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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12
IMPORTANT ACCIDENT

Probably the demands of com
merce, more than the geographical
theories of certain Genoese sail
or. led to the discovery of America.
Europe had an important trade
with the Far East before the time
Of Columbus, and until the Turks
took Constantinople, ships and
caravans were busy exchanging
the rich goods of the East for those
of the then Western world. Genoa
and Florence were the greatest
maritime and commercial center of
the world, because Vf their advan-
tageous position for handling this
Eastern trade. But the Turks,
who were hostile to all Europe,
got foothold Oh European terri
tory, and formed an effectual bar
rier in the path of trade. Then
came Columbus with his theory
that the earth was round, and
that he could sail way to the West,
and find passage to India which
the Turks could not bar. II was
probably because of the great val
Tie of this commerce to Europe
that Columbus was able to find
rulers with confidence to ba. k his
expedition His theory sounded
most unreasonable to people who
had believed, and whose ancestors
or generations mad believed, that
the earth was a fiat surface sur
rounded bv jumping off place |
peopled with strangers. But the |
commerce TO be gained, if the fool
ish theory should prove true, was
so alluring that Spain, which was
quite a country in those days, de-
cided TO take a risk. OF course,
Columbus believed he had found
India when he landed on an
American island and, although
he hadn't. he had found some
thing a great deal better, although
he never lived TO know it,
But the discovery of America
is far from being the only inn
portant accident in history, al,
though probably the greatest.
You remember that part of Ma
poleon's forces took the wrong
road by accident in the Battle of
and the map of Europe {
was changed. Lee happened to
have certain imruIsive subordinates
who precipitated the battle of Get
.ysburg at the wrong time and the |
wrong place, and the Civil war, I
It least shortened, if the outcome
If the rebellion was not positively
hanged. And many other acct
Tents and errors with an import
mt bearing on the worlds history ,
mark how prone to error are the
,lans of man.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12
HOME ENDORSEMENT.
Hundreds of Emmett Citizens Can Tell
You All About it.

Home endorsement, the public
expression of Emmett people,
should be evidence beyond dispute
for every Emmett reader. Surely
the experience of friends and
neighbors, cheerfully given by
them, will carry more weight than
the utterances of strangers residing
in farway places. Read the follow
ing:
Robt. Baldwin, living on East
Main ST., Emmett, Idaho, says:
I can give Doan's Kidney Pills
my thankful endorsement. I was
troubled SO severely with kidney
disorder that l did not have one
day or night when l was free from
the trouble which Originally started
from exposures and hardships dur
ing the war. The secretions were
very profuse and lost much slice p
on account of their too frequent
action. My back ached and I
could hardly straighten up on
account of the pain. took
all kinds of medicines but
did not receive relief. My heart
beat very rapidly and at times l !
had trouble in breathing. Doan s
Kidney Pills were brought TO my
and l procured a box at
Davis drug store. They helped |
me from the first and when l had |
used eight boxes was cured.
They strengthened the action OF
the heart, stopped those smother,
ing spells. regulated the action of
he kidneys and banished the pains
and aches. give all the credit to
Ooan's Kidney Pills and shall
lever tire of telling others about
hem"
For sale by all dealers. Price
20 cents. Foster Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
or the United States.
Remember the name-Doan'
: aud take no other.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12
THE SAND CURE

How would you like to take &
cupful of sand before each meal as
a remedy for the various ills which
affect your Many people do it,
and tell marvellous stories of cures
the treatment has effected. An
old soldier in Boston relates that
he had contracted "a stomach all
ment while engaged in putting
down the rebellion. For years he
suffered the agonies Of the blamed
and no medicines seemed TO do him
any good. He kept several ply
sicans on his staff and they doped
him and kneaded him and steamed
him and boiled him and did every
thing to him and all without re.
suit. He also tried the faith cure
believers and they failed to make
good and he had just about made
up his mind that there was nothing
ahead of him but suffering and
death, when he heard of the Sand
cure. A neighbor, whose health
was beastly and riotsly good told
him about it; the neighbor was in
the habit of eating peck or so of |
sand in the course of day; he al
ways carried sack of sand with |
him, and when feeling faint or
weary he ate pound of sand and
rose again like a giant refreshed.
The old soldier reflected that he
could not feel any worse than he did
and few pounds of ballast woulu
make no difference. So he went
down TO the sea shore and ate
few feet of it, and was astonished
to find that the gnawing, unholy,
pains in his stomach
ceased at once. He persisted in
the diet; he ate two of the sand
hills in the course of a week. and
then began Dragging of his health I
and has been Dragging of it ever
since.
This apparently idiotic cure is
being investigated by learned men
IF the east, and some of them re- ,
port that it really does perform
wonders for Stomach troubles.
The magazine called Physical
Culture devotes considerable space Z
o the cure in its last issue and |
Prints the testimony of several who
lain to have been restored 10
lealth .by eating gravel at meal S
lines and sandpaper between il
meals. There is one good thing s
bout this new cure which will +
ommenu itself to the sufferer who f.
nows what doctors bills look 81
ike. 1t is the cheapest remedial ;:
gent discovered. The poorest II
ian can go out to the sand bank
nd eat all day without expense.
,r, if he is sick in bed, he can ..
all up his family physician, who 81
ill dump a wagon load of sand u
/ his back yard for fifty cents, and 81
he children can carry it into the m
ouse and administer it to the pa Sc
eut with the fire shovel. p
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12

II am an advocate of advanced
ideas, =" writes a woman to The
Index Office, and when l read of
recent successes in healing by sug-
gestion, | thought l would try it
on my husband. He came home
the other night and threw himself
on the lounge, saying his head
ached. Here was my opportunity !
Approaching him gently, l put one
hand on his head, and said:
John, your head does not ache.
He gave me wild sort of look,
threw my hand off, and said. 81
guess l ought to know" "John,
| said putting the other on his
stomach to create current, Ayour
head doesn't ache. 1t is we'll.
You are in perfect heath. You will
get up and mend the back porch
steps. and you will get up now,
for you are in perfect health.
John got up, but so violently that
he threw me down, and went out
and slammed the door after him,
saying, 81 won't live with a crazy
loon like you And he didn't
come home for twenty-four hours,
and hasn't spoken to me since
Thsi heaing by suggestion may be
alright for preachers, but l don't
believe any vile can do anything
Whit.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12
How to Treat q Sprsin

Sprain swellings and lameness
are promptly relieved by Cham
berlain's Liniment. This lini-
ment reduces Inflammation and
soreness. so that sprain NAV be
cured in about one-third the time
required by the usual treatment.
% and so cents sizes for sale by
H. T. Davis.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12
If You are Over Fifty Read Tbi,

Most people past middle-age
suffer from kidney and Bladder
disorders which Foley's Kidney
Remedy would cure. Stop the
drain on the vitality and restore
needed strength and vigor. Com
mence taking Foley's Kidney
Remedy today. Sold by B. B.
Davis.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12
French proverb: He never was a
friend who has ceased to be one.
Colds and Group in Children

"My little girl is subject tc
colds, says Mrs. VIM. H. Sreig,
No. Al Fifth St Wheeling, w.
Va. Last winter she had a Sc
we're spell and terrible cough,
but 1 cured her with Chamber.
laip's cough remedy without The
aid of doctor, and my little
boy has been prevented many
times from having the Group by
the timely use of this syrup.
This remedy is for sale by H.
Il. Davis.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12
What woman wants is

What woman wants is
Scrubless floors,
Endless incomes,
Bakeless loaves,
Smokeless husbands,
Stainless doors,
Pickles. curtains,
Scorchless stoves,
Washless dishes.
Poundless steaks,
Turnless rockers,
Darnless socks,
Spankless children,
Shopless frocks,
And maybe
Ere we cease to fret
Well want a bathless
Baby yet.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12

There's hardly anything the av-
erage man can lie about with SO
much enthusiasm as what perfect
time his watch keeps.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12

"Got frog legs1" asked a Gus
toner at the restaurant the other
day. "No, SIR replied the wait
err" rheumatism never makes me
walk that way"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12

War is he'll all, right, as General
Sherman said, but it isn't a starter
in that direction compared with d.
seases which take men off before
their allotted time. tuberculosis,
for instance. killed more people in
the past four years than were killed
in the civil war.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12

Mother Johnnie. you left out part
of your prayers. You didn't say
God bless Aunt Hattie and make
her happy"
Johnny-Why, muver, | don't
have to put that in any more. Aunt
Hattie's engaged!
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12

a man in Pearl believed he had
swallowed his false teeth while
asleep. He suffered greatly and the
doctors operated upon him, and
the man died. "A post-mortem
examination showed that the man
had not swallowed his false teeth
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12

How would you like to be hat
store owner about now?
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12
WHEN LOVE is NOT.

Many hat is won which is new
er worn.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12

Spanish proverb: Every man is
the son of his own work.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12

Fresh cranberries al Loree &
Reilly's.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12

An Irishman who was trying to
sell his horse was asked by the pos
sible purchaser if the animal was
timid. mot at all, at all, soir. He
sleeps in a dark stall all alone every
night. which is the same as saying,
soir. that he's brave fellow" re-
piled the Irishman. And he sold the
horse.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12
Tales of the Town
IF OUR LIFE BE LIFE.

IN UT II our life be life
L. And thought and will and love
Not vague unconscious airs
L. That DER wild harpstrings move;
II consciousness be aught
or all II seems to be
And souls are something more
Than lights that CLEAN and flee
Though dark the road that leads US
thither
The heart must ask Its whence and
whittier.
IF. It. Palgrave In ''The Reign of Law"
WHEN LOVE Is NOT.
IF love is not worth loving, then life II
not worth living.
Nor eught IL worth remembering. but ALI
II well forgot;
For store IL not worth storing and Gifts
are not worth giving
II love II not.
Christina q. Rosetd
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-12

Sophie, the hired girl, was cross,
AMI little Richmond did not like
her. In his prayer the other
night he said: ''God bless papa
and mamma and Harold and Willie
and Helen. ''Bul you haven t
said "God bless Sophie" remind
ed his mother. ooh, we'll,
Richmond said resignedIv, 'let
her go in with the bunch"
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

assembled crying with
verbage against the and
dgnifed
Giby
of
Democracy emitting 40
hence long
of VIM Jennings
Bryan Back honorable
thinking of Back the woods will be
for political nothing but
yelp tailfo foevebe its
disposition, such
follow
the convention
Patterson
themo QUIT destiny
Ye celebrating in
great "An it
awful,
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05
VERMONT AS AN INDEX.

The Green Mountain state of
n"hod hold
nat proposition the Colorado
she differs from the of the
begun that
granite state as of changing the
And Vermont has a of
presidential of the
1t is that will be Republican Vermont
Democratic Party it
the majorites.
II the Democrats
should
with great by the which
be
will thirty;
that the Republican
1872 There inspiring
eturn.
opportunity for
creating "straw nd
hills valleys
country do
whA"
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05
ANENT "AFFINITIEs."

~ people who sometimes feel that perhaps they could along
"e'e with some
rested for beating iswife
mat doesn't signify much suggests Earle
VIII De remembered the gentleman
MS
person whom likes oFuy his wife
the value of making the
onmodatingy
successor both anxious
amieaby
IN the nature of things the "soul
Now this is the thing,
sweet dream overlook They
tended wife husband
get that the of cour
and does sober
which,
obstacles for woudbe afinies They
fish desires and weigh nothing in seeking their
But ahinities their
things
will by
while Of
the hodes mates running at large
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05
TAFT AND THE BEET GROWERS.

The Chiefan Republicans
den
from the Philippines As naturally
thought
he
growers and the makers o Colorado
But
explicitly
Colorado Fpnos
pry declared himself
Philip
Chftain sensible Re
which a tariff
Philippines
product from of the world
AS a Democratic
members all
Democratic
support opposition
Philppnes.-Puebo Chieftan
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05
AS THE FRENCH SEE IT.

Inc comments of the foreign American
amusing hn enlghtening but
"a h Two eadg candidates
tive administrator; Bryan
Taft is practical the ability
Bryan has ideas Taft that
egn gets Americans near
Another French
and his wide acquaintance with worpoit
the situation large grasp comprehension
@ military problems He
NAV dou
ii Europe today
of world politics. But the goes generally
Mr.
problems,
Journal and that the American people generally
of "word problems" than the paper
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05
DEMOCRATIC ORGAN PRAISES TAFT.

Republicans selected effective and
making epoch
politics
President remotely
impossible of Mr.
partisan geographical viewpoint national
of
democracy
meaning ympah and conceptions of
elected president of the whole nation in
aswelas n designation.
standpoint opposition the nomination OF
such man gratifying certainty that
executive chair for
patriotic American of whom the whole nation
havec to proud.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05
AN n4roRrA,r ElrrERpR1sz.

Tho meeting held Silt Saturday will probably
of the gatherings
for the that while proposition the
ped by the Colorado Springs
will irrigation resulting the irrigation of that excellent
whether the
question
than that their
10 sufficient calling
The residents Of that section
view-th acquisition of
thing transform vtable
They band would endured the hard
a this
The Watering of fertile will much Genwod all
stancspos n Of thai purpo
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

1T IS
formanes
been dverd performances
Similarly performance handling Of
platform
platform of has made his
likely do
whether is contemplated in party platform
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

IN ALL THE northern where in
the aligned
that such moral should depending entirely
chance he have Indiana instance
gamblers
t coming fromthe gamblers
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

HENRY HOLMES refer
William
prachfuy Speer being
Evidently sight
Of ference o. is gored.
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

THE DIsGRACEFUL agricultural college
Fort Collins resulting the
on cannot help
the people the
reject institution
paica! capable
dsoya Dica
they dioya
citizens and the state whose they Nothing
disoyayi has Il
fail
in
who
sws, quick
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

For President
JAMES 8. SHERMAN,
of New York.
YOUNG LADY M. C.
A. of Colorado Springs
public attending troubles
of the Gould famly-Chicago
guaranty plan Bryan
. typical argument
EUGENE CHAFIN nominee 81 many
q beaten
ACTIVITIES the Mr. Hearst do serious ap
Sunday while making his tour of the
spea mild but his social phi0
sophy is however, when it gets cold
either from end of the country to the other He has
himself dsliked
E. MACK Charlie Murphy patching up differences
abe but wait till the tiger
election day Tammany is its own boss
preparing for invasion
invasion all that is necessary 'hateF
h .o,a .u,, into many piece. that together
THE WORST in declared that
dore gown he lives his ocust would be
sure to have just put of testing them for
sasses.-Chicago Record Herald
conferred with State Chair
alarm heard from of them
agreed tina: there not the sshte' sign of any
there it was favor of the Rpub
ticket
DESPITE appeals
the Democratic meeting
in collecting strictly limited that
raising dough day. of
THE POST eonsrstulates vicinity
the they taking project
will be Of neacuiable
too soon when it aetuaiy people going
that time will not be long
"1T is NOW Bryan and the ~ one Democratic
very much
influence elections Well Mr. Bryan
tn.
time.
III WAS LUD1cRoUs opposing
n VINO never supported anything but
and boosting years ago supported and
for the Republican
Of the do Democrat
" d. sPEERs general
d in chair the berths were taken on No
Some business results in
putting another Pullman vain 10 far . the people
of the western slope
tions
VERMONT and Maine Republican
ay 10 carry 1nem but their election month";
considered paid to them than to state. which
the time get three in Vermont
$4,000 Chairman Mack
v be out with bulletin the Of
"HoNEsT TOM" H1saEN telling story about
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05
"A1,rr IT AWFUL ,9Asa1a"

The Democracy nothing snas whether s msnbe wherever
telling
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

1T Is NOW to Mr. Bryan and the
newspaper after alleging that
to influence elections Well Mr. Bryan
twice. and there be
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

CHAIRMEN from eighty counties conferred with State Chair
heard them
sghtests
unusual Of the Repub
can ticket.
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

ACTIVITIES Mr. Hearst serious ap
presidential
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

EUGENE CHAFIN Prohb 81 make
speeches As Bryan" Yes and get
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

II WAS LuD1cRoUs spectaceHolm opposing
ehean who never supported anything
boosting into that position Alex Job
voted for the Republican wonder the
OF the do not hesitate Democrat
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

Sunday while making his of the
spcial mild but his social pho
is red when it gets cold
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

E foSr eonsratulates the people of Junction
the they taking project It's
VIII De OF ineaicuab benefit
too soon when it setuai going
that time will be
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

DESPITE the woefu nThe
the Democratic national
collecting
about
them
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

DEFENDING his that most Kansas banker
Thats . typical
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

preparing for an INVASION
the to shatter
together
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

He openly declared that
direetoe gown were lives his ocul would be
sure just the of testing them for
xases-Chicago Herald.
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

"Shal People Rue has excited
country the other He has
ridiculous, candidate than to make
himselfd
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

Murphy patching differences
the rampage its boss
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

1T KEEPS tho American public attending the trouble
famly.-Chicago
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

" " SrLHhe general
oe In
some business he found
putting another Pullman the people
tons -
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

VERMONT and Maine safely Republican
to them but
considered straw; attention
the Vermont
and keep the Republican majority
Vii be out with bulletin the next day claiming all
"HONEsT TOM HIsGEN alsdy telling
oseopas" speech is be quite ef
thea his
. and
Hsgea should plain
e Aaa ~ w. sa.p teo7
The Glenwood post., 1908-09-05

YOUNG LADY Y
!. of Colorado Springs Sounds bad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-03
NEGRO LYNCHED.
First Case for the New Year Occurs
In Mississippi.

Brookhaven, Miss, January 2--Probably
the first lynching of 1908 occurred here
today, when a mob in broad daylight too <
a negro away from police officers and
shot him. The negro, whose name was
known neither to the police or the mob,
was accused of killing a policeman at
Oakvale. Miss, on Tuesday night.
The negro had been arrested as a sus-
picious person. He came to Brookhaven
looking for medical treatment of a gun
shot wound in the abdomen. The moo
got him away from the police by using a
lasso, which was thrown over the negro's
neck as the officers hurried him to Jail.
The lassoing of the black occurred near
the central part of town about p. m,
and owing to the quick gathering of
crowds, an effort to hang him was aban-
doned.
After the shooting a city official pur-
suaded the mob not to drag the body
through the streets as its members pro-
claimed their intention of doing. The
mob is said to have been composed most
ly of men from the vicinity of Oaldale.
After the lynching a negro who saw the
body said it was that of Coot Autman,
accused of killing a policeman in this vi
cinity December 10,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-03
JAPANESE ARE ACTIVE.
Councillor Says He Knows Nothing of
Chilean Shipments.

Washington. January 2.-Counselo
Miyaoka, charge daffaires of the Jap
anese embassy. stated today thathe had
head nothing of the reported activity
of his government in shipping saltpe tire
and yucca from Chile to Japan for
manufacture into explosives, news of
which has been brought to San Fran
cisco by passengers arriving from
Iquique. Mr. Miyaoka declares that
preparatory to the establishment of a
line of steamers between Japan and
Iquique, as indicated an effort would
have been made to obtain a govern
ment subsidy as a stimulus to the busi-
ness. Nothing in the reports which
have come from Japan officially or in
the newspapers. he says, contains any
information of that character which
inclines him to believe that whatever
shipment of saltpetre and yucca are in
progress are for private purposes and
are not being carried on under govern
ment auspices, nor does he believe they
are in as large quantities as the dis
patches would suggest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-03
GUARANTEE OF DEPOSITS.
Test of New Law Will Be Made BY
Banks In Oklahoma.

Washington, January 1.-The rights and
privileges of national banks of Oklahoma
under the recent law of that state, pro-
viding for the guaranty of deposits in
banks within the state, form the subject
of statement by the comptroller of the
currency today. He refers to previous
attempt upon his part to obtain an opin-
ion from the attorney general as to the
legal right of national banks to avail
themselves of the law, which officer, he
said declined to render an opinion be-
cause at the time the question was sub
mitted the bill in question had not been
enacted into law.
The comptroller states that before an
official opinion can be obtained from the
department of justice it will be necessary
for some national bank in Oklahoma 10
make application in writing to the state
board for permission to receive for its
depositors the protection of the depos-
itors' guaranty fund. and for the comp
troller TO be formally requested to agree
with the state banking board and bank
commissioner upon what terms and condi-
tions the application may be sustained
When the question again comes before
the officer in this form. the comptroller
said. he will again refer it to the at
torney general for an opinion as to his
right to enter into an agreement with the
bank commissioner and the state banking
board providing for the terms and con-
ditions upon which national banks NAV
accept the terms and be subject to the
liabilities of this law