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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-02-10
CASHIER NEIL VERY ILL
Boise Man Brought to Deaths Door
By His Troubles.

BOISE, Feb. 10.-H. E. Neil, for
mer cashier of the Capital State
bank, is considered seriously i'll. He
Is at st. Luke's hospital, very low,
and although physicians expressed
hopes for his recovery, they say he
is in very critical condition, says
the Statesman.
Late Wednesday Mr., Neil was re-
ported from the hospital as resting
finely after a very restless day and
evening. Toward morning he SEEM
ed to decline and kept getting lower
and lower. At noon his pulse was
very weak and at $3.50 Drs. Ustick
and Pittinger decided to call con-
sultation of physicians. Drs. Bow
ers Brereton were called.
At II o'clock last evening after
being with the patient long time
the doctors left the hospital, saying
that Mr.. Neil had responded II
treatment, had rallied little ant
was finally resting. One of then
when asked as to the graveness o
Mr.. Neil's condition replied:
I'VE can only say that we nov
have hopes of his recovery"
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-02-10
WEEKLY REVIEW
TRADE CONDITION
BRADsTREETs REPORTS QUIET
WEEK THROUGH COUNTRY
WITH SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT
IN SPRING BUYING

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-ln review
ing the business of the country Tor
the past week Saturday Bradstreets
said:
While retail trade in some lines OF
wearing apparel has been helped by
the coolest or stormiest weather OF
the winter, other branches OF trace
and Industry and transportation
have been interfered with suthclent-
Nv to make the week as a whole
rather quiet one the country over.
Wholesale and jobbing trade has
been rather quiet and while there
are signs that improvement along
conservative lines is making prog
ress, the caution as regards spring
buying is as marked as ever, and the
country merchants policy, even
when the most active buying IS
noted. is in the direction of small
land frequent rather than large pur-
chases.
Commodity prices as whole are
irregular. Grain quotations are raj
living from the depression OF last
month, but other lines showing little
lstrength and this week some metals
lproyisions and cotton are lower
with most other lines displaying q
weak tone. Raw wool sales are
largely at concessions. Collections
show little improvement.
Buying of pig iron is of the SINAI
: Hot character, but in the aggregate
lit is of fair proportions. However
J the price situation is weaker ant
. especially in the Central West. Ba
1 Iron is up So per ton. Demand 10
structural material is fair, but Ger
;. tain ones have shaded prices in or
der to stimulate business. Prices o
lplate are also lower, the concession
being offered by the less importan
makers.
Business failures in the Unite
Estates for the week ending Februar
6 number 272 against $50 last wee
and 1913 in the like week of 1907.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-02-10
THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
A Sacred Drama Shown by Moving
Pictures.

The first record we have of any
production of this kind is in the
fourth century, A. D., among the
Greeks, and was called Christian
Paschon." All through the middle
ages different dramas of this nature
were portrayed, chiefly by religious
orders. During the crusades many
similar plays were given for the pur-
pose of stimulating the people to ac-
tivity in the saving of the Holy City
from the hands of the Saracens. In
December, 1907, Pathe Freres of
France offered to thee people of all
nations his wonderful production,
"The Life of Christ" in hand-color-
ed moving pictures, and so great has
been the demand for this picture
been that it has been shown in the
larger cities to the exclusion. of all
other moving pictures.
The Methodist church has secured
this great scenic production and of,
fers it to the people of Lewiston
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
nights at the small admission of II
cents for children and 25 cents fo'
adults. The pastor, Rev. Rober
Reid, will explain the scenes as thu
film is being run.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-02-10
Ever Watchful
A Little Care Will Save Many Lewis
ton Readers Future Trouble.

Watch the kidney secretions.
See that they have the amber hue
of health;
The discharge not excessive or in
frequent;
Contain no "brick dust like" sedi-
ment.
Doan's Kidney Pills will do this
for you.
They watch the kidneys and cure
them when they're sick.
Jacob M. Lands, 900 E. Main
street, Lewiston, Idaho, says:
81 am pleased to recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills, as l gave them
thorough trial and received the
best of results. For about year
prior to using them I suffered from
disordered kidneys, which caused my
back to be very lame and sore, ane
the least quick movement or over
exertion sent sharp swinges through
nv body. l was caused additional
annoyance by the irregular action 0
the kidney secretions. which wer
lscanty, contained sediment and CAV
me considerable pain during passage
| Hearin of Doan's Kidney Pills,
procured them at the Idanha phai
macy. and they completely dispelle
all my suffering. Since using tnei
have no pain in my back and car
: not say enough in praise OF this rem
edy."
For sale by all dealers. Prince
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffal
In. Y, sole agents for the unite
States.
Remember the name-Doah .
and take no other.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-02-10
TIGHT MONEY
DANISH BOURSE

COPENHAGEN, Feb. ia
financial panic has arisen here on ac-
count of tight money market ana
extensive speculations on the bourse
Two small banks have been affected,
and one of these was forced to sus-'
pend payment. There has been
run on several of the banks,
The minister of finance today con-
ferred with the officials of five of the
principal banks here and it was de-
cided that the government, in con-
junction with the leading banks,
guaranteeing all the risks for the
banks affected by placing the neces-
sary funds at their disposal. which
will Immediately satisfy all the Dam
ish and foreign creditors.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-02-10
Detroit Automobile Show.

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 10.-Big-
ger and better than anything that
has preceded it in the way of a show
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
Bureau Of Mines

The passage of the Huff bill to estab- fish a bureau of mines is really one of the most important measures that the present session of Congress has per fected The bill was drawn by Con- gressman Huff, who represents a min ing district in Pennsylvania, but it's passage is in part due to Oscar w. Underwood's persistent advocacy of it. The passage of the bill and the estab- lishment of federal bureau of mines is gratifying alike to MT: Huff and to Mr. Underwood, each representing a great mineral district.
 The new bureau will strive to foster mining interests, while it will especi- ally endeavor to protect those who work deep down in the bowels of the earth to bring forth hidden treasures. | The fatalities in the mines of the coun- | try exceed 1000 every year, and the 
 hope is that federal investigations will reduce this great loss of valuable lives.
 The mining industry, it is true, is outranked by the agricultural inter- ests of the country, but it is outranked by nothing else within our borders. Agriculture is encouraged by a depart ment, and it is but justice to extend to the mining industry the help that bureau can give. The government owes this much to an industry that largely adds each year to the wealth of the country. Recognition comes late, but it is just as welcome today as 1t would have been 50 years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
THE STAGE AND PROFANITY,
om the Youngstown Telegram

From the Youngstown Telegram.
 An editorial in the Washington Star protests against the use of profanity oa the stage and the point is well taken. 1t would be well, however, to have the protest include books, magazines and the newspapers.
 Profanity is without excuse at any time or place. It may bring laugh to the actor but it will lower the reputation of that actor in the estimation of the decent man and woman. The play that needs oaths to make 1t winner de- serves to be placed on the shelf. Such actions are not only disgusting to the adult but as well are of positive injury to the youth who may be led to believe that the use of such language is smart and witty.
 The stage has enough to contend with without inviting additional criticism. Often a premium is offered for the serv- ices of a woman who has figured in a scandal and there are plays filled with suggestiveness if not downright vulgarity. But there are good wholesome plays and upright actors and actresses also and the theatregoer can select tnat which is clean. | It is the duty of those who control the stage to eliminate the objectionable fea- lures wherever possible and it would be | well to place the ban on profanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
ELEPHANT TO WALK ROPE.
Huge Animal Has Mastered the lntri' cacies of Tight Rope Walking

From the New York Times.
 By and by Bostock may have pink rhinoceros that whirls around on trap eze by holding the bar in his capacious mouth While waiting to achieve that wonder of training Bostock has gone half way.
 An elephant that walks the tighrope is sufficiently strange to be sure to amaze the crowds in the Bostock arena at Coney island Blondin is the name of this beast. He will make his bow on the afternoon for the season. Blondin is 8 years old, and it took a full years course in tight rope walking before he mastered the in- tricaces of the act. He performs eight feet above the stage and walks 20 feet. Considering the size and weight of an elephant, this is considered a remarkable feat A similar trick has been taught to animals of the cat species, such as leopards. whose claws save them from falling, but with animals which have no such safeguards the task of teaching perilous tricks at height becomes far more difficult.
 To steady the rope for Blondin so that it will support his weight without sag ging, it rests on a support in the middle. The least sway of the rope would throw the elephant off his balance Blindin ar rived here on the Minnehaha on her last trip, and the truthful press agent asserts the elephant on the voyage once attempt ed to walk the mainstay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
Manual Training

The manual training department of the Birmingham high school is a rev elation to visitors. Those persons who have recently visited the high school have opened their eyes in wonder at the skill displayed by the young men in shop work. Without in any degree minimizing interest in the academic courses the manual training feature of school work has added a zest to popu- lar education that the average layman' had until now failed to appreciate.
 The shop equipment at the high school is excellent so far as it goes. For carpentry work it is practically complete. But in branching out in smithy an iron working outfit is needed and this can be supplied for an ex- penditure of a few thousand dollars something like $300O, it is estimated. The money should be forthcoming.
 Educators everywhere are beginning to see the benefits to be derived from manual training and are introducing it in school and college work. And Birmingham is to be congratulated on being a leader in this far-reaching movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
4 man am, cross'd with diversity.
 Two Gentlemen of Verona
Alabama'S Primaries

The newspaper comment on the re- cent primary held in this state would fill a volume. The action of Alabama had come to be regarded as the eul- imitation and determination of an anti Bryan movement, because of the op- portunity for direct action by the dem ocratic voters which our primary plan wisely afforded. It is impossible to quote all the expressions of opinion that the vote of last Monday called forth.
 An article from the Boston Globe, a democratic paper, shall suffice. as fol- lows:
 Special significance will be attached to the result of the vote in the state democratic primaries of Alabama, where the voters for the first time cast their ballots directly for their choice of pres idential candidates in the national con- vention. It is the first direct popular cApItSslOn lldl udS been Idkon on the question of the democratic national con- ventions selection of the party's candi- date for President. MT. William J. Bry- an has carried the state, with Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota receiving a. 1attering vote.
 Alabama has been long distinguished as a cotton state but industrial changes have so broadened and deep ened her activities that today she may be accepted as a type of the new ideal south. She possesses a combination of advantages for manufac curing enter prise such as are scarcely found in any other part of the country, and which promise to place her in the front rank of manufa curing states For these req sons alone the analysis of the vote in the democratic primaries will have wide interest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
NOT EASY TO KILL.
Illinois Man Has Long EIuded Death in
 Many Forms.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 A. P West who lives at Geneva, H., and who for the last 40 years has been little less than living marvel to medical practice, now lies at his home critically Hi, with little hope of his recovery.
 A Confederate bullet a SS-foot fall, and swiftly thrown baseball did not suffice to end this life until he had reached a point far beyond the allotted time of man. He was shot through the lung at Vieksburg, and while medical skill saved his life, the wound left a queer effect ever afterward. His heart beat so fast and his pulse continually was so hign that when physicians by chance got hold of his wrist they were alarmed and told him to go home and take to hsi bed.
 However, with the unheard of activity of his vital organ he has been an as- sessor for several terms and a justice of the peace for 36 years. He has been credited with being one of the best bicy- cle riders in Kane county, and with a pulse at fever speed and a humping heart | he was able to make a century run with apparently little effort.
 ] It is related that at one time in his life | West absentmindedly sawed off limb of tree on which he was sitting 33 feet from the ground. The fall injured his 1 spinal column, resulting in the loss of a section of the vertebrae.
 At still another time he failed to get out of the way of a spinning baseball | that caught him on the leg below the knee. It required months for the victim to get over this wound. It is said that 1t caused him more trouble and pain than either of the other two injuries.
 None of the injuries has kept him from activity in business and social matters. He has been an enthusiastic Grand Army man and a warm temperance advocate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23

prices, ard possibly the Chicago cut of S5 per cent will not become fully estab- lished. It is really based on low-priced cotton, and spot cotton is worth Il cents, and the tendency is upward. The Chicago firms policy seems to be based on the price of contracts in New York. which has distant relation only to the real price of real cotton. A cot ton bag will soon be novelty in New York, and Marshall Field & Go. should look for quotations of cotton in the land of cotton itself. They sell goods freely in the south. and they should not appear so strenuously on the bear side of the souths great staple.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
School Improvement Work.

School improvement as it is being worked out in Alabama has much to do with the campaign against tuberculosis, said a physician. "The leaders in this movement may claim that tuberculosis is another reason for doing number of things for which they are asking the peo- ple's aid in order that the schools and school buildings may be as attractive and efficient as possible. At the regular meet ing of the Lakeview School Improvement association, one-half hour was devoted to tuberculosis and its relation to the school, management of the pupils and to the homes. It is expected that the Lakeview School Improvement associa- ton will give careful consideration to the health problems of their school buildings, which already is so excel lently cleansed and kept in an excep- tionally sanitary condition"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
THE RESULT IN ALABAMA.

1 From the Washington Herald.
 1 If Alabama votes for Governor Johnson a number of newspapers of certain class have been saying, it may be possible Q defeat MT. Bryan for the democratic pres- idential nomination. Well, Alabama has not voted for Johnson, but for Bryan. by large majority, and the Johnson movement has received a decisive check. No one who has observed with unpreju- diced eyes the drift of political sent'- ment in the south would have guess 7d any other result in Alabama, or any other southern state. for that matter. What is true all over the country is true in the south, that the rank and file of the dem ocratic party are for Bryan, and when ever the question is put to popular vote, as in Alabama, this elementary fact of the democratic situation will be dem onstrated.
 Outsiders appear to be greatly im- pressed with a secondary fact in the sit uation. which is that many southern newspapers are lukewarm or openly hos tile toward Bryan. But MT. Bryan has thriven on newspaper criticism, and en- tirely too much importance has been at tached to it, particularly as an indca- ton of public sentiment over wide areas. The anti-Bryan press in New York is a conspicuous offender in this regard, its readers being frequently regaled with snti-Bryan quotations from inconsequen- tial southern prints, while the weightier opinions of such widely circulated and influential newspapers as the Louisville Courier-Journal the Atlanta Constitution, the Houston Post, the Birmingham Led ger. the Nashville Tennessean, the New Orleans States, the Raleigh News ana Observer the Columbia State, the Charles ton Post and Richmond Journal are wholly ignored. Colonel Watterson has recently taken the metropolitan press 10 task for it's obvious inability to fatnom political sentiment west of Hoboken, ana he has been trying to impress incredulons Gothamite editors with the fact that has lust been freshly, emphasized in the Ala bama primary. It is to be hoped that they will see a new light in the. returns from that state.
 We do not ignore, of course, the opin- ion antagonistic to Bryan which nnds ex- pression in such able journals as the Charleston News and Courier, the Ricn- mond Times Dispatch, the Montgomery Advertiser or the Nashville Amerlcah' hut we doubt whether any one Of these newspapers is representative of the dem ocratit majority of it's own state We are inclined to believe that a large pro portion of those southerners who have
 vvi eventually found occupying substantially the position of MT. Watterson, himseil the original Johnson man. but who now accepts MT. Bryan as the logical candi- date of the democratic party and the man best fitted to present the issues by which alone the party can win.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
Chicago and Cotton Goods

The largest jobbers in cotton goods in the west, Marshall Field & Co.,, are responsible for the latest cut in cotton fabrics. They say the cotton mills have been demanding prices not justi- fled by tho price of labor and raw cot. ton, and they have therefore reduced prices to point 35 per cent below those which were current before the panic occurred in October. The Mar. shall Field firm had been persistent bears all winter, but their latest cut outdoes all previous efforts in tha. : direction. Some of the New York houses ar9
 however. endeavoring to\ matntsfr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
ADVICE TO PoLoNlUs.

By Shakespeare. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vul-
 gar. The friends. thou hast, and their adoption
 tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hopes
 of steel But do not dull thy palm with enter-
 tanment Of each new-hatch'd, unfedgd comrade.
 Beware Of entrance to quarrel; but, being in, Bear it. that the opposed may beware of
 thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy
 voice; ' Take each man censure, but reserve thy
 judgment Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not
 gaudy; W For the apparel oft proclaims the man; And they in France, of the best rank
 and station, Are most select and generous, chief in
 that Neither borrower nor lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friends; And borrowing dulls the edge of hus- bandry. This above all--to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou can'st not then be false to any
 man. Farewell; my blessing season this in thee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
Returns From St. Louis.

The American Federation of Musical unions had a pleasant and profitable meeting in St Louis" said Frank Arrico, who was delegate from the Birmingham union. "rhe federation meetings are al- ways largely attended and the one which recently adjourned was one of the most representative
 Although St. Louis Is a great commer- cial city and a city of vast wealth. bus- ness did not seem to be as brisk there as 1t is in Birmingham. In fact l sa " many business houses in St. Louis vacant, and here in Birmingham vacant houses are few and far between"
 MT Arrico returned home Thursday night, having been a delegate to the musicians federation every year for near ly a quarter of century.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 woman's idea of the truth is it ought to be.
 When you tell girl she is pretty it's a sign she knows it whether, she is or not
 The usual idea of whether a man IS respectable or not depends on how he is dressed.
 A comfortable thing about not having any money is the way you don't have to lie awake nights worrying over whether you'll lose it.
 Men are so reasonable at home they claim the water they get to shave is out of the ice pitcher and to drink out of the Kitchen boiler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
Commander of Naval Veterans.

Among the interesting personages who will attend the Confederate reunion.' said an old soldier, lis Judge A. o. Wright of the municipal court of Jacksonville, Fla. Judge Wright is commander of the Con federate Naval Veterans and he hopes to get together as many of the old navy boys as possible.
 Judge Wright is native of Greens boro, and was a midshipman in the Uni ted States navy in Fighting Bob Evans class. He served in the war at Savan- nah, Charleston, Port Royal Fort Fisher, Drury's Bluff and James river, mad sur rendered with Admiral Semmes at Greensboro, N. C., April 25 1865. He went to Florida in 1868 and has resided in that state since'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-23
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Business Prosperity.

Tn spite of this being a presidential election year, business in reviving and the outlook for summer trade is very bright. indeed" said a banker.
 Signs of returning prosperity are mak- ing their appearance in all parts of the country and in the Birmingham district conditions are shaping up in most satis- factory way The improvement in the ion ana steel trade is at the bottom of our thrift and by July everything here should be moving along at normal rate"