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The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-09-23
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS

The Courtesy OF the Game.--'''ro what
may attribute the honor of this call9''
"a pair of aces."-CIeveland Plain
Dealer.
"What made you play that piece over
again. didn't call that applause an
encore" 'Why, the music was marked
Repeat ~ Philadelphia Bulletin,
Not rty.-Ada-"Wasn't there
some talk OF Maude marrying a dukeq"
Dolly-"Ies; but you see the duke
didn't say anything about it."-Phila-
delphia North American.
Cold Blooded.-''Is Il true, darling,
that you gave the minister $50 for mar
rying us?" YES, but keep ii to your
self. l was never so swindled in my
life. "-Detroit Free Press.
Born -Johnson-''Mor-
mon Jake would ruther fight than eat.
do believe" "Pardner, that amt
half of il. He'd druther fight than
drink. indianapolis journal.
Youthful Lover tsighing)-"It is not
good for man to live alone" The Lady
Very true, and that's why it would
be so much better for you to go and
live with your ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Blaetter
Say, Bill. Joe just asked the boss If
he could get Off TO attend his brothers
funeral, an the boss says; Are We sure
it amt ball gameT 'W-well. sir says
Joe, it's kind o. combination-me
brothers the umpire. '"--Scribner's.
Fuddy-"Remarkable cure, that case
of Mrs. Blanks" Duddy-"Haven't
heard about il. What was it?" Fuddy
-"She has recovered her voice. You
know she hasn't been able TO speak for
three years. They induced her to play
game of whist, and she was talking
before she knew it."-Boston Tran
script
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-09-23

The Washington authorities say that
the game law Of their state does not pro-
hIbit the sale Of game there that il
Killed in another state. OF course such
a condition permits the pot hunters TO
1t IN their deadly NO ;, as algame sold
IN Washington will be imported from
another state. no matter where it was
killed. This ought to be a pointer to
our game wardens to keep close look
out for violations OF the Idaho law, and
any one caught shipping game out Of the
the state should be arrested and prog
ecuted.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-09-23
Too Convenient.

Here's a queer tale from Tennes-
see Of family Of II that has its home
in hollow tree" said the woman who
IS always interested in strange stories
as she looked mp from her paper.
How would you like such home as
that. WILLIE" inquired the woman's
husband. turning TO his son and heir.
The boy shook his head.
TOO easy to get hold OF a switch" he
answered, as his mind reverted to some
OF the little controversies he had had
with his father.-Chicago Post.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-09-23
For Public Land s.rip.

Soldiers additional homestead scrip.
VIII take any government land subject
to homestead entry. No residence or
cultivation required. One person can
enter all the land he pIeases. Title
passes at once on allowance OF entry by
general land Office. Address, Henry
\. Copp, Editor Of Settlers Guide. It'd.
Washington. D. &. aug5 n0v.5
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-09-23

DREYFus has been pardoned, the incl
dent is to be closed and the reputation
OF the corrupt military staff OF France is
saved so far as the officials Of the nation
are concerned. But the civilized world
believes that Dreyfus should have been
generated by the court martial and his
prosecutors punished. Pardon only pal
Hates the wrong and allows those guilty
oi the crime TO escape. The pardon is
right, but it is not justice.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-09-23

The expansionists have a great deal
TO say abont not hauling down the flag
where it is once run up. This is an ad-
'ninistration hobby. The flag is up in
G 'ba and President Mckinley has prom
ised the Cubans independence. Who
will haul it down?
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-09-23
A Tn.te for The R,hhnn.

Jimmie" inquired the neighbor boy
through the fence. what club is II your
maw's just joined? ] heard her askin'
my nav to join, too"
u don't know. but from the way she's
maxim me and the servants work I
think it must be driviD' cIub."-De-
troit Free Press.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-09-23

THE British want the Transvaal. the
Americans are after the Philippines.
Both may succeed in their selfish de-
signs and add another example to prove
the tAihfulness of the saying that
"might makes right"
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-09-23

PERSONS who are very plausible and
excessively polite have generally some
design upon you, as also religionists
who call you dear the first time thew
see You.-Spurgeon.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-05
The Story Of Two Ciphers.

everybody looked quite happy. includ-
ing the younger Trumans, who were
bearing up bravely
Arthur took his father with him TO
the house, and then left him in the hall
In charge Of an usher.
There is usually. I think" said
Ouad to the usher. "a place set aside
for the gifts to thc--the happy pair.
Am | right?'
You are" said the smiling usher.
This way" And he led him upstairs
to the little room where the modest
gifts were displayed. Fortunately for
Obed, there was nobody in the apart
ment at the moment, and when the
usher's back was turned he slipped
the check from his pocket and laid it
under the edge of plaque on the
table. Then he softly stole down
stairs.
After the ceremony he came slowly
forward. following the others who had
offered their congratulations. and took
his sons hand and pressed it Nermly.
Then he turned to his new daughter,
surprised a a look that passed between
the happy pair, and wondering what
1t meant.
raised her face and the old man quite
without forethought stopped and kissed
her, Father Jarrett. you know that
| nobody can refuse a brides request
And Arthur and | want you to promise
to come and live with us just as soon
as we are settled in our fiat"
mo, no. said the astonished Obed.
II should be in your way"
=. I 4
at least that you will come and try it"
The old man hesitated She certainly
was a dear girl.
Il will promise to try it," he smiling
ly said and somehow his heart felt
lighter than it had for many years.
And to think" he muttered to him.
self as he stepped back. that she in
vited me without knowing a blessed
thing about that check!"
A few moments later his son called
| to him.
Father" he said. "some up with us
| and look at the presents. It's a good
| time, everybody is busy talking, and
| Alma wants YOU to see how nice and
| kind her friends have been"
So they went up to the little room,
| and there Alma began her rapid history
| of the gifts and their donors.
Suddenly they were interrupted by n
| cry from Arthur. He had discovered
| the check.
What's this" he stammered 'Pay
to the order of Arthur Jarrett so, 900?
| Why. father.
"Oh, oh! Now we can have home OF
our own" cried the delighted girl, who
| was looking over Arthur's shoulder.
| But you know, Father Jarrett that
you would have been Just as welcome
| at the fiat"
Yes. yes, / know" he answered.
| Then he added a little brokcnly: IT
want to be perfectly honest about this
| money. One hundred dollars is from
me, the rest from Arthur's mother"
| They looked at him wOnderingly and
| he turned suddenly away
| When he looked around he said with
| his grim old smile slip it in your
pocket, my boy; the money will be
| there when you get back"
But after Alma and Arthur had
| started on their two weeks wedding
| journey, and the old man was walking
| back to his lonely rooms, he suddenly
| Strengthened up and said half aloud ::
1T will only be two weeks."-W. r.
| Rose, in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-05

understand your order or reports that
the number you wish is engaged" and
you cannot send your message. Sim
ilarly, in the brain, it seems sOme-
times as if certain circuits one wishes
to use are engaged in other channels:
for how often does one puzzle his
brains" to recall a fact or a name,
which he feels that he knows perfect
ly, but which will not come at COM
mand. And then how, perhaps hours
afterward, the elusive name will float
before him, as if the telephone girl
of his brain cell had at last succeeded
in getting the right connection. When
one reflects that each of these wonder-
full brain cells is microscopic in size,
requiring, indeed, a high power of the
miscroscope to make it visible and
that there are billions of them in a
cubic inch of brain substance, one is
led to wonder that such mistakes OF
connection or failure to connect do not
occur oftener. AS it is, the telephone
office of the brain is easily the most
wonderful structure Of which we have
any knowledge. The most delicate
piece of mechanism ever devised by
human hands is a crude thing com-
In time Of war it often happens that
an invading army will cut the tele-
graph wires and destroy instruments
and batteries at. the central offices, so
that telegraphic and telephone COM
munication becomes impossible. A
precisely similar destruction of the
brain fibres and brain cells occurs un-
der certain conditions of disease. The
familiar disease paresis, for example,
consists essentially of just such a de-
struction of the brain structure as this.
Day by day. in the paretic's brain,
disease is making inroads upon the deli
icate mechanism of the cells, and, COR
rcspondingly, the ideas that could
alone result from the activities of those
cells are destroyed forever, When
such destruction has gone far, involv-
ing many sets Of cells, ii is as impos-
sible that the paretic's mind should
act normally as that a telephone sys-
TEN should operate with lines cut and
batteries destroyed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-05
D0BLEY'S MAN
WITH THE HOE.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
81 might just as well resign at once!"
exclaimed Mrs. Dobley. Il had no idea
that joining IA literary club meant that
one had to perform in public. l simply
can't do it,"
What do they want you to do. my
dear" asked Mr., Dobley. "A song
and dance or a cakewalk?" 1 wouldn't
mind little think like that. You can
pick it up in no time"
1T nothing like that" said Mrs.
Dobley passing a typewriter docu-
mcnt over the breakfast table. And
you needn't make any fun of the mat
ter, either. The frivolous way in
which you look at everything is tire
some. Now, what am l to do?"
II am sure, my dear" began DOH
ley -
Just read tread it," commanded
Mrs. Dobley, and her husband read:
"HOnora COOmbs Dobley.
Dear Madam: At the next meeting
of the Literary club the topic of dis
cussion will be Markhams poem, The
Man With the Hoe AS you have been
| selected as chief speaker of the even
ing, you will kindly be prepared to
recite the poem and give a short sketch
of the authors career. Also to give
your opinions as to the idea contained
in the work, as wen as the general
| style and literary construction of the
poem"
well, my dear" said Dobley. try
| ing to conceal the fact that he was
| quite as perturbed as his wife by the
| letter. "Wen?"
"Well" Why didn't they select youo
What did they. send that to me for?
| What do ! know about farming"
You forgot, my dear, that this is
net an agricultural club, but a liter
airy society OF course they refer to
the famous poem"
| What poem?"
us it possible that you haven't heard
OF Markhams masterpiece, The Man
with the Hoe"" asked Dobley, with
a reproachful look over the top of his
egg.
why | haven't read anything but
Quo Nadis this summer, and | only
half read that, You see it hurts my
eyes and besides that I'm too busy.
| Who was he?"
" The Man with the Hoeo' He has
| become one OF the most typical Of
What was the matter with him?
Why didn't he hoe? Where did it hap-
pen?"
1T began with a picture my dear.
An artist made a picture of man in
a field with a hoe"
"Hoeing corn, l suppose; well, what
Of it,"
We'll, it was a great picture-filled
with depth and feeling and life -"
II suppose IL seemed as though hs
We're really hoeing, did it? I've seen
a picture like that-a girl gathering
roses-you could just see the stems
snap"
"No, it wasn't exactly that The
man had stopped -"
stopped hoeing? What did he do
that for?'
He'd stopped to rest and was lean
ing on the hoe"
| Gracious! A hoe isn't hit COM
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-05

when examined under the microscope,
are found not to be simple globular
bodies, like many other kinds of cells.
On the contrary, they are irregular in
shape, and when properly stained,
little wire-like fibres can be seen jut-
ting out from them in various direc-
tions. 1t is along these fibres that the
messages come to the cell, and other
messages are sent out, much as mes
sages go and come from a telephone
central Office.
AN APT COMPARISON.
This lkeninG Of the brain to a tele-
phone central Office is a comparison
that may be carried to a remarkable
length. Indeed, no other comparison
serves so we'll to give one a correct
notion Of the method of brain action
But until recently there was one
phase of the matter that could not b.
explained How is it that the various
messages that are surging through the
brain are directed 10 proper channels,
among these multitudinous wires?
When YOU call up the central office
you give q certain number and the
operator connects your particular wire
with that number. When ycu are
through talking the operator breaks
the circuit. and you can no longer
communicate along that line. But is
there anything similar to this making
and breaking Of currents possible in
the brain? Astonishing as it may
seem, the answer is yes. There is
precisely such a series of changes in
the circuits of the brain cells as is cf-
fected by the operator with the tele-
phone wires
The manner of it is this. Recent
studies of the brain cell, particularly
those made by the Spanish physiolo-
gist, Mamon Cajal, have shown that
many of the wires which lead out from
cell do not go on uninterruptedly to
a termination in some other distant
cell, as they We're formerly supposed
TO do, but instead terminate in blind
ends" That is to say they point ont
toward other cells, but do not reach
them. such a fibre clearly cannot con-
vey any message, because, like tele-
phone wire that has been cut, it does
not lead anywhere. But under GER
tain conditions Of stimulation a very
extraordinary thing happens. Tho
blind" fibre, nndcr stimulus from it,
central cell. lengthens out until it
touches a fibre of a neighboring coll,
and presto, with such contact, a cir
cult is completed and message fash
es between the cells Manifestly such
coming together of the blind" tibrc7
is precisely comparable to the opera.
tors connecting your telephone WITH
another, And as in the case of the
telephones, so in the case Of the cells
when the communication is completed
the connection is broken, the fhres re-
tract and cease to touch one another
! and no further message can be sent.
BRAIN KINKS.
Sometimes the telephone girl does not
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-05
Going WestP

Why not go via the Nickel Plate
road? Many improvements have been
made in the last few years and its
service is now second to none, Three
fast through trains are run every day
i'm the year between Buffalo and Chi
cago, while solid through trains of ele-
giant day coaches and vestibule buffet
sleeping cars are run between New
York and Chicago via the Lackawanna
road. Remember, that rates via the
Nickel Plate road are lower than via
other lines.
For information call on any ticket
agent of the Lackawanna road, or ad-
dress f, J. Moore general agent Nickel
Plate Road, 29l Main streeH I3uffsfo,
n. y. 80
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-05
USES OF SLEEP.

1t is not sleep alone, however that
rests the brain CELL though sleep is abb
solutely essential to rcCuperatiOn of the
brain as a whole. But not all parts cc
the brain are involved in any one kind
of mental effort The blood supply Of
the brain is so arranged that by eN-
pansiOn or contraction of different ar
teries parts of the brain may he flushed
with blood and other parts damned off,
so to speak, somewhat as the various
currents of an irrigated field are reEu-
lated by the gardener. And as rapid
flow of blood is essential to great men
tai activity, this means that one part
of the brain may be very actively at
work while another part is resting and
reCuperating. Thus it is that a person
suffering from brain fatigue may leave
his desk and go out into the fields with
a gOlfstiCk, or on the highways with
a bicycle, and, by diverting his mind,
give the oVerWorled cells a chance to
rest and recuperate But it must not
be overlooked that such exercise in
wolves other brain cells, which, in turn,
become exhausted, and that. in the
end, for the recuperation Of the brain
tial No recreation, no medicine, no
stimulant will take its place. The man
who does not give himself sufficient
hours of sleep, or who is unable to
sleep when he makes the effort Is lit
orally burning away his brain sub
stance and can 40 more keep on in
definitely in this way than a locomO-
tive can run on Indefinitely without
getting fresh supplies of fuel.
In this new view it appears that each
brain cell is a sort of storage battery.
which can perform a certain amount Of
work and then must be recharged, This
likeness to a battery is further empha-
sized by the fact that the nature of
the brain cells work consists, like that
of any other battery, of the sending
out of charges of energy along connect
ing wires, or, at least, along fibres that
may be likened to wires. Brain cells,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-05
THIS TELLS YOU HOW
THINKING is DONE
THEORY OF THE BRAINS WAY
OF WORKING.
Millions of Brain Cells That Operate
Apparently on the Principle of a
Great Telephone Exchange, with
Nerves for Wires - The Great
Function of Sleep.

From the New York Sun.
At last scientists seem to be on the
point of finding out what happens in
the brain when person thinks 1t has
long been known that the brain is the
thinking organ, but just how the max
ing of thought comes about has been
a puzzle. The celebrated Cab4nis
solved the matter Offhand by saying
that the brain secretes thought as the
liver secretes bile. This terse saying
passed into common use, but soon came
to be recognized as a clever speech
rather than an explanation of the mys-
terry Now, however. the most recent
researches of the miCrOsCOpists are
making it appear that after all the say
ing is not so far wrong, but that cor
rectly interpreted, it i'm some measure
expresses the facts OF course, thought,
being intangible, is not properly to be
compared with bile or any other physi-
cal substance, but it appears that the
processes in the brain which produce
thought, and without which thinking is
impossible, are comparable to those
changes in the liver and other organs
which produce the tangible secretions.
A committee of British physicians.
acting Jointly, have been giving par
ttcular attention to this topic for some
years, and their researches, though not
yet altogether complete, already show
some very interesting results, which,
taken together with those of investi-
gators on the continent, let us see
long way into the intricaces of the
brain.
WEAR OF BRAIN CELLS.
II is shown unequivocally. for ex-
ample, that a brain cell which is the
really important part of the brain,
actually loses part of its substance
during action. The brain cells of per-
sons and Of animals that have died
during a period OF great exhaustion
from overeXertion are found to be
greatly changed from the condition of
the normal cell during times of health
and Vigor. The cell of the exhausted
brain, instead of being plump and full
OF nervous matter, is found to be hol-
lowed out or 'Vacuolated," a cavity
within its substance having formed
and being filled with water. This
means that a part of the cell sub
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-05

stance has been actually Consumed
during the time Of brain activity, pre-
cisely as coal is consumed when one
gets heat from a furnace.
1t is found, further, that if an ami
NAL whose brain cells are thus eX-
hausted is permitted to rest and to
sleep its cells rapidly recuperato new
material being supplied from the blood
until the vaCuolation has disappeared
and the cell is practically as good as
new again. This explains why sleep
is necessary to our existence. During
waking hours cur brains are literally
worn away, and sleep is the STATE dur
ing which the repair shops of the
brain make good the damage of the
waking hours. Thus the brain of a
person who suffers from insomnia is
in the condition of a locomotive which
is run night and day without going to
the repair shops; disaster must ulti-
mately result
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-08
GROCERIES.
Register Office,

hGS-SlStf olLANSs
WHEELING, February Z, 1899
There are a, number of changes reported,
quotations being slightly higher
Syrup Silver Drip Syrups 1Sc; Fancy
Drlpa. &c; &c ADDITION IN nalr 3arnels);
55c; choice &c; prime soc; mixed goods.
New Orleans Molassee-EancY new crop,
New Orleans, Sc; bakers goods, SOC.
Teas-Youns Tyson. per ID, 40Q55c; gun
powder, 55Qs0c. Imperial 4vat50c; Japan,
2s975c; Oolong, 2iQ3oc: Souehang, 27470c.
Candles-St&r, full weight, 712c; para
fine, per ID, 91xc; Electric Light, per H.,
standard city brands. lOallc per gallon;
Fis6-No, maekersl: % lbs, co fish. $ 90;
Nc ~ eX r. N maSkerel bb ne " 70 lbs
RicetFancyf Pearl, 6sse choice Pearl.
6l.c; faIr domestic, SIC; fancy head, 712c.
Salt-No. l. per bbls soc; extra; per BIZ
Wooden Wars-No. l tubs, s. %; No. ?,
81 IS, single washboards, 81 90; dou-
ols do, e s.; fine crimped double do. g u.s.:
Provisions - schenks medium, $. G.
fast bacon 71x@s14c; S. c. shoulders Size;
city sides, 7c ham beef Ice.
Canned Coods-3-lb fancy tomatoes sc;
tomatoes, new SOC doz; tomatoes 312-lb
81. %; Hartford Co. standard corn. 15c; lib
Honey. Drop corn ao2; peaches, yellow z. ~
$22S; Baltimore peaches s1S5; pie
peaches $109; lib Deep Sea full standard
beans, SOC; lib can corn beef, $2.25; lib
can Clipped beef, 50 rs; lib can lunch
tongue, 81 90.
Oll-Lard. extra western. strained. COO.
CARBON Oil, no, TIC; carbon 100 Sc; water
white sac; Lewis miners winter white
oil, 3Sc; summer white &c.
Lard-Schenks pure kettle. tierces, 63sc
Silver Leaf. t!erces 6iac. The advance
for smaller packages over tierces is as fol-
lows: Fancy tubs. Ac: 50-lh tins. nc; a-lh
tins, 13o; 10-lb tins. &c: 5-lb tins. &c; S-lb
cans. lie.
gars-Cutloaf 5.74c: cubes, 5.37e; pow
dered,, 53lc; granudlated, standardfi 5.24c
American A. 4s7c; white extra C, 46Zc;
c, 44Sc; choice fruit sugar, 443c.
CoEee-Green coffee, fancy golden Rio,
1sc; fancy green. 15c: choice green, Ike:
roasting GRADES, 1014c; Java. &c. Roast
ed in packages, Arrow, 10.54c; Panhandle
1v54c; Arbuckle & Co 5 Roasted, l0.5ic
Lion, este; bulk roasted, &c; Mocha and
eminent Java roasted 27c: Mocha and
Java, &c; 4 grade Rio. DC.