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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
The Train Saved By a Premonition.

a telegraph operator on one Of the sin
gle track roads leading ont Of Pittsburg
has had an experience that will last him 4
lifetime, The young man became careless.
as dispatchers sometimes will, and he gave
orders for freight and passenger train,
moving in opposite directions, to 20 to a
certain station When the trains had
started the operator suddenly remem bered
that they couldn't reach the place without
a collision. 1t was too late TO counter
mand the order, and in his agony cold drops
of perspiration ran down over his face. In
describing his feeling afterward he said
he lived years in the few short minutes
which would decide the fate of the trains
He was startled aud relieved by seeing
the engineer OF the freight walk into the
tower The engineer had received his or
ders, but when he reached IA switch he had
a premonition there was something wrong,
and he turned in on the side track His
train was scarcely out of the way when
the express Numbered by.
The next day the operator went TO the
superintendent of the road and told him
what had happened, AT the same time
handing in his resignation. The manager
looked at him for a moment and then
said: go back to your work, my boy
This experience has been "a lesson for YOU
don't think it will occur in the future :"
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
CAP WAS WITH HIM.


!
on "a Steamboat.
The captain stood ia front of the pilot
! house, telling the man at the wheel what
he ought to do from time to time, and the
funny man stood close by with his over
coat buttoned up and his hands in his
pockets.
W hen the funny man had kept still long
enough he spoke to the captain.
"Cap'n, said he, why do you tell him
TO keep her to port, and then ask him to
keep her steady? She'd keep steadier if
she kept clear of the port, don't you Think"
Have to keep her to port so she'll keep
away from the bar, replied the captain. as
he raised his glass and gazed anxiously
ahead
The funny man shrugged his shoulders
walked away a few steps, returned and
asked the captain if they kept the vessels
log down among her beam ends
mo, said the captain, 1--WE keep it i'm the
log cabin"
I've often wondered, said the funny
man thoughtfully, "why the wheels of a
steamboat don't work together"
"They do"
'Do they2 | thought they took turns.
How'd you tear your coat, cap'n?''
Caught it on one O the points o. the
compass"
Then the funny man walked around
little while. BY and by he stood stock
still
"Cap'n," said he, this boat is advertised
to run, but she only just keeps up with the
walking beam How's that?"
"Well, dunno" replied the captain;
she's got mate running with her and
she keeps up with him easy enough.
b'lieve this wind is hauling around So
west"
"The mate has the advantage of the
boat in one respect, l suppose" remarked
the funny man; "he's amphibious, isn't
he?"
Am what?"
why, he can run on land just as fast as
in the water"
$50 can the boat. can run her ashore
in minute and half if ! want to. +"
Your boat is very polite, captain, l
must say that"
How sop
81 saw her bow when came out on the
dock this morning"
"Oh, yes, certainly-hark minutep'
"What is it,"
did you hear her yawl?"
mol What time is it, cap'n?'
Ten minutes past. BY Georgel this is
the mates watch. Mine ends at o'clock"
exclaimed the captain and ne went off to
find the mate, while the funny man, NUT
tering something about that chap being
pretty fly for skipper, leaned over the
rail and thought over the hull business
Morris Waite in Detroit Free Press
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
TYPE CASTING Machines.

Now to outline the working of the type
casting machine. A keyboard similar &c
that of typewriter fronts the machine
There is a key for each letter OF the alpha
bet. The operator sits in front of the key.
board. Let us suppose that he wishes to
set the word new" He touches the key
n. The touch on the key releases from a
magazine in rear of the machine mold
technically called a matrix, for the let
rn.
The matrix, which is of brass slides
down into a receiver near the keyboard
Next the operator touches the key e. A
matrix for the letter is released and
slides down along the letter n The oper-
ator touches the key w A matrix for W
comes down and ranges itself alongside e.
Now, in the receiver We have, Wharf.-The
word new IN typey No nothing of the
kind
We have three little brass molds stand
ing side by side, from which, if we poured
molten metal into them, we would set tile
word new in solid cast But there is no
type The machine knows nothing Of type
whatever, though, for convenience sake
we are calling it At present i type casting
machine.
But the time is not come to put molten
metal INTO the three little mulds or ma
trices. An entire line should be set, not
merely word. suppose the line is TO be-
New things come TO pass" The operator
proceeds TO touch key after key for the sue
cessive letters until the matrices for the
whole line are ranged side by side.--P d.
Ross in Popular Science Monthly.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

capped the dreadful Custer massacre Of
June, 1876. Evidently the Indians had
stripped and left him to die, for he was
found by Renos men standing in the
water and gazing mournfully over the
field of slain
Every man and every other horse was
killed, and as the horses fell the men
made breastworks of them. Captain
Keogh, Comanche's rider, was among
the slain. An order was issued that the
badly wounded horse should be shot to
put him out of his misery, but the sol
diers grieved so deeply that the farriers
exhausted their skill and Comanche was
saved. Thereafter no man ever backed
him. He lived at Fort Riley, Kan, in
''horse heaven" if such there ibe, fed
with the choicest food, grooned with
loving care, patted and petted and
solaced with Jumps of sugar and the
sweetest of apples. He was part of the
original mount of the Seventh Cavalrua
in 1866, had carried Captain Keogh and
Others through many an Indian fight
and was literally striped and splotched
with wounds.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
Daring wasps.

"Wasps We're the first paper makers, .
said an entomologist. 1T is very interest
ing TO study the ways of these fierce little
insects, For the sake of grab at the
honey store single individual will some
times face a whole hive OF bees, being in
fair combat a match for any three inhabi-
tants Of the apiary. Most Of US have had
experience of the fearlessness with which
they will attack human beings. Wash
ington Star
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
-FOUR LEGGED VETERANS
THREE HORSES THAT KNEW AN6I
LOVED THE BATTLEFIELD.

Recent Death of Keogh's Comanche, sole
Survivor of the Custer Massacre-sheri-
dams Famous Rienzi and General Lees
Traveller
Comanche is dead He died of pure
old age after most honorable career of
many years. He was not racer nor
prize beauty, but he was far more to all
soldiers. for he was the only creature
in the United States service that es-
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

1t is often said that the old Phenieians
discovered the purple dye in the murex
shell by observing dog which had eaten
one of the mOilusks and thus colored his
chops with a rich purple stain &c. Curtius
observes that the ancients were accustomed
to hunt the murex by the assistance Of
pointer dogsl. Some of the myths say that
Heracles, by the aid of his dog, first dis
covered the purple murex.-American
Notes and Queries.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
He Obeved Orders.

Il assure you, judge, that my physician
is responsible for my being thief"
DO you mean to say he hypnotized you
and compelled you to commit crime?'
81 won't say that, but do know that he
ordered me to take something before going
to bed New York Herald
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
An Experienced RureIar.

Young Burglar-These spoons amt sill
Veri they are the cheapest kind o. imita-
ton.
Old Burglar-That's lucky.
Lucky"
Yep Take 'em along"
"What fer?"
The Teddy Of the house will be afeared
TO set the detectives arter us, lest they
should find them spoons an describe 'em
in tn papers. food News.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

Mrs. Benedict (reading)-A Pennsylvania
man has invented an apparatus to stop the
smoke nuisance. What do You think it is?
Mr. Benedict-Oh, something that will
kill cigarette smokers, / supposel-Law-
renee American.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

Stanley's three years journey in Africa
viii no doubt change the Biographies. He
has located the course Of the Aruwimi river,
the location of the Mountains of the Moon,
and established the connection between the
Albert Edward Nyanza and the Albert Ny
ANA lakes These are only a part of his
geographical discoveries, and the map makers
win take notice accordingly.-Leslies News
paper.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

Henry VIII, after the death of Jane
Seymour, had some difficulty ia getting
another wife. His first offer was to the
duchess dowager Of Milan, but her an
swer is said to have been: q have only one
head. If | had two. one should certainly
be at his service"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
Look at Some Live Capitalists.

A newspaper item to the effect that a
commission of French architects and
arch@ologists has been appointed to ex-
plore Sardis, the capital of Lydia and
the residence of Croesus, suggests that if
these people want to see the homes of
millionaires they had better visit Amer
ics-
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

Dreaming about cats signifies treachery
by friends and disappointment in love af-
fairs II the cat is lying down or sleeping
you will but partially succeed in what you
undertake; if the cat is fighting or appears
to be in a rage you will be robbed
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

A good cement 80 fasten glass letters
upon glass, windows, etc, consists of one
part india rubber, three parts mastic and
fifty parts chloroform. Let the mixture
stand several days in closed vessel and
apply rapidly.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
Society Is one vast horde
CONSISTING az fba h,rae, and

(eAat'sa'haAt-
A society man in his first year in the
swim is liable to be lost IN the rush. If
you want some marks of identification
you may want TO prove property and take
it home) here are few rules He's a first
year man
If his collar is always wilted after the
third dance.
If he don't know where to find his part
ner
If he writes the girls name on her dance
card and scribbles his name on his card.
II he ends every sentence with giggle
If he gets caught in the tolls of passe
fairy and don't know how to extricate
himself.
If he steps on every woman's train that
passes him.
If he gets rushing madly at nothing and
stops before he gets there.
IL he mumbes something exceptionally
obtuse when he bids bis hostess good
night" and then comes back again to find
his hat, and
As you 20 rattling along in your con
veyance, you see him standing bare headed
under street lamp excitedly telling
policeman to call his carriage "-Phila-
delphia Music and Drama.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
Thoueht rhero were More.

Johnson-Did you see it stated that New
York city has 5000 lunatics?
jackson (who has frequently visited New
York)-Is that all?-Lowell Citizen.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

81 don't want such large cut as that. i"
said the young housekeeper. Can't yo
give me a outlet off the same pieceS"-
Harper's Bazaar
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
He Took No Chances.

Waiter irl-Ummummummum
munmumerum
Experienced Guest Ummummumerum
Waiter Girl-What did you say, sir?
Guest-Same as you did. Bring 'em
along-Good News
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

1t is estimated by manufacturers that it
would require 500 persons working by
hand processes TO make as many boots and
shoes as 100 persons now make with the
aid of machinery.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

Crude petroleum has been tried as fuel
In brick manufacture, showing a saving of
fully one-half the price of coal fuel, to say
nothing of the saving Of labor in firing.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

Cora-Oh, dearl am so sorry, Florencel
have broken your penknife
Florence-Never mind 1t doesn't be-
long to me; it's papa's.-Burlington Free
Press.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

Ethel-Clara was out driving yesterday
and the horse ran away with her.
Maud-Well, think the horse show ed
very poor taste Munsey's Weekly
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

The ordinary artificial leg is made of
wood and rawhide. Papier mache has
been tried, but it is not lasting enough.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
He Let Her Thinl, ON.

Young Paul Pry--I hope l haven't dis
turbed you, Miss Ethel, Pray, tell me of
what were you thinking?
Miss Ethel-Of how delightful it is to
be alone.-Yenowine' News.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
A Good suit.

Il want running suit"
"This is a good durable suit"
"Are the colors fast?"
eyes, you'll have great difficulty in
keeping up with them New York Sun.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
Very Likely.

"All flesh is grass"
Perhaps that accounts for the prone.
ness Of flesh to get hay fever New York
Herald.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

Johnny las large fish mistakes his toe
for a minnow and gives him a practical il
lustration of the question at issue)-Owch
Help!l The sharksl!!-Munsey's Weekly.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
The Cruelty of Live Bait Fishing.

Jimmy-Johnny, it's wicked to let the
big fish bite the little ones like that while
they're alive
Johnny-Rats, Jimmy, it don't hurt to
be bit by a fish
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

On every occasion that society" gives a
dance you'll find "a species of bore that is
the most persistently nbstrusive blt Of hu-
man clay that you ever encountered. The
blushing debutante, with her airy persi-
hage and her assumed timidity, is inter
esting as study; but of all the ire pro
voking, temper testing bits of annoyance
which come under the head of bores, let
discriminating heaven protect me from IA
society man in his first year-his maiden
bow to that class of folk described by
Bvrnn-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-12
Now for Utsh.

This ''cruel war is over" Excitement
will soon settle down, and the people of
Utah will give their attention to building
up the territory and advancing its material
interests. Discussion of the causes which
led to the uprising of the people of the
United States and their rejection OF the
high tariff and force bill party, and to the
triumph Of Democracy in this territory in
the face of the remarkable influences ex-
ercise5 against it, will for awhile some
what disturb society, but that will soon
cease, aud the sooner the better.
Republicans and Democrats alike should
be interested in the common welfare,
and ought now to unite in efforts to pro-
mote it. Home Industries should be fos-
tered and encouraged. Such enterprises
as we have are due TO no particular party
but to individual exertion and investment
There is nothing in the political result to
cast a damper upon them, but on the con-
trary, the prospect of permanent stability
to all our institutions in the not distant
future should give encouragement to every
industry and hope TO every heart.
The representations of calamity-shrlek-
ers predicted upon Democratic success will
be found 10 be baseless. a grand and
glorious future is opening up for Utah. and
home manufactures and ell branches of
local industry viii flourish If the people
choose to have it SO. The HERALD believes
in Utah and her citizens and invites all
classes, creeds and parties to join in the
cultivation of harmony and good WILL and
the development of the varied resources of
this wonderful and prolific region.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-12
Cannon No Good if Elected.

1t does not matter much what the Provo
Enquirer says, one way or another, but we
notice one admission it makes because it
shows what the consequences would have
been if the desperate efforts to unite the
Liberal and Republican parties in Utah had
succeeded. 1t says:
The defeat OF the Republican party in Utah
was due TO the Liberal party, and that fact
ought to be heralded over all the broad land.
Ii men who say they are Republicans in national
affairs, would have voted for FRAN X. CANNON
he would today have been elected, and the Tri-
Dune would have accomplished what It sought
outside of the regular party lines, VIZ: the post
ponement of statehood. While the Enquirer
is decidedly in favor of statehood for Utah, it
would be idle TO say that FRANK j. CANNON
could obtain it, if elected. with both houses Of
congress and the chief executive Democratic.
Republican delegate from this territory
would be a block in the wheel, as it were, and
statehood could thereby have been postponed
for at least four years AS il now stands
statehood VIII come in spite Of all that the
Liberals can d. and many who have claimed
to be Republicans may sit by and see Utah go
in as Democratic state.
Those citizens who were induced to vote
the Republican ticket on the ground that
HARRISON was sure to be elected and there
fore we ought to have q Republican dele
gate. viii now see the position in which
they would have placed the territory if the
bad advice they accepted had been more
generally followed. Republicans for prin-
ciple are TO be respected as well as con
doled with. Republicans for policy are
neither to be pitied nor respected.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-12
Good Land Living Idle.

The Indian lands in Uintah county, Utah,
soil. Only a very small area is utilized by
the red men. Why should 1t not be thrown
open to settlement and sale! THE HERALD
does not advocate Injustice TO the savares.
They should have oil the land they need
and be fully compensated for every acre
they can legitimstsly lay claim to. But
there appears to be no good reason why the
land that lies idle, and which could be
made capable of sustaining large civilized
popuistion, should be left in state Of ma
turs, complets waste in more senses than
one
a proposition TO open up small strip of
that region, because of the beds of asphal-
tum it contains, has been under consider
alton for some time. That is ali very good
as far asst goes, but while this question is
being agitated it would be just as well to
sattle the whole thing at once The cult
walton of the entire area unused by tie In
dams can only be a question of time, and is
might be disposed of in one measure much
better than by several bites at the cherry.
This unoccupied soili fertile to degree.
The climate Is splendid, the facilities for
irrigation are ample, aud in addition the
asphaltum beds are almost inexhaustibie
IN quantity, and said to be unsurpassed in
quality. OF course all this forms no ex-
cuse for the robbpg of the red men, and
we advocate nothing that would be de-
privation OF their rights. Let the reserva-
ton be thrown open and the Indians re-
ceiVe full compensation for their claims
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-12
soaring the Laborer.

The Tribune ia sad. 1t is also little per-
verse, which is perhaps not altogether IN
usual. 1.-THE poor, workingman" is the
object Of its present solicitude, and direful
portents of the consequences to him of this
political revolution are uttered TO alarm
anu discompose him. He is threatened
with reduction of MS wages to one-third
of the present rate, the closing down Of
factories, the shutting OF of markets for
agricultural products, the influx of cheap
goods with no money to buy them, and
general time Of trouble because the cleo
ton is declared to mean ''either lower
wages or no wages at all.n
Working people need be under no such
epprehensions as cur much disturbed
neighbor desires to excite The assertion
it makes that American wages are three
times as much as English wages and five
times as much as Belgium wages, is one of
those ridiculous exsggerations in which
that paper not infrequently INDUCES. And
even if its monstrous distortions were cor
rect, there is no proposition to reduce
American wages at all, nor Is there any in
tention to iniure manufactures or force
labor from one department. upon another
The whole attempted scare is but the hob
goblin of fevered or softened brain.
Free raw materials are more likely to
promote American manufactures than
TO retard them. The cry of free trade,
after the election has not even the merit
Of expediency. No one in the country is
advocating it in the sense that the
Tribune endeavors to convey. 1t is vain
for it to pretend that the tariff Is to be
taken away" A reduction of high duties
upon common necessaries is the announced
policy of the party now coming into con
troll, and while this will undoubtedly in
due time make the prices of commodities
lower than at present, there in no logical
reason in it for any reduction of wages, 10
say nothing OF the absurd Tribune predic-
ton THAI wages viii be cut down from 50
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-12
The Herald in the Campaign.

THE HERALD, to supplement the multi
tude Of compliments at home. is receiving
by every mail congratulations ard praise
for its part in the late campaign. Perhaps
no paper ever issued in this region was SO
eagerly sought and read as THE HERALD of
Wednesday morning, with its artistic dis
play of ROSTERS, and the typographical ar
rslgement of the great mass OF telegraph
matter in Intelligent aud convenient shape
for ready reference. Our service was
splendid, and Notwithstanding the immense
piles of manuscript there were to go
through, the telegraphic editing was done
with superb skill, so that the presentation
OF the election events had the effect of a
diagram. A sample letter is one to the
business manager, reading as follows:
failed to get my Wednesday, mornings paper
The P. Nj. says it came, but he is a Republican.
aud 1 guess he got ratified and put it in the
wrong COX. must have one if have to pay a
dollar TO get it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-12
LATEST FaoA THE JoKGR,' POLLS.

Chicago Tribune: 1t can't be expected that
rain makers can be hail fellows.
Picdytne: The man who will not work de-
serves no credit and can get none at The gro
Gerry store.
Rochester Democrat: The reason that rich
men have so many friends Is because they are
capital fellows
Evansville Breeze: Cold contracts. That's
why your pocket book is SO small when you
have coaled up for the winter
Chips: First Girl-Do you get much return
from your poetrys Second Girl with deep
siah)-Yes, it's all returned.
Somer vile Journal: The man who owns a
profitable stone quarry seldom makes com
plant TO anyone regarding his hard lot.
Indianapolis Journal: She-You would be
surprised if were to tell you that am past
twenty-five. wouldn't you? Hell would be
surprised at your telling me.
New York Herald: Jess-Whatever Chapple
may be. he isn't oonceited. Bess-Hcw do you
knowG Jess He nearly always begins his SEN
fences, II have half mind !"
Pittsburg Telegraph: Dukane-I don't think
railroads ought to hire astronomical engineers.
Gaswell-What on earth are astronomical en-
gineers? Dukane-Those who telescope their
trains.