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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-12

United States in manufacturing the
$50 millions dollars worth OF silk
goods turned out annually by our
factories is brought from other parts
of the world, chiefly from Japan and
China, though in smaller quantities
from Italy and France. To the 112
millioD dollars worth of hides and
skins imported last year, nearly ever
skins alone the imports last year
amounted to thirty million dollars,
brought from such distant countries
as India, China, the Straits Settle
ments, Persia, Morocco, the Belgian
Kongo, and Madagascar.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-12
THE BIG DENVER SHOW.
Promises To Break All Records, Both
In Ate enhance and Size Of
Exhibition.

Denver, January 10.-Preparations
for the opening of t e big National
Western Stock Show on next Mon
day, January 18th, P"e completed and
it S promised that all previous
shows will be ecipsed in the Sixth
Annual. This is made possible by
the elegant new buildings which have
been added to the show accommoda-
tions at the stock yards. Entries
have been so large that the manage
ment is busy struggling with an
exhibit of breeding stock will be the
greatest ever seen in the. West ard
the Horse Show will have new
features that will stir up the great
est interest The Poultry Show,
which is added this year for the
hibition of the kind ever seen west
of the Missouri river. The car load
exhibit of stock will tax the full ca
pacity of the Union stock yards and
stockmen are coming from all parts
of the country, not only to see, but
to buy some of Colorado's wonderful
cattle.
! The big stock show at Denver was
started to advance the interests of
agriculture and live stock in the
West, and it has been making good.
1t has an educational value to the
farmer and stockman impossible to
under estimate. Denver is proud of
this big annual event that has
grown in such a short time to ma
tional proportions and a, warm and
hearty invitation is being sent to
the whole West to come to Denver
and enjoy the show and profit
through it. The railroads have made
low rates and Denver is ready to en-.
terrain $4,000 people from the out
side.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-12
WITH NEW PHONE MANY
CAN TALK ON ONE WIRE
Army OFFICER, The Inventor, Patents
Device in the Name Of the Am
erican People.

Washington, Jan. 4.-Gen. Allen,
chief of the signal corps of the army,
announces a new invention of the
telephone which will revolutionize the
history of that instrument. The
signal corps has discovered multiplex
telephony is practicable, or, in other
words. that several independent con-
versations may be carried ON simulta
neously on single wire circuit. The
invention has been made and patent
ed for the benefit of the people at
large. 1t can not be appropriated by
one corporation CIR Individual or
trust It is the invention of an army
man, Maj. Geo. o. Squires, assistant
chief signal officer, and belongs to
the people of the United States. The
invention shows that to constitute
circuit two wires are not necces-
sary. One wire is sufficient. Gen.
Allen states that all the instruments
required in the new scheme of tele-
phon!rg can be purchased from deal
ers in the open market.
| The secret of the invention is the
application of wireless ccmmunica-
tion, the wireless messages being
controlled as to direction by al single
metallic wire. This is a seeming
paradox, but the imports mt discovery
is the control of the wireless by a
wire base. Statisticians who have
given attention. to the possibilities of
the new system as applied to tele-
phone companies say that the Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph Co., fol
instance, could save SAP 100000 a
year if it made use Of the war de
partment's discovery.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-12
Left Cannon Her Fortune.

Washington, Jan. 4-Speaker Can,
nom has received letter from King
King & Co., bankers, of Bombay. In
dia, notifying him that al woman
client, whose name is mentioned in
the letter, having been warned by
her physicians that she has less thar
six months to live has deposited with
them her will, in which Joseph G..
Cannon of Danville, 1 L." is made
sole heir to an estate valued at ap-
proximately $2,500,000.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-12
CURE YOUR KIDNEYS.
No Need to Take Any Further Risks

Why will people continue to suffes
the agonies of kidney complaint, back
ache, urine disorders, lameness, head
aches, languor, why allow themselves
to become chronic invalids, when a
certain cure is offered them?
Doan's Kidney Pills is the remedy
to use, because it gives to the kid
neys the help they need to perform
their work.
If you have amy, even one, OF the
symptoms of kidney diseases, cure
yourself now, before diabetes dropsy
or Bright's disease sets in. Can Blacl
foot residents demand more convinc'
ing proof than the following:
Fred H. Sweath, IT'S Capitol Ave-,
Idaho Falls, Idaho, says" Doan s
Kidney Pills cured me Of bad at
tack of backache and pain across my
kidneys and they. also corrected a
kidney weakness that had annoyed
me. ! consider Doan's Kidney Pills
the best kidney medicine to be had
for they took effect on my trouble
after all other medicines had failed
My advice to all kidney sufferers il
to give Doan's Kidney Pills al trial.
For sale by all dealers. Price So
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, New
York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan SAM
take no other.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-12
PERSONS BLOCKING TO
NEW POSTAL BANKS.
Children, Newsboys and Women Are
Among Heaviest Depositors on the
Opening Day.

Washington, Jan. '4.-Reports re
ceived here from the cities and towns
of the country in which postal saw
ings banks have just been opened in
dictate that persons of small means
will be the heaviest depositors. Post
master General Hitchcock states that
ne is entirely satisfied with the first
days business and says that so far
as he has yet been advised the post
masters who have BEEN designated as
Uncle Sans bankers have met no dit
ficulties of serious nature.
Children Are Depositors
Leadville, Colo. Jan. 4-The postal
savings bank system was successfully
inaugurated here and at the close of
business fifty people, including a
number of school children, had tax.
en- advantage of the opportunity to
make deposits.
Many Buy Deposit Blanks.
Carthage. Mo-, Jan. 4.-The first
postal bank in Missouri has opened
here. H. e.. Grieh was the first de-
posltor., There were many persons
Who purchased the deposit blanks
which cost 10 cents apiece, for sou
veniJs
| Newsboys Are In Line.
Globe. Ariz. Jan. 4-The first pos
tai savings bank in Arizona has
opened tor business. Al number Of
newsboys were at the head of the
line OF waiting depositors, and some
began by purchasing a 10-cent de
post card. The depositors were nu
merous, but as no certificates larg
er denomination than SIS had arrived
a number who wished to- place larg
er amounts had to be turned away
Boy Makes First Deposit
Peoria, ILL.,, Jan: 4.-With the ex
capJion of az scramble to have the
honor of being the first depositor il
tle postal savings bank for Illinoi:
which opened at Pekin,, there was n
ceremony. There were several hun
dred waiting at the doors before thu
office was opened. The first depos
or was a little boy, II years old
Paul Ponaghan, who left 50 in quar-
tiers, dimes, nickels and pennies.
Women Patronize Bank
Princeton, Ind, Jan. 5-The oper
ing of the first postal savings ban
: for Indiana here at the local post Of
flee was accompanied with a gooi
sized rush of depositors, that lead
to the belief that the system is t
be big success, in spite of the fac
that this agricultural community, wi
J its ample banking facilities, is n
garded as giving poor opportunity fl
! a real test. There were many depo
| itors and p>stal saving card buyers
/ especially among the women an
j children
Banks do Good Business
} Boston, Mass, JAM 4.-POsta1 sa'
> ings banks opened In every Ne
= England state, and while the vo
l ume of business transacted was NJ
S of very large proportions, it is r
e ported to have more than fulfille
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-12

the expectations of the local postal
officials. Norwood, Mass; Bristol!
R. l.; Berlin, N. H.; Rumford, Me. i
Montpelier, VT, and Ansonia, Conn.,;
were the towns chosen for the ex-
pertinent in New England.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-12

Butter Wrappers at this office.
The Caucasian., 1911-12-24
A Moth Miller.

How long can moth miller live
without air and light?" is question
IiaGZling the book worm Il opened an
old library book the other day" he
said. that had the appearance OF hav
ing been closed for century. aud on
the very first page found Il moth
miller. Tie lay lifeless for few min
utes. but pretty soon he began to
wriggIe. Now, ordinarily moth millers
are my chief aversion. take cruel
delight in killing them. but could not
kill that moth miller. | played the
role of liberator instead. His helpless
ness touched me. and l. blew on him.
clicked him with my finger. and after
awhile he was able to fly away. Now,
what | would like to know is. How
long had that insect been entombed
My curiosity carried me to the length
of inquiring when the book had been
called for last. but the attendant in
formed me that since the book was in
the reference department it would be
a prodigious labor to trace the latest
reader SO how long the moth miller
had suffered captivity is still mys-
tery."-New York Times
The Caucasian., 1911-12-24
FORTUNE TELLING.

overheard this:
"What do you think? had my for
tune told today"
"Yes. And what did the woman tell
your"
"Oh. lot OF things. Do you know, ]
believe there is something In it. She
said | had fortune coming TO me-
from the old country. and that's true,
and | am to take a big journey. And
my life line is crossed by great sor.
row. And
Let me see
"Oh, yes. | am to be married twice.
A dark haired man and blond wO-
man are mixed up in my destiny, and
an enemy will cause me trouble. The
gypsy asked me the date of my birth.
and my horoscope shows
And both women agreed they had
been considerably disturbed by the
babblings OF some swarthy crone OF
the alleged revelations of some palm
reader or star prophet
Foolish ones.
IL one may judge by the advertise
ments of the ciairvoyants and me
diums and their like there must be a
host OF people who patronize the
takers
Silly tribe of humans,
What. think you. do the poor timer
ants who go taking from place to place
know about the future?
When reduced to the last analysis
they reveal very little of IA startling
character
II you live long enough you are likely
to make a journey, if one amounts to
anything he will have one or more enc
mics. sorrow is the common heritage
of the race. there are D lot of black
haired men and blond women in the
world. and most persons have ina Il
nary fortunes coming
With plenty Of trouble in the world
why reach out for norc-at the end Of
fifty cent piece?
Witless patrons!
How humans have been fooled by
the folk who. from the witch of Endor
down, have assumed To summon spir
its from the vasty deep'-fo for a small
price In hand paid!
The future is yelled
And happily so. DO you fancy Prov
idence has committed itself to some
greasy gypsy or soothsaying peddier?
Let the future be. The present is all
you need
He who yainiy tries to peer down the
vista OF coming days is as one who
starts into q tangled maze OF windings
where. as old Omar says
You come out by the same door
wherein you went"
The Caucasian., 1911-12-24
YOUR SURPLUS,

In the advertised statements of u
bank you will read something like this
Capital OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 500 900
Surplus and undivided profits....... $1,000
Which means. of course. that in ad
dition 10 the paid capital employed in
the business the bank has earned IA
surplus fund available for use that
serves as Il sort of insurance,
Surplus is earned capital.
Carried as surplus it is really capital
and increases by so much the resources
of the bank.
Every peGson. like the bank. should
carry considerable surplus.
In addition to his worSing capital,
which includes his physical. mental
and moral resources. he should accu-
mulate fund Of surplus energy.
Because
There will come time Of stress
when all the powers of body. mind
and spirit will be taxed to the utmost
and he must perforce draw on his sur
plus fund.
A panic tests the bank.
And SO the emergency tests the man
Ii the resources of the bank are avail
able it will weather the financial
storm. If when trials. difficulties.
temptations, come to the man he is
strong in body, mind and soul there is
a surplus for the crisis he will come
through
But
II his body is fiabby because of lack
of exercise, by overindulgence or loss
of sleep or dissipa tion if his mind is
weakened by fear or worry; if his
moral sense is duIled. why. then
He must draw on his depleted capi-
tai
And that sort Of thing with bank or
with man is the beginning of the end.
Lay up a surplus.
Keep the body in fine trim and foil
of good blood. keep the mind keen 'nd
sharp and seryiceabie, keep the soul
nntaiDted and when the work doubles
and the strain comes one may so at
his hard task with enthusiasm.
Watch your surplus
Do not let it become depleted. As
the bank is careful to carry a cash re.
serve. 50 should you keep your strength
reserve.
The Caucasian., 1911-12-24
indian Summer

1t is related in history that when
that stalwart band Of pilgrim fathers
settled in New England they knew lit
tie OF the climatic conditions of the
new world October came and with it
the first flurrieS of snow The frost
nipped the woods. and the chill of the
air foretold the coming Of winter
I'VE will now have winter" it is fur
ther related that one of the band re
marked and no. doubt the worthy
Bradford. Endicoit and Winthrop nod
ded their heads in approval Eontinu-
ing. history teilsauss thai the friendly
Indians pointed TO the skies and to the
west and told the fathers that sumner
would come again before the winter.
They were right In the las! days of
October it grew warm again The air
was filed with slaBting sunshine The
world seemed wrapped in IN .atmos-
phere of sleepy warmth. The fathers
looked upward and remarked 10. the
Indians summer" This may or may
not have been he origin of the term.
1t is an expression. however. that is
applied to a short season of pleasant
weather which commonly occurs in
the latter part of October or the early
part OF November Memphis CONNER
cialAppeai.
The Caucasian., 1911-12-24
SIlepiH's Sale.

No. Is, 400 In the First judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La.
S. 5. Hunter vs.. Feitel Oil and
Development Company
BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias
10 me directed from the Honorable
First Judicial District Court Of Cad
do Parish. Louisiana, in the above
number and entitled cause, | have
seized and will offer for sale at pub
lie auction for cash and according
to law, at the principal front door
of the court house of Gaddo Parish,
Louisiana, during the legal hours OF
sales, on
SATURDAY. JAN. 20 1912.
That certain lease from w. c. Stln-
son to S. S. Hunter of the southwest
quarter of the northwest quarter OF
the northeast quarter OF section 3,
township 90, range rs, together with
the wells thereon, as we'll as the
following described property, to-
wit: One 80 h. p. boiler and connec-
tion: onet960 foot finished well; one
standard pumping rig complete; two
1900 barrel storage tanks and con-
nections 800 feet 2i-2 lead steam
line; one pumping jack; 2300 feet OF
pinch pipe; 2400 feet 21-2 inch
pipe; 2300 feet 4-inch pipe: $500 feet
of 6-inch pipe; 1850 feet 8-inch
pipe; 40 feet f0-inch pipe; 200 feet
2 i-2 inch liner pipe; 2500 feet iron
sucker rods; 3.85 foot derrick; one
abandoned deep we'll; as well as all
oil and other appurtenances on said
lease or connected with SAID we'll
Said property seized as belonging to
said company, and to be sold for
cash and according to law to pay
and satisfy the debt as specified in
said writ, say in the sum of S6,6666
with six per cent per annum inter-
est thereon from the 10th day OF
May 1911, and all costs of this suit
as we'll as ten per cent on said prin-
Icipal and interest as attorneys fees
J. P. FLOURNOY,
Sheriff, ex-Officio Auctioneer
Caucasian, December II, 1911.
The Caucasian., 1911-12-24

al sne sweerly promises to be more
careful She proposes that 10 save
money they take trip to Europe.
where living is cheaper.
She has NO conception of the value
of money
Finally the thoughtiess creature.
after trying TO borrow money OF rich
Gus society rake.
She is not bad only foolish.
By and by the wife comes to her
senses She braveiy accepts poverty
and through struggle learns tier leg.
son and comes to appreciate her hus-
band
But the pity of it.
She cannot restore that husbands S
youth and vigor. lt was spent be-
cause of her careless wastefulness.
Overdra wn?
Scarcely. a wife may be fo0ishly
prodigai of her husbands income.
whether If be 81 900 or $4,000.
She knows he does not want her to
think him stingy. aud when. taking ad
vantage of his love. she lures him into
spending or herself spends more than
his income she is leading him and her
self-into certain and dire ruin.
close student OF modern marriage
has declared that seven .tenths of do.
mestic unhappiness is caused. directly
or indirectly, by money matters
Extravaganza is the one crying social
and economic evil OF our day.
The overweening wish to own ex
pensiye things merely becayse others
have them. the craze for display, the
silly aspiration for recognition in arti-
fetal social circles-these are at the
bottom of r3uch OF the unrest and dis
satisfaction OF modem married life.
The Caucasian., 1911-12-24
COULD iHEY FoRGET7

A correspondent wants 10 know why.
in my opinion. California voted to give
her women the ballot.
There are doubtless various reasons
/ but this is one.
California owes women much. and
she was not uLgaiiant enough. when
reminded OF her obligation. to forget it.
The story of the plainsman and the
planswoman is story OF glory and
tragedy in which the man got most
or the glory and the woman most of
the tragedy.
When the news OF gold came to the
forty miner" he hitched UP his prairie
schooner and started on the Santa Fe
trail Often. under the canvas cover.
on the seat by his side. was a woman
sometimes with babe in her arms.
And she2
Leaving every friend on earth be-
hind and sharing alike with her man
--if she iived-she heard in the after
years the story OF his heroism. 1t was
the man who made the desert blossom
as the rose-always the man.
II she lived!
Go by the way of the tral of the
gold seekers and know that trail is
strewtls with the graves OF women.
There are no monuments. And there
are countless tiny graves. long un-
| marked where they buried their babes.
And then
Those who survived the ordeal toiled
side By side with their argonauts in
Eulch and field and cabin. It is a typi-
EcaI fact that the wives OF the bonanza
mine owners In the days Of hardship
washed the clothes Of the miners in
order to grnbstake their husbands
And there were more babies
The nioneer women suffered and
The Caucasian., 1911-12-24
SIaeriH's Sale.
No. 5,457-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La. !:
Eharlpa Z Wirhish VIC

No. t5,457-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La.
Charles B. Wimbish VS.. J. A
Johnson, ct al.
No i5,46i-Geo. W. Weathersby VS.
J. A. Johnson. ct al.
By virtue of writs of fieri facias
to me directed from the Honorable
FIRST Judicial District Court of Cad
do Parish, Louisiana, in the above
numbered and entitled suits, | have
seized and will offer for sale at pub
! lie auction for cash and according
to law, al the principal front door
iof the court house of Caddo Parish
| Louisiana, during the legal hours of
sales, on
SATURDAY, JAN. 6, 1912,
Lots 1G6 and III Of the Pinehurss
Subdivision of the City of Shreve-
Iport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, an1
also lot s Of block a." section 3.
township 10, range i6, Caddo Parish,
Louisiana, together with all the
buildings and improvements there
on. Said property seized as belong
| ing to the above defendants, and to
be sold to pay and satisfy the debts
as specified in said Wriis, as fol-
lows: In suit No. Is, 457, to pay and
satisfy the sum of one hundred and
two and no-i00 dollars, together
with eight per cent per annum in
tcrest thereon from the 9th day of
September 1911, until paid, and all
costs of the suit; and in suit No.
1916 to pay and satisfy the sum of
three hundred and fourteen and
9-iO0 dollars, together with eight
per cent per annum interest on
S255.0O thereof from September S,
1911, until paid, and ten per cent ad-
ditional on said sum as attorneys
fees, and per cent per annum i'll
terest on the remainder, towit,
$500. and all costs of this suit
J. p: FLOURNOY.
Sheriff, ex-officio Auctioneer.
Caucasian, December >, 1911
The Caucasian., 1911-12-24
Heart toHeart
| Talks.
MOTHERS.
By EDWIN A. NYE.


4 distinguished lecturer has been
telling college girls that the "old fash
Soned'' mother is out Of date and use
less.
also
A certain editor makes it his bust
ness to lament the fact. as he sees IT..
that the new fashioned" mother is
being educated away from mother
hood
Now
Does the mother fashion change? Is
there an old fashioned and new fash
toned style Of mothers?
Certainly not.
The mother instinct is the same yes
serday. today and forever. Wherever
a child is born there is born In the
heart of the mother of that child a
love that never wavers.
There are unnatural fathers. all too
many. but an unnatural mother is ex-
tremely rare. almost unknown. Fa-
theirs will neglect and run away from
their children. No mother willingly
abandons her child.
The ''oid fashioned mother?
All mothers are old fashioned in the
respect that all of them will do every
thing and forego everything for tse
sake Of their children.
The new fashioned" motherf
Every mother Is new fashioned
Doctors and nurses say that every
mother, whether she lives in a man
sion or washes for living. is anxious
and quick to learn the hygiene that
will protect and save her baby.
Education does not spoil mothers.
Do you know that the records show
that not one of the hundreds of girls
graduated from vassar college has
ever figured in q divorce court?
On the other hand
Nancy Hanks Lincoln never heard of
8bsen or the germ theory. but she
was one of the most excellent and sue
cessful mothers the world knows
about.
Tt did not hurt the mothers of a
former generation that they We're de
MED the means of intellectual culture.
nor does it hurt, but rather helps. the
young mother of today who enjoys
these advantages
Mother love never changes
Every mother everywhere will give
90 her child all the devotion and help
that are within her
The Caucasian., 1911-12-24


6AN ,a 9EseS
;oiied and died. Nine out OF every ten
of the early California miners. so 1t is
stated. married two to three wives.
some four or five. 1t was hard on wo-
men In those days.
Could California forget?
And so when newer generation Of
these women went before the new gen.
Grafton OF men and told how their
mothers had come 10 Eel Dorado in the
movers wagons and asked that WON
EN- be recognized at the polls it was
not in the heart of man to refuse.
Such an appeal could not go unan-
swered.
California honored herself In her fine
appreciation OF the women la whose
laps her civilization was carried across
the plains.
The Caucasian., 1911-12-24
a sPENDTHRHT WIFE.

Have you read the story or seen the
play The Spendthrift?"
It tells the tale of, 4 husband, aged
and broken before his time BY the exs
sravagance Of spehdthdft wife,
The woman Iii the case is pretty and
winsome, but frivolous. wiiiful-7and
selfish
she is not the vampire who de-
,siberateiy sucks ire last drop OF blood.
Nevertheless, bs her iaclS OF serious
shcnght. she takes all she can GET from
her man and then. ike oIivcr Twist,
holds up her plate for more
She will not understand
The husband strains every nerve To
get money BE warns bis wife and
tells her they must econornize. that be
i on the verge Of bankruptcy. where