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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

cluded that he would go back to Mis-
souri, and die-said he was satlsheo
I that he never would die if he stayed
in the Payette valley here IN loaho
Sure enough, he hadn't much more
than got back to Missouri till he be-
qan to fail. He said he had one re-
ouest to make and that was that his
relatives wouldn't bury him in Mis-
souri He wanted them to ship his
body back to Idaho and bury 1t there.
After the funeral sermon had been
preached they put Bills body IN
box and started West with it to bury
it out in. what is now Gem county.
Just as the train pulled into the depot
near where Bill used to live, ne kicked
the lid off the coffin, smashed the
door of the baggage car and jumped
out onto the platform. He SAID that
seeing he had come back to life, he
would stick around few years more.
When he was 100 years old he sort
of got the blues again and decided he
would try dying once more. he went
back to Missouri again and failed
right away. Just as he was about
to give his last wheeze he said IN
feeble voice that he guessed 1t would
be safe to bury him in Idaho this time
and so they shipped his body out
again. That time they buried him all
right, but the next day the man who
dug the grave went out to see if the
COYOTES were bothering round the
burying ground and the first thing ne
saw was old Bill sitting on a tomb
,tone. He said that he had come to
IN the coffin and got so blamed lone
some he couldn't stand it any longer
md so he dug out and was waiting for
to bring him pair OF
shoes and stockings. They had buried
lin in his bare feet. Bill says that
lie has given up dying in the regular
way in Idaho, but thinks maybe there
will come another dry year and he
will dry up and blow away"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

That was many years ago. Bill locat-
ed out among the sagebrush and jack
rabbits. In six months he was well
of the ague, hadn't a touch of the
lumbago and was starting new set
of teeth. In year his liver was
perfectly sound, his kidneys were in
perfect condition and he had grown
new lung in place of the one that
was gone. After he had been out in
western Idaho Is years he went back
to his old home. He was rs then, but
he beat the champion foot racer of
the county in a hundred yard dash
and whipped the bully of the county
seat for making a sighting remark
about Idaho. He stayed around the
old home place for six months and
began to feel languid and out of sorts
and determined to get back to Idaho. |
He took homestead in the Payette |
valley and lived mostly on jackrab-
bit meat. When he was so he could |
stand and jump Is feet and take
2-year-old steer by the tail and swing
the animal around his head In 1900
when he was 80 years old he decided
he had lived long enough and con-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24
For Children,s Couch

You cannot use anything bette, /.
your child's cough and cold than \
Kings New Discovery. 1t is !,
pared from pine tar mixed with u
ing and soothing balsams. 1t does y
contain anything harmful and
slightly laxative, just enough to =.
the poisons from the system. h
Kings New Discovery is antisens.
kills the cold germs-raises 4
phlegm-loosens the cough-sooss
the irritation. Don't put off ~
ment. Coughs and colds often Z.
to serious lung trouble. 1t is b
good for adults and the aged. c.
bottle today. All druggists.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24
For a Bilious Attack.

When you have a severe headache,
accompanied by coated tongue, loath
ing of food, constipation, torpid liver,
vomiting of partly digested food and
then bile, you may know that you
have a severe bilious attack. While
you may be quite sick there is much
consolation in knowing that relief
may be had by taking three of Cham
berlain's Tablets. They are prompt
and effectual. Obtainable everywhere
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24
What Children Need Now

In spite of the best care mother
can give them this weather brins
sickness to many children. Mrs. fD
Neureuer, Eau Claire, Wis, writes
"Foley's Honey and Tar cured M,
boy of severe attack of Group aft,
other remedies had failed. 1t is \
wonderful remedy for coughs, coldsE
Group and whooping cough" 1t stoOs
la grippe coughs. Haley & Miles.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

More grief for the farmer Last
week ushered in general increase in
price of tillage implements through
out the West. The John Deere Plow
company, the first to open its revised
lists, inaugurated a to 10 per cent
increase on all farm tools. Others
will follow soon. The newspaper men
have had the same dose, and know
how to sympatbize with the farmer
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

Orientals have always been exec,
ingly lavish in the use of perfun,.
1t seems as If the warmer the clim,l
the more perfume is used. The N
brews manufactured perfumes CHIEF
from spices brought from Arabia, ~
from aromatic plants grown N q ID,
own country.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

But here in the West, the prepar.
edncss program is not popular, es-
pecially among the farmers and in
the small towns. Goodwin's Weekly
probably voices that sentiment in the
following: "To read the dispatches
one would imagine that the whole
East had gone insane on the subject
of preparedness, from President Will
son down. II the men across the
Atlantic receive the same news, it
must be with them as It was with the
gods on Olympus when Vulcan raised
his yell at Mars, and 'Unextinguished
laughter filled the skies Think of
i'll We are three thousand miles
from any foe on the east, forty-five
hundred miles from any possible foe
on the west. We have navy strong
enough to entertain any force that
could come from either way. We
could not be surprised, for the wire
less is in perfect working order. More
over, Japan is in no condition to
make an offensive war $500 miles
from her nearest base. Again, we
have no cause of quarrel with her.
The English and French navies are
busy keeping the navy of Germany
blockaded. Moreover, we have no
quarrel with either of those powers.
But to believe the news, so soon as
the present great war closes, all the
belligerents of Europe will suddenly
become brothers and join their forces
TO come over and smash the United
States, and in anticipation of that,
all the old ladies up and down thi
Atlantic coast every night, cover their
heads, even as the ostrich buries her
head in the sand when danger threat
IN. and in troublous dreams hears the
irst gun of the bombardment that
S to resolve our whole eastern coast
back into chaos. Europe is wreck.
rhe people of Poland and Serbia are
starving. Belgium would have beenl
starving for the past year, except
or the food sent her from the United
States. The sorrow Of nations is in
lescribable Not one of the great
'owers can in ten years of peace
each an aggressive position, in which
he animosities of the present war
an be done away with Then why
his sudden cry of danger raised by
resident Wilson,"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24
Action Is Natural.

P. S. Meehan, Hancock, Mich,
writes: 81 have given Foley Cathar-
tic Tablets a thorough trial and can
positively state they are the best lax
alive l ever used Their action is nat
ural, no pain or gripping, and they
clean the system in fine shape" Stout
persons say the buoyant, free feeling
they bring is blessing. Haley &
Miles.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24
CURRENT COMMENT.

1t is a singular situation--the Dem
ocratic leader in the house of repre-
sentatives, Mr.. Kitchin, opposing the
Democratic administration prepar-
edness program and the Republican
leader, Mr.. Mann, supporting it.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

Practically all the Republican can
didates for president are lining up
with President Wilson on the pre-
paredness issue. Former Senator
Burton put the thought of the average
citizen Of the East in few words
when he said: II do not believe any
nation is going to invade the United
States, but we would be in terrible
fix if one Of them did, and | do not
want to take the risk"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24
Tales of the Town
The Croaker.

The Croaker.
Once on the aidge Of a pleasant poo
Under the bank where twas dark am
cool,
Where bushes over the water hung,
| And rushes nodded and grasses swung
Jest where the crick flowed outer tn
bog,
There lived grumpy and mean oil,
frog,
Who'd set all day in the mud anc
And jest do nothin' but croak anc
croak
Till blackbird hollered, 81 say, yer
know,
What is the matter down there below
Are you in trouble, er pain, er what
The frog seq, "Mine is an orful lot;
Nothin' but mud and dirt and slime
For me ter look at jest all the time,
It's a dirty world" so the old fool
spoke,
"Croakity-croakity- croakity-croak."
"But yer lookin' DOWN." the black
bird said;
Look at the blossoms overhead,
Look at the lovely summer skies,
Look at the bees and butterflies;
Look UP, ole Teller Why, bless your
soul,
Yer lookin' down in a mus'rat hole
But still with gurglin' sob and choke,
The blamed old turtle, who boarded
near,
SEE ter the blackbird, Friend, see
here:
Don't shed no tears over him, fer he
Is low-down jest cause he likes ter be;
He's one err them kind er chumps
that's glad
Fer be mis'rble-like and sad;
III tell yer something that amt no
joke,
Don't waste yer sorrow on folks that
croak.'
A healthy stomach has everything
Except judgment.
Brag on your wife while she's alive
don't wait for us to write the obit-
AIRY.
Sping, beautiful spring, brings the
obins and roses and everything. II
lso brings dandelions.
Utter detection perhaps is illustrat-
d best by the young man whose best
irl is away on visit.
Since the skirts are being worn so
hort it is hard for some men to tell
hat color girls eyes are.
Adam blamed it on an apple; but
owadays it is some "peach" that
starts all the trouble.
If the time ever comes when there
total failure of weather, what. on
arth will we have to talk about?
The latest decree that the open aif
ISIS is the safest depends a good
,al on who's looking and who's being
ssed.
4 q 4
One advantage of the new 24-cylin-
n car is that it will hit the back
the garage just six times as hard
the ordinary "four." 5
4 q q
Many girl embroiders a pretty
ghtgown in the hope that some time
hen she is carried from a burning
Hiding she will be suitably attired.
Z 4 4
George, the 4-year-old grandson of /.
extremely pious and devout grand !.
Their, came rushing into the house
Idly excited. Grandpa" he called,
ones's COW is dead. God called her !.
me-" !,
A young girl of this town, who has :
new bracelet watch, says she should !
ink the town clocks, which get their ;,
ne from the Western Union every
y, ought to manage to have the !
rect time once in a while. !,
veil is probably the most interest o
: thing in the world. No man is m
pr too prepossessed to sion and II
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

A perniciously active breeder in
Mississippi, whose experiments are
observed with interest by several gov
ernments, and with alarm by econom-
zeal housekeepers, is trying to de-
velop breed of reckless beef cattle.
The term 'beef eater" once meant a
yeoman of the guard Nowadays it
means bond holder if it refers to a
man who eats the choice cuts of beef.
The Mississippi breeder who is going
to remove the neck from the steer of
commerce and place his head directly
on his shoulders is trying to take
long step in the direction of making
the beef animal choice cut from end
to end and from top to bottom. AS
goes the neck so will go the brisket.
1t will be a simple matter next to
eliminate the shin bones and put the
steer upon single jointed legs, or upon
fappers like those which serve the
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24
TIRED OF LIFE
Constant Backache
and Rheumatism
Foley Kidney Pills fixed up Te1.. br.l.u.

SO he's good as ever.
Almost down and out with kidney
trouble. Rheumatism so bad he could
scarcely get up when he sat down
Back ached all the time.
No wonder Mr.. F. A. Wooley, brake.
man on the road from Dallas to Jack.
son, Texas, was tired of living"
Il saw Foley Kidney Pills adver.
tised," he said, II took some and after
short time 1 was thoroughly cured
and am having no more trouble.
Your kidney ills will disappear
and with them the backache and rheu.
matism, by the use of Foley's Kidney
Pills. Once your kidneys become
strong and active, aches and PAIN
will disappear like magic.
There's nothing to equal the gem.
ire. Will help nny case of kidney or blade,
trouble not beyond tire reach of me icines
Contain NO harmful drugs. Try them,
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24
Baked Banana.

In lands where the banana f1ourishes
the fruit is often baked without peel
ing until its rind bursts.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

The notion Of mobilization of w.
j, Bryan and Champ Clark in the
same camp never sounded entirely
plausible, And now Champ is out
there on the congressional firing line
battling for preparedness, and the
stuff is off, so far as a Clark Bryan
coalition is concerned.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

wonder whether the veil is there tt
conceal something that is there, or tt
make you think something is there
that isn't.
The small boy who answered the
question as to what part fathers
played in life, "To keep mothers from
making little girls Of boys" announc-
ed truth that is in the root of every
boys being.
AS long as young men In short trou-
sers and white hose are allowed to
remain at large and mingle with folks
there cannot reasonably be any COM
plant against short skirts and
striped stockings, according to Old
Mrs. Bill Misgivens.
Speaking of making sausage, Old
Bill Misgivens has found novel
use for his old inner tubes. He stutfs
them with sausage meat, and finds
that they give more capacity than
the old fashioned castings, are not
so hard to clean, taste very little of
the rubber, and he thinks he gets
more mileage out of the sausage.
4 4 Z
The sporting editor, in describing
a recent basketball game, wrote, at
was nip and tuck affair" The ex-
preston doubtless was suggested by
the way some members of the High
School team shipped the ball, tucked
it under their arms while the others
formed flying wedge, dashed down
the court and tossed goal"
A woman with a rapid fire inter
rogatory apparatus approached the
brakeman on the Idaho Northern train
lust before it reached Montour during
he high water a couple of weeks ago
md asked excitedly: "Say, when is the
rain due at the next stop? How is it
How deep is the water on
he track? How do you sell your
The brake, who was
of poet, answered: Zone
o'clock. On time Knee deep. Three
or dime"
One dark night three friends were
rossing deep, dry ravine, the banks
f which were very preeipitous. AS
he party had been imbibing a little
90 freely, one of the three had to be
ssisted up the incline. When, think
ny him safe at the top, his friends
urned him loose, he fell to the bot
ON. He lay very still, and the other
wo, supposing him severely injured,
ushed down to him. As they leaned
yer to discover his condition, the fall
n one exclaimed: "For Gods sake,
trike match l think Pm uncon-
,ious"
Z Z
eyes, sir" remarked Old Bill Mis-
lvens, Idaho probably is the health
st country on the face of the globe.
here was the case of old Bill Slivers.
i'll used to live in Missouri down on
lie Missouri bottoms. He lived there
II he had chronic case of the ague.
e had chilled so much that he shook
/ his teeth out of his head, He also
I'D the lumbago, rheumatism, en-
rged liver and disease of the kid
,ys. One lung was gone and the
her missing fire more than half
e time. Among his minor ailments
ere asthma, bronchitis, varicose
ins, catarrh and two different
ands of eczema. When he was so
got to the point where all the
ctors agreed that he couldn't last
er three months at the outside and
ght not last more than two weeks.
decided to try this mart of Idaho
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

The thing that hurts town is not
that people have differences, but that
when they do have differences on one
subject they allow that to creep in on
all matters that follow. Two business
men may work on opposite sides of
one question, but that is no reason
why they should not work together
on the next question that comes up.
Take each proposition that comes up
in town as seperate deal. Don't
be against it because some man you do
not like personally is for it.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

seal as means of locomotion. 1t is
the duty of the fattening steer to get
fat. He need not locomote to any
great extent. He needs no shin bones,
the making of which costs feed. All
he needs to do is to consume quanti-
ties of high priced grain and mill
offal and roughage and swell him
self into ton or so of costly beef.
If the fattened steerof the future
is to be long, low, undressing ami
NAL, like the fattened hog, with all of
the cheap cuts either done away with
or made tender and costly, what will
the larder offer in the way Of meat to
those of us who are mere yeomen of
the guard, so to speak, and accus-
toned to taking the leavings from
the butchers stalls when the cap
,ains and the kings Of finance, graft,
and invention depart?
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

A veil is probably the most interest
ing thing in the world. No man is
ever too prepossessed to stop and
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

A young girl of this town, who has
a new bracelet watch, says she should
think the town clocks, which get their
time from the Western Union every
day, ought to manage to have the
correct time once in while
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

- story Bunny
al children climbed
Once the little boys took him Maine for vacation
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

George, the 4-year-old grandson of
an extremely pious and devout grand
father, came rushing into the house
wildly excited. Grandpa" he called,
"Jones's COW is dead. God called her
home"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

Many girl embroiders pretty
nightgown in the hope that some time
when she is carried from a burning
building she will be suitably attired.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-24

One advantage of the new 24-cylin-
der car is that it will hit the back
of the garage just six times as hard
as the ordinary ''four."
The sun., 1916-09-10

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The sun., 1916-09-10

to look INTO tho matter Of the excess
sivc fees they claim are charged by
agents. They also seek to have the
status Of tho agents fixed in the matter
of responsibility for injury and death.
Where supers have claimcl damages
for injuries in the past the agencies
lave lodged the responsibility.
lsadorc Stern. mead of the new or
~ranization. said yesterday: Hundreds
Of supcrs daily risk life and limb for
$50 a day, which is not fair"
Tho demands of the supers sum-
married. arc:
I. Any super called upon to do
duty in evening clothes is To get
81 "A day.
>. Any super who il called upon to
do bumps Is to got $3.50 a day.
s. Any super who il called upon to
work in civilian dress is to get $3.50
a day.
I. \ mob of supcrs Of fifteen or less
must got 81 "A day each; in niohs Of
fifteen to nifty. 81 each: in mobs Of
nifty To u hundred, 81. and in mobs
of more than "A hundred. $3.50 each.
~ '" 81 ~ 'lhiltN " ~
clothes supers must got s. - day.
and for Tuxedo or walking suit tho
same.
6. Tranps or Cangstcrs are to get
So each. in numbers up to nifty and
81 above that.
:. Every studio is to hc obliged to
feed supers such meals as the dura-
ton of the work may require.
\. Night work is to bc at the rate
Of 81 more than day work. and the
hours arc 10 he from $50 T.. NJ.
to 2 a. NJ.
George SChcer. who makes a hus!-
ness of furnishing extra people for the
film studios, opposes the formation of
- supors' union on the ground that II
would spoil tho art of the movin;
pictures t. restrict the field to selec-
tlun
'%Icrhaps the mos, inevitable result
OF such an organization" he IL quoted
~ SAYING, would he To- make the
slp"r his own worst enemy. fer under
that system his face un tho screen
would hccom" 80 mmo as TO do
stroy every illusion of the picture. In
"A single nights entertainments when
three different photo pays are given in
a theatre the same SGT of supcrs Is
likely 10 appear in a mob scene outside
the doors Of n factory, and later in a
grand ballroom 'ssaNiug the poses of
lords and ladies'. This Overwhelming
contrast, occurring perhaps in the
sptc" Of half an hour, j. bound 10 kill
the interest Of tho spectators"
The sun., 1916-09-10

0amcd, II WAS stated that tho shift
from wind to steam power in the
transportation of bricks between New
York ana lInv"rstraw had come about
WITH nn hardship or radical shaking IN
of conditions. II was n Of those
changes as natural a. II stage coach
company Of IN" nd days engaging in
IN" railroad business
Lite ny little the carving capacity
~ the brick barges landing at Man
haitian peers has been increased said
Mr.. BARNES. "Now w have them load
ing between 100000 and 100000 brick.
Tine schooner Barnes carries only 30
GOO. W" run her because she rcmains
tho very best of her class, and 50 long
as ~" remains in our possession she
might as well h." earning something.
-" certainly - the lone SHERMAN Of
the ing BRICK docks. But she does as
well as ger she did and she might as
wei! - on With II. capt. Farley is part
oWucr of her, Naturally this tends to
keep her in tho best possible carrying
condition and gets the most out Of her.
zone Of the reasons the barges have
so completely superseded the schooncrs
is that the delivery az br.ck 10 no
longer dependent on shifts OF wind and
tide, as formerly. Regularly every
night the Cornell TOWING Company
Il tuws north and has tows coming
south. The empty brick barges going
north leave on "A regular schedule. the
same as Il railroad train. And the
loaded Iaracs arrive ON a regular
schedule, the same as IA railroad train.
iou can phone the Cornell COM