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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
The sourA,s Small FEEL.
shorter Thnn Northern Feet and with
More Aristocratic Insteps.

Shorter Thnn Northern Feet and with
More Aristocratic Insteps.
"There is no doubt marked differ
ence.' said the manufacturer to the
New orleans Tlmes-Democrat man, in
the size and shape of the average foot
north ana south of Mason and Dixon's
line A great deal Of nonsense has
been written about the sO-called ere
ole last but the shoe best adapted to
high-class Southern trade does pos
sess certain distinguishing features Of
Its own. 1t is shorter than the North
ern Shoe to begin with. and has a much
higher inStep. The difference In the in.
step varies from One-half to one and a
half inches. which Is equivalent to say
ing that a man with a typical Southern
foot could not get into shoe made on
a typical Northern last. The creole
model cuts less Of a figure In the trade
now than 1t did formerly, for two rea-
sons: First. people wear loOser foot
gear at present than they used to and
the distinctive points are not so notice
able, and, second, an Immense num-
Der Of Northern folk have come into
the South and the local manufacturers
cater to their patronage with a consid-
cradle percentage Of the factory out
put. But the native Southern customer
still calls for short, high-arched shoe.
In the old days every Southern gen
tleman had his boots and shoes made
TO order and the impression Is even
now pretty general that no factory
made article can possibly be as good
as the hand-built wares turned out by
the antebellum craftsman. That is a
great mistake. A high-class machine
made shoe Is better than anything pro-
duced by hand, for the simple reason
that the stitching Is absolutely UNIFORM
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
AMERICAN SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
he Organized the Chinese Army and
Gave 1t High Standing.

he Organized the Chinese Army and
Gave 1t High Standing.
An American is entitled to the credit
If credit it is-of reOrganizing the
Chinese army upon a basis approach
ing its present efficiency. Frederick
Townsend Ward was a soldier of for
tune and a native of Massachusetts. In
1860, when the Tapping rebels were
everywhere successful Ward. who was
26 years old, and had served in the
French army, found himself in Shang-
hal. He organized band composed
of men of various nationalities. and Of
fered to capture a city for fixed
price. The first achievement of his
small army was the capture of the
walled town of Sungkiang. which was
held by 10000 rebels. As reward he
was made "A mandarin of the fourth
rank. Ward then cleared the country
around Shanghai. being paid so much
cash after each victory he won. After
while he disappeared and was next
heard of when the natives attacked the
city in large force, when Ward appear
ed ut the head of three well-armed and
well-drilled native regiments, who res
cued Shanghai. Thereafter he became
one of the leading men in the defense
Of Shanghai. He adopted the Chinese
nationality under the name Of Hwa,
married the daughter of wealthy man
DARN and was made mandarin of
the highest grade and admiral general
IN the service of the Emperor. General
Ward died as the result of wound
received in directing an assault on
Tsekie. The Chinese paid him the
highest possible honors after his death
by burying him in the Confucian GENE.
terry at NingpO. Wards successor in
command of the Chinese forces was
Major Charles G. Gordon-"Chinese"
Gordon.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
CATARRH

or Inflammation of this delicate pink
membrane.
The system is weakened in win
ter. The delicate lining is more
susceptible to irritation or infiamma-
ton, and thus we have pneumonia.
grip, colds, coughs. fevers, etc. all
catarrhal conditions which NAV
easily be checked by one catarrh
cure-Pe-ru-na.
That's the only way out of it.
You may dose forever-you will
not be we'll until you try the true
cure and that Is Pe-ru-na. You
may think your trouble is some
other disease and not catarrh. Call
it what YOU will. one thing is sure.
your system is affected and must be
treated, and Pe-ru-na IS the oniy
remedy (Which reaches the right
place and does cure.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
GENESIS OF GLASS WINDOWS.

They We're Not Used in Dwellings
Till Long After Their Discovery.
The method of preparing glass was
known long before it was thought Of
making windows Of It. Rich people in
Rome had their windows, or the open
Ing of their baths, filled with mica or
transparent stone. 1t Is supposed that
glass was used for windows during the
reign Of Titus, fragments of glass plate
having been found at POmpeii. which
was destroyed in his reign, but the first
certain mention Of this use Of glass is
found in writings of the third century.
St Jerome also speaks of it as used a.
ID. 422. Benedict Biscop introduced
glass windows in Britain A. ID. GA.
though they may have previously been
brought in by the Romans.
The oldest glass windows at pres
ent existing are of the twelfth century
and are in the church of st. Denis.
They appear to have been preserved as
part of the old church, which was
erected before the year 1140 by the Alb
bot Suger a favorite of Louis lie eros.
Suger had sapphires pounded up and
mixed with the glass to give it blue
tint. A writer of the period accounted
ii one of the most striking instances Of
splendOr which he met in Vienna In
1853 that most Of the houses had glass
windows. Another authority, Felibien,
says that in his time OG0O) round glass
discs were set in the windows of Italy,
and we find that in France there We're
glass windows in all the churches in
the sixteenth century, though there
were few in dwelling houses. The
manufacture of window glass in Eng
land was begun in Criticized Friars,
London. early in the sixteenth cen
fury.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
Born Among the BuIrnshes-

There is variety of grebe Ccolymbus
minor which matches its young on a
regular raft. Its nest is a mass ~
strong stems of aquatic plants closalv
fastened together. These plants con-
tain considerable quantity of air IN
their cells and set free gases in tho
process Of decaying. The air and the
gases imprisoned in the plant make the
nest lighter than water. The bird usu-
ally sits quietly on its eggs, but if anv
intruder approaches or any danger 10
feared the mother plVnges one fooh in
the water and, using it as a paddIa
transports her floating nest to n die.
lance, often dragging along with II a
sheet of water plants. A nafnrans+
who frequently watched this remo-I,-
able removal says: THE whole str,c-
ture looks like a little floating ispnd
carried along by the labor of the prah,
which moves in the center of n mas
Of verdure. "-Cincinnat Enquirer
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TRADE OF TIEN-TSIN.
An Important Commercial City of the
Chinese Coast.

An Important Commercial City of the
Chinese Coast.
The bund, or water front, gives one
some adequate idea of the commercial
Importance of Tien-Tsin. The docks of
Liverpool or New York, although many
times greater in extent, are not more
crowded and busy. Here the lighters,
anchored in the river, just across the
way from the great warehouses, are
loaded with cargo to be sent out or
which has just been received from the
ships at Taku. There are mountains
Of bales done up in mating and bound
securely with iron for their protection
in their long journey TO the uttermOst
quarters of the, globe; there are boxes
and casks of Chinese make marked
London or Hamburg, and in the midst
of all this merchandise throngs Of half
naked coolies swarm like insects. IN
sects furnished with lusty and never
silent voices. There are tons Of wool
from Mongolia, camels' hair. skins.
charcoal, and soda from Siberia. mats
and grain. One now and then has whiffs
of musty perfume, the breath OF orien-
tai baZaars, spice and sandalwood II
Is one of the busiest spots in the world
and can furnish a succinct object les
son to one at all interested in the nroh-
lem of our commercial relations with
the far east.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
RIGHT AND LEFT FACES
PhysiOgnOmies Which Are STUMBLING
Blocks to Photographer.

FhysioSnomies Which Are Stumbling
Blocks to Photographers.
"One Of the principal obstacles in
the way Of successful portrait photog-
raphy," said an Oid-time local expert
lis the asymmetry of the average bu-
man face. The features of ninety-nine
people out of a hundred are deniably
asymmetrical-in other words. the
right and left sides are different in
size, shape and general contour. We
don't notice this variation unless our
attention is attracted to it, but it is
there all the same, and for some rea-
son that l am not able to explain it is
generally emphasized by the camera.
What l say applies, of course. to full
face pictures only. for when the head
is turned slightly the deviations are
scarcely ever discernible.
Among men asymmetry often lends
great strength to a countenance. Bis
marck was striking example of that
fact, and so was Gladstone. II You are
skeptical take a full-face picture of
either and cover Onerhalf Of it with a
card. Then reverse the process and
examine the other side. You will be
surprised. In fact, you will discover
four different men, all distinct types"
New Orleans Times-pemOcrat.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
SUN DlALs OF ANCIENT TIMES.
How the Flight of the Honrs Was In.

HOW the Flight of the Honrs Was In.
dicated to Children of the Desert,
IL Is probable that the earliest SIM
dlal was simply the spear Of some no.
mad chief stuck upright in the ground
before his tent. Among those desert
wanderers, keen to observe their SIR.
roundings, 1t would not be a difticuIt
thlng TO notice the shadow shortened
as the sun rose higher in the skv and
that the shortened shadow ALWAYS
pointed in the same direction The
recognition would have followed very
soon that this MONDAY shadow chang.
ed In its length from day to day. A
six-foot spear would give a shadow at
MONDAY in latitude 40 degrees of
Twelve feet at one time of the year and
OF less than two feet at another time.
This instrument, so simDle. so easilv
carried, so easily set up, may well have
begun the scientific study of astron-
omy, for it lent itself to measurement
and science is measurement. and nro,.
ably we see it expressed in permaneut
form in the Obelisks Of Egyptian sollr
temples, though these no doubt we,e
retained merely as solar emblems agss
after their use as actual instruments
OF observations had ceased. An up-
right stick, carefully plumbed. stand
ing on some level surface, may. there
fore, well make the first advance IN
on the natural horizon. A knob at the
top Of the stick will be found to rem
der the shadow more easily Observed
KNOWLEDGE
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
LAW AS INTERPRETED.

Statute to license and regulate the
business Of commission merchants, or
persons selling agricultural products
and farm produce on commission, is
held, in State ex rel. Beck vs.. Wagner
(AIinn.), 46 l.. II. A. 442. to be a valid
exercise of the police power, and not
an Infringement Of the constitutional
rights of such merchants.
A statute making it unlawful to work
more than eight hours per day in mines
or shelters is held, in re Morgan (Colo.) J.,
a l.. X. A. 81, to be in violation of con
stitutiOnal guarantees Of liberty and the
right to acquire, possess and protect
property, Notwithstanding decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States
holding that the Federal Constitution
was not violated by such Il statute.
Service on person Of a notice of suit
against him in another State, made only
five days before he is required to ap-
pear. and when it would take four DAYS
of constant travelling to reach the court
giving him but one day, and that sun
day, to prepare for the trip. without
any allowance for accidental delays is
held by the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States in Roller VS.. Holly. l.. S.
ADV. Sheets. 40, insufficient to cousti-
tute reasonable notice or due process
of law, though the suit is for the fore
closure of n lien upon land within the
Jurisdiction Of the court.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14

throughout. In hand work no two
stitches are Of exactly the same ten
sion, but on the machine they are as
like as so many peas. The result of
this uniformity Is that the shoe holds
its shape better and lasts longer. That
Is one point out Of many. The only
question is that of being fitted, and
lastmaking has been reduced TO such
an exact science that there is no diff
Guilty with any foot not absolutely de-
formed"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
squirrels by Thonsnnds-

Colorado has sold sixty acres of tim
Der near Devils Head Mountain, where
it is estimated there are 10000 gray
squirrels, which have lived and multi
piled there for years, protected by pub
lie sentiment. The squirrels viii be
evicted by the woodcutters.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
WOE~kEE1N
Women

arc invited to write 20
Mrs. PSnEGIsa7s for free
asvIOO about their health.
hsrs- PlnEClsaES1 Is a wO-
man.
If you have painful
p0S'fOdss baokaOh0s or
any Of fSsO moro serious
His Of women write 90
Mrs. PlSskSSsa7sS she has
helped SssSSIfIfu6kOss Your
Ieff9S' will DO sacr0clIy
confidential.
Lydia E. PEnkhansSs
Negotiable Compound Is
known wherever fire Eize-
MSh language IL spoken.
Nothing 0Is0 Oan E1OssE-
bly, be SO sure 20 h0lp SSEf-
feFlng w0Sss0Hs No other.
medicine has helped so
many
R0ns0nsh@r fhES who's
sOnOfhEHg else Is sHg-
G0sted.
Mrs. PIRkhans's adj
dress Is Lynn, Mass
Her hOIpIng hand Is
always OGsfsfs-0EOlb0d ia
suffering women
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14

Ham Salad.-Chop fine one cup of
ham; soak one cup OF bread crumbs in
one-half cup of sweet milk; add one
teaspooniul each of dry custard and cell
cry seed and little pepper Turn all
into sauce pan and heat thoroughly.
Serve hot ON a small platter garnished
with slices OF hard-boiled eggs.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
Like the
Deadly
Under=Current

which grasps one without warning,
the mucous membrane which lines
the entire body suddenly becomes
weakened in some spot and disease
IS established. 1t may be of the
lungs, the head, throat, stomach,
bowels, or any other organ. Where
ever it is, and whatever it seems, it
all springs from the same cause
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14

After a man passes fifty, he is Sec
ond-handed as surely as an old wagon
that the owner is willing to sell at less
than half its original value.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
Working Children.

In Coburg- Gotha there are 5.455 chill
dren under IA years Of age employed at
their homes in making buttons. dolls
and toys for the factories. They work
from four to six hours a day.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14

A powder TO be shaken into the shoes. At
this season your feet feel swollen nervous
and hot, and get tired easily. If you have
smarting feet or tight shoes try Aliens
Foot Ease. II cOols the feet aud makes
walking easy. Cures ingrowing nails.
swoolen aud sweating feet, blisters and
callous spots. Relieves cOrns and bunions
of all pain aud gives rest and comfort. We
have 10000 testimonials Try il today.
sold by all druggists aud shoe dealers for
Doc. Trial package FREE Address A lien
s. Omstead, Leroy n. y
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14

The last request woman usually
makes TO her most intimate friend. is
not to tell her age.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14

Every year, as mans rheumatism
becomes worse, it seems to take longer
for spring to come.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14

After man passes 40 he is greatly
encouraged il he has enough hair to
get a tangle in il.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14

A night latch is like a tombstone
when 1t is put up for a late husband.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-09-14
The Chinese Postal srst0,,.

The postal system of the Chinese an,-
pire is still in a primitive condition
Ii is carried on under the direction os
the minister Of war by means of most
carts and runners. There are seoo
Offices for post carts in the eighteen
provinces, and there are 2.O40 offcos
Tor runners scattered over the emnIro
There are also many private nostoi
couriers, and during the winter +ho
foreign customs office maintains a scr.
vice between Pekln and the outnosta
Every time a thoughtful man Ioot.
around his house he sees purchases
that convince him he has been ''' &c,
with his money. ''oi
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-25
Doing penance for Sins.

In former times persons guilty OF
grievous and notorious offenses were
required to make open confession, and
further to make satisfaction for the
scandal given by their bad example by
doing penance publicly in a white
sheet in their parish church. The sheet
was used to show clearly to everyons
which was the offender. The last time
that public penance was done in an
English church was on Sunday even
ing, July 30, 1882, when man named
Hartree, in the church of All Saints,
East Clevcdon, made an open confes
sion of immortality, and promised to
perform the penance thus imposed on
him by the vicar. No white sheet was
used on this occasion. The last case
in which one was used appears to have
been one In ST. Bridget's church, Ches.
ter, in 1851. But on that occasion this
penance was not public, the church
door being locked. In the previous
year, however, public penance in q
white sheet was done in a country
church in Essex, and similar thing
occurred in Ditton church, near Cam.
bridge, in 1S49.-Stray Stories.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-25

The professions and practices of the
president have become SO mixed that
the average citizen can hardly tell
whether he is speaking politically,
morally, or just for effect. In his an
nual message he proclaims the fact
that we are at peace with the whole
world, and then he wants a large
standing army. At the last session of
congress Senator Cockrell stood up like
a true American citizen and declared
that no such undemocratic statute
should be engrafted upon our legis-
lature to shame our institutions, bur-
den. our taxpayers and menace the
perpetuity of our form of government,
if he could prevent it by the exercise
of every legitimate resource of opposi-
ton within his power. The senator
has again declared his determination
to set his face against the schemes OF
the imperialists, and, with his strong
personnel and logged determination,
something will have to yield.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-25
American Feudalisrn.

Napoleon destroyed the old feudal-
ism. which was the slavery Of the ten
ant to the owner of the soil. Then he
established in its place a military
aristocracy and the feudality of the
sword. Our Napoleon has discovered
new feudalism which the Los An
geles Herald thus defines:
1T may with equal truth be said
that, to the aspiration in this country
for equal opportunities to earn live
lihood and comfortable competency,
capital has replied by creating cor
porations, syndicates; trusts and mo-
nopoly, to shut the door to COMPETE
ton and to hold a position through
which the class of dependents can be
enlarged and the labor of the masses
exploited. Instead of feudalism based
upon land ownership, the country is
rapidly becoming subjected to the feu-
dalism of money.
"The policies of the government, un-
observed by the masses, but not the
less surely, have promoted the growth
and maintenance Of capitalistic feudal-
ism. Unless the trend in that direc-
ton is speedily checked the system will
become absolute and irremovable.
Through the increase OF dec
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-25
FALSE PRETENcEs.

1t is beginning to be made clear that
William Mckinley owed his election to
his pledge of international bimetallism,
which held enough silver Republicans
in line to insure his election. In his
recent annual message he comes out
for the absolute gold standard, thus
manltesting his deceit and duplicity in
1896. Congressman Champ Clark OF
Missouri, in the debate on the currency
bill, said:
He not only recommends it, but he
urgently recommends. The chances are
a thousand to one that had he uttered
that sentiment in the campaign of 1896
he would not now be in position to
send message to congress and there
would be no gold standard congress to
receive it. 1t was the pledge in the ST.
Louis platform to secure bimetallism
by international agreement that landed
him in the White house. So says Hon.
John M. Thurston, Repub IN senator
from Nebraska. The pledgs of an inter
national bimetallism held enough sill
yer Republicans in line to give the
election to Mr.. Mckinley"
By what subterfuge Mr.. Mckinley
expects to be reelected in 1900 nobody
seems to know, but oven the devil has
persuasive way of quoting scripture
which decefyes the children of light.
and it is presumable that some great
fraud. or fake, will be dressed up in
attractive colors like circus posters to
draw the crowd. Forestalling an evil
is better than repenting for it's exist
ence, and a political evil must be fore
stalled. This is an occasion when the
personnel of Mr.. Mckinley is involved.
and he is too much mixed up with
grievances that go to the destruction
of the public welfare to make him a
desirable candidate on any platform.
He would betray every plank if he
were told to do so, and his encourage is
of that suspicious character that COM
pels one to hold his nose while in his
presence. It is corrupt, and could not
be its own master if it wished to, for
it is in the power of British fnan-
ciers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-25
THEY WILL NOT FORGET.

THE voters of this country will not
forget the multitudinous scandals and
violations of platform pledges, the in
credible increase in public expenses,
and the peril in the tendency of af-
fairs says the Helena Independent.
"They will keep their wits about them
from this time forth. There never was
time when SO many voters knew so
much about the history of their coun-
try, and SO much of the science of
political economy; every year the
number grows. These voters will
know, most of them know already, that
blooms" are ephemeral affairs, and
that over-capitalization of trusts and
mcnopolies must react upon somebody,
and they know full well that the work
ingmen will be the somebody" upon
whom the reaction will fall
mot voter will go to the polls
next November without having studied
the question of the menace of militar-
ism in free country, the deception
and treachery practiced by the admin
istration toward silver, the violation of
the pledge to improve the civil service,
the departure from the teachings of
Washington and the fathers on the
subject of foreign entanglements, the
operations of Gage and the United
States treasury at the demand of stock
gamblers and favorite money clique.
"Panics have been coming so fast
as result of Republican legislation
that temporary conditions of boom will
not convince the intelligent voter that
reaction will never come. They will
not forget"