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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13
SURE CURE FOE PILES.

Itching Piles produce moisture and
cause itching. This form, as well as
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles,
are cured by DR., Bo-san-ko's Pile
Remedy. Stops itching and bleeding
Absorbs tumors. soc II jar at drug
gists. or sent by mail. Treatise free.
Write me about your case. DR.. b.
sanko. Philadelphia. Pa. For sale by
all druggists.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

You choose your companions. You
equip yourself to contend against
them. AS the old fellows say when
they get out the cribbage board.
"This is where friendship ceases"
You look for deceit in others and you
strive to deceive them and escape de-
lection. You take every advantage
the law allows you.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

No other remedy on earth is SO
Mountain Tea. Makes them eat, sleep
and grow. Bright eyes, rosy cheeks,
- Sss''' r as' or A1A&
sale by v v
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13
AMERICAN GIRL REIGNS
in LONDON
Duchess Of Marlborough viii Enter.
tain Lavishly in Her Fine
New House.

The young duchess of Marlborough,
who was Consuelo Vanderbilt, is pre-
pairing to entertain a good deal IN her
new London house in Curzon street.
1t is panelled throughout with beau
tiful carved oak. and the pillars which
support the ceilings in the reception
rooms are of the same material. Many
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13
COUGHS, COLDS AND coNsTIPA.
TION.

Few people realize when taking
cough medicines other than Foley's
Honey and Tar that they contain OPT
ates which are constipating besides
being unsafe. particularly for chill
dren. Foley's Honey and Tar con-
tains no opiates. is safe and sure and
will not constipate. Sold by Chas.
McNab, 400 Riverside avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13
SPOKANE. Wash. May 6. 1904
Medical Lake Salt Mfg. Co.
Spokane, Wash:

SfOhAN NaSn., May o, lSVf.
Medical Lake Salt Mfg Co.
Spokane, Wash:
Gentlemen--about year ago
was troubled with infiammatory
rheumatism In my feet and was COM
PEELED to SO about with a cane. and
suffered great deal during that time.
A gentleman told me OF Medical Lake
Salts. which he said were good for
that disease. l tried the Salts for
six days and found 1t to be success
full. | bathed my feet once every night
In hot water in which the salts had
been dissolved and then wrapped my
feet In wooden cloths. l did this for
six days and on the sixth day was
able to walk without cane. can
Recommend IL to anyone for that pur-
pose and appreciate the fact that 1t
helped me, Yours truly
JNO. ~ BLACKBURN.
Room 8. Ricardo.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

Every poker player knows abso-
lutely. unequivocally and beyond tne
power of evidence to convince him
to the contrary. that he is just a lit
tie bit the best player that ever held
openers
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13
REPORT FROM THE REFORM
SCHOOL,

J. G. Chuck. superintendent. Prunty-
town. w. Va, writes: after trying
all other advertised cough medicines
we have decided to use Foley's Honey
and Tar exclusively in the West Vir-
ginia Reform school. l find it the
most effective and absolutely harm
less Sold by Chas. McNab, 400
Riverside avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

You don't know man until you've
played poker with him. If he doesn't
play and you do, you probably won's
care to know him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13
Jacob Thysti was committed to the

Jacob Thysti was committed to the
asylum at Medical Lake today by
Judge KEENAN,. Drs. Morrison and
Hiett conducted the examination.
jackson & Walker, real estate deal
ers, today filed plat of a subdivision
of blocks rs and 16 In Minnehaha
park There are SO lots In the sub
division.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

a ST. Paul girl laughed so hard at
a funny story that she dislocated her
jaw. Who knows but that the story
may be told in u vaudeville theater
some day?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

Bright eyes are an infallible index
to youth, windows from which Cupid
shoots his arrows. HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea makes bright eyes.
$ res, cheeks: OH Ta"' ''s: #{0y&
Sold by " "
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13
If poker isn't life, what is it?

They're much alike anyway. In
life you stand to lose-if it's only
your life. You can't lose much more
than that in poker, in which there
is no chance
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

The learned judge may be right
about poker. Poker isn't game of
chance unless life is; 1t mas every
thing in it that life has.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

Greatest tonic and strength produce
ing remedy ever offered suffering hui
manity. Cures indigestion, constipa-
ton. headache. stomach disorders.
That's what Hollis .-Hk,<xrN.
ter's Rocky Noun sss>Ea3
tain Tea will do.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

Are you out OF work: Then you
can get a io-word Press want" ad
ono time free.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

Then there are love affairs. Who
hasn't his favorites, tickle though
they prove?
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OFFER NO. 3.

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PROF. LEOPOLD sCHADE, In
L.. UlN1iy. AVA Dta~0

6tructor IN VloAu ana Fiano music,
has established himself in Spokane.
Prof Schade is a graduate of the
Conservatory of Music at Souder-
hansen. Germany. Second floor Gran
lite block.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

That empty chair at q boarding
house table is more costly than u
Press want" ad.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

There's divorce. too. Sometimes It
becomes absolutely essential To split
pair. Usually there are three co..
respondents. Frequently there are
vain regrets and permanent aiimony.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

Speaking of vain regrets. there's
the kicker--the third party where
there should be but a pair, Does tho
kicker suggest a counterpart in the
domestic arrangement
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

There is marriage in the game, too.
It's in the draw.
Excepting only marriage the draw
Is lottery beyond compare. The
eager grasp, the furtive glance, the
blanks, the grand prizes, the half
expected rebuff of fate. the nalf-un-
expected success with it's Indifferent
ly concealed joy--Is the likeness rec
osnizable?
And talk about helping hands! OF
course there's marriage in the cards.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

You can look around the table and
see men of every type. There's the
miser, counting his' chips. The spec
ulator stays and draws four. The de-
faulter goes shy. The honest man
remembers his ante. The methodical
man keeps his eye on his. The sus-
picious man cherishes his hand in
his bosom. The irascible man slams
his upon the table. The calculating
man counts the pot. The cautious
man cuts the cards. The imbecile
asks you how many you drew. The
frugal man pinches. The prodigal
gives n blue chip to the bellboy.
AS for chance? Well, since the
women have taken to the game. ask
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13

the man who stands by and watches
his wife bet his money on four
flush. He'll tell you how much
chance there is.
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OFFER NO. 1.

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OFFER NO. 2.

Any boy or girl sending us one yearly
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in advance, gets the $500 Parker pen.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-21
Roland, The LAND OF THE POOR.

Russia and India, Ireland was left far behind and
the failure Of the potato crop sixty years ago crushed
the last element of hopefulness out OF the people
The peasants were ground down between the upper
milestone Of falling prices for their produce and the
neither milstone of rising or at least stationary,
rents for their lands, and each year passed the
Icondiuon of the population grew steadily worse.
The result was that the Irish were squeezed out
OF Ireland. Hundreds of thousands died during the
famine OF 1886, when the food, for want OF which
the people were starving was shipped out of the
island Those who could sought refuge in America
and during the last sixty years steady stream OF
emigration has poured of the country. At every
census the population has decreased In 1871 there
were almost eight and quarter millions of inhabi-
taRts in the land At the present time there are less
than four and half millions. Sixty years ago Ire
land had three times the population OF Scotland
Today its population is less than of the northern
peninsula. Sixty years ago there over half as
many Irishmen there were Englishmen and Welsh
one-seventh of that of England and Wales. There
are today in Ireland fewer people by almost a mil
lion than there hundred years ago at the time
of the Union.
The country naturally shows all the depressing
signs OF depletion absolutely unprecedented the
history of the worlds migTations. In these sixty
years over 1000 600 Irshmen have left their native
shores-a population almost as great as that which
now remains The Irish who emigFated are the pick
of the nation. II was the men and the women with
initiative, with courage, with hopefuiness who left
the Emorald Isle to seek new home in America
or to begin life anew under more favorable condi-
tons in England Scotland the British colonies
It was the young people who left and it is the old
people who remain. As consequence the birth rate
In Ireland is low. The people who are capable of
giving birth for the most part out of the country
so that for every hundred births among given num-
Der OF Englishmen Scotchmen there are only about
eighty births among the same number of Irish For
the same reason. viz, that Ireland IS overburdened
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-21

Dublin. Aug. TO-
n CROSSING the narrow seas that separate
& Great Britain from Ireland, one feels that one
is migrating to entirely different country.
Although England ami ireland are under the same
government although the same language is spoken
and the laws followed there could be no wider
difference than between these two lands. Like Eng
land Ireland is beautiful and one looks out of the
train window upon cultivated lands and smiling
valleys; but here the resemblance ends. While in
England one sees everywhere signs of comparative
prosperity; the basis of Irish life is poverty and
misery.
Everywhere one notes evidence of this obvious
poverty. In the cities, in the country districts
the people seem poor and the INDECENT population
is large Outside of Belfast sees but few indus
tries. and in the small towns through which one
passes the people seem poverystricken and in many
cases wretched. One notes the comparative absence
of large factories employing thousands of men, of
mines Of iron works and textile mills of large thrv-
ing cities and great industrial populations The peO
pie themselves seem lack initiative and spirit
They seem oppressed, and, despite certain
siOnaI gaiety a spirit of sadness which manifests
itself even in their songs.
Ireland has suffered, and is still suffering from
the evils of the past hundred and fifty years Dur
ing the eighteenth century the English government
adopted towards Ireland somewhat the policy
that it sought TO adopt towards the American colo
mics. The industrial development of the island
crushed out by the commercial policy of England.
the Industries of the country died under the in
fuence OF the competition of its stronger rival The
Irish driven out of industry forced into agri
culture; and here they lost ground especially
after the adoption of free trade which removed the
duties from foreign grain. In the competition with
the great grain-producing countries of America
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-21

in Scotland. almost half Of all the railroad en-
poyes earned 15s or less IN Ireland The poverty Of
the population also be shown by the yearly MI
gratons of agricultural workers from Ireland TO Eng
land and Scotland. Every year some $4,000 Irishmen
cross the sea 81 day during harvesting time
and then return to their homes, for the most part
in the County of Mayo The wages which fail to at
tract English and Scotch workmen thus draw thou
sands of Irshmen over the water, though the
savings that be effected By trip OF this sort
are not evry considerable
Much Improvement is looked for in the condition
Of Ireland from the land laws recently passed b. the
British government. These laws contemplate the
purchase of the land from the present under
conditions involving tho guarantee OF the govern
ment. and terms which made as favorable as
possible for the tenant There is some complaint
under these laws of the exorbitant prices de-
nanded by the landlords, but the general impression
appears be that the is the first step toward
remedying the grevous conditions under which Ire
land has suffered for century
Another hopeful sign in the situation OF ireland
at the present time is the energy with which the
working population has entered into the Trades
Union movement. The people are endeavoring to
cure by industrial means what they formerly sought
TO obtain exclusively by political action The optim-
istc hope that all would be well soon home rule
achieved has given place to realization
of the many other problems which beset the Irish
worker. The Irish trades unions are to a consider
able extent separately organized, and by means OF
their trades councils they have secured the adherence
Of the Irish political party to their plans for the inn
pTovement of the working classes. When the Brit
ish workingmeR have succeeded in eecting a large
number of members of parliament, they viii count.
in the past upon the adherence of the Irish party
in support of their measures.
JOHN MITCHELL
In collaboration with Walter E. WeyI
Copyright. 1904, by John Mitchell. All rights re-
served.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-21
BY JOHN MITCHELL.

with old men and old women the death rate is higher
in Ireland than in Scotland England The diff
ference between the births and deaths leaves but
small margin for any increase in the population
ne marriage rate is also low, there being only
i've marriages per thousand among the Irish popu-
ation while there seven marriages per thousand
IN Scotland. Even without emigration it would be
difficult for the country to keep up its present popu-
lation The bad conditions which formerly prevailed
however. still continue TO considerable extent and
the emigration and the constant drain on the popu-
lation still go on.
Perhaps much of the poverty OF the Irish is due to
the fact that unlike England, Wales and Scotland.
it has not industrial but an agricultural popula-
land and Wales is employed in agriculture whilst
in ireland the proportion is in three. Over
half of all the males in England. Wales and Scot
land are employed in Industrial enterprises but in
Ireland the proportion is less than one in five I'm
like England and Scotland, Ireland in the main is
country without great cities. There are of course
Dublin and Belfast with populations over zoe 600
each but with the exception of these two places and
CT Cork there is no city town in ireland with a
population as great 10000
There are many other signs of the poverty of the
Irish population even If that poverty we're not per-
fectly obvious In the United Kingdom there is an
income tax which falls ali incomes over $3.50 but
although there many individual rich men in Ire
land. the income from this source from the Emerald
Isle is only one-twentysecond part of that from the
whole kingdom. In Ireland the railroad traffic both
as regards freight and passengers very much less
than in England Scotland. The number of let
ters carried, the number Of kilograms sent the ton
mage of shipping the number and size of the facto
Ties the amount of coal used the quantity OF imports
and exports all very much less than they should
be in proportion to the population
The taxation. which in the United Kingdom fails
heavily upon the poorer classes of the population
bears with extreme weight on Ireland which has an
undue proportion Of poor people, and while doubtless
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-21

The conductors of the freight and passenger both
protested Nothing but destruction for the engine
result, they declared But Phil Lyon chewing hard
piece of tobacco, said cooIy: All right. Nat,
only you'd better let me buck the ice first
No; have the right of way. It's my duty. not
yours Phil Pull down quick and let me kick in.
There win be forty feet of water in this gulch in
twenty minutes if that gorge amt broken" said
Shandon.
Then there was a wild hurrying the clashing of
drawheads and the kissing of steam, rough shouting
and shrill crying, and means from the sick who
being carried away. The Grand was Tipping the rails
Of the main line its waters heaped with leaping and
groaning windows of ice, Shandon backed the
great $50 for the charge He sent her back clear to
the fallen bridge before he reversed her for the ter
Tible charge Ridley had gotten of at the station
BILE and clamor of echoes through the canyon. He
drew in his breath and held 1t instant. then
threw the throttle wide The huge engine eaped for
ward with roar from stack and exhausts- Beau
tful and mighty she swept down the perious stretch
her iron skull set for the mounting ridge of ice
What the people heard as he passed Of
thunder. What they glimmerng monster
flash by with a gray iron face at the window. Then
there a booming crash, a great gush of water
and ice blocks in the air, and the monster gone
Lyon opened his engine valves. and the express
rushed after her. blowing through water and crash
ing ice open ground What Lyon did not see some
the rear coaches sublime and terrific
spectacle the mountain sidethe smoking rush of
a thousand tons of into Midgley reservoir
With the impact half the water OF the inclosure
seemed to gush outward the dams crest like
gigantic silver banner. bending downward the
structure burst. And tiny Mdgley? Well no human
life was there.
They found shandons engine 200 feet beyond the
ice pack. lying her side. Stack, bell, sand tank
cab-eveTything gone. Battered and stripped she
lay. kissing wreck. They pulled ShandOh from
some wTeckage rearward from the engine. He was
hurt beyond mortal help. As he hung in Lyons arms
he spoke only once. Tell Halleluish, he murmuTed
'the little captain back in Round HiIl-yOu know
tell her tried to love and EN- all-bUt Loved
her-the-best.'
That all They laid MIN cushions in the
baggage and pulled onward around the curve. up
Tudor Guleh, over Angel Pass, and down into Peace
Valley
He was buried there -
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the amount of wealth in the country Increases the
poverty Of the people, compared with that Of the
English the Scotch, is constantly and continually
increasing.
When we speak Of the Irish as being an agrieul-
tural nation. must confound the situation
there with that in country. The Irishman who
ts the soil is not in the position an independent
farmer holding his hundred hundred and fifty
ing OF piece OF land small in extent and value. and
with rent in OF what the land should Iegiti-
mately bear. The farms such as they are are ex-
treney small; twO-thTds Of ali the holdings
less than thirty in extent, and almost out
of every three farms is less than in size
To certain extent cooperation has been introduced
among these farmers but as a rule the poverty the
individual and his ignorance Of the general e0ndi-
tons of farming render it difficult for him to
bine. The farms upon the whole ill-kept and
the conditions under which they are held are such
as 70 discourage any particular thrift uncommon
energy
The men engaged in industry and transportation
in Ireland considerably less than do their breh-
rem in England and Scotland. and upon the whole
the proportion of unskilied workers in Ireland is
much larger than in the other countries named.
while the pay for the same grade CT work is less
In general, it is tTue say that the Irish workman
earns average about half the amount earned
in the industrial countries of England and Scotland
The common laborer in England who viii 81. IS
per week in Northumberland Durham or $3.50 in
London. viii earn only 1925 in Belfast and $40 in
Dublin and about $3.50 in other places in Ireland
The general surface labOrer IN mines will earn from
1925 to 1915 in the north of England, and would
earn about $3.50 in TippeTary Antrim Sligo The
spinners in the wooden mills who Sc in Leeds
viii get but S4.75 in ireland. Ten years ago an in
road employees in England Scotland and Ireland
and it found that while only employe in 500
earned less than los, or $40 per week in England
and only one in eighty earned less than that amount
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-21
WIDOW WAS IN DOUBT.
Givernool Postl

Scientists say that the hair and nails grow after
death. Some theory of that sort os needed to ex-
Main the experiences of widow at a spirtualistic
seance
No" said the little widow emphateally. 81 viii
never attend another dark seance"
why not9" asked her friend Didn't you have
an acquaintance among the sPooks?"
4 am in doubt about the materializations"
Not distant enough?'
We'll. it was this way. The medium said nv
husband WIS there and wanted to speak to me. It
was too dark to see him plainly but thought rec
egnized the outlines of Jim, and I kissed him"
Was it Jm?"
That's what / would like to know"
The spook had a lovely mustaehes
..Oh"
lin never had one"
And the little widow looked thoughtful
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-21
A nEC0MPOSER

In a beer garden at of our popular seaside
resorts Irshman sat at a table with mug OF
beer at his elbow. Alongside of him stood large.
good-natured looking German. The orchestra began
the Coronation March from The Prophet" The
Teuton's face beaned all over with smile of pleas
ure and by way of making himself agreeable and
impaTtng information to his neghbOT, he remarked,
with OF his hand in the direction Of the
music:
"Ach dot MeyeTbeer
The Celt whose knowledge of composers was
limited. mistook the gesture and made hasty grab
for his beverage, eXciaiming at the same time
"Yez lie yez - Dutehman, that's my beer
Linnincott's.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-21
BEDTIME IN ST. PETERSBURG.

Il wish" remarked the car plaintively, after he
had locked their bOmb-pToof bedroom for the night
and set the anarchist alarm, that of those Jap
soldiers looked like me-"
Why" remarked the czarina. deity slipping out
of chain-mail petticoat and beginning to unseFew
the fastenings of her spring-steel corset
IF they did" remarked the car. after he had
thoughtfuIly laid aside cast-iron vest and tele-
phoaed to make certain that the guard about the
autumn palace had been doubled I'D arm regi-
ment of nhilists with bombs and turn EN- loose
there in Observation-Disclosures.