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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-05-04

The case Of State vs.. Farley Crofts
Is set for next Thursday, at 2p. m, aud
tie one against Fred Howard next
"Wednesday at 10 q. m. The cases of
Geo Munroe and VIM. johnson We're
dismissed. Monday the 18th at 10 u. m.
is fixed as the time for the case of Cur.
It's vs.. Kirkpatrick.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-05-04

State Horticultural Inspector A. Me
rhcrsnn. Of Boise arrived in Backfoot.
"Wednesday, aud after investigating the
nrchards in this vicinity two days. he
finds our trees in fairly good condition.
He goes from here to Others sections OF
the State where his time aud services
are much more in demand. la conrer-
>ation with a representative Of The
NEWS MIR. Mcpherson says wrong
impression ha. gone out regarding the
appointment OF some OF the district in
spectors made upon the recommends
tiou OF the society which should not eX-
is,. have been member OF the soci-
ETY. ever since its organization and it
has been our aim to keep 1t out Of poll
ties and seek to have appointments
made regardless OF political association
or influence.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-05-04

WHITES CREAM VERMISUGE
not only cffectually destroys worms, /,
also increases the appetite, aids assim-
iNtion and transforms The frail infant
into one of robust health. Price p
cents at Scott L Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-06-27
MAKING OCE ANS.
Cunning the Doserts of Sahara and Aus
 tralIa Into Great Seos

Cunning the De5erts of Sahara and Aus
 tralIa Into Great Seos.
 Few people realize how completely of late years the surface aspect of thls weazened old globe of ours has been altered and improved. The world or today, in fact, differs from the world of our ancestors much as society lady, in all the glory of fold and frill and furbelow, differs from her savage sister running wild in pestilentlal woods. AS art has transformed the one, so has it the other. Only the Mime. Rachel" who has made the earth, if not exactly beautiful for ever" at least pleasant and heslthful place wherein to dwell, is no charlataE with a drayload of cosmetics and glib tongue, but civil engineer, oWn-
 ing nothing more harmful than lew mysterious looking instruments and measuring tape. And the marvel or II all is this-that what has been done
 is but an infnitesimal fraction of that which may, and doubtless will, be done Who can doubt. for instance. that the great Sahara Gesert-tha: mole upon the worlds face-will one day be but memory? It was an in- land sea once. It would not be very difficult matter to convert it into one again. \ can al GO miles long. connecting with the Atlantic the vast depression which runs closeup to the coast nearly midway between the 20th and 39th parallels Of latitude, would do the business beautifully. The water would not. of course, cover the entire surface of the desert. Here and there are portions lying above sea level. These would become the islands of the new Sahara ocean. What would be the results that would ensue upon this stu- pendous transformation? Some would be good and some bad. Among the latter may be mentioned the probable destruction of the vineyards of south ern Europe, which depend fer their ex- istenee upon the warm dry winds from the great African desert AS some com- pensation for this, however, the mer- cdntile marines of the nations affected would be enabled to gain immediate and easy access to vast regions now given over to barbarism, and a series of more or less fourishing seaport towns would spring up all along the southern borders of Morocco and AL seria where the western watershed of the Nile sinks into the desert, and on the northern frontier of the Congo Free State. In similar manner the greater portion of the central Austra- llan desert, covering an area of fully 100000 square miles, might be food ed. The islandeontinent would then be converted into gigantic oval dish, of which the depressed central portion would be covered with water and only the rim" nhabited-London Mail
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-06-27
Crusade Against Hunters.

4 crusade is being made against the hunters who have made such a relent- less fight against the grouse, prairie chickens. doves, larks and song birds of all kinds in and about Chadron, Neb. Year after year the bLaters have invaded the fields with guns and dogs after the grouse and chickens u1;1 they have disappeared from the prai- ries, and they have followed this up with assaults upon the meadow larks and song birds until few birds are now to be seen where they once lowered in large focks. Grasshoppers and other insects have increased with the de- ,rease of the birds
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-06-27
MESQUITE COFFEE.
Ee1as Plant Said to Be Good Substi-
 tute for the WeI1-Known Tree.


 tate for the Well-Known Tree.
 The prairies of west Texas are cov- cred with mesquite bush. The name of tres would be more appropriate. as it often attains height of twenty-five feet and it's trunk diameter of six ta tea inches. This push or tree has aeen said to flourish best in dry weather, but the truth of this alleged characteristic has not been proved by %his season of prolonged wet weather. Ike rains seem to have benefited the h2Edy mesquite equally as much as they have the other vegetation which IS found on the prairieS. The mes quite is greatly appreciated by the ,s4Grekmen Of west Texas In times of qx1l-ame drought cattle have been known to live for many months on the caves of the mesquite when the range was bare of grass. The mesquite tree promises to become of considerable commercial importance through it's .9roduction of bean which so close F resembles the coffee berry in flavor e4rsa appearance that one cannot be <olG lnom another when roasted. The oean Of the mesquite has long been Used as a substitute for coffee by the Meyicans of the Rio Grande 5order of Texas and in Mexico and New Mexico. lA Jew years ago the possible commer- cia9 value of the mesquite bean was called to the attention of large wholesale coffee house in St Louis. This firm sent a representative to west Texas to make an investigation RI the product Thorough tests were zrzsSsa of the bean, and it was found to be perfect substitute for coffee. It was proposed to use it in great quan- fl6eS for adulterating the cheaper grades of coffee. With this en3 i1 view large roasting establishment was put up in San Antonio to prepare The bean for market before shipping .t to St. Louis and other points. This plant was placed in operation and MHz1y Mexcans were employed at low wagas in gathering the bean. Many thousands of pounds of the beans were roasted and shipped to St. Louis, anc it was said that the industry was very profitable. The next season, however che mesquite bean crop was complete failure, and the roasting plant Lad tt remain idle. When another failure o ehe bean crop occurred the second sea soE the business was abandoned ant ahe roasting plant removed from Sal Antonio.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-06-27
KATE TOWNSEND
LOSES IN HER SUIT AGA'NSt
 THE ADMiNIsTRAToR
Of the Late Joe Townsend by Which She Sought Dower as a Con-
 mon Law Wife.

Chancellor Thomas B. Martin de- eided rather interesting suit in the Pulaski chancery court at Little Rock Wednesday, che that will espec- tally interst Pine Bluffians. to whom the plaintiff is well known.
 Chancellor Martin rendered a de- cree for the defendants in the case of Kate Townsend against Walter J. Terry as administrator of the estate of Joe Townsend and others. This was suit by thep laintiff in which she sought dover from the estate of Joe Townsend on the theory that she was the common-laW wife of Town .selod during the last two years of his fife The record in the case is very yoluminous. The plaintiff is repre- scented by Jos. W. House and White t Altheimer and the defendants by Ashely Cockrill and W. J. Terry The case was argued at some length seE- eral weeks ago by N. T. White and J. W House for the plaintiff and Ashley Cockrill for the defendants The court decided that the doctrine of the common law marriage prevailed to q certain extent in this state. but that the proof did not warrant the finding that such a marriage existed.
 The Graphic is informed that the attorneys for the plaintiff will take the suit into the higher courts.
 Townsend whose estate is causing ali the trouble, was resident of Pne Bluff He was quite wealthy. He nnet his death in pistol duel, in which MT j. D. Conant, now of this city, was the other principal. Mr. Conant was acquitted, as it was clear y proven that he killed Townsend in self defense. The killing occurred on prominent street in Little Rock a little over two years ago.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-06-27

A good printer takes pride in fol- lowing instruction, if they lead to the construction of conspicuous ad or job; therefore, be careful to make out your manuscript just as you would like to have it appear in type
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-06-27
0A9TozIA. Bears tba 4 The Kind You Have Always BOugh, '::;:''' ss';; ;; ''; Xzz! Z, /; Z; z; z:

To maintain relative prominence in trade in 1901 demands an advertis- ing outlay of many times as much as as was required twenty years ago.
 Advertising today is conflict of dol lars as well as a battle of brains, with
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-06-27
.shoesol>-s Eight reet Thick.

We w.ar away two inches of shoe qeztAer ic a year. A pair of shoes that wopld -.as1 lifetime" would. conse- ssuently, have to be provided with soles svpm eight 70 nine feet thick.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-06-27
oA9roEIA. s,.s.. s..'. the ~" Kind You x... AWAY: s''s'' Signature sf &3Azzzw

A merchant who can remember when and why an advertisement or business venture failed can easily see that the experience is not repeated
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-01-30
The Payment He Asked.

Nine. Meissonier the wife of the not
ed French artist, evidently was not
overabundantly supplied with tact. 1t
is told of her that one day she sent for
the family physician, and he hurried
over to the house, thinking some illness
had overtaken the artist. 1t was not
the master of the house. however. 1t
was only the lapdog. The doctor pock-
eted his pride and most zealously at
tended the patient, which soon recov-
cred. At the end of the year he sent in
his bill. but among the items there was
none for attendance on a dog. Nine.
Meissonier noticed the omission and
called the physicians attention to it,
you must charge for that also" she
said. II insist upon it,"
by no MEANS" was the reply. 81 am
not a veterinary surgeon. was very
glad to the dog a service, but really l
can't be paid for it."
But insist upon it, said the lady.
well. then" returned the doctor, las
the hinges on my gate are somewhat
rusty NJ. Meissonier may bring his
brush and paint them for me-"
But Meissonier In the role of n gate
painter is not known to history.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-01-30

goes on for months, sometimes for years,
the woman meantime suffering daily
torrents.
Perhaps the difference between the
~doctoring" of experiment and expert
ence cannot be better shown than in the
following statement:
"For seven years / was confined to
bed most of the time" writes Mrs. M. p.
Davis, of Honaker, Russell Co., Va. 81
had four doctors and they said could
not be cured. had liberation of uterus
and female weakness, so I could not
stand on my feet but short time; had
bearing down sensation, pain in the
small of my back. My stomach and
bowels, also legs and feet would swell,
and everything ate hurt me. / could
not sleep we'll, was so short of breath l
could not lie down at night; had sore
ness and tenderness over uterus, toubled
with palpitation of heart, and suffered
with headache all the time. I would
get blind and have fainting spells. had
dark rings around my eyes and my eyes
seemed bloodshot; suffered from pain
full periods could not lie on my left side.
would have numb spells, pains around
my heart every morning, my lungs hurt
me great deal and my shoulders too.
would spit up blood at times, memory
was poor, hearing was bad, hands and
feet were cold all the time, and had
chills and night-sweats. After the doc
tors said could not be cured got hold
of one of DR.. Pierce's Memorandum
Books and read how he had cured so
many patients afflicted like 1 was so
thought his medicine might help me. l
wrote to DIR. Pierce for advice and he
sent ME a very encouraging letter in
reply, advising me to take his Favorite
Prescription and Golden Medical Dis
covery' and Pleasant Pellets 1 got
two bottles and used these and felt much
better. sent and got six bottles more.
l can now work all day and not feel
tired at night. can sleep all night and
can eat anything l want at any time.
can walk and go anywhere / please. I
feel better than ever did. Can do all
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-01-30
STOLE A FORTUNE IN STAMPS
Robbers Got or with $31,9s6.45 Worth OF
Government Property.

government Properly.
Peoria, Ills, jan. 2S-The internal
revenue office in the federal building
was robbed of $31, 976.45 worth of adj
hesive stamps Friday night. The
''swag" consists of revenue stamps of
various denominations which were
carried off by the robbers in the origi-
nal packages. The weight of the
plumber was nearly 800 pounds. No
clew has as yet been discovered that
throws the slightest light on the mat
ter. 1t has been discovered that the
safe in the Office was not up to the
regulations and was entered with less
resistance than might have been ex-
pected.
Every move of the robbers shows
they were experts and had carefully
studied the situation. With several
route agents sleeping on the fourth
floor OF the building, with two night
men in the postoffice department on
the first floor, with Waterman sup
posed to be making his usual rounds
about the building, the vault Of the
internal revenue office on the second
floor was opened. The robbers effect
ed an entrance over the transom and
the vault was opened by means of a
drill
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-01-30
The Highest Art.

The word artistic" has been so mis-
applied that the majority of people sup
pose 1t means something rather disor-
derry ana haphazard. How often liter
ature gives us the prim. precise maiden
aunt, with her narrow, intense love of
exact outline and the art loving niece,
all on fire with raptmes over color
harmonies" and contempt for every
thing which Is not picturesque. Let us
give our sympathy, however to the de-
rided aunt Craze for color Is n lower
degree of the sense Of beauty than APP
probation of symmetrical arrangement.
Sculpture Is finer achievement of the
intellect than painting. Sayages and
ignorant children can take pleasure in
color display, but only an educated
mind is moved through effects Of form.
Florence Hull Winterburn In Won
ans Home Companion,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-01-30
THE NATION IN TROUBLE.
But She Soon Gets Out and Is Loose Once


More.
Enterprise, Kan, Jan. 2o.-Mrs. Ma.
ton planned to continue her saloon
smashing game here yesterday morn
ing, but it was suddenly stopped for
time by untoward circumstances.
She went to a store accompanied by
several w. c. Il. U. women and from
there sent for man named Shook,
who keeps Il saloon, apparently to
warn him that she would smash his
saloon. He appeared and had spoken
but few words when Mrs. Schilling,
wife of the man who owns the saloon
wrecked by Mrs. Nation Wednesday,
appeared with other women and war
broke out at once. Mrs. Nation was
severely dashed with horsewhip by
Mrs. Schilling. The men took no part
except to stand by and yell: go it
bar; 90 it Tige!' as it were.
Mayor Hoffman swOre out a war
rant for Mrs. Nation charging he~
with disturbing the peace, while she
swOre out warrants against Mrs. Schil-
ling and the other women who at
tackled her. Judge +. B. Holt bound
all concerned over except Mrs. Nation.
The case was tried promptly, Mrs. Ma
ton was found not guilty Of disturbing
the peace and was released. The
cases of the three women arrested on
complaint of Mrs. Nation were. con-
tinued until today. Mrs. Nation de-
clares she will swear out additional
warrants against these women, charg-
ing them with attempt to kill. 1t is
asserted that while the attack on Mrs.
Nation was made yesterday, there
were cries of xiii her, kill her."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-01-30

Favorite Prescription and the failure of
other medicines is the difference of ex.
perience. 1t is no experiment to use DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription for the
cure of womanly ills. Experience-the
experience of hundreds of thousands of
women proclaims that it makes weak
women strong and sick women we'll.
Thousands of grateful letters have
been written to Or. Pierce. They cover
cures of every form of womanly disease
which is medically durable. They show
that uFavorite Prescription is perfect
regulator, that it dries embedding drains;
that it heals inflammation and liberation
and cures female weakness. They prove
"Favorite Prescription is the best pre-
parative for maternity; that it keeps the
mother strong and healthy and makes
the baby's advent practically painless.
Sick and ailing women are invited to
consult DR.. Pierce, by letter. free. All
correspondence is privately read pri-
vately answered and womanly conf.
dences are guarded by the same strict
professional privacy which protects the
womanly condolences made in personal
consultation with DR.. Pierce. Address
DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
AS chief consulting physician to the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Buffalo, N. ", DR.. Pierce assisted by
his staff of nearly score of physicians),
has in a little more than thirty years,
treated and cured hundreds OF thousands
of weak and sick women.
CAN YOU AFFORD
to invest twenty-one cents in stamps for
expense of mailing one of the greatest
medical works of the age? Can you
afford not to invest twenty-one cents for
a book which teaches how to preserve
health and prolong life? This great
work, DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Med
ical Adviser, contains 1908 large pages
and over 100 illustrations 1t is sent free,
in paper-covers, on receipt of 81 one
cent stamps to pay expense of mailing
only. For cloth binding send 81 stamps.
Address DIR. r. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-01-30

great new invention to show to the
ministry. But come armed"
On the next day, when the train en-
tered the station, the chief, BraZier
(who carried red leather case) and
took seats i'm the corner of the smoking
compartment of the car. AS soon as
the train started large, burly looking
man came in and joined us.
He had large black leather suit
case in one hand, which he carried by
q handle, from the center of which rose
a little brass knob like mount. In
the other hand he carried q heavy
stick. Ae he sat down BraZier touched
his revolver pocket, making sign to
us to be on the alert.
The stranger placed his suit case be-
side our red case, and we noticed that
never once did he take his hand off the
handle or remove his fingers from the
brass knob in the center.
"Brazier leaned over to us and whis-
pered:
"He steals my models by the Roent-
gen rays. Mon Dieu, is he not clever?
Be ready when say, Now"
Whether the strangers heard the
words or not do not know; but, any
how, he was startled by seeing Brazier
whisper to us and sprang to his feet,
charge. as if to thrust with it at any
one who attempted to approach him.
The chief had his hand on his re-
volver when the stranger sprang up
and, on the instant, covered him with
1t. Like lightning he struck the re-
volver with the stick. 1t burst with a
tremendous explosion, SCATTERING the
chiefs hand and covering me and Bra
zier with fragments of broken window
glass.
When the smoke cleared, we found
that the stranger had taken advantage
Of the confusion, thrown open the car
riage door and jumped for his liberty,
leaving the suit case behind. We found
afterward that it contained most in
genious variation of the Roentgen ap-
paratus, which would enable a clever
mechanician to obtain the working de-
tails of any model by photography.
The instrument is now In the bureau of
the ministry. The stranger we never
heard of again, so we presumed he was
lucky in his jump and escaped.
The only one who suffered much was
our beloved chief, who has never COM
pletely recovered from the shock and
the operation that followed his share in
the discovery If how modal No TOTO
was stolen.-St. Louis Star
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-01-30
COnfucius.

Confucius calls himself tranSmitter
only, not maker, believing in and
loving the ancients. When speaking
of himself, he says: "At 10 had my
mind bent on learning; at 80 | stood
firm; at 40 | had no doubts; at so
knew the DEGREES of heaven; at 60 my
ear was an obedient organ for the re-
ception of truth; at 70 could follow
what my heart desired without trans
crossing what was right"
Confucius died in Ats b. c., COM
planning that among all the princes Of
the empire there was not one who had
adopted his principles, not one who
would obey his lessons. This shows
what is, in fact, confirmed from other
active reformer, so that while alive he
scarcely produced ripple on the
smooth and silent surface of the reli-
gious thought of his own country. He
was, no doubt, in advance of his con-
temporaries, but he took his stand
chiefly on certain verities that had
come down to him from ancient times,
and his faith in these verities and in
their coming revival has certainly not
been belied by what happened after
his death.
His grandson already speaks of him
as the ideal of a sage, as sage is the
ideal of all humanity. But even this
grandson was far from claiming divine
honors for his grandsire, though he
certainly seems to eXalt his wisdom
and virtue beyond the limits of human
nature.-Max Muller in Nineteenth Cen
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-01-30

kinds of work in the house and out
doors too. I am sorry I did not take
DR.. Pey1e's medicine zUhen I first began
to haze poor health. Ieouid haze savxd
what I PAID to hnmbngs. My friends
say that do not look like the same
woman. When I commenced your
medicine I only weighed one hundred
pounds. Now weigh one hundred and
forty. thank you thousand times for
your good medicine and your kind adj
vice. used four bottles Of the Golden
Medical Discovery four of Favorite
Prescription and two walls of your
Pleasant Pellets.'n
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE
between experiment and experience in
treating womanly diseases9 The differ
ence between success and failure. The
difference between health and sickness,
happiness and misery. The reason that
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures
so many women is that it is a medicine
which is the product of years of expert
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-01-30
A Prominent Chicago Woman Speaks.

Prof. Roxa Tyler, of Chicago, Vice
President Illinois Woman's Alliance,
n speaking of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, SAYS: 81 suffered with a
evere cold this winter which threaten
I'd to run into pneumonia. L tried
different remedies but L seemed to
grow worse and the medicine upset my
Itomach. A friend advised me to try
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and l
Ound it was pleasant to take and it
Believed me at once. L am now entirely
recovered, saved a Doctors bill, time
ind suffering, and 1 will never be
Without this splendid medicine again"
For sale by Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-01-30
Fee Complexion Beautifier.

We want every lady reader of the
PUBLIC OPINION to try Dwight's Com
plexion Beautitier, the most elegant
preparation for the toilet table. 1t is
pure and harmless, and once used you
will always want it. Price SOC. TO
induce n trial of it we will for a short
time only send FREE full size, Fifty
Cent box of it to every lady who will
send us her postoffice address and Zoe
to pay for packing and postage. Only
one free box to each address. Cut out
this notice and send it with your order
Al once to ID. w. CUSTER & Co., Hunt
ington, w. Va. 49tf