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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

The latest adjunct to coast defenses is
modernized form OF the old camera
obscura. Army officers are now con-
sidering Its feasibility, and an effort is
being made 10 secure the adoption Of
the system by the War Department
The particular use and value of this
system, as explained by E. Stiles Vim
ten. is that ii shows the defenders OF a
fort the movements Of the ships Of the
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
That joyful FeDllne

With the exhilarating sense Of renewed
health and strength and internal clean
Illness. which follows the use Of Syrup Of
Figs. Is unknown to the few who have
not progressed beyond the old-time
medicines and the cheap substitutes
sometimes offered but never accepted
by the well-informed.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

An Indianapolis woman gave her pet
King Charles spaniel a sumptous fun
eral last week. A white hearse con-
veyed q CONN covered with flowers to
the cemetery. whose trustees permitted
the animal to be inferred in its sacred
precincts. The dog was attended by
the best local physician to be had and
he received moro care and attention
than nine-tenths Of the human beings.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

The ire at Ontonagon, Mich, goes
long way to controvert those scien.
tine observers who have been hazard
ing the opinion that the Diamond
Match company was too green to burn
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt's BRIDE
maids were, SO triumphant Chicago
paper Informs us, "all girls with
money" This enables a large number
OF persons to draw their first long
breaths since the horrible fear crept In
that this fair young daughter Of a line
OF millionaires was likely to choose her
attendants from Mulberry Bend or the
tenement district,
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

An ungallant South Dakota consta.
Ole tried to arrest couple Of bloomer
girls the other day on the ground that
their costumes were immodest. The
physicians today have hopes that he
may recover.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

The Sarcoxie. Mo-. strawberry ship
pers' association this year shipped A.
Os4 crates OF berries. The net returns
on the sales were $1.15 a crate, or
$7,2466O. or this amount the packers
were paid $15,79o.3O.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

1t Is disappointing to find that the
chroniclers Of the Whitney Vanderbilt
wedding neglected to cast a solitary
CLEAN from the duchess OF Marble.
rough's diamonds on it.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

Attorney-General Moloney OF Illinois
mas rendered an opinion that a woman
can be legally appointed township
treasurer. He holds that the law pro.
,vlaes that no person shall be debarred
from any occupation, profession or en-
ployment, except military, that town.
snip treasurer Is appointive, and that
a woman can hold such Office.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
Tho Wrong Man.

Bill the Biffer-What's d. object Of
dis organization Nv yours. mister? Mis-
sion Worker-To rescue the fallen, my
man. Bill tho Biffer-Well. don't talk
ter me; I'm no bicyclist.-Roxbury Ga
zette.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

Conventions have been so numerous
his summer that pretty nearly every.
thing On earth has been pointed to
with pride and horror.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

The attention OF collectors OF curios-
tues 10 respectfully called to the fact
that there wasn't a single bolt At the
Chicago gold convention.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

Win Carver who won the champion.
ship at the Omaha tennis tournament.
doubtless achieved the victory by his
superb cuts.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

and lawns, and rills,
mills.
And fountains springing from the
hills,
Whose magic music soothes and thrills.
l love the storms that grandly rise.
With rumbling thunder from the skies,
With lightnings from the Great All
Wise,
And rainbows with their heavenly dyes
love the roar of glorious war.
Resembling ever near or far,
AS storms that sweep DER oceans far,
And constant as the polar star.
love the lion and his might:
The screaming eagle and his flight;
The stars that glitter night by night
And everything that's pure and bright
love the flowers, SO sweet and bright,
That bloom IN beauty day and night;
Diffusing fragrance. love. and light
The emblem of eternal right.
| love the larks that soar and sing,
Like specks OF sunshine on the wing;
All! how my spirit longs to swing,
Where seraph songs forever ring.
| love the blush on beauty's cheek;
The bright blue eyes SO mild ana
meek
Where love is playing hide and SEEK"
Like swallows round some mountain
peak.
love to think, and walk alone:
Or, like monarch on his throne,
Maintain my own intense soul-tone,
Till shall meet the Great Unknown.
[ love the kind, the good, the great;
At home, abroad. in church. or state;
Yet, one thing l shall ever hate.
The sordid, bastard, vile irgrate
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
VETERANS NER.
SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES
FOR OLD SOLDIERS.

The BATTLES Of The Prescott Guards -
Mirrors to Play 81 Important Part in
Future Warsars-I.incoIn.sk Kind Act
Secretary Of War.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

The sultan Of Zanzibar. Hamed Bin
Thwain Bin Said, is dead and his
name will be entombed separately.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

Harper's Round Table pub|,,h..
September lat will continue the A..
installment of . new serial storv Az. ..s
tied I'm the Old Herrick hons.
Ellen Douglas Deland. To thu ~
number Dudley d. F. Parker will co.
tribute an interesting paper on the A..
OF sailing small boats The article nm
be fully illustrated and will be fonna
to contain many useful suggest;on.
and directions for young yachtsmen
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

1t Is said that Hoke Smiths nams
was removed from that cabinet port.
folio with a cold chsel.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

LOVE the noun
tain and the sea,
w h re n a ture
reigns so wild and
free:
Where all things
speak to you and
me
OF God given, glori-
GUS liberty.
l love the Wales,
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

tlIS stopped freq and permanently cured No
Hestorer. Ere. e?trial bottle aud treatise.
Send to Dr.. kLaE. o9l Arch ST.. PhilAdelphia. Pa
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

II the Baby 10 Cutting Teeth.
b sure and use that Old and we'll tried RENEE, ~
WnsIow's soo1Ano sY8uP for Children TsseA,,.
In most cases men who marry b.,...
them live to regret it.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
You Are Not "shsken n.,o.

With malarial disease, but with $500"
violence afterwards. II you neelec: imSioS
ate measure of relief. The surest mmeG,
I've and medical form of medic alton i l. g
, .bics stomach sst,da Bis'ers the potency
has been demonstrated for over forsv p s
past The liver when disordered ~ dyssa
Essssted: the bowel, II costipated. and ' 4.
1t. and 1t 10 Invaluable for dysnsnsi,.a eo y
Gus debility and rheumatism nssN
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
Good prairie hay is being sold IL
some parts Of Kansas for 81 a ton.

Lord Sudley has plum orchard that
nets him $4,000 a year. It's a plum
puddin'.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

DR.. Nansen did not fnd the north
pole, but he kept cool about it.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17

hold, This reduction of the marriage
rate will have an evil effect upon the
race. 1t will increase immortality and
The children of those
who marry young in spite of poor wa
ges will form large part of the rising
generation of workers and they will
be poor stock to begin with. The effect
upon the race will be its rapid deterlo-
ration.
When women feel themselves inde-
pendent, they will soon come to care
little what men think of them; they
will become more seIf-indulgent, and,
like the men they work among, they
will come to take a free and easy estl-
mate of morality Women who have
been compelled to spend the best part
of their youth and early womanhood
in factory or workshop cannot produce
a race so sound in mind and body, or
so elevated in soul, as the woman who
tends upon her children as God fore
ordained she should. Ii. j. w.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
rro..e. $1.OOper year. in advance
IeHmS' Six Months 50 cents.

way on. let each of us utilize our tel
escopes and endeavor to secure a good
mate to help us; one who will share the
trials and tribulatiOns as we'll as the
sunshine which we may pass through;
one who is thoroughly acquainted with
the compass and willing to help in the
wheelhouse. 1t is necessary that we
should have one trained in proper
school who knows how to rig a craft
in the good, old-fashioned style, dis
playing taste and neatness in the
trimming of the sails and who will ex-
ercise economy in procuring the neces-
sary provisions and charts. SINBAD.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
"OUR COUNTY JAILS."

A short time ago 1 wrote an article
On the above subject, and in last weeks
MIRROR the secretary of the state
board of corrections and charities con-
tributes lengthy commentary where
in he takes exceptions to the views
advanced in regard to the separate con-
finement of prisoners.
On all important subjects there must
be difference of opinion, and on this
vexed question of the proper manage
ment of county jails, the views of those
who have had the misfortune to occupy
them seldom agree with those who are
desirous of minimizing the evil in
iuences that must necessarily sur
round jail detention.
1t is nothing strange that there
should exist difference of opinion in
regard to the wisdom of the separate
system that is being inaugurated in
our county jails. [ do not believe IN
this treatment of suspects, for the
reason that very few jails throughout
the state are so constructed as to per-
NIT of it's adoption without injuring
them morally, mentally and physical
ly. If the suspect is without money
or friends, he is unable to supply HIM
self with reading matter and the little
necessities required to while away the
dull monotony of Jail life. The cells
nOrIu
still worse as regards light. They are
constructed out of solid, sheet boiler
iron, with the exception of the front
which is usually a door with bars from
one to three inches apart. These cells
have for ventilation few holes
punched in the rear. Aside from thl
and the door, they would make al
ideal refrigerator instead of a room TO
the confinement Of human beings VIII
are merely suspected of having com
mitted a crime. When we take thes
things into consideration and the in
disputable fact that he must eat, slee
and keep his night bucket in this nal
row apartment, without holding inter
course with his fellow beings, the IL
evitable conclusion is that the system
not only harsh, ,butinimical to health an
destructive of morals. TO be cOntine
thus in one of these narrow cells a
day during the three or four month
that must, in most cases, necessaril
follow before the suspect is brought
trial, with only half-hour for exercis
in the corridor, must be borne wit
stole like fOrtidude, or else the unfOr
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
>ezspQEFRxc
<ZSGSZ7H1S&gSS~ FL
SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES.

If sweethearts were sweethearts always.
Whether as maid or wife,
No drop would be half so pleasant
In the mingled draught of life.
But the sweetheart has smiles and bushes
When the wife has frOwns and signs,
And the wife have wrathful glitter
For the glow of the sweetheart's eyes.
IF lovers were lovers always.
The same to sweetheart and wife,
Who would change for a future Eden
The jOys of this checkered life:
But husbands grow grave and silent,
And care on the anxious brow
Oft replaces the sunshine that perlshed
With the words of the marriage vow.
Happy is he whose sweetheart
Is wife and sweetheart still;
Whose voice, as of old, can charm him;
Whose kiss, as of old, can thrill.
Who has plucked the rose to find ever
Its beauty and fragrance increase.
AS the flush of passion is mellowed
In loves unmeasured peace.
Who sees in the step lightnesS;
Who finds in the form grace;
Who reads an altered brightness
In the witchery of the face.
New York Telegram.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
THE POWER OF THE PRESS.

The power of the press is beyond all
computation. 1t is the power OF hu-
man thought, will and purpose. The
press is the unilier of mankind and
makes all the world kin. BY the
Power of the Press, the fruitage of one
generations thought and activity is
beuueathed to another. 1t secures the
preservation of all that is OF value In
the worlds thinking and progress. we
can commune with the master MINDS
of the ages, in the recorded symbols OF
their thoughts as given us by the types
of the printing press. If we narrow
our field of observation and consider,
for the sake of brevity, one line OF the
fruitage borne by the press mod
ern newspaper-we shall find even this
line of thought growing upon us as we
advance. Let us try to imagine what
the world would be, or what would be
the result, if the newspaper should
cease to be factor in the worlds pro-
gress. Carlyle says on the power OF
the newspaper: "They preach to the
people daily, weekly; admonishlng
kings themselves; advising peace or
war with an authority which only the
first reformers and long past class OF
papers were possessed of, inf1ictlng
moral censure; imparting moral en-
couragement, consolation, edification;in
all ways diligently administering the
discipline of the church" A neWspa-
per may fifty be called the history OF
the world for day; the history OF that
world in which we live, think, and act
our part. 1t sees the world as it is, and
holds the picture of it before us daily
for our inspection. 1t is the voice
spoken to our ears from every quarter
of the globe. 1t brings us into touch
with our fellows across the seas. 1t
makes those who live on the other side
of the globe our neighbors.
We forgotten the time-while read
ing our daily paper, that thousands OF
miles intervene between us and those
whose words and deeds of yesterday
we are reading. The newspaper is the
informer and educator of the hour.
C. F. Browne says: "There is more in
formation to be got in an ordinary
= three cent newspaper than in dozen
lectures"
TO the assertion so often made that
'' the modern newspaper exercises an IN
in, ho
u crimes and evil doings of men to the
= extent that it does, we have this to say
- 1t is not the paper that exercises the
evil Influences but rather those whose
deeds it records. Papers have no NOR
u al quality one way or the other. Th'
people have. 1t is no worse to tell O.
~ an evil deed, than to commit it. Th'
Il paper is the mirror in which the Worlt
- may see itself. 1t would be folly u
y break the glass because it reflects tn
8 images thrown upon it. In Its las
- analysis the paper is a helper OF tn
u morals of the community. 1t voice
y public sentiment against the crime
upon which society justly froWns.
% helps to track the criminal to his hlo
~ ing from justice. 1t exalts deeds
Il kindness and heroism. 1t must kee
is abreast of public sentiment regardln
lg all questions and methods of neede
a reform. 1t needs pure, brave men
to the head of it, and it needs to be zeal
W less in it's utterances upon all question
that relate to the progress and WeltaI
er of mankind.-Rev. c. A. Cressey /
d. Saltwater Journal.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
GUIDE YOUR OWN CRAFT.


What is the trouble with most of MS?
We are in too great a hurry and 90
not take time to look over the chart
and commit to memory the location OF
the numerous sunken rocks and eddles
we have to contend with. We sail
along paying too much attention to
other peoples business and too little to
our own. We did not take in enough
ballast Of the right material and in
consequence were driven upon the
rocks.
In the selection of our crew we made
mistakes. TO be thorough sports, or
to appear as such, we became frequent
ers of those public resorts where aquat-
les, pugilism and other sports are
talked about, and where more races are
run and battles fought with the assist
ance of old Coxswain Booze, than any
where else. There is an army OF
drv land sailors or loafers, who hang
around those resorts for the purpose OF
loading up on "benzine' at other peO-
ple's expense, and III trying to reach
their domicile after getting drunk,
show their ignorance of post, starboard
or 'sluff her up" by founder'ng in the
gutter or tying up to lamp-post until
the master alarms, who attends to all
derelict crafts, comes along, toWs them
into quarantine and holds them there
until the salvage is paid.
By becoming patrons of those de-
moralizing shipyards, we became ac-
uuainted with these "mouth" sailors and,
unfortunately, selected our crew from
their number. Consequently we were
nowhere in the race; we got stranded
and were sent to our present harbor fol
repairs.
After discovering the errors we have
made, let us-on the necessary repairs
being completed-launch our crafts
out of this old 'navy yard;' ballas'
them with the best of material an(
} steer for a shore where there is mor'
sunshine and happier surroundings
Let us keep clear of all those Whlrl
pools which have an odor of rum, ant
we will gradually make up our los
ground and be enabled to rest AM
glide along with the tide. 1t will b
necessary to occasionally look over ou
2 hulls and see that there is no dry ro
7 or leakage. Possibly it will be neces
!; sary to scrape off few barnacles tina
l may have grown through coming i
e contact with those slick and plausibl
: "old salts who are ever in the wa.
n BY keeping good lookout and seein
t that our compasses are properly az
o justed, there is every chance of ou
l. never again having to go into dr
dock controlled by the state.
l. In sailing along life's tempestuor
n sea, many wrecks will be seen aroun
o the base of the towering rock of Il
it temperance, on whose pinnacle
g placed lighthouse with revolvir
Y, light necessarily in motion-not as
1t warning to the poor mariner-but
II lure him to destruction.
In order to facilitate matters aft
e. we get out of here and get some hea
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17

A Colorado lawyer declares that the
Garden of Eden was located in that
state. This will account for the awful
responsibilities taken by it's inhabit-
ants in order to get out of there
Faribault Democrat.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-01
Two Killed at Shnmokln.

SHAMoKIN Pa, Oct. 1T damage
caused by the cyclone that passed over this
section Tuesday night is greater than early
reports indicated. 1t is now thought the
total loss will reach $3.50, 900. The Patter-
son breaker is almost a total wreck, but
the debris was saved from the flames by
the heavy downpour Of rain that followed
the destructive wind. Superintendent
Vincent places the damage to the collery
at $4,000 Fourteen Of the dwelling
houses and twenty board shanties occupied
by the mine workers We're also blown down
and five of the former We're consumed by
flames Two of the tenants were killed
several injured and eleven head of cattle
were crushed to death beneath the dis
mantled barn. The killed and injured are :
James Hanlon, crushed in the debris of his
house, died in few hours Minnie Kline,
fractured skull in jumping from IA second
story window to escape fire, died from her
injuries Shamokin, Mt. Carmel Locust
Gap and other surrounding towns suffered
heavily. In the farming districts barns
were demolished by the hundreds At the
Colbert mine the fan and engine house
both boiler houses and all of the smoke
stacks were demolished, throwing 400 men
and boys out of employment.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-01
The storm at virginia's Capital.

RICHMOND, Oct, 1.-The most severe
storm in the history of this city was ex-
perienced here Tuesday night, and streets
and parks are strewed with debris. The
loss of property will reach a considerable
figure, but fortunately there was no loss
of life. All of the higher buildings in the
city are more or less damaged and churches
were injured in various ways The most
serious work of the storm was at the Sec
ond Baptist church, whore an immense
steeple was tOppled across the street and
also at the Young Mems Christian asso-
citation, During the fury of the gale a
section of the steeple Of Broad Street Meth
odist church also toppled into the street
Reports from suburban towns, particu-
larly Manchester, show that much dam
age to property resulted
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-01
.GREAT DAMAGE BY IHE STORM
Pennsylvania Feels the Force OF the
CyclOnic Disturbances.
THE LOSS AT LANCASTER 81, 900, 900
The Big Railroad Bridge at Columbia Com
pletely Demolished-At Savannah, Ca,
the Storm Costs Eleven Lives and
Nearly a Million in Property.

LANCASTER, Pa, Oct Reports which
have been received here confirm the earlier
advicos of the wide extent of yesterday
mornings cyclone disturbance Every
section of the county has boon heard from
and the story is that ruin rode in the wake
of the gale While an estimate of the total
loss is necessarily speculative there does
not seem any doubt that it will easily
reach Sl,00O,0O0, and may largely exceed
that amount. In this city the individual
losses are as a rule comparatively small
but there are hundreds Of them which
will make the aggregate enormous.
The wind rOared through the streets
with a noise like thunder, and houses lit
orally rocked upon their foundations The
oldest inhabitant can recall nothing to at
all approach the gigantic fury OF the
storm kings revel. During the two hours
of terror, which kept II large part of the
population awake, the air was filled with
bricks, stones, slate, timbcrs and roofs of
heavy sheet iron and tin, while gigantic
trees which had withstood the storms of
generations were ripped up by the roots
and tossed almost like toys.
The storm outside the city was scarcely
less severe. The destruction of the Penn
sylvania railroad bridge across the Sus-
quehnnna ut Columbia overshudows all
else in relative Importance. The bridge,
which comprised twenty-seven spans was
completely demolished. 1t was insured
for $500 600. Everything was carried away
except the stone piers, the single iron
span and one of the shore spans, The
bridge proper was crushed to splinters. 1t
was lifted bodily off the piers and dopos-
tied just above in the water, II portion
resting on the piers. Not a timber was
left standing.
The Columbia bridge was one of the
longest covered bridges in the United
States, being about a mile and "a quarter
in length. The bridge that spans the Sus-
quehanna at this point was originally
built in 1912, but that structure was car
ried away by freshet. The bridge that
succeeded it was burned by the citizens Of
Columbia to prevent the threatened in
vasion of the Confederate forces, which
were then in York county and menacod
this side of the river The loss to the Penn
sylvania railroad will be incstuublo.
1t is pretty well settled now that there
was no loss of life, as search OF the debris
has failed to reveal the bodies Of two men
who it was feared, were on the bridge
when it was swept out of existence 10y the
hurricane