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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-14

THE Mineral Land Commission
ers wound up their seasons work
last week, says the Ceur d. Alene
Press, and the two commissioners
from the South, Major J. B. Goode
and Col. Wallace McLauren, have
gone to their respective homes in
Virginia and Mississippi. Hon.
A. A. Crane, the other member,
will remain in Ceur d Alene dur
ing the winter. The commission
ers will return to their duties next
spring, probably during the month
of April. During the season the
commissioners examined and class
flied 10000 acres of land and 90
600 acres had previously been pat
ented to the Northern Pacific, max
ing a total of 100000 acres of rail
road land subject to taxation in
Kootenai county. The Mineral
Land Commissioners did good work
in classifying so much land, there by
making it taxable. 1t now remains
for the County Assessor and the
board of county commissioners to
force the collection of these taxes
and have the road pay up The
individual is compelled to pay his
taxes and there is no good reason
why the railroad should escape.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-14
The Worlds Fair Tests
showed no baking powder
SO pure or so great in IeaV-
ening power as the Royal
There is No Excuse

These days of quick railway and
postal service, for not being posted
on all the topics of the day-un-
less, indeed, you are not a sub
scriber for some stalwart, 365-day-
in-the-year paper, like The Salt
Lake Daily Tribune. And in fact
there is no excuse for not being, be-
cause if one feels too poor to spend
a dollar a month for the daily, the
semi weekly IN be had for three
months for Is cents. 1t contains
the condensed and selected matter
Of the daily, embracing the foreign
and local Geographic, editorial and
local, and especially matter pertain
ing to Utah. There is no pardon
able excuse for avoiding an educa-
tion-and The Tribune is an educa-
tor Everybody admits that. Think
of it-three months for IS centsl
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-14

Last August while working in
the harvest field | became overhead
ed, was suddenly attacked with
cramps and was nearly dead. Mr..
Cummings, the druggist, gave me a
dose of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy which COM
pletely relived me. l now keep a
bottle of the remdy hanedy. A. NJ.
BUNNELL, Centerville, Wash. For
sale by J. F. Cook, Jr. Druggist.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-14

SOME of our exchanges which are
classified in the Sweet column are
squealing about the gross person
alities INDUCED in by the Neon
nell organs against Mr.. Sweet. 1t
strikes us that the Sweet organs
ought to be the last to squeal.
They have been notorious in their
personal abuse of the chief execu-
tive of the state and the senior
United States Senator from Idaho.
We know of at least two papers
that have been founded by some of
of Mr.. Sweets friends with no 9th
er appearant mission in the world
than to sling mud. In the estima-
ton of the HERALD, both the Sweet
and Mcconnell organs are going toe
far and both sides will regret theil
fool course before year and one
faction or the other will have tC
eat their own words.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-14

WE are of the opinion that the
political storm centre of Idaho next
year will be in the Immediate vi
cinity of the new town of Nez Perez
City. We are led to this conclu-
sion by observing the list of "pro-
moters" of the town. How such a
hurd of politicians got together
will never be explained, but the
fur will fly about primary time.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-14
s. D. TAYLOR, Editor and Proprietor
ABOUT SPANKING AND OTHER MATES.

IT appears that d. G. Long of
this place has been pouring tale
of woe into the ears of the would-b be
smart Aleck that publish the Rath-
drum Blade. The HERALD will
not consume a great deal of space
in discussing with the Blade the
momentous question as to whose
kid should have been spanked, but
we have merely to say that we re-
ported the accident as it was cur
rently reported upon the streets
the next day and as it is yet cur
rently understood by the people of
this town, except of course in the
Long circle.
A word in this connection as to
d. G. Long. 1t has probably not
escaped that individuals memory
that this paper has published
several columns in defense of him
self and family in the last two or
three years, and never word of
reproach. In view of these facts,
a due sense of justice and gratitude
would have dictated that he first
come to us, or write us, asking
such correction as he deemed pro-
per- Failing to get justice, it
would then have bee n time enough
to have taken the matter IS miles
away from home and poured his
troubles into the willing ears of
the Silver Blade.
Long appears to be the type of
an individual that every newspaper
meets with as often as once or twice
year, seldom oftener. You can
sing their praises year in and year
out, in column after column, and
yet let short squib appear mad
vertently in the paper, that is not
to their fancy, and they rush off to
find some swine to drink up what
they slope over.
AS to the Silver Blade-ah therel
Ever since the Blade was establish
ed, it has been a sort of a guardian
angel to the KooTENAI HERALD
We seldom see il comment on any
thing said by the Ceur d. Alene
Press, the official paper of the
county, or the bright and outspok-
en- Hope Examiner, but it seems to
weigh with tender solicitude every
word uttered by the KooTENAl
HERALD, prompted, no doubt, solely
by desire to keep us in the patti
of right and duty. 1t would, there
fore, be base ingratitude on oul
part, did we not feel some of this
same solicitude for the welfare o
the Blade. 1t is in this sense
only we suggest to the Blade tina
that before it elaborate
too much on such subjects a:
"Reported Wrongiully," it he sur'
first, of its facts, and, second, tina
its own columns are passably fire,
from error. We say 'passably
free" because in the rush of pres
day, errors will creep into the hes
of regulated papers. The Blad
should be careful about accusing
some contemporary of wrongful,
reporting something and in thu
same issue print an item from it
contemporaries town concerning {
citizens death, that deceased
was unmarried, when in fact he ha'
wife and Children; no
still another item we might men
ton, the latter part of which pre-
duced lots of sport here at tn
Blades expense.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-14

j. f. Cook, Jr., the druggist, has
a large stock of fine Holiday goods.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-14
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
New Device for Catching F;si.

Among the triumphs of inventive
genius is a new lish-trap that prom
ises to simplify the operation of fish
ing and permit the angler to capture
his prey by clever artihce. A small
mirror is suspended by swivel and
chain, and before it hangs n squirm-
ing, wriggling bait. The fish gets his
eye on this, aud with Il greed charac-
teristic of other creatures besides
dshes, thinks he will catch the bait be-
fore the other fish that he sees in tho
the mirror coming directly toward it
can get there, therefore he makes
snap for the bait and swallows it,
hook and all, at the same time bump
ing himself sharply against the sur
face of the mirror, all OF which oper-
alton is supposed to feclltate the SC
cure hooking of the deluded fish. A
similar trap is used in India for catch
ing tigers. The savage beast sees an
other tiger, as he supposes, making
for the bait, and Immediately hurries
to secure it, forgetting in his haste
his usual caution and desire to iuyes-
tigate. New York Ledger.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

In Budapest, Hungary, they have
put the trolley wires underground.
1t is proposed to do away with the
smoke nuisance in Pittsburg, Penn,
by erecting q mammoth electric plant
outside the city.
California diamonds are found in all
the colors, from brilliant white to q
clear black, together with rose, pink,
yellow, blue and green.
A chemist advises that canned fruit
be opened an hour or two before it is
used. 1t becomes richer after the OK
ygen of the air has been retored to it.
A fire was recently started in Bos-
ton store by allowing an incandescent
lamp to remain for a few minutes on
pile of cotton cloth in the packing
room.
Beautiful specimens of the anchor
ite, or tourmaline, have been found III
Maine and elsewhere in New England.
This gem is said also to have been
found in North Carolina.
A use for compressed air in the
foundry in addition to cranes and
hoists, which are being introduced
everywhere, is in providing a sand
blast for the cleaning of castings.
A railroad train was recently
stopped near Rheims, France, by tho
number of caterpillars that fell on the
railway. The rails grew too pasty
and slippery for the wheels to adhere
until cinders were thrown on them.
The German Government has offered
q prize of $3.50 for q system by which
''the indications of the compass-card
Of ships compass shall be automatic.
ally transmitted to another location in
the ship in such manner that the
ship may be steered. "
The recent alarming mortality
among the French soldiers in the gar.
rison at Vitre, which was first ascribed
to the use of damaged canned fruit
from the United States, turned out to
be tetanus or cerebro-spinal fever re.
sulting from overcrowding.
Professor Max Muller asks for
money to photograph the inscriptions
of the Kutho Daw, in Burmah, a col
lection of over seven hundred temples,
each containing white marble slab
on which part of the Tripitaka, the
great Buddhist Bible, is engraved.
A nautical bicyle has been invented
by Spaniard The machine is COM
posed of two cases of steel, which servo
as floats and are connected by cross
bars. In the space between the two,
and near the stern, is paddle-wheel
operated by pedals something like a
bicycle. The speed is about six miles
an hour.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
THE SMOKE.

Dove-wlnged against q tender, turquoise sky
The white smoke fits; or through the lam
bent air
Quivers TO fading violet spirals fair;
Or shifts to gray curled upward heavily.
II rises in strong, twisted columns high
From grlmy tunnels, lecked with ntful
flare;
Or through the planks Of creaking bridges
bare
1t sfts a sinuous way TO trail and die
The still, vast skies are background for its
strife;
IT'S like mans yearning, mounting fro m
mans pain,
Seeking the tranquil Heavens, waveringly;
Earth's ceaseless clash and clangor give it
life;
'Tis like mans prayers, that rise from toll
and strain,
Trail, and are lost, in Gods immensity.
Hannah Parker Kimball, in scribner.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
An easy Thing'' for This. Solomon.

The Police Department may be n
little shy when it comes to trailing
lost goats, but when pigeons are in
volved there is member of the force
who possesses all the shrewl attributes
of Solomon of old. 1t is like this !!
On Friday Adolph Grenboldt, No.
1417 California avenue, owned Sl00
worth of "homer" pigeons, aud the
next morning they were not. Officers
Wiencka and Heaney, OF the Attrill
street station, were placed on the
trail. 1t lead yester lay first to a Chi
nese laundry, and then to the resi-
dence of Stephen Spitza, where the
birds were found. Mr.. Spitza was
positive the birds were his. So was
Grenboldt.
"Fhis is the easiest thing I have
struck for long time, said Officer
Heaney.
Then he opened the coop, turnel
the pigeons loose, watched them cir
Gle once ir the air, and then start of.
"Now," said this later.day Solomon,
turning to Mr.. Grenboldt, "if those
birds are yours, they will be home be-
fore you are"
Aud they we're. One OF the stolen
birds has the 750-mile record from a
point in Mississippi to Chicago, win
ming the first prize last year In all
fourteen of the stolen birds have been
recovered. Chicago Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28

The Supreme Court of Louisiana
has decided that n child of tender
years cannot be guilty of contributory
negligence SO rs to be in part respon-
sible for any accident or injury that
it might suffer. A three-year-old child
had been injured by a street car, and
a verdict had been given against the
railway company in the lower court
The company appealed and pressed
the point, raised in the lower court,
that the child was in the way of the
car by its own negligence and there
fore responsible for its own injury.
The Supreme Court ruled that such q
child could not be negligent and the
railway company could not be excused
for any lack of care or watohfulnes,
ON the part of its employees on thai
ground. Such employees are bound tC
use extraordinary care and watehlul
ness whenever there are incapable
persons in the vicinity of the railway
and il they do not the company mus
suffer. This decision is good sense n
well rs good law
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
man IS scrubbs fell forward right

man as Scrubbs fell forward right
across my legs.
disengaged myself and sprang to
my feet just as Bertha Endcot sprang
from behind pile of loose stones and
stood before me.
81 winged him, didn't II" she asked,
breathlessly. "The coward Perhaps
the next time he dubs my mother q
bumptious old woman he'll remember
that an American girl can shoot" "
Bertha had puta bullet into his leg.
and the shot cost her mother few
thousand pounds, for Iris and her
chaperone had left Nice-with Mrs.
Endcot's money-before we managed
to get the wounded man back to his
hotel.
Soon after Bertha consented to DO
mine. illustrated Bits.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
IIare the Grows Rclormed :

Several farmers OF Bergen County,
New Jersey, report that although the
crows last year were very persistent
in corn pulling all through the spring,
even attacking early sweet corn AS
soon as the ears were large enough
for the table, they have scarcely Wis
tied a corn field this season, and there
have been no complaints of their dep
relations, although seen dying about
and frequenting their ancient rocker
les in the wood. What could nave
caused this sudden change in the
moral conduct of the crows is puzzliug
the farmers, and their only fear is
that the apparent reform may not be
any more lasting than that among GER
tain wingless bipeds, who sometimes
make Il special effort to be exceeding
ly good in order to note the effect on
their accusers. If the crows in other
parts OF New Jersey or elsewhere have
shown an inclination to reform we
hope it will be duly reported and re-
corded, New York sun,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
A PRECIOUS RECOLLECTION.

A stranger who was walking through
Jackson Park the other day and not
ing the changes that time and the
South Park Commissioners are gradu-
ally making in that historic locality
was observed to stop under one of the
trees, glance at the Wooded Island,
squint at the statue of the Republic in
the distance, and carefully examine
the tree itself
Then he slowly nodded his head sew
eral times, emitted q sigh, and softly
said TO bystander
81 shall always look upon this spot
where / am standing now as the dear
est spot on earth.
at was here, perhaps u ventured
the other, "that you met the young
lady to whom.--to whom you were af-
terward..-
'1t was hore," said the stranger,
dreamily, "that I paid S4,75 for a
bowl of cold soup, piece of asbestos
beefsteak, n slab of bakers bread and
four swallows Of coffee. "-'-Ohicago
Tribune,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28

The last session of the Illinois Leg
islature so amended the act concerning
dependent children that every train
ing school for boys is to get $40 q
month from the county for every boy
committed TO its charge, whether the
County Board has agreed to it or not.
As there is profit for the schools OF
So on every boy, the training schools
hive agents out gathering in depend
ent boys, ard as the definition in the
act as TO what constitutes "depend-
ent boy" is very vague, they are gath
ing in a good crop. The county au
thorities have resolved to take the
matter to the courts.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
JUST TAKING A FLYER.

The last word had been said, con-
gratulations spoken, and the Chicago
wedding guests were flown. Down in
the refreshmont room the bridegroom
Count was drinking healths to him
self.
"Well, "1,sOid the father Of. the Count,
"the thing appears to be handsomely
consummated.
ooh, toler' BILE, assented the father
OF the heiress bride.
The father OF the Count flushed
haughtily.
"You do not appear to be impressed
with the dignity of the OCCASION" he
said, "the grandeur of the Old World
family with which your daughter has
effected this alliance.
Mr.. Hagmlet shook his head.
"You see," he said, knocking his
cigar ashes on the carpet, "I've been
in those Notwithstanding deals
before. "---Rockland Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28

Out of ninety-fve candidates, who
had secured appointments to West
Point Military Academy for the COM
ing year, but forty-nine succeeded in
passing the mental examination,
scarcely more than half; and yet,
marvels the New Orleans Picayune,
they are talking OF raising the stand
ard of the examinations for admis-
sion. Tho present examinations arc
only in the rudiments OF education,
but require a very perfect mastery of
these.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
A Survivor OF Waterloo.

Ballot, the Oldest of the three
French survivors of the battle of
Waterloo, lives at Carisey, in the De-
partment of the Yonne, where he was
born in 1898. Excepting his deaf
ness, he is still in as good health as
ever, and is full of anecdotes of the
campaigning days in Germany, He
was struck with the sabre of an Eng
lish dragoon at Waterloo, but 1t failel
10 cut through his shake, which was
stuffed with brushes, pieces of bread
and many other articles. New York
Sun,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
II Got the Jury.

Justice Vaughan Williams tells
many good story, but the following
is one OF his best from the bench. A
counsel for the defense only put one
question to all the witnesses called for
the other side, and it was "HaYe yod
an umbrella?' Invariably the answer
was eyes" Even the policeman had
an umbrella. The counsel then said
"This is very suspicious; every wiz
ness has an umbrella" and the jury
acquitted the prisoner without look
lug round, Household Words,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
RAr1s OF ADVERTISING,
AFTER SUNSET.

Pink clouds on palest green
Are drifted more and more,
Like rose leaves from rose garden
On q clear emerald floor.
o. is 1t that through the cato
Flung open for IN hour
see the living rose gHrdGu
It's trellis all in ilowerg
Or is it that these are folk,
Good heavenly folk that &C -
In green shoon and rosy eloaS
And hair Of gold a-blow!
o. dancing feet Of rose
o, robe blown back a space!
Dear angel, ere the good time goes,
Show me your face
Katharine lyman.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28

Singnlarly enough, muses. the Chi.
cago Times-Herald, the editor of the
mems department of the women S
edition of the st. Paul (Minn.) Dis
patch heads her column "The Lords
of Creation, and there is nothing in
her text to show trace of irony. The
namo of this droll new woman is
Smith-Mrs. f. 7. Smith.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28

Great Britain shows an annual de-
crease in crime, and prisons are being
closed accordingly, but in Franco
crimes of NIL kinds have increased
during the last fifty years aS a ratio
of l30 per cent. The number of
criminals from sixteen to twenty-one
years of age has increased by 247 per
cent
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

just the Thing-What They Get-De-
tected Derisive Tone - He
Wouldn't Promise, Etc, Etc.
When 1 proposed she did not blush,
And not one word she said;
The maiden did not tell nc yes
She simply shook her head.
She simply shook her head, and yet
No man in all the town
Could be more pleased than was, Tor
She shook It up and down.
Life.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28
TRuE TO HIS WORD.

Jack Ford--."WhenI let Frank Fer
ris have that five dollars, he said he
couldn't pay me for week or ten
days"
Tom De Witt.--"And how long ago
was that ?" -,
Jack Tord--"About three months. "
Tom De Witt --"Well, Frank may be
hard up, but at all events he's no liar.
Puck.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28

A writer in the Popular Science
Monthly thinks that some children
lie habitually because they are suffer
ing from disorders of mind OF body,
or both, (which radically interfere
with tho transmission OF conceptions
and perceptions.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28

An unusual nun Der of agents from
Western and Southern States are sta.
toned in New York City this year for
the purpose of inducing immigrants
to settle in the States which they rep.
resent. Even Wisconsin and Califor-
MIA are desirous of attracting new
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-08-28

The New York Mail and Express OK
claims: "Havins harnessed Niagara,
Yankee ingenuity may some day use
the Rocky Mountains to fill in the Yo.
semitic Valley, preparatory to cutting
it up into building lots"