The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-01-13

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A man must have a great deal Of as
surance who win take out S2.00O,O00
policy on his life.
One way Cuba viii start debt free. At
the same time Il doubtless won't for
&c; Il owes everything TO this country.
Now that the Salvation Army Is going
70 throw aside the big drum, the fact
that armies change base has q good H.
lustrauon.
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A Buffalo man has been arrested for
beating his sister, but he probably WIN
get on. because hc Insists that he mis-
took her for his wife.
Suppose Howard Gould did pay S5,-
0eo.O0O fer IA wifeY That doesn't break
the record Richard III. offered his
kingdom once for horse.
The Empress Dowager Of China
sometimes has a bright idea. She has
selected Brlghts disease as the NAL
ady Of which the Emperor Is 70 die. :.
.Kipllng's latest poem about the
"bear" may refer to the Gear, but you
can't make the average wife believe
that Il doesn't refer TO married man.
keep out Of politics" says judge
70 young lawyers, until competency
has Been secured" Too many lawyers
without any competency are engaged
IN politics.
A Gotham contemporary says that
Performer Charlotte Smith Is after the
bachelors now" why not bride one
Of them TO stop and thus end the Whole
struggled
The rumored assassination Of Presi-
dent Faure was a canard Tauro has
no intention Of trying 20 rival the En-
peror OF China ia His great disappear
ance speciality.
That Eastern wrlter who says Queen
Wihelmina, Queen Victoria and the
Dowager Empress Of China ara the only
women rulers In the world talks Ike
an unmarried man.
A scientist claims that the chicken
existed practically IN rs present form
AZ the time Of the flood" There ia
nothing In that discovery which win
surprise the average boarder.
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Down IN Texas the other day a girl
ate the hads OF 2i2 parlor matches In
an attempt 20 commit suicide because
OF too much friction in a parlor match
she has been working upon all summer
Tho Kansas City Journal says II Is an
error to suppose that all angels are
blonde girls about 10 years old, and
adds. Angels are made OF fat little
rasoals about years old, dressed in
pale-blue wings" There are others.
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A Western contemporary has an edl-
toriai word painter who gives us a de
lightful picture OF tho great Amerl-
can eagle clucking and a million moro
OF her progeny creeping under her pro
tectlng wings" That fellow evidently
imnglnes that the great American bird
OF freedom Is an old hen.
A uniform divorce law allowing al
yorce only on good and. sufficient
grounds would not only have ten
dency 20 reduce the number OF SHY
marriages, but would also minimize
the scandal now only too frequent In
connection with Western divorces. In
short an American men and women
should be ON the same footing as re
CARDS marriage and divorce.
We have great reason 70 be not only
satisfied with. but TO be proud Of, tho
place which tho United States has at
tained IN the commercial world. We
are not yet. Il "a true. quito at tho top
OF tho tree, Great Britain being a CON
siderable way ahead. but at the pace
az which we are advancing. In comparl-
son with Great Britain and the other
big nations Il Is only a question OF an
other twenty or thirty years when we
shall lead the world ln foreign trade as
We now Tad L IN Internal trade.
The suggestion has been made 20 the
Posiofice Department thar the device
10 be placed upon the two-cent postage
stamp be the national dag instead OF
the portrait OF Washington Tho de-
partment replied 20 the author Of the
suggestion that it win be carefully con-
s.derod Something Is 70 be said on
both sides OF the proposition. but q,
may be remarked that postage stamp
Gag would certainly be better than tho
caricaturc OF the dag impressed by tho
defacing stamp used in many post
Offices.
Every calling brings rs own respon.
siblity. and the fact that faithful men
d. their full duty ia an emergency as a
matter Of business. makes their action
none the less heroic. Professor Nasse,
q weli-kuowu Berlin scientist. with a
friend and TWO guides, all roped togeth.
or, was crossing a snow-bridge In the
Alps a few weeks ago when the pro.