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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02
CHAMPION FLOATER CATCHER.
Uncle Eb Jackson of St Louis Bears
That Distinction.

After twenty-five years of hard work
along the levees of South st. Louis,
Uncle ed Jackson, the undisputed
champion ''fioater' catcher of the Up
per Mississippi, has retired from active
operations, says the st. Louis Post Dis
patch. Uncle Eb is SO years old and
has snatched from the arms of the
mighty Father of Waters a body for
every pickaninny that plays around his
door on Krauss street.
The contrary current breaks sharply
off from the main flow about two and
a half blocks below the old uncle's
home, and sweeps back to Krauss
street with considerable force. The
bodies of those tired souls who seek
rest in the Mississipprs bosom are
whirled into the pool in such numbers
MS to earn it the title of Dead Mans
Eddy" A floating body must be very
near the Illinois shore to escape this
eddying current, and once Is comes In
contact with it a coroners jury finds
occupation. Nothing that floats has
been known to get away after once en-
tering the eddy. Here 1t is 80 per cent.
of the waters victims are found, and
here it is for a quarter Of century the
old darky has piled his gruesome voca-
ton they call "reachin'."
For many years Uncle Eb had clear
field and many "hoedown" was given
An the one-story shanty on the river
bank when business was good and
profitable. OF late yeans the profits
from ''reachin' have fallen off large
ly by reason of competition. 1t was this
competition, however, that brought the
old man the title champion reacher.'
With his S3d birthday last spring came
rheumatism and sore eyes, but still he
stuck to his post until his rivals with
their sharper visions clearly outclassed
him. Then he pulled his old boat high
on the shore and confided to his niece
he was done.
"Yessir, l amt goin' to reach nc
more" said the old darby. 1T amt nc
use for me. cause desc ole eyes is git
tin dim and Use got a good big crick In
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02
Not All Do 1t.

"Any fool can write a novel," SAID
Griggle. you can make things come
out just as you want them to-"
Every true" replied Dixon, "but you
must admit that there are some fools
who do not write novels. Boston
TRANSCRIPT.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02
An Unfortunate Admission.

Husband (shaving)-"Confound the
razor! Wife-"What's the matter
now? You're dreadfully cross-tem.
pered." Husband-"The razor is sc
abominably dullv Wife-"Dul? Why,
1 ripped up on old skirt with it yester.
day and it cut OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02

The house in which Rev. John Wesley
was seized with his fatal illness has been
identified at BALKAN.
The worlds race record was broken at
indianapolis Saturday by Star Pointer in
a match race with Joe Patchen, in the
remarkable time of 2:0l, winning the
$4,000 purse.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02
MADE A HIT.

To say that DIR. Karin has made pro-
fessional hit since locating in Spokane, is
needless to remark; the many wonderful
cures affected by him testifying to his
skill as a physician is greater praise than
words can tell. His office is in the Au-
ditorium building, where he can be con-
Quilted (free) regarding all acute and
chronic diseases, for which ne is, beyond
question, the leading specialist of the
day.
Hours 10 to IL, to and Z to 8.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02

Another Abyssinian mission is APP
preaching st. Petersburg, bearing auto
graph letters from the Emperor Menelik
and his wife to the car and czarina. The
mission also brings many presents and
many horses.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02

The rage for colored shoes and stock
ings is virulent in France, where the wo-
men are wearing pink shoes and red
hosiery. This sounds too audacious to
be true, but it is so.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02

woman, came across the ocean and
settled in Canada. Twenty years Of
the drudgery of domestic service made
but little change in her. In the course
of these years her father and mother
died, and the uncle returned to Scot
land with his fortune. OF late Miss
Mckay has been employed by Mr..
Lawrence, of Bayside, L. l., as a cook.
She says she has no higher ambition
than to make her home in Flushing
and help the poor.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02

old home in Scot
land to receive ST.
100000 left to her
under the will Of
h e + uncle, who
went away to Afrl-
ca years ago while
she was a child to
seek his fortune.
In time the child,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02

In the japanese match factories the
boxes and labels are made by little girls,
who are wondrously dextrous in the
work These little experts get from to
cents for II hours work.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02
INHERITS A MILLION.

Eu phemia Mckay, Cook of Long
Island, Gets a Big Fortune.
Here is a portrait of Miss Euphemia
Mckay, the cook who has fallen heir
To n large fortune. She has gone to her
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02

know that my life was saved by Piso's
Cure for Communication A. Miller.
Au Sable. Michigan, April Il. 1885,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02

Try schiiing's Best tea and baking powder.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02

A MATTER OF GREAT IMPORTANCE to farmers, especially
who raise sheep wool the dipping of the animals in the
fall of the The Kill the Tick
which Destroy disease which rates
itching
West performed semiannuay for
The Importance
imagined when foreign
will cabby the inspectors of the
afflicted which, considerable
the offers neither apology
Enumeration.
Animal Industry the United Agricultural
dis
made
of Thursday Dr. W. Biting
Station Purdue University directed
Each lamb sheep dipped instead of
tank with capacity of 100 gallons
vded and this gals three
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02


o re o
o on no p ip die n r IN
C cate r
C prom o wool
Machines
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02

The winners Of the sending the largest
Der OF tickets
j. tah-lo
Mrs Annie acker sforh,k riz- uceI
Some people sent instead tickets Wrong-we can't
them. The "ucket" is the paper az inches
You follow the rules exactly 100000 can't
your words
Address MONEY-BACK San Francisco ~
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02
The Missing Word

was NATURAL: Sigs Bestha not OnH pure 6HfH NATURAL
becanSe is fresh roasted.
ac,uou
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02
OTHER STATES

Mrs. K. woodin, Albany Or.
Mrs. Kate Engberg, Bigelow,
Mrs. A. Willett, Bridal Veil, "
Mrs. w. Howell, Oregon City, .
Hilda Johnson, Portland,
Mamie Hanning, Virginia, New.
Ella M. Smith, WRshoe,
Mrs. w. Funk Winnemucca,
Mrs. Godward, Atlantic, Wyo
Emma Mass, Burnt Fork, 4"
Mrs. Emily Rice, Cheyenne"
Otto Arnold, Evanston,
Mrs. Harlsnder, GtFslls, Mont
Mrs. g. Merritt Boise City, Ida
S.W. Rsinforth, Boomers Fly.
Laura Taft, Balida, Colo.
Mrs.C. Csrpent ter Florence Arts
Eugene Rietzke, Ph@nix,
Della Willis.
Mrs. s. @. Marsh. Cerrillos. NM.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Mrs. John Walter, Ladners
Stella p. McGary. Victoria
MEXICO
salvador Narcio. EnseDada
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N. N. U.
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growing in to q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30
A MASS OF LEGISLATION.

CE. L. Godkin in the July Atlantic1
The mass of legislation or attempts at
legislation, is something startling.
have been unable to obtain records of
the acts and resolutions of all the states
the same year. am obliged to take
those Of Arkansas for the year 1895, four
other states for 1894, ten for 1896. and
the rest for 1895. But 1 have only one
year for each state. The total of such
acts and resolutions is Is 730. and this is
for a population of 70, 600 600. Besides
this congress in 1856 passed 457 acts
and resolutions. But this amount of
work turned out is really not very sur
pflslnB when we consider the number
of the legislators. There are no less than
All national legislat tors, and 6,578 state
legislators, in all 7.025, exclusive of
county, city, and all other local authori-
ties capab bic of passing rules or Ordi-
population, 1000 at least would be en-
gagged on the laws of Great Britain.
without any provision for India and the
colonies, $500 on those of France. about
5000 on those of Germany, and 5000 on
those of Italy. It will be easily seen
what a draft this is on the small amount
of legislative capacity which every
community contains. Nothing like it
has ever been seen in the history of the
world There is no country which has
yet shown itself capable of producing
more than one small frst-class legisla-
tive assembly. We undertake to keen
going 45 for the states alone, besides
those for territories. All these assem-
blies, too, have to do with interests of
the highest order
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30
LIFE IN A GEOGRAPHY.


Geogra ply in the form of a connected
and interesting story is the latest edu-
catiOnal proposition. Frank G. Car
penter, the professional traveller, has
published a geography which is a racy
running story from beginning to end.
During the course of 304 pages it teach
es not only the boundaries of the coun-
tries of Asia, the names of their great
cities and the directions of their rivers,
but it gives to the peoples an actual ex-
istence, shows the governments, the
modes of life and the social customs. 1t
makes the continent more than the va
ri-colOred map which is remembered
from childhood and which stands for
the average idea of Asia.
Mr.. Carpenter evidently fears the eff
feet his plan may have on the teachers
who do not like anything that was not
proper pedagOgics when they attended
the normal school and stood the exami-
nation for a license to teach. He pre-
sents an apology in the preface The
apology is the one cOndemna Bile feature
in the book. He tries to throw cold wa
ter on his own scheme. He alleges that
he did not intend that the geographical
reader should be substitute for the
old-fashioned text book, but that it
should be a supplemental course. He
even suggests that the ancient, prOsa ic
skeletons which are admira bly, adapted
to the cultivation of the memory ougI t
to be the companions Of his flesh and
blood treatise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30
THE mALADY OF LOVE.
IFrom the New York Press.

From the New YORK Press
Science is making itself obnoxious.
AS if it were not enough to discover
10 a germ fearing world that there are
microbes in kisses. it now declares that
love is itself a disease. It adds. more
over that the lover, whom all man
kind has held IN tender esteem, is a be
ing almost as unsound and out of
health, in body and mind, as a person
with paresis. Love may be caught,
like measles or pneumonia, by exposure
TO certain Influences when the system
IS run down or exhausted. With all
the gravity that medical language can
throw around a simple statement, sci
ence describes love as a fever. a NAL
ady of the human tissues, with we'll
recognized symptoms and often mortal
results. and may be treated from the
materia mediCa like any other Ill
ness
This discovery means cruelty to many
individual feminine hopes Man is not
often in a condition to fall in love; he
ia too healthy during the greater part
OF his life. So. instead of expecting
that any male person who comes her
way may be struck with desire for her,
a girl hereafter Will know that only
men who happen TO see her first when
they are in a rare, peculiar state are
likely to take the fever. How much
mat reduces girls chances of mar
rage may be imagined when, under the
old suppOsition that every man was a
possible husband, a girl could not count
N-A more LLtLu one GEl2nCe IN 3.UuU.
1t was thought wildly impro ba bl e
that a given girl could win the love Of
a given man. It was figured this way
by Zangwilrs Old Maids clubs: Sup
pose a man meets 3. 600 girls in his ca
reer- What are the chances that he
VIII fail in love with No. AZ of No. 2. COS
II is 1889 to 1 against Then there is
the probability that he is not in love
az all-which makes the odds s. $50 to 1 -
Inc problem is analogous to one which
appears IN every algebra But now,
~ calculations based on sciences lat
est discovery, the chances are further
reduced. for there is a new factor to
ne reckoned within q. career in which
a man meets 5000 girls he may not
during a moment of that period he
susceptible to love. Therefore. he
would not want a single one out of the
5000 - 1Ai0
But about this new discovery. When
Mrs Refs drowned herself in the Park
reservoir last week DR.. Nagle, the en-
1nent student of causes of suicide. told
Press reporter that love is a morbid
sta.te-a state Of sickness. This theory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30
ROYAL FIeUREaEADs.
TFrom Myron Reeds Sermon. !

Lr rom AIyEOn RGeQ-S Sermon.
I have tried hard to enter into the
jubilee of Victoria. I simply cannot do
it. This 1 viii say; that she has let the
people alone. She has not vetoed anv
old soldiers pension. She has not been
in the way of anything. She is an ex-
pensive but magnificent negative.
A man died one hundred and eleven
years old. The preacher Of the village
was a young man and the elderly peo-
PIE hesitated as to intrusting him with
the funeral 1t was so great an on
portunity. But they finally asked him
to ofdciate. He sat down and began to
reach out for material. The man was
one hundred and eleven years old. But
what had he done or said? Finally a
teacher who had the old man at one
time in Bible class remembered a me-
mOrable saying of his. The verse IN
der consideration was the last verse of
the gospel Of John John says: 7 sup
pose if all the things that Jesus said
and did had been written the world
would not have contained the book
The teacher asked the old man what he
thought of that, and he answered that
he supposed John referred to the world
as it was before Columbus sailed The
preacher did the best he could with his
great opportunity. The man was one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30

hundred and eleven years old.H simp-
ly backed up and made a record and
recount of the inventions and discover
les of 100 years. He made a good two
hours of it But one wise lady said aft
er the funeral: But what had that to
do with the old man?' Mr. Buckle
makes US know that kings and queens
have very little to do with the growth
of a people. They cannot much hinder,
and they cannot much help. Shakes
peare does not depend on Elizabeth.
A nation goes on it's way; men like
of our affairs are chips. They may
obstruct and clog, but they do not di-
rect. We have not lately had any one
mind or viii who had much to do with
20 000, 900 Americans. Slowly the people
are thinking the problem out 1t is
coming all right; little late, but who
cares so it is coming?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30
NO ROBES, NO FUNERALS.
Three Fashionable Intern ents Post
poned Because Burglars Stole
the Burial Garments.

Boston, June 30-Three fashionable fun
erals in Lynn were postponed yesterday
because burglars had stolen the burial
robes.
It was one of the most singular and
ghoulish robberies ever committed in that
city. There was CONSERVATION among the
society folk this morning when the losses
were discovered, and an attempt was
made to borrow or buy ready made vest
ments for the dead, but they were not
satisfactory, so the funerals had to be
postponed until today when new gar
ments will have been completed.
The fashionable dressmaking establish
ments of Miss Ellen Dugan at SO Fayette
street, Lynn, was entered by burglars
Monday night, and strange to say, the
principal thefts consisted of three burial
robes which had just been completed for
funerals which were to take place yes
terday. The work on the elaborate gar
ments was only completed at a late hour
Monday night. The help had been kept
working until midnight. A quantity of
black silk and satin, used in the making
of burial robes and trimmings, was stolen
in addition to the finished robes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30
CASE OF TOM HOWARD.
Under an Assumed Name He Is
Serving Sentence
In the Michigan Penitentiary
for a Crime
Of Which He Is Probably Innocent
Efforts of His Wife to Secure
His Release

Some time ago a man named Harry
Dale was sent to the Michigan peni-
tertiary from Detroit for life, upon his
conviction of the charge of criminal
assault The case was a peculiar one,
and it is now thought that he was sent
up for a crime he did not commit.
1t has recently developed that the
name Harry Dale was an alias and
that his real name is Thomas Howard
This brings the story to Topeka, where
he was we'll known, and where his wife
is now living in seclusion. ThomaS
Howard lived in Topeka many years
ago with his family. His fathers name
was Jarvis Howard, and he was sup
posed to be wealthy. Later Mr. JARVIS
Howard and his sons moved to Atch-
ison and engaged in business.
Thomas Howard married Ella ben
| nett of North Topeka more than twenty
years ago. She is a sister of Mrs
| G. w. NJ. White of 812 North Harrison
street and Mr.. Chas. Bennett, the OPP
tician at $50 Kansas avenue. She also
! has a sister in AtchisOn, Mrs. Robert
| Waterman.
Mr. Howard was travelling man and
was away from the city a great deal.
| Some time ago he disappeared from
view and it was given out that he had
| died suddenly. Some thought that per
| haps he had committed suicide, as it
was known that his brother had killed
himself three years ago in Atchison.
In Detroit, where the trial of Harry
| Dale was held, Mrs. Ella Howard testi-
| fed in his behalf, claiming that she
was a sister of Harry Dale. He was
| convicted, however, and sent up for
! life.
Detectives who had worked on the
| case discovered that the man who had
! been known as Harry Dale was really
| Thomas Howard.
1t was later learned that Ella How
ard, who had testified that she was his
sister, was really his wife Further in
7s1I7
that Mrs. Howard was residing in To-
| peka and that she was corresponding
with her husband, sending the letters
brother-in-law, o. F. Loveridge, ex-
mayor of Madison, and that he remail-
ed them to Harry Dale at the peniten-
tiary.
With this evidence detectives went
to see Harry Dale and when confronted
with the information he made a full
statement. 1t is now said that the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30
WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN.
Issued by Weather Observer Jennings
for This Week

Weather Observer T. B. Jennings has
issued his weekly crop bulletin for the
Kansas section. For general conditions
he says: It was another warm week, with
fine rains in the northern counties, east
of Decatur, extending south into Ottawa
and including the Kaw river counties and
the larger part of the eastern division
south to the territory line. But very lit
tie rain in the state outside of the above
The results in the state by divisions he
gives as follows:
EASTERN DIVISION.
Early corn is silking in the south, and
the corn crop is in good condition all over
the division. but is needing rain in Green
wood, Elk. Chautauqua and western parts
of Montgomery and Wilson. Wheat har>
vest is over in the south and is in pro-
gress in the central counties. Threshing
has begun in the central counties. Oats
are being cut in the south. Fruit dam
aged by the hail in Shawnee, Douglas
and Usage on the oath.
MIDDLE DIVISION.
The hot, dry weather in the central and
southern counties is being felt by the
fruit and hay crops Corn is in good con-
tassel. Wheat harvest is progressing as
far north as Mitchell Oats harvest is
progressing in the south. The second al
falfa crop is being cut in Butler.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Wheat harvest is progressing in the
south, and wheat and barley harvest just
beginning in the central counties. Rye
harvest has commenced in the north. The
dry, hot weather. while good for harvest.
is not benefting growing crops, yet corn
is in good condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30

prosecuting attorney at Detroit and
Warden Chamberlain of the peniten-
tiary think Thomas Howard is being
punished for a crime he did not COM
nit.
Mrs. Thomas Howard has been MAX
Mrs. q. W. M. White, her sister at S12
North Harrison street. Lately she has
been nursing sick relative. Her chill
dren, boy and girl now live at Mrs.
Whites house. The Howard girl is a
playmate of Mr.. H. Q. SaffOrd's daugh-
that her papa had done something aw-
full that it would be terrible if ii was
known here"
Mr. Chas. Bennett, the optician, wno
is a brother of Mrs. Howard, was seen
by a reporter. At first he refused to
THAT doesn't concern me at all. My
sister was not interested in that case.
I don't care to discuss it at ALL
Where is Thomas Howard 3" inquired
the reporter.
I don't know" replied Mr.. Bennett.
Wasn't he a travelling MANI"
Yes, he was"
''IS he travelling nOW?"
Il have nothing to say"
At the residence of Mrs. G.. w M.
White in North Topeka any Information
as to Mrs. Howard was refused fatty
and an interview with her was denied.
At any rate Thomas Howard is not
dead, but is in the Michigan peniten-
tiary, probably serving sentence for a
crime of which he is not guilty. Mrs
Howard has tried many times to effect
the release of her husband. has travel
ed from place to place, visiting relatives
and friends to secure help to push the
case TO its completion. Mrs. Howard and
her sister Mrs. White are well known
in North Topeka and are highly re-
Spected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30
a CHANGE o. FRoNT.

The information is cabled across the
water that the bimetalic commission
appointed by President Mckinley has
succeeded in winning the French gov
eminent over to the cause which it rep
resents and that armed with this i'm
portant acquisition it will a once
pounce down upon the citadel of gold
recommendation in London.
The British fnanciers have been
awaiting the coming of the commits
sioners and to Judge from the tone Of
the dispa tches above referred to have
already made up their minds what they
viii do. a leading London periodical,
The National Review. is quoted as
authority for the statement that if
France and the United States shall
agree upon a scheme for the rehabihta-
sion Of silver. England will reopen the
Indian minis; will permit the Bank Of
England to use its silver reserve and
will enlarge the legal tender qualities Of
the white metal, making it a basis for
note circulate If this be true, these
are important concessions.
It is said the ROthschild syndi-
cate. which reckoas among it's debtors
half the nations of the earth has been
steadily buying up desirable silver
properties in this country for a consid-
cradle period of time. The lower the
price of silver bullion has gone the
more mines they have bought. No sill
yer mining property in the western
states which has been offered at reason
able figure has wanted for buyer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30

NO doubt Strong city will be deserted
during the FAN Festival at Topeka this
year as it was last--Strong City Derrick
Every town in Kansas ought to be de
serted" during Fail Festival week. The
Fan Festival is intended as a grand jub-
nation and reunion for all Kansas people
when they can get together and have a
good time for at least once in a year. 1t
gets the people of the state better ac-
quainted with each other. It gives every
body chance to drop business cares for
a few days and hobnob with the crowd.
It is Topeka's annual party to which all
Kansas is invited.