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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
HAVING A TOOTH PULLED.
Laughing Gas Caused the Patient . Hea]
OF Trouble.

Laughing Gas Caused the Pstien. . Heap
OF Trouble.
The dentist assured the tall man
chat II he took laughing gas the extrac-
ton Of his tooth would not hurt, and
50 he settled back in the chair and
the dcrti,t administered the anps-
thetic. The tall man was soon in
ireamland. He first imagined that
ne was on his wav to the Worlds
Fair, and when the tram was on the
down grade and going sixty miles an
hour the wheels left the track. The
air brakes broke, and the cars rushed
along at Il terrible speed. 1t was
with the greatest difficulty that the
dreamer kept in his berth. Tremen.
ions io.ting was caused by the wheels
running over the ties The suspense
was something awful: the wreck OF
the train was inevitable. The car
was filled with the shrieks of the
terrified passengers. mingled with
the crash of glass and the rattle of
the train. Suddenly there was a
deafening report and tremendous
concus sion. and the cars appeared to
crumble away. The tall man found
himself in total darkness, but sud
denly, to his horror, he discovered a
streak Of lurid fame through the
wreckage, which told him that he
would be roasted alive IL immediate
succor did not reach him. He could
hear voices directly over him, but do
as he would not sound could he
utter. The flames were making rapid
t<Su Il hn h.,
was confined, and their hot breath
was beginning to SINCE his whiskers.
Then came the crash of an AK di-
rectly over his head. The first blow
struck him squarcly in the back of
the neck, and he felt that his time
had surely come. The next one cut
off his left ear, and the third opened
upa space in his Uranium the size OF
saucer. The fire had now crept up
to his feet, and the left one was
slowly roasting, when another blow
from the ak. greater than all the rest.
knocked his head clean from his
body. He experienced a singular
hnzzing in his ear; there was a CLEAN
OF light in the distance, and with
bound he returned to conscious
ness.
The doctor vas standing over him,
holding double tooth in his forceps.
That was an old stager. and no
mistake. How he did hang. 1t took
all my strength to dislodge him."
and the doctor wiped his dripping
forehead with his handkerchief
''Where a-a-am L." were the first
words of the tall man.
why. right here in my Office" re-
Sponded the doctor ''You would
have had tough time if you hadn't
taken the gas"
well. if it had been roughcr than
it actually was l would now be a
corpse" and the tall man paid the
81. 40 and went out into the street.
feeling as if he had been walking in a
treadmill for a week
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
Health and Morality.

1t seems scarcely possible to over.
estimate the scope and importance of
those laws which tend toward the
acquisition and preservation Of
health, physical, mental, and moral
If child is scrawny and sick. peev-
ish and morose, full of bile and 'cuss-
ednesS" he will upset the decalogue
and break every commandments; but
do not set him to reading ''medita-
tions on DEATH" or to studying cate
chisms, but send him to the gymna-
SUM, allow him to commune with
nature in the open air, and he will
develop a better disposition and a
better character. Those pale, de.
vitalized, sanity children, filled with
negative goodness and amiable tame.
ness, are insipid and incapable of
those positive, robust, aggressive
virtues SO much in demand at the
present day.-Nursery Guide.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
Spanish yellow as u Garniture.

Spanish yellow velvet ribbon is
fashionable trimming for crea M
tinted nuns veilings, clariettes and
similar sheer wool fabrics, for young
ladies' wear. Some pretty brides
maids dresses worn recently were of
cream-white crepon so trimmed and
supplemented by empire sashes Of
liberty silk, soft and flexible in GUAM
THY and uncommonly wide, that
were laid in light folds around the
waist and knotted at the left side
with falling ends like the OrientalS
When the waist is slender and the
style appropriate this fashion is a
graceful one. In adopting yellow
garniture, the temptation to multi
ply them must be guarded against.
Touches OF the color are sufficient for
good effect, more tends to vulgarity,
slight variations OF shade also making
all the great difference between the
becoming and the unbecoming.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
Many.Eyed Monsters.

The question where flies come from
Is asked many times during the sum
mer 1t is always mystery to the
woman who has her house well
SCREENED how even one of these little
pests can get in.
The parents of a good many of
them were probably housed year be-
fore, when, in the autumn, vigilance
was relaxed and perhaps door or
window left unguarded.
With the instinct with which
nature has provided them they crept
into the warm house, into cracks not
perceptible, and there they hiberna.
ted. There, too, they lay their eggs,
III to each fly, thus looking out for
the propagation of the race; and so.
when the first warm days come they
surprise US by buzzing away on the
windows or around the table.
In the meantime the eggs are
Matching and by ''1y time" they come
forth in Swarms
Sometimes in the dead of winter a
fly will appear, begulled from his
resting place by the deceptive warmth
OF the furnace heated house He
seems harbinger of spring and per-
haps one may be inclined to pet it a
little. Don't do it. Kill it and thus
put an end to a prospective future
generation of flies They are natural
scavengers. Their purpose in life is
to consume various substances which
are thrown OF from the human body,
by articles OF food and by almost
every animal and vegetable produc-
ton when in state of change These
substances are given out in such
small quantities they are impercep.
tible to common observers and not re.
movable by ordinary methods Of
cleanliness, even in the best kept
rooms.
When fly persists in crawling over
ones face it is merely taking care of
the particles Of dead matter thrown
off through the pores and thus helps
to keep the complexion clean. So it
is really doing good while it annoys.
AS a common fly has about 1000
eyes it is no wonder it is so hard to
catch or that it evades the blows
aimed at it.-BOston Herald.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
Standing Up for His Rights.

"Are you the editor that takes in
the society items?" inquired the
caller, an understood man, with a
timid, appealing look on his face.
Eyes, SIR" replied the young man
at the desk. Il can take in any
kind Of items What have you?"
''Why, It's this way" said the
caller, lowering his voice. '.My wife
gave swell party last night, and I'm
willing to pay to have this write up
OF the affair put in your paper"
1--WE don't charge anything for
publishing society items" observed
the young man at the desk. taxing
the proffered manuscript and looking
it over.
That's all right" was the reply.
'You don't understand wrote
this up myself, and l put IN line or
two that says, Mr.. Halfstick assisted
his distinguished wife In receiving
the guests That's the way l want
it to go in, and don't care IL it costs
81 a line. want my friends to
know, by George. that still belong
to the family"-Chicago Tribune
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
Heroic, but Coworsiiy.

A man can take his life in his hand
and go boldly into the trackless
prairie to meet herd o! savage buff
falO or he can traverse the horrors of
an African Jungle without shuddcr
in his body But he cannot enter a
fancy wool shop to match special
hue without breaking into violent
perspiratiOn and finally rushing away
without fulfilling his task.
A man can suffer the amputation
CT limb in d heroic manner, but he
cannot endure Il mustard plaster on
his chest without shrieking aloud for
mercy.
A man can bear the deprivation of
his wealth with the calmness of a
stole, but he cannot lose his collar
stud on the bedroom floor W thout a
violent outburst of temper.
A man can smile grimly under the
torture of the rack. but he cannot
tread on tack with his bare feet
without bitter howl.
A man can walk forty miles day
and arrive fresh and bright at the
end OF his journey, but he cannot
nurse baby half an hour without
complaining that he is utterly worn
out.
A man can calculate to the utmost
farthing the cost OF the Suez Canal,
but he cannot estimate the price of a
woman's bonnet without egregious
errors.
A man can possess the physical
strength OF Sampson, but he cannot
help to take down the pictures for
the annual spring cleaning without
feeling completely exhausted with
his labors.
A man can suffer death at the stake
with the dignity of martvr. but he
cannot chase after his hat in a public
road without looking ridiculous
A man will go through fire and
water to win the girl OF his heart,
but he will not allow her to see him
with a four days growth on his chin.
Chicago Dispatch.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
HOUSES BUILT ON PILES.
A Strange and Little KsOwn village To
Gated at the Mouth Of tho Mississippi.

| Strange and little Ks0wn village To-
Gated at the Mouth of the Mississippi.
Among the SIS, 900, 900 people in the
United States there are probable not
5O0-outside Of the locality-who are
aware that 1T the mouth OF the Mis-
sisippi there is a little village built
upon wooden piles standing far out
in the water, says Harper's Young
People. This village, which is called
Balizc, is reached from the mainland
by canoes or boats, and its inhabi-
tants have to climb kind of pole
ladder to get to the doorways of their
homes. This is probably the only
place in the United States in which
'pile-dwelling' occur, but all along
the Venezuelan coast aud at the
mouths Of the Oronoco aud Amazon
similar villages are frequently met
with. many OF them being inhabited
by the Indian fishing tribes of the
Amazon estuary.
These strange Inhabitants were
first discovered by Alonz0 do O]eda,
who accompanied Columbus on his
second voyage to this continent. In
l499 he undertook an independent
voyage to explore the northern part
South America, and he took with
him Amerigo Vespucci, who wrote a
graphic account Of the expedition.
The following extract from a trans.
lation Of Vespucci's work gives the
origin Of the name Venezuela, and
tells Of the connection between the
curious village discovered there and
the name Venezuela: proceeding
along the coast they arrived at vast
gulf resembling tranquil lake, en-
tering which they beheld on the east
ern side village the CONSTRUCTION of
which filed them with surprise. 1t
consisted OF twenty large houses
shaped like tells, and built on piles
driven into the bottom of the lake,
which in this part was llimpid and of
but little depth. Each house was
provided with a drawbridge and
canoes. From the resemblance to
the Italian city, Ojeda gave the bay
the name OF the gulf Of Venice (Vene-
zia(" The country itself was
afterward called Venezuela, or Lit.
tie Venice, the original Indian name
being COquibacoa.
In Lake Maracaiho. south of the
Bay Of Venezuela, similar pile-bulld-
1ngs are still erected by the Goajoir
Indians
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
Land In England.

Land has been rapidly decreasing
in value in England, due to unre-
strained competition to which the
British farmer is subjected. 1t may
be best thus for the mass OF English
people who are engaged in commerce
and manufacturing industries, but it
has certainly been hard for the land
holders. Recently valuable farm of
500 acres in Colchester was sold for
$50 per acre. Sixteen years ago the
same land sold at 1925 per acre. or
more than four times as much as now.
The failure OF English crops because
of the drought that has prevailed
this year will doubtless throw many
more farms Oh the market The
present summer lot OF l78 acres, on
which $1,000 had been spent for
draining. sold for 1000 Another
farm of 300 acres with buildings was
sold for -, $50, and this farm has un-
til very recently commanded 1925 as
annual rent At this rate farming
land in England will soon become as
cheap as it is in the older States OF
this country
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
Only a SemjcOlOu.

A semicolon incorrectly used is re-
sponsibie for great deal of trouble
To the surface railroads The act,
which relates to railroad crossings, is
as follows: mo electric. cable or
horse railroad shall hereafter be con-
structed across the tracks of a steam
railroad at grade; nor shall any steam
1ilroad cross any such electric, cable,
or horse railroad at grade, except
upon application and approval by the
railroad commissioners" The pre-
ceding was approved, semlcOlOn and
all, June II, 1881. and became law.
The result is that while steam roads
can cross surface lines at will with
the permission of the railroad com.
missioncrs street and electric roads
are barred from crossing steam roads
with or without permission.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01

from the milkweed sweet--with ms
cious pincapples from the pine! Such
food as the gods might eat!
And then to the whitewashed dairy
Ill turn, where the dairymaid hasten
ing hies-her ruddy and gOld-red but
ter to churn from milk of her but
terf1ies; and I'll rise at morn with
the earliest bird. to the fragrant
farmyard pass, and watch while the
farmer turns his herd of grassh0ppcrs
ont 10 grass
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
Some Queer Marriages.

In San MateO only the other day, a
very fat old Irishwoman died. She
had been widow with a good many
thousand dollars in her purse. She
married waiter, a score OF years her
junior, who lifted her in and out OF
bed with a mechanical hoist of his
own invention, wheeled her to fish
pond daily, baited her hook, and
played the part of an affectionate
husband and assiduous nurse for a
decade. The clear.headed, ungrate-
full old creature left nearly all her
property to relatives in Ireland, and
everybody, except the waiter is glad
Of it, Yet in what essential respect
did the walters marriage differ in
motive from that Of the British or
Continental nobleman who crosses
the Atlantic, his coronet freshly gilt
to catch an American wife? At least
the waiter was kind to his quarry,
and that can be said of but few of
the husbands who have borne our
maidens and the treasures thereof to
their battered. mortgage-stuccoed
castles on the Thames, and Rhine,
and Seine. When a match is made
between a poor noble and a rich
American, but one inference can be
drawn. 1t is a strictly business traDs-
action. Rich mobiles marry at home
and II they are men of sense, we'd
women of their own caste. born into
and educated in all its prejudices,
vauities and virtues As rule, it is
only the noble who has sQuandered
his fortune and his character who
comes cunning on the American pre-.
serve Here he Is held in contempt
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
Feed for Growing Hogs

Wheat middlings with more or less
skim milk makes ration on which
pigs will grow RAPIDLY and without be.
coming too fat. 1t is all the better
If mixed with cooked vegetables and
fallen fruit There is great amount
OF such feed wasted on farms where a
stock of hogs large enough to con-
sumo 1t is not kept With a very
small amount of corn to finish off
with, the pork required for a years
use can be produced atsmall expense.
In feeding the corn at the last end it
Is mistake to give 1t to the exclu-
sion OF other iced All corn quickly
stops digestion, and by making the
pig feverish Injuries the quality and
nealthfulness Of pork A small ad.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01

Among the Open Letters of the
Century Magazine is one containing
the following anecdOte OF Mr. Francis
+. Blair, VINO, though not an officer
OF the Government, was more emin-
ent than either OF his sons. Mont
gomery Blair. "A member OF President
Lincoin's Cabinet, and Frank p.
Blair. u Major General 10 the Union
Army. His son-in-law was an ad
miral in the Navy. During the last
years of his life Mr.. Blair lived in
! Montgomery County. Maryland. not
very far from Washington.
Unc day during the Civil War, Mr..
and Mrs. Blair were riding about the
country On horseback. according to
Their daily custom. They were about
eighty years of age; Mr.. Blair wore
green veil about his hat to shade his
eyes from the dazzling sunlight. and
his wife, for the same reason, had
pulled her large bonnet far over her
face.
They were we'll known by the
country people for miles about Silver
Spring. where they lived, but the
roads into Washington were guarded
by pickets, some of whom were
deficient in local knowledge. 1t
CHANGED that one OF these men was
struck with the odd appearance of
the couple, COMFORTING so i'll with the
fine blooded horses they rode, and
when they came in sight of him he
called. "Halt!" He asked the usual
questions, which were all answered
satisfactorily, and then added one of
his own:
''Well, who are You, any way?"
The old gentleman looked at his
wife with smile Of quiet humOr,
and asked:
BETTY, who are WEI"
Smiling in her turn, the old lady
turned to the picket. and said:
"Well, guard, what would you think
if said we had son who was a
Cabinet Minister, and another son
who was Major General, and an
other son who -
''And l suppose" interrupted the
guard, ''you will say, another son
who is an Admiral!"
YES" responded the old lady, 'an
Admiral also."
swell, now, old woman" said the
soldier. "thats coming it little too
strong. If you had LEFT out the Ad-
miral might have believed you; but
as it is think you are both subjects
for headquarters. So come along"
There was no course open but that
of submission, aud the three rode
along together. At length a group
Of officers approached, and halted to
speak to the captured "rebels."
"Why," said one of them to Mr..
Blair, what does this mean: One
might suppose you were prisoners.
and Oh your way to headquarters.
SWELL" SAID Mr.. Blair, $50 we
are"
The officer turned upon the crest
fallen picket and demanded what he
had been doing
why, SIR" he explained, in an
abashed undertone, "when l ques-
toned the old man, l believed he was
all right, but when the old woman
told her story about her having one
son in the Cabinet, and one son a
Major General, and then on top of
that added another son an Admiral,
l couldn't believe but they were real
spies. So ! arrested 'em on the
st
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01

The Japanese divide the day int.
six day hours, from the rising to the
setting Of the sun, and six night
hours, from sunset to sunrise. Ac
cordinglY, although the dials of their
clocks are figured with twelve mum.
cral>. the movements of the hande
do not correspond with our own, these
movements being regulated by in.
gcnious mechanism to correspond
with variations in the length of days
and uightM
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01

as a man who has sold himself, and
when the wife goes with him to his
country to draw dividends on her in.
veStment in the form Of social ex-
altation. she finds herself justly de-
spisedas woman who has bought i
title with her check book and body.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01

A writer says farm housework is
generally beyond the strength Of the
housewife, and she should De sup
piled with all labor saving appliances.
ut Is not what we do that kills us,
but what we cannot get done.';
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01

dition OF linseed meal to the milk and
bran ration will make the pig fatten
without interfering with growth as
corn meal will do
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
sweet Corn for Stock Feeding.

Animals as we'll as men and women
have sweet tooth. 1t pays some.
times to gratify it. The starch of
all corn and grain is changed to
glucose sugar by the saliva and gastric
juices of the stomach. But in eat
ing the sweet corn the sweet taste is
apparent ia the mouth. The result
Is that more saliva is secreted and
the work of digestion is aided. Fat
teaing animals after eating all they
will Of grain will, il they have been
used to sugar, eat still little more
of that; They will digest the whole
as we'll as they will the smaller
amount The reason WHY people can
not thus safely crowd their digestive
organs is because they eat meats and
other foods hard to digest, and then
mental worries make digestion less
perfect than it is in the calmly-cOn-
tented ruminant Worrying COW
with dogs, as is yet the practice,
makes the cow less able to digest her
fool.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-01
AGRICULTURAL NEWS
AF-W SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.

Oats as n Crop and Impovcrishment of
the .soii-Dccrease in Value OF English
f-aGd-Feed for Growing LOGS Odds and
LyaES.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-26
MOretOn Farm.

Moreton farm consists Of $50
acres of fine land in Monroe count
y, N. Y, a few miles from Roch-
ester.
The late Mr.. Joseph Harris COM
menced to raise seeds and
thoroughbred stock Oh this farm
more than 80 years ago. The seed
business has greatly increased; so
much so that a postoffiice is now
located on the farm.
The Joseph Harris Company
not only raise choise strains of
garden and field seeds, but they
have one of the finest flocks of
Cotswold sheep in the country.
They also have a herd of fine Els
sex pigs, and have latterly raised
large numbers of Pekin ducks.
We are just in receipt Of Harris
Rural Annualn for 1898. Besides
a catalogue of seeds, plants, fertil-
izers, ETC., it contains much infor-
nation in regard to farming and
gardening, which would be Of val.
ne to many Of our readers
If you will drop postal card to
Joseph Harris Co., Moreton Farm
Monroe Co., N. land mention the
COURIER, they will be glad to send
you a copy Of the Annual.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-26
Rutherford -. Hayes.

Ex-President Hayes died at his
residence in Fremont, o., on Jan.
II, after Il very brief Illness, of
neuralgia of the heart.
Mr.. Hayes private life was a.
b5ve reproach, but he had the dis
tinction of being the President
who occupied that important po'
sition when not properly elected.
He WAS a compromise candidate in
1876 between the Blaine and Sher-
man factions and got the Office by
the throwing out of the Louisiana
vote.
The death of Mr.. Hayes re-
moves the last eX-President ex'
cept Mr.. Cleveland, but after the
4th of March Benjamin Harrison
will be our only ex-President.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-26
The Legislature.

A bill has been introduced in
the Legislature to have scientific
temperance and the effect of alco-
holic drinks upon the human sys-
TEN taught in public schools of
the State.
And another one to make the A.
mile law apply to towns of 25OO
inhabitants or less.
And another to pay attorneys,
appointed by Judnes to defend
paupeI criminals, fee out of the
county funds.
The convict and penitentiary
questions are receiving consid-
cradle attention, as also the road
and eleatiOn laws.
The advocates Of the Worlds
Fair appropriations are confident
of success.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-26
Stop that Cough.

Have you caught cold from ex-
posure to wind, storm or weather9
If so, get a bottle of Lemon Chill
Tonic and take a teaspoonful three
times day and you will be able
to break it up at once. 1t is made
of the purest rock candy syrup with
tonics and is a universal remedy
for coughs or colds, neuralgia OF
la grippe. Large cottles. AS pleas
ant to take as lemonade. Insist on
getting "Lemon Chill Tonic" and
take no substitute; price SOC. Fol
sale and guarantee by } K Barlow