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Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-05-03


In proof that it is becoming a truly
western nation Russia reports a few
sensational cases Of bank footing.
Unfortunately several of the re.
ports Of the killing of the Georgia
peach crop seem to have beer true.
No, Elvira, the statement that a
man In London paid $4,000 for an
orchid is not a case of simplifed
spelling.
Money Is easy" in London, as Is
natural in view of the near advent Of
the flood of gold-bearing American
tourists.
An clipping couple from Buffalo were
married in an undertaker's shop. They
realized, doubtless, that marriage is a
grave matter.
TWO Chicago policemen went out
after burglars and came back with a
canary bird. Most Chicago burglars
are birds, you know.
The wife of a missing man says she
does not want to see him again. Need
less to add, there Is good reason for
believing he is broke.
The president of one of the Chicago
banks that failed loaned his cook $685.
600. 1t was probably the only way he
could get her to stay.
IL the magazine poet who writes:
was so content with my one eve lamb
My soul went up in a joyful psalm,
ever complies a dictionary of rhymes
1t will be a bouncer.
The indications at Craig-y-Nos are
that Patti Is going 10 make another
farewell tour of the United States.
Why not? She's only SO.
Do not pick up sample packages of
headache powder that may happen to
be thrown on your porch. They may
sop all your aches permanently.
Dowa New Orleans way a man kill
ed himself in a nightmare. Those
dripped absinthes in that town will
make a man do almost anything.
n editor who notes that DR.. Mary
Walker refuses to tell how old she
is" meant, of course, to say that she
declines to say how young she is.
Governor Pennypacker, they say, can
speak six languages, so that he can
give considerable variety to the ex.
preston of his opinion of the newspa
pers.
When a s~artorial master like Ed.
ware of England turns his imagination
loose, we get results. Beside the royal
blue what becomes of the Quaker
gray?
Olga Nethersole ounc that she
will quit the stage in eight years.
when she will be-that is to say, when
she will be eight years older than she
is now.
If the people who keep diaries are
wise, they ever put into them the
things that would make them most in.
.teresting to other people in. the years
o come.
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THE FLEECy. Ally
STORY or AN ANGLER w41cH
POINTS A MORAL.
Downfall of the Disciples of LEAK
Walton Came When He: Let SUI !.
perstition Run Alvey with
Good Judgment

This story of the angler and the
sheep is really very curiops one. and.
points 4 moral for those. who would
let superstitious notions chntroi their
actions. 1t was the big" fish that had
defied the skill and most tempting
flies of the angler which i'd up 10 the
incident.
On the great day that tie great fish
came at length to the landing-net, the
angler began to cast over. him with
the skill and care that weks the inev-.
table result of long habit but at the
same time with despair at his heart.
so often had hope been deferred Of in
ducing this particular fish. to be his
victim; and as he sent back his fly 20
cast for the third time. and began the
forward stroke. he was aware iof a
slight tug and resistance a. the end OF
the line. He was not one OF the tire
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a bath. That which lay before him
called for fitness! meAtal: and physical.
and cool sanity. I'D other tisnes of
stress, as just before "a critical hour in
court, the tub and the, cold splunge
had been his filltpi where other men
resorted to the bottle. s.
He was struggling, into clean linen,
and the packet WAS stili lying where
he had tossed it, or scattering, when
bell-boy came ubI with a cards lKe1t
read the name with q ghost of "a smile
relaxing the care-dEawp lines about
his mouth. There are times when o
mans fate rushes ito meet him, sand he
had fallen upon onet of them. ! ::
SHOW him up" was the bfiafI di-
rection; and when the door LOT the
elevator cage clacked againi Kent
was waiting. ~;
His visitor was q man of. heroic
proportions; a large man a little
'breathed,. as it seemed, by the swift
upward rush of the elevator. Kent ad-
mitted him with ia nod; and the gov
erncr planted himself heavily 1n a
chair and begged a light for his cigar.
In the match-pasSinS he gathered his
spent breath andI declared his ;errand.
Il think we haTej little score to
settle between lis hs man to man.
Kent" he began, when KeHt had
clipped the end from his own cigar: and
ligh ted it in stolid silence. iii
Possibly: that Is, for you 70 say. .
was the unencoqraging replys
Bucks rose deliberately, walked to
the bathroom door, and looked be-
yond it into the bedroom.
I'VE are quite alone, If that lis what
you want to make sure Of" said Kent,
in the same different tone; and the
governor came back and resumed his
chair.
Il came UP to see what you; Want
what you will take to quit" he an
nounced, crossing his legs and locking
the huge ham-Iike hands over his
knee. THAT is putting it rather abb
ruptly, but business is business, and
we can dispense with the preiimtrar-
les, take it, j
Il told your attorney-generali some
time ago what wanted, and he did not
see fit to grant it,. Kent reapdnded.
Il am not sure that l want ANYTHING
now-anything you have tos offer. 81
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
6AFFLED GENIUS.

ave always had yearning after literary
fame.
a keen desire to write book, and make
myself name.
To see my picture printed in the papers
every day,
And to have folks listen raptly to what
ever L might say,
But oh, dear mel
It can never, never be!
L could write record-breaking book,
haven't any doubt.
But somehow 1 can't think cc anything
TO write about
wonder how real authors go to work to
weave their plots.
How they get hold of romantic threads
and tie them up in knots;
But oh, dear mel
1 really cannot see
How they do it-though they do 1t, there
is not the slightest doubt;
While for my part can't think of any,
thing to write about.
Ny library is fitted with typewriter, pens
and ink.
The only thing that's left for me to do is
just to think;
And have thought. and thought, and
thought, and thought, and thought.
and thought,
In vain attempts to find the theme that
1 so long have sought.
But oh, dear met
/ fear it's Fate's decree
That shall never write a book, although
I could no doubt,
If 1 could only think of something good
to write about.
-Somerville Journal.
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1t Wasn't thu, s.rmSn.

A young preacher In an 1.ptcwt..
church was much struck dne Sunday
by the seeming effect ;his sermon #ak
having upon one of his congregation. z
shabby-genteel man with white hair.
who, during the entire discourse, ;sa1ss
with head bowed in deeply reverenS
attitude. After the service the nainii::
lister pushed his way to ltbe man and
proudly said: !. 1
81 am glad to note that my serrhon
affected you. Did it make you see the
error of your ways?" | i ]:
20, it wasn't that,s said the mar!
sheepishly. You see, my, waisteoat
is too short and l had stos bend dvsss
to hide my shirt" 7. Sun. !:
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kind and let's his fly SD to grass: i.
neither was he so unfamiliar with hiss.
surroundings as not to know that
there were no bushes behind him.
Heretofore he turned roand with an!
exclamation of establishment and be-.
held sheep regarding him with rath::
er doubtful benevolenes AND al:
thoughtful expression on it's face that:
looked as If it might Indicate a desigh
to butt him into the river. But even,
as these possible intentions OF the
sheep passed through his mind. and he
realized that what had arrested his fly
for moment was its Catching the
fleece of the animal, the tty Itself hal
gone forward and out Old the water
very little affected by the momsatary.
check. The angler was on the point
of saying something to the sheepiabout,
its folly in getting where it might Big
hooked, and where it had spoiled H.
beautiful cast, when his hand. in the.
very act of drawing up the fly TOT maks
another throw, was aFrestedj Yet
again, by an unexpected tug; but tha,
time the tug came FROM the wateft.
| not the land, and there was moi mani
| ner of doubt about the eause of it. A
fish had taken the fly, AMI goJd fish
too. The reel went with. ia scream, aS
the fish rushed down the; river. ami
the usual kind of fight began that has.
been retailed in all fishing stories sineA
the first. All good stories. of course. !!
end only in one way-plehsantly, This
had Cfrom the fisherman's point Of.
view the extremely pleasant ending
of fine fish-this notorious and very
sophisticated fish, finding its way at
length into tn, landing-IIet, II.
And when the fishermHn came I'd
take the fly from it's mouth and ext
anime the fly he found it adorned With
small fleecy feather, as he first
thought, but then saw to- his surprise
that 1t was really a TINY piece Of
fleece. What had happehed was that
the hook had torn an atom OF wodE
from the sleeps fleece!! had gons
down, thus adorned, into the water.
| and the fish, of so muc.i ancient wis
dom, astonished out of all his craft BIZ
| the strange spectacle presented to
| him, had tasted the unknown cbjecs.
to see If it was good, and found it al.
| together other than that which be had
| supposed. Z i!
So that was the end of that Ash, ami;
In the result it proved to. have .Gffereh
up its life as vicariousi sacrifice to.
save that of sundry others OF its kind.
for the incident so impressed the
angler t. whom it happened that tic;
now never will go fishing without p.
tuft of sleeps wool on his fly: and. dc
a consequence, many Trout u.s. scarce,
away whom the lure would otherwiIe
have attracted. Thus. there lis d
striking moral to the tale-so obvio,ls
that persons who pursues the cdntenil
plative recreation may be left I'd med4
itate on it for themselves II II
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ar. j pify.f

An Englishman and an If:shpaa
while having their dinner tn a;ressaqf
rant got into conversational TIE Eng.
lishman had only pne sle$ aad Pat.
rather inquisitive. inquired how hs
had the misfortune to ldse:it Think.
ing to have a joke. at PATS sxpehsA.
the Englishman replied. ,;"I was. ali
ways given TO understand that my
great-grandmother was Iribh and tbs
Irish blood from her settled in my lied.
and sooner than haze any Irish bsonA
in me l had the leg cut:o9." f'SHDrs
then" said Fat, its aspify 1t didna
settle in your head."-e,a4sells Jpni|
nal. | #
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CHAPTER XIV.
DEAD WATER AND :ot1cR.

49, SYiNn-
The cubby-hole in which tHildredth
earned his bread by the SWEAT of his
brain was dark even at midday. aid
during working hours the editor sat
under funnel-shaped, reflector ini
comic shower bath of electric, ligbt
which flooded man aud desk and left
the corners of the room in penymEra
of grateful twilight
Kent sat just outside of the cone .of
radiance, watching Hildredth's face Jas
the editor read stolidly Though the
contents of the box envelope. it was
AN instructive study in thought dy-
namics. There was gleam of.battje
satisfaction in the editorial ieyei hen
Hildreth faced the last sheet down
upon the accumulation Of evidence,
saying: /,
You didn't oversfate sthe fact ;.n
your Erag about the POLITICAL graves.
Only this isn't a spade; its steam
shovel. Do l understand ;yoal are gsv-
ing me this stuff to use as please?ss
Just that said Kent. !:
"And you have made it serve your
turn. too?"
NO" Kent's voice was sharp and
crisp.
Isn't that what you got 1t fdr?"I
Eyes" ;
Then why don't you use itT'
THAT was what Bucks wanted to
know little while ago when he came
TO my rooms to try TO buy me of.
don't think succeeded in ma kiAg him
understand why 1 couldn't traffic wath
it; and possibly you wouldn't under
| stand"
Il guess do It's PUBLIC property,
and you couldn't divert il into private
channels. Is that the WayE it jstrpek
you?" |; /.
ct is the way it struck d friend Of
mine whose sense of ultimate right and
wrong hasn't lost its Iine etlge lin The
world-mill. 1 did not want to do It,
Naturally" said the editor |;"Civ-
ing it up means the loss OF all you have
been working for in the RAILROAD game
I wish I could use it, just :as;iit stands
Cant you?" Il
81 am afraid ot-.effecthvely. ; II
would make an issue lin. ,campaign;
or. sprung on the eve of an election, II
might down the ring .conclhsi1ely.
think it would. But; this lis the Of
year. and the people ;wcn'a rise to {
political issue--coula1t't make them
selves felt if they shoslld.";i
81 don't agree with you. You hav,
your case all made out. with the evi
dence in sound legal form. Whas Il
to prevent your trying ftp:
THE one thing that you Ought to 81
lawyer enough to see :ats a glance
There is no court to try 1T in. Will
the assembly in session We Ought to d.
something: as it is, We can only yal
at the heels of the rihgste1s, and GU
yapping won't help yop in the railroa.
fight. What do you hear from Eos
TONI" i !:
Nothing new. The sstocla is still fla
on the market, with tie stock holders
pool holding a bare majority, snd TIL
Plantagould brokers buying III dfib
lets wherever they find q shall holde
who is willing to let. go. Git is onE
a question of time; .andi livery sfior
time at that"
ITO Be Cofltinued.a
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Il ! 1
This was not ali he had intsnded TO
say; but the presende of the adversary
was breeding d stubborn antagonism
that was more potent on the moral
side than all the !prickipgs | of con-
science. !.
The yellow-liddAd eyes of The gov
ernor began to close down, :and the
look came into, them which had been
there when he denied a pardon to a
widow pleading for the life of ,her con-
victed son. il
Il had hoped. you were in che mar
ket," he demurted 1T would be bet
ter for all concerned if you!h4d some
thing to sell, with; a price attkched. l
know what you have been doing, and
what you think you have bot hold
of. It's tissue of mistakes aid false
hoods and backhitings from beginning
to end but it may serve youk purpose
with the newspapers. 1 want to buy
that package ofIstaft you've Igdt slowed
away in the Security VAULTS
The governors chair was bns one side
of the writing!tahle. and Kents wac
on the other. lin plain sight between
the two men lay tha packet Bucks was
willing to bargain .for. 1t Ras en-
closed in box IenYelope, be3ring the
imprint of the Security bank. Ken.
was looking steadily away from the
| table when he said
What if it isn't! for sals?s
Don't you think it had better be?''
81 don't know. L hadrs'ts tn ought
much about the advisable phase of it. =
We'll. the time has come when
you've got it to co." was the low
/ toned threat. tn.
But not as a matter Of +; cempui-
sion,' said Kent. coolly enough.
What is your bid$" | I il
Bucks made j. promptlyt
Ten Thousand dollars: aud you
promise to leave the state and stay
away for one year from the fist Tues
day in Novembef next"
THAT is, until after the state cleo
tion." Kent blew al Whit of smoke to
the ceiling and shook his heah slowly.
cit is not enough .
The governor unhrossed His legs
crossed them The other way anG. said
'I'll make it twenty theusar.d and
two years." {
"Or thirty thousand and three
years." Kent suggested amiably. "Ol
suppose we come st once to- the end
of that string and say one hundred
thousand nd ten years ThAtI would
still leave you q fair price for your
block of suburban pro verify jim Gull
ford and Hawks addition tot the city
of CASTOR. Wouldn't it,"
The governor set his massive jaw
with sharp little click Of tAe' teeth
You are joking On the eige Of your
grave. my young friend. IItasigsht you
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He met his sweetheart of hyegona
years. She had greatly changed. ,pus
was still coquettish.I /
do you remember" she .3sked, that
lock of hair which gave You Just De:
fore We parted?" /; i
He frowned. /: 4
Remember it," he erigdi I'll shqulsG
say l did. Years afterwards MY tvifas
found it among my .papefs and 9hasa
been fussing over itIever sfnces !
And what did you tell her?" /
IL told her it must have been !
souvenir of lamehted dog" /. t
Goodness! And what dill She say #
"She said she had never. heard Of =
dog with golden hair. - aSselIfs Jours
nal / i
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When the door closed behind the
outgoing visitor the victor inl the small
passage at arnse began to walk the
floor; but at four o'clock which was
Hildreth's hour for coming downtown,
he put on his hat and went to- climb the
three flights of stairs to :the editors
den in the Argus builaiHg.l
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Different Kinds.

i ~ man in politics should have lots
Of friends, shouldn't he?"
]. -It depends" answered Senator Sorg-
hum, ION whether they are friends
who want tn do something for you or
who want you to do something for
their" Star
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Safe.

"And you say you have little gill
five years old?" he said wheE thdy
met in after years. II
"Yes." she replied. 'fbut .doht III
that keep you from calling on us.
We have never taught her to speak
pieces. Chicago RecordfHerait.
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Peek-a-Bool

my nfe," said the Jeantifstl gill.
ais an open book; l conceal nothing
from the world" s.:
That's So" replied haf father. si5-
ing up her new shirt waist: .'bat dortF
you think you ought fa?v-Ifoustsh
Post |.
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Propriety..

1But why do you think you ougAs
to be accompanied by a{ehaper5n ,",l
~OLe Of my former htsbands is 10
be there" replied the pretty gras2
widow Chicago Record Herald II
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27

Doctor Mrs. Blin,. you 'donst siesIih
to sympathize with your silk busbana.
Mrs Blim- Doctor. / aoi't dare! tGs
makes him lots worse. I!etrait Free
Press.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Innovation in Oregon.

L Some palefaces recently from the
east have been putting up ny screen
doors to their houses. The next thing
We know we viii be having nies on the
hay.e-North Bend Harbor
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
Unselhsh..

Minister hope yon love. yo,sI
neighbor as yourself. Brother brown;
Brownies; but I'm mo egctist. 4
Judge. i
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27

/ Civilization consists largely in court
ang p5 mail and contracting debts. The
Aspp1 savases do neither.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-25
Fairbr0ther's T ancies.
Concerning Some Of the Things We Sec.

j.
came from miles around- Rosewater held
his own. hut people IN that day pre-
diUtcd that universal suffrage would slc
granted in every State in the Union
within IL few wears. And ever since that
time. and lons before that time, Miss
Anthony has uceuHied tlie platform and
insisted upon her rights"
Truly II would seem that u woman, as
forceful IS She; {. Woman who has been
IN the public eye SO many years; against
whom no word of Islander MAS ever
breathed; who has heon riuseltish and
untirmg fighting for q cause that WAS
dear to her heurt-no matter what tile
public thinks about 1t should he voted a
grand old woman, But she isn't
pr Mary Walker IL another woman
who sought potorlcty, aud has'done things
that caused the public TO admit that she
was In enYnest+-but nc one4titas ever
suggested or'lhintcd, even remotely, that
she should be voted n grand old woman.
Mrs Belyp Lockwood IL IS 10 be ro-
GREETED that the world does not bestow
upon tlese celebrities the ;itle of colonel
nus remained long time, IN the public
eye. She ran for the preadelcS;; has
practiced law ana been admitted before
the Supreme Court of tbs United States,
ana vet no gentleman has DEMONSTRATIONS
enough 10; designate her is8 q grand old
woman. indeed, she has wonSllci laurels =
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-25

noticed III the book reviews OF tue
Ilrnes,Diapatch the other day, some
thing about men OF mark IN America,
and OF course knew 1t lad 10 do with
some OF the great acknowledgements of
those who were able to pay the price. But
what has always struci; me as being
tfuccr is, that America has no grand old
y.onieri-nnd IN fact but few II any,
grand old men All Or most ALL Of the
sinnd old men aro dead. England played
Gladutonc. as "a grand old man for q
long. lonG time-but we are laciilns In
grand old women.
And the question ;lnt puzzled me IS,
what would constituto Il grand old woM-
an? ! mole that last Tuesday Miss Susan
q. Anthony celebrated Her elShty-stxth
birthday and by an the signs and tokens,
she should be designated a grand old
woman, She has been tho champion OF
universal suffrage for years and yers,
wears longer than can remember, /
recall that she made q tonr Of the West
way back In eighty. and she wss an ola
woman then. She was on the war-path,
ready TO chew mp any one who disputed
The right FOR. women TO vote. and-~Hhcn
she visited Nebraska she challenged MIR.
Edward Rose water, editor of the Omaha
Bee. 10 meet her IN joint debate The
house was flied ana she atopd up and
fought him with the fury OF a phone
graph at cheap restaurant Crowds