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Opodeldoo for Our Mattoins.

correspondent sends the London
Academy the following llmpid little es-
say on the chimaera bombinans I'm
vacuo, which he states to be more or
less sanely strung together out of
words he has met In his recent read
ing. 1t may serve as lesson in style:
"In the noetic universe Of writers
there seems to be a dlohotomy, which
l count 1t no paragon to scry. Are the
allotropic and isomerlc capacities of
the English language to be used dy-
namlcally or kinetically? Shall the
reboant conchlmarian horns of neolo-
gistlc caucus of mugwumps establish
their hegemony upon our honest lit
toral-shall their operose chitlne be al
lowed to pullulate into tuberoslties?
1T does not arrlde me that our
palmary plalnness should suffer de-
liquum, and that these metics, these
tumld microcephallc denizens, with
their megalomaniac tongues, who re-
gard sound as anchillary to the quite
exiguous sense should flourish, while
the autochthonous inhabitant dwines.
This is an opodeldoc for our mattoids,
question for our alienlsts. No board
school erethlsm can add to the velleity
OF the cynegetlcal squire or the crapu-
lous hooligan, or lessen their lnelucta-
BILE nescience. True, the image reaches
perfection by ecdysis, and patines
make mellow the coin.
mot to commit the pravity of fiori-
lures in this gnomon, l contend that
subter the phasis of the alb, the man
suetude OF sporadic antilles is only
hebetated planegency, following on the
feral machicolatlons that Mapped the
papaverous halltus of the eudaemonls-
tic advoutress. SO that this homlleti-
cal eirenicon, formed from the scree
Of eximious demlurges, may be a riff
aclmento OF protervitles-a propugner
of plague might call 1t an insane pro
tocol, but l advance this disparate and
discrete proposition, that 1t is not a
bourbon. All the words of this pleon-
astic fascicle have been culled as met
In many various writers. There remain
fifty times as many in the polymerlC
imposthume of my commonplace
hook"
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New Language Niethod.

II a person has, as the Celts say,
"only one side to his tongue" and
wishes to add TO his resources In the
matter of language. 1t might be well
for him to apply to an old man In
Scotland, whose methods Of instruc-
ton are simple. They are described In
Scenes in Scotland" by Mr.. Sinclair.
A lady visiting in the north Of Scot
land wished to get some idea OF the
Gaelic, and employed an old native to
give her course Of language lessons.
The Scotsman took the Bible for the
textbook, and opening 1t at the begin
ming of Genesis. he said:
"Now, ma'am. III read this to you
in the Gaelic, and you'll see yourself
how 1t will 60"
With solemn intonation and an APP
pealing. triumphant glance toward the
lady at the end OF every clause, he
loudly read the first four verses, and
paused to watch the effect Then he
said. in a tone of deep conviction:
"Now. ma'am, If you'll take your
own Bible and turn to this chapter
and read 1t in English, you'll see it's
lust the self-same thing.
The old man was much surprised
that the lady did not continue her les
sona
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HERBS GIVE WAY TO DRUGS
Vegetable Remedies of n Former Cen
GRAFTON No Longer Popular.

Vegetable Remedies of n Former Cen
GRAFTON No Longer Popular.
In the village of Greenwich, En-
gland, in a quaint old street, where the
buildings are so thick that they tangle
themselves together In knot, there is
Il queer little shop with a sign over the
door that reads, IAN Herb for Every
Pain"
On the shelves OF this shop are to be
found hundreds Of different kinds of
herbs for the cure of all bodily all
ments. There can be found all the
old-time herbs that our grandmothers
used to have hanging around the walls
Of the kitchen and stored away in the
attic, ready to be made into the teas
and sirups in case of sickness.
People who still have old-fashioned
ideas about health and sickness go
there for bugle weed, sumach, winter
green, sassafras, chamomile, bore
hound. yellow dock. catnip, cherry
bark, mullein,. extract OF oats, lobella
and so on, and so on. All these herbs
have the reputation Of being good for
some one OF mOIc
Catnip for nervousness, sassafras for
the blood, horehound and boneset for
colds, sumach for sore throat. winter
green for rheumatism, lobelia as an
emetlc In case OF poisoning. MULLEN
for consumption, etc.
Nearly all OF these herbs are made
into teas. Sassafras tea. boneset tea
and catnip tea are brewed and served
either hot or cold. Among the many
hundreds Of herbs that are sold in TINS
little shop are some that are deadly
poisons, and they are labeled and sold
under the same restrictions as other
poisons.
The good old remedies that our
grandfathers hunted and dug in the
woods, those that our grandmothers
planted and tended in the garden, have
given way to harmful remedies, to
drugs that leave the patient 10 a worse
condition than when he began their
use. We believe II has been a mistake
to give up the old remedies.-Medical
Talk
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800 feet high, where rock cuts sixty
and seventy feet deep and fills of an
equal height were necessary. Some
portions of the road cost at the rate
OF $4,000 a mile. During the short
period while 1t was under construction
100000 pounds Of freight were hauled
over It.
To Use Hydraulic Gates.
The waters Of this Roosevelt dam
will be controlled by the largest by
draullc gates ever built. With their
controlling mechanism, they will
weigh 100000 pounds. When the reser-
voir is full, they will be capable of
discharging 10000 cubic feet Of water
second They will regulate the
supply of water In canals fifty miles
away.
The gates are to stand at the head
OF 500 foot tunnel which has been
driven through the side of the can
yon. and through which the waters
of the Salt and Tonic Rivers will be
diverted while the dam is being built.
1t is estimated that the dam will be
III uh0ul wv gNaAot
The excess water from the enor-
nous reservoir will be sent through
pipes into water wheels or turbines,
and the power generated will be taken
sixty to seventy miles distant to cen
trlfugal pumps, by which other water
will be raised to higher planes In the
Salt River valley. 1t is estimated that
each horsepower developed will irri-
gate ten acres. at distance Of sixty
miles An area Of no less than $4,000
/ acres is to be reclaimed by this sub
sidlary power project
Estimated Cost of Dam.
The estimated cost Of the dam and
power plants will be $3,2OO.OO0 Up
ward OF 100000 acres Of land in the
vicinity of Phoenix will be reclaimed.
Most OF this land is now In private
ownership. In fact, practically all the
land which will be furnished by the
gravity system-that is. without pump
ing-is embraced in the lands Of the
Water Users Association. a voluntary
organization OF the settlers who are
10 be benefited Dy this work, and
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GREAT TIME SAVER.
Singular Telegraph System Now Being
Tried in England.

singular lGlckrapn system NOW BENG
Tried in England.
United States Consul Liefeld at Fret
burg, Germany, has made a report to
the State Department in regard to
new high-speed telegraph instrument
now being tested by the British postal
officials, which It is claimed will revo-
lutionlze the telegraph service of to-
day The invention is said to be az
great an advance on the Morse instru-
ment as that was upon its predecessor,
the single needle.
The new system uses a paper tape,
which, instead of being hand punched,
is perforated by an instrument. The
tape at the other end Of Il wire is SINH
larry perforated instead of being mark
ed by dots and dashes. This tape can
be placed upon another machine,
which converts the perforations into
printed words on telegraph forms at
the rate Of about 100 to 100 words a
minute. The system is four or five
times as fast as the Morse, and con-
sists of three stages:
l. The telegram is copied on a ma
chine resembling a typewriter. Paper
tape runs through this and is perfor-
ated as each letter is struck.
2. The message, as it appears on the
tape, is run at very rapid rate
through a transmtter, and an exact
fac-simile of the tape is produced at
the other end Of the wire.
3. The tape is put through a type
writer with automatic mechanism.
driven by small electric motor and
the message reappears neatly printed.
lined and spaced.
This last stage may be described ms
being similar in effect to the placing
OF paper rolls of music I'm an automatic
piano. Whereas in that case the per-
forations are the cause of the notes
being struck and the music being pro-
duced. so in this instrument the per-
forated paper is the cause Of the type
writer keys going down and the ham
mers containing the letters striking the
telegraph form and producing letters
and words.
One Of the effects of the use Of this
instrument provided II be found ultl-
mately to come up to expectations,
would be a great saving Of time, as a
wire would be capable of carrying four
or five times as many words as o ( pres
ent, and fewer persons would conse-
quently be required to perform the
work. Any person able to operate a
typewriter can transmit messages by
the new system.
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NANANNNANNNNNNNNONNNN~Ne
Breaking HER Engagement
a~~~@~~~%s e~~@~@~%@~%~
~NNN~NNNN~N


~ EAR MIR. SMITH: You see
II even from the first words of
- my letter you will gather what
it is have to say. can no longer
call you George. In fact l never
ought to have called you George at
all. | was young and rash and had
not taken everything into account.
However. it is better that the mistake
should be rectihed now than when 1t
is too late. That is what papa said
last night
Yes, George, told papa last night
all about what was then our engage
ment. He says that it can never, nev-
er be: or. at any rate, we had better
take time to think about it. He had
no prejudice against you personally;
ia many ways he admires you, as, of
course, anybody would do who had
the privilege of knowing you. should
say that he really was deeply attached
10 YOU, but IL was certainly his idea
that we had better not be engaged at
present. He says that your income is
not sufficient. | am not strong wOm-
an and l have never been used TO
roughing 1t. Suppose l fell Ill. Think
Of the misery OF II; you would never
be ahle to endure an invalid wife. l
know seem to be In health and that
I have generally good appetite and
SO on, but these things are very decep-
tive. Under any strain. as, for in
stance If I had to do any kind OF
work, feel sure that l should col
lapse utterly. SO under the circum-
stances. however hard 1t may be, l
feel 1t my duty to write and to break
off our engagement.
What l am going to say now has
nothing to do With the above, but as
happened to be writing l thought 1
had better mention II. Do you remem-
Der saying that Miss Adelaide Jones
was the most perfect and complete cat
you ever metz You were quite wrong.
/ feel that / ought to mention this in
order that you may do her more jus
tice In future. l saw her this morn
ing and / have told her everything,
and anything more considerate and
angelic it would be impossible to con-
ceive. She said that she had hAard
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ously myself, and l have no doubt
that l shall soon forget all about It,
SO you see, George dearest, that l
must submit to papas superior wis
dom, and that we must definitely say
goOd-by. Perhaps many years after
this we may meet again when you
have married Edith. and | only hope
that we shall meet as friends. Faith
fully yours,
JANE ROBINSON.
p. Slave just received invitation
from the Browns to their daughters
wedding reception. She is a dear
little mouse of a thing, and l think
she might have done better than a
Dissenting minister, but mamma says
that 1t is a very old engagement.
do not know If there was anything In
my letter to imply that we should
break of our engagement, but l never
intended anything of the kind. Mamma
Is quite in your favor and l can al
ways make papa do just what like.
Z. S. Mamma says that Adelaide
Jones is n cat, too.
=. S. 3.-Forgive me. l am awfully
sorry. But how was / to know
Barry Pain, in the Tattler.
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THE PEKiNEse TOY DOG.
Fashionable Women of Lond IN Prefer
Chinese Spaniels for Pets.

Fashionable Women of Lond )n Prefer
Chinese Spaniels for Pets.
The most fashionable dog in London
Just now is the Pekinese spaniel, says
a London cable to the New York Her
aid. This fact was demonstrated at
the first members show Of the Ladies'
Kennel Association, held at Westmin-
ster recently.
Among all the tiny pet dogs which
were seen there In silk-lined pens the
Pekinese were easily first In populari-
ty. Additional interest ives centered
in them by reason Of their being
judged by a Mandarin, Wang Yum,
from the Chinese embassy, In his pic
turesque oriental silks.
1t was really a good show, and so
well was it managed that II gave a
death blow to the libel that women
are unable to govern.
The entries totaled upward OF 600,
but the actual number of dogs benched
fell a little short Of 400. They con-
sisted mostly of toys, and It was one
Of these Japanese spaniels, named
Fugi OF Kobe. belonging to Miss Marie
Lorena, to which the judges awarded
the prize for the best dog in the show
The honors for the best of the oppo-
site sex went to a greyhound named
Joyous Girdle, owned by Miss Joan
Godfrey.
The exhibition was packed from the
opening to the close by a company
which consisted mostly Of well-dressed
women.
Among the exhibitors were the
Countess of Aberdeen. who won with
her drop-eared Skye terriers; the
Countess Of Chesterfield. Lady Decles.
successful with her Pekinese; Lady
Ewart, Lady Eva Heathcote, Lady
Kathleen Pilklngton, whose toy bulls
were to the fore; Lady Clementine
Warning, who also won with her Pc
kinese; the Hon. Mrs. Maclaren Nor
rison, who took all the prizes for both
the Lhasa terriers and Samoyedes; the
Hon. Mrs. Bailie, of Dochfour, the
Hon. Mrs. Ba"ot, taking prizes for
grlffons and bruxellois; Lady Moor and
the Hon. Rose Hubbard, with Pom
eranians. Hamilton Nick. the proper.
ty Of Mrs. Henry Morris, was the best
chOwchow In the show. The dachs.
hunds were headed by Mrs. Gerald
Spencer's Jenny Spinner and Mrs
Beere's Rienzi.
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this country, says the Philadelphia
Record. They are to be found In near
ly all drug stores and similar estab-
llshments in the large cities as well
as the hotel and theater Hobbies, and,
In fact, all much-frequented places.
This applies to the business section
Of the cities to very great degree,
for the reason that suitable places in
the residential sections for pay sta
tons are difficult to secure. but 1t Is
the desire Of the telephone companies
to offer the most liberal accommoda.
lions of this character and the prob
lem Of increasing the number of pub
lie stations in the residence portions
of the cities is a matter which has
been given some considerable atten-
ton.
With this view in end, there Is
about to be introduced into a number
Of the larger cities a street corner
telephone service, which will not only
be the means Of affording great ac-
commodations to the persons living in
the vicinity, but will also in great
measure be the means Of breaking
up the practice Of annoyance to which
subscribers are subjected from their
nelghbors using the instruments In
emergencies.
These instruments have been I'm ex.
perimental use in the city of Bridge
port, Conn. for some time. In order
to ascertain their value in practice.
and the result was very encouraging,
and as stated above, their use will
be extended at once.
All types of the street installation
are quite inconspicuous. The stations
are all keyless, and upon opening the
door there will be found a standard
pay station of the gravity type, which
means that the operation of the In
strument Is almost automatic, there
being no bells to ring or buttons to
press. A directory is found hanging
on the inside of the door and the de.
sired conversation having been secur-
ed, the door being also of the gravity
type closes itself. Some of these In
stallatiOns are placed on posts like
the hre-alarm boxes in such general
use, and others are simply secured TO
telephone or telegraph poles. On some
instances the telephone outfit and mail
box occupy the same post
1t is anticipated that in some cities
there will be objection raised to plac-
Ing more of these posts on the streets
and In such cases It is proposed to
permit the use of the telephone for fire
and police as well as all other emer-
gency uses. Such service will be rem
dered absolutely free, and 1t is thought
that this arrangement will be readily
entered into by the municipal authori-
ties Of many cities. The protection
against fire, which this arrangement
will offer. will be the means of win
ming over any property owners who
may object to the presence of the ap-
pNratus on their pavement.
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which has pledged 100000 acres to the
government to guarantee the repay
ment of the cost Of the work. The
land to be reclaimed by pumping is
still public domain. and 1t IS not likely
that there will be water for 1t within
three years.
Settlers Arriving Already.
Officials of the reclamation service
are not encouraging settlers to go and
take up homesteads In the public do
main In the vicinity of the Salt River
project. But, nevertheless, settlers are
going In even now, and pre-empting
homestead rights under the national ir-
rigation act. After filing claim they
build their houses and do what they
can to comply with the law in regard
to bringing half of the eighty acre
tract under cultivation. OF course.
they can grow nothing until they have
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stion loved travel change excitement gave
up the safe business Of storekeepng and
OF small museum in connection with a travelling show.
He eventually made fortune IN the at
80 lost cent Of It, but after this he created
fortune
James Harper OF the best printers press
In New York This would have satisfied many man.
but he desired become a publisher. e saved a few
hundred dollars and started the publishing house
known Harper Bros. He succeeded the outset
Think what the world would have lost had the artist
Turner followed the advice given him to become barber
Who would have heard Of Daniel Defoe had he re-
merchant and factory manager instead Of turn
Ing to literature and producing Robinson CrusoeT
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IN THE SUNLIGHT.

The clouds came up on a summer day,
And covered the clear blue sky;
They hid the fnce Of the sun away,
While the sudden storm swept by;
And the stricken flowers when the fierce
wind blew
Bent low to the tempest's power;
But they smiled In spite of their tears
of dew
In the sunlight after the shower.
The clouds came up when my life was
bright,
And covered the sun away,
And my heart grew chill In the sudden
night,
And longed for the vanished day;
But the clouds passed by with the sum
mer rain.
And then. like the storm-tossed flower.
Ny heart looked up and was glad again
In the sunlight after the shower.
New Orleans Picayune.
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of the engagement and knew from the
first that 1t could never come to any
thing. Then she told me the reason
why.
or course, George, you are not an
swerable to me in any way now, and
Ii Is really no concern of mine, but |
think you might have told me what
passed between you and Miss Brown.
If | had known how far things had
gone between you l should never for
one moment have permitted what l
did.
At the same time you must not
think that l am blaming you. or
course she is not beautiful, very far
from It; and | am not going to pretend
that her manners are In any way
pleasing. Her laugh is far too loud
and her teeth are perfectly awful
Still everybody admits that she is OK
tremely good to her mother, and l am
quite glad and rejolced to think that
this was an attraction In your eyes.
SO many men can only take Il super
fetal view. You yourself, when you
have been talking to me. have said
lots OF things about my hair and my
eyes, but you have never said one
word about my intellectual qualities.
Yet l should really have valued that
much more. because l can get any
amount Of men to talk about my hair
and my eyes. Those are not the things
that really matter.
really honor you for having no.
ticed Miss Smiths devotion to her
mother and for having fallen in love
with her in consequence. l know many
men who could not have dore it. Only
| do think that I'm justice to me You
might have mentioned it, and in jus-
tice TO her you should not have allow
ed her to suppose that there was even
tacit engagement between you. or
course she did suppose il; Miss Adel-
aide Jones told me so distinctly, and
she told me all about that week at
Henley, too; In fact, she has shown
herself a true friend in this trying
time. l feel sure now that you will
be sorry you ever called her cat,
and that you will never do It again.
This had nothing whatever to do with
my reasons for breaking of our en-
gagement, and hope you will not be
small-minded enough TO think that II
has. am fairly humble and am quite
willing to admit that Edith Brown
has very much the advantage Of me
In age and experience, but l am afraid
| cannot regard her as a rival; she IS
merely one Of the people that one
takes no notice of.
/ should like you to say what you
wish me to do about your letters and
presents. My instinct. Of course. is 10
return them. was crying over them
all last night and thinking that !
should much prefer to return them
1t seems almost pity now thar You
had the ring altered so as to ft me
but l dare say a good jeweler could
put an inch or so on Il and then II
viii fit Edith Brown just as well. She
has nice plump little hands, hasn't
shel / ask you to tell me what to dc
because l have only my instinct tC
guide me and do not know what Is
the etiquette on these occasions. YoJ
see l have never been Tilted and
thrown over like this before. How
ever, l am not entitled to reproaci
you. never took the thing very seri
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scRArnRs AT WORK ON GOVERNMENT IRRIGATION CANAL

the water, and 1t is required by law
that they live on the land. SO they
start with a rather dry and tedious
prospect.
They figure that when the water
does come they will have the pick of
the land, and will become proprletors
Of rich and valuable farms, repaying
them for the money, labor and time
spent in demonstrating" in the desert
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Because built library
building
built libraries Of
speaking community
Only States in the Union have Carnegie libraries
Rhode
this
Territory
49, Nebraska Indiana
library buildings
Of
the population They expenditure of
The Mr.. outside
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Ready for Him.

Good morning, SIR" began the long
haired visitor with the roll OF manu-
script, II see you've got your window
open that's a sign that spring is here.
Now"
NO" interrupted the editor, glaring
at him significantly. ats a sign that
the spring poet is here" Philadelphia
Press
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-06-24

Mrs. Justwed-The butcher deceived
me about this tough old chicken.
Mr.. Didn't you examine it7
Mrs. J.-Yes, and l should have fol-
lowed my own instincts. l looked in
It's mouth and told him 1t was old
It had lost all its teeth. But that hor-
rid butcher said l was mistaken-it
was a spring chicken and hadn't cut
its first ones yet. And l b-b-belieyed
him!-Cleveland Plain Dealer.