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Clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods
Look through our stock.
BARNES CLOTHING STORE.
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1RS. n. NJ. NORWOOD
Aug. goth, 1897.

Will reopen her school, at her resi-
dence, on Turner Avenue,
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Man and r1ule Fall in a Well.

Gents furnishing goods in all stvles ant
prices to suit the times at HARDEE'S.
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Halls Hair Remover contains the natu
raj food and cool matter for the hair, and
medicinal herbs for the scalp, curing gray
ness, badness, dandruf, and scalp sores
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UNFORTUNATE PERSlANS.
The Unhappy Lot Of the Subjects Of the
Shah.


Shah.
According to reports recently made
by British consul in that country the
condition of the peasants of Persia
seems to be peculiarly an unhappy
one. He says: ''They inhabit mere
mud novels, without windows and
with a hole in the center of the roof to
let out the smoke, and the filthy state
of the villages is indescribable. At
the end OF the winter they gener-
ally find their stock either ex-
hausted or running very low, and the
great festival of Nauroz at hand
Formerly the peasant knew that if his
stock failed, there was no hope of re-
plenishing it. He would have to go
without his Nauroz festivities. But
now he knows that a week or two
before the festival the Russian specu-
lators will appear on the scene and
offer the proprietor advances OF money
to SOW cotton for them, the seed of
which they provide, or buy up in ad-
vance the best part of his crop of
wheat. The ignorant peasant is led to
agree to bartering part of his share,
too, and when the harvest is over he
finds that he has not enough corn to
carry him through the winter. If the
proprietors and peasants resist the
temptations till the time of the, actual
harvest the result is the me. The
wheat goes at half price, the peasant
finds after few weeks that he has not
enough to carry him through the win
ter, and, worst of all, there is no corn
left for towns like Meshed, with sew
enty thousand inhabitants. Last year
the crop was fair one, but SO much
wheat was exported that the price of
bread was four times as high as after an
abundant harvest when there was no
expectation"
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Notice of Publication.

40 D. W. Watlington, A. H. Rahm and
Nelson F. KimbaIl, your heirs. devisees
and assigns:
lou ara heaaby notified that the under
signed aasaed SlCO, in the year 1895,
~ ia'eeaad improvements upon the
MEXICAN
ioae mining claim ia Warm Springs Creek,
~ T5 Boulder, mining distriet, Blaine county,
d ddaaho, In order TO hold said premises un.
ger the provisions of section 1924, Revised
statutes statutes OF the United States, being the
a.noaht required to hold the same during
aisl aaa lor SAID calendar year 1885, and if.
aisnih va ninety days after the expiration OF
n mg punllcation of this notice, which will be
ttuunshed t~s. Tor ninety days, you fail or re
,ins ,aSe 70 contribute your respective proper
sonnss suns OF such expenditure as co-owners,
s.iJ s.eiHJGfdng to your respective interests irI
ssru clam viz: b. w. Watlington, one
silareeahth, iasU,a $625; A. H. Rshm, one-six-
i;ehh.h' e;eh.' S25. and Nelson F. kimball, one
esEhth, wiu Sl2,50, your interests in said claim
s,,n sm De forfeited to and become the prop
t,,sS tS % 81 tne Undersigned, under and by yir-
'N0 VI SAID section 1924.
r. EDWARD BRISBIN.
FIRST publication, Feb. Is, 1886.
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UNEQUAL PUNISHMENT.

Different States Treat Criminals with Va
rying Degrees Of Severity.
Probably few people are aware, says
the Springfield (Mass) Union. OF the
great difference in the severity OF pun
ishment for the same crime which cx-
lists in different states, but the matter
has been fully discussed in paper by
Fred w. Wines, which was read at the
meeting Of the National Prison assOcia-
ton at st. Paul. Mr.. Wines claims
that the existing penal system is un-
lust in some respect in almost every
state, and the facts given in support
of his statement are decidedly interest
ing. In some states there is no capital
punishment for murder, while in
others the death penalty is inflicted
for what in comparison are minor
crimes. If it is right to spare the life
of a man who commits brutal muir
der in Michigan, it is certainly wrong
to hang wretch who has been caught
setting fire to dwelling at night, as is
done in Montana. Nearly all the south
ern states punish arson with death,
and in some burglary is capital
crime. In Missouri the punishment
for perjury is death, while in New
HAMPSHIRE, Connecticut and Ken
lucky the maximum sentence for per.
Jury is five years. In Maine, Mississippi
and Iowa, however, the perjurer may
be sent to prison for life, while in Del
aware for the offense is justifiable by
fine, The severest punishment in
flicted in Delaware for incest is hne
of one hundred dollars, in Virginia SIX
months in iail, and in Louisiana the
death penalty is exacted.
1t is clear that when the punishment
for given crime varies from the exac-
ton of small fine to hanging, great
Injustice is done somewhere, and IT Is
well that men are studying the ques-
ton with q view to correcting the evil
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congressman sometimes adopt queer
expedients to gain the good will OF
their constituents. Years ago, q a'mem-
Der from western state was afraid
that his first term would be his last, as
he had not managed to make himself
power in congress While he was de-
batting what he should do, friend
said: "You live near the center of the
United States, don't your" Yes"
'Then, why don't you introduce bill
to have the capital moved to the prin-
cipal town in your district?' The
congressman introduced the bill, and
the people of his district at once con-
cluded he was great man and sent
him back for another term. He REIN
troduced the bill in the next congress,
and, although it was promptly pigeon
holed in committee, his constituents
gave him third term, as reward for
his genius.
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Notice of Forfeiture.

signs: '-s' A'' "a
noaSu n9u are hereby notified that | have ex-
nueu tars $; Tue sum of one hundred 1907 dol
'' ~ iaoor and improvements upon the
=, WELLINGTON
Ise sban, mining claim, situated on Rear gulch,
In Wire snire miles northeasterly of Ga!ena
copn,v vod KiVer mining district. Blaine
Rsv;sssa; Riss; ttaaho. as required by section 1924.
inc Iau tLa statutes of the United States. be-
for the the aiaouht required to hold the same
that we We year ending December 81, 1895
beina! your proportion of the same is $50,
from the Sae, sa nall; and if within ninety days
ninety az aa,ice service of this notice. or within
Won Z; ;Hlays after this notice by publication
portnn la,i er refuse to contribute your pro-
ildh incluSinSel Sl such such expenditure as co-owner,
your nm regal costs Of this publication,
proner,ue ,erest In said claim will become the
proyis;cyn pity OF the undersigned, under the
'S'ohs OF said section 1924.
''IMnum, nun Idaho, January "A. 1886.
st publication, Jan. lS. 1885.
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FoReToLD -NAPOLEON's FALL.


Discovery OF Old Manuscripts Written by .
Danish Astrologer Centuries Ago.
Some old manuscripts have just been
discovered in San Francisco of wonder
full Importance. These manuscripts
are the production of one Peter Ham
sen, a noted Danish astrologer, who
lived through the end of the sixteenth
and beginning of the seventeenth CEN
turies- He was q contemporary and
correspondent of Johann Kepler, the
great German astronomer, Basil and
other learned men of that time. He
was also nephew and pupil of the
celebrated Danish astronomer, Tycho
Brahe, and lived in Copenhagen in the
years 1894 to 1912 The discovered
Hansen manuscripts are in possession
of descendant, Olaf Linnbcrg, who,
however, knew nothing of their nature,
although believing them of great inn
portance. Mr.. Christian Andersen, an
accomplished Danish scholar, has ex-
amined these old papers and found
wonders in them
Part OF these manuscripts are Of the
greatest Importance to the American
people at the present time. But first it
will be well to show the value of these
calculations and predictions. The great
plague of l664-1665 is clearly foretold,
with cumulative disaster on London,
indicating the great fire more than
half a century in advance. Lilly bor-
rowed from this. The French revolu-
ton and the rise and fall of Napoleon
are clearly predicted and with entire
precision in the designation of years.
These are accompanied by charts and
diagrams, apparently of terrestrial and
celestial combination. On one of these
charts is heavy line from the French
frontier of Moscow. The fall of Ma
poleon is told with the force of lam
guage of a prophet. It says:
"The conqueror shall become naughty
and despotic, drunken with ambition,
leading his victorious hosts through
fire and blood as a glutton revels at q
feast. Then shall he penetrate the
north for new conquests, passing be-
yond the lines of his auspicious star,
and two stars of evil omen confront
him. His victorious banner shall wither
like dry twigs in blast of fire. He
shall stagger back before hurricane
of destruction, tattered, bleeding and
torn, and fall PROSTATE to the earth.
Yet shall he rise again, in the furious
agony of a dying giant, to sink forever,
as choking in a sea of blood"
Among the other predictions in these
old documents are the destruction of
Lisbon by earthquake, the extinction
of the papal temporal power, the
Franco-German conflict and other great
natural and political convulsions.
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WEBSTER'S LEGAL EARNINGS.
A Little Leather-Coyered Book That Gives
His Receipts-

Little Leather-Coyered Book That Gives
His Receipts.
One of our correspondents has beeN
SO lucky as to fall in with a little
leather-covered book, like those of
bank depositors, which contains Dan
iel Webster's autograph record of his
legal receipts. This chronicle, says
the New York Evening Post, fills twen-
ty-eight pages and extends little
more than from 1889 to 1886, inclusive.
The first entry, dated September in
the former year. is OF $50, and the
second is of $50, for retainers on the
New hampshire circuit. The first fee
of 81, 900 was paid in May, 1884, by a
Mrs Badger. Services regarding Gil
ley's will commanded $500. The total
amount for the first year was footed up
as Sl3, ,14O, with the remark: 'Septem-
Der %, 1884, thus done and concluded"
A similar summing up appears at the
close of each other year. The second
total is SIS, 1874; the third is SCI, ,793.
The first entry Of $1,000 was in 1895,
March z, the first Of $1,000 December
in the same year. The last payment
was in respect to Florida land. The
largest single honorarium was $500.
In February of the fourth year $1,000 Is
set down as bestowed in q case OF Trim
ity church New York;. In turning over
this record leading metropolitan and
even provincial lawyers are astonished
that Webster, already twenty years in
Boston, SO undervalued his services.
He learned better at last. When Rob-
ert C. Winthrop looked up the earliest
date he said: That's just the time !
was ending my studies in Webster's
Office" and the chirograph led him to
add that Webster never wrote q firm
hand. Nobody has surveyed the relic
with more interest than DIR. o. w.
Holmes Among other things he said
ssHad the influx been ten-fold. Web
ster's purse would have remained
empty still. Had it's capacity received
like the sea, whatever entered there
would have run of like water from the
back of duck"
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q The KsYseou1 = The sole sspeeoentative
Of the Great Upper Wood River. 1awtooth
aad smoky mining regions, and, located
~ 1t Is In the very heart OF the most prom
isine mlains country on the faee Of the
earth. and leaving nothing undone 70 pre-
sent its readers q complete synopsis Of all
mining news and Developments. ~ we'll as
matters of local importance In and about
Ketchum, 1t IL an invaluable guide for cap
ital and informant TO the settler oS every
craft and position. Subsccibe for It, read
it, and let your friends read Il.
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TO FIND THE NORMAL CHILD.
Novel and Valuable Work Now Being Car
ried ON In Washingtons


Novel and Valuable Work Now Being Car
ried on In Washington.
A new kind OF scientific work is be-
. ing carried on in Washington, in which
the testing of twenty-five thousand
school children, mentally, morally and
PHYSICAL is the preliminary step. DR..
Arthur Mcdonald is conducting the
work, under the auspices of the United
States bureau of education, and the re-
suits when arranged and tabulated are
expected to throw valuable light upon
q number of mooted questions concern
ing the race.
For example, writes a correspondent
of the Boston Transcript, it Is desired
to know whether boys Of the laboring
class are less bright than the sons of
the well-to-do. Are they as well
nourished? In London not long ago in
vestigation proved that the children Of
laboring people in that metropolis were
better nourished-that is to say,
weighed more at the same age-than
those belonging to higher social strata,
the latter being fed on too much candy
and cake.
The work here being unfinished, con-
clusions cannot be stated. To begin
with, the height and sittins height of
each child were taken. Long-bodied
races, generally speaking, are inferior.
It is desired to know II long-bodied in
dividuals are less clever or less strong
than the short bodied of the same race.
Are long-bodied boys and girls apt to
be stupid? Long-headed children are
usually tall. Tall people are most
often long-headed. Tall races are SUI
pcrior. The question naturally fol-
lows: Are long-headed children super
ior mentally? When it is said that q
man has long head is there not sig
nifcance in the remark?
Are tall children then, superior? No
body knows as yet. These are among
the things which DIR. Mcdonald is try
ing to find out. In the classification
the eight thousand negro children in
Washington schools have been kept
separate SO as to compare them with
white children. How do they compare
in respect to brightness, weight, phys
lcal measurements, ETC.? The cOlorcd
child surpasses the white child up to
five years of age in mental develop
ment; then the white child goes ahead.
Comparisons of girls with boys natur-
ally follow. At the age Of entering
womanhood girls weigh more than
boys; that age with city girls arrives a
year earlier than with country girls.
Some more interesting compartive
data of the sexes have been already Sc
cured. 1t was determined by success
sion of simple, but conclusive, tests,
that girls felt pain more quickly than
boys, md DR.. Mcdonald is convinced
by this and other tests that the ccncl.ir
sion that women are more sensitive to
pain than men is the correct one, al
though the opposite idea widely OBJ
tains. 1t is worth mentioning, by the
way, that in every school there are
more bright girls than bright boys.
Girls are more faithful in studying and
memorize more attentively. A girl will
not get impatient md throw her book
into corner as boy would.
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One Of wash ,nxton.s Ancestors.


In the course of some slight repairs
at Little St. Mary's church, Cambridge,
England, tablet, which was some
what obscured before, has been moved
into prominent position on the north
wall, near the door. It is in memory
OF Mr.. Godfrey Washington. fellow
of Peterhouse, who was vicar OF the
parish, and died in 1929. It Is sur
mounted by his arms and crest, which
have more than a genealogical interest,
on account OF the tradition that the
American flag was derived from the
arms of the Washington family; the
shield barred, with three stars in chief,
certainly contains the elements that
are combined in the ''stars and
stripes" while the bird of prey, which
forms the crest, may have afforded .
suggestion for the American eagle.
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To Pick Out Oriental H080.
A test Of the geouiueuess OF an orb
entail rug or carpet, which Ccnstauti-
nople gentleman says is sure, is TO ex-
anime carefully to see If each stitch in
knotted, instead of trusting to those
easily put on marks of age-patchcs.
holes and crooked places. If the stitch
is knotted and firm the rug is genuine;
but, if the stitch can be pulled out. it Is
imitation, no matter how closely the
original rug may have been copied in
pattern and color. An oriental Dealers
test is to drop live coal on the rug, and
when it has burned little to remove
it quickly with the fingers. If the
scorching entirely disappears. leaving
the original colors unaltered, it il
proof of the genuineness of the rug
N. Y. Journal.
The Servant Question.
maggie, did you hear the door bell
ring?"
"Yis, num-"
"N'ell, why don't you open the door.
then?.'
"Surc, / don't know soul who'd. eaQ
en- me at this time of the day, mum. It
must be some ono to zee yersilf."--
Truth.
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Japanese Hairdressing.

One of the joys of the japanese wom-
ans Life, which Sir Edwin Arnold has
failed to dwell upon, is her hairdress-
ing, although he mentions the result
admiringly. The ordinary Japanese
woman has her hair dressed twice
week. First, the assistant hairdresser
comes and oils the locks with camellia
or aeasum oil; then the principal ar
riyes and spends nearly an hour IN
n;lfnr M her hair so that it will indi-
cate the caste and age Of the woman
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Papers and Periodicals.

In the United States there are 1855
daily newspapers, 81 papers published
every other day, 227 published twice .
week, and 14,O17 weekly newspapers.
Eighty-five newspapers are published
every two weeks, 24o are published
twice q month, 3,125 every month, and
aO7 published every two months and
every three months. There are eO,O06
papers and periodicals in the United
States
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and whether she is maid. wife or
widow" For all that is expressed by
the arrangement of the locks in Japan.
The women sleep upon neck blocks,
carefully followed out so that the hair
may remain undisturbed all night.
For ladies Of high degree these blocks
are beautifully lacquered and deco
rated. They generally have little
drawer into which the superfuous
ornaments can be put at night
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A soft Snap.

"Window-gazing" is profession in
London. A couple Of stylishly-dreseed
ladies pause before the window OF
merchant, remain about five minutes,
and audibly praise the goods displayed
inside. Then they pass on to another
store on their list Of patrons.
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The Young Idoo.

One Of the boys Of . Warrington
family had been instructed by his
teacher to write m essay. A rather
abstruse subject bad been given him,
and he had been referred to the die
tionary. His elder brother had prom
ised, if the composition was good, he
would write it on the typewriter. The
little fellow went to the dictionary and
found the word he was looking for, and
under 1t . quotation that just suited
the subject. He considered life to
short, however, to copy the quotation,
so he hunted up his mothers shears,
and clipped the big handsome diction-
ary wherever it suited his fancy. The
essay, thus constructed, was really
creditable; but the big brother in
formed the father, and the ingenious
youngster got . thrashing that he will
remember oil his life.
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Sensitive About Els Age.

When . distinguished man like NJ.
Grevy refused to tell his age surely
ordinary women may be excused for SD
purely feminine a weakness. by this
subterfuge the president misled his
countrymen into believing him to be
six years younger than he was, accord
ing to an anecdote as follows IN.
Grevy was always very reluctant TO
tell his age and openly admitted that
reluctance. At dinner party given
by one of his friends in 1872, the future
president of the republic said with a
smile: People may try as much as
they like, they will never know my
real age And in fact, when NJ. Her
old. who was some time minister of
the third republic, endeavored to OBJ
tain definite particulars of N. Grevy's
age for q new edition Of 'Vapereau,'
NJ. Grevy persistently refused to sup
ply them. The archives of Mont~sous-
Vaudrey were burnt in 1884, he said,
and you must do the best you can.
You'll get no information from me-
Az consequence, all N. Grevy's biog.
raphers give the year 1913 q that Of
his birth. while In reality be was born
In 1907" -