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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06
Between Boston Infants.

Emerson Jagged s)-Have you not been
charmed by the accuracy of proportion
IN Gulliver's Travelsl
Winthrop (aged 7, with a superior air.
Indeed, no Those sharp sighted, dimin
utive individuals, the Liliputia1s, should
have been the first to discover microbes
Truth,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06
SO cents

for fifty cents worth of tea, and your
money back if you want it---isn't that
fair?
Do you sell potatoes, and cattle, and
beet-sugar and grain, on as fair basis
as that?
It isn't fair; it is foolish---unless what
we sell for fifty cents is so good that you
want more tea rather than your money.
Your grocer has the tea---SohiAfng' s
Best---and the money.
San Francisco SchiAing d Company
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06

The sIate Methodist conference had
quite a time in etecting two bishops
Rev. Charles McCabe and Rev. Earl,
Gtanston being finally elected The
campaign has developed the fact that
human nature is much the same whether
found In religion or politics.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06
When New Animals Arrive.

New animals were always source of
trouble and anxiety. Every one who
keeps or has kept, tame animals knows
the uncertainty and frequent disappoint-
ment which attend the first arrival and
inspection of those which have come
from a distance. Shaken, frightened,
suffering from want of water with bro
ken feathers or soiled fur, they show the
evil effects of travelling even for "a
hours by rail or water. But in the case
of the smaller animals kept as pets it may
safely be assumed that they were at least
dispatched on their journey In good con-
dition. When the animal is some large
carnivora-perhaps tiger from some
Malayan rejah, or half grown lion from
Somaliland-there is no means of know
ing whether, previous to it being ipped
1t had been half starved or overfed. Pos.
sibly it had undergone both forms of
treatment.
The sea voyage usually improves their
condition, the sailors being always kind
to animals and in measure assisting
to tame them before their appearance at
the zoo. But in most cases the temper
condition and size of the creature are
matters of speculation until the van
drives up and deposits the big box in
which the creature has been brought
from the docks. Very few are ready to
appear in public at once. Those which
are obviously i'll and exhausted some
times undergo treatment for several
months before being exhibited in the
front cages.-London Spectator.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06

Hans had climbed up into the cherry
TREE TO gather cherries. Meantime a
thunder storm came on and the father
called out to the lad: "Come down,
Hans, 1t is beginning 10 thunder.
"fhere's no need, father" shouted
the boy. ! can hear it where am"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06

A number OF unemployed union men
at indianapolis, Ind, have wintered
very cheaply and comfortably on fiat
boat which they took possession Of last
fall and conducted on the cooperative
plan
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06

Sam Small came into public notice
one day last week by killing his wife
and her paramour and then hanging
himself. This, however, is not the
evangelist Sam Small, but an Indian
living on the Pyramid reservations in
Nevada.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06
The Fight with Africans ahd Aaistics

The Fight with Africans ahd Asiatics
The plain truth is that the natural
fighting power Of Asiatics and Africans
is very nearly equal to that Of Europe
ans, SO nearly equal that whenever the
dark men are even decently armed
and organized or led by man of ca.
pacity, the white mems advantage dis
appears, and they have to fight with all
the care and generalship and even num-
bera which they would require in Eu
rope. 1t is assumed that these things
will never occur, but the assumption is
a very large one, and by no means borne
out by past fac S. We all know and ad-
NIT that the necessary change has oc-
CURED in J pan, and no European coun-
try would now invade that country
without taking all the precautions it
would take If invading a European
state. Indeed Russia is actually accum-
ulating great army in Eastern Siberia
-9p,ooo men, i is said-in fear lest the
Japanese, if too much pressed, should
invade her.
The ameer Of Afghanistan is accumu-
lating European weapons year by year
and is actually manufacturing them in
such quantities that, should we ever
comeinto conflict with his successor, the
general in command will haye TO be as
careful as if he were face to face With a
European foe Ii is not General Rob
erts who will tell anybody that the con
quest of Afghanistan, supposing that
our democracy decided on that foolish
enterprise, would be an easy task or a
military parade, And now in Abyssinia,
European army has been actually de.
stroyed by an African power, whose
soldiers, though no doubt of Semitic
blood, arc most Of them darker than any
great tribe Of Asatics The Italians
were of the best blood of Europe, they
belonged to an army trained for thirty
years to meet European opponents, they
carried weapons of precision, and they
died in proportion to their numbers
most unusual in warfare, vet they were
swept in utter rout out of the hills and
had Menelek but pursued, as European
general would have done, would have
been swept out Of Africa-London Spec.
tator
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06

Salt Lake City, May IS, ISo6.--The
Three Crown Baking Powder, manu-
featured by Hewlett Bros. has been sub
mitted to me for analysis, and I find it
to compare favorably with the VERY
BEST brands sold at the present time. In
fact, If there is any difference between
the Three Crown and those conceded by
almost everybody to be the best powders
on the market, the Three Crown Bak
ing powder has the GREATER LEAvEN-
ING STRENGTH AND PURITY.
]. T. KINGsBUKY, Chemist,
University of Utah.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06

1t up Broadway to I2rI. Two laborers,
who were along with him then pulled
up one of the fiagstones near the curb,
and WI th pick and shovel dug four-foot
hole in the ground The post was placed
in the hole, bit of nagstone was
knocked out to make IT fit, and the earth
was packed tightly around 1t and the
stone was lowered in place. Two sign
boards were next tied TO the post and
single posters pasted on them, SO that
people going up and down Broadway
could see the advertisements.
The next day the public works people
sent word to the station house to have
the post removed. The policeman who
went around to attend to 1t tugged at
the two feet af iron projecting aboveSthe
sidewalk for about fifteen minutes and
then gave up, contenting himself with
rip Il off the signs. The next week
two 1orers were sent up 10 remove
the pl !, and they banged at it with
sledge hammers and tn eyed for all they
were worth but no results. They
couldn't bulge the post. Welsh looked
on with a smile all the time, and bill
posters replaced the signs as fast as the,
were down.
On an average Of two or three times
each year for IS years an order has beer
issued for the removal of the post, bu
none of the laborers sent up accom-
Eplished anything. The regulars OF
Broadway have called it Welsh's pos
for years and it has been Welsh's habi
to doff his hat to 1t every time he passet
up Or down the street. But an enc
came to the prosperity of the post a
last. The reform incumbrance bureau
ordeIed it removed and the third gans
of laborers sent up raised the Aagstone
and after four hours Of work dug up II
post and carted it away. Welsh wa
heartbroken when he heard that it wa,
gone, and the post has been sadly missed
by the regulars, who had come to regar,
it as laudmark.-New York Sun.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06
Easted for Nearly a Year

For 81 days Mrs. Henry Ingram,
Battle Creek, Mich, has not been able
to take a particle of food by natural
processes. Sixteen years ago she was
afflicted the same way, and did not eat
food for 800 days, during which time
she was reduced from over 200 pounds
TO SO pounds.
Many inquiries about this strange
case are coming from abroad Mrs. In.
gram in very weak, but looks well in
the face, although greatly reduced in
flesh.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-06-06
You are not

using ScAtl1ing's Best tea1
That shows that you don't
believe what we say or that
you don't care.
Don't care? Does it make
no difference to you whether
you and your family are drink
Ing health or disease
Don't you believe us9
There is no need of believing
us. Believe the tea.
Sample at your grocePs-
money back If you don't like It.
If you don't like .Sehill2sS's Bsst
coffee, soda, baking powder, seasoning,
havoring extracts, tell your grocer 90.
He has money-back to give you.
n disabling d Company San FiaaeiSeO
sea
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04
RESULT OF ENVIRONMENT:
Three French Ducks That Had Como to
Hate tho Water.

Three French Ducks That Had Como to
Hate tho Water.
Hydrophobic ducks may seem bit
strange. but a writer in the Revue
Scientifique tells of such. These were
not mad ducks, but merely ducks that
hated what people have come to con-;
slider their natural element. There
were three of them, and they had lived
some years in Paris, where they had a
small basin and their daily bath. Their
owner finally took them to the country
to live beside fine lake, thinking it the
ideal place for the amphibious. What
was his surprise on putting them into
the lake to see them instantly scramble
ashore and waddle, Indian-file, to a
neighboring stable, whence they never
came out save for feed.
Never could they be induced to re-
main in the water save by force or
fear, and there they always drew close
together, so as to occupy no more space
than that of their bath basin in Paris.
They We're thoroughly afraid of the
lake and they never became used to it.
In Picardy,- it seems, young ducks
are often kept from the water in order
20 protect them from the water rats
and prevent them from eating things
that might injure their flavor when
they appear upon the table. Ducks
thus brought up until their full growth
oil feathers is acquired refuse to enter
the water, and if forced in sometimes
drown
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04
SOLVED IN a DREAM,
Elias Howe and the Eye of the Sewing
Machine Needle.

Elias Howe and the Eye OF the Sewing
Machine Needle.
Elias Howe almost beggared himself
before he discovered where the eye Of
the needle of sewing machine should
be located. His original idea was TO
follow the model of the eye at the heel.
1t never occurred to him that it should
be placed near the point, and he might
have failed altogether, says the Phila-
delphia Times, if he had not dreamed
he was building sewing machine for
a savage King in a strange country.
Just as in his actual waking experience,
he was rather perplexed about the
needles eye. He thought the king gave
him "A hours to complete machine
and make 1t sew. If not finished in that
time, death was to be the punishment.
Howe worked and worked and puzzled
and puzzled, and finally gave it up.
Then he thought he was taken out to
be executed. He noticed that the war;
riors carried spears that were pierced
near the head. Instantly came the So
luton of the difficulty, and while the
inventor was begging for time he
swoke. II was fouI o'clock in the
morning. He jumped out of bed, ran
to his workshop, and by nine needle
with an eye at the point had been rudely
modelled, After that it was easy. This
is the true story of an important :nci-
dent in the invention of the sewing ma
chine
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04
1HE OIL FIELDS.

Sistersville, March 3d.--There have
been no developments of Importance in
the fields since Saturday aud the indi-
cations are not very favorable for any
thing this week. There are quite q
number of wells drilling on Indian
creek but it is pretty hard 10 tell when
any of them will be in. There has
been no change in the price of credit
balances since last week.
This morning the Pittsburg Times,
which is always ahead of it's contem-
poraries, printed an excellent article
on the Russian oil field, from the pen
of Bion Ii. Butler, staff correspon-
dent.
McCutcheon & Co.'S. No, on the Ash
farm near the Kyle No. ., out on In
dian creekis, drilling at abopt 4Qp, feet
The 1O-in cbicasinguwas .ppt in opiSsts
urday. svag avan1o3sE s'swcT with
The Carter Old company, are building
the rig for their Nc. 1 on the Noah
Brooks farm.
Murphy & Jennings are putting up
the rig for their No. /, on the John
Booher farm
The Carter Oil Co. have the rig com
pleted and will commence work drill
ing at their No. / on the White farm
Wednesday.
The Devon;an Oil Co s No. l on the
Lloyd Weekly farm was drilled deeper
on Saturday, but the production was
not perceptably increased.
The Carter Oil Co.'S No. l on the
Daniel Stoneking farm is drilling at
about 400 feet
The Devonian Oil Co.'S No. 2 on the
Kyle farm, which was drilled into the
Maxson sand last week, and filled up
1000 feet with fluid, will make about II
so barrels from that sand. This we'll
is being drilled to the lower sand, but
has been delayed considerably on ac-
count of having to drill water we'll.
Shay & McMullen will put in the last
string of casing at their No. 1 on the
Weekly farm tomorrow.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04
AN AesENT.MINDED MAN.
He Was Driving to Pasture a Cow Still In
the Stable.

He Was Driving to Pasture a Cow Still in
the Stable.
There have been great many stories
about absent-minded men, where ole
forgets his house address, another
wha. business he is in, and where an
other has to refer to the mark on his
handkerchief before he can remember
his own name, etc. There is lawyer
in Fort Atkinson, Wis, by the name
of Rogers, who possessed Jersey COW,
which he used to drive, morning and
evening, to and from the pasture, q
few blocks distant from his home. One
morning as one of his neighbors was
passing along the street he met Mr..
Rogers walking in the middle of the
road, his mind apparently engrossed
with some weighty question. The neigh
bor called out:
Good morning, Mr.. Rogers; where
are you going?"
why" said Mr.. Rogers. in sur
prised way, I'm driving the cow to
pasture" and he waved his hand to-
ward where the cow ought to have
been.
We'll, where is the cow?" asked the
friend.
81 guess forgot to let her out Of the
barn." answered Mr.. Rogers, humbly,
as he realized his position. And he
had.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04
AnNoUncEMEMrs.

CITY soL1cToR.i. s,siSS s,~.
Mr.. EDITOR: viii you please anDounce the
undersigned to be a candidate for the office Of
City Solicitor subject to the will OF the voters
at the coming Spring election?
CHARLES w. RICHARDS.
MR. EDITOR: Please announce that will be
. candidate for reelection to the office of City
Solicitor, at the coming April election.
]. G. brennan.
CITY CIVIL ENGINEER
EDITOR LEApER:-Please announce my name
for the ONCE of City Civil Engineer, subject to
the vote OF the people at the April election.
W. P. MASON.
EDITOR LEADER:
Please announce my name as a candidate
for reelection to the ONCE Of City Engineer.
E. FRANK GATES.
COUNCILMAN.
EDITOR LEADER-will you announce in your
paper my name Cor the office of Councilman
for the Fourth ward? Dr. j: @. HARDY.
EDITOR LEApER-Please announce the name
of Frank Weber as candidate for reelection
to Council from the Second Ward.
MANY TAXPAYERS.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
EDITOR LEADER:-win you announce the
name of B. E. Guyton for the office of Justice
OF the Peace, and oblige MANY FRIENDS.
EDITOR LEADER:-Please announce my
name as candidate for the office Of Justice of
the Peace in Marietta township, and oblige
MILLER H. HART.
MAYOR
EDITOR LEADER-Please announce my name
as candidate for Mayor OF the city Of Mari
eta at the coming spring election. subject to
the will of the voters. H. f. KRAFT.
EDITOR LEADER:-Please announce in your
columns that Mayor Jewett Palmer will be
candidate for reelection at the next munich
pal election. VOTERS.
EDITOR LEADER-Please say in your paper
that am candidate for the office OF Mayor
of the City Of Marietta subject to the will Of
the voters at the April Election.
EDw. MEIsENHELDER
EDITOR LEADER:-Please announce the
name Of Charles. H. Newton as Candidate
for Township Clerk OF Marietta Township
subject to the decision of the voters at the
April election. HIS FRIENDS
EDITOR LEADER:-Please announce the
name Of j. W. Sturgiss as candidate for the
ONCE OF Clerk Of Marietta Township, and
Oblige MANY FRIENDS
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04
White and Red

A white object of any size may be
seen in sunlight at distance of 1880
times its diameter; that is to say, If
1t is a white ball foot in diameter
it can be perceived at q distance of
1880 feet. A red object is not nearly
so visible at distance as one of white.
A red globe foot in diameter can be
perceived clearly only at a distance of
5000 feet, and a blue globe a little
further.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04
FRENCH JOURNALISM.
Tho Fifty Daily Newspapers Of Paris and
Their Readers.


Their Readers.
The Paris press comprises nearly so
daily newspapers, the aggregate not
having varied greatly during the last
ten years. Most of these are sold for
one sou. An extremely limited number
is sold for two SOUS, and two or three
only for three sous, or little less than
three halfpence. 1t is hardly neces-
sary to say, by way of preliminary
comment, that dozen really able jour
nails would be better supported and
better serve the interests of the public.
The French people, taken ns a mass,
have little money, says the National Re-
view, to pay for the qualification of the
small amount of literary taste they pos
sess. The novelist. Zola, declared in an
interview few mouths ago that re-
tpiews and magazines like those of Engl
landa and America would not find i'll
,E,rance a siIfficieht number Of readers
to justify their publication?d $50 as
The Revue des Deux Monces Is sup
ported by the professional literati, the
learned professions and an aristocracy
of birth and money. 1t is rarely seen
outside these circles. Even the hand
some and readable illustrated news
papers, such as the Illustration and
Monde Illustre, have only small
circulation. confined principally to the
cafes, though the literary matter they
contain is generally of an elevated char
acter and especially adapted for family
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04
The Ideal Panacea.

James L. Francis, Alderman, Chica-
go, says: ~ regard DR.. Kings New
Discovery as an Ideal Panacca for
Coughs, Colds and Lung Complaints,
having used it in my family for the
last ive years, to the exclusion of ply
sician's prescriptions or other prepara-
tions."
Rev. John Burgus, Keokuk, Iowa,
Methodist Episcopal Church for so years
or more, and have never found any-
thing SO beneficial. or that gave me
such speedy relief as DIR. Kings New
Discovery" Try this Ideal Cough
Remedy now. Trial Bottles Free at
w. ii. Styer's Drug Store.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04

A WEALTHY resident of Kokomo, Ind,
is going to move to Peoria, ILL.,, and
will take his 100000 house with him.
p The house is of stone and brick and
handsomely finished and decorated. 1t
will be taken down very carefully, the
stone, pressed brick, plate glass, ma
hogany panels and every other part be-
ing carefully marked, and will be ship
ped by rail to Peoria and there be recon-
structed. The cost of moving the resi-
dence will be about $4,000
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04
Beats a Good Wife,

Courtship and marriage are recog-
nized targets for witticisms, of which
Mr.. Punch's famous "Don't" is un-
doubtedly the most brilliant example
OF happy answer. Most of them are
of the same cynical character. A care
worn divine is reported to have said,
In reply to the ecstatic declaration of
an intending benedict that nothing
In the world beats good wife," "Oh,
yes; a bad husband often does and
vice yersa!"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04

THE congressional committee for the
Fifteenth District has been called to
meet at GAINESVILLE on Friday, March
18th, at 10 o'clock a. m. to fix the time
place and manner of selecting dele
gates to the Congressional convention.
In fact, there is a strong feeling in
every county in the district that the
voters of each precinct should select
independently the delegates to which
they are entitled. In fairness, how
ever, the custom should be made to
prevail in all counties and the only
way this result can be attained with
certainty is through District Committee
action,
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04

WE wish to submit to the Congress
sional Committee, which meets at
Zanesyille March 18th, the claims of
Marietta as the place for holding the
convention. Four years ago the con-
vention was held in GAINESVILLE and two
years later in Cambridge. AS the Sec
ond largest county in the district,
Washington county is certainly en-
titled to it this year on the score of
rotation. Our new Auditorium makes
an ideal convention hall and cannot be
excelied in the district. Our hotel ia.
cilities are amply sufficient and we
only await the opportunity to show
the convention that the hospitality of
our people cannot be questioned.
The committee will kindly consider
Marietta as nominated for the job.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04

We will consider It great favor II
subscribers Will report any failure
70 get their Leader, or any careless
ness on the part of the carrier.
Subscribers Will please not pay
the carriers unless the carrier
punches his credit tag in subscribe
Ar's presence. NdD " N3Fl oLst
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04

THERE being no antagonism in any
quarter to the idea of precinct repre-
sentation in the Congressional Conven-
tion the District Committee will be
justified in issuing their call along
that line
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04

THE action of Council in subscribing
$500 toward securing the boiler works
plant will certainly be endorsed with
out hesitation by every taxpayer in
the city. 1t is an infnitesimally small
matter to each one, but is of material
assistance to the Committee of Ten.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04

j. j. LEIDECKER,
G. A. SCHAFFNER,
JAMES HUGHES,
j. G. GoRMLEY,
ID. G. JOHNSTON.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-04

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