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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-07-06
NEWS OF THE STATE
Review Of the Weeks Happenings
in Idaho
AS CLEANED FROM EXCHANGES
Tales from Mountain and Vale Briefly
Told for Benefit Of the Examin-
er's Readers.


Told for Benefit Of the Exaniin-
er's Readers.
The Odd Fellows of Soldier have
completed plans for fine, new hall.
The Idaho Industrial school now
has 4s inmates, IL Of whom are
girls.
Last week 1000, 900 feet of lum-
ber were shipped from Troy to Lin
coin, Neb.
Some local people are figuring on
putting in 5000 power plant, a
mile from Shelley.
The farmers in the Twin Falls
section are busy putting up their
first crop of alfalfa.
Twelve hundred men are now en-
ployed on the construction work of
the Northern Pacific extension from
Culdesac to Cottonwood.
The contract was let last Saturday
for constructing the Masonic temple
in Boise. It will cost $2l, 1000 and
il to be completed by Nov. u
The Short Line Railroad company
will expend nearly $40, 900 at Pay
ette this season, erecting a new de-.
pot and enlarging the yards there.
L. d. Hannah & Son of Caldwell
last week marketed five, nine.months
old Poland China pigs that weighed
800 pounds each. The price re-
ceived was 7 cents pound.
The Twin Falls News says that
some of the finest draft horses In
Idaho are to be seen on the streets
of that town, and some Of the best
bred cattle in the west are to be
found on the Twin Falls anches.
Al the reunion of Grand Army
Veterans IN Payette last week reso-
lutions were unanimously adopted
in favor of having placed in the
National Hall of Fame, statutes of
the late George L. Shoup and Frank
Steunenberg.
Two Nez Perce county men were
arrested last week and fined $3.50
and costs for killing deer out of
season. The state game warden has
placed six special deputies In the
field to patrol the Clearwater region
during the summer.
The congested condition that ex- :
listed at the Blackfoot asylum has
been relieved by the recent removal
of 10 patients to the new asylum in
the north, and DIR. Givens says that
he will now be able to care for all
commitments from north Idaho at
the Orofino asylum.
Walter Rohrbangh, of Burley, Is
the pussessor of fine collection of
Indian arrow heads. which he has
gathered IN the vicinity OF Bnrley.
Most of the heads are made of
obsidion, while few are of flint
and among the collection ID a large,
solid silver ring, which was prob
ably once worn by some big Indian
chief, who has long since departed
to "the happy hunting grounds"
The Lewiston land Office refused
to accept final proof of woman
who had fled on 100 acres under
the timber and stone act. The
grounds of the refusal that the
money with which the woman was
to pay for the land was to be OBJ
tanned upon personal note, such
note later to be secured by mortgage
on the land. The Office decided
such aprocedure amounted to COM
munity property and declined the
proffered proof.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-07-06

1t has caused more laughs, and dried
more tears, wiped away diseases and
driven away more fears than any other
medicine In the world. Hollister's Rocky
Mountain Tea. s5 cents, Tea or Tablets
Ask your Druggist.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-07-06

Base ball at Montpelier ball park
Sunday, July 8, Montpelier VS.. So.
day Springs; game called at 2:s0.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
A n.ans fn fh. a>a.

Did you ever see bIuehsh charGs q school of menhaden at seat That ls something worth seeing. The blue6sh throw their lines forward until they si- most surround the menhaden, and they attack them flank and rear. The men haden fairly make the water boil in their efforts to escape, while all around the enemy Is at them tearing relent lessly. Into all this commotion comes a great shark. It's a picnic for the shark, a school of menhadeD all herded up for its benefit. It swims leisurely into the midst of them, opens it's mouth and takes In half a dozen menhaden at a gulp. It swims around and bites out half dozen more from the school. It gorges Itself without effort. But the menhaden are not nearly as much dis turbed by the presence of the monster swimming about among them as they are by the charging bluefish. The shark takes half dozen Ash or more at a bite, while the blueflsh only bites piece out of single Ash, but there Is only one shark, while there may be thousands of blueflsh plunging and tearing necessarily and killing and maiming at every stroke. The sharks brute, but under such circumstances the menhaden have less of fear than they have of contempt for him.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
A Photorr.pbic waru,nr.

The following story of a young lady living In the country who came to London to be photographed Is told by M. A. F. and vouched for by a we'll known London photographer. After some days the lady, Miss B., was informed the photograph was not a success, and another sitting was sug- gested. This she agreed to, but again was informed that the photograph was a failure. There was a third sitting. In two days time she received an urgent letter from the photographer asking her to come up to his studio and to bring a friend with her. Miss B. went, accompanied by her mother, and was shown the amazing results of the three slttings. The pictures of the girl herself were quite good, but in each plate there was to be seen stand ing behind her the figure of a man holding dagger in his upllfted hand. The features, though faint, were clear ly discernible, and Miss B. recognized them as those of her fiancee, an officer in the Indian army. The effect of this experience was so great that after a few days she wrote out to India, break ing off the engagement.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
STRIKING EYEGLASSES.
No Law Which Declares It an Aggra-
 vated ORense.

It Is the common opinion that for striking a man with glasses on there is a severer penalty than for striking him under similar circumstances when he is not wearing glasses. Careful search, however, does not bring forth any statutory provision which declares the offense greater when the man who Is struck wears glasses. The preva- lence of this idea is due, no doubt, to the probability of the judge in such cases giving the convicted the extreme penalty. The legal term for assault un- der such circumstances Is mayhem" signifying that the assailant has In one way or another deprived his victim of the power of defending himself.
 During an altercation from which a struggle Is apt to ensue any one wear ing glasses would be wise to remove them, unobserved if possible, however, because If noticed 1t might act as signal to begin hostilities.
 Many think that glasses would be source of general protection in these cases and often take advantage on that ground, but this is wrong, because no court would hold 1t worse to strike man with glasses than one without unless the assailant struck directly at his opponents eyes, with the intent to were hit elsewhere than on the eye glasses would not enter the case at all. Jewellers Circular Weekly.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
George Eliot and "Romola." :"

George Eliot's first arrangement with the publisher of "Romola" was for no less a sum than 10000 guineas. "As that is so very large figure" he said, T must run 1t through fifteen numbers of the Cornhill." "No," she answered; it must finish in twelve numbers or the artistic effect of the story will be lost. I quite understand the necessity for Its prolongation from a commercial point of view, so we'll say 1000 guineas instead of the 10000" And 1000 guineas was accordingly paid for the copyright. Three thousand guineas seem a large sum to give up for an artistic scruple, but she did 1t.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
When Spencer Travelled.

When Herbert Spencer went on long railway journey it was his prac- tice to have reserved for him a first class compartment. Across the car riage he used to have a hammock swung, in which he travelled to avoid the vibration and concussion. There was something funny in the spectacle of the staid philosopher travelling in this fashion, and so 1t appeared to the people who witnessed the preparations for his departure. The inquisitives were soon disappointed, for as soon as Spencer recognized that he was being made the object of unsolicited atten- ton he would shout out in stentorian tones to the porters-he used to have four to look after him-"Draw down those blindsw
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Origin of OK Tail Soup.

During the reign of terror in Paris in 1793 many of the nobility were re- duced to starvation and beggary. The abattoirs sent their hides fresh to the tanneries without removing the tails, and in cleaning them the tails were thrown away. One of the noble beg gars asked for a tail, and it was will ingly given to him. He took 1t to his lodging and made (what is now fla mous) the first dish of OK tail soup. He told others of his good luck, and they annoyed the tanners so much that a price was put upon them.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
Bow Legged Men.

Do not revile the bow legged man, for he plays an important part in the world. It Is estimated that 40 per cent of mankind are bow legged, so nu- merically this class is entitled to great respect. Bow legs invariably accom- pany a robust physique. We find them one of the conspicuous features of athletes. Comedians are almost al ways bow legged. Of the bow legged geniuses to which humanity points with pride the most illustrious ex- amples are Caesar, Horace, Napoleon Wellington, Schopenhauer and Cavour, the celebrated Italian statesman.-Lon- don Answers.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
Bad For Creditors.

In the faraway, benighted commu- nifty of Damen, in Africa, the old fash toned method of throwing a debtor into prison, where he Is safe from the tOrmenting visits of his creditors, is not followed Instead, he is practical ly turned over t0 the mercy of the creditors in a literal sense. A heavy tree log is attached to his bare leg, and this he is obliged to drag after him wherever he goes. There is no escaping the creditors now, and the log remains bound to his ankle until his debts are paid.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
MuahPOOna.

An enthusiast on the subject of mush- rooms says there is no more reason to mistake a good mushroom for a poisonous toadstool than to confound nightshade with huckle ,,erries. The distinctions are clear and simple and easily learned. Real mushrooms are known by their beautiful pink gills, not reaching the stem, which stem car ries a we'll marked white woolly ring; by the very ieshy down covered top, the delicious and enticlng fragrance the firm, white flesh, sometimes in clined to pink when cut or broken. One or two rules in regard to gathering mushrooms, we are told, will remove all the peril from the pursuit of them. Examine carefully every specimen you gather. If at all doubtful, throw 1t away. Show 1t to somebody that knows. Never cook mushrooms un- less you know they are gathered by somebody that knows.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
Louis Napoleon Answered.

Lady Blessington did not always meet with gratitude from some whose position at last enabled them to serve her. She sheltered in her London home Louis Napoleon after he had escaped from his prison In Ham. After Louis Napoleon became president of the French republic he seems to have turned the cold shoulder on Lady Blessington and Count D'Orsay when they approached him In Paris. There was story going at the time, for the accuracy of which we certainly will not vOuch, but which appeared In sev- eral of the London papers. Shortly be- fore Lady Blessington's death she met, so the story goes, the president driving in the Champs Elysees. He stopped his carriage, she stopped hers, and they cOnversed for a few minutes. His manner seemed to her determinedly chilly. "Do you stay long in Parisw he asked as he was about to drive on "No," she answered. And you?"- London Spectator.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
How snakes Move aHil Climb.

The vertebrate of snake are fitted together by kind of ball and socket articulation, which, however, is capa- ble of only lateral or side to side mo- tion. A snake moves by propelllng himself on the points of his scales, which, to him, answer the purpose of ribs. A snake does not climb a tree or a bush by coiling around 1t, as most people who have not investigated the matter believe, but by balancing him self very evenly and holding on with the points and edges of his scales. A snake on a pane of glass or other pol ished surface where the scales cannot take hold is almost perfectly helpless.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
The Rright Side.

Words of cheer are words of help; words of gloom are words of harm. There Is bright side and a dark side to every phase of life and to every hour of time. If we speak of the bright side, we bring the brightness into prominence; if we speak of the dark side, we deepen its shadows It is in our power to help or to hinder by a word any and every person with whom we come in contact.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
GOOD CHEER AT MEALS.
The Value of Laughter as an Aid to
 Digestion.

Digestion.
 Nothing else will take the place of good cheer and laughter at meals or any other time In the home. There is a vital connection between amiability and digestion-between good cheer and assimilation. Laughter Is the best friend the liver has and depression or melancholia its worst enemy. Numer 'ous experiments have shown that mirth and cheerfulness stimulate the secre- ton of the gastric juices and are pow erful aids to digestion. Yet, knowing this, many of us sit as gloomy and ab- sorbed at the table as at a funeral In many homes scarcely a word is spoken at meals outside of requests for an article of food.
 The meal hour ought to mean some thing besides supplying mere animal function. The bell which calls the family to the table ought to be the sig nal for a good time generally, when all cares should be thrown off and ev- erybody appear at his best. It ought to signaliZe the time for mirth and laughter It ought to be looked for ward to by the members of the fami- ly as the recess or incoming Is looked forward to by pupils in school as let ;Swett Warden in Success Magazine.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
LEGENDS OF oLo MINES. !
GAs vslss ~ the Records of Pase
 prsanSsaaa.

EE8MWEaAMMs
 American mining engineers are fa- hafliar with speculative schemes. bas- ed upon the real or supposed former productiveness of the mines upon which they are started. To say noth- ing of such enterprises as that of Rich ard Burton, who thought he had redis- covered in Egypt the sources of Solo mons treasure Itself somewhat myth icaD, there are more recent instances in abundance. The books of Hum boldt and Ward on Mexico gave rise ln the first half of the nineteenth cen tury to an immense and disastrous ln- vestmeht of English capital in the un- watering of old Mexican gold and sil- yer mines on the strength of reports from government archives" showing their immense production and sundry legends, accounting for their temporary abandonment Tn the prospectuses of such schemes, references to pestilence, war, quarrels among owners, etc, as the causes of the Interruption of an al- most incredibly profitable business are well known features.
 No doubt all ancient evidence, wheth- CT historical or legendary, has Its value for mining enterprises, but 1t is well to bear in mind that Mexican miners did not usually leave rich ore when they stopped working a mine, and there Is another proposition, applicable to many mines outside of Mexico, yet too often verlooked-namely, the record of past production is a measure not of what is left, but of what Is not left, in the ore deposit of a mine.-Engineering and Mining News.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
Ambition.

Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated. There is reaction, and as our spirit till our last sigh Is al ways aiming toward some object 1t falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest and having reached the summit it longs to descend.-Cor- nellie.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
Easy Work.

First Transient-If you had got to go into business, what line you'd you choose? Second Ditto-Id open an em- ployment agency, It would be so nice to be getting other people to work without having any temptation to do any yourself
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OFFICE OF l.. M. LYON
Representing
n. o. cO0dINs CO,
THE LYON BROS. CO,
 New York City

THE LYON BROS. CO, n. o. cO0dINS O., New York City Pttsburg, Pa
 California and Colorado Cantaloupe Distributors
 Selling and Distributing Agents for the Brawley Cantaloupe Growers Association
 BrawIey, California HOItvilIe CantaIOupe Growers Association
 HoltvilIe, California EI Centro Cantaloupe Growers Association
 Fl centrO California
 every the United States that handle sell satisfactory lots antaoupes and these subagen dis tribute reach all smaller points accessible.
 original distributors the Rocky Ford Colorado taoupes established with the old original Rocky Ford Association distribute their 190 making the distributing agents We also have contracts with Manzanoa making NINE Associations covering the original territory comprising the Rocky Ford Cantaloupe District of Colorado
 NOTE-Our Mr. L. M Lyon will take personal charge of the Bawley May 10 remain during the shipping and until his address will be 33O Washington Street. New York City Mr. Peter Hovely in charge the Brawey office until Mr. Lyon arrives.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11

Though the sun scorches us some times and gives us the headache, we do not refuse to acknowledge that we stand in need of his warmth.-De Nor. nay
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
stiII Time.

Burroughs-Say, oM man, there was a time when you promised to share your last dollar with me.
 Richley-T That's all right l haven't got down to it yet.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-08-11
Secrets.

Mayme-Is Clara a good girl to tell e secret to? Maude-Oh, my, no! Why, she'll never tell soul Chicago News
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

direct from their cabin into the sea.
Lounging on the shore in bathing cos
tune is strictly forbidden, and viola
ter of this rule would quickly be
nabbed by one of the numerous strand
policemen, who are always on guard
there. This custom, besides its many
other advantages, has also the benefit
OF allowing ladies to do away with
such things as stockings, shoes, ETC.,
which bather does not need at all
and which are unknown quantities in
the costume of European sea bathers.
Now. is not that much nicer than our
American way, where the weak, and
thin, and stout are practically excluded
from reaping the full benefit of stay
at the sea shore? Go to Asbury Park,
or any other like place, and you will
find that nearly every lady bather is at
least fairly well-built-others do not
take baths.
came near forgetting that my head
lines have promised you nothing but
"idle chat" That 1 have given you
good and thick. But right here, in the
conclusion, was almost enveigled in.
to delivering sermon. Kindly excuse
my trespass, kind reader. 1880.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25
or more or less deformed or iII-shaped

or more or less defOrmed or ill-shaped
woman would 60 thru the process of
cropping her way in bathing costume
thru the crowds on the boardwalks,
and thru the loungers on the beach ?
That cannot be expected of any modest
woman. They would only invite them
selves as targets for ridicule, and that
no true woman will do. 1t is almost
the same with very stout women.
While in England, have never been
at any seaside resort so cannot speak
positively as to Brighton, Cowes, etc.
But I have been at Biarritz, at Sche-
veningen, Norderney, Sylt and st
Ostend, this latter the most celebrated
of all ocean resorts. At all those
places, they have separate bathing
grounds for the two sexes, and they
have also grounds where the sexes
bathe together. But the bathers do
not dress in little boxes on the land,
and then walk thru crowds into the
sea. Oh no, they dress on the sea-
yes, on the sea! There the dressing
rooms are in comfortable cabins on
four wheels, and these cabins, as soon
as they have their occupant or Occu-
pants, are drawn by horse into three
feet of water, so that the bathers 60
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

upon the part of the present writer
permits only the touching of "higb
places" here and there in this effort to
picture, as it has appeared to one who
has visited it several times, this land
of infinite promise.
General knowledge of Spanish
America, and, more particularly, that
portion of it known as South America,
seems to extend but little beyond the
purely geographical points that it is
continent the coast line of which is
always more or less suggestive of
shaggy-maned lions head; and that
this lion-headed fragment of earth is
politically divided into number of
more or less turbulent republics, the
principal products of which are revo-
lutions, earthquakes and cholera and
yellow fever germs-all of which is
accurate enough, SO far as it goes.
There are, however, many excellent
reasons for our seeming lack of knowl
edge of the adopted land of the Dons,
with it's six million square miles of
territory and forty million inhabitants
In the first place the great southern
half of this hemisphere is decidedly
out of the path of even extraordinary
tourist travel, and it is seldom visited
by those admirable advertising medi-
ums, the worlds restless seekers after
combined knowledge and recreation.
Yet this is a land possessing history,
youthful, to be sure, but none the less
picturesque, which has been adequately
staged by nature against scenic back
ground of magni6cently tropical gran
deur abounding in brilliant colorings,
ever verdant hills and valleys and tow
ering mountain heights that in places
seem to have, in moment of passion,
thrust themselves upward from the
very bosom of that mother ocean still
moaning at their feet, now angrily,
and again, caressingly, as if imploring
them to return to her embrace. More.
over, this is land still offering unlim.
/
danger and adventure usually so at.
tractive to the more strenuous class OF
novelty hunters.
Secondly, if these South American
states were colonial dependencies Of
i some sort, having relations of more
than very limited and purely CONNER
cial character with the rest of thu
globe, there would, long ago, have beer
better facilities for intercommunica
tion with foreign shores, and, with tht
advent of the industrious newspaper
correspondent, Latin-America woult
quickly have found itself in that sym
i pathetic contact with those element
. of Goth century progress the absenc
of which now keeps her candle 8,
, effectually obscured beneath the bushe
! of her own Indifference. But the fac
: remains! The Spanish-American state