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Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

Prince Bismarck once told a story Of
the battlefield Of Koeniggratz. The old
emperor. then king of Prussia, had
exposed himself and his star 10 the
enemy's fire In a very reckless fash
lon and would not hear Of retreating
to a safe distance. At last Prince Bis
marck rode up to him. saying: AS a
responsible minister must insist upon
your maJesty's retreat to a safe dis
lance. II your majesty were to be
killed the-victory would be of no use
TO us" The king saw the force OF this
and slowly retreated. but in his zeal
returned again and again to the front.
when ! noticed it, Prince Bismarck
went on. II only rose in my saddle
and looked at him. He understood 1t
perfectly and called out rather an
grily. Yes. ! am coming But we did
not get on fast enough, and at last /
rode close up TO the king, took my
foot out of the right stlrrup and Sc
cretly gave his horse an energetic kick.
Such thing had never before hap
pened to the fat mare, but the move
was successful. for she shot of In a
fine canter."
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
Charming Away Tigers.

No woOdcutter will go about his
task in the Indian forests unless he is
accompanied by faker. who is sup
posed TO exercise power over tigers
and wild animals generally. Before
work is commenced the faker assem-
bles all the members of his party in a
clearance at the edge of the forest and
erects number of huts. in which he
places images of certain deities. After
offerings have been presented to the
images the particular forest is declar-
ed to be free of tigers. and the wood
cutters In virtue Of the presents they
have made to the deities are supposed
TO be under their special protection.
If after all these precautions a tiger
SEXES one of the party the faker
speedily takes his departure without
waiting to offer superfuous explana-
tions.-Calcutta Statesman.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
Tricks of Short sinht.

Not only the inanimate but the ami
mate world presents itself IN strange
forms to the myopic. Humanity, for
instance, is often revealed in some
what inhuman guise. Thus. so far as
ocular demonstration goes, the world
to the shortsighted is peopled by men
and women as faceless. sometimes
even as headless. as the horseman of
legendary fame. Indoors myopic per-
sons get quite accustomed to talking
with persons who have neither eyes
nor nose. Out of doors the phenome-
non is more striking because oftener
repeated. At quite a short distance
the face melts into the atmosphere
and becomes either a cloud or. like II.
g. Wells invisible man. "a nothingness.
Il see the hat and the figure. some
times the beard. | see the walking
stick. If the hand is ungloved this
stick is waving tremendously a little
way from the sleeve edge. for the
hand. like the face, has vanished."-
Strand Magazine.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
PAY FOR PRISON LABOR.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Dec. 81.
Convict laborers in the Missouri
penitentiary will hereafter be worth
more to the state. as the board of
prison managers has decided that
so cents day for the toll of able
bodied men in freproot shops fur
nished free by the state, as well as
power for all necessary machinery,
is not suficient. Most of the con-
tracts for prison labor contractors
win have to pay IS cents a day for
each man employed.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
are the words
used by the great

emahCipator IN MS a.
nous speech, delivered az his old home %
his friends and neighbors at Springfield, III.
Recalling what little opportunity he had In
his early youth to get an education, and look
ing back to the days when he walked miies
and miles for book flor he then owned none
OF his own, Abraham Lincoln pleaded with
the rural and village people, his old friends
and associates to give their children better
chance chance to fight the battles OF life
successfully. >
SURELY YOU want to give your boys and gFs bettal
chance necessarily college educalon but still
homo education II Is mot always the school that gives hl
education; you give this opportunity better
your family right In your home Good books-vauabi
books. Oil how Lincoln cherished these.
What would Lincoln have said had you asked bis advice
on buying great History OF the World entertaining
and educational Library for your home, The Library
UnveFsAl HistoEy and espec ally u offered Il Il =
lass than half Of the regular price and easy
We want you to Iheae volumes, examine them In
your own home without any expense your part tksn
you decide. That Is what the family the pictnFe
below have DONE Mail the coupon before you forget
H. See the volumes thsmsslvea-lt eosts You nothing.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31


The hardness and strength OF fse IN.
ereases with the degrees of cold. and
as icebergs come from the region Of
perpetual cold Of an intensity difficult
to realize It IL readily seen how they
can become demons of destruction. !"
The hardness Of icebergs is something
wonderful. even SURPRISING that of the
land Ice" reported from ST. Peters
burg In 1740. wherein II Is declared
that I'm the severe winter Of that year
a house was built OF Ice taken from
the river Neya which was ffty feet
long, sixteen feet wide and twenty
feet high. and the walls supported the
roof. which was also OF Ice. Before II
stood two Ice mortars and six ice can.
non made on a turning lathe. with
carriages and wheels also Of ice. The
cannon were of the caliber OF six
Founders. but they were loaded only
with one-quarter pound OF powder and
with hemp balls-on one occasion with
iron. The thickness of the ice was
only four inches. and yet 1t resisted
the explosion" Ice palaces have also
been built In late years In this coun-
try and In Canada which have stood
for weeks, so, then. how strong must be
the ice In masses hundreds OF feet in
MISUNDERSTANDING Press.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
MONEY ORDERS RY GABLE.

WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 81
Under an agreement entered into be-
tween the postal authorities of the
United States, Canada and Great
Britain and the Western Union Tele-
graph company. money orders may
be exchanged by cable on and after
tomorrow The maximum amount
be issued in England will be 40
for which a single money order may
pounds sterling, but for orders is
sued in the United States and Can
ada for payment in the United King
dom the maximum amount will be
II pounds. one shilling, four pence,
which is the equivalent of 5000.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
TINES CELEBRATES.

LOUISVILLE, KY. Dec. 31,-Ths
Louisville Times celebrates its TWEEN
ty-fifth birthday today by issuing
one of the largest and handsomest
special editions ever printed in the
south. The Times is the afternoon
edition of the Courier-Journal,
"Marse Henry" Watterson's paper.
r. w. Brown, the managing editor,
is former national president of the
Order of Elks, and was strong con-
testant for the presidency of the
National League of Baseball Clubs
in the recent election.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

A song and dance comedian was
working in cheap vaudeville house
where a performance was given hour
ly. The tired performer had made
nine appearances and had fallen asleep
on his trunk when the manager poked
him In the ribs and said:
Hey, you wake up! It's time for
you to 90 ON again"
Say" retorted the performer. Il
can't go CD again. What do you take
me fora flm?'-Metropolitan Maya
zine
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
NEW PAPER FOR RICHMOND.

RICHMOND. Va. Dec. s1.-A
new afternoon paper. the virginian,
is scheduled to appear in Richmond
tomorrow. The Rev James Cannon,
Jr., superintendent OF the Anti-Sa-
loon League of Virginia. is said to
be back Of the project. and the paper
is expected to be prohibition in its
editorial tendencies.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

All advertisements under this
heading will be charged for at the
rate of five cents a line each inser-
ton. Copy for classified advertise
ments must be in he Office before
noon to insure publication the same
day.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
]. D. CAMPBELL RETIREs.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. 81
James D. Campbell, general solicitor
of the Philadelphia & Reading.
leaves that road today and will re-
Tire under the pension system. He
has held The once since 1890
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

Petitions containing over 1900
names will be placed in the hands
of the county auditor of Bonner
county this week by members of the
Anti-Saloon League, and will go
before the county commissioners at
their first meeting in January. The
dries have some 200 names more
than needed to call for vote as to
whether Bonner county will be wet
or dry. Many of those who have
signed the petition for the election
have expressed themselves as not be-
ing in favor of cutting out alto
gether the saloons in the county, and
being in favor of having the saloons
conducted under strict police regula-
ton, the chopping off of the licenses
of unsavory places and the thorough
enforcement of the present laws.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
His Preference.

Pompano-w Why do you work 50 hard,
Bagley? You slave from morning I'M
Ill night. Bagley-l know | do. 1
wish to get rich. want to die worth
a million. PompaDo-Well. there's no
accounting for tastes. Now, / would
much prefer TO live worth half a mil
Iion.-Philadelphla Call.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

There Is to be masquerade ball
sIven soon in Wallace and the cos
lmes this year are of a much higher
nd better grade than those which
ave been used heretofore and in
Jude pretty well everything from a
might in shining armor to Jack
Johnson, Jim Jeffries, Cook or
Peary.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

HOWELL had the nightmare last
night. Powell-That so? Howell
Yes; thought that was being kicked
BY the foot of the bed.-New York
Press.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

In an effort to be made by COM
nercial and civic organizations in
he cities Of the west to induce ex-
President Roosevelt TO return to
this country through Pacific coast
port and visit the principal cities
.Of the west before his return to New
York, the Spokane chamber of com
merce will cooperate with the asso-
|ciated chambers of commerce of the
Pacific coast. Mr. Roosevelt is plan
ming to return to the United States
lin February, and a movement has
started an agitation to have the for
mer president return by way of the
Pacific coast.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

"a CYNICAL smile p

PA, what's a cynical smileT"
your mother will show you. my
SON, the next time / tell her l can't
snare ali the money she wants"
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
A Limited -FOrevsr."

Whats fbe matter. ciara?' asked
father Of his daughter.
.'Ferdy and | have parted forever"
"Um. In that case ! s'pose be won't
be calling for couple Of uightsF'
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

There is a quantity of turkeys on
and at the various markets, AMI
lew Years will see many tables with
bis delicious fowl served upon
hem.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

Rev Station will speak upon THE
oung Man in Business" at the Pres
yterian church tomorrow evening.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
POT PoURRl
Things Of More or Less Local
Interest.

How are you going to spend
w Years.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
FOR SALE.

A SNAP. MUST BE SOLD AT
once; two lots, one conner; $500.
Call 500 Indiana.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
Rev. Dr.F. w. Gun.aulus,

Presidana AFusomg Institute
and PasAug CenaRaa Church
(AudiaoEiuml Chicago. aaYss
Without the slightest touch Of re-.
iigious or political big0tFy. tho editors
OF the Library u Universal HisanEys
have dealt soberiy and deeply with
the forces OF church and state which
have ruled mankind. With great
scholarship they have not become
dull; with . trained aud genuine
power OF Imagination they have never
become vague. u h Q work 81 real
orous, It's English pure and eloquent.
] am certain these volumes must be
OF immense popular serVice.in stimus
lating historical study In our
country"
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

FOR sALE-CoMPLETE SET OF
ice tools cheap. E. n. La Yeine,
OtteTson block.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

Sen. William d. Allison,
The crand Old Man u ISwa. Saya
II have recently bought the IL
braFy Of Universal History and
find the topical arrangement Of
the matter especially advanta-
geous for ready reference and
take pleasure in recommending
this valuable work as we'll a. the
plan for its distEibution."
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

FOX RENT-RoOM 10 WIGGETT
block, after Nov. goth.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

FOR RENT-2-RooM SUITE or
modern housekeeping rooms. In
quire at Racket store.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-sEyEN-ROoM HOUSE.
furnished or unsurnished. Occur
d'Alene Bank & Trust Co, real es-
tate department.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-12-31

The American Underwriters Corporation in Bankruptcy
this in
l n absolutely of charge
oft
than st nupnd from
ue Americas
tt hn and tenhen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-18

Europe. He tells nothing that any
well-informed business man does not
already know, and the question at once
| arises in every mind, what is he at
tempting to accomplish by his coddling
trip in the middle west? He has no
new ideas, no new information gather
ed in Europe or elsewhere, to present.
He distributes taffy and commonplace
in the west, and the western mind will
be no wiser when he goes away than
it was when he came.
What Aldrich is after is the real
point. He no doubt is trying to con-
ciliate the western business man so
that he will later ON be willing to ac-
cept central bank scheme. The east
is determined to have such bank, and
it knows that it cannot be won in a
single campaign. 1t should, however,
send out an advance agent who has
not palmed off tainted goods on the
people-some one who had no con-
nection with a tariff that practically
no business man indorses in the mid
die west
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-18
Using tha waterways

Montgomerys public spirit is unmis-
takeable. 1t Is building fine munic-
ipal wharf This wharf is city
improvement The city as city builds
it, and the merchants are about to
put on the river an independent line
of boats. This simply and briefly
means that Montgomery intends to use
its waterway. 1t probably means that
Montgomery will soon secure water
rates.
But how about the Warrior, upon
which the government has spent or
soon will spend over s7,000,0 900? Unless
we proceed to use it we will have small
chance. indeed. to induce the govern.
ment to extend the work by canalizine
either Village or Valley creek.
The stock argument of the anti
waterway people is directed at the
small use of the waterways at present
forgetting that the Panama canal is
about to be opened and that new cur.
rents of business are to be turned
southwark to the gulf-forgetting, too
that the railroads are overtaxed by the
business of the country.
What Montgomery Is doing this dis
trict should begin to do. The first coal
company that puts barges on the War
rior to carry coal to Mobile and New
Orleans will do more for this district
than words can tell. The hope of this
district is tied up In the use of the
Warrior, and it will be strange, indeed
II it fails to use river that the gov
eminent is expanding 100000 upon
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-18
9sssssssssgsgsQsssssss.s.s.sss9e
My gentle lady,
| wish you all the Joy that you can
wish. Merchant of Venice.
Sugar Trust Frauds

The sugar trust, not content with a
monopoly which enabled it to extract
from the pockets of the people I'M
told millions of money, has been de-
tected in the use of false weights.
Rather than go to trial on the charges
of using false weights it paid over to
the government about 100000.
1t Is now openly accused of a
variety of frauds which enabled it to
pay less than full duties on even
slort-weight sugar. It diluted samples
sent to the laboratory for polariscopic
tests. 1t procured the dismissal or re-
placement of offensive officials and 1t
always found protection higher up"
All these charges are ripening and
they will be ready for presentation to
Congress when new corporation laws
are presented this winter.
AS the matter stands it is important
to discover what official really was re
sponsible for the gigantic frauds oil
the sugar trust-who, in other words
it was who protected the men that
carried on the frauds. The frauds in
weights are not denied and the chances
are that other rascalities went with
short weights. Edward I. Anderson,
once superintendent of the trusts
docks. and Richard Parr, now a deputy
surveyor in the New York. customs
house, stand ready to explain the OPP
erations of the trust. Congress should
investigate the matter, but commit
tees of the Aldrich-Canno sort should
not be entrusted with the work
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-18
Nany GelsralIties and Little Truth

The amenders persistently and per-
haps consistently decline to discuss
the effects Of the two pending consti-
tutional propositions. They refuse to
show wherein the first section would
give us more prohibition than their
own Carmichael and Fuller bills af-
ford, and they particularly evade any
reference to possible legislation under
Section touching the sanctity of the
home. When they avoid these SUBJ
jects in their newspapers and on the
stump they lessen the educational
value of the present campaign, for
their part of the school contains no
classes in government and constitu-
tional rule
They have no time for education.
They prefer to precipitate what they
are pleased to call great moral issues.
They begin with declarations against
whisky BUNS" dwelling at length on
the evils of intemperance, the perora-
ton being strictly devoted to booze
or no booze"
There is nothing educational in this.
The citizen goes away with no clearer
ideas of the principles of government
of the scope and meaning of the
police power-of the true province of
the fundamental law-of, in a word, the
situation, than he had before he came
to the meeting or took up the news
paper. This is regrettable, because
this campaign should be one great
educational course on government, its
uses and abuses.
The exigencies of the campaign from
| the point of view of the amendment
people seem to forbid an educational
campaign, and in its place we have
one of sentimentality and ethics, the
whole capped with booze or no
booze" 1t is even interlarded with
| booze, and the result will be that many
| voters will at the end of the campaign
be no wiser than they were at its
outset.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-18
PAUL GlLARDONI.

From the Mobile Register.
How soon we are forgotten when we
are gomez A petition has been filed in
the office of the referee in bankruptcy
to place Paul's Cafe in bankruptcy" says
the Birmingham Age-Herald. This little
news note will recall to many who knew
him the genial good nature of Paul Gilar-
doni and the savory excellence of his
wares in selection and preparation. The
comfort of his cafe here at his old home.
and later up yonder at Birmingham, when
that burg gloried In the name of the
Magic City, away back In the eighties,
should remain in memory 1t is the lot of
saint and sinner, and honest Paul had
run his race before this smash. He is
dead now some years In his time Paul
kept in Birmingham an inn, mot rich and
splendid, but still In comfortable case"
which attracted the Birmingham philoso-
piers of the budding era of prosperity
who loved good victuals and good drink
For Paul's rubicund and rotund features
had always a welcome as pleasing as were
the gustatory triumphs of his Kitchen and
for an Italian menu he had no superior
in his art. Paul's cafe was as well known
In Birmingham and as universally liked as
were Delmonicos or Sherry's of New
York or as Kinsey's in Chicago; and the
man won and kept Birminghams approval
and custom during all his lifetime. "Ah
mel How quick the days ar f1ittingl"
when the closing of Paul's cafe is regard
ed as worth only five lines space to the
bright young newspaper men of Birming-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-18
HOLE THROUGH THE EARTH.


Camille F'lammarion in the October
Strand Magazine
1 have had the idea in mind for some
time past of sinking a shaft into the
earth for the express purpose of scientific
exploration, descending as far below the
surface as the utmost resources of mod
ern science would permit This idea has
just been forcibly recalled to my atten-
ton in consequence of the recent earth
quakes and the extremely contradictory
opinions of biologists upon tho interior
state of the globe. Is this globe liquid
or solid? From the most ancient times
scientific men have considered the prob
lem under all its bearings, without having
succeeded in lighting upon any satisfac-
tory solution.
The first result would be to obtain an
inexhaustible source of heat, WHICH might
be distributed and applied to industrial
purposes. According to the most au-
thentic estimates, the boiling point will be
found at depth of about two miles.
Without doubt we should also discover
springs of hot water, like those which
were found during the construction of the
Simplon tunnel in 1903, with a tempera-
ture of IS to 90 degrees centigrade. We
should also come upon subterranean
rivers and cascades which might be en-
ployed as a motive power.
The second result would be the ex-
ploration of this unknown world itself
Who knows what curiosities of geology
and paleontology might be revealed by
this investigation into these dark abysses
of the earth? What mines of iron. Of
copper, of precious metals such as gold
platinum, silver, radium and of elements
hitherto unknown and unsupported?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-18
THOMAS q. BUSH.

From the Mobile Item.
When 1t became known here late yes
terday evening that Hon. Thomas G.
Bush had died suddenly in Birmingham
there was universal regret. Expressions
of sorrow were heard on all sides and
these were genuine. They came from the
lips of men who knew Thomas Green
Bush in life as a pure man, a progressive
man. a man who loved his fellow man and
feared God.
For years a resident of Mobile, Mr.
Bush became known to thousands, some
of whom are now living, and who recall
him as one of natures noblemen. He
enjoyed the love and respect of all, and
when he took his departure from Mobile
there was regret at losing so valuable a
citizen.
In the death Of Mr.. Bush all Alabama
suffers His progressive spirit was felt
in many of the prominent Industries of
the state and his uprightness stood forth
as shining mark to the younger gener-
atoms.
Mobilians extend their profound SYM
pathy to the grief-stricken family in the
hour of their distress and The Item joins
with them.