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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21

most lucrative. and it did not take the
young graduate long to decide that 1t
would be the proper occupation for him
TO engage in. He accordingly entered
the Harvard law school. from which he
graduated in 1865. Shortly afterward,
TO use an expression common among
lawyers nowadays, he hung out his
single" in New York city. He was
to!erably successful and won the good
counsel OF men like Samuel J. Tiden,
Francis Herman and others. In 1875
he became corporation counsel Of New
York and served until 1882. That was
the only political post he held previous
to his appointment as secretary of the
navy in 1885. He served until the end
OF the first Cleveland administration.
1889. He succeeded in having Cleve-
land renominated in Chicago in 1892
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Blue light that silver CLOVIS and
pales.
Stiffness; silence, then a stir
or breathing life. White trails
or sombre clouds float to the west
And sink within the sea to rest.
Peak on peak leaps up rose-tipped,
And slope on slope then swells with
thrills,
Sweet and pipe and call of bird
And beast. Then high above the hills
The sun flares up. and shepherds horn
Resounds and echoes Is born,
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at midnight. Pierola. mounted upon a
plack morse. commanded the revolution
lists. At Two o'clock there were five
hundred dead and the government was
defeated
But Piorola as dictator. felt the eff
reefs or Prado, the knave. The coun-
Try bankrupt. the army and navy de-
stEoyed. he could do nothing in the face
OF the victorious Chilians. They cap
'ured Lima, and they gorged them
serves with southern territory. Pier
olas friends turned against him and
ne was compelled to fee. Four years
later ne returned and, by force of arms.
again won the place of dictator. But
the people were against him and again
ne fell. From that time until this year
he waited patiently, slowly organizing
another army in the mountains.
again he has been successful. and now
NoA popuil follows the clash Of arms.
Plerola. president of Peru, is as brave
soldier as South America ever pro-
duced. and he is loved by his troops as
Napoleon was by the Guard. He is
married and has several grown chill
dren. AS statesman he has yet to
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21
HOW HE GOT THERE.
iiiogra phicmi Sketch OF Gen. Russell A..
Alger of Michigan.

.alger of Michigan.
General Russell Alexander Alger, the
favoritc son of Michigan in three ma
tional republican conventions, and the
peer OF any living American, had an
humble beginning. writes an admirer.
He knows what it is to be poor, for in
his life. he has been laborer in a
brick yard, a farm hand, and like Lin
coin, has record for splitting rails. 1t
was as logger" and "rafter," how
ever, that he found his way to fortune.
General Alger was born in Lafayette.
Ohio, Feb. 81, 1894. He labOrcd on the
farm until he reached the age of 20.
when he crossed the line into Michigan.
and then journeyed to the lumber woods
Of the Grand River valley. He secured
a job as a lumber shower at saw mill
at the princely salary of $12 month.
Later he became a ''rafter" on the
Grand river. At Grand Rapids he en-
gagged in the lumber business on his
own account. and the enterprise proved
vers successful. In the meantime he
had not neglected the work Of self-edu-
cation, and in 1859, he was admitted to
the bar. In 1867 he raised a company
of volunteers and went to the front as
captain of the Second Michigan Caval-
ry. He distinguished himself at Gettys-
burg and in the Shenandoah valley.
He came out of the war as brevet ma
jor general. After the war he engaged
in the lumber business at Detroit and
amassed large fortune. In 1884 he
was elected governor of Michigan on
the republican ticket. His admins
tration as governor for two years was
distinguished by many reforms. He re-
fused nomination In 1890 he was
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21
QUEER ANSWERS.

Replies Made to Examination Questions
in Boston school. ~
Since wit has been defined BY Noah
Webster as the "felicitiOus association
of objects not usually connected, 80 as
to, produce pleasant surprise: may
not the pupils of some OF our public
schools. who gave the following an
swers to their examination questions
lay claim to 1t? The record as here Civ
on is bOnafide, having been read during
the last week at the graduation exer-
cises of one of the leading grammar
schools OF this city.
/. Who were the Pilgrims? A dirty.
filthy set who lived under the ground.
. Name a domestic animal useful for
clothing, and describe it's habits. The
OK. He don't have any habits because
he lives in stable.
J. II you were travelling across des-
ert vince would you choose to rest? l
would rest on stool.
4. Mention five races of men, Men.
women, children and babies
). Describe the white race and show
that it is superior to the other races. A
white man will nod at you when he
meets you on the street.
g. OF what is the surface of the earth
composed? Dirt and people.
Z. Name fruit that has seeds on the
outside. A seedcake
s. Name five forms of water. Ho,
water, cold water. faucet water, well
water and ice water.
3. Name and locate the five senses
The eyes are in the northern part Of the
face and the mouth in the southern.
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10. Where were the mound builders!
History cannot answer these questions.
Science only can.
II. Define finch. and use 1t In a sem
tence. Finch, to shrink. Flannel
flinches when 1t Is washed.
IL. By what is the earth surrounded
and by what is it lighted? 1t is sur
rounded by water and lighted by gas
and electricity.
ID. Name six animals OF the Arctic
zone. Three polar bears and three
seals.
IA. What is yeast? Yeast is a vegeta-
BILE flying about in the air, hitching it.
self to anything.
10. Why do you open the hampers in .
stove when lighting a fire? To let the
oxygen In and nitrogen out.
16. What did the constitution do for
the country? 1t gave the president q
head.
II. What are the last teeth that como
to man? False teeth.-Boston Budget.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21

Callao. and, travelling by n special
train from Lima, he reached the sea-
port, where he announced that he in
tended inspecting what remained of
the feet and also the forts, so as to be
ready for the coming conflict. The
people shouted their brayas as he
stepped into the barge. accompanied by
brilliantly-uniformed officers. He
DOTTED his hat and addressed them,
saying he would yet save Peru. The
executive party visited the monitors in
the bay, then the two wooden cruisers.
There was much powder burned in sa-
lning. The barge then turned shore
ward, but Prado, as if the idea had lust
come to him, bade the coxswain steer
for the steamship Islay, then lying at
anchor in the outer bay and due to sail
for Panama; saying, as he did SO. that
there was a friend on board to whom
he wished to deliver his parting salu-
tation. Thither the barge was rowed
and the president tripped gayly up the
s!dc-ladder. He never came down IL
again in Peruvian waters. The barge
waited and waited until the big shin
ucdrly CdpSlZeu IL Wueu HeSulnS around
TO get her nose to the sea. The officers
of state cursed and called out that their
president was being kidnapped. The
captain of the 1slay smiled at them and
ordered full speed ahead. AS she was
fairly under way Prado, smiling and
debonair, appeared near the after-rail
and kissed his hands to his aides. In
his cabin he had several hundred thou
sand dollars. He went to Paris and
enjoyed himself.
That night came the opportunity for
Nicholas de Pierola, an under-secre-
tary in the war department He is
sued pronunciamentO and sent forth
trusted friends. ''Pierola, Pierolar'
shouted the people. Yes; anybody
rather than the knaves at the palace-'
For Prado's ministry had declared they
would carry on the government
At ten o'clock there was rumble of
wheels and a clatter of hoofs; a battery
of artillery and squadron of cavalry
had deserted the barracks and declared
for Pierola. Infantry soon followed;
then men arrived from every direction
barricade was erected across a side
street leading to the Grand Plaza. 1t
was attacked by the government forces
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21
Fond of Eixnres.

Although Jose Echegaray, the Span
ish dramatist, has written more than
a hundred plays during the past twenty
years. nearly all Of them successful. he
aspires to be famous as mathematician
rather than as playwright. He writes
plays In the intervals OF leisure from
his scientific studies. and none of them
has cost him more than fortnight's
labor. Echegaray Is a lively old man
Of 70, and he has recently learned to
ride the bicycle. He makes the curious
boast that up to the age Of 50 he had
read every novel published in England.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21

society is opposed to anything save con-
ventionality. Mrs. Mimms, however.
was some years ago leading social
light in the best sense of the word; n
brilliant and beautiful woman. endowed
with rare and comprehensive intel
lect, which she cultivated to the utmost
in every possible line of literature and
art. She drew about her all the per-
sons of cultivation in her social world.
In those days she could be said to have
had more of what the French term n
salon than any other woman in the
south. She was the high pricstess OF
art and letters.
For ten years she had been an inva-
lid, but her sufferings left no trace upon
her mind, or upon her face. She had
tried all sorts of remedies and all sorts
of physicians. spending thousands of
dollars with the hope of restoring her
health. At this time she became inter-
ested in Christian science through one
of the disciples OF Mrs. Eddy. the Chris
tian scientist of Boston. Through the
instruction of this young Christian sci
enlist Mrs. Mimms' health began rapid
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21

Although Max Nordau IL several
years under fifty, his hair and beard
are perfectly white. He IL a hearty.
genial man. with no trace in his pri-
vate life Of his professional pessimism.
Reading was his only boyish amuse-
ment, for his father. Jewish rabbit,
was poor, but possessed Of a full IL
brary. He began to write when only
fourteen years old. and Mt sixteen he
was earning twelve dollars . month
from literary work. DIR. Nordau
neither smokes nor drinks spirituous
liquors. and he takes but little interest
In society or the theater. He recently
told an interviewer that the few hours
he spends at his writing-table every
evening are the one pleasure OF his life.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21

John Burroughs has Just finished
harvesting his grapes, Of which his
vines yield ninety tons a-year. and for
which he finds q ready market In New
York. The naturalist and essayist
leads a very bucolic life, for q literary
man. at his country home ON the Hud-
son. He exacts all he can from nature.
even to the goose-quills he uses for
pens, and the reeds visitor found him
Transforming into pen-hoiders. His
currants, peaches, and grapes return
him a better income than his books.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21
WILLIAM c. WHITNEY.

brief Sketch of Man Now In tho
Public Eve.
William Collins Whitney was born IN
North Conway, Mass, July 5, 1S41. His
father was Scotch, his mother was Irish.
They were well-to-d0 people and their
son found no barriers in the way Of
completing the education begun in a
country school house. In his seven
teenth year he entered Yale College
and made rapid progress in the depart
that university with honors In July,
1863. The practice Of law at that time
was considered among tho most hon
orable of professions. as we'll as the
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21

poetry. She has, first, what all women
prize above all things. and that Is gen
uine beauty, and she speaks French.
Italian. and German with fluency.
She is also harpest of exceptional
power. her execution being something
notable for woman who has just
passed her teens. She was at school
abroad for six years. in Paris. Berlin
and London, and has travelled over
Europe. besides spending several
months in the Holy Land. All this for
a woman who has not yet gotten be-
yond her twenty-frst milestone Is a
little unusual, even in this age Of rapid
development.
One Of Cardinal Gibbons last acts be-
Tore embarking on his late foreign trip
was to write to Miss Cunningham n
letter OF praise for her recent book Of
poems. The Ballad Of La Jeunesse
Doree." In which his eminence was
pleased to say that the work OF the poet
ess displayed "a high order of literary
merit" Through a large part of the
products of this gifted and versatile
young American woman there Is vein
OF religious mysticism, as we'll as a
touch of metaphysics, but here and there
the genuine womanly sentiment crops
out as In this little GEM
Give me Of thy gold, O Sunshine;
or thy silver. give me. Moon.
And I'll take them to my sweetheart
She will bid me enter soon.
Then 1t will not matter. Sunshine;
Then 1t will not matter. Moon.
That we have no purse between us
Only loves sweet, priceless boon.
That Miss Cunninglam's magma
ton has also sublime and powerful
range Is impressively manifested in the
sparkling verse entitled Dawn" which
has been highly praised:--
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21
MRS. KATE CHAPLIN.

given her high rank AZ a writer OF
short stories. lives In st. Louis. where
she was famous for her beauty before
she gained equal fame from her pen.
She ia still handsome woman. though
now the mother Of six children. She
Is a creole by birth. and her husband
was Louisiana planter. It may be Of
interest to ambitious young authors Of
the gentler sex to know that Mrs. Cha
pin writes on an old cutting board held
in her lap.
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::aMSG

has marched upon Lima with troops
composed Of hardy mountaineers, and,
after fierce fighting. has won his way to
the executive building. His last battle
occurred in May, and one thousand
dead men lay on the paving stones of
the City of Kings before he was it's
master. Then he appealed to the peo-
pie and they, by splendid majority.
gave him the greatest gift at their
hands, writes G. II. Hazeltine in Les
lies Weekly.
Pierola has in view the aggrandize-
ment of Peru. He believes in more
liberal treatment Of foreigners, the at
traction of capital to his country, and
the opening of the interior He pro-
poses completing the road to the wealth
OF the Cerro del PascO mines and fur
nishing an outlet for the treasure that
is known to be in hitherto inaccessible
regions. For fourteen years he has
been striving to bring this about, but
each time that he occupied the eXecu
tive chair an overthrow came before he
could accomplish anything. Now that
he Is president he has the opportunity
ne has fought and waited for. To
show the wonderful energy of the man
bit of history is necessary. yet it is
history one cannot find in books.
In 1867 Peru prospered as she
never had before. under the admins
tration of Pardo, an eminent jurist.
While at the height of his successes he
was shot down by a fanatic, and was
succeeded in Office by Prado. In 1879
Peru sided with Bolivia against Chilli
in struggle for the control of the An
tifogasta nitrate beds. Then a cloud
settled down upon the northern repub
lie. Her superior navy was defeated.
Her allies, the Bolivian soldiers, de-
serted during the first battle. In Octo-
Der, 1879, the southern part Of the state
was held BY the enemy. and march on
Lima was expected.
One afternoon of that month Prado
ordered his state barge to be ready in
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21

Let me congratulate you on the sue
cess OF your dream book said Mr..
Dukane to a rising young author.
My dream book repeated the au-
thor in surprise.
We'll, l fell asleep while reading it
and dreamed lots Of things before I
walked up.'-Pittsburg Chronicle Tele-
graph.
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IS ABOVE THE WORLD.
SOUTHERN WOMAN WITH A
BEAUTIFUL CHARACTER.
Mrs. Livingston Mimms. a Lady a. Cui-
ture and Refinement. Embraces the
New Faith and Is Surrounded by In
nuentiai Followers.

RS. LIVINGSTON
Mimnls., OF Allan
ia, Ga, is a unique
iigure.The disciples
Of a new faith or Il
new art are general
~ called, and often
are. fanatics. They
seldom come from
the inner circle Of
conventional socie-
~ for conventional
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Said by Madame Niarchesl.

Madame Marchesi has trained prima-
dosnas for the lyric stage for forty
years. and what she says on matters of
vocal culture Is law. 1t is refreshing
to hear her statement that the elabor-
ate rules Of diet for singers on which
many teachers lay stress are humbug.
II girl has not learned by the time
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she comes to me what food suits her
she never will" says Madame Mar
chest. This famous teacher. now q
fine-looking woman few years past
sixty. trained Melba, Calve. Eames.
Sibyl Sanderson and other artistes Of
almost equally great fame. She gained
celebrity as a concert singer in 1850.
and few years later married the Mar
Quis de Castrone, an Italian political
refugee. She was long a friend Of the
Able List.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21
A POET AND A BEAUTY
BALTIMORE GIRL WHO HAS WON
RENOWN.
Martha Cunningham, Barely Out of Her
Teens. Iias Surprised American schol-
ars with Her Talents-AlsO Ilarpist
Of Exceptional Power.

ARTHA Cunning
ham, a young poet
ess. whose fame Is
steadily tax in &
shape and who has
b e en- compared,
even by some OF
GUS severest critics,
to Browning, has
accomplish m G n I 8
that are not con-
fined to the field OF
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21
NAPOLEON OF PERU.
PIEROLA HAS WILD BiTIONS
FOR CONQUEST.


ICHOLAS de Pier
ola, twice dictator
OF Peru. is now the
president. elected
by t h e people.
Pierola has been
termed the Napo-
leon OF South
America. Twice
he has been eXileG
from his native
land and twice he
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21

Messages sent over the wires of the
New York police department amour.
TO mere than 900 a day.
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chosen commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic. 1t is be
lieved he is worth $s.0O0.OOO Twice a
year-Christmas and Thanksgiving
he distributes large sums of money
among the poor of Detroit and else
where. General Alger was one Of the
first to suggest the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-21

and is himself a candidate for the presi-
dental nomination next year. He has
the support OF Cleveland Mr.. Whitney
is worth several millions OF dollars.
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demonstrate his ability, but there are
many WHO believe that his advent sig
mails prosperity for IA country which has
seen only reverses for fifteen years.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-06
Senator Frye's Platform.

Every American citizen who wants
to know what kind of a foreign policy
his country should enunciate and, at
all hazards, sustain, is recommended
to commit to memory the following
statement of Senator William Z. Frye;
II would not submit to any insult to
any aggressions on our rights, to any
violation of the Monroe doctrine, to any
interference with Hawaii or Samoa so
far as our interests are concerned, or
with our project of constructing the
Nicaragua canal.
II would annex the Hawaiian
Islands at once, improve and fortify
Pearl Harbor, lay cable from there to
the Pacific coast. / would maintain
our coaling station at Pago Pago
against the world. l would reach out
to take whatever in our opinion was, or
might be, necessary to our future COM
mercial supremacy. being careful not
to violate the laws of nations, and to
be able to justify our conduct. If
Spain, by her actions at any time, justi-
fled us in so doing l would seize and
hold Cuba against the world. This
island has been nothing but a sponge,
to be squeezed by Spain, utterly re-
gardless of the interests of the people
living there. Annexed to our country
it would soon become a paradise. The
residents are entirely fit for American
citizenship. I regard the acquisition Of
Cuba as imperatively demanded, COM
mercially and politically. John Quincy
Adams, secretary of state in 1923, said
1t seems scarcely possible TO resist the
conviction that the annexation of Cuba
to our Federal republic will be indls-
pensa BILE to the continuance and in
tegrity of the Union Itself
II would accept Canada as soon as
she was ready to come to us, and
would not offer her inducements to
stay away, as this last Democratic con-
gress did. They made her a present of
a million of dollars annually as bonus
to remain under the protection of Great
Britain to nag, insult and abuse us.
Even If England forced us into another
declara tion of war 1 would promptly
accept Canada and make her forever a
part of this republic"
That is sound Americanism.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-06
AS VIEWED AFAR.
the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Wilkes-Bar and Scranton, like Phila-
delphia and New York. st. Paul and Min
neapolis, Chicago and st. Louis, are rivals
from away back, and when they get a
chance do not refrain from holding one an
other up to ridicule. IL Is the sign of q
great and growing country when there are
so many rival cities and towns separated
only by stream or "a state. or what Is Of
little consequence i'm the United States, a
few hundred miles, all pushing after trade,
all seeking, upon one line or another, to
outstrip their competitors and all growing
at q rate never witnessed in any other
land before.
Not long ago It was Scrantons turn to
laugh at Wilkes-Barre because there had
been arrested In the latter city on the
charge of necromancy or witchcraft the
members of a family bearing the name OF
Baldwin. 1t was n chance which Scranton
did not neglect to point out that Wilkes
Barre had been q New England settle
ment, to recall the Salem witchcraft craze
and to comment upon the curious circum-
stances that the only modern outbreak Of
witchcraft had been in Wilkes-Barre and
In the Western Reserve of Ohio, which was
also settled by New England people.
The Baldwin family responded to the
sympathy expressed for them in Scranton
and one of them. after she had escaped
the danger Of being hanged for a witch In
Wilkes Barre, visited the neighboring city.
While there, perhaps because she had no
fear of punishment In n town Of such free
and metropolitan views as Scranton, the
visitor prophesled that one Of the Scranton
silk mills would be blown up on April 1
and that 100 girls would be killed. This
prophecy has given Wilkes-Barre the op-
portunity to take revenge upon Scranton
or Slocum Hollow. as the people Of Wilkes
Barre delight to call Scranton, In delicate
illusions to its comparatively recent
origin. For Scranton began to think that
maybe Mrs. BALDWIN, might be witch af-
ter all. The BELIEF grew as the prophecy