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Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

"Eow did you get your waist so small,
Mabel' 1t used to be nearly as large as
mine"
"Ah, that's secret" was the answer,
with smile
"Do tell me. Can't you see what a
sight / amy I've tried all kinds of flesh
reducing medicines, but none of them
seems to do any good"
"Well, will tell you. It's trick l
learned from Harry while he was at West
Point. You know how small WASTED he
isS'
The other nodded.
VI asked him once how he did it, and he
told me that he stood squarely on his feet,
80, But come up stairs, and I'll show
you"
The young lady donned pretty gymna-
sum suit-she was high school girl
and standing erect, with hands uplifted
and the thumbs locked, she gracefully
swooped down until the tips of her fingers
touched her toes.
The point is, she said, "not to bend
your knees at all. 1t looks EASY. but try
1t once. 1t will take lots of practice to
touch the floor, but after awhile it will be
easy"
that motion?'
began with so times every morning,
just after | got up, and gradually in.
creased until now do it 200. It's sure
cure Tor too stout waists. "-Philadelphia
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

They drive home the cows from the pasture,
Up through the long, shady lane,
Where the quail whistles loud in the whea
field,
All yellow with ripening grain.
They find in the thick waving grasses,
Where the scarlet dipped straw berry grows
They gather the earliest snowdrops
And the first crimson buds of the rose.
They toss the hay In the meadow,
They gather the elder blooms white,
They find where the dusky grapes purple
In the soft tinted autumn light.
They know where the apples hang ripest,
And are sweeter than Italy's wines;
They know where the fruit is the thickest
On the long, thorny blackberry vines.
They gather the delicate seaweeds,
And build tiny castles of sand;
They pick up the beautiful seashells-
Fairy barks that have drifted TO land.
They wave from the tall, rocking tree tops,
Where the orioles hammock nest swings,
And at nighttime are folded In slumber
By a song that fond mother sings.
Those who toll braveiy are strongest;
The humble and poor become great,
And from those brown handed children
Shall grow mighty rulers of state.
The pen Of the author and statesman,
The noble and wise of our land;
The sword and the chisei and palette
Shall be held in the little brown hand.
philadelphia Timea
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18
re,ephoninr Through Snow.

Professor A. Il. Thompson. chief Of
the United States Geological survey. re-
turned FROM the Black Hills few even
ings ngo. The government has two par
ties in the hills. one at Rapid City and
the other at Deadwood. The professor
found the Rapid City party entirely
snowbound and tells tale of how he
got communication with them. he
worked his Wy toward the men until
he came within speaking distance. By
that time further passage seemed to be
impracticable. but by accident they had
occasion to resort to u peculiar expedi-
ent. They talked through the snow.
The snow acted as conductor of sound,
and with some difficulty they made one
another Observation-Disclosures Republi-
can.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

p7<b Of his essays in bUs..
IA 3rushwood, the late James 4.
Fields wrote: III were a boy again, l
think ] would learn to use my left hand
just as freely as my right one. so that
II anything happened to lame either of
them the other would be all ready to
write and handle things just as freely
as il nothing had occurred" And un-
loubtedly a great many Of MS would
learn to use both hands alike IL we had
our lives to live over again. OF all the
young women who came under my in
ttruction while in charge of the School
OF Domestic Economy of the Iowa Az
ricultural college, not more than one in
twenty-five could sweep properly. The
ratio IN this respect of those who came
under my instruction at Purdue univer-
sity was about the same. And as far
az my observation extends this ratio
will hold in regard to women generally.
AS a rule. women. old and young, do
not know how to handlea broom. Their
right hands only have been trained.
Their left hands have been neglected.
When women takes hold Of broom
II is with the right hand near the top
Of the handle and the left hand toward
the corn. and instead of changing and
reversing them an Occnsi n demands
she always keeps them i'll the same no.
sition. Whether she sweeps to the right
or Ia Inc lett. the position Of her hands
remains unchanged And her body is
contorted and her muscles strained in
the performance Of an operation that
votlltlt xercise these organs harmonious.
~. II the hands were No trained that
they c0nld lie used at will and were
changed as demanded by the changes In
the amsitimi uf the sweeper
refer 10 women sweeping merely to
illustrate my point. The same can he
said concerning the training VI tho
handt in numerous other branches Of
wa'iicn y work that ii ~ unnecessary to
mention. and 30 far an the nse of the
lett hand "a concerned men are in no
better condition than women. Men and
women are III this respect manned and
handicapped ali 80. Why should such
state Of things existi Why. In this
age Of manual training. should we over
i.Nk and neglect the education at the
left hand and continue tn train the
right hand At the expense OF the left?
No physician or physiologist has ever
given u sensible reason for no doing,
and we seem To adhere to the custom
merely because II has been carried down
to MS by our ancestors. -Jenness Miller
Monthly.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

Fanny's mother had company to tea-a
gentleman with whom the child was a
great favorite, and at whose request the
little girl was allowed, contrary to the gen.
eral rule, to have a seat at the table. Dur
Ing the progress of the meal the little
woman was unfortunate enough to tip
over her bowl OF bread and milk. The
disaster was 30 appalling that she settled
back in her high chair and gazed at what
seemed to her utter ruin. At last, as II
the full extent OF the catastrophe had just
dawned upon her, she drew long breath
and said, And the best tablecloth toof'-
New York Tribune.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18
Some Tlmber strenrth rest..

It would be difficult to convince the
average man, especially the Missouri
pioneer, that fir is stronger wood than
oak, but such has been proved by &C.
tual tests that were made by fair and
impartial committee appointed for the
purpose. The timbers used were each
. by inches and feet long, both ends
solidly braced and the weight applied
in the middle of the span. Yellow fir
stood strain of 3, 062 pounds, common
Oregon oak 2,922 pounds. Fine grained
yellow fir from near the butt stood a
strain of $685. pounds, and best Michi-
gan oak snapped with a strain of only
2,42S pounds. These tests were made
by the Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany at Tacoma. Louis Republic.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18
Not Obscure Enough.

"Yoa intend this novel for the Bos.
ton public, do your" said the publish
er, leaning back in his chair.
"Yes, sir, said the novelist.
well, Mr.. Pensling, said the pub
Usher, the work has its merit. 1t n
pointed, interesting, and the style can
be readily read and understood, and
think, he continued as the novelist 8
face broke into smile of hope, ~
think therefore that you should give up
all effort to get Boston people interest
ed IN it. Chicago Record.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

Suspend from the ceiling thread that
has been previously soaked in very salty
water and then dried. To this fasten a
light finger ring and then announce that
you are about to burn the thread. giving
the company assembled to understand that
you can perform this seemingly marvellous
feat without the ring falling. This is
easily done, the explanation being this:
The thread burns, it is true, but the ashes
1t leaves are composed of minute crystals
OF salt, and their cohesion is strong enough
to sustain their weight and that of the
ring attached, provided OF course that the
ring is not too heavy.-St Louis Republic.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

Sir James Crichton Browne. the Eng
fish expert on brain diseases, asserted in
a popular lecture last week that insom-
mia is not attended with such DISASTROUS
consequences as is commonly supposed.
1t is not as dangerous as the solicitude Of
the sufferer. He suggested that the
brains Of literary men, who are the most
frequent victims, acquire the trick Of
the heart, which takes doze fraction
of a second after each beat and SO man.
ages to get six hours rest in "a. Some
brains in cases Of insomnia sleep in Sec
tons. different brain centers going of
duty in turn.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18
b {i8i required degree of

<IR4{fX) V<-uu pnyS1cal exeft1On Sufhc1ent
V <quip q college eleven for active serv-
ice on the gridiron. But she got there.
II spent the whole afternoon, said
she to friend, land when got home
figured the whole thing up. l could
have bought the same stuff up stairs at
the regular counter for 80 cents yard,
and | wanted only 81 yards. Well,
that mean little clerk sold me four yards
for 35 cents-it was a remnant, you
know-so l found had been trodden
upon for about two hours and squeezed
black and blue and had lost just cents
by the operation.
But, law, that's nothing! What do
you s'pose? Why, when l examined
that silk the next day, found hole in
every fold.
Mad? Well, think was mad! Ny
husband laughed at me. He says wom-
en- were born to be fooled, don't you
know-that most of us haven't sense
enough to spread an umbrella when it
rains.
What would you dor asked him.
do, says he, I'd throw that away
and never go back to that store again.
Not much, says /. I'm going to
make them take that back if die for
it. Now there! And if you should miss
me when night comes, you II find my re-
mains at the foot of the china silk coun-
teri
Il went back. After another two
hours of shutting and crowding got
chance to confront the young man who
sold me that silk. was prepared to
make him ashamed of himself, now |
tell you. But he merely looked at it and
said in bored sort of way. oh, yes,
that is the same piece of silk Mrs. Blank
returned last week..
Yes, was stricken dumb. If there
had been room enough, I'd have drop
ped. But that's nothing. Let me tell
you. While he was making out my re-
bate check another lady glanced at the
silk had just laid down.
That's real pretty, said she. How
many yards2'
Four. ma am, says he.
How muchf'
Forty cents, says he, with the
AAOoe uhOtuShAnS ldCc' ~ . tH6 last pltCH
of that shade in the house, says he.
I'm take it, says she, pulling out
her purse just as he gave me my ticket
for the return of that identical piece.
Well. then knew that young man de-
liberately cheated me and was going to
cheat that lady right before my face. But
l got my breath quick enough to tell her.
And did. said: Madam, I've just
this minute brought that back. It's
damaged. Look at these holes! He
knows it's damaged. Here's my ticket
for the rebate for its return
well, if you could have seen the
look she gave himi Then she turned on
her heel and went out. Yes, should
say I'm about even with that house
one of the finest stores in town too."-
New York Herald.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18
An Opinion of Value,

~ takes some lawyers to know how to
achieVe success whether or no. To sucb n
one an acquaintance applied the other dav.
say, George" he said, eve got a
case want to ask you about and Zee ;f
you will undertake it for me-"
m State it, " responded the lawyer.
Ihe acquaintance did so.
asked. VI iIF ne
pole" WIN ~ ioot
That's just it.. p'0n'
ed out. w. anu ne start
vo ny own, Sne ", way ~ suggested the lawyer,
itor, stopping short, "'oniSneu WIS.,
born MY professional opinion in the case von
a nave lustsubmitted," was the unbInsh;U Oa
S fors er and the dazed visitor paid Il bes
Press. "iUs'-Detroit Free
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

The way of the wit is hard. Oscar
Wilde, moved by the ready appreciation
OF the English people, has been led to
make some remarks which even his ad-
mirers are not applauding. He has
been making some observations ON the
subject of Puritans and the theater.
After devoutly hoping that he would
not "be offered bishopric, Mr.. Wilde
added. II quite expect to see any day
In the evening papers, Great Discovery
In Egypt. Ten more commandments
by Oscar Wilde. "--Exchange.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18
Women ms Penmar

csr ABOUT the beginning of the eighteenth
S century ladies wrote large ronn d'e ean
the o o,n not much unlike the Italian a.
style ot grew older the light, angular
grandmoth Ups c srnnd I'm and great
handwritina Ian zane into vogue. Feminine
individuality was almost UNIFORM
tbei ,efly, however our girls have assertsd
IL maj many others, and the civil ssrv;na a. ~
Is NOW much affected. ''f''ce style
beauty ~ , ladies' distinguished for the
anshipNwa sse Cbd pee,na1aanship-or penwom-
. S very small, very delicate on VINO wrote
f hnisned hand. Mrs. Hemo ANU car, carefully
Isee, flowing style. EIinah ns wrote In a
earsfng manuscript was VerR Barrett
distinct . P1SnGtuated the writings neat bs sna
were not ' %a, le go,b though the letters
nal. 'oineo.-Chambers' .ToDr.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18
A smugrllnc snhema

Passing through Hudson street with
afriend. CHANGED to pass the establish
mant Of a firm OF folders and repack-
ers OF dry goods. Before the door were
hundred or more little bales of goods,
bearing odd markings. but showing that
they We're destined for firm In Texas,
doing business in town near the Mex
lean line.
!" Do you know" asked my compan-
ion, why those goods are put up in
such small packages9"
Upon replying in the negative he con-
timed: They are to be struggled across
tfss Mexican line. The goods are pur-
chased in their original packages and
delivered here. The wooden boxes are
discarded. and the goods subjected to
hydraulic pressure and baled. Each
bale confirms about 80 pieces, or half the
number OF an ordinary dry goods case.
The goods are then shipped to Tex
as, and all marks removed. When all
is arranged, some night the little bales
are slung across the backs of mules,
two bales to each animal, and with an
armed escort the train proceeds over the
border to some distributing point in
Mexico, where the goods are sold to Mex
lean traders at good profit.
Smuggling in this manner Is quite
extensively carried ON between this
country and Mexico, the United States
getting in return for its dry goods.
which IRE the most easily handled. cheap
Mexican coffee and cigars. New York
Herald
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18


ltering from the peculiar aiimei,t AZ
afflicted with that ever stepped inside
st. Louis. As is proper with such
very distinguished disease, it has very
aristocratic name-anchylostom do
denale.
A very, very rare little worm is en-
gagged in merrily sucking the red cor
puscles, or life giving element, from this
poor fellows blood, and if the unwel-
come tenant is not gotten rid Of pretty
soon the patient will fade away to
shadow and die from sheer lack of nour-
ishment, though his stomach be full of
food. Albert Abbink. a young man who
came from Germany. is the patient. and
he isn't at all proud Of it either. He
looks like marble statue, and very
skeletonish one at that, and has great
difficulty in moving around owing to his
weakness.
Though this peculiar disease, or affec-
ton, Is very rare in this part of the
country, it is common enough in Italy
and Germany. The worms are supposed
to be in certain kinds Of muddy water,
and it has been noticed that brickmakers
and pottery operatives in the old country
are peculiarly apt to get them. When
the great st. Gothard tunnel was be-
ing ding 1t was discovered that nearly
every workman engaged upon the job
suffered from this plague. 1t was first
noted in Egypt, and from this fact the
weakness was named Egyptian chlorosis.
Scientists are pretty certain that the
Pharaohs had it. and some are inclined
tobelieve that the plague of toads men,
toned in holy writ was none other than
the plague OF aachylostomum dode-
male.
DR.. Marks believes he can assist Alb
blink in getting rid of his high toned
parasites. several OF which now occupy
u glass slide under his microscope. They
are about al eighth Of an inch in length,
and under the magnifying glass look like
white a.ligators. They have tremendous
jaws and wear their eggs scattered along
their backbones. Louis Globe DEM
Ocrat
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

the side of the glass or into spoon to
break its fall. The pure water will then
float upon the brine, and in appearance the
two liquids will seem as but one.
Now take another glass and fill it with
water. If an egg be put into this it will
instantly sink to the bottom as in Fig. l,
but If. on the contrary, the egg is put into
the glass containing the brine it will sink
through the plain water only, and float
upon that portion which is saturated with
salt, appearing to he suspended in a very
remarkable manner, AS in Fig. 2.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

The York,hi- HPOIogy.
the death az Post, having announcsa
correct ' nc oi Mr.. John Sedrwicn haa 20
being still M announcement, the rantIa, u 70
matter sun awe. By way of nnttiu ..em IA
thus: the Correction concluded
ally tr r paragraph reached us from , 49,.
formed. "~LonSdPapneq Fs to have been misin.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

d1yidualS
three hundred year
almost unanimous in
| secreted venom, "a
oueut and persistent use
very necessary in order te
asnleenic poisonsn from
Shakespeare and other writer's
ar indefinite period mentioned eaoo
s,,a,tIy alIude TO the "venom OF
sInioen - and one eminent fellow or
Poral society advocated the curious ideal
Of removing the organ and extracting ITS
,,o;sons in alcohol to be used in neutraliz-
inc the virus of blood poisoning:
Practically speaking, the spleen Is an
untnovvn organ even to the enlightened
musicians of today. One OF them VIII tell
Won that perhaps it has its uses that IL
NAV serve the purpose of withdrawing
surnlus blood from the circulation when
the beart is unduly or unnaturally excit-
ed. and that in all probability it acts as
Kind of safety valve to hold the action of
other organs in check, and then II you
press him still further he will tell YOU
providing he keeps his temper-that he
doesn't know anything about It'll That
has been my experience at least
But 1 haven't. told you anything yet
about the spleen in particular, and from
the admission already made as to the "un-
knowableness" of the organ it is not at all
likely that this "note" will prove Il store
house of splenic information. One writer
on oddities in physiology believes its func-
tions to be the formation of red blood cor
puscles from white ones, but as 1t Is a
granular organ with no outlet for secretion
it is safe to say that it was not put in its
present position for the purpose mentioned.
believe that the idea arose from the fact
that more red blood corpuscles are found
in the spleen than in the organs adjoin-
ing it.
Although the normal weight of the or
gan under discussion is two pounds, there
are cases on record of its being found in a
diseased condition, weighing upward of
go pounds
Removal of the spleen does not seem to
interfere with the general health and spir-
its, which seems to argue in favor of the
idea of its being "useless bodily organ"
Zacarelli was the first to make an opera
ton of the kind in 1910. ellison collected
statistics of Is removals, the patient fully
recovering in each instance.-St. Louis
Republic.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

At Eau Claire, Wis, negro tramn
crawled into car of lumber bound for
Burlington, Ia, and lay down on ton
of the pile. He fell asleep, and the Inn
Der, being wet, swelled up, CRUSHING
him against the roof of the car. Wbas
the car arrived here the following dav
the dead body was found. Lori,
Republic. us
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

When man writes to another chal-
longing him to fight duel because that
other has called him fool, the chal-
longing party betrays lamentable igno-
rance as to popular understanding In
regard to what a fool is.-Bnffalo Com
mercial.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

mustn't forge, Is 81, the most popular i booS
ularity still sne pOcketbook, whose p pon.
ssars Of daily continues Continue after hupdredps O =,
perusal.-Cbicago Mi oi
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-18

Mother-When you play marbles, why
in the world do you get down on your
knees and drag yourself over the grounds
Little Son-'Cause III don't want TO
wear out my shoes.-Good News
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-02

pine. This was nailed on the inside of
the tank, with its centre over the open
ing of the overflow pipe. Over the hole
in the block was nailed a twenty-five
piece of galvanized wire netting, of
quarter-inch mesh. Now, any ice that
may form is kept an inch away from
the mouth of the overflow, for the
water never freezes inside the wire net
ting. 1t always has a free passage
through the meshes of the wire below
the ice, and up between the wire and
the side of the tank to the outlet
This device is SO simple. and works
so perfectly, that the writer confidently
recommends its adoption wherever
there is difficulty with the choking up
of tank overaows with either ice or
dirt. The size and shape OF the block
may be modified to suit the tank and
the water supply.-E. n. Millen, in
Country Gentleman.