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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-05-25
A BLOOD TAX.
Payment by French Town to Spain
For an Ancient Crime.

Payment by French Town TO Spain
For an Ancient Crime.
Seven hundred years ago some shep-
herds OF the valley OF Roncal, In Ma
varre. were murdered by shepherds OF
the valley OF Baroton, In Bearn, the
crime taking place on the high pasture
lands OF Arlas. In the Pyrenees. II
would have been difficult TO bring the
murderers individually 10 justice, and
the Spaniards were preparing TO make
war upon the valley from which the
French murderers had come when the
French villages proposed that peace be
maintained at the price OF a yearly tax
or tribute. 10 endure for all time. and
this proposition was accepted.
The payment of this blood tax-origi.
nally three white mares. but later three
cows OF a particular breed aud color
has been made ever since, the custom
lt is nothing morei having survived
even the great wars In which both
France and Spain have engaged and
the storm OF the French revolution.
Yearly the representative men OF the
two valleys meet on the frontier AT a
certain stone remote from any town
and 20 through the ceremony OF pre-
sentlng and receiving the cattle. The
order OF procedure. which is elaborate
and Impressive. Is Fixed by document
bearing the date 1875, though the tax
was paid a hundred years prior TO that
time. The records OF each yearly meet
ing and payment are duly attested and
deposited In the archives Of the Ron
calais. New York Tribune.
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BRUISED FINGER NAILS.
A Simple Remedy That Keeps Them
From TURNING Black.

.
A young woman who was going to 9
dcbutante dinner the next evening
bruised three Of the finger nails of her
right hand badly by catching them in
door Visions of an unsightly hand
possibly one in a sling, drove her to
the telephone to get in touch with her
physician
His advice was: Get yourself a
comfortable chair and an interesting
book. set yourself by stationary
washstand in such a way that the
fingers can be held upright under the
faucet, then turn on the cold water
and let Il run over the bruised fingers
for at least three-quarters of an hour,
preferably longer.
III the water gets too cold or chllls
you during that time turn It Off for a
few minutes, but never once let the
hand get out Of the upright position
so the blood can run into the bruised
finger and blacken."
The malden's hand was unmarried
for her dinner, and she was so de-
lighted with the remedy she told it
for the benefit of the guests. one at
least of whom has tried this cure re-
peatedly since, being inclined to awk-
wardness and badly bruised fingers.
No matter how bad the hurt, unless
the finger Is mashed the throbbing
will not be followed with weeks of
1lackened Exchange
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VICE PRESIDENT KING.
Took the Oath of Office Abroad, but
Did Not Live to Serve.

icok the Oath OF Office Abroad, but
Did Not Live to Serve.
William Rufus King, born April 6,
1876, died April Is, 1853. was a vice
president Of the United States who
never served in that capacity and one
who took the oath Of office on foreign
soil, something which can be said of
no other executive officer who has ever
been elected by the people Of this coun-
try. King was an invalid, but his
friends urged him to take second place
on the ticket with Pierce in 1852.
Both were elected, but Mr.. Kings
health failed so rapidly that he was
forced to go to Cuba some two months,
before Inauguration day. Not having
returned to the United States by
March 4, congress passed a special act
authorizing the United States consul
at Matanzas, Cuba, to swear him in
as vice president at about the hour
when Pierce was taking the oath of
office at Washington.
This arrangement was carried out to
a dot, and on the day appointed, at a
plantation on one of the highest hills
In the vicinity of Matanzas, Mr. King
was made vice president of the United
Stntes amid the solemn "Vaya vol con
Dlos" God will be with YOU of the
creoles who had assembled to witness
the unique spectacle Vice President
King returned to his home at Cahaw.
ba, Ala, arriving at that place April
IL, 1858, and died the following day.
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MANYUEMA CANNIBALS.
African Savages That Grind Their
Teeth to Sharp Points.

African Savages That Grind Their
Teeth to Sharp Points.
The most terrible species of canni-
balls living are the cruel, bloodthirsty
Manyuema of Tanganyika, in central
Africa. Living to the west Of Tan
ganyika, these cannibals, clothed in
primitive fashion with a piece of bark
cloth rudely hammered out from a
neighboring tree, have an appetite for
human flesh which is well nigh in
satiable.
They exercise the most fiendish cum
ming in tracking down their quarry,
choosing fat, well covered people in
preference to those who are lean and
bony. Their favorite practice is to
waylay their victims at eventide so
that they may have before them a
long night in which to effectually dis
pose of their prey by cutting it up
into strips and drying it over a low
fire in the woods. These dried strips
of human flesh are carefully preserved
for future use, and on two occasions
these grewsome forest food depots
were discovered and their owners kill
ed by the Wafipa people, who inhabit
east Tanganyika.
Most of these cannibals file their
teeth to sharp points so as to enable
them more easily to tear the flesh
from the bone when they have to eat
their abominable meal in a hurry
Wide World Magazine.
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FAMOUS NovELISTS.
What Some of Them Did Before They
Took to Writinq

Among those noyellsts who studied
law we have Fielding. Scott, Charles
Reade. Wllkie Collins. BacknUre,
Washington Irving. George Meredith.
Robert Grant, Henry James. Anthony
Hope, Rider Haggard and owen Wis
ter. journalism. which Mr. Kipling
once defined as the one legitimate
branch Of the profession, Is represent
ed by Dickens. David Christie Muir
ray. William Black J NJ. Barrie. Mar
ION Crawford. George w Gable.
Stephen Crane. George Barr Mo
Cutcheon. Frank Norris. Richard
Harding Davis and David Graham
Phillips The navy ana merchant ma
rine have given us Smollet, Captain
Marryat. Fenimore Cooper Clark Rus
sell, Joseph Conrad and Morgan Rob
ertson. Artists and architects Include
Du Maurer Hopkinson
Smith. Robert Chambers. Thomas fIar-
dy and William j. Locke. Medicine
and theology are not so well repre-
scented. Under the former head we re-
call for the moment only SmOllett
naval surgeon. Holmes. $ Weir
Mitchell and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: !
under the latter. Sterne, Charles |
Kingsley. Henry van Dyke, Edward |
Everett Hale. Ian Maclaren, Ralph |
connor and Thomas Dixon. College /
professors who have either given up |
heir chairs TO become novelists or
nave found time for occasional novels
n the midst Of their other duties are
sir Walter Besant. Robert Herrlck and
Irander Matthews. Bookman.
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ToRRICELLI'S VACUUM.
Experiment That Led to the Invention
of the Barometer.


Of the Barometer.
The barometer was invented by Tor.
ricelli, a pupil Of Galllel. In 1913. In
attempting TO pump water from very
deep well near Florence he found that
In spite Of all his efforts the liquid
would not rise higher in the pump
stock than thirtytwO feet This set
the young scientist to thinking, and as
he could not account for the phenome-
non In any other way he was not slow
In attributing IL to atmospheric pres
sure. He argued that water would
rise In n vacuum only to such n height
as would render the downward pres
sure or weight Of the column of water
just equal to the atmospheric pressure
and, further, that should heavier fluid
be used the height of the column could
be much reduced. To prove this he
selected glass tube four feet long
and after sealing one end filed II with
mercury and then inverted It in
basin containing quantity Of the same
peculiar liquid. The column In the
tube quickly fell TO height Of nearly
thirty inches above the mercury In the
basin. leaving In the top Of the tube
vacuum which is the most perfect that
has ever been obtained and which is
to this day called the Torricelll vac.
uum IN honor of It's dlscoverer The
name of the instrument means "air
measure" and Its fundamental princi-
pies cannot be better Illustrated than
by the above described experiment.
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survsxlnn Land.

The art of land surveying owes its
origin TO the fact that the Egyptians
were unable to keep permanent monu-
ments on land which was overlooked
every year by the Nile. Under such
circumstances Il became necessary to
have some means of reidentifying the
various pieces OF land The instru
ments and mathematical methods Of
astronomy, with suitable notifications,
We're used by the Egyptians for land
surveying.
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Wedding Fees In New York

Large wedding fees are rare even in
New York. Fees of $50 and 500 are
considered large. The $1,000 fee when
1t makes its appearance usually goes
to the rector of a wealthy congrega-
ton who enjoys Il salary of $4,000 or
$4,000 year. Larger fees are some
times given The man of wealth. ac-
tuated by high regard for his pastor
and friend, occasionally gives his
check for $1,000 or $4,000 under the
gulse of a wedding fee. He wishes to
help the minister and knows the money
would not be accepted under any other
circumstances. Such gifts, it is need
less to say, are extremely rare. New
York has few clergymen whose mar
rage fees average $1,000 a year The
pastor of a large Presbyterian church
on Broadway has estimated that his
fees amount annually to $1,000 These
are topnotch figures.-Christian Her
aid.
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TOURISTS IN JAPAN.
Troubles of Those Ignorant of the
LANGUAGE and Native Ways.

Language ana NAIVE ways
All japanese inns, of course, charge a
great deal more TO the globe trotting
European tourist who does not speak
the language. since he or she is not
content to travel strictly a la Japo-
naise and worries the entire house
hold with a variety Of strange de-
mands-extra quilts to sleep on be-
cause they find the floor hard, an i'm
provised pillow, special food Cthe or
binary guest takes what is given him
and is thankful, knives, forks and
spoons because he has. neglected to
practice eating his food with chop
sticks, a bath with fresh water in 1t
because he will not follow the custom
of entering the bath as soon as he
arrives, thus getting the opportunity
of first bath and the water while it is
fresh, and hasf dozen other require
ments. He reserves his chadai also
until he leaves, and often the host mis-
this action and, fearing
he will get no recompense for his ex-
ira trouble, augments the bill accord
ingly.
These visitors not unusually treat
the mattresses like so many novel play
things, especially travellers of the
sterner sex, who sometimes fail hope
lessly to distinguish between profess
sional geishas and ordinary maidserv-
ants.-Vera Collum in Wide World
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Tale of a Snake.

Before he went fishin'." said the
town story teller, "he swallowed bout
a pint an half of snake bite remedy, an
Of course you know what that is.
Well, after the snake bit him the rep
tile cut all sorts of capers. kaze the
remedy went straight to its head. Last
thing it tried to do wuz to swaller its
tail, an it got itself in the form of
hoop. an I'm a liar eff the children
didn't roll it around all dayw-Atlanta
Constitution.
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Strategy.

The turkey was not very large one,
and Mrs. Pedagog's boarders began to
be little anxious on the subject of its
going around. Finally the last bit was
distributed, and the idiot, glancing at
his portion, observed that he had
drawn the neck and the pope's nose.
"Ah, Mrs. Pedagog," said he, with a
genial smile, you are wonder at
making both ends meat. "-Lippincotts
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An Unsatisfactory Method.

Been walking the floor because OF
your debts, eh2' said the sympathetic
friend.
Yes" replied the lmprovident per
SON
ANY resultsP
Not worth mentioning. l walked
till ] wore out the carpet and had to
20 further in debt for new one."-
W ashington Star.
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The Family Scrap Book.

calls to see Mr.. Sauersl-Willy, is your
father in? Willy-Yes; he's upstairs
looking over your scrap book. Mrs.
Sauers puzzledl-You mean my family
account book? Willy-Well, it's all the
same. He and you always have a
scrap every time he goes over it.
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Iendlnn the I.ndnr

A very small boy was trying to lead
big st. Bernard dog up the road.
where are you going to take the
dog. my little man?' inquired passer,
by.
''i-1'm going to see where where
he wants TO go first" was the breath
less reply,-Argonaut.
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A Tenant For Life.

''Have you boarded long at this
house?" inquired the new boarder of
the sour, detected man sitting next to
him.
About ten years"
81 don't see how you can stand it.
Why haven't you left long ago"
"No other place to 60" said the other
dismally. THE landlady's my wife"
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Her Only Want.

81 have difficulty in satisfying my
wife. She has a thousand wants."
81 have difficulty in satisfying mine,
and she has only one want"
"What is it?"
"Money. American.
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"Portrait of a Gentleman

The Professor-Can you define gen.
tleman, Miss Cutting? The Suffragette
dcily)-Certainly, A gentleman was
contemporaneous with the old masters,
who often painted his portrait.-Ex-
change.
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"Grooge is a very grouchy sort Of
man, isn't hep
Eyes. Won't even ride in anything
but a sulky Baltimore American.
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81 don't like that woman"
''Why not?"
shes the woman who is all the
time teaching my wife new way Of
serving up cold meat"-Detroit Free
Press.
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LOCKING Ahead,

Young Wife lin passion)-Fm going
home to my mother! Husband Calm
E)-Yery good; here's money for your
railway fare. Wife (after counting it,
But that isn't enough for return
ticket.-Every Woman's Magazine.
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A Sure Mnthnd-

Landlord-dere, now, you needn't be
afraid you will oversleep. And if the
alarm clock should by any chance fail
to awaken you just give the little
hammer a poke with your finger, then
she'll 20 off.-Heitere Welt.
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An Exceptional Case.

"what are you doing these daysg'
playing the horses"
''No money in that"
Eyes. there is. | get 50 night Tor
initiating hoof beats In a melodrama."
Washington Herald.
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GenerOuS.

Some men say" remarked the beau
tiful heiress, that have no heart"
"Oh that doesn't matterr' replied
the poor but willing youth. I'll give
you mine"
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Consistency.

Mother-Aren't you goin' to wash up
them tea things, Mariaranne, before
you go out? Daughter-No. amt.
I'm late enough for mothers 'elp"
class as it is.-London Opinion.
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Modernity.

Some are so intensely modern that
they prefer a Corot to a Rembrandt"
''If it's a better hill climber | don't
blame 'em. Me for the French car
every time."-London Punch.
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Settled Out of Court

Maud-Are you going to prosecute
that horrid Jack Dare for stealing a
kiss? Ethel-No; the property has
been returned.-Boston Transcript.
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His Biquest Mistake.

What was the biggest mistake you
ever made"
Thinking was too foxy to make a
big mistake. "-Cleveland Leader.
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Reflect upon your present blessings,
of which every man has many, not
upon your past misfortunes, of which
all men have some.
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Early Intimations

Fond Mother-I'm sure Horace will
be great astronomer when he grows
up! This is the third time this week
he has cried for the moon!-Bystander
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Wretohed Man.

Algy-By love! Miss Clara, how
sweet you look in white! Do you know
when l saw you coming across the
lawn you looked so nice l thought it
was Miss Julia-HarperS Bazaar.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak
and useless, and knowledge without
integrity is dangerous and dreadful
Johnson.
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There is something more awful in
happiness than In sorrow.-Hawthorne
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Seek knowledge as If thou vert to be
here forever-Herder.
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Do not praise the fairness of the
day till evening.
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Set not thyself to attain much rest,
but much patience.-Thomas a Kem-
pis.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-08-03
ADMINISTRATORS SALE,
GEORGIA.-GLYNN COUNTY.

GEORGIA.-GLYNN COUNTY.
Under and by virtue of an order
granted by Hon. Horace Dart, of Glynn
county, Georgia, in the court of ordi-
nary of said county, on July 8, 1911,
there will be sold before the court.
house door of said county between
the legal hours of sale, upon the first
day of August, 1911, to the highest and
best bidder for cash, an undivided one
half interest in and to all of that
certain tract of land situate in said
county and state, and known as
Jointers Islands. The large Jointer
lying on the east side of South JOINT
er river, commencing at the fork of
the two rivers, and the smaller Joint
er lying on the south side of East
Jointer river; and the two islands TO
gether containing $50 acres, more or
less OF high hammock lands, and 900
acres, more or less, of marsh lands;
and feing the same property granted
by the state of Georgia by executive
warrant issued in the year 1865 by
Herschel Johnson, governor of the
state of Georgia, unto Francis M. Scar.
lett, belonging to the estate of Oliver
Kennedy, late of said county deceased.
Said property being sold for the pur.
pose OF paying the debts of said es-
tate and making distribution thereof
amongst the heirs and distributes of
said estate, Purchaser pays for title.
This 9TH day of July, 1911.
c. p. Thornton,
Administrator of the Estate of Oliver
Kennedy, Deceased.
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times, and said that ought to have an
operation. would not listen to that,
and when friend of my husband told
him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and what it had done
for his wife, was willing to take 1t.
Now 1 look the picture of health and
feel like it, too. can do my own house.
work, hoe my garden, and milk a cow.
/ can entertain company and enjoy
them. / can visit when / choose, and
walk as far as any ordinary woman,
any day in the month. / wish l could
talk toevery sufferingwoman andgirl.
Mrs. DEMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
The most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms of
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
1t is more widely and successfully
used than any other remedy. 1t has
cured thousands of women who have
been troubled with displacements, in
fiammation, liberation, fibroid tumors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing down feeling, Indigestion,
and nervous prostration, after all other
means had failed. Why don't you tryit?
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a. Bell Telephone
u Bulletins \
6-THE WORK OF THE OPERATOR

mally large. These rush periods
are known as "busy hours" and
we take the precaution, in adj
vance, to prepare for these rushes
of business. There is never
time, except when some unusual
and unexpected event happens,
that an operator ever has mora
than she can do.
When you take the telephons
receiver off the hook a light burns
in front of the operator. This is
the signal that a subscriber wishes
her attention. If two or three
lights appear simultaneously she
answers them as rapidly as she
can reach them. If there are an
unusual number of calls before a
particular operator the operator
on each side handles some of them
and the supervisor steps in from
the rear and helps. So there is no
possibility Of any calls being neg
lected.
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Delegates Named.

Atlanta, Aug. I'm view of the
fact that the question of finance is
one of the most important Georgia
faces at this time, it is hoped that a
majority of the delegation appointed
by Governor Smith will attend the In
ternational Conference on State and
Local Taxatio at Richmond September
5 and s. aWNk
The men on the committee are rep
resentative, and, it is hoped, will
bring back ideas of value to Georgia.
They are George d. Rucker of Alphar-
eta; w. E. Small of Macon; ]. H.
Dorsey, Athens; J. D. Lochridge, of
Douglass; Weems A. Smith, Augusta;
E. c. Kontz, Atlanta; J. Russell Da-
Wis, Quitman; Paul B. Trammel, Dali
ton; c. Bush, Colquitt; Walter Rich,
Atlanta. o. -
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The telephone operator is train
ed to give quick and accurate SER
vice. That is what the public pays
for and expects; it is what we are
in business to furnish. 1t is i'm
possible, we realize, to attain per-
lection. We do employ every rea-
sonable means known to the art of
telephony to approximate perfec-
tion.s There are inevitable crush
es" in emergencies which even
such careful provision and super
vision will not care for In a per-
feet manner. But such emergen-
cies are, and should be, of rare oc-
currence. We do give efficient
service and if you will hold a stop
watch in your hand you will find
that the space of time which seems
like minutes to you is only a very
few seconds.
During certain hours of the day
the load on the switchboard, that
is the number of calls, is abnor-
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Itching Skin Quickly Cooled.

Hot weather means skin trouble for
many people, but now you can stop
the itch instantly.
Just few drops of the cooling and
healing wintergreen lotion and the
itch is gone-not in half an hour
not in ten miutes-but in five sec
onds.
This simple wash is known as D.
D. D. Prescription for Eczema, and
usually sells for $1.00 a bottle, but
now by special arrangement you can
get trial size bottle for 25 cents. This
will be enough to show you why we
always recommend D. D. D. for all
skin troubles. D. D. D. gives instant
relief. Fearrington's.
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DRUGGISTS Puzzled.

Atlanta, Aug. 2.-The druggists of
Georgia, according to leading men,
bers of that profession in Atlanta, are
hopelessly at sea in the face of the
provisions of the Tippins bill, If re-
ported favorably by the house CON-
mittee, providing that no beverage or
liquid that can be used as a beverage
shall be sold or manufactured in
Georgia which contains more than
one-half of one per cent. of alcohol.
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New Hospital.

Atlanta, Aug. 2.-The new school
hospital recently completed on the
Tech campus, is model of its kind
and is arousing the commendatory in
terest of physicians and authorities
on the subject.
1t has cost the state of Georgia
nothing, yet will be one of the finest
in the land, having been constructed
by private subscription from friends
and students of the institution. It
will be known as the Joseph Brown
Whitehead Memorial hospital.