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Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-02-13
BRITISH STEAMER FOUNDERS
Mine Men Lose Their Lives on the
Coast Of France.

BREST. France. Feb. 13.-The
British steamer Forest Castle found
cred on the harbor today. and nine
of her crew were drowned.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-02-13

Among the members OF the naval in
vestigation committee appointed BY
President Roosevelt Is Paul Morton.
formerly secretary of the navy and
now president OF the Equitable Llts
Assurance society.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-02-13
BALLNGER CLOSING BUSINESS.

VIII Withdraw From Law Firm in
Seattle.
SEATTLE, Wash. Feb. 13.--Judge
Richard Ballinger will today formally
resign as vice president and trustee
of the Seattle exposition. and also
withdraw from the law firm with
which he is associated in order to as
sumo the duties of secretary OF the
interior in the cabinet OF President
elect Taft.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-02-13
PLEDGER FUNERAL
DRAWS THOUSANDS.
Tabernacle Filled With People
to Pay Last Tribute to De-
ceased Evangelist

SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 13.-over
the dead body of Clifton P. Pledger
lying covered with flowers in the
Billy Sunday tabernacle last night,
was held such a neral service as
this city has never before seen. The
final services rendered to Billy Sun
days young lieutenant, who died on
the firing line, were such as his
friends imagined he would have APP
preciated, and but for the casket at
the foot of the platform and the wip-
ing of eyes all over the house would
have been hard to distinguish from
the regular services held during the
revival.
Most of the members of the choir
were in their places, the ushers stood
as usual at the ends of the seats and
at the proper time the battered tin
pans were brought forth and passed
for contributions. this time for the
mother of the dead preacher, who.
while the services were in progress,
was Fastening from Chicago to this
city, ignorant of the fact that her son
was more than seriously ill.
Tells of EvangeIist's End.
Services followed, ministers and
those who had stood beside the death
bed spoke of Pledger's last hours on
earth, and at the end came the
Browning resemblance to the now ia
smiliar revival meetings, when Mrs.
Rae Muirhead, who had been Pledg-
-,Rr's last companion, extended a call
o converts to come forward, Sc re-
N ponding This last had been dis
euk ussed. the ministers believing that
]. Pledger would have preferred his
kyangelistic work to be carried on at
2 is funeral services rather than have
Given eulogy of himself.
e How Pledger had fought to keep
olive until his mother should come,
Ind how his last words and thoughts
we're of his work was told by Mrs.
Iuirhead, who. at his bedside, held
is hand as he died and who, herself
:. korn to exhaustion with -ceaseless
~ catching and work. was supported
m snly by stimulants administered from
lie me to time. Since Pledger began to
t nix. Tuesday morning. Mrs. Muir
pad has had hardly an hour of sleep,
hd even after the funeral and its
rain were over, she had left the
- SIX of breaking the news of the
lmI Fangelist's death to his old mother,
brI no was to arrive after midnight on
ND delayed train.
nd When the last words of the service
gO I'd been spoken and the chance was
~ ven for those present to view the
~ 9dy lying in state the curious crowd,
oil imposed mostly of women. swarmed
. ri,Arward eagerly, and the efforts of
MOI e ushers and ministers were re-
e eired to control the stream past the
nor INN. For an hour the people filed
we 4st to view the body.
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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17
ODD FACTS ABOUT MACEDONIA.
Uncertainty of Tenure of Law Re-
tards Country's Prosperity.

OF life in Macedonia a traveller
writes; 1T would appear from the
markets of the large towns that the
most profitable field of business is in
firearms and large knives. But these
do not adequately indicate the extent
of the trade, for beneath the surface
a large importation Of modern rifles
is carried on from the neighboring
countries into what is left of Euro
pean Turkey. Here is another strange
contrast. | have seen in the noun
tains the villagers collected for hunt.
ing bears with ancient fiint-lock rifles,
while the Turkish gendarme carries a
Martini, and this again was vastly in.
fertor to the Mausers or Mannlichers
which accompany a rebel band. The
best of the thought and effort and
wealth of the people is thus turned
away from real to false industry"
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Do you eat enough OF this

The great benefit in health and strength
that always is enjoyed by regular eaters
of good oatmeal is known the world
over. Every year there are more and
more caters of Quaker Oats. which is
recognized in this country and in Europe
as the one perfect oatmeal.
All the experiments of the govern
ment food experts and the athletic
trainers of Yale University prove that
cereal eaters are the strongest and
healthiest, and Quaker Oats stands at
the head of the list of cereal foods. 1t is
no only the best food, but it's the cheap
est food on earth. Eat it daily for
breakfast.
For city trade Quaker Oats is packed
in the regular size packages, but for
those who are lot conveniently near
the store for daily shopping the large
size family package is just the thing.
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ing to Congressman Charles Norton.
who had advanced toward the group.
Strange how the Langdons treat
him as a friend-intimate one. too he
thought. What II they should learn
OF Nortop's questionable operations nj
the capitol: OF his connection with two
unsavory deals M OF which result
ed In an amendment of the pure food
law SO that manufacturers OF a value
less consumption cure could continue
I o mislend the victims of the white
plague Norton. who had uttered at
epigram now celebrated In the tap
rooms Of Washington. The paths OF
glory lead but to the graft"
"Miss Languop $ very beautiful and
attractive. sir. said Hulnes. resuming
with the senalor.
Yes drawled the MississLpplan.
Girls In the south generally are"
well. | must be going. Ill think
about your secretaryship. Senator
Langdon. Perhaps | can find gome
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"A Gentleman
From Mississippi
By THOMAS A. USE
NovsH..d From fbs Play by Frederick r. To0mA
COPYRIGHT. 1900. BY THOMAS A. WISE
BY THOMAS a. I

COPYRIGHT. 1900. BY THOMAS A. WISE
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one.r
wish you'd think about It for your
self" observed the senator. while Hope
Georgia again nodded approval. 1T
would be a bard job. There are 30
many matters Of political detail about
which ! am sadly inexperienced that
really most OF the work would fall on
the secretary"
Bud Haines paused. Again he thought
over L~angdon's offer. Its g%enulneness
appealed TO him. Suddenly there dawn
ed on him an idea of just what Il
might mem to be associated with this
honest old citizen who had asked for
his help-who needed II. us Haines
knew only too well. He would lie the
senator's guide and ~con1dant-his i'd
wiser In big matters. Why, he would
practically be United States senator
himself. he knew the inside" as
few others In Washington. Here was
a chance TO match his wit against that
of Peabody, the boss Of the senate; a
chance to spoil some of the dishonest
schemes OF those who were adroltly
playing the game" He could bother.
too. the intriguing members Of the
third house." as the lobbyists are
called. He could direct a lightning
bolt Into the camp Of Andy Corrigan.
who claimed the honor Of being
speaker or the third house" These
thoughts crowded into his mind. Then,
too. he would become practically q
member OF the Langdon family and
have association with the two charm
ing daughters-wlth Carolina Lang
don.
1T would be a great chance" he
murmured half aloud; next thing to
being u senator"
The old Mississippian heard the
young mans words.
II reckon 1t would" he drawled IN
agreement.
you feel sure you wan meT' urged
the other.
Langdon chuckled.
IL asked you" he said.
Hnines came abruptly to decision.
1--WE thought 1t over, senator. and 1t
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17
A Thrilling Rescue.

How Bert r. Lean, of Cheny,
Wash, was saved from a frightful
death is a story to thrill the world.
"A hard cold," he writes, brought
on a desperate lung trouble that
bafied an expert doctor here. Then
| paid $40 to SIS a visit to a lung
specialist in Spokane. who did not
help me. Then | went to California,
but without benefit. At last | used
DR.. Kings New Discovery, which
completely cured me and now | am
as well as ever" For lung trouble,
bronchitis, coughs. and colds. asth-
ma, Group and whooping cough it's
supreme. SOC and $1.00. Trial
bottle free. Guaranteed by B. B.
Davis.
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Pleasant situation.

Clintonville. this county. had sew
eral thrills OF apprehension
on Tuesday OF last week. A driver in
the employ of a torpedo firm started
on with a load of 40 quarts OF nitro
glycerine. and when a short distance
from the barn stopped. got on his
wagon and started an argument with
a bystander. The became fright
ened aud started 10 run. but had not
gon far until the front wheel OF the
wagon struck an iron support OF a
porch at q street corner and the
horses stripped themselves from the
harness, leaving the wagon. with its
load OF condensed destruction, stand
ing-Oil City Derrick.
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could earn the money ana yer retain
his newspaper position. u scantlly dis
guIsed species OF bribery. which had
wrecked the cnreers OF several promis-
ing young reporters well known to
Haines. young men who hpd been thus
led into selling their columns' by un-
scrupulous machine dlctators.
Halnes knew that the Mississippian
had no Interior purpose to serve In his
offer, yet he must have time to think
over the proposal.
Il THINK you, senator" he finally
said. Il appreciate the opportunity.
coming from you. but I've never
thought Of giving up the newspaper
profession. It's a fascinating career,
one that | am too fond Of TO leave"
Langdon started to reply. when a de-
llghtfully modulated southern voice In
terrupted:
Father, I've been out with Mrs.
Spangler to look for some other rooms.
don't like this hotel. and found some
that | do like"
Hnines turned to see a handsomely
gowned young woman who had the
stamp OF Il particulars daughter In her
bearing and her countenance-a bru-
nette. with delicate features, though
determination shone In her eyes and
appeared In the self contained poise Of
her head. She was the imperious type
of beauty and suggested to Haines the
dry point stchings OF Paul Helleu. He
instinctively conceived her 10 be In
tensely ambitious. ind of this Haines
was soon 10 have unexpected evidence.
Gazing at her with n sense Of a grow
ing admiration, Haines gave an invol-
untary start as Senator Langdon
spoke:
MY daughter. Miss Carolina Lang
don. Mr. Haines." said the senator.
Carolina was interested.
"Are you the newspaper man who is
interviewing father? ! hope you'll do
4 nice one. We want him TO be a
successful and popular senator. We'd
like to help him II we could"
The correspondent bowed.
Il should say 0 certainly would
help him TO be a popular senator" he
declared emphatically. falling to notice
thai Hope Georgia was somewhat an
noyed at the enthusiasm displayed over
her elder sister. In fact. Hope Georgia
was suffering a partial II not total
eclipse.
"f'm leaving It to Mr.. Haines to put
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CONTINUED next week.
VIII Found in a Hat.

Probate has been granted Of the
will of a peddler who left an estate
valued at R11,937. He was Mr.. Har-
ris Norman, a Polish Jew, of Mill
road, Cambridge. The document was
found In his silk hat after his death.
1t was dated January IS, 1903. and
by 1t he left the whole Of his property
equally between Addenbrooke's hos
pital. Cambridge. and the London Jew
ish synagogue for the relief of poor
and needy Jews.-London Evening
Standard.
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No matter what we try among the
new cereal foods. there's always a
feeling that when we are through ex-
perimenting we will go back to good
old Quaker Oats.
In another column will be found
some of the reasons for eating Quaker
OAs; everyone who has eaten this
food regularly will recognize the truth
OF the statements made in these
advertisements.
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at ptll be q great chance IN every tody.
m accept"
seems to me 1t will be a great chance
In every way. III accept. Wen fix 1t
up tomorrow. and I'll try to make you
a good secretary"
Langdon held forth his hand.
And I'll try n make you a good
senator. my boy. Fix up nothing to-
morrow. Your duties begin tonight.
You are to come to dinner with me and
my daughters"
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rrOuol. Maker. ou,t.a.

When a sufferer from stomach
trouble takes DR.. Kings New Life
Pills he's mighty glad to see his
dyspepsia and indigestion fly, but
more he's tickled ove his new. fine
appetite, strong erves healthy
vigor, all because stomach, liver and
kidneys now work right. 25c at B.
B. Davis.
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won you come, Mr HutneSF
down the things l ought to say" broke
In the senator. HE knows"
Eyes, he knows everything about
Washington. Carolina" exclaimed Hope
Georgia splritedly.
The older girl spoke eagerly.
II wish you'd Interview me. Mr.,
HaInes, Ask me how | like Washing
ton. feel as though | must tell some
one Just how much | do like IT. 1t
Is too ~wonderfull"
"Td like mighty well to interview
you. Miss Langdon.' enthusiastically
exclaimed Haines.
II hope you win some time, Mr.,
Haines," remarked Carolina as she said
goodby.
Watching her as she turned away.
Haines saw her extend a warm greet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30

seeing a very superior brand of sunset that nobody cares a hang about one way or the other. It's a mighty onery com munity that can't afford it's own sun sets, anyhow, these times. Yet this star spangled idiot fixes you with his bale full glance and bypnotizes you into drag ging your poor. tired city-bred feet over so much perpendicular geography in or- der to see just a plain, ordinary sunset. that coming back you wish you'd spent part of your youth learning how to walk on your hands, instead of frittering the time away on other things He reaches the height of his genius when he can work up one of those mad, thrilling, in toxicating outings known as straw ride. Oh, highly superiorl
 For straw ride night It is customary to pick out night when there's no breeze stirring. The dust is usually thick ladle, and the thermometer is up to about or her own precipitation and not have to send out and borrow any from the neigh bors You climb into a large farm wagon that is suffering from a backward spring and flat wheels, and sit down cross legged, close to everybody else. on a pile of straw. It's peculiar kind of straw that they use for a straw ride l don't know where 1t comes from unless they take it out from the mattresses in the guest rooms before the season opens. It is a kind of straw that has 94,000 sep arate and distinctive ways of stabbing you through the promenade deck of a pair of white duck pants. at one and the same time. .Thus disposed, the merry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30

but 1,5OOoo0 cubic feet of gas are rushing daily from the hole they drilled. Another was drilled and oil was found. Options were taken upon adjoining atres
 All this inside of month.
 Franks income now Is very large. He is counted one of the rich men of the country.
 Doubtless you have heard Russell Corn wells lecture on Acres of Diamonds" If so you will remember the man who wandered all over the world in search of diamonds and finally discovered them by digging in his own back yard.
 Of course the moral of the lecture is that we are very prone to overlook the wealth that Is near to us and go search ing for the wealth that Is unattainable.
 Frank Klausnitzer, like the diamond seeker, found his fortune in his own back yard.
 You say that was an accident.
 He just happened to dream it out
 Nol The dream may have been only an accident, or he may have carried the thought for many days in the back of his head before he dreamed it.
 But
 The labors that made his dream come true were by no means accidental He did not stop with his dream. He carried it to consummation by deliberate effort
 We all dream dreams.
 But not all of us go out to make our dreams come true.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
ROBERT TOWNSEND HOUGF4-By Savovard

hostile to African slavery as it existed at the south and Hillsboro was a way station of the underground railroad.
 Before the close of hostiities between the north and south and ere the sol diers came from the front there was a wheat threshing in Highland county such a work as we had in the earlier day, when neighbor helped neighbor and grain was threshed by horse power, and they had a big and sumptuous dinner at the farmhouse at midday. On this occasion some 20 men and boys were at work threshing a crop of wheat in a district of Highland county that had not a single democratic vote. There came from the dusty road a paroled rebel sol dier, who had left Ohio before the war and located in the south, where he joined the Confederate army. As he passed along, one of the farmers engaged in the work said to his hands, "We ought to mob that traitor"
 A big lusty boy, 19 years old, sprang from the straw stack, pitchfork in hand, and in impassioned voice exclaimed, That man has as much right to travel unmolested the highway as anyone here.'' Such talk as this opulent and ignorant farmer had uttered was dis loyal. The crowd gathered round the youth and uttered many savage threats
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30

one French maid from Sweden, and ono air of hauteur, grandeur and exclusive ness. There's the young woman who came to tan and only freclxled, so that instead of being the fashionable fumed oak shade, she's merely bird s-eye maple There's the Soft Spot youth in the white flannel clothes-''
 Soft Spot? Wot dye mean by that?" broke out the House Detective.
 "You know when we're Dorn, all of us have soft spots in our heads" said the Hotel Clerk. Well, in some instances, the spot doesn't harden, but remains soft through life, and in some cases they grow up and go to summer hotels wearing clothes that look as If they had been wished on or else were worn by request The soft spotters are the lads who as- semble themselves in a group on the hotel porch of an evening and sing Good Night Ladies' until it's almost time for the ladies to be getting up for breakfast, and also render Seeing Nellie air for them would be Showing Harold Up
 ''But the worst vacation poet that ever went up against in the course of & very varegated and bumpy experience. is the party that's always breaking in on people when they're trying to be com fortable, with brilliant ideas about doing things. His Is the bright mind that conceives of charades for warm, sticky evening indoors and organizes the expeditions that travel miles and miles across a stretch of landscape that's most ly standing on end, for the purpose of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30

minority in that body. Buck Kilgore was another practicing lawyer there, and so was DeGraffenreid, another Congress man from Texas. There were others who attained to high place in the busi- ness world. All of us ate old Ragland's chickens, and some of us cussed old Ragland's table-also his beds, partcu- larly his beds, and especially his beds.
 From that day I have never despaired of American citizenship. Here was the best town in the world in which to die, and you could toss a stone from eend to eend" of it. and yet that community produced enough men who subsequently became distinguished to lend luster to a big city.
 I am now about to write something of a great and a good man, who came from little town of Ohio lie is unheralded to the world, but his is luminous mind and his heart of gold. The woods are full of such people in our grand republic. They are the salt of the earth, the con- servators of the institutions fashioned by our fathers and now in the keeping of a later generation.
 Just across the river from Kentucky is Highland. county, Ohio, settled by Quakers and Methodists Foraker came from there, and so did Beveridge. It was an anti-slavery community and intensely
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30

vacation issue, and I've been bitten so of- ten that now every time I see litho- graph of a summer hotel, I feel like screaming for somebody to come and ap- ply mad stone to me. I've been to the fashionable place with dippy towers and foolish cupolas stuck all over it, till 1t looked like the mad King of Bavaria might have designed it, and twas here they soaked me nine of those hard amal
 gam dollars per day for a room about the size of a bureau drawer, and charged eX
 tra in the bill for everything except the scenery. The reason they didn't charge for the scenery was because there wasn't any. I've tried the old farmhouse with home cooking, and I knew why gifls leave home. I've sighed for a lodge in the wilderness and kept right on signing after got there I've been to the strictly family resort by the sounding sea, with the sounding board partitions all over tho place, the sounding baby in the next room engaged in raising teeth, hives and nettle rash, and a troup of the sounding children uttering their characteristic sounds just outside my window every time I tried to take a nap in the after noon. I've fled as a. bird to yon mountain and fled right back again as soon as my week was up. I've been to the health restoring springs where the only real pleasure I had was taking out the return half ofs my round-trip ticket every little while and looking at 1t with d great, wistful longing.
 Say. Larry where do you suppose they get the kind of people that always take their vacations the same time you do and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

when the father sold a bunch of hogs, Chesters orphans brought s15. Every cent went on Chesters bank book
 The girls also have their own property But that is another story.
 The Kansas farmer has simply treated his children as intelligent units of the lit tie republic of the family. He has sup piled the motive-so lacking to most farm boys-of intelligent self interest.
 This is the true story of dream that came true.
 Frank Klausnitzer, with his wife and seven children, lived in an old, tumble down shanty which had once been a farm house near Butler, Pa
 Klausnitzer was poor, and his children were treated with derision at school be- cause they had no bread to eat, but only cold buclzwheat cakes.
 Some weeks ago Frank dreamed that oil burst forth out of the ground between the house and the old apple tree, and a voice told him to dig there.
 He told the dream to his wife, and some how they believed the dream and deter mined to find out if the agury was true. The wife sold some old wedding jewelry and Frank got a little money on an in- vention.
 Then Klausnitzer organized company Some Pittsburg men of wealth shared in his faith, and the Dream Oil and Gas company was the outcome.
 Oil was not discovered by the first well,