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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-12-11

"Airships are just in their infan,
cy."
Eyes, they're mighty hard TO
raise -
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-12-11

Dispatches concerning market quota
tions, conditions and phases are as fol
lows:
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-12-11

"Don't chide me for carrying re-
volver. This little gun saved my life
once"
How exciting. Tell me about il"
~ was starving and j pawned it."
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-12-11

Guests there any danger Of FIRE in
this hotelf
Boy with his teeth chattering)-
N-not unless you pay for it.
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He Threw Himself Upon the Eaaie.

'S '"S" s1U"SSu upon the eaQie.
ground. The child was saved and ran
shrieking for assistance for his IA.
ther. The man and the bird were
locked in a death grip, the eagle US.
Ing his claws, while Johnson struck
out with his free hand as he held the
bird with the other.
Netghbors were soon on the scene.
From the start they were determined,
II possible, to capture the eagle alive.
Sticks and stones fell on his monster
body, while both wings were imme-
diately crippled.
The breaking of the wings made es-
cape of the eagle impossible, but for
two hours he fluttered along the
ground, fiercely repelling every attack
until, completely exhausted, he was
pinioned to the earth by two pitch.
forks.
The eagle when measured proved to
be IL feet from tip to tip of his wings
and perfect specimen of it's kind. It
Is believed he will speedily recover
from the injuries in it's struggle with
the men, and Johnson plans to present
1t to some geological garden.
Although Johnson is suffering in.
tense pain as result of the scratches
received In the fight, none Of his hurts
Is regarded as dangerous, the worst
wound being an immense cash torn in
his left shoulder. He was greatly weak
ened from loss of blood.
The boy is none the worse for his
experience and takes great delight in
watching the imprisoned bird.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-04-30
NO NEED TO TAKE CHANCES
There 10 q sure Way Of Knowing Good
Paint Material.

There is really no need whatever for
any property owner to take chances in
the selection Of his paint materials.
It doesn't cost 4 cent to learn how to
be on the safe side. Certainly every
property owner has enough at stake to
find this out. ..:.-- -. ~. ): ~.i,~.
A complete painting guide, known as
Houseowner's Painting Outfit No. ~.
can be had free by writing National
Lead Company, 1902 Trinity Building,
New York. This company is the largest
maker OF pure white lead in the world.
Its Dutch Boy Painter trademark
Is famous as guarantee of purity and
quality. The outfit includes a book
of color schemes. for either interior or
exterior painting a book Of speciflca-
tions, and simple little instrument,
with directions for resting the purity
of paint materials.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-04-30
FEW LEFT-HANDED BARRIERS
Can Do Just az Efficient Work, But
Popularity Makes for Awkward
ness in Shop.

OF course, left-handed persons are
scarce any way, said the man who
carries his habits of observation even
into the BARRIERS chair, but they are
mighty scarce among BARRIERS; in fact,
l have seen but two or three in my
experience.
But you are sure to notice it when
you do find one. He does just as eff.
cient work, but it is the way he does
it that attracts your notice.
The barber, as rule, stands at the
right of the customer while shaving
him, making little trips to the back
and to the left only when necessary
Naturally, suppose, the left-handed
barber does just the opposite; he
stands most of the time at your left,
For that reason you won't find q
left-handed barber In the middle of q
line of BARRIERS. His chair has to stand
at one end or the other so that he
won't bump into the right-handed one
next to him.
Like most left-handed persons, his
right hand is more .dexterous than the
left hand Of right-handed persons u.s.
ually is. He shaves you with either
hand, but prefers the left. He strops
razor Just as q right-handed one
does, however, and that is about the
only point of similarity.
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King Oscar
- Character Sketch Of the Late Swedish Ruler
Written by John E. Fellers.

There is a story to the effect that
up among the cold, bleak fields in the
northern part Of Sweden, there once
lived = Lapp, who in some way had
incurred the enmity Of his Swedish
'neighbors. His sole earthly posses
sion was a small herd Of reindeer.
His neighbors sought /: to drive him
away, and among other: indignities i'm
posed upon him they killed his entire
herd. The Swedish officers controlled
the courts, and the Lapp was denied
justice at their hands.
1t was a dreary winter-never SO
cold and dreary anywhere else as in
that far north country. The snow was
deep. It was the second watch" in
the Scandinavian night. More than
two months must pass before the sun
would return from its summer home,
Securely fastening his "skidor" to
his feet, the detected Lapp glided
swiftly over the snow several hundred
miles to Stockholm, the Swedish cap.
1tal. He knew that he was poor and
ignorant, but he was Swedish sub
ject, and as such would be received
by King Oscar. He told his story. The
king listened. He at once or.
dered a thorough investigation made
and the report verified the Lapps com.
plant. The king compelled the slay-
ers of the reindeer to make full res
titution to the Lapp and punished the
officers who had denied him justice.
This is but one of many instances in
which good King Oscar was found on
the side of the oppressed His whole
nature was in sympathy with the help
less, because he had read history. His
mother was the Empress Josephine's
granddaughter He knew that his IL.
lustrious kinswoman was driven from
France, repudiated, broken-hearted, q
victim of the rankest injustice that
ever threw it's midnight over a noble
life. He knew, too, that, although the
man who laid the love of Josephine
upon the altar of his ambition was the
emperor of great people, and per-
haps the greatest military leader of
modern times, all his: achievements
combined were not sufficient to atone
for that one cruel act.
It is an interesting fact that al.
most every relative, friend, favorite
and sycophant whom Napoleon placed
on the different thrones in Europe has
fallen from power, while King Oscar,
the direct descendant of the Empress
Josephine, was one of the most be.
loved rulers in the world. The de.
scendants of Napoleon, in less than 100
years. have disappeared into common.
place mediocrfty, while those of Jose.
phine have risen to kingly power. II
seems now that as the years roll on
the writer's of solemn history will find
In the tragic story Of these island
lovers (for they were each born on an
island) more and more that will mark
them as actors of equal parts on the
worlds political and revolutionary
stage. Napoleon divorced Josephine
that he might establish a perpetual
dynasty; but-"Man proposes, God dis
poses.''
When in her childhood home on the
Island Of Martinique, Josephine was
betrothed to the Viscount Beauhar.
nais, to whom she was married at the
age Of IA. From this marriage two
children were born-Eugene and Hor.
tense. The Viscount Beauharnais was
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NOT A HERMIT OF ROMANCE.
Mans Reasons for Living in Solitude,
Though Excellent, Somewhat Sur
prised Young Lady.

The beautiful young lady stood at
the mouth Of the cave in the noun
tain and addressed the ragged and
long-haired hermit.
$50 you are real, live hermit! I
have never seen a real hermit before,
although I have read all about you
many times. I suppose you had a very
sad love affair in your youth and the
loss of your beautiful sweetheart
drove you to this wilderness to live
alone. Was she so very beautiful?
You have tomato cans filled with mon
ey hid in the ground, haven't you?"
'Not at all, not at ALL" Interrupted
the hermit. II have no money buried
1T is all In four per cent. government
bonds. My first love affair was alto
gether too successful, and that's tho
real reason I'm here. You didn't see
square-built, red-headed woman on
the trail looking for a husband, did
you? It's about time I moved again,
anyhow, since so many. people, are
coming here. 'Tain't safe to stay
Puck.
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SICK DOCTOR
Proper Food Put Him Riqit.

The food experience of a physician
In his own case when worn and weak
from sickness and when needing nour.
ishment the worst way is valuable:
AN attack of grip, so severe it came
near making an end of me. left my
stomach in such condition I could not
retain any ordinary food. knew Of
course that must have food nourish-
ment or I could never recover.
Il began to take four tablespoonfuls
OF Grape-Nuts and cream three times a
day and for weeks this was almost
my only food; it tasted SO delicious
that enjoyed it immensely and my
stomach handled it perfectly from tho
first mouthful. It was so nourishing
was quickly built back to normal
health and strength.
'"Grape-Nuts is Of great value ~
food to sustain life during serious IT.
tacks in which the stomach is so de-
ranged it cannot digest and assimilate
other fools.
II am ceavinced that were Grape.
Nuts more widely used by physicians,
It would save many lives that are 9TH
erwise lost from lack Of, ,nourishment."
Absolutely the most perfect food In
the world. Trial Of Grape-Nuts 10 days
proves. "There's Reason" -.,-.
Look In pkg. for the little book, ''The
Road to Wellville."
Ever read the above letter1 A new
enc appears from time to tine. They
are genolAe, tFUes ana 3aO 01 huma0
interest z.$>, @ & : u
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J "'Don't you make those faces at
me, SIR roars the skipper. What do
you mean by it? What have you
been doing to yourselves?' 80
+ 'Nothin', SIR ses Bill, 'umbly; 1t
was done to U.S.
'The carpenter, who was just going
to cooper up a cask which 'ad start
ed a bit, shook like a leaf, and gave
Bill a look that would ha': melted, a
stone.
"'Who did it?' ses the skipper.
"'We'se been the victims of cruel
outrage, SIR ses Bill, doing all e
could to avoid the mates eye, which
wouldn't be avoided.
$50 should Think ses the skip
per. You've been knocked about,
too.'
"'Yessir,' ses Bill, very respectful;
me and Bob was ashore last night,
sir, just for quiet look round, when
we was set on to by five furriners.'
"'What?' ses the skipper; and I
won't repeat what the mate said.
"'We fought 'em as long as we
could, SIR ses Bill, then We was both
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executed by order of Robespierre, and
shortly afterward Josephine> was mar
rted to Napoleon. Her son, Eugen6
Beauharnais, j, married the PrincesG.
Augusta of Bavaria. To them was born
a daughter. whom Eugene named jose.
phfne, in honor of his mother: When
the younger Josephine was is, she
was married to Oscar l., who succeed.
ed his father Bernadotte as king OF
Sweden. and nearly ten years after the
great Napoleon had slipped into the
shadow, the late king Of Sweden-Os-
car 1I.-was born to the younger
Josephine. We have also fine ex-
ample of romantic justice in the fact
that the Empress Josephine, after all,
gave Bonaparte an heir in the person
Of her grandson Napoleon ILL.,, who
was the son of Louis Bonaparte, king
OF Holland, who married Hortense
Beauharnais, Josephine's daughter.
King Oscar was an Independent
thinker. He feared nothing except to
do wrong. He moved slowly, but oc-
casion always found him on time in
settling questions Of Importance. This
splendid king, whose rugged character
gave strength to every other monarchy
In Europe, died as he had lived, brave
ly, courageously. His influence will
shine as the great Northern Light"
In political history throughout the
ages that are to be.
In conversation with w. w. Thorn
as, Jr., late minister to Sweden from
the United States, King Oscar once
said: 1T is a part of my politics to
go among my people as much as pos
sible, to mix with them, to learn their
wants and aspirations, not only among
the citizens of the capitals, but to
travel widely among the citizens all
over the two Kingdoms, to make their
acquaintance personally and to take
them by the hand"
Historical Setting.
King Oscar was born in 1929. Ros-
coe Conkling was born the same year.
When they were each a year old,
James G. Blaine: was born. In per-
sonal appearance King Oscar and Mr..
Blaine strikingly resembled each 9TH
er, and they were each popular favo-
rites at home and abroad.
The close student will find many
events each sitting for a picture if he
will turn the camera of history back
to the year 1929. That year Sir Hum
phrey Davy and John Jay died. An
drew Jackson and John C. Calhoun
were elected president and vice-presi-
dent of the United States. Slavery
was abolished in Mexico. Peace was
declared between Russia and Turkey.
While the year 1872 stands down
the line nearer the present, it con-
tributed it's share to history and left
an interesting record of events Os-
car II. was crowned king of Sweden
and Norway; Samuel F. B. Morse, in
ventor of the telegraph, and William
H. Seward each died that year. The
general amnesty bill passed congress;
the national Republican convention re-
nominated Ulysses S. Grant for the
presidency of the United States, and
the Democratic convention nominated
Horace Greeley, who died in less. than
a month after his defeat in the gen.
eral election. And was not that the
year also that the young emperor of
Germany decided the San Juan boun-
dary in favor of the United States?
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| BIG. EAGLE: .
!: TO SAVE BABY>B0Y
4kliNolS FARMER IN DESPERATE
CONFLICT WITH MONSTER
MONARCH oF>THE AIR. :
STRUGGLE LASTS TWO HOURS
Giant Birds Wings Are Broken and
1t ls Finally Overcome with
Help Of Neighbors-Meas-
ures Twelve Feet.

st. Charles, 1ll.-Fighting desperate
~ for two hours with monster eagle
to keep his baby from the menacing
talons of the great bird, Peter John.
son, farmer, with the aid of neigh.
bors, finally captured the king of the
air.
Fully score of persons participated
In the conflict with the eagle, and
pttchforks, clubs and stones were
brought into service before the bird,
exhausted from his efforts, gave up
the battle. Johnson was terribly
scratched in the encounter, although
his son was unhurt.
The Johnson boy, sturdy child OF
three years, was playing on his IA
Tiers farm near St. Charles the other
morning when the eagle was first OBJ
served
The great bird circled about the vi.
cinity at great height for several
minutes. Suddenly, with the speed OF
lightning flash, it darted down, and
its steel-like talons caught In the
child's dress.
The child's surprise for second
struck him dumb, and the eagle, using
every ounce of it's strength, bore the
boy upward. Surprise gave way to
alarm. The child screamed for aid
and struggled vigorously to free him.
self from the eagles clutches.
The boy is stockily built lad,
weighing about IS pounds, and the
bird was unable to make great prog.
ress.
The father heard the screams of hts
child and hurried from his home. He
saw the boy in the birds clutches
and ran toward the scene of the strug.
gle.
With all his strength he threw him.
self on the eagle and bore it to the
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down in the fo'c's'le spekerlating as
to what sort O time the mate was
goin' to ave. He went ashore all
right, because Ted Hill see i'm 60,
an he noticed with partikler pleas
ure that he was dressed very careful.
1T must ha' been near II o'clock
was sitting with Smith on the port
side O. the galley, when we heard a
'ubbub approaching the ship. It was
the mate just coming aboard. He was
without Is at; Is necktie was twist
ed round is ear, and Is shirt and is
collar was all torn to shreds. The Sec
ond and third officers ran up to him
to see what was the matter, and
while he was telling them, up comes
the skipper.
"'You don't mean to tell me, Mr..
Fingall,' ses the skipper, in surprise,
that you've been knocked down like
that by them mild and meek Hin
doos?'
'Hindoos, sir?' roared the mate.
'Cert'n'y not, sir. I've been assaulted
like this by five German sailor-men.
And I licked 'em ALL
"'1ts the mates PRIDE ses the car
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knocked senseless, and when we
came to ourselves we was messed up
hike this ere
What sort O. men were they?"
asked the skipper, getting excited.
'Sailor-men, SIR ses Bob, putting
| in his spoke. 'Dutchies or Germans, or
something O. that sort
"'Was there one tall man, with a
fair BEARD ses the skipper, getting
more and more excited.
"'Yessir,' ses Bill, in a surprised
sort O. voice.
"'Same gang ses the skipper.
Same gang as knocked Mr.. Fingall
about, you may depend upon it. Mr..
Ffngall, it's mercy for you you
didn't get your face blacked, too'
II thought the mate would ha'
burst. 1 can't understand how any
man could swell as he swelled with
out bursting
"I don't believe word of it, he
ses, at last.
Why not? ses the skipper,
sharply.
"'Well, 1 DON'T ses the mate, his
voice trembling with passion. I ave
my reasons
81 s'pose you don't think these
two poor fellows went and blacked
themselves for fun, do your ses the
skipper.
"The mate couldn't answer.
'"'And then went and knocked them.
selves about for more fun?' ses the
skipper, very sarcastic.
"The mate didn't answer. He
looked round helpless like, and see
the third officer swopping glances
with the second, and all the men look
ing sly and amused, and think If
ever a man saw e was done e did
at that moment.
He turned away and went below
and the skipper arter reading us all
little lecture on getting into fights
without reason, sent the two chaps
below ag'in and told 'em to turn in
and rest. He was so good to 'em all
the way 'ome, and took sich interest
in seeing 'em change from black to
brown and from light brown to spot
ted lemon, that the mate daren't do
nothing to them, but gave us their
share Of what he owed them, as we'll
as an extra dose of our own"
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Wrote "HOme, Sweet Home''

other. When the name of John Milton
is spoken, Paradise Lost" is remem-
bered. Tell Of John Bunyan and the
"Pilgrim's Progress comes again to
our thought. We cannot fail to re-
member Uncle Toms Cabin" when
we hear the name of Harriet Beecher
Stowe, and who hears the name of
John Howard Payne and does not at
once begin grooming Home, Sweet
Home" The author of this pretty
song little dreamed when he wrote it
that his name would go down through
the ages, borne thither on a Sicilian
air, literally sung into fame by the
sweet voice of an English girl. Ho
had hoped to be known as an author
or dramatist, but "the tide in the af-
fairs of men" bore him singing away
from his native land to a home on a
foreign shore.
A line drawn directly east from St.
Louis would pass not far from a grave
in Oak Hill cemetery, Georgetown,
near Washington, where rest the
earthly remains of John Howard
Payne. If this line be extended east.
ward without variation, it will pass d.
rectly into the Strait of Gibraltar. But
for this strait, Spain would touch the
Morocco coast and be part of Africa.
If the line be yet extended eastward,
without DETECTION to the southern
point of the Island of Sicily, it would
pass through the towns Of Algiers and
Tunis and would miss the ancient
ruins of Carthage but three miles.
I have drawn this line touching
these points that l might better call
attention to some minor details that
usually have no part in biographical
sketch, but which to me seem interest
ing in this instance. To this town of
Tunis Mr.. Payne came as United
States consul in 1841 and here he
died in 1852. His remains were buried
near the site of ancient Carthage and
not far from the shore of the Medtter-
ranean sea. In 1883 they were re-
moved at the suggestion of some
friends from st. Louis, who in their
travels had visited Algiers and Tunts
some years before. The ship carried
the remains through the Strait of
Gibraltar directly west to the ceme-
terry near the capital of his native
land. There they. were reinterred.
while thousand voices, in the same
Sicilian air which has carried It
around the world, sang Home. Sweet
Home" in honor of the author. who
never had home after the age Of 13.
st. Louis, Oak Hill cemetery, Strait
of Gibraltar. Algiers, Tunis, ruins Of
Carthage and southern Sicily, each In
turn come under the same rays 81 tho
sun, as the old earth rolls eastward
on a journey that nevsr ends.
A pathetic story IS told of Payne
once sitting in the front seat of a
theater when Jenny Lind sang "Home.
Sweet Home" He was so affected by
It that at the close OF tie concert he
sat weeping for several minutes. the
spectators having quietly left him
alone. .e..
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Cold Dip Restores Girls Voice.

Los Angeles, Ca1-Miss Bernice
Pooler, q visitor from Philadelphia
and deaf-mute since babyhood, re-
gained her speech and hearing, follow
Ing sudden plunge in the Pacific
ocean at Balboa beach.
The bath was Involuntary. She lost
a pair of valuable gold combs and a
diamond pin. besides getting a shock
and running her gown-but she says it
was worth it.
Miss Pooler lost her speech and
nearing by falling into lake in Penn
sylvanta when she was an infant: 10
years ago, and has not heard a sound
or spoken word since. To-day she
1s garrulous. as she puts It.
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Light
W. W. JACOBS
| False Colors
Copyright. Dodd, Mead Compeuy.)

"Of course, there is deal of bully.
Ing done at sea at times," said the
n1ght-watchman, thoughtfully "The
men call it bullying an the officers
call 1t discipline, but it's the same
thing under another name. Still, it's
one to another. Everybody aboard
Almost has got somebody to bully, ex.
cept, perhaps, the boy; he as the
worst of it, unless he can manage to
get the ships cat by itself occasion.
ally.
II remember. good many years
ago now, l was lying at Calcutta one
time in the Peewit, as fine a bark as
you'd wish to see, an we 'ad a fust
mate there as was a disgrace to is
sects. A nasty, bullying, violent man
who used to call the hands names as
they didn't know the meanings o1
and what was no use looking in the
dictionary for.
There was one chap aboard, Bill
Cousins, as he used to make par
tikler mark of. Bill 'ad the misfortin
to ave red air, and the way the mate
used to throw that in is face was
disgraceful. Fortunately for us all
the skipper was very decent sort OF
man, so that the mate was only at
Is worst when he wasn't by.
we was sitting in the fo'cs'le al
tea one AFTERNOON, when Bill Cousins
came down, an we see at once ed
'ad turn with the mate. He sat all
by hisself for some time simmering
an then he broke out. One O. these
days I'll swing for i'm; mark my
words
Don't be a fool, Bill ses Joe
Smith,
eff I could on'y mark 'im,' ses
Bill, catching his breath. Just mark
i'm fair an square. If could on'y ave
I'm alone for ten minutes, with no
body standing by to see fair play. But
O cource, if it i'm it's mutiny.'
"You couldn't do it if it wasn't
Bill ses Joe Smith again.
"'He walks about the town a.
though the place belongs to 'im,' sale
Ted Hill. Most of us is satisfied
to shove the niggers out O. the way
but he ups fist and its 'em if they
comes within a yard of i'm
"'Why don't they it i'm back? Sc.
Bill. I would if I was Them
Joe Smith grunted. We'll, why
don't your he asked.
"''Cos I ain't nigger,' ses Bill.
"Well, but you might be- ses Joe,
very softly. Black your face an
'ands an legs, and dress up in them
cotton things, and go ashore and get
in is way
eff you will, / will, Bill, ses q
chap called Bob Pullin.
well, Bill was a bit flattered, the
carpenter being very superior sort
of a man, and quite an artist in i.
way, an Bill sat down an let i'm
do i'm with some stuff out of a car
that made i'm look like Hindot
what 'ad been polished. Then Boil
Pullin was done too, an when they'G
got their turbins on, the change IL
their appearance was wonderful.
We'll, the two of 'em went ashore
arter dark with the best wishes o
all on board, an the rest Of us sal