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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-04-08
You Can Test
the Kidneys

Letthe urine stand for twenty four hours and
if at the end of that time there are deposits Of
brick dust variety or if the water becomes
smoky and cloudy you may be sure the kidneys
are deranged.
Another very marked symptom of kidney
disease is pain in the small of the back.
The letter quoted below tells how these
symptoms were overcome and kidney disease
cured by DR.. A. W. Chase's Kidney and Liver
Liver Pills Because of their direct and COM
bined action on both liver and bowels these
pills cure the most complicated cases.
Mr.. w. H. Cook, X. F. D. No. 4, Lodi,
Wis, writes:-"For many years was troub-
led with kidney disease and several doctors
told me my conditions was very serious but
they could not cure me. Then turned to DR..
A. w. Chase's Kidney and Liver Pills with
excellent results. The sediment disappeared
from the urine, the pains left the back and loins
and am feeling WE'LL"
One pill dose, rs cts box, at all dealers or
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-04-08
A Grateful Man.

whenever look at my wife," said
the husband of the celebrated latest
woman on earth, 81 feel that l have
b great deal to be thankful for
Chicago Tribune.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-04-08

Impure blood runs you down-makes
you an easy victim for organic diseases.
Burdock Blood Bitters purifies the blood
cures the cause-builds you up.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-04-08

GRAND RIVER CORPORATION.
Anstey, Mary A $500. 1.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

The campaign for local option in
this county was inaugurated a,
Nampa Monday and petitions call
ing for an election under the local
option law passed by the last leg.
islature will be at once circulated
in every precinct in the county.
The law requires that when 40 per
cent of the voters of a county secur-
ed TO a petition praying the county,
commissioners to call an election to
vote upon the local option question
such an election shall be called.
The county is thoroughly organic.
ed with O.. ". Badely of Caldwell
as president. and the friends OF the
movement are confident no trouble
will be experienced in securing 60
per cent Of the voters TO the peti.
ton.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17
DATE FROM PREHISTORIC Acl
Remarkable Pictures Found In Grottos
Of Spanish Town.

Prehistoric pictures hang In the
grottos Of Atlanta in Spain. At the
entrance are found all kinds OF kitch'
en- refuse. mussel shells. broken bones
antlers. and fints, and crudely hewn
tools OF stone. all embedded In greasy
black ashes. On the walls and roof
OF a hall 75 feet long n nearly 1s
feet broad are animal pictures, some
hewn. some painted. black, red, OF 9th
err colors. These animals. drawn sin.
ely or In groups aud usually strongly
faithful to nature. belong to a world
that Inhabited almost all Europe at the
end of the ice age. but is now almost
extinct in the south of the European
continent. and are recognized as the
Wild horse. wild boar, stag. bullock.
COW, goat. There also are a consider
able number OF peculiar drawings
which finally were concluded to be hu-
man beings. They have an animal
head with strongly projecting snout. II
Is supposed by some that these re-
markable creatures with their arms.
hands. legs and ears are dancing per.
sons with arms uplifted to implore
and with animal masks. But this sup
position Is held to be highly improb-
AS the artists OF remote antioui-
ty knew how to picture various ami
mails with perfect fidelity to nature 1t
is thought that in this instance they
also drew from life and that at that
time there still lived in Europe such
creatures closely related to the COM
mon ancestors Of man and ape. The
themselves remain mysteries.
For haadacba Dr MIlaSs Anfi-Pafn pills
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17
Democracy of the Desert.

The democracy of the irrigated
sections always impresses the new
conner. 1t is due to the small farm,
the independence of the owners,
and the social equality of the peo-
pie. Conditions compel associa-
ton and organization In harvesting
and marketing high priced pro.
ducts. The narrow provincialism
which has marked life where farms
are large is not found here. Rural
delivery of mails, with daily papers,
the country telephone, travelling
Libraries. centralized schools. and
trolley lines to the towns are all
serving to bring the desert farmer
within the stimulating currents of
the worlds thought. One of the
most prominent farm editors in
America recently said to me-; Sin
irrigated West there will be de.
veloped in time the most nearly
ideal conditions of rural life and
the best type of men aud women
the world has ever Geo
graphic Magazine.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17
COOO-BY TO THE DINNER THAT
"MOTHER" USED TO COOK

There II cause for the old
fashioned folk to "view with
alarm the progress Of the modern
idea, for il threatens now 10 invade
the kitchen and even to put the
cook stove into the discard.
Styles keep chapging-even the
styles in the Kitchen, says a news
item introducing the prepared
food shops. The good old ''fam-
iiy'' dinner is TO give place to the
ready made meal. The kitchen
IL not only to be robbed Of its place
in the home life. but of all the
sentiment. and memories that have
given 1t the proverbial right
spot in the recollections that make
the past so replete with interest.
The old-time Thanksgiving dinner
that YOU recall now with the activi
ties in the kitchen where ''all
hands were drafted into the ser
vice OF preparing the neal is to be
furnished by the grocery store just
around the corner. The modern
idea has decieed that the time
spent in the kitchen was wasted.
When company comes" here.
after mother and ''the girls will
need TO be concerned only in pre-
pcring the 'place cards aud ar
ranging the tables for bridge"
aud FIVE hundred" The grocery
boy will bring the dinner in a
basket.
The new style will ''save time, "
II is SAID. But YOU had as we'll
make mp your mind now that the
dinners that ''mother' used to
cook in the old fashioned kitchen
will eve be delivered at the door
ready made That part Of the
offering made by the modern idea
is both a delusion and a snare.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17
Is DIVORCE AN EvIL7

We notice that the Presbyterian
General Assembly meeting at Den
yer deplored The fact that divorce
is on the in the country.
Why deplore IN Why is divorce
necessarily a bad thing Why not
rather consider it an easy escape
from q bad ,hingi The reason
divorce is on the increase in this
country is because the women are
becoming less dependent upon
the men all the time. A woman
can make a better living Tor herself
alone than she can handicapped by
a worthless man. therefore don't
blame her for wanting to be releas-
ed from a bad bargain. The mar.
rage vows should be changed from
$50 long as you both shall live
90 so long as your mate is deserv-
ing Of your love and respect.
When a woman, or an occasional
man, has made an indiscreet bar
gain in the hey.day of youth, is
IL good sense to say that she. and
occasionally he, should be unhappy
the balance of her life Just in order
TO stand by the bargains The root
OF the evil. il it be one, is the
laxity of the laws in regard to mar
riages.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17
WILL Ir HELP

James ]. Hill. the railway mag
nate. has warned congress that. I'm.
less there is extensive downward
revision in the new tariff measure.
the Democrats will control the next
congfeSs by a large majority. And
it is very likely MI. Hill is right
in his warning. More than one
party has lost its congressional
majority by means of unsatisfac-
tory tariff legislation no tariff bill
has ever been thoroughly satisfac-
tory. and a number have been SO
bad that the people rebelled at the
following election. The Payne bill
seems likely to be one of the latter
sort. But if such should be the
case. end the Democrats gain power
in congress, will it help anyone
but Democratic Office seekersl
The country has not entirely for
gotten the Wilson German act,
which. as a tariff measure, was so
bad that Grover Cleveland was
ashamed of It, and Mr.. Bryan learn
that campaign pledges are of as
little worth in a Democrat as a
Republican. Later evidence, right
up to the minute, is found in the
Of Democrats on the present
bill. who, while they may vote
against IT for forms sake, look tor
all tie protection possible for their
districts, instead Of seeking lower
for the benefit of all. There
may be a change in the political
complexion Of congress. but it is
no guarantee of a beneficial change
n tariff measures.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17
Boy Dragged to Death.

Burnley, June 1.-THE eight
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. c.
Ar, who reside on a ranch 10 miles
east of Burley was dragged to
death by a runaway horse last Sun
day the clothing and flesh being
literally torn from the body.
The boy who was left in charge
of the three horses by companions
wound a lariaat which was fasten-
ed TO one of the saddles about his
waist. A few minus later the
horse became frightened and ran
dragging the helpless BOY through
the sagebrush and over the rough
ground at a rapid rate. The
screams of the little fellow attract
ed the attention of his companions.
but they were powerless to render
a i~sistance, and the mad horse, drag
ing its helpless victim, dashed by
the Ar home in full view uf the
Mortified parents. Arriving at its
stable. several hundred feet from
the Ar house, the horse stopped,
and neigbors released the torn and
bleeding body of the unfortunate
boy from the lariat and carried the
remains to the grief-stricken par
ents. The neck and nearly every
bone in the body of the little fellow
were found to have been broken,
while the flesh, in many places,
torn from the bones.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17
REMEMBER YOUR MANNERS

A gentleman advertised for a boy
10 assist him in his Office. and rear.
ly fifty applicants presented them.
selves. Out Of the whole number.
he, In a short time, selected one
and dismissed the rest. ~ should
like to know" said a friend, ION
what grounds you selected that boy
who had not a single recommended
tion." You are mistaken. said
the gentleman, ''he had a great
many. He wiped his feet when he
came in, and closed the door after
him. showing that he was careful
and neat. He gave up his seat in
stantly to that lame old man. show
ing he was kind and thoughtful.
He took off his cap when he came
in. answered my questions prompt
" and respectfully. showing he
was polite and gentlemanly. He
picked mp the book which ! had
yurposely laid on the floor and re-
placed il on the table, while all the
rest stepped over It. or showed it
aside: and he waited quietly for
his turn, instead of pushing and
~crowding. showing that he was
honest and orderly. When / talk
cd with him | noticed that his
clothes we're carefully brushed, his
hair in nice order. and his teeth
were white as milk and when he
wrote his name | noticed that his
fnger-nails were clean, instead Of
being tipped with jet, like that
handsome little fellow in the blue
jacket. Don't you call those things
letters of recommendation. l do
and / would give more for what !
can tell about a boy by using my
ewes ten minutes than for all the
fine letters he can bling me
Children do not neglect your man
ners.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17
Church Notices

Regular preaching service Sun.
day morning in the Presbyterian
place of worship. In the evening
Children's Daywill be observed by
the sunday school. who have pre-
pared a program of Rotations,
dialogues and songs. Come and
hear the children at $50. All are
welcome. Special music. S. A.
Parker. pastor.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17
Patents for Lands

Through the efforts of L. A.
Trowbridge. Governor Brady has
requested the government land
Office to issue patents to the state
for all lands under the Canyon
canal, so that entryman who are
SO entitled will receive their patents
from the state land Office. This
action will facilitate transfers and
enable II to secure IONS in
order to make further improvements
on their lands.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

A patty of Emmett Rebekahs
went to Nampa Tuesday to attend
the district Rebekah meeting and
eudeavor TO resuscitate the Nampa
lodge. In this they were successful
and officers were elected. The
party consisted of Mrs. Crossou.
who represented the grand lodge.
Mrs. Titus, Mrs McCrossin, Mrs.
Sherard. Mrs. c. 7. Moulton and
Mrs. q. n. Calender.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

Folks have gotten into a whole
lot of trouble in this world trying
to joke with the man who has no
sense of humor.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

On Missouri editor is said to
have dunned his subscribers thus:
IF you have frequent fainting
spells, accompanied by chills,
cramps, corns. bunions. sore throat
or epilepsy. it is a sign you are
not we'll, but are liable to die any
minute. Pay your subscription
and make yourself solid for a good
obituary notice"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

II this weather doesn't suit you,
pack the thermometer in ice.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

The radicalism of Yesterday il
the conservatism of tomorrow.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

A mans business is like a wheel
barrow, not of much account until
it is pushed. What the laborer is
to the wheelbarrow. that the mer-
chant who advertises is to his bust
ness. Both push with good results.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

A lady asked the butcher for a
piece of beef and not bones. ''Bu,
you don't expect us to have beef
that walks without bones, do your"
inquired the butcher. "Well,
no. replied the lady, 81 don't
want it to walk; III carry it," So
the meat merchant weighed her
up a dimes worth of liver.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

"My good woman" said the
learned judge, ''you must give an
answer in the fewest possible
words of which you are capable to
the plain and simple question
whether, when you were crossing
the street with the baby on your
arm, and the motor car was coming
down on the right side and the dog
cart was trying to pass the motor
car, you saw the plaintiff between
the carriage and the dog cart or
the motor car and the dog Gait, or
where and when you saw him at
all, and whether or not near the
carriage, dog cart and motor car.
or either, or any two, and which
of them, respectively, or how it
was. "-The Pilgrim.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

The state game warden should
pay a little attention to the propa-
CATION, elongation and subrogatiou
of the angle worm when fishing is
at its best in the late spring and
early summer months, as well as
just before frost. The angle-worm
is a small, shy. silent creature
when most needed, that divines
mans nngodiy Saturday night
purpose almost before he forms it
himself an goes deep into the earth
just ahead of the deepest spade
point. This country needs an
angleworm thirteen inches long
and as large as a Faber No. 2.
They have them in Canada and the
game warden can import a lot.
There is no duty on hshworms that
mas been heard of up to this time,
but in the revision one can be levied
in about fifteen minutes. Those
Canada worms come mp to the sur
face early in the morning, Just
before dawn, when the dew is
heaviest, and you pick them up
like strawberries. and they are as
large as garter snakes.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

1t was 1920 O'Clock when a Ger.
tain 8 year-old got to bed the other
night, very tired and sleepy. He
undressed quickly and hoped into
bed. George" said his mother,
sternly. "I'm surprised at you.
You didn't say your prayers. Get
right out of that bed and say them"
Jaw, mamma came from the
tired youngster, fwhat's the use
of waking the Lord up at this
time OF night to hear me pray?"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

Don't you want your nice
bread and butter, Annel' asked
her father Anne shook her head
Ats a shame to waste such nice
bread and butter continued her
father "T'll eat it myself Anne
watched the process with big ewes
and a look of expectancy OH her
face Finally. when the last mouth.
full had disappeared. Anne asked.
Papa. did it ticklel"
Tickle said her father "Whv
no; what do you meau1'' II
thought it would tickle" said
Anne. at had a long hair on
it. The Delineator for July
Let Wilton. Cooke Martin write
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

Let Wilton, Cooke Martin write
your FIRE insurance.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-17

For headache DR.. Miles Anti-Pain Pills
Blue-grass blade., 1909-01-17
CBy Judge Parish B. Ladd)

In that long time ago on the fertile banks
of the Euphrates, the land which gave birth
to Hebrew mythology, Nature continues to
smile on its cnce grandeur, but now sleep
ing ages of desolation. while we calmly sit
on its placid banks and listen to the bub-
bling waters as they dash from the noun
tain tops Of Bactria to proclaim the birth of
the sage of Iran.
When one tires of reading the history of
the bloody strifes and prosecutions of Chris
tanity, it is relief to turn to the pacific
biography of the prophet of the long since
dead past, and there bask in the sunbeams
of humanity as they glisten from the pre-
cepts of Zoroaster
Who was this philosophical reformer, and
what land gave him birth? In following
the obscure lines of archaeological history.
we find it easier to ask than to answer
these questions; but the reader is entitled
to the best answer history can give.
Zoroaster or Zarathuster, as rendered in
Greek. was born at the east of Iran, in Bac
tria. Plato says he was the founder of the
doctrine of the Magi and son of Aroma
yes. According to Pompeius he was King
of Bactria, and founder of the Magian art
few details of his life are given. Pliny
says he laughed on the day of his birth
and for thirty years held sacred commune
with a single deity in the wilderness.
The name of Zoroaster will live and slow
" glide down the grooves of time as the
noblest humanitarian that ever adorned the
pages Of religious history. We should know
Just when this man first cast his glowing
light on the horizon of a benghted world;
but the DEGREES of a blind fate have been
lost in the Jungle of past ages. That he
lived not later than 1900 years before our
common era. all agree; but inst when or
where he was born no one seems to know
A few writer's assert that he was n myth
while the weight Of opinion, and later re-
search maintain that he was a real man
and the field OF his labors was in Bactra
on the eastern confines Of Iran, which join
ed Chaldea on the southeast.
Numerous books claimed TO be the wri
tings of this man. have come down to our
time but the matters presented in them are
60 heterogeneous as TO give color TO the
statement that some II not all, OF them
Blue-grass blade., 1909-01-17

were written by others long after the death
of the prophet while some maintain that
he left no writings; but the sincere and
earnest spirit manifested in some writings
ascrbed to him, is too full of genuine sym
pathy fer his people to be the work Of
others. That Zoroaster. belonged to the
desert, and like Mohammed was in love
with the camel and the trackless wastes,
seems quite certain, for it was in this
pacity, as a traveller from India to the
Euphrates, that he inhaled the inspiration
which gave vent to his hymns, as portrayed
in his Gaths.
His life went out, not in search of new
gods or a new religion, but 20 engraft on
the old worn system better life This
WORKOUT religion was i mixture OF Chaldean
and Hindu mythology, which had lost sight
Of the great solar god for the worship of
sticks and (pantheism, now com
ing in fashion with the mere scholarly
deists)
Nor does it seem that Zoroaster's sole
object was of spiritual nature, for he loved
the wild and romantic life of the desert
wastes as well 'as the more picturesque
mountain scenes of the herdsman in his
pastoral solitude. The love of nature in her
primitive simplicity won the affections Of
this roaming dreamer.
Plutarch says of Zoroaster: He held
commune with single god in all the wide
world around him; while Chrysostom says:
Neither Homer nor Hesod sang of char
lot and horse or Zeus. ike Zoroaster."
AS to the time of Zoroaster, Hirimippus
assigns the life of this great man to a per-
iod 5000 years before the Trojan War,
while Xanthus and Aristotle place him
5000 years before Xerxes. That Zoroaster
taught the Magian religion, the worship of
the sun as the source of all life, in all its
purity. there can be no doubt IL his biog
raphy is reliable.
As before said whether Zoroaster left
any writings or whether all the writings
ascribed to him We're the work of others
after his death, cannot be determined with
certainty; that OF the numerous writings
that purport to come from him It Is certain
that they were written at times wide apart,
most of them long after his death and that
they came from Hindu sources. From these
writings a few facts may he cleaned from
Blue-grass blade., 1909-01-17
From the Banks of the Classic Euphrates

among the romances and legends that sur
round him.
In the Avesta and the Vast, we are told
that all nature rejoiced at the birth OF
Zoroaster; it was no little star of the East
that followed and watched over his cradle
for the whole heavens and the earth smiled
on his infantie face
While mere boy, his wisdom in debate
overshadowed the officers of the Kings
court. A little later he gives battle to and
Stays the demons; he passes through
mountain of fire unharmed he turns his
back on the devil, who offers him the king
doms of the earth to renounce his mission
1t is not until he reaches the age of thirty
years that the gods permit him to enter on
his divine mission. just. as later was given
to Christ When this time came, he went
out into the world preaching and perform
ing miracles, as did Christ later on. Fin
ally he notifies his hearers. as did Christ
to prepare for the end of the world which
was to come in his time, when a new hea-
ven and earth were to replace the old, at
which time judgment would be meted out
to each according to deserts. The Chris
tian story of this affair, as applied to Christ
is an almost an exact copy The Christian
plagiarist was a fine copyist The latter
Avesta makes Zoroaster the messenger of
the only revealed religion of the god Or
mud. same as our new testament makes
Christ the messenger of the only revealed
religion of the god Jehovah.
In the Sha-Nana it is said Zoroaster was
crucified at Balkh. All one and the same
story. We know the early Christians
were familiar with these stories concerning
Zoroaster. as well as the legends of Buddha
and the Hindu Christina. for all these things
were household sayings in Rome at the
time of the writing of our gospels. These
stories told of Christ in our gospels are not
only the same as those told by Zoroaster
but substantially the same as those told
by Buddha, Apolonius of Tyana. of Romu-
lus, of Cyrus of the Emperor Augustus and
numerous other pagan heroes.
In the Avesta. good and evil seem a little
mixed. where the good spirits were at one
time called daevas, which. in Pesian, rem
ders div. The Hindus and the old Ttaianos
make diva from the same root,-the spirit
of darkness-thus making the div or daevas
represent both good and evil. BIZ; II is
said, good and evil were only different al
tributes of the one god. Ormuzd This is
equally true when applied to all the treat
Blue-grass blade., 1909-01-17

INTELLECTUAL FLOWERS
THE EcLECTcsM OF CHRISTIANITY
MYTHOLOGY.