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Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-01-30
FIGHT HILL ROADS
Milwaukee VIII Reach Out for Bus-
mess OF Orient.

milwaukee VIII Reach Out for bus
mess of Orient.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. Sc
Among the passengers on the steam
er Mongolia, sailing from San Fran
cisco today for Japan and Hong
Kong. is J. II Hilland. third vice
president in charge OF trafic OF the
Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul road.
II is understood that his mission is
to build up the traffic OF the road.
which will shortly enter into active
competition for the TRANSATLANTIC
trade with the Hin and Hartman
lines. The Pacific coast extension OF
the Milwaukee will be completed
into Seattle next year. and II is be-
lieved that Mr.. Hilland will seek to
form a traffic alliance with some
japanese steamship company. II
this project fails. IL is understood
that the road will build its own
steamers and operate fits own line to
Japan and the Far East
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-01-30
MINER POET HERE

Alaska Man Arranging for a Lee
ture.
Bob" Robinson, soldier of fort
une, miner, adventurer and poet,
better known as the miner poet
is in the city Mr.. Robinson is from
Dawson and has been making Spok-
ane his headquarters for some weeks
past, preparatory to beginning a SER
les of lectures in the East. Mr.. Rob-
inson's advance man is in the East
now and as soon as he has made all
the necessary arrangements, which
will probably be in some six weeks,
Mr.. Robinson will go east on his
lecture tour. During the time inter
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-01-30

o. b. Moon. editor OF the Journ-
al, received word this morning in
forming him OF the death Of his
mother in Wisconsin. He expects to
leave this evening to attend the fun
eral.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-01-30
WINTER
LOGGING CAMP
sit to One of the Portable Mills
Shows Activity

men and teams now at work in the
timber and their work is going for
ward rapidly.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29

missing. we Followed the trail Of the
beaten warriors for fifty miles. It
WAS only when they discovered what
q small command we were that they
rallied and laid In ambush for us in
great ravine. We believed them still
lying and were riding into the jaws Of
death, out of which no man would
have emerged alive, when we heard
bugle calls. There was an instant halt
while every ear was strained to catch
the sound again. Then 400 men seemed
TO call out in chorus:
That's Bugler Dick-that's our
boy!'
he was half a mile away, on the
side Of the mountain and hidden from
sight, but the notes came down as
clear as bell. Retreat! Retreat!
Retreatv' was the call over and over
again, and then we listened in vain.
He had warned US. We drew back
and found another way, but what Of
the boy? We afterward found Indians
who said there were a thousand c Il
men waiting for US in that ambush
and that they knew the bugle calls
saved the command, but we found
none to tell US Of the fate of little
Dick. NJ. QUAD.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Partridqes' Devotion.

Few birds are so devoted to one an
other as partridges; but, like other
much less affectionate birds, they seem
to get over their herea vements in a re.
markably short space of time When
a covey in September takes fancy to
lying in particular bit of clover or q
little patch of rough grass and thistles
you may be almost sure of finding
them there at certain times of the day
and unless they are disturbed too fire.
quently there they will be found SC
long as any of them are left. They are
devoted alike to each other and to par
ticular spots. but their family fondness
is only existent SO long as the object
Of their affections is visible.-London
Globe
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
The Feminine Seasons.

During local campaign" said q
New York official. II attended a polit.
cal meeting where one of the speakers.
witty lrishman. made continual ref.
erence to the changing seasons. which,,
l found. he always honored by treating
them as if they were Of the feminine
gender. When you come to cast your
votes in the autumn he yelled. the
autumn who bears the fruits of the
earth in her olltstretched hands, YOU
will have to think We'll Of your duties
as citizens Of this glorious country:
"'Why is it, l.asked afterward, that
you spoke of the seasons as if they
were feminne:
THE lrshman was for a moment at
loss for Il reason.
Sure, be said at last, i think Of
the seasons as women because they
change and because. no matter which
wan We have. ye wish it was another -"
philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
A Problem In Interest.

Here is one Of those everyday prob
lens which occur in the ordinary af-
fairs of life which lawyers and those
who draw up wills are at times called
upon to tackle. 1t appears that par
ent desired to place $4,000 in a trust
fund for the benefit of his two chill
dren, the one ten and the other sixteen
years of age, to be so divided that as
they came of age they would receive
the same amount of money. The mon
ey paid 4 per cent and would naturally
compound every six months. What
part of the $4,000 should be settled on
each of the children?
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Queerest Street In tha World

Canton. in China, possesses the
queerest street in the world in spite of
the fact that in nearly all the big
towns in this country there are some
remarkable streets. The chief thing
OF interest attaching to this eccentric
thoroughfare is the fact that it is roof
ed in with glazed paper fastened on
bamboo and contains more signboards
to the square foot than any other
street in any other country. The next
interesting fact about this Canton by
way is that, though business street,
1t contains no other shops but those
Of apothecaries and dentists parlors.
no professional men but doctors. 1t is
a sick mans paradise and physicians
klondike. They call it Physic street.
which is descriptive if not picturesque.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Mob Law In China.

The Chinese do not hang criminals,
even when the mob takes revenge. In
the remote mountain districts the peo-
pie burn the robbers. The passes are
watched after robbery, all strangers
or suspicious characters are arrested,
and when satisfied that they have their
man they get dry wood, kerosene and
yellow oil beans. chain the cuIprit and
then burn him alive. The yellow beans
cause the bones to incinerate. The
victim seldom cries out more than
three times. and the bystanders have a
holiday. A Chinese military official
once asked the people to release one
OF three robbers to him in order to
torture him and get the names of his
confederates, but the people declined
saying that burning was better than
decapitation. Three were burned one
morning, and the same night another
robbery close by was committed. -
North China News.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
10 Meditation Dead7

The modern affection which may
be diagnosed as ''the craving for print
Is the result of the insensate hatred OF
'idleness." falsely SO called. which
distinguished the training of the young
in the latter part of last century.
"Don't sit doing nothing; get book"
and similar admonitions destroyed
meditation. In the endeavor to be Sc
verely practical the day dream was
treated as moral monster, and, 10, in
its place we find the ''snappy snippet."
Imagination was crushed. and MANNED
souls have lost the power Of interior
vision.
Neither prophet nor poet can be
n0urished on advertisements of moi.
tied soap. and the knowledge of the
exact number of lenses in the left eye
Of bluebottle in no way compensates
for spiritual b!indness.-London Acad.
emy.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
4 Strange Language.

The guard at the Grand Central was
having trouble Of his own with an old
lady who was overwhelming him In
torrents of French. Finally the guard
appealed to group Of passengers
near by. ''Say, can any of you under
stand this: Sounds like dago"-
A young girl stepped up. Its
French. She wants to know when the
next train arrives from Boston,"
''Oh,'' said the guard. that's it. Tell
her the next train comes at 4:57."
The girl colored up to the roots of
her hair and then murmured few
words to the old lady. Then the girl
turned to the guard. Il told her the
next train came at 5. That's the best
l could do. don't know how to say
4:57 in French"
The guard looked suspicious. Cant
say 4:57! Five O'clock's only three
minutes later. Say, French must be q
funny language New York Times.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Her French Failed.

Mrs. Smith had been hard student
for months, and, proudly conscious that
''she knew little French" she sailed
forth from the hotel in Paris to post a
letter.
"A poste,' she exclaimed trium-
phantly to the first policeman she met.
"Bien. madame. Par ici."
He politely conducted her into an Of
flee, but to her dismay it was a police
station. Rendered speechless by fright
and confusion, all she could do was to
pull her letter out Of her pocket and
point to it.
"Ah! A Ia poste," cried the commits
saire laughingly, and he instructed the
officer to take her to the nearest post
Office. Going along, poor, disconnected
Mrs. Smith muttered to herself:
oh, bother genders! Who'd have
thought police station was a gentle
man and a postofice a lady y'-London
Standard.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Sure Cure For Gout.

Culpepper, who was student of as
tronomy as we'll as of physic, recon-
lowing: Take an owl, pull off her
feathers and pull out her CUTS. Salt
her we'll for a week; then put her in
pot aud stop it close and put her
into an oven, so that she may be
brought into a mummy, which. being
beat into Il powder and mixed with
boar's grease, is an excellent remedy
for gout. amounting the grieved place
by the fire. Il fancy this receipt
much." he said, 1T standing to good
reason that Il bird of Luna should help
a disease of Saturn and therefore de-
sire dram Of the powder to be taken
inwardly every morning."
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Bugler Dick.
>S1s1St%0lSSsAaa<anas

copyright. 1907. by p. c. Eastment.]
Having a year yet to serve, we Of
the Michigan Cavalry brigade were
sent to the Indian country after the
grand review in Washington. Just
where we picked up little Dick no one
seemed to know.
We had lot of hangers-on when we
left for the march across the plains,
and strict orders were issued to weed
them out and leave them behind. Dick
was one Of them, but We had fixed
things. Three days later he joined US
under cover of night, mounted on a
government mule, and from thence on
ne was one Of us. In his idle hours at
the fort he had learned to blow a bugle
and give most of the calls, but there
was no place for him. 1t was in the
Indian heyday. Almost every tribe in
the west was hostile and out on the
Warpath, and when once we had left
the frontier behind us all the talk was
OF the red man and his way Of fighting
and his fiendish cruelties. There would
be no such thing as fear with the old
veterans Of the Army Of the Potomac,
but we often wondered how our boy
would take it. He was no boaster. He
never said whether he would run or
fight, but he fought
One day the Sixth was ordered out
to follow broad trail and hang to it
until we had come up with the war
party and punished it. At certain
point We divided into three columns.
Half an hour later the first column
walked into an ambush with it's eyes
wide open. We were greenhorns at
Indian fighting. Half a dozen men
had fallen when the colonel looked
around for his bugler The lad had
been one of the first to fall. The other
columns must come to our relief or
We should be wiped out We could
neither advance nor retreat, and the
hidden redskins offered us no target.
It was then that little Dick dropped
the carbine he had taken from dead
troopers hands. and. running forward,
he seized the bugle from the grip Of
the dying lad and shouted:
"All right. colonel; know what you
want"
The other columns had heard the
sound of the firing, but had made no
move. 1t was only when they heard
notes Of the bugle telling that we
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Palmistrv Paws.

"Palmistry is good business" ac-
cording to practitioner who has been
confessing to the Philadelphia Rec.
ord. 1--WE been in it for twenty-four
years now, and it's poor day can't
make SIS or $40. The public love to
be fooled, and men needn't sneer and
say women are easily taken in, for
men are my best customers" said the
palmist. "Oh, more women come to
me on the average than men, but the
men believe everything l tell them ev-
cry time, while some of the women
are hard to handle. In my experience
man, even the shrewdest, is more
gullible than woman. OF course"
she added modestly. "the business
takes pretty quick reader of charac-
ter and one who can flatter tactfully."
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
ZebraS In Harness,

The African zebra was formerly re-
garded rs being too wild and vicious to
be OF use III harness. but time has
changed this, and now in British East
Africa any number of Zebras can be
purchased ready trained to bit and
bride. The zebra will be found most
useful in Africa and India, as it is ex-
ceedingy strong, fast trotter and
immune from many diseases which at
tack horses.
Perhaps the oldest animal in har-
ness Is the wild boar which is driven
by French peasant at Montlucon. 1t
is three years old and able to draw a
small two wheeled cart. As bit is
no use, the reins are attached to the
animals eyeteeth.-London Answers.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
His Honeymoon Feeling.

Judge" said the old cOlored citizen,
chow much for a license ter git mar.
ried?'
Want it for yOurself!
Eyes, sub. You see, gittin' mighty
old now"
That's evident. Then why do you
wish to marry:"
well, judge, ter tell de truth, some
body gimme long coat, a linen collar
en- walkin' cane, en- l knows oman
what says she kin make livin' fer
me, en- feels des LAX honeymoon. -
-Atlanta Constitution.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Thunder's 4umbIino.

In accounting for the rumbling OF
rolling Of thunder, which has hereto
fore been explained by the echo the
ory, it is now stated that fash OF
lightning is made up of innumerable
smaller flashes, which 60 to make up
the whole. The rolling thunder is due
to the primary sounds of successive
discharges or flashes. When we see 4
relatively prolonged lightning flash we
witness in reality a number of discon.
tinuous discharges following down the
same path, and the sounds Of these
successive explosions come to us like
the rattle of rapid fire gun, only less
rhythmically. This discontinuity is
quite different from oscillation.-Scien
tifc American.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29

were In sore straits that they came
galloping down and helped us win a
victory.
I don't know how they fixed It, but
from that day on little Dick was one
of the regular buglers. It took him
away from us much of his time, but
when he had half an hour to spare
he was back ''home'' with us. It was
in the early summer when we headed
out on the plains. For months we
fought the red man whenever and
wherever we could bring him to bay.
As autumn came we pressed him far
ther and farther toward his winter re-
treat, and one clustering day the COM
mand was divided to deal him a stag
gering blow. The chiefs staked all on
big fight and lost. We routed and
pursued them, and It was after the
pursuit ended that Bugler Dick was
found to be among the missing. His
bugle calls had been heard all through
the fight, and men had seen him smil-
ing and laughing under hot fire, but
as we went into camp and the roll was
called there was no one to answer to
the name.
Many good men had fallen that day.
Comrade had lost comrade. and in at
least three cases brother had lost
brother, but as the night came down
1t seemed that in losing little Dick we
had lost the one most beloved in the
whole command. In the bright MOON
light half hundred of US forgot our
WEAKNESS and hunger and hunted for
him. We searched the open plain, the
dark ravines, the thickets and the will
low fringed streams. We found our
dead and wounded, and we found the
stark forms of a hundred savages, but
we did not find the one we sought.
BY the time the sun rose it became
plain that Bugler Dick had somehow
been taken prisoner and spirited away.
There were those who told such tales
of cruelties toward the whites that one
felt his hair crawling, but when these
had set our teeth on edge and brought
curses to our lips some one would re-
member that the prisoner was only a
lad and that the Indians often adopted
boys of his age and treated them kind
ly.
One Of the sorrowful things about
1t was that the expedition was ordered
, in for the winter It was making
ready for its return when such a
strong appeal was made to the COM
mander that he sent out 400 men of
the Sixth to see If any trace of the
boy could be found. He would have
done no more had our colonel been
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Amusing Names ef British Inns.

The little inns which we passed go
ing from London to Scotland and even
the wine shops gloried In pretentious
names which We're generally displayed
in illustrated signs hanging on brack.
cts. We had great fun in watching
for these odd signs and writing down
some of the most unusual. We passed
the Red Bull and in neighborly prox-
unity the Red Cow and the Dun
Cow. Sir John Barleycorn was near
enough to hear the Five Bells, and
just beyond this, as if not to be out.
done in the bell line, the proprietor of
one inn had called his place the Ring
o Bells. Later we passed the Easy
Chair and Wait For the Wagon. the
Nag's Head. the Spread Eagle, and
down near the end of the list we had
recorded the Black Boy and the Head.
Hand and Stomach.-Frank Presbrey
In Outing Magazine
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Religions In China.

The three religions Of China are
Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism
buddh1sts and Taoists worship idols;
Confuclus revived and fixed ancestor
worship. The people make ancestor
tables on which they write the names
OF the spirits they wish to keen in the
tables. and then, before them, they
ourn incense and kind of paper
money which is supposed to be the
money of the spirit world. They also
burn clothes and beautiful paper
houses. on some Of which they spend
years work.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
A Poser,

A noted clergyman was In his study
writing when his little fve-year-old
daughter walked in and asked.
What are you writing, papa?'
II am writing a sermon. dauehter. {"
replied the clergyman.
How DO you know what to write.
papa?'
God tells me what to write, daugh.
ter"
After watching her father a few min.
utes the daughter said:
Papa, II God tells you what to write
why do you scratch out some of it?'
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Not q Bad Idea.

did you write to Flippany's." said
Mrs. Nuvoe Reeshe. "for samples of all
the latest style visiting cards?'
Eyes. madam" replied the secretary
"About hundred came-all sorts and
siZes.'
"What names were on them?" Mrs
Nuvoe Reeshe inquired eagerly.
'The very first families of the city,
madam"
The matron smiled contentedly.
"Then dump 'em all," she said, "in
the gold card receiver on the parlor
table."-Exchange.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Weddino Housas.

In olden times certain towns and VII
loges In England used to possess we'd
ding house. where poor couples after
they had been welded at church could
entertain their friends at small cost
the only outlay being the purchase Of
such provisions for their guests as they
brought with them. the house for the
day being given free Of payment
Westminster Gazette.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
A Little Too Soon,

Sam Jackson's wife was to be buried
in the afternoon, and the bereaved COL
ored man was shaking with grief over
the coffin, when comely young darky
maiden stepped over to his side and
said tenderly:
Don't, Mistah Jackson; yo' mus try
an bear up Let me help yo' to fo'get!"
'Oh, Miss Johnson" uttered the
weeping man between sobs. 1T am
berry kind in y0' t. offah such consola-
ton, but All mus wait till aftah de
fun'ral befo' All engages in marriage
talk!"-Buffalo Times.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
His Wooden Leus.

Vicar-Well, Mr.. Stoggins. how are
you today?
Cobbler-Very bad, sir.
Victor-And what is the matter?
Cobbler-Ah, sir, it's my legs. They
be wonderful bad!
Nicar-Dear me! How long have you
been like this?
Cobbler-Why, sir. these legs, if you
believe me, I've had 'em on and of for
the last thirty years!-Punch.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29

The following appeared in an Irish
newspaper: "Whereas John Hall has
fraudulently taken away several ar
ticles of wearing apparel without my
knowledge, this is therefore to inform
him that if he does not forthwith re-
public."-LOndon Tatler
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29

lady" said Plodding Pete, "would
you help a man dat's seen better
daysY'
After generous meal she ventured
to inquire:
"When was it that you saw better
days?'
Last Observation-Disclosures Star.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29

When he knew himself to have been
in the wrong William E. Gladstone did
not hesitate to apologize candidly and
handsomely, but he knew that in most
cases apology was no atonement for an
offense.
"You can't unpull a mans nose," he
once remarked to his private secretary.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29

The earliest pottery which printed
designs Of American subjects was
made at Liverpool at the end of the
eighteenth century.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Do Plants Breathe?

Respiration is u part of the life OF all
orga nisms, animal and vegetable 1t
Is series of chemical changes, the
first of which is the absorption of oxy-
gen into the body and the last of
which Is the exhalation of carbonic
acid. Any organ adapted to this dou
BILE work-the Inhalation of oxygen
and the exhalation Of carbonic acid-is
lung, though of course the organ is
much more rudimentary In the plant
than in man. 1t is none the less true,
however, that every living organism.
whether plant or animal, breathes.-
New York American.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
Giving.

Giving.
People give in the order of their
preferences:
l. Advice.
2. Pain.
g. Gifts.
a. CnWelcone
b. Merely useless.
c. More or less useful.
4. Good measure, square deal.
Very passionate givers will some
times exhaust the list. The majority,
however, proceed only as long as they
find it more blessed to give than to re-
ceive, stopping, say, with No. 2. Few
get beyond No. 3 b.-Puck.
Willmar tribune., 1908-04-29
The Wrona Plea.

In suit for separation counsel for
the plaintiff pleaded. among other rea.
sons. incompatibility Of Temperament.
lie depicted the character of the hus.
band as
Brutal, violent and passionate"
The husbands advocate rose in his
turn and described the wife as
''Spiteful. short tempered and sulky."
Pardon me-" interrupted the Judge,
addressing both limbs of the law. Il
cannot see, gentlemen. where the in.
compatibility of temperament comes
tn."-Paris Journal.