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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12
AMAZED THE coMANcHes.


Ehe Braves Dumfounded by the Ielephons
and Phonograph.
Mr. w. II. Quinette, post trader
and postmaster at Fort Sill, l. r.,
was in town recently comforting with
the government officials relative to
matters connected with that post,
and among many interesting things
be spoke Of about the Comanche In.
dams who live at that point was the
rffect produced on them by some
modern inventions in the department
VI electricity. Some months ago the
war department established tele-
phone service between Fort Sill and
Fort Reno, 70 miles away. For their
amusement some of the officers ar
ranged TO have Indians who were
well acquainted with each other
simultaneously brought into the two
ends Of the telephone line and had
conversation between them opened.
The effect Of course was magical, as
the voices were at once mutually
recognized, and they were compelled
TO accept the explanation Of the
strange fact that they were hearing
familiar voices Of friends many miles
away.
A much more dramatic scene was
the Indians first interview with that
wonderful device, the photograph.
An agent was sent out there from the
Smithsonian institution at Washing
ton TO get photographic record of
the Language and songs Of red men for
the archives Of that institution. A lit
tie diplomacy resulted in the agents
getting his cylinders filed before the
savage suspicious were aroused.
The agent was introduced TO the reg
ular night meeting of the Indians
for dancing, and il was explained
that he had been sent out by the
great father at Washington to get
acquainted with them and see how
they were getting along. The inter
view was nicely interspersed with
conversation, sonorous speeches from
the chiefs, tribal songs and dancing.
OF course the photograph, adapted
TO receiving sounds out of doors, was
meantime making it's quiet but in
fallible record, and after awhile they
were informed by Mr.. Quinette that
the agent had something new TO
show them. One after another they
were permitted to place their ears to
the instrument from which came the
familiar sounds of their own voices
in speech and song. OF course it was
too much for them, and after ex-
pressing their helpless wonder their
characteristic caution caused them
to refuse TO make any further con
tlibution TO the mysterious device.
But the shrewd Smithsonian agent
had already recorded on that simple
cylinder what win reproduce for fu.
ture generations the language of
the wild Comanche long after the
duslxy speakers and their descend
ants have passed from the arena of
sublunary affairs. st. Louis Post
Dispatch.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

Every day from 10 to a truck loaded
with hot food stands under London bridge
1t is called the "donna," and from it is
sold excellent portions of soup, pudding,
etc, for "A halfpenny to hundreds of poor
and unemployed men. The cost price OF
each portion of food is a penny, and half
the cost is therefore provided by contribu-
tons from the benevolent. Some of the
scenes are described by writer in Long
mans Magazine:
A poor fellow, after ravenously devour-
ing n hap'orth of plum duff, edged up to
a visitor and begged to be given pint of
soup at his expense.
"Ah, sir. " he said in reply to hint
that he had already had food, sits all
VERY well for them as has plenty to say
IA arr loaf's better than no bread, but
when chaps downright 'ungry them old
saws is like old crusts-they don't sat
isfy.n
a poor boy got so close to the soup can
that basin was half emptied down his
jacket, which was open, showing his bare
chest. He wrestled for a moment with
the sharp pain, then turned sharply to re-
ply to the question, "Was he much hurtg"
"Not very much, but l do wish it had
been my mouth open instead Of my jacket.
Il amt done me much good applied on the
outside
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

A good, practical meaning of sacrifice
IS given by b. Fay Mills in the story of a
little girl, who, while away from home on
visit, declined to take the dessert one
day at dinner
We'll, Dolly, you'll take piece of pieS"
NO, ma'am, said Dolly, "my mamma
doesn't want me to eat pie"
Well, how grand we thought it was
that n little 6-year-old girl away from
nome should do just as her mamma want
ed her to dol
But the next day we had a different
KIND OF pie. The hostess said:
believe you don't take pie, Dolly"
why, yes, ma'am, I'll take piece OF
PIE, said the girl hesitatingly.
Why, Dolly, said her aunt, 81 thought
your mamma didn't want you to eat pie. "
well, didn't like that kind of pie, ."
the girl said.
and so it is with our sins. We can give
up those we don't lilxe.-Ram's Horn.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

That spelling is not the necessary
attribute of cleverness or inability to
spell the necessary mark of a fool is
plain enough. No one who thinks
for minute or two on the matter
will fail TO remember that he knows
one on two men who cannot write
the simplest note without misspell-
ings, and that these are by no means
the most stupid of his acquaintance,
but often the clcverest.
The Duke of Wellington, it is noto-
rious, could not spell aud there have
been plenty of other men of his men
tai caliber quite as illiterate Some
one has lately collected a list of dis
tinguished Frenchmen who could not
spell, and heads it with Theirs, who,
though not a genius, was certainly
one of the cleverest men that ever
lived. Theirs never could manage
10 spell his native language, though
as a writer he was correct enough. -
London Spectator.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

IL list could be made out of the famous
people who have contributed to the liter
AZURE which the government sends out in
Vhe form OF census bulletins, it would pre-
sent such collection of men of distinction
ana prominence as hardly any publication
OF magazine could show among its con
Orloutors. Great specialists have written
up various subjects with which they were
l"miiiar. Men of great wealth and inn
portant business connections have fur
nlshed copy, and many chapters that go
ouI without any signature at all had a
lnliiionalre for their author. As for Illus
traitors, famous artists have been sent out
oy the government, and such men as the
uorahs nave welded their brushes in the
government service on the colored illus
.rations OF the bulletins. One of the chap
eers on quicksilver had for its author a
western man worth at least $40, 900, 000.-
ton.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12
THE MORMON CHURCH
HOW 1T PRoPAeATEs THE FAITH IN
FOREIGN LANDS.

MANY Young Missionaries Sent Out Every
Year-They Pay Their own Expenses
Mormonism Is stin Vigorous and Ag-
gressive.
The Mormon church still hourishes in
Utah. though it no longer attracts such
large share Of the national attention as IL
did before the passage OF the antipolygaihy
laws by congress. The church authorizes
claim that their people no longer practice
polygamy, since President Woodruff al.
vised them to give it up on the passage oil
the laws, and the doctrine OF plural mar
riages is no longer openly preached though
it still remains an article of the faith OF the
church, and her missionaries are as ready
as ever to defend it as divinely inspired
institution. 1t is kept in the background
as much as possible, however.
In most other respects the church remains
as it was in the palmy days OF brigham
Young-a fiourishing, vigorous and agrees
i've institution. Nothing illustrates this
fact better than the yearly increasing num-
bers of missionaries sent out from Salt Lake
City to spread the faith abroad. They 20
everywhere and preach their peculiar Cos
pei to all sorts and conditions of men
They make many converts, which Is not
surprising when it is considered that they
seldom address themselves to the more in
telligent classes of the people with whom
they labor.
OF late years the missionaries are general
Iy selected from among the young men OF
the church. Well educated, but not ruined
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

When the judge looked over the
collection of pick ups and other vi
cious bric-a. brac spread before him in
the police courtroom and saw man
under the sword of justice whom he
had seen there before, he was wrathy.
Didn't ] tell you" he inquired
sternly. the last time you were here
If you came again I'd send you up
for 60 daysr
YES, your honor, confessed the
culprit
Then what did you come here
forf
ITO git the GO days, your honor.
It's cheaper'n payin board"
II wouldn't do for the court TO go
back on its word, and the prisoner
became a guest of the city for the
time stated. Detroit Free Press.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

A physician of Ocosta, Wash, while
botanizing in the woods near that place
recently, stumbled across big black bear,
which got annoyed at his presence and
chased him. The railroad was few yards
away, and the doctor took the track and
sprinted along it, a few yards ahead of the
beast, until a long trestle was reached,
when the bear halted and squatted down
to watch the doctor hop along the ties.
When he was third Of the way across, a
freight train appeared at the other end.
Out on high trestle. with bear waiting
for him at one end and freight train
coming for him from the other, the doctor
felt that the situation was embarrassing.
He dropped TO supporting beam, hung
from the end Of il while the train passed
overhead, and then continued his way
home by another route.-Brooklyn Cit
izen.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

hINchtitJi MbNnOOhh. western lndld, cS-
pecially since the country came under Brit
ish domination, while In Persia, the land Of
their origin, they are gradually dying out
under the malign influence Of Mohamme-
dan persecution.
One Of the best known Of their literary
men in Bombay Il Muncherj 9. Munsookh,
who for nearly half a century has been an
active contributor TO literature in the cur
rent vernacular Of western India. He Is a
scholar Of ripe attachments and linguist
OF considerable ability and has an extraor-
binary acquaintance with modern Euro
pean literature He has translated many
German poems and wrote an ode upon the
death OF Prince Albert, the consort Of
Queen Victoria, for which he received let
tiers Of thanks from the queen and from
the Empress Frederick Of Germany.
Muncherji MunsOokh has written alto
gether about 30 books. and his range Of
subjects embraces history, moral philoso-
ply, romance and poetry. His works arc
highly esteemed by students Of the oriental
languages, especially his exceptionally ac-
curate translation OF the poems Of Firdausi,
the greatest poet OF ancient Persia, who
flourished eight centuries ago and wrote
the grand national epic. the "Shah Nameh, Z"
or book OF kings, which Is supposed to have
contained originally GO,0O0 Pehlevi verses,
but Of which only about $4,000 have been
preserved.
Munsookh Is about 65 years Of age, and
In spite Of his literary tastes and employ
ments, perhaps because Of them, is IA very
active and useful citizen. taking an influ-
entail part in the advocacy of all works Of
local improvement and being greatly inter
ested in the progress of social reform in
Bombay and throughout India
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

The civil list or salary Of King Hum
bert of Italy is the largest of all those
paid by European nations to their re-
spective sovereigns. This is SO much
more remarkable because Italian
finances are at the lowest ebb. Hum
hert's civil list is fixed annually at IA
500. 600 francs nearly 50, 600, 600. The
European sovereigns who receive the
highest pay below that of Humbert are
Emperor William of Germany, with
civil list Of 100000 francs. and
Queen Victoria, with about 1900, 600.
New York Tribune.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12
MatrImenlaI comhInatIon..

The recent marriage in this city of
a Mr.. Tarr and Miss Feather. thus
forming the iaost harmonious union
Of tar and feathers known to history,
is matched by Bucks county couple
who crossed the Delaware the other
day to avail themselves of the easy
marriage laws Of New Jersey. The
groom was Bartlett A. Downs and
the bride Miss Elizabeth Ups, and
their runaway wedding moved a
rural poet to sing:
In matrimony's happy state.
Through Cupid's smiles and frowns.
We find In Me. however straight.
There viii be Ups and Downs.
Philadelphia Record.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12
HE oPPResses POLAND.
The Peculiar Genius Of General Gourko
Mo-. kt1... N.w.r G..lI..

The Peculiar Genius of General GourkO, "a
Man Who Never Smiles.
One OF the most brilliant and at the same
time most hated names in modern military
history is that Of General Joseph Gourko,
governor OF Warsaw and commander in
chief Of the Russian forces in the old king
dom of Poland The retirement of General
Dragomiror in 1892 left him in the position
Of senior general Of the cars army, and in
case Of war he would be its real command
err, though the car himself or possibly one
of the grand dukes would be in nominal
control.
Gourko is certainly great soldier. The
Russians think him one of the greatest gen
erals the world has produced, but of course
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

In the northern part OF Limestone county,
Ala, is a tract Of land consisting Of more
than 1000 acres that no one claims, and no
taxes have ever been paid ON It. II is a
wilderness, inhabited by snakes, deer and
razor backed hogs. Ii is q free hunting
ground, and thousands of these hogs are
killed every year, more for the sport than
for anything else.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

there is chance for difference Of opinion
on that point. The only actual service he
has ever seen was during the Turkish war
in 1877, and il is by his achievements then
that his military career must be estimated.
His defense of the Plevna pass and his mas
terly passage over the Balkan mountains are
the events upon which his fame must chief
ly rest. The latter feat has been compared
TO Napoleon's or Hanniba's passage of the
Alps. IL made him one of the numerous
Russian idols of the war, and now he is the
only one left
In spite Of the glory he had won. the gen
eral had bitter experience during the last
days Of the reign of Car Alexander III. He
was in command at st. Petersburg, and
though he had taken the greatest precau-
lions to guard his master from the nihilists,
who were then very active, two attempts
were made upon the cars life within a
few months. The car, very much in
censed, ordered him TO retire TO his own
estates, and there he was kept under police
surveillance until the present emperor re-
habilitated him and made him governor OF
Warsaw.
His career in the old Polish capital has
been one unending series OF acts Of inhu-
man cruelty. The Russians blush for him,
and the Poles hate him. He has forbidden
the Polish language to be taught in the
schools and prohibited the practice Of the
Roman Catholic religion. though the Poles
are devotedly attached to that church. For
a very trivial offense he once ordered boy
10 years OF age to receive % lashes OF the
knout. Such instances are numberless and
give but a faint indication of the implaca-
BILE cruelty OF this man whom the Poles
consider hend in human form.
Gourko comes Of an old Lithuanian fam
lily that is said to date back for thousand
years. He WAS born on the Polish border
In ISIS He Is singularly reticeut man.
and It is said that since his disgrace by Al
exander II he has never smiled.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12
gehnn, orarana eettlnr Ner,ou.

A well known authority on nervous and
mental diseases says that these disorders
are increasing at a terrible rate in France
aud attributes the fact to the increase OF
beer drinking, absinthe drinking and bars.
There was scarcely such thing as bar %
years ago. he says, but now they are all over
the towns aud always crowded.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

in Bombay, where
many Of It's MEM
bers are men dis
tin guish ed for
their commercial
ability, wealth and
bcnevolence and
not a few have at
tanned eminence as
scholars and con
tributors TO vari.
Gus fields Of litera-
ture. IL Is "A sin
gular fact that the
Parsces have in
creased rapidly in
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

During my life l have known many
men who violated all the rules of life and
seemingly prospered for time. But in
es'aoiy they have come to ruin. When a
=, n'a "a Is pursuing wrong course, his ruin
~ ene end is as certain as his death. The
sreat thing in this life is not to find some
ling new but to study that which is old
Parson Irvine.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12

An Old Lawyer pointing out TO one Of
his younger brethren barrister in the
act Of gesticulating and talking to kim
self-Why, the man must be madl
sWhat makes you think soi"
"Faith. a barrister who talks 90 him
seif Is like pastry cook devouring his
own stock In trade"-Gazette des Tribu.
naux.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-12
A pARsee POET.

The Works OF nIuncherji orunsoolh Are
Highly Esteemed by Oriental students.
That strange sect OF Parsees, as the mod
ern followers Of Zoroaster, the SUCCESSORS OF
the ancient fire worshipers. are called,
sorms an important and influential element
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-13
A WoOdchonper's Vision.

A chopper in the Kilkenny woods re- lates story that he implicitly believes. This is his narrative: II was at work for Van Dyke, at Connecticut Lake. The night was dark and rainy, and the wind howled and moaned in the tree tops. I went to bed, as the whole camp does, at 9 o'clock that is, the lights are blown out at that hour, as is the rule in camp. Directly opposite my bunk was a small window that one could see out. I could not sleep and kept rolling and tumbling.
 II think must have got into sleep, for was awakened by light shining into the window, and a woman S face appeared as if looking in. I am sure it was the countenance of my sister, who died in Quebec two years ago. Strange to say, was not scared. The light dis appeared, and then again it shone in. This time the woman's hand appeared at the window, beckoning me to come. got up and pulled on my trousers and went to the door. By this time the wind had stopped blowing, the rain had ceas- ed, and the moon shone through the clouds at times.
 Standing near the woodpile was my sister. I recognized her now. I stepped toward her, but she motioned me back, saying, Joe, don't work tomorrow, and vanished. I saw no more of her that night. The next day I staid in camp, and before noon Bill was brought in dead. A limb had fallen and broken his skull. He and I worked together. My sister has come to save life once since. Boys, this Is Gods truth. "-Manches- ter (N. H. Union.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-13
:. klLLEpa.RY HE CARS.


 The Dead Body of & Newn Haven Man
 Picked Up Near High Rock Grove.
 Tue Nactims Wife Was oa the Train.
 As Conductor Tim Daleys"train, which leaves here at :O5 in the morning, reached High Rock grove to-day the engineer ob- served the body of man lying close to the railroad tracks. The train was stopped after passing the body and on examination it was found that the body was that of q man who had been struck by train. He must have been struck by one of the night trains as the body was quite cold when discovered. There was large wound on the right temple, which had caused death. A hat was lying close by. The body was recognized as that of James l.. Downs of 455 Washington street, New Ha- ven. A man was left in charge of the re- ma1ns and word was telephoned to Coroner Mix in New Haven.
 After the train had started it was found that the wife of the man was on board. She did not know that her husband was killed until she arrived at Seymour, where she saw her son standing on the platform.
 It appears that the father and son had been on spree in Naugatuck. They got out of money and telegraphed home for some. Instead of sending the money the woman had taken the train to Naugatuck. She did not find them, as they had started to walk home. The son does not know how his father was killed, as he was too drunk to realize what he was doing. The mother and son went on to New Haven and after the remains had been viewed by the coroner they were taken to Naugatuck and from there to New Haven.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-13
A Gallant Rescue.

Here is very charming cat and dog story for the truth and accuracy of which the proud inhabitants of the Swiss village where it occurred quite recently are, one and all, ready to vouch.
 A troublesome cat in the village had been doomed to watery death, and the children of the owner had been told off to take it in sack to the river Aar and there to drown it. The house dog ac- companied the party to the execution, which was carried out according to parental instructions. But, much to the surprise of the inmates, short time after the cat and dog, both soaking wet, reappeared together at their. owner s door.
 This is what had happened: The dog, on seeing that the sack containing the cat was thrown into the river, jumped after it, seized it with his teeth, dragged it to the bank, tore it open and restored his friend the cat to life and liberty. It goes without saying that the death war rant of the cat was destroyed after this marvellous escapade. e.--Lendon Million.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-13
MUD ALMOST FATHOMLESS
Wheels Sinking Above.the Hubs in the
 Country Highways.

Wheels Sinking Above-.the Hubs in tn @
 Country Highways.
 Those who have driven over the nearby country roads within the last few days, re- port that the travelling is unusually bad. The warm weather has had the effect of bringing the frost out of the ground with the natural result that the streets have been turned into morasses. What, in summer are dusty highways are now more like swampS, in which the mud is SO deep that horses sink to their knees, and wheels go down until the hubs are covered. The poor animals dragging the vehicles have hard work in making progress of any kind, and no load of any weight can be drawn through the sticky and soft ground.
 Nearly all the couLtry roads are in the same condition and drivers have learned by dear experience that it is useless to at tempt to find an easier route by making a detour. The fields in some places, are frmer than the adjoining roadway, and fences have been taken down in order that wagons may pass over the turf and escape sinking out of sight. Pleasure driving, during these days, is an unknown quan- tity. simply because there is no pleasure in riding behind horse wading through mud at slow walk
 few more warm days, it is expected. will change the situation as regards the country roads, as it is thought that nearly all the frost has been drawn out of the ground