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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

that the hotel prporietors process Is an
inferior one. Yes, that may be the
fault. Mine was to take my uncle Il
had an extra one at that time on ac-
count of his parents dying and leay-
ing him on my hands, and I'll him up
and let him stand fifteen minutes to
give the water a chance to settle. Well,
then inserted him in an exhaust re-
ceiver. which had the effect of sucking
gold out through his pores. l have
taken more than $1,000 out of that old
man in less than a day and a half
81 should have held on to those
springs but for the badness of the roads
and the difficulty of getting the gold to
market. consider that the gold
yielding water is in many respects re-
markable, and yet no more remarkable
than the gold-bearing air of Catgut
canyon up there toward the head of the
auriferous range. This air, or this
wind, for IT is kind of a trade wind
which blows steadily down through 900
miles of the richest quartz groupings
during an hour and a quarter every
day. except Sundays, Is heavily charg-
ed with exquisitely fine, impalpable
gold. Nothing precipitates and solldi-
fies this gold so readily as contact with
human flesh heated by passion. The
time that William Abrahams was dis
appointed in love he used to sit out
doors when the wind was blowing and
come in again and begin to sigh, and |
would extract over a dollar and a half
out of every sigh He sighed right
along, and the time that John Hardin
son and Aleck Norton quarreled about
Harbinson's dog, they stood there
swearing at each other; and they knew
how, and what they didn't know about
swearing they couldn't learn from you
and me, not by a good deal, and at the
end of every three or four minutes they
had to stop and declare a dividend. If
they didn't their jaws would clog up so
they couldn't get big, nine-syllable ones
out at all, and when the wind was done
blowing they cleaned up just a little
over 1000 apiece. | know these facts
to be absolutely true, because | got
them from man whose mother | knew
personally l do not suppose a person
could buy the water privilege at Calls
toga now at any price, but several good
locations along the course of the Catgut
canyon gold-bearing trade winds are
for sale. They are going to be stocked
for the New York market. They will
sell, too; people viii swarm for them as
thick as Hancock veterans in the
South"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17
BRIGHT DESK SERGEANT.
1t Was So Il isy for Him to Get Medi-
cal Terms Mixed.

1t Was So lsy for Him to Get Med
cal Terms Mixed.
The intelligence displayed by some
desk sergeants frequently excites the
awe and wonder of the operators at DO
lice headquarters in Brooklyn, whose
duty it is to receive reports of police
happenings over the telephone from the
various station houses.
The other night a sergeant in one of
the South Brooklyn precincts, says the
New York Times, was sending in a re-
port about a slight accident in which
a man was injured. The ambulance sur
Eeon who attended the man had de-
scribed the nature of his injury to the
intelligent patrolman on the post and
the latter jotted it down in his book
while returning to the station house.
The intelligent sergeant, reporting to
headquarters, described the mans in
juries as follows:
"He received precise wound of the
alteration"
"a what?" asked the astonished oper-
ator.
The sergeant repeated the description
of the wound.
Say" said the operator, you don't
expect me to enter any such fool report
as that, do you? You'd better study the
thing over"
The sergeant consulted with the pa
trolman, and then returned to the tele-
phone.
Il made a mistake about that, old
man." he admitted to the operator "The
officer says it's a spliced wound of the
abandonment. It's dead easy to get
mixed on them medical terms, you
know"
To the operator the thing was now
shrouded in impenetrable darkness. De
spairing of obtaining any light from
the sergeant or patrolman, he called up
the ambulance surgeon at the hospital.
"Say, doc" he asked, what kind of
an injury has that man got vShom you
just brought INF"
IAN incised wound Of the abdomen"
explained the surgeon.
Paving the air wildly and pirouettinc
like a whirling dervish, the operator
made for the electric fan, turned it on,
and flung himself, limp and perspiring.
back into his chair.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17
IsIt a Pleasure to Die

The popular idea that the act of dying
is a painful process often causes a fear
of death. But death from even the
most painful mortal diseases is usually
preceded by period of cessation from
suffering and partial q complete insen-
sibility, resembling Salli7g asIeET or
the pleasant gradual Inconsistencies
caused BY an anesthetic, according to
writer in the London Spectator.
The common phrase death agony"
Is not warranted by what occurs in nat
ural death, which is a complete relief
from all pain. When death is owing to
heart failure or syncope it is sudden
and painless-perhaps pleasant. Death
by hanging, there is reason to believe,
is attended by voluptuous spasm.
Death by decapitation or electricity is
only a momentary shock, hardly felt
Death by poisoning varies in painful
ness according to the poison employed.
Opium and other narcotics probably
give a painless, perhaps a pleasant,
dreamful death. Hemlock, as we know
from the account Of the death of So
crates, causes gradual insensibility
from below upward. On the other
hand, arsenic, strychnine, carbolic and
mineral acids corrosive sublimate, tar
tar emetic, and other metallic poisons
intlict slow and torturing death. Prus-
sic acid and cyanide of potassium cause
quick and painful death.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

Whether we need more battleshlps OF
more cruisers appears to depend large
ly on the question whether, In the next
war, we shall have more need to catch
and capture the enemy's merchant yes.
sells or to meet and fight his men-of-
war A cruiser is lighting vessel only
a little more lightly armed and armor-
ed than those classed as battleships,
ana with somewhat greater speed. In
the great majority Of sea fights she
could give quite as good account of her.
self MS the heavier vessel; SO there Is
some merit IN the argument that II is
better to build five cruisers than four
battleships for the same amount OF
money.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

An old Scottish farmer, being elected
member of the local school board,
visited the school, and tested the in
telligence of the class by his questions.
The first inquiry was:
moo, boys, can any O. you tell me
what naething isl"
After a moments silence a small boy
in back seat arose and replied:
ITS what We gle me t'other day for
haudin' yer horsei'-London Answers.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

The Dowager Empress of Germany,
Queen Nictorla's first-born child, who
died recently, was not so fortunate as
her mother. She did not possess so
much power, she did not have so happy
life, and she died slowly, from pain
full disease. Her husband loved her
but the German people did not, and
Bismarck did not. While her father
in-law lived and Bismarck ruled she
had TO stay in the background. which
was not pleasant for an ambitious and
an able woman. Her husband came to
the throne at last but he lived for only
ninety-nine days. Then she became
the Dowager Empress. and a nonenity.
The DOwager Empress Of China has
been tar from being a nonenity, and the
Emperor Frederick's widow would
have preferred not to be one, but the
iates were against her. The stories told
of the unfriendly or strained relations
existing between her and her son, the
present Emperor, doubtless are to a
great extent without foundation, but It
is certain that their relations were not
specially cordial. 1t is doubtful whether
she could exercise any influence what.
ever over him. For more than ten years
while her mother was still reignine
over great kingdom, and was witness.
ing from time to time the manifesto
lions of the growing affection of her
people, her daughter was living out
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

France is the only great nation in
Europe that has had the strength OF
mind and of purpose to establish a re-
publican form of government. 1t is the
only nation on earth which has made
successful attempts to solve the prob
lem of the equal distribution Of land.
Its percentage Of pauperism is the low
est In Europe, It's percentage Of lnyld-
ual efficiency In production is the high
est among the great nations.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17
MARK TWAIN ON MINES.
Marvellous Tales of Gold Bearing Wa
ter aud Auriferous Winds.

ter aud Auriferous Winds.
So many stories are now afloat in
the daily press about lost mines and
wonderful new discoveries, says the
Black Diamond, that it may not be out
of place to reprint some remarks OF
Mark Twain on the subject Of rich gold
deposits, which originally appeared for
ty-odd years ago in the California pa
per he was connected with:
Il have Just seen your dispatch from
San Francisco in Saturday evenings
Post" wrote Mark, ''about gold In so
luton In Calistoga Springs, and about
the proprietor having extracted LOGO
ounces of gold of the utmost fineuess
from two barrels of water during the
past fortnight by a process known
only to himself. This will surprise
many Of your readers, but it does not
surprise me, for l once owned these
springs myself. What does surprise
me, however, is the falling off in rich
ness of the water. In my time the
yield was 81 dipperfuI. 1 am not say
ing this 10 injure the property in case
sale is contemplated. l am saving II
in the interest Of history. 1t may be
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17
Furs That Are Coin.

The Dowager Empress of Russia Is
the possesosr Of the finest collection Of
Russian sables in the world. One of her
nantes, which she wears in winter
sledge drives and in travelling. has a
lining worth 10000. 1t was made OF
skins gathered for her by the governor
of a polar province. where taxes are
paid in kind with furs.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

Uncle Sam does many generous things
for his old soldiers, but now and then
he Is guilty of small oct. For In
stance, he kept $25 of soldiers pay
thirty years ago to Offset possible de-
iiclencies In the mans clothing account.
The other day the soldier received a
check for the $50. Is he not entitled to
interest also?
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

Gen. Chaffee urges American army
officers to employ good tallors on their
uniforms so as TO set a useful example
in dresslness to the prlvates. The fact
that the American army captured San
tlago and Manila In Its shirt sleeves and
without It's boots BACKED must be lived
down If possible
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

side the world Of action, without infiu-
ence and without popularity. There Is
good reason to believe that In her case
royal lineage and high station did not
bring much happiness with them. Her
career was not what she thought It was
going to be when she married the
Crown Prince forty-three years ago.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

One OF King Edwards daughters con
templates matrmony, but she has not
fully decided as to the man. She can
probably have her pick and no ques-
lions asked.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

Deficiency In the teaching Of hand
writing in the common schools Of the
country receives vivid Illustration in
the failure of many possible winners in
the land lottery of Oklahoma. The pen
manship OF numerous registered appli-
canis was so bad that their names and
addresses could not be made out.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17
Now SeaIinR Wax

A new kind of sealing wax has been
produced. 1t is contained in a glass
tube. and when required for use 1t is
sufficient to warm the cylinder in order
to make the wax flow.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

There are exceptions 10 all rules. No
doubt 1t is true, as the women declare
that men are all alike, excepting your
wifes first husband.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

A lovely young thing has escaped
from under the Sultan's wing, and
threatens to lecture In this country
Perhaps she'd compromise on comic
opera
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

Some men resemble pyramids broad
at the foundation, but narrow at the
top.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

Montana reader asks q dentists
have 3 right to pun patients leg. No;
but they do sometimes
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

Young ladies and promlssory notes
should be settled when they arrive at
maturity
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

A man should not be judged by an
occasional exertion, but by his every
day actions.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

There is no man so deep but that he
has at least one shallow spot
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

An appropriate wedding present for a
bachelor is a copy OF Paradise Lost"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

That shoe trust viii pinch.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-10-17

h. II. oLorToN. Pub.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-26

King of CASTLE and Leon, married
Ill Katharine, daughter of Sir Payne
Roelt, and had:
Sir John Beaufort, King of Gualt,
Marques of Dorset, I. Duke of Somer-
set, married Lady Margaret de Hol-
land, and had:
Lady Joan de Beaufort, married
James I. of Scotland. and had:
The Princess Annabella, married
George, second Earl of Huntley, and
had:
Lady Agnes Gordon, married Sir
James Ogilvie, and had:
Alexander Ogilvie, married daughter
of Lord Salton. son of Sir William de
Aftermath, by his wife, daughter of
Robert, Duke of Albany, son of Rob-
ert III. of Scotland, and had:
Elizabeth Ogilvie, married Alexander
Irvine of Down. and had:
Gilbert Irvine, married daughter of
Menzies of Pitfodels, and had:
John Irvine. of Murthill married
daughter of Irvine of Fortrie, third son
of Doum, and had:
Robert Irvine, of Cults, married Mar
garet Coults. and had:
Charles Irvine, of Cults, married Eu-
phemia Douglas, of Tilquihiiy descend
ed from Robert Bruce, and from that
BLACK Douglas, who died in battle
with the OdTdcenS III AnQdluSld While en-
route to the Holy Land with the heart
of Bruce; hence the human heart borne
on the escutcheon of the Douglas fam
ily), and had:
John Irvine, married Ann Elizabeth
Baillie, daughter of Col. Kenneth Ball
lie, son of John Baillie. son of Alex
ander Baillie, of Dunain, and had:
Anne Irvine, married Capt. James
Bulloch, son of President Archibald
Bulloch, and had:
l. John Irvine Bulloch, married Char
lotte, Glen. issue
II. Major James Stephens Buloch,
married IL, Martha, daughter of Gen.
Daniel Stewart, of the Revolution, and
had
Martha Bulloch, married Theodore
Roosevelt, of New York, and had:
Theodore Roosevelt, now President
of the United States.
From Ann Elizabeth Baillie is a line
OF ascent to Marion, daughter of Scot
lands renowned champion. Sir Will
liam Wallace, by his wife, Marion
Braidfoot; and back two generations to
John de Ballot, founder of Ballot Col
lege These Baliols-or Baillies, as the
name was spelled, after the wrath of
Edward l. of England, descended upon
these near kinsmen of the two Scot
fish kings, John and Edward Ballot
were of Norman blood, their forefathers
having come over with the Conquer
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-26

The veteran player, had built some
castles-none are ever too old nor too
great for that sort novel laurel for
himself. -
Young Mr.. Winter was in Augustin
Days companies and Miss Leslie was
supporting Mr.. Jefferson, playing Ly-
dia Languish to his Bob Acres in "The
Rivals" and Dot to his John in THE
Cricket on the Hearth" So the lovers
when on tour met but seldom. But
there are few forces stronger than
that of absence, no matter what the
cynics may say, and there are such de-
vices as correspondence and long dis
lance telephones that come near an
/ initiating space and distance, too.
The wooing went on prettily and
more smoothly than most wooings go,
and last winter. when both of the
young people CHANGED to be in town
for brief but blissful period. they be-
came engaged. Both went ION the
road" again, and when they returned
from that vague land in the summer
the quiet wedding was arranged.
With her earnings as Little Lord
Fauntleroy" Miss Lyde, when less than
16, bought quaint, cosy home in one
of the prettiest, though most secluded
spots in the Vermont hills There Mr..
anu All .. w iIllCi VIII SptHu lHGlT NdCd-
tons, and there the bride will gather
souvenirs of her still youthful career,
among them letters from Mark Twain
offering to have his Prince and Pau
per- dramatized for her If she would
play the dual role of prince and pau
per, which she did the following year.
There is a handsome illuminated pro-
gramme of that proud occasion when
she and Tommy Russell and Wallie Ed
dfnger, the three greatest Fauntferoys
appeared at the Columbia Theater in
Chicago. each appearing in one act. II
was crucial test of skill and of pop
ularity, this bringing together the
rivals, and little Miss Leslie was voted
by audience and press the greatest of
all Fauntleroys. She injected COM
edy into the situations which the 9TH
ers missed, and her pathos was more
tear moving, her personality sweeter
and her playing more natural
IL was a rare occasion and a rare
cast. Beautiful Isabel Evesson played
Dearie,' vivacious Alice Fischer, the
usurping sister-in-law. ]. G. Gilmour
was the earl and F. F. Mackay, the
lawyer. In that home. too, will be let
tiers and gifts from notables on this
side, and princes and potentates on the
other side of the Atlantic, all proclaim
ing her the 'best-loved child actress
in the world" f
Contrary to precedent, this youthful
prodigy has not become a grown-up
mediocrity. At twenty she is a new
star deemed worthy to succeed Viola
Allen in THE Christian" a younger
star, by few months, than the phe-
! nomenally successful Ethel Barry
more.
One of Mrs. Winters charms is that
20
There will hardly be any battle for pro
fessional gain between this pair and
no divorce because of professional
jealousy"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-26
AMERICAN ATHLETES WIN.
The English COlleGians Go Down
Before Yale and Harvard.

Before yale ana Harvard.
New York, Sept. 25.-The Athletes of
Yale and Harvard met the athletic
representatives of oxford and Cam
bridge universities to-day at Berkely
Oval in track and field events, and
as was expected, the Drawn and mus
Gle of the American collegians prov
ed to be too much for the visitors, the
Americans winning six out of the nine
events on the programme. Points were
counted for wins only, so that the
Harvard and Yale men defeated their
English opponents by a score of
points to g.
Between the American universities
honors were equally divided, Harvard
and Yale each winning three events.
The oxford representatives failed to
gain a point for the visiting team, the
light blue of Cambridge being in front
in all three contests which were won
by the Englishmen.
The winners of the several events
were as follows: @4t
One hundred and twenty yard hur-
die: Converse, Harvard; time Is 3-5
seconds.
One hundred yard dash. Hargrave,
Yale; time 10 2-5.
Half mile run: Workman, Cambridge;
time ! :55 3-5.
Quarter-mile run: Rust, Harvard;
time so seconds.
Mile run: ,Cockshott, Cambridge;
time 4:26 is.
Two miles run: Workman, Cam
bridge; time $3.50.
Hammer throw: Boal, Harvard, 1876
feet s inches.
Running broad jump: Speaker, Yale
| % feet inches.
Running high jump: Speaker. Yale
feet ~ inches. a5
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-26
TRIED NO RECALL SYSTEM.
1t Proves only a Partial Success at
Gravesend.

GraNesen0.
New York, Sept. 25.-The mo recall
system of starting, used in England
and California, was tried for the first
time on the metropolitan tracks at
Gravesend to-day. When the barrier
went up the horses were off and the
start was a success, so far as prompt
ness was concerned. In two of the
three times it was tried, however, a
horse was left at the post and in one
case it was Whiskey King. favorite in
the second race. Two favorites won.
Summary:
First Race-M:le and a sixteenth.
selling. Autolight, II to 5, won, with
Bowen. 10 to 8, second, and Satire,
Is to 1, third. Time 1:E 3-5.
Second Race-About six furlongs.
Unmasked, to l. won, with Belle of
Lexington, 4 to l, second, and Ger
vera, 10 TO l, third. Time lilo 20.
Third Race-The Elton March stakes.
mile and an eighth. Gold Heels, ID to
Time 1854 AS.
Fourth Race-Five and half fur
longs. Lacrime, to l. won, with Star
of the West, Is to l, second, and
Schwalbe, IL to 5, third. Time los.
Fifth Race-One mile and a quarter.
The Regent, to l, won, with Morn
ingside. s to 5, second, and First Whip,
third Time 2:06 AS. Advance Guard
finished first but was disqualified.
sixth Race-About six furlongs.
Price, to 2, won, with Pearlfinder,
to l, second and Early Eve, to l,
third. Time SLIP.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-26
CITY BREVITIES.

Preston Daniels was tried in the SUI
perior Court yesterday for burglary.
The indictment charged him with
breaking and entering the store of F.
j. Goute with intent to steal He was
found not guilty.
Abram Kramer, a subject of the Car
OF Russia, renounced his allegiance to
that sovereign before Judge Falligant
yesterday, took the oath to support and
defend the Constitution and was MADE
citizen of the United States.
The w. c. T. u will hold a regular
meeting at No. 11S Oglethorpe avenue,
west, this afternoon at 4:30 O'Clock. The
president of the union desires a large
attendance, as important questions will
be brought up for discussion and ac-
ton.
Property owners whose city holdings
nave become grown up in grass and
weeds are receiving notices from the
office of the health officer. calling at
tention to the condition of the property,
which is described as a menace to the
public health, and requesting that the
grass and weeds be cut and removed.
The general finance committee of the
First Baptist Church will meet at the
meme of Mr.. D. B. Morgan. No. 4Ol
charlton street, east, tomorrow night
TO consider business of Importance
prior to the annual meeting in Octo-
Der. The committee will not meet at
the church as formerly announced.
In the Superior Court yesterday Joe
Bush was tried for larceny after trust
ana found not guilty. He was accused
by Powell Glenn of appropriating to
MS own use a set of harness of the
value of IS, which Glenn had entrusted
TO Bush. The jury believed the state
ment of the defendant who is an old,
gray-haired negro, and found him not
guilty
There, will be meeting of the exec
utive board. of the Kings Daughters
Union at the residence of Mrs. Robert
Gibbes, Thirtyfirst and Abercorn
streets, at IL O'clock this morning. The
members of the board are urged to at
tend. On Oct. l, between / and
o'clock, 20 per cent. of the profits from
the sale of soda water at Conida's viii
be donated by Mr.. Conida to the Kings
Daughters Union, to be applied by that
organization to the support of the sew.
eral charitable organizations which II
maintains or controls. The Kings
Daughters are actively interesting
themselves in this enterprise. and they
ask the public to assist in assuring
them a substantial financial return.