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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-09

selected the partner Of his joys and
SORROWS with the same discriminating
care which he would use in scrutiniz-
ing a promising investment which
might, nevertheless, prove disastrous
If 1t was not all 1t was represented
to be.
In MAZDA Livingston, Stuart found
all the qualities which he deemed de-
sirable in the woman who should be-
come his wife, and MAZDA, after a brief
but by no means ardent courtship, he
married.
Just why she married him she could
not have told herself. Certainly It was
not altogether a marriage of conven-
lence on either side. Just as certainly
there was little romance In the feel
lngs of either.
Miss Livingstone was a beauty of
several seasons experience, and the
worldly advantages which a marriage
with Clayton Stuart would offer could
not help but have their weight with
woman of her experience, education
and environment.
Then Stuart, with his air OF COM
mand, his keen intellect and his recog-
nized moral and physical courage. was
man to arrest and claim some meas
1re OF attention from any woman.
She possessed a fortune in her own
right, and perhaps the consideration
that Stuart, alone of all her many
suitors, was wealthy enough to avoid
all suspicion Of being a fortune hunt
er. had more than Its due weight.
On his part, the considerations were
that Miss Livingstone was the sort of
woman whom he most admired and
pre-eminently the woman to best adorn
the head OF his table and maintain
the social position of his family. Some
what cold and reserved In her man
ner. he deemed this an addition to
her many other good qualities.
But neither seemed to find perfect
happiness In married life. and from the
first they began TO drift away from
each other and TO cultivate a diamet-
rically opposed set Of interests.
With constant and unfailing success
in all his business operations, Stuart
did not relax his devotion to their pro-
motion. but rather became every day
more and more absorbed In them.
His wealth inct eased by leaps and
bounds, and a statement made by him
on the witness stand, viz, that he
could not tell from day TO day with
in 100000 OF what he was actually
worth. was perfectly true.
Mrs. Stuart devoted herself more
and more to a purely social life, and
found in this some qualification of the
same love OF excitement which actu-
ated her husband In his stupendous op-
sratiOns on Wall street.
Both were envied by the world In
general. yet neither felt that they had
achieved such happiness as TO ne ii
objects for the direction OF envy
With the birth OF their child, they
seemed drawn closer together foz @
time, but this did not last. The child
grew and thrived, but the mother, alb
sorbed in her social duties. and tbs
father in his business. saw little Of u
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-09
, MBITION cold" said Il

81 MBITION cold" said those who
N\ knew Clayton Stuart best, and
go then these critics were wont to
shake their respective heads in proph-
ecy of evil to come. Yet his good
qualities were undeniably and truly
admirable.
Inheriting a moderate fortune from
his father, young Stuart had set to
work to expand this moderate inherit
ance TO a point where it could be com
pared with the great fortunes of the
day.
Upon his entry into the Wall street
world there had not been wanting
those who deemed him an easy
prey to their wiles, lamb whose
golden fleece might be sheared with
perfect impunity and great profit. But
those who came to shear went away
shorn, and the wind was not tenn
pered to their condition.
At 25 he had entered the speculative
arena. At 80 his name was mentioned
with the leaders of the street-men-
ton, mentioned sometimes with no
less open and heartfelt execration, but
mentioned always with the respectful
awe that great success in any line In
varlably commands.
Then he married. To marriage, like
any other of the important things Of
life, he gave due consideration, and
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-09
WOMAN SELLING FARMS
Chicago Teacher Earns 81, 800 In Com.
missions During Vacations.

Chicago Teacher Earns 81 800 In Com.
missions During Vacations.
Woman's ability 10 sell farms and In
duce city people to move to them, nc
matter how far away they are, "A
proved by the experience of a Chicago
woman school teacher according to the
story an Illinois land agent tells. He
says one of the women teachers in
Chicago schools made $1,000 In com.
missions during her vacation last year,
selling farm lands In far northern
country. This woman is not only a
good talker, dresses and looks well,
Nut she seemed to know just what fam
lilies or heads Of families to select. In
each case they were the best adapted,
according to her view of the matter, to
farming, and as a result some of them
are on their farms and have crops
growing She did not sell to women
particularly, but 10 men who are good
judges of land
She had one advantage In talking up
the country In which she was selling
hand. She had herself invested In a
quarter section. She knew what Is
raised there, what class OF people 90
TO that locality, and something about
the weather OF the region, acquiring 8
familiarity with 50 many features she
was able to answer almost any ques-
ton asked OF her. Not long ago. among
a party that left Chicago on an evening
st. Paul train. at least half were Chi.
| -, h,I Ind p,
go north and look at the country in
which she herself had invested heI
earnings.
1t is told by those who are in a posi-
ton to know that women make good
homesteaders and stick to a claim un'
til 1t Is proved up and a number OF
improvements made. A Sycamore Qlll
girl proved up a claim in North Da
kota. taught school at the same time
and finally won a banker for a hus
band. all in the same deal.
About two years ago, when the
Southwestern railroads were develop
ing and reaching out to a new sector
OF Oklahoma. two young women Of
Manitowoc. Wis. got the homestead
fever and started of for that now
promising land. They were in at thu
rush and each got a claim. These girls
are now at their homes in ManitowO'
on a visit. They stayed down in thu
Territory until they had perfected thei
claims and made a number OF improve
ments. The land, in the face Of SURF
statehood to the Territory. has ALREADY
become valuable.
The names OF this plucky pair ar
Mary Trestik and Matilda Meyer
Both are under %. and neither haC
been away from home until they start
ed OF TO a new country, where the.
now have together 800 acres OF tn
finest farming land OF the Middl
West-Chicago Tribune.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-09

SPORT SPICED With DANGER.

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During Commander Peary's journey
into arctic seas with the Kite, a boat
expedition in search of walrus was or
ganized with an Eskimo as guide. In
the book entitled From Franklin to
Nansen," a description of this hunt is
givens
They had not proceeded very many
miles up Inglefeld Gulf before light
breeze when they saw, on a floating
piece Of ice, a dozen or 50 OF the ami
mails huddled together, apparently
asleep. Sailing gently toward them,
every one with rifle ready, a sudden
pun Of wind sent the boat ahead
quicker and farther than was intended,
and II struck the Ice. The walrus, new
er having seen sailing boat before,
looked round at It without paying any
more attention than II It had been an
other piece Of ice. But the sight of 50
many valuable creatures within reach
of his harpoon was too much for the
little Eskimo, and he buried the wea-
pom In the nearest.
At once the attitude OF the walrus
changed. The wounded member of
the herd tried TO escape believing in
Its pain, and the rest slid of the ice
into the water and surrounded the
boat. Others from nelghborlng Ice
patches charged rapidly on to the
scene. and the situation of the boat and
Its occupants was dangerous In the ex-
IRENE. The poor Eskimo crouched
down In the boat, evidently expecting
to be annihilated by the furious ami
mails that surged round. AS they came
up to the boat. they tried to get their
great, powerful tusks over the gun
wales, and had one succeeded in doing
this. there would have been slight
hopes of any one escaping. Had the
boat been capslzed, no one could pos
slbly have survived, and to keep the
angry crowd off was no easy matter
The white men fred at them, and di-
rectly one group disappeared another
fastened forward to greet the volley OF
bullets There was always the danger
of one OF the huge creatures rising un-
der the boat and capslzing It, but the
occupants had no time to think of this
The boat was meanwhile gradually
approaching the shore, and as the
water became more shallow the walrus
exhibited less desire to come to close
quarters. until. at last. the adventur-
ers found that they had beaten off the
last OF the herd. Several of those
which had been shot, however, were
floating ON the water, and were secur
ed without any interruption from the
survivors.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-09
somesrIc LIFE IN CHINA.
Women Have Many Privileges and
Spend Much Time in Novel Reading.

Women Have Many Privileges and
Spend Much Time in Novel Reading.
A Chinese woman OF charming per-
sonality. DR.. Yamel Kin. delivered a
lecture at the Washington residence
Of Senator Kean. Her audience was
representative OF all that is best IA
Washington society. Several Year,
ago Dr. Yamei Kin completed her
course In medicine at an American
university and returned to her native
land to practice. She is now making
tour OF the United States. trying to
create a wider interest and sympathy
between the women of these distant
lands.
DR.. Kin, who wore the very becom-
Ing dress Of her country, talked main
ly OF the domestic life OF the higher
and middle class Chinese. Many
verses. ranging from the oriental
counterpart Of Mother Goose TO Sc
lections from Confuclus and the "Rit-
ual Of Decorum," which is almost as
old, with clever anecdotes gathered In
the practice OF her profession, and
told in the purest Engli<h. made up
delightful half hour that formed the
lecture proper, which was followed by
twenty minutes during which DR.. Kin
invited questions from her audience.
which she answered fully and clearly
to the enlightenment OF all present.
To the inquiry OF what Chinese
women did for amusement Dr. Kin
replied that novel reading forms one
of her country women's chief pleas
ures. and that the favorlte Chinese
novel consisted OF twenty-four vol
umes. They also, she said, find great
delight In the embroidery which has
made them famous. They begin the
delicate needlework at the age of 7
years. In reply to the question as to
what means of livelihood is open to
the women of her race DIR. Kin re-
piled that few except the boatwomen
of the south and the very poor OF tho
lowest class are obliged to support
themselves. although in the later
years many girls and women have
been employed In the silk mills, while
unskiil9d labor Finds its uses in the
makin.5 Of the familiar flrecrackers.
which are produced largely by chill
dren and the very aged
A minute description of the process
OF foot-blndlng. which happily, she
said, is passing out of fashion, and
is said to have originated some 900
years ago. when the empress of that
time had club feet. which she skill
fully disguised in the most beautiful
of small shoes that speedily became
the fashion, and an illustration of the
changing fashions of head dresses and
sleeves. which are about the only
changes in wearing apparel noticed
in several generations, were few OF
the especially interesting features OF
the lecture.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-09

Through the days O. parchin' sunshine
through the days O. drenchin' rain.
We have wrastled with the meadow
grass. the garden truck an grain.
An at last we're on the journey for to
claim our rghtful share
o. the glory for the farmer at the Joy
vile county fair.
You that come from out the city for to
see the bosses race
Needn't think you know the pleasures Of
our county's meetin' place,
For it's no one but US farmers has the
kind Of eyes to see
What's the real inside good time o. the
Joyville jubilee.
Mother brings some canned tomatoes an
they stand upon a shelf .
With her name In printed letters; an
the country judge hissef
Tries a spoonful. tries another, smiles
an says he'd like to state
Them's the tastin'est tomattusses he
ever, ever ate.
In the art hall, where the ladies go to
learn the latest stitch.
Sisters fancy work exhibit. 'broidered
table cloths an sich,
Draws a monstrous crowd O. people, an
they praise 1t loud an free
Till it's all In all the greatest day in
sisters history.
Down among the pens an stables an
the heaps o. fodder corn,
Daddy's got a specked heifer with a rib
bon on her horn.
Bud has took the silver medal In the
watermelon line.
An the loudest rooster CROWN in the
poultry house Is mine.
You may shout about St. Louis an your
Pan Americans,
With their lakes an lordly buildin's an
their camel caravans.
But I'll bet my CROWN rooster 'gainst
your shoe lace, If you dare,
That they ain't a little circumstance to
Joyville's county fair.
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A New Whistler Story.

A new Whistler story is told by
friends of Miss Pamela Smith, the
young American artist who has made
reputation abroad by her original
work in color and black and white.
Miss Smiths designs. while they show
uncommon Imagination, are technical.
ly crude. and friend Of hers who
knew Whistler was anxious to get his
opinion OF them. She took a portfolio
OF Miss Smiths illustrations TO the
painter, and waited anxiously as
whistler examined them.
He looked them over carefully, and
remarked. gruffiy, "She can't paint"
Then he went through them again
And she can't draw"
A third time he looked through the
portfolio. pausing thoughtfully oyel
each sketch.
But she doesn't need to-" ne con.
cluded.-Harper's Weekly.
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UNABLE TO RESIST.
FlatterinR Description Too Much for
the Womanlike ShopIifter.

F1atterinR Description Too Much for
the Womanlike ShopIifter.
The department store detective had
been following the woman during her
systematic meanderlng past the coun-
tiers In the large store. She fitted the
description of certain notorious shop
litter, but while morally certain that
articles had been deity transferred to
concealed pockets, he had no direct
evidence to cause an arrest. Never
theless, he stopped her just as she
made for the door.
Good afternoon. Ellen Johnson"
said the detective at her elbow,
watching her face closely for corrobo-
ration. The chilly stare directed at a
would-be masher was his only re-
ward.
But you are Ellen Johnson, aren't
your he persisted.
I'm notw she snapped. "And
shall call the store detective If you
persist in annoying me. sir"
"Why, er-er-I'm the store detect
I've myself" he stammered, land | rec
ognlze you as the shopllfter. Eller
Johnson"
"Sirl You and your store viii pay
for this In the courts"
But the description fits you exact
ly, madam. 1t says beautiful and ex
presslve features, hazel eyes, rosebuC
mouth"
"O-ohl Does It really say that?"
Eyes. madam, and further goes on
a patrlcian profile. great charm o
manner, pearly teeth"
"A-a-h, sir you fiatter-"
"Stll further the description says
Ears like rosy sea shells, Titan tress
es, peach-bloom complexion and ala
baster brow"
The woman pushed back wisp o
mouse colored hair from her wrinkle,
forehead and smiled.
81 can't deny the description, sir
she said. 81 confess all! But be sur
to hand that description to the report
ers, won't you, pleaseT
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TWO AND THREE AND ONE.

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The child was a boy, and for him
Stuart cherished great ambitions. As
he had himself taken up the work laid
down by his father, and increased the
family fortunes to a tremendous size,
so this son of his would in time take
up the work and make the name OF
Stuart rival that of Rothschild in the
markets of the world.
Yet in the midst of all his successes
Stuart would often stop and ask him
self If the game was worth the candle.
He read Schopenhauer occasionally,
and was much impressed with what
this philosopher had to say upon the
inevitable loneliness and isolation of
the human soul
"Was this isolation inevitable?"
Stuart asked himself. And he an
swered himself that but one thing
might prevent it, and that one thing
was-love.
Then he laughed at himself for his
folly Was not his wife the most truly
admirable woman he had ever known?
And did he not love her?
'Yet we are not one, as we should
be, to escape that isolation. We are
two-or, rather, three, since we both
love our child SO dearly" he rea-
soned.
"Only a trihing cold" said the emil
nent physician, called in to diagnose
the case of the child, who did not
seem to be well.
only a trifiing cold" Stuart reas-
sured himself as he went on, absorbed
in his business.
"Only a trifling cold" his wife muir
INJURED as a salve to her own con-
science when she went out to a re-
ception.
The telephone summoned the man
from his office, the woman from the
drawing room of friend, to meet by
the bedside of their dying child.
AS they watched the child die there
welled up in the mind of both hatred
of that God who could permit such
thing, and when the final moment
came they turned to each other In
agony.
And then, in this moment of rebel
lious hatred toward their maker, each
seemed to grasp some measure of His
motive and, laying his wife's head on
his shoulder, Stuart said softly:
First we were two, and then we
were three-but now, sweetheart, we
must be one"
So ended the loneliness of the soul
of each, and so began the romance
Of the two who were one.-Utica
Globe.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-09
TIE PROPOSAL.

He thought that he would as a lyric poet might
Decam her sapphire
thought of her by day Of her
The Medieval be bestp
He'd tell his lovely fair that E. favorIngg
against all he'd breakh
Perhaps
Is but hard and clouds adowsr
My strong would
But this is what he really said, husky
While sweatdps his
Dear Kate Miss Kae-er meant ought Miss
his too
Pm earning-er-hfteen a not
The maiden buhed
-Woman's
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-09
WHAT ALLIED wASHBURNE.


Doctor" the patient b. gan. with a
pathetic attempt at cheerfulness. Il
want a thorough examination from
head TO foot-lungs, heart, and every
thing, but look out especially for my
liver. No, I'm not going to tell you
what's wrong. l want you to find out
You do what l ask you, and Ill pay
the bill"
The doctor looked skeptical. says
the Chicago News. but he went to
work. After a half-hour of humping
and manipulation, he turned on his
patient sharply.
what ails you, anyway, Wash
burner
That's for you to say" came in a
sepulchral tone.
81 mean, what made you think you
wanted this examination"
"Well, look here" Washburne de-
manded, placing both hands over his
waist line in front didn't you de-
tect any foreign growth or anything
about here? Don't be afraid to tell
me the truth"
The doctor laughed derlsively.
"Forsgn growth Boshv he said.
but l tell you, doctor, it's the
queerest thing you ever heard of. |
haven't mentioned it even to my wife
didn't want to worry her-but I've
been out>of town Just two weeks, and
this morning, when l came back, |
took down a pair of trousers that l
wore with perfect comfort just before
/ left, and, sir, l can't button them
round me within six inches That's
no exaggeration. Then l tried two
other pairs, both new this summer
been wearing 'em In perfect comfort
right along-and they were all Just as
bad. Now, what is It'll l haven't been
gaining in weight. 1t struck me
there must be something growing In
the region of the stomach and liver,
and growing fast, too. And have felt
queer Jumps when I tapped there! l
want the facts, doctor"
Doctor Simmons was looking
thoughtful. THAT suit you've got on
goes round you all right" he re-
marked.
"Oh, yes" said washburne. This
was made just before left and the
tailor must have cut 1t abnormally
large round the waist to begin with.
But those others were easy two weeks
ago"
Man, you're all rightv' declared
the doctor. go home and try on your
clothes again. You'll find they fit.
Anyhow, you are all right" And that
was all the satisfaction Washburne
got.
But he knew what he knew, none
the less, and after he got home that
night and had thought the matter over,
he determined to consult another doc
tor the next day. Simmons did not
know everything.
Celia" he called to his wife. just
then, do you know where my slip
pers areT
ave got 'em on. dad" responded g
cheerful voice-not Celia's-from the
veranda, and then Washburne's six
teen-year-old son strolled into his pres
ence. i've had lot of comfort IL
'em while you've been gone" he added
naively.
Washburne looked the youth over
Six feet in his stockings, the lad wa
as tall as his father-but narrow as
lnth. Suddenly the fathers eyes light
ed and blazed.
"Where'd you get those trousers?
he snapped. for he recognized tn
stripe OF the pet pair he had vainl
tried to button round himself tina
morning.
Young Washburne surveyed his Ion
legs complacently. II took few pair
Of, bsusers l knew you didn't car
a8eus any more, and had 'em cut owe
to fit me while you were gone" b
explained, calmly. Economy, don
you see, popf"
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The Society of the Turn Verein.


There are three hundred separate
turner societies In the United States,
divided into twenty-nine districts, with
a total membership OF 3S,OOO Seven
thousand active members. or young
men, are taking regular gymnastics
every week, and may be called the
flower OF the organization for drill and
exhibition purposes. About the same
number OF "old gentlemen" are en-
rolled In the gymnastlc squads. Four
thousand young woman belong to
classes in their societies More than
twenty thousand boys and girls are In
the Turn Vereln gymnasium and
schools. In the Middle West, the
turner gymnasts are In great demand
as teachers in the public school sys-
tens OF physical education. and a nor
NAL school under the management IT
the Turner Bund is conducted in Nil
waukee to help supply this demand for
instructors.-Ralph d. Paine, in Out
ing.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-09

A Princeton man tells OF a CONVEX
sation that took place between the
coach OF a football eleven and one OF
the players. An important game was
soon to be played and the coach was,
Of course. most anxious that every
player should be in the best OF physl-
cal condition. But to his disgust one
of the men. upon whom great deal
depended II the great game were to
be won, seemed to be in bad form. 4"
Taking him aside, the coach had the
following heart TO heart talk" with
the recalcitrant:
"See here, you're not looking so
good! Muscles tlabby and wind bad
awful bad. What's the matter? Been
drinking anything"
mot drop"
"Then you must be smoking"
Haven't touched pipe. cigar or
cigarette since the training began"
"StudyingY"
"Well. yes-a little"
Whereupon the coach gave vent to
a snort OF disgust See here! You've
got to stop that! Do you want us to
lose the gameT-Harper's Weekly.