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The Jasper news., 1914-01-28
Rev. w. o. Thompson Writes
from North Missouri.
Malta Bend. Mo.

Dear Brother Drake: Your let
ter at hand asking US to write
letter for The News. We gladly
accept this invitation to write our
many friends around Jasper.
As you know, we left Jasper on
Wednesday morning, arrived in
Kansas City that afternoon and
stayed there until Friday morning,
leaving there early. We arrived
in Malta Bend about 10 o'clock
and found committee at the sta
ton waiting for us The commit.
tee took us to a boarding house
across the street from the parson
age where We were entertained I'M
til our goods came, and that was
the next day. A member of our
church living in the country
brought in his team and unloaded
the car for US. Wife and children
we're greatly disappointed with the
scenery on the Missouri river, as
there were. great many shacks
and little towns along the river.
and we had made up our minds
we would not like Malta Bend. but
before we arrived the train pulled
out of the river bottom and on to
the plains and everything looked
quite different. We found Malta
Bend fine little country town
Malta was built several years ago
on the Santa Fe Trail, about three
miles north of the Missouri river.
1t rs named after a bend in the
river, and the bend was named
after steamboat that went down
in the bend in 80 feet of water
The boat was named Malta. and it
vas well named for it was loaded
down with Old Kentucky Bourbon.
The boat and contents have never
been seen from that day to this.
| We moved into the parsonage
Saturday afternoon and camped
over Sunday. A union meeting
between our church and the NJ E
South started Sunday night in our
church with II South Methodist
preacher by the name of Snead
doing the preaching. The meeting
continued for two weeks with no
visible results-not even a hand
raised and Brother Suead was a
good preacher.
Before the meeting closed we
had three small pox cases in town
which almost depopulated our
churches.
We have about 400 white people
and $50 colored in our town.
Three white churches and two
colored. Our church is consid
cred little the strongest of the
churches. The Christian Church
has had the lead in the Sunday
schools, but at the present time
our church is leading. We have a
very nice frame building. The
main auditorium will seat about
1870 The main room is Icarpeted
with brussels carpet and seated
with nice pews The League room
will seat over a hundred. Back
of the pulpit is the pastors study,
east of the study the primary
Sunday School room. The church
has four rooms and is very nicely
arranged. The parsonage has FIVE
rooms and good cellar, a large
yard with plenty of garden room,
and fruit trees all over the lot.
We have a little country church
on this charge about seven miles
from Malta and two miles from
The Jasper news., 1914-01-28
"The Voice of One Crying From
the Wilderness"
Leslie, Ark.


We foreigners" q p e.ume we
are foreigners at least, that is
what the natives here call us, and
the genial editor of this paper
told me last summer that. if |
moved down here | would have
to take out naturalization papers
when | wanted to come batk)
certainly appreciate the opportuni-
ty of meeting with you once more,
if only in split.
presume, from the letters of
inquiry which we have received
from Missouri since locating here,
that many faces are turned in. this
direction. So when [ received a
request from The News for letter
for this edition, I jumped at once
! to the conclusion that the editor
had, perhaps, contracted a mild
form of the Arkansas fever-Nit!
Many people are coming into
this section, and from all direc.
tons. The two families whose
farms join US on the south are
from Kansas, near Abilene Just
south of them is another Kansas
family from Chanute. East of us,
but not on adjoining land, is a
handsome bachelor from Iowa, on
a homestead. He has only been
here a month. Besides these
foreigners" who are all in our
school district, there is one family
from Texas, and two others from
Missouri with. of course. many
natives that is what they call
themselves
Oxley, our school district, is a
large one, having a roomy, COM
Portable schoolhouse with lodge
room above. We had a fairly
good school, which only lasted
five months. and is now out.
They began the terms here in July,
and Oxley had IS pupils enrolled.
J BY the way, Arkansas is badly in
need of good school teachers. The
) districts have short terms now,
; but it will soon be different, with
outsiders coming 50 fast, and
boards pay fair wages even now
) from forty to sixty dollars, but the
rural schools much prefer male
teachers
. To our many friends who won
der how we like it here, We would
say, las we'll as we expected to-"
We we're not hunting better
place than Jasper when we moved,
, but wished to try mountain eli
mate and the water here for Mr..
Moulton's health, and so far we
are we'll satisfied in that, as he has
been very well, indeed.
; We like the mountains, the
forests, and our neighbors. We
, did not expect to like the rough
roads. coming as we did from
good ones, nor did we think this
would be like home. We do not
expect any place to seem like Jas
, per, to us, and that place will
likely always mean home; but it
is very pleasant here and the wea-
ther seems so very mild, though
:. every one says we are having an
unusually severe winter.
Land values are advancing here,
in keeping with other localities.
This would not seem strange to
you if you could realize the advan-
tages of the country, in spite of
its roughness. The cheap building
; materials, the climate, the health
fulness, the soil and beyond all
IL ~
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22
OF ANOTHER ERA.

There died in Denver recently ar
old scout, Oliver Virgins, who hao
fought with Phil Kearney and Kit
Carson in the days when the West
was wild and woolly. Well up into
the nineties he lived and retained his
faculties, and recalled wildly the
Mexican campaign and Indian wars
and other thrilling tales in which he
played part. He belonged TO an
other era; that period which paved
the way for the peace and prosperity
which came later. OF that scouting
vanguard only few are left, but
those who lived long, as Virgins did,
could tell no story to compare with
the one which unfolded before their
eyes as time passed; the development
of the West in little more than half
century from trackless wilder
ness to marvellous country of homes
and enterprise and achievement. A
tribute to those iron men who blazed
the trail is due from the lucky ones
who came later.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22
ONE EFFECT OF THE TARIFF.

Although the duty on imported
sugar will not be entirely wiped out
by the new tariff bill until 1916, the
handwriting of what it will do to the
industry in the United States is al
ready on the wall. The Louisiana
sugar planters are already prepar-
ing to make the necessary change.
The New Orleans Picayune, in an
editorial discussion Of the situation,
says that, "While some planters have
ground their seed cane, leaving only
their stubble, as preliminary to go
ing out Of sugar cultivation, the great
majority have saved seed as usual,
and fairly good crop will be planted
for 1914. What will follow after
that the future only can determine
At least one large sugar estate has
publicly announced that it will cease
operations at once and lease out its
hitherto fruitful sugar lands"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22
HERE have | come from,
" where did you pick me up? 2"
the baby asked its mother.

She answered, half crying, half
laughing, and clasping the baby to
her breast.
"You were hidden in my heart as
its desire, darling.
"You were in the dolls of my
ehildhood's games; and when with
clay | made the image Of my god
every morning, | made and unmade
you then.
You were enshrined with our
household deity, in his worship | wor-
shipped you.
'In all my hopes and my loves, in
my life, in the life of my mother, you
have lived
"In the lap Of the deathless spirit
who rules our home you have been
nursed for ages.
when in girlhood my heart was
opening its petals, you lowered as
fragrance about it.
'Your tender softness bloomed in
my youthful limbs, like a glow in
the sky before sunrise.
Heavens first darling, twin-born
with the morning light, you have
fiosted down the stream of the worlds
life, and at last you have stranded
on my heart.
"As gaze on your face, mystery
overwhelms me; you who belong to
all have become mine.
For fear of losing you | hold
you tight to my breast What magic
has shared the worlds treasure in
these slender arms Of mine? 2"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22
His Stomach Troubles Over.

Mr.. Dyspeptic, would you not like
to feel that your stomach troubles
were over, that you could eat any
kind of food you desired without in
jury2 That may seem so unlikely to
you that YOU do not even hope for an
ending of your trouble, but permit us
to assure you that it is not altogether
impossible. If others can be cured
permanently, and thousands have been
why not you? John r. Barker of
Battle Creek, Mich, is one of them.
He says, 81 was troubled with heart
burn, indigestion and liver complaint
until | used Chamberlain's Tablets,
then my trouble was over" Sold by
all dealers.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22

ton which has passed through the
scoring fires of sin. The fu'st of the
year / put aside my long black bot
tie and resolved never to touch il
again, expecting to have the help and
sympathy of my wife while enduring
the pangs of the thirst which | had
resolved to conquer. AS has been my
custom for some time | was sitting
by the fire reading the headings from
my daily paper aloud to my wife the
other night while she nodded over her
knitting. When | came TO the one
about Secretary Bryan | chartered
right on in an unsuspecting manner,
Secretary breakfasts on steak and
mush and fees Just at this.
point my wife rose right up with al
pitiful little squeak and accused me
of wrecking my brave resolve. Butt
| Quoted her down and told her to|
read it herself, which she did. Sec
rotary breakfasts on steak and mush|
and fees to Kansas, she read, and|
seemed perfectly satisfied. But if
a man has got to suffer abuse and
continue to be the target of con-
tumely's barbed shaft, what differ
ence does it make whether he's on
the water wagon or off, I'd like to
know"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22
---s-'--- 9-------
BILL BECOMES AN EDITOR.

Kaiser Wilhelm is going to edit q
newspaper and when next we drop
into Berlin we mean to call around
and wipe our hands on Bills Office
towel. Newspaper editing has al
ways been something Bill considered
himself born to shine at and we shall
watch his career with interest, In a
country where it is lese majestic for an
editor to mention the Kaiser's natal
day without first calling up to get
permission, Bill ought to be render
ing himself liable within about four
days.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22
The Judges Musings
ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE

the gauntlet thrown down by the OPP
position, met in open fight its best adj
vocat9s, strewed the arena with the
viscera of several eminent theolog-
ians, and did not permit even the
great Gladstone to leave the field
with smile of triumph on his face
Wallace survived his great coadju-
tor for 80 years. He lived to see the
body of Charles Darwin, whose book
had been received with boots of deri-
sion by the owls and bats of 1859,
placed to rest in Westminster Abbey,
mourned and honored by the civilized
world, his views accepted by every
eminent biologist in Europe and
America. He witnessed the slow dis
Indignation of the army that opposed
the new discovery. He saw its ablest
captains forsake the ranks, display
the white flag, or sound the trumpet
for retreat. He saw Darwinism writ '
ten into every scientific text book used
in free universities of Germany, Eng
land, France and America At his
death the doctrine of evolution is, in
the opinion of biologists, as firmly
established as the Copernician system
of astronomy or the theory of gravi-
tation.
To this result, Wallace was one of
the chief contributors. He was as
irdefatigable traveller as Humboldt
himself. He supplemented the mass
of evidence set forth by Darwin more
than any other investigator. While
in old age and declining vigor he put
forth individual views that do not re-
ceive the support of most naturalists,
this fact does not detract from the
value of his earlier services. He was,
and remained, even more radical than
Darwin himself in his belief of the
all-sufiiciency of Natural Selection to
explain the diversities of animal and
plant life. Living past the age of 80,
he yet retained to the last his interest
n the subjects that had engaged his
activities for more than years. The
great Humboldt is the only other ex-
nipple of such a long life of labor in
he field of physical science.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22
ales Of the Town

There never was a dog so ornery
that it had no boy or man friend.
q 4 4
Isn't it a curious fact that one
never reads Of man taking his wife
joy riding?
1t is predicted that the price Of
shoes will go to $40. Here's where
we go barefoot.
4 4 4
Nearly everyone is in favor Of law
enforcement, barring a few excep-
tions in his own behalf.
a 4
If the report that skunks are good
food wouldn't aid the vegetarian
nothing would
4 q =
If man is honestly tired he can
get to heaven in minute by just
aging his head over on his arm.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22
Best Cough Medicine for Children

II am very glad to say few words
in praise of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy" writes Mrs. Ida Dewey,
Milwaukee, Wis. ~ have used it for
years both for my children and my
self and it never fails to relieve and
cure cough or cold. No family with
children should be without it as it
gives almost immediate relief in cases
of Group" Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy is pleasant and safe to take, which
is of great Importance when q medi-
cine must be given to young children.
For sale by all dealers.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22
Wonderful Cough Remedy.

DR.. Kings New Discovery is known
everywhere as the remedy which will
surely stop cough or cold d. P. Law
son of Eid-on, Tenn, writes: "Dr.
Kings New Discovery is the most
wonderful cough, cold and throat and
lung medicine l ever sold in my store
1t can't be beat. 1t sells without any
trouble at ALL 1t needs no guaran-
tee This is true, because DR.. Kings
New. Discovery will relieve the most
obstinate of coughs and colds Lung
troubles quickly helped by its use.
You should keep bottle in the house
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22

TIME recent death of Alfred Rus
sell Wallace marks the passing
of the last member of the OLE
Guard in England which stood arounc
Charles Darwin when he published the
epochmaking book of the nineteenth
century-"The Origin of the Species"
Wallace himself was a co-discoverer
with Darwin of the principle of Ma
tural Selection, the main factor in
the process of organic evolution.
| The two men, unknown to each other,
had set down their views in writing
at the same time Darwin had reach
ed his main conclusions twenty years
before, but withheld their announce
ment for the reason that he desired
to marshal such mass of evidence as
to carry conviction. Wallace gener-
ously gave the credit of the discovery
to the older man, realizing that OAR
wins conclusions, though not earli-
er in publication, were, in fact, prior
in conception.
Darwin had predicted that the old
err scientists would not easily adopt
his views, and he relied upon the
younger men to join the vanguard.
The prediction was fulfilled The old
er scientists, for the most part, re-
fused to be convinced. Agassiz re-
volted and joined the army of reac-
ton. Richard Owen held fast to the
old views of Cuvier. Virchow hest
tated and then joined the opposition
But the younger scientists-those
who had not finally committed them
self to the old view and who had moth
ing to retract-joined with Darwin
and Wallace. Sir Charles Lyell re-
wrote his Principles of Geology" in
the light of the new discovery. The
Romanes-an early con-
before Darwin added the
principle of natural selection to his
factors of arganic evolution" and APP
olied the general doctrine to the whole
system of nature Tyndall became
me of its popular expounders. And
huxley the keenest dialectician of
his entered the lists as
champion of the new cause, took up I
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22

The directors of the Union Pacific
met and decided to cut an s0-millior
dollar melon" Sure-let's consent
TO the necessary increase of freight
rates.
Some sort of pantalettes, we note
by fashion magazine, may take
the place Of skirts when the spring
fashions come to town. How slowly
the days pass now
The cost Of living in the United
States may be little high, but you
should be glad that no dictator can
stand you up against a wall and shoot
you in the back because you didn't
vote his ticket last fall
4 4 q
Henry Ford of Detroit, president
Of the company that manufactures
Ford cars, appears to have had
rush of benevolence to his carburetor.
He has fixed the minimum wage for
MS employees at So a day.
"This check is all right, but you
must be introduced Can't you bring
n your husband?" asked the bank
cashier. "Who, Jack?" responded
he fair one, "Why, if Jack sthought
'ou wanted an introduction to me
led knock your block off,"
4 q q
II know what's the matter with
GU fellows" shouted the man who
ad three times been evicted from
house where a party was being held
0 which he had not been invited. al
now what's the matter with you fell
,ws-you don't want me in therep
4 4
The Scotch veterinarian who has
ome to America to introduce wooden
gs for cows doubtless thinks he has
vented something new, but if we
ayen't eaten many steak that came
I one of them we're greatly mis-
ken.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22
MOTHER

The following poem was written by
Rabindranath Tagore, the Hindu
poet, who has been awarded the
latest Nobel prize for literature.
The poem is called "The Beginning"
and is from collection entitled
"The Crescent Moon,' just pub
hshed by the Macmillan Company.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22

"You'd scarcely believe remarked
Old Bill Misgivens, chow excessively
damp it is along the Gulf coast of
Texas. We all use rawhide harness,
and real hot, damp day sure does
cause the tugs to stretch amazingly.
One day | drove down on the Brazos
river bottom more than a mile from
home and loaded up three-quarters
OF a cord of pecan wood Just as !
had finished loading, shower came
up and the water that fell was as hot
as the so-called hot coffee restaur-
ants. Well, l started the mules, and
the tugs began TO stretch, but the
wagon never budged. drove on
home and when got there the wagon
was still down on the bottom ard
the tugs were stretched out as small
as shoestrings. What did / do to get
the wood home? That's easy. / just
Embarrassed and threw the gears
over a stump in the back yard. FIT
teen minutes later the sun shone out,
dried up the dampness and in less
than an hour that wagon came creep
ing up the hill Yes, sir, that's
fact"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22

Connections made at Payette and
Emmett with 0. S. L. trains.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22

Those Fasteners don't seem to I'M
derstand our Western language. For
instance, not long ago. two Idaho
mining men dropped into New York
on very important business engage
ment which had not terminated to
their entire satisfaction. The two
were seated in the lobby of a certain
down town hotel discussing the mat
ter when one of them became so
wrathy he paved the air in a very
animated manner. "For Gawd sake.
keep your shirt on, Bill" said his
companion just as the proprietor of
the establishment entered by a nearby
door. The enraged one quieted down,
but the alarmed landlord called
house detective and set him to watch
the Idaho person. "And,' he said.
'if he attempts to take his shirt off
in the lobby have him pinched imme-
diately."
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-22

at seems to me-" complains Old
Bill Misgivens, 'that one of the cry
ing needs Of the age is blottcr that
will remove a stain from 8 reputa-
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-08-11
Walk aIzaCkie.

|, PARYz, II sierpnia. - Jedno-
czesnie kampania belgijska =
toczy sic jest w caiej peini kam-
pania alzacka: tn Francuzi row.
niez znaczne odniesci korzySci:
zajecie miast Kolmar, Muelhau-
sen, Altkirch iinnych i potwier--
dza sic w zupeinosci: dis maid
Francuzi w reku Gala po}udniowa
Alzacye i pare pogranicznych
miejscowosci W dalej ma poinoc
po4ozonej Lotaryngii. WojskA
francuskie zdaja sic ciagnac ku
twierdzy Metz - dawniej fran
cuskiej, dis niemieckiej i jednej
z najsilniejszych fortec W swie--
Gle: dokola Metzu o Metz do
kona sic straszna rozprawa i ro-
zegra sic prawdopodobnie jsdna
naistraszniejszych bitew W tel
wojnie. Walk W polnocnej czesci
g6r Wogez6w pogranicznych W
tych stronach trwaja a polegaja
one ma obsadzaniu przejsc gor-
skich - podobno Francuzi zra-
czne tu i wazne poczynili poste->
py TAX te CORY obsadzili, re Mem
COW wg1ab kraju ME puszcza.-
Niekorzystna dla Francuzow jest
tylko ia okolicznoSc, re Niemcy
maia ieszcze dalej ma p6inoc cd
strony Luxemburga W samym
Luxemburgu arnie -wynoszaca
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-08-11

blisko $4,000 gotowa do inwazyi
w granice Francyi. Armia ia stol
w okolicy miast Esch, ma pogra-
niczu Observation-Disclosures /
moze Francuzow zaszachowac z
po1nocy, gdy maja juz przeclwko
sobie armie jedna re wschodu !
2-ga z poiud. cd strony szwaJcar'
skiej, w kt6rej to drugiej arrnii
prawie w cafosci So Austryacy:
armia ia stoi w Szwajcaryi pod
Bazylea. Wobec trzech armil'
ktore razem beda liczyiy przynaJ-
mniei ewierc miliona ludzi -
Francuzi moga bye W mniejszo-
Sci posozeniu niekorzystnem
strategicznie.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-08-11
DzIAkANIA WOJENNE ma MORzU. ANGLIA
zAJMUJE WIELKIE NIEMIECKIE PAROWCE,
MOrz0 P6nOcne zamkniete dIa zeg|ugi
NIEMCY CLAGNA Ma LITWE.

kich, ktore wszystkie cofaja sic
do Luxemburga. Me ulega mai
mniejszej watpliwosci, re Mem
cy zostali wzieci we diva ognie,
bo ich armia pod Leodyum
ma Belg6w cd po3nocy, a Fran
cuzow cd po}udnia.
BRUXELLA, II sierpnia. -
Zajecie Leodyum rniaio sic odbye
w warunkach nastepujacych
Niemcy maja ciezkie dziaAa dalej
niosace niz dzia{a belgijskie: kie'
dy miasto samo cd dial ciezko
ucierpiaso, gen. Emmich znacz-
ME sic zblizywszy oSwiadczyl
Belgom, re jesli miasta ME pod
dadza,. to ME zostawi w starozyt-
nem Leodyum kamienia ma ka--
mieniu. ... Wobec tego i wobec
przewagi sii niemieckich uradzo'
no poddac miasto i wpuszczono
don Niemcow: do genera}a ME
mieckiego przybyla delegacya o.
bywateli wladzami miejskiemi,
biskupem ma czele prosiia i osz'
czedzenie miasta W imie kultury
powszechnej. Emmich delegacye
uwiezi1, miastu oswiadczyi, ze
iesli z kolei forty ME zostana cd.
dane, to bedzie miasto bombardo-
wal. -. Oto prawdziwie krzyzac-
ka dzielnosc w kretactwie / chy-
trei podstepnosci... Uwiezienie
delegacyi to czyn ME rycerski
niehonorowy, sukces niemlec-
XII, jak widzimy ME wywalczony
bronia ale wykradziony oszukah'
cZo. -.