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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26
MONKEYS IN INv7a.
Are Unusually Ludicrous Counterfeits
of Their Human Cousins.

Are Unusually Ludicrous Counterfeits
of Their Human Cousins.
when ! was travelling in Northern
India" said gentleman who had re-
Gently completed Il journey around the
world, Il was constantly impressed
with the almost human ways Of the
monkeys there. You see they are never
molested, which is also true of the
birds, and they are as tame and lmpu-
dent as spoiled children.
Il remember that one morning while
we We're sitting at breakfast on the
veranda of our hotel suddenly we heard
the noisiest chattering, and down the
main street Of the town came a crowd
of long-tailed monkeys, running race
evidently. They shrieked and chartered
at every leap, tripped each other up,
pulled each others tails and seemed to
be having a generally hilarious time.
While we left the table to watch their
antics some Indian crows that had been
sOlemnly lined up on the veranda rail
watching US eat, made a dash for the
food and had quite a fight with the ma
tive servant before they were finally
driven away.
But the monkeys of India are surely
the most irresponsible people IN the
world" continued the traveller. "a call
them people because they are such lu-
dicrOus counterfeits of human beings.
In many of the old temples there are
monkey settlements. l remember one
in particular which was sacred to the
simians. There seemed to be thou
sands of the creatures, and l was told
that 5000 had recently been taken to
the woods to get rid of them. But in
this temple | saw little simian mothers
nesting and rocking their babies in
their arms for all the world like a
Christian mother. l ventured to pick
up one of the infants that was running
about, and instantly the baby gave a
typical infantile squeal and the excited
mother came to me, chattering angrily.
l put the infant down, and the mother,
her eyes still blazing with anger car
ried the little one to a corner and pet
ted and rocked it, frequently turning
to give me a sCOrnful look.
1T is not uncommon for the monkeys
in the trees to reach down and seize the
travellers hat as he passes.
Perhaps the most remarkable sight
in connection with the monkeys in In
dia l witnessed early one morning We
were riding IN the highway and by a
vacant field. Suddenly from the neigh
boring forest a troop of monkeys en-
tered the field and began a regular May
ing a large circle, then dancing round
and round and chattering gIeefuIly."
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26
LAW AS INTERPRETED.

Constitutional mandate of equality OF
taxation as near as may be is held, in
Drew VS.. Tiff Mimi, A L. R. A. 525,
to be applicable to inheritance taxes
and to be violated by exemptions
which discriminate between different
classes of persons.
An assessment for n street improve
ment under a resolution declaring the
improvement expedient is held, in Nor
folk VS.. Young Wa). Al L. R. A. ga.
to be unconstitutional for lack of due
process of law, where the notice did
not designate any tribunal, place or
time where the party could be heard.
Contract to expend $4,000 in open
ing and developing" mining property
which consisted of a large number Of
mining claims, both quartz and placer,
and in erecting a ten-stamp quartz mill,
is held, in Stanton VS.. Singleton CCalD.
Al L. r. A. 1874, to be one which equity
will not enforce by specific perform
ance.
Authority of railroad commissioners
to order a company to build and main
tain a depot or station house is held. I'm
State ex rel. Tompkins VS.. Chicaeo st
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad
Company Is. d., AZ L. r. A. 800, to be
conferred by a statute AUTHORIZING
them TO notify the company of improve
ments which they adjudge to be proper
Power to decide between candidate.
for justice Of the peace who have an
equal number of votes is held, in State
Crow VS.. Kramer MOI, AZ L.
SOL, to be in violation of the Copst,tr-
ton, which provides for the election ~
such officers without any provision for
deciding the tie, while it does maks
such provision in respect to other of1-
GERS. With this case there Is A NOT.
on the decision of tie vote at an eloo.
ton.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

base, thereby retiring the runner, who
had started for the plate. Then he ran
toward second and met the runner and
touched him out. He had made a
triple play unassisted.
The umpire had called two strikes
on the first man up for our side when
the opposing twirler made tremen-
dously wild pitch, the ball going about
four feet over the catcher's head. Our
batter had the presence Of mind to
strike at it, and he easily made first be-
fore the catcher could recover the ball.
The second man let the ball hit him,
and the third singled, thereby filling
the bases. Then McGuggenheimer
came up to bat. and we noticed that his
club was REINFORCED with steel bands.
The first ball pitched, PUNK hit out,
and, to the CONSERVATION of the This
ties, it could not be found. While they
were chasing wildly around looking
for it all of our runners scored. Just as
PUNK was crossing the plate the first
baseman discovered the ball. McGug-
gentlemen had driven it out with such
force that it had penetrated the canvas
of the first base and had lodged inside
the bag. 1t was so firmly imbedded in
the sandbag that it took five minutes
to extract it.
The second time PUNK came to bat
he drove the ball eight inches into the
ground, just in front Of the plate. The
pitcher and catcher dug frantically, but
before they could exhume the ball
PUNK had scored. Every ball he hit he
banged to pieces, and seven new ones
were used in the course of the game.
"The Whistllng Thistles were so ner-
vOus after that that every time McGug-
genheimer batted they threw them
selves on the ground to escape injury.
And they were so generally upset that
we easily defeated them by the score
Of 20 to Z.
"At the end of the game McGuggen-
heimer had driven the ball into the
ground three times and had knocked
four boards off the center-deld fence"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

A Russian architect who has beer
travelling in this country to study
American building methods was great
~ interested in the elevator which ht
saw used for raising brick in the con
struction of n great apartment house
lie even photographed the device. IL
order that he might have visual evi
dence Of it TO show on his return home
In his country no other method OF
hosting brick is in use than the primi
tive one Of carrying them aloft on The
shoulders Of men. Such incidents are
OF common occurrence. Many Of ehe
labor-saving devices in Use in Amali
ca are unknown elsewhere. Our own
countrymen travelling in Europe. and
more especially in Asia. are astonished
at the slow and tollsome methods there
employed. A failure to make use Of
labor-saving cOntrivances Is not always
due to lack of enterprise. Many Of
the inventions most useful to us
would not pay" where labor is cbcar.
Efforts to Introduce the trolley car for
passenger and freight traffic in the
West Indies encountered an obstacle
which the American promoters he'd not
foreseen. The ten cents for which the
company would carry a package five
miles or more-a rate that would in
sure generous support here-did not
seem small there. for the simple rea-
son that many native could find no
easier way to earn ten cents than by
walking the five miles ana carrying
the package on his head. II "a work
man Is known by his chips" he is also
known by his tools High priced men
do their work with high-priced machin-
cry. The engineer of the mammoth
locomotive which is pulling hundreds
OF people across country in a fast ex-
press train is well paid; the poor Ori-
entail, dragging his single passenger In
1inrikisha, gets barely enough for his
supper. Not only does the high-priced
worker create the necessity for me-
chanical Improvements. but the me.
chanical improvements in turn aug
ment productiveness. The lesson.
then, for nations and for individuals
is to make themselves worthy of good
tools. Human muscles were made for
something better than the work which
Il few Jumps of coal under boiler will
do more easily.
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BELOW zero AM the Yenr.

The coolest inhabited country appears
to be the province Of Werchojansk, IN
Oriental Siberia. The mean altitude
OF the terrain is about 1O7 meters (about
800 feet above the sea. a Russian sa-
want passed one entire year in this in
hospitable region and kept a daily rec
ord OF the temperature, which he has
recently published, and from which II
appears that the daily mean OF the en-.
tire year Is 2.74 degrees below zero.
The daily mean for January, 1896, was
G3.4 degrees below zero.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

No person in the civilized world who
reads of the touching funeral ceremo.
mics over the body of Italy's murdered
king can fail to be impressed by the
fact that anarchy is a very small senti-
ment after all, and that it makes a
noise out of all proportion to Its size.
There is no hope for the anarchists in
the universal mourning for the dead
ruler, and the unanimity with which
the peoples OF the world protested
against the stupid crime is a greater
blow to anarchy than any of its paltry
and mean successes can compensate
for.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

!
That there are too many studies il
the public schools, in all grades and al
departments from the primary to the
nigh school, In nearly every State il
the Union, Is the general belief OF
schOolmen who understand and cor
rectly apprehend the theory Of educa
ton. There are no new disclosures
therefore, in the report Of the element
airy school committee of the citizens
educational commission" appointed by
the Civic Federation to Investigate rho
Chicago school system. 1t is crafty
ing to note, however, that the commit
tees report atiirms what has already
been pointed out by progressive edu-
Gators. The committee finds that the
course Of study in the elementary
grade Is SO extensive that il is
physically impossible for the aver
age child to accomplish what is
required without overwork. 1t found
that the pupils who finish the
elementary schools are. as n rule. def
cient in English and can neither SPEAK
nor write the language acceptably
The committee is also in line with the
most progressive educational sentiment
when it declares against the teaching
OF foreign languages in the grades. The
time and money thus expended could
be employed to better advantage I'm the
study Of English and civil government
The plethora of books In the schools
results from two cause.-the growth
of the examining system" IN the public
schools, and the continuous and per.
sistent pressure of the school book nub
fishers. One evil logically follows the
other. Having engrafted the examining
system upon the schools, the demand
for books Is constantly enlarged and
the book publishers engage in fierce
competition to supply the demand. The
result Is that the schools are loaded
down with books and the old notion
which regarded education as sdraw-
Ing out of the mental powers" instead
OF packing the Uranium with useless
and indigestible facts. has been dis
carded. 1t is not an uncommon sight
nowadays to see a 1O-year-old with
spectacles on its nose. carrying to and
from school a half dozen books. This
Is not education. The text book was
originally designed as an aid to elu-
cation. Properly used it is a guide in
the mental processes that are neces.
sary to develop the mental powers of
a child.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

A trade journal estimates the Amer
lean output OF bicycles for the past
year at about $4,000 wheels. More
than 100000 are exported, and about
100000 were reserved for home con
sumption. Yet the bicycle is now no
novelty. 1t looks as II the people who
have supposed and declared that
wheeling was merely a temporary fad
would have to own themselves beaten,
and aim their dismal predictions at
the motorcycle and the automobile.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

In his address at Cambridge Mr.. Bal
four, who is one of the many scholarly
aud somewhat erudite British states
men, prOfessed fondness for the
eighteenth century. In those days men
occupied themselves much with the flu
ture. Now people go ahead regardless
OF it. Instances are found in the thrift
lessness and wastefulneSs Of industrial
wealth and the dependence upon meth
DDS which differ little from those used
an the time Of Watt. Every new in
vention throws a new strain on the lim-
tied sources of power and sooner or
later those sources OF nature will give
out" 1t is proof of the existence of
the conditions of which Mr. Balfour
complains that his words will not lead
10 any economy in the use of coal nor
will they increase the slender precau-
lions that are taken for the preserva-
ton Of the forests nor lead to move
ment for less wasteful methods Of ag-
ricuhure.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

Chicago Is congra tulating itself-an
with good reason-on the steady I'M
provement in the health of its inhablt-
ants. Records kept by the Board of
Health show n constant decrease in the
death rate during the last twenty
years particularly among children. out
of every thousand deaths during the
first quarter of this twenty-year pc
riod, five hundred and twenty-five were
those OF children under . years Of age
During the last quarter the number
has been only three hundred and thir-
ty-elght. The gain is attributed to the
diligence of the Board of Health in
spreading knowledge among the poor
or people of the best way of feeding
Infants during hot weather, and to the
establishment of day nurseries. steril-
ized milk depots, floating hospitals and
other admirable charities.
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NJ. DeibIer.

NJ. Deibler, the French executioner.
has accumulated fortune of 100000
francs by his skill in working the gull
lotine. At an execution in Paris, some
time back, he had his little son with
him, from which it is supposed that he
intends him to follow the same profess
sion.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

The man who announces that he has
a method of making old bones assem-
bile themselves and come to life prob
ably imaglnes that he has rafting
good thing
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

In view Of various stories that come
from the Fiowery Kingdom. it is not
always well to accept a bare rumor for
the naked truth.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

After a preacher has made a married
couple one they each Immediately set
TO work TO find out which is the one.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

Some one asks what house party is.
1t is a party where the hostess has to
worry about sheets as well as table
clot
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

-------------,.d.g to the Medical Record
-nere Is in this country one physician
90 every 600 people.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

L0CALEl45l6i1S the FUR m to :
=, ideal, at least you VIII save
,yurself from being a whining, shrlv.
eled, unsightly wreck Of human be.
ing at 20.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-10-26

The costliest campaign is that whit.
begins when a girl is 10, and terminsa.
when she is 20 in her marriage to a go
a month man. SoV
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The Work of an OnE

A single oak of good size lifts 100
tons of water during the months II ~
In leaf, says Frank French, in Scrih-
ner's. This moisture is evaporated ana
rises to form rain-clouds. All the troos
are busy doing the same thing, and tho
rank ferns and NOSES and deep monId
of the forest depths, acting as rpsar
voirs for the rain which falls unon
them in their turn feed the springs ana
brooks. From this we can gain son,a
Idea of the immense forces which tho
forests exert in equalizing the evoD
Grafton and precipitation, and prevoas
Ing periods Of inundation and droush.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-04-21
A GREAT sPLURGE.
The Picturesque Downfall of a Young
Man Who Tried to Make
an Impression.

He is from the a~ristocratic old town
of Richmond and visiting in Detroit,
Being young, pleasing and susceptible.
it was inevitable that he should become
enamored of some fair local belle. She
happened to be one of the most enthu-
siastic patrons Of the skating rink. To
her there is no sweeter music than the
ring of the steel upon the ice.
80, yes, I skate" in answer to her in
quiry. "Ce'tsinly. I love the spoht.
So eXhili'atin' and healthy, don't you
know? Could we go this evenin'?"
They went. She entered the rink, her
cheeks agIow and her~eyes sparkling.
He looked about him in a dazed way,
shivered and felt faint. Thought it
was rollah skatin'," he muttered to the
boy who was adjusting his skates.
"NeVah pehfo'med on. the ice in my
bon days. Reckon I'm in TO- it, shuah.
Kindah lirgeh near me on the go off.
boy" and the lad closed his grimy fist
over half a dollar.
"Heah we ah'," announced Mr.. Rich
mond with an uncertain bow as she
took his urn and the boy whispered to
go slow at hrst. But b knew nothing
about gCing slow. She was keen as a
race horse and struck out as though for
a time record. He set his teeth and
tried the roller motion. He. will never.
be able to describe the events Of those
two seconds.
Eye witnesses declare that it was
nothing more than a Kaleidoscope fit.
The air was full Of feet, warm winter
eolors and %screeches. The belle slid 40
feet with her nose as a brake. The boy
was pdlled from under Richmond, fiat
as a crush hat in repose.
Mr.. Richmond declared that it was
a mere nothing. Skate must have
looseHed and slipped. All that he
claimed was a broken cola bone and
a slight conclusion of the brain" Just
enough to carry a well arm in a sling
and she wears g ring,-Detroit Free
Press.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-04-21

WTTHERE do we sell our agfi-
wv cultural products that we ship
abroad? The question might
be wen answered by saying: ITO the
United Kingdom"
While we glory in the extension OF
markets for American products, and
point with pride to every shipload that
is shipped to new fields, yet England
continues to be our staple market, and
pays to us more money for agricuE
tural products bought than all the rest
Of the world together. Nor is this
statement the result of an exceptional
year, but a statement that can be
p%roYentby any year since 1894. During
the years from 1894 to 1898 the United
Kingdom purchased 54.62 per cent? of
allVour agricultural exports, while Ger
many, which comes second in the ner-
centage list, purchased but 1901 per
cent. of our exports in these lines, and
France, in third place, took but SOB
per cent. of our agricultural exports.
In 1895 the tota value of American
agricultural exports amounted to
SS5s, 5O7, 042, and Of this the United
Kingdom purchased $4s3, 595, Jos, Ger
many, $119,4 25, 72O; France, S~75,32z,O96;
the Netherlands, SAL 500, 1924; Belgium.
$36,656,555; Canada, $780, o3,s02; Italy,
$14,632, 524, and SO on down through a
long list Of smaller figures.
In the ~totaTVaiue of agricultural ex-
ports during the years 1894 to 1898 an
advance in value from $636,633, TAT in
1894 to $S5s, 5O7 ,942 in 1898, a gain of
$221,874,195, is shown by recent reports
of the agricultural department.
The countries Of destination that
contributed most to this increase were
the United Kingdom, Germany, France,
Belgium, Canaday the Netherlands,
Japan, Italy, Denmark and British
Africa.
Our exports of farm produce to the
United Kingdom increased $50, 5SS,s54
during the five years, advancing from
1856, OO6,251 in 1894 to S43s,5 95, los in
1898. This was decidedly the largest
gain recorded, although the shipments
both to Germany and France showed
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-04-21

al important growth. In the case of
Germany there was an advance from
$72, 1884, 1882 to $1r9, 425, 720, andin the case
of France from $41,911,S88 to SIS, 327,-
O96. The gain for the former country
was SAG, 441, 1888, and that for thelatter,
500, AIS, 2OS.
After these three leading nations,
Belgium was credited with the largest
increase. Our shipments to Belgian
ports rose from $21,S sol, OO1 in 1894 to
$780, $50, 555 in 1898, a gain of $14,s55, AGA.
The next largest growth, amounting to
$11,2 36 1923, occurred in our exports
to Canada, which advanced from $21,-
O67,Q60 to $50, 303, 1892. The Neither
lands followed with a gain of $8,943,-
449, our shipments to that country
amounting to $41,sOO 1924 in 1898, as
compared with only $32, $685. Z four
years before. Our agricultural exports
to Japan, although much smaller than
those to the Netherlands, grew so rap
idly that the total gains made were
nearly as great. From only $s55,251
in 1894 the shipments to Japan rose to
$500, SIG in 1898, showing an increase
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-04-21

more raw wool, the British West In
dies buys more bread and biscuits, Ger
many buys more mill feed, the Neither
lands buy more buckwheat, Germany
buys more rye and the British West
Indies more rye -four and CaGeda buys
more broom corn. But in the other,
and important lines, England
maintains so great a lead that a com
parison with any n nation would be
of but little value.
OF American cattle the United King
dom took in 1898 37S,95G, while Cuba,
her nearest competitor, took but 40
1856; of horses the United Kingdom
took 22,120, and Canada, her nearest
competitor, took but 9,413; of sheep
the United Kingdom took 142, IFS, while
Canada, her nearest competitor again.
took but 4S,325; of canned beef the
United Kingdom took 90, T63, 131 pounds
the smallest amount in the four
years-while Germany, her nearest
competitor. took but 5,OG9,O 03 pounds;
of fresh beef the United Kingdom took
274,1s3,636 pounds, while Bermuda, her
nearest competitor, took but 437,64G
pounds; of bacon the United Kingdom
took 473,2O1, 602 pounds, while Belgium,
her nearest competitor, took but Az
3s6,442 pounds; of wheat the United
Kingdom took SO,163,sO5 bushels. while
France, her nearest competitor, took
. but 3O,O41, 2SO bushels. These items but
serve to illustrate the extent of our
agricultural exports to the United
Kingdom in comparison with ex-
ports to other nations of the world,
and prove that England offers the
greatest market for u rapidly in
creasing surplus of agricultural prod
ucts. H.. M. WILLIAMS.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-04-21

of $s,114, 565. In the ease of Italy there
was a gain of Sc, sos ,620, our consign-
ments to that country advancing from
S~1O,s2G,s05 to S17,632,5 24. An excep-
tionally rapid growth was recorded
in the exports to Denmark, which rose
from $4,2I5,15g to $1O,276,015, the in
crease being $G,O61,756. There was also
an important gain, amounting to
4, 7s6,O23, in the case of British Africa,
the shipments to that destination in
creasing from 81, 5O1,s34 to S6,2s7.s57
among the countries to which Amer
lean farm products were sent in dimin-
ished amounts during the last few
years, Spain was the most noticeable.
Our agricultural exports to Spain,
which were valued at $11, 7sO, 4S7 in 1894,
fell to less than 100000 in the years
1895, 1896 and 1897. and in 1898 amount
ed to only $s,067, 1s6, a decline of S3.113,-
3O1 for the five years. During the last
two months Of the fiscal year 1898 the
trade was interrupted by the war.
Our shipments Of agricultural prod
nets to Cuba also suffered a marked
falling of, more particularly during
1925 and 1896. In 1894 they We're VAL
ged ct $9,s15,aOA but 81 1895 they de-