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CCEUR D'ALENE PRESS __ EVENING EDITION _ PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY Cokcr u'Ai.enk, Idaho SUBSCRIPTION One yesr, In Advance...................... $4 00 Six month*, In advance .................. 2 25 By carrier, weekly..................... JOS. T. SCOTT. Editor and Publisher ME TOO. What has become of the "Ratbdrum line" now? Does 03-54 sound like a "water line"?—Pend d'Oreille Re view. The above is from Bro. Barker's pen and we are pleased to see the Weil organ acknowledge that the line adopted by the Demorcratlo county Convention is the proper one. This Is more than the Republican county oonvenion dared to do and the politi cians are now attempting to rectify their blunders by calling a mass con vention for the purpose of indorsing the Democratic lins by nullifying the action of their convention. Gentle men, yon can fool part of the people part of the tltrne but you oannot fool all of the people all of the time. The new process of makng aloohol from sawdust opens up great possibil ities for Coeur d'Alene, us tons of sswdust are dally wasted by the mills of this olty. An average of 500 pounds of sugar can be extracted from a long ton of sawdust and from this product 376 pounds alcohol may be distilled. The question la fully oovered in an article in this issue and it Imlght be a good proposition for the Commercial club to take up and try to Interest persons with cap ltal in suoh.au industry. "THREE CENT TOM." Cleveland's Unique Mayor and Bk Antlovrpurutlon Ideas. Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, who recently put himself lu danger of being sent to jail for contempt of coart, Is always doing out of the or dinary things. He Is a fighter and be lieves that in combating greedy corpo rations quiet and parlorllke methods will not always auswer. He has been working for years to get three cent tares on street cars for Cleveland and Is sometimes known as "Three Cent Tom." It wns In pursuance of this |t| t: TOM Is JOHNSON. OS H t est that be recently disobeyed an seder of the coart. The city council of Cleveland bed ordered the Cleveland Mectric Railway company to remove tta tracks from one side of e certain Street to tbs other In order to permit the Forest City Railway company, Which was organised to operate lines on n three cent bails, to ley Its tracks In the street. A month elapsed, and the company did not comply, and bright and early one morning the may or went out with a gang of several hundred men and began tearing up 0te tracks which had been ordered re moved. An injunction was obtained by the company's attorneys command ing the mayor to desist from the per formance. but be calmly put it In bta pocket until the Job was completed. The mayor Is reputed to be worth •boat $ 8 , 000,000 and hsa retired from •ctfve business life. As he doee not have to worry about making a living any longer, he devotee his time, energy and often his money to efforts In the direction of carrying out hie political and social Ideas He la an advocate cf the Henry George land theory, end his methods of fighting corporations have made him famous far beyond the bounds of hie own city and state. Mayor Johnson began his remarkably nocceeaful business career as an er rand boy. He wee not very rich when he married, which waa when be was only about twenty years of age. "Whet have you with which to sup port a wife 7" his prospective father-in law asked. "These two hands," wee the ebarae RMhOc rooty, and it woo him hie wits Furniture for Sale. As I am about to leave the city 1 will sell my furniture cheep. It it •11 nearly new end consists of: par lor, sitting room end dining room seta. Four bed room sets and var ious odd pieces. Also carpets, nigs, etc. JAMR8 ROCHE. Gardner street near Fourth street. Wanted—Timber meu wanted; $2 per day and hoard. Inquire D. Dav is, manager Gold Ridge Miuiug com pany [Original.] When Irene Gurney recovered from a long Illness she had forgotten all of her later life. Her husband and her child were strangers to her. It was recommended to her husband to place iter In a sanitarium where she would be treated for her defect She was taken to a retreat In the country and placed under the care of Dr. Downing Bowers, a specialist in such cases. Mrs. Gurney was a beautiful woman, and tliere was nothing In the impair ment of her memory to detract from her mental or physical charms. Dr. Bowers was a bachelor. He had con stant access to her, and day by day, month by month, he felt himself yield ing to a fascination for her which was Irresistible. Then the possibilities of the situation occurred to him. The woman he loved did not know that she waa married. As her physician, be had great power over her. At first this was a mere flash In hia brain. Then there were times when It would obtrude Itself upon him as a temptation. Finally when his love be came a great power, absorbing bis whole soul, he resolved to put bis plan Into practlqp. Hts patient had been told that she was a wife and a mother. He gave her to understand that a cure could be best effected by travel. He would leave bis practice and take her away with him. The spark of love for her physician bad not entered Mrs. Gurney's breast. But she was delighted at the prospect of being released from her confinement and seeing the world. Site believed him when ho told her that he was her husband, but since a new marriage would satisfy any misgivings she might have In the mutter she proposed that the nuptial knot be tied again. Perhaps there was something in the doctor's evident conflicting emotions that Induced tier to decline ills proposi tion without taking this precaution. The doctor consented, but it was some time before he began to make preparations for a wedding and their departure. He shrank from the crime he was about to commit. But Satun, though he permits us to pause in crim inal Intent, shurply watches us to see that we do not forsake It. The doctor finally begnn to make certain prepara tions of which he alone need be cogni sant. From these he haltingly took up others till at last he.had everything In readluess to secretly steal away with the woman he coveted. One morning when ho visited his pa tient he found her highly excited. "Oh. doctor!" she exclnlmed. "Last night I went to bed with a headache and dreamed all night. I dreamed of our little boy. It seemed that he had been familiar to me from his birth. I remember him now, und can nee his face plainly In my mind's eye. I dreamed of you, his father; but your features were uot the same. They were some one I had long loved. Oh, doctor, what does It menu? Ain I getting worse or better?" The doctor was visibly agitated. He put hi* hand on her wrist—from force of habit or to gain time to compose him self—then said: "I think your recovery' is near." "Then bring me my boy. I must see blui at once." For some time the physician did not reply. He waa trembling. "Yes," he said at last. "I think it will be safe for you to see him. 1 will ■end for him." Imprinting a kiss on her cheek, something he had never done before, he left the room. All that day the patient chafed In her room, waiting for the boy wbo bad been reetored to ber memory and thinking of the face of the man she had eeen In her dream. 8be eent for Dr. Bowers, but wee told that be bad driven away, leaving word that be was going to eee a patient at e dis tance and would be long gone. Night came, and he did not return. It during the next morning that a car riage drove up to the bouse, and In a few minutes the door to Mrs. Gurney's room opened, and the man and boy of ber dream stood before ber. "Mamma!" The woman to whom memory waa slowly returning saw a vision of a child she indistinctly remembered with reawakening love flying toward ber, hia eyes wild with delight, hia blond locks dancing over bis shoulders, bis whole body alive with motlou. He flew Into her arms end, clasping hia own about ber neck, covered ber face with kla And who Is the tall man looking at this childish ebullition eagerly, between hope and fear? Memory struggles for a moment like a bird endeavoring to escape from n cage, then one ward sets It free. "Alice." She starts up, wondering, fearing. The poison Instilled by ber physician troubles, retards, ber returning mem ory. She had not doubted that be waa ber husband, but this man aha dimly remembered aa such. Stepping for ward, he took ber. a daaed expression on ber face, to his arms, and father, mother and child were wrapped In one embrace. Gradually the wife's memory was restored. There was one event in bet fife that she would have gladly blot ted out—the narrow escape she bad made from being made a partaker In the sin of Dr. liowere. The disappearance of a prominent specialist In nervous diseases has re mained a mystery. Where be went, what was his object lu going, wbtthei be lives, no ons knows. Why be went Is only known to the couple whose happiness be so nearly rained. J. EUGENE DRAPER. Sleuths of the Secret Service W HEN kings and emperors go abroad plumed knights on dashing steeds surround them. When the president j of the United States goes out unless It be an occasion of greatest state, we eee no men on horseback. In demo cratic simplicity Theodore Roosevelt travels from the White House to the "summer palace" at Oyster Bay. Ap parently be la unguarded, yet from un der the bat brims of tbe plain clothes men by bis side peep the piercing eyes of secret service agents. In pockets of Innocent looking trousers lurk big pis tols. In sleeves of civilian cloth are bleeps ready to lannch blows at sus picions persons wbo approach too near tbe president Tbe chief of the re public Is really as carefully protected aa many monareba, though tbe protec tion la mi ostentatious. Occasionally tbe vigilance of the president's bodyguard gets It Into trou ble. On the president's latest arrival at Oyster Bay a secret service man struck a photographer wbo was tak ing an unauthorized snapshot of Mr. Roosevelt The photographer swore out a warrant for tbe guard's arrest and when the defendant came up for a healing half Long Island flocked to the trial. It was to be a famous case. Great lawyers were expected to make memorable addresses, but the secret service man spoiled tbe show by plead ing guilty to a charge of assault and cheerfully paying a ten dollar fine. Guarding tbe president Is not of course, tbe only or even tbe chief duty of the secret service. Trailing and capturing counterfeiters and smug glers, running down moonshine stills, rollingOftrelgn spies—all are in Its day's work. Counterfeiters are Its particular enemies. Slickest of criminals are the counterfeiters, and slickest of detec tives are the men who catch them. CH zar WILKIN AND Hia BOOUBS' OALLKBT. Pretty nearly every counterfeiter In tbe world has hia "mug" In the secret service rogues' gallery in Washington. At the head of this great detective ayatern la John E. Wilkie. Mr. Wilkie used to be a reporter In Chicago. He did hia first Sherlock Holmsing In that capacity. A heavily Insured grocery store bad been mysteriously burned. Suspicion pointed to tta owner, one Arbuckle. Arbuckle proved an alibi, and tbe police were baffled. Wilkie wasn't. He poked around tbe ruins un til be found a tintype of Arbuckle with a Philadelphia address on Its back. He sent the picture to Philadelphia, where It waa re'cogulsed aa tbe photograph of James Moan, wbo bad abandoned bis wife and eloped with a seamstress. Anned with this exclusive Informa tion, Wilkie went to Arbuckle, who thought that all waa discovered and cou feeaed. Wilkie in 1881 became city editor of tbe Chicago Tribune end continued in newspaper work in Chicago until be waa selected by Secretary Gage In 18B8 to command the government's de tectives. Mr. Wilkie has a great fund of stories showing tbe Ingenuity of "shovere of the queer." One Is this: Dressed like a prosperous carpen ter, with a beam on bis shoulder, tbe counterfeiter plods aloug tbe street In front of a promising show window the beam gets tbe better of him, be lurches; be loses bis balance — crash! Through tbe plate glass shoots the beam. Out comes the proprietor. "Say. you. pay for that window." "Boas. I can't afford it." "The deuce you can't. You look pros porous enough." "Boss, you can search me. I ain't gol a cent" And tbe fellow turns bis pocaets In side out and Inadvertently drops a bank note, which be picks up quickly and attempts to conceal. "Holy smoke! A $100 bill!" exclaims the owner of tbe window. "But It ain't mine, boss." "All right. I'll have you arrested anyway. Come In here now. and"— "Boe». I'll tell you what I'll da Pll give you $25 and call It square." Then the dealer. Joyous and well plMsed. takes the counterfeit $100 note and gives the crook $78 lu good money. But even with such original schemes ta this the counterfeiter la tripped op la the long run. Real Estate Snaps *2750.—Will buy 180 acre* ol One farm land 100 acres In meadow, 80 acres seeded to tim othy, slid 60 acres ol timber land. Al! fenced. Good log house and bam. Spring water. We have many other farms ranging In price from *30 to *85 per acre. Some with lake frontage. Give us a call. LOTH IN ANY PART OF THE CITY *210.-1 lot 51*218 feet. *225 —1 lot 50*110 feet. *250.—1 lot 50x110 feet. *300 —A corner lot 50*110 feet. $425—2 beautiful lots, one a comer. *1500.—Will buy 20 acres of first class level land, adjoining the Swedish Lutheran col lege tract. This Is a snap. Look it up. •1800.—Two lota, one a corner, with a 5 room house. Electric lights and city water. Small house In rear. Good barn and other outbuildings. Good location. I40n.—Will purchase lot 50x122 feet with a good bam 14x18 leet. All fenced. Located on 4th street. *800.-1 lot 50x120 leet with 3-room house. Home fruit trees growing. FOR RENT. 2 store rooms. Fine location for business. 5 room house with good outbuildings. All kinds of residence lots in any part of the city and new additions Robt. W. Collins Real Estate Insurance Loans Suite 8, Wiggett block mu -=• Tgi' JofVKjW?-T A Broken Home Often comes about from a "blow up" in the household. Don't let it occur again, but come to us and get things ad justed by bargaining for a home at the bargain prices we're now selling. Make the deal today, it will pay you to invest AMERICAN TRUST COMPANY Dlttemore Bldg Sherman St Perfect Plumbing MEANS Health in the summer Peace of miad la the winter Satisfaction all the time CALL ON Coeur d'Alene Plumbing Co. J. W. OEZELL, PROP. Phone 50 M. Nexl door American Trust Co. IT'S ALL IN THE COLLAR If it's ill fitting, you'll not becomfort able, neither will you look well. There are all kinds of collars made and sold, but when it conies to COLLARS THAT FIT here is the place to buy them. We carry all popular styles in all sises. For good collars and low prices, buy here. LABOR Brand XX UNION MADE A. Carlson & Son Agents for all Foreign Steamship Lines WM. DOLLAR, President V. W. PLATT, Cashier F. A. BLACKWELL, GEO. H. FREEDLANDER, Vice President Asst. Cashier Exchange National Bank Of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Capital and Surplus $125,000 Issue Drafts and letters of * credit available in all parts of the world; ac counts of firms and indi viduals solicited. Four Percent paid on Sav ings Accounts and Time Certificates of Deposit. . . Money to Loan on Easy Terms SCHOOL DAYS will soon be here again The Boys WILL NEED CLOTHES and we can supply them A big line of Boys' and Youths, Suits, d»| n Short and long pants, ranging from vteOOUp 'Boys' advertising caps given away free Wednesday next. BJORKLUND The Man Who Has No BANK A CCOUNT envies the man who has a bank account. The man who *Sas a bank account envies the man who has a bank. And the man who has a bank envies the man who has a large bank But Any Man of Good Reputation can open an account with a moderate sum in the Coeur d'Alene Bank & Trust Co. PAID UP CAPITAL «0,000.00 iSTWe can help deserving customers in many ways. A good word from your banker helps your credit and standing in the community, and we are always ready to speak a good word for deserving customers. MEATS many markets. Place a trial order wiU, « GEORGE READ ■hone 124 Scott Block, Fourth street ■ I Hotel Idaho European Plan Coeur d'Alene THE DAILY PRESS, 10 Cents Per We