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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

Admiral Cervera will read with emo
tions of unspeakable regret the COM
ments of Commander jacobson, of the
German navy, upon his conduct at San
tiago. Just J., ~ unspeakable his emo
lions are will largely depend upon the
readiness with which the Spanish Ian
guage lends itself to the uses of pro-
family. If he will read the sketch of
the naval encounter at Santiago by the
German commander, he will learn that
his strategy was extremely faulty and
that he made a mistake in trying to
escape in broad daylight. The public
had been under the impression for
some time that something was wrong
with Cervera at Santiago, and it is
gratifying to have this impression con-
tirmed by an expert 1t is also well to
have Cervera reminded in this way of
what he might have done with Samp-
sons fleet at Santiago, for fear he may
have been laboring under the notion
that he did the best he could under the
order that doomed him to destruction.
1t is Commander Jacobson's opinion
that 1.-The sortie should have been made
at night in scattered formation" and
that 1.-THE dark nights at the time of the
new moon, about the middle of June"
would have been best suited to the I'M
dertaking. There is little doubt that if
Cervera had tried the German COM
mander's plan of escape the sortie
would have been in scattered forma-
tion," whether it was under a new
moon or n full moon. SIMPSONS fleet
seems to have had habit of scattering
things about that time. Nearly all the
projectiles from the American ships
were of the scattering" kind. 1t is
difficult at this time, however, to see
how the formation of Cerveras fleet
after it finally left Santiago, could have
been more scattered" Figuratively
speaking, 1t was strewn along the
beach for more than forty miles. But
Commander Jacobson says if the Adj
miral was compelled to make sOrtie
in day time then 1.-The ship should have
been headed straight at the enemy"
In other words, Cervera should have
tried ramming. Commander Jacobson
fails to state what the American ships
would have done while Cervera was
ramming. AS a matter of fact, this
maneuver would have saved the Amer
leans an exciting chase, and a great
deal of coal and powder. 1t is not easy
to fathom the sorrow of the gallant
Cervera as he reads and ponders over
Commander Jacobson's sketch of the
battle of Santiago, and reflects how
easily he might have sent SIMPSONS
fleet to the bottom of the bay If he had
only had Commander jacobson at his
elbow.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

If they can not see a joke, Scotch
ministers at least can make one, now
and then, that is most effective. At
least it seems that that is what a GER
tain Scotch reverend has been doing
lately in bewailing the fact that the
Queens journey across the channel I'M
dertaken on a Sunday is sure to have
a ''pernicious influence over the giddy
and goddess French" AS if the good
little Queen could have that sort of
influence over any one even if she so
desired, and as if any one, even if he
was so minded, could have that sort Of
influence over the French.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

Among many beautiful provisions OF
modern life, who can mention any COM
bination of wisdom and love which
shows In finer proportions than the ele-
walton of nursing to the rank of a pro-
fession? All the leading hospitals have,
or aspire to have, their schools of train.
ing, and the diploma of graduate
nurse commands the confidence of both
physicians and afflicted families. In
several cities there are organizations
which employ visiting nurses, who pass
daily from house to house to attend the
sick poor, and to second the services
Of the medical men and the dispens-
aries. In Boston, for instance, in 1898
eleven nurses cared in this way for
more than five thousand cases and paid
forty-eight thousand visits, at a cost
to the association of II cents per visit.
In the sick-room care and cure are more
near of kin than hand and glove. The
efficacy of medicine depends largely on
it's timely and judicious administration,
and the doctors knowledge of the pa
TENTS condition rests chiefly on a rec
ord of symptoms and changes which he
cannot personally observe-a record
that can only be made by a trained eye
and hand. In these matters the nurse
becomes the doctors viceroy, and may
sometimes take important steps before
he can be reached. But medicine is
only one factor, and often an uncertain
one. Considerate attention to the pa
tents comfort and hourly needs, tact
in dealing with unquiet and unreason-
able moods, protection against hurtful
intrusions-these are of unspeakable
Importance; and in critical cases any
one of them may be the pivotal point
between life and death. Indeed, many
cases that are simply serious may be-
come critical for lack of competent
care. A discreet nurse is life-saver,
and often at the bed of death she is a
visible guardian angel.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

The Inherent fighting qualities of the
Filipino soldiers are augmented by the
articles of their leaders. Their super
stitions are played upon by giving
them amulets. Some Of these have the
likeness of Aguinaldo engraved upon
them, and all promise immunity from
death to the credulous wearers. Those
who are killed, of course, are past COM
planning; those who escape death have
their faith in the talisman confirmed.
They are desperate fighters, after their
own fashion, and compass marches on
rations insufficient to keep an Ameri-
can soldier alive. An occasional hand
full or rice, supplemented by chance
frog or a mud fish, amply satisfy their
hunger, and of the uncomfortable thirst
which tortures European soldiers they
appear to know nothing.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03
The Greatest National Feast.

No more purely national feast than
Decoration Day could be possible. To the
rest of the world May 80 is merely a day
at the close of the last spring month. To
the patriotic dweller in the land of Uncle
Sam how much more! 1t is customary
to call Americans, as a nation, laughter
loving and tickle yet who, viewing the vast
throngs assembled in every city and ham,
let to do honor to the glorious dead, can
believe this true2 Rather would the
stranger on our shores be impressed by the
fact that patriotism is strong within ua
For in the national holidays may surely
be read the character of the people as il
can be read in no other way. Croakers
there will always be- but we can afford to
disregard them. The future of nation il
safe in the hands of those who reverence
it's noble past,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03
EeEesese<sssesesesssseess
Which Shall Enlist?
Seeeessseteesss eeeeteseess
66 0On ELL, Ed, I've enlistedw
WhW Have You though, Tom?"
dG Eyes. sirl I'm one of themp'

S- - YES, sir! m one OF them!
81 declare, l wish l was, too"
'Folks won't let your"
"No."
There's only sixteen more wanted to
fill up the company and I've just met three
fellows that said they were going up to
put their names down." and then Thomas
Hines, eighteen years old, lithe-limbed and
fair-haired. enumerated TO his chum Of the
same age. Edward Wilkinson, who "the
fellows" were who said that they were
going up to enlist.
Edward, mother wants you TO come in
TO dinner. How do you do, Tom?" and a
young light-footed girl Of fourteen ran out
from the farm house opposite to which the
two boys had fronted, and looked half
earnestly, half-laughingly, into the eyes
of the young man, her neighbor, and her
brothers inseparable companion, Thomas
Hines.
TON has enlisted, Nellie. Now isn't it
too lad that my folks won't let me enlist
and go TO the warp
you've enlisted. Tom? Really?"
"Yes, Nellie, and wish Edward would,
then we could be always together. Sleep
in the same tent, march together and"
Eight togetherw said the girl, her eyes
flashing.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

Frank II. Hitchcock, who has exam
ined trade in the Philippines for the
Department of Agriculture, says that
the trade of the islands has decreased
the last few years. This is not sur
prising. The islands of late years were
IN an almost constant state of insur-
rection against Spanish authority.
Trade in 1893 declined from $3O,OOO,-
600 to $27.00O,000. The trade for
1896 was about the same, while in 1897
the total trade was about S29,OOO,OOO
Three-fourths of this trade is carried
on through the port Of Manila and the
remainder is distributed between the
ports of Iloilo and Cebu. The dimin-
fishing of imports and the increase Of
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

exports is another feature of Philip
pine trade. The decline was more in
value than in quantity of merchandise.
is in cotton goods and agricultural
products form a quarter of the total
amount. Hemp and sugar are the prin-
cipal exports. The countries that Sc
cure the most of this trade are En-
gland. China, the United States and
Spain. England in 1893 got 81 per
cent, China and Spain IS per cent
each, the United States 10 per cent,
while Germany had only per cent.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

The discovery of the cancer microbe
by DR.. Bra, of Paris, is hardly a sur
prise in a time when few things can be
regarded as eternally hid from science
But if it means, as seems probable, the
ultimate discovery of a remedy, a fear
some dread will be lifted from many
people to whom the thought of death
by that particular means carries with
1t peculiar horror.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

We have a large number of heroes
in stock just now, and all of them are
distinctly human. Pictured by mag
NATIVE writers, some of the earlier
masters of achievement seem more
than human. 1t is quite refreshing,
therefore, to get a very prosaic view of
Lord Nelson as he is presented in re-
cent "reminiscences. He stands on the
deck of the Victory, with pieces of
brown paper, soaked in vinegar, tied
on his silk-stockinged legs, red tape be-
ing used to hold in place the soothing
applications. The pain of mosquito
bites had been too much for the hero.
The demigod is hardly apparent here.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

If you happen to be a trif1e "shy' on
your ancestry, just call on any of the
forty-three firms in New York City
who make fortunes each year by pro-
viding crests, coats of arms, genealo-
gies, ancestors, history, or "any old
thing" you desire in that line. The
cheapest things in the New York mar
ket now are ancestors.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

Who knows but at twilight
Some story is told
OF a soldier who died
For the Lost Cause" Of oldf
They were brothers. these twot
In mem'ry to-day,
We can see them again,
The Blue and the Gray.
Side by side now they sleep
Beneath the green sod,
The pride of two armies
Both taken by God.
Bring out the wild blossoms,
The darlings of May,
The budding June roses,
For Blue and for Gray.
Pile high the white lilies
Ger each hero's breast;
Leave God and His angels
To watch DER their rest.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

American baseball is becoming so
popular in Cuba that it promises to
supplant both cock and bull fighting.
With all it's years, the world has found
no more effective plan of roofing out
an evil than by planting something bet
ter to choke it.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03
M EMORIAL DAY.

TREAD SOFTLY hero
Is sleeping below.
Kneel down here beside him,
He never will know.
Which flag did he fight forf
What recks it to-day?
They are sleeping together
The Blue and the Gray.
My papa oft tells me
When soft falls the dew
or Somebody's Darling"
A hero in blue,
Who laid down his life
On the red field Of Mars
For the sake of the "old dag
All studded with stars.
And down where the cypress
Bends low DER the way,
Where the mess from The live oaks
Hangs ghostly and gray,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03
No kissing in Japaa.

No kissing ever occurs in Japan ex-
cept between husband and wife-not
even between mother and child; no
shaking of hands in salutation. If one
were to offer a kiss to a Japanese
maiden, she would probably think she
was going to be bitten.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

If royalty only knew it leze majesty
lessons rather than increases its dig
nifty in the eyes of others. That such
protection is necessary is a confession
of weakness.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

Reports from all over the country
show that crimes are increasing faster
than the Legislatures can make laws
to check them. Isn't it time we had
little less law and little more justice?
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

We are expecting to hear of some en-
terprising corporation gobbling up the
right of way for a wireless telegraph
line
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

The more it's thought over the more
It seems undesirable for sluggers by
putting diamonds in their teeth to draw
more attention to their mouths.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

A nattachmem to the bicycle that
would make it hoe in the garden would
fill long-felt want.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

Rubber and leather prices have been
advanced by the combines. 1t seems
that we must walk trustfully.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

It's only another instance of the ma
chine-like operations of nature that
winter always wind up with a spring.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

A mans second love is apt to be
worth more money than his first.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-03-06

\ III thar time lie must have 1ifuncned
very nearly some Eve dozen people into
the great unknown. His official ap-
pointment IL of more recent date. He
receives regular salary and is COM
PEELED to travel to any part Of the
Dominion where man is to be hanged
his travelling expenses and the expenses
Il the execution, such 40 those en-
rendered by the building Of the scaf-
fold and the gallows, etc, being borne
by the government Of the province
whose courts have ordered the execu-
tion. In addition to his regular salary.
he has certain perquisites. such as are
derived from the sale Of fractions of the
rope which furnish the moose and such
articles Of wearing apparel as are often
given him by the laws victims. In
some cases these things are bought out
right from him by some local specu-
lator, and the latter often supplements
his stock Of gruesome relics thus ac-
quired with others less genuine. In all
bis executions Radcliffe has never made
a mistake or failure from the time that
he made his debut, which was the occa.
sion of the hanging of Birchall, who
made business Of inveigling wealthy
young Englishmen to Canada on the
pretext of teaching them scientific
farming and then numbering them.
Ratcliffe's home is at SO Fern avenue,
Toronto. where he lives in pleasant
little house with his wife and children,
and where his neighbors and all those
with whom he Is acquainted have moth
ing but good to say for him. He has
his own circle of acquaintances and
mixes very little with the general pub
lie; in fact so unostentatious are his
ways that in the city of Toronto itself
very few people know who he is or
where he lives.
Who and what he was before he came
to Canada is mystery. The first time
he became known was through
Birchall's crime. When the murderer
was condemned to be hanged the au-
thorities were in quandary as to
where they could find man to carry
out the sentence. Formerly some Jail
official, chosen by lot, or some prisoner
who was well paid for his work had
done the actual hanging. In this case.
however, no one could be found willing
to undertake the job. Suddenly the
steward Of the Sunnyside Boating club
of Toronto, a very swell organization,
offered to do the work. This man
proved to be Ratcliffe. AS he did his
work remarkably well and as the boat
ing club did not want to have anything
more to do with him after that, he
stuc6 to the business.-N. Y. Sun.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-03-06
ROMANCE OF A GLACIER.
How a Man Was Restored to His wife
After n Separation of Forty
Years.

Many years ago read a pathetic
story which is constantly recalled to
mind as the duties of this compilation
compel ne to read the records of the
past years, and reperuse the long
closed letters of my beloved, and live
over again the happy days when we
were all in all to each other. do not
remember all the details of the incid nt
which SO impressed me, but III. -1ief
facts were these: A ma, ..eu couple
were crossing one of the great glaciers
of The Alpine regions, when a fatal ac-
down one of the huge creyasses which
abound on all glaciers-the rope broke,
and the depth of the chasm was so
great that no help could be rendered.
nor could the body be recovered. Over
the wife's anguish at her loss we must
draw the veil of silence. Forty years
afterward eaw her, with the guide who
had accompanied them at the time of
the accident, staying at the nearest ho-
tel at the foot of the glacier, waiting for
thC ocd Va iSC " give UP lte ucdu, 1OFf
by the well-known law of glacier pro-
gression, the form of her long g-lost hus-
band might be expected to appear, ex-
PEELED from the mouth of the torrent,
about that date. Patiently, and with
unfailing constancy, they watched and
waited, and their hopes were at last re-
warded.
One day the body was released from
its prison in the ice, and the wife
looked again on the features of him
who had been SO long parted from heri
But the pathos of the story lay in the
fact that she was then an old woman,
while the newly-rescued body was that
of quite young and robust man, so
faithfully had the crystal casket rre-
served the jewel which 1t held so long.
The 40 yearr had left no wrinkles on
that marble brow Times whitening
fngers could not touch him In that
tomb. and SO, for few brief moments
the aged lady saw the husband of her
youth as he was In the days which were
gone forever. Somewhat similar has |
been my experience while preparing |
these chapters.-C. II spurgeon's Ap- |
tobioeraphy.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-03-06
"ALICE, THE SAILOR"
A Chicago Girl Who Has Served
in the Garb of Man for
Five Years.

The American liner Paris, which ar
rived recently, brought from South.
ampton as a second-class passenger a
young woman of Chicago, who is
known as "Alice, the Sailor" She says
she has spent number of years on the
sea, all the time concealing her sex
by dressing like man. When she ar
rived here she was expecting Il be met
at the pier by representatives of the
Young Women's Christian union. As
none of these were present, she was
taken in charge by the customs au-
thorities.
Her real name, she says, is Alice
Amelia Mckinley. About five years
ago, she says, she left the United
States, shipping for Cardiff, Wales,
as sailor boy. At Cardiff she went
to work on collier, and made trips to
Portland. England, where she helped
to coal the British warships Repulse
and Resolute. Afterward she shipped
on the collier Glenavon, and made a
voyage to Caraglio, in Sardinia. Dur
Ing the Spanish war the Glenavon was
chartered to take a load of coal to Las
Palmas in the Canary islands for the
Spaniards.
On her arrival there her sex was dis
covered by the Spanish, and they fur
nished her with woman's clothing and
sent her to London on the steamer
Rhynland Castle. At London she ap
piled for help to the American consul,
but as she had been away from this
country for SO long he would not send
her home. Her story became known
in London, and some of the Americans
there paid her passage home.--Chicago1
Inter Ocean.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-03-06
WATCHING THE CARS.
A Common Sight, Yet One That Is Al
ways Interesting to Young
and Old Alike.

my youthful son." said father,
"said to me the other day: 4 love to
watch the cars!' We were standing
on bridge where many trains pass,
seeing the cars go under; trains going
one way aud the other, and engines
backing down and hooking on to trains,
cars and locomotive all the time in mo-
tion. Even in its most commonplace
aspect fascinating spectacle, and I
told the boy that loved to watch 'em,
too, and SO we stood there long time
and looked at 'em.
'It made me think Of the time when
was young, about ia, ,0oo, 900 years ago,
though I feel young stu for all that,
when I used to watch the cars myself.
Locomotives burned wood in those
days, and the tenders were stacked up
high with cordwood The engines were
mot hsE 20 big as they are now, and
fheg "a great iunnei-zAeped smoke
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-03-06

staclss f,or;,, y - y, y. y, -. ~. <.
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am stbal to,,,, = ,;..,, =. Ss.,'s '.,'r
g,nes wa;t;ng 4, , co,,,,,. -, ~. a. s~.sS.s
take tben .1on, tha,~ strst.r - u.
road from tbat no;rt " ,,saa haa. ~
down frou tba rnundha,ss ~ u [ ..a;.
IN cnt : blocL -. t,.o sra-., ., ~,
road stat;on T,,;s ~. 80 ...a1,ss
an the side. srd ~. o,.s;aa.raaLs -
the lines la;d a M c,,t c,r, c,oss ~
the wall tbe ton "a Witch sr.s shout IN
. l.vel with ~ ton - ~ Iooorot,va
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Ana ,hat aI,e - I ~. 20 'ia.ls.
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wav ,ha. - .ns peuallai ,;,.
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~. 80 -. -, 'nan = = oiea N
e, .s "as ai"ayS .ne invst N
y. ~. - ~ .ne ons On 'ne 'iaoA nfar-
-. ""i "en'
once IN a"niie l USED to go
uo"n .neie on 'nat wall ana stay there
anu ~a,cn the locomotive, right close
~, untu ~ went out, and, sometimes,
= 80 'iaih was iate' mat might be half
~ nour or more put never tired OF 1t.
4 useu 70 see tne engineer pick up his
oi can WIN tne long spout and swing
uo"n out oi the cap 10 the ground and
Walk an around the engine very de-
npera'eiy ana oil everything every
"nee' anu 'nen ne q seem to sort OF
'aAe look an around and then he'd
ciiinp up IN the CAP again and put the
can oowh ana get some cotton waste
ou' ol tne poN on lhe tender and rub the
Oh on MS nands. All TINS time the fire.
man "ouiu De ooing something, shin
ine 'ne orass ior a last touch maybe
'ney usea 10 nave more brass on en-
glnes tnen than they do nowadays
ana an TINS Tune, quiet and still as it
was IN tne cut all three engines would
De breathing IN that slow sort OF
eouen,hke breathing = seemed as
thougn tney were breathing Just as
NO" ana easy as they could, and sort
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-03-06

Harry Campbell set up last aieht
and kept6re IN .ise Springfield grocery
house 10 prevent tne potatoes from
fFeezing.