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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10
in CONSERVATIVE MASSA-
CHUSETTS.

Many laws that would be called
extremely radical" if passed by the
legislature Of any Western state, have
been enacted by the legislature OF
conservative old Massachusetts, which
has been in session all winter and
spring and is about to adjourn.
The legislature has empowered the
placing on the ballot to be voted on in
the next state election three almost
revolutionary" proposed amendments
to the state constitution. One is a
woman suffrage amendment. The
second would give the legislature full
power and authority to impose and
levy tax on incomes. The third, and
most radical, would empower the gen.
eral court to authorize the eondemna-
ton Of farm lands to be turned over
to poor people Of the city Of Boston
to relieve the congestion there and
at the same time to give the poor a
chance to get health and living in
the open air.
Another law enacted provides for
the support Of destitute parents. 1t
compels a person more than 81 years
old to support a parent, if that par
ent is destitute, and the punishment
for violation Of this law is fine Of
5000 or a year in Jail, or both
Another law authorizes the incor-
poration of farm land banks, by which
ten or more persons Of community
may join togther in cooperative
bank to lend money to each other or
their neighbors ON farm lands
A peculiar law passed requires that
and upholstered goods
shall be plainly labeled showing the
Of which they are made,
inside and out.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10
WHY IT RAINS.

Rain is one of the eommonest Of
phenomena of everyday life, And YET
how many men and women, few
years removed from the days Of physi.
cal geography, could explain it?
People talk Of wind Blowing up a
rain" or driving the clouds away
and of "cloudbursts,' without any def
mite idea Of what produces rain, or
what "cloudbursP is
Yet the matter is simple. Rain de-
ponds on the fact that cold air can't
hold as much moisture in solution as
warm air. A cubic foot of air at 40
degrees temperature will hold 20
grains of water in the form of an in
visible vapor. At 60 degrees the same
volume Of air will hold just double
that amount Of water vapor. If a
cubic foot of air containing its full
allowance Of vapor at 60 degrees were
to be cooled down to 40 degrees, then
80 grains Of water would be con
densed into cloud or rain, depending
on the extent of the cooling.
How is the cooling done? Every
boy who has pumped up bicycle tire
knows that his pump gets hot. The
heat is produced by the condensation
of air. If the air were to be rapidly
it would show correspond
ing cooling. Now, the air near the
surface of the ground bears the
weight of all the atmosphere above it,
and so is materially condensed. When
it rises rapidly it Is relieved of this
pressure and expands. Experiments
have shown that it cools about one
degree for each 1870 feet that it rises.
If the moisture laden air current is
rapidly forced upward-say by run
1ing into heavy current of cold air
then the cooling produced by its
will cause clouds and rain.
Sometimes the upward movement is
20 rapid that the drops of water are
carried along and do not fall If
his movement is suddenly checked
when there is large accumulation of
Irops, the sudden downpour that fol-
ows is often referred to as cloud.
'urst.
Rains are the results Of vast atmos-
,heric movements which apparently
re far beyond the puny power Of
nan to direct or control.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10

Of rest under the conditions hitherto
prevailing.
Assuming that this discovery is
what it purports to be, it must be
evident to everybody that we are
about to enter upon new era of hui
man achievement. Hitherto it has
been the custom to devote at least
eight hours of the twcntyfour to-
sleep, but now, by the aid of Adrenin,
work or play may be made practically
continuous. A fellow will be able to
"dance all night till broad daylight,
90 home with the girls in the morn
ing" and then, taking a dose OF
Adrenin, he can go jauntily and smil-
ingly to the scene of his daily duties, |
and there do his stunt as satisfactorily
as if he had slept through the night.
With so much more time TO devote
to industrial, mercantile, agricultural
and other pursuits, the increase in
production and commerce will be
stupendous.
Not the least of the blessings to
come from Adrenin will be the remedy
for that tired feeling so widely known
as "spring fever" Heretofore, when
a fellow experieced that sensation of
assitude, he wanted to knock off work
FOR the day and go fishing; but here
after, when that feeling comes DER
1im stealing, he will take dose of
Adrenin and beat the boss to the
hop, store, bank or Office, as the case
nay be. The foregoing are but a
ew Of the benefits to come to US from
his wonderful discovery, which is to
rove that it is Adrenin, and not sleep, :
hat "knits up the raveled sleave of
are" Hats off to the professor who =
ound it all out!
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10
BABY TRACKS.

Twas just yestere'en that | held in
bonny bit baby so swate.
But, OH he gone eer I'd held him enough
He was gone wild his PATTERN fate.
| looked from the window and there in the snow
Were thracks he had left he fed;
Bedad! and his hurry had prompted him to
Cut corners, a-draggn his sled.
The babe of me arms was away to his school;
Oh wirraI they hurry to CO.
And there a sarmon he'd printed it there
Wild patterin fate in the snow
They hurry to leave US, the babes that we bear,
They bide but tiny wee bit,
Then, swish and they're gone and the mother is left
Wild only the memry of it.
And such is their hurry they cut across lots;
There's nothing stop EN- stay
Bet flowers snow that they find in their path,
They're turnn not out of their way.
Or even tbs hearts-oh, Lord don't | knowl
They trampled me own long ago,
And time Wilma heal it, melt away,
Like tracks they ha' left in the
But ne'er I'll complain, am glad they there,
Swate baby tracks over me heart;
III carry the whole of them up to the throne
To show that Pm proud of part.
I'd rather bay baby tracks me heart,
And scattered around in the yard,
Than stacks of gold money, gay furnishings, and
coat of uppa me card
Mrs. Carrigan.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10
Most Children Have Worms

And neither parent or child know it,
yet it explains why your child is ner-
vous, pale, feverish, backward. Often
children have thousands of worms.
Think of how dangerous this is to
your child. Don't take any risk. Get
an original 25c box of Kickapoo Worm
Killer, a candy lozenge. Kickapoo
Worm Killer will positively kill and
remove the worms. Relieves consti-
patton, regulates stomach and bowels
much better. Get box today.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10
FINDS SUBSTITUTE FOR SLEEP

From Boston,the home OF the "high-
brows," comes announcement of a re-
markable discovery made by the pro-
fessor Of physiology at the Harvard
Medical School. Through expert
ments with animals, it is said, the pro-
fessor has found that sleep and rest,
hitherto considered absolutely assem-
tial, can be dispensed with by the hui
man family without any evil results.
This is to be done by the use Of
substance known as Adrenin, a little
of which viii accomplish in less than
five minutes what two hours and more
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10

cure it. In our younger days we were
ready to right every wrong. The first
moment the mule lifted its voice or
the evening quiet we picked up a stone
wrapped it with baling wire and slip
ped out to the barn where the mule
was tied to a stall. Opening the door
we stepped inside and put our hand
on the mule. It's back bent up like a
spring, but we did not stop to think
about that. Then we began tying
the baling wire to the animals tail.
So proud were we that we were doing
something to help along mankind that
we hummed light tune as we worked.
After we had fastened the wire to
the part of the creatures anatomy
just mentioned we stepped back to
contemplate our work and to think
what large sized wrong we had
righted. Then things began to hap
pen that had not occurred to US be-
fore. We noticed that the mule had
gathered its four feet closer and clos
er together, like cat standing on a
saucer, but the significance of this did
not dawn on US. 1t did not occur to us
that the creature would do anything
unworthy of itself. 1t would surely
know that we were doing this for its
own good, but we had rocked without
taking into consideration a mules in
gratitude. We started to reach out
'ur hand to calm the creatures trou-
lied spirit, but our hand never reached
is destination. In a moment we
ound ourself on the ground outside
he barn, having left by way of the
'all. A board crashed beside US. Be-
ore we could get up the whole end of
ne barn came over and got down on
ne ground beside us-the stone was
I'LL hanging to the mules tail. The
all came flying out, too, so we got up
nd crawled away. Then all was ST.
nee, and we knew that the stone was
I the mules tail. We worked our
ay over to where the mule was still | /
ed. 1t was peacefully standing there
llmly munching hay as if nothing II
I'd married its evenings quietude. II
oftly we stole away, leaving the
eature to its own reflections. That II
the reason there is no need in any, II
lie coming to us and asking US to II
re mule of braying in the night. II
e are now content to leave mule II
its own devices, and to all inquir- II
we give out the word that we have II
Scontlnued the mule branch of our II
siness and turned it over to Charlie II
image, to whom all future inquiries II
ould be addressed. II
Ii you want to live in the kind of a II
vn like the kind of a town YOU II
e, you needn't slip your clothes in II
"Trip and start on long, long hike; II
all only find what you left behind. u
there's nothing that's really new. =
knock at yourself when you
'ck your town; it isn't your town
is you. Real towns are not made
man afraid lest somebody else gets
'ad, when everyone works and no.
" shirks, you can raise a town
m the dead. And while you make
r personal stake, your neighbors
make one too, your town will be
1t you want to see. 1t isn't your
n-it's you.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10
Tales of the Town

A good many people are like sal
ads-too much depends on the dress
ing.
Said young man eomplainingly:
''She called me peach all through
the summer, and in the fall she can
red me-"
Taking into account how few
clothes little Cupid wears, it is not
surprising that love sometimes grows
cold.
Having learned to master the spell
ing of Przemysl we must now strug-
gle with Cervignagno. Dern the war,
anyway.
An Emmett resident stored lot of
prohibition literature in his barn, and
one Of his cows ate some of it and
went dry the next day.
4 4 z
The average city man believes he
could GO on a farm and raise one
pig, from which he could get his beef
and mutton for the whole winter.
1t is all right to joke man under
ordinary conditions, but unless you
ire looking for trouble, don't attempt
% kid fellow while he is working
IN motor car that refuses to run.
4 4 0
More than twenty thousand Amer I
can motor cars have been scrt to S
europe since the war began. One S
1ould think the car most in demand
or war purposes would be the Dodge. y
Some people have so much money
hat they don't know what to do with e
t, and some have so little thai they b
now what to do with what they CO
aven't got if they only had it, t(
The pictures of the new hoopskirt a
ooks like 6-inch ruffle hanging to &c
ariel hoop, supported from the waist a
y two pairs of galluses. The Index Jc
ffers prize Of two weeks subscrip- m
ion to the first lady of Emmett who W
'ears one. p;
4 tr
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley, the man who he
ellis what one should eat, and when is
nd how, declares that man should tn
pend an hour at each meal. Old Bill ou
llsgivens says if anyone tried to of
pend an hour at his table, after the co
rst 10 minutes he would send for a tn
eek of cards to kill time. is
Z 4 E sp
A man set lot of colored Easter ca
tgs under an old hen and the old tet
'oster was nosing around the nest lir
nd saw the different colored eggs in, Gil
lie nest, and it made him so mad
lat he flew over into an adjoining
lrd and licked the stuffing out of Fa
peacock that was in the yard ca
4 br;
At last the Appeal to Reason has to
id something worth while: "Why be fer
'utral2 If you favor war, dig a KIN
ench in your back yard, fill it half ed,
II of water, crawl INTO 1t and stav ter
ere for day or two without anv- tax
ing to eat, get a lunatic to shoot cha
you with a brace of revolvers and a vic
achine gun, and you will have some not
ing just as good, and you will save jec
ur country great deal of expense" an
= : Z VIII
The eminent bankers of the East arc be
ainst rural credit legislation be- son
use they fear low interest rate art
i lead to reckless borrowing. Bv not
aetly the same highly intelligent VIII
e of thought, the reducing of the saw
ce of groceries would be injurious at
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10

We have in a carload of fine Orc.
gon pine lumber. Also lath and shin
giles. MCGOWAN Bros.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10
Mr.Hayn1aker

If there is anything you need in haymaking or
harvesting machinery, we have it in our big
hardware and implement store. We carry
full line of
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10

The eminent bankers of the East are
against rural credit legislation be-
cause they fear a low interest rate
will lead to reckless borrowing. Bv
exactly the same highly intelligent
line of thought, the reducing of the
price of groceries would be injurious
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10

DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, the man who
tells what one should eat, and when
and how, declares that a man should
spend an hour at each meal. Old Bill
Misgivens says if anyone tried to
spend an hour at his table, after the
first 10 minutes he would send for a
deck Of cards to kill time.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10

The pictures of the new hoopskirt
looks like 6-ineh rufIle hanging to
barrel hoop, supported from the waist
by two pairs of galluses. The Index
offers prize of two weeks subscrip
ton to the first lady of Emmett who
wears one.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-10
Also the Dane Mower

1t is not necessary to tell of their good qualities
The Mccormick line is the best in the world for
efficiency, the ghtest draft and longest service
, 1915-01-13

several fights, wrecked some trenches and
destroyed some breastWorks. In the Ar
gonne, vest Of La Haut Cheyouchee. the
enemy blew up with a mine n few of our
trenches Of the first line, which were cea
pletely wrecked. A violent attack Wllra
the enemy made immediately thereafter uae
repulsed with the hayonet aud We took soma
prisoners and maintained oar front. eN'elt
on one line extending for 50 yards where the
wrecked trenches compelled MS to establish
our lines 20 yards in the rear Our offensive
continues IN the region Of Thann and Att-
kirck and has obtained important results.
We have retaken the trenches on the east
slopes of Hill 425, where the enemy succeed
Ell in reestabIishlng himself two days age,
and we subsequently gained ground east OF
these trenches. Further south we have cap
tured Burnhnupt lie Haut and we have ut
the same time advanced in the direction II
Aspaeh bridge and Kahlberg The enemy
artillery, which has tried without success to
rench our batteries, has ceased TO fire upon
them, bombardiDg only the hospital Of
Thanh, which has been evacuNted.'
, 1915-01-13
Translation.
PUBLICATION.
FROM II POLICE.

IN accordance with The Ordinance O filth
- November 1908 So, all owners of ire
arms in Christiansted's Jurisdiction are hero
by notified that a new sign must be taken
out for 1915 before the 18Th Of February ac.
Cbristimsted'S Police Office, st. Clojx, the
9Th January, 1915.
POULSEN.
, 1915-01-13
LIST OF UNCLAIMED LETTERS IN
FREDERIKSTEDS POST OFFICE
FOR DECEMBER MONTH 1911.
Paid.
Mrs. NJ. Mulgraph.
Unpaid.
Paid.

Mr.. and Mrs. j. Du Bois IT, Love- 80
Bit, Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Du Bois IL. Love-
30 Bit, Mrs. Rebecca Fmldy 10 Bit, Mr..
Joseph Francis (Butler's Bay) 20 Bit, Mr..
James A. George 30 Bit, Mr. Edward Henry
20 Bit, Mrs. F. w. Hatchett est. River)
30 Bit, Miss Elizabeth Kerult (Est. Carlton)
SO Bit, Mr.. Joseph Jacobs Est Manning
Bay 20 Bit, Miss Antonetta Martin 20 BIZ,
Miss Henrietta White IL. Love Factory 50
Bit, Miss Minerva Simmons 20 Bit, Mr..
David Augustus Thomas 30 Bit, Miss
Mary Williams est. Adventure SO Bit,
Miss Henrietta White a. Love Factory
80 BIT.
w RTERE
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-04-02
CHAPTER ~.

George Lescott had known hospital
ity of many brands and degrees. He
had been the lionized celebrity in
places Of fashion. He had been the
guest of equally famous brother artists
in the cities of two hemispheres, and,
since sincere painting had been his
pole star, he had gone where his arts
wanderlust backoned. He had fol-
lowed the lure of transitory beauty
to remote sections of the world. The
present trip was only one of many
like it, which had brought him into
touch with varying peoples and dis
tinctive types of life. He told himself
that never had he found men at once
so crude and so courteous as thege
hosts who, facing personal perfls, mad
still time and willingness to regard his
comfort.
The coming of the hnsmen, who
would stay until the present danger
passed, had filled the house The four
beds in the cabin proper we're fall,
and some slept on floor mattresses.
Lescott, because a guest and wounded,
was given a small room aside Sam
son, however, shared his quarters in
order to perform any service that an
injured man might require. 1t had
been a full and unusual day for the
painter and Its incidents crowded In
on him in retrospect and drove off the
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tie of marriage, under the protection
of the clan head. She lived alone with
her fourteen-year-old son and her six
teen-year-old daughter. The daughter
was Sally.
The sun rose on the morning after
Lescott arrived, the mists lifted, and
the cabin of the Widow Miller stood
revealed. A tousle-headed boy made
his way to the barn to feed the cattle,
and red patch Of color, as bright
and tuneful as Kentucky cardinal,
appeared at the door between the
morning-glory vines. The red patch
of color was Sally.
She made her way, carrying a
bucket, to the spring, where she knelt
down and gazed at her own image in
the water.
Before going home she set down her
bucket by the stream, and, with a
quick glance toward the house to make
sure that she was not observed,
climbed through the brush and was
lost to view. She followed path that
her own feet had made, and after a
steep course upward came upon bald
| face of rock, which stood out storm
! battered where a rift went through
the backbone of the ridge. This point
of vantage commanded the other val
ley. Down below, across the treetops,
were roof and chimney from which
a thread of smoke rose in an attenu-
ated shaft That was Spicer South's
house and Samson's home. The girl
leaned against the gnarled bowl of the
white oak and waved toward the roof
and chimney. She cupped her hands
and raised them to her lips like one
who means to shout across a great dis
lance, then she whispered so low that
only she herself could hear:
Hello, Samson SOUTH"
She stood for a space looking down.
and forgot to laugh, while her eyes
grew religiously and softly deep, then,
turning, she ran down the slope. She
had performed her morning devotions.
That day at the house Of Spicer
South was an off day. The kinsmen
who had stopped for the night stayed
on through the morning. Nothing was
said of the possibility of trouble. The
men talked crops and tossed horse
shoes in the yard; but no one went to
work in the fields, and all remained
within easy call. Only young Tama-
rack Spicer, raw-boned nephew. wore
a sullen face and made great show
of cleaning his rife and pistol.
Shortly after dinner he disappeared.
and when the afternoon was we'll ad.
vanced Samson, too, with his rife on
his arm, strolled toward the stile.
CTO BE CONTINUED)
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-04-02
CHAPTER III.

In 7gys when the Indian held tho
parl and Bloody Grounds a pioneer
EelIii Is oak and poplar logs for the
Nom, be meant to establish on the
banks OF purling watercourse, let his
ok slip, and the cutting edge gashed
1ris ankle. Since to the discovered be-
longs the christening, that watercourse
Became Crfppleshin, and so it is today
act down on atlas pages. A few miles
away as the crow flies, but MANY
weary leagues as man must travel.
D brother settler, racked with rheuma-
Sism, gave to his creek the name of
Misery. The two pioneers had come
together from Virginia, as their ances-
tors had come before them from Scot
Band. Together they had found one
nf tue two gaps through the mountain
wall which for more than a hundred
Miles has no other passable rift. To
aether, and as comrades, they had
made their homes and founded their
race. What original grievance had
sprung up between their descendants
hone Of the present generation knew
perhaps it was farm line or disputed
htle to pig. The primary incident
was lost in the limbo of the past; but
ssr dfty years, with occasional inter.
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wounds that would have taken less
charmed life. And in grisly reminder
of the terror which clouded the peace
Of his days stood the eight-foot log
stockade at the rear of the place,
which the proprietor had built to
shield his daily journeys between
house and store. But Jesse Purvy was
not deluded by his escapes. He knew
that he was marked down."
/ The years of strain were telling on
him. The robust, full-blooded face
was showing deep lines; his flesh was
growing fiaccid; his glance tinged
with quick apprehension. He told his
intimates that he realized they'd get
him." yet he sought to prolong his
term of escape.
Yesterday morning Jesse Purvy had
risen early as usual, and, after a sat
isfying breakfast, had gone to his
store to arrange for the days bust
ness. One or two of his henchmen,
seeming loafers, but in reality body
guard, were Longing within call A
married daughter was chatting with
her father while her young baby
played among the barrels and cracker
boxes.
The daughter went to a rear win
dow and gazed up at the mountain,
The cloudess skies we're still in hid
ing behind a ',rtain of mist. The
woman was idly watching the vanish
ing fog wraiths, and her father came
over to her side. Then the baby cried
and she stepped back Purvy himself
remained at the window. It was a
thing he did not often do. 1t left him
exposed, but the most cautiously
guarded life has its moments OF re-
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possibility of sleep. Samson. too
seemed wakeful, and in the isolation
of the dark room the two men fell into
conversation, which almost lasted out
the night. Samson went into the con-
fessional. This was the first human
being he had ever met to whom he
could unburden his soul.
The thirst to taste what knowledge
lay beyond the hills; the unnamed
wanderlust that had at times brought
him a restiveness so poignant as to
be agonizing; the underlined attunina
of his heart to the beauty of sky and
hill; these matters he had hitherto
kept locked in guilty silence.
In cove or lowland pocket, stretch
ing into the mountain side, lay the
small and meager farm of the Widow
Miller. The Widow Miller was q
South" that is to say, she fell, by