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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-02-29
GENERAL MILES, POKER STORY.
The Soldier Boys Had Over = Million Dol
lar. In the Pool.

lars In the Pool
Il don't poker myself" said Major
General Miles. "In fact, am glad 70 say
that the game has rather gone out In the
army, but think can claim 10 have been
witness Of the biggest game as to stakes
that was ever played"
Tell us about IL. general, " said Colo
mel Ochiltree. II have some pretty good
poker stories In stock myself"
And so have l, said Henry Waiter
son. For instance, Joe Blackburn's about
the game played In the trenches at the bat
tie OF Shiloh. with a table made on the
bodies Of the comrades Of the players"
WELL" said John W. Maokay, las to
stakes, will enter a claim for some Of the
games played in the good old days in Ne
vada, when the boys had the Comstock
lode TO craw upon. But, general, let US
have your story"
1T was in the spring OF 1865, when
Davis, Lee and the rest Of you Confeder-
ates, Colonel Watterson, were In full re-
treat from Richmond toward Danville,
and we were pressing you night and day,
hardly stopping to eat OF sleep. On the
eve OF the battle Of Sailors Creek
IL was there" said Colonel Ochiltree.
1T was In that battle that / was wound
cd"
THAT day." continued General Miles,
Eve ovcrhauled and captured Confeder-
| ate wagon train and found, greatly to the
delight Of the boys, that several OF the
wagons were loaded with Confederate
bonds and Confederate money in transit
from the Confederate treasury department
in Richmond to wherever the government
now on wheels might make its last stand.
The soldiers simply helped themselves to
the bonds and the money, and the officers
did not care to deprive them Of the spoils
to which they were richly entitled. At
night, when we knocked of work for sup
per and few hours rest and sleep, had
occasion to ride along the line and found,
/ greatly to my amusement, poker game
/ going on around almost every campfire.
Stopping TO watch one Of the games, this
is what l heard:
"' How much is the anteF
a. A thousand dollars
And how much to fill Five thou
sand? Well, here goes. / raise II $40, 900.
Good l see you and go you sl0, 600
better. Twenty-Five thousand to draw
cardsp
"Then cards were drawn, and presently a
bet was made Of $50, 600. Some one went
| 500, 600 better but he was ruled down.
Fifty thousand was the limit. However,
there was 5000, 600 In the pot when 1t was
hauled down by the winner, who had three
treys and a pair Of jacks. depressed my
surprise at the size Of the game and told
the boys that they had better go slow OF
their funds would run out
d" Never fear, general, replied one OF
them. We will keep within our means.
You ought to have been here just now.
Why, we had jack pot Of 81, 200, OO0.'
Il think you will agree with me- con
tinued General Miles, THAT no bigger
poker game than that was ever played. II
New York Mail and Express.
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! .,i;GAossINe NE RocKlEs.
It Is Not All Rugged Nature That At
~tracts the Travellers Attention


-~tracts the Travellers Attention
Crossing the Rocky mountains on the
Northern Pacific railroad affords an oppor-
tunity for thoughtful mind to canvass
the possibilities OF time and wonder what
shook the earth on its crazy bone. Covered
with Christmas trees, snow and mules, the
mountains rise about you like thirsty
crowd when some one says beer" To
climb these high places big engines coined
by the hand Of man, so strong that they
could pull anything with two ends to IL,
are put on ahead, and the train joys up hill
as II the grade was the other way. man
smoking a joint Of fish pole got on the
train at Helena, and when he wasn't set
ting fire TO his fish pole he was telling us
that he was the principal man around
there and had information TO let.
There was a fence so near the track we
thought we could read sign on IL. go
to Fleming & Leweaux for your condition
powders;' this man told US that that fence
was s5 miles away and still going. A
mountain that had been dug out TO allow
the train 70 pass by without running into
the river we found was rs miles away.
The train stopped at little town called
Busted Knuckle. The largest building was
a saloon. A sign read, Beer, . cents a
glass, " and we found that about half the
people that Travelled got left at that town
The saloon. instead Of being half block,
as 1t looked, was in reality l2 miles In the
country.
Near a station house COW and horss
and few pigs were surrounded by fence;
the COW was standing bow legged in order
to eat grass without interfering with the
fence, and the horse seemed crowded for
room, while the pigs rooted around down
stairs. This information tank led us &c
believe that the piece of ground contained
100 acres OF land. more or less, according
TO the government survey. He got of at
the next stop and took charge Of yoke ol
oxen.-Northwest Magazine.
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LORD Chancellor and Great Seal.

It may not be generally known that
during his term of Office the lord high
chancellor Is not permitted to leave the
kingdom. II he makes a holiday, he must
choose locality somewhere within the
boundaries OF the island. The reason for
this restriction, Mr.. Lucy explains in an
article in The Strand Magazine. Is that
wherever the lord chancellor goes he must
carry with him the great seal, and that is
not to be trusted out OF the country. This
precious mark Of authority consists Of a
pair OF dies made In silver. When neces.
sity arises for fixing the great seal Of Eng.
land to any document, the dies are closed,
melted wax is poured In, and, opened in
due season, the great seal Is found ready
for attachment. The pair OF dies now In
use date from the accession Of her majesty
On her death they will be cut into pieces
and deposited with long list Of others In
the Tower -Westminster Gazette.
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ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION is COSTLY
Cablegrams That Cost Nearly Ten Dollars
Word Prom Chicago.

Cablegrams That Cost Nearly Ten Dollars
Word Prom Chicago.
Cable messages to out Of the way places
In the world cost money. To send a mos
sage TO Guatemala, Honduras OF to towns
In San Salvador outside La Libertad the
cable rate Id So. as for each word from Lon
don. with an additional. charge OF 81 cents
from Chicago, or total Of <f.09 a word.
All words are charged for, even TO the adj
dress and signature, which are transmitted
free In all domestic kilograms. A ten
word message TO any Of the places named
would cost the sender 5000, and three
words OF more would be required for the
address and signature, leaving at most
seven words In which to tell the story. Ca
Diagrams TO points in Great Britain, Ire
land. France and Germany cost from New
York 25 cents a word. There IS an addi-
tional charge of cents from Chicago,
which would seem out OF proportion when
the rate for ten words to New York is only
20 cents in certain portions Of the day. In
sending cablegrams, however, codes and
ciphers are used which reduce the number
of words often to three. For cablegram
Of three words the telegraph company
would receive for its transmission to New
York only is cents in addition TO the cable
rate. The additional charge over the Lon
don rate TO Algeria is % cents, to South
Africa points from $2.l4 to S2.24, to the
Orange Free States it is $2.lS, while to
Central America the rates are all very
high. The additional rate to Costa Rica is
1905, TO San Juan in Nicaragua 1t is
t6.49, while to other points in Nicaragua
the rate is 5000. Other Central and South
American points arc not so expensive to
-. r.. eL. etr.r
Republic the rate is only S1.4l; 10 Per-
nambuco in Brazil il Is % cents, while to
the United States Of Colombia it is e.. "a,
Ecuador S2.76, Paraguay Sl.4l and Peru
$l.50. Rates to Australia range from 81. 10
TO S3.23.
There are some peculiar things about
cablegrams aside from their cost. In send
ing a cable TO points in Persia 1t must be
plainly written in French. = At Teheran
this will be translated into. Persian and
forwarded. Press cablegrams are accepted
at less than regular rates but with the
stipulation that they must wait for the
line TO be clear OF government and regular
rate business. Code and cipher messages
are prohibited from both European and
Asiatic Turkey, from Herzegovina and
from Tonquin.
II you should want to send a cable TO
Lingah, Bassidore or Bunder Abbas, you
will be charged S7o4 for each message, for
boat hire from Jask. Samoan messages
are taken for Auckland to be forwarded
by boat from there. Ii one boat had just
left, delay Of one month would be occa-
stoned. One telegraph company alone ad-
vertises to take cablegrams for Europe,
Egypt the east and west coasts Of Africa.
Turkey, India, China, Cochin China, ko-
rca, Manila, Japan, Australia, New Tea
land, South America, Zanzibar .Mozam.
bique, Arabia, the CAPS .os Good Hope,
Cape Verde, Madeira, the Canary islands
and Bermuda.-Chicago Tribune. %; =.
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AFTER THIRTY YEARS
THE BUCKEYE STATE CONTRIB.
UTEs A STORY.

How Fred Taylor, . Member Of tho
Gallant 1ssth n ", " l., Finally
Pound What He Has sought Since
the war Closed
Prom the Ashtsbuls, Ohio. Besconl
Mr.. Fred Taylor was born and
brought up near Elmira, N. Y. and
from there enlisted in the 189th regi-
ment N. Y, V. l., with which he went
through the war and saw much hard
service.
Owing to exposure and hardships
during the service, Mr.. Taylor con-
tracted chronic diarrhoes from which
he has suffered now over thirty years.
with absolutely no help from physi-
clans BY nature ne was q wonderfully
vigorous man Had he not been his
disease and the experiments Of the doc
tors had killed him long ago Lauda-
mum was the only thing which Afforded
him relief. He had terrible headaches,
his nerves were shattered, he could not
sleep an hour a day on an average, and
he was reduced to a skeleton A year
ago he and his wife sought relief in .
change Of climate and removed 10
Geneva, o.; but the change in health
came not Finally ON the recommends
ton Of f. ]. Hoffner, the leading drug
gist Of Geneva, who was cognizsnt Of
similar cases which Pink Pills had
cured, Mr.. Taylor was persuaded TO
try box las drowning man grsspe
a straw. so l took the pills." says Mr..
Taylor. "but with no more hope Of res
cue. But after thirty years of suffering
and fruitless search for relief | at last
found it in DR.. williams Pink Pills.
The day after / took the first pill
commenced TO feel better and when
had taken the first box was in fact q
new man." That was two months
ago. Mr.. Taylor has since taken more
Of the pills and his progress is steady
and he has the utmost confidence In
them. He has regained full control OF
his nerves and sleeps as well as in his
youth. Color is coming back 70 his
parched veins and he is gaining flesh
and strength rapidly. He is now able
to do considerable outdoor work
As he concluded narrating lis suffer
ings, experience and cure to Beacon
reporter, Mrs Taylor, who has been {
faithful helpmeet these many years
said she wished to add her testimony
in favor Of Pink Pills. ITO the pill
alone is due the credit Of raising Mr.
Taylor from a helpless invalid to thu
man he is today" said Mrs Taylor
Both Mr.. and Mrs Taylor cannot FIND
words to express the gratitude they fee
or recommend too highly Pink Pills Il
suffering humanity. Any inquiries
addressed TO them at Geneva, o., re
garding Mr.. Taylor's case they will
cheerfully answer as they are anxicu
that the whole world shall know wha
Pink Pills have done for them and tina
suffering humanity may be benefite'
thereby.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills contain al
the elements necessary TO give new lif
and richness to the blood and restor
shattered nerves They are for sale b.
all druggists or may be had by mai
; from DR.. Williams Medicine Com
pany, Schenectady. n. Y. for so cent
per box. or six boxes for $2.5
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We learn from French sources that q
London perfumer has found new way OF
fixing up eyelashes and eyebrows. Instead
OF rainting them In the usual vulgar old
STYLE. he puts the genuine article there,
and professional and amateur beauties Of
the great city are focking to him 10 be
made Just too lovely for anything. The
operation is said to be extremely delicate,
though by no means painful. He takes a
hair from the head Of the beauty, OF, II she
does not like precisely the color Of her own
hair. he takes one Of any other color that
she likes, threads an extremely fine needle
with tho hair, runs il along inside the skin
OF tho eyelid. sewing sailmaker's fashion,
hut leaving the loops sufficiently long TO
enable him to cut them afterward, 80 that
they will form a range OF beautiful fringe
and look perfectly natural. For eyebrows
he does the same thing, but the eyebrow
operation is, OF course. less delicate
j Arched eyebrows. bushy eyebrows,
straight eyebrows, crooked eyebrows, all
lsort OF eyebrows, in any color or shade or
form. this wonderful perfumer makes for
the ladies OF London. and it Is said that
his success Is something astonishing.
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IN AN OLD 6ooksHoP.
The Men and Women Who Not In Hatch
ards = Century Aro.

In recent life OF John Hatchard. an
old London publisher, some interesting
glimpscs are given Of the men and women
who, a century ago, were In the habit Of
lettering away the morning I'm the dingy
bcokroom of the great publishing house in
Piccadilly.
Scott and Crabbe, Byron, Lamb and
Sydney Smith met there and gossiped over
new books or fingered rare editions Of old
Dnes.
The Duke Of Wellington was In the
habit OF riding up 10 the shop and leaving
list Of books which be wished TO buy.
The exact limit Of price always being care
fully stated to a penny. On one occasion
IN auction Of old books WAS In progress,
and pamphlet, the title Of which attract
I'd him, was started at shillings. He
beckoned TO the shopman.
Buy 1t for me carte blanche, " he said
and rode away.
A day OF two later he called again, and.
the pamphlet was handed to him IL had
cost nearly R25.
The duke, who was saving Of money,
changed countenance and then said qui-
city:
you were right. l am enough Of a
soldier 10 submit to my own orders"
m olu ia1lf robtIAJ clHut Jul WIN
merry, twinkling eyes, came often to the
shop and was regarded with awe by the
clerks and customers. 1t was Miss Han
nah More. who had lately written certain
weighty tragedies.
One day little boy 8 years Of age. fol-
lowed by his nurse, entered and brought a
note from Miss More to the publisher. ask
ing him TO credit her young friend Tom
for whatever books he might choose on her
account.
Two years later the same Tom brought
another note, stating that he was TO be
credited TO the amount Of gulneas, and
that as he already owned and had read all
the great epics she would suggest prose
works, Johnsons or LEAK Walton :
Lives"
Many years later there was a great field
day at Hatchard's The third and fourth
volumes Of Macaulay's History Of Eng
land" were in the press, and subscriptions
were pouring In from the royal family.
cabinet ministers and bishops, down "a
poor clerks. The author came into the
shop and was told how the book had
stirred the whole country. The publisher
had known him for many years. but cor.
tain pleased flash of the eye startled his
memory.
why, you are our little friend Toni
he said.
Macaulay laughed and confessed to be
ing the prodigy whose infantile wisdom
had long been a tradition OF the shop
Household Words
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THE ANGLERS WISH.

I IN these fowery meads would BE-
These crystal streams should solnce mo-
To whose harmonious bubbling noise
L with my angle, would rejoice,
Sit here and see the turtlcdDv-
Court his chaste mate to acts OF love.
Or on the banla fceythe west wind
Breathe hsalfhhrfl,pl plenty please my mind
To ace sweet dewdrops kiss these flowers
And then wished OF by April showers.
Here hear my kenna sing song.
There SEQ n blackbird feed her young
Or a laverock build her nest.
Here give my weary spirits rest
And raise my low pitched thoughts above
Earth or what poor msrta.s love
Thus free from lawsuits and tho noise
OF princes courts would rejoice.
Or, with my Bryan and book.
Loiter long days near shawford brook
There sit by him and eat my meat;
There see the sun both rise and set;
There bid good morning TO next day;
There mediate my time away
And angle on and beg to have
A quiet passage 70 a welcome grave.
LEAK Walton
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By local applications, - they canno- reach
the diseased portion Of the ear. Thsrs u
by constitutional remedies. Deafness Il
caused BY an innHmed condition Of the
mucous lining OF the Eustachian Tube
When this tube gets inhamed you have Z
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when 1t il entirely closed Deafness Il the
result, and unless the Inflammation can b
forever; nine cases out Of ten are caused BY
catarh, which II nothing but an In
famed condition Of the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollar. foI
any case OF Deafness (causod BY cntsrrhl
that cannot be cured by Halls C&tarrh
Cure Bend for circulars, fres-
y J. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, o.
~ Sold BY Druggists, 75c-
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A ROUGH SHAVE.
Tho Natives of Jamaica Use Broken Bot
ties For Razors.

Tho Natives of Jamaica Use Broken Bot
ties For Razors.
The natives Of Jamaica have no need to
buy soap, for the woods abound with
plants whose leaves and buds supply very
well the place of that indispensable article
Among these Is the soap tree, so called,
though Il Is more bush than tree. Its
bulb, when rubbeds on wet clothes, makes
a beautiful lather, which smells much like
common brown soap. The Jamaica ne
groes, some OF them, who are great handles
in their way, make a soap out OF a cocoa
nut oil and homemade I've, and a fine soap
IL is, smooth and fragrant. This cocoanut
oil soap Is used for shaving.
When a man wishes to shave he starts
out with his cocoanut shell cup and his
donkey tail brush and bottle. 1t is never
any trouble TO find an empty bottle in ia
maica, even in the mountains. At least
90 generations OF thirsty people have lived
there and thrown away the empty bottles.
The man carries no mirror, because he has
none to carry. Not one negro cabin in a
dozen has a cheap looking glass.
But nature supplies the mirror rs well
as the soap. The man goes to con-
venient pool in the mountain stream
where the water Is still, and there is his
mirror. He breaks his bottle on a stone
and picks out good sharp piece. Then
be lathers his face profusely and begins to
scrape away with his piece Of glass, which
works almost as well as sharp razor.
The men rarely cut themselves in this
operation. AT first" says a writer, 81
trembled for them, but afterward l tried
the method for myself, and soon became
expert at IL. Pearson Weekly.
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Bryant. Early Pecuni.ry Rewards.

II Is amusing to know how small were
the pecuniary rewards Of Bryant's literary
labors, whatever may have been the fame
they brought him. Two dollars poem
was the price that he named. and he
seemed to be abundantly satisfied with the
terms. A gentleman met him In New
York many years after and said to him: Il
have just bought the earliest edition OF
your poems and gave SEQ for t.. "More,
by long shot, replied the poet, ethan
received for writing the whole work. -
Arthur Lawrence in Century.
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Little AIiee's Mistake.

1t happened that little Alice's mamma
had travelled In company with Mark
Twain and one or two other celebrated
writer's. The child had heard the matter
discussed. and she electrified the household
by announcing:
"You Travelled with Shakespeare. didn't
you. mammal told the teacher today
that you didl'-New York Mercury.
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NEW WAY EAsr-so DUST.

Go East from Portland, Pendleton, walls
Walla via o. K. & \. 10 Spokane and Great
Paul, Minneapolis. Chicago, Omaha. St.
Louis, East and South. Rock-ballsst track
tine scenery new equipment Great North
ern Palace Sleepers and Diners; Family
Tourist Cars; Buffet Library Cars Write
A. B. c. Denniston. c. P. & T. A, Portland,
Oregon. o. +. l. Whitney, G. p. & T. A,
st. Paul, Mimi, for printed matter and In
formation about rates, routes, etc.
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In the year B. c. fs6 there was drought
extending all over Europe. All the crops
failed, and whole districts were depopu-
lated. At Rome thousands OF people
drowned themselves in the Tiber. and a
restilence ensued from the dead bodies In
the river and on the banks.
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1.-THE MELANCHOLY DAYS HAVE
COME

The saddest OF the year" not when autumn has
arrived, as poet Bryant infimates, but when .
fellow gets bilious. The "sere and yellow leaf
is In his complexion II not in tire foliage at that
inauspicious time. H0stetter's stomach Bit
tiers will soon discipline his rebellious liver,
aud regulate his bowels, besides toning his
stomach and h.slthfully stimulating his kid
neys. Malaris, rheunatism and nervousness
are also relieved by the Bitters.
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Maryland, Massachusetts, and Vermont
are returned In the census reports as each
having one acre In fax. New Jersey and
Arkansas each having two.
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When pigs are seen carrying straw in
their mouths, the omen is favorable fora
change Of weather.
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Driver of bus TO conductor, whom he has
called up)-Jim, tn oil gent behind's Just fell
orr. Conductor-Al rigat, Bill, ga paid his
fare
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The Kalamazoo river has an Indian
name, Ne-gik-an-a-ma-zoo, swimming
offers"
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After physicians had given me up, Vas
saved BY Piso's Cure.-RktFH EnIKs, Viii
Transport, Pa, Nov. y, 1898.
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YIre--An y1ts stopped ffss by TT. KIins,s
Great rsrxs Hcstorsr- Ne f'ss Hner ~ nrzt
days use. Marvellous curta Troaxxss and -
trial bottle free 10 III casea 6sud 70 Dr. Kilna.
~ Arch 81. Philadelphia Pa