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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-06-23

OF last Saturday nlgnC Qld no damage.
Reports coming in from all directions
speak of the great benefits of the recent
rains and that crops are very fine.
Carpenters and painters have been
busy the past week renovating the ex-
terror and interior of the Idaho House,
with the result of greatly improving the
general appearance of that building.
Messrs Barton, Keller and Black of
Salt Lake are rusticating at the Lake
View Hotel at Springfield. and are doing
some work on their new farms. Incl
dentally they are catching few trout,
and later will eat some fried chickens.
Charles P. Brunker, accompanied by
Dug King of Minidoka, arrived home
from Browning, Mont, in the Blackfoot
Reservation, on the 1859 train Tuesday
morning. Mr.. Bunker has been at
Browning four months making brick for
the Government. He put out 10000
during his stay.
People visiting the Worlds Fair with
in the next few weeks will have an op-
poitunitv to witness 1Trs. Fishes pre-
sentation Of Leah Kteschna which was
played to crowded houses for a hundred
nirla5 ia rJaU Ltrh City, and has i45t
finished their engagement at the --Aaj.e-
tic ia San francisco.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
SAW THE oKApr.

Major James Harrison has Just re-
turned TO England after a prolonged
journey through the dense forests of
Central Africa, during the course of
which he saw the okapi in its natural
habitat Major Harrison penetrated
the Stanley Forest 10 the region peo-
pied by the pygmies, in search of this
animal. His efforts in this country
We're. however. not successful. so he
directed his way to ,Iabir, and thence
into the great forest of De Melley
This forest is particularly dense, the
trees being thickly interviewer with
dense creepers and tangled under
growth: in fact it could only be pene-
trated by crawling on the hands and
knees, a most difficult and arduous
operation. On the sixth day afte- he
had entered this forest. his party en-
countered the spoor of the okapi. This
was followed for several hours. when
suddenly the party came upon the ami
NAL some fifteen feet in front of them.
The animal was startled by their ap-
proach. and before the Major could OBJ
tain his rifle from one of the natives
accompanying him, the animal had
darted into the thick underground.
The view that the hunter obtained,
however. was sufficiently long to en-
able him t. observe its general char
acteristics. The animal stood between
ten and eleven feet in height. was of
general tawny color about it's body
and was striped over the loins. The
truth of Major Harrison's story is
vouched for by the natives and pyg-
mics who accompanied him on the ex-
pedition, and they say he is the first
white man who has seen the animal
in its native haunts.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05

entrap him into expression of opinion.
the Northerner brought up the subject
Of the supernatural.
Don't heifevc in IT," said the Florida
man. decidedly. .'though | will say
most did at one time. l thought l was
visited by spirits once. l was in my
cabin one night. when l woke up and
heard something a-slipping and n-siid-
ing across the boards. l listened, and
then | gave yell. The Eoise still kept
up. kind Of creepy aud scary. I knew
1t wasn't any ordinary critter, 50 |
says. L don't care whether you be n
human or spirit. do something so as
can know definite | hated to have
II so unsettled, but | was sorry l said
anything Just as soon MS opened my
mouth there came a rafting noise like
bones cracking together"
'You We're scared. suppose II was
a cat" said the Northerner.
Il was scared-'most blue-but 1t
want ca.. 1 began TO believe in
spirits. | had heap of faith in 'em
just then. and | let out yell you could
hear n mile. Then | jumped clean out
of bed and across the room''
what happened then? What was
it,"
"Why. lit match and found out l
was scared and all nerved up for
nothing. and l haven't believed in spir-
its since. I was terrible ashamed of
myself when l found out what it was.
The thing want nothing but just n
big, common. mean, sneaky rattle
snake."-Youth's Companion.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
Inhalation at a Dance.

She was young. 1t was her first
season. and it pleased her to snub her
cJb cousin most numerically when
ever he asked for dance.
No" she protested, one evening.
you can't see my program-it's all
full"
But there1l be extras. Can't l
have an extra?"
"fe-es," returned the young wom-
an, srudgingly re'inquishing her card.
but don't ;ake the first one, it's prom
ised."
Later in the evening when she
looked to see which dance her cousin
had appropriated she found that she
had food for reflection. The young
man had put his name down for the
four hundred and ninety-ninth extra
Chicago Record-Herald Sunday Mag.
azine.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
Peary Going North.

Lieutenant Robert E. Peary, who has
commanded four expeditions in quest
of the north pole. will make his next
dash for the pole in July of next sum
mer. This announcement was made
at dinner rendered to Commander
Peary by William Berri at the Oxford
Club, Brooklyn. Commander Peary is
now having constructed powerful
steam vessel with auxiliary sail
equipment and bow of such strength
and stability that Commander Peary
says he can use her as batterlng
ram to smash his way through the
huge ice foes.
The vessel will have a complete
wireless telegraph equipment and by
means of several relays the great ex-
plorer expects to be placed in constant
communication with New York.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
AZ EMPERoR.s COURAGE.

Here is story told of the courage
of Emperor Francis IL, of Austria
One arm of the Danube separates the
city of Vienna from a large suburb
called Leopold-stadt. A tliaw inun-
dated this suburb, and the ice carried
away the bridge of communication
with the capital. The population of
Leopold-stadt was in great distress for
want of provisions. A number of boats
were collected and loaded with bread,
but no one felt hardy enough TO risk
the passage, which was rendered ex-
tremely dangerous by large bodies of
ice. Emperor Francis stood at the
waters edge. He begged, exhorted.
threatened and promised the highest
recompenses, but all in vain, while ON
the other shore his subjects. famishing
with hunger. suppllcated relief. The
monarch's sensibility at length got the
better of his prudence. He leaped
singly into boat loaded with bread.
and applied himself to the oars, ex-
claiming: Never shall it be said that
I made no effort to save those who
would risk their all for met The ex-
ample of the sovereign infiamed the
spectators. who threw themselves into
the boats. They encountered the sea
successfully and gained the suburb
Vienna Journal.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
HAND TO HAND FIGHTING.

1t was 10 O'Clock in the morning
when We saw coming out from their
hiding places q sinai. band of Russian
soldiers. That was the beginning of
the fierce onslaught 1t was as IL some
body had revived in this civilized day
of ours the scenes from the old story
books when swords. spears, bows and
arrows We're the only weapons of war,
and men slashed away Mt each other.
1t was actually hand TO hand en-
counter. 1t was just at this time that
we saw a Russian officer rise from the
ranks, and. leaping over the dead
bodies of his men and comrades, and
putting himself at the head of the
ranks, try by his daring example to
revive the spirits of his men. Against
the lurid background OF blood and fire
he made a superb figure, always rush
ing in front of his men, his sword
cleaning ever over the heads of the
fighting men.
At last this officer rushed out. call
ing always and loudly upon his men to
follow. When he was within n few
feet of our men he turned his head to
see whether his men We're obeying his
order. Instead of following at his
heels. his soldiers We're trampling upon
each other i'll the mad effort to run
away. The sight broke his heart. evil
IDENTIFY He turned the point of the
sword he had held against himself. An
instant later he fell with his heart
pierced through.-A Japanese Officer, in
Leslie's Monthly Magazine.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
An Extended Chair.

When President Eliot of Harvard
toured on the Pacific coast some twen-
ty years ago. one of the Western seats
oil learning which he visited was the
University of Washington at Seattle.
He became much interested in Prof.
O. b, Johnson, well-known figure on
Puget Sound in those days, who was
one OF the colleges leading lights, and
in the course of a conversation asked
the Western man what chair he held.
Well said Johnson, Il am pro-
lessor of biology. but | also give in.
struction in meteorology, botany.
physiology. chemistry, entomology and
a few others"
Il should say that you occupied a
whole settee. not a chair" rejoined
Harvard's chief.-Chicago Record.
Herald Sunday Magazine.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
GOOD INDEX TO CHARACTER.
Habits and Idiosyneraeies Betrayed in
the Laugh.

Habits and Idiosyncracies Betrayed in
the Laugh.
Anthropologists say that the ability
to laugh comes to the child as it
grows older. The first smile is OBJ
served when the child is about forty
to sixty days old. but it does not be-
gin to laugh until some time after
that
Children and women laugh more
than men. not because the cares of
life lie less heavily upon them, but
because the the former are more ex-
citable, and because the moderating
power of the cerebral hemispheres is
less in them than among men gen.
orally.
Profound study makes men serious.
and so foolish people are sometimes
noted for laughing immoderately.
Yet laughter is not so much an index
to intelligence as It is to the condi-
ton of health. Healthy. vigorous peo-
pie are proverbially of good-humored
joyous, laughing natures, while the
"sallow, gloomy-eyed dyspeptic" is a
description scientifically accurate.
The envious. wicked and malevolent
rarely laugh, because. phrenologists
say, they are impregnated with bile.
and are. therefore. morose. The
naughty. the vain and the awkward
also laugh very little. for fear of los
ing their dignity. The Spanish people.
proverbially grave, are good ex-
ample.
People who have lines extending
downward from the angle at the
mouth toward the chin well marked
rarely laugh. and. moreover. show a
tendency to pensiveness in youth and
melancholy in after life.
Those who have lines raging out
ward from the eyes are. on the con-
trary, people who laugh good deal,
especially when the upper lip is
framed by two deep burrows running
down in the mouth.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
He Knew a Hoo.

p. ID. Armour. the first, never both
cred himself over the selection of
Christmas presents for men in his en-
ploy. His invariable expression OF
good will was suit of clothes, and
some of his men had new suits every
Christmas. One year he asked all the
men In the Office Of one branch of his
business to order suits and send the
bills to him. Most of them contented
themselves with good business
clothes, but one young man decided to
adorn himself sumptuously at Mr.. Ar
mour's expense. He ordered himself a
frockcoat, waistcoat and trousers that
set his employer back near hundred
dollars. Mr.. Armour paid the bill and
then he sent for the brash Solomon in
all his glory.
Il have decided to dispense with
your services" he said. You have ev.
identity misjudged me. | should think
you would have known that I've been
In the packing business too long not
to know hog when see one. Wash.
ington Post.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
Paid an Old Debt.

Il have just had my first actual ex.
perience with conscience money, so
to speak" said a prominent business
man.
Seventeen years ago a man con-
tracted debt Yith me. and as | had
never been able to make collection. had
to give 1t 'y2 as lost. There was no
way to collect 1t by law, and you can
imagine my s.rprise when received
a check to-day for $500. While this
did not cancel the amount, appreciate
it deeply, and can use it to advantage
just now.
1T is not often that man owing
a debt pays after SO many years, es-
pecially when the law could not reach
him."
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05

Every housekeeper should know
that II they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
win save not only time. because It
never sticks to the iron. but because
each package contains 16 oz.--one full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up In ss-pound pack
ages. and the price is the same. 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch Ia free from all Injurious chem
icals. II your grocer tries to sell you
y 12-oz. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts In Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package In large let
ters and figures "l6 ozs." Demand De-
f1ance and save much time and money
and the annoyance OF the iron stick
ing. Defiance never sticks.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits UnconsciousIy Formed
and Hard to Break.

An ingenious philosopher estimates
tnat the amount of viii power neces-
sary t. break lifelong habit would.
II 1t could be transformed. lift a
weight of many tons.
1t sometimes requires a higher de-
gree of heroism to break the chains
of pernicious habit than to lead a
forlorn hope in a bloody battle. A
lady writes from an Indiana town:
From my earliest childhood | was
a lover of coffee. Before | was out
Of my teens l was a miserable dys-
peptic. suffering terribly at times with
my stomach.
Il was convinced that It was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet
l could not deny myself a cup for
breakfart. At the age of SO | was
In very poor health, indeed. My sis
ter told me was in danger OF becom-
ing coffee drunkard.
But I never could give up drink
ing coffee for breakfast although IL
hert ne constantly Ill, until | tried
Postum. I learned to make it prop
erly according to directions, and now
we can hardly do without Postum for
breakfast. and care nothing at all for
coffee.
Il am no longer troubled with dys-
persia. 90 not have spells of suffering
with my stomach that used to trouble
me SO when | drank coffee Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich.
Look in each pkg. for the famous
little book. THE Road to wellville."
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
EXAMPLE OF JAPANESE PLUCK


1t was a matter of less than half an
hour befos2 the Japanese held the
main ride< TO the left, or west. of the
village of Suitean-za, and the great
fianking movement over the hills was
ready TO begin. from the point gained
about o'clock.
1t was broiling hot Mt this hour. and
the motionless air aud the glaring sun
promised to make the land veritable
furnace before nightfall. The dirty
khaki uniforms of the stockily built
soldiers were wringing with water,
but they marched forward briskly and
with no display of exhaustion, though
they had been up all night and had al
ready worked three hours in swelter
of heat.
The fourteen hours march made by
that regiment of the Guards, in the
fianking movement, would have killed
off half the men in any European or
American force long before the Jap
anese had finished it, and were still
keen to fight, and, Notwithstanding
this. the official report says that the
left-wing division did not do so well
as was expected. Only salamanders
could have survived the heat and toll.
1t was n marvellous performance.
and one which, at first blush, seems
impossible, for it necessitated travel
ing between the crests of the noun
tains, in order TO be screened from the
enemy. They moved ahead on noun
tain slopes whose angle was often sixty
degrees. They toiled through thick
uBderbrush and around the bases of
rocky pinnacles five to eight hundred
feet above the valleys. One would
have believed the feat impossible for
loaded men, let alone heavily laden
pack horses. The left-wing regiment
marched six miles in this fashion, and
threatened Ya-shi-rei Yangtsz ling). in
the rear of the main position. Mt >
O'Clock in the afternoon.-William Din
widdie, Special Correspondent, in Har-
per's Weekly.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05

HWWH -G5u requires powerful faith
Ina. "as evidently the quality lacking
i'll a college professor who went with
Mr. Simon Lake into the dining COM
partment of his submarine boat. The
story is related in Submarine Naviga-
ton by Mr. Alan Burgoyne-
Every one knows that if an un-
-corked bottle filed with air is placed
in water. mouth down, only as much
water will enter it as is required TO
compress the air in the bottle enough
to equal the pressure of the water. If
the air pressure could be otherwise in
creased. no water at all would come in.
For more than half century this
principle has been made use of in sub
marine boats to provide a mode of
egress for a diver. In the Lake boat
there is an '.air-chamber' forward, in
which the air pressure is made trifle
greater than the water pressure out
side. When n door in the bottom of
the car is opened no water comes in,
and those in the boat, reaching down
with a short rake. are able to pick up
oysters, sponges or whatever they see
on the bottom OF the ocean.
and he knew all about the theory of
the case; but still he had not quite
enough faith to trust himself under
water in bottomless boat. Mr.. Lake
took him into the diving compartment
TO exhibit it.
After closing the air-lock door he
noticed beads of perspiration standing
on the professors forehead. When
the compressed air came in wifi, a
great noise, the professor grabbed one
of the frames and looked longingly at
the closed door.
by the way, professor said Mr..
Lake, turning off the air ARE you
troubled with heart disease?''
why. yes" he said, my heart is n
little Affected
well, never mind said the in
ventor, "this little distance will not
disturb you. If you feel any pain.
swallow as If you were drinking
water"
He turned on the air again, and the
professor began to swallow. During
the half minute or so following, while
the pressure was increasing. he swal-
lowed enough, the inventor said after
ward, to have drowned himself. When
the pressure was right. Mr.. Lake
stopped and began to unscrew the
panel in the floor.
What are you doing?" demanded
the professor.
Il am going to open this door so you
can see the bottom"
mo. no. said the professor. throw
ing out his hands. don't do that. |
would not put you to all that trouble
for the world"
Just then, however. the door dropped
open. The professor, who had turned
deathly pale, started forward. Not a
drop of water entered. AS he saw the
calm surface of it there beneath his
feet. as unruflied as if it mad been the
very top of the ocean, instead of al
most the bottom, the color came back
to his face and lie drew great sigh.
"Wellr' he exclaimed. We'll, OF
course ! knew 1t wouldn't come in.
know why it doesn't come in. But if
l had not seen it 1 should never have
believed itr'
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
The Porch.

When father built the veranda
He kicked about the expense,
But ma. she said:
Don't mind 1t, Ed
Don't think OF dollars and cents"
That autumn Clara was married,
1t made pa glad as could be,
And ma would smile
Most all the while,
I'm proud OF that porch" said she
Last summer both Belle and Amy
Would race for the porch at night,
And all the rest
or us thought best
To stay indoors. out of sight.
But Belle ran faster than Amy
she got her man in July.
And I'll commend
That porch to send
bachelors oath sky high.
Last Sunday Amy informed us
That she had told Jimmy yes"
And now us three,
Pa. ma, and me.
can get on that porch. I guess.
Cleveland Leader.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
Hoidinq a Horse.

When a witness in an English court
the other day remarked that 1t was
necessary to sit on a horses head
when he was down to keep him quiet.
the judge replied: Nothing of the
kind. People don't seem to understand
that the only thing necessary to keep a
horse from kicking when he is down
is to get hold of his ear and keep his
nose up in the air. have seen lady
keep horse quiet without soiling her
gloves.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
Masonry and Truth.

In France a man. called as wit
ness to court, demurred to taking
the oath to tell the whole truth,
because 1t might require him to tell
Masonic secrets. The grand master
of Freemasonry in France has written
to the court stating that there was
nothing in the Masonic oath which
would prevent a witness telling the
whole truth. If anything. the oath
made him a freer man.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
Bacteria In Tanning.

Tanning is to be put on a strictly
scientific basis. Two Germans, DR..
Popp and Heinrich Becker, found that
about fifty kinds of bacteria were pres
ent in the process of turning hides into
leather. They isolated them and ex-
perimented to see what each of them
accomplished. Thus they discovered
the kinds which were particularly use
full in the making of good leather, and
by cultivating and multiplying them
they achieved useful results.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
pIscouRAGING REPORT.

'Is your boy getting along well at
college this year?"
He was until a few days ago, when
he sprained one of his ankles, and now
he tells me he's likely to be off the
regular team for the rest of the sea.
son.'-Chicago Tribune.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
AT CORY GULcH.

az heard thet some o. III boys start
ed shootin' at the ball last night.
Whut wuz the trouble:'
mo trouble" said Piute Pete. "Some
guy told 'em that it wua goin' to be
bang up affair"
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05

liberty to repeat what |
first stated through our
Denver papers about
Doan's Kidney Pills in
the summer OF 1899. for
! have had no reason in
the interim to change my
opinion of that remedy. I
was subject to severe at
tacks of backache, al
ways aggravated IL I sat
long at a desk. Doan's
Kidney Pills absolutely
stopped my backache. l
hpve never had a pain or
a fuyit, era cfnaar
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
KILLING TIME

"They say that little town where DIR.
Carver located is one of the healthiesj
in the country
yes"
How does the doctor kill time?"
by searching for some means to
eradicate the germ of health. .'-Cleye
land Plain Dealer.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
THE LIMIT.

He-"I don't think your brother John
likes me-
She-"Oh, 1 am sure he does. Why.
he told me to-day you were a regular
brick; he went further, in fact, and
said you We're a regular gold Brick
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
JUST LIKE 4 WOMAN.

She isentimentally)-"would yor
dare anything to me, DEAR"
He passionately)-"Anything, dear
She (rapturously)-"Oh, what, for in
stance:"
He hesitated moment and then
kissed her.
She tangrilyI-"How dared you'll
Brooklyn Life.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
PROFESSIONAL CRUELTY.

"rhe trouble" said the dentist, as he
probed away at the aching molar with
long, slender instrument, sis evident.
ly due to dying nerve"
Well" groaned the victim, 'its up
to you to treat the dying with a little
more espect."-Chicago News.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
SHE KNEW BETTER

He-"Yes. he's interested in one Of
these wildcat mining companies"
She-''What Il joker you are. Don't
you suppose l know that you don't
have to mine for wildcats ?"-Philadei
plia Press
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05
A FALSE ALARM.

A gentleman from Buffalo tells Tia
story Of the conversation he had with
a native of Southern Florida whom he
hired to row him several miles down
the Miami River. After many futile
endeavors to interest the Floridian and
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-05

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