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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-07-09

"What would you do with your money
if you were rich?" asked one of his
playmates. "I'd buy a great big mo-
tor car" answered the little chap, $50
could fly my kite out of the back of
it without running my legs off"
Sarah Jane went to consult travel
ing clairvoyant. The medium sum-
moned James mother from Spirit Land
and Jane asked the old lady some
trick questions. The ghost gave the
wrong answers, of course. Whereupon
Sarah Jane exclaimed ooh, NAV,
since you went to Heaven you've
learned to be an awful liarl"
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By vote of l29 to "a the house has,
voted to reduce the mileage of mem
bers of congress from 20 cents to 5
cents. AS the railroad fare is actu-
ally cents mile in most states, this
will leave the congressman only 3
cents mile velvet for each mile
actually travelled. Idaho might well
follow suit and reduce the mileage of
witnesses and jurymen in court cases.
The boarders of local eating house
narrowly escaped suffering i'll effects
from eating ice cream the other day.
The cook made a mistake and poured .
a portion of pain killer into the mix
ture, mistaking it for vanilla tiavoring
extract. Those who partook of the
delicacy say that the pain killer was
all that saved them from terrible
agony.
w. Averell Hartman, a son of the
late E. II. Hartman, began railroad
ing a couple of years ago as a lines
man for surveying gang for the
Oregon Short Line. Later he was
clerk in the general offices of the
Union Pacific in Omaha. Now, at the
age of 23, he has been elected vice
president of the Hartman system.
And yet some folks say young man,
has no chance nowadays.
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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-07-09
Ben-HuT,S Fight With
the Gladiator
From ben Hur," by Lew Walace)
With
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young had
by which Ben-Tur the
Thod
man companion waiting
hall woudbe before him.
a OWNED the plot
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-07-09
Tales of the Town

All men are not homeless, but some
men are home less than others.
Mexican poems are getting the land
back slowly, but surely-six feet at
time.
The Boise ball team seems to be
suffering from psychological de-
preston"
A good deal of bad management is
excused on the ground that it was the
Lords will,
1t is true that when man dies he
can't take any Of it with him, but he
had it while he was here,
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No matter what else you say in your
prayers, it ought to include this;
"Lord help me to keep my nose out
of other peoples business"
The next ambitious white bruiser
who essays to whip Jack Johnson
should be allowed to arm himself with
a mallet or hob nailed boots.
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Anybody can pitch with two down
and nobody on. But when the bases
are full and nobody is down, the gem
tleman with a lump in his thorax is
1t takes five yards of movie films to
show one kiss, and yet a young man
wanted the operator to stop turning
the crank of a moving picture ma
chine the other night.
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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-07-09

A third little boy sat on the curb
with his chin resting in his hands.
81 wish l was rich," ne exclaimed.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-07-09

In addition to the small grain the
Payette valley will have bumper
corn crop; and bumper corn crop
means plumper hog crop, rumper
beef crop and slumper mortgage
crop.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-07-09

1t is worthy of note that big life
company has resisted pay
ment on a policy on the life of Cal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14

her to be maligned either intention ally or because she was misunder- stood.
 The few scraps of verse that have come down to us prove that Sappho was poetess of the highest rank. What she wrote is as much alive today as in the hour when her verses were penned and nothing causes deeper regret at the burning of the Alexan- drian library than the exquisite lines that we know to have been hers. There is still a hope that excavations in Her culaneum may possibly reveal to us more of her writings.
 In her latest poem she says that woman is ever easy to be bent when she thinks lightly of what is near and dear," which shows that she knew her own sex pretty well and did not shrink from exposing it's foibles. She was likewise well acquainted with life and there are no grounds for presum- ing that his ethical stavelard was not elevated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
SapphO's Latest Poem

Recent dispatches from London an- hounce the discovery of poem by Sappho, and it is to be sincerely hoped that the announcement is true, that an opportunity may thus be afforded for learning something of the poetess of passion who taught girls school in Lesbos.
 There are but fragments of the writings of this gifted woman extant and it is probable that more than half of the legends associated with her life are mythical. Even the alleged man. sler of her death is now disputed and posterity is beginning to share less in the opinion as to her lack of morals 10 long entertained by the ancients.
 Sappho was probably a victim of prejudice and suffered the misfortune If having been born ahead of her times. Were she alive now she would probably be found in the ranks of the female suffrage though it is to be hoped not of the militant class. The fact that she conducted school for girls, that she desired to have women educated and advanced unquestionably shocked the Grecian world and the following of such a vocation caused
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
The Earth Cooling Off

An alarming prediction has been made by M. Verronet, a we'll known mathematician of France, who says that life on earth will cease in 2,O00,- 900 years. People who have consoled themselves with previous statements by men of science that the suns heat would be great enough to sustain life on the earth for a period of time ranging anywhere from 30,000, ,000 to 90,O0O,0 ,000 years, will doubtless be much upset by the announcement that man has only paltry 2,000,000 years left him. The prospect is one to alarm the stoutest heart.
 The belief that all life on earth will cease some day as result of the gradual cooling of the sun is not new, but M. Verronet is the first savant to reduce the duration of life to 2,000,- 900 years. The present solar tempera- ture is calculated to be about II ,192 degrees Fahrenheit The mean tenn perature of the earth's surface is esti- mated at 52 degrees Fahrenheit, and 92 degrees at the equator. M. Yer ronet says that 2,000, ,OOO years ago the heat of the suns rays was one and a half times as great as it is now and the temperature of the earths sur face in the neighborhood of the poles must have been about 194 degrees Fahrenheit. Life did not appear on the earth until the poles had begun to cool off and frost made it's appearance in what have since become. the frozen regions of the earth's surface.
 According to M. Verronet, the dura- tion of life on the earth is 4,OO0, ,OOO years, and man has now reached the middle period of his existence. In 2,0oo, ,000 years more the sun will have contracted and cooled to such an ex- tent that the earth will be completely
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
Southern Settlement Work

The south as great aricultural sec ton IS coming to it's own" said a mem Der of the Chamber of Commerce.
 "As The Age-Herald said MT. Leslie M Shaw's recent investment of $50, GOO in farm lands in Lowndes county is of far reaching significance. And what MT. Shaw said in writing about Alabama after he had been in this state 10 days will be of incalculable benefit to this state. MT. Shaw's investment coupled with large investment made in Greene county by James B. Haggin of New York and Kentucky will make the whole coun- try take notice. MT. Haggin is now ship ping Alabama alfalfa to his famous dairy farm near Lexington, Ky. Alfalfa and bur clover are cultivated successfully in several states, but in few of them are these grasses so profitably grown as in Alabama
 The Southern Settlement and Devel- opment organization, of which Davies Warfield of Baltimore is president, is doing telling work in the upbuilding of the south The Chamber of Commerce and every business interest in Birming- ham should cooperate cordially in this important development movement. Busi- ness men in other southern states are CO., operating actively There is every rea- son to believe that hundreds of. desirable homeseekers will settle in Alabama within the next five years Many of them will settle in Jefferson county and engage in truck farming"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
A COLONIAL GARDEN

From the New York Sun. Down this pathway, through tine shade Lightly tripped the dainty maid; In her eyes the smile of June, On her lips some old. sweet tune. Through yon ragged rows of box. By that awkward clunnp of phlox, To her favorite pansy bed,
 Like ray of light, she sped. Satin slippers, trim and neat, Cleaned upon her slender feet: Round her ankles, deftly tied, Ribbons crossed from side to side. Here her pinks, old fashioned, fair. Breathed their fragrance on the air There her futtering azure gown Shook the poppy's petals down. Here a rose, with fond carees
 Stopped to touch e truant tress
 From her f7Ilet struggling free.
 gcorning It's captivity. There a bed Of rue was set
 With ar edse of mignonette,
 And the spicy bersamot
 Meshed the frail forget-me.not.
 Bachelors buttons, hollyhocks,
 Honeysuckleas four-o' clocks
 MqrigOlds and bellfiowers sweet W Gurtsied at her fawnlike feet Now the hrageart weeds have .sprea, Down the paths she loved to tread And the creeping noos has grown OCT your shattered dial stone. 9e1ll beaioe the rLinod walks Some old flowere. on nEurdy etalks, Dram of her Who6o h4ppy Gve6 Neem the helds of yara1l4&
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
Useless City Noises

There never. will be city without
 noise; but an ideal worth striving for
 is city without useless noise. Hurry,
 worry and noise are the three main
 things which drive a man crazy and noise is not the least of the three.
 While nearly everyone, especially a
 city bred individual, soon becomes ap
 parently unmindful of the thousand
 and one noises always going on about
 him, nevertheless the effect is still
 there and in time will always manifest itself in a case of nerves"
 The city commissioners of Birming- ham deserve the cordial commendation of all citizens for their efforts to eliminate the annoying and what now appears to be the useless noise from the exhaust pipes of automobile and motorcycle engines. This nuisance has been especially an abomination from the fact that it has invaded the most quiet and select residence streets at any hour of the day or night like a will-o' the wisp, but leaving behind it the echoes of dozen volleys of regiment of artillery.
 Until the last two or three days the chauffeur or owner when brought be- fore the city recorder for running his machine with an open muffler, pleaded necessity and stated that to use the muffler while climbing a grade re- duced the power of his engine, and anyhow when used too much it re- suited in serious injury to his machine. The commissioners consulted experts and found this plea was a myth and that any first .class motorcycle or automobile will operate" just as we'll and without any injury to it's mechan- ism, whatever, with the mufflers cut in on it's engines. Finally City Recorder Douglass took a ride be- hind an expert motorcycle chauffeur and saw for himself that the operation of the muffler did not in any way effect the operation of the machine except that it very effectively elim- mated the noise from the engine ex- haust.
 Now every person caught by the police running machine with open mufflers is placed under bond and the recorder assesses fine of ten dollars. Garages and repair shops report an enormous business in mufflers and citizens report strange but agreeable degree of quiet in the residence sec tions.
 Crimes against the sensibilities de- serve attention of the municipal gov ernment as well as crimes against the body All hail to city commission with view of city government broad enough to include the esthetic and the nerve racking as we'll as the material.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
LUKE yI'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 When good looking neighbor wom- an begins to sit around the porch when father Is home, mother tells father that she Is cat. But if homely dame comes around when father is home mother says she is such dear girl"
 When it comes to keeping men out of trouble, hard work is almost as i'm portant as religion.
 You won't be able to convince some men that there is such a place as heaven until they see picture of a bald -headed angel
 The old fashioned man who paid as he went is about as much of a dead one as the wide skirt
 Every now and then man is so busy hunting for his rabbit foot and his luck. h that he fails to hear op- 2ortuiiil banging at the door
 If man pays a nickel for a shine and 1t starts to rain he wants to vote the anarchist ticket. But he will often cheerfully pay 10 cents for something that will enable him to get rid of jag that cost him nine dollars and a half
 If rich man has a flock of hungry heirs he doesn't have to take care of himself. He is going to live to be 9s years old.
 A woman will bite counterfeit dime before she will accept it. But she never inspects counterfeit man until after she has married him.
 The reason a woman worries because her husband takes his heavies off too soon Is because you could put all the underwear she has on into your vest pocket
 Fortune seldom shows up. but mis- fortune is always on the job.
 The difference between the masses and the classes Is that the masses live where their family fights attract the at tention of the police.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
frozen over and all forms of life will

frozen over and all forms of life will cease. Previous to his extinction M. Verronet believes that man will revert to barbarism. What part radioactive matter such as radium, will play in keeping the earth heated has not yet been determined by science.
 Even if M. Verronet's prediction is correct and the present heating ar engagements of the earth will be in- operative at the end of 100000 years, great deal can happen in that length of time and, discounting the idea that mankind will revert to bar barism, such progress may be made in the realm of science that merely losing the suns heat will prove a trifling circumstance to the smart chaps of that distant day, who will have prepared for the event by per fecting an entirely new and up-todate way of keeping warm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
KINGS IN TRADE

Berlin cable to the New York World.
 The revelation that the Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin runs an adto- mobile agency shows now royalty is more and more dabbling in commerce. King Peter. of Servia represents a famous French make of car in Bel grade, while the Czar. whose extraor- dinary penchant for Mercedes cars is well known, has more than once been suspected of having a financial interest in the famous works at Cannstatt The King of Wurttemberg owns two hotels at Ak and Marienbad, while Alfonso of Spain is always keen to push the sale of his own make of cigarette. Finally. the Kaiser runs cafe at Potsdam and pottery works at Cadinen. King George of England alone of the big monarchs seems unable to earn a living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14

~ NE of the most remarkable cases in French criminal law was that of the trial of the d Anglades, in 1887. In that year there lived at the Rue Royale, Paris, Francois Comte de Mont gomery and his wife. who occupied base ment and first floor apartments. and Sieur and Madame d'Anglade, who occupied the second and third floors.
 Montgomery was a man of wealth, keeping up an expensive establishment and moving in excellent society. Mon signor d Anglade, whose means were com paratively small, was less seen in the haunts of fashion. The two families were on intimate terms. When the Montgom- erys went to their country residence on a brief visit they invited the dAnglades to accompany them. The invitation was at first accepted. but subsequently, declined, and the trivial nature of the excuse put forward was afterward dwelt upon with great insstence in the process that was to follow.
 The Count and Countess left Paris on September 22, 1887, intending to return the following Thursday. They returned one day sooner than they were expected. Their reason was a singular one On sit ting down at dinner the count had mo- ticed a drop of blood upon his napkin, and another on his plate, the origin of which was not discoverable. With some presentiment of evil. he decided to return home The steward. page and valet and priest, Francois Gagnard, returned a few hours later
 On the same day the Sieur d dAnglade returned home at Il o'clock, accompanied by the Abbes de Fleury and De Villars. AS he entered, the Count and Countess were still at supper. The next morning early tne count waited upon the lieuten- ant criminal of Chatelet and announced that during his absence a chest had been broken open and much money and valua- hle jewelry had been stolen.
 The lieutenant and his assistants visited the house and came to the conclusion that the robbery could only have been effected by some one familiar with the house, and a general inquiry was re- solved upon. Monsgnor d'Anglade de- manded that his apartments should be searched. In the first room visited was an old chest, in which was found a rouleau of 70 louis d or wrapped in a ge- theological paper which the count identi- fled as belonging to him. He also identi- fled the money ythe dates, possible at that time.
 The count charged his neighbors with being concerned in the robbery. Upon visiting, the room of the counts valet five bags were found containing large sums of money. "Acknowledge,'' said the count to his wife ''the value of my presenti- ment. Had we returned only on the day we intended, this plunder would have been removed.'
 Upon this discovery the magistrate turned to d'AnglaGe and said: Monsieur, if you did not commit this robbery, 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
FORAKER ON U. s. RIGHTS

From the Washington Post.
 Former Senator Foraker's fund of first hand information and his clear and con else definition of the respective rights of the United States and other nations un- der the terms of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty have narrowed the field of contro- versy to point that leaves the advo- cates of repeal precious little ground to stand on.
 Great Britain is seen to have acqui- esced in the elimination of the Clayton Bulwer treaty as basis of negotiations for the present arrangement. fact not hitherto brought out at the Senate hear ings-a fact that shivers the bulwark be- hind which the repealers have taken refuge when hard pressed by the cham pions of the unlimited American control
 When Mir. Foraker declares from his own knowledge that tho treaty now In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
south's Most BeautifnI City

Comparatively few visitors to Bir- mingham see the residence sections, and they come and go therefore, without an adequate conception of what there is here teyond the limits of the central business district and the great industrial plants that happen to be close in" said E. J. Lorimer of Chicago Most of us who come here from time to time are on business bent, and as soon as we do a little trading take the first train out I have paid several visits to Birmingham within the past five or six years, but this week for the first time I have seen the beautiful homes and the magnificent boulevards on the highlands, south and north. The landscape effects are en- chanting, and it is no exaggeration to say that Birmingham is the most beauti- full city in all the south. I would say that it is one of the six most beautiful cities in the United States
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
Rural School Conditions

A recently issued bulletin of the American Medical association, whicn has been working in unison with the lNational Educational association, con txins some very interesting facts rela- five to the rural school conditions in the United States.
 After a careful discussion of the subject the committee charged With the collection of the data arrived at the conclusion that the rural school IS more in need of attention and assist ance than is the city school, and that scientific sanitation is more conducive to good health than is the unim- proved environment furnished by na- tufe.
 The field of investigation extended to all parts of the union and resulted in the general proposition that the country school child is from 15 to 20 per cent more defective than the city
 
 child. It was found that in Pennsylya- mia three-fourths ,af,ft the country school children are in need of special care and treatment, while in New York city but 72 per cent of the pu- pills are at all defective. The same disparity is apparent in the south, for while less than 1 per cent of school children in the New York city schools suffer with lung trouble, 3.7 per cent of the children at school in Orange county, Virginia, were found to be so affected. Where malnutrition was studied the result obtained was 23.3 in New York city to 31.2 in the coun- try districts.
 Startling figures were revealed in relation to mental defects, the per centage being 0.2 in the city to 0.S in the country. Heart trouble is twice as prevalent in the country as in the city; ear trouble five times, and eye trouble four times as great in the rural as in the city districts, and cur vature of the spine is found in ola per cent of the city children and in 7.5 per cent of the country children. Ade- holds afflict 3.5 per cent of the city and 21.5 per cent of country school children, while the ratio of enlarged tonsils is 8.8 per cent as compared to 80 per cent.
 The cause of the rural defects is laid upon exposure to cold and heat, bad ventilation occasioned by the use of the stove in heating country homes, distance from dentists, oculists and clinical advantages and insanitary schoolroom equipments, such as dirty basins, a common towel and not too clean pail of water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
BusIne.. DIstrIct Exuand,nr

Those of us who have been living here many years scarcely realize how fast the business district is expanding unless we roam around occasionally said Maj. E. T. Taliaferro.
 can remember when the business sec ton was confined to few blocks. Now substantial mercantile buildings are seen as far eastward as Twenty-sixth street and as far westward as Fourteenth street. Notwithstanding our great build- ings records in recent years, 1t is a note worthy fact that few houses. either mer- cantile or residential, have For Rent signs on them. Birmingham grew at a phenomenal rate in the last decade, but 1 believe that it's rate of growth is greater now than it has ever been.'