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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-04-18

walking i'm advance of her DEGREES, are
appearing with canes with all kinds OF
wonderful tops.
Natural horns predominant. Some OF
these have hippopotamus tusk; some
antelope. from all parts of the world;
some just the round-based spike horn
of the yearling deer. These may be
decorated handsomely with deposits of
gold and silver. Such decorations are
very hard on gloves. and have devel-
oped a new industry. where a concern
makes a speciality Of knitting covers for
such cane handles
1t may not be known generally that
canes with rough metal handles. by ir-
ritating the palm. and also those with
bail handles. by pressing unevenly on
the palm, have produced some very
curious diseases, one man getting "A
species of Intermittent paralysis from
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-04-18

the pressure of ball-toped cane on a
large vein in the hand.
Some leaders Of fashion are trying to
bring into use again the famous cloud
ed canes used by the dudes of the sew
enteenth century. but they will never be
very popular with the masses. because
of their great cost. There are few in
existence now, and their owners are
generally men whose wealth permits
them the luxury of collecting all kinds
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-04-18
stanley weyman'. First Novel.

StanleyWeyman first thought of opening
up the romance of early French history
when sitting modify in the smoking room
of his club mourning over his bad luck
in literature. The plot of this most sue
cessful novel flashed across his mind as
he was washing his hands preparatory
10 going TO dinner.-Current Literature.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-04-18

Hon. S. G. Cosgrove has been elected
to represent Harmony lodge /. o. o. f.
of Pomeroy, in the grand lodge which
meets the LIST of June at Vancouver.
Mrs. c. B. Hull will attend the grand
assembly d. OF R. at the same place and
time as representative from Faith
lodge.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
WOOL UNDER FREE TRADE.

THE CALL to-day publishes the first of
two articles on the wool industry. SO
affected by the Democratic policy of free
trade. A careful study of the facts pre-
sented will convince the most skeptical
that something is vitally wrong with the
wool industry. An analysis OF these facts
will convince the student of conditions
that the industry has been struck fatal
blow by free trade.
Whether the state OF the wool business
in this State alore or in the entire Union
is studied. the conclusion is inevitable
that no American sheep-raiser and no
American wool-dealer can compete with
the goods that foreigners send iato
the country at prices that cannot be met
in this land of high wages and better
standards of living. The market reports
from all centers report a paralysis of
business, with more than half the manu-
featuring plants idle. These conditions
fulfill the prophecies of Mckinley and his
friends, prophecies that were laughed at
by those who held up the Democratic
idol of free trade as a panacea for our in
dustrial ills.
In the great manufacturing districts of
the New England States the shrewdest
dealers have been unable to continue busi-
ness without interruption. They have been
crushed by the fierce competition of for
eigners anxious to control the American
market. In California the wool clip of the
past year falls s. .O00, 600 pounds short of the
normal yield. simply because men who
have heretofore devoted their money and
energies TO wool-growing have been
forced to sell their sheep for mutton to
enable them TO survive the depression of
these periIous Democratic times.
In the light of the incontrovertible facts
presented how puerile now seems the rea-
soning Of the Democrats who urged the
Wilson bill as blessing to the country !
Those who repealed the Mckinley law
urged that the fine foreign woods would
cause demand for the home product, be-
cause Manufacturers would want mix
ture; yet month after month the depres-
sion has continued until wool-growers are
to-day crushed in every par. of the country.
San Francisco is an example in point.
Here nearly ali the warehouses are closed.
Hum boldt wool that brought 25 and 80
cents in the grease a few years ago does
not move now at IL and II cents, and
growers are discouraged. All admit that
their only hope is return TO protection
and prosperity.
1t should be borne in mind shat wool
is but one striking object lesson in many.
As free trade has paralzyed one industry it
will paralyze others, and if Democratic
prophets are wrong about one policy they
are equally untrnstworthy in others. We
commend the reading of the story which
tells of the downfall of the wool industry
to all impartial investigators, irrespective
of their party beliefs and affiliations.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
FRAUDS DISCOVERED.

The discovery that q number of persons
named for election officers in this City had
registered falsely in order TO obtain the
positions they desired comes at the right
time to awaken the public mind to the i'm
por.ance of keeping a careful watch on
every step that is taken by the Democratic
officials who control the election board.
Men who would swear falsely to obtain
offices where the pay is insignificant are
hardly the class of men to whom can be
safely intrusted the counting of votes in
an election that will be so hotly contested
as the one which is now approaching.
Honest men of all parties owe thanks to
T. }. L. Smiley, who represents the Repub-
lican County Committee before the EIec-
ton Commissioners for discovering these
frauds and exposing them His vigilance
should be supported by the public gener-
ally. The welfare of the Republic is based
to very large extent upon the ballot-box
If fraud and rascality control the counting
of votes, popular elections will be farce,
and the government will soon be one con
Quoted by rascals for the benefit of rasca Is.
We must have honesty at the ballot-box as
well as in the iury-box and those who pre-
side at the polling places should be as hon.
oranle as those who preside in our courts.
That frauds will be attempted by the
Democrats in this election is beyond ques-
ton. The record of that party in the past
gives assurance of what it will do in the
future if it can. One trick of the fraudu-
lent element has been exposed and
blocked. The fellows who registered
falsely will not be election officials this
year. That much is good as far as it
goes, but vigilance must be kept up con.
tinually. The trick that has been baffied
is not the only one that corruption knows.
There are others
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
AS TO NEBRASKA.

Because Mr.. Bryan lives in Nebraska
and because a Populist Governor was
elected two years ago by Democratic Pop
ulist fusion there are Republicans who are
disposed to put that State in the BRYAN
column. The truth is that Mr.. Bryan has
no more show in other States than he has
in Nebraska he will not have a single
electoral vote. 1t is very true that the free
silver Democrats and Populists did fuse two
years ago, and that the Populist candidate
for Governor was elected by small ma
iority.
The situation in Nebraska that year
was this: The head of the Republican
ticket was very Objectionable to the better
element OF the party, and the State Con-
vention was warned that if that particular
individual was made the candidate for
Governor the party itself would defeat
him. He was nominated, however, and
as result the Omaha Bee, the partyis
State organ, supported and elected the
Populist candidate. To show the Bees
influence it only need be stated that every
other Republican candidate on the State
ticket was elected and that the Legisla-
ture was four-fifths Republican. The
ombined vote of the Populists and free
silver Democrats would not have elected
Holcomh, the Populist candidate, by 90
OOO.
The election last fall. which was for Su-
preme Judge and county officers, was
strictly on party lines, and the Republican
majority was larger than the total vote of
the free-silver Democrats, while the ad-
ministration or anti-Bryan Democrats
polled more than twice as many votes for
their candidate for Supreme Judge than
were polled for Bryan's free silver candl-
date. There is just as much certainty that
Nebraska win be carried by Mckinley as
there is that he will carry Vermont.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
: IAN ITINERANT HIPPoDRoME.

The once staid and dignified Democratic
party has been transformed into a verita-
bic itinerant hippodrome, but the proper
ton Of wild asses to thoroughbred horses
is too great to give proper balance to the
performance. Ii has been decided that
after Mr.. Bryan has been notified of his
nomination by the Chicago convention in
Madison-sauare Garden he will proceed to
Baltimore, where ne will again be ''noti-
fed. "NThe programme provides for "a
one-night stand" in several OF the Eastern
cities, with daylight parades.
After the East has been "played to" this
circus will perform in the principal towns
of the Middle and Western States. The
advance agent has not authorized the bill
poster to "bilr' any towns other than New
York and Baltimore, as the "booking" of
the show has not been completed for the
season, but in week or two the whole
route will be announced. When the show
goes south of Mason and Dixon's line
there Will be change in the cast of char
acters; that is to say, SewalI will retiie
and Watson will don the cap ana bells,
but the main features of the performance
will continue the same throughout. The
main feature will be, of course, Mr.. Bryan's
famous "crown of thorns and cross OF
gold" act.
While the show is in the South and Mr..
Watson is wearing the cap and bells it is
possible that Mr.. Sewall may run side
show in the North for the edifcation of
labor. If he does he will have the stage
set so as to represent one of his many ships
at sea. A number of seedy and hungry.
looking sailors will be heard complaining
OF the hard fare and brutal treatment on
Sewall's ships. Then there will appear an
officer or two of the ship who will rush
upon the hungry men and put those who
talked the loudest in irons. The drop cur
tain will then fall and upon it will be seen
Mr.. SewalPs home In Bath, Maine, which
will have for a background his ten Ma
tional banks, his railways and his other
corporate interests. Only little stretch
of the Imagination will be required to see
scores OF sailor Lazaruses begging for q
few crumbs OF bread from the would be
Vice Presidents table. Working people,
especially seamen, should not fail to see
SewalPs show. 1t will be worth their while
10 lake it all i'm
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
THE WEEKLY GALL"

The best artists and the best writer's con.
tribute their best efforts with a view of
making The WEEKLY CALL the best weekly
family journal on the Pacific Coast. 1t is
not merely made up of selected matter
from the daily, but several pages of matter
relating to the agricultural aud mining
industries are prepared especially for it
each week.
1t contains the news OF the week, to-
gether with matter of special interest in a
form especially desirable for those who
cannot devote the time necessary for the
perusaI of a modern daily.
Not only for home readers. but particu-
larly for residents of the East who desire
to learn Of California. TIE WEEKLY CALL
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
PROTECTION OUR HOPE
New YORK press.


with proper tariff law protecting America n
industries and yielding sufficient revenues
rom duties on foreign imports, as the Mex in
ley law did. the Government would not have
to borrow gold, because it would have more
tnan 1t needed to pay its running expenses, 10
maintain the reserve and to retire its interest
bearing bonds. The business community
would not have to drain the treasury vaults,
because we should not then need 20 send 10
Iorelgners great sums of gold to pay for our
purchases made abroad
Mipe out Tree trade and the gold reserve will
STANG ABOVE It's normal standard unnided.
ApoIlsn the wilson tariff replacing it with a
protesG,tlve revenue law, and no one Will need
p,otd, ~ cala on bankers to help the Government
ffotecI american labor, American investment
ana d t9e . american A., market, and there will be
an enc 10 the present evils that threaten the
very Government ITSELF This country needs
protection. 1t is on the verge of perishing for
the lack OF II. The voters of the United States
must elect Mckinley and restore the American
Frlnciple OF protection or in the next four
years we snail endure such trials as we never
before have suffered. The Democratic victory
81 1857, With Its tree-tEade resnlts, was terri.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29

"Does your baby walk yet, Mrs. Tarbell 2'
"Walkl Bless you, no. But he can ride all
round the nursery on his little bike."-Cleye-
land Plain Dealer.
Ellicott squeer-Do you propose to marry
Westside?
Westside-Well, what other object would 1
have in proposing ?-Buffslo Times.
"It's no use. 1 couldn't make Mrs. Rusher
happy out in the country"
what was the matter?"
'She cried day and night over the advertise
ments of the big bargain sales that were going
on in town."-Chicago Record.
Johnnie tthe Office boy) = Mr. Sands, the
grocer, is downstairs and wants to know why
you didn't answer his letter about last mon this
bill, sir
Editer = Tell him he forgot to inclose a
stamp.-London Tit Bits
ut is mighty inspiring to think of all the
oratory which period of National excitement
ike the present produces" said the man who
was waiting for his train
That's right. Every time think of it Pm
tickled nearly to DEATH"
Are you intereste in politics?"
mo. sell cough drops."-Washingto Star
"Whu's dishere sixteen to one business2"
asked one colored man.
''Doan' yoh know whu dat is?"
"No'ndeed. An I bet er razzer yoh doan'
know neider."
"fass, do--yass, l do. Sixteen ter one-er-
um-sixteen ter one is whut all de white folks
Is talkin' bout case dey done got tired O.
1rllpy an de Y ray."-Washington Star.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
A PUNCHBOWL' VOTARIES
Admiring Throngs Flock to the
Woman Suffrage Bureau
to See It.
Precinct and Literary Work Go on
Swimmingly-Miss Anthony to
Lecture at Santa Cruz

Mrs. Perley's punchbowl, which some
fair devotees of Father Mathew persist in
calling a lemonade vat, has become one of
the lions Of the Woman Suffrage Bureau.
THE CALLS glowing though inadequate
description of its beauties caused many
art critics to visit the bureau yesterday. A
popular clergyman. who has long worn
the pretty suffragist badge, lost no time in
making his way to the bureau, where he
feasted his longing eyes upon the lovely,
albeit empty. bowl.
Several Chinese also went to see how the
work of ceramic art would compare with
similar triumphs in the Mongol school,
and one merchant was so delighted with
it that he straightway returned to his
shop, whence he sent a handsome lac
quered box wherein the votes and the
dimes, which must correspond IN
number with the votes, are to be hence
forth deposited. The box is OF generous
proportions, and it was thought that it
would be sufficient to empty it each day
after Office hours; but if dimes and votes
continue to come in as they did all day
the operation will have to be gone through
with at least three times daily.
The precinct club work is getting on
famously. Mrs. Clara Long, the City or
ganizer, reports that sixteen out of the
eighteen Assem- bly, districts have flourish
ing clubs, some districts having as many
as seven. Mrs. Naomi Anderson, the elo-
quent colored lady orator, has also organ
ICED large club of Afro-American woman
suffragists, of which Mrs. Martin has been
elected president. The distribution of
literature is likewise going on at a rattling
pace. A project is on foot for crystalliz-
ing some of the most telling arguments in
favor of woman suffrage into short sem
tences, to be printed in large letters on
dodgers" and distributed by the hun
dred thousand.
Miss Anthony will leave tomorrow
morning for Santa Cruz, where she will be
the guest of Mrs. Lucy Underwood Nc
Cam, who was commissioner from Cali
fornia at the late Cotton Exposition in
Atlanta, Ga. During her stay at Santa
Cruz Miss Anthony will speak by special
invitation at the annual meeting of the
Christian Ministers Association of Cali
fornia, and will deliver lecture under
the auspices of the Santa Cruz Suffrage
Club.
"And yet," commented bright star in
social and suffrage circles, ''there are
people alive to-day who think the woman
suffrage movement thing too ridiculous
to be considered seriously. Are these thy
brains, o anti-suffra gist of American
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
M,KINLBY's SPEECHES.

No thoughtful person has failed to mark
the difference between the public utter
ances of Mr.. Mckinley and Mr.. Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan climbs upon the wings of
howery rhetoric and sails about like a
painted balloon which. upon landing, is
found to contain nothing substantial. 1t
pleases the eye while it sails through the
air. and the ear is charmed at the music
of the escaping propelling power, but be
says nothing to satisfy inquiry or feed
thought upon. He submits no analysis of
economic problems. He merely asserts
and submits no testimony.
Mr. Mckinley talks but little, and yet
there is more substance in a single SEN
tence of one of his speeches than in vol
ume of Bryan's rhetorical patchwork.
For instance, Mr.. Bryan says: lyon shall
not cruelty labor ON cross of gold" Mr..
Mckinley says: ''our creed embraces an
honest dollar, an untarnished National
credit, adequate revenues for the uses OF
the Government, protection to labor and
industry, preservation OF the home market
and reciprocity which will extend our
foreign markets." There is evidence
abundant of dignity, craftsmanship, pa
triotism and of an honest desire to see
the conditions of existence in this country
grow from good TO better to best in what
Mr.. Mckinley said. There is in that one
sentence the essence OF our system of gov
eminent, ana the political economist
would find enough in it to build volume
of analytical deductions upon.
1t will be observed that there are two
central thoughts in this one sentence from
one of Mr.. McKinley's "short talks" The
first is the integrity OF the Nation and the
second is the welfare of labor. There is no
talk of ''crucifying" anybody, but it means
a patriotic working together of ali the peo-
pie for the Nations honor and the people 8
good. Mr.. Mckinley would give ample
encouragement to every form of trade,
traffic and industry, but the paramount
thing to be secured is comfortable and
remunerative conditions for the mechani-
cal skill and the Drawn of the country.
To that end he would have honest dollars,
home markets and home industries Sc
cured against the shoddy goods and pauper
labor OF countries who would force our
labor into idleness and close our avenues
OF wealth accumulation. The very essence
of those things which have to be to make
a govern ment of the people, by the people
and for the people is found in the one SEN
tence quoted from one of Mr.. Mckinley 8
recent talks to neighbors. He does not
talk of ''crowns of thorns," but of peace,
prosperity and happiness for the people.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Gear Nicholas viii make his visits to the SOW
ereigns OF Europe alone.
Benjamin McKenney, an s1-year-old resi-
dent of Cape Porpoise, Me-, has just cut three
new teeth.
Professor Virchow has had narrow escape,
having been thrown down in the streets of
Berlin by bicycle. Fortunately he suffered
no severe injury.
Congressman Richardson of Tennessee is un-
altersbly opposed to woman's riding the
wheel. II she must do so, he thinks bloomers
the rational dress.
The widowed Queen of Naples is the only fe-
male Knight OF the Russian Order of st. George,
an honor conferred solely for exceptional gal
lantry under fire.
Father DfcGlynn. who has been so prominent
a figure in the past, is now in charge of the
country parish of ST. Mary's at Newburg, N.
y, but will probably be transferred to a city
parish ere long.
Hundreds of people visit the Hermitage,
Andrew Jacksons old Tennessee home, every
month, and the income derived from the ad-
revenue to the association that keeps the house
in repair.
1t might be supposed that statesman with
out tact would be something like well with
out water. Yet Signor Crispi, the famous
Italian diplomatist, is man who entirely
lacks this essential. He is almost brutal at
times in his boorishness.
Some one, it is alleged, brought Russell Sage
a subscription list recently for some charitable
purpose. The millionaire looked it over and
saw the name of Mrs. Russell Sage put down
for $25. Quickly taking his pen the philan-
thropist wrote "Mr. and' before the signature
and returned the list.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
AN IRREPRESSIBLE CANDIDATE.

They put him up fer Congressman
In country an IN town;
The other feller won II. au'
He hauled mis- colors down;
But he hollered for the winner,
An he beI another hat
He'd make the Legislatur, an
They beat him out o. thati
But he saw the Sheriff's office,
An he said: '"I'm goin' in Z"
The road WAS mighty dusty, an
He found he couldn't win:
But failure didn't feaZe him:
Thou gh the weather wuzn't fair,
He jumped into the saddle an
He run along fer Mayorl
OF course. thev took an beat
Hlm-like they'd been a. beatin' still:
Ibey whipped him in the valley,
An they rolled him down the hill;
But his creditors took after
Him, an so, from place to place.
He's runnin', runnin', runnin', am
He's always in the race!
FRANK L. STANTON.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
LIKE A HERD OF CATTLE.

The information comes from the Popu-
list party's headquarters in st. Louis that
Mr.. Bryan will not be formally notified of
his nomination by that party, and the in
formation comes also that the Democratic
National Committee will withdraw Mr..
Bryan's name from the Populist ticket.
1t is safe to say that the first is true and
that the latter is without the slightest
foundation in fact. The tactics of the
Populist traitors and their Democratic
purchasers do not warrant the belief that
they have oeceucy enough to right the
great wrong they have done the honest
wing OF the Populist party by either put
ting Mr.. Bryan in the awkward position
which would come of formally notifying
him OF his nomination, or of Withdrawing
his name from The ticket
The Populist convention was sold to
Mr.. Bryan just as droves of cattle are
sold. The cattle had no voice in the
transaction. No doubt there is a secret
understanding which insures certain fat
offices in the event of Bryan's election,
but that is none of the business of the
rank and file.
By not formally notifying Mr.. Bryan OF
his nomination by the Populist conven-
ton the complete sale of the party is i'm
Piled. The rule has always been since the
institution of nominating conventions
that the candidates should take advantage
OF the occasion OF the formal notification
OF their nomination to place themselves
upon the platform and to enlarge upon its
more important declarations. This course
has always been deemed necessary be-
cause it vas the only way the party had
OF knowing that the candidates were in
accord with the party's principles.
But the bosses OF the Populist party look
upon the rank and fle as their OWN herd
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29

of cattle, to do with as they like, and they
would regard it as insufferably presump-
tuous in one or any number of the animals
to object to going into the pen designated
by the herdsmen. No such an effort was
ever before made by professional politi-
clans to deal with the voters of a party
after the manner of the old-time slave
trader, and it all suggests the thought that
the aftermath of the Populist convention
would make ample material for 'ttale of
woe" on the lines of Uncle Toms Cabin"
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
Cheap Excursion to st. PAUL

The Shasta route and the Northern Pacific Rail-
road has been selected the oficial route to al
tend the National Encampment of the G. A. r. at
st. Paul. to be held there September 2 to s. The
excursion will leave San Francisco and Sacra-
mento August 26 at N. Rates $67 30 for the
round trip. The above is open to all who wish
to make the trip East. Send your name and ad-
dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 63s Market
treet San Francisco for sleeping-car reservations