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The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16

For reading during convalescence
the British Medical Journal prescribes
literature that cheers but does not
inebriate, and warns persons recover
ing from illness against writer's
whose style, like that Of George Mere
dith, puts constant strain on the
understanding of the reader, or like
that of Maurice Hewlett, irritates by
its artificial glitter, or like that Of
Marie Corelli annoys by its frothy
impertinence. Dickens should go well
during valescence-except "Pick-
wick" at least In surgical cases, be-
cause of the many side-splitting cpl
sodes which would play havoc with
the union of parts. For the same rea-
son, in order that healing granula-
tions may not be interfered with,
Mark Twain's works are absolutely in
terdicted.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
DREAMING AND WAXING FORMS

Harvey, who discovered the circula-
ton of the blood, is said to have re-
corded dream in which bumblebee
stung him in his left thigh, on place
where couple of days later appeared
an ugly ulcer. Malesherbe, the re-
nowned French author, found himself
In dream attacked by rowdy who
stabbed him in his left breast with a
dagger in an area where the following
evening he felt the first attack of
severe pneumonia. "The archives of
medical reports" says DR.. Axel Emil
Gibson, "are heavy with cases of
similar character, which have either
received no explanation at all or else
have been explained away entirely"
DR.. Gibson calls attention to the
fact that dreams depend on some other
media than those known as the five
senses. A conclusive evidence in favor
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
All Named for Saints.

The vicar of Membury, Derbyshire.
England. writes: "A hundred and thir.
ty-eight baptisms, and have not yet
had a Sarah Jane'-that delightful
old-fashioned name" Amused, as he
said, by the wears sad wall. a parish
Toner replies to the vicar, saying the
reason is not far to seek. The custom
of the parents residing in these parts
Is to consult with their incumbent re-
garding the choice of the name for the
offspring. The natural consequence Is
that all children born on a saints day
are called after the saint. Thus a girl
born on st. Georges day would be
christened Georgiana and one on st.
Clements day Clementina, and SO on.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16

was always keeping an eye out for
something in the way of a Strike"
for himself, took a walk out in the
forest around the place, and stro!led
along beaten path because 1t made
the easiest walking. He came to a
place where big tree had fallen
across the trail, but instead of walk.
ing around the tree, as every one else
had been In the habit of doing, he
ducked under 1t to save himself that
much distance.
AS he bent his head to pass ne.
meath the PROSTATE trunk his eye
caught something that had been root
ed up by the fall of the tree, and he
dropped down on the ground. He
gathered up some of the earth, put 1t
in his pocket and returned to the
station. At the earliest opportunity
he went through the necessary for
malities to get possession of the land,
and with the little money he possessed
he began to work the claim, which
was cobalt mine. In less than two
years he has cleared nearly 100000
from the mine and has reduced the
price of cobalt about 40 per cent. And
all because he was too lazy to walk
around fallen tree.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16

The worlds record for organized and
Schedule" riding was made by the
Pony express, says C. F. Lummis in
McClure's Magazine. Never before
nor since has mail been carried so
fast, so far and so long merely by
horse power, and If | am not in error,
never elsewhere have horses been SO
steadfastly spurred in any regular
service. The Pony express carried
mail between the east and California
Cat SIS per half ounce) for about two
years. 1t ran from independence to
San Francisco, 1850 miles. Its time
was ten days and it never needed
eleven. 1t employed 500 Of the fast
est horses that could be found, Of
couse, all western horses, 200 station
keepers and 80 riders. 1t had 100 sta
tions-crowded down the throat Of the
wilderness, IS to 100 miles Tor even
more) apart, according as water
CHANGED. The rider was allowed two
minutes to change horses and mails at
station.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16

William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill" was
the most famous of the Pony express
riders-and as 14-year-old kid" got
his first COB from the man who in
vented the Pony express. Cody made
the record here-a round trip ride (ne-
cessitated by the killing of his relief
of 1884 miles without stops, except to
change horses and to swallow one
hasty meal.
Another Of the Pony express riders,
Jack Keetley, made run of $40 miles
in thirty-one hours; and another, Jim
Moore, rode $50 miles In fourteen
hours and forty-six minutes.
Such men got 500 to s125 per month
and found" Their mail was limited
to fifteen pounds. Postage was IS per
half ounce for some time; then the
government ordered 1t cut down to 81
per half ounce, at which figure it staid
till the completion of the overland tel.
egraph to San Francisco (Oct. %,
1861, ended the life of this gallant
enterprise.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16

tiplied by ten Appropriated their
strength of 1,000.l
2. @. How many guns have you?
A. AS many as there are boys In
the Ward family
lord Dudley and his brothers.1
Col. Mahon protested, as regards
this, that there would be no one who
would know, but Col. Rhodes assured
him that Col. Watson Jarvis, who was
with Col. Plumer, would be sure to.
3. How are you off for stores and
provision?
A. Officer commanding Ninth Ian.
GERS.
[Col. Little, known as Small Lit.
tle.]
The answers were received and
correctly decided.
Lord Harris also mentioned that
Col. Rhodes contributed largely out
Of his own pocket to the outfit of the
Mafeking relief column, and that in
his day he was one of the best bats
men in the British army.-New York
Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
WEALTH DVE TO LAZINESS

With the opening up of the section
of the Province Of Ontario in the
neighborh0od of North Bay, a couple
Of hundred miles directly north of the
city of Toronto, all sorts of tales have
drifted down out of that country
about the mineral wealth it contains
and the lucky Strikes" that have been
made by prospectors. One of the
most romantic of these, and one that
has the merit of having real wealth
to show for 1t, concerns w. G. Trethe-
way, now a resident of Toronto, who
Is the possessor OF mine that has
already paid him a small fortune,
which he found simply owing to his
lazy habits.
At the time he made his Strike"
Tretheway was travelling salesman
for a wholesale shoe house and was
possessed Of a certain amount of
knowledge Of chemicals and ores of
various kinds. Two years ago his
business route carried him to one of
the new settlements on the Grand
Trunk railway, in the North Bay dis
trict, called Cobalt, from the deposits
Of that mineral that had been found in
the neighborhood. Tretheway, who
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16

of this view is found In the circum.
stances that even the blind are able
to see in dreams-as witness ex-
periences recorded by Helen Keller,
Blind Tom" the poet Milton, and
others. Hence the conclusion seems
to be unavoidable that it is only as
far as physical vision is concerned that
the optic nerve guides and limits the
field of vision.
This same atthor arrives at the de.
duction that dreaming and waking
differ in degree and form of manifes-
tation only, not in principle and es-
sence. Like waking consciousness,
he AYERS, "the dream reveals, but does
not create. The same world that sur
rounds the waking individual sur
rounds the dreaming, only the view
points and media of observation are
changed"
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
NEW CODE FOR HELIOCRAPH

Lord Harris tells an interesting
story of how Col. Frank Rhodes out
witted the Beers. 1t concerns the
relief of Mafeking
AS Col Mahon approached MAIZE
king from the south, Col. (now Ma
jor-GeneraD Plumer was approaching
1t from the north, and Col. Mahon re-
ceived the following questions from
Col. Plumer by Photograph:
/. What is your strength?
2. How many guns have you?
3. How are you off for stores and
provisions?
Col. Mahon would not allow any
answer to be sent, for fear Of the
Beers trapping 1t on the way, until
Col. Rhodes suggested the following
replies. which were approved ! at
tach the key in brackets:
1. @. What is your strength?
A. Naval and Military multiplied by
ten.
1.-THE number of the Naval and Mill
tary club in Piccadilly Is "a, and null
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
A Valuable Agent.

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The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
Strange Malaccan Festival.

A queer festival is celebrated In
Malacca every ten or twelve years
The opening Of the festival is signal
lied by grand procession, in which
huge piles of eatables take large
share. At the end of the third day
the viands are burned. On this occa.
sion the piles of food are placed in a
specially constructed boat, which is
to be towed out to sea and there con-
sumed by fire, together with all the
contents. A large sum of money.
amounting to several thousands of dol
lars, is subscribed, largely in Singa.
pore, for the proper observance of the
festival
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
BOOKS FOR THE CONVALESCENT

Smiles Self Help is quite innocu.
ous," says the learned journal, "but
we should be cautious in recommend
ing 1t, in order that the patient may
not thereby be led to mediate over
misspent career, and to have suggest
ed to him all the opportunities in life
he might have grasped but did not. A
dependency might thus be induced
which would delay a restoration to
health, and which might even prove
fatal. Thackeray Except Vanity
Fair" which is a pessimistic book
should go very well; 'Pendennis' and
Barry Lyndon will certainly enter.
tain.
Magazines of the day are placid
and cheering enough; and in them
one will seldom come upon a story
sufficiently original or vigorous to ex-
cite anybody"
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
A Great Monarch.

Weather than any brother sover.
eign; master of legions, which num-
Der over a million; lord of more than
one-sixth of the surface of the globe,
with subjects of many colors and
races, amounting to over one hundred
and twenty million souls, the Gear of
all the Russias will not be invincible
until he adopts Pillsbury's Vitos as
his regular breakfast diet.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
DIDN'T COME FOR EXAMINATION.
But Collector Underwent Ordeal Like
All the Rest.

A celebrated specialist, to whom
time was literally money, and who was
possessed of a fiery temper, made II a
rule that all patients should undress
before entering his consulting room SO
as not to waste any of his valuable
time. One day a meek looking little
man entered with all his clothes on,
What do you mean by coming in like
that?" asked the doctor, in rage. go
and strip at once"
But i" faltered the man.
Il tell you I've no time to waste,
yelled the doctor, and the poor man
left the room in haste. When his turn
came he re-entered the room. Now,
then" said the doctor, that's better.
What can do for your
81 called to collect your subscrip-
ton for the benevolent society
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
Double Role Hard to Maintain.

did it never occur to you, young
man." asked John Bright of young
fellow who was discoursing about "the
letters of matrimony." that you can,
rot be bachelor and married man
at the same timer" Many of the men
who complain loudest of the extrava.
gance of marriage find it so costly be-
cause they are trying to maintain the
double role.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
Odd Derivations.

Philologists claim that the phrase
to "sleep like top" comes from the
French "dormir CONNIE une taupe"-
to sleep like a mole. 1t is said, too,
that Cinderella's slippers were not
made of glass, but of "vair," the old
French word for ermine, which in
time became corrupted into we're, "
glass
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
"BuII from New Zealand"

A New Zealand publication, the Con.
tract Journal, makes this bull: THE
clash of party cries is obstructing a
clear view Of the present position of
this country"
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
British Change In Diet.

British people smoke one-third more
tobacco than they did thirty years
ago, eat half as much again Of sugar,
and drink 40 per cent more tea, while
the consumption Of intoxicants has
tended to decline.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
Wales Has No CAPITAL,

Wales wants a capital, but, though
the search has been going ON fol
years, no city has yet been found pre-
emiuently suited for the honor.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
Sleep In Wicker Baskets.

The Seri Indians make an odd.
shaped continuance of plated wicker
work, with a hole at the top, through
which the occupier crawls at night to
sleep.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
TEA

Good tea is better than
most of us know. You may
as well know Schilling's Best.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
Favorite Color Is Red.

Red Is the favorite color in New
Caledonia. The women will wear no
other. When paint is not enough of a
decoration, tattooing is used The
Polynesians show wonderful skill in
this art.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
Mother cray's Sweet Powders for Children

Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
in the Children's Home in New York, cure
Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate the
Bowels and Destroy Worms Over 30, 900 tes-
timonials. At all Druggists, 25c. Sample
FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Leroy N. Y.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
TIE
Where tea is good, much
tea is drunk: bad too.
Suicide Amono Jews.

For fifteen years no suicide of
Jew was recorded in the seven great
districts that comprise the most pop.
ulous part of central London. But of
late there have been several cases.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16

Wearing Out Motor Tires.
On heavy motor vehicles the cost
of the wear and tear of tires Is about
four cents mile.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
Doing Ones Best.

The habit of doing his best is one
which has never yet failed to helm a
man in life, whatever mis- work. what.
ever his aims.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16

Pisos Cure for Consumption is an infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.-N. W. SAMUEL,
Ocean Grove. N. j.. Feb IL. 1900.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Drug
gists refund money II 1t fails to cure K. W
GROVES signature Is on each box. 2oc.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
Largest Theater Staoe.

The largest theater stage in the
world is that Of the Paris grand
opera, which Is 100 feet wide by near.
ly 200 feet deep and so feet high
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
'EA

Why throw-away money
and comfort in buying poor
tea?
Your grocer returns your none, If you don't
like schilling's Best.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
TEA

We don't mind the money
the moneyback money
there isn't much of it.
Your grocer returns your money II you don't
like schilling's Best.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16

Climate Kills Blue Poppies.
The attempt to acclimatize in Eng
land the famous blue poppy of Thibe
has proved a failure.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16

Largest Grab Of Season.
The largest crab caught this sea.
son was in the North sea. 1t meas.
ured 2 feet 7 inches across.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-16
TIE

Whoever you are, wherever
you are, our tea is for you;
our moneyback money too.
Your grocer returns your money Il ;ou don't
like Schillings Best.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-26

prof of the inaptitude of that old
fogey institution. 1t was started by
a letter from Colonel Pollock to the
Spectator" In this he declared it
would be quite possible for any COM
pany officer of ordinary ability to take
a hundred recruits of the militia class
and by proper system of training to
make them thoroughly competent in
fantry soldiers and capable of meet
ing continental troops on equal terms.
LARGE FUND RAISED
Colonel Pollock offered to undertake
the training of such a company if the
necessary funds were provided. The
proposal coinciding with the policy
which Strachey had always advocated.
he undertook to raise the money
through the Spectator" In all some
this amount William Waldorf Astor,
the expatriated American multimil-
lionaire, contributed $4,000 and the
Duke Of Bedford another $4,000.
The hundred men chosen were in no
sense picked men, either regards
physique or intelligence. They fairly
represented the average material upon
which the nation would naturally be
dependent for a volunteer or militia
force. The majority of them were be-
tween Is and 20 years of age and none
of them was over %. In the matter
of trades or callings no preferences
were shown. Among them were ten
laborers, twelve clerks, four butchers,
four bricklayers. four walters, three
footmen, two diapers, a tailor and as
oddities, a billiard marker, a motor
cycle racer and weight litter. In order
to make the experiment conclusive one
point was rigidly insisted on. No man
was accepted who had received any
military training in any of the forces
of the crown. The fact that a man
had been in the volunteers was an
absolute bar to his enlistment.
GUIDED BY COMMON SENSE
There was nothing that could be
specified as distinctively novel in the
methods employed by Colonel Pollock
for making soldiers out of young men
in one-sixth of the time ordinarily
deemed requisite. 1t was simply mill
tary training, dominated by common
sense, without regard to traditional
rules and regulations Colonel Pol
locks secrets-if he had any-consist-
ed in bringing out the mems individ-
uality, in eliciting their sense of ini-
tiative, in making them interested in
their work and preventing them from
becoming dull and stale by compelling
them, as drill sergeants do, to do the
same thing over and over again an end
less number of times without knowing
any reason for so doing.
They were treated as reasoning be-
ings and not as human automatons
Everything superfiuous in the training
of soldiers as ordinarily pursued in the
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-26

LONDON, Nov. Ito j. ST. Loe
Strachey, the scholarly editor of the
Spectator, one OF the most influential
Of high-class English weekly journals,
and Colonel A W. Pollock, an officer
who has freed himself from the shack
les of military traditions, are due
the successful carrying out of an ex-
pertinent which may be destined to
work revolution in the training and
organization of the military forces of
the British Empire. They have proved
that it is possible by six months of
rational training to make complete in
fantry soldiers out of average raw re-
cruits-men whom Sir John French,
one Of the ablest generals in active
service in the British army, has pro-
nounced quite fit to take their place
in the ranks with regular troops" And
this was no snap judgment The opin-
ion was expressed after the men had
been under the vigilant eye for week
Of Aldershot, participating in the ma
neuvers of seasoned soldiers of the
regular army.
Heretofore IL has been maintained
by the martinets Of the war Office that
a man could not be put through the
military hopper and turned out at the
other end an efficient soldier in less
than three years.
The success which has attended the
experiment Is OF even greater interest
to America than ii is TO England, be-
cause America. to a much greater ex-
tent than England. is dependent for
her military strength on an efficient
citizen force. capable, should the neces-
sity arise, Of cooperating effectively
with regular troops in the field. A
United States military attache was one
Of the keenest observers of the system
OF training employed and was present
st the formal disbandment of the COM
pany.
KING INSPECTs COMPANY
The men had been in training only
two months when the King, with that
penetration and discrimination of
Judgment which enable him TO realize
what may prove 10 be important move
ments, be their beginnings ever so
small. commanded the company to ap-
pear before him at Windsor After
devoting an hour to their inspection
he addressed a few words TO them, in
which he stated that they were en-
gagged in an experiment which might
prove to be OF national Importance"
In conversation with Strachey he dis
PLAYED the keenest interest in the
scheme. Now that the experiment has
proved a success it may be taken for
granted that his Majesty will exert his
influence to secure its adoption on a
large scale.
The fact that the great object lesson
has been achieved entirely through
private enterprise and owes nothing to
war ONCE initiative affords striking