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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-03-30
To Rouse by Phonoglaph.

Clocks are now being made which In
stead of striking them, speak the
hours through an ingenious application
Of the talking machine. The inven'
tor has made clocks with speaking
discs Of various kinds to serve as
alarms. You can be awakened by the
vigorous Growing Of a cock or the
sound Of a well-known voice. They
are arranged to call out in various de-
gree Of meditation, some loud enough
to rouse the soundest sleeper. As
alarm clocks, they should in time gu
persede all others, for the discs can be
changed as often as the fancy dictates,
SO that the sleeper will not become so
familiar with the call as to continue
his slumber. as often happens in the
use Of the ordinary clocks with bells.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-03-30

and manager Of the famous Bath Or
chestra.
During the last half Of the seven
teenth century while Herschel was
winning undying fame, there -four
1shed more great men than in any
other equal number of years during
the two centuries.
A partial list includes the names
Of Benjamin Franklin, Fox, Pitt and
Burke, the great English barristers;
Hume and Gibbon, the great histo-
rians; Watts, the inventor Of the
steam engine; Sheridan and Garrick,
the play actors and writer's; Gains
borough, West and Reynolds, the
painters; Voltaire, the French author
and critic; Paine, the French atheist;
Blackstone, the greatest of legal au-
thorities; Goldsmith, the poet; the
Duke Of Wellington; George the
Third of England, and our own i'm
mortal Washington.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-03-30
THE FAMOUS CANvASBACK DUCK,

Deception in the preparation of our
foods not only is the stock-in-trade Of
the manufacturer, but large hotel
keepers are guilty also. Wise, indeed,
is the man who can tell when he 10
eating canvasback duck. There is ap.
parently but n way to distinguish
the canyasback, and that is by the Gel.
cry flavor impaired to its flesh. The
celebrated ducks of the Chesapeake re.
gion and those Of Wisconsin are noted
for this flavor, the former living al.
most entirely on an aquatic weed
known as wild celery, and the latter
upon the extensive celery fields Of the
', o'verine State. And yet the owner
OF the hotel saves money when he has
the common duck fed and fattened on
celery; served on the table its flavor
Is the same as the wild bird.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-03-30

heads, filled with the freshly cut fruit.
To one who has always lived in the
North, the colored part Of the commun-
ity, would be the most interesting feat.
ure Of this southern city On every
corner were groups of men and boys,
hands in their pockets, lazing in the
sunshine, women earring big baskets
CT laundry work on their woolly heads,
end pickaninnies rolling and tumbling
everywhere. I reached the steamer
we'll satisfied with my sight of Charles.
ton and at 2 P. M. we left the Harbor.
The remainder of the day was bright
aad although cool, We stayed on deck
until dark. We passed close to Fort
it was difficult to realize that the first
note of war was sounded from that
spot nearly half a century ago.
The St. Johns In Florida.
The next day was bright, warn and
beautiful, and at I A. M. we entered
the st. Johns River in Florida, with
i.s low banks, entirely devoid Of inter.
est. R,a:hin- Jacksonville in the
Eornin, we drove all over the city,
saw the large new hotels, and some
handsome dwellings and the built.up
district over which the big fire had
swept. We took the train for st. Aug
ustine-one of the dreams of my life
was to be realized--and rode for more
than an hour through woods Of the
long leaf pine, and the scrub palmetto,
then behold! the bay and the quaint
old city. State Senator S.--who was
in my husbands company during the
war, met US with his carriage, and his
hospitality was so imperative, that we
could but accept. He owns a pretty
place a little out of the city on San
Marco Avenue, where We spent a pleas.
ant evening with him and his wife, and
the next morning he drove us all over
the old town, past the superb hotels,
the old Spanish houses-the Oldest is
900 years-through the narrow streets, !
the narrowest Ave feet wide, to the
barracks, and along the beautiful bay,
while beyond Anastasia Island lay the
ocean.
Palms and Tropical Fruit.
"~'he Plaza" overlooking the bay,
teens with tropical growths, palms,
bananas, oranges, tree ferns, agaves
and many things I did not know. At
the end stands the old slave market.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-03-30
RELIC OF BULL RUN.
a Small Monument Erected on the
Spot at the Time Of the Battle.

A Small Monument Erected on the
Spot at the Time Of the Battle.
This rude little monument stands
on the bloodiest section of the Bull
Run battlefelds about one thousand
yards northwest of the crossroads
at Groveton. The site Of the monu-
ment is by the bankslde of the "old
railroad cut" Before the civil war
a railroad was projected to run from
the Manassas Gap Railroad at Gains
willie, Va. northeast to Leesburg,
crossing Bull Run at sudley Springs.
The railroad was graded with a sue
cession of, "cuts" and "flls," from
GAINESVILLE to Sudley, a distance Of
about three miles. No ties or rails had
been laid when at the outbreak Of
the war work stopped. In the second
battle Of Bull Run, Jackson took ND
bis position along the line Of railroad.
Back OF Groveton the line ran
through a long low hill and this
"cut" was In the center Of the Con-
federate line. Here the effort to dis
lodge Jackson was most stubborn
and thousands Of Union soldiers fell
In the unsuccessful attempt. After
Appomatox, when the Union army
was on the march back to Washing
ton, many of the troops returned by
way Of the old Warrentown turnpike
which runs through these bloody
fields. The bones of the Union SOL
diers who fell there had not at that
time been exhumed and taken to Ar
lington. The returning veterans
paused long enough to erect and dedi-
cate this monument. 1t stands in
the woods in an isolated place and
very few persons ever visit It.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-03-30

The shores Of Chesapeake Bay
abound plentifully in wild celery
the chief article of diet Of the canvas.
back duck. The plant grows entirely
under water, and the duck, in order
to obtain the buds and shoots Of the
plant, must, at times, remain under
water as long as two minutes. Then,
too, they often lose the choice morsel,
for the baldpate lies in wait ready to
snatch 1t from the diver. The poor,
misguided ~canvasback Is easily be-
guiled to its death by the waiting gun.
ner through the use of decoys made
Of wood or other light material. But
II wounded by the shot Of the rifeman
all its energy is aroused. Hit, 1t drops
into the water, and, diving, swims un,
der water for immense distances In
order to escape the retriever.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-03-30
HISTORY OF RAIN DROPS,
As TRACED FROM THE STORM
TO THEIR FINAL ENGULEMENT
IN THE OCEAN,

Uncle SANS Extensive Work In In.
vestigatfng the Water Supply
Great Subterranean RiverS-Po.lu.
ton of Domestic Water.
The history Of the rain drops and
the snow flakes from the time of their
formation till it merges with the
ocean, to be again eyaporated and re.
peat the process, is ofttimes a long and
devious one. Some Of the rain of
course falls back into the ocean; but
much finds a temporary abiding place
on the tops If high inland mountains,
and enjoys a year or more Of travel
and usefulness before 1t finally reaches
it's old mother ocean.
The Government Is devoting con.
siderable energy to the accumulation
and dissemination of facts concern
ing the behavior of Waterfront lifetime
1t reaches the earth as rain Dr. snow
until it joins the ocean or great navi'
gable rivers. Public appreciation of
the value Of this work has steadily in
creased, and urgent demands for its
extension have come from all sections
Of the country. The work includes the
collection of data relating to the flow
of surface streams, researches on the
location and movements Of under
ground waters,-great su~bterranean
rivers which move with elaboration
and the Investigation Of the physical
character of these waters, such as
hardness, color, turbidity, etc. The
sources and effects of the pollution of
municipal water supplies have also
received much study.
Measuring the Streams Flow.
AS a means of obtaining reliable re-
cords Of stream discharge in the i'm
portant river basins of the country,
approximately 800 gauging o. measur-
ing stations r maintained by the
Government. The records furnished
by these stations are used by man
facturers and investors in planning the
development of water power, by NUM-
cipalities in neutrality-suspicious. OF water
supply, and by irrigators in determin-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-03-30
HcrscheIa Great Musician.

It may not be generally known
that Herschel, who In spite Of all OBJ
stacles became the greatest Of as
tronomers, was a most brilliant mu-
sician as well, and in his earlier life
taught music and was the proprietor
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20
A Tale Of the Links.

T HIS is a golf story. The other
Saturday afternoon, the day when
- it showed last-a well-known
young man about town HE'D him to
one of the country clubs and started
out upon the links with his iron thing
imbob and his woodstabber and copper
slicer. This was before the snow.
Soon the flakes began to thicken and
the clubs St. Bernard was sent way
out to the ninth hole on the work of
rescue to find the lost player The
dog carried bottle of cocktail mixture
and found the golfer buried up to his
neck in sand and snow. The gopher
warmed up to the cocktail mixture and
came back to the clubhouse with celer-
ity and the makings, or more properly
speaking, the foundation for "bun. -
The other gowfers gathered about
and the barboy became overworked and
the fragile and puny ''bun' took on
the proportions of a souse. Late that
night the gowfer journeyed to the
village and was landed upon his own
doorstep. He caught the house as it
passed on the ninth lap and finally
stabbed the lock with his latchkey after
door and the bay window.
Now wiley was abed. A nurse was
with her. There was also a week old
son in the cradle who bore, in part, a
responsibility for the exhilarated con-
dition of the gowfer. 1t was way
along in the morning and WHEY and
nurse had listened to the key work of
hubby for some time and WHEY
knowing the way of the world-was as
wise as warehouse rat.
She resolved to test him, so calling
to him as he passed in the hall; she
asked:
"Deary, will you see if the fire is all
right in the furnace?''
She knew that if "deary' was
picked and attempted to negotiate the
cellar stairs with his cargo he would
fall down, break his neck and her
basest suspicious would be confirmed.
The way of women.
"Deary,' tho, fooled her. He sat
down upon the stairs, slid down tobog-
gan style, like kid on a cellar door
and-realizing that he was under sus-
picion-pounded all of the pipes with
poker until the baby woke up.
Then he returned up the stairs and
passing the door Of his wife's boudoir
remark, carelessly and gaily withal:
"All right, sweetheart. 1t was 69. -
He went on into his room, captured
the bed just as it crawled up over a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20
Little Less Than Crime.

IN HE matching Of poor, broken
down Terry McGovern against
= Jimmy Britt, in New York, is
little short Of a crime. McGovern, from
all accounts, should be in a retreat for
the mentally unbalanced instead Of be-
ing showed intoNa ring to take the bat
tering Of vigorous young opponent
who is in possessing Of such faculties as
Bat. Nelson did not punch out of him.
Wednesday afternoon McGovern
made another show Of himself at New
York track, clearly indicating that he
is unfit for training to say nothing of
battling. A promoter who will 60
ahead with battle in which a man
mentally unfit to attend to his own af-
fairs is put in the prize ring should be
put out Of the fight business in jig time.
McGovern, in his day, was great
little boxer. That was four or five
years ago and that stretch of time
means a lot of decline in the lives Of
most boxers. Time was when Terence
would have chased this Britt boy into
the birches in four rounds, but today
he is only shadow of his former self.
To put him in the ring these days
seems to invite a fatality like the Ten
nebaum affair in Frisco. If New York
is going to stand for battles with men
Of this class matched the quicker the
lid is slammed down the better.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20
MINNEAPOLIS CLERKS LOSE
st. Paul Bank Employees Prove Too
Fast for Minneapolitans. 80

Outplaying their opponents in all de-
partments in game of baseball which
was probably one Of the fastest amateur
games ever played in St. Paul, the St.
Paul bankers defeated the Minneapolis
bankers by a score Of to 6, yesterday
afternoon. -. .,
The game started well for the miElers,
who secured a run in their half Of the
first. The saints soon tied this and
from that time on, the game was any
one 8. Scharf, the miller pitcher, was
complete puzzle to the opposing bat
tiers.
The features of the game were the
pitching of Scharf, who allowed but
four hits and struck out eighteen men;
also a steal of home by Birch, the
miller shortstoD.
A wrangle followed play which oc-
Cured in the last of the ninth, when
Scharf struck the first batter out. The
last strike was wide one and rolled
slowly back to the stand, where the
catcher got it and threw the runner out
at first. The umpire called the man
out, but the saints disputed it and
after a time the man was allowed to
bat over again. He succeeded in reach
ing first and was advanced to third on
a hit and scored later on an error by
| the Minneapolis catcher y ~ e s..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20
Freaks at Montreal.
. HE French-Canucks at Montreal
went crazy at the Gotch-Pietre

~ HE French Canucks at Montreal
went crazy at the Gotch-Pietre
n match the other night and the
gendarmes had to clear the hall. Gotch
was loosening all Of the rivets in
Pietro's boiler and the French "sports-
men, in the audience got up and
started battle.
. Two or three Turks whipped about
sixty frogeaters and peace was restored
once more. The wrestlers continued to
grapple. Gotch went in pursuit Of the
core Of Piet' Adams apple, with a
strangle hold, and the natives of Brit
tany rose up once more and beloved like
spring calves in the first November
blizzard. The Turks started after them
again, but the village constabulary
broke in and cleared the hall, the
matching ending without result.
Sport in Montreal is real funny. In
the old days when Charley Dooley was
running the Montreal ball club the
stands were filled every day with
punches of these same 'fans.' Let a
batter drive out clean single that
went over second base or shortstop like
a bullet and the stands were silent.
They sat still with about as much en-:
thusiasm as barrel Of ashes in an
alley.
But let batter pop up balloon fly
and they woke up and cheered them
selves hoarse. The high flies caught
their fancy. A fielder could knock down
!, a rifle ball liner or make a one-handed
catch of one and they slumbered. Let
any old rheumatic, crockery leg walk
under a high fly and catch it and they
cheered again. Scoring did not attract
them. They cheered the men who
knocked up the high flies. They didn y
care whether Dooley won or lost. The
high balls had them hypnotized. t..
=: Charley Dooley-who is not French
was there SO long that he1could speak
the language like native and had al
| of the other teams beaten on coaching
His team understood the patois ant
Dooley stood on the coaching lines ant
told 'em what to do-in French. This
worked all right until Louie Lepine
who also knew the jargon, broke ontt
the circuit and Dooley had to change
to Gaelic or hatch up a set Of signals
1 AS something like eighty-seven men il
9 the league could or should speak Gaeli
/ Dooley made signs.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20
THREE NEW RECORDS
4. E MADE. At APPLETON
NIu y - III III ] AI ] O18
Wisconsin High School Meet Goes
to Oshkosh With Wall
sau Second.

Special to The Journal
Appleton, Wis, May 19.-Three new
records we're established at the high
school track meet here today: a..
D. Summarizes:
12o-Yard Hurdles-Bowen. Oshkosh first; Ad-
ANS Appleton, second; De Cheane, Sturgeon
Bay third Time, II 40.
bee. Wausau second; i Ulman, Appleton, third
Time 10 3-5.
Nile Run-Lampert, Oshkosh, first; Roach,
wausau. second Becker. Berlin, third. Time,
minutes 50 40 seconds New record.
44O=Yard Run-Simmons, Ripon, first; Richie,
Sheboyg second Barnes Appleton third
22o-Yard Dash-Bugbee, Wausau, first; Dem
ming, New London, second Minich, third. Time,
% 80 Ties former record.
y 22O- Yard Hurdles-De Cheane, Sturgeon Bay,
first; Rosenkranz, Oshkosh, second: Glassen, Fond
du Lac, third. Time, % seconds.
$3.50. Yard Run-Lampert. Oshkosh first: Ritch-
third Time 2 minutes Az seconds. New rec
Relay Race-Appleton, first: wausau second:
seconds. New record:
Discus Throw-Cook, East Green Bay, first;
De cheane,- Sturgeon Bay. second; Nelson, An.
TwelvePound Shot Put-De Cheane, Sturgeon
Bay, first; Trader, New London. second; Good.
win, Antigo, third. Distance. AZ feet inches.
Twelvepound Hammer Throw-Young. Wau
sau, first; Boyer, East Green Bay, second; Con
nors. Fond du Lac, third. Distance 125 feet
II inches. 81
Running High Jump-Bowen, Oshkosh, first
Adams, Appleton second; McGrath East Green
Bay, and Bugbee, Wausau, tied for third
Height, feet 2 inches.
| Pole Vault-Peterson.. Wausau, first; Bowen
Oshkosh. second; Ebben. Appleton. and Gillette
Fond du Lac, tied for third. Height, feet {
| inches.
! Standing of Teams-Oshkosh 90 Wausau 24b
| Appleton 1874, Sturgeon Bay IA, East Greer
Bay 1917, New London Z, Ripon 5. sheboygar
8. Fond du Lac 31s, Depere 1, Amigo 2, Ber
| lin 1, Kaukauna /.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20
Schlichter Mistaken.

Vv ? HILE football agitation was at
~ its height in Wisconsin Pro-
w lessor Schlichter was one Of
the big boosters for pacific forms Of
sport and for contests and competitions
that would be as gentlemanly as a
game of cribbage with deaf old lady.
While bordering over the ways and
means by which the savage woodsmen
of the Wisconsin wilds could be made
cooling doves in sport the professor and
some of his friends were hit with a
triple expansion, double barrelled, make
and break idea. They would introduce
soccer, as the English say, or socker,
as Chicago calls it, upon the campus at
Madison. -
With that end in view they invested
something like five bucks in a pair of
association footballs and delivered them
to the young burlies ON the badger
campus martins. They went home and
dreamed that night-perhaps-that the
next afternoon. the full enrolment,
goods, janitors and law school persons
would be chasing the soccker Gown di-
rivation of this word) football all over
the field. - g.
Right here was where Professor
Schlichter and the others missed fire. A
crowd of students whose team had
| licked Minnesota in their last season
was not going to sit down and shoot
frecrackers when there was wadding
and ammunition for the cannon. The
| soccker footballs were not used. One
is said to be peacefully sobbing it's life
away on a tin can shelf on Une armory
while the other disappeared. 1t is
rumored that sophomore had been in
tending, for long time, to buy one Of
those footballs for his bull pup to play
with anyway.
1t only goes to show that one or two
men can boost soccker as substitute
for real football, but ten thousand can
not make bunch of badgers play the
imported makeshift.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20
c. CARR AND DEMONT
LEAD sN|PE BRIGADE
Interesting Dope on the Batters
and on the Pitching
Stats.

There is a change in the batting lead
ership again this week, and Phil Geier
gives way to Charley Carr and Gene
Demont. Demont is the leader in the
hitting list, for while Carr tops him,
Demont has played in every game Of
the season, while Carr has played but
seven games
There are thirty batters in the 300
class this week. Last week there were
thirty four; Louisville has s, Indian
apolis, St. Paul and Kansas City each,
Toledo 4, Milwaukee 3, Columbus and
Minneapolis ! each. During the week
Bill Clark, Greminger, Stoner, Shaw,
Rothgeb, Kelley and Farrell dropped out
of the .30O-class, and Pcrrine, Pierce
and Waldron came into it.
Denny Sullivan is the only miller left
within the magic circle, but Lefty Da-
Wis is coming up close to the mark.
Greminger, Hart, Oyler and Graham arc
practically tie in the nelghborhood of
.235. He showed form by making hit
at least in nine consecutive games,
which is going some.
Another surprise is the hitting of
Zeke Wrigley of Columbus, who has
done So well that Clymer has put hin
in second place in the team s batting
order
Danny Green of Milwaukee has come
up the list at terrific clip, and looks
good to get into first place. He leads
the association in home runs, with five
to his credit thus far.
Jude the Toledo Indian has also been
hitting like thunderhot. The Louis
vile bunch has done the most consist
ent batting.
One year ago today there were only
twenty-five men hitting in the 300
class as against thirty this week.
These averages include Friday;
game. Here are the figures:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20

of the house have left after using them
for "little e" strings on the banjo.
A good story comes from Iowa. They
| are peculiar down in, the hawkeye dis
trict and protect pickerel just the same
as bass. Two youngsters had been out
In the Cedar river and had caught big
snake weighing about fifteen pounds
They had him on the end of a rope and
as the boat foated the big pick was
allowed to swim around in the water
A Jealous fish warden spotted the boys
and the fish. He approached the boat
as it came near shore and yelled:
eye bean't men, but ye be big
enough to kill pickerel out o. season
so must do my duty and arrest yell
"For what9'' queried one Of the kids
kids. a
"Ketchin' pickerel," was the reply
"But we hahn IT,
"What IS that in the water there?'
queried the jasper warden in indigna
ton. .|r -" '.-'.
f ooh, that big theft" remarked one
of the young liars calmly. eve was
just fshin' f r sunfish and the big
snake kept stealin' all our bait so W.
just tied him up there with rope unit
we got a few of the kind we wanted. !,
The warden, the story goes, had {
streak of humanity in him and perhaps
realizing that the boys would swea
him off the earth if he arrested them
turned back into the bushes with a nev
grip upon his "eatin' tobacco and tn
suspicion Of a smile on his face.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20
L.UNDS WILL TRAVEL
Sam Coughlin's Proteges Will Take
Car for Saltwater. -e

The "Lund Lands'' will go to Still
water today to play the A. 4. team. -
They will meet at Voegeli's at 10
am. and will reach Saltwater alta about
are we'll pleased with the showing Of
the team so far, and some Of the more
hopeful fans say the land men are in
for a trimming. At any rate it will
be a hard fought contest, and Cough
lin is taking no chances. \ crowd, Of
rooters will accompany the Lunl team,
and the boys are out to win. Hoel will
start to pitch, and Sam Kinnkle will
be the receiving artist. The teams
will line up as fololws: s..>ss-
Lund Lands-Hoke. second base; Kinkle, catch
err; Carlisle. third base; Phyle, first base; Cole,
right field; Kurke, center field; Price, left field
Hill. shcrtstop; Schurch, Schroeder and Hoel
pitchers. ~s
Saltwater A. A.-Castle, center field; Crow
ley, second base; Cook pitcher; North short
stop; Rorrowlnan, catcher; Book, third base
McDona'd, left field; Easton, right field; Burns
first bsssi