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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
An OId-Fnshioned journey,

How would you like to remain five
months on ship as passenger? In
these days of fast travel that seems to
be waste of time, but some people like
it. sailing vessel that recently came
into Portland, Ore, brought two pas
sengers from Boston, Mass. The ship
sailed all the way down the Atlantic
coast, around Cape Horn, and then up
the Pacific coast, all along South Amer
lea, and our coast states, the voyage
lasting Isl days. The passengers ex-
pressed themselves as delighted with
their experience. They went ashore at
every port the vessel touched, fished at
every opportunity, read many books,
played games and enjoyed themselves
in many other ways. AS they remarked,
when interviewed, it was healthful
and interesting trip, such as would pay
anyone to take, at least once in life
time.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
Music Kills n Young Horse.

Music caused the death of beauti-
full three-year-old FLY at Florence, Ala,
the other day. A farmer drove his valu-
able young mare into town, and as he
was driving up the principal street
brass band suddenly struck up it's
blatant music. The mare had never
heard any sound like that before, and
so startled was she that she dropped
dead in the shafts of the trap. A veter-
mary surgeon who exa mined the car
cass declared that the mare had died of
heart failure, due to excitement, caused
by the sound of the unaccustomed musiu
of the brass band.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
SEVEN SENSES OF FISHES.
They Have Two Extra Faculties Not
Possessed by Creatures on
Earth or In Air.

Matthias Dunn writes chattily of the
sea and the senses needed to live there
in. How the fish differ from humans in
the senses common to both is curious
inquiry, exciting the interest of the
reader; but more inviting still is the
speculative passage of this article on
the possession of two extra senses by the
fishes of the sea. These are described
as an elastic dermal sense and a mag"
netic dermal sense. The electric der
NAL sense is found, according to Mr.
Dunn, in the lateral lines of fishes. This
sense tells them of the approach of
storms. In Mevagissey bay, in the win
ter months, for many years prior to
1896, herrings kept hiding themselves
along the shores for spawning purposes,
but were difficult to catch. AT last it
was found that these fish would rush
into deep water before the coming of
storms; consequently, the men moored
their nets across their track and wait
ed for the event. Again and again 4
was proved that they always left the
shore, sometimes ten or twelve hours
before the coming storm. The pos
session by fish of the other extra sense
is argued from their migrating and
homing activities. Mackerel, herring
and pilchards swim without error to
their desired spawning beds, sheltered
homes and pleasant feeding grounds
They have no guides to their desired
haven, and some magnetic principle is
supposed to assist in guiding them
London News.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
TRAGEDIES OF HUNTING.
When Out Cunning Don't Shoot Until
You Know What You Are
Shooting At.

The deer hunting season in the Adj
rondacks opened on August /. Four
days later followed tragedy. Two
brothers were camping on the Eighth
Lake of the Fulton Chain. For the
younger, youth of II years, it was the
first season of camp life, and, like all
youngsters in the woods in their ini-
tial experience, he was aglow with ar
dor to get his first deer. About sun
down this younger brother left the
camp alone and shortly after was fol-
lowed by the other. When the elder
Of the two came to the Durant road, he
saw a movement of the brush, such as
is caused by deer. On the instant, he
raised his rife, took quick aim at the
moving brush, fired, then rushed in to
see what he had shot, and found his
brother, who had been killed instantan-
eously by bullet through the breast.
A human life cut short in the flower
of youth. Another life clouded by the
anguish of the hour and by lifelong re-
greet and self-reproach. A home DESC
lated. And all as the fruit of one fool
ish moment with a deadly weapon in
the woods.
If we did not read the stories of such
accidents year after year, and from
time to time meet the bereaved fathers
and mothers, and wives and children of
the victims, it would be impossible to
conceive that grown men could be
found to bring this woe upon them
selves and upon their fellows. And yet
season after season the record grows.
Now it is a farmer who shoots neigh
Dor by mistake for a ground hog; now
a Maine moose hunter who kills his
guide for big game, and now the Adiron-
dacks camper who does to death his
brother for deer. Before the season
shall be over and the rifles put away we
shall hear probably of score of such
tragedies.
And it is all so cruelty heartrending
because so unnecessary. The observ-
ance Of one simple rule would have
saved the scores of lives sacrificed in
the past-Don't shoot until you know
what you are shooting at.-Forest and
Stream
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
PUSSY SAVED THEM.
A Whole Family Escapes from a
Burning House, Thanks to a
Cats FaithfuIness.

Score one for pussy. A Bristol eng
land) cat few days ago proved the
means of saving a whole family from
destruction by fire. At half-past two
in the morning a shopkeeper named
Ledo Schniedermann was aroused by
his pet tabby, which was gently scratch
ing his face.
He tried to drive her away, but as
the faithful feline persisted, he aroused
himself, to find the room full of smoke.
He alarmed lodger, Hermon Muller,
who was sleeping on the same floor,
and also his sister and another young
woman. They all rushed to the stairs,
where tie flames were already spread
ing.
With the exception of the ledger, the
inmates, taking puss with them,
reached Landing, from which they es-
capped to the back yard. Just as the
flames shot right through the spiral
staircase, Muller, who had stopped to
put on his boots, was cut off from es-
cape The flames reached his room, and
then, throwing out some bedding, he
leaped from the second story window.
He badly sprained his ankle and was
taken to the infirmary.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
THE LION SLAYER.

Down in Turkish fashion fiat
A group of merry children sat
Upon the floor
They were looking very snug
In row upon the rug,
The fire before.
One with hands about her knee
Begged all to look and see,
In the Goals,
A great lion fierce and strong,
And his tawny name so long
Round him rolls.
"Oh, you need not be afraid"
Said the dainty little maid
In a glee.
'1d fight him If he'd dare
Just to come outside of there
You would see.
It'd take him by the head.
And I'd squeeze him till he bled
His blood all out.
If his great big teeth he'd show,
I'd saw off the whole row
Beside his snout."
The awe-stricken group looked grave
AS the little maid so brave,
Smiled once more.
Peeping round the room in fear.
They half expected then to hear,
The lions roar.
All at once little mouse,
Who had built his tiny house,
In the wall,
Came scudding toward the crowd,
And with cries prolonged and loud
Away went all.
BY the lion-slayer led,
They precipitately fled
To the door.
While the frightened little mouse.
Scrambled madly to his house
Across the floor.
Nellie II. Ayres, in n. Y. Observer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
CIVILIZATION IN HAYTI
New Methods ar Advanced
Ideas

The bulk of the Haytians will tell you
that they consider what was good
enough for their fathers good enough
for them. In consequence they are OPP
posed TO all progress. No stronger
proof can be given of this than the new
market erected by the late progressive
president in the capital. This is a very
large building, covering two entire
blocks in the heart of the city of Port
au Prince, connected over the inter-
vening street by very imposing arch
and clock-tower. AS far as my own eX-
perience is concerned, this market is
the only cool, comfortable place in the
city. Yet it is never used, though the
streets surrounding it are packed to
suffocation. The market people swell
ter in the heat. and their meats and veg
etables decompose so rapidly in the sun
that after business has been going on
for hours the nose that is not trained
to all the stages of Haytian market
must be carefully carried on the wind
ward side of the crowded picturesque
scene. A very large proportion of these
wretched unhealthy characteristics
could be avoided if the people would &C
under the cool, spacious, well-alred
shelter provided for them; but their
forefathers bought and sold in the open
air, and that decides the matter. In
some of the smaller places, where they
have shade trees and small rustic booths,
II seems better, but really is not, as
the people sit in the shade and thrust
their stock out III the sun so that the
glare of the light upon it will call at
ention.-Harper's Magazine.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
4 Beneficent MicrObe.

A Russian physician announces that
he has discovered a microbe fatal to
rats. An epidemic having broken out
among rats kept for experimental pur-
poses in the government agricultural
laboratory, bacilli were isolated from
the liver and spleen of the affected an
finals, and they proved very effective
in killing off rats and mice.-Utica OBJ
server
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
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How He Can Afford 1t.

Dick-How neat Tom always is. His
linen always looks as if it had jus.
come out of the drawer. And yet am
told that Tom can't get the money to-
gether to pay his laundry bill.
Jack-That's the reason he can put on
clean collar every day. He couldn't
do it if he had to pay for his washing
Boston transcript.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
My Margery's cheeks they are sumac

red
When she bakes her cakes for me,
And her eyes are as brown as the brown
est leaf
That ever grew on tree.
Not a dead, dull brown, but they SPAR
kle bright
AS dewdrop in the sun.
No autumn woods are as fair sight
She certainly takes the bun.
And when tell her things like these
She'll bake me all the cakes I please.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
Derrer Hreakfasfs.

'They call clambakes Dewey break
FISTS"
"Why 500"
stupid because they're eaten be-
tween shells Baltimore American.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12

There is glory in the woodland,
Where the naples are a-growing,
And the sumacs blush in crimson,
And the golden-rods are blowing,
And the oak leaves and the beach leaves
And some other leaves are glowing
With tints that you might say are
opalescent.
There's glory DER the farmland,
When the pumpkins, round and mel
low,
Lie among the dropping cornstalks
In thick blobs of reddish yellow,
And the stubble stretches golden
It's sight to make fellow
Bubble over with emotion effervescent.
All the same, I'll take the kitchen,
When my pride and joy and treasure
Filleth up bowl with buckwheat
From well-proportioned measure,
Stirreth in the baking powder,
Addeth salt and milk to pleasure,
And then taketh down the glossy soap
stone griddle.
'Tis aesthetic delectation
There, when as the pallid batter
Trickleth down in shapely circles,
And, without splash or splatter,
Waxeth golden at the edges
Where it curls' up from the platter
And turns smoothly, darkly brown
throughout the middle.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12

A few weeks ago the Krupp factory
turned out its twenty thousandth large
gun for European armies.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12

Something similar to the telephone
was used in China 1000 years ago.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
Down in the basement dark

Down in the basement dark
The hands on the meter click;
They're touching the thousand mark
So often it makes me sick.
And the gas it is blazing high
In every chandelier,
Though the suns in the MONDAY sky
And the day it is bright and clear.
But me janitor says that we
Must wait three more weeks for heat.
So the reason is plain to see
Why the meter goes on to mete.
Chicago Daily Record.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12

Long I've waited; now they've come.
Thank you; yes, | will take some;
Set 'em down in front of me.
Here's the way cakes ought to be:
Red and reeking hot, and light
As dandelion-down in fight;
Fragrant as their mother bloom,
Permeating all the room.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12

Though the sun shines out his best
And the lisle-thread undervest
Doth not seem to FIJI the bill;
Leaves from treetops sailing down
When the wind-blown branches stir;
Cambria waists with capes of fur
Everywhere about the town.
Straw hats obsolete or rare;
Dreary, drizzly, sloppy rains;
Subsequent rheumatic pains;
CriInsoned noses here and there
These and other tokens bleak,
Would appear to Indicate
Irrespective of the date
That fair summers made her sneak.
But there's balm and consolation and
there's happiness and joy,
And a feeling of citation that no grief
can quite destroy;
Our regrettings sentimental cannot
lessen it jot;
We don't care a continental If the ice
man calls or not.
Why should you weep for summer fed.
Dear heart o. mine?
Put thicker comforts on the bed;
Do not repine.
Grieve not, my sweetest one, but oh,
When morning breaks
Mix up goodly mess of dough
For buckwheat cakes.
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iy installments are by threes

My installments are by threes
When / get such cakes as these.
Lift them with great care together
Gently! they're not made of leather;
And singly lifted cake
VIII be pretty sure to break.
Heed We well the words utter;
Also, kindly pass the butter.
This originates from cows
That, mild-eyed, sleek-sided, browse
Where an argent river moves
Through soft wales and shady groves.
Nothing ending up with sine"
Goes with buckwheat cakes, l ween.
Of this butter has fault.
'Tis, perchance, a trifie salt.)
Slice it up in even flakes,
Slide it in between the cakes.
larry not, but instant chirrup
For the Vermont maple strip.
Pour the ruddy liquor out
On the top and round about;
.Saturate each spongy pore,
Stick in your fork-I say no more.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-07-15
PAY BONDS IN GOLD.

Senator Allison, of Iowa, out
lined the course of the republican
party on the money question in a
speech before meeting of the
subcommittee of the senate fl
nance committee at Naragansett
Pier last Wednesday in the follow
ing language
"We must be careful to avoid
mistakes lest we do something
that will ha re to be undone. The
currency reform question is OF
more than ordinary importance
and it is necessary to get the con-
census of party opinion before we
can proceed intelligently,
The committee is of one mind
in the proposition to commit the
party to single gold standard,
and will undoubtedly perfect some
party bill before adjourning. An
other point on which it is agreed
is this !; A proposition must be
incorporated making it impossi-
bic for silver secretary of the
treasury, should one succeed Gage
to issue silver as silver certificates
in exchange for bonds or other
outstanding government securities.
Under the present currency law it is
within the power of the treasury
secretary to exchange silver dol
lars or silver certificates for all OBJ
legations which upon their face
call for coin of the government. )"
Our republican friends who
voted their party ticket in 1896
with the hope of international BIZ
metallism should take warning
from these words. Their party
has abandoned the idea Of
bi-metallism altogether. 1t is no
longer a question OF ratio with
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-07-15
COMMISSIONERS JOURNAL,
JULY TERN.

Tuesday the 18th day OF July, 1899.
Board Of county commissioners met
at 10 O'clock "a. m. pursuant to adj
journment.
Commissioners present: N. G. Sis
son, chairman; L. 7. Ditte:nore.
Clerk Jno. G. Callahan.
The board proceeded with the
equalization of property situated
within the county of Kootenai and
assessed for the year 1899.
1t appearing to the board that the
mercantile establishments within the
county were unequally assessed for
the year 1899, the board proceeded
to make such alterations on valua-
tions OF merchandise as they deemed
proper.
And the clerk is hereby ordered to
notify the following parties Of the
change made in their valuations,
that they NAV appear before the
board on Monday, July "a, 1899, at
10 o'clock IA. M, and show cause why
such change in valuation should not
be made, tO-wt:
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THE ASSESSED VALUATION.

The board of county commits
sioners have been in session since
last Monday, sitting as board of
equalization, the proceedings of
which are published in another
column of THE BLADE.
The last session of the Idaho
legislature amended section 1475
of the code so it reads as follows:
"The board of county commits
sioners of each county within the
state of Idaho shall meet on the
second Monday of July in each
year to examine the assessment
roll, and shall equalize the assess
ment of property for taxation
within their respective counties.
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W. $. Rridgeman Co 3 FOODS $500

At this time the board tOak recess
until O'Clock p m.
Tuesday the 18th day of July, 1899.
Board convened at 2 O'Clock D. NJ.
AT this time A. j. l.. Budwell ap-
peared before the board and by atfi-
davit represented that he had been
excessively assessed for the year 1899
on the following lands situated in
kootena county. Idaho:
All fractions in Section l, Town
ship As n, r 2 w. b. M. and all
fractions in Sec. 81, Township As N
r w b M, and it appearing to the
board. after locating said land, that
the same had been assessed in excess
OF its market value.
1t Is hereby ordered that the said
application be granted and the assess
ment be reduced $24OOOO.
In the matter of the assessment Of
John f. Yost, it appearing to the
board that the newspaper plant
known as the Kootehai County Re-
publican had not been assessed for
the year 1899, it is hereby ordered
that the said plant be placed upon
the assessment roll for the year 1899
at a valuation of $500.
In the matter of the assessment of
u. Il. Cameron, it appearing to the
board that the said Cameron has a
stock of logs, lumber and valuation
on mill and machinery greater than
the amount turned into the assessor.
it is ordered that the valuation upon
the property Of the said ID. II. Cam
eron be increased $4,000. segregated
as follows, to-wit:
200M feet OF lumber Ca So $1,000
SOON feet of logs Ca So. 1000
Saw mill and machinery 1000
Total ............S $4,000
Further that the clerk notify the
said ID. II. Cameron of The action of
the board that he may appear before
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-07-15
JNO. G.. CALLAHAN,
Clerk.
COMMISSION ERS' JOURNAL,
APRIL TERN. 1899.

APRIL TERM. 1899.
Wednesday, July II, 1899.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment at 10 O'Clock ii. III.
Commissioners present.: n. Il. Sis
son, A. N. Tucker, l.. Il. Dlttcmore,
Jno. c. Callahan, clerk.
The board proceeded with the
equalization of property situated
within the county of Kootenai and
assessed for the year 1899
In the matter of the assessed valu-
alton of the property Of Dart Broth
er's OF Post Falls for the year 1899, it
appearing to the board that the
amount turned over to the assessor
by the said Dart Brothers us being
their assessed valuation for the year
1889 is less IN proportion than other
properties which have been assessed
in the county for the said year, it is
hereby ordered that the assessed yalu-
alton OF the property Of Dart Broth
ers be increased $7400 for the year
1899 and that the clerk notify the
said Dart Brothers of the action of
the board that they may appear he
fore the board on Monday, July "a.
at 10 O'clock "a. M, and show cause
why the valuation upon their proper
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-07-15
them. 1t is gold monometallism
and the total abandonment OF sill
yer as a money of final redemp-
ton. Allison is authority.
tOFFICIAL.]
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS.
COMMISSIONERS JOURNAL,
JULY TERM, 1899.

COMMISSIONERS JOURNAL,
JULY TERN, 1899.
Monday the 10th day of July, 1899.
BOARD OF EQULIzATIoN.
The board of county commissioners
fol Kootenai county, Idaho, met pur-
suant TO law and notice on Monday,
July 10th. 1899. at 10 o'clock a. m.,
sitting as a board of equalization, for
the purpose of equalizing all the prop
erty situated and assessed In the
county of Kootenai, state Of Idaho,
for the year 1899.
Commissioners present:
N. G. Sisson, Chairman.
A. N. Tucker,
l.. II. Dittemore.
Clerk. Jno. G. Callahan.
Recess until 2 O'Clock p. m.
Now at this time, $50, p. H., no
parties appearing or opposing assess
ment, the board adjourned until to-
morrow, Tues day, July 18th, at 10
O'clock IA. n.
N. G.. SISSON,
Chairman of board.
Attest,
JOHN. G. CALLAHAN,
Clerk.
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the board on Monday, July "a 1891
At 10 O'Clock a. m., and show cause
why the valuation upon his properly
hould not be increased in the sum OF
$4,000 for the year 1898.
In the matter of the assessment OF
Fred Grant it appearing to the Doaru
that The stock of lumber owned by
rhe said Grant is greater than the
amount turned into the assessor IL Is
ther. fore ordered that the valuation
on the property of Fred Grant be IN
creased in the sum Of $3.50 for uhe
year 1899, as follows:
25OM feet of lumber "a So per NJ
$3.50.
And that the clerk notify the SAID
Fred Grant of the action OF the boaro
that he may appear before the board
on Monday, July "a, 1899, at III
o'clock a. M, and show cause why the
valuation upon his property should
not be increased in the sum OF $l2o0
for the year 1899.
At this time the board adjourned
until tomorrow, Wednesday, July the
18th, at 10 o'clock a. M.
N. G. SISSON,
Chairman OF Board.
Attest:
JNO. G. CALLAHAN,