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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-10
The Nobility Of Forgiveness

| 81 came two thousand miles to shoot a man.
That was the startling declaration of stranger at
meeting OF the Salvation army at Omaha The man who
had murder in his heart was prepossessing gentleman
aged about 81 He impressed by street talk made
by the adutant and followed the Savatonists to their
meeting place. being of those to hold up his hand to
be prayed for' In talking with the captain he said:
I 1000 miles to shoot man. Do you think there is
hope for me? Can overcome that impulse?"
Being assured that "the grace Of God sufficient -
he went back to his hotel gathered up his luggage and
took the first train out of the city.
The members of the Salvation Army are sure that the
hand of murderer stayed by the direct intervene
ton of Providence.
Maybe. We do not deny it. But
Whatever caused the man to change his purnose-
whether it supernatural of psycologcahe change
was fortunate 1t fortunate not only for the in
tended victim and the community but for the woudbe
murderer himself
'Greaer is he that rueth his own spirit than he that
taketh city,
We do not know the measure of the mans agony We
do not know what gevous wrong he may have suffered
at the hands of his enemy may be that enemy had rob
bed him OF his fortune of his reputation of his home
matters not. He wise and brave to quench the
fires of revenge that burned in him.
Suppose he had glutted his vengeance in blood. How
would that hepf Suppose he escaped that laws demand
would he have gone back that 1000 miles the happier and
more at peace? To ask the question is to answer it.
No. no. The noblest attribute of man is forgiveness
He who put humiliation under the feet of his powerful
will and though with wounded spirit rise above it-mak-
ing OF his dead self stepping stone to higher hngshs
man is Godlike.
Anyone can draw pistol and shoot the man who has
wronged him. 1t is easy to kill. Anyone can aim at hui
man target and pull the trigger But not everyone can
sst the primal impulse to kill.
Sometimes the savagery that is in us overpowers A
monstorhe prmordia beast that sleeps in the basement
OF natures brutal and bloodthirsty He is
Sir Gallabad, who will fight down that beast.
Whether it was the act of God the mandates of
masterful magnanmty that led this stranger to forego
his deadly let of him: Of
noblemen, brother to all the knighy and kindred spirits
who have struggled and forgiven.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-10
FAMILY BIBLE
OF ROBERT BURNS

LONDON, Dec. 10.-At Sotheby's
rooms today the family Bible Of Rob-
ert Burns. published by John Reid. at
Edinburgh. in 1865. was put up for
sale at auction. 1t contains In the
poets own handwriting the following
entries respecting himself, Jean Ar
mour CHS wife), ana his children:
Robert Burns was born at Aloway
In the Parish Of Ayr-Janry. 26th.
1859. Jean Armour his Wife was
born at Mauchline, Febry. II. 1857.
Septr. Sd. 1856, were born to them
twins. Robert their eldest Sun at q
quarter past Noon. and Jean since
dead at fourteen months old. March
8. 1888. were born to them twins
again two daughters, who died within
a few days after their birth. August
18th, 1889, was born to them Francis.
Wallace, so named after Mrs. Dunlop
Of Dunlop; he was born at q quarter
before Seven forenoon. April 9th.
1871, between three and four In the
morning, was born to them William.
Nicol. so named after Willm. Nicol,
Of the High School Edinr. November
21st. 1892. at a quarter past Noon.
was born to them Elizabeth. Riddel.
so named after Mrs. Robt. Riddel Of
Glenriddel."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-10
CALIFORNIA THE wHTE1 RE-
SOFT.

To those who wish to escape the
discomforts of cold weather. Cali
fornia presents a great variety Of re-
sorts. The mild. dry climate Of San
Jose and Los Gatos, the soft sea
breezes of Pacific Grove and Catalina
island, and the varied attractions Of
numerous other resorts, all entice the
pleasure seeker with the assurance
Of perpetual summer.
The trip to California via the Shas-
ia Route Of the Southern Pacific COM
pany is one Of great interest and
pleasure. passing through the fertile
valleys Of western Oregon, near grand
old Mount Shasta, in northern Cali
fornia. and through the Sacramento
valley.
Round trip reduced rate tickets can
be purchased at Spokane to Los An,
geles. allowing stopovers in either d.
rection. enabling passengers to stop
at all the places of interest en- route.
For further information address w.
q. CONAN. general passenger agent.
Portland, Ore.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-10
Money Making Easy

At last is found the solution of the gravest problem
that has confronted The accumulation of wealth is
made easy 1t is simple process reduced to easy rules
that anybody can comprehend and apply.
The thought of centuries has suficed to abolish
poverty or to create wealth without labor That is until
w G Vanderbilt discovered the panacea which he did
but recently
He has written his discovery into book at first in
tended for private circulation But philanthropis like
he has decided to let the whole world know the truth
The keynote of his benevolence contained in the fol
lowing paragraph
II met SO many people who cropping in the dark
ABOUT financial matters My book tells how to make mil
hon dollars by investing thousand. I do nothing
better for my fellow than to tell him about it. That
is the real essence of true philanthropy"
Real essence of true philanthropy indeed!
Ii he is great benefactor who two blades of
wheat to grow where but grew BEFORE certainly he is
greater benefactor who causes thousand dollars to in
crease thOusandfold
Vanderbs theories have the basis if thorough exper-
lence He is no mere dreamer He has enormously in
creased by speculation the left him by
ms father he has doubeand redoubled the dollars and
Tedonbled again and againunt every thousand has be-
come Million representing stocks, houses lands cloth
ing, jewels and every product of human labor.
And it is possible for all of to do the same saws Van
derbilt. There need be poor among us-not one
His easy rules if followed will make all men monaires
1t is delicious dream
But pinch yourself and wake up.
Who would raise the potatoes, if all were million
arrest ~ =
Who would demean himself to cultivate the crops and
build the railroads and dig the canalsi
Who would create the wealth that Vanderbilt proposes
so easily to add unto each of us!
Houses and automobiles and clothing and Jewels do
not upon trees Money itself is but representative
of values that labor has created.
And who would labor, if all were millionaresf
Mr. Vanderbilt may teach few how to get more mil
lions out OF the aborng but he cannot teach us
how to get something out of nothing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-10

SHOT UNSIDE). SHOT NO. 8.
Strike your own ball on top and on
the right side, the red ball e-third,
and the shot will be made by three
cushions. bringing the red and the
two white balls together in the lower
left-hand corner.
In playing this shot and all shots
Of this kind, make the first object
ball strike the end cushion first. You
will then generally avoid the kiss"
as both balls are going in the same
direction. If, however, the first OBJ
ject ball should take the side cushion
first a 'kiss" will usually result, as
the balls will be going in opposite d.
rections.
The usual California dope is going
forth on the Britt-Nelson go In San
Francisco for next Thursday night
and the same tips on betting get
through the sporting columns. OF
course there's the usual hot air about
how close some of the wise ones must
figure to steer the outside betting
public straight and how wise these
wise ones must be to see through a
stone wall and get to the other side.
AS matter Of fact there's a clique
in Frisco which controls the betting
on sure things until a prize fight
there is getting to be much like a
percentage poker game in Spokane
with Sheriff Doust left out. That
clique has extended it's operations I'M
til Portland, Seattle and Tacoma are
also in the game Of waiting for the
phoney flashes from certain quarters,
knowing full well that the opposite
is the real thing.
There's another bit Of talk among
those Frisco sports CD used for the
benefit of the public which makes me
tired. That is the weighty champion
ship belts which hang upon the won
derful results. To listen to the wild
waves of Frisco dope one would
think every battle is a championship
battle.
To tell the truth. there is no cham
pion featherweight and there hasn't
been real champion in that class
since the day George Dixon went
down to defeat before Terry McGov-
ern. Strictly speaking. Young Cor
bett was never champion. He was
just the man who licked the man
who licked the champion.
The two real claimants to the title
of featherweight champion have been
Forbes and Attel. Neither McGovern
nor Corbett fought at the feather
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PRINCE FUSHIMl
IN new YORK

NEW YORK, Dec. 1o.--Mayor Nc
Clellan had Prince Fushimi as a
guest At dinner today. Others present
included prominent representatives of
the commercial and financial inter-
csts OF the metropolis. The prince
has arranged to leave next Tuesday
on his homeward Journey. En- route
70 San Francisco he will stop at
Chicago, Denver and possibly one or
two other points, his arrangements
In this regard not having been per-
fsctsd ~ yet
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-10
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
TO The STRIKERS

CHICAGO, Dec. 10.-A Christmas
present of cash will be given by the
International Association Of Machin-
lists to all members on strike in Chi
cage. Each man who Is working has
days pay to a fund for the purpose.
There are $50 machinists on strike
and $500 working. and it is expected
that $40 to SIS will be given each
recipient.
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Won I'D d Of Of Sport SIP o it

weight limit. Both were over.
Since that time the winners have
been constantly going out Of their
class. making more weight and more
weight, until. the spectacle is af-
forded Of 133-pounder claiming the
featherweight title Of champion. Not
one man who has fought for the title
since Dixon's day has right to it
not one of them could get inside the
limit. Every winner of a so-called
feather title has been in the light
weight division.
After McGovern won the champion
ship the limit was stretched from
1872 to 1875. Corbett raised 1t to 1913
pounds and now Britt, who claims
the championship, is refusing battle
at 40 pounds and figures just under
the lightweight limit of 133 pounds
One Of these days the bantam title
will jump the 11S mark and go sailing
to 1875 or 1913.
For some reason the tendency for
several years has been to stretch the
weight limit on almost every division
Lightweights, so-called. are fighting
in the weller division and welters are
going on at middleweights while the
middles are taking anything that
comes along in the leignt heavy
weight class. If there was a limit
tho oh ix,ict
might expect to see Jeffries fighting
300 or 400 FOUNDER within the next
year or two. h.
Possibly the one explanation of this
has been that as a rule among the
little fellows the battles In class have
been won while they were young
AS they grew older and heavier
matches of a championship order
were difficult to make. It would be
throwing away money to admit they
had outgrown or outweighted the
championship and they are forced
into giving more weight. McGovern
and Corbett were both laboring under
this difficulty. Neither man can af-
ford to make the actual feather
weight. To Britt it is an impossi-
bility.
What Is needed Is that much talked
of revision and classification of
weights and fighters. The claims to
championship titles should not be re-
garded when the claimants are above
the weight limits. To claim James
Edward Britt as featherweight cham
pion is to make the game ridiculous
and add support to the gamblers of
the Golden Gate. Had he won from
Cans instead Of embarrassing the
bettors and losing on a foul his claim
to the lightweight championship
would have been undisputed. Should
Nelson win from Britt 1t Is up to him
to fight Joe Cans and win the light
weight championship or go without a
title. At the present time there is no
featherweight champion.
Do YOU know that Tacoma was shut
out by Los Angeles yesterday? Well
1t SO happened. The score was 3
to 0.
That's a funny stunt down there in
the south. Mike Fisher is now claim
ing the championship and declares
those games for the benefit of the
players are merely exhibition games
and that he won the championship
fairly. Morley says the second d.
vision title depends on the result of
the games this week and that If he
wins from Tacoma in the series OF
10 games it will be necessary to play
another post season series of three
games to determine which team is
entitled to be called champions for
1905. WILLIE B. GOODE,
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SPOKANE. WASH. May 8, 1904
Medical Lake Salt Mfg. Co.,


Gentlemen-about q year ago
vas troubled with inflammatory
rheumatism in my feet and was COM
PEELED to go about with a cane. and
suffered a great deal during that time.
A gentleman told me of Medical Lake
Salts, which he said were good for
that disease. I tried the Salts for
six days and found it 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. ! did this for
six days and on the sixth day was
able to walk without a cane. l can
recommend 1t to anyone for that pur-
pose and appreciate the fact that 1t
helped me. Yours truly,
JNO. N. BLACKBURN.
Room ., Ricardo.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-10

A Mukden dispatch says the Japs
are using dogs to locate the Russian
outpost. The dogs Of war;" of
which we SO often read, no doubt.
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Rocky Mountain Tea NUGGETS

A Busy Medicine for Busy People.
Brings Golden Health and 1ouewed
vigor.
A specific for Constipation, Ind1ges.
ton, Liver and Kidney Troubles, PIN
pies, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad
Breath, Sluggish Bowels, Headache
iand Backache. It's Rocky Mountain
Tea in tablet form. 36 cents a box,
ipany. Madison. Wis.
Golden Nuggets for 6allow People,
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YV1x DHAxDDS.

Standard Fuel & Ice Co. D4e1
Front. Tel. sos. Carhonado, Rock
Springs and Summit coal Martin
Dolan, manager.
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Pawn broker ANA loen oMo0 80
Main avenue. p. Bickford.
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q. X. Gilluly. attorney-at-law. Rpeo-
corporation law. 316-317 Fernwsu.
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Highest price paid for second haud
furniture. Tel n. sos. l0S 0prasuA
So-o
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-10

Those 16 billiard and pool tables
at Pfister's are the finest. Adjoin-
ing Davenport's.
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(1ncorpoHatod.I
HiVSr0idO Avenue. 0rouud

sac 1ivsrsids Avenue, Ground Floor.
Get In on the ground floor and buy
a home with your rent money.
S176o-New five-room house. 11l7
Alice avenue; four rooms on first
floor. besides bathroom. pantry. ves-
thule and closet: one large room.
closet and hall on second floor; best
of plumbing; wired for lights and
nicely papered. 800 cash will givo
you immediate possession: balance.
SIS per month at per cent.
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John p. Judson. Office fourth floor
Hyde block, rooms 1904. $685.
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Bids for plastering small house
and building fiue. at E902 Superior
avenue. Emma Dart. ass
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ATx08N1X.AT.xAW.

r. T. schoff. s12 Fernwel building.
phone Main Ill. 2ee.o
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J. HOUSTON. Builder. SITS Post
5000 per room builds . modern
homo or fiat. nickel plumbing. nrst
quality materials. properly built
ready for tenant: sketches submitted;
bonds given.
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o1xH01xV1 Ao1R0nk

The Then Detective Service ca
We do . general detective business h
all parts Of United States ami Canada
SPOKANE once. AS Empire otAts
building. w. 9. Swain. manager. Day
phone Main l4S7. Night 'phsne. Main
1854. 1%t.'S
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Freight, furniture. baggage an1
parcel delivery. Tel so. 33e-o
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1UsuEns0 CHANCES.

Grade and rural teachers immedi.
ately. Fisk Agency. 31I Rooksry. 3s7-s
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you CAN HAVE

as pretty q little four-room house.
and as well built, for the sum of
$1,000, and that, too, upon your own
terms. as you ever saw. providing you
act promptly after reading this ad-
vertisement. The property Is sltu-
ated near one Of the best schools in
the city, just one block from the car
line. The owner tried to see how
good he could build tho house, and
1t to the real thing without its be-
inc n
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D11Mo AND 01sAxxxo wqnxa

Partisan Dysing q Cleaning Works.
Sos Howard street. Tel N. 21s1.
L. A. Lehman. prop. Best house II
northwest. No solicitors Dress
plaitings factory In connection. 3sS-e
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CLASSIFIED ADyERnsfxfNTs
nza9ovAx xor1Cn

DR.. Byrns win remove TO- yoomss
81 and 113 Temple Court CORNER
Hiverside and Washington. October ].
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For Sale-One Of the best mer-
chandise stores In Spokane county;
stock about $4,000. Address CT. Press
office. 24-6
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Furniture Of n 10-room house, on
easy terms. Phone 1876. 26-6
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Good Kimball piano for sale: fine
condition. Inquire E1128 Tenth ave.
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Pine, $3.45 per cord; fir and lamar
ack. 81; lumber at less than mill
prices. City Stables, Bernard and
Front. M. 1903. 1925
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1904-12-24
What Shall We
Pay For Food?

Bv G. T. Herrick.

going counter to certain famous household
ms consideration, to down 81 a
week apiece average which family be
really we'll with this they will not be given mush.
sweebreads quab chickens and spring duckngs
in They live as the
majority housekeepers Of moderate means in cities
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1904-12-24

as rapid as life in this isthmus. the
decay fills the air with poisonous ex-
halations. This rank vegetation and
insect life eternally growing and de-
cayins for thousands of years has
superimpoSed upon the primitive
earth layer upon layer OF dank mould,
where myriads of deadly germs
swarm, where nOxious gases are
germinated and within which death
in its most hdeous aspects fingers.
How Balboa, the discoyerer OF the
Pacific. ever cut his way through this
matted forest and carried his ships
in section over the Isthmus is to this
day an almost incredible mystery
w. r. H., ia Toronto Mail and EX-
press. -
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A Freak Locomotive.

A special to the Times from Chey
enne, Wyo., tells of one Of the most
extraordinary accidents ever repGrt
ed on the Unicn Pacific. The engine
attached to the Overland Limits.:
jumped the track and ran along on
the ties for almost mile, owing to
thu momentum of the train, which
was going down grade at a terrific
rate. At the foot of the hill the Ell
CINE leaped back on to the track
without damage to the locomotive or
the train. The train is the fastest
of the Union Pacific, and was loaded
with human fraight.-Pueblo Chief
tain. -,
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Grave of PocahontaS,

In commemoration of the Indian
Princess Pocahontas, who died at
Gravesend, England, when about to
sail home to Virginia with her fus-
hand in 1916, st. Georges Church, in
Mapping, is to have O pulpit made
from wood brought ircT Virginia.
Pccahontas ia buried In the chanaal
I st, George
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1904-12-24

The !,
Emperor.
imperial family
descendants!
family and relations
Their ~
Tho land 1s1dSo bv
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@ @ @
The Real yellow Peril"
the Cossaclzs in Mind When He
Against Russia.
MacCreQOr.

Asst winter when among Of Russians who no
hoping Of their country inquired the
grounds underestimate of the japanese
scarcely got for reply than the citation OF Russa
ne hundred millions population her possession
of EARTH and the Cossacks
with the assertion One Cossack