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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

| He was allowing her to walk forward 70
her end, this beautiful creature whose
courage was more than a mans. =
Her fingers were upon his sleeve pulling
him forward. She had no need of words
from him now. Life remained in her to
reach the place ahead, She did not want
more life, il the dead were there
Wait, ma'am" he pleaded
NO, no. cannot wait 2"
Fur ould Dinny"'
Il thank you both. You have been very
brave and kind; but, Denny, don't keep
me back-not now ."
Let me go frsht ~ he implored, har-
boring the mad idea that he might put
something out of her sight
NO" she screamed, breaking from
him, and rushing forward through the
fallen gate
Her CRY brought an answer mufied
answer, the voice from a pit. Macready
and Ernst plucked at the charred boards
in the circle Of ruin.
Peter, King Peter Where are you,
Great-heartT she called, laughing, cry
ing, picking at her hands.
In the cistern-in the old cistern,"
came the answer. Why-did-they-ie
-you-come-her
Didn't tell you 'twud take more than
split ay a mountain t SINCE hair av
him, ma'amf" Macready yelled, dancing
about the rim. Are you hurried, SORT?
Tell me, are you hurted:"
He was pushed away, and the woman
knelt at the rim, bending far down.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

If the bakers will make good bread
out Of pure -four, and educate the peo-
pie to buy it, 'the great destroyer of
domestic happiness, dyspepsia, will be
removed, and we shall hear no more
of the divorce problem" So DR.. Wiley,
the government food expert. told the
American Biscuit Makers Association
the other day. The harm done by heavy
bread, soggy pie crust and greasy cakes
is so great that no one has dared to
estimate it. That young woman who
wishes to make the world better may
begin well by learning how to cook d.
gestible meals.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07
SHARPENING A PENCIL.
In This Act You May Read = Mans
Character.

| In This Act You May Read . Man
Character.
No woman should marry a man TIL
she has seen him sharpen a lead pen
ell. She can tell by the way he does
ii whether he is suited to her or not.
Here are g few infallible rules for
her guidance in the matter:
The man who holds the point to
ward him and close up against his
shirt front is slow and likes 10 have
secrets. Re is the kind OF man who,
when the dearest girl in the world
finds out that there are Others" and
asks him who they are and what he
means by calling on them, viii assume
an air Of excessive dignity.
The man who holds the pencil out
at arms length and whites away at
it, hit or miss, is impulsive, jolly,
good-natured and generous.
He who leaves a blunt point is duh
and plodding. and will never amount
to much. He is really good natured,
but finds his chief pleasures in the
commonplace things Of life.
He who sharpens his pencil an inch
or more from the point is high strung
and imaginative and subject TO exu-
berant flights of fancy. He win al
ways be seeking to mount upward and
accomplish things In the higher re
gions of business and art, and his
wife's greatest trouble will be to hold
him down to earth and prevent his
flying off altogether on tangent.
The man who sharpens his pencil
all around smoothly and evenly, as
though it was planed off In an auto
matte sharpener, is systematic and
slow to anger, but he Is so undertaking
from a fixed principle that he would
drive a woman with q sensitive tenn
permanent 10 distraction in less than
six months. On the contrary, he who
jumps in and leaves the sharpened /
wood as jagged as saw teeth around /
the top has a nasty temper and will /
spank the baby on the slightest provo
cation.
The man who doesn't stop TO polish /
the point of lead once the wood is cut /
away has q streak of coarseness in his /
nature.
He who shaves off the lead till the
point is like a needle is refined, deli
cate and sensitive. He will not be
likely to accomplish so much as his
more common brother, but he viii
never shock you, and is without doubt
/ good man TO tie to.-New York Press
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

New York has an area of 2o9.21s
acres.
Irish cows yield from 800 gallons Of
milk TO over LOCO. In one case the
yield was 1.469 gallons.
American and English locomotives
are to be used largely on the private
railway lines in Austria. about 1000
miles of which are TO be purchased by
the government next year, at cost Of
abouE 100000.
Among the applicants at Carrick-on-
Shannon CEngland) post Office for an
old-age pension form was man named
Pat Reynolds Of the Cootehan Dis
trict, who has attained the patriarchal
age of 100. He is hale and hearty and
In full possession OF all his faculties.
Ogden Mills Reid, only son of White
law Reid, publisher of the New York
Tribune, has begun work as a reporter
on his fathers paper. Young Mr. Reid,
who is % years old, is a Yale gradu-
ate Of the class Of 1904 Subsequently
he took a course at the Yale Law
School
A supply Of sponges from Yucatan
may be looked for ere long. There Is
a large growth of fine sponges left IN
touched so far, as the native divers do
not usually take sponges at greater
depth than fifteen feet The better class
grow in the greater depths, and these
are now TO be gathered
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood was in at.
tendance at the maneuvers of the Ger
man army in Alsace Lorraine. which
came to an end Sept. 10 He speaks
highly OF the courtesy Of the German
military authorities. From Saarbrucken
Gen. Wood went TO France where he
was present at the French maneuvers.
The foreign trade of Japan in the
first five months of this year decreased
by S15.OoOOO0. Imports exceed exports
by about s40.0OOOo0. against $4,000
900 in the first FIVE months Of 1907. OF
the decrease S12,o00,0o was in exports.
Imports of machinery, however, con-
tinue to increase steadily, showing that
in Japan is developing.
The imports, as whole, totaled $780,
10000 and exports 100000. a total
-rade of s17SoO0.0o0, reckoaing the ven
It so cents American.
The Congress at La Paz. the capital
u Bolivia. has passed the bill which
'rders that hereafter the export duty
'aid on copper and bismuth, the chief
PRODUCTS OF the country, shall be In
proportion to the price of those articles
n Europe on the day they are exported
rom Bolivia. The Congress is discuss
ng another bill presented by the gov
rnment. to the effect that the national
ank should be authorized TO send sill
er bars to European minis, and when
hey return, coined. the law shall pro-
ibit the export OF that money,
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Explorers who go into far countries
are sure to be out Of touch with the
busy world and to cause worry to their
friends at home. Exploration is not
Necessary in the vicinity Of postoffices.
An American who tramps the jungles
Of the South American Amazon was
reported lost a year ago; but in few
mcnths he turned up and got the mail
that had been waiting for him. Sven
Helm was lost In Tibet for several
months, and his friends were alarmed.
lie has lately been heard from and is
safe. He has been hunting for the
source of the Indus, and there amt no
buses runnin' to that interesting sum-
mel resort.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07
RUSSIAN RAILROAD STORY.
How Student Thought to Relieve
the Tedfum of Travel.

/ How Student Thought to Relieve
the Tedium of Travel.
| The tedium of railroad travelling II
Russia was relieved the other day II
an unexpected manner, says the Lon
| don Globe. In a compartment OF the
train going from Kursk TO Kiev sat s
beautiful young lady next to a chatty
priest. with whom she held an animated
conversation. Opposite sat a student
who envied the priest the causerie he
was enjoying.
AS the evening came on the girl fell
asleep and the priest nodded his head
In slumber. That was an opportunity
which no self-respectlng Joker could
afford TO let slip. Bending forward
the student kissed the sleeping damse
and sprang back into his seat
The salute awakened the girl, who,
thinking that # was her aeighbor, the
priest, who had dared to kiss her.
jumped up and gave him q sounding
box on the ears. The student rejoiced
greatly. There was a connection, the
policeman accompanying the train wa,
summoned, aid he at once drew up al
protocol against the wronged priest
while the student offered to appear as
a witness In the law court at kiev.
But at the last moment a young Jew,
ess who had been sitting in q dark
corner unobserved by anybody stepped
forward, exonerated the poor priesf
from the terrible accusation, and ther
II was the students turn to feel mise- (
abla
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

black now. The circle Of the orifce wa,
sharply lit with gray.
They viii come from the ship to res.
cue US soon. Plesse-please turn your
face to the light-so! Yes. that
will do p
did you not know that / am blind,
boy? How big you seem
should think you would put me down and
rest your arms"
Her face had been turned upward il
the descent Of the chain He steeled him
self to speak steadily. There was a
cumulative harshness in that her face,
above all others, so fragile, Of purest line,
should meet the coarse element, burning
dirt. Furies leaped upon him that be
had not saved her.
THE water is still hot iu the bottom OIL
the cistern,' be said. MY arms are not
in the least tired"
An intermiDable interval passed before
he heard the voice again, slower, fainter :
And SO you came back for me-snd you
knew Pelee-better No, the
burns do not hurt terribly. My-face-
feels-dead. You were not burned-so?
This was the moment Of dreadful mem
DRY. Her body, her face, arms, throat,
had covered him, as the rusty chain slip
ped through bis hand. The molten STUFF
had not cracked his flesh because she had
stood between.
81 tried to save you-you know that
but you kept the fire from me
His voice was broken with rebellion
Then out of a sigh came the words that
lived with him always:
''I-would- ye-you-know-tha =
Ia Montague Pelee-is-artistic"
ITO be contInued.)
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK.
Larger I'm Population than Sixteen
Different States and Territories.

Larger I'm Population than Sixteen
Different States and Territories.
Some one who is apt at figures has
shown that New York City to-day is
larger in population than sixteen diff
ferent States and Territories, and fur
Their that within a radius of twenty
miles are living over 100000 people,
says the National Magazine.
The improved methods of transpor-
tation, which are fast widening the
limits of New York's business energy.
will soon embrace a radius of fifty
miles, within which are located 1854
different towns and cities. whose total
population, with that of Greater New
York, is equal to fully ope-fifth of the
population of the United States.
When 1t is realized that the permau-
ent increase in population of New York
last year was about 100000. a city the
size of Cleveland, Ohio, some idea of
the tremendous growth of the city can
be appreciated. One of the assurances
of a continued and permanent growth
is to be found in the $1,000 marriages
that take place every year.
Besides this permanent Increase New
York is entertaining an average of over
10000 transient visitors every day.
and at some seasons, when the hotel ac-
commodations are taxed to their ut
most, fully 100000 people are chron-
icled in their home papers as spending
a few days in New York on pleasure
and business"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

The practice Of hazing has passed be
yond all the bounds Of law and order.
The spirit which INDUCES in 1t now is
that of the bully, and no more that
of the fun-loving boy. The practice
was always reprehensible. Now that
II dares to run In defiance OF public
opinion. when 1t mocks at law and de-
lights at torture in the guise OF a
"joke," 1t is no longer to be regarded
as less than criminal The practical
Joker was always a nuisance and fool
The hazer adds to these attributes those
OF being both malicious and dangerous.
II the college authorities are not brave
enough or powerful enough to put an
Instant end to hazing wherever it is
practjced they should appeal to the
State and municipal police. Offenders
should be punished without regard to
their youth or their good intentions.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Some people seem to expect to &C,
quire all their good habits in their sec
ond childhood They seem to regard
good habits as fitting them for heaven
rather than this life on earth. But stop
a minute or two and think about habit.
/ 1t is worth while. For there is no
greater, more constant, more insisten1
force IN any mans or woman's life
than the force of innumerable little
habits. Not considering at all the com
mon bad habits" think of the thou.
sand and one little habits that deter
mine your every thought and act. Do
you know that in the commonest things
you are slave to habits that you never
suspect? Almost every move in the
process of the mornings dressing, for
instance, is involuntary and calls for
no conscious thought. Many a morn
ing your mind is absorbed in mapping
out a days work, while habit is wash
ing and dressing you. Habit accustoms
us to doing most of the everyday things
in particular ways, and we consciously
turn the mind to them only when they
chance to be done differently. Anyone
who stops to think about it can easily
see that innumerable little habits make
up very large part of our lives. We
think along the lines worn smooth By
habit, as well as act. Not an impression
not az emotion. not an opinion, not q
resolution, not an action, is possible to
us that is not Influenced, colored and
directed by fixed conditions within our
selves-habit. 1t is indeed well worth
while to carefully consider the host of
little habits that hide themselves in the |
most secret cells of both brain and |
muscle. None of them is too small to |
be worth attention. Bad habits are the |
little threads with which the weak |
Lilliputians bound the strong CULVER
in helpleSsnesS. Good habits are like
well-made harness, enabling us to do /
our work in the world with less fric-
ton and waste Of energy. Habits we
cannot avoid. Nor can we escape be-
ing controlled by them. But we have
free choice between the habits that are
good and helpful and habits that are
bad and harmful.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

with the latest anesthetic," says a
Berlin correspondent, "a surgeon will
never need to infiict pain on patient"
Still, it may not be possible in all
cases to use an anesthetic before rem
dering a bill for services.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Two-cent postage to Great Britain is
now in effect, and women who have
friends in England will take advantage
of the reduced rates because Of its re-
semblance to a bargain day.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Recent discoveries indicate that men
lived in the Alps 100000 years ago.
Poor fellows! They must have found
1t difficult to make ends meet, seeing
that there were no American tourists
In those days to gladden. with their
"tins"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Young Theodore Roosevelt is going
to earn So a week making carpets,
which would seem much better than
sitting on the back steps of the White
House, whiting a pine stick.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

The Governor of New Jersey has
fallen heir to S25O,0OO. There is
statesman who will probably be per-
fectly willing to answer all people who
may rise up to ask him where he got it.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07
Musings.

Many board of directors wouldn't
pass as clear timber.
Honesty is the best policy, but many
a crock has a big funeral.
Love songs are all antematrimonial
affairs, Amt it queer?
The preacher says religion is great
thing In time of trouble. He don't state
where he spends his vacations.
It's funny where some folks get their
rep. for wisdom. For instance, Solo
mon is said to have had thousand
wives.-Somerville Blade.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Probably the largest Of all the Ana
MAS clubs, so to speak, was formed by
the psalmlst when he hastily classified
all men as liars.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Probably Mark Twain's life secret is
that he made vow long ago never to
have his hair cut until he was elected
President of the United States.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Most Of the voluntary readers are IKE
ly to be women, and the service they
render the community is real one. II
their judgment and taste are sound. On
the other hand, a complaisant com
mendation Of book as very inter
esting' may do actual harm when the
book lies in the de5atable land between
bad and good-the land Of current fic-
ton and trashy juveniles. A great
meeting of English librarians recently
set forth some general principles which
should help determine the desirability
Of books. First they declared the no
tion exploded that taste for good
reading develops from reading poor
books The very contrary is true. The
habit Of reyeling In cheap fiction is de
structlye Of a wholesome pleasure in
sound reading. The love of books. like
the love of virtue, feeds in high, clean.
sweet pastures, not on refuse, and not
even on husks, Again, the demand for
certain books does not require the pub
lie library to supply them. 1t is
specious argument that the taxpayers
money should answer the taxpayers
desire. More than sixty per cent of
the books drawn from public libraries
are works Of fiction. The thin, taste
less stream of modern fiction is too
often the library's chief Offering to the
community. Certain libraries adopt the
rigorous measure of buying no fiction
until It is year old. The librarians
agreed that the rule is an excellent
enc, If it is slightly elastic in its ac-
tual application. At all events, the
helpful advisory reader for the public |
library is the man or woman who be-
lleves that in proportion as a good book |
IS a blessing, a poor book is a curse.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

"a good-by kiss is little thing" says
Andrew Lang in one of his recent
poems. Andrew is right If he means
good-by kiss that is participated in
by two women.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

After all our leading statesmen have
expressed their opinions Of each other
they should not expect the public to
entertain a better one
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Some one has written play called
THE Lucky Rich" Perhaps it refers
to those whose automobiles get away
after striking pedestrian.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

why does the rooster crow when
the hen lays the egg?' asks bright
young newspaper man OF the South.
Our guess is that it is because he is
rooster
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

A man whose house was on fire
saved his fish pole first and his chill
dren second. He was willing to spare
the rod and spoil the child.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Even casual observation will convince
anyone that the latest feminine fashion
Is a little rough on the neck
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Gee whiz! Here's the rain coming
down again and somebody's stolen my
umbrella"
Somebody's stolen what?"
"Well, the umbrella I've been carry
Ing for the last two weeks. -Phila.
delphia Press.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

81 love America and the Americans"
says Hall Game. Hall must have made
arrangements to come over and lecture.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

The most important question for the
public library is What books shall we
buyg" In many towns the reading
committee is a recognized adjunct of
the library, and the librarian has the
verdict of several different minds for
aid III his task of selecting new books,
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

man who was robbed of his peck
etbook in the New York subway COM
plains that 1t was a 'low down affair"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Every one is occasionally shocked
when he realizes how easily he be-
comes reconciled to the death of
friend.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

Some kinds of meanneSs are mora
unpopular than others.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

A self ehalking chalk line is thu
latest addition to the carpenters kit
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-07

New York has an area of 2o9,21s
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-20
THE D MARKET.

NEW YORK, March 20.-Butter-Fine
grades further advanced. closing firm; re
ceipts. 8, 100; creamery specials, S1M31ls
Official 81; creamery extras, 3012; cream
cry thirds to firsts, 21@S2s; creamery held,
cheese-Firm, receipts. 1874; weekly ex-
ports, 2,179 boxes; State full cream spe-
Gals, 15%@17.
Eggs-Steady; receipts, 1l.515: State,
PENNSYLVANIA and nearby fancy selected
brown and mixed fancy. 20a2O1h.
Flour-Receipts. 1904; sales. 1900. Dull
and nominally lower. Minnesota patents,
5.6o@6.00; winter straights, 5.40@5.60 50; Mime
sofa bakers, 4.40Dd.76; winter ~sextras'
4.00q4.65: winter patents, 100000; winter
low grades, S.9oai55; Kansas straight,
Wheat-Receipts, 1860. Lower cables,
favorable weather. big worlds shipments,
foreign selling and local bear pressure
caused a decline of q in wheat this morn
ing. May, 119h@1. 1875: July, 1.11A@1.1lh
Rye-Dull; No. 2 Western. S6, I. o. b. New
York.
Con-Receipts. 1850.
Realistically; family. B.00a15.50; mess
10. 50D11 90; packet, 1400q14.50,
Pork-Steady; mess. 1s.50q19O0; family
IS. 50@19, so; short clear, 19.50a21.5 80.
Iard0Ensy; Western, 10. &c.
!. s sssr ss5s' Centrifugal, f5sady; ss te sslr ssas .ss3's
molasses sugar. 3.17@3.2 3ila. Refined steady
crushed. 5,55; powdered, 4s5: graduated
ASS.
coffee-steady; No. Z Rio, So; No.
Enthusiastically; New Orleans. 2Sq42.
Poultry-Alive quiet; b~roilers. 295@Ss
fowls, 1919. Dressed steady; fowls
14hsa1s; turkeys, 16a2S.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-20
CAMPAIGN FUNDS
TO Be PROBEO BY
CONGRESS BODY
Investigation viii Be Made
of Money Used in 1904
and 1896.

WASHINGTON. March 20.-Ce a.
paign contributions and expenditures
during the campaigns of 1896 and 1904
will be investigated by a congressional
committee to be known as the special
committee of the sixty-first Congress
for the investigation of campaign funds
and expenditures in national elections
and to consist of five representatives
and ten senators. should the joint reso .
luton introduced by Representative
Weisse, of Wisconsin, be adopted.
1t will be, the duty of the proposed
committee to investigate into the
amount of funds collected and ex-
pended, from whom received and 10
whom paid, and for what purposes paid
and expended by the various political
organizations. The committee will be
authorized to compel the attendance of
witnesses, the production of books and
papers and to determine the mount of
money collected and the source of it.