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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-17

In 1899 ten staple crops were
worth upwards of S323,OOl,OOO
more to the American farmer than
i'm 1895. Add to this Increase an
advance of $633,OOO,OOO in the
value of live stock, and there is a
round billion of dollars that has
been paid in prosperity dividends
by the Republican party to the
farmers for the single year of 1899.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-17

THE Boise Statesman, very
conservative newspaper, figures a
majority of 1000 for Judge Stand
rod, the Republican nominee for
governor, based upon the assump-
ton that a fusion will yet be ac-
complished which takes in the
populists
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-17
Republican Platforms,
State Platform.

The republican party of Idaho,
In convention assem- bled, renews its
allegiance to the principles of re-
publicanism, and declares its un-
qualified approval of the national
platform adopted at Philadelphia,
its adherence to the principles
represented by the official acts of
the administration of William
Mckinley, and pledges itself to the
support of the same,
DECLARATION ON CHINA.
A new and mementous situation
having arisen IN China since the
the meeting of the National Repub-
lican Convention, we express our
utmost confidence in the ability and
purpose of the republican party to
settle this question upon that high
plane of craftsmanship which has
characterized every act of the pres
ent national administration.
SUPPRESSION OF TRUSTS.
We are in favor of amending the
constitution of The United States SO
as TO give congress the power more
fully TO regulate and suppress
trusts, and we denounce the action
of the democratic party in the pres
ent congress who, by their votes,
defeated the proposition to submit
such an amendment to the people
of the United States for their
ratification.
EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYED
The past history of the repub-
lican party in its record in this
state is a sufficient guarantee that
public order will be maintained
therein; that life and property will
be protected and obedience to law
enforced upon all alike through the
established forms OF law; that no
man shall be deprived of life, liber-
ty or property without due process
of law; nor shall the right of anv
man to seek and obtain or contract
for labor or employment in accord
ance with law be in anv wise cur
tailed or interfered with.
STATE ADMINISTRATION.
We condemn the policy OF
the present state administration
whereby it has sought tc
deprive large number of honest
settlers in the northern part oil
the state of lands taken up under
the homestead laws of the United
States, and which has further re-.
suited In losing to the state thous.
ands of acres of valuable timber
lands.
We condemn the policy of The
state administra ton in convert
ing the boards in control of tn,
various state Institutions into part
san political machines indirectly
and the republican party pledges
itself to place these institutions II
the hands of those who will son
duct them solely for the purpose o
the public good and not in the in
terest of any political organization
IDAHO VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.
We remember with feelings q
gratitude and pride the gallant an,
> patriotic services rendered To- on
? country by the brave volunteer sol
diers from Idaho, and glory in thei
deeds of valor and faithfulness t
their call to duty. We pledge then
the support of the republican part,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-17

in the recognition of their services.
SENATOR GEORGE L. sHOUP.
We endorse the course of Hon.
George L. Shoup as republican re-
preventative of the state of Idaho in
the United States senate"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-17

WITH Chairman Jones in the
Cotton Trust and Tammany in the
Ice Trust, the democrats are giving
less attention to the trust issue as
the campaign advances.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-17

THE con-fusionists are still work
ing on ticket. 1t is to be hoped
that they will get through in time
to get on the Official ballot, The
Republicans would like to know
whether they are really going to
have any opposition or not.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-17
County Platform.

Inc repuDllcanS OF hOOJenal
county, in convention assembled,
viewing with satisfaction and pride
the admirable manner in which the
republican administration has con-
Quoted the affairs of the nation
during the past three years, and
looking forward confidently to sue
cess in the approaching election,
make these declarations:
MCKINLEY AND ROOSEVELT
We affirm the principles
enunciated in the national repub-
lican platform adopted at Phila-
delphia on June 20, 1900, and
firmly pledge our support to the
same. We unqualifedly endorse
the administration of President
William Mckinley and commend
the wise and patriotic manner in
which he has discharge evry duty
and preserved the principles dear 20
American people. We especially
endorse the prompt and patriotic
manner in which President Nc
Kinley has ordered the navy and
army Of the nation to proceed to
Chinese waters and to land the
marines and army on Chinese soil,
and directed the army to proceed
to Peking TO relieve OR beleagured
representative and American
citizens within the walls of that
city,
We enthusiastically endorse the
denomination of President William
Mckinley and the nomination for
vice president of Governor Theodore
Roosevelt, and firmly pledge our
earnest support to these standard
bearers.
SENATOR sHoUP ENDORSED.
We are justly proud of oar
worthy senator, Geo. l.. Shoup,
and feel that he deserves the CRATE
full esteem of the people of Idaho
]
has guarded and advanced their
interests and promoted their well
fare. By his successful efforts in
the passage of the free home bill he
has saved to settlers of Kootenai
county over three-quarters of "a
million dollars. In all matters
pertaining to national legislation
he has proven himself to be a wise,
able and efficient senator and his
public acts merit our highest COM
mendation and approval, We feel
that the state of Idaho can not
afford to dispense with his influence
ard experience in the nations
senate.
COUNTY EXTRAVAGANZA.
With regrets and commiseration
for the unfortunate taxpayer we
condemn the incompetent and ex-
travagant methods to which the So
called reform and fusion admins
tration has treated the people OF
Kootenai county during the past
enc and one-half years. We con
slider that the amounts of salaries
paid to most of the county Officers
are too high and should be reduced
and that, as the current debt of tbs
county has been considerably in
creased, the candidates on the re-
publican ticket pledge themselves
to decrease that debt and to admin
lister the affairs Of the county in ar
economical and business like
manner.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18
Va:ue of IRRIGATION.

Prof. Voorhees,, of the New Jersey
Experiment Station, has decided that
there is need for some method of ir-
r1gation in the Eastern States as we'll as
In those west of the Mississippi Valley.
He estimates that the loss of hay in
new Jersey by reason Of the drought
OF May and June, 1899, amounted to not
less than 81 100000, while that on small
fruits and vegetables was much larger.
he gives these figures from the Expert
ment Farm. In 1897 and 1898, both wet
seasons, the hay crop averaged two
tons, 1900 pounds per acre. In 1899 it
was but a. little over one ton. This was
a loss of over $400 on twenty-five acres.
crimson clover for forage averaged for
the two wet years eight and one-half
tons per acre, and for the dry year the
yield was but five tons. The oat and
pea forage gave six tons per acre in the
two first years, and but three tons 600
pounds in 1890. On small fruits the
plats that We're irrigated produce at the
Following rate per acre more than those
not irrigated, blackberries 1O3S quarts
worth $93.42, raspberries 329 quarts
worth $32.90, currants 852 quarts worth
$3.50. Thus, on an acre of each there
would be gain of $211.52 by irrigat-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18
HunnOr.

Fate has been extremely kind to the
Anglican school of humor.
For Fate had man by the name of
MIME invent a gun, and thereupon the
Anglican school of humor conceived of
lady visiting an arsenal and asking a
soldier there:
what gun is used the maximum"
And the soldier, replying:
'The MIME, num-
This was believed to be the High
Water Mark of Anglican humor But
no!
Fate went still further and caused a
man by the name of Maxim to invent
gun.
"What gun is used the maximum ?"
the lady again asked at the arsenal
1.-The Maxim, mumr' replied the SOL
dier.
What, pray, could be more exquisite
ly droll than this ?-Detroit Journal
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18
ORIGIN OF KISSING.

Scientist LOrnDrooo says OScuiation ls
Modern Practice.
According to Prof. Cesare Lombroso,
the distinguished Italian criminologist,
kissing is quite a modern practice and
originated in a very curious manner.
The kiss, as a token Of affection, was
unknown to the old Greeks, and neither
In Homer nor in HerodOtus do we find
any mention of it. Hector did not kiss
his Andromache when he bade her fare
well, neither did Paris press his lips to
those of the beautiful Helen, and Ulys-
ses, who was more of a cosmopolitan
than any man Of his day, never dream
ed of kissing the enchanting Circe, and
when after long wanderings he return
ed home to his spouse, Penelope, ne
satisfied himself with putting one OF
his stalwart arms around her waist and
drew her to him.
The people of Terre del Fuego, says
Lombroso, have taught civilized ma
tions the origin of the delightful art of
kissing. Drinking vessels are un-
known in that country, and the people,
when they are thirsty, simply lie down
beside brooks and drink the water as it
flows by them. 1t is evident, however,
that infants could not satisfy their
thirst in this primitive fashion, and,
therefore, their mothers have for ages
supplied them with water by filling
their own mouths first and then letting
it pass through their lips into the ex-
pectant mouths of their little ones. In
some places the banks of the brooks
and rivers are so high that water can
not be obtained in the usual way, and
the mothers in such places draw it up
through long reeds.
Birds fed thir young ones in similar
manner. They first fill their own
mouths with water and then transfer it
to the wide-open mouths Of the little
ones. This very ancient maternal prac-
tice is, according to Lombroso, the only
source to which the modern practice Of
pressing one mouth to another origina
ted with the women in Terre del Fuego,
who could only supply their infants
with drink in this manner, and 1t Is
presumable that they learned the les
son from the birds. Finally, we are
told that kissing is an evidence Of
atavism and a memorial of that early
stage in our development, during
which the wife had not yet triumphed
over the mother, nor love over ma
ternity."
-Lombroso's views on this subject
meet with the general approval of sci
entists, though there are some who
point out that his explanation o. the
origin Of kissing is not in accordance
with the one handed down to us by the
old Romans. These latter maintain
that the kiss was invented by husbands,
who desired to ascertain in this way
whether during their absence from
home their wives had been drinking
their wine or not-New York Herald.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18
A WINTERS NIGHT AT HOME.

A stretch of hill and valley, swathed
thick in robes of white,
The buildings, blots of blackness, the
windows gems of light;
A moon now clear, now hidden, as in its
headlong race
The north wind drags the clcud track, in
tatters DER its face.
Mailed twigs, that click and clatter, upon
the tossing tree,
And like a giants chanting-the deep
voice of the sea,
AS mid the stranded ice cake the burst
ing breakers foam.
The old faIsiiar picture-a winters night
at home.
The old familiar picture-the freight,
RICH and red,
The lamplight soft and mellow, the shad-
owed beams o'erhead;
And father with his paper, and mother
calm and sweet,
Mending the red yarn stockings, stamped
through by careless feet.
The little attic bedroom, the windows
meath the caves.
Decked by the Frost Kings brush with
silver sprays and leaves;
The rafting sash that gossips with the
gusts that roam
Around the ice-fringed gables-a winters
night at home.
What woeld l give to climb them-those
narrow stairs so steep
And reach the little bedroom and sleep
a boys sweet sleep;
Whist would | give again to see that old
house by the sea,
Filled with the dear lost faces that made
it home for me.
The sobbing wind sings softly the songs
of long ago,
In the little country churchyard the
graves are wrapped in snow;
But there beyond the arches of Heavens
stargilded dome
Perhaps they know I'm dreaming of the
winter nights at home.
j. Lincoln.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18
Bogie Land.

DOSfC
There's a wonderful land called Bogie
Land,
On the other side of the moon;
Where the big round sun stockstill doth
stand.
And it's always afternoon;
The time of year it is always May,
And there's never ice nor snow;
But they never can tell the time of day,
For the Bogie-Land clocks don't 60.
No houses are builded in sBogie-Land,
No cities nor towns are there;
But beautiful trees in blossom stand,
In the sunlight everywhere;
The leaves don't fall. nor the roses fade.
And the birds don't fly away;
And both in the sunlight and the shade
1t is just so warm each day.
They never labor in Bogie-Land,
And nothing is bought nor sold;
And nobody there can understand
Why people should strive for gold;
There sugar grows on a sugar tree,
And creams in the river flow,
And bon-bons always are furnished free
Oh, wouldn't you like to 60?
\ wonderful land is this Bogie-Land,
On the other side of the moon;
And the people there are happy band,
And life is blessed boon;
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18

coming in glory.
The power Of tear-drop Is in that 1t
rises in the heart.
The Christian can only find satisfac-
ton where he finds salvation
The hypocrite says, leave my sins
alone and chase those heretics."
If you have religion by proxy You
may have heaven in the same way.
There are some things you must both
be and live before you can believe.
A man is not a champion of truth be-
cause he howls at all who differ from
him.
The artillery of skepticism often
opens up new mines in the mountains
of God
Blessed are they who are thrown to
the lions, for Daniel is there and SO is
his God.
Only the man who can say, "An my
springs are in thee" can go through
the dry and thirsty land.
1t is a good deal easier to demon
strate that men may become monkeys
than that monkeys have become men.
Hindrances are the ever-ascending
rungs in the ladder God makes for us.
When there is sunshine in the soul
there will be flowers and fruit in the
life
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18

high banks half hidden by brambles, a
man waited their approach. AS the
women came into sight he advanced to
meet them.
1T is but five minutes by the clock
since 1 came, madam, yet dare swear
that the moments have been leaden-
footed as so many hours. The post
chaise waits for us in yonder hollow,
and we have many miles to go before
dawn"
The chaise can wait" she said 81
seek word with you first, sirr'
"a thousand, and you will, sweetheart!
But can you not say them as we drive?'
The moonlight fell full ON the group
as the woman stopped and threw back
her hood, and it shone on her pale, set
face. Seeing it, Sir Harry faltered and
tapped uneasily on the lid of his snuff
box. 1t did Eot seem much like the
look to be expected ON the face of a
romantic girl who had so easily fallen
in with his suggestions of a runaway
match.
"Now," she said, 81 will tell you why
let you think that l would marry you
in secret, and also why the chaise will
not be needed tonight. You have
known me as Dorothy March, sir;
know me now as Dorothy Ingledew-
sister TO the man you ruined, and whose
patrimony you stole, and to the wo-
man whose heart you broke.'
He scanned the eager face with some
curiosity now. So this explained the
haunting idea that there was something
forgotten which the sight of Dorothy
stirred within him. He could see now
the resemblance between the slender,
fsir-haired Winifred Ingledew he had
tired of and deserted when he found it
so easy to get the Ingledew money from
her weak. spendthrift brother without
numbering himself with a wife, and
this dark beauty, who had SO unex-
pectedly become his accuser.
81 stole nothing. Your brother-if
brother of yours he was-lost it to me
in play. He lost and 1 won; it is the
way of the world, Miss Dorothy
HE was a boy. You took advantage
of his youthful folly. My sister loved
Tou; you forsook her when she no longer
had gold to tempt you. He lies in his
dishonored grave; she pined away and
died broken hearted. You killed
them both. and vowed to kill you in
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18
THROWING THE RUBBERs.

board, or a screw-eye inserted, by
which to hang it upon the nail in the
wall.
No. 10 is a sort of "bulls-eye," and
each player being given three of the
rubber rings, takes turn in throwing
them from a position about ten feet
away, endeavoring to "hook'' as many
on the board as possible. A score is
kept of the points gained by each play
er, the one first getting 100 points be-
ing the winner. However, exactly 100
points must be made. For instance, If
a player has 80 he has to work for
Hook No. L." as any other hook would
carry him over the mark. This diff
Guilty adds to the interest of the game.
An advantage of the game is that no
noise is made nor damage done by the
rings, and it may be improvised by any
boy or girl.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18
MISLED BY THE LIGHT.

How Mu1let Catch Themselves at Flood
Tide on he Virgi la Coast.
The mullet that figure in the follow
ing story from Outing eventually went
the way of all fish, but the account of
their passage from their native element
to the frying pan is marked by some
interesting and spectacular features.
''How would you like to catch fish
without hook, line, net or seine"
"Shoot them, you mean"
"No."
"How then?'
LET them jump into the boat"
"Oh, that's preposterous."
For reply, the first speaker, Virgin
ian living near Cherrystone Inlet, north
of Cape Charles, called to a passing
negro and asked him if the "fatbacks"
were running.
"Reasonabul, sub, reasonabul," was
the answer. "Dey hez been better, en-
dey hez been wuss."
BE ready to take US to shore after
supper" the Virginian said to the ne
gro. To his visitors eager questions
he returned the uniform reply: wait
uQlll QlSuIIdu.
1t was dark when they finished sup
per, and there were clouds in the sky
conditions pronounced "ideaT' for the
sport. Within an hour they were on
the soft, smooth beach of one Of the
inlets on the Chesapeake side. There
was the fishing boat, long canoe or
dugout. At the stern was a platform,
on which was basin half full of earth
Behind the stern seat was a pile of
light wood knots. The negroes had
long poles.
"Now," said the Virginian to his WIS.,
itor, "all we ask of you is to keep as
still as you can!'
In a few minutes the canoe was
showed gently through the water. By
this time bonfire had been started
on the soil in the basin, and as the
flames got hold on the resin of the pine
knots, the glare lighted up the big
trees that lined the shore.
"They're jumpin'v' announced the ne
gro in the bow, in very hoarse whis-
per. f
The negro in the stern gave a more
flSOIOuS ohoNC WIN thC pOAC, anu OS-
fore anybody could say "Jack Robin
son" plump! plump! plump! the fish
came jumping into the boat, over the
boat on laps, and even up sleeves!
There were thousands of them, but
the sportsmen got only the smallest
fraction of those they saw; for when
they counted their catch, at the end of
an hour or so, by the light of the bon
fire, they found that there were one
hundred and forty-three.
'"That Is very ordinary" was the Vir-
ginian's comment. Three hundred is
a good catch"
Fatback Is the local name for the
small mullet which abound in these
waters And there is no mystery about
the ease with which they are caught.
On the food-t tides after dark they get
into the shadows in the streams for
food. They have great leaping ability,
and when surprised make for deep wa
ter by leaps and bounds. The glare
from a boat startles them. The body
of the boat being dark, they do not see
it, and when they jump into it they
think they are going through space into
deeD water.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18
Petroleum SPRAYING,

The use of mixture of one part of
crude petroleum with three parts Of
water in spraying fruit trees during the
winter months, seems to be proving an
effectual remedy for the San Jose scale,
cottony scale, and other scale insects.
1t needs one of those pumps which keep
the oil and water mixed or those that
supply both in the proportions desired.
1t may be well to make two applica-
tions, one early in the winter and the
other as late as possible before the buds
swell. This makes a very sure job of
it, as some points may be untouched
at first spraying. There appears to be
difference in crude petroleum, and
while some have successfully used it
undiluted, others have injured their
trees by so doing. 1t is said to be quite
as effectual in the 25 per cent. solution,
and water is not as expensive as the
oil. 1t is said to cost about 800 to treat
1000 large bearing trees, or ten cents
per tree, and it's use destroys many
other insects or their eggs in the tree.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18

only exception being when conditions
are such that the straw is very short
while grain is large and plump. This.
may depend in part upon the season,
but in some cases is due to there being
but little nitrogen in the fertilizer to
stimulate growth of straw and plenty of
phosphoric acid to increase size of
grain. This may serve as a hint for the
proper fertilizer to use. But now the
Maine Experiment Station has ascer-
tanned another point by growing one,
five and eight stalks of grain in pots of
the same size, using oats and spring
wheat They found that the grain
where there were five stalks in a pot
containing but SO1a per cent as much
nitrogen and S5.42 per cent as much
nutritive value as those where one
stalk grew alone, while where eight
plants are in the pot there was only
7O.1 per cent nitrogen and 1851 per
cent nutritive value scompared with
the single stalk.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-18
A Hog Hanger.

An Ohio farmer writer sketches an
arrangement for hanging hogs when
scalding, etc. 1t is made by taking
large pole about fifty feet long for
lever and another about sixteen feet
long for post. Set this post four feet
in ground and have made a clevis-
shaped iron (A) to support lever on the
post. This clevis is about one foot long
and wide as post after squaring, with
a crosspiece welded on near middle OF
bottom or round part. A three-quarter-
inch hole is made through bottom of
cIevis and center of crosspiece, through
which an iron pin is run and driven
into top of post, so as to permit clevis to
revolve on post. Make a five-eighths-
inch hole in the long pole or lever about
twelve feet from large end. Raise lever
up and hang in clevis. Attach strong
chain to large end, and have the scald-
ing vat directly beneath this chain. Set