The Oakley eagle., December 13, 1906, Image 3

About The Oakley eagle. (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908

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ITAO^ OF CIVIL WAR.
ada of Soldier« Contractai
Kidney Trouble While
'a the Service.
* Ckr
y
of Co. E, P nttTriY 1 ?^ Capt ' John L ' Ely '
East Second 8 (rJ. t ' n ° w llvln K at 508
' Newton, Kansas,
lùte r*st the thou
wm
a
sand» a,
_ h „ „„ T veterans
who came
the Civil w from
Hr
K «ffer
ney complaint. Capt.
Eiysays: "I contracted
kidney trouble dur
ing tortures wttn
M
Ing the Civil War,
and the occasional
attacks finally de
veloped into » chronic case. At one
time I had to use a crutch and cane
to get about. My back was lame and
weak, and besides the aching, there
was a distressing retention of the
kidney secretions.
I was in a bad
way when I began using Doan's Kid
ney Pills in 1901, but the
cured me, and I have been well ever
•ince."
remedy
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box,
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
Objects which are usually the ob
jects of our travels by land and by
■e« are often overlooked and neg
lected if they lie under our eye.—■
Pliny the Younger.
To Wash Velveteen.
Velveteen may be washed by shaking it
•bout in warm Ivory Soap suds; then
rinse thoroughly and let it drip dry. On
BO account squeeze or wring it. Be care
ful to hang it straight on the line, foi
otherwise it will be crooked when dry.
ELEANOR R. BARKER.
Nicotine in Tobacco,
A «dentist writes; "The essential
quality for which tobacco is smoked
or chewed lies not really In the leaves
themselves, but is contained in thou
sands of hollow-knobbed hairs which
cover their surface. The vital nicotine
Is garnered in these pearlike balls, but
as it is impossible to shave off these
hairs, and would be a scarcely com
mendable achievement if it could be
undertaken, it becomes necessary to
preserve the whole foliage for com
mercial purposes."
j
Preach from Automobile«.
A novel method of preaching the
gospel was recently tried In France
with striking success. Pastor Delat
tre from Roame (Reformed church),
In company with Pastor Sainton, of
the Baptist church, in Paris, visited
with an automobile the departments
of Loire, Rhone, Aller, Saône et Loire,
within a radius of about 90 miles.
Pastor Delattre writes; "During near
ly two months, from our automobile,
have been able to preach the
gospel on market places, from fair to
fair, distributing thousands of tracts
and selling no less than 2,600 copies
of the New Testament."
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He Hit the Bookmaker.
Patrick Murphy had an afternoon
off. so he thought he would go out to
see the horse races.
Pat had heard about the fortunes
made at the race track, so he thought
he would try his luck. He went down
stairs before every race, hut didn't
find any odds that suited him until
the last race,
horse.
but it suited Pat all right, for it had
It was a large gray
I don't remember its name.
50-1 after It.
Pat put up his dollar and went up
His horse won
stairs to see the race.
Pat hurried down-stairs
by a neck,
with a lively step to cash in
his
j
check.
It was the last race of the day and
the bookmaker was anxious to get
rid of his silver, therefore Pat was
paid with silver dollars.
Pat stood there a few minutes fum
bling over his handful of silver dol
lars, when the bookmaker hollered:
"What's the matter, Irish? Don't you
think they are good?"
Pat said:
"They look all right, but
I am Just trying to see if I can find
the bad one I gave you among them."
AN OLD TIMER.
Has Had Experiences.
A woman who has used Postum
Food Coffee since it came upon the
market 8 years ago knows from ex
perience the necessity of using Pos
tum in place of coffee if one values
health and a steady brain.
She says: "At the time Postum was
first put on the market I was suffer
ing from nervous dyspepsia and my
physician had repeatedly told me not
to use tea or coffee. Finally I de
cided to take his advice and try
Postum, and got a sample and had U
carefully prepared, finding It deli
cious to the taste. So I continued
Its use and very soon its beneficial ef
fects convinced me of its value, foi
I got well of my nervousness and dys
pepsia.
"My husband had been drinking cof
fee all his life until it had affected
his nerves terribly. I persuaded him
to shift to Postum and it was easy tc
get him to make the change for the
Postum is delicious« It certainly
worked wonders for him.
"We soon liyxrned that Postum does
not exhilarate or depress and does not
stimulate ,JKnt steadily and honestly
Tn3 the nerves and the stom
I make a long story short our
piily have now used Postum
C years with completely sat
»ult«, as shown in our line
I' health and we have no
Hither unexpected improve
brain and
ivta by Postum Co., I
ach. j
entire J
for eiJ
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< OlMtiuj
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sometimes in
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a v*ry
aimer.
ttkgs. for "The Road
REMARKS BY
THE POSTMAS'
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BY HAYDEN CHURCH.
1'i'
Moses Briggs. postmaster at Scotts
ville, stood in the back room of the
post office sorting mail,
a tali man, and u thin angular
whose clothes did not fit hltn
is
Briggs was
one. ill
He >
•hat
•t
et
looked wretchedly shabby as he stood
there in his shirt-sleeves, with his
ta<\ vl
Rrora
row 0{
initial
waistcoats unbuttoned.
where he stood, behind tilt ;
otgeonholes, each with Its
.. le tter. Briggs could look
roug Into f vo>l mom beyond
It originally ka(l beon fltte(1 , n a
general shop-, bnt
were cpvered with
the cloth draperies
ed the dry goods on the
hung moth-eaten and in
now the showcases
a thick dn«t. and
which had shield
side shelves
tatters.
"shop" now !t
The ft replay.
was filled with rubbish, and all that
remained to show where a social cir
cle of men had once Joked and told
stories was one rickety chair, with a
broken leg. The place had gone to
seed.
No his
one ever came into the
except to get his mail.
is
pausing only occasionally to puzzle
over the superscription of a letter, i 3
Soon there was only one lett In his
hand, and as he read Its he
■To the ! is
read
Moses Briggs was sort Ing the after
noon mail. He worked mechanically,
gave a start of surprise.
Postmaster at Scottsville," he
aloud; then walked slowly Into the j
j back part of the room and sat down In
at a table, with his letter in front of i
him.
As he sat there the light from a ,
window at the side of the room shone j to
full upon his face. His forehead was
furrowed with deep wrinkles, his eyes
were bloodshot and had no luster In
them. His nose was sharp and red,
and on each side of It were tell-tale
j
patches of tiny pink, veins.
The postmaster picked up the let
ter and tore It open slowly, using his
long forefinger as a paper-knife,
side were a return envelope, stamped;
a typewritten letter, and a printed
slip with blank spaces,
was addressed:
The letter
"To the Postmaster,"
In
and it was signed, Briggs noticed, by
The Golconda Life Insurance Com
pany," of New York.
"Dear Sir,"- It began. "Mat we re
quest you to favor us by amwering J
the few questions on the Inclosed !
Inquiry sheet and returning It to us? a
The person named has just proposed |
to us for a policy of Insurance, and
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Postmaster."
Has Reformed.
as he lives in your neighborhood we
think that you may be both able and
willing to oblige us with the data re
quired in such cases."
It was simply tne i ordinary in
quiry which most Ins» ranee compa
nies make regarding applicants who
are unknown to them. Briggs had
answered many such, so It was with
out any surprise that he opened the
accompanying form to see which of
his townsmen had been fortifying
against adversity. As his eye fell on
the name, however, he laughed aloud,
In his high, cracked voice. The per
son Inquired about was "Moses
Briggs, 40 years of age; occupation,
shopkeeper; Scottsville; proposing Tor
$ 1 , 000 ."
Briggs knew how It had happened.
He remembered now signing a pro
posal for $1,000 in the "Golconda,"
but he had no idea of taking
a policy. The local agent of the
company had asked him to ap
ply, explaining that, though his sig
nature bound him to nothing, his pro
posal would swell the agency's record
of business for the year. The agent
had bought Briggs a drink that day,
and then proposed his signing as a
pergonal favor—mentioning that it
would be better not to give his oc
cupation as that of postmaster. So
Briggs had signed, and again accepted
the agent's courtesy, and the result
was this set of questions.
To Briggs' mind there was some
thing grimly humorous l i the idea of
writing about himself, and so he de
cided to answer the questions. Pull
ing the sheet toward himself, he
dipped his pen into the muddy ink.
The first question was; "Does this
person appear to be In good health?"
Still keeping up the jest, the post
master rose, stepped over to where a
Jugged piece of looking-glass stood on
a shelf, and examined his appearance
therein critically. When he sat down
again, his face was more sober, and,
picking up his pen, he wrote:
"Is he a man of temperate habits?"
asked the sheet. The reader winced '
the veriest trifle, but again wrote
plainly, "No." :
' Has he always been temperate?
If not, «täte particulars in 'Remarks.'"
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"No."]—w
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The irostniABter smiled rather sadlj
is he read the question. ' Seems as
hough they were bound to have
ill out," he muttered aloud.
> elp me, they shall, too!" He thought
•hat he would make a
•t what he was going to write, an i
et about it In a
it
"an .
rough draft
scrawling, shaky
land,
irunkard
, ,. :!l
"is a plain
This man,'' he
wrote,
He has bei n a'drunkard
He began well
>r the las; five years.
lie married a nice girl here,
ind started in keeping shop. He had
hree Utile children —a boy and two
iris but
-might, and
!t no longer she left him. She iB now
position here,
lose soon, and that
him
didn't
soon he got to abusing
his wife; and when she couldn't stand
keep
they
supporting herself and the children
while he Is des tired by»' veryone. No
one
ill do business )viih him now,
except such have to, and his trade
is all gone. He has n government
which he will probably
ill be the end ot
him. He Is a wreck, and couldn't pay
the first premium on a policy If it
was no more than sixpence. His wife
i 3 getting old before her time, hut
People respect her. and pity her chil
'Iren for having such a father. That
is the kind of man Moses Briggs is."
and slowly read over what he had put
In his rough draft,
The postmaster laid down his pdi
"That's what I'll write under 'Re
marks,'" he said, "just the plain
truth. Then we'll see if they'll wan.*
to issue any policy."
He rose from his chair again, and,
walking over to the window, looked
out. The post office was built on a
bluff, overlooking a river. The sun
was just setting, and the sky, behind
the distant tree-tops was rose pink,
j In the blue above one early star twin
kled feebly.
The man stood there, drinking in
the scene—the water flashing in the
last dying sunbeams, the grassy slope,
and, over all, the single star. Then
suddenly his frame grew erect, his
arms
eye flashed, and he threw both
out straight from the shoulders, his
fists clenched.
"It'll be true," he muttered, "for 1
J mean it, and It can't do anybody any
! hurt if I say so. I couldn't take out
a policy anyway.
| though I'd like to see it written down
that way."
An', seems as
He sat again, and pulled the Inquiry
sheet toward him, as he dipped hts
pen Into the ink.
with "No"
offensive now.
wrote with a firm hand:
"Used to drink hard,
formed.
The two questions
after them seemed less
Under 'Remarks' he
Has rs
"Postmaster."
(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
WATCH THE MONEY SIDE.
Practical Affairs of Life One of the
Things of Importance in
Making Happiness.
No matter what your vocation may
be, you must be a business man first
or you will always he placed at a great
disadvantage in the practical affairs
of life.
We cannot entirely Ignore
the money side of existence any more
than we can the food side, and the
very foundation of a practical, suc
cessful life Is the ability to know bow
to manage the money Side effectively.
It is infinitely harder to save money
and to Invest it wisely than to make
It, and if even the most practical men
who have had a long training in scien
tific business methods, find it a diffi
cult thing to hold on to money after
they make It, what is likely to happen
to people who have had practically no
training in business methods?
If every child In America had a
thorough business training tens of
thousands of promoters, long-headed,
cunning schemers, who have thriven
on the people's ignorance, would be
j out of an occupation.
I I believe that the business colleges
are among the greatest blessings In
American civilization to-day, because
they have saved thousands of homes
from being wrecked, and have made
happy and comfortable tens of thou
sands of people, who might otherwise
be living in poverty and wretchedness.
—Success Magazine.
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' An Observation,
He that giveth good advice to all
: most liberally is he who most resent
ith receiving the same from his vbw
I tin»«.—Jeremiah of Joppa.
Exceptional Case.
On a train coming Into New York q
day or two ago was a young man In
the khaki dress of a regular soldier
returning home after three years' serv
ice in the Philippines. Just outside
the city he had a violent chill, and the
passengers could hear his teeth chat
ter above the roar of the train. An old
man In clerical garb held a few ram
utes' conversation with the soldier
and then, turning to the passengers, he i
said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, here Is a
young man just home from the Phil
ippins, unaccllmated and suffering
from one of the worst chills I have
ever seen. Now, ladles and gentlemen,
often have I preached strong sermons
against the use of liquor In any form
but this time I pray you for it. Has
anyone a flask of brandy?"
About 20 flasks of all sites, from
men and women alike, were at once
thrust at him, and not long after th«
soldier had recovered from his chill
"No."]—w y. Press.
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Opium .Morphine nor Mineral.
not Narcotic.
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Grocer Was Getting Even.
"That was tit for tat with a ven
geance," said Walter Christie, the au
tomobilist, apropos of a quarrel be
tween two French chauffeurs. "It re
minds me of a grocer I used to know
in Paint Rock. This grocer went over
to the jeweler's one day to get a new
crystal put on his watch. The latter
as he fitted and cleaned the crystal j
suddenly flushed. He bit his lip and j
frowned. His hand trembled so that
he could hardly go on with his task.
Finally, handing the watch to the gro- J
cer, the jeweler said In a restrained
voice: 'Beg pardon, but didn't 1 just
see you put a couple of rings and a
scarfpin in your pocket?"
" Sure you did,' said the grocer,
boldly. 'When you come to my place
aren't you always putting things In
your mouth?'"
World's Cotton Consumption.
The consumption of cotton from
1893 to 1898 averaged only 9,000,000
bales annually in the whole world, but
from 1898 to 1903 the average was 10,-'
684,146 bales annually, and the aver
age price was three cents per pound
greater than for the previous period.
If the consumption increases at the
same ratio during the next five year
period the average will he nearly 13,- i
000,000 bales annually, and the prices j
will be much higher than in iWe-.pr^j
vious period. This indicates a/fcajfl
porous future (or the cotton vrj }/
and manufacturer, as well as f jtjÊ I
export trade. f I /M M
A constable who aresied ft,
on a country road m
other day tor cam« Img tool thl^fl
«Strate the men «>ed curds
walked m.mg, romping to dcj^H
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