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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05
Women as Witnesses,

Women as Witnesses.
The curious case heard before
Judge Smyly last week, in which two
middle-aged women of evident intel
llgence swore to two directly opposite
stories, suggests the question whether
women make reliable witnesses. The
late Lord Chief Justice Russell de-
clared once that where no question of
prejudice was concerned a woman's
evidence was more valuable than a
mans. There is no doubt that in
noticing small matters of detail wom-
en- are much quicker than men and
have a much better memory, but they
are strongly apt to be Influenced by
prejudice. During the trial of Can
ham Reed, the South End murderer,
one of the witnesses, an old woman
of more than sixty, swore to the iden.
tity of the prisoner, although she ad.
mitted that she had only seen him
once in her life-six months previous
when he passed her hurriedly on
a country road at 10 o'clock on a No
vember evening. She declared that
she recognized him by the flash Of his
eye. Such minute evidence as this
no man living would venture to give.
even in civil action. much less when
a human beings life was at stake
Taller, London, Eng.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05
RELATIVE TO SLANG.

Purists seldom will excuse slang
and always will insist that a better
phrase or word might have been sub
stituted for its use, until the slang
word or expression becomes grated
upon the language. Even then there
) will be many not tolerant of it's use
at first, but opposition becomes less
/, and less in evidence as time accus-
toms the ear to receive gratefully that
which once seemed harsh, crude and
inelegant.
1t is true, too, that much of the
slang OF one age falls into disuse the
next, SO that the language suffers but
little, If any, from it's temporary, ac-
ceptance, while such words as may
nave incorporated themselves perma-
nently into the general structure fit
SO well that no one is tearfully solicit.
GUS to have them removed
A Western minister said recently:
Slang is largely the result of indo-
lence and lack of self-respect. While
in the origin of some terms common
~ used as slang, there may be wit and
measure of originality, yet no person
can indulge in the use of these barbar
lsms without serious loss.
Il have heard men use slang in
most earnest prayer. If a man does
not wish to use slang on his death.
bed or in the pulpit or the school
room, office or social circle, it would
be well not to use it anywhere. New
York Telegram.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05
VALUE OF THE PLAGlARIST.

No writer in the English tongue
stands in the same rank with Shake
speare, and yet none was so incessant
a debtor as he to the classic writer's
and the folklore of other countries.
From Hamlet" to "Shylock," from
"Coriolanus" to "Cymbeline" his play
wright path is strewn with the frag.
ments of an older literature from
which he had pilfered the best he
could lay his hands upon without so
much as "by your leave" It is,
after all, the people who popularize
rather than the people who suggest
or invent an idea who deserve what
ever praise attaches to its success.
The geologist tells the miner where
he might wisely dig for gold, but it
is the miner whom we pay for getting
out and giving us the precious metal.
Washington Post.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05
She Took His Advice

II am so very unhappy, Mr.. Brief"
said the fair petitioner for a divorce
to her lawyer.
rs there anything in particular
wrong?" the legal gentleman asked
alphabetically.
mo, nothing in particular" sighed
the fair petitioner. II am simply mis-
erably blue and depressed. But sup
pose that is something for which you
cannot advise"
well, madam" said the lawyer.
swinging around in his chair, II will
say frankly that if you were man I
should advise you to 60 out and drink
three or four cocktails. But, as it is.
l am afraid l am not competent to
deal with the situation"
Three or four days later the fair
petitioner again called at the office OF
her lawyer. This time she was all
smiles.
"And, oh, Mr.. Brief" she said, when
she arose to go at the end Of the
IT want to thank you very
much for your advice as to how to
get rid of the blues. Like all your
other advice, it was excellent"
"You-you-" gasped the lawyer.
eyes," said the lady, II took it."
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05
HIS LAST WILL.

A man, either through ambition,
sense OF duty, or in self-defense
against boredom, works hard and ac-
cumulates property. Should he marry,
he is expected to provide literally for
his wife, to carry a life insurance for
her benefit, to give his children every
advantage of education as it is now
understood or misunderstood. He
works cheerfully, finds little pleasure
outside of his daily routine, is prema-
turely old. He dies. He may be a
Widower he may leave behind him a
second wife; or he may leave his only
wife, the mother of his children. His
will Is opened and read. He has made
reasonable provision for those near
to him. But he took the liberty before
his death of bequeathing certain sums
of money, through a feeling of senti-
ment or duty to others, sums that will
lessen in comparatively slight degree
the money which would otherwise be
distributed among those already in pc
cuniary comfort. The poor wretch
thought he had this right. At once
there is strife The lawyers are con-
suited and enlisted. There is a trial.
The character of the dead man is
dragged from his coffin. Was he queer?
Was he not insane? Foibles and
harmless eccentricities are paraded
for scorn and mockery. There was a
time when the initial phrase, "In the
name of God, amen" was of solemn
and abiding force. The dead man
spoke. Who can use the phrase to-
day with any assurance that it will be
regarded after he is cold and voice
less ?-Boston Herald.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05
He Wanted the Classics.

Apropos of Col. Edwin Emerson,
Jr., war correspondent in Japan,
whose enormously reported death in
Manchuria was one Of the topics Of
conversation last week, he is much
younger man than his title Of colonel
would suggest. A Baltimore lady re-
calls being the guest Of his father.
Prof. Emerson, in Munich, Bavaria.
when the still youthful scribe was an
infant of six summers. Prof. Edwin
Emerson and his Maryland guest
were starting for an afternoon tea
when Edwin, Jr., was discovered Sit
ting disconsolately on the floor.
"Why, what is the matter, my
SOM" quoth the professor.
II want something to read" Ia
mented the infant.
"To read?" said his father. "Have
not you your Mother Goose or Jack
and the Beanstock,' or 'Grimm's
Fairy Tales'?"
II want something classical" said
the six-year-old in scornful tones, and
his yearnings were satisfied. Propped
on three cushions and dictionary
ne was wheeled before the library ta-
BILE and huge volume of German po-
etry opened to his inquiring mind
Baltimore Sun.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05

posal. They sold it to Messrs. Obach
of 1853 New Bond street.
Every panel, every scrap of leather,
every stick of wood was carefully de-
tached, wrapped up and numbered in
its due relation to the whole. And to-
day, for the first time, any member
of the general public who possesses
half a crown and the improbable de-
sire to spend it on aesthetics may be-
hold the Peacock Room" skillfully
reconstructed, in Messrs. Obach's gal
leries. All relative arrangements
have been carried out with taste and
Judgment, and the exhibition will re-
main open for not less than a month
and probably longer
The place of the "Princesse du Pays
de la Porcelaine" is at present occu.
pied by mirror. If this room could
be secured for America, and if the
"Princesse" could be restored to her
throne room, designed by great art
list in defiance of all social conven.
tions, for the sole purpose of display
ing her beauty, future generations
would be grateful-New York Sun.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05
BENEFITS COMING FROM WASTE

Waste is universal and is peculiar
to no class. The miser wastes as
much as the spendthrift, and perhaps
more, because his boarding withdraws
benefits from others and does himself
no good. Those only do not waste who
in a sense give something for moth
ing. Our great philanthropies, our ed
vocational institutions, our public bene-
fits of various kinds are the fruits of
this higher philosophy of life. It is
not the man who knows how to save,
who avoids waste, but the man who
knows how to spend. There is more
joy in the latter and more wisdom is
required in it's exercise.-Boston Tran
script.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05
FAMOUS PANEL OF THE oUARRELsoME PEAcocKs
silver and gold symbolic Almighty



artist set about tightening the one
and reducing the other with touches
of yellow, but at first only in tenta-
tive way. Apparently, it was during
the owners absence from home that a
complete scheme of decoration pre-
scented itself to the mind of the artist;
and characteristicall, enough he did
not seek the owners consent before
beginning the new work
Nearly thirty years have gone by
since it all happened. Artist and
owner are dead, and 1t is difficult to
know just what each said to the other
when they next met Much gossip
may be read about the matter in the
Whistler books.
1t is certain that there were dis
agreements. 1t is certain that as a
consequence of these Whistler intro
duced into his decoration a symbolic
representation of the Almighty Dol
lar, for there it is to be seen to-day.
All the decorations seem to have
been carried out by Whistler with on
ly one assistant, and to have been
completed in little more than six
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05
Senator Hoar's Record outdone.

Senator Hoar still carries pocket
knife which he took with him to
Washington in 1860. The venerable
Massachusetts, statesman has rather
prided himself on the record thus
made, but has just learned that an
other citizen of the bay state, Joshua
Crane of Dedham, has one which he
bought in Australia in 1859.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05
terror:
Emitted a hoarse shrek Of hopeless

terror:
On wallowed Biller, in frenzy Of
fear, the dog rapidly closing up the
hundred yards intervening. Would
the cartridge never explode? Could it
be possible that the water or the dogs
bite had rendered it harmless. Soon
the question would be answered. On
they rushed, the ponderous fugitive
painting spasmodically as his pace
tagged, too terrified to pick his steps
and too breathless to cry aloud. But
as he tripped over fallen log and be-
held Tips bounding toward him with
wagging tail, he involuntarily emitted
hoarse shrek of hopeless terror.
Just as he dropped safely behind the
PROSTATE tree trunk there was fright
full defamation. Tips had vanished.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05

OF retrieving ancestors, padding as If
for life, toward the floating internal
machine, while Biller, hundred feet
from the bank, alternately called his
pet and raved and swore!
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-05

Copyright sortstoy CAn rights reserved3
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11
Through The State University.

Georgia offers higher education to
her sons. The University is probably
the best equipped institution in the
South Atlantic States. 1t is the cheap
est institution in the South The
young man gets more for the money
expended. He can get board. room.
fees, books and laundry for $125 year
on the campus.
It's the oldest State college in Amer
lea, having over $500 living represen-
tatives. These become the young mans
friends and helpers. 1t is a growing
and prosperous institution, being able
to command the best talent. 1t gives
definite position and standing like con-
nection with strong firm. 1t stands
for what is best in Georgia and our
national life, whether social, political
or religious. 1t develops sound bodies.
power of initiation, and self reliance
through we'll regulated athletic con-
tests and regular military drill.
1t offers courses in Agriculture, Law,
Pharmacy, Medicine, Teaching, Sci
ences, Classics and Engineering under
a faculty noted for their scholarship
and high moral character. The Uni
versity was built for Georgia boys and
stands ready to help them, Send for
the illustrated handbook
w. B. HILL, Chancellor, Athens.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11
TAKEN VITA CRAMPS.

VIM. Kirmse, member of the bridge
gang working near Littleport, was taken
suddenly i'll Thursday, night with
cramps and kind of cholera. His
case was so severe that he had to have
the members of the crew wait upon
him, and Mr.. Clifford was called and
consulted. He told them he had a
medicine in the form of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
that he thought would help him out
and accordingly several doses we're ad-
ministered with the result that the
fellow was able to be around next day.
The incident speaks quite highly of Mr..
Gifford's medicines. = Elkader 0owa)
Argus
This remedy never fails Keep it in
your home, it may save life.
For sale by ]. w. Legg & Co
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

Georgia is the peach state of
the Union. Twelve years ago the
order Of the chief peach prcduc-
ing states was: Maryland, 6, 1O0,-
600; Delaware, 100000; New
Jersey, 100000; Georgia, 3,7OO,-
600. But when once Georgians
had taken hand seriously the
superior excellence of cur soil and
climate for peach culture soon
produced the inevitable result.
II the fall of 1901, the number of
peach trees reported i'll the four
states named, and expected to be
in good bearing in 1902, was ::
Georgia, 100000; Maryland, A.
O15,0O0; New Jersey, 300, 600;
Delaware, 100000.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11
IDLE AWAY YOUR VACATION.

There is too much strenuous life
in our vacation periods, say emf
nent physicians. American men,
when they get fortnight off, rush
into sports that they are not &C
customed to. Instead of getting
rested by their days away from
business they exhaust their ener-
gies in unaccustomed exercises.
To be sure, they get bronzed up
with the sun, but their physical
being is not restored for the work
thai is ahead of them. What is
really needed by them, according
to the specialists, is absolute rest,
days of luxurious idling, of Will
ing away time somehow without
too much exertion. Then the en-
tire frame and mind get thorough
ly relaxed and refreshened up, the
nerves get tonic they have not
been accustomed to, and when the
Office or the store Or the shop is
returned to the man is in far bet
ter condition for the duties he re-
sumes.
Get lazy for once in the year,
is the way one physician puts it.
Give yourself u thorough rest.
Find out what it means to stay III
bed longer than you have hereto
fore done. Find out how much
pleasure there really is in swing
ing listlessly in a hammock in a
cool spot; in loafing on a piazza,
with your feet cooked up on the
balustrade. Give yourself an in
sight into the washerwoman's
heaven, the place where people
fold their >hands land just do
nothing"
Be downright INDECENT, say the
doctors, and you will get the
greatest benefit possible from your
vacation. Don't indulge the idea
that if yon are not constantly on
the go your days of leisure are
misspent and doing you no good.
Get more sensible view of vaca-
tion and what it means.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11
CHRONIC SORES
Signs Of Polluted Blood.

There nothing repuve looking and disgusting
till the brain
exhausted the old
place makes you irritable, Respondent and desperate
chronic the evidence blood
condition that breang
the effects of serious disorder The taking
will sometimes pute vate
the that the
nonhealng of the most offensive character
Often faint out eating
middle Whenever
always fault and while ansepc washes saves
do much keep down the inflammation and the
heal permanently till the blood itself
poisons and accomplished
polluted blood is purified and invgorated,
gS(SRc rich blood circulating
the body the flesh dsorebe to take
k0x0Ik0kou natural color the discharge
~~~~ - ~~ and the place heals
S. S. both blood purifier and tonic that
and the time tones the and builds
chronic write No charge medical advice
7HE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA, GA.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

The senate passed the Austria
liam ballot bill with committee
amendments submitting the meas
ure to each county to be voted on
at the October election. If once
adopted it stands but if lost it can
be voted on again when the two
grand juries so recommend. 1t
applies to the regular elections
and primaries.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

1t is asserted as an established
fact that the city Of Hull, Mass.
is the best political index in the
United States. Beginning with
Pierce, in 1852, every candidate
for President who has had tue
support of that town has been
elected. Without an exception
the vote of Hull has gone to the
successful candidate. Incidentally
it may be stated THAI Hull is now
for Parker.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

Why doesn't Mr.. Watson simp-
ly allow Candidate Tihbles to go
it alone? Being Populist candi-
date for both president and vice.
president could have no terrors
for man who was born during a
grasshopper-plague, hanged three
times by Quantrell's raiders and
married to an Indian squaw.-
Augusta Chronicle.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11
ADVANTAGES OF THE SOUTH.

ADVANTAGES OF THE SOUTH.
Tn selecting a country tor a
home a man naturally wants to
find a place possessing as many
natural advantages and as few dis
advantages as possible, says the
Southern Farm Magazine. He
likewise wants a country where
schools and churches abound,
where social opportunities are
good, where population and wealth
are increasing. 10 the South, in
Guiding, of course, the great south
west, all Of these things are found.
Here is to be had every attraction
for the farmer, good soil capable
of highest improvement and yield
ing almost every crop known to
the temperate regions-grain Z,
grasses, potatoes and fruits of
endless variety, as we'll as the
distinctive Southern crops-cot-
ton, corn, rice, sugar and tobacco.
A Northern or Western farmer
coming South need never cultivate,
unless he so desires, any crops ex-
cept those with which he is famil-
lar III his own country. If he
wants to grow cotton and rice he
will find ample room for profit
able work; if he prefers to stick
to grain and grasses, to fruits Or
trucking, he can find locations
having advantages not surpassed
by any part of the North or West.
To these the South adds a climate
which means health to all and
long life to many who cannot
safely stand the rigor of Northern
and Western winters. In place
of snow it 'offers sunshine; in
place of sickness from 2ong dreary
winters it offers outdoor activity
ard health. In educational and
matters the South is the
most orthodox section of Ameri-
ca. It's people have not yet been
drawn away after false gods. It
has, not yet been fashionable in
the South to be a higher critic nor
to make light of sacred things.
The old-fashioned camp-meeting
in the country and the revival
services in city churches are still
a great power in the South. The
sacredness of home is the founda-
tion stone of Southern life. With
warm-hearted, genuine hospitality
the South welcomes every good
honest newcomer. 1t Judges a
man by his character and his acts,
and if these are right he finds as
warm friends as he can find in
the world; if they are wrong he
had better stay elsewhere.
And then from the business
side the south offers the most in
viting field in the world. In
manufactures it has a greater flu
ture thar any other part of the
world, for here nature has con-
centrated the raw materials for
all lines of industry. In foreign
commerce the whole trend of
growth is through Southern ports.
With the certainty of vast in
crease in manufactures, in COM
merce, in wealth, there will come
a great increase IN land values.
There will be unlimited fields of
opening up for the
newcomer as well as for the native.
Here is a land to which the in
spired writer might justly have
been looking when he said:
"a good land, land of brooks
of water, Of fountains and depths
that spring out of valleys and
hills; a land of wheat, and barley,
and vines, and fig trees, and
pomegranates; land of oil, olive
and honey; a land where in thou
shall eat bread without scarceness :;
thou shalt not lack anything in
it; a land whose stones are iron
and out of whose hills thou may
est dig brass.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

The Legislature has passed a
law making it a misdemeanor for
anyone "to enter a steam or cleo
trio cal in Georgia drunk and DIS
orderly" This is good law, and
will interfere with drunken row.
dies on trair excursions Cedar
town Standard.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

Reports come from Laurens
county that the cotton crop is
being badly damaged by ali insect
of some kind. 1t first made it's
about three weeks ago,
and has spread nearly all over the
western part of the county.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

Colorado is destined to outstrip
the marvels of California in gold
mining. The new discoveries, as
we'll as her old abandoned silver
mines, are proving richer in gold
bearing ores than may be found
in any other part of the world.
Colorado is surely solving the
financial question.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

At Eatonton, Ga, as acting
Sheriff w. L. Sanford entered jail
with dinner for the prisoners he
was caught, disarmed and fastened
in cell. Five out of seven pris-
oners, all negroes, escaped and
fed to the woods. Two refused to
leave and by their help Sanford
was released.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

The National Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee elected Mayor
Thomas Taggart, of Indianapolis,
chairman of the committee, and
the campaign work will therefore
be III his hands.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

Thomas Taggert, the new Dem
ocratic campaign manager, is a
close friend of Tammany and will
close the breach between Parker
and Murphy.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

The House has voted an appro-
priation of 100000 for Georgia
public schools for the coming year.
This is an increase of 100000,
which, in addition to the school
fund derived from other sources,
will make something over $1,000
600 for our common schools for
the year 1905.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

Colonel James M. Smith, the
noted farmer, says that Georgia
must get white immigrants to peo-
pie and work her farms. Twenty
five years from now he predicts, a
negro farm hand will be a rarity
The racial drift is entirely away
from the country districts.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

Ordinary goods have no
place in our stock, Couldn t
sell such if we wanted to, be-
cause our customers demand
the best quality. And the
supply is equal to the de-
mand, both in quality and
Quantity. Got what you
want when you want it and
as you want it. And prices
are no more than you'll be
very willing to pay.
A B Gilbert
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

A bill, introduced by Represen-
tative Rogers, of Mcintosh. the
only negro in the Georgia Legis-
lature, appropriating $1,000 for
the State Industrial College, for
negro youths, at Savannah, was
passed by the house of representa-
tives by a unanimous vote.