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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
NOTICE is HEREBY cIvEN.

Ihat on saturday, the goth day of April
i9l2. at the hour of two O'Clock P. Nj, at the
corner.Of Main and Pacific streets, in sal
town OF BlackfoOt, Idaho, by virtue of the
authority vested in me as Receiver of snid
Dank. ana In accordance with an order of
said District Court, made and entered on
the Sth day OF A pril, 1912 will offer for sa lie
Tor cash all the remaining assets of said
said bank building, to the highest and hest
bidder therefor.
Bids will be received by me un to said
to reject any or all bids is reserved ana
said sale will be subject to confirmation of
the same by said District Court
April, 1912. N''' "a
h. H. COST. Receiver.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
ASYLUM VISITING HOURS

From 10 a. m. to I'm, and from 2
to 400 p. m. Tuesdays and Thurs
days. Persons from distance may
call at any time On friends or relatives
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
FOR SALE

WHITE WYANDOTTE eggs $3.50
per setting of Is. The best winter lay
ers and best table fowl Also WHITE
HOLLAND TURKEY eggs $500 per
setting of g. The heartiest, and non
roamers. Mrs. E. NJ. KENNEDY.
A11-2t
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
MUST AMPUTATE LEG

Hon. j. Ed. Smith of Idaho Falls,
the Oldest practicing attorney in this
part of the state, was in Pocatello a
few days ago consulting a physician as
to an affliction to his leg caused by
a fall He has been advised that an
amputation of the limb will be nee
essary
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
RUMMAGE SALE APRIL 18th

The V. l. S. will hold a rummage
sale at the city hall Saturday, April
18th. Dinner viii be served from, 5
&c p. m. ALL
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11

Success depends very lite on the sur
rounding environments; che makes a
fartune in a community Of paupers,
while another starves in the doorstep
Of opulence,
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
NOTICE FOR BIDS

Bids for the sprinkling Of the streets
OF Blackfoot by the hour, will be re-
ceived until the hour of s O'Clock d,
M, Tuesday evening, April 10th, by
the city clerk. By order of
ASST. l.. NJ. CApPS Navor
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
PosToFFlcE HOURS

Week days from 500 a. m, until
600. p. m, money orders from 800
until $50; Sunday. windows open
from 10 to 11:0e a. m.
CEMETERY 81
Grove City Cemetery:-Owned by
the City. w. B. Jacobs, Sexton
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11

EOreIald-ADerdeen Branch
Leave, Wednesday and Saturday
11:O0. a. m. $3.50.
Arrive. Wednesday and Saturday
$3.50, p. m.
Freight leaves 1885 a. M, tri-week
ly. Shipments must he billed the pre-
vious. day. No passengers carried.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
POPULATION OF BLACKFOoT
Ne 100

Mayor:-L. M. CAPPS.
Clerk: &C. H. HOLBROOK,
Treas MRS. CHARLOTTE REA.
Engineer THAMES YOUNG.
Attorney w. A. BEAKLEY.
Chief Of Police:- M. w. SMITH.
Night Patrolman:-WM. DREW.
The Official Paper:-
Y .BLACkFOOT OPTIMIS7
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
EXPRESS QEElcE

Express office hours 500 to $685..
Freight office hours TOO to 500.
Shipments north must be delivered the
day before.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11

A wise old owl,
Sat on an oak.
The. more he saw
The less he spoke,
The less he spoke
The more he heard.
Why cant we all
Be like this bird?
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11

A., 81. 90. 106. 49, 90 ~. 4S.
School district No. "a: 1908 1912,
S55. 257. 2e4, 2ss 274 A0'; 2s 49, 2 Sas.
sss' 295 too, 297, $o7 sos. 317, ssb4. az
aasS' ~ ~ E ssO 3s7. 4So. 9SS..
s1s School o., dist 5Ist N 5s1. o.. ss2 .-''
5 5aSoo' 5s4 1910 1856. a7s. 45s .' 4ss.
- School district No. 80: 15sos ,sco,
1ssss' 1155Sss 1885, ''0S' 1 1sSS9'
1 1921 1ss 'S' sis 49, 1874 4s1
IS School eS'' dist Sis; S $7sl, $40. S7S ~
As, l4s 15o ISIS, 81: 1eoSs. 1s1o4.
sss s's sls. s a'str sss No14s: sss. ss4.
49, sohG 90, district II No No 4s; 1903. 1903.
Is II? 4 4ss e. e., sjss q 1 g.
&C. ssaass s51, e4s, S45. o2S ~ az SSs
a as1' 7S2s 7so sis, SIS SIS III sss' oss.
i @d 1864 1862. 1883. 1871 1884, 1SSss
iiss: l1 assss' 1855, lso. ,,., isl.
,o School district. No. 30: 1912 dLss' ,o.1
s7s ses a's't 49, No 4s1 - ssSs. 49, 1856.
AK School district No. IS: sSo SSii 90.
$751; $751; 80; "a 49, ss, 49, SAL sisc. s sSs
Treasure, MARY A. THOMPSON.
ninpgnam County. Idaho.
Fer. C. V. FISHER.
NOTICE FOR PUB, ,cA Deputy.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11

Ring 1903 for your next order ct coal
and get the best ccal on the market. If
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11

sticks and stones are flung only
at fruit bearing trees"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
SHIPPERS NOTICE

Freight going north must be billed
the day before, freight going south re-
ceived until 300 q. M for shipment
the same day.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
A-11-M9.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, OF
THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND
FOR THE COUNTY OF BINGHAM.
NOTICE OF REOEIVER'S s

IN THE NATTER OF THE INsOL-
VENCY OF THE BLACKFOOT STATE
BANK, AN INSOLVENT CORPORATION.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-11
AReoR DAY ANNOUNCEMENT

Nl28-5t.p.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03
BRYAN rs GOING
LIKE A WINDMILL
Tearing Through Nebraska and Rip
ping Roosevelt at Every
Stop.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
OMAHA, Nebr Nov. I'm finest
fettle-keen for the last lap of his
speaking campaign confident of the
victory of his cause, and peculiarly
sensitive to the wild applause of the
people of "his ain countrie, W. J.
Bryan brought to its climax big
Wilson day rally at the Auditorium
here tonight with an imprisoned APP
peal to six thousand Nebraskans to
help restore the righteous rule Of
the people by holding up the hands of
that apostle Of popular rule, Wood
row Wilson"
ut is not enough that you elect
him president" said Colonel Bryan.
IF you are really to help him to help
you, he must have a house and SEN
ate that will aid and not harrass
him. AS wide as is the present
breach between the republican and
democratic parties, Mr.. Wilson will
find his hands tied if, when he Is
elected Tuesday, a congress of the
opposite complexion is returned"
Turning his attention to Roosevelt,
Bryan said:
The third term candidate an
nounces his progressivism with much
clamor, like the man who trumpets
from the housetops the declaration L
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

am an honest man He makes loud
claim to being reformer; but in re-
form, if he comes at all he comes too
late He bids for the title of a
Moses in the cause of popular gov
ernment; but he has mistaken the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

blast furnace of the steel trust for
the burning bush, and the music of
that far-famed quartette- Perkins,
Munsey, Finn and Hanna leading
the progressive choir in singing On
ward Christian Soldiers. for the
voice of God"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03
CITY NEWS.

Deputy Sheriff John Wheeler, of
Galessburg, came to Keokuk Saturday
morning and returned to Galesburg
with Jesse Hicks, arrested here few
Says ago on complaint from the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

Frafi women. women during menstrua.
ton, pregnancy or nursing should keep
the horvels well open. Try DR.. Cald-
we,ps : syrup Pepsin. At all D drug
stores. so cents and 81 o bottle.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03
Wisconsin Prediction.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. Out OF
the complex Wisconsin political stu.
alton, experts tonight saw Woodrow
Wilson as the presidential candidate
who will poll the largest number OF
ballots in Tuesdays voting. Taft, it
was Indicated, would run second with
Roosevelt third The campaign prac-
tically closed tonight.
LaFollette's bitter Remuneration of
Roosevelt and his apparent leaning
toward Wilson was said to have turn.
ed the tide democratic. Taft, it was
claimed, would retain portion Of his
strength of four years ago when he
swept the state with LaFollette's
support. This strength, however. It
was believed, would be sufficient only
to forge ahead of Roosevelt, in second
place.
LaFollettes aid to McGovern also
made the regular republican nominee
tine favorite of prediction sentiment
In reports tonight from many parts
OF the state. Karel supporters were
/ however, making confident claims and
the result promises to be close.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03
Appeal Not In Vain.

OYSTER BAY, Nov 2.-Confident
that his appeal for social and indus
trial Justice has not been in vain.
Colonel Roosevelt tonight expressed
great satisfaction with his campaign.
1T has been a great campaign
most extraordinary campaign he
said. "The people have seemed to be
attentive and responsive. They are
thinking on the questions of the day
and l am much pleased with their at
titude. The two meetings at Madison
Square Garden this week were won
derful. The first was better, think,
| than the second, although In both |
noticed that the audiences were COM
posed of people who thought for them
selves.
"One feature of the campaign which
has pleased me is the work Of the
women. They have worked as, hard
as the men and have accomplished
Just as good results
The colonel also commented on his
trips to the west and expressed pleas
IRE with the receptions he had re
ceived there. On Monday he vii
Ispeak to the people of Nassau ant
Suffolk counties at Mineola, l.. l., ii
the afternoon, and at Oyster Bay al
night.
Republican New York.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Declaring
that he based his claims on careful
canyasses and estimates, William
Barnes, Jr, chairman of the republi
can state committee, tonight claimed
that the republicans would carry the
national and state ticket in New York
by handsome plurality.
! Wilson and Roosevelt will draw
Improbable votes,' he declared, "but
they will come from the radical ele
ments, whereas the sound and though
full people will support Taft and
Hedges, the gubernatorial nominee
Barnes further claimed that republic
cans and democrats alike who fear
ed Wilson's radicalism and Roose
velt's aim for despotic power would
cast their ballots for Taft. Out of the
100000 votes which Barnes says
will be cast in New York state, he
claims approximately 65o,000 for Taft
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

FOR sALE-At bargain, two nice lots
in Hamilton, | block from new
school, good living well, 1925 for the
two If taken by Nov. 2o,--H. J. King.
913 Carroll.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

FOR SALE House and four lots to
settle an estate. ]. F. and N. NJ
Smith.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

FOR SALE OR TRADE Nice line OF
new and second hand stoves. Trade
your old one for a new one for lit
tie money. Hollands, S24 Main Bell
phone 1913.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

WANTED Old postage stamps, thir-
ty years old, or collection OF
stamps. Address Stamps Gate. City,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

WANTED--Two house keeping rooms,
by young couple with one child. Cen
trail or on north side location, Ad-
dress F. o. BOX 391, Keokuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

WOMEN to do plain sewing at home
for large Philadelphia firm; good
money and steady work; no canvass
ing; send reply envelope for prices
paid Universal Co., Desk A., Walnut
ST., Phila, Pa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

RUSK COUNTY. Wisconsin, cutoyer
hardwood lands; wholesale prices;
any sized tract; fertile clay silt loan
soil; in dairy and clover belt; good
markets; schools and churches; easy
terms; write for maps and Informal
tion. Arpin Hardwood Lumber Co.,
Grand Rapids Wisconsin,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-I have new brick dwell.
ing on the south side that will make
a fine investment for you. Rents for
$500 each side. John Tumelty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

FOR SALE--Art Garland base burner
In good condition. Call at SIS S.
First st. or phone 574-black.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

FOR RENTFurnished room, furn
| ace heat bath. 200 South Eighth
Bell phone 527-Black.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03
The Want Column

FOR sALE-one P. D. Beckwith.
Round Oak heater. 1902 Palean
street, J. Dumenil.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

PATENTS secured or fee returned.
Send sketch for free report as to
patentability. Guide-book and list of
inventions wanted sent free. One mil
lion dollars offered for one invention.
Patents advertised free. Victor j..
Evans & Co., $50 Washington, D. c..
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

WANTED--Girl for general house.
work, who can go home nights. APP
ply 100 High st.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

WANTED -Dishwasher at Racey's
restaurant, IS South Fifth street
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

FOR RENT Large furnished front
room, modern, for two gentlemen
217 Concert street Bell phone 1861
Black.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

Fer RENT--Room suitable for two
gentlemen, bath and gas, 727 Con-
cert. Phone 903-Red
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03
LOOK OUT FOR
THE LANDSLIDE!
Continued from page ID

union will be found in the democratic
column"
Rudolph Spreckles, president Of the
Wilson national progressive league
on his way to San Francisco to vote
tonight said here:
Woodrow Wilson will not only
carry all Of the normally democratic
states and many of the doubtful
ones, but he will also carry a number
OF republican states with the aid OF
republican votes.''
Republican states which Spreckles
predicted would be carried by Wilson
were: Wisconsin, North and South
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas. California
Oregon, Washington, Iowa, Michigan,
Indiana and Ohio.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

FOR SALE Sample rugs aud sample
shoes. Hollands. S24 Main street.
Bell phone 1878
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

FOR RENT Good stand for barber
college, shop or ONCE building.
Electric light, gas, %. North Fifth
street. Inquire Mrs. T. c. BALKAN,
Third and Blondeau.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

WANTED Union painter. 40c per
hour, inquire 225 N. 14th st.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

WANTED-Young couple desire room
and board in private family. Answer
stating location and price. r. M. D.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

Illinois authorities. He was wanted
there on a charge of highway robbery
and rape.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

WANTED-seven or eight room
house, modern, or 8 or A unfurnish-
ed rooms, centrally located. Bell
phone 99S-Red.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

Neutrality-suspicious. and Iaborers
wanted at Montrose. Good boarding
house at works. Burlington Quarry
Co. FER
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03
WANTED.

WANTED Four gentlemen hoarders
at 1906 Blondeau street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

FOR RENT Furnished room suitable
for two gentlemen, 217 South Tenth
street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT Furnished home suit.
able for man and wife, at Alt South
Sixth street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

FOR RENT-Fu Furnished bed room for
gentleman; furnace heat, private
entrance Call bell phone 1913.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

WANTED Transfers and shovelers
to haul gravel on transmission road
near Hamilton; wages zoe and CSC per
hour. Apply to Cameron, McManus
and Joyce.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

WANTED-25 or 80 diggers at War
saw, We pay by the foot. Apply
to King Plumbing Co., 42O Blondeau
street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-03

WANTED TO BUY-1oo bushels nc.
tatoes. large quantity of cabbage,
turnips, onions and pumpkins. Stan
ton Hotel, foot of Main street.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-16
OUTCOME BY A BOY.

He looked very small for boy of ten
AS he stood before a group of men,
And asked for work with modest
air.
"I will do your errands," he said, with
care"
They laughed, and with words that
shall be unsaid
They joked till his face with pain
grew red.
'You are built" said one, ION linn
tied plan
You never will make full grown
man"
Then another-'1 am sure it's not very
wise
To expect much work from a chap of
your size.'
The youngster looked at the bearded
men
I'm SMALL said he, land I'm only
ten,
And you are grownup and know lot,
But I can do something that you can
not"
whats that?" they cried; ''It will
strike us dumb,
To be cast in the shade by young Hop
O. My Thumb"
II can keep from swearing" the boy
replied.
And the little form grew digniied.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-16
OUR DEAD.

Nothing is our own; we hold our
Just little while, ere they are fed;
One by one life robs us of our treas
ures;
Nothing is our own except our Dead.
They are ours, and hold in faithful
keeping,
Safe forever, all they took away.
Cruel life can never stir that sleeping.
Justice pales; truth fades; stars fall
from heaven;
Human are the great whom we revere:
No true crown of honor can be given,
Till we place it on funeral bier.
How the Children leave us: and no
traces
Linger of that smiling angel band;
Gone, forever gone; and in their places
Weary men and anxious women stand.
Yet we have some little ones, still
ours;
They have kept the baby smile we
know,
Which we kissed one day, and hid
with flowers
On their dead white faces, long ago.
When our Joy is lost-and life will
take it
Then no memory of the past remains;
Save with some strange, cruel sting,
to make it
Bitterness beyond all present pains.
Death, more tender-hearted, leaves to
sorrow
Still the radiant shadow, fond regret:
We shall find, in some far, bright to-
morrow,
Joy that he. has taken, living yet.
Is Love ours? And do we dream we
know it,
Bound with all our heart-strings, all
our own?
Any cold and cruel dawn may show
it,
Shattered. desecrated, overthrow.
Only the dead Hearts forsake us
never;
Deaths last kiss has been the mystic
sign
Consecrating Love our own forever,
Growing it eternal and divine
So when Fate would fain besiege our
city,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-16

! ly discovered Nyanza, which daring
explorers have been telling us so
much about in our books and maya
zines.
These new martyrs, we are in
formed, were all young men, most of
them distinguished as distinction goes,
in the forests and jungles and primi-
tive villages of Africa, but they knew
how to be heroes just as we'll as men
of other color and blood in other parts
of the world. They died splendidly for
the Faith, and one of the striking fea-
lures of their battle is that they were
only recent converts-most of them
were baptized in the SOS. Some of
them had been Mohammedans and
even Professionals, but when the hour
of trial came they gladly gave up their
lives on the bloody hill of Kampala,
at Sabarija, in the midst of frightful
torments to proclaim aloud their love
and loyalty to the Church of Christ
1t was the White Fathers of Cardinal
Lavigerie who made those black men
children of God, and one is almost
startled to find those martyrs so close
to us in point of time and from such
an unexpected part of the world, and
IAC Iulp1 C0olOu SIOWS WuSu we are Ill
formed that their canonization is al
ready proposed
One always finds on the glorious
scroll of the Church's martyrs won
derful variety and picturesqueness in
the names that illustrate it. There are
Roman names and Greek and Syrian
and Scandinavian and English and
German and French and Irish and
Polish and Dutch and Chinese and
Japanese, and SO on; but now there is
announced as possible new glory, a
new glow and new color that may be
added to the splendid list, and we may
have new and pleasant and perhaps
puzzling sensation, new tone to our
piety, as well as new proof of the
universally of the Church when, some
of these days, we find ourselves pray
ing to Sebuggwao, Seronkuma, Ngag-
ga, Coma, Kagwas Maaggalli, Kilvan-
kouketta, Kyavira, Kibouka, Kilvan-
you, Mzeo, Toukinde, etc.
We hope that the honors that are
thought of in their regard may be con-
ferred. Even the announcement of
their possibility throws new and con-
soling light over Darkest Africa.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-16
SALT MINES IN AFRICA.

In certain parts of Africa, some very
curious and valuable formations of
salt are found. Those of French Sou
dan are among the most remarkable,
but large quantities lie in the Sahara
Desert at Taoudeni. The salt is de-
posted in layers about two inches
thick, and is cut in bars yard in
length and foot wide for transporta-
ton. 1t is carried away on the backs
of camels and sometimes the salt
caravans number as many as five hun
dred camels.
1t is needless to state the worth of
this commodity as an article of ex-
change and barter. Sometimes a bar
brought ten or twelve dollars in the
days before marine salt was intro
duced and even now it's price is high
enough to make it a safe commercial
investment. 1t was not until 1904 that
marine salt was used to any extent in
Africa.
Missionaries, when starting out on
an expedition into the interior, usual
ly bring package of salt with them
to be distributed among the natives as
little offerings of friendship This great
necessity of life will, in fact, pur-
chase almost anything, even the hearts
of the poor negroes.
Back in the sixteenth century a
fierce war was waged between Moroc-
co and the kings of certain mines in
Saoudeni. Morocco was the victor and
managed the salt district until the end
of the eighteenth century, when it's
power was ousted from the country.