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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
THE MEERSCHAUM PIPE.
Almost Impossible to Select a
Genuine One.

"A story is told of a smoker who spent
eight of the best years of his life trying
to color meerschaum pipe, keeping it
enclosed most of the time in case SO as
to prevent it getting scratched and its
finish being dulled by the oil and moist
ure from his hands, only to find at the
end Of that period that he had been
tenderly nursing an imitation instead
Of the genuine "ecume- de mer." The
best imitation is composed of the par
1ngs of genuine meerschaum, combined
with mineral clay. These compost
lions can usually be determined from
the genuine meerschaum by their
greater weight, but there is no abso-
lutely certain test for distinguishing
the counterfeit. One method of test is
to look for slight imperfections. Com
position bowls never exhibit these
slight blemishes, which result from the
presence of foreign bodies in the natur-
al meerschaum however, as the blem-
ishes do not usually manifest them
selves until after the bowl has been
used for some time, the test is not of
much value in buying new pipes.
Meerschaum is a silicate of magnesia,
and preparatory to carving 1t is soaked
In composition of wax and oil. The
wax and oil absorbed by the meer-
schaum are the cause of the col0ring
OF the pipe due to smoking, and in con-
nection with the further absorption of
nicotine. Where meerschaums have
been smoked for some time without
having acquired good color, they can
frequently be improved by rubbing,
when warm, with beeswax.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10

less sounds which we cannot hear, and
c0iors as different as red from green,
OF which we have no conception. These
and a thousand other questions re-
main for solution. The familiar world
which surrounds us may be totally
different place to other animals. To
them it may be full of music which we
cannot hear, of sensations We cannot
conceive. TO place stuffed birds and
beasts in glass cases.; to arrange in
sects in cabinets, and dried plants in
drawers, Is merely the drudgery and
preliminary Of study; to watch their
habits, to understand their relations to
one another, to study their instincts
and intelligence, to ascertain their
adaptations and their relations to the
forces Of nature, to realize what the
world appears to them-these con-
stitute, as it seems to me, at least, the
true interests Of natural history, and
may even give us the clue to senses
and perceptions of which at present
we have no conception"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10

RUINS OF OLD SPANISH CHURCH.
tons long held and regretfully let &c
OF, are that this sunny land of the
border Is the land of manama, of to-
morrow; that its day of awakening is
not yet come. Well, wake up! Life
is just as zeal, just as earnest and as
strenuous in Ell Paso as in New York
or Chicago, and when you rub up in
business against the Ell Pasoan you
need all your shrewdness and business
acumen.
The Old and The New.
FL Paso is old-very old, and Ell
oaso is new, too-very new. This de-
llghtful paradox is full of surprises
and charms. Right up against the old
Spanish dwelling Of adobe with long,
low windows, heavily barred, and its
patio in the center, you are likely to
find modern Office building with ele-
vators and electric lights.
Something of feeling of living In
the past comes over you when you en-
ter one of the old churches, down here
churches erected more than 300 years
ago. The solemn silence of these
shadowy halls has been broken by the
prisons of countless thousands and
softly intoned ayes were echoing here
long before the eyes Of the Anglo
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
q. J. Blanchard.

Ell PASO, Tex. Especially .-On the
Southeast border Of the Great Ameri-
can Desert, where our sister republic
Mexico touches the commonwealth OF
Texas on the East and the progress
sive old-young territory of New Mex.
leo on the North, stands the Largest
city in the largest Congressional dis
trict Of the largest State Of the great
est Nation on the EARTH"
To the Fastener who first visits this
charming city and enjoys the hospital
ity which its citizens know so well
how to extend, the question is upper
most, what makes city here? After
journeying more than 500 miles across
Western Kansas and the Panhandle of
Texas, the short grass country, where
1t is all one vast cattle range, down
into the adobe hills and sage brush
wastes Of eastern New Mexico, there
is a reason for asking this question.
You naturally want to know from
whence comes all this hustle and hustle
with all these evidences of progress
and substantial growth. All your no
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
Weakness of ENGLISH Colonies.

The new commonwealth of Aus
tralia does not seem to be getting on
very well. The population in the ten
years ending with 1901 was 3,771,715,
the increase being 597, 1852. The whole
island continent. has less population
than the city Of Greater New York.
Long dependent upon England, it
has not developed internally. "Were
Australian ports" says the Sydney
Bulletin, "shut by hostile warships
tomorrow, the commonwealth would
be without guns or cartridges for its
troops, without ships or the means of
making them. without fabrics for
clothing, without machinery for mine
or railway, without even paper on
which to print its journals. Australia
would have to beseech the grace of
some master, crawl to the hand of
whatever power was for the time most
strong, or lapse into savagery."
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
An EyCLISHMAN WITH HUMOR'
How He Held His First Job and More
over Got Raise In Wages.

Herbert Kelley, one Of the leading
actors of the present time, Is an
Englishman, but, unlike the usual type
from the Island has deep sense OF
humor. In speaking Of his first visit 10
this country, he describes his exper'
fence something like this:
ayes, was a bit green when l came
over to this country, and / 'ad to uke
hanythink in the wy Of a job. l got
started in a department store on 6tn
avenue, and the foorwalker sys to me-
s'ys e:
"'Now, AIRY, Wen give you three
trials, and if you let three people get
away without selling them, Wen ave
to bounce you
"Well, I came down jolly early on
Monday, took my plice behind the
counter and w'ited for customers.
Pretty soon a Idly walked up and
asked me where she should tike the
tram for New Rochelle. didn't know,
and she went aw'y. looked at the
floorwalker and the foorwalker e
looked at me. That mide one," hold
ing up lean forefnger. '"Then a man
came along and stopped to arsk me
where e could buy at. told I'm
where the at counter was, and e went
aw'y. That mide two. Jolly poor
luck, wasn't it now? looked at the
fioorwalker, and that foorwalker
looked at me like ELL, but what could
I do? Then another Idly came along
as 'ad a large piece of goods to match,
and she wanted another yard Of the
same. I took it and pulled out hevery-
think on the shelves, but there was no
more of it left. l was in bit OF q
funk then, for If let 'er 60 without
mixing a sale I would lose my job, 50
SEE:
"'Wite a bit, Idly; I'll see II we ave
any upstairs I went up, and seeing
there was no more there, either. just
cut yard off her own goods and
brought, the two pieces down, rolled
them up, took the money, and she
went aw'y. 'ad plenty of customers
after that, but I didn't feel just COM
Portable, don't you know.
''The same afternoon she came back
and asked for the floorwalker.
"'Ere,' sez she, 4 brought five
yards of goods ERE to match this
and bought a yard more, but
when I got home I found only four
yards in my own piece. Can you ex-
pin that, please?"
81 'emmed an 'awed and tried to
measure the goods and hattempted to
tell the Idly that she must be mistaken
about FER own piece, but she only
glared at me, and in a fifty she was
lup to the floorwalker eXpPnin' the |
,onditi n of affairs. 'Er tone hindu
Gated that she was mad, and I said to
meself, carry, you're'a dead 'un."
"The floorwalker called me bout,
md 'ad to tell i'm all about it, 'ow
the first party wanted tram-car, and
the next at, and this one wanted
more goods when we 'adn't any.
ad to sell Ter some'ow, or lose my Job,
so I give FER a bit from FER own piece.
The foorwalker looked so blo0min'
mad for bit that I thought my time
was come for sure, but then e
started to larf, and e larfed till
thought ed bust. Then e SEE, "Arry,'
sez e. I guess we'll ave to, keep you,
Ind raise your wages And e did"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
Saxon had looked. upon Plymouth

Rock.
In the first half of the Sixteenth
Century the Spanish ConquistadOres
seeking new fields of conquest for the
glory of Spain, swept up the Rio
Grande Valley. They found pastoral
settlements Of Pueblo Indians prac-
ticing agriculture through the aid OF
irrigation, carrying the precious waters
of the Rio Grande out upon the desert
and reaping harvests from fields which
had been in cultivation beyond the
traditions of the oldest members OF the
tribe. Spanish settlements followed
the conquerers. With the ready adap-
liability of the early explorers they
utilized the old irrigation systems.
Thresh by TrampIing Of Goats.
The unprogressiveness Of the Span
lard is no where more strikingly re-
vealed than in the Rio Grande VAL
ley, where the descendants of the early
Spanish explorers are to-day engaged
in agriculture in just the same man
ner as their forefathers practiced it,
and indeed with methods strangely like
those in the days of Abraham. You
can see them reap with the sickle and
thresh by the trampling Of goats.
Progressive Americans settling in the
upper reaches of the Rio Grande in
later years, showed small regard for
the settlers in tho lower valley. Soon
their long lines of broad canals began
to make sad inroads in the water sup
ply which was needed for the old
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
GOSSIP OF THE DIPLOMATS.
Foreign and Washington Notes.

- ~--~ - ~-~-----e
The Sultan Of Turkey some short
time since. granted an audience to
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and was SO
much charmed with that genial Amer
lean gentleman that he conferred upon
him the grand Gordon of the Chefecat,
and presented Mrs. Bacon with lot
Of porcelain manufactured in the In
perial potteries. It remains to be seen
whether the Georgian Senator will ask
permission from Congress to be per-
mitted to accept the order Of the
Sultan.
Mrs. WI Ting Fang, wife Of the for
mer Chinese Minister to this country,
has defied the time honored traditions
Of her native land. by returning to
China with her fleet enlarged" to a
normal size. When she came to this
country with her famous husband, Mrs.
WI had her feet tightly bound, as is
the custom among women of her rank
in China. While in this country she
had a surgical operation performed, in
creasing her feet to the size nature
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY.
an ACKNOWLEDGED TRAIT OF
JAPANESE MERCHANTS.
They Have No Regard For q Com
tract - Striking Contrast With
Chinese Traders.

With the treaty OF peace, Japan has
seen the accomplishment of a tasl
that has been the ambition of the EN-
pire-to hold front rank in the fam
lily Of nations. This has been brought
about through such military achieve
ments as have evoked the admirat ton
Of the civilized powers, but now 1,
seems that Japan has still before heI
a problem which means harder work
and q greater task than that which
she had before the commencement OF
the Russian-Japanese war.
That task, is to redeem the CONNER
cial reputation Of her traders. repu.
tatiOn which Is not enviable. Joseph
Walton, q member of the English par.
lament, a man who has spent much
time in travel and knows the people of
the East thoroughly, says in his book
on the Orient:
Japanese traders are not special
ly distinguished for honesty, particu-
larry In their business relations with
foreigners. We have in this a most
striking proof that the character of
the people is largely formed by the
nature Of their surroundings. For hun
dreds OF years the trading class in
Japan has occupied a very low place
in the social scale. In the last thirty
years, since the ferdal system has
peen abolished, the position OF the
traders has greatly changed, and now
some of those who were mobiles are en-
gagged in trade; and I am told there
is reason to hope that shortly bust
ness affairs in Japan will be conducted
on more honest lines"
Peculiar Business Dishonesty.
The progress which the Japanese
have made In the past fifty years
shows them to be a people self
reliant and determined to keep on ad-
yancing towards the highest plane at
tainable, yet travellers in the East
have been surprised that the traders
Of the Occident are so VIGOROUSLY dis
honest, for while the Japanese are far
superior to the Chinese as regards
of national strength and
perseverance,, yet the reverse is true
In the matter of commercial honesty.
1t appears that the Japanese mer-
CunulS uuft no TESHfu IUr u CONTRACT.
It is said that the most prosperous
houses of Japan are man
aged not by Japanese but by Chinese.
The average Chinese merchant is high
" esteemed the world over for his hon.
asty; In fact a president of one of the
.argest corporations of the United
States once said that he would not be
afraid to ship barrel of gold coin to
Chinese merchant with instructions
TO make use Of 1t In trade. but at the
end OF the year he would receive de-
.ail statement of where every coin
vent, but il this were done to a Jap
lnese merchant. he would consider
himself lucky to get back the empty
,arrel.
It is believed that the hard task
accomplished by the Japanese in the
var just happily brought to an end
will be beginning to bring out the
,enius for which the Japanese have
cen noted in war to utilization of
eace and commercialism.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
THE LNTELLIGENCEOF ANIMALS.
An English Naturalist Believes Tha'
1t May be Far Greater
Than Imagined

Sir John Lubbock has brought more
popular attention to the subject of the
mental capacity of animals than any
other writer. He has conducted many
careful investigations on the senses, in
stincts and intelligence of animals and
insects. An interesting query pro-
pounded by the English scientist re-
lates to the existence Of other organs
Of sense than ours.
1--WE flnd," he says, "in animals COM
pick organs of sense, richly supplied
with nerves, but the function of which
we are as yet powerless to explain.
There may be fifty other senses as diff
ferent from ours as sound is from
sight, and even within the boundaries
Of our own senses there may be end
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
Celebrating Belgian Lndependence

Among the festivities organized for
the celebration of the seventy-fifth an.
niversary of Belgium's independence
Is the faithful reproduction Of one of
the fitting jousts given by Philip the
Good of Burgundy in 1852, in which
Philips son broke the lances of six-
teen opposing knights in the presence
Of Isabella of Portugal, Duchess Of
burgundy. r.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
Cheerful During Trouble.

Mamma had told Dorothy. that she
could not go out again. The little
maiden made one more plea. "Please,
mamma 1T isn't very wet, and won't
so on the grass"
mo, you cannot, Dorothy" said
mamma, smiling at the little ones per-
sistency.
swell, anyway, mamma, it seems to
=! ne that you're very cheerful about
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
BARTHOLDI FOUNTAIN IN WINTER
GARR.

designer and sculptor was the man who
made the Statue of Liberty. which
France presented to the United States
and which stands in New York harbor
The Bartholdi Fountain performed it's
first service in this country at the Phil
adelphia exposition, at the close of
which 1t was brought to Washington.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
Close Co. Operation.

Now, Harold, this is your fifth birth
day party. Whom do you love best,
your father or me?
Father, sure.
But, Harold, you said yesterday that
you loved me best.
Yes; but I've slept over It, and
realize that we men must stick to-
gether.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
The BarthOLM Fountain.

Among art work displayed in
one of the public reservations in the
immediate shadow of the Capitol is
the Bartholdi Fountain. which plays
in the National Botanical Garden. It's
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
Wonder Work Of the AncieatS,

Modern quarry machinery can handle
single stones larger than any of the
monoliths of ancient Egypt. The really
surprising thing, however, is how did
the ancients handle their monoliths
with only their crude machines.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
PENSIONS.

Over one Million Dollars
allowed our clients during the last
six years.
Over one Thous and
claims allowed through US dur
ing the last six months. Dis.
ability, Age and In.
crea o pensions obtained
in the shortest possible time.
Widows' claims q speciality.
Usually granted within 90
days ifplaced with US i1nmedi-
ately on soldiers death. Fees
fixed by law and payable out of
allowed pension. A successful
experience Of IS years and benefit
of daily calls at Pension Bureau
are at your service. Highest ref
erences furnished. Local Magis-
trates pecuniar i1y
benefited by sending 10
claims.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10

canals. Mexico, Texas and New Mex
leo were arrayed against Colorado
which robbed them Of their priceless
heritage and threatened to transform
thousands of acres of fruitage and
bloom into its original state-that Of
the desert. As the water grew scarce
there sprang up hostilit!es between the
citizens of the whole Rio Grande VAL
ley. Neighbor began to be arrayed
against neighbor; there were even fam
lily rows over the water. For years
these conditions prevailed. Mexico
made respectful protest against the use
of the waters of the Rio Grande in
Colorado which deprived the ancient
canals of the Republic of their rights
long established. The Comfy Of Ma
tons was threatened.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
OLD DESERT JOURNEYS.
MODERN CIVILIZATION, THRIFT
AND ABUNDANCE IN SAGE
BRUSH COUNTRY.

Where Sunshine and Fertile Soil
Await the Coming of Canai-Borne
Water to Laugh Abundant Har.
vests.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10
To Build q Huge Dam.

It was the passage of the National
irrigation act which wrought a won
dr0us change in the conditions and
knit together in one brotherhood all the
citizens Of the lower valley, imbuing
them with a spirit Of cooperation and
enthusiasm. The Reclamation Service
took hold of the project and worked
out q plan to store the vast Rio Grande
floods which were annually a source
OF much loss to the valley and which
were wholly unutilized. This plan the
people have accepted as a salvation.
One hundred miles above FL Paso the
Rio Grande flows through deep mar
row canyon. A dam 255 feet high
across its lower end will create the
largest artificial reservoir in this coun-
try. It will make lake 40 miles long,
IN miles wide and from 100 to 175
feet deep. 1t will contain water enough
to cover 2,000, 900 acres a foot deep.
Into this vast reservoir the greatest
food the Rio Grande has ever known
will quickly disappear and later when
needed by 100000 thirsty acres in the
valley below will be released and led
through net work of canals and
bitches through New Mexico into Tex
as, clear down into Old Mexico.
The Settlers Pay the Cost.
It will cost millions to do this work.
100000 is the figure, but what of
that? The settlers will gladly pay for
1t. Under the magic Of irrigation Me-
silla, La Palomas and Ell Paso val
leys, now only dotted here and there
with green verdure, will spring into
full fruitage, producing harvests unri-
vailed in quality and quantity. Ten
thousand new homes will cover the
desert plain, and Ell Paso, the central
point for transportation and the great
est market in the valley, will wax into
a city OF 100000 souls. Twenty thou
sand acres of irrigated land support a
splendid city now. What shall 1t be
when 100000 acres are added to the
crop producing area of Eel Paso terri
tory?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-05
SAD DROWNING AT SEASIDE.
Min Dayton Meets Death in Surf
While Boating.

SEASIDE, Or, Aug. 5.-Wnile surf
riding in a. canoe in Hawaiian fashion
a mile and a half out this noon the
boat capsized and Min Dayton, the son
of Frank Dayton, a Portland hardware
merchant, was drowned. His compan-
ion Charles Freetn of Honolulu, es-
capped by swimming ashore after hav-
ing. tried hard to rescue the drowning
youth. Crazed by the disaster he PAGES
up and down the shore, while six men
hold him from the sea.
The beach was crowded with bathers
who witnessed the fatality without be-
ing able to render assistance. A high
sea was running, rendering it impos-
sible to give aid to the sinking boy.
Among the crowds on the beach was
the boys mother, who was frenzied
with grief.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-05
RIVAL FOR STANDARD OIL.
Pittsburg Bankers Will Combine Kan
sas and Indian Territory Interests.

PITTSBURG, Aug. 5.-Negotiations
practically have been completed by
which the Melons, the Pittsburg
bankers, will combine all of the i'm
portant oil interests of Kansas and the
Indian Territory. Thus the Melons
will control the most powerful COM
pany independent Of Standard Oil in
the southwest.
The capital of the new company will
be s25,000,000, Of which $7,50O,OOO will
be in 6 per cent bonds, which the Mel
Ions are arranging to have financed by
the Union Trust company at par.
The Melons have agreed on behalf
of their Gulf Refining company at Port
Arthur, to refine the product sent
through their pipe lines at a sum not
to exceed AZ cents barrel, and 10 per
cent Of the net revenue from the crude
Oil shall be funded for the redemption
of bonds. They also agree to take care
Of the product Of the field in their new
line.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-05

Bay Immediately procured a harpoon
and rowed very quietly toward the fish.
AS the shark started rapidly away the
doctor plunged the harpoon with full
force into the water and caught the
monster just behind the ear In it's
frantic effort to get away it lowed the
rowboat for some distance, leaving be-
hind a trail Of blood. Lashing the sea,
it was dragged by the doctor and Mr..
LEIGH to the beach, where it was found
to be a shark of dangerous variety
and to measure about eight feet in
length. While returning to the launch
the doctor saw and harpooned another
shark which was not full grown. The
doctors exciting experience, and the
fact that the sharks were killed in close
proximity to several bathing beaches,
including the one upon which Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his family are wont
to disport themselves, have caused DR..
Hall to make preparations for a shark
hunting expedition, upon which he will
be accompanied by several friends, all
armed with harpoons and all intent
upon Kidding the bay of these mon
sters.