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ment is based on the innocent 'n'iu
party holder law. -.
The people refused to pay the mrs.
tax levied to pay interest ana iear ,
of the issue Of the bonds. Then lney
repudlated the whole thing ana Sd.
down satifed no court woulu nOiu
against them. But IN 1873 suit was
brought for $4,000 OF the bonds ana
decided against the county. Ihen juicy
Dillon issued a mandamus on the couh-
ty court commanding the judges "
levy the necessary tax. the JUICES
learning OF the coming Of the marshal
with this order took to the woods ana
II was a long time before the Object
was able to serve his papers.
When he did serve them the ORDER
was ignored. The judges were opposed
to the tax, and even II they favored II
knew the temper Of their people TOO
well to take chances. Then an order OF
arrest for contempt Of court was Is
sued and the judges hauled to Kansas
City for hearing Judges Asabel Heath
Thomas J. Younger, John Breeden'
John 2. Love and Thomas Henley were
the first men to suffer voluntary i'm
prisonment rather than pay what they
believed to be an unjust debt
When the fight began the people
fought the court because Of their wrath
at the fraud put upon them. Now they
keep It up because they could not pay
If they would. The amount has grown
by accretlon OF interest compounded
from $3.50, 900 to over S1,300,0OO. The
assessed valuation of the entire county
is only $4,000, 900, so It will be seen that
to issue the levy necessary to take up
this debt would confscate every acre
of land In st. Clair. The people are
willing to compromise and pay the face
of the bonds, but as this offer is reject
ed they keep up the battle.
After n few courts had been locked
up in q body candidates for the office
became volunteers willing to 90 to jail
to prevent a tax levy. For nearly thirty
years the war has continued, and Is moi
ended yet Every time Judge Philips
opens court he finds a group of three
patient typical southwestern Missouri
farmers In court waiting for commit
ment to Jail. He offers them advice
and admonltion. They reply with the
stated offer of compromise, and OF
course are turned down. Then TIT
Judge winds it all up by YEARLY order
ing his marshal to lock them up. Bu
the bonds have not been paid, nor any
of the interest. The Federal authorize,
are puzzled, and the people of st. Clall
determined. How it will end, If it eve
does get out of court, is a question FOL
chancery to wrangle with.
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The Publishers Weekly has issued
"A summary number, giving the list of
new books that appeared In the United
States during 1898. AS this list comes
closer to being officially accurate than
any other, Its totals are worthy of no.
tice. 1t shows the total number of new
books for the year to have been 4,SS6,
n decrease of ~ as compared with 1897,
and the smallest number since 1894.
These figures Indicate new editions of
old works, as well as foreign works Inn
ported for sale In this country. Fiction
naturally leads the list, the number of
new novels being 724; new law books,
All; religious books, 400; educational
works, 3G4; Juveniles, 1866. 1t is a strlk-
Ing fact that we still get most of our
fiction from England. The novels of
the year, including republlshed edi-
tions, numbered 005, and only 1858 Of
these were of American origin. In all
the other lines that have been named,
including Juvenile, the books are chief
ly American. In other words, our adult
fiction readers get the bulk of their
reading from foreign sources, while our
boys and girls are perforce more patri-
otto. Unfortunately the Publishers
Weekly is compelled to put low esti-
mate upon the juvenile fiction of the
year. II remarks that scarcely n book
In this field possesses lasting quality.
But really notable books Of any kind by
American authors were unusually rare
In 1898, and the total number Of Amer
lean books would have fallen far short
OF the usual figures II 1t had not been
for the large output Of crude war vol
umes toward the end Of the year Yet,
II our dereliction may be ascribed to
the war, what excuse has Great Britain
for showing a total of only 1916, as
against 1926 for the preceding year,
APPARENTLY France has far surpassed
both the great Anglo-Saxon countries
by lsuing total Of 14,7S1 books, as
against 1900 In 1897. Perhaps this
may be explained by saying that the
Saxons have been doing things while
the Latins have been talking.
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THE SONG THAT WAS LOST

r.o.o rros poet born who had deep In
NJ I u,S No. from the soil-he plowed the
fields in spring;
Put he conned the songs OF the uhe'e"'
bards-he studied well and long
And ever he sang to himself the song
that God gave him to sing
And no loved the mother who bore him.
and as they tOiled away
To Thought Of the joy she would have TO
beor him sing his song some day.
In secret moments OF the hisnl niS ne"'e"
Letter by letter, word by Wofd' anu'
likewise, line by line;
And he sang it unto the beasts OF the neiu'
he caught the song birds note
And held it fast, and in his eyes was the
light that is divine
The song that he had been given to sing
he poured from his heart, and then
He ran to sing it to her whose love sur
passed the praise Of men.
He sang the song-the song sublime tnat
had burst from the depths OF MS
heart;
She dumbly heard him sing until the
last note died away;
"Ah, but" she sadly sighed, Twill bring
YOU nothing in the mart,
For men have little gold to give in trade
for songs to-day"
He gazed into her face and saw but cold,
sharp wrinkles there
His song became a sob-he turned, and
plowed on in despair.
Cleveland Leader.
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GROUP or JUDGES WHO HAVE GONE TO JAZZ

persistence that Is not eclipsed by
either the Puritans aud other nOn-con-
formists in their refusal to yield to
church power in England, which inn
prisoned them, beheaded and burnt
them; by the Quaker or the DiObourski
adherents to the refusal to bear arms,
or by the steadfastness of the Chouans
of France, who concealed taxable
goods and spirited away assessors.
The case is a page from the history
of railroad exploitation In the West In
the early '7Os. ST. Clair County Is a
part Of the Usage country not rich in
minerals or with exceptionally good
lands. 1t is a plain country district
peopled by men and women who have
lived there all their lives and who have
the determination of the British and
Scottish ancestors. But the county
had no railroad to haul it's produce to
market, and the offer Of one was hailed
with pleasure thirty years ago. The
nearest line to st. Clair was at Sedalia,
sixty miles away.
SO when the advance agents of the
Tebo and Neosho Railway went to Os-
ceola and proposed to build a branch
OF the road from Kansas City to Hell
ena, Ark, the people We're anxious to
accept Some sixty counties In western
Missouri discussed the proposition for
a bond issue. st. Clair accepted and
agreed to take $25O,OO0 OF stock to be
paid for IN county bonds. There has
always been some question II the petl-
ton for the bond Issue had a majority
OF votes, but they were so recorded
and the Issue decided upon. This was
In 1870. They were conditioned on the
running OF the road through the county
on the best practicable line. Fifty thou.
sand dollars was to be delivered when
i've miles Of road had been constructed
500, 600 more when the road crossed the
Osage River and that stream was
brldged. and the remainder when the
road was graded through the Who'll,
county.
This was satisfactory to the people
but II is asserted that later the county
court stripped the county Of all protect
Ing conditions and agreed to deliver
bonds when contracts had been let fol
masonry work. ON Nov. >, 1870. tn,
bonds were signed and delivered. Tha
was the last OF the railroad Ii hal
never been built and nobody asserts 4
was ever TO be. But the holders OF tn,
bonds sold most Of them and the judg
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BADLY CRUSHED WOMEN.
Showing Why People Should Not Talk
Loudly When In Public.

Showing Why People Should Not Talk
Loudly When In Public.
They were standing up in a street car
and Cabling as fast as their tongues
could go.
by the way" exclaimed the one in
the military cape, did you know that
Charlie Hawkins was engagedY"
The woman In the gray hut gave an
exclamation OF surprise.
why, nor she cried. "Whom to?"
ooh. nobody that you know, or that
anybody else knows, for that matter
She works In store or something Of
the sort. do think Charles mother Is
real good about Il. for she declares she
likes the glrl-says she Is sweet and
pretty. and all that. but l believe she
does It Just 10 hide her real feelings"
The woman in the gray hat nodded
sagely
Il shouldn't wonder at all." she an
nounced. IL had heard he was going
with that girl Mabel Thompson, isn't
III But, OF course, never thought that
there was anything In II. l suppose
they'll live ON our street. because
Charlie owns a house there; but III tell
all the neighbors who she Is. Look out,
Louisa, the girl beside you's going to
get up-hurry and take her seat" Then,
in lower whisper. rather a stylish
looking girl, isn't she. III like TO know
who she Is"
The stranger stopped on her outward
way, and turned with flashing eyes. 81
don't believe that you would" she said
icily. but I've no objection to telling
you. My name Is Mabel Thompson"
And she swept from the car. leaving
two crushed crimson ladies behind her.
They have since decided that 1t is dan.
gerOus 10 discuss unknown persons IN
public places Cleveland Plain Dealer,
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14
RECENT INVENTIONS

Tobacco pipes can be thorouobi,
cleaned by new device copsIstine :,
a pump to be attached to the howl -
the pipe to draw water in throuob .Sa
stem and forcibly discharge II to d,s
lodge the impurities.
The skin can be quickly removed
from potatoes by a new cleaner formed
of a tubular net of sharp cords hav.
ing a number Of knots on the inner sur.
face, the tubers being placed in the
net and shaken rapidly.
A handy cup for eggs boiled in the
shell has slots near the edge for the
insertion Of tableknife to remove the
top of the shell, the cup having a re.
movable lining so as to hold eggs of
different sizes.
For use In curling the hair a newly
designed instrument has the ends of
the tongs flattened, TO be heated and
press the hair after It has been damp
ened and wound ON curl papers or
crimping pins.
An Australian has designed a new
diving dress In which steel rings are
woven into the cloth or sewed between
two thicknesses, for the purpose Of re-
sisting the pressure Of the water at
great depths.
A German inventor has patented a
clock for attachment to telephone In
struments, which has levers to be set
for the number Of minutes converse
ton desired, the connection with the
other instrument being broken when
the time expires.
Shoe laces are to be made with a core
of hemp or other strong cord nclOsed
in loosely woven casing, the core ex-
tending into a tongue of coiled wire or
soft brass at either end, thus forming
a string which will not wear out easily.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14

When the ladies' were 60.
said; Il would like n ~o0ul to 20 he
Visit VISIT my sanctum sanctorun sO !, ladies
they gave a glad assent | % which
When they entered the -.
gave violent start for uOO' Marion
trance was her own figure q y, Tie en-
under the portrait the words = 4. ne size;
INTO the future" She hlns. looking
turned pale, and her eyes rost p., Then
win something like recogpltion Aaiph's
Ciaremont saw that there wv Mrs.
thing In the air and retired -. ,' some
from the office with a rems srr's .,
some errand that must be a,,aas ABOUT
Immediately. ATTENDED to
Ralph advanced toward M..
taking her hand, said: Il was ~, u ana
tunate finder Of your photos sn 'ae Tor
had this portrait for my daIly ' oo,. nave
Ion a year. May hope IN tho - a,pah-
to possess the original? We hui sususe
reality known each other two a1'e IN
and need not measure time in ~. Ears s
ventional way; feel that no. son,
your souls mate. Is It NOT true to''eSa
Marion gave him a glance snu
faith and trust, saying: Even ~ r =.
heart Is yours" 1t is needless 4 a =,
that Marion never went into s ~ auu
trance. What could It be2 ma ~,
soul leave Its earthly surroupdIn.. :" =
seek Its mater She believes that il ~ a., =
and found 1t, too.-Boston Post
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14

On the day of Senator Morrllrs fun.
eral It first became generally known In
Washington that Representative Ding
ley Of Maine, the chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee OF the House,
and the Republican leader on the floor,
had been taken III with pneumonia.
Two weeks from that day both houses
OF Congress adjourned after the read
ing OF the Journal. on account Of his
death. Both OF these men came from
the same section OF country, but be-
longed to the whole nation. Unlike
Senator Morrill,, Mr.. Dngley died at
the time of his greatest activity as a
public man. No member OF the House
was laden with more cares and respon-
sibillties. Even the hours that should
have been given to recreation, Mr.
Dlngley devoted to public affairs.
Among men on the floor of Congress
who have become eminent without be-
Ing eloquent orators, Mr.. Dingley stood
first; and no man ever owed less to ar
tlflcial aids. His Information was so
exhaustive and his habit OF mind so
exact that his associates ''plnned their
faith" to his opinion, and his political
opponents gave him sincere respect.
Men of solid qualities like his survive
In the regret and gratitude OF their
race long after their lives here have
ended. The title of Great COmmOner'
applied to Pitt may not cling to Mr..
Dingley, but his public service goes far
to establish his claim to 1t. He was
strong IN the beauty Of his life, strong
In his sagacity and sense Of right,
strong in the breadth and accuracy Of
his knowledge; and his strength Is the
lustre OF his history. His death is a
loss to his country
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14
COURT GOES TO JAIL.
A MISSOURI COUNTY REBELLION
DEFlES SUPPRESSION
Judges Serve Terms tn Prison for Com
tempt of United States Court Order
Strange story that Has been Making
History for Twenty Years.

Nowhere In history is there an exact
parallel to the story OF the farmers Of
St Clair County, Missouri, who stead
lily refuse to obey a rule of the law, and
who find In their midst men who are
willing to go to jail, men who serve
their whole terms of Office In jail-set
after set Of them volunteering to suffer
for the common veal. For twenty-five
years the United States court las de-
clared 81. Clair County indebted to GER
tain bondholders for principal and in
terest and interest upon the interest,
besides the court costs, in n sum now
aggregating Sf,3OO,0O0. and has order
ed that the money be paid. For TWEEN
ty-fve years the people OF st. Clair
County have answered the United
States court that they did not owe this
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money, either wholly or in part, and
that no power on earth could compel
them to pay 1t. The court has borne
upon them all its gigantic strength. 1t
has punished and pleaded; delivered
upon them all It's mandates, its dictums
Its DEGREES and its wrath. And in TWEEN
ty years 1t has moved them not one
particle. To its every command, its
every threat, its every application, the
people Of St Clair County have an
swered: 1--WE will not" and the history
Of their never-yielding response is the
story Of a fight without parallel in
America; story of steadfastness, stub
bornness and unterrlfed, grim-jawed
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14
JAMES COULDN'T IMAGINE.
A Story that a New York Club Woman
Tells About Herself

A Story that a New York Club Woman
Tells About Herself.
Here is a good story which a club
woman tells about herself:
"At one time" she says, I'VE had
colored butler, who stayed with US for
years, and who admired my husband
immensely. He thought that DR.. H
was a marvel of manly beauty, as well
as the embodiment Of all the virtues
domestic, professional, and otherwise
OF course, quite agreed with the but
Ter on this point but the fact is some
times pinned to have him pass his en-
thusiastic compliments around to the
family, and not bestow them all on tne
doctor. So one morning, when Dr.
H had just left the breakfast table,
and was even then to be seen, an I'M
posing picture, as he stood on the 'front.'
steps drawing on his gloves, remark
ed to James:
"'Dr. H is a handsome man, ISM
hep
ayes. ma'am. Deed an he Is
ma'amg with gratifying enthusiasm
"Then, hoping to get a rise from
James, l added with an absentmlnueu
air. as IL 1 scarcely knew what ! salu'
but was just uttering my lnmOs'
thoughts: 10000
".How in the world do you suppose
that such a handsome man as Dr. IL
ever happened to marry such homeiy
woman as l amr
"Wen. James just stopped short an =
rolled his eyes and shook his neau a' -
he gave 1t up. Then he calculates; ~
"sfIeaven knows, maam! NE"
York Sun.
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bacco factories. with the coming o.
American families, American dress
makers, mililuers, governesses, school
teachers, boarding house keepers and
sewing machine operators viii hnd
openings 10 employment Nothing Is
said OF climatic dangers. which are
ever present, and which American for
tune seekers will do wen 10 remember.
This writer thinks that Porto Rico
should be avoided by young men with
out capital and with no knowledge OF
the Spanish language. 1t presents no
opportunities now. and there are few
hopes that there viii be any In the I'm
mediate future.
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There are $4,000 or 10000 persons in
st. Clair County. These, save 1900 Mt
OsceOla, as many at Appleton CITY. and
half as many at Lowrey, are farmers
and farmers folk. They are a TYNE NJ
people who have had much to do with
the settlement and development Of the
United States They represent. as n
Is represented In Missouri and Tho
south Alleghanian hills of east Tennes-
see and Kentucky, as in no other narts
of the Union, the simOn-pure Anglo,
Saxon stock In the new world Tbai,.
ancestors came over in the Mavfowor
and others of the first Of the emicrant
craft. They are an admlxture of a.
BritOn and the Scot, and all their On
cestral characteristics Of never-bend.
Ing determination and unylelding SINH
bOrnness are apparent In this nninro
light OF the people Of st. Clair Countv
Said one leading resident: "Aforo
Wen give up they'll have to bnnd =
Jail around the whole county. and loci,
us up, women, children and all ,ro,s
this thing looks pretty funny to peonIs
ON the outside, but there's notl,ino
funny about It to n man with a hon
and a farm In st. Clair County ana =
lot of money sharks waitln' TO pobhla
1t the first time there's nobody cop,os
forward to go to jail"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14

In the old parable the harvester who
began work a, dawn and he who came
at the eleventh hour each received a
days wages-one penny. Britanuia's
new postal system Is based on the same
elastic plan. The penny stamp which
carries letter across the street In Lon
don viii carry It To Hong Kong on the
other side OF the globe, or TO forty-four
other parts OF the British Empire. One
could hardly ask penny TO go farther
OF to accomplish more.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14

Six hours In the schoolroom racklng
over hard problems and recitlng the
half learned lessons In fear Of censure.
four hours more OF study at home
while the weary little mind wanders
20 the playground to which the body
Is not permitted TO go for the elixir pre-
scrlbed by nature. All this is done
with the purpose OF crOwding more ed
ucatlon than formerly into the school
years Of the average child. The at
tempt might as well be abandoned.
Too much OF modern school systems
consist OF process OF tanning hard
facts into little heads until either the
head bursts or the contents become
jumbled into a confused mass.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14

Sir William Broadbent' who Is guy w, ~
the most eminent authorities on cv l
sumption in Great Britain, Is pls 'a,,aD.
ing fresh air as the best OF pre-. ~
tives. day and night, summer anu . %
ter. He says everybody ought 10 ',, SEN
with the Nylndow open and the DsS,SV rs
ought to be rs fresh in the mor ,I no.
when IL is entered at night ne onen
lieyes that II we all slept WIN ., nm n.
windows the mortality from eo 'Is e,.lp,
ton would be reduced by one-H''-
this alone,
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14

A statement OF losses IN this country
by entertainments, forgeries, bank
wrecklngs. and the like. during the
year 1898 gives an aggregate OF To-
ward six million dollars. Only twenty
one thousand dollars OF the amount Is
credited 10 the pOstmasters. In the
great company OF the officials thus
commissioned. temptation TO steal
Government property made few con
quests. IL Is Of course a blot on our
public service record II any office hold
er proves faithless but with large OPP
pOrtunity for wrong doing. the delln.
quents are the rare exceptions to the
rule OF honest men serving the Gov.
ernment industriously and with no dis.
position 70 plumber the people.
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Al a recent competition In designs
for book covers in London. prizes were
awarded for two which had been sub
mitted by "Aiiss Matthews. 1t was
not until some time afterward that Il
was revealed that Miss Matthews"
was the Princess Victoria OF Wales,
daughter OF the heir apparent to the
British throne. None Of the other com
petitors. nor the judges, nor any Of
her own family, had any Idea that she
was among the competitors.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14

A well-informed writer In Leslie's
Weekly. In advertlng 10 the opportuni-
ties which Cuba aud Porto Rico prefer
20 American wage-earners. speaks en-
cOuragingly OF Havana. Clerks and
statesmen VIII lnd ready employment
but a most essential qualification to
success Is a knowledge Of the Spanish
language. American typewriters and
stenograDhers are In demand, but wom-
en- workers in these occupations may
hope for employment only with Amer
team firms. The Spaniards and Cubans
stin retain their preJudices against ths
smgioyment OF women, except In TO
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14

Mr.. Howells ought not to worry about
the destiny OF the letter "R" IN litera-
ture. What Is wanted Is sweeping
reform which Will prevent the misuse
OF the other twenty-five letters.
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at does not pay to spend two thou
sand dollars on a two-dollar boy" a
Western father once observed to Pres
ident Eliot OF Harvard University.
True! but as each boy may ticket him
self with his own value, the conclusion
Is Just enough.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-14

A contributor to current magazine
wants to know III engagements should
ever be broken on" II seems to de-
pend very largely on whether broken
engagements or divorces are considered
the more Objectionable.
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II Is estimated that 100000 persons
die every year in this country from TAX
ing poisonous medicines" but this
must be n mistake. A person usually
dies only once.
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she-I can't understand why Nv We've
the neIghbors have called on US uSa w NOT a
been here three months now snI 70 the
soul has come to welcome US 70 ~
neighborhood. .s Az soon as
He-oh. well, never mind, ASS, AZ ,S' man
they find out that I'm rall I'M friends
and can get passes for my ;1n lr'oa~S
tbeyll not permit you to get lOne''
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Profane swearing. the Mississippi Su-
preme Court has Just affirmed, includes
the use Of the word damn" unacCom-
panied by any other expression, and Is
subject to fine. No other source Of
revenue would be needed by the State
II that law was strictly enforced.