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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-26
A WeII-earned Vacation.

Mr.. Phil Casey, the popular and
efficient agent Of the Great North
ern Railway Company, at this
place, left on wednesday evening for
a holiday vacation which will be
spent with friends and relatives in
Wisconsin and Mich. Mr.. Casey
is putting in his fourth year at
Bonner's Ferry, discharging his
duties in a highly satisfactory
manner both to the company and
to its patrons. Such is the con-
fdence of the officials in him that
the company's auditor was not
sent in to check him out, but
he was allowed to check up his
own office and turn it over with a
clearance to the relief agent-a
most unusual occurrence.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-26

Hon. w. G. Fritter, secretary
of the democratic state central COM
mittee, was in town this week on
business. Mr.. Fritter is manager
of the N. Y. Life Insurance comp
any for this state and was looking
after his company's business in this
locality. The gentleman talks in
surance even better than he does
politices, for his insurance propo-
sition is really good thing, while
his politices is, or was, abominable,
even if it did get there. Mr. Fritter
made this Office a pleasant call.
The Moravia people had
Christmas tree at their school house.
Miss Kerchival, the teacher, had an
interesting program arranged and
it was well carried out by her
pupils. 1t was very pleasant
occasion.
Mr. w L. Kinnear, manager
of the Bonner Mercantile Co., re-
ports the best holiday trade this
year of any year since he has been
in business in Bonner's Ferry.
School closed Thursday even
ing for two weeks vocation. Both
teachers and pupils have been doing
good work and will enjoy a rest.
The ice has nearly all gone out
of the Kootenai and the Str. Hays
has been able to come up from
Balls to a point just below Galena
Landing.
MIR. and Mrs John G Callahan
depart next week for Rathdrum,
where John c. enters upon the du-
ties of his office as assessor.
t Hon. G. r. Gray and other
t members of the Kootenai county
5 delegation to the legislature leave
A for Boise on the 31st.
q MIR. J. F. Cook reports a good
holiday trade and says he could
have sold much more had he had
the stock on hand.
Mrs. John O'Hogge leaves for
Kalispell this evening on visit to
9 her daughter, Mrs Kalb.
Mrs. ANIME, late of Harring-
ton, has opened a restaurant in
town. The lady is an old friend
J of Mrs. J. W. Wolf.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-26
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
Meets at Bonner's Ferry Next Tues
day and Wednesday.

Kootenai County Teachers AS
ISOLATION meets here next Tuesday.
The following is the program, as
handed the HERALD:
TUESDAY, Dec. %.
Music.
Invocation-Rev. NJ. Nj. Marshall
Welcome address-Rev. Marshall
RespOnses-AssociatiOn.
"The District School"-Miss
Eliza Kerchival.
Educational Aims in Primary
wcrk'-Miss Alice Fahey.
"Factors in Education"-J. G.
Brady.
WEDNESDAY DEC. 80.
Music.
"Some Random Thoughts about
Teachers and Teaching''-Bartlett
Sinclair.
Mature Study"-Miss Ida Bush.
"Higher Ground"-W. S. Walker.
Question Box and Miscellaneous
" ork.
The teachers will be rendered a
reception Tuesday evening.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-26
NEW YEAR.

Before another issue of the HER
AID appears New Y ear will have
come. 1t is an event more of in
terst to the older ones. To the
business man it is especially i'm
portant. He is closing up his bus
mess for the old year and making
new calculations for the new year.
Nearly everybody makes new re-
solves for the New Year and it
marks the beginning of new epoch
in nearly every mans life. The HER
AID extends a happy New Year
greeting to all and hopes that their
fondest anticipations for 1897 may
be fully realized.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-26
THE CHRISTMAS TREE.

Thursday evening the City Hall
was crowded with young and old to
attend the Christmas tree exercises.
Never before wer4 there so many
presents for di|tribution. The
exercises were ceaducted by Miss
Winterbottom, principal Of our
school, assisted by a number of
other ladies. The program was so
arranged as to have each pupil in
the school have some part to per-
form. The children did we'll and
we regret that lack of space forbids
our giving them a more extended
notice. The songs and dialogues
were much enjoyed by the aud
fence, but the climax was reached
when old Santa Claus himself arriv-
ed and distributed his presents. il
was a delightful study to watch the
innocent expression Of expectancy
upon the face of the little folks
throughout the evening.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-26
THE CHRISTMAS BALL.

The ball given at the City Hall
on Christmas night was well at
tended and was all its promoters
could ask for it. There were about
so tickets sold and a nice time is
reported.> The music was furnish
ed by Messrs. w. w. Eaton, l. J.
Brant, Rob Eaton and Frank Fry.
The ball was managed by Mr.. Ed
Ensor and Mr.. William Brant. The
supper was given by Mr.. and Mrs.
J. ?. Beeler, at the Beeler House.
A ticket for the ball, including
supper, cost only the modest sum
of $1.00, yet the charge was uifici-
ent to pay all expenses and provide
everyone with a nice time and a
good supper.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-26
The Hoosier Boy Looms up.

Messrs. King, Ewing and Brant
have just received an assay from
the face of their tunnel on the
Hoosier Boy, in the Buckhorn group
on the Moyea. They have four
feet of ore and took a fair, average
sample across the face of the lead
The result was S14OO in gold to the
ton. 1t is free milling PROPOSE
ton. The assays have been re-
markable even. They have good,
strong, well-defned lead across
three claims 1t has been uncover
ed in many places, always prospect
ing the same. We doubt if there
is finer looking property in the
country.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-26
country.

Nh. G. A. Campbell, late of
Columbia Falls, will be the Great
Northern company's agent at Bon
ner's Ferry during the absence of
Mr.. Casey. Mr.. Moore is now
night operator.
The K. Of P. are going to give
a grand ball in their hall on
the 80.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25
British Prosperity.

Great Britain Is enjoying al era Of
unexampled prosperity. The mills and
workshops OF England are ablaze with
activity and -wage-earners are content
eddy employed. We hear no more Of
bread riots on Trafalgar square and
the walking delegate has been 81
fenced.
The transition from pinching want
and spiritless idleness to copious
plenty and lively employment is coin
cident with the gradual operation of
the Wilson free trade bill. Although
it may be entirely unrelated to it, the
fact Is, that English mills were closed
and English workmen idle while the
Mckinley bill was on the statute
book; now the mills are going and the
Workmen are employed and we have
the Wilson bill and general stagnation.
Give the English manufacturer a
free and practically unrestricted mar
ket in this greatest and most vora-
cious consuming country and he will
keep his workmen busy. By the same
license the American manufacturer is
forced to close his mills and throw out
of employment his workmen. This is
not a theoretical platitude; it is a pom
derous verify which is being illustrat-
ed most wildly by contrast between
England and America at this writing.
What has the silver question to do
with the premises? Absolutely moth
ing. Industry has revived in England
because England has found a market
for her wares and manufactures. In
dustry is paralyzed in this country be
cause England is making and selling
here the wares and manufactures we
ought to make for ourselves. 1t is as
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25
ITO BE
Horses Will Remain.

The horseless age is a long way off
1t is out Of sight, and is likely to re-
main so, notwithstanding the arrival
of the bicycle and the motor wagon.
When the reaper was invented pessi-
mists foretold the starvation of the
agricultural laborer. The sewing ma
chine was bitterly fought by people
who saw nothing in store for the seam
stress. The world to-day knows the
results. 1t is true that electric street
railways have dispensed with the serv-
ice of many thousand horses and that
the bicycle has decidedly injured the
livery business, and yet it is a fact
that the export trade in American
horses is making giant strides forward.
The exports for 1895, just compiled,
are So, 000, 900 in value-about twice
that of 1894. Europe will keep on
buying American horses, and the
equine which at home has survived
the competition of the steam railroad
and the trolley line will hold it's own
with the bike" and the horseless
wagon. Horses will be cheaper, just
as watches are cheaper now than for
merly, that is all.-NeW York Journal.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25

plain as the alphabet and yet the sill
verites are yelling for more free trade
and for free coinage of silver in the
same breath.
1t is not pleasant for an American
to contemplate this marked condition
with the condition presented in 1891
and 1892. He feels like kicking him
self and everybody else for being de-
ceived by the free trade cry of '92 and
opening our markets to Great Britain
to IL everlasting injury. To him the
tariff is the great issue in this cam
paign, Notwithstanding the emotional
lists are barking up the free coinage
tree. Therefore he will vote for a re-
turn of the industrial prosperity which
in 1892 he helped to give to our great
rival across the sea.-Detroit Journal.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25

ruddy CLEAN to three figures waitin,
near-the youth and maiden and tall
grave man, who were all gazing of
with a wild intensity of expression tina
gave a gloomy look to every face owe.
the water.
"Ah, the pictures!' said Sir Ciemen
W~illoughby. Il have looked at then
full an hour before, to-day. They arr
thrilling, are they not? 1 must seel
out the artist; it will be an honor fol
any man to know him. That midnight
is superb"
Eleanor stood with wild eyes that
could not drink in eagerly enough the
old familiar scene. Now the blue orbs
kindled joyfully, and again the tears
came yelling over them.
ooh, Walter, Walter!" cried she, in a
tone of anguish that startled all and
thrilled n heart with joy.
what ails you, Eleanor" asked her
mother anXiously.
ooh, mamma, take me home, and let
us come alone. I must see the pictures
alone"
The ladies and gentlemen gathered
around her looked astonished and en-
barrassed.
"Snt nv child" said her mother
gravely, eve do not understand; you
owe the company some word of eXpla-
na-;oo.'
Eleanor struggled for composure, and
dropping her veil over the flushed
cheek and fearful eyes, said more col
lectedly:
81 was taken by surprise. 1t is our
island home, mamma, and that is Wal
ter and Mr.. Vernon and myself. Oh,
those well-known scenes-it breaks my
heart to go back to them, and yet to
them with me! 1t was Walter who
painted the pictures. Oh, I am sure it
was Walter! I must see him-I must
find him."
Lady Annabel turned hastily to the
pictures, while a look of pain and an
noyance swept across her face. She was
evidently revolving some subject care
fully in her mind, for after the first
swift glance she dropped her eyes to the
floor.
Sir Clement Willoughby was re-ex-
aiming the pictures, more especially
the first one. His eye wandered ques-
tioningly over the graceful form of the
youth at the feet of the island queen,
ond when he turned tn the other if was
to catch what knowledge he could from
the side glimpse of the boyish face.
ITp PIE COSTINrEDI
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25
FREE COINAGE.
Rev. DIR. Buckley quotes His Ezperisns
rs an Illustration.

Rev. DR.. j. M. Buckley, editor OF the
New York Christian Advocate, In con-
Quoting a Question Drawer at the
Lake Chautauqua Assembly a day or
two ago ~grappled with the silver ques-
ton. Following is the question sent TO
him and his answer:
Q.-What would be the probable Ell
feet on missionary enterprises IL 1ree
coinage of silver were to become a Jaw
of the United States?
Alt would instantly or very
speedily reduce the incomes of the Tor
eign missionaries or it would compel
the raising of a vast amount more
money. The salaries of all foreign mis-
sionaries have to be paid in gold. he
Gently in India the silver rupee has
diminished in value to such an extent
that one denomination has been COM
PEELED to make great additions to It's
budget in order to sequaliZe the sala-
ries of missionaries in that country. L
know of a denomination with whose
affairs | am familiar that n about
$500, 900 in gold from this country every
year to foreign missionaries. Under
free coinage, if silver became more and
more our money. and we had to take
contracts on a silver basis, you can
readily see what the effects would be.
When l first went to Europe, it was
during the civil war: l had to go, and
/ said to a man, go to Boston and buy
me six hundred dollars worth Of gold.
He went and came back. Had net
bought any. He said that gold ha6
gone up to 1.20 and that he did not
want to waste my money like that. l
said to him, GO and chase it ard get it.
He went, and the next night came
back and reported that it had gone up
to 1.35, and hat he certainly did not
want to waste my money at that rate.
l said 1 must have it, even if you can
only bring back one hundred dollars,
bring it. By that time it had gone up
to 1.50. When | got over to the other
side 1 discovered that gold had not
risen at all, but that greenbacks-the
legal tender in this country-had gone
down. Voice in the audience-that is
right While there l had to borrow
some money, and l made the contract
to pay it back in gold after l had re-
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25
japan for Instance.

Japan has a silver currency, and the
wages paid in that country are very
low. The money in which the wages
of laborers are paid, being measured
by the silver standard, has steadily
shrunk in value during recent years.
In 1889 sugar was about 2R cents per
pound in Japan, a carpenters wages
were Is cents a day; in 1891 sugar had
advanced to q tri1e over 8 cents per
pound, while carpenters wages had
gone up to 15k cents a day; in 1894
sugar was 31a cents per pound, carpen-
ters' wages 17A cents per day. In 9TH
er words, a weeks wages in 1889 would
buy So pounds of sugar: in 1891, 81
pounds; in 1894, 20 pounds. Wages
have nominally increased, but the
prices of commodities have increased
so much more rapidly that the condi-
ton of the wage Garner has been con
stantly getting worse. Under the sill
yer standard in Japan, rice advanced
in price SO per cent from 1889 t 1895;
beans, SO per cent; salt, 26 per cent, and
tobacco, 4S per cent. The average in
crease in wages vas about IA per cent
for the same period. Japan's currency
has been steadily depreciating under
the silver standard, the common people
growing poorer.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25
Poured Water in His Boots.

The Rev. Leonard B. Worth of the
Baptist church has begun a suit for
divorce from Elvira w. Worth in Ok
lahoma. The clergyman alleges that
his wife asked him to deed all of his
property to her and made threats that
if he did not she would not live with
him, but would make it hot for him
ali his life. On n occasion. he says,
she filed his Sunday boots with water.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25

uce. The whole case lies In the simpls
fact that free trade gives the work to
the hundreds Of people who live In the
old world and takes it away from our
own people.
1t was the free trade vote. Of 1892
thai caused what the platform adopted
by the recent convention in this city
called Cessation Of our prosperity"
Instead of that condition being tracea-
BILE to any conduct of the republican
party 1t is traceable directly to the
panic produced when this country
voted for free trade. It is part of the
work of the republican party to rectify
that tremendous misunderstanding
Commercial.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25

surf beat in frothy petulance against
the reef. The feathery palm-tree cano-
by and gorgeous vines whose brilliant
blossoms lay like garlands over the
white rock. betrayed the tropic cline
no more plainly than the intense blue
of the over-arching sky. Nature was
inexpressibly lovely, but the gazer's
eye was caught and riveted by the hui
man figures. A young girl, graceful
and beautiful, was seated there like a
queen upon her throne, and beside her,
nearly at her feet, reclined a youth
whose countenance was partially con-
cealed as he was looking up eagerly in
to her face, which wore a wild, sor-
rowful, yearning look, as her eyes and
extended hand pointed to the far-off
line where sky and water met. Not
n could gaze upon the picture and not
know the whole was not yet compre-
hended-the story not half told.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25
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CHAPTER IX.-fCoNTINUEp.l
God bless you, sir. II ever Charlie
Collinwood can serve your son, believ'
me. it shall be done. Heaven will re
ward YOU"
This was Mr.. Vernon's parting will
the admiral. Both were conscious OF
subtle. mysterious whisper, telling
them 1t was their last meeting on eartf
and so it was.
That of Walter and Eleanor was still
more brief. The young hero forced back
the wild tumult that clamOred eagerly
to ask of her one promise to remain
faithful, and pallid and calm, held out
his hand, saying earnestly:
MAY heaven bless you with all the
happiness it has for earth! Goodbye,
Ellie"
She had come weeping and sobbing
from his fathers embrace. The blue
eyes had drenched with their briny rain
the soft rose of her cheek to a faded
white; the sweet lips quivered sadly.
Walters eye took in all, yet he said
only:
Goodbye, Ellie!w
Eleanor had no voice to reply. Part
ing thus from the only friends she had
ever known, with but a vague, unsatis-
factory hope of some time, somewhere
meeting them again, quite Frustrated
her sensitive temperament. Weeping,
fainting, nearly broken-hearted, her
uncle carried her in his arms back to
the cabin, while Walter, with dry, burn
ing eye and rigid lip, descended swiftly
to the boat that was to take them back
to the Hornet
In silent grief his father look a place
beside him. The word was given to cast
of, when suddenly the admiral himself
appeared above, leaning over the rail-
ing and calling Walters name. He
threw down a ring wrapped in a slip
OF paper. Walter grasped it nervously.
Full well he knew the ring; many a
time had Ellie brought it out to see the
sparkles play in the sunshine that came
fickering through the Hibiscus and
palm trees; but he stopped not to exam
inc it anew, but spread out the paper TO
read the brief line written there. Hur-
ried. blotted as they were, no diamond
i'm England or India could be so precious
to Walter Vernon, though they we're
only these: 81 shall wait for you, Wal
ter"
Walters face was covered by his
hands. but the straight, shapely fingers
could not hide the tears that at length
pouring through them.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25

sgering ever, some for Arts dear sake,
and some from obedience to a more ty-
rannMal Observation-Disclosures a group
OF pictures which bore the mark of a
new genius, whose star had but lately
shot up brilliantly on the sky of fame.
Upon a seat not far from these pict-
ures sat a gentleman, whose foreign
cleak and SLOUGH hat nearly concealed
his face and figure; only the brilliant,
melancholy black eye rowing restlessly
over the crowd, and the glossy black
moustache shading the scornful lip,
were visible. There was a ~listless IN
guor in his attitude that seemed belied
by the keen a~ttentiveness of his glance.
Suddenly the eye sparkled in earnest at
tention, and quite unconsciously he
bent eargerly forward. A gay party
passing by foated toward him the sound
of a welI-known name.
Lady Eleanor Collinwood-pray tell
me in what direction you saw her?'
asked eagerly an MISUNDERSTANDING
gentleman.
"Ah, there it u.s." spiritedly replied a
brilliant-looking girl, twisting her
pearl and gold opera glass affectedly,
"you are no exception to the general
rule. Viscount Somerset, the attrac-
aions of our new star outweigh all 9TH
ers. Were she not as lovely in charac-
ter as in person, I should be jealous of
her, but as it is, one must acquiesce
gracefully. I give you full permission
to leave us and find her. We saw her
in their carriage with Lady Annabel
and Sir Marcus Willoughby."
Upon my word, Lady Isora, you are
as keen and sharp as the frosty air of
this November day. I assure you 1
find present company agreeable enough
to keep me here until we meet or over
take the Collinwoods. I have a message
for Lady Annabel from the admiral,
whom 1 met at Bath. By the way, 1
fancied I discovered a likeness in that
beautiful girl on the canvas yonder to
Lady Eleanor. This Vernon keeps so
private no one knows about him. Per-
maps, after all, it was a glimpse of her
face that inspired him to so grand an
effort"
The gay takers chartered on, un-
mindful Of the eager listeners behind
them. At length came a stir of expecta-
tion.
Here they come. Somerset. See
what a crowd of elite follows. You'll
have little chance for conversation.
How wonderful is the sway Lady Anna
bel holds over all hearts, with her pale,
spiritual face and gentle dignity! See,
the Duke of B is talking with her.
Have o yer doubted she might be a
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25
Assertions.

The populists continue to assert that
there was bimetallism and the co-equal
circulation of gold and silver as legal
tenders down to 1.-The crime of 1873"
Yet in all that time only 5000, 900 sill
yer dollars were coined, and in 1873
net a silver dollar was in circulation.
The act of 1873 simply recognized the
fact of it's non-existence as currency.
Since that act upwards of 400. 000, 900
silver dollars have been coined. and
they are kept in circulation by the de-
vice of silver certificates and the prom
Use of the government to maintain
them at a parity with gold. But with
the free coinage Of silver on private
account this obligation would cease
and those who should receive the sill
yer dollars in payment of wages or
salaries or debts would have to look
out for themselves
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25
Brotherly Love.

Love is the only recognizable ele-
ment of power in this world. Every
n who has grown beyond childish
ness of heart and mind acknowledges
that the only thing which makes life
worth living is the good we can do for
others.-Rev. c. j. Wood.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-25
Can a National Silver Trust Work a
Miracle?

M1racle?
Ques.-Is there any probability that
silver would be doubled in price by this
nation declaring 80 cents worth of sill
yer to be a dollar?
Ans.-No. Prices are fixed by trusts
for but a brief time. Cost determines
price. When the two metals were at a
parity before at 1872 to /, Germany
and Austria were on a silver basis. the
minis of India were open, and the
Latin union and the United States were
bimetallic. By and by silver began to
be mined at less cost, better processes
struck richer veins of ore and the price
of silver fell. We cannot keep butter
in the relation to calico which it bore
so years ago.. We remember when
butter was at 5 to las compared with
calico; but to-day calico is at 5 to l as
compared with butter. The changed
ratio of butter to calico is due not to
the gold bug, but to the fact that the
labor of nan o has more to do with
producing a pound of butter than with
producing a yard of calico. Steam
and water power now weave cloth, but
they can't COWS. But the de-
cline in the cost of silver and in the
price Of silver, making it a more bulky
Withdrawing for currency, has been
accompanied by the alienation of the
bulkier metal by European nations
who persist, despite the efforts of the
tslted States to promote a larger
monetary use of silver. Not Only Eng
land, but France, Germany and Aus
tria have gone to gold. The Indian