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The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-03-31

Register today IL you wish to ',

Register today 10 you wish to vote.
Every sack Of c9ur d'AIene or Win.
ter Wheat noOF is warranted
James II. HATts made q business trip
70 RAthdrum Monday.
A Eentl mans smoke, without an
equAi-the "BunSgiek" cigar. At all
dealers.
New baggy for sale at big bargain.
For particulars inquire At the PREss
once.
Our Spring aud Summer Tailor Made
suits. trn dollars aud up. The wlggrtt
& Empsy Co.
u. = wlshAFd, OF RAihdrum. was 10
town Saturday greeting hts many
friends.
Lambcs. shakes aud shingles al the
idaho Mercantile Co.
A Number OF citizens Of the town and
vicinity attended the Bryan meeting al
Spokane.
Now ls the time 10 hK up for spring.
A large assortment Of wall paper just
received at Tho idaho Mercantile Cos.
Stanley Jellum spent the arul Of the
week In Spokane. returning "Wednesday
morning.
Many novelties In dreks findings. See
the pearl and cut steel trimming. fancy
stock eollarS, aud made up neck wear Al
The Idaho Mercantile Co.
BoTn--At Rathdrum, Monday. March
30. 1900. to Mr.. and Ms. Waiter Larson,
. daughter.
II viii pay you TO just sec our new
lot Of children's shoes and slippers in
rcd, black and chocolate. All sizes, all
prices, all styles. See them. The Idaho
Mercantile Co.
Mrs. W. A. ReinIgeT and daughter. Of
Harrison, are spending few days here
visiting old friends
Carpets carpcts'. DO you need a
earpctY Let Us show you our tine line
Of samples. Our prices will save you
money. The Idaho Mercantile Co.
Pete white, who spent the winter In
the Cmur d'Alenes and at Missoula, re.
turned Wednesday.
Shirt waists, wrappers, skirts, suits,
spring wrape. 80 reasonable too, II
hardly pays you to make up when you
can buy them ready TO wear at the
Idaho Mercantile Go.
Miss Jennie King, who has been at
tending school at Spokane. came home
Wednesday morning.
Why send away for your seeds when
you can bny them cheaper at home
We have fun line Of L. L. Mays Geld
and garden seeds in bulk and In pack.
ages. The ldahe Mercantile Co.
The basket social AZ q. A. Il. hall
Saturday evening was much enjoyed BY
those who attended.
Second hand goods bought and sold
by Henry KrotEer. II you have any.
thing to sell give him 4 cali.
"Arnt they handsomeP And so
cheapl' is what we often hear said Of
our new line Of girls and chlldren's
dresSes; In sizes from two to fourteen
years. The Idaho Mercantile Co.
W. W. Roberts, for number or years
plumber and engineer at Fort Sherman,
has been ordered 10 Fort Casey.
KrotEer will buy. sell or exchange
anything In the second hand goods line;
also deals in junk, such as rubber, cop.
per, brass and old cast Iron.
No better shoe made. Just received
q new line OF the celebrated c. M. Hen.
derson & Co.'S Red School House shoes,
direct from the factory. For sale by
The wiggett & Empey Co.
Oscar G. Stone, an attorney from
Troy, Mont, was here this week looking
up location. He will open an once In
the Sander block. Mr.. stone 10 well
recommendedas an attorney at law.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-03-31

Sometimes a fortune, but never, &c
you have n sallow complexion, a jaun.
diced look, moth patches and blotches
on the skim ALI signs OF Liver Trouble.
But Dr. Kings New Life Pills give
clear skin, rUsy cheeks, rich complex.
ion. Only % cents at any drug store.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-03-31
BANKER Rsu,s a Ross.r.

J. r. Garrison. Cashier Of the bank
.l Thornyille, Ohio, had been robbed OF
Nealth by q serious lung trouble until
Ne tried DIR. Kings New Discovery for
consumption. Then he wrote: "It is
Nc best medicine I ever used for a
ssfere cold or q bad case Of lung trouble.
always keep bottle on hand" Don't
|affer with Coughs, Colds, or any Throat
d Chest or Lung trouble when you can
b cured 80 easily. Only SOC and si.oO,
Rial bottles at any Drug store.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
Utilizing Springs and Brooks.

In cases where there are springs
and small brooks near a homestead,
advantage should always be taken of
them for watering stock, forming ice
and fish ponds, and supplying cool
water for the milk and butter dairy.
Also for cooling and keeping fresh
meats, cooked vegetables, ETC., in
hot weather. Clear water, flowing in
q perennial brook or from never.
failing spring, is the cheapest water
supply known, and the home that has
such an appendage near by is worth
certainly hundred dollars more than
like farm without it. 1t saves we'll
digging and watering troughs, draw
ing and carrying water; enables the
owner to have series of small ponds,
where he can raise fish and save ice;
and there is no better location for
few scuppernong and other grape
vines for the family supply of grapes
from August to October, than the
sandy, mellow banks of such stream.
Cool spring water, flowing through
latticed or wire-netted dairyhouse, is
jnst the thing for keeping meats,
COOheu DultcT VI lAAA
sweet and nice in summer time
The water of a spring may be con-
Quoted, first, through series of
shallow basins or troughs for setting
milk and butter pans, vegetable dishes,
etc, so that the water would be con-
stantly flowing around and from them
in the dairyhouse; thence into small
pond, where carp, trout or pike could
be grown, and around the sides of
which grapevines might be set and
trained to trelis or lar; from thence
to another small lake for ducks and
geese; and perhaps, if descent and
space permitted, into a third pond,
where osier willow, sweet and coopers'
flag and other desirable water-loving
and valuable plants might be grown.
Perhaps if there was much level
ground near the stream-soil fit for
garden crops or corn or any farm
crop, or for pecan or other nut trees
the little farm brook might be
turned and made to flow hither and
thither in way to irrgate large plots
of soil, where the crispest and sweet
est vegetables could be grown and a
never-failing supply of water to be
given to many things that, too often,
fail and languish on the upland for lack
of moisture.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
A Garden on ShipbOard.

When Captain Taylor, of the Ameri-
can ship Kenilworth, arrived in Phila-
delphia from Leith, Scotland, on a
recent trip and opened her matches he
was amazed to see what was appar-
emily green and growing field of
grain, extending the entire length of
the vessel. Then he remembered that
the Kenilworth had carried from San
Francisco to LeIth cargo of Cali
fornia barley. When she left Leith
considerable ballast in the shape of
loose earth was dumped into her hold
to give her the necessary stiffening
for her transatlantic run. During the
passage, which occupied over month,
the loose grain which clung to the ves-
sells side dropped down into the earth
and sprouted. The barley was sew
eral inches high, and the hold inside
as green as park hillside. e.-Philadel-
ulia Record
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
why Incubator Chick. Die.

At the Rhode Island station careful
investigation has been made OF the
cause of death of young incubator
chickens. The total number of dead
chickens examined during the spring
and summer of 1899 was S26. 1t was
alleged that about one-third of the
chicks had been more or less in
jured by uneven heat during incuba-
tion. Another common cause of
trouble was in overcrowding of
brooders, resulting in death by suffo-
cation, trampling, etc.
tuberculosis was found to be very
prevalent and Is per cent of the
chickens were more or less affected.
For guarding against this disease, it
is recommended to give the interior
of the brooders all the sun and air
possible on pleasant days. Bowel
troubles were common cause of
death. Feeding should be as nearly
as the time of the attendant renders
profitable continuous operation, but
by no means continuous gorge.
Sometimes too much animal food is
given, but in moderate quantities
animal food results in rapid growth.
Lack of animal food sometimes causes
diseases of the liver and gall bladder.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
Thinning Tree Fruits,

Thinning tree fruits has been prac-
ticed for a good many years, yet few
fruit growers are in favor of it, if we
may judge by the number that do not
do it. The fact, however, that the
most successful orchardists do thin
and that they attribute much of their
success to it is strong argument in
it's favor. Some of the growers along
the Hudson river were thinning their
apple crops twenty years ago, and. as
a result, got good yield of beautiful
fruit nearly every year. The most
noted peach grower in Michigan has
his peaches thinned every year and
tho bill for the work is considerable
This last is the reason that thinning is
not more widely practiced. Men
hesitate to let go of the money that
the work calls for.
Compared with the benefits received
ths cost is slight, and may be counted
~ part OF a permanent Investment
For trees that have tendency to
overbear there is no better treatm ent,
and some of the American apples,
pears, peaches aud even plums have
thi. bad habit. Thinning the fruit
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
Some Desirable Stamps.

Nothing in small way is moro
suggestive of the change that has
taken place in the fortune of war, and
in particular of the fortune of the
Orange Free State, than the postage
stamps borne by the latest mail-letters
from Bloemfontein. These stamps
will not improbably be much sought
after by philatelists. Three varieties
to hand are respectively of the values
of "half-penny," 'een-penny," "zes
pence" (sixpencel, and are colored
light orange, heliotrope, and light
blue. All alike bear the figure Of a
tree, whose symbolic meaning is
accentuated by the word s'vrij"
freely above it, being part of the
legend "Orange Vrij Staat." All this
is familiar enough. What, however,
makes the little colored squares in
teresting is the evidence they bear of
the British occupation. Immediately
beneath the "vrij" of the Taal in
scription are stamped in black letters
"V. r. l." And ''V. r. I. just now
to the Free Slater means a very diff
ferent thing from "vrij." London
Daily News,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
The Romance Spoiled.

A story has been going the rounds
that secret chamber containing a
skull and crumbling bones had been
found in the historic old Virginia
mansion known as Lower Brandon.
The secret chamber was discovered
indeed by Miss Guile Harrison,
daughter of the present mistress of
Brandon; but, according to the young
lady herself, as quoted by Rich
mond correspondent OF the Baltimore
Sun, gruesome remains of poor hu-
manity alleged to have been found
existed only in the vivid imagination
of some romancer. The floor of the
secret closet was covered with the
dust of ages, but was empty of else.
AS to the use to which this myste-
rious room was put or its purpose none
of those acquainted with its history
know. 1t was possibly constructed
for the unromantic but highly practi-
cable purpose of concealing the silver
ware and other valuables of the early
owners of Brandon.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
Energy OF Bees,

Indefatigable industry, energy and
perseverance are the peculiar charac-
teristics of the honey bees. They
begin their life work at birth in caring
for and nursing young larvae, and at
about Is days old they become honey
and pollen gatherers, and during the
honey harvest, in the early dawn,
when the balance of Gods creation
are asleep, they sally forth on their
daily mission, and when evenings twi-
light has cast its sombre mantle over
natures face they may be seen return
ing laden with sweets which, but for
their unequalled energy, would be
forever lost. They fear not the suns
scorching rays and regard not the rain
nor the storm. They deserve nice
house and a clean yard, and they will
provide abundantly for themselves
and surplus for their owner if treated
fairly.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26

from the beginning OF the trees ex.
istence gets it into the habit of bear
ing about the same amount of fruit
each year and gives double advan-
tage--that of having fruit in the years
when others have none and in pro-
longing the life OF the tree and in
creasing the number of crops it re-
turns in its lifetime.
The writer has seen pear trees so
loaded with fruit that each individual
pear was below medium in size and
the limbs of the tree had to be propped
to keep them from breaking. Higher
up in the tree great limbs were hang
ing lifeless, having been broken by
the weight of fruit in previous years.
He could but think how much better
it would have been to have thinned
this fruit by three -fourths, that the
tree might have been saved mutila-
tion and the market have received a
pear that would have attracted at
tention.
A man can thin fruit very rapidly as
he merely passes his hand along the
limb pinching off one after another of
the fruits and permitting them to
drop. The cost will be generally
found to be less than might be ex-
pected. Orchardists will do we'll to
give this Practice fair trial Farm,
Field and Fireside.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
THE CHANCES OTHERS HAVE.

"I might be rich, might be great" heard
one sadly say,
s.Could have had my masters chance to
start upon the way;
Had he been placed where was placed, men
would not praise his name;
Had / been favored as he was would have
greater fame!
They that ignore me now would all be syco-
plants, to dance
Attendance on me here IL had only had his
chance"
The wires whereby mems messages are sent
beneath the seas.
The cleaning rails Ger which men speed
what time they loll at ease,
The graceful domes that rise until they seem
to pierce the sky,
The mighty ships that cleve the main as fast
as eagles fly,
The disks and tubes through which men see
DER spaces broad expanse,
Are not the workspf him who sighed to have
some others chance.
The songs that live through centuries are
not the songs OF men
Who longed for favors others knew and
tossed away the pen;
The names upon the noble arch that makes
the artist glad
Are not the names Of men who yearned for
chances others had!
o. all the wonders of our age that rise at
every glance
None came from him who might do much
had he some others chance.
$. L. Kiser.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
The Surgical Ant.

The native Brazilian, far removed
as he usually is from doctors and sur
geons, depends upon little ant tc
sew up his wounds when he is slashed
or scratched. This odd creature is
called the surgical ant. from the use
to which it is put.
The ant has two strong nippers on
his head. They are his weapons fol
battle or forage.
When a Brazilian has cut himself,
for example, he picks up an ant,
presses the nippers against the wound,
one on each side, and then gives the
bug a squeeze. The indignant insect
snaps his nippers together, piercing
the flesh and bringing the lacerated
parts close together. The Brazilian
at that moment gives the ants body
jerk and away it flies, leaving the
nippars embedded in the flesh. To
be sure that kills the ant, but he has
served his most useful purpose in life.
The operation is repeated until the
wound is sewed up neatly and thor
oughly. st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
THE THuNoERsoLT's CRASH.
An Up-to- Date Romance at the Nationa
Capital.

An Up-to-Date Romance at the NatiOna
Capital.
"Do not be angry with me, father
pleaded the beautiful young girl il
the striped shirt waist. Il know
am your only daughter, and all that,
and for many years you have been
both father and mother to me, but you
ask me what is impossible.
''Then you have come to defy me?'
sternly demanded Monas Money bags,
as a scowl darkened his face.
''Not to defy you, father, but to ask
you to be reasonable. You desire me
to marry Henry White because he
once jerked you out of the way OF a
trolley car"
81 do. He is jerky young man,
and I want him for son-in law"
'But, think, father. He is simply
clerk and his salary is about SIT per
week."
81 know, but have promised him
your hand. Any time You are out of
soap and clothes pins you'll find me
ready to chip in"
~ cannot do 1t, father" said the
daughter, as she looked into the glass
to see if the powder was all wiped of
her chin, 81 love Count Kolinsky,
and if 1 cannot marry him l will
never, never wed. He is man of
millions, aud as his wife I can have
every wish gratitied."
Daughter, do you forget that am
your father?"
l..k
"You will marry Henry White. But
for him should now be buried"
'Father, | won't do it!'
''Girl" Kissed the father, 81 am
worth 50, 000, 900. should have left
it all to you. Now you do not get a
cent. Here is new will which leaves
every dollar to charity. I will sign it
and then drive you out to do second
work for living. Behold!"
But as he drew the will toward him
and dipped his pen into the ink, the
nine weeks drought which had lowered
over Maryland and Virginia and
burned the crops to tinder was sud
denly broken. There was fash o!
lightning-a crash of thunder-a
sudden downpour, and as the girl
looked around at her father she found
him dead. A hunk of thunderbolt
weighing 81 pounds ounces had
hit him on the jaw and knocked him
out with the new will unsigned.
Two weeks later she became Count
ess of Kolinsky, and on her marriage
day the jerky Henry White was sun.
stroked, and died without recognizing
his washerwoman. Washington Post
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
Keep up the Summer Milk.

A very large share OF Vernon,
farmers are dairymen. Every one OF
them has bain more or less we'll
equipped for the winter feeding of his
stock. They all labor in summer,
sowing, cultivating and harvesting
crops for winter use. A large share
of them carry. to all intsnts and pur-
poses, dry cows only in the winter,
working hard all summer simply to
keep the cows alive during the winter,
while they are bringing in little or no
income.
These same men, however, often
take no thought of means of summer
feeding of COWS. They depend solely
upon the pastures. 1t happens all too
frequently, however, that the pastures
dry up and the cows shrink seriously
in their milk flow. 1t is difficult
thing to tide backward. A COW once
shrunk in milk seldom regains her
former yield, and then with difficulty.
1t seems the part of wisdom for the
farmers to divert some of the energy
which they now devote to the growing
of food for the maintenance of dry
cows to the growing of food for keep.
ing up the milk flow during the sum.
mer. The larger use of soiing crops,
such as oats and peas, Hungarian,
rowen and the like, is we'll worth
while. Considerable amounts may be
grown without very great expendi-
ture of time or money, and they are
excelently we'll adapted to help out a
short or dry pasture.
There j., perhaps, nothing better
for this purpose than silage. 1t has
been very thoroughly demonstrated
that pound of digestible dry matter
can be placed in the cows manger by
way OF the silo cheaper than in any
other manner The silo capacity OF a
dairy farm should be made large
enough. in my Judgment, to enable
one to use silage all the time. The
silo intended for summer use, how
ever, should be deep and with rela
lively small surface area, to avoid
what otherwise might prove to be
large losses owing to fermentation.
The stave silo is now coming rapidly
into vogue, and is proving so very
useful for most purposes, and is so
readily put up and comparatively so
inexpensive for its tonnage capacity,
that it is to be hoped that the number
of silos in Vermont will rapidly in
crease in the near future. Director
J. H. Hills. Vermont Experiment
| Station, il Field and Farm.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
The Destruction of Weeds.

There are two classes of weeds
those that come from seeds and those
which are propagated principally by
means of their roots. Weeds which
spring up from seeds can be destroyed
by successfully bringing the seeds in
the soil to the surface, where they
germinate. The seeds of some weeds
have great vitality and remain iu the
soil for years. Some are inclosed in
clods and retained for other asons,
but when the clods are broken and the
weed seeds exposed to warmth near
the surface they are put out of exist
ence by the harrow as soon as they
germinate, for which reason it is i'm
possible to clear piece of land from
weeds in a season, unless every clod
is pulverized. The oft.repeated in
quiry. 'From whence come the
weeds?" may be answered, From
the clods." The weeds that spring
from roots are cut up, checked and
prevented from growing by frequent
cultivation, because they cannot exist
for great length of time if not per-
mitted to grow. If no leaves are al
lowed on such plants they perish from
suflocation, because they breathe
through the agency of the leaves.
The advantages derived by the soil in
the work of weed destruction reduces
the cost of the warfare ON the weeds,
for every time the harrow or cultivator
is use the manure is more intimatel y
mixed with the soil, more clods are
broken, greater proportion of plant
food is offered to the roots, the loss
of moisture is lessened, and the ca
pacity of the plants of the crop to Sc
cure more feed is increased. The
cost of the destruction of weeds
should not be charged to the accounts
of single year only, as thorough
work during a season may obliterate
the weeds entirely or so reduce their
number as to make the cost of their
destruction during the succeeding
years but a trif1e. e.-Philadelphia
Record.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26

the reins, looking kind of puzzled,
they said: .Warn't there something
else was going to do?' he ruminated,
out loud. Seems to me there was an
errand. Now whore was I going to
from here?'
''He scratched his head consider.
able and then he looked relieved.
"'The parsonage! That's it'll was
going to the parsonage on an errand.
Get up, Mollyr and he rode away,
with those two steers capering along
he'd forgot them!"
Lucretia's bright bits of patchwork
drifted to the floor in rainbow
stream. She glanced across at
Polemia, and began to laugh again.
Land" she gasped.
''Landp' echoed Polemia. 'Well?'
"'Well' I'm glad you think so.
You're the only one! What do you
suppose that man did then?"
''Went to the parsonage and
and" But imagination failed
"That's just what he did! Went to
the parsonage-and-and set there ir
his wagon, with them steers gaspine
behind, trying to remember what his
errand was! Well, after spell Of
racking, aforementioned. guess
there's where we'd better draw the
curtain, my dears. The suns got be-
hind the meeting house, and it's time
to bile the kettle for supper.
And Lucretia went out and left her
guests sympathizing with poor
Horatio,
"Didn't Cicely ever forgive him,
Lucretia?" Polemia went to the dool
to call out
Lucretia's voice came back to them
plaintive with the softening effect o.
distance. ''Cicely? No, she didn't
She said she'd find a man that could
get as far as the parsons front door
She said if ever she died, Horatie
Mixerd forget to bury her. Poor
Cicely!"
''Poor Cicely" Polemia echoed,
but her heart was with Horatio. -
Youths Companion.