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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-18
DELAHANTY HAD
BATTING EYE

While playing with the Philadelphia
club in 1896. the late Ed Delahantv.
the only Del" achieved the greatest
batting feat in the history of baseball.
1t happened in a game with Chicago,
and "Adonis" Will Terry was pitching
for the Windy City team
Terry was pitching in grand style,
and in the language of baseball, "he
had everything" The first time up
Delahanty cracked the ball right over
the r ght field, about 40 feet inside the
foul line, for home run The second
time up he drove liner over short.
Dahlnu got his hands on the ball but
it tore through them, and rolled out to
left field. The third time up he lifted
the ball over the right field fence again.
this time far down in right center. The
next time he drove the bail out to the
clubhouse in center for his third home
run.
IN the ninth inning he came up again
LANCE played back between the two
clubhouses and the other outflelders re-
treated to the fences. Delahanty hit
the ball straight to center 1t struck
the top of one clubhouse, bounded to
the top of the other and rolled back
up the field, and the big fellow made
the circuit again, making a total of
four home runs and three Dagger for
five times at bat.
Yet Philadelphia got only eight hits
off Terry in the game, counting DeIs
! five, and was beaten--S to s.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-18
In Fair CompanN.

Robert Browning once found himself
at a dinner at a great English house
sitting next to a lady who was con-
nected with the highest aristocracy.
She was very graciously inclined, and
did her utmost to make conversation.
Are you not a poet?" she finally
asked.
We'll" said Browning, people are
sometimes kind enough to say that
am"
ooh, please don't mind my having
mentioned it," the duchess fastened to
say, with the kindess of smiles. you
know Lord Byron and Lord Tennyson
and others were poets."-Youths' Com
panion.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-18
TO OPEN TEXAS FAIR.
Governor Will Preside at Initial cere-
monies.

DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 1S.--Final pre-
parations were completed today for the
opening tomorrow of the twenty-sec-
ond annual Texas state fair. Governor
Campbell will preside at the opening
exercises, and in the evening win ne
rendered a banquet, which will be at
tended by the political and commercial
leaders of the state.
over 100000 has been spent In per-
manent improvements at the state fair
grounds during the last year. and tire
exposition will undoubtedly be the
greatest ever held in Texas or the
southwest.
Practically all the exhibits have
been Installed, and form remarkable
exposition of the varied resources 81
the Lone Star state.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-18

diseases, female diseases and OBJ
stetrics given special atrention. Az
calls promptly attended. once oar
'er building Phone Mair 96
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-18

Several printing and publishing firms
in Chicago, St. Louis, New York and
Massachusetts,, with national officers of
the United Typothetae of America,
have brought action in the United
States court at Cincinnati, asking that
the International Printing Pressmen's
and Assisantss' Union of America be
enjoined from violating an agreement
of January, 1907, by demanding an
eight-hour day.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-18
Italian Actor Coming Again.

BERLIN. Oct 1S.-Ermete Novelli,
the italian actor, is among the passen-
gers sailing for New York on the
Kaiserin Victoria today. He will make
10 weeks tour of the principal Am
erican cities. opening his engagement
November in Philadelphia
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
. DYSPEPTiC PHILOSOPHY.

A delicate situation Is often really
AL indicate one.
1t is never too late to mend, but 1t
II sometimes too late to realize 1t.
Lots of reform is wasted on the
world that might better be used al
home.
1t seems universal misfortune that
our close friends are not close
mouthed.
That half the world that doesn't
know how the other half lives is hap
pier for It,
The man who has too little conf
dence in himself is apt to have too
much in other people.
The summer girl may have liquid
glance, but in winter 1t is apt to be-
come an icy stare.
The original rib roast occurred when
Eve first told Adam just what she
thought of him.
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
MIX THIS YOURSELF
RECIPE FOR SIMPLE HOMEMADE
KIDNEY CURE.
Inexpensive Mixture Of Harmless Veg.
etabIe ingredients Said to Over
come Kidney and Bladder
Trouble Promptly.

Here Is simple homemade mix.
ture as given by an eminent authority
on Kidney diseases, who makes the
statement in a New York daily news.
paper, that 1t will relieve almost any
case of Kidney trouble II taken be-
fore the stage of Bright's disease. He
states that such symptoms as lame
back, pain In the side, frequent desire
to urinate, especially at night; painful
and discolored urination, are readily
overcome. Here is the recipe; try It:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; Compound Isargon, one ounce;
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three
ounces. Take teaspoonful after each
meal and at bedtime.
A well.known physician is authority
that these ingredients are all harmless
and easily mixed at home by shaking
we'll in bottle. This mixture has q
peculiar healing and soothing effect
upon the entire Kidney. and Urinary
structure, and often overcomes the
worst forms Of Rheumatism in Just
little while. This mixture is said to
remove all blood disorders and cure
the rheumatism by forcing the Kid
neys to filter and strain from the blood
and system all uric acid and foul, de-
composed waste matter. which cause
the aflictions. Try 1t II you aren't
we'll. Save the prescription.
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07

scores of men, who stand high on the
Street and in the social world, who
have tens of millions that they have
filched= by System tricks, II not by
legal crimes. II l perform this trick
of Brownleys. the trick of selling
short until panic is produced, / shall
make millions and none will be the
wiser. For all l know, many of the
multi-millionaires whom / have seen
produce panics and who were applaud
ed by the Street and the press for
their ability and daring, and whose
standing. business and social, is now
the highest, were only doing this same
thing, and having been successful. they
have never been detected or suspected
But even suppose l fail, which can
only be through some extraordinary
accident happening while I am en-.
gagged in selling, shall have com.
mitted' no crime, and, in fact, shall
have done no one any great moral
wrong, for If fail to carry out my
contract to deliver the stock have
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07

sold in trying to produce a panic, the
men to whom / have sold will be no
worse of for not receiving what they
bought; In fact, they will stand just
where they stood before I attempted
to bring on panic.
Second, II an exchange member for
any reason should find himself over.
board and should realize that he must
publicly become bankrupt and lose all,
he surely would be fool not to at.
tempt to produce a panic, when Its
production would enable him to recoup
his losses and prevent his failure. and
when II by accident he should fail in
his attempt to produce panic, the
penalty would simply be his bank.
ruptcy. which would have taken place
in any event.
1.-The third class is that large one
that always will exist while there is
stock-gambling, class OF honest,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES game fair ex-
change men who would take no unfair
advantage of their fellow-members I'M
til they become awakened to the
knowledge that they are about to be
ruined by their fellow.members' trick
cry.
Next, let us consider further wheth-
err 1t is possible for our exchange to
prevent my device from being worked,
now that 1t Is known to all. Suppose
the governing committee was informed
In advance that the attempt to work
the trick was to be made. II. at any
session, after gong-strike, the govern.
ing committee, or any exchange au.
thority, could for any reason compel a
member to cease operating, even for
The purpose Of showing that his trans
actions were legitimate. the entire
structure of stock-gambling would fall.
Think 1t through: Suppose man like
Barry Conant or myself, or any active
commission broker, begins the execu-
tion OF large order for client, one,
say. who has advance information Of a
receivership, fire at a mine, the
death of a president, a declaration of
war, or any of the hundred and one
items Of information that must be
! acted upon instantly, where delay of
minute would ruin the broker, or his
house, or its clients. II the governing
| committee could thus call the broker
to account. the professional bear or
the schemer. who desired to prevent
him from selling, would have but to
pass the word to the president of the
exchange that the broker in question
was about to work Brownley's discov'
cry and he could be taken from the
crowd and before he returned his
place could be taken by others and he
could be ruined.
(To BE coNrINUEDJ
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07

To make my invention useless It must
be made impossible to buy or sell the
same share Of stock more than once
at one session. and short selling, which
10 now, as you know, the foundation Of
the modern Safeguarding structure,
must likewise be made impossible. II
this could be done the $95,000,000
worth of seats In the exchange would
be worth less than five millions, and,
What is Of far greater import to all
the people, the financial world would
do not fool yourselves. My invention
is sure destroyer Of the greatest
curse in the world, stock.gambling."
A sullen growl rose from the gam
blers. Robert BROMLEY glared down
his defiance. q
Let me show you the impossibillty
Of preventing in the future anyone's
many times during the past five years.
All the capital required to work my
invention is nerve and desperation, or
nerve without desperation. 1t Is we'll
known to you that there are at all
times exchange members who will
commit any crime, barring. perhaps,
murder, to gain millions. Your men,
bers have from time to time shown
nerve or desperation enough to embez-
Gle, raise certificates, give bogus
checks, counterfeit stocks and bonds,
and this for gain of-(ess than millions,
and when detection was probable. All
these are criminal offenses and their
detection is sure to bring disgrace and
state prison. Yet members Of this ex-
change desperate enough to take the
chance, when confronted with loss OF
fortune and open bankruptcy. have al
ways been found with nerve enough
to attempt the crimes. / repeat that
there are at all times exchange men,
bers who will commit any crime, barr
ing, perhaps, murder, to gain millions.
That you may see that my successors
will surely come from your midst from
time to time during the future exist
ence of the exchange. will enumerate
the different classes of members. who
will follow in my footsteps:
First, the In God We Trust
schemer who Is of the System type,
but who is outside the magic circle. A
man of this class will reason: know
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
OLD soAkERs
Get Saturated with CAFFEINE.

When person has used coffee for
number of years and gradually de-
clined In health, 1t is time the coffee
should be left on In order to see
whether or not 1t has been the
cause of the trouble.
A lady in Huntsville, Ala, says she
used coffee for about 40 years, and for
the past 20 years has had severe
stomach trouble. II have been treat
ed by many physicians but all in vain.
Everything failed to give relief. Was
FRUSTRATED for some time, and came
near dying. When recovered SUM-
cIently to partake Of food and drink
tried coffee again and It soured on my
stomach.
II finally concluded that coffee was
the cause OF my trouble and stopped
using It, tried tea in its place and
then milk. but neither agreed with
me; then commenced using Postum.
had It properly made and 1t was very
pleasing TO the taste.
at have now used It four months,
and my health IS 80 greatly improved
that can eat almost anything want
and can sleep we'll whereas, before.
suffered for years with insomnia.
"Ehaye found the cause of my trou-
| bles and a way to get rid OF them.
You can depend upon 1t, ! appreciate
Postum" There's Reason" Read
aThe Road to wellville." in pkgs.
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
WHEN MILgsToNEs CHEER.
They Always GLADDEN. the Heart Of
the Pedestrian.

In a walking trip milestone along
the way is the most companionable
fellow in the world; your spirits rise
as you near him as though you were
about to greet human friend, and
they keep almost consistently on his
high level till his brother mile dis
tant advances to meet you.
And when you overlook one of this
friendly company because Of an en-
croaching bank or screening boughs,
says the Travel Magazine, his neigh.
Dor further on comes to you doubly
welcome. At the latter end of this
passage in the journey your spirits
flag trifle as though oppressed by
sense of desertion. You may even
scowl at the overhanging bank which
is more than party to this conceal.
ment.
Those worthy persons who attend to
the roads should see to it that every
milestone within their province stands
out frankly from its leafy background.
Observance Of this, however, would
rob the wayfarer Of that leap Of the
heart which Is his when the stone
tells the story of two miles done rather
than one. For however much the land.
scape and the minute world at his feet
may claim the footfarer's admiration
he is still keenly alive to the virtue
Of decent distances covered In his
days journey.
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
PROVERBS AND PHRASES.

To be idle is to be viclous.--Dr.
Johnson.
Idleness always enyies industry
German.
II you have done no Ill the six days
you may play the seyenth.-TSpanish.
Who devour widows' houses and for
a show make long prayers.-New Tes.
lament.
1t is better to be unborn than un-
taught for ignorance IL the root OF
interchangeable.
It requires little exertion upon our
part to bring misfortune upon our.
selves. -McNander.
Man raises. but time weighs. Mod.
ern Greek.
A growing moon and . flowing tide
are lucky times TO marry in.--Irisf.
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
LIKE ONE LARGE FAMILY.
People Of Newfoundland Have No
Need Of Hotels.
(ro BE coNrINuEpS


need scarcely say there are no
hotels on this coast, and consequently
no hotel bills. The traveller selects
his own house when he enters a set
Element, walks In and sits down by
the stove. Indeed he scarcely waits
for the invitation to "sit in" when the
family goes to meals, the people Of
this coast being much given to hos
pitality. When night comes on he
simply takes of his boots and--stays.
1t may be he will have to share a
bunk with one of the household, or
perhaps he has bed in "the ROOM"
that depends on his social position. II
room is short he will turn in ON a
settle, or simply lie down on the floor.
have slept on settle under which
the hens lived In winter and rested
as soundly as on any feather bed. the
only inconvenience being that now
and again had to grope after the
rooster. which persisted In thinking
1t was morning long before did
The first question asked stranger
ON his entering house will not be
What is your business?" It is Ger.
tain to be "Have you been to tear
For our national drink is tea, and q
drunken man is seldom or never seen
Indeed we have become prohibition
coast.-London Standard,
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
Hospital storytelling.

1t is curious that philanthropists
in search of a novel means of doing
good do not engage reciters and story.
tellers to visit hospitals and amuse
the patients. A rich man in New
York engaged Marshall P. Wilder. the
.diminutive entertainer, who has given
pleasure in nearly every city, to visit
regularly certain hospitals in New
York. Mr.. Wilder was welcomed en-.
Enthusiastically by the convalescent pa.
uents. and his merry stories did them
good.
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
{6 s.
FRIDAY |
HE l3zM= !
A Novel by
q THOMAS W. LAWSON
Author of
u "Frenzied Finance"
CHAPTER discontinued.
Author Of
"Frenzied Finance"
Copyright, 1907, Doubleday. Page Coz

This was easy, because Barry
Conant, not knowing of my newly
invented trick, could buy only what
he could pay for on the morrow,
or, at least, what he believed his
clients could pay for; while |, not in
tending to deliver what l sold-unless
by smashing the price to point where
l could compel those who had bought
to resell to me at millions less than !
sold at-could sell unlimited amounts
literally unlimited amounts. When
Barry Conant had bought all that he
thought he could pay for, he was
obliged to beat a retreat in front of
my offerings, and / was able to smash,
and smash, until the price was so low
that he could not by the use of what
he had bought. as collateral, borrow
sufficient to pay me for what l had
sold him. Then he was compelled to
turn about and sell what he had
bought from me, and when ! had re-
bought it for ten millions less than l
had sold it for, the trick had been
turned | had sold him 100000 shares
say at 220. He had sold them back
to me say at 1870, and he stood where
he had stood at the beginning. He
had none of The 100000 shares. Both
of us stood, so far as stock was con-
cerned, where we had stood at the be.
ginning, but as to profits and losses
there was this difference: | had ten
millions OF dollars profits, while Barry
Cnn1nt'c ntc ha
ten millions losers-and all by trick
The trick did not differ in principle
from the one in constant practice by
the SYSTEM When the System,
after manufacturing Sugar stock, sell
100000 shares to the people for $40,
100000, they so manipulate the market
by the use of the $10,000,000 that they
have taken from the people as to scare
them into selling the 100000 shares
back to them for s5,000,000. After
they have bought they again manipu
late the market until the people buy
back for $10,000,000 what they sold fol
$5,OO0,OO0. The System commits NJ
legal crime. l committed no lega
crime. | had not even infringed any
rule of the exchange, any more thar
had the System when they performed
their trick. Since my experimental
panic | have repeatedly put the tricl
in operation, and each time l hav,
taken millions, until to-day / have IL
my control, as absolutely as though
had honestly earned them, as the Ia
borer earns his weeks wages, or tn
farmer the price of his crops, owe
$1,O00,0 100000, or sufficient to keep en-
shaved the rest Of their lives million
people.
What do you intelligent men thin
of this situation? You know, becaus
you know the Safeguarding game
that the American people, with thei
boosted brains and courage, come yea
after year with their bags of gold, tn
result of their prosperous labors. an
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
Not Equal.


During our war with Spain GER
tain hospital had corps Of nurses
Of exceptional beauty, and 1t was
whispered that these fair nurses
were inclined little to frivolity, In
ciined little to firt with the ailing
young soldiers in their charge. Now,
when soldier felt that he was on
the mend. Irritation with a pretty
nurse was delightful, but when his
wounds were troublesome then gal.
lantry was a thing that he was hard
ly up to. Sometimes pretty nurse
in this hospital would come to IA
vorite soldier and find him lying with
closed eyes, as II asleep on his cot
and this note pinned near his counte
nance: ITO i'll to be nursed to-day
John Smith"
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
SENTENCE SERMONS.

Hidden sins are hard to heal.
Cursing yesterday does not correct
to-day.
The selfish heart always is short
sighted.
Only dead faith lies wrapped in
formalities.
No language is more eloquent than
life Of love.
The beautiful life loses no time
looking for a mirror.
They who never stop for little joys
find no large ones.
The church is shelter for the-sin-
ner, but not for his sins.
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
That Explained u.

Are you the press humorist on this
paper?' asked the visitor in the sane
tum.
II am"
We'll, ! merely wanted to ask how
you managed to think of so many
jokes every day."
II DON'T frankly replied the press
humorist. 81 have an intellectual pair
of shears. "-Milwaukee Sentinel
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
Acco:luntIna for It..

NO. said the stubborn man, mo
body can alter my regard for Jiggina,
He's man you don't meet every
day"
81 admit that" replied Markley.
"but attribute It to the fact that
loaned him $40 several months ago.
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
BY THE WAY.

do let brick in your hat become
your headstone."
Dirt is no more sign of industry
than fat is Of health.
What you have been generally ac-
centuateg the interseness Of what You
are w. $780,
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
Time Is Money.

Time is surely money with John u.
! Rockefeller-to be exact, just $21.25 a
minute How he must enjoy watching
1t fyi
The Jasper news., 1907-11-07
Everything Lovely.

The worlds all right; only the
chaps who want the world are grumb
ling.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-02-02
AWFUL NINE DISASTER
81 Least FIFTY Dead In Explosion IN
West Virginia Coiiiery.

Cb7rleTtcn. w. Va. Jan. 30.--Thero
RE at lesst 80 or 50 persons dead as
q result CT an explosion in the Stuart
allne. near Fayetteville. in Fayette
comfy. according 10 the last reports
received. and {; Is expected the num-
Der VIII reach IS more.
TIE explosion was caused by dust
ia the mine. Every effort Is being
made 10 get 10 the men who are en-
tombcd. but there IS little hope that
any Of them are We.
At the time OF the explosion there
were about zoo men In the shaft. and
there is grave apprehension that a
great many OF them were In the mine
when the explosion occurred. A list OF
the dead Is now being compiled. and II
Will include al least the number men
toned. Organized effort is being made
to get to the men IN the mine. and vol
unteers are plentiful. The scene about
the mine Is a pathetic one, men. WON
en- and children crying for their dear
ones and imploring those on the
ground TO go to their rescue
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-02-02
100000 FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA
Entire Section Of Baldwin Locomotive
Works Burned

Philadelphia. Jan. 30.-Fire which
started with an explosion in the paint
shop destroyed one entire section of
the big Baldwin Locomotive works, en-
failing loss OF $1,000. 900. The de-
stroyed building is about It's feet long
by $50 feet deep, facing on Spring
Garden street and Immediately adjogn-
ing the main office at the corner of
Broad and Spring Garden streets and
the erecting shops. smith shops and
foundries on the south.
The fire was discovered in The east
end OF the building. adjoining the main
ONCE building, when the workmen
were preparing TO leave and though
the flames spread quickly all were abe
to get out OF the building safely. Short
ly after the IRE started the upper por-
ton OF the wall on Spring Garden
street fell into the street and one fire.
man and three workmen were caught
by the falling bricks. but fortunately
received only slight injuries. The are-
men with the assistance OF the fire pa
troll from the plant succeeded in get
ting the flames under control within
an hoIr after the FIRE was discovered.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-02-02
Tough. Duel With Shot Guns.

Danville. Va. Jan. 80. = Walter b.
Barksdale. a farmer about 35 years
old, was mortally wounded. and Joe
Echole. a young farmer. seriously in
jured in a duel fought near Danville
with shot guns. TIE men quBr-sied at
the country store over a pack OF cigar
cites. and agreed to return to their
homes. secure their weapons and fight
the affair out Barksdale arrived first.
and when Echols came up. he opened
fire without warning A large hole was
torn in the side of Bafksdale AMI
Echols' body was riddled with small
shot