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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17
KINDNESS GAINS A FORTUNE.

1T WINDFALL of large proportions
IN has upset the modest domestic ar
q rangements of pretty Miss Bessie
Almy, her aunt. Mrs. Barran, and her
cousin. Miss May Halnes, all of whom
have been living in a neat but small nat
at No 256 West FOrtythird street
Miss Amy is tall, pretty, and %, and
possessed of a wealth of black hair, and
dark brown eyes. which might well nave
marked blood relationship to rich old Jose
Martinez, the sugar planter of Costa del
Ruez in the province of Matanzas. Cubs
But Miss Amy is no relative of the old
Cuban, who died a fortnight ago and left
her property real and personals whicA
even the depreciation of war times Leaves
a solid valuation of $1,500,OOO. On the
contrary, she is New York girl, whose
good Samaritanism during a recent vlst
to relatives in Cuba has gained her this
substantial and unexpected reward.
Up at Haines Corners, in the Catsktllsi
Bessie Amy is known to everybody, ana
so is Mrs. Barran. Years ago one of Bes-
sizes aunts married Cuban and moved
to Costa del Ruez. where her husband had
large plantations. Miss Bessie has FIRE
quently visited her aunt and. her cousins.
remaining in Cuba many weeks at q
time. Adjoining the plantations of her
uncle by marriage were those of old jose
Martinez. Spaniard by birth, and
wealthy sugar planter. Old Senior Mar
tinez had two sons and one daughter The
latter some years younger than MISS
Amy. The New York girl became fast
friends with the little Cuban senOrita-
and old Jose said they looked Ike sisters.
The last time Miss Amy visited Costa
del Ruez, some four months ago, hard
times had fallen upon her relatives and
friends. The insurgents had repeatedly
swept the rich province of Matanzas, and
one band, claiming that old Jose was a
! government sympathizer, had laid his r1ch
! plantation waste. This was a mistake, for
both of the Martinez boys were with
Gomez. Word came during Miss Almy's
| stay that the elder had met death IN the
| field. The nayrs was a terrible shock 90
! both the father and the sister. The young
| girl sickened, and Miss Almy nurSed her
In spite of this she died.
Old Jose Martinez then fell i'll, and Mise
| Amy remained at the great manor house
| and nursed him, as she had his daughter.
| He was convalescent, when one day a
band of insurgents, passing through.
| stopped at the plantation and asked the
| old man to come out and see if he could
| identify the body of a young man named
| MARTINEZ who had been shot in MORO
/ Castle by the Spaniards rs a traitor. He
went and gazed upon the dead face of his
youngest son.
The old man was sorely stricken, and
thus by the death of all his children, left
alone in the world he sought sanctuary
with some friends in Havana. Shortly
afterward Miss Amy came back to Now
York and took a position as cashier in a
piano store on Broadway. There 1t wa
that the letter Of the Spanish lawyers In
Havana reached her last Monday, notify
ing her that she was left the sole heir Of
old Jose Martinez.-New York Journal
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17
A WARNING.

~ EVER love unless you can
l Bear with all the faults OF man.
Men sometimes will jealous be.
Though but little cause they see:
And hang the head, as discomfort,
AMI speak what straight they repost
Men that but one saint adore,
Make a show of love to more;
Beauty must be scorned in none,
Though but truly served in one;
For what is courtship, but disguiseg
True hearts may have assembling eyes
Men when their affairs require,
Must a while themselves retire
Sometimes hunt. and sometimes hawk
And not ever sit and talk.
II these, and such like you can bear,
Then like, and love, and never fearl
Thomas Campioa.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17
PECULIAR AND PERTINENT.

Seven thousand pounds worth of tick
cts were sold for the Wagner perform
ance at Bayreuth this year in England
alone
Donkeys are said to like thistles. They
will eat them when other food is at
hand. But they do not exhibit much en-
thusiasm for this dainty.
France produces yearly about 5000, 600
bottles of champagne. OF these 4,5OO.O0O
bottles goes to England, 100000 to Rus
STA and 100000 to the United States.
The size of the average family in Amer
lea has fallen from $50 in 1880 to 4.93 in
1880 and the size of the family of tke
college-bred men in considerably below
this average.
An English motor car manufacturer Is
building a two story steel house to run
OH wheels. propelled by a motor under It.
The top story is collapsible, so as to en-
able the house to pass under bridges.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17
OCTOBER.

~ e leafs turned yaller an de cuckle-
~ burrs brown
An de grass is streaked wild de gray
Natur is er wavin' twix er smile and err
An de red in de sky puts de bull in err
rage.
De old woodpecker has hushed up his
song
An de old crow scratches whar we
thrashed out de wheat
An de ole bluejay sorter haster hop er
long
Case de frost made him stin in de jints
O. his feet
De 20 ole dove is err mounin ergin
An it pear mighty like dat her heart
is gwin'er break,
An 1t makes de yallcr-hammer sorter
nod his head an grin
All Lawd er MASSEY. dat bird he is er
rake.
De soft win comes like de sighin' O. er
child
An scatters dead leaves DER de graves
on de hill
An de eyes o. de rabbit look strange an
wild
AS he hops 'mong de rocks by de moss
covered mill.
! stroll in de woods wen de ebenin s
come
An listens to der music o. de trees dat
wave.
An mcr heart beats low like er muffied
up drum
AS kneel by de side O er little boy:
grave.
We laid him ter slum'er Wen de grass
was gray
An de leaves had blushed ut de gaze
o de sun;
Wen natur had got down on her knees
fur ter pray
Wen er dead cricket lay whar or spide
had spun.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17
LADY REMEMBERED HER MAID
Mrs. Hiclxs-LOrd Leaves "a Fortune
to Her Maid, Maria Miller.

Thompson street, n. Y. social circles
were thrown into a furore of excitement
when the contents Of the last Will and
testament of Mrs. Annette Wilhelmina
EIicks-Lord were made public. By the
terms of the will Miss Maria Miller Is
made the most eligible parti in metro
politan cOlored society She is to receive
the sum of 500 a week, or $500 month
or $500 year, so long as she shall live.
And she is only As. Moreover, she Is
single. Thomas Dyer a cOlored man. by
the terms Of the will IS to receive the sum
Of SIS a week.
Maria Miller, tall, dark and undeniably
comely. entered the employ of Mrs.
Hicks-Lord at the age of Is, and for 20
years acted in the capacity of maid for
that charming but eccentric woman.
Dyer was 10 when he became Mrs.
Hicks-Lords butler, and remained in her
service p years.
The viii of Mrs Eicks-Lord which was
filed in the surrogate's court yesterday
afternoon, names as executors Messrs.
George Bell and Thomas S. Townsend.
1t will surprise many persons who had
always supposed Mrs. Hcks-Lord to be
a very wealthy woman to learn that the
estate will inventory not more than $780,
600. While she was popularity supposed to
! be worth not less than a million. the fact
| IS for years she has been living above her
| income, with the result that the princi-
| pal of her once magnificent estate was
rapidly swallowed up by her well-known
| extravagances. In the last 10 years of
! her life she is said 70 have spent million
! dollars over and above her income.
The property at Nos. 10 and u West
! Fourteenth street is heavily mOrtgaged-
! although the rentals will still accrue to
| the estate. The house which she occupied
! on Washington square she sold some time
| since, and then leased Il for $4,000 a year,
with four years yet to run. The real
| estate which she owned in and about
| Toledo. Ohio, is not worth much more
| than 100000 AS for her real estate in
| this city, a fair estimate places its value
at S100 900. with the personal property at
$50,OOO There is no question. however.
that all the specific requests and annui-
ties can be paid.
To her personal maid, Margaret Vincent,
Mrs. Hicks-Lord left S35 a month during
her life. She bequeathed to her nephew,
jefferson Fletcher, an annuity of $500 a
month. The executors are directed to pay
these annuities from the income derived
from the property at Nos. 10 and u West
Fourteenth street. To the Lenox library
was given the Audubon books mounted
with silver and the collection Of books
on Arctic explorations. She also be-
queathed to this library her collection OF
stuffed birds. The Metropolitan Museum
of Arts, Of this city, will receive a large
oil painting of Mrs. Hicks-Lord. and also
the statue OF 1.-THE Dying Indian Maid
and 1.-The Dancing Girl" by Crawford
The residue OF the estate. both real and
personal. is to be divided equally between
jefferson Fletcher and her cousin, Sarah
| e. Townsend
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17

be killed before tomorrow. But the dovel
the dove What can that mean, Frank?
His voice grew sharp with agony. If
anything should happen to NellieI
He put spurs to his horse. but 1 was
close beside him. and together, with white
lips and horror-chilled hearts. we urged
our horses up to the entrance of the fort
but L entered alonel For my brother
comrade fell at the very gate, with his
heart pierced by an Indian bullet, and ]
was only just in time to catch my little
sisters parting smile. She had been shot
and part of her escort killed outside
the walls. when the dying wood-dove
flutered at her lovers feet an hour be-
fore" Grace Duffie Boylan. in Chicago
Journal.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17
DoN,T YER CARB.

~H, me girl, she trun me down.
~ Don't yer care;
Fer annoder ebay downtown.
Don't yer care:
l amt maxim any holler
You'se kin bet yer bottom dollar
Dough / got II near d. collar
Don't yer care.
say. ust L have cinch,
Don't yer care;
Time I worked for Billy Lynch,
Don't yer care,
But one day l got d high low
And / had to kinder lie low.
Doin' muffin fer a while, oh
Don't yer care.
SO no matter how dey come.
Don't yer care.
II der slow r If dey hum,
Don't yer care.
See d. game an play d limit.
s'pose yer on d. hog dis mint,
Why, d next vi be dead in it
Don't yer care.
-ROxbury Gazette
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17
LIGHTS AND sIDELIGHrs.

The burglar now IS burgllng,
Burgling everywhere;
Burgling cause each copper's on
A beat that's ten miles square.
Cleveland Leader.
How far viii a crow fly in day.
Ephg'
"Cording to how many co'nfelds dey is
on de route, boss. Detroit Free Press
Il will take II yards of this silk"
yes. Miss Van Avenue. l believe l
was honored with an Introduction to you
at Newport in july"
This is September. Cut It off and de-
liver It at once.'-New York Herald.
What do you do when your wife has
the headache. Beverly"
Il take home a couple of theater tick
ets."-Chicago Record.
Johnny" asked the teacher. what
must we do before our sins can be for
given?"
Sin" replied Johnny.-Boston Beacon.
The cotton manufacturers OF Providence
are finding a rather better market than
those engaged In woolens.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17

The mills where olive on IS made IN the
Alpes maritimes, are, as far as ma
chinery goes, of a primitive character,
generally driven by water wheels, which
are defective. in construction, and the fail
of the water badly arranged. The ma
chinery inside the mills is made up Of
clumsy wooden cogs and contrivances.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17

The Only Clean of Charity.
How did the critics treat JingolPs
music?"
''TJm; well. the kindest thing they said
about II was that It was not original
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17

The cotton manufacturers OF Providence
are finding a rather better market than
those engaged In woolens.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-18

make contracts payable in gold, as is now
done in thousands of cases. This would not
do. 1t would work to the disadvantage of
the mine owners free-silver dollars. This
door must be closed. Other men must not
be permitted to be honest at the expense
of the silver bullion owners. A law with a
loophole in it is no law at all. Therefore.
the platform demands Legislation as
will prevent for the future the demoneti-
cation of any kind of legal-tender money
by private contract" That drives the nail
home and clinches it on the other side.
The resolution demands, first, that the 80
cent silver dollar. coined free by the gov
eminent for the bullion owners, shall be
made full legal tender for all debts. public
and private, and then demands legislation
prohibiting the making of special contracts
payable in gold. Thus it is proposed first
to compel the government to certify to d
to clothe these private dollars with full
legal-tender quality; third, to make it lille
money. In it's widest scope the resolution
is a demand that the government shall be-
come party to a stupendous fraud and that
it shall re penal offense for any person
to try by private contract to protect HIM
self against the fraud.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-18
THE DILEMMA OF THE POPOCRATIC
MANAGERS.

The Bryan leaders are between the devil
and the deep sea-" Between these agrees
sive agencies the neck of land on which
they stand is becoming narrower and more
slippery every day. They are not only
troubled with an erratic mouth-man for a
candidate for President. but a. super
abundance of candidates for the second
place. With. Sewall and Watson they do
not know what to do. Sewall reg
ularly nominated Bryan As a candidate
he is much better qualified for President
than Bryan. He has accepted the nomina-
ton. and the only power that can pull
him off, the ticket is that of Mr.. Sewall
himself; he, and he only can revoke his
acceptance. The national committee has
no such power the Populist leaders seem
to assume when they shout orders to drop
Sewall and adopt Bryan. Besides, the
managers can see the result of forcing Mr..
Sewall off the ticket, for forcing it would
be. He is all the Democracy there is on
the ticket which he has always voted
though protectionist. If Sewall should
be dropped and Watson substituted. it
would afford thousands of Democrats the
rretext they desire to vote for thr Palmer
and Buckner ticket. Than Watson, name
could scarcely be found thai i more OBJ
noxious to the Democrats. Ne has been
vehemently abusing the y ''N c. IT.. Narty
for six years. He has o. Il De-
mocracy of the Southern 80 box stuff
feIs. He is to the George / nocracy what
a red rag is to bull. Force s,ewall off the.
ticket and substitute Watson, and Demo-
Gratis would abandon the ticket by thou
sands
On the other hand, there will be trouble
in several of the close States if SewaIl is
retained. The Populist leaders are not
fools. They have been working the calam-
ity racket these many years, and when
there is remote chance that their here
sizes may elect a President, they do not
propose to be ignored. They know that if
they give their votes for Bryan and Sewall
they vote themselves political oblivion.
They do not propose to do this conse-
quently they demand that Watson be rec
ognized. In some States they will be sat
isfied with a part of the candidates for
electors, but in States where their assist
ance is most needed they demand either
a very large part of the electoral ticket or
that Sewall be pulled off. In this State
they have already named full electoral
ticket with unusual unanimity and have
gone home. If the middle Of the road
Populists who were not here are as deter
mined as their representatives, the larger
part of them will vote the straight Popu-
list ii :ket. If only half of them do so, the
Democratic hope of the whole of the 90 600
Populists of 1894 has gone glimmering
Whichever way the Bryan leaders turn
there is the adversary of souls on one side
and the deep and rising sea on the other
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-18

E. E. c., jamestown. Ind: What you call
the first issue of greenbacks'' Were essen
TALLY different from the legal-tender notes
commonly called greenbacks- Those you
refer to were known demand notes"
Only 100000, 600 of them We're issued, $780,
100000 under the act of July H. 1861. and
slo,OG0,0o0 more under act of Feb. L, 1862.
They were called demand notes because
on their face they were payable in coin
and receivable for customs duties. They
continued at par with gold. After the sus-
pension of specie payments the government
began to retire them and July 1. 1863
more than $56, 900, 600 had been retired. The
so-called greenbacks Were issued under a
different law and. though similar in gen.
eral appearance, they were not payable "on
demand and were not receivable in pay
ment of duties on imports. In spite of their
legal-tender quality the greenbacks depre-
ciated greatly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-18

talked of " away As long as There
seemed Il a fairly good chance ~
Bryans ng the country. not J Nv
Of these l. a. thought it would be a eli Ter
thing TO emulate the mugwump moveI emit
of 1884. and be able afterWard 10 sa Il Il
told you so" to their brethren OF less, ore
sight. But they have. as a rule made
haste to get back into line since the omens
or Bryan s defeat began 10 accumulate in
large numbers in tho sky II was not far
from this town that Tom Watson the
Populist candidate for the vice presidency.
said to an acquaintance on a railroad train
as he read of the particulars of the work
done at Indianapolis Things do not look
so bright they did "A while ago This
third ticket is going TO play the m ischief
with us in the South" This remark spread
rapidly from mouth 10 mouth in this neigh
borhood. as soon as repeated by the man
TO whom ii was addressed. 1t was more
effective than whole stump speech on the
silver question II was the first plain note
or encouragement from very high quar-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-18

The alliance with the Populist party will
not bring to our chief the votes he seems
to expect, and on the contrary. will drive
from the party many men who are held to
it by the fealty they cherish for the party
and it's regular nominee. If such nominee
join himself to another party and adopt a
platform which denounces their party. they
will feel excused from following him any
further. They will say Bryan is more of a
Populist than he is a Democrat, and the
platform he really believes in and stands
for is actually the platform promulgated by
the Populist party3 and that they are not
bound to follow him. He will lose much
from this disaffection. And the remedy Is
that Mr. Bryan shall declare himself a
Democrat; shall refuse to accept the NOM
ination of the Populist party, and the plat
form which is neither in spirit nor in his
tory Democratic. but pronouncedly antag-
onistic to our party both in name and or
ganiZation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-18
Becoming n Laughing stock.

IIIIetNIVII1IIId
The resignation of Chairman Holt. OF the
regular democratic State central commit
tee of Indiana is Significant nroof of the
generalization of the party in that Skate
Tne direct cause of the resignati ton wax the
TeIusdi OF Governor Matthews to cop firm
Ine MEMBER OF the State Election Hoard
Mr.. HOLT appointed. According to thd In
uiana law the chairman of the State bonn
Hittee OF each OF the two leading PARTIES
nominates in writing a man of his own
party 10 tne governor to serve on the
state BOARD OF elections and the two men
so appointed with the Governor constitute
me BOARD Inc law gives no discretion in
Sne mater; out says; The Governor of the
state shall appoint such nominee" tGov-
ernor Matthews, however assumes the
privilege or exercising right TO confirm
or reject nomination and on the claim
lnat the nominee does not represent his
party. 1T Governor Matthews had mott inn
proved other occasions TO make himself
iiulculous the public would be surprised a
MS action in this case. He has removed
that possibility however
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-18
Bishop whites Attitude.

To the Editor of the Indianap polls Journal:
Will the journal, as a matter of courtesy
to me. be good enough to publicly correct
the errors contained in a dispatch dated
Indianapolis. Sept. IA. and which appeared
in the Chicago Record of the 18th? / am
not at all ashamed of the opinions which |
hold in political matters, nor do l hold
them extensively to anybody. They are
calm, unprecedented and dispassionate. But
/ do not like to have opinions deliberately
manufactured and accredited to me which
1 have never held or given expression to.
The quotation from my sermon of last
Sunday is correct; all the rest is this
newsgatherer's effort to give the cooring
he desired to my utterances. The report in
the Record says he tthe bishop an
nounceS that he will instruct the ministers
under him to men of their duty in
the present campaign. L have made no
such announcement and have no intention
of issuing any instructions to our clergy on
the subject. My clergy are cultivated gem
temen, entirely free to form their opinions
He believes it the duty of the church to
oppose the free coinage of silver. contin-
ues the report. do not believe anything
of the sort. l believe it is the duty of the
church to mind her own business and do
the work God gave her, teaching men to
live and conduct themselves God would
have them in that station of life in which
1t has pleased God to place them.
He declares he is ready to take the
stump says the Records report. | am
happy to say that / have never given ex
preston to any such purpose, but have
uniformly declined all such invitations and
have declared my judgment in directly the
reverse way.
My one offense seems to me to be in re-
spending to invitation from some of my
neighbors in the country last week to give
them address on the duties of a citizen
at this time. Disciaiming all partisan mo-
tives, / said what / believe might with
propriety be said before any body of men
who are carefully studying the problem at
the present time May / be permitted,
however, to say in conclusion. that I know
of principle of either of the great polit-
ical parties which would disfranchise a
man because he is clergyman. We teach
it as patriotic duty that every man
should seek to intelligently understand the
measures proposed for our adoption and as
earnestly apply himself for the common
alton of that which seems wisest and
best Do we want to deprive any citizen
class of citizens of that privilege? /, for
one certainly do not.
JOHN HAZEN WHITE.
Bishop of Indiana.