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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-03-28

In certain large and busy office
downtown there are five teleshnne
booths, and 1t takes good deal of tha
time OF one office boy to answer the
many calls. During rush hours, jndead
these calls are almost lncessant and
when the duty OF attending TO them
was assigned to new boy the Other
day he got into trouble right AWAY
BEFORE answering a call he learned tba+
the party at the other end was tho
wife Of one OF the members OF tbo
firm. He called this member out 90
his office and told him his wife want.
ed to speak to him on the phone Tho
member, approaching the booths astad
Which oneT" I'm sure | don,t knon.
SIR" replied the boy. II didn't knon,
you had more than one. "-PhIladeInb,a
Record
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ERIN SENDS OUT 5000, 900.
Irish Emigration to This Country
Has been Enormous

Irish Emigration 10 This Countr,
Has Deen Enormous.
No page In history reveals such {
migration as that of the Irish tc
America. The figures are astonishing
From 1910 10 1860 not fewer than 9.
100000 crossed the ocean to settle In
the United States from 1850 to 1886
an additional 100000 made a fresh
start In life in the great republic over
the seas and from 1880 to the present
time another 100000 was added TO
our population. Since 1860 the average
has been 100000 a decade.
The twelve agricultural States, rep-
resented by Ohio, Indiana, Michigan
Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa
Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, contain one-fourth
of the 100000 or the portion settled
In the North Atlantic States but one
NTH are ON farms; but this tendency
to crowd into the towns disappears
when the surroundings are agricultur-
al, as is shown by the large percentage
more than 50-of those who have
taken to farming In the twelve agrlcul-
tuial States above mentioned
1t is only because the bulk OF the
Irish In America are not In the midst
of farming districts that they are less
an agricultural people than the other
elements added to the popu-
lation. They have found an outlet for
their energies In the congested districts
and their wonderfully adaptive natures
have allowed them easily to enter upon
The industries Of the people among
whom they We're thrown.
1t is In the Eastern States that the
irish promise TO ultimately constitute
| majority of the population. This is
llready the case In three New England
states and In many New England
titles In New York City they are
rarely behind the Germans and slight
y In Chicago.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-03-28

tect him from some threatened vic
lence. "Show your teeth, Abraham.
The mouth opens, disclosing a Jag
ged-edged crater.
Feel his seconds"
The grandmother is personified will
power, and the teacher unwillingly adj.
vances a finger, which is seized and
rubbed across the mouth of the cavern
and then tossed back as of no further
use In this world or the next.
Don't he look six with those sec
ondsT
Nevertheless she Is told she must
bring better evidence of the boys age.
A silver cup, supposed to be present
ed at his christening in Russia and en-
graved with date and name was nm
swathed from Its wrapplngs, and tri-
umphantly exhibited to the teacher os
evidence in behalf of the claims of the
next applicant.
The teacher takes the loying-cun and
admires 1t generously. 1t is a bit bat
tered and shows It's long tourneyings.
How do | know" she says patting n
tow head that accompanies, the cum
that this Is Moritz?"
The mother looks at her with the ex.
preston of one who wrestles with Grass
ignorance. There is the Gun. and here
IS Moritz. She tries to explain in hro-
ken English, but the teacher is fright
rully stupid. She cannot make ber
understand, and finally goes away 70
get birth certificate.
The various documents brought for
ward and presented to the teachers 70,
Inspection during registration form a
'urious collection. Passports, birth cer-
iilcates, certificates OF vaccination
written or printed In Yiddish, Russian
Hebrew, Hungarian, appear among
hem. Obviously, the llngual accom-.
lishments OF the teachers of the New
'ork public schools must be of an nm
sual kind.
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GETTING INTO SCHOOL.
NN0~~~~

The registering of the names of new
primary pupils for the coming schoo
year was In progress In New York's
largest school, as representative of
the New York Sun entered. The law
prohibits child from becoming a
wage-earner before reaching the age of
IA years, and forblds their admission
to the public schools before they are 6
years old These rules are disllked by
many of the East Side parents. and
attempts are often made to evade that
relating to school age by adding to
the years of the youngsters when they
are brought to the scnoolhouse The
teachers are required to explain, over
and over again, that child who has
Just passed a fifth birthday is not yet
q years old although the social CON
ventlons Of the East Side hold to the
contrary.
How oldT the teacher asks the
mother of a tiny girl who is cllnglng
to her skirts.
Conscience and desire struggle FL |
nally the mother says, hoarsely, and |
II is necessary to lean forward little |
to hear
81 can't tell lie was born in
Wien"
Just why birth In the Austrian capl-
tai should be put forward In such a
predlcament she does not say, and the
teacher, used TO weird statements, does
not ask. She keeps to the subject at
hand
you mean she Is not @ yet?'
A last ray OF hope Is evident In the
whisper,
''Not yet. but she will be soon"
The teacher shakes her head, and
weeping mother and Misunderstanding
'hlld are obliged to seek the kinder
;arten, which to the East Slider means
waste of time aud effort "Mere
'lay," they say. contemptuously. 81 {
want the child to go to school"
The next applicant was small boy t
Who came alone, Evidently. he had Il
cen well tutored In nemorlzing what {
7as thought most essential. v
where do you live, dear7" asked v
he teacher. d
sixth" +
you mean you are 6Y" t
sixth" W
"Are you yaccinatea?" Fl
sixth" h
Born In this country?" e'
sixth" N
Judgment of no undecided character g
escends upon his Undated mop of 81
air. v,
you go home and get birth certifi- r
tie and vaccination paper before
~ come back"
or the next, who was accompanied .
: his grandmother, the teacher OBJ w
rived, But he certainly looks less al
ian 81 III
"Ach!" and his gray-haired grand
other drew him forward as If to pro- sh
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-03-28
ONE OF MANS LIMITATIONS.
He Can Not Be Careless About the
Way He Wears His Hat

II
Way He Wears His Hint.
There are things, it is a comfort +,
know, which even a man cannot do
ana man is supposed to be able tc
90 almost anything Now a novelist
may put his heroine's hat on her head
at any angle he choOses-it is one of
the few privileges of womanhood-antl
leave her not a bit less charming or
dignited, but l defy him to put his
heros hat at a rowdy angle over his
ear at crucial point in his career
and leave him still heroic.
The Achilles heel of man is bis
nat lie must guard that as he does
his reputation, for it is at once his
strength and weakness. 1t would hurt
an archbishOp-and an archbishop
necessarily stands for all that is good
ana great-less in the eyes of the pub-
lie to commit crime than 70 wear
his hat on the back of his sacred head
real back and so exhibit himself
TO MS distressed diocese. He may
nave all the known virtues and MANY
tlat are not known, but even an arch.
olshop cannot with impunity defv con-
Yentlon. Still, If he is so inclined
why should not great and good man
wear his hat over his nose without ere
ating unfavorable comment? The fact
Is he cannot. He is ruled by conven.
tlon and convention is the red tame of
society. pe u
The cast iron laws of fashion which
is only another name for convention
are such that if the greatest man in /
england were to walk with all his ac-
iustomed dignity from the marble arch
10 the bank with a trailing peaeock,s
leather attached to the band of his i'm
naculate silk hat he would be followed
" a mob In two seconds and bv tho
line he, reached We're street the ont
aged majesty of the law would tol,o
nm into custody as suspicious char.
Monthly.
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Most OF us, II asked how many points
star should have. would saw five
and cite The flag as proof; but the d.
rector OF the mint has lately corrected
this misrepresentation in answering an
Inquiry on the subject. He calls alton.
ton to the fact that the stars on the
great seal OF the United States and on
the seal OF the President are fiye-point.
ed, but that the stars are six.poIntad
on the seal OF the House Of Represen-
tatives; and further to the slx-poInted
stars ON the diverse OF the half and
quarter-dollar coins and the five-poInt.
ed stars on the reverse. The reverse
Of these coins Is copy Of the great
seal with the clouds and stars omitted
30 far as known, the six-polnted star
comes from copying the colonial coins
made after the manner of English her
aldry, which sanctions that star. The
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-03-28

For some time past vests have been
made OF paper, also cuffs, collars
shirt bosoins etc, but II has remained
for a firm In SaSony to spin narrow
strips OF paper and cotton into finished
fabrics OF common use. Paper ana
cotton and paper and wool are SO com.
bined that serviceable outing Suits
jackets, skirts and many other articles
or dress wear are now being produced
The new textile. IL SO It may be called
Is cream colored and may be washed
repeatedly without lnjurlng the spr.
face and is marketed for ridlculously
small price. Sufficient xylolIn. as n
is called, to produce a complete plain
suit costs 81 or SO. The way the bov
goes through his present clothes would
Indicate that paper clothes would not
last him around the corner.
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Mrs Florence Maybrick declares the
American prison system is far Inferior
TO that OF England We should natu-
rally suppose there was nothing so alb.
horrent to Mrs. Maybrlck as the Eng
lish prison where she was 80 long and.
as she claims, so unJustly confined.
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stars on the flag are copied from the
Washington coat of arms.

An editorial article In a religious
monthly calls renewed attention to the
fhortage VI Protestant preachers OF
: ability, It Is said that the ministry as
a profession has lost Its attractiyeness
for able men, despite the rapid growth
OF the churches I'm membership, the
marked Increase In the population Of
the country, and the constant demand
for thoroughly equipped persons to fiji
places of Importance, demand unpre-
cedented IN the history of the Christian
church. The theory Is advanced that
Independent and energetic students are
not attracted by the modern plan OF
ministerial education which provides
free tuition, free room rent, and often !
| cash payments as well to such as feel
that they are called TO preach. An en-
dowment OF million dollars for educa-
tion OF preachers sometimes lies prac-
tlcally Idle for lack of students to use
the Income. The same conditions are
TO be found In the schools of all Prot
estnnt denominations The future ply.
sician or lawyer is placed In sharp con
higher fees to pay has much smaller
funds In the way OF scholarship aid to
draw mp, and knows that discourage
lng wall Is certain after he is admitted
10 practice before the first patient or
client appears. The theological student
steps at once from the commencement
platform, with his diploma certifying
TO the completion Of a given course OF
training, during which he has been ear.
rled along financially Into a waiting
pulpit His salary and his life work
begin when his preliminary preparation
ends And yet few able youths seek
HE preachers career The editorial
writer suggests that this easy way of
Getting an education and livelihood
Toes not appeal to tie active and ener-
'etlc and that, as a consequence, the
ministry gets only those who like the
asy life But there are other reasons
'hlch might be adduced for the famine
a ministers, There was time when
ne preacher was the most Important
ersonage In the community His inhu-
nee was commanding. The church az
'rded the only avenue TO fame for the
right young man. The Industrial work
; the manufacturer, the merchant. tie
irmer, were not supposed to need edu-
Ition. The administrator as such had
II developed. But recent years have
ltnessed complete change In condl-
ms. Educated men are welcomed a1d
In success In many lines Of life, indie
ndence and wealth both awaiting the
iustrlous who may have great lnau-
CO and power. No longer having '
'nopoly of education and information =
minister IL compelled to compete :,
IA great newspapers, with many mag
Ines In reach OF the masses, with
od of useful and helpful books, and
IN constantly Improving methods of
luenclng thought His hearers often
as well educated as himself He is
trained by church creeds. He il
'rly paid. If he is an orator the lee. ~
e platform is open to him. There
many reasons why the pulpit III
uld not be so attractive for able men prim
II was once. year
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Human Natura

o. how rich he lsp' sighed tbo
pauper. Il wish l wuz him"
Your wish shall be granted said
the genie suddenly appearing. do Won
mean it?" you
No, MOI" cried the pauper, hastily
Just let me be me with his money!
Philadelphia Press.
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Quite number OF valuable friend.
ships have been hurried by the picture
postcard to premature grave. Abb
sence does not make the heart grow
fonder when the Interval is brldged
solely by the receipts OF picture with
cross on the sky line and the words,
we are staying Just under this mark
you can't see the house"
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Maecenas finances the venture, and when you get home
you can write $4,000 book and on 100000 lee
ture tour As your Arctic experience has fitted you to
live on shoe strings and candle ends this means wealth
Financially pole hunting is bound to become more and
more attractive Wireless teegraphy will soon permit
explorer to fash home har-ftng dispatches at the
rate of 500 syabe-Boston Transcript
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Yes" said Tess, "he proposed 70
ne last night" "
Tine idea ~ exclaimed les "on ,,
knees, supposeY' 40
"oh, you mean thing! l was NOT
At least-not until afterward. PHI,
adelphla Press.
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This Is, of course. the day of the
young man, but, Judging from the way
railroad wrecks are charged against the
mistakes OF youthful telegraphers, It
would seem possible that enterprlsing
and economical captains OF industry
may be catching them too young.
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With the race question unsettled we
car see where the country grocers are
going to lose lot of money during the
winter. The cracker barrel orators
VIII help themselves to lot OF cheese
during the debates
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II Is Just as we thoughts Paris was
not shocked" at that play In the Mou-
lin Rouge after all. The protest was
political In its Inspiration. We are
glad to see an old friend thus set right
In the eyes OF the world.
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The battleship Kansas has stood Its
trial test, and all Kansas will expect 1t
TO become the Gen. Fred Funston OF the
navy the first time any world power
makes faces at us.
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II must be great trial to young
man to spend a long time considering
which Of two girls he has been paying
attention to is best for him to marry.
and then to find that neither one will
have him.
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When a strong, healthy man gets
severe pain, he is sure he Is nearor
death than the invalid who loafs
around the edge of the grave contIn.
ually.
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One OF the scientists says there will
be no blondes 600 years from now. But
why worry over future that is 600
years distant?
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God save the country" says Mr.
Shaw. But won't this make Congress
sit up and wonder what Shaw thinks
II is there for?
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Mothers Pie.

she-Did you ever taste one Of nv,
mothers mince pies?
tle-oh, yes! l tasted one onco &,
think' for a week !--Yonkers States
man.
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The news columns tell of woman
100 years Of age who has made appI-
cation for divorce. Some OF 'em live
hgppy ever after and some never get
too old TO regret.
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The Tact Market.

Chancellor James Il. Day was once
advising n young undergraduate OF
Syracuse University to cultivate tact
But. alas" be said, Il fear that al.
vice on such subject must always be
wasted. On tact the last word was
spoken by Barley d'Aureville when he
said:
If tact could be bought, only those
already possessed of 1t would watt to
buy it,"
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IL, as one paper says, shipping is
symptom of prosperity" remarkably
large number OF people seem TO have
been exposed
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There Is In Kansas man who is n
minister. a doctor, an undertaken and
dealer In tombstones We have not
heard why he doesn't practice dent
istry
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-03-28

While Curtis Jett is serving two life
sentences, is 1t possible that he will re-
fleet on what he would do II he had his
two lives TO live over?
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There is some talk of devotlng a
newspaper especially to flying ma
chimes. new kind OF fly paper, as 1t
were
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In Mr. Harrman's opinion, appar-
emily, there Is only one capable rail-
road man in this country
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VANISHING FORESTS.


9 !: !: :: =.
N@ the Pacific Northwest nearly two hundred
IexII i l thousand men are employed In cutting down
VMIX 1 the last primeva forests of this country
and slcing these stately armies of spruce
RG2MNoA and fir and cedar into 50O0000O0O feet of
0.2He..J lumber and 600000O,O00 shingles every
year.
rms tlmbered Is the richest natural treasure OF
the American continent compared with which the gold
mines OF Alaska and Nevada of pcayune value for
this and for coming generations.
III Is so wonderfully rich that according
Ralph ID. Paine in Outing its owners are squanderlng
It Ike drunken spendthrlfts. billion feet of lumber
Is wasted every year enough build one hundred thou
sand comfortable American homes
1t Is characteristic of Western men and methods that
the ways of logging in the East should have been flung
aside as crude and slow The giant timber of the Wash
ngon forests the slopes the Cascades is not hauled
by teams or RATED down rivers Steam has made of
logging business which deyasates the woods with in
credible speed system and ardor
Inc logging camps of the Cascades differ as strikngy
from The numbering centers of northern New England as
the electric gold dredges of the Sacramento Valley CON
trast with the placer diggngs of the Fory-nners In
other words the greater the preserving the for
ests the greater is the American ingenuity for turning
them Into cash as fast as possible--New York Sun
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thing like 200 miles of 1t the hardship has turned him
into another sort of mantle sort that reuigs This
may go on indefinitely, unless find way to cut it
short and that is not easy
1t has recently been suggested that someone should
absent himself for a while and then come back and
say he had climbed the pole the agony would abate
don't believe It. Science would overhaul his data and
md lacunae In It, The search for the pole would be
renewed Or II science believed him. fresh expeditions
would set out to verify his findings enlarge their
scope Thus we see why Arctic explorers don't lie why
they and all confess their failure bs would NOT
do a bit of good, whether swallowed or not
But don't Imagine that it's scientific enthusiasm
alone that lures men to brave the Polar Ice A genial
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The sugar trust won't mind little
fine OF few hundred thousands 50 long
as there Is cranberry crop TO sweet
ON
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HUNTING THE POLE

HE unapproachable North Pole has been n
nuisance about long enough 1t has caused
lnnumerable chilblans bronchltses and dis
appointments, much popular boredom. and
not few Deaths to say nothing of the
financial waste. Nobody gets there, for
by the time n felloyy counao With, so,,o
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-03-28

II you want rabbits to taste good, you
should live on dog meat while. says
Peary. Please pass the chicken.
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For that tired feeling policemen
should give tramps arrest.
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Ihere are always lots of wolves nm
I'll the men engage in a wolf hunt
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A mother is in jail while her chill.
dren are little, but isn't it fact that
a fathers sentence is longer?
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If you make success of your bust.
ness, you must get along In spite of
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halted by the difficulty of financing them 1t is well
known that the published rates for money do not by
any means tell the story Money, like ans other COM
modify is worth what it will bring and neither lender
nor borrower is likely to take the public into confidence
INTO transactions far above the normal The scarcity
of money one disagreeabe phase of prosperitv the
great enterprises are hampered and scarcity of labor is
aho'her' here 100 great enterprises hampered and
delayed by the circumstance that men are NOT o b b
to do the manual labor They cannot be secured even
by offering extravaganty high wages There are simnlv
not enough men In the country do the work of the
try The tide reacts upon itself again-Cbcago
Chronicle
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THE sIMPLIFIED sPELLERs.

~a Congress thought to discourage that band
|ErA of patriots known the simpllfed spoilers
XXI by refusing to adopt slmpllfed spelling 1t is
- 49, going to be disappointed. The smpied
0 spoilers spell, are not in the least cast down Dr.
chairman O he foe Of
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his committee asked the government or the Pres
dent to adopt the plan, and that the govern
ment has snubbed the President refused adopt
1t the situation remains exactly what 1t was before
These simplifed fellows can't spell themselves and 1t
grieyes them to know that anybody do so. They
pretend to like code of spelling but that is only
bluff What. they are trying to do is to make good
spoilers abandon their ways and thus bring about a
state of anarchy then they will get up and claim TO be
as good spoilers as anybody. 1t does not likely
that they will succeed Good spoilers naturally proud
of their accomplishment and do think any of them
will be bamboozled into abandoning it for the benefit
of any person who has difficulty in spelling wel-Kan-
sas City World.
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ANOMALIES OF PROSPERITY,

ATURAL. prosperity continues to show that
1t entails certain penalties as well as pleas
ures. The very force of the swelling tide
tends to react upon itself. Thus business
activity is so great that money commands
high prices. 1t is not only the stock gam
berS who suffer Legitimate nntornrines ..