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The Press., 1893-01-19

tional Temperance Hospital Association has an open door,. Membership therein therein is obtained by the payment of fiv, dollars and an annual payment thereafter of one dollar, with privilege of voting fol directors at the annual meeting. Mem bers are expected to be total abstainels.
 From the large number of w. c. T. U members and their friends, there should be frequent applications for membership in this association. Certificates will bt furnished each member. Membership fees and annual dues swell the genera fund for current expenses, and if sur plus occur, it will be applied on building fund.
 There is also an endowment fund. The annual endowment of free bed in secured by the payment of $35O annually. This may be paid in quarterly installments il advance. A permanent endowment -se cures a free bed in perpetuity, and is sus tained by the income accruing from g $5,000 payment. It would be blessed fol every state w. c. T. U. to be enrolled for at least an annual endowment. This would be small tax on each local union Illinois has carried such endowment ever since the hospital was instituted, by the payment of one dollar ol more from each local union. Some unions, it is true, be. ing apathetic, did not respond, but the deficit was met by the state treasury by vote of the state convention. We hope all unions in every state will become so enthusiastic that endowments will be pledged and fully paid in some form by every state w. c. T. U. Individuals have also paid annual endowments. Are there not more persons or organizations poor need this help. Some of our w. C.. T. U. workers need it as haven of rest and recuperation.
 We have also building fund, which has nucleus of several hundred dollars. Although the hospital is now desirably located, it does not own the property. It is important that it should purchase, in order that such improvements and addi- tio1is may be made thereto as will faeili- tate the work of healing and demonstrate it's principles. Are there not friends who will welcome this opportunity for build ing their monument during life and do good meanwhile? Are there not others who will be glad to make liberal bequests thereto in their ''last will and testa- ment?" We welcome all donations, large or small. They will be invested till enough is accumulated to encourage the purchase of property.
The Press., 1893-01-19

 A kind hearted farmer says, My cattle will follow me until leave the lot, and on the way up to the barDyard in the. eve ming stop and call for lock of hay" Smithson says there is nothing at all re- markable about that. He went into a barnyard in the country, one day last summer, where he had not the slightest acquaintance with the cattle, and an old bull not only followed him till he left the lot, but took the gate of the hinges and raced with him ill the most familiar man. ner possible. Smithson says that he has no doubt that the old fellow would have called for something if he had waited 8 little while, but he didn't want to keep the folks waiting dinner, so he hung one tail of his coat and piece of his pants on the bulls horns and went into the house.
The Press., 1893-01-19
POLICE SURVEILLANCE IN RUS
 SIA

Between St. Petersburg and Kovno stopped for a chat with friend who knows the devious methods of the Rus sian government pretty well. told him my tale, and asked him what he made oi it.
 ''Nothing is simpler" said he. You are politely requested to disappear from Russia at the shortest possible notice. You have been watched from beginning to end, and you may be watched at this moment. You might have waited month in St. Petersburg, but you would never have got an answer to your request"
 But" said I, "what if had gone on without permission ?"
 "You would never have known what had interfered with you. You would have been arrested at the first convenient place, and kept a week or so pending examina- Tion. What is most likely, however" said he, "some dark night your boats would have been smashed to kindling wood; your stores, papers and valuables taken away, and yourselves turned adrift in a swamp"
 "But," said I, "you don't mean to say that great government woul permit such 5hings?"
 "Oh, of course not Our great govern nent would express the most profound regret at the accident; it would insist hat the damage was done not by police gents, but by common thieves. In any went, you would be stopped before you got a hundred miles away from St. Peters ourg, and what is more, you would never he able to prove that the government had stopped you.
 ''In Russia we are far ahead of western Europe. We have copied lynch law from America, only here the government does the lynching. When a man is obnoxious, reads or writes or talks too much, we do not bother about courts and sheriffs. He disappears that is all. When his friends come to inquire after him, the govern ment shrugs it's houlders, and knows nothing about it. He has been killed by robbers, perhaps, or he has committed suicide! The government cannot be held responsible for every traveller in Russia, of course!"
 "When military attache is suspected of knowing too much about Russian af. fairs, his rooms are always broken into and ransacked. Not by the government -oh dear no! That would be shocking It is always done by burglars. But odd to say, these Russian buglars always care particularly for papers and letters"
 "The German military attache has had his rooms broken into twice in this man. ner, and to prevent third invasion he assured the chihf of police that there was no use doing it any more, that he really never kept any important papers there Since then he has not been troubled by official burglars. ."-Poultaey Bigelop, Sn Harper's Magasirae tor January.
The Press., 1893-01-19

Poverty and Ignorance were engaged to be married, when Wealth stepped in and cut poverty out.
 ''Now, Miss Ignorance" said he, 1T suppose you know that when we are mar ried your name will be changed
 "What is my new name to be?" she asked.
 "Why, Eccentricity, of course," replied Wealth.
The Press., 1893-01-19

BE YOUR OWN DooToR.-It won't cost you one-half as much. Do not delay,
 Send three 2-cent stamps for postage, and we will send you Dr. Kaufmann's great work, fine colored plates, from life, on disease, it's causes and home cure. Ad.
 dress A. P. Ordway X Co.,, Boston, Mass.
The Press., 1893-01-19

George s. Rogers, a resident of Wales for many years, has phenomenal mem ory. He remembers all the! important events of the last fifty years, knows the genealogy of all the principal families in town and can tell tho aga of nearly every person he has ever known. His superior ity over town clerk is in this, that while the clerk would have to look back through musty. books to find records of events that happened years ago, MT. Rogers only has to give his head little scratch, and out come the circumstances just as they oc- cured. Mir. Rogers has one of the best orchards in town, and can remember ev- cry time it has been robbed, which would be severe tax to an ordinary memory P0znsers HerGld
The Press., 1893-01-19

The testimonials which the mail brings in every day run thus: 'sDr. Bulls Cough Syrup cured the baby of croup." "It curedme of a most distressing cough ;'' or s'it cured my little boy of throat. '" We could not do without it."
The Press., 1893-01-19
-
 LOCAL TOPICS. Penned and Scissored.

In the list of legislative committees annoanced by Speaker Brooks of the house, the members from Holland county
 have assignments as follows: School fund Abofn of Ellington; new towns and pro.
 bate district, Grant of Bolton; roads and
 bridges, Dorrance of Andoyer; incorpora. tions, Smith of Union; claims, Walker o1 Union; sale of lands, Carroll of Willing. toni finance, Clark of Coventry; rail.
 roads, Hall of Willington; agriculture Porter of Coventry; humane institutions Avery of Stafford; cities and boroughs Pettingill of Vernon; manufactures, Han. ley ef Stafford; appropriations, Hicks of Holland; labor, Stimson of Somers; tenn. perance, James of Mansfield; capitol fur. niture and grounds, McFarlane of Mans fiela; woman suffrage, Hicks of Holland
 Names of persons who have won stal route postal contracts in Holland county this1y year: Columbia to Hop River, Fred. elick A. Hunt, Columbia, $199; Storrs to Eagleville, D. G. Rice, Sedalia, Mo. $lS7; Holland to Rockville, George F.
 Kibbe, Holland, $25O; Somers to Scitico, Charles F. Fallen, Somers, $171; Crystal Lake to Stafford Springs, William Kibbe, Crystal Lake. $20O; Staffordville to Staf- ford Springs, Willard Dimmock, Stafford vile, $175; Stafford Springs to South bridge, F. s. Smith, Washington, D. o., $52S; Gurleyville to Mansfield Centre, c. G. Steele, London, Ky, $18O.
 At the annual meeting of the Union Agricultural society of Somers, East Windsor, Enfield and Ellington, held Jan- uary 3, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, John B.. Noblej vice president, Frederick c. Abbe |; secretary, H. H. Mcknight; treasurer, O.. A. Thompson; marshal, E. M. Granger. Town committees-East Windsor; Jabez $. Allen, B. M. Granger, Francis A. Ham, mond; Enfield, O. s. Olmsted, Charles F. Abbe, Frank w. Parsons; Ellington, J. r Mcknight, 0. A. Thompson, J. |. Johnson; Somers, Calvin M. Ravens, Wm. D. Pomeroy, Myron F. Gowdy awarding ommittees-Farms, Wm. H. Billings, l.. H. Grant, Norton Abbe, Charles B. Sikes; blood stock, Jabez s. Allen, W. D. Pomeroy, E. B. Kibbe, o. 5. Olmsted; working oxen, John Middle ton, Homer Kibbe, Julius A. Kibbe. G. H. Sioarl steers, K. V. Chapin, J. B. Pease, J. Terry Wells, John F. Abbe, draft oxen, H. w. Allen, E. P. Russell, Albert Pinney, L. P. Abbe; town teams and trained steers, Joseph T. Allen, H.. A. Lovett, E. T. Hurlburt, L. s. Abbe; bulls, cows and calves, George s. Phelps, M Henry, L. " Russell, Allerton c. kfgse; sheep, swine and poultry, Luke w. Adams, 0. A. Thompson, George Grant, E. L. Hurlburt; driving, draft and saddle horses, J. T. Mcknight, H. c. Stimson, Frank w. Parsons, E. c. Nor ton; mares, colts and stallions, c. 0. Abbe, M. A. Pinney, Theodore Hulburt, John Roe; agricultural products, L. H. Grant, J. N. Allen, Jamuel Davis, Rob- ert E. Hyde; horticultural products, c. B. Sikes, Howard A. Middleton, Carlos Bradley, G. N. Booth; domestic manu- factures and dairy products, c. A. Arnold chairman; agricultural and domestic inn plements, Myron F. Gowdy, S. J. Allen, Allen Gowdy, J.. D. McMcKnight; fine arts and fancy work, Rev. D. E. Jones, chairman.
The Press., 1893-01-19

To the fond father, who has asked him where he is in his class, now, Bobby re- plies, s.Oh, pa, I've got a much better place than had last quarter" "Indeed. We'll, where are your" "I'm fourteenth {" Fourteenth, you little lasybones. You were eighth last term. Do you call that a better placer" "Yes, pa; it's nearer the stove.n
The Press., 1893-01-19

Most editors" says an exchange, "are acquainted with the man who takes more papers than he can read, and consequently has no use for his home paper" But let his neighbors pay him surprise visit on the occasion of birthday or wedding an- niversary, or let his fellow-church mem- bers make him present, then he wants mention made of it in the local paper, all though he ''is taking so many papers that he cannot help his local paper by subscribing for it." .......
The Press., 1893-01-19

SPECIMEN CAsRs.-S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis, was troubled with neuralgia and rheumatism, his stomach was dis ordered, his liver was affected to an alarm ing degree, appetite fell away, and he was terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured him.
 Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, Ill.,, had a running sore on his leg of eight years standing. Used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound and we'll. John Speaker, Catawba, O., had five large fever sores on his leg, doctors said he was incurable. One bottle Elec- tric Bitters and one box Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold at E. K. Taft's drug store. 8
The Press., 1893-01-19

Lady Customer Hooking over a lot of
 pillows) Why weren't those marked
 down? ]. Clerk Qnnocently)- Because, ma'am, they are. feathers. Weak stomach strengthened by Beech
 am's Pills.
The Press., 1893-01-19

Young Husband (who thinks of reform ing)-"Jennie, my dear, know you have been silently grieved and pained for 8 long time on account of my absence from home every evening. am going to turn over new leaf, and I'm going to be- gin tonight <
 know how happy you 've made me. Cousin Jack wants me to go the theater with him tonight, and you can take care of the baby"
The Press., 1893-01-19

Friefd-"And so you are to marry George Slimpurse ?"
 Sweet Girl-sYes. in few weeks now. It will be case of love in cottage, and we've found & little gem of place out in the country. We shall be so happy.
 ''I should like to meet him. Can't you have him here to tea some night p
 Impossible, my dear, The cook has left, and we are obliged togo to restau- rant for meals" "
The Press., 1893-01-19

Miles Nerve and Liver Pills act on a new principle regulating the liver, stom- ach and bowels through the aaer0es. A new discovery. Dr. Miles Pills speedily cure biliousness, bad taste, torpid liver, piles, constipation. Unequaled for men, women, children. Smallest, mildest, surest! 70 doses, g cts. Samples free at W. D. Heald's drug store.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-08-05
WOMEN WHO WRITE.

HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE is reported
by New York paper to have so far
lost her strength of mind as to sit for
hours cutting out paper dolls like
little girl. She has good health, which
improves as her intellect diminishes.
Mrs. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON is a
portly, gray-haired woman, who was
grandmother when she became Mr..
Stevenson's wife. She is a remarkably
clever woman, talented writer and
chatty and cheerful conversationalist.
THE public library building of Pull
man, ILL.,, was designed and equipped
by Mrs. Lucy Hall Fake, newspaper
woman of Chicago, who was at one
time secretary to, George M. Pullman.
This library is said to be second to
none in the state in perfection of detail.
Mrs. FRANCES HoDesoN BURNETT is
soon to leave Washington for a years
sojourn abroad. Much of her time
will be spent in London, where she is
almost as well known in society as in
New York. But in the autumn she
will make tour of Egypt aud the
HOLY Land
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-08-05
MUTTON CHOPS.

FREQUEN T change of pasture should
be given and anything which conduces
to the comfort of the heecy beauties.
SHEEP farming has an advantage
over dairying in balancing up the work
of the year more evenly. If it increases
the winter work it makes less to do in
summer.
The mutton maker who lives near
town may be able to sell readily at the
right price, but he must contend with
the town dogs, which is no slight dis
advantage.
On the right track is the man who
enlarges his flock by adding to it full
blooded and high-priced buck. A choice
buck lamb can be bought in the spring
at low price, and reared as easily as
any other.
A LANE leading to the pastures from
the yard or fold is good thing. The
sheep can be taught to come up at
night and need only have the gate
opened in the morning, when they will
go to feeding without having further
time spent on them.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-08-05
SHOPPING SUGGESTIONS.

ALL the best mattings are now made
seamless, not joined at every yard or
so, so that they pull apart at this weak
point.
A WISE shopper avoids the gaudy,
elaborate patterns in the new mat
tings, but rather selects simple pat
tern of two or three colors, or a mat
ting in plain white, but of the very best
quality.
THE heaviest Oriental rugs and the
Philadelphia rugs are so thick that a
slight flame which may touch them is
easily smothered. Such wooden rugs
are the only proper ones to put in front
of fire.
If there were no other objection to
the fashionable. cotton rug, its extreme
inflammability would be one. In con-
nection with the hardwood floor, poll
ished with turpentine and beeswax, it
presents a veritable Undertook.
WHEN the rawlings of a carpet are
burned, they easily disclose, by the
method of burning, the wool, which
crisps and emits an unpleasant odor
like any animal fiber, and the jute,
cotton or other vegetable authorizations,
which burn with a light blaze.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-08-05
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A TON of sea water is supposed to
contain about fourteen grains of gold.
THUNDER storms are more frequent in
Java than in any other part of the world,
there being an average of ninety-seven
days in each year upon which they
occur.
IT is noted in the Mediterranean
Naturalist that upwards of sixty per
cent of the earthquakes that have been
recorded have occurred during the six
colder months of the year-the max
imum number in January and the min
imum number in July.
IN the southern part of the Indian
ocean, between twenty and fifty de-
grees east longitude, DIR. Schott says
that cold Antarctic current has
greater influence than has been at
tributed to it on the maps. It's effects
are plainly manifest far to the north
by abnormally low temperatures, the
northern drift of icebergs and the low
salinity of the water.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-08-05
EUROPEAN NOBLEWOMEN.

QUEEN ANNE, of England, was ex-
tremely fond of brandy, and her face
became so bloated that among the pop
ulace she was known as Brandy Faced
Nan"
THE dowager duchess of Sutherland
was lately committed to prison for six
weeks on sentence for contempt of
court. She had burned some papers
used in evidence in a trial concerning
her husbands will.
THE princess of Wales has, perhaps,
invented almost as many novelties as
those in the knickl1nack trade. She
drew with her own hand the plan for
the pocket smoking case which the
prince carries everywhere with him.
PRINCESS EULALIE left two hundred
dollars with the manager of the Ar
lington hotel, Washington, to be dis
tributed among the servants who
served her and her party while she
was at that house. They regard her
as a princess from her head to her
finger tips.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-08-05
lMPERWoUs TO INFORMATION.
How an Explanation of the KeeIy Motor
Was Received.

How an Explanation of the KeeIy Motor
Was Received
ga group of Chicago's young men
were standing not long since near the
corner of State and Madison streets
discussing the many wonderful inven-
tions of this wonderful age, when the
conversation turned upon the Keely
motor project of several years ago. AS
some og the younger members of the
party could not exactly recall its pro-
posed workings, one who could began to
explain it..
can old German laborer, but lately
landed in the country, and, of course,
speaking and understanding the Eng
lish language very imperfectly, paused
a moment, and leaned upon his shovel
to listen. AS he would occasionally
catch the words, 'Keely motor 'Keely
motor, an anxious, thoughtful express
sion was seen to fit now and again
across his honest old face. He seemed
to become intensely interested in all
that was said, and would occasionally
ask some question concerning it. The
narrator went over the ground quite.
carefully, telling how it was proposed.
tons and compressors, to run an engine
from New York to San Francisco with
a gallon or so of water without steam
or fire.
''Our Teutonic friend gave earnest
heed to it all, throwing his weight first
upon one foot and then the other, and
nodding his head in the affirmative by
way of approval, and then negatively,
as though panied at some portions of
the recital. Once or twice he said:
fish dot bossible!' and showed much in
dignation. Finally, after the whole
thing had been carefully explained to
him. taking perhaps an hours time, he
took his old black pipe from his mouth,
spit couple of times or so, wiped his
troubled brow upon the coat he carried
on his arm, and expressed his opinion
of the Keely motor about as follows:
Ssh dot so? 1 don't wood hat believed
dot dere vas so mean a weller by Shee-
kagol Und so dot weller he Keel Its
mudder because she don't wood let him
go by de bignig over by Ogden bark.
hey? He Keel hGs poor old mudderi Velll
velll velIL l baet you dot weller must
vas grazyr
when the young man saw that ne
had fooled away so much time for
naught he could hardly help violat ting
the third commandment. Now when
his friends wish to have little fun at
his expense some one will casually in
9uire if it is true dat dot weller he kee!
his mudder?' He says that such man
couldn't read BARRIERS sign without
an interpreter. IN. B. Dutfie, in Chi
eago. Inter Ocean.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-08-05
PEOPLE OF EUROPE.

THE French government has granted
Nine. Renan an annual pension of 5000
francs.
Miss FAwcETT, the young English
woman of he-senior-wrang1er"
fame, has adopted the profession of an
electrical engineer
HENRY NJ. STANLEY declares that he
will be candidate for seat in parlia-
ment at the next election and that he
has no intention of returning to Africa.
MAX MEYER, who recently took the
degree of PHI. d. in the University of
Berlin after an examination in which
he excited the admiration of his pro-
fessors, was born blind in that city
twenty-eight years ago.
The expressions: ''Vox populi vox
Dei'-the voice of the people is the
voice of God-was used in the writings
of William of Malmesbury, who was
born A. D. 1075 or 1925 and died about
1142. He quoted the expression as a
proverb even in his time sufficiently
well known.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-08-05
ABOUT NEWSPAPER S.

An unhappy father in Dahlonega,
Ga, advertises for wife for his son.
He says: MY son is idle and lazy,
and the only hope for his welfare is
matrimony. A good wife would be
apt to make him hustle, or kill him"
ONE of the most curious papers in
Europe-probably in the worlds
published in Vienna. Its proprietor is
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria,
who publishes it for his own sole
benefit and not for that of the public
AN advertisement in a San Fran
cisco paper, for ''the first white child
born in California" brought II, 713 let
tiers, each written by a person who
claimed that distinction. There are
yet few thousand more FIRST white
children" to be heard from.
A PECULIAR example of newspaper
enterprise under difficulties is offered
by the Rhoddesia Chronicle and Adver-
tiser, a Mashonaland South Africa
paper, which is a foolscap sheet of
sixteen pages, not printed on type,
but written by hand and duplicated by
an Office stylograph process.
THE most northern newspaper is the
NorJTlap, published at Hammerfest.
The editor and his staff work in a
small turf-roofed wooden house. News
comes by mail boat and the Hammer
testers are made aware of the worlds
events generally eight days late, and,
as the paper is a weekly, its news is
often fortnight old.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-08-05
LITERARY NOTES.

M. PIERRE LOTT has penchant for
dedicating his books to prominent la
dies.
CHARLES A. DANA and David M. Stone
are the only editors of daily papers in
New York city who are past middle
life.
IT is said that James Whitcomb Riley
talks in his sleep. That probably ex-
plains why the genial poet has re-
Trained from entering the matrimonial
state.-Rochester Herald.
DIR. CONAN DOYLE, the novelist, began
life as an eye specialist, but his success
as a story teller has induced his aban-
donment of the medical profession.
He is Scotchman, thirty-four years
old.
DIR. JOHN MACINTOSH, author of the
History of Civilization in Scotland, 8"
to whom $3.50 has just been granted
from the Royal Bounty, was original
ly a working shoemaker. He struck
literature as a last resort and stuck
to it.