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The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18
Proposals for Executing Public Surveys
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
OFFICE OF THE SURVEYOR GENERAL
Boise City. Idaho, February IA, 1889

OFFICE OF THE SURVEYOR GENERAL, |
Boise City. Idaho, February IA, 1889 (
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
y this office until II o'clock noon on March
30, 1899, for running. measuring and marking,
In accordance with official existing regula-
be issued by the Surveyor General. the fol-
lowing described surveys, viz:
Townships 30 N. r. 4 E., So miles; az N, R..
4E. 8 miles; AN r. AZ 80 miles; a. n. r.
E., q miles; 81 n, r. 8 w, 3 miles; 81 N, r.
Nv, q miles; 90 n, r. E., 70 miles; So N.
X. E.. ~ miles.
Bond with approved securities for the
faithful performance Of the contract will be
required of the successful bidders. The
right Is reserved TO reject any and all bids,
part of any bid or reject the other part, II
the interests of the government require 1t.
Proposals must be submitted IN duplicate to
the undersigned and endorsed on the envel-
ope PROPOSALS. FOR EXECUTING PUB
Lie SURVEYS" The proposals received
will be opened at the time and place above
stated, and bidders are invited to be present
ut such opening. Further information in re-
gard to the work will be furnished upon aD-
pication to the undersigned.
JOSEPH PERRAULT.
Mis-M;n US. surveyor General for Iaho.
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the commissioner of his district.
The Office in many cases was the
overseer's only visible means of
support. One enterprising indi-
vidual, who stands high in the
councils Of his party, has been
known to sell poll tax receipts to
trainmen running through the
county for 50 cents each and
charge the county for each receipt.
In 1897 the legislature attempted
to remedy the evil of appointing
road overseers by the enactment
Of law providing for their cleo
ton, but the provision is almost a
dead letter as the election occurs
in December when no one is in
terested in the matter excepting
the professional overseer, who in
many cases is elected to the Office
against the wishes of large ma
jority OF the citizens of the road
district through their lack of in
terest. When our laws are amend
ed so as to place not only road
building, but road improvement, in
the hands of skilled engineers, then
only can we expect good results.
The proposed law was not a step
in the right direction.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18
UTTERANCEs OF A STATESMAN.

Here are three quotations which
have a direct bearing on the Phil
ippine question:
"No man is good enough to gov
ern another without that mans
consent. ! say this is the leading
principle, the sheet anchor of
American republicanism.
"When the white man governs
himself, that is self government ;
but when he governs himself and
also governs another man, that is
more than self government that
is despotism."
"Our reliance is in the love OF
liberty which God has planted in
us. Our defense is in the spirit
which prizes liberty as the heritage
of all men in all lands everywhere.
These men who deny freedom to
others desere it not for themselves
and under just God canno,
long retain it."
1t is morally certain that if the
statesman who expressed these
sentiments were now the president
of the United States, American
troops would not be engaged II
shooting Philippines. He would
avert war by indefinitely assuring
the natives Of the islands that i
was not the intention of this gov
eminent to subject them to Amer
lean rule, but to aid them in estab
fishing an independent self govern
ment. The great American wht
held that "no man is good enough
to govern another without tina
mans CONSENT and that Gilbert,
is the heritage of all men in al
lands everywhere" would not a
chief magistrate of the republic
impose American rule on the Phil
ipinos against their consent.
As they sound like extracts from
his anti-imperialistic speeches
and are the exact sentiments h,
has repeatedly expressed, one
would naturally attribute the quot
ed utterances to Mr.. Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan is not their author,
however. They are the utterance.
of man whose memory will b,
honored while love for humanit,
and freedom remains in the human
heart-of a man whose life wa.
one of the noblest that has beer
lived, and who crowned magnif
cent career by preserving the un
ion from ACKNOWLEDGMENT ane
striking the shacl,les from lht
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18
THE AGE or TRUSTS.

The world has gone through its
wooden age, its stone age, its iron
age, and now it has its age of
trusts, the end of which no man
can measure. In the light Of all
history they contain the seed of
revolution. Neither the business
nor the labor Of this country can
ever be permanently adjusted to
conform to the exactions of such
vicious combinations. They COM
prise a many headed dragon seek
ing to devour all competition, mo-
nopolize all enterprise, control all
capital and enslave all labor. They
reach out for everything from the
raiment of the new born babe to
the shroud of the dead. All the
common people are the victims of
this maelstrom Of greed, and the
evil is growing at rate which, if
continued, will, within twenty
years, give less than fifty men abb
solute control of the output and the
market price of every comfort and
necessity that enters the homes Of
the common people. All society
and government will be at their
mercy. Both competition and CO.
operation will be impossible in the
business world as against them,
and labor will do homage for the
right to work for plttance. In
terest will be arrayed against inter
est and section against section. In
the youth of our nation and the
zenith of our glory will we face a
crisis that will shake our social
edifice from center to circumfer-
ence. Why not prepare to meet
this monster now while yet there
is time to achieve a victory over
mammon in peace and soberness
Let no reformer support any can
didate in 1900 who is not irrevoca-
bly, committed against the trusts,
and let all reformers unite without
regard to party in support of the
strongest antitrust candidates in
the field. This will begin the
fight in dead earnest and in the
right way. Next year is the proper
time to begin this crusade. There
is war record as we'll as a peace
record to hurl against Their
invading ranks. Not only have
they robbed our peaceable citizens
but behind every great steal in the
late war and in the graves of the
soldiers who we're poisoned anc
starved to death there may BIZ
found the per6dious work of ont
or the other of the trusts aided by
their friends in high official life. -
]. R. Sovereign in the Idaho Stat.
Tribune.
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MILLIONS ARE MADE
By Mining.
MICHIGAN BOY
GOLD MINING COMPANY
Republic, Washington.

Four full claims-Miciigan Boy,
Reindeer No. ., Edna aud Sidney,
situated onehalf mile southwest OF
the Que Thousand Dollar a Day
dividend payer, the Republic nine,
Republic, Wash. TIE Mountain
Lion, with thirty i've foot ledge,
which assays $50 aud be.ter across
the whole flce. aud will 5000 he gu
the list Of di, dend payers; and TO
the south are the Mon ming glory,
TrouUadou, Hit OF NJ IS, Delta, aud
the Golden LILY gsoup--.ne latte" is
only Que Ella N no tn o. the NJ chiyan
Boy Gold N mug company'S prop
erty.
This company is stocked for ,000,-
900 shares, par value cents, asses
sable to par to not to exceed one mill
per share per month; 100000 shares
10 the treasury: all promoters stock
pooled until treasury stock is sold
All money expended in developing the
property.
First Issue-20O, 900 shares at l
cent-l00,000 subscribed for and sold
the tirst day to business men of Re-
public. Only $4,000 left of the first
issue.
Send in your order at once remit
by postOtfice money order.
Claims all surveyed and work going
on successfully.
The next issue will be
100000 shares at 2 cts.
President and Manager,
&. D. CARPENTER.
REPUBLIC, WASH.
Secretary and Treasurer.
| P. 0. Box Sc, ]. 5. HODGES.
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limbs OF four million slaves. They
are the utterances of Abraham
Lincoln, and they leave no room
for doubt that if Abraham
Lincoln was a republican those
who advocate and are executing
McKinley's Philippine policy are
not.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18

WHEN it is considered that the
civil war has thus far cost the
American people $1,000, 900, 900,
it is not a wild guess that il
through an income tax and tax
on monopoly of natural resources
the rich were forced to bear rela-
lively as large a share Of the bur-
dens of taxation as the poor, the
war now in progress IN the Philip
pines would come to sudden con-
clusion.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18

GOVERNOR SrEUNENBERG has
again appointed James K. Sover-
eign as member OF the state
board of arbitration. 1t will be
remembered that the governor sent
his name to the senate for confir-
nation the day before that body
adjourned, but the appointment
was rejected by a vote of II to 10;
the two populists voting with the
republicans against confirmation.
The action of the governor will
meet with the approval of the la
Dor element in Idaho. Sovereign
is an enemy of monopolies, trusts
and corporations, hence he is an
enemy of the republican party ;
but the two middle-o of. road
populists who voted with the re-
publicans against his confirmation
but we refrain from further crit.
icism of the dead.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18

THE proofs are now before the
country that the Chicago meat
packers furnished the putrid meat
that poisoned the American troops
in the late war, yet no steps ha 1e
been taken by the attorney general
to prosecute them. If some par
ent whose son fell victim to the
outrageous treatment he received
when in tropical cline, should
institute an action against Swift &
Co. for murder, they would be APP
plauded by seventy millions OF
American people.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18

In another column will be found
some Of the laws passed by the
last session of the legislature on
the subject Of taxation. 1t will be
seen that they aim to bring about
a reform in the assessment Of prop
erty for purposes of taxation. These
new enactments seem to be very
good. If they accomplish the OBJ
ject aimed at very great service
will have been done the state j, the
valuation OF the state will be in
creased, and the tax levies reduced
while much property that has es-
capped taxation in the past will be
made to pay its share.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18

WHILE our troops are invading
a foreign land our country has
been invaded by an enemy. Pools
and trusts, and combines, and
monopolies, and sydicates, have
swarmed upon us while we have
been lulled to repose by the
achievements of our army and
navy in foreign lands. 1t will re-
quire a mightier effort to check
their evil influences than it did to
check the inhuman treatment by
Spain OF her unwilling subjects.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18


GOVERNOR SrEUNENBER veto
of the special road tax bill which
passed the legislature should be
carefully read by every taxpayer
in Kootenai county. No one will
deny that our road system is the
weakest part of our county govern
ment. Almost as much money is
expended each year for roads in
the county as is expended for the
education of our children. If the
amount Of labor performed by citi-
zens OF the county was taken into
consideration it would exceed it.
Yet we have, comparatively speak
ing, no roads. Until two years
ago the Office of road overseer was
an appointive one, being generally
filled by some incompetent who
had rendered polltical service 70
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-23

shawl strap. The handle to the roll
was that of the strap-the inky pen
was to be thrust into the shawl at the
fringe end. Its complement was a
stamp box in bright red morocco, after
the fashion of dress-suit case, with
silver mountings and trimmings.
A unique inkstand was made of
highly polished horns of generous pro-
portions, which were inverted, and held
a small ball of silver swung in silver
sockets. The effect was at first start
ling-the whole affair required a space
of foot and half square to stand up
on, while the we'll itself could be filled
to the brim with half a teaspoonful of
ink. 1t looked like grotesque cent?
pede, with swollen legs and a silvered
body. Horn is about to enjoy its peri
odical revival, likewise walrus and coll
ored ivory, especially when carved.
These materials are used when handles
are needed, as in babies rattles, curling
tongs, carving knives, and as legs or
standards for toppley things, round ink
wells and the like.
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The Platform Woman.

The platform woman never has been
a credit to, but ever blot upon, Amer
lean womanhood 1 make this en-
phatic statement from a personal know
ledge of the homes which these wo-
men leave behind when they go TO their
neetings," writes Edward Box in the
January Ladies' Home Journal" II
ave seen the rooms of their homes left
III wild disorder; have seen their serv-
ants sitting in idleness with work on
every hand to do; have seen the chill
dren neglected and left to their own de-
vices: 1 have heard husbands speak in
derision of the motives of their wives.
No woman in happy American home
can afford to listen to these parasites
of her sex. Fortunately, the platform
Woman's influence is steadily on the
wane. She was never power. She
was never even picturesque. Her worst
injury was wrought upon certain weak
women who for the time she deluded.
But even with them she was soon re-
sarded with wonder rather than with
interest; with suspicion rather than
with confidence Less and IL So has she
been able to get listeners, and it is sig
nificant that in places where she has
not spoken during the present season
she has not been seen again. The dis
appearance of the platform woman is
case of blot being blotted out.
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.REMEMBER THE MAINE"
Captain Sigsbee Denies That the
Navy Used This Motto.

Captain Sigsbee, writing of the de-
struction of his battleship in the jan
uary Century" denies that "Remem-
her the Mainet" was used as motto
by the navy in the late war with
Spain. He also indicates a perfectly
proper use Of the phrase by patriotic
A nericans. Helsays:
We have heard much of the motto,
| IRENE mber the Maine" If we are sat-
isiied that the Maine was blown up
from the outside we have right 70
remember her with Indignation; but
without more conclusive evidence than
we now have. we are not right if we
charge criminality to persons. There
eore 1 conceive that the motto, Re
member the Name used as a war
cry would not have been justifiable. l
should like to make the point here, as
l have made it elsewhere, that this
great and free country, with it's educa-
ton, good intention, and universal
moral influence, may go to war to pun
:sh, but not to revenge. Improperly
upp!.ed. the motto, Remember the
Name savors too much of revenge,
too much of evil for evil; but it may
be used in an entirely worthy sense.
1
about seventy-five men were killed and
wounded in the United States navy
| Only fifteen were killed On board the
| Maine two hundred and fifty-four men
were killed outright and others died
later-more than seventeen times as
many as were killed in the United
States navy by the Spanish Land and
nava, forces during the entire war In
| the way that the men OF the Maine
died and suffered there was enough OF
| the heroic to provide a sound founda :
! ticn for the motto, Remember the
Maine" Let me dismiss the prevail
| ing impression that this motto was
used in the United States navy, in the
recent war, as a battle signal NO
United States naval vessel has entered
into action flying the signal, "Remem-
Der the Maine" I am glad that 1t can
be so stated; yet one may excuse many
mistaken expressions of the heat OF
action.
TO this the editor of the Century
adds:
| 1t may be said on the authority Of
Captain John r. Bartlett, during the
war chief intelligence officer of the
navy: THE signal, Remember the
Maine has never been displayed on a
United States man-of-war or by the
army or navy, with one exception. "A
Signal Quartermaster Can enlisted man)
of the Coast Signal Service hoisted the
signal from the station at Port Eads,
ut the mouth of the Mississippi, when
transport loaded with troops was
passing out to sea. In reporting the
RAISING out of the transport, as was
his duty. the Quartermaster added to
his message to headquarters the fact
of display of signal, which was re-
oeived with great enthusiasm by the
troops. He was severely reprimanded
| by return message over the wires.
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stemmed dreamer-the sort college fell

stemmed dreamer-the sort college fell
lows are wont to sport. These three
fitted neatly into a case in SO COM
pact a fashion that the whole is con-
venient pocket piece. French briar, the
pipes are studded with silver, in this
new style of inlaid polka dots, and with
amber mouthpieces. Set up in royal
blue satin, they make gift for any
young or elderly god.
The pipe rest, new idea elaborately
worked out in silver. 1t is an oblong
tray, indented with two bowl rests and
a pocket for matches.
From England, too, comes the shall
low glass bowls, trimmed and trimmed
in silver-a round silver wire forming
the recipients initial, which sprawls
over the top thus making an edge for
knocking off the ash. The bowl is easily
slipped out for cleaning.
A unique match box, designed to COM
fort the fisherman, has the fly and hook
let in under crystal quite as the four
leaf clover has been worm The fly is
the real thing and shows off to advan-
tage in an upper corner. The plain box
can be inscribed with some fishy quo
tation appropriate to the fly" Every
thing comes to him who waits"
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-23

The work of the patriotic societies
in and about New York during the last
summer is very impressive, now that 1t
is officially gathered and presented in
condensed form. The record of the New
York City Chapters, Daughters of the
American Revolution, from April to No
ve.nber, shows prompt and systematic
effort. Mrs. Donald Mclean, the Re
gent, called meeting on the It'll of
April, and appointed her committees in
case war should be declared. 1t was
therefore the first in the field when
we became officially hostile to Spain.
A great war-fund benefit, held in the
Ninth Regiment Armory, was the be-
ginning of the work of this chapter.
The sum cleared was the nucleus of
the chapters war fund, which respond
ed to all the calls made upon it
throughout the war.
( Hammocks to the Rough Riders;
periodicals to Manila; collection and
distribution of 10000 volumes in camps,
hospitals and naval stations; large con-
signments of de.icacies to Camp Wikon
and to the Brooklyn hospitals; q check
from the chapter war fund to Regent
of Chickamauga Chapter, D. A. r., in
response to her appeal for assistance
in providing delicacies for the sick SOL
diers of that camp; a check to the
Ninth Regiment, on it's return to New
York, to relieve pressing necessities;
similar sum to the Seventy first Regi-
mert under similar conditions; and $3.50
sent to the Red Cross Society as an
auxiliary to that rganization-this is
a part of it's beneficence. The chapter
also took five Government war bonds
when the country was called upon to
subscribe, its permanent fund being
now thus invested. The concluding item
of work was to send a flag, in the name
of the chapter. to Porto Rico, on re-
ceipt of which Admiral Schley wrote
his thanks, and added that at sunrise
of the day of its receipt it foated over
the historic Moro Castle, where it will
continue testimonial of devoted and
patriotic women, as well as the ma
tional emblem '-Harper's Bazaar.
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College Incurables.

A college is not a home for incurables
or a limbo for the dull and inefficient,
gays LIE Baron r. Briggs, dean of Har-
ward College, in the January Atlantic %
Moreover, as Western father observed
to President Eliot, 1T does moi pay to
spend two thousand dollars on a two
dollar boy" Though a firm believer in
college training as the supreme intel
leotual privilege Of youth, / ain con-
WINGED that the salvation of some young
men for the practical purposes of this
present WORLD is in taking them out
of college and giving them long and
inevitable hours in some Office or fac
tory. / do not mean that all success in
college belongs to the good scholars;
for many a youth who stands low in
his classes gets incalculable benefit
from his college course. 1t is
the weakened dawdler who ought to
60. the youth whose body and mind are
wasting away in bad hours and bad
company, and whose sense of truth
grows DINNER and DINNER in the smoke
Of cigarettes; yet it is precisely this
youth who, through mere inertia, is
hardest to move, who seems glued to
the University. whose father is helpless
DeIOTe MS future, ana whose relatives
contend that, since he is no mans en-
envy but his own. he should be allowed
tc stay in the college SO ioIg as his
father will pay his tuition-fee-as if a
college were a public conveyance where
in anybody that pays his fare may
abide unless personally OBNOXIOUS or
& hotel where anybody that pays
enough may lie in bed and have all the
good things sent up to him. No col
lege-certainly no college with an cleo
tive system, which presLL poses a
youths interest in his own intellectual
welfare-can afford to keep such as he.
Nor can he afford to be kept. One of
the first aims of college life is increase
0. power; be he scholar or athlete, the
sound undergraduate learns to meet
difficulties; stumbling blocks" in the
words of an admirable preacher, be-
come "stepping-stones." It Is short
sighted kindness that keeps il college
with its priceless opportunities for
growth and its corresponding opportun-
tiles for degeneration a youth who lies
down in front of his stumbling block in
the vague hope that by and by the au-
thorities will have them carried away.