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Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14

Father. dear father, come home
with me now, for ma has some car
pets to beat; she's got all the furni-
ture out in the road from the front
porch down to the street. The stove
must come down and be put in the
shed. and the yard must be cleaned
of dry grass, for it's time to clean
house and the harry's to pay-and
the front window needs some new
glass. Father, dear father, come
home with me now, and. bring some
bologna and cheese; it's most Y
o'clock and there's nothing to eat
I'm so hungry I'm weak in the
knees. All the dinner wen have will
be cold scraps and such. and Wen
have to eat standing up. too, for
the tables and chairs are all out in
the yard-Oh. ! wish spring house
cleaning was through! Father dear
father come home with me now, for
ma is mad as a Turk; she says
you're a lazy old thing, and that
she proposes to put you 10 work
There's painting to do. and paper
to hang. and windows and casing TO
scrub. for it's house-cleaning time,
and you've got to come home and
revel in suds and cold grub.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14
CONTEST NOTICE.

Department of the Interior Unit
ed States Land Office, Boise, Idaho,
March IA, 1870
A sufficient contest affidavit hay
ing been filed in this office by John
+ Chrlstianser. [ay"'i, Idaho, con
tastant, against homestead entry No.
8049, made April 4, 1905, for NWA
Serial G3423) Section "a, Township
Z north, Range 3 west, Boise Meridi-
an, by John c. Van Rooy, Payette,
Idaho, Contestee, in which it is al
legged that said John G. Van Rooy
has never established residence; has
made no improvements whatsoever
on above mentioned land"
Said parties are hereby notified to
appear, respond, and offer evidence
touching said allegation at 10 o'clock
a. m. on April 81, 1910. before A. L.
t5,aau 4. :. Commissioner at Weis'
er. Idaho, land that final hearing
win be held at 2 o'clock p. m. on
May 4, 1910, before) the Register
and Receiver at the United States
Land Office in Boise, Idaho.
The said contestant having, in a
proper AFFIDAVIT. flied. get forth facts
which show that after due diligence
personal service of this notice can
not be made, it is hereby ordered
and directed that such notice be Civ
en- by due and proper publication.
VIM. BALDERSTON, Register.
FRED V. TINKER, Receiver.
First publication March "a, last
April 81.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14

A sad-faced editor, with fringes on
the bottom of his trousers, and the
wind signing mournfully through his
whiskers, sat is his sanctum thinking
thinking. Presently a shadow fell
across the room and a shril voice de-
handed to know if he was the editor.
Yes sir" said he with a look of
alarm. The owner of the voice mopp-
ed the floor with the editor and went
his way. Thank heaven, exclaimed
the editor after he had gathered to-
gether the wreck of his former self
and had Strengthened up the furni-
ture, life is still worth living; l ex-
pected he would tell me to stop his
paper.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14

The latest invention TO hang in
the family dining room is the gum
board. 1t is a neat little circular
board, plain, or decorated, fastened
to the wall. The name of each of
the family is painted on the circum-
ference, and marks the spot where
the gum is left until wanted. This
saves carrying the gum to bed and
getting it in ones hair or swallowing
it in the night. It is obvious that
the gum board supplies a long felt
want, and he who invented the new
fad will have the best wishes of the
young ladies'.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14

Wilt thou take her for thy ''pard, -
for better or for worse; to have, to
hold, to fondly guard, till hauled off
in the hearse? Wilt thou let her
have her way, consult her many wish
IS, make the fires up every day, and
help her with the dishes? Wilt thou
give her all the stuff" her little
purse win pack, buy her monkey
boa and muff a little seal skin SAP
ne? Wilt thou comfort and support
her father, mother, Aunt Jemima. I'm
Gle John, thirteen sisters and a
brother? And his face grew pale
and blank, it was too late to iilt; as
through the chapel floor he sank
he sadly said Il wilt"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14

For lowest prices on lots and tracts
of from one TO ten acres at New
Plymouth, Fruitland, or Payette it
will pay you to see me at once. 1
also have houses for sale or rent.
C. e. BRAINARD,
loft Coughanour Blk
For Rent room house on Front
Streets. e. Chapman. 1874
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14
ed a cure and a relapse is not looked

Those who are fond OF working
out puzzles can tackle the following:
A certain family in Lincoln consists
of one grandfather, two grandmoth-
ers, one father in-law two mothers-in-
law, three mothers, two fathers, two
daughters. one son, one daughter-in-
law. one son-in-law, one granddaugh-
ter, and there are only six persons
in the family
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14

For Sale-Seed wheat and twc
milk cows.-Henry Sick.
Wanted-Man for ranch work 81
the day or season.-M. B. Sherman
Independent phone, Payette, Idaho.
For sale-Clover seed.-H. F. Her
ningsen, Payette, Independent phone
20.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14

Laying on hands" for complaints
especially in children, is now taking
the place of Christian science. A
mother cured her boy Of the cigar
cite habit with one dose. She laid
her left hand on the boys neck,
her right hand on one substantial slip
per, and then laid the slipper where
it would do the most good. 1t effect
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14

"Wanted-A reliable man" read
Mrs. Bascom from the advertising
columns of the paper. Then she
raised her glasses upon her forehead,
looked severely at her husband, and
remarked: And the wordll wait a
considerable number of centuries yet
before it gets him"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14

A woman, whose husband died re-
Gently, leaving her $4,000 life insur-
ance, reported the sad news to her
eastern relatives thusly: Jim died
this week. Loss fully covered by in
surance.'
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14

For Sale.-Barred Plymouth Rock
cockerels and Mammoth Bronze tur-
keys. +. S. Hurd.
For Sale-2 span horses, 2 sets
harness, a little hay, cream separator
good as new.-C. F. Draper, Ind.
phone. lltt
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14
RANDOM THOUGHTS.
Sense and Nonsense Clipped, cuIled
and Thought of.

Sense and Nonsense Clipped, culleo
and Thought of.
IF YOU
Want a cook,
Want a clerk,
Want a partner,
Want a situation,
Want a servant girl,
Want to sell piano.
Want to sell a carriage,
Want TO sell town property,
Want to sell your groceries,
Want to sell your dry goods,
Want to sell your hardware.
Want to sell your millinery goods,
Want customers for any thing.
weekly through this paper.
Advertising is the highway to success
Advertising brings new customers,
Advertising keeps the old ones,
Advertising shows energy,
Advertising shows pluck,
Advertising is biz"
Advertise or bust,
Advertise long,
Advertise well,
ADVERTISE
At once.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-04-14

state Of idaho, County Of Canyon, s.:
LAP. sCRITcHEELD, cashier Of the
,beve-named bank, do solemnly swear that
tbe above statement is true TO the best OF my
knowledge and belief.
A.P. sCRITCHFlELD, Cashier.
subscribed and sworn TO before me this eth
day OF April. 1910
FIJI LYON, Notary Public.
Correct Attest o. H. Ayeyt J. A. Lauer'
& r. Pratt. Directors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-22

the noncontiguous territory of the
United States in the same period. The
shipments from the United States to
Alaska in the eight months under
consideration increased little over
u million dollars those to Hawaii
slightly less than two million; those
to Porto Rico about Pa million; and
those to the Philippines. as already
indicated, 3 Il millions. Shipments to
the United States from Alaska during
the period in question fell off about
II million dollars; those from Hawaii
increased a little less than million;
those from Porto Rico about 1 "a mil
lion; while those from the Philippines
increased about 4 "a million. Thus the
gain in the trade between the United
States and the Philippine islands in
the eight months ending with Febru-
airy practically equaIed the gain in
the trade with Porto Rico, Alaska.
Hawaii. Guam and Tutuila combined
during the same period.
Such tariff relations with the Phil
ippines should have been in existence
for the past decade. They show that
these possessions in the Far East can
be developed and handled to the adj
vantage of this country. They also
plishments of President Taft. Not
only that but these tariff concessions
to the Filipinos were one of the things
that Colonel Roosevelt was unable to
secure from congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-22
TRADE WITH PHILIPPINES.

1t is interesting to note that the
trade of the United States with the
Philippine Islands shows marked in
crease since the passage of the act
removing the tariff duties on domestic
lands and the United States. The tar
iff act which went into effect on Au-
gust 6, 1909, as is well known, pro-
vided for an interchange free of duty
of practically all articles of domestic
production of the United States and
the Philippine islands. The figures of
the bureau of statistics of the depart
ment of commerce and labor, show
that the value of tho shipments of do
nestle merchandise from the United
States to the Philippine islands from
July I, 1909, to the end of February,
1910 practically all of which period
except the month of July was under
the new tariff) amounted in value to
10,151,2T6, against $6.s71,764 in the
corresponding period of last year. Dur
ing the same period the value of mer-
chandise imported into the United
States from the Philippine islands was
$11,42O,475, against $7,070,132 in the
same months of the preceding year, an
increase in the total trade of about SO
per cent when compared with the
corresponding months of last year.
The increase in the trade with the
Philippines in the period under con-
sideration is practically as great as
the increase with all other portions Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-22
OLD observation-disclosures.

love, old meeting houses-how remote.
From all the worlds loud tumult do they
seem!-
Islands Of blissful peace to lun tired
souls
Tossed on the seas of daily circumstance
And seeking friendly heaven after storm
Sequestered bowers sweet with holy balm
To shelter and to shield. No words may
The pathos of their centured peaceful
ness.
Tranquil and holy-here have women
Wept
Above their loved ones. strong men here
BY piteous grief, in those gray ruthless
hours
When in the silent earth they laid to rest
Their precious dear ones-while the old
house gloomed
Its dropping roses and its ancient shrubs
And clinging tvies sighed In unison
A requiem for vanished loneliness.
Or worth and noble charm too early gone.
Or goodly veterans called to their long
home.
The memories are sacred that enshrine
Those sweet-sad, tragic, gray and mourn
full hours.
But with each mellowing year that mel
lows grief 80
And reconciles us to the Fathers will.
The dear old Westinghouse grows more
endeared
And gathers sentiment unto Itself
Deep sentiment and reverence and love-
John Russell Hayes, in Book News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-22
AYHAWKER JOTS

John Brassfield." declared Bill
Sincaller, kicks so much on what is
done to improve this town that / have
| an idea his mother must have been a
chorus girl in her youth.''-Vinland
Vine.
"Oh, my friends said the orator
according to a yarn told by the Be
lott Gazette. sit makes me sad when I
think of the days that are gone, when
look around and miss the old fami-
liar faces used to shake hands with
If every young man who starts out
IN life learned some trade thoroughly
there would be much less hardship
ahead in case he should fail to make
good in whatever he may undertake..
It is something to fall back on all his
life which he will thoroughly appre-
ciate in later life.-Denison Herald.
If you will take a small box, bore
an inch hole in one end of it and
put 1t up so high that a cat cannot get
at it, pair of wrens dressed in garbs
of brown will come and take up their
abode in 1T and rear family of little
ones and catch all the insects that in
fest your garden and flower beds. If
you would study the habits of the
wren. you must get up early, as they
believe in getting their worms and
other insects right off the ice.-Leav-
onworth Labor Chronicle.
The editor of the Cassidy Times
was married a few weeks ago and
Joe Satterthwaite of the Douglas
Tribune, wants to know If the follow
ing, which appeared in the Times, is
bit of personal experience: "a cou-
pie were married recently. The cere-
mony over the wife began to weep
copiously. What's the NATTER asked
the husband. I never told you that
don't know how to cook sobbed
the wife. Don't fret said he, I'll not
have anything to cook; I'm an edi-
tor"
A story is going the rounds OF an
editor who went off on a vacation and
left his paper in charge Of a preach
err An irate subscriber who had re-
ceived a dun" wrote vituperous
letter-such as editors often get-de-
claring. ST don't owe you a cent, and
if you send me another dun, I will
The notion took with the preacher.
He promptly wrote: tI have been try
ing to get that out of this editor for
ten years. If you will come down and
make a success of it, I have at least
twenty men in my church whom you
may operate on"
The postoffice department requests
that all rural mail boxes be painted
white with black lettering for the
names. This white and black arrange
ment will be too severely plain to suit
the artistic temperament of Franklin
county. In this abode of aestheticism
we want more artistic variety. On one
route there should be baby-blue boxes
with pinE-1ettering; on another ele-
plants breath boxes with crimson
inscription. and so on. If the depart
want. the matter will be checked up
to the national commission of fine
arts, when it is appointed.-Ottawa
Republic.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Tho soul is a lonely thing at best,
whence it came, 1t knows not at all;
whittier it goes, it knows as little; what
il is doing here, and how, it knows
least of any," writes the master es-
saTist on the staff of Harper's Weekly.
ITO expand in a little kindness and be
grateful. to communicate a little
strength or cheer and be content-that
is all 1t looks for. without the love IF
our fellows we are leafless stocks, cum
bering the ground; we are waterIess
wells, hooking our own need. For all
that is given we may give again in
thankfulness and devotion; but only rs
seed is sown can earth bear fruit, only
Els we are loved can we love again. Let
no man think he can give and not re-
ceive. AS soon could hollows in deser-
sand turn to green pools grit about
with whispering reeds and Towering
rushes. Surely as the babe smiles up
because the mother smiled, so do we
give all because to us. describes, all
has been given. Let a man count for
one day the services, the friendliness,
the trivial kindly deeds, the pleasant
tones, the smiles, merely that have
fallen like dew upon him. He will never
again reckon himself Independent of
LIS AAIlu OROL4 all LIldL are near OF
dear he leans for sympathy, for COM
prehension, for courage. His very vir-
tues are fed from without. How much
we owe to our friends ideal of us?
How much to their own high standard.
of which we must not fall short for
mere shame How much of fortitude
we share in the mere presence of lofty
endurance, of accomplishing pain, Of
submission where hope is not! When
we are afraid, sometimes, of the sight
of sickness, when we would hide it
away in hospitals, Danish it to the
woods and wilds, we are forgetting how
we depend for our own courage on
those who are practiced in terrible
virtues of endurance. The very con-
temptation of these virtues has power
itself to communicate strength; they
purify the soul, they fortify it. and
finally they impart a special grace.
Little as we reck it, we lean constant
~ upon the invalids, the unfortunate,
the troubled hearts,
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Useful Illiterates.

Dr. Ef1ot's suggestion that the time
to apply an educational test to irnmi-
grants is not on their arrival, but if
ever, when they apply for their final
naturalization papers, is an excellent
one. OF course, the worst of the
strangers VIII come to our somewhat
too hoSpitable shores are not the illit-
crates, nor are they the least valuable
additions to our population.
In not a few of the countries from
which our immigrants sail, inability to
read and write Is no indication, as it
usually is here, of mental deficiency.
There it is simply the mark of the Ia
boring classes. or at any rate their
elementary education, when it arises
from lack of facilities to acquire it. -
a fault comparatively trivial and easily
remedied.
But when an immigrant lives in this
country the number of years required
as one qualification for citizenship and
has not yet seen the need of the power
to read and write. or is without the
brains to acquire it, he might we'll DE
left in his votelesS state, for he is OBJ
viously incapable of taking an inteli-
gent part in the government of the
country.
OF course, every would-be citizen is
now subjected to an educational test,
but it is usually Of the most perfume
tory sort and proves little as to actual
covering more ground than the read
ing, or pretended reading, of a few
sentences. might well be made, and
those who failed to pass it would be no
loss to our ruling class.-New York
Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-22
a NTTNTCTPAL DIsGRACE.

What can be styled as nothing else
than a municipal disgrace is in evil
dence on Kansas avenue at Eighth
avenue. At the center of the intersec-
ton of these busy thoroughfares is
deep and dangerous hole. Surrounding
Il are piles of granite block. crushed
stone and dirt. These might serve as
admirable kopjes for a phony moving
picture of q Boer war scene, but they
surely have no place at the junction
of two of the most important streets
in the capital city of Kansas. Not
only are they eye-sores. They also i'm
pede traffic and are fraught with dan
ger to the occupants of vehicles.
They have been standing serene in al!
their ugliness for several weeks now.
And 1t would appear that the pros
poets are good for them to stand just
as they are during the remainder of
the summer. There's a dispute on be-
tween the Edison company and city as
to who is responsible for putting fire
cistern in that locality in repair. I'm
til this disagreement is settled, 1t Is
likely that the one of the principal
street intersections in the city will con-
tinue to look like it had been torn
apart by an earthquake.
without going into the merits Of the
controversy. 1t is certain that there
should be a speedy settlement of It,,
or that steps should be taken to re-
lleye the disgraceful condition prevail
ing in the streets. II the Edison people
refuse point blank. as they apparently
have to finish the work they started at
this point and put the street in its
proper condition. the city should under
take the job Immediately. Then a suit
can be brought against the Edison
company to compel It to pay the cost
of the work. In this way the street can
be fixed up at once and the merits of
the question as to who should pay the
bill can be threshed out in an equita-
bic fashion.
Perhaps IT would be a bit unfair to
hold the new city commissioners re-
sponsible for the existence, or contin-
uance Of this disgrace. The matter is
really legacy from the old city ad-
ministration. But the new commits
sioners can make a ten-strike with the
community II they will take immediate
steps OF some sort to place Kansas av-
enue at Eighth avenue In it's normal
condition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-22
A Boomerang.

What makes one instructor popular
and another not popular is not always
easy to define. But in one of our east
ern colleges there Is a well known and
muct-lovcd professor of Scotch birth,
who always seems to have an aptness
at meeting his ''boys" on their own
ground and good-naturedly turning
their jokes against themselves.
Recently the professors regular class
room was undergoing repairs, so he
took another room temporarily and on
the door wrote with a piece of chalk:
'fProf. Blank will meet mis- classes here
today
Along came the boys, one wag eras-
ed the "c'' of "clas IS" in the inscrip-
ton, and all stood about to see what
the old man would say to the amend
n1ent.
He came. glanced at the new version
of his announcement. did not smile or
frown, but without seconds hesitation
erased the APP and walked on to his
eesk.-Cosmopolitan Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-22
POINTED PNxAtIKAPHS.
IRON the Chicago News.l


If a man could only unload his ex-
perience for half it costi
It's human nature to believe all the
good we hear of ourselves.
Saloons supply the political machine
with high-ball bearings
Wise is the man who can keep his
face closed at the right time.
1t is we'll for the average woman's
peace that she isn't a mind reader.
1t is a great pity that the chap who
invented trouble didn't take out pat
ent on it.
No matter how much a woman loves
her husband she just can't help abusing
him now and then.
A pretty girls only reason for falling
in love with the homeliest man of her
acquaintance 'is-because.
Tt seems to be another bit of human
nature to want to pat a man on the
back if he wins and to kick him If he
loses
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--KHV-:
ouAKER NIEDITATIoNs.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1

LFlrom the Philadelphia Record.1
To be or not to be-winter fiannels.
With lots of men nothing is impos-
sib1e-till they try it.
The Hibernian pronunciation makes
no distinction between a snake and
sneak.
Perhaps the woman who owns a
chantecier hat is perfectly justified in
Growing about it.
The truth Of the saying that time is
money seems to be borne out by the
way people squaHder 1t.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to remark
that when everything else fails, a wo-
man can become suffragette.
Whipping boy in order to make him
go to Sunday school is a good bit Ike
beating the devil around the stump
Wigwag-~It is a pet theory OF
mine that two can live as cheaply as
one" Youngpop-"Huhi It's plain to
be seen you were never the father OF
twins"
Little willie-'Let's play we're going
to get married" Little Ethel-"Oh.
there's no fun in that. Let's play we
be divorced"
1.-THE hairs of our head are number
ed" sagely remarked the Sunday school
teacher. 1T don't see anything remark
able in that. SO are the automobiles
and trolley cars" commented Willie
Wiseboy.
Blobbs-"I have a scheme that would
make me rich if could only carry It
through" Slobbs-"What is it?'' Blobbs
STARTING a blind asylum. exclusively
for the people who are blind to their
own interests"
Hoax-"Since Blobbs was run ever by
an automobile the queerest thing has
happened. He's two feet shorter than
he used to be- Joax-"7ow can that
be possible?" Hoax-'It was necessary
to amputate both his legs"
Fat Lady-"What Is the India Rub
Der man kicking about?" Living Skels-
ton-"He was fined $3.50 this week for
nothing at ALL" Fat Lady-"Well,
suppose an India Rubber Man must ex-
pect to have his leg pulled once If
while"