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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
Saved from Suicide by Bath.


A keeper at the county Jail in Jer-
sey City made the discovery a few
days ago that Nicola Murdaco, con,
demned Italian murderer, was in need
of bath.
The tip was furnished by Edward
Tapeley, negro murderer, who is
under sentence to hang one week be-
fore the date set for Murdaco's execu,
ton. Tapeley said he strenuously OBJ
jected to confinement in the same
cell with the Italian unless "the dago
had a wash"
Murdaco was ordered to get into the
bathtub, but refused. He said he
would die first, and then six attend
ants yanked his clothes off and wash
ed him. Murdaco's yells were heard
in every part of the Jail. Three or
four men held him down while others
scrubbed him from head to foot.
Murdaco tried to kill himself the
other day by twisting and pulling his
tongue until it bled at the roots. The
keepers believe the Italian had an
idea that he could commit suicide by
allowing the pores of his skin to close
up, and for that reason refused to
wash himself.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
Sure Cure at Last,

Monticello, Miss, Sept. 4 Especially
Lawrence County is almost daily in
receipt of fresh evidence that sure
cure for all Kidney Troubles has at
last been found, and that cure is
Dodds Kidney Pills.
Among those who have reason to
bless the Great American Kidney Rem
edy is Mrs. L. E. Baggett Of this place.
Mrs. Baggett had dropsy. Dodd's Kid.
ney Pills cured her.
II was troubled with my Kidneys"
Mrs. Baggett says in recommending
Dodd's Kidney Pills to her friends,
my urine would hardly pass. The
Doctors said had Dropsy. I have
taken Dodd's Kidney Pills as directed
and am now a well woman"
Dodd's Kidney Pills cure the kid
neys. Cured Kidneys strain all the
impurities out Of the blood. That
means pure blood and a sound, ener.
getic body. Dodds Kidney pills are
the greatest tonic the world has ever
known.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
YELLOW CRUST ON BABY
Would Crack Open and Scab Causing
Terrible Itching-Cured by
Cuticura.

"Our baby had a yellow crust on his
head which l could not keep away.
When I thought had succeeded in
getting his head clear it would start
again by the crown of his head, crack
and scale, and cause terrible itching.
I then got Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment, washing the scalp with the soap
and then applying the Ointment. A
few treatments made complete cure.
have advised number of mothers
to use Cuticura, when I have been
asked about the same ailment of their
babies. Mrs. John Boyce, Pine Bush,
NJ ""
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
GIRL FAScINATEs A LION.
Fair Dancer Patted AffectionateIy, but
Her Face Is Scratched.

Fair Dancer Patted AffectionateIy, but
Her Face Is Scratched.
So great was the impression which
fascinating dancer made on lion
while she was paying visit to mu-
sic hall where it was performing that
the animal, after contemplating her
for some time, got on it's legs, moved
off in her direction, and, putting its
paws through the bars of its cage,
took hold of her head and patted her
face affectionately.
Unfortunately, Samson had reckon
ed without his claws, which tore the
tender skin Of the pretty dancer, in
tiicting scars, the traces of which WILL
in all probability, never disappear.
This result of what would otherwise
have been regarded as a good joke,
not being likely to enhance the pro-
fessional attractiveness of the grace
full Spaniard, she has taken legal &C.
ton against the proprietor of the
place of entertainment, putting in a
claim for damages to the amount of
$4,000.
The case has just been brought be-
fore one Of the Paris courts, but, as
the defendant is abroad on business,
the hearing has been adjourned until
November, when the judges may have
a better opportunity for forming an
exact opinion of the injury which the
charms of the fair plaintiff have sus-
tanned at the paws of the susceptible
Samson.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
EIsnhants Had Fine Feed.

Five elephants created an exrraordf
nary scene at the goods station OF
Batignoiles the other day. They are
being kept at the station while quar-.
ters are being got ready for them, but
managed to break loose from their
stables. At this time Of year the sta.
ton dispatches enormous consign'
ments of fruit, which the elephants
seeming at once began to devour
Cherries, peaches, apricots and straw.
berries disappeared by the hamperful
at a prodigious rate. Some porters
sought to stop the dessert. but the
elephants, using their trunks like cud'
gels, simply fiogged them away and
went on eating until they were lit
orally gorged with fruit. Then they
went back to their stables OF their
own accord. London Globe.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
SECRET POLICE OF PARIS.
Four Branches Of Organization, With
VARYING Duties.

Four Branches of Organization, With
Varying Duties.
"You cannot go anywhere in Paris
without meeting the secret police, al
though you would never recognize
them" observed Briton familiar
with the French capital. There are
four divisions of these uniformed
crime detectors The first division is
known as the Surety, the business of
which is to track down known crimi-
mails and capture them. They are dar-
ing, willy and resourceful fellows, and
1t is clever malefactor indeed who
can evade them. Another body of this
plain clothes police looks after the
tenants of lodging houses and hotels.
They take note of all the arrivals and
departures, and gather statistics re-
garding the workmen in the factories,
the sick in hospitals and private
houses, and SO forth. A third division
occupies itself with political plotters,
agitators and gamblers. At meetings
of seditious character they mingle
with the crowd, and Ito disarm sus-
Iicion) applaud as loudly as anybody,
and join in denunciations of the gov
eminent. They appear in gambling
dens as gamblers themselves. and
they also keep quiet watch on the
regular police. The remaining divis-
ion consists of elegantly dressed per-
sons who watch over the president
and protect him not only from assas-
sins, but also from bores and cranks."
-Cassells Saturday Journal.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
Bird Has Extended Repertory.

A bird which can talk in two Ian.
guages and whose repertory consists
of seventeen phrases, is the latest ad.
dition to the London Geological gar.
dens. The bird belongs to species
which flourishes in northern India.
Three of the phrases are in an Indian
dialect and the rest in English. The
birds name is Tommy and it asks all
visitors, "Who are you?"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
Catarrh and Colds,

A person suffering from any catarrh,
whether Of the head or chest, should
sleep alone and If possible without
another room occupant. Towels, soap,
ETC.. used by the patient should not be
touched by any other person. No one
should take" his breath and kissing
must be forbidden by the domestic
parliament. However. many good
folks have lost faith in all precautions.
When any member Of the family has
, cold they say resignedly that it is
bound to 60 through the house and. "a
SeN the truth. 1t usually does.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
Start a Turtle Farm.

As there seems to be SO much alx-
lety about the turtles, why don't some
one fence off some salt water and
start turtle farm? There are terra
pin farms; then why not logger head
farms; the eggs are easy to hatch
and the turtles would not be subjected
to jiggers and sorehead like chickens,
and as the wild turtles are about to
be exterminated, the tame ones would
bring good prices.-Sarasota (Fla.)
Times.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
Hours of Sleep.

Our ancestors had an adage that, six
hours sleep was the proper quantity
for man, seven for woman, and
eight for a fool, says the Lancet
Whether it is that the strenuous life
CT the present day is akin to foolish.
ness, or whether 1t is a simple phe.
nomenon of evolution, it is certain
that many of our busiest men find
the aforementioned allowance none too
long for them. The quality of
mans work soon deteriorates if he
takes insufficient rest.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
She Couldn't Help It?

"Say, it seems very strange" said petu
liant man,
With saturnine scowl to his patient
young wife,
"That you never cheer up, like your sweet
sister Nan,
Who is gay as lark ev'ry day Of her
life."
Then the wan little wife neither MUIR
INJURED nor sighed,
Though there cleaned in her eye just
the giant of tear;
But she smiled a wee Bit as she calmly
replied,
widow, my dear"
Thomas B. Chrystal in New York Her
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
SIXTH sENsE IN BIRDS.
Experiments with Carrier Pigeons
Prove It's Possession,

Prove It's Possession.
Although birds are not placed near
the summit line of evolution, their
ability to ny gives them advantages
over nearly all the mammalia. Their
mysterious power Of changing their
polarity or weight, in order to dive
in water or fly, has been often dis
cussed, and the almost incredible We
locity Of their motion when migrating,
sometimes amounting to four miles q
minute for vast distances, has no par.
allel among other animals.
A series Of careful trials with car
rier pigeons shows apparently without
doubt their possession Of a highly de-
veloped sense of direction. In twenty
minutes the first bird, dispatched at
10 p. m, reached Its roost, a distance
Of seventeen miles being traversed.
Half of the number arrived before
midnight and the remainder followed
in few hours.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
TEA
TEA
We are not a tea-drinking
people; we should be
steadier, if we were.
Measuring Rain Drops.

The largest raindrops are about one
fifth of an inch in diameter. To deter
mine the size rain is allowed to fall
into thick layer Of flour, each drop
forming a pellet of dough, and these
pellets are compared with dough pei.
lets obtained from drops of known
size delivered on the -four by artificial
means.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
Took a Chance,

At recent parliamentary election
in Carlisle, England, one of the candi
dates was named Chance. His pla
cards read: "Give Carlisle Chance"
Those of his opponents read: "Take
no Chances-Vote for Sanderson."
But the electors took Chance.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
EnaIish Joke With a Point.

An anti-tobacco lecturer spoke so
powerfully against the use of tobacco
that several of his audience went
home and burned their cigars-hold-
ing one end of them in their mouths
by way of Observation-Disclosures Tit.
Rits
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
Do II Now.

II you are about to make trip any
where, let me know. Pleased to give
you full information as to low rates
plenty of 'em this summer-train ser
vice, etc. "The Santa Fe" trade mark
Is the sign of safety, speed and ease.
G. F. WARREN,
Genl. Agt., A. T. & 8. F. Ry., Salt Laks
City, Utah.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22

The inspector Of the disinfection Of
fee of Turin, Italy, has instituted an
innovation in destroying germs in
dwellings. He uses 1 per cent So
luton of sal soda for cleansing the
floors, whereby the bacilli of diph-
theritis and typhus are killed in one
minute.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
Where He Stopped.

Cholly-"Some fellows, y know,
stop at nothing in their conversation.
Molly-"Well, 1 can't say that ever
knew you to get any further that
that"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
Nothinu to Talk About,

"I don't see how they find much to
talk about" said woman, speaking
enviously of the friendship of two
other women. Neither one has ever
had a surgical operation"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
His Idea Of IL.

eyes, sir" said the old man, zone
Teller spoke piece in Greek; 'nuther
make lick at Latin, an both got q
piece O. paper with blue ribbon!"-
Atlanta Constitution.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
TEA

A triAe of tea in a dainty
cup has in it a world of rest
or of stimulant-what is the
time o'day?
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22

Bantam Chickens From Java.
Bantam chickens came from Ban.
tam, q town In Java.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
TEA

One fingers long over tea,
if the tea is fine. 1t is a good
time and place to linger.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22

In Brazil the black bean is as i'm.
portant an article Of food as the potato
is in Europe.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
TEA

The indulgence in tea is
so very slight, that the
pleasure escapes attention,
unless one waits a bit.
Write for knowledge Book A. schilling &
Company, San Franrs"n.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22

Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used
for all affections of the throat and lungs.-WM
O. ENDsLEY, Vanburen, Ind, Feb. TO- 1900.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
TEA

We look through YOU
grocer to you; beyond, but
through your grocer, to you.
-Four grocer returns your money II you don't like
-"nulings Best.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
DON'T FORGET
0raziI's STAPLE Food.

A large 2os. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only
cents. The Russ Company. South Bend, Ind.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22

Preserve Norway's Forests.
In Norway there is law which pro
hibits any person from cutting dowr
a tree unless he plants three saplings
in its place.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22

Parasite Destroys Goblin Moth.
A colony of Goblin moth parasites
imported from Europe and set free re.
Gently in the apple orchards of the
Parjaro valley, California, is clearing
them of the orchardists' enemy in
great style.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
TIE

When we say we, we
mean your grocer. He's we
and we're he. Moneyback
does it.
Your grocer returns your money If you don't like
Schilling's Best.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-22
TEA
We stand or fall by our
tea-Schilling's Best-and
we're. not going-down.
Germ DESTROYING Solution.

Your grocer returns your money II you don't like n
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-11-30
HANDKERCHIEFS.
They Are Often a Source of Grave
Danger to Washerwomen.

They Are Often a Source of Grave
Danger to Washerwomen.
Statistics have shown over and over
again that washerwomen are much
more likely to contract tuberculosis
and actually suffer from the disease in
much larger proportion than other
working women of the same grade of
life. This is due to the fact that the
expectoration of the tuberculous pa
tients clinging to their various articles
Of clothing Is not rendered nonvirulent
by antiseptics or by boiling before they
come into the hands of the washer
woman. 1t is particularly handker-
chiefs that are the most dangerous in
this respect, and the enforcement Of
sanitary regulations with regard to ex-
pectoration is sure to add to this dan
ger. 1t would be well If the Chinese
custom of using a paper handkerchief
(Which the Cinnamon of the better
classes would disdain to carry with
him once 1t has been soiled, but which
he hands over to his servant to be dis
posed Of by burning) could become the
rule in this country. Until it does,
however, physicians should call the at
tention, especially Of those suffering
from tuberculosis, to the necessity for
having their handkerchiefs soaked for
some time In suitable antiseptic solu-
tion before allowing them to be sent
out to become possible danger for
the overworked and underfed poor
American Medicine.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-11-30
A BABOON HUNT.
Horribly Suggestive of Slaughter q,
Human Beings.

Horribly Suggestive of Slaughter q,
Human Beings.
A traveller writing from South Africa
describes a baboon hunt as follows.
every slowly we spread out round
about the base Of the kopje and began
a crawling ascent through the thick
scrub. Kaffirs and farmers together
we formed something of loose circle
around the kopje. Daylight found US
drawing near the higher spurs of the
kopje and the Kaffirs were busy beat.
ing.
''Then the sport began, and pretty un.
canny it was. A good many baboons
broke through our circle, for we only
mustered seven guns, but as we neared
the top of the kopje I could tell by
the noises all about me that some exc.
cution was being done. My first kill
gave me a most uncomfortable thrill.
1t was horribly like picking off a man.
'"The baboons were great big, human
looking brutes, quite capable of pick.
ing up lamb in their hands and run.
ming off with it. AS fact, they gen.
orally content themselves with ripping
the beast open to get at the curdled
milk within. But their cries were the
most horribly human thing about them
and the gestures Of their waving arms
When we all met a careful count was
made. Thirty balloons had been
bagged. Seven had fallen to my gun." !"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-11-30
NEWSPAPERS.
Striking Things That Great Men
Have Said About Them.

Striking Things That Great Men
Have Said About Them.
A correspondent requests that we
print some of the striking things great
men have said about newspapers-that
is, sayings that embody the purpose
and doings of the press. With pleas
ure.
Bryant said: "The press is good or
evil, according to the character Of those
who direct it. 1t is mill that grinds
all that is put into its hopper. Fill the
hopper with poisoned grain, and it will
grind it to meal, but there is death in
the bread"
James Parton said: "The newspaper
press is the peoples university. Half
the readers in Christendom read little
else"
Jefferson said: "The basis Of our gov
ernment being the opinion Of the peo-
pie, the very first object should be to
keep that right, and were it left to me
to decide whether we should have a
government without newspapers or
newspapers without a government l
should not hesitate moment to prefer
the latter
Cardinal Gibbons said: ''The dread of
exposure in the public press keeps many
a man sticking close to the path of rec
titude who otherwise would stray off
into the byways of graft" - Chicago
Journal.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-11-30
CHURCH BELLS.
The Best Are Made From the Metal
of Old Cannon.

The Best Are Made From the Metal
of Old Cannon.
''No silver is used in church BELLS"
said the bell founder. "People claim
there is, but have assayed many an
old bell that came here to be broken
up and never an ounce Of silver did
find In one of them.
"For the best bells we use old can
non. They give us the purest amalgam
we can get. The tenor bell am max
ing now Is composed Of twelve tons of
old cannon from Spain.
"These two molds, the core and the
cope, are what give the bell its sweet
ness. 1t is in their cut that the secret
Of bell founding lies. The core Is the
inner mold. 1t has the exact shape Of
the BELLS inside.
"We it the cope over the core and
into the space between the molten
metal Is run. When the metal has
hardened and cooled the bell is fln-
ished, save for Its clapper.
ITO tune bells it Is necessary to
chip little pieces out Of them. Our
bell tuner is good musician. He has
composed a number Of hymns
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-11-30
HARLEM IN HOLLAND.
An Old Description of the Busting
Dutch Town.

An Old Description of the Busting
Dutch Town.
There may not be many points Of re-
semblance between Harlem in New
York as it is at present and Haarlem in
Holland as it stood more than cen.
tury ago. The following translation
from an old description of the Euro
pean HARLEM shows, however, that it
was quite bustling place:
'Haarlem, that wonderful grotesquey
with it's canal, where the blue water
trembles, and the church where the
golden glass windows fame, and the
stone balcony where the linen dries In
the sun, and the roofs green as hops,
and the storks that flap their wings
round the town clock, stretching out
their necks high In the air and catch
ing the drops Of rain in their beaks,
and the needless burgomaster who
strokes his double chin with his hand,
and the infatuated florist who grows
thin, his eyes fixed on tulip, and the
Bohemienne who falls fainting on her
mandolin, and the old man who plays
the remmelpot, and the child VINO
blows out bladder, and the drinkers
who smoke in the dingy wine shop,
and the maidservant at the hosiery
who hangs up a pheasant at the VIII
dow."-New York Herald.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-11-30
ON DUTCH WATERS.
Journey Along a Canal and the
Scenery 1t Presents.

"A journey Along Cana1 anu the
Scenery 1t Presents.
81 can think of no more reposeful
holiday" says writer, 'than to step
on board of one of those barges
wedged together in Rotterdam canal
and, never lifting finger to alter the
natural course Of events-to accelerate
or divert-be carried by it to, say,
Harlingen, in Friesland, between the
meadows, under the noses of great
black and white cows, past herons fish
ing in the rushes, through little villages
with dazzling milk cans being secured
on the banks and the good wives wash.
ing and the saturnine smokers in black
velvet slippers passing the time Of day,
through big towns, by rows Of somber
houses seen through delicate screen
Of leaves, under low bridges crowded
with children, through narrow locks,
ever moving, moving, slowly and sure
ly, sometimes sailing, sometimes being
towed, with the wide Dutch sky over
head and the plovers crying in it, and
the clean west wind driving the wind
mills, and everything just as it was in
Rembrandt's day and just as it will be
500 years hence"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-11-30
The Paris Jewellers.

"To stroll about the London Streets"
says Harper's Weekly, sis pastime;
in Paris it is also an education. hard
ly understand how an Englishman
after a walk down the Avenue de
POpera or the Boulevard des Italiens
can bear to even glance at a Bond
street jewelers.. To see what the
French are doing in jewel work Of ev-
cry kind is to make one feel that Lon
don is not merely a generation behind,
but could not in hundred centuries
catch up,"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1905-11-30
DREAMLESS SLEEP.
There Is No Such Thing, Accordir.
to an English Scientist.

TO an English Scientist
According to Sir Arthur Mitchell q.
English fame, there is no such tbina
as dreamless sleep; that thinking 10
involuntary-to the extent at least tha,
we cannot cease to think under anr
order of the will; that thinking navo,
ceases during life and is essential to
the continuance of life; that dream
thinking is uncontrolled and undirect.
ed by the will, is never coherent and
concentrated, is more or less of tbo
same character as thinking in delirinn,
and constitutes a state of mental dis
order which is not state of diseasa,
that thinking when awake is ALWAYS IA
some extent under the control of tbs
will by which it is directed to a sinh,
ject and kept there; that there aro
many degrees of sleep and wakefulnes.
and as many degrees of efficiency in
the controlling power of the will; tba,
thinking, like breathing or the beatino
of the heart, does not cause a sense ~
WEAKNESS, though all three have
wearing effect on all the organs con.
cerned; that the willis inhibiting and
directing work brings fatigue and
demand for rest; that the will find,
this rest and refreshment in sleep and
that the frequent occurrence of stat,
of disordered mind in sleep does not dn
us harm, but on the contrary does ma
good.