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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-12
Decline Of Dueling in France.

The practice of dueling is on the de
eaisiG ,i III rance, sais ts country which fiiss
been peculiarly its home, 1t grows
more ridiculous year by year, and those
who engage in it become more and
more laughing stock. Not long ago
Paris journalist, who had by some
criticism offended politician, received
from him the following letter:
"Sir: One does not send challenge
to banditof your species; one simply
administers cuff on the ears. There
fore, hereby cuff both of your ears.
Be grateful to me for not having re-
course to weapons.
"Yours truly, .
The journalist answered.:
"My Dear Sir and Adversary: 4 thank
you, according to your wish, for having
sent me cuffs by post, instead of slaugl
tering me with weapons. Cuffed by
post, l respond by despatching you by
! post six bullets in the head. l kill you
by letter Please consider yourself dead
from the first line of this epistle.
"With a respectful salutation to you.
corpse, | am, Very truly yours,
Capital Journal: Pierre has natural
gas. We have printed this news often
but it should be more generally known
even in our own state. With this sup.
ply the city pumps its water supply
with large engines, and run electric
light dynamos. Most of our people
cook with it in gas ranges. All the city
is lighted with it. The future Of the
city is assured because of this supply
Of nntnTai f,assaa f,assaa. ~ ~ y.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-12

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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-11-08
Good light driving buggy for sale. A
P. Slocum,

Good light driving buggy for sale. A.
P. Slocum,
Baliour is making some not
iceahle improvements by grad
ing its streets and crossings.
The citizens Of Leeds will eN-
tend their sewer system and in
stall q first class water works
system for the benefit OF their
health and fire protection.
Sixteen old maids Of the town
of Willow City have organized a
club to be known as the Bob
Ami, and while they deny that
the object Of the club has any
evil designs against the peace
and safety OF the young men Of
that city, yet the newspaper
down there advises the boys to
be on guard, at least till the
meaning OF that title is exposed.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-07-13
Cow Nav Live.

George Saad, the Troy harness.
maker, is rejoicing over the prospect
of saving, by a delicate operation, a
fine young COW. Friday the animal
browsed in the woods and filled up on
moss and other indigestible stuff, which
brought on a serious case Of collie.
When the COW was thought to be past
all hope, DR.. Richardson, the new vet
Urinary surgeon now located here, cut
through into her stomach and with his
thumb and fore-fnger removed the
contents. While the COW is not en-
tirely out Of danger she has been
gradually improving and it looks very
favorable for her recovery. The case
is all the more wonderful when it is
understood that the COW was supposed
to be beyond all hope when the opera
ton was performed.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-07-13

The Horticultural Department Of the
University Of Idaho has just issued
bulletin No. 54, dealing with the
Picking, Packing and Marketing of
the Apple" Much valuable inform
alton is contained and those interested
should apply for copy. The bulletin
is illustrated with a generous SUPPLY Of
photographs.
F. L. Hampton, John Linnhart and
U. G. Richardson of Oaksdale, Wash.
came down last Saturday, and in com
pany with J. F. Ogden, spent the day
looking over the land on Little Bear
ridge with view Of purchasing. They
were we'll pleased with the land and
crops on Burnt and Little Bear ridges,
and may return in the near future and
make this their future home. They
said the land laid better and was cheap
er in price than where they lived, and
they were surprised at the fine crops Of
corn, beans, and timothy.
E. H. Anterior, one Of Troy's pro-
minent blaclsmiths, has just installed
one Of the best press drills made, and
probably the best in Latah county.
The new drill is provided with all the
best and latest Improvements known
to the manufacturers Of blacksmith
drills, and enables its possessor to turn
out the best grade Of work with much
less labor and at a great saving OF time
The new drill is so constructed that a
vast range Of work can be done at the
minimum expenditure of time.
There is a whole lot of complaint
among Troy housewives over the
apparent scarcity OF currents for Jelly
purposes. There is certainly some
thing radically wrong when the farmer
neglects the small crops when there is
much better money in such crops than
there is in the raising of wheat. This
section offers excellent opportunities
along this line, especially now that the
development of the county east OF us
will hereafter afford a profitable and
ever increasing market for everything
the orchard or garden can produce.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-07-13
A Tragic Finish.

A watchman's neglect permitted a
leak in the great North Sea dyke, which
a child's finger could have stopped, to
become ruinous break. devasting an
entire province in Holland. In like
manner Kenneth McIver, of Vance
boro, Me, permitted a little cold to 90
unnoticed until tragic finish was only
averted by DR.. Kings New Discovery
He writes: Three doctors gave me up
to die OF lung Inflammation, caused
by a neglected cold; but DR.. Kings
New Discovery saved my life. Guar
anteed best cough and cold cure, at G.
Y. Johnson's drug store. SOC and $l.0O.
Trial bottle free.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-07-13
Republican Primaries and County
Convention.

BY authority of the Republican county
central commi tee of l.atah county, state
OF Idaho, and pursuant to the order of
said committee, notice is hereby given
that the Republican county convention
for said county will meet at Moscow.
Idaho, Wednesday, July 25th, 1906, at
10 o'clock am of SAID dav, for the pur-
pose of electiug Is delegates to the
Republican state convention to convene
at the city OF Pocatello, Idaho, August
LIST, 1906; also TO nominate one state
senator, thee resentaIives, and all
county, district, and precinct officers for
said Latah county, Idaho, to be voted
for at the general election to be held on
Tuesday, November 9Th, 1906; also to
eject new county central committee,
and transact such other business as may
properly come b. fore said convention.
The appOruonment of delegates to said
county convention for the several pre-
cincts is As follows
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-07-13
Notice.

Notice is hereby given, that the as
sessment roll of Latah county, Idaho,
for the year 1906 has been delivered
to me and is now in my office and
custody for the inspection Of all inter
ested. The Board Of County Com
missioners in and for Latah county,
Idaho, will meet on Monday, the 9th
day of July to examine the said assess
ment roll and to equalize the assess
ment for the year 1906.
Dated at Moscow, Idaho,
this 9th day Of July, A. D. 1906
AXEL P. RAMSTEDT,
Clerk, Board Of County Commissioners
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-07-13
Socialist Convention.

A mass convention Of the Socialist
party Of Latah county will be held in
Moscow, Saturday, July 81, 1906, at
1890 a. m. for the purpose of nom
mating full county ticket and trans
acting any other business that may
come before the convention. All
Socialists come.
E. H. Swan, Chairman.
S. G. Curtis, Secretary.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-07-13
A Hard Lot

of troubles to contend with, spring from
a torpid liver and blockaded bowels.
unless you awaken them to their proper
action with DR.. Kings New Life Pills
the pleasantest and most effective cure
Tor Constipation. They prevent Apron
dicitis and tone up the system. 25c at
Johnson's Drug Store.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-07-13

Total POS
The primaries for the election of the
delegates to said county convention
shall be held in each voting precinct of
the county on Monday, July 10th, 1906,
at the usual place for holding such
elections therein; the polls to open in
the country precincts at 3 O'Clock pm.
and continue open until 6 o'clock pm.
and in the city or town precincts the
polls must open at 2 o'clock pm. and
continue until 7 O'Clock pm.
Dated at Moscow, Idaho, June 20, 1906.
Warren Truitt,
Chairman Co. Central Committee.
Charles Peterson, Secretary.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03
Lady Barber Has "Cinch" With a Customer

low that let Delilah cut his hair. you
know"
'DeiilahI That's funny name
Where did she work p:
II guess you don't quite catch my
point. You know, Delilah got Samson
to let her cut his hair, and he never
was so strong afterward." 81.
There's lots O. these fresh guys
think they're strong with a person
just because she cuts their hair" de-
clared the lady barber with some en-
phasis on fresh guys" assuming con-
siderable dignity and squirting at the
crown Of his head.
1T wasn't that way with Samson.
Delilah cut his hair, as I say. and"
Never was any. girl named Delilah
worked in this shop. Leastways, not
as l can remember off,
II should hope you don't remember
her personally. She would be a pretty
old woman IL she were alive now"
"Oh, she was the girl that worked
here two years ago and got took with
the typhoid fever?"
NO, no. She wasn't regular bar
ber"
Just subbin' around from one shop
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03

N RE women more prone to mental
IA disorders than men, particularly
Y temporary disorders accompan-
led by terrifying hallucinations and so
forth7 An eminent authority on such
matters asserts that this Is so, and,
furthermore, insists that there is a
greater AMOUNT of genuine insanity
among women than would generally
be credited on a; mere statement un-
accompanied by substantiating figures.
II is the temporary hallucinattons with
which women are afflicted, the price
they pay for their sex, however that
form the most interesting phase of the
subject. Any woman is liable to such
haliucinations, dreams, as 1T were. that
seize upon them with the full force OF
actual reality and impel them to acts
that are but as the acts OF madness.
Without warning these Nightmares
VIII Ewoop down upon them, and their
effect will often last for several days,
when the woman will suddenly be re-
stored TO her proper mental condition,
though not without the firm belief
that the hallucination under which she
labored was a reality and that the
story she may tell of what happened
to her is absolutely true, incredible
though 1t may appear to other people,
particularly men. Women, sane, sensi-
bic, normal women, generally under
stand these things, but men, unless
they have special training and long
experience in such cases. are ant to
regard the restored ones tale as an
invention designed to hide some ugly
truth II they only knew, there would
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03

away. Frightened and restored to her
normal self, she sought the French
Consulate, and shortly after was. re-
turned to France. She. underwent
trial for the theft Of her employers
money, but in the end was acquitted
on the ground that she was insane at
the time and not responsible for her
conduct. No cause for the mental de-
fusion she had labored under was ever
discovered. and after 1t passed away
there was no evidence but that she
was in perfectly sane and normal
condition.
Bernice Hallgreave's Queer Case.
Another singular Instance Of halIu-
cination among women was that OF
Bernice Hallgreave. of Providence; r.
l. Employed as a. sort of confidential
stenographer by a well-knowp mer-
chant of the city. 1t was one of her du-'
ties of do certain banking for him. On
November IL, 1903. she went TO the
bank where her employer transacted
business with over t400 In her possess
sion to deposit In his name, but as she
was about TO enter the door OF the
against her and. seized with a sudden
panic, she ran. not into. but away
from the bank, and with every step
she took became more convinced that
the man was pursuing her with the
intention OF robbing her OF the money.
she had. Catching car on an adja-
cent street, she rode to the end OF the
line, and from there walked to a sub
urban town. four miles away and
calmly purchased q ticket for New
York.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03
Vest Pocket Phone Catches Neighbors' Gossip

beat the waves against the. rocks Of the
island. s:
"Heilo. Hellot is that Mrs: Smith? !?
Yes7 Come over this evening. If you
can" =. = -:
."AH right. Good.byl''
Mr.. Alden sat bolt upright. Then he
got up and went to the door; There was
no one there. The little Instrument on
the table began to buzz again. and then
came another voice; different one this
time. asking the price of eggs ana order
ing a groceryman TO; send up some potay-
toes first thing in the morning.
Like flash Mr.. Alden realized the sit
uation. His little instrument was not
waiting for his sending instrument TO be:
set up. but was pilferins messages from
the New England Telephone. Company.s
wire which ran along a road three miles
away. Wild with delight, Mr.. Alden.
rushed across lots ard got some ef his
friends to come in and witness the sue
cess OF his discovery. When they. arrived
the little apparatus was still busy dis
closing neighborhood gossip and all sorts.
of messages that were buzzing over the
wires. or the. island.
TO a reporter who called upon him, Mr..
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03

things will sometimes conduce to-
wards this condition. The sudden de-
parture of dear friend, the nom
arrival of something that may have
been looked forward to with consider
able expectancy; but, after all, 1t Is
loneliness that Is the greatest con-
tributing cause, other than some of
her ailments toward both permanent
and temporary insanity among women.
Lonely Lives and Insanity.
In the country there is. much larger
percentage OF insanity among women
than among men, because of the lone
ly life they lead. Women have an In
tultive aversion to a permanent resi-
dence In the country. except under the
most favorable circumstances, which
insures them plenty of company. and
this Is the cause of It, Even In large
city girl or woman may lead lonely
life. and as 1t is not the normal nature
or ner sex to long Withstand such a
condition. any rash or foolish act may
De anticipated in consequence. When
q girl commits most any act OF folly,
therefore, and accounts for 1t by some
apparently incredible yarn, the whole
thing may be attributed to loneliness
or fit of depression OF some kind, re-
sulting in temporary mental attack.
During the attack the woman or girl
may seem rational to others with
whom she comes in contact, providing
her deiusion Is not touched upon; yet
all the while she may be suffering
tortures in the belief that she is being
pursued by robbers or men filed with
evil design toward her: for this Is
oIten the form halluctnations assume,
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03

to another, huh7"
mo; she didn't work In a shop. You
see, she got sore on Samson and got
him to thinking his hair was too long
and then he let her cut it
That's the only way. TO get them to
let you trim it-nake' them think their
hair is too long"
"Well, she cut 1t for him, and that
queered him for good and all. 1 Just
wondered IL 1t would do me the same
way"
'I guess nobody's got any kick
comm on the kind Of work we do in
this shop. If I do say 1t myself" she
replied, pressing her lips together at
the last word and hurrying with her
work.
Well he said, trying to catch her
eye, but finding this was Impossible,
because the towel was pinching his
neck, "Delilah trimmed"
VIII you have bay rum or tonicY'
He took both.
Neck shaved?"
Yes"
Then he told her to shave his face.
While this was being done he made
several efforts to bring Samson up
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03

be no sinister curving of the upper lip
and sympathy would take the place of
scoffing.
Nerves Responsible for 1t.
Women are creatures of nerves, and
sooner or later even the most phleg
matte among them fall victims to them
When this happens the attacks of
hysteria, often producing mental dis
orders with accompanying hailucina-
uons, are reasonably certain to hap
pen. No woman or girl, for even
young girls of tender years are fire.
quently so afflicted, is responsible for
what she may do or say while such an
attack is on, any more SO than the in
mate of an insane asylum might be
held accountable for his or her acts.
The causes contributing to such
conditions among women are many"
says DR. c. H. Hughes, than whom no
physician speaks with greater author
ity on this matter. Their own Pc
culiar ailments are, of course, a prom
fnent factor, but women are generally,
to borrow colloquialism, higher
strung than men, and consequently
many things the male sex will trf-
umph over through its greater phleg-
matism, women will fall mental VIC
Tins to. Their emotions are more easily
aroused or depressed, and under given
circumstances they are more prone to
solitary meditation, or brooding, as 1t
Is sometimes called. When a woman
suffers a depression of any kind that
she feels strongly. she may fall a VIC
tim to some hallucination of a tempo
rary character with scarcely any
warning The most apparently trivial
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03

though under the very impulse of that
belief she may ybe fleeing from her
home from those who love and cherish
her the best. She isn't responsible for
her actions; she only realizes the hal
lucination that is upon her. and until
the attack is ended, which may be two
or three days, no Influence or power
could persuade her that what she be-
lieves' isn't true.
These delusions. DR.. Hughes contfn-
ues. in substance, are hardly ever of
very long duration. Three or four
days is usually the extreme limit of
their life. and usually they terminate
in a shorter period than that. There
are instances, however, In which the
delusior has lasted even longer but
these are rare, indeed. During the
visit of the Czar of Russia to Paris
several years ago young dressmaker
became afflicted with the delusion that
Russian officer had determined to
seize her and carry her off to Russia,
with the ultimate intention of sending
her to a Siberian exile. So strong did
this hallucination become that she
actually fancisd she heard him enter
ing the shop In which she was work
ing. without hesitating a moment she
went to the place where she knew her
employer kept sum OF money, and.
putting this in her purse, left the es-
tablishment, made her way to q rail-
road station. and within an hour was
on her journey to Havre. There she
took passage on a steamer for the
United States, and 1t was not until af-
ter her arrival in New York, nearly
two weeks later, that the hallucina-
ton which had possessed her passed
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03


Charles E Alden. OF New York, who
has been pursuing experiments at Cot.
tage City. Mass. since last Fail in wire
less telephoning. has. he says. solved the
problem of wireless: telephoniug. and the
result Is so simple that it is likely to
create a sensation In the business world
as we'll as in scientific circles.
Mr.. Alden, while studying the problem,
constructed an instrument so small that
II can be put into a. vest pocket. which,
attached to a wireless battery such as is
used by the Marconi system. at once be-
gins catching conversations carried along
ordinary telephone wires, the distance
depending only upon the energy behind
the telephones that are sending the mes
sages.
1t was one stormy night a few weeks
ago. when Mr.. Alden had perfected his
little receiver and set it up In his studio
on Martha's Vineyard Island, that he sat;
smoking his after-dinner pipe and won.
dering where he had better set up his
sending apparatus that he was startled
by the sound of voice in the room of
which he was the only occupant. Outside
the storm howled along the coast and
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03

Alden told the story OF HIS discovery ana
how the voices OF the night came to-
him unsolicited. like the talk OF spirits.
.'I was sitting in my room one night
when It dawned upon me that with the
wireless telegraph comparatively simple;
simple T. jotted down on paper my
ideas as they came to me. and the next
morning went to work upon my machine,
was merely experimenting. not having
the refnotest idea that was anywhere
near success. Suddenly. when I did not
dream I had perfected the machine I
received the messages from netghboring
ordinary telephones; as have told: you:
The revelation took me or my feet
:. The basis Of the system is like that OF
the wireless telegraph Brs a small In.
ventiop. the details OF which he does not
make public, completes IT, This is called
the '.new detecter. It is this machine,
attached to the wireless batteries, which
IS responsible for the results. ~
No wire, was attached to the receiving
instrument, the. latter simply being
placed: on a table in a rooms.s At present
Mr.. : Alden Is working on the sending
parts OF the apparatus. ....:... n. -. -
The possibilities are almost liInItless.
With this new invention one MAY yet 30
able to carry around in BIS pocket a pri-
vate telephone. with which he can, call
up his house and talk with his family
wherever he may be- Persons sitting in
the grand stand at the race track may
telephone to their friends In the city, the
results of the races undetected.
: Messages sent by telephones Keyed TO
ordinary tension may be received BY any
one within miles who has pocket tele-
phone. And the perfection Of the at
tuning apparatus. by which individual
telephones are keyed to any fraction of
note or degree Of tension. may make
1t possible to have comparative secrecy,
and receivers viii take the message only
when attuned TO perfect accord. And
the wireless telegraph experiments have
shown that there can In time be thou
sands OF these fractions of tension.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03
A Stamp That walked.

AN old gentleman" remarked the
druggist bought some stamps from me
one day last week. and after he had
moistsned one OF them ii slipped from
his finger and fell to the. floor. He did
not bother to pick it up. and after affix-
Ing another stamp on his letter left the
store, and forgot all about the incl
dent A few minutes Later my clerk came
into the store from the rear room. ana
at once his face attracted my attenrion-
for he seemed to be troubled about some-
thing while he gazed ixedly in a cer-
tain direction Calling over to me. he
said: I'm sure I am not drunk. and +
do not think I am crazy: hut i do see
something that / cannot understand Il.
looked where he pointed. and distinctlr
saw the postage. stamp moving Steadily
up the side of the WALL
The explanation is this: The sts,,,,,
which the old gentleman dropped rad
fallen ON a fly and stuck 10 9t-','
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03

has visited Santa Clara so many times
that she has become. charmed with the
romance of the place.
The Pueblo Indians, you know" she
said the other day, "are immaculate
housekeepers. They are the most 9cleanly
people in the world. One will not find
speck OF dust or dirt in their homes
They may have but Two or. three rooms TO
a family but what do they need. of more?
Life at Santa Clara. is ideal in its sim
pNeity and Its freedom from care. The
pueblo dwellers are like one great FAM
ily, and any one could Hive long and he.
happy among such people
Nor. has Miss Arnold overrated the
charm of this Indian pueblo. 1t is roman
tically situated, not many miles from.
Santa Fe. There are in New Mexico 10 OF
these pIebIos, and Santa Clara is prob.
ably the most picturesque of.the lot. The
adobe houses rise several stories, looking;
not unlike d feudal castle at q distance.
The ranches of the Indians are some dis
tance from the pueblo. The Indians have