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The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-01-08
RObb, Nanapaz

Has the largest and best Clothing
and Shoe Store in the State ofIdaho.
Buying in connection with 3 other
large Stores, enables him to under
sell other stores. It will pay you to
call when in Nampa.-Or write for
anything you need. The business is
conducted along strictly American
lines, one price and your moneys
worth. + +
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-01-08

Heating stoves for coal or wood in
large variety and quantities, also cook
stoves and ranges always on hand at
Philips Hardware Store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

be good enough to permit me to stick in the statement that I never in my life said any such a thing as that I didn't like intellectual women. What I may have said was that didn't like women of the bluestocleng variety. There's heap of difference between the two, but haven't got the time or the inclination to draw up diagrams showing you those differences.
 Why do you have to bark back at me in that way when open my face and say few little needed things to you, any how? Why do you persist in following that comeback system?
 I haven't said one word that's unfair or unreasonable, have I? I haven't utter ed one syllable that isn't absolutely true, have I?
 We'll, then. Is it necessary, when I talk wholly for your own good and en- tirely with the view to getting you to see the desirablity of improving yourself, for you to turn on me with that enraged expression and begin to quote things that I never said in my life or even thought of saying?
 How's that? I used to say that wouldn't give a snap for woman who had nothing to say for herself in an argument?
 There you go again may have been pulpnut to say something like that, but 1t must have been . whole passel of years ago, it sure mustv9 Heaven knows I've had enough argufy1ng with you since I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

comin' firm tn pollin. place an talk with thim on tn corner.
 Good morning, Michael
 An, good morning, Cornelius"
 A delightful morning Is 1t not f'r tn exercise iv tn franchise"
 Perfect! Howiver, I fear that such lican vote
 "I hope our frind Baumgarten will succeed in his candyacy
 "I heartily agree with ye-he will make an excellent coroner. he's such good company!
 '' Yes, indeed, a charming fellow f'r a Dutchman. Cud I prevail on ye an yer lady to come an have tub iv ice cream sody with us?
 '' Thank ye Cornelius, we wud be de- lighted. but three Is all I can hold. Shall I see ye at tn magic lanthern show to- night?
 " Tn pollin' place won't be In tn office iv livry stable or barber shop, but in a pleasant boodwar As ye enter tn dure ye won't say to tn polisman on jooty: Good mornin, Pete. Amy murdhers so far?"'
 But wan iv tn judges will come for ward an bow an say: Madam, can I show ye anything in ballots? This blue Is wan iv our recent importations, but here is a tasty thought in ecru. FIT tn gintelman I'd ricommend something in dark brown to match tn socks. Will that be all? Tn last booth on tn right Is un- oceypied. Perhaps yer husband wud like to look at a copy iv the Ladies Home Journal while ye're preparin' tn bal lots ', 't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
MR. DOOLEY ON
 ELECTION DAY, 1918

Tha June American Magazine contains one of the best ''Dooleys" from Mir. F. P. Dunne's facile pen. This time MT. Dooley' discourses on Woman Suffrage" and the following is how he describes cleo ton day ten years from now:
 "'Well sir" said MT. Dooley, firm tn way this here female sufferage move ment is sweepin' acrost tn country it won't be long befure I'll be seein ye an yeer wife sthrollin' down tn sthreet to vote together
 'Niver. said MT. Hennessy with great indignation. It will niver come. A wom- ans place is in tn home alarming her husbands childher. I mean
 "'I know what ye mean said MT. Dooly. Iris favrite argumint iv mine when I can't think iv anything to say. But ye can't help it, Hinnessy. Tn time is near at hand whin iliction day will mean no more to ye thin amy other day with tn family. Up to tn prisint moment it has been festival marked: For gintlemen on1.' Its been a day whin sthrong men cud go foorth. un- hampered be tn prisince iv ladies, an fr tn honor iv their counthry bite each other It was a day whin 1t was proper an right fir ye to slug ye'er best frind.
 "'But tn fair sect are goin' to break into this fine, manly spoort an they'll change 1t. No more will ye leap firm ye'er bed on iliction mornin, put brick in yeer pocket an go out to bounce ye'er impeeryal vote against tn walls iv inthrenched privilege. No more will ye spnd tn happy mornin' hours meetin' yeer frinds an tn akelly happy avenin' hours receivin' none but inimes.
 No sir, in a few years, as soon as ye've had ye'er breakfast, ye'er fellow citizen who, as tn pote says, doubles ye'er expinses an divides yeer salary, will say to ye: Well, it's about tina We wint down to tn polls an cast my votes. An I do wish ye'd tie yeer necktie sthraight. Honorya, bring me me new bonnet an me Cashmere shawl an get papa his stove pipe hat Thin yell be walked down tn sthreet, with a procission iv other married men in their best clothes an their wanst a a week shoes that hurt their feet Tn sthrets will look like Easter Sundah. Yell meet ye'e frinds an their wives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

ragged and all that sort of moonshine' when the whole internal mess is all tneir own fault, only they haven't got the losic or the sense of common justice to aomlt it.
 Of course I don't expect to have Mime. de Stael as a wife-oh, you wouldnt know who she was If l told you-put l sure would like to experience the satis- faction of feeling that my wife knew something more than face powder.
 How's that? I've always said that despised puffy wuffy women that thought they had brains, and I've said that Ia as soon be married to green grasshopper as to an intellectual woman Of any spe- ces, and every time come Into contact with a woman like that I try to bully her and refuse to treat her civilly and
 Oh, go ahead. Go right ahead. Put things in my mouth Put the whole Koran and Talmud in my mouth. I'm used to 1t. I'm used to everything.
 When you get through, perhaps you'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
Some Peculiarities of the Tongue. From Leslie,s Weelxlv

some remarkable facts regarding the tongue have been recently presented by the eminent surgeon, Dr. E. Souchon of New Orleans. The doctor after stating that the tongue. the nose. and the skin are the only organs of special sense which perform other functions, remarks that the tongue Is the only organ except the heart which presents base, a body. and an apex. is the only organ which can be protruded out of the cavity in which it is contained, and that no other organ can assume such a variety of shapes or is so movable. Its papiilae, though similar to those of other mucous membranes, are larger and moro spe- cially developed, and those in the ante rior two-thirds differ from those in the posterior third. The tongue presents a dual structure in accordance with it's dual functions, motor and sensory. va ries in color more than any other organ, and Is moro solid than any other viscus. It is the only organ presenting the three kinds of nerve, namely, nerve of spe- cial sense, one of ordinary sensation, and one of motion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

got that idiotic remark out of my system, if I really did say it.
 I've learned my little lesson since then. I've had to sing pretty small around here for so long that sometimes don't recog- nize the sound of my own voice when speak in a natural tone downtown, and if should ever
 Oh, pshaw! The whole business, as I've said time and again, and as repeat, is my own fault, and it all serves me per- fectly right. Here. for example, after swearing off on that fool business a mill lion times, I'm engaged again in an argu- ment with woman.
 Well, maybe I'll learn sometime. Maybe by the time they are ready to carry me out feet foremost I'll have learned just about enough to last me over night. and that's about all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
A Hairbreadth Escape.

From Success Magazine.
 Charles E. Bigelow, the comedian, is bald, except for a rim of hair a few inches above his collar line.
 'I'm in an awful hurry he said one day to the Lambs club barber; "can you cut my hair with my collar onT'
 "Sure.' replied the barber. T can cut it with your hat on'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
Lunch Sets and Picnic Specialties.
 CLARKE BROS.

"Prettiest building I ever ,aw," the visitors all remark. The Empire. Jemison R. E. & [ns. Go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

Excellent display rooms for, travelling men, Chamber oil Commerce. Jemison R. E. q Ins. Go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
Skeeter-S
Antiscptie Mosquito Remedy

Positively keeps mosquitoes away Pleasant odor-harmless to the skin Not a liquid-no grease-in tube only Allays irritation caused by chiggers ol redbugs instantly.
 Skeeter-skat Skaters Skeeters. For sale by Collier Drug company.
 Skeeter-Skat Co.,, Dallas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
FOR LUMBER SEE EWART LUMBER CO.,, Ie31 First Avenue, East Lake Car Line

You don't need awnings in the Empire Building. South and east fronts. Jemison R. E. & Ins. Go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
| MR. GNAGG'S MIND
 ON GREAT ISSUES
Why Should He Talk of Tariff
 lnterestIy7
WIFE IS INDIFFERENT
Sits With Classy Stare Thinking Per haps of the Fashions-Maybe He Did obect to Blue Stock
 lngs One Time.

From the New York Sun.
 MT. Gnagg, becoming discursive on the subject of the tariff and discovering with pleasure) that Mrs. Gnagg Is deficient in information on that topic, pounces upon the opportunity to exhort:
 Just walt a minute. I wonder why I am sitting here working away at the job of trying to analyze all these things for your benefit. I might just as well climb to the top of the Singer building and explain the tariff muddle to the four winds of heaven. You're sitting there with glassy stare in your eyes, wonder ing whether you'd better have that new rajah skirt made with pleats or with bias gores, or something like that, and pre- tending-merely pretending-that you're hearing what am saying and that you have a working understanding Of the subject in hand.
 Huh? You don't profess to know much about the tariff. but you're willing to find out something about it, and you've heard every word that I've said?
 Oh, of course; but I guess I can tell whether woman is intent upon what's being said to her or whether her mind. or what she elects to call her mind. is whirling in sort of vapid vortex 15,o00 leagues away.
 Oh, shucksi What right have got to expect anything else? What license has man got these days to expect to enjoy such a thing as mental companionship with his wife?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

Still allowing that to be the case, mightn't 1t naturally be supposed that you'd be willing to overcome your in- difference to everything except the gnat- like, If only for the purpose of being able to respond to my attitude toward the larger things of life?
 You wouldn't have to really mean 1t. you know. I wouldn't be so unfair, so heartless, to expect that. You could Just fiatter me, you see, by sort of drumming upon a few of the topics of the day, so that when I began to talk about some thing that the whole worlds all keyed up about you could stick in an intelIigible word here and there and thereby make me believe that you really had some em- bryonlc idea of trying to be a sure enough companion to your husband
 I'm not asking much, you see. I'm even willing to permit you to fool me and make monkey of me, If you'll only sort of get next to yourself and make believe to be interested in things that interest me even for the sake of pulling the wool over my fool eyes.
 Because, you know, you're about the only human being I have to talk to or with. As you perhaps apprehend. I have to work for a living. I have to be on the job and be on it with both feet all day and when I get home I'm tired.
 I'm not one of those rummies that stick on their hats and hike off downtown as soon as they've eaten their dinner. Some times I wish I did belong to that push. I'd be better off. I'd get little exercise for my mind. I'd meet people who'd make me smoke up mentally and all that I'd enjoy the clash of opinions and the stimulation of controversy.
 No, no, instead of following this system what do I do? Why, when I come home here from my hard day I stick around my home. and presently something takes hold of my mind or seizes my imagina- ton and I begin to spout a little about it. and almost immediately I'm confronted by your glassy eyed stare; and then. as now, for example, I am made conscious of what big lummox I am for expecting anything else but what get
 Well, don't you worry. Things won't always go along this way around here. Situations of this sort can't last always. A man with a mind above that of a wood tick has got to have some kind of mental companionship If he's not to dry up and blow away like an abandoned ant hill {; and I tell you what. when I reflect upon what a desert place, intellectually speak ing, my home Is to me it makes mo des- perate, simply desperate.
 don't have to spend all my spare time around here, you know. There's no law compelling me to do it, and I'm not so internally old that I wouldn't be able to change my habits of living Even if I'm not crazy just now of that going down. town thing of evenings, why, I could mighty easily form the habit. and if I get into that way of doing there wouldn't be one chance in eight million that I'd ever resume the old dry as dust scheme of hanging around this dreary dismal plant all the time.
 Women-wives-never seem to wake up to it that they're making mistakes until it's too late and then. when they've lost out and all their world has come crashing about their ears, why, they go moaning around seeking sympathy and wailing about how they've been abused and out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

Sometimes. as at present, for instance, I come to and I have a sort of a grisly internal laugh at the thought of what an idiotic picture must present when I come romping home here, full of enthusiasm about something that's in my mind and begin to expetiate upon current affairs. How all the invisible imps must jeer at me at such times! I bet that I give the finest imitation of man talking to him. self to be seen anywhere on earth.
 Well, 1t serves me right for it simply goes to show what a hopeless dill am when I so much as open my mouth around here about matters of current interest. Mighty few level-head fellows do that They know better.
 When they get home they keep their heads closed, or if they talk at all they talk down to their wives-exclude a little prattle about the piffling, inconsequentiaI affairs that their wives can understand and then beat 1t off to bed or else put on their hats and go down town and enjoy the luxury of a little conversation with folks who can understand what they are talking about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

Look adhere, do you ever by any chance read anything In the newspapers?
 Oh, yes, I see you ploughing through the millinery and white sale ads You turn to that block type stuff the first thing; but do you ever read any of the news in the paper?
 For example. who's the president of the United States at the present time? How's that? Taft? Great
 Who told you? When did you find that out? By George, maybe I've done you a slight injustice. Hoorayi She actually knows the name of the President of the United States and he hasn't held the office three months at that
 We'll I'm wrong in spots, there's no use denying it. I'd have bet a million dollars that you were under the impress sion that Hayes was still president
 We'll of course you couldn't very well dodge the big headlines relating to im- portant people like presidents and such like. The point that I seek to make is that you have no natural inherent desire to keep abreast of the worlds doings. Big things don't interest you. It's only the llliputian affairs of your own cir cumscribed orbit that arouse your feeting, momentary attention.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-04-15
FILLED SHIP WITH caNARiEs.
Remarkable Experience Of Liner In .
Tropical Storm.

1t happened in the night, and, &C.
cording to the yarn spun by Capt.
Sandberg of the Panama liner City Of
Para, it mast have been 4 night OF
terror.
The ship was midway BET ween Aca-
Julia and San Jose de Guatemala,
which is latitude in which the I'M
usual Is expected. The time was be-
tween one and two o'clock in the
morning and it was very dark. Sud
denly an electric storm Of great feroc-
fty came up from a revolutionary re-
public on. the star5oard quarter. ac-
companisd by wat erspouts. st. Elno's
fire, and a great flock of canary birds
Everyone knows that st. Elmo'S fire
and waterspouts are common off the
coast of Acajutla, but the canary birds
are novelty.
At the first stroke the lightning blew
out the fuse IN the ships dynamo and
she became as dark as an abandoned
trolley car. Then the ST. Elmo's fire lit
on the fore-topmast and split the gilt
ball at the top Of the topmast exactly
into two hemispheres. One OF these
fell into the water; the other struck
the bridge and almost hit Second Off,
Ger Heckert.
Third Officer Zual, who had been OF
watch below, ran on deck All the pas
sengers followed Zual to the deck. and
the captain says that the passengers
thought the end of the world had
come. The storm was bad enough, but
1t was the birds that flew in the faces
OF the startled passengers that caused
indescribable terror.
1t lasted for an hour, and in the
morning, when the storm had raised
and the sun rose, there on tn" 'cks,
covering the awnings and almost fill
Ing the boats dashed on the upper
deck, were thousands Of dead and dy-
ing canary birds. Capt. Sandberg says
there were thousands of them Some
or them had Numbered into the state.
rooms in the darkness after the cleo.
trio lights were out
So the City OF Para came safely
through the storm when it rained
canary birds, all save the silt ball at
the top Of the foretopmast. half of
which was lost overboard.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-04-15
High Praise for Lauder.

She was high.browed and soulful,
given to the Ibsen cult and grand OPP
era in it's grandest manifestations,
hence 1t was with considerable mis-
giving that the young man took her
70 see Harry Lauder.
'He is the greatest singer of his
kind in the world" the youth had ex-
planned volubly. Competent critics
nave said that only once in a decade
does such a singer appear" etc., etc.
And she had graciously consented to
look Harry over.
After the Scotchman's first song the
Young man glanced apprehensively at
the young lady.
Her eyes were half-closed; she was
apparently in the seventh heaven of
enjoyment. --.-
This" she said solemnly, us art!'
Thenceforth that young man ceased
worrying and devoted himself to thor.
ough enjoyment Of the show.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-04-15
The Early Military Band.

A little more than seventy years
ago there was no such thing as a brass
band in existence. The very first band
entirely of brass dates, in fact, no fur.
Their back than 1885. Prior to that
time even our military music was pro-
duced almost entirely from instru-
ments of wood, and as recently as
1888 full regimental band consisted
of two oboes, two clarinets, two horns
and two bassoons.
AS showing the important part
played by the sounding BRASS in
our bands to-day it is sufficient to men,
ton that in an up-to-date first-class
band of, say, AZ pieces, there would
probably be found from eighteen to
twenty horns, to say nothing Of saxo-
phones, which are partly clarinet and
partly horn.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-04-15
Words To Freeze the Soul

"YOur son has consumption. His
case is hopeless" These appalling
words We're spoken to Geo. e.
Blevens, u leading merchant Of
springfield, N. c., by two expert
doctors-one lung specialist. Then
was shown the wonderful power OF
DIR. Kings New Discovery. "After
three weeks use," writes Mr.. Blevens,
che was as well AZ ever. would
not take all the money in the world
for what 1t did for my boy" In
fallible for coughs and colds, Its the
safest, surest cure of desperate lung
diseases on earth. soc. and $1.00
Guaranteed by Elko Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-04-15
Swept Over Niagara

This terrible,calamity often happens
because a careless boatman ignores
the rivers warnings-growing ripples
and faster current-Nature's warn
ings are kind. That dull pain or
ache in the back warns you the
kidneys need attention IL you would
escape fatal maladies-dropsy, diabe-
tes or bright's disease. Take Elec-
trio Bitters at once and see backache
fly and all your best feeling return.
"After long suffering from weak
kidneys and lame back, one 81. 90
bottle wholly cured me-" writes J. r.
Blankenship, of Belk, Tenn. Only
soc. at Elko Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-04-15
NOTICE OF SALE OF SCHOOL BONDS

Notice IS hereby given that the Board OF
County OF Elko, State Of Nevada, will receive
until IL O'Clock noon, Tuesday, April 20, 1902
sealed bids for the sale of those certain bonds
of the said ElSo School District No /, author.
lied to be issued and sold ut special election
held in said Elko School District No. 1 on
February q, 1909, and that upon Tuesday, the
said 10th day Of April. 1909. or as soon there
School Trustees will sell the aforesaid bonds
TO the highest and best bidder therefor.
The bonds proposed to he issued and sold
nro sixty In number, OF the denomination OF
five hundred dollars each, making the aRRre-
gate amount OF tho par value OF said bonds
thirty thousand dollars. The said bonds shall
bear interest at the rate OF six per cent per
annum, payable semi.annally, and shall be
redeemed AZ follows: Three OF such bonds
shall be redeemed at the end OF the first year
after the issuance. and thereafter thIoo of tn.
bonds remaining unrcdGemcd shall be re.
deemed at the end OF each year until all OF
said bonds shall have been redeemed. None of
said bonds shall run for more than twenty
years.
No bid for less than tho par value of said
bonds shall be received
The board reserves the right TO reject any
and all bids.
All bids, should he addressed To H. s Tnber
Clerk OF said School Board, Elko, Nevada and
plainly marked Proposal for Sale OF Ronds"
BY order OF the Board Of School Trustees
a. MCBRIDE. President
". S. TABER, Clerk,
Dated March % 1900
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-04-15
A Sermon on Money.

"Dey amt no use," said Brother Will
liams, "ter try ter git money wen you
amt at de gittin'-place; an de trou.
BILE is---de Jingle er it is 80 confusin'!
Hits lax de rattle era rattlesnake-
you dunno whar an what time ter
jump! Hits trouble ter git money,
an trouble ter keep 1t: Dey despise
you eff you amt got it, an eff so be
you has, deyll despise you eff you
don't give it away!"-Atlanta Consti.
tuition. q, -, -.