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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-01-07

ADlrS or I'M MACCABhks-
l. North star nlVe, No. 10, L. y. T. NJ, meets
every alternate Wednesday evening al O'Clock.
Visiting Ladies' always cordially invited. Mgs.
lila = LuDINeruN, Lady Commander. Mas.
EMMA TAYLOR, Record Keeper.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-01-07

l. NCAMPMENT 1. O.O.F.
L. kOOtenai camp No. %, ]. o. O. J., meets
lst and 3rd MOnuHya OF the month at O'Clock.
Visiting patIiHTvns cordially invileo. IL. l..
Medbury, q, =, ". >, Gurus, scribe.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-01-07

Deputy Sheriff J. w. Hart and
Mrs. Edwin Doust, wife OF sheriff
Doust, came in from Paradise Val
ley today on their way to the coun-
~ seat.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-01-07
DIR E TO RE 5
Churches.

DREsBYTERIAN-
Regular preaching services every alternate
sunday morning at 10 80, and same evening at
1880. sunday school At II. 80 Il. IN.
REV. o. 5. WILSON, Pastor
CATHOLIC
~ Reg lar services on the 4th Sunday ofeach
month. Sunday school every Sunday at II 30
KEv. FATHER KELLY. Pastor
kHETHODIST EPISCOPAL
lVl Paradise yalley-Every alternate SUNDAY
at 80 p. ~. sunday ;choO. Every Sunday at
IL 100 Il. IN. North Side-k,ery alternate sun
day at 100 p IN. Sunday School every sunday
at lUOJ Il. m. REV. L. y. IS. Anderson,
Pastor
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-01-07

V NIGHTS OF1HE MACCABkks-
N kOUp'nHi Tent, No. ~, Il. o. 7. NJ, meetl
tYcryutetnie euacsdny evening NJ SO clOck.
Visiting SIR knights always invited. Is. "
lUDIS6loN. Commander. b, II. MALkkR, X. X.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-01-07

c. p. SHEFI IELD, Agent
Kootera. Valley Railway trains leave Great
Northern Depot at s a, IN. On Tuesdays, Thurs
DAYS and Saturdays, returning Ia time to con-
fiect with 40. 3 aud No. 4.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-01-07
Railroads and Malls.

DAlLWAN TtMECAkD-
n Great Northern hallway trains arrive and
dc part ab follows
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
PennsyIvania.s Bank scandal.


lFIOIl the CnlcagO News.
No one need be surprised if the dis
closures incident to the failure at the
Enterprise National bank of Allegheny
City, Pa, become almost as much of
a national scandal as those lately made
regarding the life insurance business.
The bank in question had on deposit
large amount of state funds, aggre-
eating $500, 600. It now develops that
nearly 100000 of this sum had been
loaned out on more or less trustworthy
security to state politicians. Men high
IN the state Republican organization,
bosses who controlled the old Quay pO-
hucal machine, We're among the prin-
cipal borrowers.
The procedure followed in the case of
the Allegheny City bank has not been
uncommon in Pennsylvania. Thanks to
the influence Of the state bosses, certain
favored banks are made the reDOsitOr-
les OF state funds with the tacit under
standing that the bank officials viii be
Obliging in the way of granting loans
to the politicians and their friends.
How cOmplaisant some of the bankers
have been in this respect may be gath
cred from the fact that large loans
made by the Allegheny City institution
were secured by personal notes or by
collateral Of no known value There
appears to be an abundance of corrobo-
rative evidence as to the nature of the
pleasing arrangement which the bank
erS and the politicians had cOntriVed
for the mutually profitable handling. OF
public funds. It even appears that the
cashier of the bank gave campaign
contributions to the political machine.
One of the largest borrowers, a polite
ian, was formerly the late Senator
Quay's right hand man. The report that
he is interested IN New Mexico projects
and hopes to be a United States sena-
tor from New Mexico when it is adj
mitted to the union throws a curious
light on Quay's frantic efforts to pass
the statehood bill and on the far-reach-
ing ramificatiOns of the politico-fnan-
cial system dominated by Quay
This latest revelation of the work
ings of the state political machine
should stimulate materially the popu-
lar demand for reform in Pennsylvania.
In promoting schemes designed to en-
able politicians TO make free use OF
public funds for personal profit or for
private speculative enterprises, the bos-
ses simply displayed the same corrupi
greed that has made the Republican
administration of the state and of the
city of Philadelphia notorious. In
Philadelphia the long suffering public
1 has at last rebeIled. If the present
scandal causes a popular revolt against
the state bosses leading to their over
throw, the resulting benefits should far
outweigh the losses due to the ruin OF
/ the Allegheny City bank.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

One of the weightiest responsibilities
mt 1lpon a governor is the power to
nardon. The governor should interfere
with the decision of the courts and the
course of justice only in such rare in
stances where it is evident that an in
justice has been done. But when an IN
nocent person has been convicted of a
crime through perjured testimony or
misapprehension of the facts, or when
a criminal has been unduly punished
for some reason, it is not only the
right, but the duty, of the chief execu-
tive to step in with his pardoning pow
ef.
It is. of course, extremely difficult for
governor, not being omniscient, to de
ternline when the pardoning power
should be used. It frequently happens
that pitiable appeals for clemency are
made by close relatives of a criminal
who is getting no more than his de-
serts. Often a convict's wife and chill
dren are made to suffer for his crimes.
and it requires considerable strength Of
viii on the part of a sympathetic ma
ture to keep from heading appeals for
help from such as these.
Perhaps one OF the hardest cases to
determine that has ever come before
Kansas governors is that of Mrs. New,
who is now in the penitentiary for the
murder Of her husband in Greenwood
county a few years ago. Mrs. New was
| convicted on purely circumstantial evil
dence, and not very strong at that. It
was asserted that she was infatuated
with her husbands hired man. The
/ community was Mortified at the crime
and the sentiment was strong against
I Mrs. New and the hired man, who has
since died in prison. She was so stunned
by the death Of her husband and her
own arrest that her defense was not
very strong, and the result was that
she was sentenced to death. Governor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Leedy afterwards committed her sen
tence to 40 years imprisonment.
II Mrs. New is innocent she is the
victim OF a terrible wrong. To make a
weak, ignorant woman suffer the hor-
rors Of being accused of the murder Of
her husband, and to have a death sen
tenee hang over her for years, followed
by another period of being buried alive
in a penitentiary is about as terrible an
injustice as one could imagine, and Il
win be Impossible for the state to make
PREPARATION for the injury. On the other
hand, if Mrs. New is guilty she should
by no means be pardoned, for such
crimes as the enc OF which she was ac-
cused are becoming altogether too COM
mon.
There are indications that Mrs. New
is innocent. # Governor Hoch is thor
oughly convinced that this is the fact, he
should by all means pardon her, but if
not he should not disturb the sentence
of the court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
RTssIA.s- REVOLUTION.

Trouble has once more broken out in
Russia. In spite of the cars procla-
nation in which he stated his determi-
nation to give his subjects form OF
representative government, a revolution
of great proportions has been inaugura-
ted and this time it looks like the real
thing. Riots and threatened revolutions
have become SO common in Russia
however. that the world viii look with
doubt upon pretended revolution IN
less it bears the proper credentials.
The credentials presented by the
present outbreak is the fact that it is
widespread. It is perhaps no more fierce
than was the uprising in the vicinity
OF St. Petersburg last winter, but the
revolutionists seem to be fairly vel or
ganized now in all the important centefs
of Russia. and industry is paralyzed.
The great difficulty with Russian rev
buttons heretofore has been the, lack OF
leadership and organization. Therefore
when St. Petersburg struck, Warsaw
and Io6z and Odessa were not ready,
and by the time each Of them was ripe
for the uprising the trouble in St Pc
tersburg had been queIled. If the pres
ent uprising is as well organized as it
seems from the dispatches, it may make
the car far more trouble than any
thing that has thus far taken place in
his domains. IT at least shows to the
world that Russia is still unhappy and
its people are far from satisfied with
the governments promises.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Alexander Agassiz was introduced at
the Harvard commencement dinner as
a modest friend OF the university who
had from time to time spent money and
made gifts {for the benefit of the,
museum founded by his father which
now amounted to at least 100000. He
has honestly made great fortune for
himself and his family. But his fame
will never eclipse that of his father.
who, it may be. never had in all his
busy and useful life $1,000 which he
could call his own. to do with whatever
he pleased. But the millions drawn
from the Lake Superior copper mines
by his son have been used to complete
his work. to enhance his reputation,
and in many ways to increase knowl-
edge and TO serve the interests of the
people. It is impossible to compare the
merits OF the two men-of the poor
philosopher who had no time to make
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
1,hinks FIis DOC Reasons.


All old hunters who have had ex-
perience with dogs contend that they
have reasoning powers and that some
have more sense than the ordinary run
of men. Joseph Paquet, who owns a
ranch down the river, where he has
hunting preserve, tells a remarkable
story of his hunting dog, which goes
to prove his theory that at least his
dog can reason. This dog has often
been to the ranch, and has gone there
on the steamer which leaves Port
land at 2:30 D. m. Last Wednesday
afternoon Mr.. Paquet and the family
missed the dog as he was not around
the house. An advertisement was in
serted in the Oregonian, as it was
feared that the animal had been stol-
en-. It so happened, however, that the
dog was neither stolen nor had he
strayed away. but knew where he was.
Wednesday, the dog got tired of hang
ing about the house, where there was
nothing exciting going on, so prompt
ly a ? p m. he left the house for the
dock from which the river steamer
left at 2:3O, where he arrived in time
to get aboard. At the landing at the
ranch the dog got out on the bow
ready to land. A man standing on the
ranch came to the landing, and seeing
the dog, called to him, when he
jumped ashore. Mr.. Paquet was noti-
fed that his dog was at the ranch.
The dog timed the departure of the
boat from the dock to a minute
Portland OregOnian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
TINS GREAT AGE OF OURS.

As the West Virginia, the ship on
which President Roosevelt is return
ing north from New Orleans was
sailing through the Gulf of Mexico
early Saturday morning it communi-
Gated with another distant vessel by
wireless telegraphy. The message was
accidentally caught by the wireless
station at Washington, eleven hundred
miles away, and for several hours
messages We're flashed back and forth
over land and sea ana across noun
tain ranges between the capital and
the ship away down in the Gulf of
Mexico, a distance of eleven hundred
miles.
Five or six years ago this would
have been pronounced absolutely inn
possible, and the man who even sug-
gested such a thing would have been
regarded as Il lunatic. Today it causes
some comment, but it IS accepted as a
reality without question. and tomor-
row it viii be looked upon as a matter
of course.
The possibilities of inventive science
in these latter days seem absolutely
unlimited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
This Is the worst.

From the Washin gtOn Post.
The Boston Advertiser of the goth
instant prints. in an editorial, san
astonishing allegation which is said
to have been made by member of
the Southbridge board of health, to
the effect that parents are allowing
their children to die of diphtheria, and
are even allowing the disease to
spread, in the hope of more such
deaths, in order to collect the child
insurance money" OF all the start
ling revelations of corrupt practices in
connection with life insurance that
have, in the last few months incensed
the general public and destroyed high
regulations that horrifying assertion is
the most astounding, because, in adj
dition to gross defects in insurance
laws, such as are shown in New
York, this Bay state horror has in
finite pathos. 1t has been the general
understanding that the insurance laws
of that state we're admirable in all re-
spects, but If that report from South
bridge be true, the claim of superior
excellence must be disallowed- For
child life insurance is not compatible
with safety to policy holders, and is a
promoter Of child murder or such
neglect of children as produces pre-
mature death. There is perhaps room
for a hope that this fearful report is
unfounded, and, in that hope, further
comment may well be deferred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


IFrom the Chicago News
Remember that kind words never
leave scars.
Brains and impudence is a combina-
ton hard to defeat.
Beware of the f1atterer; he always
has an object in view.
Some women love wisely, but most
men are not. loved any too well.
Fortunately the child doesn't rea-
lie that he is the father to the man.
Scissors are mightier than the
sword in the hands of a literary pirate.
An artful dodger is often entitled
to more credit than the strenuous
hitter.
The man who writes a treatise on in
somnia may call himself a wide-awake
author.
It takes a mighty rich man to make
a fool of himself without exciting any
comment
A profane man takes to the tall
timber when the patient man begins
to say things
Any woman who is the architect Of
her own fortune sees that it is well
supplied with closets.
Silence is golden-which may ac-
count for the lean and hungry appear
ance of the average married mans
purse.
Nearly every woman would ike her
husband to be a poet were it not for
the fact that she would then be a
poets wife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

One of the best things that has re-
Gently appeared in the public prints
is the brief funeral Grafton given by
Victor Murdoch at t&e grave Of Jerry
Simpson. If you have not read it,
hunt UP the State Journal of last
Thursday and read it carefully.
In il is voiced the cry Of the soul for
immortalityzth heart-hunger after
the infinite IF we hope, refuse as
not the privilege: if we reach out a
little in the dark, refuse us not if
the stars and the wind and the sun
shine and the rose whisper to US the
evidence Of infinity and the promise Of
eternity let the material world refuse
as not. Fer standing cut against the
bald, black wall this afternoon let as
cry out again. for our friend We can
net call, our friend we cannot longer
see. let us cry out the only challenge
that ever met the thrown glove Of
death-the laundering answer Of a
mighty faith The soul is immortal
for as God the givcr is infinite, so IS
the spirit he gives eternal.G
Have you ever followed the soml3er
hearse as it carried the mortal form
Of some loved one out to the cemetery
on the him Have you felt that that
was the end of it all? Have you
found it possible TO believe that when
your own eyes shall close for the last
time on this world and those you love,
your brief existence has ceased for
exer2 Have you ever seriously
thought of this mystery OF life, and
death and the grave, and immortality,
and the Hereafter
Here halt the quick, and here the
dead progress" said Victor Murdoch,
as he stood by the open grave of the
dead statesman. He has gone out
alone far in the deep darkness, where
for each one of us a grave is hidden.
Eve nor voice nor hand may follow
him The black barrier is dropped
between the quick and the dead.
Facing the IRON and cruel gate stand
the quick, some stark in fear, some
benunlbed with grief, some wrapped
in wonder. but all alike halted. ar
rested fnexora bly,. Before the mighty
mandate we pause and then in all hu-
mility cry out as children of sorrow
our little word of comfort to his loved
ones. our little word of tribute to a
friend
Job reasoned out this mystery of
death and the grave for himself. II
know that my redeemer Iiveth," he
said. land that he shall stand at the
latter day upon the earth: And
though after my skin worms destroy
this body. vet in my flesh shall | see
God: Whom [ shall see for myself
and mine eyes shall behold, and not
another"
This IS the faith which has sus-
tanned humanity through the ages
tho faith that has brought the erring
back to the path of Righteousness, and
that has given hope to the despairing
and cheered the weak in their strug-
gle against injustice and oppression
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atohison Globe.I

AHfOfn the AJcn1SOn GLOBE
We all talk too much; we all say
'his'n," when his would do better.
We are no prophet; we can never
tell anything about weather until it
arrives.
A wedding will come off shortly in
Atchison and everyone is saying:
Poor man
If a pretty man does not make an
impression at least every hour, his
heart is broken.
Peoples noses get blue in Novem-
Der, and don't begin to whiten until
the following June.
How would you like to be a letter.
and be able to buy ticket to New
York for two cents?
About the first thing a woman does
when she decides to keep boarders is
to invest in a cheaper line of table
linen.
When a farmer hasn't anything to
kick about, town people have no way
Of finding out how things are in the
country.
Every mans kin abuse him. but if
President McGurIiy's do. it is with
out reason, and they ought to be
ashamed.
Such a popular girl is visiting in
Atchison that the nefghbors of her
hostess haven't been able to go to
sleep before midnight for week.
in the 'one-two three plays the men
are always compelling the girls in the
play to marry them, but in the high
class plays and in real life the girls
chase some.
An Atchison man said: 81 have
lFlately been working day and night"
He vas looked up, and the discovery
made that he had been working about
seven hours day.
1t is said that an Atchison mother
is willing to let her daughter kiss the
Z If oh of fs in "a
room. Perhaps this is the reason none
of the boys want to.
An Atchison girl who attended an
eastern college says the only thing she
learned While at college was to make
fudge, and that she has a mind to
open up shop and sell it.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton often
speaks feelingly of her firm belief in
meeting her first husband in heaven
but her friends that know say things
VIII have to change nightly if they
enjoy the meeting.
The conversations in the 'Smar
Set stories are supposed to be very
! brilliant, SO witty in fact that they
/ keep their readers in roars of laugh
/ ter Here is a sample of one from {
/ story in the current number:
/ brilliant and witty old gentleman say
to a bright young woman. st an
going to France. Thank heaven no
Germany: a nation of pigs" 20. Mr.
/ Cashier" replied the bright" youn,
woman, IT thought you considered TIL
1 English pigs" mo" replied the ok
gentleman, wittily, 'They are hogs"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
QUAKER REFLECTIONS
From he Philadelp1la Reeord.l

TFrorn the Philadelphia Record.1
Defeat always has sting in its tail.
It doesn't take a taxidermist to stuff
a baIlot-box.
It's easy to punch mans jaw over
the phone.
The telephone operator speaks in ring
ing tones.
Somehow or other the woman who
knows exactly how a husband ought TO
be managed never has a chance to DEM
onstrate her theories.
No. Maude. dear all composers are
not drinking men, in spite of the fact
that music is written in bars.
Rollingstone Nomoss-"What would
you do il you was rich2" latter don
Torn-"Id take de rest cure"
The fellow who is fond of hearing
himself talk doesn't know the difference
between a conversation and a mono
logue.
Tommy-s.Pop. what is grafter?v
Tomny's Pop-"A CRATER. my son. is q
man who lives on Easy street without
paying rent"
Overheard at the wedding reception:
Melt wonder what she saw in him
Bell-'S1e probably saw that some
other girl wanted him."
Wigg-''Yes. rsotrox is a self-u7ads
man. He boasts that he wasn't bora
with a silver spoon in his mouth -
Wagg-t'W Wen. that's no reason why he
should eat with his knife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
An Original Pnnisher.

Of Capt. Harry Graham, who is to
marry Miss Ethel Barrymore, Phila-
delphian said:
Il knew Graham well in London. He
often entertained me in his beautiful
apartment overlooking the Thames.
Sometimes he read me his poetry,
which was execrable; sometimes he
sang comic songs in pleasant tenor
voice, and that was better.
During one of my visits some
guardmen called. and over the spirit
case and the soda water they told
stories of Graham's military life with
the Coldstreams.
HE was always an ingenious man
at a punishment said a tall youth
Some of his punishments are still re-
mem bered, they were so original and
odd.
There was a private one day who
had misbehaved, and Graham ordered
him to be put on bread and water fo1
three days.
But the sergeant, saluting. said
that such a punishment would make
no difference to the culprit, because
he was a vegetarian.
oh, vegetarian. is hep said Ora
ham. Then put him for three days
on meat and soup. Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Walter Scott, the spender from Death
Valley. is an oDtimist-
Gould anyone help being an optimist
in such surroundings" he said.
He sat under a palm on q roof garden
The moon f0ated overhead in a pale
sky. A cool and costly drink was ready
at his hand. A pleasant breeze from an
electric fan ruff7ed his hair.
when this money is spent he said,
''I'H scoot back to Death Valley and
pick up more. It lies loose out there. A
nugget IN Death Valley is as easy to
find as a CRATER in New York.
so I am an optinist. But I always
was an optirnist Once I was a kid,
had whooping cough. but kept optim-
istic. I had it bad, but I played around.
as bright as a dollar. and when the
doctor said, You poor little fellow. I'M
sorry for you.' I just grinned and an
swered back in CHEEKY way:
oh I don't mind whooping cough.
I play Indians. It lets me give splendid
whoops.' Los Angeles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
Wnnted Motion OverruIed.

Justice Geigerich of the New York
supreme court is fond of sailing. and a
few days ago he invited friend of his,
a lawyer, to go down the bay with him.
At the start the wind was quite brisk.
but soon freshened into gale and made
the little craft toss and roll in a man
ner that soon caused the lawyers fea-
lures to twist into expressive contor-
tons Justice Geigerich, noticing his
friends plight. laid a soothing hand on
the others shoulder and said: MY
dear fellow. can do anything for you?''
yes. your honor" replied the lawyer
in plaintive tones. you will greatly
oblige me by overruling this motion. -
PHILADELPHIA Press.