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The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1902-11-22
AFrERNooN SESSION.

At the assembling of the board at
30 O'Clock p. m. the following pro.
ceedings were had.
The petition Of Bjoronson ct al for a
public road as follows; Commencing
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GREAT DOG TRAVELLER.
TuHy Has Covered Th0usands of
Miles ON Railway Trains and His
Own Sturdy Legs.

Taffy is neither a Welshman nor a
thief, but Californian, gentleman,
md traveller. Heis now resident of
Lake Forest and the devoted follower
of his mistress, Mrs. Franklin Smith,
says the Chicago Tribune.
Taffffy has made five trips between
Pasadena and Chicago, the shortest be-
ing $500 miles. Several times the dis
lance has been increased 500 or 900
1niles by his mistress going to New
Orleans or by some other indirect
route. Only after the invention of a
canine padometer can it be ascertained
how many miles Taffy has covered with
his own sturdy little legs.
Taffy was born and spent his early
doghood in Pasadena, being addicted
to gardening and the care of the stable.
He has remained devoted horseman,
alternately wild with delight when
the horses are put in, and overcome
with fear lest he may not be allowed to
take his place beside the coachman. AS
reward for good behavior he is some
times allowed to ride one of the
horses. and then his enthusiasm knows
no bounds.
His first railroad journey was made
when he was year old and for several
succeeding years he took the round
trip. Taffy's sleeping car was the bag
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MAMMOTHS IN GLACIERS.
Scientific Theories Accounting for
the Presence of the Huge Bodies
In the Northern Ice Fields.

A long study of the conditions
which produced the sudden freezing
up of mammoths and other animals
in the arctic regions has satisfied me
that it was caused by the falling Of a
watery canopy or ring such as is now
seen above the poles of Jupiter, writes
Isaac N. Vail, geologist, in the New
York World. l
The remarkable discovery by DR..
Herr of the body of a huge mammoth
in a bed of glacier ice in eastern ST.
IBERIA has again revived among scien-
tifc thinkers the discussion of the
manifest changes the earth has under
gone since these mammoth quadru-
peds fed in lands of Astounding pas
lures where snow and ice have held
sway for thousands of years. a
mammoth locked in glacier ice has
seemed to be an enigma difficult to
solve, and in this case we have one pc
culiarly hard to solve as linked to ex-
listing causes and all manner of sug-
gestions, wise and otherwise, have
been put forth to aid in the longed for
solution.
AS far back as the summer of 1890
a mammoth was found by DR.. Adams
frozen in glecier of clear ice, which
abutted against the beach at the
mouth of the Lena river, in northern
Siberia. The skeleton of this animal,
l believe, is mounted in the museum
of St. Petersburg. 1t was so we'll pre-
served in the matrix ice that Cuvier,
after close review of the accompany
ing conditions, declared that the ami
NAL was suddenly killed and immedi-
ately buried in frosty grave, and that
it had remained in that condition from
the day it was overtaken by some
sudden cata strophe. Since that time
many of these animals have been
found in the arctic world.
1t seems that. a theory is needed to
provender all over the Arctic world
where once the mammoth luxuriated
and which continued warm for vast
length of time to afford such }hordes
of mammals to breed and occupy that
region. Then, too, the same theory
must account for sudden desolating
fall of snow upon land of Astounding
life. There is such theory being ad-
vocated by some, which seems in a
very satisfactory way to account fol
both of these north-world conditions
l will present it as l understand it.
The Annular theory asks us to be-
lieve that some of the earth's print
tive watery vapors fingered about this
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planet till very late in geological
times, even down to the advent of man.
These vapors, it is supposed, revolved
about the earth as world canopy,
just as similar vapors revolve about
the planets Jupiter and Saturn c.day.
Such canopy, it is claimed, would
be competent to modify the climate
of the whole earth, even causing a
temperate climate about the poles,
and ample pasturage for the mann
moth and his cogeners.
Now astronomers say that Jupiter
is at times dropping portions of his
canopy or watery vapor at his poles.
If this be true, and if law presides
universally in the evolution of worlds,
we are asked to admit that earth's
canopy of lingering vapors, compe-
tent during it's existence to make a
warm climate. was also competent in
it's fall in the polar region to DESC
ly we can place no metes and bounds
to such avalanches of world SHOWS,
nor can we put any estimate upon
their suddenness. Such snowfalls
may have covered polar pastures and
their feeding hordes hundreds of feet
deep in single day or in an hour.
There seems to be nothing unnat.
ural or improbable in this canopy the
DRY, and through it we escape the al
tentative of making the earth cold in
order to cover it with SHOWS. For here
we cover it with SHOWS to make it
cold, just as Tyndall demanded quar-.
ter of a century ago. Then, too, if
this theory be true, we have an all.
competent cause for all the ''glacial
epochs" and all the "deluges'' the
earth ever saw. If some of the print
tive vapors fingered about the earth
till the mammoth died, then some of
them may have fallen in grand install.
ments through all the 'ages;" in fact
the ages may have been more or less
modified and regulated by them, and
the geologist may find the canopy's
impress all through the past, from
Mona to Man. r.
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wife to run away with hind him!
Sand you heard what said, dear ?
He was out of his head, Hi"
Needn't 'pologise for h-him, Mrs
Dimmock. It S all right. You get
supper now. I'll take walk-cool my
brain-come right back, Nell. So
long"
She did not worry over his absence
until the dogs attracted her attention
to the fact that they had all been left
behind. The sound of a rifle shot was
too frequent on the hills to disturb
her, but when midnight had come and
Hi was still absent she feared the cab
in more than the open, and taking the
dogs she started out in the sepulchral
moonlight, leaving it to the instinct of
her four-footed friends to lead the
way. Had Hi followed the man who
had left her door? Had he killed him
for what he said to her? She did not
think Hi capable of taking such re.
venge in his present state. But she
must find him. Down the long trail to
the village she hurried until stopped
by a horrible commoiion among the
dogs; they were grouped about a
patch of something that lay dark in
the moonbeams. She knew then that
Hi had found his enemy, and already
her mind was planning to save hin
from the consequences of his act
Where was he? She reached the pros.
trate form and stopped to see if any
life were left. Soothing and quietine
the dogs that they should not attract
attention to the deed, she looked into
the face of her husband. Hi DimmocL
had killed his worst enemy.-Chicagc
Record-Herald.
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gage car, where his friends, the bag
gagemen, greeted him royalty, never
insulting him by any reference to his
tag. On his last journey west few
years ago, wearied by monotonous
trip, he slipped from the car at Las
Vegas Hot Springs in order to enjoy
the air and scenery. The trainmen,
not sympathizing with his ambition,
at once started in pursuit, but the re-
sentful Taffy made good his retreat de-
spite of an organized pursuit of all
hands, which delayed the great over
land express, whose longeststopi is ten
minutes, four additional minutes. His
curiosity surfeited, he returned in a
dignified way to the station, made him
self at home, and, hopping on the next
train, arrived at Pasadena safe and un-
concerned with the satisfied air of a
man who had seen the world. Once
after leaving him in Pasadena his mis-
tress telegraphed for him and he
Joined her here, coming on in the
charge of Pullman conductor and
adapting himself as quickly to sleep
ing car life as he had to that of the
baggage car. The porter is said to
have wished that all his passengers
gave him as little trouble as Taffy did.
Tafy's character. as we'll as his ex-
periences, is out of the common run
of dogdom. Though devoted to horses
and other animals, including human
ones, he is utterly Indifferent to his
own kind, never mixing in street
brawls or with ordinary dogs. One of
the loves of his life has been big cat.
which he has raised from kitten with
Jealous care. At all times he is indie
pendent and curious. Driving he is al
ways on the coachman's seat. On a
trolley car his preferred perch is with
the motorman. And crossing the Mis-
sissippi he made igurehead of him
self in the prov of the vessel.
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A CHICKEN STORY.

Once there was little chicken,
And he used to go a-pickin'
ALL among the bidGy hens to get his food
Twas pretty little fellow,
Plump and downy, soft and yellow,
But he never thought that anything was
good.
He would bitterly complain
Whenever it did rain,
OF If the grass was very wet with dew.
He didn't like the cold
And, If the truth be told,
He just found fault with everything tina:
grew.
So the other little chicks
Thought they'd put him in fix.
And they said: eve will no longer play
with you.
You're so very glum and sour
We have meier happy hour,
When we might be jolly, happy crew.
So they left him all alone,
Sitting perched upon stone,
And they would not speak to him single
word.
But they were very kind
When he did make up his mind
That he would really be better bird.
-Child Garden.
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den form and features Of her hus.

zen 10TH duO 1SACUIeS VI ASE AuS'
band.
"It beats me, Nell" he said, pres.
emily, what you ever saw in Hiram
Dimmock to throw yourself away on
him. Iain't any too good, but there
wasn't one Of the boys in the old
Icrowd that wasn't head and shoul.
ders above him for decency and fair
dealing. You might have had your
choice, Nell, and you took him. Why
did you pick out the worst one in the
crowd?"
The girl looked in the face, lifting
large, limpid blue eyes to his with q
sincerity that vanuuished all doubt.
II loved him. He was poor and
plain-looking and Stunned by the
rest of you, and all that made me
love him the better. When he is
sober there isn't better-hearted OF
kinder husband in the world. I'm
glad to see you, but go now, Dave.
Some day we're going back, but not
now" Tears filed her eyes as she
spoke.
"Nell,' cried the man, losing his
head in moment of sudden resolve,
"come away from here with me--now
-to-night-and go back to your old
home. Give me the right to make
you happy-come back to civilization
and home such as you deserve. ]
have loved you since we went to
school together. You are wretchedly
nnhaDDv-I can see that"
A sudden clicking noise from the
cabin smote the air. The man talking
started, but Nell glanced back and
said:
''That is the clock. 1t often does
that. Yes, I'm often wretchedly I'M
happy, every woman who loves is, but
l haven't fallen so low yet as to need
your help, your sympathy, Dave Har-
kins. If you have anything more OF
that sort to say, reckon I'll call the
dogs. They will protect me in the alb
sence of my husband"
"Forgive me, Nell, and forget what I
said. If your love doesn't reform Hi
Dimmock no power on earth can. God
bless you, Nell, and good-by."
he rOOe away, picturesque ASui
in the sunset, but the eyes of the wom'
an leaning in the doorway did not
look after him. Before he was alb
sorbed in the lessening distance she
had turned into the cabin and drawn
the calico curtains apart that draped
a space in the wall into which a bed
was built. A man lay there roughly
dressed, holding in both hands a cooked
rife. He had trampish ensemble and
his face was flushed with liquor.
$50 you came back while was gone :?
Why didn't you come out of hiding
one of the boys from home was here
you heard him, HIP"
"Y-y-es, my beauty, II did. Heard
his 'pinion of me. Heard him ask m-my
20
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FIGHTING THE BADGERS.
In the Early pays Of the Far North
west Prairie Farmers Suffered
Great Loss from Them.

From Eleanor Gates" Chapters from
the Biography Of Prairie Girl" in the
Century, we take this description OF an
experience familiar enough to the
farmer of the far northwest.
1t was the little girl who discov-
cred that the badgers were encroach-
ing upon the big wheat fields that
stretched westward across the Dakota
prairie, from the farmhouse to the
sandy bank of the Vermillion. In
bringing the cattle home from the
meadows one night, along the cow
path that bordered the northern end
of the, grain, she allowed several to
stray aside into the field, which was
now family green with its new sprout-
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Miraculous Apple r.ick.

You can divide an apple into several
parts without cutting the rind. Pass
needle and thread under the rind CT
the apple, which is easily done by put
ting the needle in again each time
at the same hole it came out of; aud
so passing on until You have gone
around the apple. Then take both ends
OF the thread in your hands and pull;
by this means the apple will be divided
into two parts. In the same way you
can divide it into as many parts AZ
you please, the rind remaining En-
tire,
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Boom in walnut stump..

Old walnut stumps are On a boom
throughout Tennessee. Stumps that
have remained unnoticed for years
and were regarded as worthless are
now eagerly sought after at prices
that seem almost fabulous. One In
diana concern has had men travelling
over the country buying every old
walnut stump that gould be found.
At first the prices paid were small, but
as the eyes of the stick timber folks
began to open the prices went higher
and higher, until now they are out
of sight, and the funny part about it
is that the uglier, knottier and more
unsightly the stump the more money
It will bring. The stump of walnut
tree that was cut down several years
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THE KINGDOM
Of GOD and THE
LIVES of N EN-
By REV. HENRY A. sTlMS0N, D. D.,
Pastor Manhattan Church, New York.

truths and should be the of evil The religion
Lord Christ prominently social religion and its
methods and its community of interests and Of life which
Justify taking wholly own, these
peensve For they the opposite of anarchy WHICH
obedience toward God and atrusm brotherhood toward
In the economic world NO MAN CAN SUCCESSFULLY
LIVE UNTO HIMSELF The attempt do breeds confusion
cea both the individual and the The fundamental
law of economics procams that whether
human society essentially socas and the sole condition of hui
man progress IS A COMMUNISM IN WHICH THE WELFARE
OF EACH IS WRAPPED UP IN THE PROSPERITY OF ALL.
Thus from the teachings of the industrial world brought
around the coocaon Of theme Kingdom of God aud the
Lives of Men,"
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Smelt Out the Money.

A clerk in a North Carolina post OF.
fee, caught in the act of rifiing letters
when he saw that escape was impos.
sible, confessed his crimes and showed
how they were accomplished. He had
achieved sucn experiences in distin
gushing paper money by the smell
that he selected with unerring accu.
racy seven letters containing banI
notes out of 400 placed before him, al
though blindfolded. He could thus 10
cate old notes as well as new ohes.
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of
beauty the sick but like Roger Williams she be-
followers banshsd from the They
Rhode Island They did and founded Ports
murdered the Indians She widow
child daughter
but wasre
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Hereditary B.4chet Buried.

Two boys or the training ship Min
neapois are -eprese atives of both
sides Of the most mereiless feud ever
known in the south-the Hatfield-Nc
Coy war. The lads are Perry Mccoy
and "Anse" Hatfield. They have buried
their hereditary hatred and are fast
friendl. with ham1aocks slung side by
tide.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-12-18

ago brought more than the whole of
the tree. It is stated that the stumps
are made into veneering material and
used in the manufacture of high grade
furniture.-Memphis Appeal.
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Two great words are much
banded about in these days and
often held as words of evil por-
tent.
THEY ARE THE WORDS
SOCIALISM AND COMMUNE
ISM.
But they represent great
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-12-18
Cranes in Sirup

Fill cans with fresh ripe grapes,
pour full of boiling water and let
stand until the grapes change color,
then turn off the water; fill with ST.
rup made of half sugar and half water
boiled together ten minutes; pour
over the grapes hot, seal air-tight.
These are delicious.-Housek
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Infantile Financierina

Hoax-I saw the doctor at your
house yesterday. Some trouble with
the baby?
Joax-Just little financial trouble.
Financial trouble of the baby's?"
eyes; he swallowed penny."-Phil-
adelphia Record.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-01-27

prices are being offered 20 the pro-
Queer In round lots on the dock or In
the car at Seattle:
Crain-omts. s2s.0GGzT.e0: barley.
1880. wheat. chicken feed. 5000.
corn. bulk. s7T.00.
Butter-Fresh ranch, ts1isc: ma
tive creamery. z2d23c.
Cheese Native Washington. liz
lie.
EggB-strictiy fresh ranch. 2212tc.
Poulfry-Hens. tfnlfhc. large
spring. lie ducks tzHf2Me. turkeys.
i3c geese. sac.
Iivestock--Cows, SIC: steers. SIC.
calves. 5is97i4c: sheep. &c. hogs. 80
SAC.
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FARRING T0N
is ON TRIAL

ADRIAN. Mich, Jan. ~ The case
81 Bert Harrington OF Milan. who
shot and killed Jesse Hooker, his
wifc'a paramount. Ia this city. Jan. b.
was called Tor trial Ia the circuit
court today.
The night Of the shooting Earring
ton had gone 20 iiooker'a home.
where his wife was visiting, IN COM
pany with two officers, 90 secure evil
dcnce on which 90 base divorce
suit The party secured admlttance
60 the Hooker home, ana when the
door 10 JoaHe'a room WAS opened and
Harrington discovered the couple
within, Ia compromising position.
he fired over the ahcrlffa shoulder
and wounded Hooker 20 that he died
tho following morning.
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CURIOUS THINGS ARE LOST
AND FOUND
UNDER THE CITY SIDEWALKS
Contractors Find Money Chalk and Marbles in Their Work
of Supplantng Wood With Concrete-How
Weary Willie Found Ten Dollars

In the performance OF their duties
throughout the city, overseeing the
tearing up and laying OF sidewalks,
the city sidewalk inspectors fire.
quently encounter curious things. II
Is well known that many articles
are lost each year through tbs cracks
i'm the sidewalks. When the walks
are torn up for repairs. many ord
mary articles are unearthed. but
there are many others whose pres
ence there would be difficult TO ex-
plain
OF course. with the workmen.
when they find anything. In the Ian
guRge o. the small boy. -Findins IL
keepinS" One contractor tells an
incident which happened In thu
southern part He said. "One morn
tng a disreputable looking yngrant
wandered about the works He
looked seedy-very seedy--and evt-
IDENTITY came to work because he
couldn't get anything to eat. Wen.
he went to work about II o'clock In
the morning and worked faithfully
for about % minutes. when he dug
up a $40 gold piece. After that any
six year old boy could have done
more work than he. and when the
men knocked off for noon, he dis
appeared. and I never saw him
again. The city was ahead one
hours pay. for he never claimed his
money"
Money IL often found under the
walks, but Il seldom goes higher
than Is or 30 cents. for more than
that amount men viii have part Of
the walk torn I'd 70 find II. Books,
marbles, letters. pockstbooks.
clothes and such are found under
nearly every sidewalk torn out. An
odd article picked Up by a builder
some time ago was 6 cane which he
states Is valued at sZ5. II was a
handsome stick with a solid gold
head. There was no means OF iden-
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usying Il. 80 he appropriated Il for
hts own use.
Finas MsSA rssaees
This same builder another time
found a large quantity Of cigarette
tobacco and papers under 4 North
Seattle sidewalk IL was a cache"
made BY some youthful smokers or
some thief who had robbed n tobac-
CO store. The tobacco was decom-
posed 80 badly that Il was OF no
use.
At other times evidences Of crime
are found. For instance. a contrac-
tor once found a grip beneath the
sidewalk containing a safe crackers
Jimmy. drills and other tools used Ia
breaking into strong boxes. Ham
ners. wrenehes saws and such are
otten found. evidently stolen and put
away for safe keeping. One OF the
sidewalk inspectors on one occasion
picked up a ladies' belt with n gold
buckle worth several dollars Old
shoes and hats, dead cats and dogs
are often encountered.
In the southern part OF the city,
more especially Ia the summer.
many evidences are found which go
TO show that part Of seattis's popu-
iation has lodging house. the roof
OF which IA the sidewalk. When the
dodgers are taken unexpectedly,
blankets are found by the workmen.
In some OF these houses remnants
OF opium and morphine "lay-outa"
are found, showing clearly the occu-
patton OF the tenants.
Builders and contractors. however,
have become 50 accustomed 60 find
ing articles beneath the sidewalk.
that they pay little attention 70 them
unless they are OF monetary value.
A collection of these finds would
make an interesting exhibit. but the
workman. intent upon his duty. casts
them TO one side.
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Is a yoke or collar OF lace that has
nchu which terminates IA long
stole ends that fall almost TO the hem
81 the skirt Some OF these are OF
lace and others OF some dainty soft
material with beautiful lace APP
pleQuc TO match the yoke. one ex-
Quisite model had rose petals em-
hroldercd into the lace and fringe
OF roses suspended by their long
stems from the stole ends, A dainty
maid who IL noted for her effective
gowns has any number OF pretty
chiffon saahes and scarfs that may
be fastened TO corsa go or belt OF her
dancing frocks. and the graceful
manner IA which they float To ana
fro as she moves about IL most fas-
cinatiuE. soft. floating ends are the
distinctive note. 80 don't fail 60 tack
on few.
opals Briag Coed
Lack
Time was when only the very prac-
teal. strong minded woman would
brave the time-h onOred superstition
In regard 10 the opal being a stone
OF ill-omen and bringing untold woes
upon It's wenrar. Today the opal "
one 81 the most popular stones and
with It's Increasing popularity has
come an entire change OF opinion as
90 ita influence. II has not only
ceased TO be looked upon as an omen
OF misfortune, but Is now supposed
20 carry luck aud happiness TO ita
owner It's fery nature has com
mended ~ especially 20 lovers ns an
emblem OF devotion and II Is fro
ouentiy used as an engagement ring,
The latest fancy n 20 have the opal
cut IN the form OF n heart and set
in ring. brooch or iocket Some
very beautiful pendants hung on a
fne gold neck chain. are OF large
opal hearts. set In rope gold. Small
precious stones frequently adorn the
setting. Entire chains are SET az In
tervaiS with opal mntrix. which ~
often more brilliant than the pure
0pal
Men. wemen ans
STREET Cars
Man plays gallant part In most
instances and viii firure as hero
with becoming modesty IN events