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Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
Character in tho Thumb.

Determination is shown by tho
thumb, which s q study in itself. It's
three joints representing the three
powers which rule the world--I.ove,
Logic, and VIII The third Joint. sur
mounted by the Mount Of Venus, il,
aA its name states. dedicated to Love;
the second, rising from the mount to
the first joint. shows Logic, or it's alb
sencc; and the first phalange, ending
in the nail, declares the force forth
coming to shape success or fortune.
Want OF length between the nail and
the first joint OF the thumb tells Of
weakness, which often explains how
brilliant chances marked by lines on
the palm have been allowed 10 slip
through feeble fingers. Only in clev-
er hand, wncre iinger-tips are pointed,
and their first phalangcs L. O., jointal
long, is this short-topped thumb de-
sirable. In this its weak.
ness is but that OF all imaginative
genius-inabillty to cope with the
rough realities of daily life. With
clever hands the short first phalange
tells OF inspiration and creative facul-
ty, and in such cases a long second
phalange to the thumb denotes a ten
dency to see things from all points Of
view, which makes life difficult, but
composition easy; for such people can
so put themselves in sympathy with
all sorts and conditions Of men that
they viii paint them TO the life, whether
with pen or pencil. Persons whose
thumbs show n long, broad. thick,
and coarse-looking first phalange
while the second is short and insignifi-
can't, are obstinate to pighgadedness;
but when both phalanges are OF equal
length, they show theman qui ira loin,
his determination being based on the
calmest, dearest logic, and curried
out by an unfaltering will 1.-THE Hon.
w. K. u. Forbes, in New Review,
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
ReligIou. Notes.

Next to Paris, New York is the
largest Catholic city in the world.
The Methodist church needs 1000
new preachers every year to keep its
pulpits supplied.
They are about to begin on their
long talked of s., 600. 900 Episcopal
cathedral in New York city.
New York, according TO the best
judges, now has Hebrew population
Of from 225. 600 TO $50. 600 souls II
is the center OF Judaism OF the world.
A fourteen-year-old girl who was
sworn as witness in Camden. N,
j.. murder case said she had never
seen a bible before she entered the
court room,
The greatest number OF Lutheran
ministers In any one state are 20 be
found in Pennsylvania. That state
has 745, and Illinois, which comes
next, has 469. with 1872 in Wisconsin
and 42S in Minnesota.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
The sour. raI,n Mn., 10. ne.,.

Although the tired body must have
rest; although the oyertaxcd brain
must have the strain lifted OH for Is
while; although the mind must have
changes OF subject and rcfreshment,
yet we remember that there Is no va
cation for the service OF the soul, that
our Christian living, our Masters
service, must go right on nil the
time. whatsoever the season. where
soeyer we are placed. Blessed be his
name' there's to be found constant,
an everyday renewal OF our strength.
a divine feeding and refreshing OF
these souls. IL wonderful variety giyWl
10 our service, u marvellous adaptable
ity Of kind and amount OF service re-
quircd Of each ono so that fatigue
never comes 10 the soul from any
overwork for Christ. Buffalo Chris.
tian Advocate.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
SeIf-DiacInIina.

"Al Burton, the great gambler, who
/ see by an article in the Inquirer, has
quit backing his judgement with his
money, is a peculiar man, said well
known trayelingman yesterday. 'He
is a great big fellow, over six feet, and
weighing over 200 pounds One of his
peculiarities is Furnishing himself
when he loses his money or does any
thing that after-thought suggests to
his mind as foolish. remember
story heard some time ago. Burton
had been playing faro-bank and had
lost quite sum OF money He went
to his room, and the man who occu-
pied the next room declares that he
spent the night marching up and down,
and at every step swearing at himself
something after this fashion: You
thought you knew all about faro didn't
you? You old fool, that's
what you are, and SO on. Finally, he
laid himself out on the table, folded
his arms and rolled off on the floor.
This is q favorite way he has OF
furnishing himself, and, being such O
large man, it is doubtless very effect.
i've. Cincinnati Inquirer.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
Christ tho Mediator.

II man Is TO become connected with
God II is through Christ. Jesus says.
II am the way, the truth, and the
life; no man cometh unto the Father
but by me. /" John 1876. And IN apos-
tie bears witness concerning Jesus,
that neither is there salvation in any
other; for there is none other name
under heaven given among men where
by we must be saved. Acts 4:l2.
He who denies Christ rejects the plan
ordained Of God 70 save men, aud
hence rejects God.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
Gems.

Conscience is the voice OF the soul:
the passions are the voice Of the body.
j. j. Rousseau
Modesty is to worth what shadows
are in a paintings; she gives to IL
strength and relief-La Bruyere.
True repentance has a double
aspect; 1t looks upon things past With
a weeping eye, and upon the future
with q watchful eye. South.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04

The heart youth does not pass, SO
long as its purity and innocence re-
main. We scar our own hearts by the
cherishing of sentiments we are d.
rected TO expel; we become discon-
tented and call our discomfort knowl.
edge; we forget that all knowledge
which does not increase our happiness
is spurious and not TO be trusted.
How strong are the hearts first strug-
giles under sorrow; how II battles with
distress and wars against despair and
disappointment; how vigorous It's Of.
forts to combat and overcome; but
sorrow is the stronger sorrow IL
the stronger - II IS drawn into the
heart BY the first breath that we in
hale OF this worlds air-a small seed
but still Il grows and grows and twists
and twists. until II brushes the poor
heart; and then, then we dic,-N. Y.
Ledger.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
Tweed AS All Sin


There recently died in Chicago an
old colored man named Joe Owens.
At the time OF his death he was head
bellman at the Leland Hotel in that
city. Years ago when Tweed was in
his glory, Joe was employed in the
Delevan House, Albany. There used
to be some heavy poker-playing in
that hotel during those lively times,
and Tweed's room was generally the
headquarters OF the game. Joe was
great fayorite with Tweed, as indeed
he was with most OF the thigh rollers
at the capital. Tweed had Joe made
the special guardian OF his room, and
no one could ever get in there II Joe
said no.
The old darkey happened to step
into the apartment one evening when
more than ordinary big game was
in progress. In front of man named
Shepard was "a stack OF chips repre-
senting So, 1000. Joe was an inveterate
pocker- player himself III those days,
he and the other colored boys having
game going on most OF the time in
in their quarters, and when he saw
that heap OF money his eyes fairly
bulged out Of his head.
Fob de Lawd. but | wish was in
dat ar game, said Joe with gasp. A
thought came 70 Mr. Shepard. He
sent Joe downstairs on some errand
and during his absence "A ''eold deck"
was run ia and fixed for the darky's
special benefit When Joe came back
MIR. Shepard asked him to play a
hand or two for him while he went
out Joe with his heart beating high
took his scat and began TO play
When two or three hands had been
passed Joe was startled at getting
| four aces.
He tremblcd an over; but just then
Mr.. Shepard returned and, looking
over his shoulder, said Go for them
| Joe; 20 for them Joe did 60 Tor
them Everybody but Tweed drop
ped out 81 the game. He kept on
raising, while Joe encouraged by Mr..
Shepard. raised him eyrry time until
the darky had piled the IS. 600 ia the
centre OF the table
Then Tweed called him, and Joe,
his eyes fairly cleaning with Wild eS-
element. threw down his four aces.
while he reached for the money, say
| ing;
What you got dab. iassA Tweed"
-Four aces said the boss, cooily
laying them down
20 aces" cried Joe. "Fo' accsl
Fore de i.awd, Mhssa Tweed, how
can you hab 10 aces"
The gambler had had their fun, and
had seen Ne excited. They were
ready 10 90 on with their own game.
so Shepard showed a hundred dollar
bill into Joc's hands and thrust him
out into the hall, saying: Get out
OF here you black scamp You talk
about playing poker, and you don't
know there are eight aces III a poker
deck. Get out"
A hundred dollars ne any other
time would have made Joe supremacy
happy, but, dnzcd with the big play
he had just been having and knocked
out by the result, no forgot his wealth
IN his ablcct misery and mortiiica.
ton.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04

great deal of pleasure will be the re.
suit. But because we are neighbors,
we need not necessarily be close
friends. We may be friendly enough
to enjoy the pleasure OF doing them
little kindnesses and receiving the
same in return. Being kindly disposed
10 all by no means implies that our
house is to be open from morning till
night to visitors. The typically good
natured person, who is at every ones
heck and call. is likely to be greatly
imposed upon and to please no one
really; one must be able to say mo, "
and to decline being made use OF BY
every one.-N. Y. Ledger.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04

Give me these links: first. sense 10
need; second, desire TO get; third, be-
lief that, though He withhold for
awhile, he loves to be asked, and
fourth, belief that asking will obtain
give me these links and the chain
will reach to heaven, bringing all
heaven down to me. or bearing me up
into heaven. DR.. Guthrie.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04

We cannot know the day
When God shall call us from this world OF
sin.
Where sorrow broods, where passions enter
in
Hearts, leading them astrav!
But this we know, death may be very near,
That messenger from God may soon be here
To summon us away.
One long. Last qulyering sigh,
Then sims cold grasp will from Us quickly
fall,
And sorrow be thrown back like some black
pail,
While we enraptured lie
In angel arms, and with thrills OF delight,
Float on through golden gates, to floods OF
light,
Not far OF, but close by.
Close by! The thought how sweet!
No weary struggling through unfathomed
space.
No wild, exhausting efforts towards the
place
Where glory Is complete
But, like the thief, the very day we die,
Our souls to paradise will swiftly ny.
our precious Lord TO meet.
sophia l.. Schenck, in Chr. Evangelist
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04

Watch!


There is one point, having a direct
bearing on every persons highest in
terests, which should be sacrcdly kept
in view by all That is, that the pc
riod of our existence here, usually
called this life, is period Of pro-
baton, time OF trial, for another
and settled state of being This
life, then, is nothing more nor less
than the practical determination Of
that awful next Here we work out
an everlasting destiny! Here we
weave the strong, enduring web Of
amending happiness, or the black, SOL
emn, direful pail OF neyer-ceasing Bit
terness and despair.
Oh! what solemn period is this
short life
What awful issues hang on few
short years.
What a dreadful thing it Is to lead
sinful existence in this world!
We have here some directions how
to improve this period-by watchful-
ness and prayer.
Our life here is to end, but at what
t4tlb ID uuGGELdlus MS lldkt5 II
prudent to be always on the alert
We must prepare by being wakcful
and constant in prayer. We must
allow no strangeness between God
and ourselves.
Praying men are always blest.
Christ is coming again. We are to
meet Him.
He will sit on His throne TO Judge
when He shall appear in power and
glory, and every eye shall see Him.
That coming closes our day Of grace.
and II not prepared for his everIast-
ing blessedness, then there will be no
more sacrifice for sin. The thought
that it will be like a thief in the
night makes the matter the more
awful. How possible that in a shor,
year, a month, day, an hour, all
may be forever lost!
To fail to watch. is as IL one
sleep with flames around him; not 10
pray, is as If one were on a wreck
and would not call TO the sail that APP
pears in the distance!
What are we doing?
Are we looking for our Savior re
turn
Are we waiting and watching2-
Christian at Work.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
To BE a Good Nsiehbor.

To be a really good neighbor de-
hands the possession OF many excel
lent qualities-tact temper, discern
ment and consideration for other peo-
ple's feelings; and, II we possess all.
or some Of these qualities, innumer-
able and never-ending are the benefits
we may confer on each other. and d
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
Consecrated by Deeds.

No man can work effectually in the
Lords vineyard without conservation,
and no man can enjoy tho grace Of
conservation who does not work the
best he can in the Lords vineyard. -
Texas Baptist and Herald.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
Tran.osndIng The Darhno.,.

When under affection the light OF
all JOY goes out and darkness broods
over the soul, look up. and you will
see the stars OF Gods prosa!ses glow.
ing in the skies. Texas Baptist and
Herald.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04

Ethel--"Don't you like those sofas
that have just room enough for twop,
Maud--''Yes, but like those that
have hardly room enough for two far
better. "--Munsey's Weekly.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
SUNDAY READING.
RELIGIOUS ITEMS WELL WORTH
SERIOUS REFLECTION.

Not Far OR--Be Ever Watehfui--A
Ruling PassiOn--The Soul's Faith
Must Not Rest--Clouds and
Sunshine--Ete., Ete.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-04
A Word from snnrrsnn.

Sin kisses. but kills. Il is swee,
poison. Like q glittering sword It is
brightness to the eye, and death 10
the heart.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-18
Tho Check stopped When He Died.

Tho Clock Stopped When He Died.
The sentimental and superstitious who
are given TO tracing the laws of coin
cidencee win find an interesting subject
for their attention in the recent death OF
q jeweler in Bucyrus, O. For many
years it has been the office of slzinful
German matchmaker, named Frank
Kehrer, to attend to the town clock,
which is in the steeple of the court
house. During the past few months the
health of Mr.. Kehrer has been poor, and
the clock, deprived of his careful atten-
ton, has been keeping Indifferent time.
Monday morning the tiRepiece struck s,
and few moments later it stopped.
EARLY risers who heard the chime af-
firm that there was something indescrib-
ably weird and peculiar about it. Later
risers, noticing the clock hands pointing
to sos, commented upon the subject and
it's aged guardian. Later in the day the
news spread that Mr. Kehrer's condition
had suddenly become worse and that he
had died at sos that morning. The hands
of the old town clock still point to the
identical time when the active mind and
skilled hand of its master were paralyzed
in death.-Jewelers' Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-18
aparleus Money i'm tho Northwest.

eparieus Money in the Northwest.
6ecret Service Agent Harris returned
TO this city late Thursday evening after
N absence of about two weeks in Wash
ingtUn and Oregon, where he had been
sent by the treasury department tolook
after gang of counterfeiters whoswere
flooding that part of the country with
bad paper money. Mr.. Harris was in
Portland for several days locating the
counterfeiters, who were raising FIVE -doA-
lar national bank bills to $50. The work
was cleverly done, and is considered as
neat . piece Of straised" work as has yet
been seen.
The detective got q clew, and followed
his men to Whatcom, Wash, where they
were taken into custody, but were re-
leased for want of sufficient evidence.
On Nov. Is, at Tacoma, Mr.. Harris ran
across counterfeit ten-dollar bills with
the vignette Of Daniel Webster, and had
one Of the gang shadowed and arrested,
but his trial has not yet come off.
Counterfeit ive-do1lar pieces are also in
existence, and Mr.. Harrisrstates that the
entire country has been flooded with the
spurious coin. While in Portland Mr..
Harris arrested one Professor S. Brown
for issuing his advertisement ON bin
similar to bank note. Brown was fined
$100. San Francisco Alta.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-18
Proposals for the Purchase of Los
Angeles County Bonds.

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED
y by the undersigned up to the 1ith day of
March, 1891, for the purchase of three hundred
(3OO( Los Angeles county court house bonds,
numbered consecutively from one u to three
hundred, (3OO) both numbers included, of the de
nomination of one thousand $1,000 dollars each
and payable on the 1st day of January, A. d.
1910, or at any time before that date, at the
pleasure of said county, in gold coin of the
United States, with interest thereon at the rate
of five ~ per cent. per annum, payable semi
annually on the 1st day OF January and on the
LIST day OF July OF each year, bonds and interest
payable at the Office OF the county treasurer of
said Los Angeles county,
Said bonus having been issued in conformity
with an ordinance enacted by the board OF SUI
pervisors of said Los Angeles county, dated
April 2Sth, A. ID. 1890, and under authority
conferred upon said board by the provisions of
act of the legislature of the state of Califor-
mia, entitled IAN act to establish uniform
system of county and township government"
approved March Ia, A. ID. 1888
None of SAID bonds will be sold for less than
face value and accrued interest from July 1st
1890, nor shall any sale thereof be final OF
pervisors. and the right is hereby expressly re-
served to reject any or all aforesaid proposals
Mark envelopes Proposals for the purchase
of court house bonds"
BY order of the board of supervisors of said
Los Angeles county.
]. BANBURY,
Treasurer of Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. 9th, 1891. I'd
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-18
Two Doctors.

Almost every one has made his jest
about the proneness of doctors to dis
agree, the one prescribing exactly an
opposite course from that ordered by an
other; but not every one has had an op-
portunity toconduct such an experiment
as was made by the late Baron Lutz,
formerly prime minister of Bavaria
The baron wasonce severely wounded
in battle in both legs. The wound in
one leg was much like that in the other.
It struck him that here was chance to
study the ways of the surgical profession
and beguile the long hours of his con-
valescence. He accordingly called in
one doctor and gave him charge of his
right leg, but told him nothing about
the wound in the other, and then called
in another surgeon for his left leg, keep.
ing him similarly in ignorance about the
wounded right leg.
The doctors adopted very different
method Of treatment, but both wounds
healed at about the same time. When
the baron's legs were quite well he de-
rived a great deal Of amusement from
getting the doctors together and mysti-
flying them with questions about the
way each had treated "his leg. youths
Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-18
wnasa s1o, 900 to Polite bartender.

Wn1sd $40, 900 to Polite Bartender.
A respectable looking man. who said
he wasa lawyer from Allegheny City and
administratorof ftheestate of Mr.. Hughes,
q millionaire, who recently died there,
called atGreen's hotel, ,E Eighth and Chest
nutstreets, recently, and said that he had
come TO huntup bartender who waited
On Mr.. Hughes lastsummer. Mr.. Hughes
in his win bequeathed to the young man
$4,000. Nh. Hughes on dying did not
know the -bartender's name, but gave a
full description Of his appearance.
The visitor questioned all the bartend-
ers about the length of time they had
been at Green's, and if they had known
Mr.. Hughes. James Cleary, thehead bar
tender, gave him the names and descrip-
tinn of all those who worked there+dur-
ing the past year.-Pmladelpha Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-18
His Half Dollar Was Glass.

A striking illustration of the quantity
Of bogus coins now in circulation in this
city was given in a downtown store re-
Gently. A customer who had made
small purchase rendered fifty cent
piece in payment. The clerk pushed it
back across the counter and shook his
head. "That half dollars little too
new," he remarked. ''What do you
meant" demanded the customer. "rn
show you," replied the clerk, picking up
the coin and then letting it fall sharply
ON the counter. The shock caused the
counterfeit to fly into fragments. Itwas
gfttering sham composed of glass,
with thin veneer of metal. There
seems to be good reason for thinking
that q gang of counterfeiters and their
accomplices are reworlzing Chicago. An
astonishing quantity of bad coins is now
outamong citizens, and apparently its
volume is increasing rapidly. Chicago
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-18
ACROSS THE WAY.

sHaye you no friends across the wAy4~
My little city darling said;
sAnd when there comes rainy day,
Cant you look out, and nod your heaA
To some one else, as can do
To VIII and Fred and baby Sue9
heard you tell mamma today
You had no friends across the way
"But have friends-dear friends. cried.
With Quick, remorseful thought OF homo
"A band Of brothers, side by side.
To greet me il goor come.
How dear they are, cannot sayi
Nor how it cheers me day by dsy
To see across the valley far,
How strong and beautiful they arei
"And YOU should see the robes they.weaf;
Their mantles thick and soft of green,
Then rainbow tinted yet more fair,
Or er1nine wraps with silver sheen
But vet think love them hest
When, all in somber shadows drest
Their broken ranks in silence lie
Beneath the solemn midnight sky.
Sometimes misty curtain drawn
Between us hides these friends from me;
But when at sunset it Is gone,
Dear child, how fair the sight seei
For where the nearer ranks divide
The gates Of glory open wide;
And 10! in that unearthly light
The farther hills TRANSPORTED quite;
While yet anotherand another
Peeps DER the shoulder Of his brother,
And smiles through rosy mist and seems to say,
Heaven lies beyond us-such little way
such friends are nice, " she softly said,
For any one as old as you;
And when Tn old and you arc dead,
Perhaps I'll go and see them too.
But now I'd rather watch to see
Children across the-street from me;
And nod to VIII, and play peep-bo
With cunning little baby Sue."
Susan II. Ludlum in Harper's Baxar
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-18
Royal CofRns sR ROtting.

The royal tombs in the abbey of st.
Denis, Paris, suffer considerably from
the damp, which destroys the wooden
cofins ranged on biers in the vaults.
Not long ago the. DUO d'Aumale obtained
permission to place the remains of hi
Cumde ancestors in fresh receptacles
while last week some government off
cials inclosed the'old worn out coffins Of
Louis XVI and the Due de eBern in new
strong oaken coverings. The inner lead
coffin was quite intact, 80 the.dead were
not ot-disturbed.- Letter.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-18

Mrs. Geo. p. Smoote, highly cultivated
and estimable lady Of Prescott, Ark, writes
under date of April q, ,'S9: "During the sum-
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my stomach and liver hopelessly disordcred,
Nothing ate agreed with me. I took chron-
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deapaired ofby my family. The leading ply
sicians OF the country were consulted, but
the medicines administered by them never
did me any permanent good, and l fingered
between life and death, the latter being pre-
icrabie to tfr 1gonies was enduring. In
May, 1885 became disgusted with physi-
clans and their medicines. l dropped them
ell and depended solely on Swift's Specific
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permently wcll--well from then until now"
1t Builds up Old People.
My mother who is very old lady, was
physically broken down. The use OF Swift's
Specific Is. s. 81 has entirely restored her to
health.
RIB. DILwoRTH, Greenville, s. G.
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