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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21
Iaft Him In Doubt.

A stockbroker who had his new
forty horsepower automobile delivered
to him the other day decided to cele-
brate the occasion. the market being
dull. says the New York Sun. by a run
on the country roads. To be on the
safe side on his gasoline supply he de-
cided to stop at garage to have the
tank filed. As 1t was being measured
out he turned to his son. sturdy chap
Of six. who had followed him inside
the garage, to impress upon him the
danger Of gasoline. Calling him by
name, he said. You would go straight
to heaven II put match to that
gasoline"
Looking his father straight in the
eyes, the boy replied, "And where
would you go. dad?"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21
The Mosquito Still Here,

Along In the early springtime-
about the time when the frogs come
out of the mud and tune up for the
concert-we organize mosquito-ex.
terminating crusade here in Balti-
more, and we proceed, alphabetically,
to exterminate the pests with energy
and enthusiasm. BY August we have
forgotten all about the mosquito war
fare, and September always brings
the swarms. The spring OF the year
is the right time to start the war ON
the mosquito, just as 1t is the proper
time for inaugurating the fy-extermi-
mating crusade. But in either case
the warfare must be matter OF eter-
nal MISUNDERSTANDING American
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21

r. G.. Collins, Postmaster; Barne
gat, N. j. was troubled with g
severe la grippe cough. He says:
II would be completely exhausted
after each fit of violent coughing.
| bought bottle of Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound and before l
had taken all the coughing spells
had entirely ceased. 1t can't be
beat. B. B. Davis.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21

Grain and hay at Fruit Grow
ers' Association.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21
Who Nero Was.

In the days when Sir Charles Gavan
Durry was leading figure in Veto
rian politics there sat in the Melbourne
parliament a wealthy but not well In
formed butcher. The chief secretary
OF the day was deprecating the att
tude Of the leader Of the opposition.
whose conduct was. he declared, worse
than Nero's.
who was Nero7" INTERCEPTED the
knight of the clever. with equal scorn
and sincerity.
who was Nerof replied the de-
lighted chief secretary. THE honor
able gentleman ought to know. Nero
was q celebrated Roman butcher"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21
DID HIS BEST.
He Followed instructions, Yet tho Re-
suit Was Very Discourasins.

He Followed instructions, Yet tho Re
suit Was Very Discouragins.
There was man who kept small
Diapers shop and who had an assist
ant who was new to the business One
day an old lady came in and asked foI
some silk. The youthful assistant show
ed her some. saying:
I'VE can do this for you at 6s Cd a
yard"
The master then came forward and
said:
I'm surprised at you showing this
lady stuff of that quality. Take II
away and put 1t back on its shelf"
Then. turning to the customer. he said
you must excuse my assistant.
madam-he is new to the business But
II you will allow me | will show you
something very superior"
He went away and returned. bring
ing the same piece of silk. This.
madam" be said, is a very superior
article. los. Cd. yard. IL II were not
for the fact that bought 1t some time
ago we should have to charge you Is
shillings, for, as you are doubtless
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21

c. A. Glossner. "a Ontario St,
Rochester, N. Y, has recovered from
long and severe attack of kid
ney trouble, his cure being due
to Foley Kidney Pills. After de-
failing his case. he says: 81 am
only sorry did not Learn sooner
of Foley Kidney Pills. In a few
days time my backache completely
left me and l felt greatly improved.
My kidneys became stronger, dizzy
spells left me and l was no longer
annoyed at night. l feel 100 per
cent better since using Foley Kid
ney Pills" B. B. Davis.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21
Backache Almost UnbearabIe

Is an almost certain result of kid
ney trouble. D. Toomey, 500
e. Olive St., Bloomington, Ill.
says: 81 suffered with backache
and pains in my kidneys which wert
almost unbearable. / gave Foley
Kidney Pills good trial, and they
done wonders for me. Today l
can do a hard days work and
not feel the effects" B. B. Davis
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21

Butter wrappers at The Index.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21
ales of the Town

You can't tell how happy bride
will be from the price of her trous-
seau.
f. + +
II you want winter to pass quick
ly give a note In the early fall,
due i'm six months
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-21

Down in Georgia a negro, who
had his life insured for several
hundred dollars, died and left the
money to his widow. She Immediate
ly bought herself a very elaborate
mourning outfit. Showing her pur-
chases to her friend, she was very
particular in going into detail as
to prices and all incidental parti-
culars Her friend was very much
impressed and remarked; Them
sho is fine cloes. but befo' heaven,
what is you goin' to do wild all dis
black underwear" The bereaved
one sighed; "Chile. when 1.
mourns | mourns'
+ + +
Boys will be boys" is an old
gag which has CLOSED over consid-
cradle pure devilment OF course
boys Will be boys, but the idea
shouldn't be carried to the point
where it condones criminals. A
boy may be a boy, as full of pep
and ginger as the next one, and still
be a good boy. The idea that a |
boy must serve an apprenticeship in
the wild oats industry has made
lot of them journeymen in that line
and untitled them for other oc-
equations. There are exceptions,
of course, but they only prove the
rule that boy, like man, which
he should be later on, will get
along better and have a better
time if he behaves himself.
The Dutch Admiral Van Tromp,
who was a large, heavy man, was
once challenged by thin, activ
French officer. 1--WE are not upon
equal terms with rapiers." said Van
rromp, "but call upon me tomorrow
morning and we will adjust the
affair."" When the Frenchman call
ed he fould the Dutch admiral be-
striding a barrel of gunpowder
There is room enough for YOU,
said Van Tromp. Eat the other
end of the barrel; sit down; there
S the match, and as you are the
give fire. The French
men was thunderstruck this ter
'ible mode of fighting, but as the
Dutch admiral told him he would
light no other way, terms of ac-
,ommodation ensued.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-01-26

way. He had no anticipation of open attack, but must guard against treach- cry. As he rode, his eyes never left he perceived no movement, no black dot even which he could conceive to be a possible enemy: Now that he possessed ample time for thought, the situation became more puzzling. This tragedy which he had accidentally stumbled upon must have had cause other than blind chance. It was the continuation of plot, with some req, son behind more important than ordf-. nary robbery. Apparently the wagons contained nothing of value, merely the clothing, provisions, and ordinary utensils of an emigrant party. Nor had the victims pockets been care fully searched. Only the mules had been taken +by the raiders. and they would be small booty for such q crime.
 The trail, continually skirting the high bluff and bearing farther away from the liver, turned sharply into . narrow ravine-- There was consi6 erable break in the rocky barrier here, leading back for perhaps a hun dred yards, and the plainsman turned his horse that way, dismounting when out of sight among the boulders. He could rest here until night with little danger of discovery. He lay down on the rocks, .pillowing his head on the saddle, but his brain was too active
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-01-26

peared the marks of galloping horse A few rods farther along Keith came to a confused blur of pony tracks sweeping in from the east, and the whole story of the chase was revealed as though he had witnessed it with his own eyes. They must have been crazy, or else impelled by some grave necessity, to venture along this trail in so small party. And they were travelling west-west! Keith drew deep breath, and swore ts himself "Of all the blame fools!"
 He perceived the picture in all it's grewsome details-the two mule drawn wagons moving slowly along the trail in the early morning; the band of hostile Indians suddenly sweeping out from some obscure hid ing place in the bluffs; the discovery of their presence; the desperate effort at escape; the swervfng from the open trail in vain hope of reaching the river and finding protection un- derneath its banks; the frightened mules galloping wildly, lashed into .
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-01-26
CHAPTER III
An Arrest

The Santa Fe trail was far too ex- posed to be safely travelled alone and in broad daylight, but Keith consid- cred it better to put sufficient space between himself and those whom he felt confident were still watching his movements from across the river
 How much they might already suspi- cion his discoveries he possessed no means of knowing, yet. conscious of their own guilt, they might easily feel safer if he were also put out ot the
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-01-26

frenzy by the man on horseback; the pounding of the ponies hoofs, pune tuated by the exultant yells of the pursuers. Again he swore:
 "Of all the blame fools!"
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-01-26
.AfALE or THE pLAI

AUTHOR OF NY LADY OF TIE. SOUTH WHEI WILDERNESS WAS kIhG ETc.ETc
The mirror., 1912-04-18
Vdride DeCtiOnes
ST. CROIx
Ahem!

j Picking banostrings jsn't picking cotton;
And they vho've gathered wool.
i May have sheared sheep
4 Though scraping fiddle bow
May help to scrape acquaintance
i Yet, the butcher scrapng
i When scrapes a--r back
Thusly make little audience
And remember the Knockers they serve through
sound to
first balloon goes up air. try STILL remembering grav-
The life Sheet fragments at
tached which from the binding could fully owing
hurry.
seldom have had could be
other than worthy of interference behalf somehow
each day leaves behind
Picture yourself dreary world not be
so painsakngly each boundary
Pebeansm readily YOU will but
consent to accept such citation to pedagogism
Why should be under guidance, except
GUS we become the more speedily crowned?
stepped for we give thauksnce
they
Since the neither pole has
build around all the of which will credaby admit
the years quest comedies
possible class them. accept
this mighty vasness yet
compiled The pen Verne Harding
Wis a Poe, anxiousy await.
chalk proven sometimes will no, right
specially designed hides
duck
pug escape average
hunter
much-heralded old family may originally
potted plant
Flower of Chivary" is hardly another
such tickle that she will often oregathe
the hope that portion her spirit eventually
imbue them.
all things and mind that responded
the perfect
fit to be with such called Gods.
Noses formulating COMMANDMENTS same upon
a rock; but where is the rock?
fact
that is much truth in fiction.
An inabe Of the senityI should
saw depeneacv-is to hear a person saw Il cant.o
Our usual Spring Tonic-more work
The faults of mankind belong all
Mat he
he the absence of the two
that have with him the Shop Mis-
those but an assistant to the
fill both his the
The mirror., 1912-04-18

II wrote some lines once on time
In wondrous merry mood,
And thought, as usual men would say
They were exceeding good.
Il called my servant and he came;
How kind it was of him,
To mind slender man like me,
He Of the mighty limb!
These to the printer" exclaimed,
And in my humorous way,
added Gas trifing JEST,
''There'll be the devil to pay"
He took the paper, and watched,
And saw him peep within;
AT the first line he read, his face
Was all upon the grin.
The fourth; he broke into a roar;
The fifth his waistband split;
The sixth; he burst five buttons off,
And tumbled in a fit.
Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye,
| watched that wretched man,
And since, never dare to write
AS funny as can.
The mirror., 1912-04-18

GIn3er snaps
InnerS Seal
A little ginger and then
Should be infused in
who reside here exempt from that
The difference between that they bury
ther mistakes, while mistakes bury is.
One the hardest things appees of the
good old homemade maple
sugar could bear tasting little cake OF 1t should
kindly offer it to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29

they had to do with one another ! said
that "A man might be judge OF quality
I'm u picture but not Of quality IN satin
and they saw that right enough. but
couldn't see that IL worked both ways
So my friend and ] were bafiled. The
picture was afterward sold at $500 and
probably is now worth 5000 | wish
could remember the name of my friend
in Manchester. | saw him at the Peel
dinner the other day. lie is an enlight-
ened man"
Before the interviewer took his de.
parture he asked Mr. Moore if he had
taken his own advice and secured manv
pictures by Degas No" was the reply.
Il have only one-a pastel. / remem-
Der once buying for e. a little picture
of dancer with bouquet. II was
present to a lady. | believe that Il
was also sold at the Rouart sale for a
big price, but forget the figures" Mr.,
Moores description must be inexact for
there is no Degas in the Rouart cata-
logue which quite fits it.
1t remains to note that the painter
himself, now i'm his seventy-eghth year.
received with "a profound Indifference
the news that THE Dancers at the
Bar had sold for $50 $3.50 All that he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29

war, and to do ii with an easy skill
He had little of Meissonier's diabolical
finish" but he was just as careful in
matters of nice detail, and he had
greater breadth and freedom. His
anecdotes have a vitality, a gusto,
which the more renowned painter never
knew. Yet he, too, like Meissonier was
first and last the clever Salonnier.
That is the designation which BELTS
also Edouard Detaille. whose death in
Paris, at the age Of sixty-four, has but
recently been reported.
Detaille was Meissoniers favorite
pupil and in some respects he bettered
his masters example. He worked. gen
orally, on a larger scale, drew with
more fleXbility, and got a little more
elan into his studies of movement He
painted mural decorations as well as
easel pictures, and in a very accom-
plished but rather prosaic fashion he
satisfied TO perfection what we may
describe as the officially accredited
delightfullest phenomena Of French
life. frequently commented upon in
appreciative books of travel, that both
in the Louvre and in the Salon one is
always rubbing shoulders with the
peasant and bourgeois. Every one in
France we are told, takes an intelli-
gent interest in art This is quite
true but it is well to distinguish, some
times, where the intelligence and the
interest are concerned. Both reach, on
the whole, a remarkable average, but
ii is also true that France is full of
folk who are beguiled, like myriads all
over the world, by very ordinary APP
peas 10 their emotions. Detaille was
an adept in reaching the hearts of
his big audience. He put his soldiers
truthfully upon canvas. in the right
uniforms, with every buckle and but
ton in the right place. The hero steps
out with all the air Of one carrying
the baton of a future marshal i'm his
knapsack. The flag is exalted proudly
IN the breeze. we near the rattle or
the drums Victory lies ahead And
even defeat loses something of its sting
when Detaille paints it. He could
profit by the immortal lesson of The
Surrender Of Breda," in which Nelas-
quez shows how vanquished and con-
queror could meet, like gentlemen. We
recall from some old Salon notable
instance of Detaille's sympathy for a
subiect of the sort. a huge picture Of
a beleagured fortress opening its gates
To a successful but gallant and ex-
quisitely courteous foe. There was
nothing i'm il TO irritate the amour
pr0prc Of even the most irreconcilable
of patriots. But in the mind Of the
disinterested foreigner there would OBJ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29

Swallowed the fate that has since over
taken the painter of les Cuirassiers'
'1S14" and a dozen other popular jap-
leaux. He was an accurate costumler
and he had an extraordinarily polished
technique. His little interiors, with
picturesque figures smoking, reading or
playing cards. are so we'll done. in their
way, that they will long be preserved
with respect. But the way OF Mels-
sonier was not the way of great
painter His Junior. Alphonse de Neu-
Vile. who was born in 1896 and died
in 1885, had in him more Of the true
stuff of military art. Though he was
untitled to share to any serious extent
in the conflict with Prussia, he was an
alert locker on, and his pictures have
Enthusiastically put heart into the
French patriot. They have done TINS
through the energy in them, through
their thoroughly dramatic illustration
of we'll chosen episodes. De Melville
could always be relied upon to tell an
effective story, to bring out the heroism
or pathos of this or that action in the
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lions graceful, we'll knit. and often
majestic. The superb gallery OF por-
traits that he painted from the states
men, authors, and great ladies OF his
time show, too, what strong sense OF
character he possessed, how well fitted
he was to vitalize his work with feel
ing and ina gination. But something
was lacking and that something was
purely technical 1.-THE recognition of
quality Of surface" he says. has been
almost lost sight of by the modern
eye and mind" oddly enough Watts
himself missed "the quality OF sur
face" He never got out Of pigment
quite the sensuous beauty that II can
be made to yield. His color was never
quite pure or transparent enough. And
that craftsmanship Of his. keyed
as It was to the grand harmonies OF
an older day, nevertheless remained
untouched by that subtle magic, that
obscure personal fire, which endows
line not only with dignity, but with
u KIM 81 HWlIl elltIky anu al thlulS-
Ito distinction.
II will always be a matter of regret
that Watts was not subjected to a
longer and sharper discipline. that he
did not have an artistic schooling a
little more modern than that which
he actually received. The indepen-
dence he enjoyed. inviting his soul
amongst the old Italian masters, was
doubtless Indispensable to the frui-
ton of his genius. But II with II he
could have had a rigorous training
under some eXacting Frenchman: and
IT, finally. he had been willing to
profit more by the ventures OF his con-
temporaries, he might have made him
self the rival as we'll as the disciple
Of the great Venetians. AS Il is he
inspires in us an emotion OF gratitude
The thoughtful. generous and lovable
man we meet in these volumes we meet
also in his paintings. His work is
full OF the beauty and nobility which
ne considered inseparable from great
n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29
Edouard Detaille and French
Military Painting

II is curious paradox in the history
of French art that amongst the thou
sands Of men who have built up the
school there have been no great paint
GH wholly dedicated TO the commem-
Grafton OF battle scenes. In a country
peculiarly jealous Of its military fame
the brush Of genius has been wreaked
only incidentally on warlike themes.
Under the old regime these were
treated with the Journalism in vogue
at court. Baron eros derived from
the shock. of the Revolution an impetus
which gave to mis- Napoleonic pictures
a certain invigorating significance. but
with all his merits and all his con-
structive influence he nevertheless re-
mains a minor type. Gericault, who
breathed new fire into the tradition
of eros, died too soon TO realize all his
ambitions, and. besides, was a military
painter only at intervals. So it was
with Delacroix. In his long career he
sought his material in hundred direc-
lions and always with the instinct of
romantic and even poetic genius. From
the clash Of arms he got more than
once memorable inspiration, and there
are paintings of his that are indeed
terrible as an army with banners, but
they are of subjects which he took so
10 say, in his stride, between an Illus
tration TO Shakespeare and one 10
Scripture. Charlet and Raffet alone
interpreted with fulness and abiding
authority the legend of the Empire
and they were photographers. 1t was
not until the nineteenth century was
well advanced that a group Of French
painters specialized in military sub
jects, and ii so happened that they re-
manned detached from the progressive
movements in modern art.
Meissonier was the leader in this
group. Born in 1914. he came To man
hood and to his artistic maturity early
enough to catch i'm all their pOignancy
some echoes of Napoleon's campaigns.
and down 10 the day Of his death he
loved To draw his motives from the
great mans career. II was through his
Napoleonic pictures that he large won
his wOrld-w repute and his consider
able fortune. There was a time, not so
very long ago. when MISSIONER could
he counted upon TO make prodigious
stir in the auction room. But when
Degas said of one If his noted battle
swords, was made of steel, he fore