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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25
Eskimos, Arithn, etc

The Eskimos count by their fingers
one, two, three. four, five. Above
five and up to ten they use the second
hand; this, six is the first finger of
the other hand Above ten, they en-
ploy the toes. Thirteen, for instance
is three toes upon the one foot" and
eighteen three toes upon the second
foot" Twenty they describe as "a
whole man. They seldom 60 further
than this, but they can do so If neces-
sary for example. they express
twenty-five by saying two on the
second man." thirty,seven by two
toes on the second mans second
foot" forty is the whole of second
man" According TO DR.. hansen they
cannot, or do not count beyond 100,
which is the whole Of the fifth man ]"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25
THE Disunited States.

A guessing contest which seems
easy to most girls and boys when they
hear of it, but proves more difficult
than they supposed. is the Disunited
States.
Make an outline. nothing more, OF
each state in the Union. These must
Re drawn ON separate cards or pieces
of paper and be exactly like the out
lines on the map. Have each card
numbered and its number placed OPP
posite the name of the state on
separate piece of paper. which Is not
shown nntl. the contest is over.
You will be surprised at the mis-.
takes made, for even those who nave
studied geography for years find II
difficult TO decide which state the out
line stands for when it Is all alone.
Each player writes his name on
slip Of paper bearing tie number he
ventures to guess. The one who has
the most correct answers Should re.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25
AN oLD.TlME GREAT LADY.
Some Anecdotes of the First Duchess
of Marlhorouuh.

Some Anecdotes Of the First Duchess
of Marlborough.
Sarah, wife the first duke of Mari.
borough, was as strong a character as
the great soldier, her husband. She
was given to using strong language
when annoyed. She once paid an even
ing visit to a friend, who happened
to be out On the friends return the
servant said of the visitor that he
she would not tell her name; but she
swore so dreadfully that he was sure
she must be lady of quality"
Duchess Sarahs blunt downright
ness is brought out in a recent biogra.
ply of ner in the following passage:
Lady Marsham had Jacobian ten
denotes, and the duchess fears were
justified that events were tending to
bring in the prince of Wales Sarah
never used the word pretender,
knowing full well he had right by
birth to the former title, and In this
she shows her hatred of untruth or
make.belieye.
Bishop Burnet, who was VIGOROUSLY
absent-minded, on one occasion was
dining with the duchess of Marlbor-
ongh The conversation turned on
the dukes loss of popularity. On the
duchess asking whether he could as
sign any reason for it, the bishop
answered, oh, madam, he has such
a birthstone of wife"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

The highest judicial authority OF
the German empire Is vested In the
Reichsgericht, a federal supreme
court established pursuant to the law
OF April IL. 1877. as one OF the insti.
buttons resulting from the creation
OF the new empire. This important
ccart Is not located at the national
capital, but In the city OF Leipzig,
Saxony, where II is housed in mag.
nificent building of It's own, completed
about the year 1895. Besides the
requisite number of courtrooms.
judges chambers. consultation rooms
libraries, Offices of states attorneys,
marshal. clerks and attendants. the
edifice also contains living rooms. q
dining-room and a banquet hall, as Ia
so frequently the case In modern Eu
ropean public buildings.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25
threading a Needle.

This is not so much a trick as 1t is
test of limberness and agility. Every
boy, unless he be very stout boy, or
has very short arms and long legs.
should be able to do 1t easily after
a little practice, although at first "
looks very startling.
long. Hold it before you with both
hands and, jumping into the air, try
TO pass the stick beneath your feet
without letting go Of 1t with either
hand. 1t is not so easy as 1t looks in
the picture, and at your first attempt
you will probably strike your ankles
or toes against the stick and knock
IL out of your hands.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25
! Republics Now in Harmony j

Especial Correspondence

personal prejudices and national sjeal-
ousies and victories won with the
everlasting sense OF right and justice.
The future patriotism for Argentine
and Chill shall no longer be inflated
by the sound OF war drum and fife
as call to brutal battle, but rather
of that other kind, more lasting and
glorious, the idea that each man is
a factor for good to the world and to
his brother, and that the fruits OF
mans labor and capital shall repre-
sent beautiful roads, safe harbors and
sanitary and comfortable homes, in
stead OF the wretchedness of the des-
truction of human lives by barbaric
war, the spending of billions of dol
lars In order to carry this out. and the
generalization and degrading infu-
enee which war engenders in the
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

Andes; the hand outstretched as If
pronouneing the beautiful henedictlon
-urhi ct orbe the magniticently pois-
ed head. facing the north. looking no
doubt for the day when all of South
America shall be one strong country
under one federal government, with
the white banner Of peace for its en-.
blem
The celebrations which took place
in Buenos Ayres In the name OF the
Argentine Republic last May 22d te
2sth, in honor OF the Gillian delegaeass
of peace resting them purely and sim
ply upon hypothesis framed Of high
ideals, demonstrate today by subse-
qaent acts Of disarmament and ineor.
porated by virtue of a new policy will
ever remain as the greatest Of
achievements In the history of South
America. The anniversaries of bloody
conflicts of the past now pail before
this greater diyiner conflict between
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25
Little Prisoners.

When mothers gone away to work, us
Kids Is just good
We never do a single thing 'cept what
she said we could
She gives us all a good-by kiss, an
locks the door up tight
SOS TO be sure to find rs here when she
gets home at night.
she leaves the key with Mrs. Brown.
who lives next house but one,
An Il there'd ever be a fire, why, Mrs,
Brown would run
An let us out, for mothers work IS
most a mile away.
We know cause once she took us, but
they wouldn't let us stay.
We see the school Kids goin by. an
then we know it's noon
An time to eat our dinner, which Is
always ready soon.
Cause bread and cheese Is all we have;
an then we play around.
Or little brother goes to sleep an we
don't make sound
We watch the funny postman, an the
wagons rOllin' past;
The streets get dark. the lights come
out. an pretty soon. at last
Somebody taps the windowpane, the
doorknob turns-an then
You'd ought to hear us shoutin' cause
it's mother home again
Newark News.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25
How to Make a Dolls House.

To furnish dolls house collect as
many eorks and bungs as you can get.
a few ounces of eolored beads all one
size. with two or three dozen big
ones. packet of pins, and you have
all you want except a small skein of
wool Slice up the corks crosswise
10 make the seats OF the chairs and
the table tops The bungs will do for
The sofa seats Sin half a dozen of
the beads on pin, putting big one
on first of all and dig the points into
The slices of cork TO make the chair
legs The chair and sofa backs are
made with plain pins and the wool
laces across them from side to side.
II You want the furniture 10 be very
grand the cork may be painted with
enamel or gilded.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

ceiNe prize. This is a simple game.
but 1t affords amusement to school
boys and girls and to older people,
having let school before many of the
new states were added to the Union.
find 1t no easy task to guess the state
by mere outline.
Sometimes river or mountain
sketched through the state in its prop
err place will give the guessers a
better chance, but even then many
funny blunders are sure to be made.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

The announcement that angels were
seen to rise from field in Kentucky
and float off into space arouses a sus.
picion that some of the colonies haye
been INDUCING in the dangerous prac
tice of not taking their drinks straight.
Detroit Free Press.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

Girls. it's all right Judge Weand
OF NorristoYn, Pa. has ruled that
girl has perfect right to sit upon
the lap of her lover, that such sitting
is her perquisite of the eourtship, and
that If she chooses to exercise it, 1t is
nobodys business. Come on.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

An eminent German scientist has
come to this country to introduce
new health cure. II Is to be hoped that
he will try it first on that large class
Of husky citizens who have both health
and money to burn.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

Lady Curzon's infant daughter cried
when it was held in the arms of Queen
Alexandra. This will be terribly hui
initiating TO all good Americans who
hope TO become members of the nobil.
itY.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

Rsy. Newell Dwight Hills declares
that In the next generation ii will be
considered vulgar to spend money.
1t is now-from old man Sage's pecu.
liar point of view.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

The Boston Herald considers min.
GRITTY opinions useless The weight of
evidence lies the other way The
fathers of the republic were at one
time in a very decided minority.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

In Massachusetts, man has been
awarded $4,000 for injuries received
on a railroad which resulted In meIan
cholia That railroad probably feels
somewhat melancholy, too.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

It is officially reported that rs, 7s3
persons climbed Bunker Hill monu-
ment last year. When 1t is remember
ed that the monument has no elevator
and that, on hot day. Ii is little short
of a thousand miles to the top, this
speaks well for American patriotism
and American physical endurance.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

A Philadelphia contemporary recent,
ly had an editorial on Where the Law
Reaches Men. Down this way il
generally reaches as far as the pocket,
anyhow.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

There is a penny in the slot" ma
chine that returns your coin If 1t fails
to produce the desired stick of gum
or slab of sweetened chocolate. Yet
the pessimists continue to say the
werld Is growing more dishonest.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25
BLEEDING STOPPED nv MUSIC
Surgeons Only Guess at Cause Of
Queer Phenomenon.

OUT 4SVS WIZ VI
Queer Phenomenon.
Perhaps the strangest use to which
music can be put is to stop the now
of blood from wound. An army
doctor noticed that when a wounded
soldier was taken to within an easy
hearing distance of mutc hemorrhage
was greatly reduced or stopped. Mel
Their he nor others, who confirmed his
observations. could understand how
this phenomenon was brought about.
but Il 10 now believed that the vibra-
tion OF the air produced by the music
causes the patient to become faint. In
which case the action Of the heart ia
30 considerably lessened that the
overflow of blood is reduced.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

An enterprising Boston Sunday
school has its pupils given instruction
in baseball. Wonder how they man.
age when the time comes to swear at
the umpire?
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

A South Carolina man is worrying
himself over his failure to find out
whether or not Shakespeare had a
library. Didn't need any-he was a
whole library in himself.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

Some of the South American repub
lies go on the theory that IL is neces
sary to hold a revolution once in a
while to remind the outer world of
their existence.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

That New York man who dropped
dead upon being turned down for a
loan of s450,000, would probably have
gone and dropped the dough, if he had
got IT,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

Ii is now said that "skeeters" are re
sponsible for consumption, They are
certainly responsible for any amount
of profanity just at present.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

A New York girl recentl:- discover
ed that her hear sas on the wrong
sG never mind, 1t will doubtless be
on the inside of an engagement ring
some day.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

Marconi now claims that he can talk
1,700 miles. That's nothing. We have
spellbinders down this way who can
talk 1.700 hours.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

Georgia woman claims to have
been cured of rheumatism by stroke
OF lightning. 1t evidently did wonders
for her Imagination also.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

A correspondent of New York
paper wants the aldermen to make
whtstling in public a punishable act.
Whewi
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

The New York Herald wants to
know what "a school OF fiction is"
Too often school of adversely for
the unhappy reader.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

The playing of "Bedelia" stopped a
panic In a theater. Presumably the
audience turned on the orchestra in
stead of toward the exits
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

newspaper poet has perpetrated
what he calls The Lay of the Hen.
Hope is isn't as rotten as some OF
this newspaper verse
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25
Mans tiiuhest Virtue.

Mans highest virtue is always as
much as possible to rule external cir
cumstances, and as little as possible
10 let himself be ruled by them
Taatba
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

In Korea the widows are not permit.
ted to remarry. You can't hold them
in that way here.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

A Chicago scientist claims to have
discovered that smoking causes con
sumption. How about female con-
sumptives?
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

One man in Chicago has been travel.
ing for thirty-seven years for the
same firm and is still on the road
What a lot Of stories he has heard!
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

A man in Georgia held his cotton
crop OF 1900 bales and lost $4,000,
and he might have held the dough
bag.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

Italy now asserts that it is on good
terms with all the world The banana
trade must be fourishing.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

An American duchess has secured
divorce and resumed her maiden
name. Doesn't this break a record?
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

W. X. Vanderbilt Is to build an in.
side tennis court in his winter home
at 0akdale. Mass. TO cost about
SEQ 900,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25

In case of doubt, take your umbrel.
La. In case of doubt as to the owner
ship of the umbrella, take 1t anyway.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25
pindertov.

The pindertoy Is very simple and
amusing toy. which can be made in
two minutes. Cut out the pieces, and
with one pin fasten all together. The
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-08-25
The Christ of the Andes.

The Christ OF the Andes.
breast of man. Hereafter the specie
money of Chill bears not the motto:
If not by right, then by might" but
rather with mighty justice toward
ALL"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-10
THAT TIRED FEELING.

If YOU are languid, depressed CT IN
capable for work, it indicates that
your liver is out Of order. Herblne
will assist nature to threw off head
aches, rheumatism, and ailments AKIN
to nervousness and restore the ener-
eies and vitality Of sound perfect
health. ]. j, Hubbard, Temple, IeX-
as, writes, March -, 1902: Il have
used Herbine for the past Wo years.
1t has done re more coed than all
the docte.s. Whea ] feel bad amt
have that tired feeling. / take dose
Of Herbine II is the best medicine
ever made for chilIs and fevdr.' 80
cts a bottle. Sold by /. s. Coon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-10
A Fortunate School Teacher.

Miss Florence Llndley. school
teae her of Brown county, Kansas,
years ago made up her mind that there
were great possipillues in the Indian
territory. So she saved her salary
and bought seventy-two lots in tho
little town of Sapulpa, paying the In.
dian owner a trife under 81 for each
lot The Indian rned his action and
when the courthouse and many real
estate records We're burned Lot long
ago he brought silt, claim ng the
young woman nev- had paid hin At
the trial after he tai testified under
oath that the land vas not paid for
Miss Lindley brought forward his re-
celpt for the amount in full, which
she had preserved. The Indian is on
trial for perjury. The town lots in
question a9e valued at got less than
SIS. 900
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-10
FDITOR AND EhWTER z.

The Routt county tCol) Courier
has cxplaincd one thing which has
not only been mystery 10 the news
paper profession, but to the laity az
We'll. 1t says:
"A lawyer in courtroom may
call man liar seoundrel villain or
thief and NJ, enc makes complaint
when court is adjourned. If a news
paper prints such reflections on 4
mans character there is libel suit
or a dead editor. And this owing to
The fact that people believe what an
editor says; what a lawyer says cuts
no figure.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-10
"Snoebev."

There as a story eXtant OF a very
exclusive nobleman who put his foot
through hole in the door Of his
room when his bootmaker called to
fit him.
AS an example OF vanity and snob.
bisbness this IS equa!ed by the story
OF lady who once wrote to a popular
dean. Anxious to let the dean see
that she was In the habit Of, CORE
spending with persons Of high degree,
the lady began her letter Dear
Duchess" only to draw her pen
through Duchess" and substitute
Dean" The dean, hater of snob.
berry and wit, replied in :. brief note,
beginning Dear Queen but with
Queen scratched out and his CORE
spondents own name put in!
This brings to mind once more the
story OF the great nobleman who
finding his bride poking the Are a
tew days after her marriage, took ne
coker from hel hands and reminded
ner, with sQmethin2 of pcin in big
voiee, that she W. countess,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-10
THE SHIPS COMPANY
HOW a MODERN OCEAN LINER IS
OFFlCERED ANO MANNED

| The Captain vested with Absolute
| Power over Passengers and Crew.
| Re>poa~iniIitics of tie Chief En-
| Rtnccr-s Floating city.
| One of the most remarkable things
| about the modern ocean liner is the
| TACT that while at sea she gives enl-
| ployuIcnt to between 800 and 800 peO
| pie 1t might seem Incredible that
any vessel. even one capable of carry
ing from 1900 to 1000 passengers
could keep So many men occupied, but
1t is true that a full count of the otli-
GERS and crew on any one of the mod
crn Atlantic steamships will give at
least the former figure, while on the
biggest and most famous ships, such
as the Oceanic. Cedric and st. Louis, il
falls not far short of the latter
To begin with the organization of
the ships company from the top there
is first of all the captain. He is the
absolute master of the ship and of all
Oh board, with direct responsibility for
her safety to her owners ana TO the
travelling public at large. He has con
troll of the ships navigation and OF
her internal affairs as we'll, and he Is
privileged to clap a member of the
crew or n passenger who does not be
have himself into irons if he deems 1t
necessary. Perhaps nowhere else can
one find an example Of such absolute
and despotic power as the ship captain
may WELD if occasion requires.
Under the captain the administration
of the big vessel is divided among three
departments. The first of these is the
deck department, which has charge Of
the navigation of the vessel; the second
is the engineers department.. devoted to
operating the boilers and engines. the
power producing branch of the steam
ship; the third is the passenger depart
ment presided over by the purser and
the chief steward and having for its
chief function to look after the com
fort Of the travellers for whom the
great ship and her elaborate staff
primarily exist
In the deck department are various
officers, usually the chief officer or first
officer, second and junior second, third
anu l'l'iipI w tiliIu tllIttiS. iIt Cllltl
officer l. the captains assistant. He
relieves the latter on the bridge takes
his place III the daiiy inspection Of the
ship and has charge particularly over
the cleanliness OF the ship seeing to it
that every part is in s,ick and span
order, The second officers take turns at
standing watch on the bridge and Su
Il tl,,
Tor officers, rs tie t!:iiel4, are called, are
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-10
CURES OLD SORES.

Wesfmoreland, Kans.. May }, l9o2
Ballard Snow I,iniment CO: Your
Snow I.iniment cured an old s-re or
the size of my chin that was sup
posed 10 be a cancer. The sore was
stubborn and would not yield to
treatment, until tried Snow l.lnl-
men1, which did the Work in short II
der My sister, Mrs. Sophia J. Car
son, Alensville, Mif1in Co. Pa, has
a sore and mistrllsts that It IS a can-
Ger. Please send her 50c bottle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-10

THE CAPTAIN AT MS POST ON THE BRIDGE
employed in the steering of the vessel
one of them being constantly engaged
in this work, with the assistance of the
QuarterInastcrS.
Then a number of petty officers is to
be noted in the deck department. such
as the QuarternaSters, who perform the
actual work of steering the ship; the
chief boatswain and his assistants, who
look after the rigging and deck equip
ment and the carpenter, who Is respon-
siblc for the good order of the Spars.
boats, water tanks and decks and who
inspeets these and also the masts. yards
and pumps Twice each day. Besides
these officers, there are the ordinary
Soamen, who perform all sorts OF du
ties from working the deck machinery
TO scruhhing the decks and rails to
keep them in shining order Altogether
from forty 10 fifty men are employed
in the deck Department.
At the head OF the engine department
IS ihe chief engineer, Who has is rs
sistaul officers what are known as ur>t
second and taiil pu&tvVlS Next -
the captaE0's post the chiet en4lnoer's
is the most responsible station in lb9
operation Of Tie I,Ner ana the euGluo93
las UnUer him Il 9feat number et WeIl#
ers the trinlmcrs, who bring tho toN
from the huukerS to tie tiee reejH> the
stuzets. Uao=trea it into He always
hungry furnaces. and thv @radsers. WHO
keep the engine parts clean and Wei
oiled. There are also number of
men Vile loolz after the pumps. tile
blowers and Tie electrical piaat Which
is under Ne=cldef eH4tuter,s super.
vision
In the passenger department there
are two Very important officers. one of
these being the purser, the man With
whom tAe passengers como into con
tact most frequently and who is large
ly responsible FOR The popularity or un-
/ popularity OF the ship
The other principal officer in this de.
partmont Is tie chief steward. who ex-
ereises authority over small army of
stateroom stewards. saloon stewards.
stewardesses. cooks. scullions. store
! keepers and bootblacks. and who Sc
lects the food and makes out the menus
&QE 1Re meas ,.,sfsuni nian,n,aann.6nnge11Ifln6ses