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Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
SAYS ALL CHILDREN DO 1T
University President startles Hearers
by Declaring Youths Like to
"Take" Things.

DR.. G. Stanley Hall, president of
Clark university, speaking on "Relig-
Ion and Education" the other day,
tossed off a number of opinions that
rather startled some of his hearers.
Say, damn once in q while II the
occasion demands" Doctor Hall ad-
vised, and when the gnsping had sub
sided he gave 1t as his belief
that slapping children was good
practice if the slappings were admin
lstered vigorously and mot more In
sorrow than in anger.
BE very kind about stealing" said
the wise doctor, "for all children
do it."
That appears to be pretty broad
assertion, says the Dayton News.
Perhaps the doctor Is right, but let
as hope that he has overstated the
case. In justice to him it must be
added that he qualified his assertion
concerning the thievish propensltles Of
children by saying:
Possibly there is not a person here,
a. man at least, who has not stolen
apples, turnips or watermelons. If
they had been caught in the city they
would have been branded as Grim
inals."
We can understand the doctors con-
clusiOns concerning apples and water
melons, but why should any boy want
to steal turnips? AS well accuse all
boys of prefering work to play. No,
we refuse to believe that Doctor Hall
was not too generous in his accusation.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
Transparent Cookery.

A firm at Corning, n. Y, is now
making pie dishes, baking dishes and
other cooking utensils of glass so tough
that it can be handled like ordinary
crockery and will stand the heat of
any oven. The Scientific American re-
marks that now every housekeeper
can see what her puddings and pies
look like on the inside.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
At the Lake Shore

He-What is your little sister cry
ing for?
She-oh, she'd dug hole in the
sand and she's crying because she
can't take 1t home with herl
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
Exact Copy of wrspper.
separators.

"That summer boarder of ours
spends good deal Of time in the
dairy. Seems TO take a great interest
In the separator"
"Well, he's in that line himself"
"Huh?"
Hes a divorce lawyer"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
Deserved No SYmnathy.

,Hlcks-What is good for the tooth
ache?
Wickles-I don't know, and I don't
want to. 1 hate the toothache too much
to want to find anything that's good for
It.-Stray Stories.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
woMANs GROWING GLORY

is her hair. If yours is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use LA Gre
ole" Hair Dressing and change it in
the natural way. Price $1O0.-Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
10 Drive Out Malaria
And Build Un The System

Take the old Standard GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking. as the formula Is
printed on every label. showing il is
Quinine and Iron in tasteless form. The
Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron
builds up the system. 60 cents
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27

Six varieties of seaweed are used by
the Japanese in the manufacture OF
vegetable isinglass.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27

1t is sometimes safer to throw kisses
= a girl thar to hand them to her.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27

It is well to remember that a penny
will jingle with tin suspender button.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27

THIS IS THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will lock ten years younger if you
darken your ugly. grizzly. gray hairs by
using La Creole" Hair Dressing. ADV
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
When Your Eyes Need Care
Try Murine Eve Remedy

No 6martlng just BYE Comfort. 90 cents NJ
&TKffSE EYE s' hEn y EnY Y Co. s.S SoaiYSo2S6
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27

without warning l was dragged to
the brink Of the grave by malignant
Satz, ia Cypress Ave, Bronx, N. Y.
my kidneys seemed to stop acting and
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11
True Genialitv.

There is always something to be
learned from those we meet. To be
genial does not mean to tell all of ones
affairs to everyone. Nor does il in
clude making intimate companions of
everyone about him. 1t does mean to
have kindness in ones heart to all
the world, to have a desire to carry
sunshine, TO give warmth and bright
ness, to be constantly filed with the
desire to make the world happier and
better. 1t is not the great things of
life that tend most to happiness. 1t is
the little daily, almost unnoticed things
that count most. No kindness in
thought or deed is too small to do
good to some one. If to no one else.
at least in making ones own heart
more tender it is worth while. And no
one ever sees the last result of a kind
act Cultivate the genial spirit and
you will be storing up happiness.
Sowing seeds of kindness brings a sure
harvest.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11
FlNLAND'S TRADE IN WOOD
Livelihood to the People of
That Country.

The pine trees of Finland are the
gold mines of the country, and really
its chief trade. Pines and silver
hlrches flourish on all sides. Every
thing or anything can apparently be
made of birch bark in Finland; shoes.
baskets. large and small, salt bottles,
flower vases, even an entire suit OF
clothing is hanging up in Helsingfors
museum. manufactured of the silver
birch.
The lakes of Finland, of which there
are five or six thousand, cover about
one-siXth of the country. but these
lakes. rivers and waterways all take
their share in the wood trade. In the
autumn the trees are felled and left
are dragged two or three. one behind
the other.
BY this means the trees are con-
veyed to the nearest waterway. where
they are stamped with the owners
mark ard rolled upon the ice of lake
or river TO await the natural transport
of spring. On they voyage, these sol
dierS or the forest, Tor hundreds OF
miles to the coast, till finally, arriving
at such an enormous wood export sta
ton as Kotka, they meet their doom,
On the completion of the floating
season. the stock of logs at Kotka
often amounts TO million. On arriv. |
al at their destination they are sep |
arated and distributed according 10
the marks of their respective owners. !
Large floating houses await their ar
rival. The steam sawmills are wait
ing for them. the trees as they go in
have half-a-dozen saws run into them
at once, and out come boards and
planks of various thicknesses and
width, the best of which are sent TO
England.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11
Women in Ancient Greco.

In Homeric times. as in later Sparta,
IL Is true. the wife had considerable
freedom and respect; but even Homer
ic heroes gave away their daughters
and scores of other women as brides
or prizes, each woman being reckoned,
as In modern Zululand. at so many
oxen or copper cauldrOns.
In later Greece the noblest minds
saw further. Plato proclaimed equal
association for all women with men.
and opportunity according to their
physical strength. Aristotle defined
marriage as a community of life as a
whole.
The cry of Aristophanes for "votes
for Women" was only half mockery.
No subsequent dramatist has analyzed
the tragedy and ironic comedy Of wom-
anhood 50 su5tly as Euripides-none.
at least, until we come to Ibsen and
Brieux.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11
TEACH CHILDREN TO LIVE
Modern Schools Have Been Made Into
Real Service Stations on Lies
Highway.

At college l saw fortunes spent ev-
cry autumn to teach football candi-
dates how to elude opposing tackles,
but not cent to teach them how to
elude tuberculosis, typhoid, pneumonia
or cancer. We were required to dig
out Latin roots and to unkink logarith-
mic gnarls, but there was not required
course in intelligent living.
There was perennial, concerted,
rock-rlbbed. steel-girt conspiracy of 81
lence against the human body. The
educational system frowned upon bad
taste in department, manners, Ian
guage and literature, but bad taste in
life itself was quite the proper thing.
1t was deemed more important to know
quadratic equations than the simple
fact that to sleep healthily in a room
where the sunbeams never enter is as
suicidal as nibble of cyanide, albeit
somewhat slower.
Long before New York's public
school children of today learn how to
decline "amo" they are taught to de-
cline indiscriminate kisses. Long before
they learn how Gettysburg was fought,
they learn how fire is fought. The
toothbrush drill precedes the first
spelling drill. They learn the inteli-
gent way to sneeze or cough. Long
before they take up the avenues of
Caesars entrance into Gaul they are
instructed in the avenue of entrance
of regiments of bacilli into the human
body. Gotham's tots learn the neces-
sity of frequent airing of bedding, the
proper cleaning of ice boxes, the cura-
bility of phthisis. No longer the pa
thetic spectacle of Alice in Blunder-
land. When Alice reaches the age of
six and matriculates in New York's
public schools she is now ushered at
once into the wonderland of genuinely
useful knowledge of her wisp of a
body. And 1t begins to look as if the
public schools of the future were to be |
Il vast system of service stations on
the highway of human life.-Newton |
A. Fuessle, in the Craftsman.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11
In the South Seas.

In recent lecture before the ROYAL
Geographic society, Mr. G. M. Wood.
ford, former British resident commits.
sioner of the Solomon islands, de-
scribed two islands that are seldom
visited by white men. They are Rem
nell and Bellona islands, which were
discovered at the beginning of the last
century. Steamers from Sydney to the
Solomons pass close to them, and
sometimes between them, but trading
vessels do not stop there, for the an
chorage is poor. The natives, there
fore, having nothing to sell, have been
left to themselves, with the result
that, although natives of islands only
100 miles away have advanced to the
stage of sewing machines, gramo-
phones and other articles of modern
civilization, the natives of Rennell
and Bellona, when Mr.. Woodford Wis
tied them Il few years ago were eager
for scrapiron of every sort, old nails,
and especially fishhooks; and so little
was known about the islands that even
the native names for them had not
been accurately determined. Immi-
grafton into the Pacific islands from
Asia, far from having ceased, is at
present going on at a rate probably
greater than during the old Polynesian
migrations. Mr.. Woodford predicts
that at no very distant date the whole
of the Melanesian and Polynesian
populations of the Pacific will be alb
sorbed and merged into a race COM
posed largely of Chinese and Japa,
neSe.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

rying on pain of being cut out of I'm
Gle Trueftt's viii.
As Uncle Trueftt was worth a COO
hundred thousand. IL viii be seen that
the younger generation was literally
up against II.
Cousin Lefty Bradley was a poor
member Of the family. She was Il
stenographer for Stone. the hardware
merchant. The other Bradleys looked
down on her. and the Slows, Forsters
and Truefitts desplsed her utterly.
All the same, IL was supposed that she
would come In for a share of Uncle
Truefitt's money. The old man seemed
little taken with her, perhaps be-
cause she never ran to him with title
tattle about the family.
This is how the scandal arose. Dur
ing Uncle Truefitt's absence In town
upon business Lefty asked for three
days holiday, thing, as Matty True
fit caustically remarked, she would
never have dared 10 do II there had
been anyone TO inquire into the fan
ily's actions. To go away for three
N'f' NAANthh fhAoAhAitk lNlNit
htts permission was something I'M
heard of. Even James Slow, who
would some day become head of the
clan. never took any momentous step
without consulting Uncle Truefitt.
Lefty came back smiling. ana Cousin
Anne Bradley. who boarded her, won
dered. Some extraordinary transfer
nation had taken place in Lefty When
she was doing up Cousin Anne's room,
thing which Cousin Anne graciously
permitted. she was heard TO be sing
Ing. Cousin Anne watched her mar
rowly throughout the day and detected
her making curious gestures with her
fingers when she Thought she was not
observed. Cousin Anne had followed |
her surrentitiousiy into her bedroom
and suddenly pulled her hand from |
behind her back. Lefty was wearing
a wedding ring.
Al first. as Cousin Anne said, she |
was minded TO put the girl out of the /
house. But after all, IL she was mar
ried her offense was not great enough |
10 justify her In losing her paying
boarder- She taxed Lefty. who began
10 cry.
who is the mani" she demanded.
Lefty wouldn't tell. She positively
refused TO tell, saying that her hus-
band had made her promise that the
announcement should come from him.
And Cousin Anne. peysisting, found to
her amazement that some wicked
spirit had got into Lefty. Lefty nc
tually ordered her out of the room.
Cousin Anne resolved to be much less
kind to Lefty in future.
She told the whole family the next
morning, going from one house TO an
other. Everybody came to reason with
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11
Uncle 1ruefitt
W
By
GEORGE MUNSON

GEORGE MUNSON


Sopyrisht' 1910, py w. ". ShapHan.)
The scandal rang all through the
village Although there was M rea-
son why it should be scandal, except
that nobody had ever expected such a
thing of Cousin Lefty. Cousin Lefty
was married-marrled at thirty-eibht
TO heaven knew whom
To explain the sensation which this
event created in town II is necessary
to go back little. Cousin Lefty was
Bradley. The Bradleys the Forsters.
the Trueftts and the Slows had ruled
the town for generations.
Uncle Eph Truefitt was the head OF
the clans. He was sixty-nine and had
been widower for fifteen years. He
had not got along well with his wife.
She had died after three years OF
married life, and IL was said that 1t
had been "A marriage of propinquity.
In other words. they had met, known
each other, and some unaccountable
within impelled Uncle Truefitt to ask
her TO marry him. AS she was not OF
the clan, no more need be said about
her.
After his renewed bachelorhood, Ul-
Gle Truefitt developed streak of &C.
centriclty. He was strongly against
mntrlmony. except in the case of GER
tain people. That Is to say, he toler-
ated the married Bradleys, Forsters,
Truefitts and Slows, but 1t was under
stood that Uncle Truefitt's widower-
hood had altered the aspect of the uni
verse. There was to be no more mar |
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Sad Commentary.

One of the saddest commentaries
on the intelligence of the masses we
know of is the way an empty-headed,
vociferant, oversize-lunged candidate
for some important Office or other can
go believing around the state ana get
away with almost half the electorate
at the very lowest estimate.-Colum-
bus (O.) Journal.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11
Modest Attitude.

II assume" said the slightly cynical
person, that you think it's up to you
TO save the country"
mo, sir" replied Senator Sorghum /;
II take II for granted that this strong
and resourceful nation will always
save itself. All l ask is TO continue
fiourishing around among my constitu-
ents and taking the credit"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

Slow, and Kate Forster. BY reason
Ing they meant asking questions, bu
they got nothing out of Lefty.
"Well have to wait till Uncle True
fit comes back" said Matty.
"It'll mean eight thousand more t.
split among us If Uncle Truefitt cut
her out of the WILL" observed Jamei
SLOW. rubbing his hands together.
"James," said his wife, don't b'
vulgar. It's the decelviDg of Uncle
Truehtt that is so ungrateful"
They waited, while Lefty, supremely
unconscious OF the blow that was
about to fall, went about with singing
lips and heart that was lifted ny
above the common things of life, or
rather TRANSPORTED them.
Uncle Truefitt came back nearly a
week later. He was met at the station
by all his relatives. He was struck
at once by the singular expression of
their faces.
y .
Jane Slow, who had been deputed
to break the news, answered. "Pll tell
you when you get home, Uncle True
fit. Prepare yourself for a great
shock"
"What is it2 Somebody lost money!"
he asked.
mo. Uncle Truefitt. 1t is ingrati-
tude on the part of one you loved
and trusted"
''Huml I guess l don't want no
preparing for thatw sneered Uncle
Trueftt, pursuing his lips as he stepped
into his carriage.
When they were all assembled in the
parlor Jane Slow spoke up.
"Cousin Lefty has taken advantage
of your absence to deceive you" she
said. "She has got married"
"Eh?" shouted Uncle Trueftt. MAR
ried? Without my leaver
'To scamp, Uncle Truefitt. She is
ashamed to let his name be known.
That proves what sort of man he is"
'IIow do you know he's scamp"
demanded Uncle Trueftt.
Because she's ashamed of him.
Uncle Truefitt, we think you ought TO
cast her out of your life, after her re-
payment of all your kindness to her"
"All think that?" asked Uncle True
Att.
James Slow bowed his head. 81 |
faL In hnf ha
an who has set her face against your |
wishes has forfeited all right to your
consideration"
"Or that of any of u.s." added Kate
Forster.
"'Phone for her" said Uncle True
lit.
'Eh?" remarked James Slow.
81 said ''phone for her. Wen
hrash this thing right out now" said
Jncle Truefitt.
Lefty was telephoned for and duly
ppeared, while her accusers, in sullen
ride withdrew to the other side of
he room and ostentatiously disre
arded her.
"Come here. James," said Uncle
'ruefitt. what have you got against
.etty?"
"I?" exclaimed James. 'Merely her
hooking disregard for your expressed
fishes. uncle"
Come here. Lefty" said Uncle
'ruefltt. as II true you're married?"
at is" said Lefty brazenly.
'Tell 'em who ii is, Lefty" said
Incle Truefltt.
"You. Alfred" said Lefty, smiling.
Uncle Truefitt pointed toward the
DOR. "Get out, all of you" he said
untly. And they went. And that
as the second scandal In town.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

FOR SALE=Pure mammoth Bronze
Turkeys. Best in the market.
Range grown. Unrelated stock. Mrs.
H. J. Cortner and Mrs. C. R. Lowery,
Payette, Idaho. 154.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-One horsepower |. H.
C. gasoline engine; also Sim bone
grinder, rs fir posts, 1000 feet Bin.
plank, colony hogs, horses, some ma
chinery-all at right prices. H. L.
Fest. 1922.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11
Pa ST Memories

Substitute-Are you going TO plant
anything this fall?
Second Ditto-No, but there is some
thing | would like TO plant.
Observation-Disclosures that?
Second Dits,-My summer visitors.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

LOST-7-jewel Elgin wotch, 20-year
gold case, open face, between house
and DeMasters barn or between barn
and Goul's ranch. Mrs. Goul Is
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

FOR SALE-1 roam bull, "Sultana
Gloom" Scotch Durham, Ia months
old, red roam bull, "Sultana Acacia"
Scotch Durham, II months old, l
red bull, grade, years old. l have
papers with the two pure bred. j. l.
Guthrie.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

LOST-A hand satchel, with two
check books and pair of glasses
in it, between Cash Grocery and
last house on Second st. Mary Reese.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

FOR SALE-Blue Stem wheat for
seed. Richard Sutton, miles west
on Emmett bench. 14-2p.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

FOR SALE-Potatoes wheat and oats
IL miles west of Emmett. A. T.
Tschudy. 163tp.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

FOR SALE-Two gifts bred to far
row in March, and one boar. All
Poland China. w. H. Sissler. 16.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

FOUND-A fine fur was left in the
M. e. church Thanksgiving. Owner
can have same by calling at M. E. par
sonage, proving property and paying
for this adv. 16.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

FOR SALE-Red clover seed. H. S.
Jenkins. 1918.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

FOR SALE-Cheap, two used Ford
cars, 1913 and 1915 models. In
quire Wilson's Garage.
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LOST. FOUND, Etc

FOUND-A purse in the Rees store.
Owner can have the same by pay
ing for this adv and describing pro-
perty. Inquire of S. ]. Rees. Is.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

FOR SALE - Four-horse Fairbanks
Morse engine, cheap. Call R. B.
Shaw.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

FOR SALE-Cement posts. M Gil
bride, east of Fruit Association. Al
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-11

LOST-An automobile crank. Please
return to Walter Little.
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FOR SALE-One 8-months-old steer,
in prime condition. Phone 80 J2 8
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Column
WANTED.

WANTED-Use of buggy horse for
feed. Inquire at Index office. Is.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-12-10
CHANGED METH IDS
OF BUNKER COAL

%orfolk Va. Dec e-On account
ot numerous complaints having oeen
received OF deias on the part OF
steamers securing bunker coal at the
three Ttr coal piers az norfolk ana
>,evnort News, The United States ship
ming raard has taken charge OF the
coal b,,nkerlng facilities at Norto'k
and made a radical change in the me
thad az supplying coal 20 bunker
steamers,
Beginning yesterday vessels which
take bunker coal. that il coal not fot
cargo but solely for their own use
are required TO take no coal IN the
stream where they are anchored
Steamers. however. which take coal
for cargo Will continue to be loaded
al the piers "a heretofore.
The government mas sent the nee
essarv equipment 10 Norfolk for the
coallng Of vessels lying In the stream
with bunker coal This quipment
consists Of clam shell shovels, sim
liar to the steam shovels. and to be
operated by steam. They are located
on floats and may be moved from
ore vessel to another at viii. The
coal will ne loaded at the piers on
bsrges ard taken out to the sides OF
the vessels where It viii then be
transferred to the steamer nRefs
by the clam shells
The most radical change made by
The shipping board IN this connec-
ten is an increase in the charges for
delivering and trimming this bunker
coal from fifteen cents "A ton to 81 10
n ton Hitherto the price OF fifteen
cents for delivering and trim ming coal
has been charged for both bunker
and cargo coal loaded at the piers.