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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Secure the sale of your place by
giving Parkinson Realty & Invest
ment Co. an option for spring bust
mess.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

\ Miss Lulu White of Riverside, was
tRe guest last week, of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leroy Harrison, of Pocatello.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Auction sale on Kennedy sale
grounds, opposite post office, Satur-
day, March 10. A quantity Of good
furniture.-E. m. Kennedy,
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

M. Dorrerer, shoe repairing, IS
Bridge street, rear tailor shop I'll
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

w. F. Porter and family left Tues
day for Baker City, Oregon, where
they will make their future home.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Mrs. F. R. Jackmam left last week
for Salt Lake, where she spent sew
eral days looking over and purchas-
ing spring millinery, returning Molr
day.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Pure bred White Leghorn and
Rhode Island Red eggs for sale. $1.OC
for setting of fifteen eggs. o. ]. Cob.
bley. M2-4t
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

The Royal Highlanders Meet 'ev-
cry second and fourth Wednesday of
each month. F. c. Barker, l. P;
Ethel Thompson, secretary.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Mrs. Lottie Heslop, who had the
misfortune to break a leg about ten
days ago, is rapidly Recovering from
the accident. DR.. J. B. Cooper is
attending her.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Wanted-By young married man,
position on ranch, or will lease
Richard johnson, City. M16-2t
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

The Salvation Army will conduct
special meeting at the Baptist church
Friday evening, March "a. Subject:
Love and Sorrow Illustrated by
moving pictures
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

NJ. Dorrerer, shoe repairing. So
Bridge street, rea tailor shop. Phone
PIT. If
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Nevada Browning of Blackfoot is
the guest of Freddie Murphy for a
few days. Little Nevada ard Master
Fred have been sweethearts from
babyhood. Tribune.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Candy, perfumes. toilet articles at
the Modern Pharmacy, Bridge street.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-16

Mrs. Eva B. Smith spent part Of
last week in this city, coming from
her American Falls ranch,
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

At thoughts of their companion who
remained;
And often they spent many a weary
day N
Thinking Of CAtB now SO fsP away,
And on warm days in springtime
when the beeI
Hummed round the blossoms Of the
apple trees,
And, when the soft wind whispering
DER and DER
Blew through the branches OF the
sycamore,
They I..ncied it was Chitto, mourn
ing still
And signing for the home she loved
so we'll.
THE END.
From THE FERRET, Novem Der.
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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02
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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

Something better ought to come to
China. Sun Yet Sen suggests that
Republic be formed:
There are many highly educated
and able men among the people who
would be competent to take up the
task of forming a new government
and carefully thought-out plans have
been drawn up for the transforma-
ton of this out of date Tartar mon
archy into a Republic Of China.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

The war about Tripoli has already
cost Italy 500. 900 000,-and China
has got more publicity with two tons
Of Chinese .money-being about
1882 in our currency.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

It is against this sort of higf
finance, watered stock, industrial
monopoly, ami the accompanying in
cerase in the price OF living that the
American people SO earnestly pro-
test today. And the tobacco trust
is but an example.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

In the green clad woods of Maine
long, long ago
When the savage Indian chieftai1
drew his bow,
When painted re ,skins roamed oul
forests wide.
And meath our lofty pine trees did
abide
There is quaint old legend Of that
time,
Which never yet has been set down
in rhyme;
The tale of one of those old redskin
raids,
And Chitto, bravest of the Indian
maids. Y
Few years had gone by since the Pill
grim band
Set foot upon chis soil, our native
land.
The savage Indian warriors held full
sway
Ger lands wherein the white men
dwell today.
The forests that unbroken stood in
state,
Our groves of spruces, sober AMI Sc
date,
We're traversed then by narrow In
dian tracks;
The stately timbers hardly knew an
Not far away the Pequakets, built
their nest,
And where pine tree lowered above
the rest ~
It's huge straight trunk Withstood
the fiercest breeze
Without a doubt, twas monarch OF
the trees.
And every night when the glaring
moon could see
To peep between the branches OF
that tree
With care, 'twouli trim it's ghostly
shining lamp
And cast it's rays across the Indian
camp.
1t was a hot and sultry night in
June;
The warriors lay in slumber; but
the moon
Stood at its post above them and il
Upon a maiden sitting all alone,
Quite hidden from the couches OF
her band,
Beside the grassy lake upon the
sand.
The wigwams lay in silence, and the
dogs
Lay crrled asleep; the half-burned
logs
We're smouldering dimly; everything
was still,
Save istant, far-off notes of the whip.
poorwill
Long into night she sat there, deer
in thought;
Her coal black eyes were fixed upon
one spot;
The fairest girl of all the Indian
band
And for her beauty famed through.
out the 4and.
Way was she there when all the rest
were laid
Stretched in their tents! Why was
she not afraid
To sit alone in gloom and shadows?
All, Chitto, daughter Of the chief
was bold.
She Jared to tramp the hidden paths
by night.
She dared to enter in the fiercest
fight;
She loved to hunt the forest dark
and cool;
She loved to cast her fish hook in
the pool.
This fatal night the men around the
fire
Had talked; their voices with the
flames rose higher.
She understood: tomorrow at this
hour,
They would be creeping through the
woodsey bower
And then bring back the paleface
scalp or head.
The hostile savage she would never
save;
Unmerciful she watched him to hi.
grave.
But when white was captured b.
her band
she'd often longei to lend a help
ing hand.
rhe night dragged by; the moon'
inquisitive ray
Reluctantly to morning light gave
way.
The camp awoke; from every snow
white tent,
A curling stream of smoke tt
Heaven went.
rhe hustle of a busy day began,
And all the Indian warriors to ;
man,
Talked in snatches short ad yer.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

The strong wind seized upon heI
streaming hair
And held it floating in the bracing
air.
The breezes gently Redeemed her
brown cheeks
But tbs only ner fiery eye, that
speaks.
Yes, It's true, the red men have re-
turned,
And many dwellings have they
sacked and burned,
And many prizes to thSir hands did
fall,
OF which one trophy is the best of
all;
Bound hand and foot, upon the
earth so damp,
A settler lay awaiting the debate
Which on the morrow would decide
his fate.
Only boy, he had not reached the
stage
Which would declare him twenty
years of age.
He knew his life was hanging by
a thread;
Tomorrow at this time he might be
dead.
Night came on fast, and soon was
pitchy dark
Except when once or twice a glow
ing spark
Rose from the fire and fitting through
the air
Sailed off and then went out, he
knew not where.
But, Hark. A form is creeping Ger
the ground
Approaching slowly, making not a
But now whisper comes, whisper
low
Be still! For life! You're free!
Now CO."
A woman's hand IS pointing toward
the lake,
A woman's heart has freed him from
the stake
The ropes are cut with which he has
been bound,
And stealtily e crawls along the
ground
Now like a snake across the dewy
green,
And now the surface of the lake is
seen.
When, suddenly, as he is almost
A fierce, blood-thirsty war whoop
rent the air,
Down through the forest wit deaf
ening roar
The whole encampment rushed along
the shore
They searched the lake, and dragged
its bed of sand;
To every nook an corner on the
strand
Where man could hide, the Indian
hunters went,
Anger speed unto their footsteps
lent.
Then to the forest as a last resort
When suddenly an Indians keen eye
caught
A footprint bedded in the softeneJ
earth
And then, indeed there is cause for
mirth.
With whoops of Joy the entire band
gives chase
With leaps and bounds out through
the woods they race,
The torches stream out on the mid
night air,
The foxes run before them and the
hare,
A screech owl helps the uproar and
the din;
a loon behind them on the lake
joins in;
Ii h1oIC iloAh lIOooJ bouSA uPoPl lh5s
the deer;
In haste he leaves the swiftest in
the rear.
But now, Aurora hastens through
the sky,
And now a summers morn is draw
ing nigh,
The order for halt is being made
And in the center of a grassy glade
For once the savage hunters are
appalled,:
A counsel of the company is called
The chief is baffied, they have
searched the ground,
Throughout the forest no trace car
be found;
The prisoner is gone, no one knows
where;
To them, he simply vanished in the
air
Back trough the forest to the camI
they go;
The chief strobe on ahead, we'll iit
he know
That no white man on earth hat
power to break
The twisted strands that Iniiar
women make
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02
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~
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market fourteen years ago,
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Of typewriter construction.
Typewriters representing
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the best achievements of
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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02
THE LEGEND OF CHTTTo.
BY Fanny Hill.

Composed by a little yankee girl
of sixteen summers, VINO lives in
Fryeburg, Maine, and by her per-
mission printed for the first time.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29

Some time ago the Richmond Virgin
ian speaking of the eccentric editor of
the Roanoke Times, said:
''The above from the Roanoke Times
is written in the usual interesting stvle
of Mr.. A. B. Williams, and with the
lack of accurate statement which ia
frequently characteristic of his writing
The idea conveyed is that DR.. Pitt has
recently been added to the contributors
to The Virginian, whereas, as our read
ers know, he has conducted the Reli0-
ious Page of The Virginian from the
beginning"
If confirmation were needed of the
inaccuracy Of the Times a reading of
the editorial on the Russell county sit
uatiOn in the Times of the goth would
soon convince one that the Virginiar's
statement: Interesting style q
with lack of accurate statement" to be
truly characteristic of the Tines gifted
editor.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
Sirb-SeVen Specimens of Wood From Sin
gle Tract Virginia Timber.

The American Lumberman contains
the following interesting story on the
varieties of timber in Virginia:
Reference is frequently made to the
varied timber wealth of the Southern
Appalachians. The principal timbers
which attain commercial size and of
which considerable quantity can be
secured are the several kinds of oak
ash, hickory, walnut, butternut. buck
eye, Eastwood, poplar, chestnut, maple.
gum, elm, cherry, white and yellow
pine, hemlock, birch and beech. This
is tremendous list in itself, but it does
not include all of the commercial woods
or trees of infrequent occurrence.
Recently G. w. Litz, of Hurley. Va.
who looks after the affairs of the w.
M. Ritter Lumber Company at that
point, shipped timber exhibit to Rich
mond, Va. All of the kinds of timber
which subsequently will be named were
secured from the lands of the companv
on Knox Creek in Buchanan county.
Virginia. Sixty-seven specimens were
furnished, all secured within a radius of
five miles. The names of sixty-three
are given; subsequently four additional
kinds of timber were found:
White oak, honey locust. iron wood
wild cherry, black oak, cucumber.
beech, crab apple, spotted oak. yellow
poplar, black gum, wild plum, red oak.
chestnut, sweet gum, rhododendrop.
pin oak, butternut, red elm, red bud.
chestnut oak, sycamore, slippery elm
elder, water oak, sassafras. hemlocIc
witchhazel, red hickory, persjmmon
black pine, catawba, shellbark hickory
hornbeam, haw tree, alder, black hick-
DRY, red thorn, blackberry, red birch
white hickory, sour wood. white doc.
wood, water birch, locust, sugar mamie
Indian dogwood, balm of gilead, black
walnut, white maple, swamp dogwood
mulberry, buckeye, white ash. laurel
holly, Eastwood, black ash, spicewood
sumac, Wahoo, sarvice, pawpaw.
Some of the woods are considered
very rare. A 4-foot section was cut
from an oak tree which scaled over
ll,OOO feet and was S75 years old. The
specimen of sassafras was cut from q
tree containing 1900 feet of good lum-
Der. The wahoo and honey locust also
were exceptionally large. The yellow
poplar in Buchanan county is said to
show the greatest age of any poplar
south of the Ohio River.
The names of the sixty-three speci-
mems furnished will prove a surprise
even to many lumbermen who are on
Grating south of the Ohio River, where
many woods of value abound.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29

Some papers continue to mao n,
Coionei Bryan. What was it that Ad-
miral Evans said about not cheering
when the poor devils were diving. .
Durham Sun.
The remark TO which reference is
made was uttered by Admiral Phillips.
then ranking as Captain spd command
ing the Texas. Admiral Evans, IN all
h's life, probably never experienced q
1eeiing nor gave voice TO an expression
half so creditable to humanity. His
chief stock in trade consists of profan-
NY and vulgsrity. Norfolk virginisn-
Pilot.
Also remembering as was his profess
sion and his sworn duty to his country
that he was an almighty good fighting
man. 1t would be we'll for Admiral
Evans critics to become inoculated
with some of his impetuous sense of
supporting our National honor.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
Bale Your Hay This Year.

Loose hay is SO bulky that it takes up
five or six times the barn space of baled
hay. Loose hay quickly gathers dust
which causes coughing of stock and per-
haps disease. The whole outside of q
stack &c !ccse hay is practically wasted
by wind, rain, sun and other elements.
THIS often amounts to 20 per cent of
the stack. Loose hay can not be shipped
far and the local dealer knows it. So
ne pays you his price and you sell. be-
cause you know that your loose hay
must be sold near home.
Baled hay is compact easy to handle
takes up comparatively little space.
so can be stored until prices reach the
top, when you can sell anywhere, dis
lance does not matter much. Baled
hay is always clean and fresh, loses
none of its nutritive qualities and there
is no waste.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
NORFOLK AND WESTERN MAY Be PRO-
M0TIh6 VlRGINIA-CAROllNA.

hon l.. P. Summers, of Abingdon,
collector of internal revenue for the
Western District of Virginia, was a
visitor in Bristol Thursday.
Collector Summers said that there
was much excitement at Abingdon over
the sudden development that the Vir-
ginia-Carolina railroad is to be at once
extended from its present terminus to
Wllkesboro, N. c., where it will con-
meet with the Southern. He said that
valuable property at Abingdon had
been leased for office buildings for the
men who will be employed in the Offices.
Mr.. Summers says that the belief of
many is that the Norfolk and Western
is behind the Virginia Carolina in the
building of the extension, adding that
1t was his understanding that the chief
engineer of the Norfolk and Western is
at the head of the surveyors who are
now at work on the final survey. The
corps left Abingdon this week on a spe-
cial train.
Mr.. Summers says that with a line Of
railroad from Abingdon to Mendoza.
which he expects to see built before a
great while, that Abingdon will be one
Of the most flourishing towns in this
section. He believes that the VIC. ex-
tension will be worth much to Abine-
don in a material way.-Bristol Herald
Courier.
If this rumor is correct-and on the
face of it, it looks to bet means
the Norfolk and Western is going to
offset the combining of the C. and O.
and c. c. and o. railways of which we
spoke last week.
If the c. and o. build the Dante-Elk-
horn connection this will leave the Ce-
dar Bluff cutoff of the N. and W. use
less as their only possible use of this
cutoff would be to handle the Chicago
Charleston business over the C. C. and
o., but with this road in the hands of a
competitor in self protection the N. and
w. must give the Cedar Bluff line a
connection to the South-Atlantic sea-
board. This can be done by extending
the VIC. south to WiIkesboro and north
to a connection with the Clinch Valley
Division, most likely near Honaker.
All South-Atlantic business originating
west of Jaeger could then be handled
by this route and thus relieve the Blue
field and Roanoke yards of this amount
OF the business and in addition would
open up good local territory tributary
to the Norfolk and Western. On the
face of it it looks like the Norfolk and
Western was back of the deal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29

the Philippines there is a greater moral
benefit. The civilization of these once
most barbarous islands will. in time. be
the brightest star in our National dia-
dem. Only think that in lass than a
score Il years-a moment in the life Of
Nations-we have changed the uncivil-
ized. partly csnsbshstic islands into
places OF peace. Safer than the aver
age OF Asiatic possessions and through
out the whole islands the standards of
political probity are higher than the
town and county wherein the Virginian-
Pilot is using it's utmost endeavor for
civic righteousness.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29

1t seems to be very difficult for some
people to keep the even balence in life.
They run to extremes. With some it is
the extreme of work, with others that
OF pleasure, and with still others some
one or more of the many things that
enter into life. But no one can 60 to
extremes and continue without paying
the penalty of ruined health and short
ened life. 1t is best always to keep
the balance even"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
Wins Fight For Life.

1t was long and bloody battle for life
that was waged by James B. Mershon-
OF Newark, N. j., of which he writes:
II had lost much blood from lung hem
orrhages, and was very weak and run
down. For eight months was unable tn
work. Death seemed close on nv heels,
when began, three weeks ago, to use
Or. Kings New Discovery. But II has
helped me greatly. 1t is doing all that
you claim" For weak, sore lungs. obsti-
nate coughs, stubborn colds, hoarseness.
Ia grippe, astoma, hay-feaver or any
throat or lung trouble its supreme. Zoe
q 81. 90. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed
by John E. Jackson.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
SEE OTHER SIDE.

Regardless of whether it was an in
ternal or external explosion that wreck
ed the Maine, this country does not re-
greet that compelled Spain to pack its
despotlc policies and customs and get
on this hemisphere. Herald
Courier.
Maybe not, but how about another
outcome of this country's action fol-
lowing the explosion of the Maine?
There hasn't been a day since we ac-
CURED the Philippines that the United
States hasn't had good cause to regret
their acquisition, and that cause be-
comes greater with each recurring year.
How heavy the price we shall ultimate
ly have to pay for that act of consum-
mate folly only Time will or can tell
Norfolk Virginian-P Pilot.
When we remember there was before
this, people whose mental horizon was go
by State lines, and who
had such perverted ideas of National
duties as to criticise the Louisiana DUR
chase, the annexation of Texas, the ex-
tending of our boundaries to include
Oregon and Washington and tie acqui-
'ition of Alaska we may overlook the
criticism of the esteemed but misguided
Pilot.
Passing over the material benefits
hat will come from the possession of |
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29

Our English sporting cousins have
divers and amusing ways of erecting ex-
cuse columns to cover defeat with a
modicum of satisfaction. The recent de-
feat of their crack polo team by the
Meadowbrook club at New York, was
laid to the Meadowbrooks using ponies
OF the English ancestry. And now the
the victory of the American teams tool
ed by Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Judge
William 81. Moore in the recent coach
ing marathon from Hyde Park in con-
nection with the International Horse
Show, is said to prove Nothing at all.
for If the horses used by the American
were not actually bred in England. thew
are descendants of stock originally ex-
ported from England. Let's make If
unanimous by clubbing all Americans
and everything American of English
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29

1t is not necessary to make war
against our fellow men in order to show
heroic qualities. There is plenty of op-
portunity to display them in the con-
fiict Of life and in the effort to make
this world a better place in which to
i've