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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16
Charms Against the Evil Eye
From Harper's Magazine.

From Harper's Magazine.
Next to commercial grandee you
will find a patriarch versed in the ko-
ran, and possessing the power of writ
ing extracts from the book OF the
prophet, and through them and his
own venerated mediation of insuring
the individual-made happy posses.
sor OF the valuable document by pay
ing few sous-against disease, bad
luck, the evil eye, and innumerable
misiortunes.
A charming old acquaintance {
mine, near whose sanctified abode
made several studies and took refuge
when 1t rained, seemed to have an ex-
tensive practice in writing these charms
on eggs, perhaps three times a week
at one sou each.
These charms are more frequently
written on paper to be folded and en-
closed in amulets, which are generally
square or triangular in shape, and
made Of silk. leather, and tin. As they
believe in the efficacy OF these scraps
OF paper, so are they superstitious
about paper generally; they object, for
instance, to going before French
authorities to settle their griev-
ances against each other. preferring
verbal discussions of their case in
presence of their cadi, for they fear
all sorts OF harmful words may be
written-besides the name OF God
and subsequently used to their con-
demnation. Children wear them
around the neck or tied to their per.
son, sometimes above the elbow. and
in their garments; horses have them
attached to the band passing across
their chest to protect them from the
evil eve. Those worn by the women
OF the higher and wealthy classes are
inclosed in richly engraved cases oil
gold and silver and suspended to chains
slunc over the shoulder and passing
around the waist; they add greatly to
the richness OF their costume and form
part OF their wealth.
"Tell me. Baia, what do you dc
when you fall i'll. ] suppose you cal
in a doctor?"
ooh no, the men may do so when
they are sick, for our Arab doctors
are far superior to the French, but We
women 90 to the marabout; he writes
n few words from certain chapters II
the koran, such as these: God is thu
best PROTECTOR He is the most mer
ciiul of those who show mercy or, "A
guard against every rebellious devil,
etc. This paper we chew and swallow
and with a little water which he give
us from the sacred well OF the mosque
Sidi Add. el-Rhaman weneed no more
and in few days we recover"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

A French locksmith thought that
practice was the great thing; and, fit
ted with wings, he jumped first from a
chair, and afterward from window,
and then from the roof of a small
house. In the last experiment he sail
ed over a cottage roof, but soon after
sold his wings TO peddler-and prob
ably saved his own life. Another
Frenchman, marquis, tried to go by
the air route across the River Seine;
but he was not drowned, since a wash
erwoman's boat happened to be where
he came down. About Flying Ma
Chimes" by Tudor jerks. in April st.
Nicholas
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

v..,srasn one day at his own
"a : eoaptry magistrate II be
,snisOn. Thank you. my
~ w eAleken, WAS she reply.
- - hsd contracted an inyoter'
y sseplBg himself and every
~ n. Y ~ precise matter ia hand.
saId the judge. lis no
=, question. I now ask yon
n -, viii take yenison. and !
yoa 10 say yes or no with
~, sresAFieation
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16
saved from Destruction.

This is what happens when the kidneys
are rescued from inactivity by Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters IL they continue inactive
they are threatened with Bright's disease.
diabetes or some other malady which works
their destruction. Malarial, bilious and
rheumatic ailment and dyspepsia IRE also
conquered by the Bitters which is thorough
and effective
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

,.s;nsly death Of Professor Tut.
n errsil University, prevented
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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

An Iowa man c aims to have discovered
the secret of perpetual motion and applied
it TO a bicyc'e.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Every dollar spent In Parker's Ginger Toni
Is we'll invested. IL subdues pain, and brings bette
digestion. better strength and better health.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Good reasons why you should use Hndercorns.
IL skes out the rms, the you have peare and
comfort surely god exc ange. 15c, At druggists.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

The Iowa was christened by Drake an,
went over the water like duck.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

We never knew mother who was not
sorry for her married son.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Two million glasses are manufactured
every year in Germany.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

A begear's rags may cover as much prid'
rs an aldermen's gown.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

II the Baby is Cutting Teeth.
Do and use that old and weitried remedy, Mrs.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

English furniture is tecoming fashion
able in Germany.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

When writing to advertisers, kindly
mention this paper.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

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The herald., 1896-08-23

association was formed at New Orlenas
which bands together the women of
versatile thought and grace of pen
throughout the world.
Following the Revolution and Wo-
mans Journal suffrage papers, valiant
ly espousing woman's cause sprang up
in many parts of the union. The Queen
Bee of Denver, the Woman's Tribune
of Beatrice, Nebraska, now published at
Washington, D. c., the Northwest of
Portland, Ore, the Woman's Exponent
of Utah, these with many others, own
ed and edited by women. In our own
state the Impress, edited by that brill
liant writer, Charlotte Perkins Stetson,
came only too soon to it's close. For
writers equal to any California stands
n rival toward her sister states. Los
Angeles is as prolific in her women
writer's as she is in progressive thought
In a very interesting book, Woman's
Share in Primitive Culture, by Otis
Tuition Mason, dedicated to 'all good
women living or dead, who with their
brain or toll aided the progress of the
world" he says: IF women now sit
on thrones, If the most beautiful paint
ing in the world is of mother and
child. If the image of woman crowns
the dome of the American capitol, if in
allegory and metaphor, painting and
sculpture. the highest ideals are women,
it is because they have a right to be.
there. BY all their drudgery and pa
thence. by all their suffering and kind
ness they have earned their right to be
there" To all sisters. whether of toll
or brain, our glory of the past is secure,
may our future in every walk of life add
to the crowning of our loftiest ideals and
the grandeur of an exalted womanhood.
MAY ELMORE BENSEN.
The herald., 1896-08-23
The Fashionable Baths

Massage has lost little of its vogue
IN farls Tor the treat tment of obesity
ana now they are starting an establish
ment which is sure to introduce a new
ana interesting feature into Partisan
lie, bringing with it the Roman and
eastern customs of old. It is q bathing
CUB, where all sorts of baths will be pre-
pared after old and foreign recipes:
n5sl melohn hihi 5iSseg. sgcf fbme9S m 9esR Mecca 9 ssg ee
will be found there, and even the famous
bath of Marie Czewertinoska, the beau
tiful mistress of Alexander 1. of Russia.
who plunged herself every morning
into the contents of caSk of Malaga
wine after which ceremony the silver
tub was emptied and the wine sold
1t seems that such bath is simply per-
feet as a skin feeder.
Marie Antolnette's bath, which was
prescribed by her doctor, was a COM
pound of aromatic herbs mixed with q
handful of salt. She took 1t cold in sum-
mer. and tepid in winter. Later on Nine
Tallien had brought every morning to
her house twenty pounds OF stray wberries
and two pounds of raspberries, which
were mashed in her bath of warm milk
and water. Another preparation used
by the eastern women is composed of
barley rice. borage. thyme and ma jor-
am boiled together and then thrown in to
the water. Ninon de I.Enclos took a bath
every night in which there We're mixed
with milk, all well beaten in salt, soda,
three pounds of honey and tepid rain
water.
The herald., 1896-08-23
Humor of the Hour

"ThiS is O. strange world" said poor
devil, relating his latest adventure. "I
had not been able to get anything to eat
for wo days. Finally in dispair 1 at
tempted to drown myself in the Seine. A
fisherman saved me. He received %
francs for his deed, and I-got nothing!"
lie Figaro.
Philanthropist: You say you have not
a thing in the house to eat, and no means
OF getting anything; but I notice you
have three fine looking bicycles. Money
enough ought to be raised on them to
keep YOU in food for long time.
Applicant: How do you expect we can
bear UP under our privations unless we
have our wheels to occupy our minds?-
Boston Transcript
Making 1t Plain.-"This here piece in
the paper uses the word super
fluffy, several times" remarked the man
fluffy several times" remarked the man
who was sitting on the empty soapbox.
"Now, what do you take superfuity to
| be-"
II dunno's kin exactly tell it," ans
wered the man with the twine suspend
| ers. But l sense it all right enough"
| Kin We illustrate it?"
! M yes. reckon kin. Superfluity is a
/ good deal the same thing ez a feller's s
Wearin' a necktie when he's got a full
| beard. d."-WaShington Star
The herald., 1896-08-23
The Russian Administrative Machine

Tne car may possess qualities and
virtues which. under happier system,
might bear fruit in the prosperity of
his people; but he, like his subjects,
IS crushed by the administrative ma
chine, from which, in Russia, there Is
no escape. A new czar has as little in
ltiative and is as much at the mercy
OF the permanent officials as is the chief
OF an English department reading in
the house of commons the elaborate eva
sions of his head clerks. If he were re-
ally despot it might be we'll; for be-
heVoient despot is an excellent thing;
cut ne IS no more than the irresponsi-
pie head of an evil system which is
FOUNDED on repression, ignorance dark
ness and slavery. The chief object of
the Russian bureaucracy, whatever Of
nclal apologists may say, is to exclude
the light; to hold the people in a blind,
superstitious obedience: to punish. i'm
prison and Danish those who would
teach the miserable moujk that he is a
man and not a vodka-flled beast. that
the peasant has his rights as well as
the czar and an equal claim to happiness
and freedom
This is why political discussion is for
oldden in Russia. why every book which
opens the windows of the mind. even
though of pure science and philosophy.
is prohibited by the censorship, and why
every unorthodoX dissenter who uues-
tlons the claims of the successor of Ivan
and Paul and Catherine to mediate with
God for the people is regarded as disloy-
al and treated as such. A system like
this would never have been tolerated by
any race of energy and intelligence, as
Englishmen have often taught both
popes and kings. But the Slav people.
of an Oriental type, patient, sluggish
mystic and ignorant beyond all mag
NATION. bear and suffer and allow them
selves to be driven, like sheep to the
slaughter into the arms of the car
Nineteenth Century.
The herald., 1896-08-23
HAMMER AND ANVIL,

Last eve I paused beside a blacksmiths
door,
And heard the anvil ring the vesper
chime;
Then, looking in, saw upon the floor
Old hammers worn with beating years
of time
SHOW many anvils have you had" said I.
ITO wear and batter all these hammers
SOP"
'Just one," said he; then said, with twink.
ling eye,
1.-THE anvil wears the hammers out, you
know"
And So thought. the anvil of Gods word
For ages slSeptic blows have beat upon;
Yet though the noise of falling blows was
heard
The anvil is unharmed-the hammers
gone.
BY John Clifford. D.E.
The herald., 1896-08-23

The late NJ. de Goncourt, who hated or
binary costume, had expressed a wish to
be dressed out in white robes for burial
since he did not wish to appear before
God dressed like fool" but his friends
didi not comply with his request
The herald., 1896-08-23
RQQKS AAp NAgD.7!i .17!i'toss!EET
III - Mf1u .lMAtE Y
EDITED BY ENocn KNIGHT

Yarns. 1t relates the story of the Babes
college life, aSlazy dreamy, life, not very
spirited nor very wicked, nor-be it said
rather under breath-very,very interest
ing. In fact, the book is a little disap-
pointing to the general reader. being
much given to commonplace incidents.
1t also shows many slovenly slips in
grammar that mar it greatly. Still it
will find large class of readers.
The herald., 1896-08-23
Wrinkles, Pi1mples,
IT, Positively prevented by using the Skin Food
L oil Lola MOnteZ Creme

This Creme age traces, prevents wrinkles, keeps
the skin smooth and healthy, thus insung complexion
permanently beautiful 75c jar Lasts months. Soothes
and relieves all skin irritation. Good for insect bites Sold
In Los Angeles by Druggists c. F. HEINZEMAN 222 N.
Main street; H. M. SALE & SON, 22o s. Spring street.
The herald., 1896-08-23
CALIFORNIA AUTHORS.

There is promise of some more excel
lent volumes by California authors. One
is An Itinerant Horse. by Emma Fran
ces Dawson, and nicely illustrated.
A book that promises to be OF. unusual
interest will be Wild Flowers of Califor-
mia, which will have more than 300 pages
The author is Mary Eliza beth Parsons
of San Rafael, and there are to be $50 il
lustrations drawn from nature by Miss
Buck. The ladies are now in the Sierra
Nevada region gathering materials for
the concluding chapters. Not less than
900 wild flowers will be described.
Four valuable books dealing with this
subject have been published, Green's
Flora FRANCESCA DR.. BehrS Bay Region
Botany, Rattans California Flora and
Whitney's Descriptive Botany in the
official reports of the California survey
None of these works are illustrated
Miss Parsons new book will be the first
to display the beauties of the field and
mountain flowers of California.
Samuel Jacques Brunn. assistant pro-
fessor of French at Stanford university
is putting the finishing touches on a vol
ume of Tales of Laguedoc being series
of provincial folklore. The work is to
be enriched with fifty drawings by Err
nest PeiXotto.
Charles Freeman Johnson is engaged
on an important work relating to the
Good Roads Movement.
William DoXey is to publish most if
not all of these, who will also put out
new novel by a San Francisco journ-
alist.
Practically there are no books to re.
view at this season. and the columns of |
The Hearld usually assigned TO books |
and literary matters, will be used only |
rarely till the fall opens, and even then |
political matters greatly Interfere with |
the regular departments of literature. |
as they always do with all organized |
and interdependent branches of trades
and business
We are told that at no period of time
for many years has the sale of the regu-
lar magazine line, for instance been so
restricted and uncertain as it is in this
very month of August If this be so
what discouragement and disorder must
come to the business of that vast num-
Der of periodicals outside of the old es-
tablished ones. But we shall come
through it ALL somehow, and let us hope
that all will have their own again.
The herald., 1896-08-23

Count GiZa Zicha. a one-armed Hungar
ian pianist pupil of List, in to play soon
in London in concert and not a. freak.
The herald., 1896-08-23


Nethe HARRISON dun
The herald., 1896-08-23


THE UNDER SIDE OF THINGS. BY
Lillian Bell, author of The Love Af-
fairs of An Old Maid, a Little Sister of
the Wilderness, etc. Harper & Broth
ers. For sale by Stoll & Thayer.
The character sketching in this latest
volume of Miss Bells is excellent, though
it must be admitted that there is ten
dency to sensationalism-at least over
doing the thing. With the single fault
of dwelling too long upon Mrs. Cope
lands nose. the picture our author gives
of that excellent old family is very en-
tertaining. one at once becomes inter-
ested in Alice, in the boy Clifford, who
was just at the age when boys wriggle,"
and even poor pinched little Elsie comes
in for a share. Indeed. one has seen
many such families. and finds in them
some very old acquaintances.
Judge Copeland receives an appoint
nent upon the board of visitors to West
Point where George. the eldest son, is
cadet. In due time he goes there, TAX
ing Alice with him, where she meets
Gordon Counselman, also cadet, whom
she is fated to marry, Notwithstanding
the discouragements of her mother, and
the wiles of others that well nigh over
come Alice's gentle and rather tame
spirit The other most striking figure
of the story is Kate Vandervoort. the
belle of three cities, and one of those
dramatic women who compel attention
and make commOnplaces into incidents
fit for novel or play.
The story ends in sad way. Gordon
| Counselman. that is Lieutenant Counsel
man. after heroic help to the yellow
| fever sufferers about him in Florida, at
! last falls victim: and at the very hour
| when Alice and her baby boy are await
| ing his arrival in New York, the news
comes of his death and swift burial
| Thus it turns out a dismal tale, with nc
great purpose in it, and the reader has
narrowing doubts, at the end, over the
motive or the value of it.
BRYAN AND SEWALL. by c. NJ
Stevens, author of Free Silver. +
Tennyson Neely, publisher.
In size, color, style and all other out
side signs, this paper volume is vastly
like the Mckinley and Hobart cam
paign life, also just out. 1t shows signs
Of haste in production, as was inevita
The herald., 1896-08-23

VENUS AND CUPID. OR A TRIP
FROM MOUNT OLYMPUS TO LON
DON. BY the author of The Fight at
Dame Europa's School. j. B. Lippin-
colt Co.
and risky in bringing the immortals
down upon the stage of everyday life.
Only once of twice has it succeeded. The
most recent adventure in this direction
was in the House Boat on The Styx, but
Shades, and the actors We're so recently
related to earth as to make their ac-
tions all seem much less bold than IN
the volume under discussion.
Here the very oldest characters of my
thology-the first families, as it were
are brought back to go upon A Cooks
excursion. 1t is all very airy, very
funny, and. upon the whole. we'll sus-
tanned. One is startled to find Neptune
growing very seasick, and going below
under pretense of getting his pocket
handkerchief; and still more shocked
to be told he afterwards lay athwart
ships, miserable anG helpless.
The naturalness and readiness mani
tested by the celestial actors in getting
used to modern conditions are happily
shown, and herein lies the whole wit
and strength of the volume 1t is liter
ally full of happy conceits. and may be
fifty called a sheer literary frolic. We
doubt if any such book can ever be said
| to have great mission in the word, but
| there is no doubt that. in its way, it is
| "a charming piece of literary work, and
| will be widely read
The herald., 1896-08-23
CHORUS.

He takes no tip. Hurrah. hip, hip,
We'll give him four years more.
We do not ask for him your brain,
'Tis every way too small.
But lust a little of your cheek
And something of your gall.
To sum all up, the Times is thus:
Unless you lie and cheat
1t has no premium for you.
That goes to the dead beat.
o. Times. so lost TO simple truth
or whether born or bred
That you would rather lie than pray
RefOIe Won go TO bed.
The herald., 1896-08-23
A CAnPAI0N S ONO
dedicated to the Times.)

dedicated to the Times.)
The other day in search of work,
| thro' the city stolled.
'Mong other things my sight took in
Was sign that said. half soled"
NV muse said. Yes. the woods are full
Of such as are 'half-souled,
And shall tell you who they are?
Why. these modern bugs of gold"
The Times. fit exponent of such,
Makes faces meant to scare,
And in its characteristic way
Cries billy. are YOU there?'
Yes. Billy Is there TO stay, Sir Times,
Despite your golden ore,
And when his -four years term Is up
Wen give him four years more.