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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25
A Kiss by Proxy

Jerry Hapgood is a mean old thing
not to let me go riding. Auntie said
| could. but Jerry helped her to get
into the mobile, and said, Some other
day, grille, you can go, the mobile
is too small to-day!' Sucn a story!
It's just like it always is, Auntie Nell
only laughed, and got all pink. o,
dear! | wish they'd get ruined away
with, | dol"
And tear followed tear down Detta's
chubby cheeks.
Meanwhile Jerry and Nell we're spin
ming along the beautiful Maine coast.
Their journey was ended at the ia
nous lighthouse, where the keepers
wife provided a delicious lunch and
plunged Nell into an enjoyable con
fusion by asking. viii your husband
like any more milk marm?"
Afterward they wandered over the
rocks, picking the few wild flowers
that grew in the crevices, and threw
rocks into the whistling well, while
watching the waves go by, as well as
doing other delightful things that
happy couples are wont to do.
AS they started for home. Nell
dashed a mischievous look at the
Foung man.
Weren't you mean not to let Delta
come with us?"
81 suppose So" said Jerry, but If
you knew how I've tried to get you
TO myself for a moment, to tell you
something I've wanted to for a long
time-can't you guess why | left her
behind?"
you have known me exactly five
weeks" put in Nell, saucily.
Don't joke. Nell. Can't you see
am in dead earnest and T."
There was loud crack, a Whit of
steam and the auto came to an abrupt
standstill.
What under the canopy is the mat
ter with the thing?" was Jerry's query,
as he wildly pulled at the lever, which
refused to bulge.
Then suddenly the machine gave a
Jerk and twist of its own volition.
| Hang on!" roared Jerry, as it
started forward at full speed. Don't
/ jump unless / tell you"
Nell bravely set her teeth, resolved
not to scream, though wild with fear.
All tho tales of autos running wild fed
through her mind as the speed in
creased.
I'VE are in for it, Nell, unless can
steer it straight. To think I've brought
you into this" groaned Jerry.
jerry Look-the bridget" and Nell
clutcned his arm tightly at sight of a
primitive-locking structure with q
single rail on either side. ''I'd just
as oon-blow-up, Jerry-but
don't want to-drown."
The next minute they tore across
the rickety bridge in safety, only tc
see loom before them an ominous
curve, with a stone wall guarding a
small farm. There was a crash, and
next instant two figures were flying
through the air.
A week later Nell awoke at the far
away sound of little voice. "Auntie
my own auntie, won't speak to me
tall" 1t said, and then there was the
sound of bitter sobs.
Slowly Nell opened her eyes.
whats the matter Ducky?" she
asked family.
"O!" with a soft squeal of delight
"you isn't dead, and | amt a muir
derous. Jane said l was murderous
cause | wished the mobile would run
away an 1t did, but | didn't mean it
really, Auntie Nell" and Delta snug
gled her little face close to the white
one on the pillow, Jerry got hurried
| but had He only
breaked his leg. an it's in a white
stone thing"
There, there, you must not talk any
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

An exchange admonishes woman to
weep in memory of the man who in
vented the tissue paper dress pattern.
He is dead; yet will his work live
after him. Several hundred years
ago some individual whose name Fate
has since frowned upon invented a
basque pattern. To this very day, in
the rural districts, may be seen its
likeness on feminine busts. What
manner of forgetfulness, then, snail
cause our minds to wander from the
man who originated the complete
tissue pattern in the latest style for
10 cents?" Between the two patterns
there is social chasm as bottomless
as a Dante could conceive, and yet
be appropriately drawn. The tissue
pattern develops furbelows and
flounces wonderful even to the cos
tuners art. Its product is seen on
the fashionable boulevards as fire.
quently as the basque-pattern' polka
dot vies in pastoral hamlets where
Mirandy wears a calico sun bonnet,
and little Willie's sweater is grain
sack with holes for the neck and arms.
In their strata of life each is in
valuable. Without them are dress
makers bills that mesmerize the bank
account, put crimps in papa's whis-
kers and scare the romantic Montgom-
erys from the lamp of matrimony, lest
they perish like pillars of salt in a
cow-lick, sacrifices on the altar OF
love.
The provident wife will never hest
tate. She will use one or the 9th er
and, incidentally, will not forget, fig
uratiyely, to drop a flower on the
tomb of the man who invented the
old basque pattern, or his more recent
brother, the genus homo who con
ceived the tissue diagram.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25


bad cases, but nothing like this. It's
as black as ever, and it's time that
the swelling went down"
Then Nell heard whispers of "gan-
grene," similar case" and "he
doesn't take enough nourishment,
either. l believe he is fretting about
her."
The blood throbbed in Nell's tenn.
pies. Was 1t possible that Jerry was
in danger? Nurse had said he was
fretting about her; suppose she were
to send him a comforting message?
The color famed over throat and
brow at the thought. She knew he
loved her. Would 1t be unmaidenly to
let him know that she, too. cared?
She thought moment, then her
eyes danced mischievously.
Delta! Come here!" she called to
the child, who was playing with her
doll on the floor. DO you want to
have secret with Auntie Nell?"
THE never-tell kind?" said the
child. crossing two little fingers under
her chin.
Yes, dear"
Delta listened intently as Nell whis-
pered in her ear. Then she ran swift
ly down the hall to Jerry's room.
She peeked cautiously in at the
door The nurse was out. Delta
climbed gently onto the bed and close
to Jerry's ear before she said
"Auntie Nell said was to call you
uncle Jerry, and she sends you this.
This" was a moist little kiss.
Whether kiss imprinted on ones
cheeks by proxy will cure a broken
| limb l am not prepared to say; but
certain it is that Jerry's swollen ankle
| began to mend from that hour, and
| Delta told Aunt Nell that his nurse
! declared there was "wadical change
! for the better"-Orro Cushing Nelson
| in Boston Globe.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25
Classification of Radium.

Rurge and Precht, Revue Scien.
tifique, have classified radium by the
spectroscope. The most intense lenses
of the spark-spectrum or radium are
vigorously analogous to the strongest
lines of barium and its congeners
magnesium, calcium and strontium.
They place the atomic weight OF ra-
dunn at 25T8. This high atomic
weight furnishes in part the explana-
ton of the ease with which its ele-
ments split into electrons to produce
radioactivity.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

old farmhouse. and MIR. Hapgood is
just at the end of the hall"
Tie days passed slowly to Jerry, in
spite of the fact that he was under
the same roof as his divinity. He was
weighted down with the thought that
he had almost killed the girl that he
loved
She will never care for me now"
he said to himself twenty times a
day.
A severe strain of the ligaments in
conjunction with the broken limb and
his mental worry, caused high fever
and intense nervousness. Nell over.
heard their respective nurses discuss.
ing the case one day.
Il don't like the way my patients
ankle is coming on. Doctor seems to
think it will come out all right, but
don't know. I've seen some pretty
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

Ambition is a whip; contentment,
a beautiful aromatic flower that never
fades. Often lives are ruined by a
desire to be great. Cultivate in your
boy or girl desire to aspire to lofty
things, but teach also that content
ment is greater even than success,
for success without contentment is
dross. Inculcate in the youth the love
of country. Take from his eyes the
film of tinsel that makes city life
attractive. The young man who has
forty acres of good farm land is bet
ter off than the city resident with a
clerkship or a $4,000 salaried position
in the city. About the latter is tempta-
ton, smoke, filth, suffering, lewdness
and the hundred and one things that
we regret in the cities. On the farm
is health and pure air, clean associa-
tions, elevating influences. 1t is not
all sentiment that pictures the cottage
in the foreground of a good acreage.
There is more to the flowers, the in
dependency, the gurgling brook, the
singing birds, the neighborly sympa-
thies, the shelter from the inclemen-
cies of life, than those who scott, feign
to believe. Be not deceived by the
glitter and the candelabra of the me-
tropolis. The age has not yet come,
and undoubtedly never WILL when life
in the city can outbalance for pure
enjoyment and satisfied living the life
in the country. Ennui enters the pal,
ace on the hilltop, just as it does the
log cabin in the vale, and the Texan
cattle have long been noted for their
attenuated horns.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

Every day we see exemplifcation
that mans forest ght is much more I'M
developed than his hindsight! Many
an individual, not fool, has rushed
in where angels fear to tread and
been sandbagged. Not long ago an
organization known as the Water
Wagon TeetotaleFs" was formed. The
society fourished for awhile, but nlG:.y
fell off and took 10 holding communion
with whisky souI|s and horses-necks as
of yore
But the society habit is tenacious
one and the Dried Apple Club" was
soon cut, dried and by-lawed By
chance, several Of the disgraced mem.
beers Of the Water Wagon Teetotal.
ers" joined the new organization and
partook freely at the initiation ban
quet. After lea wing the club rooms
some one suggested "a moistener.
One thing led I'd another, as it often
does. and by and by the dried apples
we'll, what's the use? At the hospi.
tai they put double strength hoops on
the patients and If tbs swelling goes
down before the hoops break there l.
hopes of avoiding iuno"al efnanses
Some men are perpetually careless b.
nature.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

A Wisconsin exchange notes that
"chiggers" are coming. This is in
deed a sure sign of spring. If you
don't believe it, tackle the chigoes.
For the uninitiat ed, it may be said,
that the chigoe ii a wood-tick boiled
down to a pin-poiht. In the reducing
process, however, none Of the biting
qualities are eliminated, a mere con-
centration of fire and sting being the
evident object A lively chigoe, and
We never knew one that did not come
under that category, will burrow
under the skin with great avidity and
anger aforethought. His intentions
are far from bein g honorable, but he
works with all the wild abandon and
extreme ecstasy OF mule kicking at
feather buster. Several ointments are
said to be death on "chiggers," and
the man who has EN- Is warranted
not to linger longer than is absolutely
necessary in scratching his excited
way to the nearest drug store. We
have never been to California, but we
are told that fidas are exceedingly
promiscuous in their maddening gam
bols in the land of the setting sun.
Arm a California flea with a minute
saw, tiny augur, hip-pocketful of
cayenne pepper and disposition to be
ugly, and he would still be forty miles
for Sunday behind the "chigger." The
| Wisconsin editor is justified in noting
the arrival of theinsect and wise men
and women with open-work underwear
will beware ere II is everlastingly too
late
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

Now that Reggie Vanderbilt's mar
riage has not been reviewed in the pa
pers for several days, we may look
upon the crystallizing public senti-
ment with calmne ss. In general pur
port it is not unlike an excerpt from
Henry Carey's THE Dragon of Want
ley"
.Lauk! what d monstrous tail our
cat has got!"
Admitted that the feline's caudal
appendage is both swollen and at
tenuated, what possible excuse Is
there for diagnosing every hair in it.?
All hairs look alike to most of us,
neither do We worship our cat because
his tail is big. Aside from the fact
that the rear portion of the anatomy is
momentous, he Is like any other
thomas cat, except there are felines
that have run more to head and less
to tail than he has!
Why so much froth about riches !?
Some of the newspaper smokers of
society -opium give one pain in the
abdominal regions.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25
LithooranbIc Stone Found.

Large deposits of stone suitable for
covered and opened in Thessaly. Greek
experts report that this stone is far
superior in quality to the best litho-
graphic stone heretofore known in Eu-
rope
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25
Danger in Lead Pencils.

An epidenic of diphtheria in the
schools of Passaic N. j.. is said to
have resulted from the promiscuous
use of lead pencils.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25
Care of Cut Glass.

With cut glass the extremes Of heat
and cold should be avoided. A dish
will come to the i'll fate characterized
by an Irish cook as Spontaneous
combustion. wild the accint on the
second syllable" IL brought from a
cold closet into heated dining-room
Potato parings, If left in the bottles
over night, will cleanse them.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

two figures were flying through the
air.
MORE" said the nurse; "let auntie go
to sleep again"
Nell looked up in surprise.
"A nurse? Have | been ill Jerry
lis Jerry hurt"
THE auto ran away; don't you re-
member" asked the nurse gently.
"Mr. Hapgood only fractured his leg
and you are both getting along nicely
now"
20, that dreadful ride. | remember"
answered Nell, with a shudder,
where am I. and where is Jerry?"
with a slight tinge of color in the
pale face.
They brought you both into this
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

1.-THE Klean, Kool Kitchen Kind" of stoves
make no smoke, smell, SCOT, ashes or ex.
cessive heat. Always look for trade mark.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

Honor Last Of His Race.
One hundred men drew the hearse
at the funeral in Honolulu of Prince
Albert Huniaka, who was the last of
his dynasty.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

The Hispar pass in the Himalayas
has the longest glacier in the world.
1t IL ninety miles in length.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

Along about now every spring the
deadly toadstool gets in its work.
Wandering in the gladstone woods
with no fool-killer near, the buoyant
but mistaken rambler gobbles the
poisonous fungus and feeds it into
his compress. Later it is pumped out
via a stomach pump with vigorous
doctor at the handle. 1t may be ex-
cavated in time to save life or it may
not. The chances are altogether I'M
certain, hence if you are fond of the
woods and love mushrooms, it would
be as well conditionally to surrender
your worldly goods to the kind friends
to whom you feel charitably inclined,
before entering the forest. A little
preparation often saves great attor-
ney's fees.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

Fruit acids will not stain goods
dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25
SOCIETY WRECKED HER HEALTH
Tired, Nervous, Aching, Trem.
bling, Sleepless, Bloodless.
Pc ru ma Renovates, Regulates
Restores.
A Pretty New York Waman's Recovery
the Talk OF Her Numerous Friends.


Mrs. 7. E. Finn. 50 East High street,
Buffalo, N Y, writes
Peruna Medicine Co.. Columbus. Ohio.
Gentlemen.-A .fe70 years ago /
had TO give up social life entirely, as
my healH avas completely broken
dorm. The aoetor a6Dised a com
piefe rest for a gear. As this aOas
out Of the question for a time, I be-
can to Iook fer Some ether MEANS Of
restoring my health.
had etien heard Of Pernna as
an excellent tonic, SO / bought a bet
Tie to see what ii zOoald do fer me,
and ii certainly kook held eff M,
system and ,e,nyenated me, and in
less Than fwo months I zoas tn per-
feet AealtA, and nozO aOhen I feel
yorn oHt or tireS a dose or tho 81
Peruna is all that I need. Mrs.
T. r. Finn,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

Stops the Cough and
Works or the Cold
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25
Tree Yields Vegetable SILK

Tree fIcTds VegetabIe SITk.
Paraguay has tree which yields
kind of vegetable silk. It can be
woven into thread, but is used chiefly
for stuffing quilts and cushions.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

A Texas paper advertises a full
blood Durham COW giving ten quarts
of milk, a riding pillow, three tons of
straw and a lot of household furni-
ture." Send us that COW, we will strain
the output and sell to the secondhand
man
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25
Catarrh Causes Female Diseases.

America is the land of nervous women.
The great majority of nervous women are
SO because they are suffering from some
form of female disease. BY far the great
est number of female troubles are caused
directly by catarrh. These women despair
of recovery. Female trouble is SO common,
so prevalent, that they accept it as almost
inevitable. The greatest obstacle in the
way of recovery is that they do not under
stand that it is catarrh which is the source
of their illness.
In female complaint, ninety-nine cases
out of one hundred are nothing but catarrh.
Peruna cures catarrh wherever located.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

An Illinois paper adyertses that
mothers can check their babies dur
ing the parade at the nursery depart
ment of Blanks drug store" A par
ade in the nursery department of a
drug store must be an interesting
sight, but we suppose the people who
have babies and drug stores know
what they are about.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

Why not let those who prefer to
"expectorate," spit, and those who
prefer to spit, let them expecto-
rate? II they 10 both, wear your
macintosh! This is a free country
and umbrellas are common property.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

Mrs. Frances Stafford, OF Z43 Z.
Hath ST., NY. City, adds her ties.
timony to the hundreds of thou-
sands on Mrs. Pinkham's files.
When Lydia Z. Pinkham's Rene
dies were first introduced skeptics
all over the country rowned upon
their curative claims, but as year
after year has rolled by and the
little group of women who had been
cured by the new discovery has
since grown into a vast army OF
hundreds of thousands, doubts and
skepticisms have been swept away
as by mighty food, until to-day
the great good that Lydia r.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and her other medicines are doing
among the women of America Is
attracting the attention of many OF
our leading scientists, physicians
and thinking people.
Merit alone could win such fame !;
wise, therefore, is the woman who
for cure relies upon Lydia r.
Pinlxham's Vegetable Compound.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

Halls catarrh Curs
Is constitutional cure. Price, 75c
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

A Chicago newspaper asks: Can a
horse tallx?" No, but he is getting to
be a mighty good dodger since the
automobiles swarmed onto the thor
oughfare. To our mind this is a great
er talent, for it would profit an equine
nothing to talk even at an auto. and
be hit by the devil wagon.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-06-25

An editor says some people act as
though they thought the world ought
to come and knock them down with
club and make them take a living,
And there is another class that don't
care to be knocked down, but are per
fectly willing to take the living gratis.
5 =
The announcement of five per cent
increase in the price of diamonds is
followed by President Bears boast
that he will increase the price of black
diamonds This is direct knock at
the marriageable young men.
~
The mosquito winks the other eye
when he sees those mosquito-bar
stockings for ladies'. The "skeeter"
is a bold, bad poacher, anyhow.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-01
,rm or our great c~athedrals an

platform or our great cathedrals and
churches.
At ~oratorio performances, ballad andl
other first-class concerts in London aTtS
elsewhere. at the great musical festival :.
throughout the provinces, and the numerous
at homes. and other semiprivate fashion
able functions at which music forms a
part, good vocalists, once they get known
as such, are always in request.
The solo instrumentalist, although not 50
generally sought after as the vocalist. still
has excellent prospects II he be really gifted.
One need only recollect the phenomenal
success of such great pianists as List. Won
Bulow. Rubinstein and. in the present day.
Paderewski; as also the fame of notable
violinists like Paganini. Ole Bull, Nsruda
Uady Halle. Ssrasate and many others.
Even apart from brilliant and high-feed
virtuoso work. performers on stringed In
administration cello and double bass-on
wood and brass Instruments. not to speak
Of harpists-can usually find remunerative
engagements in the many orchestras which
are becoming of ever increasing Importance
in our great cities.
Chamber music. for its Interpretation re-
quires a competent quartet" of strings.
and an accomplished pianist. The really 4
good accompanist. again. need never fearc,
lack of employment, if he once get into
the swim"
For. albeit the art of accompanying is
not a Snowy one. yet the lady or gentle
man who can read anything at sight.
and has genuine tact. taste and ability at
the art. is most Indispensable to the sue
cess of musical Entertainments.
Other spheres of musical work, more or
less lucrative according to circumstances
and the ability Of the individual. include the
callings of the church organist, the con
ductor of choirs and orchestras. the COM
poser of songs. pieces and larger choral
and orchestral works. and, last but not
least, the teacher of music.
In the following series of articles we
hope to treat of all these branches of the
musical calling with as much detail as
space will permit. both as regards their
expediency and utility, and considering
them as a means to an end OF obtaining a
livelihood.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-01

Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. This
great medicine is far more than a tonic.
It cures diseases of the organs Of diges-
ton and nutrition, and enables the per
feet digestion and assimilation of food on
which alone all physical strength is made.
rrhe reason ! delayed writing was because I
wanted to wait one yea, after I had taken
the medicine before giving my statement. and
now I can send a good, conscientious tcstimon-
ial, writes Mr.. chas. H. Sergeant, of Plain City,
Madison Co.. Ohio. rDuring the summer and
fall Of 1896 I became all rundown, nerves were
out of order and stomach out of order. wrote
to DR.. Pierce for advice. He said I had general
debility. and advised DR.. Pierces Golden Med
ical Discovery, and. thanks to You for your ad-
vice. 1 used SIX bottles; and since / stopped tax.
ing il about one year ago, / have not taken any
medicine Of any kind, and have 6ecn able "a
xoyk He,r day. Ny appetite b good. / can cal
three square meals q day, and I do not feel that
miserable burning in the stomach after eating.
My blood and nerves are in good shape, and,
wefl-in fact, i think I am in pretty good run
ming order"
Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets keep tbs
bowels active and healthy.