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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27

TWO sToRM BEATEN SOLDIERS SHOWED
THEIR WAY THROUGH LAkIER'S BACB
GATE.
Two gentle men to see the captain.
num-" and Mrs Sumter hurriedly
closed the note and went below stairs
to meet them She knew we'll who
they were a nd why they had come.
A branch Office of the Rocky Mountain
Detective agency had been maintained
long months at the great and growing
railway station. They had been sum.
moned by her husband. and that was
enough.
They asked to be shown the room.
with the storm battered dormer. by
this time emptied of its load of snow.
They asked to see Miriams desk
They smiled at the idea of the pay
master being held up and robbed in
broad daylight by any gang in their
neighborhood.
While they were yet at their work
there came sounds Of stamping feet
at the front door. and in came Sumter.
stiff from cold. but brimfu of energy
Found Scott and his clerk. at least"
he cried. "Most dead and half frozen.
The drivers gone. ! fear He was
blown or pitched off. The mules ran
away before the gale. Those inside
the ambulance We're helpless. Two
dropped off behind and are lost. The
thing finally capsized and went to
pieces, and they managed to reach
little cattle shack two miles south of
town. They've found Lanier's striker,
too-whats left of him.
By this time Kate had come down
stairs.
"Have they found Rawdon?" she
asked fearfully.
mo, not sign of him anywhere"
us that the young fellow ..t those
sergeants have been hunting fory
Continued next week
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27
WATCHED OVER BY SATAN.
Superstiticns That Irvine About the
Mandrake Plant,

The little plant the mandrake has a
wealth of tradition centering round 1t
such as is seldom found in floral lore
Quite an insignificant little plant with
a spindle shaped root often divided
into two or three forks and rudely re-
sembling the human form, 1t is doubt
less from this latter fact that it has
derived its name Langhorne in the
latter part of the eighteenth century
tells us to
Mark how the rosted mandrake wears
His human feet, his human hands.
while it was once believed that per
son pulling mp a mandrake would in
stantly fall dead. This was said to
be because the mandrake had human
heart at its root and when pulled 1t
would scream in such fearsome man.
else induce madness. Shakespeare
alludes to this where he says:
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of
the earth.
That living moftals, hearing them. run
mad.
And again in King Henry VII"
where Suffolk. asked by Queen Mar
garet whether he has not spirit to
curse his enemies. replies:
Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's
groan.
would invent as bitter, searching terms
AS curst. as harsh, as horrible to hear.
From time immemoral the man.
drake has been associated with en-
chantments and has ever been be-
lieved to be one of the most powerful
charms of witches. Mr.. Conway in a
paper on Mystic Trees and Flowers
states that by popular superstitions
in some places 1t is said to be per-
petually watched over by Satan, and
If it be pulled up at certain holy times
and with certain invocations the evil
spirit will appear to do the bidding of
the practitioner" = Westminster Re
view
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27
The Holland Primrose.

There is plant i'm Holland known
as the evening primrose. which grows
to height of five or six feet and bears
profusion of large yellow flowers so
brilliant that they attract immediate
attention, even at great distance,
but the chief popularity about the
plant is the fact that the flowers.
which open just before sunset. burst
into bloom SO Suddenly that they give
one the impression of some magical
agency A man who has seen this sud
den blooming says 1t is just as IL some
one had touched the land with wand
and thus covered it all at once with
golden sheet.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27
(Continp ned from page b

for domestic duties before the order
came for him and his troop to turn out
to aid In the search.
Mrs. Sumter had not half finished
what she had to say concerning Mir
lam when the summons came that
called the captain forth TO Join the
searching squadron. but he had heard
enough to increase the anxiety in his
fine. soldierly face. He went up with
Mrs. Sumter and looked critically over
the damage to the window in what
had been Miriam's room. She had
moved per force to the front-to Kath-
erine's-room Saturday night. for to-
ward sunset the storm sash was torn
out of the north dormer. and the win
dow blew In with a crash
1t was easy to see how and why the
storm sash had failed to withstand the
buffeting. In his frantic haste and
panicky flight the intruder of Friday
night had wrenched hinge from Its
fastening. The sash had sagged AT the
windward end. and the rest was easy
for rude Borrhs.
"That sash Is probably somewhere
down In the back yard. sergeant"
Sumter quietly remarked to faithful
Kennedy. Its under fifteen feet of
snow. but when Il comes to tunneing
look after II. see that It isn't injured
and call me as soon as you find It,"
Mrs. Sumter knew the reason Of his
instructions.
1t must have been after ~. for or.
DERBY call and mess had sounded In
front of the adiutant's Office when one
Of the hospital attendants came foun
dering up the row from Lanier's and
made his way to Sumter's door. little
note In his hand Mrs Sumter an,
swered the maids knock Mt the door
Of Miss Kate's room. into which the
damseis were now doubled To the
disappointment of that omewhnt VIOLA
tile domestic Mrs. Sumter closed the
portal before proceeding to open the
missfve. but her announcement. From
Mr.. Lanier." caused Miriam Arnold to
sit bolt upright. 1t read:
| Dear Mrs Sumter-I've been living since
| Saturday maiHly on your kindness and
| that delicious fruit. 1t was more than
| good of you to take such care of your in
! generated sub and I'm ashamed ts have
| sent no earlier thanks. but we've been
banked in until this morning | reckon
they'll find the paymaster's outfit showed
| under somewhere down toward Nebraska
} safe but possibly starving I'm all alone
with nothing 10 read. IL you have any
thing moral, instructive and guaranteed
to soften the unrepentant sinners heart
| don't send 1t. but tell me how you all
stood the storm. l hope Miss Arnold is
entirely recovered. Yours. most sincerely.
r. r. LANIER.
THE last thing a man mentions in a
note is the first thing he wants an
| swered." said Mrs. Sumter sagely.
what shall | tell him for you, Mir
iamg'
Tell me what Is to be done to him.
was the sole reply as the girl settled
back dejectedly upon the pillows.
I've tried to. child" answered her
hostess kindly, patiently There isn't
a court In the army that would sen
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27
WEST POINT UNIFORMS.
Cadets Must Sacrifice Comfort For the
Sake Of Looks.

Cadets Must Sacrifice Comfort For the
Sake Of Looks.
ut Is true" said a retired army on
Ger In discussion Of West Pointers
with the Washington Herald, that
many West Pointers acquire a figure
OF perfection of symmetry and car
riage the acme Of manly grace. but
these are due not to any ingenious ap-
pliances. but to the systematic drills
and exercises that make the cadet. to
. certain extent. an athlete. At the
outset these young fellows are put
through what are called the setting
up exercises, their object being to
straighten the body and develop the
chest. One might suppose that 1t would
else to make any marked showing. but
three long hours Of such exercise daily
will soon produce beneficial results In
the most stopped forms.
1.-THE cadet uniform Is also a great
help in this direction. The dress coat
is tight, very tight. The shoulders are
heavily padded in order to give them
square effect. The chest is made
thick. so that there win be no danger
of wrinkling And In size new dress
coat seems always to be designed for
boy several times smaller than the
one who is to wear It. A new dress
coat. in fact. is always source OF
suffering to its owner. When he first
puts it on it buttons readily about the
neck. but seems to lack about six
inches at the waist. The owner may
squirm and wriggie and attempt to re
duce his waist to q minimum circum
ference. but his maiden efforts are
never sufficient to button the new dress
coat. Experience is a great teacher
though. and the young fellow laugh
ingly requests one or two Of his friends
to lend their assistance. and he finally
succeeds in buttoning the coat. AL
| this for the sake of looks Comfort has
no place in the makeup Of a West
Pointer: it's discipline and looks"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27
A Reflection on the Horse.

my husband" Dragged Mrs. Jones.
twas famous long distance runner in
bis day. He once outran a horse in a
twenty mile race"
isn't that funnyg' answered Mrs.
Smith. I'VE once had horse like
that
Now Jones and Smith wonder why
their wives don't speak.-Buffalo Ex-
press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27
Dry Cleaned Them,

why is your grandpa's face band
aged" asks the lady next door.
He was sleeping In his big chair"
explains the little girl. land Willie
turned the nozzle of the vacuum clean
err against his whiskers." Life.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27

Cont inued next week
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27
Conceited.

Nell-Polly says her fianee is aw-
fully conceited Belle-In what way?
Nellie has never once told her that
he is unworthy of Philadelphia
Record
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27
And Peck Was Silent.

Peck-I really think. my dear. that
Miss Brown will make our son a good
wife. Mrs. Peck tsnappily) = And
what. sir. do you know about good
wives ?-Boston Transcript.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27
A Philosonl1ar.

PA. what is philosopher
"a philosopher, my boy, is one who
tells other people that their troubles
don't amount to much."-Detroit Free
Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27
Father Die the Work.

"Why should you beg? You are
5oung and strong"
THAT is right. but my father is old
and weak and can no longer support
me."-Meggendorfer Batter.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-27

Two-thirds of life are spent in hesi-
tating and the other third In repent
ing.-Souvestre.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-29
Cause of Failure.

The outlook to the disappointed is never encouraging. and constant breeding over real or imaginary wrongs has never yet done any good. Self -effacement, self-recognition and self-contrOl are wonderful factors in our natural development; the one pro- duces that humility which makes it possible for us to believe that there are those far more deserving than we; the others hold our mirrors up to na- ture and enable us to act with sounc- CT judgment and maturer considera- ton.
 There are those however, who will forever believe themselves more sim ned against than shining. who will whimper along the way because Fate has not distributed it's favors equally. and who will steadfastly refuse to hold themselves responsible in any It is so much more convenient to account of someone else, and by so do- ing think to leave our pages clear to make a fresh start Excuses, howev- CT, are rarely accepted explana- tions, and explanations themselves sometimes fail when their purpose is to cover up the real reasons of fail ure instead of disclosing them. Let us be true to ourselves even in our mistakes. It is not to our credit that we should blame others for our mis- fortunes when in our hearts We know that God has made our shoulders broad enough to bear their burdens. Charleston News and Courier.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-29
EASTERN CONN. LEAGUE STANDING.
Special to The BulIetin.)

North Grosvenordale, Aug. 27.-Tri- Village made certain of winning the pennant and the cham pionship of the Eastern Connecticut league, when, playing brilliantly, they shut out the Andems, to O. here this afternoon. team have look in. for Howard, pitch ing up to top form, had them at his m ercy, allowing only three hits. Cas- sidy of Webster and captain of the University of Rochester team was the opposing pitcher. His contribution toward Tri-Village's victory was seven free passes to first. The star feature of the game, and one never before per formed in this league. was a triple play in which four Fri Villagers figured and which retired the Andems when they had a chance to get a going
 The big act happened in the seventh. With no one out, Cassidy on third and Dion on second, Jimmy Johnson hit a grass cutter to Labelle. The latters delayed throw to Mellor held Cassidy at third for a time Labelle shooting retire Johnson at first. Then, display ing the cleverest kind of generalship, Mellor jockeyed along until Cassidy started for home and was touched out at the plate by Cloutier, who in turn threw to Buckley while he was beating it back to second. That play was easily the best piece of baseball that has been seen on the circuit this summer.
 Tri-Nillage can now go easy for the remainder of the season, as they have the flag cinched. They nave only three more games to play, one with Putnam and two with Jewett City. They have been the league sensation all summer having lost only three of the seventeen games they have played.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-29
D,anNiIIe,s Growth.

The popuation of Danvil1e, H.. has increased in the past ten years from 16,364 to 27.S71, an increased percent age of 70.4 Danville is where Joe Cannon lives. MT. Cannon is a very bad man, a menace to the United States and it's republican form of gov ernment and some other institutions. according to Col Teddy, and other in Surgents. These people who have gathered at Danville and become citi- zens since their Uncle Joe has been cutting up so seriously as speaker of the national house are folks of poor jL dgment They should have been as tute enough to catch on that it wasp 8 man and make their happy homes. judgment in the presumption that they Uncle Joe and prevent him from doing In that case they are to De forgiven The value of a city to the people of this world is measured by the in crease in population. These psopIe have increased in Danville because it is little more than representative of the industrious life Of the United States. II has increased more than 70 Der cent. in ten years. The rest of the country has grown about 23 per cent. Danville is more than three laps ahead in growth. The explana- ton is that the people found thera the right kind of Amercanism. that which is ~fepresented at Washington by Speaker Cannon, not that which is said to be perfect by the Cannon ene- 1nies.-Worceste Telegram
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-29
CITY LEAGUE STANDING.
LAJoiE, DOYLE AND EvERs.
How Three of the Greatest Second Basenen the Game Ever Knew were Aocidently Discovered.

Three of the greatest second base men the baseball world has known have risen 10 the heights of being
 numbered among the best in the game from obscure positions in life, which
 they might still be adorning but foI their accidental discovery The men are Larry Lajoie, of the Maps; Johhy Evers of the Cubs. and Larry Dove of the New York Giants Doyle while not a wonderful fielder
 is a hard and timely hitter Johnny Evers worked in a collar fac tory in his home town, Troy, N. Y-, and he was paid s4 per week for his labors. Lajoie drove a cab at Prov idence, R. L. and Doyle was a breaker
 boy in the Illinois coal dnines.
 Evers' story, as he tells it himself, is one of the real romances of base ball. Johnny decided one day that he informed the manager of the collar factory. Instead of the salary in crease the youngster was slipped the boot.
 fore the noon hour shutdown, and Ev- CTS hiked out to the Troy ball park to watch the Troy team practice. A fellow named Bacon was managing Troy then, and he asked the yoUngster if he wouldn't like to practice EVers got into the practice and his work was so impressive that he was signed on the spot.
 Jack Hard, who occasionally breaks into the game for Washington now when Street feels the need of a rest, was catching for Troy that season, and his work impressed that Chica- go National team that he was drafted Evers was sent along for good meas ure. tagged to be returned if he couldn't hit the big gue gait
 The rest of the history. Evers, sent along just for good measure, developed into the greatest second baseman the game has known. No man in baseball can think and act as quick as the little second sacker of the Cubs, and 1t was Johnny's noodle which beat the New York Giants out of a pennant. Hardy is now change catcher for the Wash ington club in the American league.
 Laioie played ball on the lots around Providence when he wasn't busy soliciting trade for his cab, and his work impressed a Providence man, who got the big Frenchman a try-out with the Fall River team of the New Eng land league.
 Larry was a first baseman then. Phil Gier was also with Fall River at the time and Gier was one real sen sation- The Philadelphia Nationals wanted Gier and the Fall River man agenlent threw in Lajoic for good measure. Larry stuck.
 At first Larry was kept on first base and then sent to second, where he wonders of the game, and in a team composed of mighty swatters was right up in the first flight with the war club. Gier is now playing in the bushes some place, but Larry is still one of the sensations of the game. He has lost neither his cunning in the field nor his skill with the bat. as iss attested by his yearly batting aver age.
 The Frenchman is known the
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-29

most graceful man in baseball. He makes the most difficult stops and makes them so skilfully that half the time the fans don't realize or appre- ciate just how difficult the play was.
 When Tom Kinsella. owner of the Springfield club -of the I'm ee | lea BUG. discovered Larry Doyle, the future New York Giant star was working in the Illinois coal mines and playing Sunday ball with q small team. With the Spring team Doyle became the sensation of the Three I league. John McGraw. always on the lookout for promising youngsters, paid a fancy price for the player and transferred him to New York
 And>what banning McGraw and Doyle received. The youngster was new and inexperienced in the ways of the big league, and he had a. hard time recovering his nerve. McGraw stood back of him, taught him all of his baseball wisdom and McGraw has forgotten more baseball than 8 major ity of people know-and Doyle steadily improved in his work.
 Today the former breaker boy is captain of tht Giants, and his team is scrapping hard for first honors in the National
 All of which shows that it is pretty hard for good man to remain in ob- Scurity.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-29
confusinq List of Initials.

New ambiguity has been thrown about the initials ''U. s. A." since the Union of South Africa has been added to the political divisions of the world Americans used to have such difficult ty, if any, as attached to the fact that from the same initials one might read United States of America" and United States Army" But nowJ it seems, our British cousins nave been subjected to greater annoyance than heretofore known, in that their let ters intended for African destinations, have been miscarried in large mum bers, because the "U. s. A" Of superscrip- tion has been taken to mean TIniter States of America instead of the Union of South Africa.
 The difficulty has, indeed. reached such a point that the British postal authorities have found it necessary to issue d warning. conceding the use of the initials in question to Uncle sam xclusiYely.-Hartford Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-29
MILL LEAGUE GAMES.
Y. Nj. c. A. 10, GreeneviIe Tigers 7- Baltic 4. c. Takes Two from Pirates.

The Y. M. c. A. team won another game Saturday afternoon from the Greeneville Tiger shy the score of 10 to '. The game was played on the Sachem park diamond, and though the GreenevilIe lads were on their home grounds they were unable to do any thing against the league leaders. The Y. M. c. A. boys started things in the very first inning by getting three runs, and in the second they added two more. They added one or two runs every in ming except the fifth and sixth. They had their batting eyes with them as the record of r hits testifies. The line ups:
 Y. M. c. A.-Pilling c, Stone ss, Brown 3b, Waldron If, Potter of, Caron If. Murphy 2b, Wilson 1b, White D.
 Tigers-Downing If. Grady of, Grove 1b Meehan C. Farrell 3b, Young 2b Sweeney ss. Barnes If, Dougherty p.
 Score by innings:
 Y. M. c. A..3 ? co 1 1 %-10 r 2 Tigers 70 CT 3
 The Baltic team went to Jewett City
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-29
TRI-vILLACE SURE OF CHAMPIONSHIP
By Shutting Out Andems 6 Eastern Connecticut League Leaders Secure Pennant Winning Lead Taffville Defeats Putnam-State Hospital and Nor- wich Town Win in City League -Willimantc Takes Sunday Game from Whalers
A TRIMMING FOR PUTNAM.
Taftvlle Wins by Hitting Sphere Harder and More Often Than Op- ponents.

Superiority in batting enabled Taft vile to administer a 6 to trimming to Putnam on Saturday afternoon. There was no scoring until the fifth when the honre team sent a single tal- 1y across and followed it up in the sixth with three more by making three clean hits including doubles by H. Tatreault and McSheffery. In the eighth, after Putnam had tied the score by final rally. Taftvilie set tied matters by scoring two runs, and retiring the visitors in order in the first half of the ninth.
 Putnam'S three runs in the seventh were made with two men out and for a time things looked rosy for them. The pitching of Boucher calmed them down. however. although in the sev- enth they made four of their total of seven safe hits. McShefferey and Te- treauIt featured in both batting and fol6 10
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-29
CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION STANDING.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
SATURDAY MARKETS. Light SeI!ing-SIight Reaction to Below Fridays Last Figures.

New York, Aug. 27-10.10 a. m.-Price changes at the opening of the stock market were insignificant and the hand ful of stocks dealt in showed trivial changes either way from yesterdays closing. Central Leather advanced a point.
 Il a. m.-Light selling caused a slight req ction to below yesterdays final fig ures- Subsequently Reading was bid up from 40 1-2 to Al 1-2 and the rest of the list hardened. Denver and Rio Grande preferred and American Tele- phone and Telegraph improved 1 and International Harvecter 1 1-2. Con solidated Gas declined L Reading met a good deal of stock at the high level and went off again to Al.
 CIoSe-The market closed heavy. The tone became heavy, stocks appar- ently sagging more of their own weight than to any concerted pressure.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-29
The Exact Locality?

Three men had come to see a pros porous manufacturer of Rhode Isl and. He had invited them to go over his new factory. The day Waa warm and one of the guests was stout. Al the factory they took an elevator to the top of the building. the seventh floor where the cutting was done. MT Blank then conducted his enests through the factory following the course that pair of shoes would take in the process of making. When the party at last reached the first Ioor, the stout man wiped his heated face and turned to his host.
 There is one question. Mir. Blank, that I should Iike<to ask"
 And what is that. sir?"
 T should like to know if we are still in the state of Rhode Island 9"