of his body
By frantic efforts he eXtricated himself,
and with polite bow rendered his seat to
young woman who was contentedly con.
versing with some friends who were also
standing She glanced at the vacated
seat, saw about two inches of space, and
smilingly shook her head. But the gallant
young man insisted, and, in an effort to
make another bow, knocked stout woman
with bundle off her balance. The woman
fell into the lap of an old gentleman and
the bundle landed among the feathers and
ribbons of "A ''love of a bonnet" at the
other end of the car.
The startled old gentlemen, in trying to
assist the stout woman to her feet, lost his
silk hat which, in its downward course,
swept pair of opera glasses from the lap
of the woman who sat next to him. Mean
while the gallant young man was trying to
apologize to the stout woman. He stun
bled over the feet of one passenger
knocked woman's hat awry, and by the
sudden stopping of the car involuntarily
embraced the maiden to whom he had of
fered his seat. There were muttered signs
of discomfort, and the embarrassed gallant
would have left the car but for the masses
of humanity packed between him and the
doors. He therefore swung disconsolately
from strap, humping against this one
and that, and listening to such feminine
CALCULATIONS as "Well l neverl' "For
goodness sakel" Graciousl" etc And the
young woman did not take his seat.-New
York Times
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-29
The Game of Chess,

The origin and history of the game o.
chess is involved in much obscurity, Some
authors say that it was invented during
the siege of Troy to relieve the tediousness
thus imposed upon the Grecian chiefs
Others refer the invention to the Egyp
tians and cite a sculpture of the time OF
the building of the Pyramids, where lior
and unicorn are depicted ~ being dceE
in the mysteries of the game. The Chinese
claim the game as one of their inventions
and SO do several other countries and ma
tions, among them the Ceylonese. They
say that while Ravan, a king of Ceylon
was undergoing siege, Seffa, Hindoc
mathematician, invented the game for the
amusement of his royal master, who was
thus enabled to mimic the movements OF
his enemies on the tiny battlefield before
him
Although we can find no definite trace OF
the game in England prior to its introduc
tion by the French in the Eleventh cen
tury, it is known to have been the court
game all over continental Europe at least
800 years before, Alphonso, king of Gas,
tile, and Pope Innocent III, both wrote
works on the game, and the second book
printed in the English language was ''The
Game and Playe of the Cheese" Sac
cheiri, a Jesuit of Turin, called the "Chess
Bishop" could play with three different
opponents without seeing one of the
boards, and talk with the company during
the time of the play.-St. Louis Republic
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-29

Too much enterprise sometimes defeats
itself. The craze for advertising by means
of big set scene in show window doubt
less has its uses, but it would shock the
great merchants who pay the bills if they
could see exactly how the scheme some,
times worked. Such window had been
decked out the other day-whether in the
capital or the metropolis makes no differ
ence-and before it were gathered repre-
sentatives, both small and great, Of the
public who were to be captured by the free
show. What did they seeP Not one detail
of the elaborate display prepared for their
benefit, but instead four huge sandwich
boards advertising the similar wares of a
rival.
1t was not a deep laid scheme on the
part of the rival either He had simply
sent out "A brigade Of such irresponsible
citizens as are willing to be employed us
peripatetic business announcements with
instructions to keep where the largest
crowd was to be found. Attracted both
by the throng and by the scene in the win
dow they had placed themselves in the
front rank of spectators, and by leaning
their boards in row against the glass,
had transformed the costly advertisement
of the wealthier house into free boom for
the cheap one.-Kate Fields Washington.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-29
How One Servant Was Managed"

Once a woman objected to doing work
the way ! wished. Her own way, she
thought, was easier, and she did not see
why mine should be preferred. 1t is a
common matter of disagreement, is it notP
Maggie" said /, "last night you took
your new dress to be made Now put on
your hat and go down and tell your dress
maker to make it in any easy way to suit
herself. Tell her it does not matter whether
you like it or not. She can make it any
way that comes handy"
"Indade an | won't ma'am," cried Mag
gle, indignant Sure l pay her good
money for maxim it, an haven't right
to have it made to suit meself?'
"Of course you have" said l; "and if
you are working for me, and you expect me
to pay you good money for doing it, ought
I not to be pleased instead of your"
Maggie looked at me minute; then she
laughed She never made another objec-
tion to doing things 'my way" 1t is bet
ter to have a servant with quick percep-
tions than one who has graduated at all the
cooking schools in New York.
The mistresses who treat their servants
this way get the best work and the hearth
est good feeling -Harper's Bazaar.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-29
UTILIZE RED RIVER.
More Light and Cheap Motive Power
Are What Clarksville Needs.

Electricity is coming into common
use, not only for Illuminating pur-
poses but as the greatest and cheapest
motive power. The Memphis Scimi.
tar has introduced an electric motor,
which runs the type-setting ma.
chimes, the sterotyping machines and
the presses. The electric lamps are
also supplied by the same power, all
of which are giving great satisfac,
tion.
The feat performed by German
electrician last summer: the convey
ance of current from Lauffen to
Frankfort, a distance of 40 miles
with a loss of but 2S per cent, the
current being supplied by waterfall
on the Necker, suggests the great
benefit that Clarksville might de.
rive by utilizing the splendid force Of
Red river, which is going TO waste,
by putting in a sufficient dam above
backwater mark, some two or three
miles up the river for powerful elec-
trio plant, bring sufficient current
by wire, not only to light the city at
very slight cost, but to operate street
cars and ran nearly all the machinery
in town at greatly reduced cost. The
question is certainly worth considera-
ton. There are but few finer water
power streams than Red river, but
we have been unable to utilize it in
the ordinary way, for the reason that
rises in the Cumberland back the
water up Red river, destroying the
power. This difficulty can be over
come by building a great dam some
miles above, and using 1t for general
ing electricity at comparatively little
or no cost. Such thing Is not to be
reckoned a doubtful experiment The
only question Is a sufficient waterfall
10 secure the needed power, and that
can be very easily ascertained aud
also the cost of such plant.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-29

There is no doubt that inventors do not
as n rule, make good lovers. The man
whose brain is full of come great mechani-
cal project, whose heart and soul are cen.
tered on the achievement of some wonder
of wheels or pulleys, or fire or steam, has
not much room for the softer feelings
which supply SO much Of the poetry OF
common humanity. His love is given to
his invention. OF it he dreams by day as
well as by night; for it he makes his sacri-
fees, undergoes privations and waits and
labors with such patient endurance.
He will often WOO and marry, after the
manner Of men, but he will never become
the "moonstruck," lovelorn individual
which more purposeless men are capable
of becoming. He will be a businesslikc
rather than an ardent lover, and will make
q dutiful rather than an affectionate hus-
band; the romance of his life is his life's
work, his invention, and as that goes well
or ill so will his heart be light or heavy
Castien's Magazine.