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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-07-25
Womsn,s Relative Value.

Once at the table OF Sir James
Knowles. editor of the Nineteenth
century. the talk ran on the relative
physical and mental value of women
Turning to Sir Ray Lancaster, the
aged prime minister Mr. GladstoneJ
said: u am Of the opinion that the
relative value Of a man and a woman
IS in all classes Of society about the
same as It was in my grandfather
time in Jamaica. When they wanted
to buy a negro they gave one hundred
and twenty pounds for a man and
eighty pounds for woman. and" he
added that is a fair measure Of their
relative values the world over"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-07-25
WOMEN'S WOES
Emmett Wemen Are Finding Re
lief at Last.

1t does seem that women have
more than fair share of the aches
and pains that a flict humanity;
they must keep up" must attend
to duties in spite of constantly ach-
ing backs, or headaches, dizzy spells
bearing-down palms, they must stoop
over when to stoop means torture
They must walk and bend and
work with racking pains and many
aches from kidney ills Sick kid
neys cause more suffering than any
other organ of the body Keep the
kidneys well and much suffering is
saved. Read of remedy Scr kid
neys only that is endorsed by peo-
pie you know
Mrs. S. f. Wells, Second and
Commercial SITS, Emmett, Idaho,
says: For six years l had at
tacks of lumbago and my limbs and
back was very painful. My whole
body ached and l became Sc stiff
and lame that l could hardly get
about. l slept poorly and this re-
suited in a tired, worn out feeling
an the morning. The contents of
two boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills
did me a world of good and since
then 1 have used this remedy off
and on, finding that it acts as a
tonic to my kidneys"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York. sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-07-25
REAR ADMIRAL lEUTZE
OUT AFTER 48 YEARS.
H. Had Served the Navy In Every
Possible Capacity.

Rear Admiral Eugene Fl. G. Leutze,
who retired recently from command of
the New York navy yard. had been for
forty-eight years identified with the
naval service in posts which included
surveying ana sounding expeditions,
battleship command. railroad construc-
ton. diplomatic negotiation, professor
ship in the Naval academy. superin-
tendency of gun factories and COM
mand of the Washington and New
York yards.
Admiral Leutze retired from the
service on Nov. IL. 1909. having reach
ed the age of sixty-two. He was then
in command of the Washington yard.
On March 81. 1910. however. he was
ordered to command the New York
yard and station.
Admiral LeutZe was born in Prussia
Nov. 16, 1917. the son of Emanuel
Leutze, the artist who painted Wash
ington Crossing the Delaware" and
Westward Ho." He entered the Ma
val academy on March 4, 1868. and in
the summer of 1864. while on leave of
absence, volunteered for active service
and began his career aboard the Unit
ed States steamer Monticello of the
north Atlantic blockading squadron.
He was graduated in June, 1867, was
promoted to an ensigncy in 1868 and
when the ironciad Terror ran into the
Severn. on which he was stationed.
was favorably mentioned for "cool-
ness and efficiency in emergency" in
the report of Captain Lowry to Rear
Admiral Poor.
Then came the commission as lieu
tenant in 1871 and the command of
various surveying parties in the Mica
raguan expedition in 1872. in the Pan
anna survey of 1874, Honolulu 10 BriS-
bane. Australia. soundings in 1876. He
commanded the Macarthur in 1S77-SO
and became executive on various ships
until promoted to lieutenant command
er in March. 1889. having served from
1SS7-90 as head of the department of
languages at the Naval academy.
Commissioned as commander in Jan
uary, 1897. be was ordered TO COM
mand the Alert on Jan. Z of the fol
lowing year With this vessel he sur
yeyed for the canal commission, pro.
tected the American cable at San Juan
during the Nicaraguan revolution and
engineered a treaty of peace among
the Central American republics, sign-
ed in his cabin in May When the
Spanish war broke out he took the
United States monitor a to the Phil
ippines. was present at the taking of
Manila and commanded the naval sta
ton at Cavite. defending It against the
insurrection. In April. 1900. be was
appointed superintendent of the naval
gun factory at Washington and. being
commissioned captain In 1901. COM
manded the United States battleship
Maine from October. 1902. TO Novem-
Der, 1904. He was promoted TO rear
admiral July. 1907. and ordered to
of the Washington navy |
yard
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-07-25
TRIES BARBER FIRST AT 81.
Aged Harrison Freeland Changes Mind
After Long Life.

After Long Life.
1t has taken Harrison Freeland OF
the little village of Greenwood. n. y,
eighty-two years TO make up his mind
that there is really some comfort and
enjoyment to be found in BARRIERS
chair.
All the years of his long life until
Just now Mr.. Freeland has cut his own
hair and shaved himself. being firmly
convinced that it was neither pleasant
nor economical to have barber fuss
ing about ones head or face. Recent
", however. the aged man was in
duced to visit the village 'tonsorial
parlor" for the first time and have his
hair cut.
To Mr.. Freeland's surprise the dread
ed operation proved really most com
Portable and soothing. He admitted,
too. after a long look in the BARRIERS
mirror, that the general effect was bet
ter than he could produce before the
family looking glass.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-07-25
Insect Lilac COSTS Leg.

A Boston man lost his leg from
the bite of an insect two years be-
fore. To avert such calamities from
stines and bites of insects use
Bucklen's Arnica Salve promptly to
kill the poison and prevent inflam-
nation, swelling and pain. Heals
burns, boils, ulcers, piles, eczema.
cuts, bruises. Only % cents at all
dealers.
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COFFEE PRICES GOING UP.
Doubled Since 1908. but Lower Than
From 1890 to 1896.

FROM ioSS 10 iOOOs
Coffee has been increasing in price.
The commerce and labor departments
bureau of statistics has ascertained
that during l912 the average import
price has been 13 cents u pound as
against II cents in 1911. s cents in
1910 and GIa cents In 1903 From 1890
10 1896 the average import price
ranged from II cents TO rs cents.
OF the ST5.on0.O00 pounds imported
in 1911. GJ1 100000 came from Brazil
ms against 22+.0OO.OOO from all parts
OF the world. chiefly American coun-
tries. More than onethird of the
worlds coffee is consumed in the Unit
eli States Porto Rico and Hawaii ara
the only portions of the United States
n which coffee is produced.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-07-25
EsAIMS NORMANS
FOUND AMERICA
Vlcomte de Breezy Is on an
Unusual Mission.
QUESTIONS COLUMBUS STORY

Frenehman Is Vice President of So
eiety Whose Aim Is to Gather lnfor-
nation About Normans-Expects to
Find Proof of His Assertions.
Yicomte Jean de Breezy. French
nobeman touring the world. collecting
data 10 prove that Christopher Column
bus did not discover America, but that
1t was discovered by Eric lie Rouge,
a Norman, 500 years before Columbus
was born, is now in this country.
Rocks bearing Norman inscriptions
have been found in Massachusetts and
are known as the Writing Rocks Of
Dighton. The vicOmte claims that sim
liar rocks have been found along the
shores of the Chesapeake bay. He is
the vice president of lie Souvenir Nor
mand, a society whose aim is to gather
information about the Normans. The
president of the society is Marquis de
la Rochethulon eft Grente.
Vicomte de Brecey's researches have
taken him in many strange lands. He
has visited Lapland and has found
traces of the Normans among the Es-
kimos. Knowing his Viking ancestors
settled in Normandy in the year 900
and knowing also that some of them
went to England with William the Con-
uueror, the vicomte followed up one
clew after another until he established
the relationship existing between the
families of De Breezy in France and
Brassey in England.
Going to Minnesota.
The vicomte has in his possession a
photograph of Il stone in Minnesota. by
which he expects to prove that the Nor
mans were the first white people to
set foot on American shores. He Claims
that 500 years before Columbus was
reported to have discovered America
Viking Eric lie Rouge went down the
coast of Greenland to the coast of
Labrador. He reached several places
in Canada and eventually landed in
what is now the United States. Traces
of the vikings have been found along
the gulf of Mexico and even as far south
as Brazil He also claims that the vi
kings built churches and even had Dish
ops before Columbus discovered Amer
fca.
In the year 1000 Lief lie Fortune, a
son of Eric lie Rouge, it is claimed,
founded place to which he gave the
name of Liefsbudu. in the colony of
Tinland In Bonnie That is the present
site of Boston. While in America vi
comte de Breezy will endeavOr to trace
the early Normans Before going to
Canada he had been in India to attend
the wedding of u son of the ma haraja
of Kapurthala The maharaja's chill
dren had been educated in France,
where the vicomte had met them.
A French Writer.
The vicomte is thirty-tive years of
age and is a well known French writer.
He is a great traveller and embodies in
his books his observations and re-
searches He is also d frank royalist
and admits that he does not favor the
present republican government of
France and that he is always looking
for king to rule France.
He claims that the republic in France
will eventually be overthrown and that
the next government will be either roy
al or imperial. He is also of the opin-
ion that war between England and
G Germany is bound to come in the course
nf time
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COMPLAINT FROM RoUMANIA.
Minister jackson Relates How Aneri-
ca loses FOREIGN Trade.

The following incident, reported by
American Minister John b. Jackson.
Bucharest, shows the manner in which
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
Plenty ofFun.

Visitors to the Vermont State
Fair, to be held at White River
Junction. September II, IS; r9 and
20 will find fun out OF the ordinary
in the antics of the corpulent gentle
men who compose the Fat Mems
Club of New England. The Club
meets at the grounds the first day of
the fair and in the evening are
treated to big fireworks exhibition.
But on Wednesday morning comes
the real fun, for the tat men will
Z" act up" for the amusement of the
crowds. There will be all sorts of
fat mems sports, such as foot races,
wheelbarrow races, tug-of- war, ETC.,
and on Wednesday afternoon the
fat men will head the pre- cession of
prize stock around the track.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
Westminster Abbey.

tions, trophies, had all become con-
founded in my recollection, though I
had scarcely taken my foot Off the
threshold. What, thought I, is this
vast assenNblage of sepulchers but a
treasury Of humiliation, huge pile of
reiterated homilies on the emptiness
OF renown and the certainty Of obliv-
lon! 1t is indeed the empire of Death
Ibis great shadowy palace, where he
sits In state, mocking at the relics of
human glory and spreading dust and
forgetfulness on the monuments Of
princes. How idle boast after all,
10 the Immortality of name! Time
Is ever silently turning over his pages; |;
we are too much engrossed by the
story Of the present to think of the
characters and anecdotes that gave
Interest tothe'past; and each age is a
volume thrown aside to be speedily for
gotten. The idol of today pushesth hero
OF yesterday out of our recollection;
and will, in turn, be supplanted by his
successor Of tomorrow Our fathers"
says Sir Thomas Browne, find their
graves In our short memories and sad.
ly tell us how we may be buried in our
survivors. s."-"Westminste Abbey
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
THE BARK OF the DOC.

II is a fact that wild dogs do not
bark. They whine. growl. howl, but
the true bark is never heard among
them. The explosive noise familiar to
us all In the bark of the domestic dog
is undoubtedly an acquired faculty. In
word, the barking Of the domesti.
Gated dog is an effort on the animals
part to speak. which he derives from
his association with man. The dogs
bark 10, OF course. varied in Its express
sion. Anybody can tell the difference
between the bark of welcome that
the dog gives his master and the bark
Of defiance that he offers to tho
stranger who falls under his suspicion
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
DRUG HABIT GAINS IN PARIS
Wholesale Deseneracy Threatens City,
a Prominent Physician
Asserts.

Investigations following recent
succession of fatalities In the Quarter
Latin have revealed that the drug
habit has gained on Parisians. In
one store alone dope fiends buy no
less than one hundred pints of cocaine
and morphine every week.
So prevalent is the dope habit that
a prominent physician declares he de-
tects its victims by the score every
time he takes a round of the cafes.
Ether is no longer fashionable, but
especially In the artist quarters NOR.
phine is used recklessly. Even the
uninitiated can detect those addicted
to It in an evenings stroll.
Paris, in the opinion of this physi-
clan, is the most 'drug-cured city In
the world. for while rich women of
other capitals secretly indulge in va
rious dangerous ways Of stimulating
their jaded forces, the dope habit in
Paris has spread through every class
until wholesale degeneracy La threat
ened.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
STEERS cAPTlvEs FOR YEARS
Large Herd Grows From a Few AMI.
naIo Which Fell Into Deep
RavIne Long AsJ.

Meeker, Colo.--By risking their
lives a company of Uncle Sans regu.
lars has rescued large herd of Texas
long horn mavericks from the bot.
tom Of deep ravine.
A number of years ago large
bunch of cattle was turned ON the
range. A stampede occurred, and
hundreds Of the animals fell over
from a precipice. The first ones
were killed. but the remainder alight.
ing ION the carcasses of their com.
panions. survived. And there they
stayed, their existence unknown to
the cowmen. who that they
had all been killed. 80
The survivors increased, growing
large and becoming wild. The war de.
partment finally detailed the soldiers
to get them out.
The rescue was thrilling. The huge
beasts, proved more than match for
the soldiers horses In speed and
charged their rescuers. They over.
turned many horses and attacked the
riders.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
BRIDGEWATER.

Misses Mildred Curtis, kathryn
Davis, Gladys Carter, Arthur Ham
lion, Roger Josselyn and Geralc
Weeden return to Woodstock Higl
school for the ccming year. New
students there are Verona Potwin
Florence and Arthur Yetman and
Hugh Hamilton.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. r. Clark of Bos
ton were recent guests of w. G
Raymond.
IL. s. King and family have re-
turned to Easthampton. Mass.
The speakers at the Republican
rally Saturday afternoon were Con
gressman Plumley, Judge Thomp,
son and Hon. +. A Howland
Mr.. and Mrs 9. M. Southgate Wis
lied G. O. Coke and family in Wood
stock last Sunday.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
CORK TREE.

The cork tree is species OF oak
In Spain the outer bark is harvested
from the same tree once every nine
or ten years. The best cork comes
from trees that are 80 to 100 years old
Instead Of injuring the tree. stripping
the bark seems to add impetus to the
growth Of a new coat. The yield OF a
tree varies from 80 pounds to 500
What is known as the cork bark elm
In your section is also called the
witch elm" in some parts of Canada,
from the weird ghastly appearance Of
its bonghs and trunk. Although some
what similar in appearance to the cork
oak. 1t has not the slightest value for
its bark. The Spanish tree would al
most certainly not thrive in these lati
tudes.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
NORTH POMFRET

Alec McInnes and wife of Que
chez and two cousins from Andover,
Mass, visited Mrs. Colburn one
day last week.
Emory Lucia and wife have re
turned from their trip. John
Wheeler and daughter were care I
takers in their absence.
Miss Clara Hoyt has been visiting
her cousin, Mrs. Quimby, in Clare
mont.
{. p. Thacher delivered the six
cows he sold to Mr.. Judd of Straf-
ford Saturday.
Mr.. Horton was in this section
buying early fall apples last week,
paying $I.75' per barrel.
The musicale Mt the church last
week was much enjoyed, and at its
close the company was invited by
Mr. John Wheeler to his home to
assist in celebrating his and Mrs.
Wheeler's fifteenth wedding ami
versary. Ice cream, cake and coffee
We're served and il was a very pleas
ant occasion for all
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
Mission weddlnos.

Within two minutes after the cab
stopped at the mission door the report
spread up and down the street that q
wedding was taking place inside.
Within another two minutes the room
was packed to the very doors. That
sudden rush of the crowd to the sane
tuary pleased the mission superin-
tendent
"If had money to spare" he said.
II would pay bonus TO young couples
for getting married In a mission. The
moral effect Of one wedding Ia worth
dozen sermons. To get the best eff
feet the ceremony ought to be per-
formed in the middle Of the service.
No innovation that have ever intro
duced has had such SOLDERING effect
on the congregation. The example OF
man once as far down maybe in the
social scale as themselves having be-
come sufficiently regenerated to as.
sumo the responsibilities Of life stirs
every bit of manhood there IL in them.
THE trouble is, can pefs,iade very
few couples to be married I'm mis-.
sion. The bridegrooms do not mind,
but the brides want something more
exclusive"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
SNAKE KILLS HER TWO SONS
While Mother Goes to Rescue OF Chill
dren Baby Falls In Tub and
qa browne. 4

4 Raleigh, N. C.--The attention OF
Mrs. George Adams, living in Pitt
county, was attracted by the cacklins
Of hen. and she sent her S-year-old
son to the barn to drive the hen from
the nest. A scream from the lad that
the hen had pecked him caused the
mother to send her younger son to as.
certain the cause. and similar out.
burst from him led the mother to in.
vestigate.
She found that both boys had been
bitten by rattlesnake that was coiled
In the nest. HurTying with her little
ones to the house, she found that her
babe had fallen into a tub and drown
ed.
The boys, lacking medical atten-
tion. soon died In agony. The three
children will be buried in the same
grave.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07

they say there's no prettier bit Of
scenery In Missouri like to hang
out the window here and watch the
bubbles and the shadows, and listen
to the water and the wheels, well
l Just couldn't live without them"
The old man with the -four busted
clothing and beard has distinguished
ancestry, and in the family Bible are
the documents to prove it.
His grandfather. Samuel Watts. was
a volunteer soldier in the army of Gen.
eral Lafayette which came from
France and fought with Washington
In the Revolutionary War. The rec.
ords show that he was wounded seven
times. that he was captured by the
British in Charleston and that after
the war he settled In Shelby County.
Kentucky, and that he was q member
Of the Lewis and Clark expedition that
went up the Missouri River to the
mouth of the Yellowston. He married
Sallie Dodson, great-granddaughte
of Daniel Boone, and settled In st.
Charles County, Missouri
In 1850 Anthony B. Watts, Is son.
came to Indian Creek and bought the
water mill. de brought his family
with him. Stubbins was one Of the
children.
TO look at the old man, STOPPING at
his bins and gathering deposit of
white flour ae bee gathers pollen
from the flowers into which 1t dips,
one would not imagine he had been a
hghting man. but, as he says:
s"rhsa p1YrOIa ~ tha rxyatar ...
many years sort of lulls you to sleep"
There is no modern machinery in
this mill except the turbine Wheel
Years ago the old wooden wheel was
taken out and the turbine put in.+ All
else is as 1t was eighty-two years ago.
even to the wooden pegs in the floor
Ing, the wooden hinges on the doors
and the wooden cogs in the wheels.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
IMPRESSION OF NOTED ABBEY
irving Calls sepulohers In Westn,In-
ster Nothing but Treasury Of
Humiliation.

London.-The last beams OF the day
were now family streaming through
the painted windows in the high vaults
above me; the lower parts of the alb
bey We're already wrapped In the OBJ
scurity Of twilight The chapel and
aisles grew darker and darker. The
effigies Of the kings faded into shad-
ows; the marble figures OF the monu-
ments assumed strange shapes in the
uncertain light; the evening breeze
crept through the aisles like the cold
breath OF the grave; and even the
distant football of verger, traveysing
the poets corner, had something
strange and dreary in Its sound.
! endeavored to form some arrange.
ment in my mind of the objects had
been contemplating. but found they
were already fallen into indistinct-
ness and confusion. Names, inscrip-
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
cars DEVOTION.

Eight persons owe their lives To
q cat which gave an alarm Of flre
in q house in the Welsh village OF
Clisyndd, Pontypridd. Glamorganshire.
early the other day. The occupant OF
the house was aroused by the persis-
tent cries of the animal which had
entered his bedroom. and found that
fire had broken out in the kitchen
The housekeeper and six children
were warned OF the danger and were
able to leave the premises In safety
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-09-07
HARTLAND.
ENeLIsH-rARpLE.

The Universalist church wa
tastetully and beautifully decorated
with flowers at high noon, Angus
rs, for the wedding of Miss jennie
E.. Tarble, elder daughter Of the lat,
Mr.. and Mrs. 6. E. Tarble, anc
Ernest A. English, the younges
son of the late Mr.. and Mrs. N
Fred English.
The bride entered the church
leaning on the arm Of her relative,
MIR. E. O. A dams, of West " indsor
Her sister, Mrs. Lowell Crandall
was matron OF honor, and Mis-:
Rena Jenne was bridesmaid. The
groom was attended by Rev. Stan
lev Gates of Dexter, Me as, best
man, and Mr.. Lee H. Graham,
groomsman, aud the ushers were
Messrs.~F. @. Spear, Ord c. Wat
son, Lowell Crandall and Herbert
Grout. Misses Myrtle and Barbara
Watson, gowned in dainty white,
strewed flowers in the bridal path.
The couple stood beneath an arch
Of evergreen during the ceremony,
which was performed by Rev.
Verde Mack Martin of Gaysville
and Rev. HI. L. Garfield of Wood
stock, the single ring service being
used.
The bride was most becomingly
gowned in soft gray messaline and
carried shower bouquet of white
sweet peas.
Mrs. Charles w. Backus played
during the ceremony. The church
was filed with relatives and friends
Among them were noticed Mr.. and
Mrs. Analdo English of Boston,
Mass, and Mrs. Theodore Kingsley
of Feeding Hills, Mass, brother
and sister Of the groom.
Alter wedding breakfast at the
English home the happy couple
left for a short auto trip through
central Vermont.
Rev. Hermann Lohmann has
rendered his resignation as pastor of
the Congregational church, to take
effect Oct. 1.
Wade and Elizabeth Webster en-
tered Woodstock High School
Sept. 8.
Marion Reed went to St. Johns
bury Sept. 2 to enter the academy.
Mrs. Minnie Rowell and daugh-
ter Hazel returned to their home in
New York Sept. 2, having spent
the summer'with their uncle, j. F.
Barrell.