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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
FOND OF HER NEEDLE. .
Princess Of Wales Most Accom-
pIished Needlewoman.


Needlework always was popular
among o1d-fashioned women in Eng
land and Canada, but it has fallen sad
ly into desuetude here, says the New
York Press. There is chance, how
ever, that all Americans who set their
watches by the clock of st. James
will find renewed interest IN the bit
of steel when they learn the princess
of Wales Is one of the most accom-
plished needlewomen in either hemi-
sphere
What her royal highness doesn't
know about fancy stitches doesn't
amount to much, and when 1t comes to
plain sewing she is far superior to the
best seamstresses in the royal house
hold. Most of the fine linen in her
town house has been embroidered by
her own hands and 1t is said she marks
all her husbands garments with his
crest and monogram. Moreover the
princess is proficient with knitting
needles. 1t is whispered in court cir
cles she makes most of the princes
stockings by hand, and that she be-
trays pointed chagrin if he forgets to
wear those she turns out for him.
Even a royal dame must have occu-
patton and, in spite Of the many de-
mands on her time, the princess is
fonder of simple household pastimes
than of the bridge and baccarat en-
joyed so tremendously by her royal
papa-in-law.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
OBSTINATE CHSES

but specialists prescription, having
as single aim the cure OF diseases
peculiar to women.
Reliable dealers recommend Favor
lite Prescription" With tricky ones,
something else that pays them better
viii probably be urged upon you as
" Just as good Perhaps it is for
them but it can't be for you. Some
saving may be made by purchasing our
medicines in ha'f-dozen quantities. -
II you are convinced tha5 the Fa-
vorite Prescription - is the medicine
you need, do not be caioled into 40
cepting something else. The attempt
to induce you to do SO is an insult to
your intelligence, Turn your back on
the one who offers the affront.
DR.. pIERcE's PLEASANT PELLETS
Cure biliousness, sick and bilious head
ache, dizziness, costiveness, or consti-
patton of the bowels, loss OF appetite,
coated tongue, sour stomach, windy
belchings, heartburn" pain and dis
tress after eating, and kindred derange-
ments of the liver, stomach and bowels.
Persons subject to any of these troubles
should never be without a vial OF the
Pleasant Pellets /" at hand. They are
always adopted as q household rem
edy after the first trial Put up in
glass walls, tightly corked, therefore
always fresh and reliable.
One little Pellet" is laxative, two
are cathartic. They regulate, invigor-
ate and cleanse the liver, stomach and
bowels. AS dinner pill" to pro-
mote digestion, take one each day. To
relieve the distress arising from over
eating, nothing equals one of these
little " Pellets They're tiny, sugar
coated, anti-bilious grannles, scarcely
larger than mustard seeds.
Doctor Pierce's great thousand page
Common Sense Medical Adviser will
be sent for the mere cost of mailing /;
paper-bound for 81 one-cent stamps,
or cloth-bound for 81 stamps. 1t is a
grand and useful book. Address DR..
! r. V. Pierce, 1858 Main St., Buffalo, NY.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18

some remediable agency to the ma
tives. Hawks and owls are eaten with
the rest of the birds. One exception.
however, exists in favor of the Alas
kan jay, which may not be so much as
touched by the natives. These birds
are never hunted, and are so fearless
that they would come in at the door
of the white mans cabin and help
themselves to anything in the line of
ehePse or pie or cake. One daring
and curious fellow went so far as to
snatch a piece of laundry soap and
carry it away to his home in the
pines. Whether this was for common
family use or for food no one knew:
probably the latter. since the native
Eskimo are said to eat soap when
they can obtain 1t. Little marvel
when they are SO fond of decayed fish
and rancid seal oil.
Birds that are caught are simply
stripped of their feathers before being
eat EN-, unless the skin is needed for
wearing apparel. when 1t Is stripped
off and hung away to dry before be-
ing chewed by the women tanners
The greatest delicacy of any bird Is
the eye. This is always given to the
babies or little children of the family.
Ii lis plucked out and eaten at once
with great relish. while the older mem
beTs look on with pleasure, very much
as civilized parents look on when
tho ir children partake of gumdrops or
gobseberries.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
GOOD IN -sook rAamIno.-
Notable Increase Made In Production
of Crong

John r. Spears shows how by book
farming the earth is being compelled
to yield its increase. He SAYS: For
q crop of potatoes, in 1901, according
to an article printed in that year, $50
bushels per acre was considered salts
factory to the farmer, which at rs
cents a bushel amounts to $112.50 an
acre. Unfortunately there are yet
many farmers who consider $50 bush
els satisfactory, but the best growers
now produce 300, and there are men
who obtain more than that yield year
after year. 1t can be shown that even
400 bushels of potatoes is not the limit
that can he obtained. From the re-
ports Of various agricultural expert
ment stations, it appears that the
Canadian experimental farms. near OF
tawa,y hold the record in potato pro-
duction. There the yield on small
plots. carefully managed, rose as high
as 772 bushels an acre
"In turnips. which was another crop
considered, the yield was said to be
400 bushels usually for each acre in
1901. With present-day cultivation a
crop Of from 500 to 900 bushels is
gathered, Where mangles produced
500 bushels. modern methods have
turned out more than fifty tons, or
say 1900 bushels. In field beans the
development has been relatively very
small, but as cultivated now there are
few crops that pay truck growers
higher sums for the ground occupied
than string or snap beans.
For 1t is a poor variety that viii
not give quart of salable pods for
each foot length OF drill, and drills
may be made two feet apart. At 5
cents quartz common price-the
return should be at the rate of 81 900
| an acre, or more"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
WHO OWNS THE RAILROADS.

H. T. Newcomb of the District of
Columbia Bar, has compiled statistics
showing that 5,174,71S depositors in
savings banks of six eastern states
are directly interested in the joint
ownership of $442, .0S6 of steam
railroad securities, that insurance
companies doing business In Massa-
chusetts hold $685. ,o3s OF steam
railroad stocks and bonds and "A edu-
cational institutions depend on SAT-
46S,327 invested In similar securities
for portion of their income. Other
fiduciary institutions own enough
railroad securities to bring such hold
ing up to more than a billion and a
half dollars. about one -ixth of the
entire capital invested in railroad
property. These investments repre-
sent the savings Of the masses, there
being twenty million holders of life in
surance policies In the country, as
many more of fire insurance policies,
and an even greater number OF de-
positors in banking and trust institu-
tons, where investments are largely
In railroad securities
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18

/ buds along the rayines and water
cour4es The natives lay snares fo-
them in the same way in which they
catch the fish under the Ice.
Sharing the Ptarmiean.
Brpnches are woven together and
laid along the margin of a willow
thick et here and there being left an
opening about which a moose is plac.
ed. The ptarmigan have method of
pushing their way through any oh.
strud ton, and so, when they come to
these little openings apparently
among the willows, they push, and are
caught in the nooses. One reason
why these birds do not fly is from the
fact that they are so gorged by their
food that they are too heavy. They
eat us many as they can hold of the
willie w buds, which expand liz the crop
to immense dimensions, giving an
almd st deformed appearance TO the
bird. Only the tiny center of the bud
is edible. the husks being of no ser.
vice, and so large quantities must be
taken to make a square meal. These
soften by reason of the snow taken
with them melting in the crop of the
bird
Al other bird which the native Els
kim6 eats is the spruce grouse. IL
subsists upon the spruce buds and
the flesh is highly favored with this,
to the white man, Objectionable feat
ure During the winter prospectors
drink freely of spruce tea, believing It
to Ne preventive of scurvy, though
they could be induced to partake OF
spruce grouse only with difficulty 1t
may be that the bird does possess
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
peIiohts Of Equality.

almost every man is loser by
being elevated above the sphere TO
which he is habituated," said the late
Senator Morrill, in discussing the sub
ject of equality. THE word equal is
used very freely IN America, but its
real meaning is little understood. AS
condition of cold fact, an equal is
that which man Of talent will sell
dom find among mis- superiors.
when the Duke Of Orleans pre-
posed to make .Fontenelle perpetual
president OF the Academy of Sciences
his reply was:
"'Take not from me, my Lord, the
delight of living with my equals"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18

sucking them with peculiar sound OF
satisfaction. again passing looks of as.
surance to the stranger for whom she
was taking all this trouble. When the
mass was melted she poured 1t into
dirty can and passed it to her guest
Not one of the family was offered SO
much as a mouthful. II was a com
pany dainty" Every sort of bird is
trapped or shot by the native Eskimo.
Little birds. like the chicadees and red
poles, are given to the grandparents of
the family. Whether this is on &C.
count OF superstition. or the idea that
these little things are really the proper
diet of old age. no one knows. 1t may
be simple courtesy. The main supply
of bird food is obtained from the
fiocks of ptarmigan. a bird closely al
lied to the prairie chicken Of the West
ern states. These birds do not fly, but
walk long distances. They may be
easily tracked after light snow They
subsist, during the winter, on willow
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
In the Spring.

Lowndes. Mo-. April 1Oth.-Mrs. II.
Q. Harry Of this place, says;--
For years l was In very bad health.
Every spring would get so low that
! was unable to do my own work.
seemed to be worse in the spring than
any other time of the year. l was
very weak and miserable and had
much pain in my back and head.
saw Dodds Kidney Pills advertised
last spring and began treatment of
them and they have certainly done me
more good than anything have ever
used.
II was all right last spring and felt
better than | have for over ten years.
am fifty years of age and am strong
or to-day than | have been foN many
years and | give Dodd's Kidney Pills
credit for the wonderful improve
mant"
The statement Of Mrs. Harry is only
one Of a great many where Dodd's
Kidney Pills have proven themselves
to be the very best spring medicine.
They are unsurpassed as tonic and
are the only medicine used in thou
sands of families.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
aoobbIer,so Bio Eaa.

My little grandchildren are mixed
On the subject of eggs. While I was
walking with them one spring morn
ing Dorothy exclaimed:
"Hark! l hear a hen cackling: she
is singing because she has just shelled
out half a dozen Easter eggs"
They were visiting my vegetable
cellar last Sunday and | showed them
a huge watermelon coated with paraf-
fin in large basket of straw. And
they said it was big Easter egg.
Francis Strengthened up and looked
very wise, and exclaimed:
well. it must have been a Big
Bigl Gobbier that laid it."-National
Magazine.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
FEARED BURIAL IN TRANCE.
Unhappy Existence Led by Victim Of
Peculiar Disease,


Peculiar Disease.
I'm one OF my voyages from Cape
Town to England" writes a traveller.
Il shared my cabin with a peculiar
man, whose name was Lazarus. He
made me promise that II he should die
during the voyage would prevent
his burial at sea- He said that on a
previous voyage he had fallen sick
and was taken for dead and put into
sack for burial. A quartermaster
bad been put on to watch the body
Until Ii was time for the funeral.
When the burial party arrived, the
ouartermaster Informed the captain
that he thought the body had moved
in the sack. The sack was opened and
Lazarus eventually came to life again.
Such was the story Lazarus told me.
Lazarus was thin man, with a sal
low face. He had an enormous appe.
lite and appeared at every meal, to
which he devoted his whole energies.
The good feeling only seemed to add
to his corpselike appearance. One
evening, sure enough. when we were
about half way to our voyages end,
he apparently died again. The doctors
took him In charge this time, however,
and he came out Of his trance without
any shotted-sack episode. He was met
at the London docks by number of
relatives and friends, all Of whom
looked as IL they might be suffering
from the same complaint"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
New Equipment on the Santa Re.

An order for some new equipment
was placed the other day by the Santa
Fe. 1t comprises rs locomotives, $500
freight cars and 60 passenger coaches,
and postal cars, all to be delivered
within the next four months. Fifteen
of the new engines are Atlantic type
balanced compounds, thirty Pacific
type balanced compounds and thirty
Santa Fe type. This big expense. ag-
gregating more than 100000, is in.
CURED in order that growing traffic
may be promptly handled. Present ia
cilities are ample for today's travel
and shipments; tomorrow they may
not be sufficient The Santa Fe. looks
ahead; that is why it gets the business
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
DYSPEPSIA YIELDS
a NINE YEARS VICTIM FINDS A
REMEDY THAT CURES.
For Two Years Tooweak TO work--A Do=sn
Doctors Had Tried to Check Disease.
Treatment That Succeeded.

For Two Years Tooweak TO wors--A Dozen
Doctors Had Tried to Check Disease.
Treatment That Succeeded.
All sufferers from weakness or disor-
ders of the digestive organs will read
with lively interest the story of the COM
plete recovery of Mrs. Nettlie Darvoux
from chronic dyspepsia which was
thought to be incurable.
"To be ailing for nine years is not d
very pleasant experience" said Mrs.
Darvoux, when asked for some account
of her illness. g For two years was
critically i'll and could not attend to my
household duties, and at one time was
so weak and miserable that I could not
even walk. My trouble was chronic dys-
pepsia l became extremely thin and
had sallow complexion. / had no APP
petite end could not take any food with
out suffering great distress"
Ibid you have a physician?'
Yes, / took medicine from dozen
different doctors. but without getting
any benefit whatever"
Chow did you get on the track Of q
cure?''
"a book about DR.. Williams Pink Pills
was thrown in our doorway one day.
My husband picked it up and read il
through carefully. He was so impressed
by the statements of those who had been
cured by that remedy that he imme-
diately bought three boxes of the pills
and insisted on my taking them"
"Did they help you at once?"
81 began to feel better the second day
after started to use the pills and by the
time I had taken the three boxes was
entirely we'll. DIR. Williams Pink Pills
can cure even when doctors fail, and
they cure thoroughly, for a long time
has passed since my restoration to health
and know it is complete and lasting"
The surest way to make sound diges-
ton is to give strength to the organs con-
cerned. DR.. Williams Pink Pills give
new vigor to the blood. No other rem
edy yields such radical results.
Mrs. Darvoux lives at No. 497 Sixth
street, Detroit, Mich. DIR. Williams
Pink Pills are sold by all druggists in
every part of the world Dyspeptics
should send to the DIR. Williams Med
icine Company, Schenectady, N. Y, for
new booklet entitled "What to Eat
and How to Eat"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
Why Women Never Age.


The women, God bless them!
They're never at rest;
Ali resting brings rust
To corrode and modest.
They're always caressing, or pressing, or
dressing.
Pursuing their sewing or doing
Their best.
The women. good cheer to
Their restless delight
They shop all the day
And they dance all the night.
They always are tripping, or shipping, or
clipping,
Pursuing their fading and gadding,
But bright.
The women, God keep themi
They're truer than gold:
They're warm in the winter,
In summer they're cold,
And that is the reason and Ii isn't trea-
son,
To say why they never, all never
Grow old.
Horace Seymour Keller,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
TWO men AT ONE SPADE.
Method Of East Indian Coolies Dlvidss
the Labor.

At hill stations In the Himalayas.
India, coolies are employed unceas-
ingly In the care of the snakelike
roads which wind round and round
the sides of the hills. Their method
of working provides novelty to one
accustomed to the methods of labor
ers at home. When digging. two
men work at one spade, rope being
attached to the lower end OF the
wooden shaft, and pulled by one
coolie to assist the other In lifting
after the latter has filed the spade.
The work is done very rapidly, SO
Euch SO, indeed, as to justify the en-
ployment Of two men at one spade;
but It has decidedly comical appear.
ance. and reminds one of clock
work toy.-Pearson,s Weekly
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
Provided for Pet Alligator,

Some twenty years ago a rich
South American died who left a con.
siderable sum of money in trust for
pet alligator, which for some years
had lived in a small artificial lake
which had been made in his owners
grounds for the purpose, the special
provision being that his scales were
to be cleaned ut least twice per an
mum, and he was to be well fed, and
when Ill to have the attention of a
veterinary surgeon.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
Japanese National Holidays.

Japan has three national holidays.
Jan. is one of them and the birthday
of the reigning emperor is another.
But Feb. IL is the greatest Of the
three dates, for 1t is the anniversary
of the coronation OF the first emperor
Jimmu, who assembled the throne at a
place called Kashlwara, near the mod
ern town Of Nara. five and twenty CEN
turies ago
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
NO TONGUE CAN TELL
How Suffered with Itching and
Bleeding Eczema Untn Cured
by Cuticura.

mo tongue can tell how suffered
for Ave years with a terribly painful,
itching, and bleeding eczema, my
body and face being covered with
sores. Never In my life did l expert
ence such awful suffering, and I
longed for death, which ! felt was
near. had tried doctors and medi-
cines without success. but my mother
insisted that | try Cuticura. felt
better after the first bath with Cuti-
cura Soap and one application OF Cuti.
cura Ointment, and was soon entirely
well. (Signed) Mrs. A. Etson, Belle
vue, Mich"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18

sttaHs that they make a pretence of
being entertaining on the good things
tn ~ have forgotten. Simeon Ford tells
of one who, at dinner. said to his
neighbor:
Did ever tell you Of famous
good thing I once said to Mark
Twain? Well. he was abiding TO my
former occupation as an oeulist, in
which he said 1t was no wonder ] had
IA led since man must be blind, in
de led before he would apply to me.
Well of course, that was very good.
but | tloored him completely with my
reply. | can't recollect just now what
it was. but you can depend upon 1t
th 1t II was capital and made a great
laugh at the time"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
ESKIMO BILL OF FARE
Salmon the "Staff of Life" OF the People In
Far North-Other Foods, Strange to White
Mems Palates, Much Relished.
Especial Correspond lence.)

You are indebted 10 recently return
ed. explorers from Eskimo land north
OF Kotzebue SOUND Alaska, for infor'
nation In this article
A whole winter spent near the vii
lagos of these curious people afforded
an intimacy in regard to their regular
bill Of fare which in some respects Is
new TO us. 1t Is hardly consistent
with the truth, however, to mention
table fare" in this connection, since
tables there are none. Each person
eats from his hands, nor are finger
bowls to be mentioned, for uae either
before or after meals. There are cir
cumstances incident to meal time In
an Eskimo igloo which, to refined
stranger, are surprising The process
of mastication is carried On with
faithful observance to gastric de
mands, and In utter oblivion to the
presence of others than the perform
err. The teeth of the men and children
are good, while those of the women
are notably poor This last is on &C
count of the constant chewing of
ehihS uuu 5iutW WHICH 10 neCtSSdlS
for the proper softness of clothing.
The chewing milf must operate all
day long, and all the long years of an
Eskimo womans life
Salmon Is the staff of life to the
Eskimo. In the absence OF cereals Of
any sort, 1t is corn and wheat. Dur
ing the three or four months of sum-
mer time the fish are caught in nets
and harvested. Long lines of raw
hide are stretched between trees or
poles, upon which the fish are hung
to cure. When dried, this harvest Is
placed on a high scaffold by the side
of the igloo. or native house, out of
reach of dogs and other animals. This
scaffold, always to be seen with its
accompanying igloo, is the cellar. pan
try, kitchen cupboard and preserve
closet Of the family. 1t is also the re-
frigerator. Perfectly cured salmon
is not a food to be despised by anyone.
The natives strip off a piece, as sailed
Goldfish is stripped by any Yankee,
and hold 1t over the lamp or fire.
When the skin begins to crack and
writhe, the fish Is done" This heat
ing liberates the oil and improves the
taste. 1t Is then bitten off in small
pieces and chewed for long time.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
Majors Keen Comment.

Next time you're in the armory,-
said the captain of Company G. proud
ly, take a look at our room. We've
had 1t reprinted and refurnished
throughout" 81 saw it, replied the
major "and really, sir, your room is
better than your company."-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18

There is great religious revival in
Philadelphia, but 1t is understood to
be not far-reaching enough to en-
brace the SINNERS who transfer
names from the tombstones to the
election lists.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18

Happy the man who has married a
wife capable of making virtue of the
mother of invention. She can prob.
ably also evolve an Easter hat from a
length of telegraph wire and a cordu-
roy coat.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18

How times change! Six thousand
years ago this spring Adam went to
the fig tree and did Ewes spring shop
ping.-Chicago Tribune.
Eve went to the apple tree first
and hubby has had to hustle ever
since.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18
Mythical Ancient History.

Four days after his birth Apollo
seized Tyre and astonished even
Zeus with his playing. HE has vog.
ner frayed clean to rags!" exclaimed
his mother, Cleto, proudly. Surely
80" answered Hera. He's doing rag
time!"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18

The New Yak Sun kindly explains
that Manuel Garcia's preservation is
due to the fact that he abandoned the
pernicious habit of opera singing more
than half a century ago, and so es-
capped acquiring an ambition to sing
Wagnerian roles.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-05-18

when does a girl cease'to be girl
and become an old maid?" asks Spin
s,er" of the New York Sup. It's an
cid question. and the answer In every
case depends upon the gil