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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
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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
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