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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-02-23

The idea of this arch was suggested
the Revolution, by Mrs. Adeline F..
Fitz, regent of the state society If
Massachusetts,
The reasons presented by Mrs. Fitz
were these: 1t was in New England
the American revolution had its birth
1t was in Cambridge that Washington
took command of the American army,
whose integrity, skill and undaunted
patriotism accomplished our countrys
freedom"
Again, we feel" said Mrs. Fitz.
that to place a memorial in a COM
munity where thousands would gath.
er inspiration and thousands of visit
ors from all lands revert the deeds of
the founders of our republic at the
birthplace of freedom would be a glori-
GUS accomplishment for our society"
This recommendation having re-
ceived the approval of the general So
ciety, Mrs. Fitz brought the matter
before Mayor DAILY of Cambridge, ask
ing that a site for the proposed me-
mortal arch be granted at the entrance
to the old Cambridge common, near
the Washington elm. The matter was
referred to the city council and the
plans have since been under consider
alton by the municipal art and park
commissions and other committees
having jurisdiction in such matters.
Notwithstanding that up to the pres
ent time the plans have been some
what tentative, during the past few
months something over 500 was
raised toward the fund of $4,000 neces-
sary to complete the memorial.
AS the members of the society in all
parts of the country have undertaken
to raise this sum as a part of their pa
triotic work the coming year, it is
hoped that it will be realized early in
the spring.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-02-23

make you irritable; you can't sleep
you are unable to quietly and calmly
perform your daily tasks or care fol
your children.
The relation of the nerves and gen.
erative organs in woman is SO close
that nine-tenths of the nervous pros
tration, nervous debility, the blues,
sleeplessness and nervous irrita bility
arise from some arrangement of the
organism which makes her a woman.
Fits of depression or restlessness and
irritability spirits easily affected, so
that one minute she laughs, the next
minute weeps; pain in the abdominal
region and between the shoulders
loss of voice; nervous dyspepsia; a
tendency to cry at the least provoca-
tion-all these point to nervous pros
tration.
Nothing will relieve this distressing
condition and prevent months of pros
tration and suffering so surely as Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. M. E. Shotwell, of 103 Flatbush
Avenue, BROOKLYN, N. Y, writes:
81 cannot express the wonderful RELIEF I
have experienced by taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. ] suffered for
a long time with nervous prostration, back
T. he, headache, loss of appetite. l could
vt sleep and would walk the floor almost
every night.
81 had three doctors and got no better, and
Life was burden. l was advised to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it has worked wonders for me.
~ am a well woman, my nervousness is all
gone and my friends say I look ten years
younger"
Will not the volumes of letters from
women made strong by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound convince
all women of it's virtues? Surely you
cannot wish to remain sick, weak
and discouraged, exhausted each day.
when you can be as easily cured as
other women.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-02-23
EUROPE PRESERVED BY TRIFLE.
Vanity Of Musa Kept Him From Lead
ing MosIems at Tours.

ing moslems AT Tours.
The most striking case in history
of the Importance of trifies is fur
nished by the story Of .dusa, the lead
er of the Mosle1n host which won
from Christendon, in three and half
years dominions which it took the sol
diers of the cross twenty generations
to win back.
He had red beard; this was a
trifie. Musa, though a very great
general, was very vain man, and
he dyed his beard black. This was
another trif1e. One of his captains
chaffed him on the subject and Musa
forthwith had him stripped and
scourged
For this, at the very height Of his
conquering career, he was recalled by
the caliph and disgraced. This made
it impossible for him to command the
Moslem army at the battle of Tours
on the issue of which, as all histor-
ians agree, the destinies of Europe
and perhaps Of the whole human race
depended.
1t is almost certain that, If the
genius Of Musa had replaced the in
competence of the half-dozen tribal
leaders, whose discussions made vic
tory possible, the forces of Islam
would have joined hands from the
west to the east and inclosed Europe
in their grasp.-Stray Stories.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-02-23

of the saddle; now no dray moves
more readily to the thill than l to the
painters chair
Few distinguished men of our
day" Mr.. Taylor asserts, IF they were
painted by so many different artists,
would show without variation in such
a range of portraits the kindly phases
OF character which are reflected from
the canvases that we have been CON
sidering. We can no longer believe
those historians who tell us of the
habitual stateliness and reserve of
Washington. When not on his profess
sional dignity, he must have been
geniality itself"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-02-23
HOUSE OF WASHINGTON RELICS
Hasbrouck Home in Newburg, N. ",
Full of Revolution Reminders

vi U nCNOiutiOn ncninucTS.
The beautiful city of Newburg, on
the Hudson river, has honored itself
and conferred priceless boon upon
the state by preserving the old Has
brouck house, which served as Wash
ington's headquarters from April a,
1882 to Aug. is, 1888
Built by Jonathan Hasbrouck in
1850, it has the comfortable look of
the unpretenticus ory-and-a-half
house of the period, and stands finely
on the sloping bank of the river The
walls of the house are of stone, two
feet in thickness, An old-fashioned
Dutch stoop or porch opens upon the
first floor with it's six rooms in addi-
ton to the kitchen. The ceilings are
low, with heavy timbers of hewn
wood, which support the floors of the
upper rooms, originally only four in
number. The sloping roof is sustain
ed by long timbers of roughly hewn
cedar wood. which still gives out the
pleasant odor peculiar to that tree.
While some changes have been nee
essary, the house to-day is very near
ly just what it was when Gen. and
Mrs Washington occupied it with
their military fanil
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-02-23

Plans for the historic arch which is
to be erected at one of the entrances to
the old Cambridge (Mass) common by
the national society, Daughters of the
Revolution, have been approved, and
the work will begin Immediately.
When the plans were first presented
to Mayor DAILY of Cambridge the pro
posed site for the arch was at the en-
trance to the common near the his
toric Washington elm. However, az
ter the various committees had been
consulted in the matter the site was
changed to the entrance at the inter-
section of Gardner street and Massa-
chusetts avenue, very nearly opposite
Christ church.
The plan for the arch is suggestive
of colonial architecture, fanked on
either side by law walls, that form a
recess. On each of the side walls are
low stone seats. Between the two
large gateposts is a wrought iron arch,
having in the center the seal of Massa-
chusetts.
The arch will cover an area 30 feet
in length and 10 feet in depth. The
gate opening is about eight feet and
the arch will be Is feet high. Gran
lite is to be used for the stone work.
and the recess is to be paved with
granolithic blocks.
On the walls at either side of the
gate posts there will be two handsome
bronze tablets setting forth the pur
pose of the memorial. On one tablet
is the seal of the society and figures
representing Justice and Prosperity,
with the inscription: Near this spot
Washington took command of the con-
tinental army July 9Th, 1775." Erect
ed by the Daughters of the Revolu-
ton" (the date to be added. The 9th
er tablet has a portrait of Washing
ton, with the continental flags, and
figures representing peace and war.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-02-23
GREAT STATESMAN AS HE WAS.
Portraits of Washington Have Not
Done Him Justice

"Napoleon's cynical definition of
history as a lie agreed upon has a
direct application to the general ac-
ceptance of most inaccurate port
raft of Washington. Whatever the
father of his country may have looked
like, he certainly did not resemble
the popular Stuart. This rather
startling assertion is made by Will
lam Curtis Taylor the text of an in
teresting study in the Booklovers
Magazine His method of proof IS
ito secure a scientific confirmation of
the agreements and comparative eff
facement of the disagreements of the
original artists" for whom Washing
ton actually sat. After a careful study
of over 1000 engravings and a num-
Der of original paintings and various
coins at the mint, final reference
was made to composite photography,
three applications being made. The
selections for the several groupings
we're not arbitrary, but were guided
only by the point of view of the feat
ures." The resulting Washington is
remarkable in its definiteness of out
line and lifelike appearance. The re
productions of the original paintings
which accompany the article are very
helpful in following Mr.. Taylor's in
teresting discussion of the individual
of the different artists.
Washington gave at least forty-five
sittings to over score of aspirants,
besides posing for several shadow sill
houettes. How he regarded this tax
on comfort he remarked in letter to
a friend: 81 am so hackneyed to
the touches of the painters pencil
that | am now altogether at their
beck and sit like Patience on monu-
ment while they are delineating the
lines of my face. At first | was as
at the request and as rest
i've under the operation as colt is
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-02-23
He turned another page:
EVIL Effect of overeatlnq.

Anything over and above the guam
tity Of nourishment required to re-
place the waste which Is constantly
going on in the body is not only un-
necessary, but is apt to do harm.
Overeating is as mischevious as I'M
dereating- perhaps even more 80.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-02-23
woMAN's FoNDNEss FOR DRESS
Antiquary Shows It Has Been the
Same in All Ages.


An antiquary was chuckling over
an article on extravaganza in Dress
"a man wrote this, III warrant" he
said. Men are always writing such
things. See what man wrote In 1880
of a certain Miss Phraser's gown"
And he read from his notebook:
'This lovely rich gown, of the best
brocade, much bejeweled and en-
broidered, cost $50 pounds. 1t rights
Sir Cave Scroope, who is much In love
with her, from marrying her, saying
his estate will scarce maintain her
in clothes"
He turned another page:
Mime de Montespan," he read,
wore at a great court festival a
gown of gold on gold, embroidered
in gold bordered with gold, and over
that a gold frieze stitched with GER
tain gold which makes the most d.
vine stuff imaginable. But why deck
out the human form with such ruin
Gus extravaganza? ?"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-02-23
pisappointed Naval offcers.

The British naval officers who help
ed entertain the French fleet recently
at Portsmouth expected to receive
crosses from the France government.
but they received only souvenir paper
knives
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-02-23
Nervous Women
Their Sufferings Are Usually
Due to Female Disorders
Perhaps Unsuspected
A MEDICINE THAT CURES

Can we dispute
t h e well known
factthatAmerican
women are ner-
vous 7?
How often dove
hear the express
sion, 81 am so ner-
vous, it seems as if
| should fly" or,
Don't speak to
me-" Little things
annOV YOU and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18
NEITHER TRUTH NOR POETRY

HESE melancholy days for Ruef He sits in his Office
quoting Shakespeare and Horace mounful numbers The
time is of joint "Who steals my purse" he cries aloud
steals trash It's NINE It's his It's everybodys but he who
rob takes that which benefit
him makes poor indeed If be urged Shakespeare
did such lame and mpoten stuff that only say
that Ruef thinks he did, persuaded that he improve the
original
1t pathetic lament truly Who steals Ruef purse steals
trash He willing that anybody shall help himself from that
oapacous bag property and belongs everybody,
including Martin Kelly MYRTLE Cert dear Jim Gallagher
Possibly the French might throw light
that Of interest and the 5000 good hard trash
contributed by them for blackmai theirs,
the process of conversion seems to stop
It's slight thing this S5OOO steals Ruefs good
name rascal well fool But who has stolen Rues good
name and where did he find it? Was the third story of
French the of dive? The impartial
observer might be forgiven for thinking that the who
ceeded depng Rue OF his good name would confer distinct
benefit the loser except far that used
means Of blacknai and crowbar. to pry Doodle
For trash read cash who steals steals DOODLE lis
mine twas Banco Marchands Ganey but he who flches
from good robs of that which encheth him
and ! would gladly give away"
The time Shakespeare certificate of
the poet correctly soveny habit msquoe mangle
Rue improvement Shakespeare and just complaint is
that he gives neither truth poetrys
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18
IN THE VEIN OF BoMBAsTEs

Yale had competition
the University of Chicago the making OF surprises
from Yale that Lieutenant Totten parayze the world
with weather prophecies and it is from Yale that Professor
Pease Norton Illuminating against disease and death He pro-
that the United States shall abolish both Now
thunderbot szze:
The fearful dreadful havoc
wrought be described The battles
bloody mailed
by
twelve
months blasted hopes
began.
persons during
their last solemn sautaus who doubt
well lived faire gold Who
that the hours silently remind And
mortal"
would expect that kind of incenday language
professor of political economy would you? The neable Twigg
of Chicago obscured obteraed There grease spot
left of him by the Yale
These crimson bouevad shall be washed clean and white
the driven There shall be market for threnads
whether they verdict blank type
The death chaots and the underakers will business
skulls shall grin
has remedy, simple enough some more
you national board health will do the
trick
It bewidering frenzy of language that Norton INDUCES
professor OF political economy might
dismal and writing egegious
Bombases Furioso
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18
In the Joke World

gant2
MeGann-she is; she's had twins
twfce.-Puck.
Don't you think kissing 70 q very
foolish practice?'
We'll. must say IL n sonetrfnr
always set my face againsta-BaItI-
more American
Mrs. Newlywed--My husband adrnfrsa
everything about me-ny voice. nv
eyes, my form. my hands,
Friend-And what do you admire
about him?
Mrs Newlywed-ais good tas%>,-
Batter
Yes. he was pretty we'll fixed at one
time. but he got silver crazy In fsas
and lost all he had"
Il suppose he's still interested In
free silver at 16 to ~"
mo He's more interested now In
free lunch. IL to 1"-rhiIadelphia
Ledger.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18

ing Arctic pictures and told the story
Of his difficulties in obtaining them.
Many of these pictures were obtained
when the temperature was fifty degrees
below zero. He first tried the expert
ment of using celluloid films, but the
Intense cold cracked them and the
fragments clogged up the machinery.
Mr.. Fiala is an expert photographer.
Joseph Chamberlain has always been
averse to too freely dispensing his
autographs Quite early in his political
career he had slips printed informing
his correspondents that Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain has been obliged to make
rule not to give his autograph On
the other hand Lord Rosebery has been
known to accompany his autograph
with humorous little note advising his
correspondent to turn his or her at
tention to something more useful than
collecting specimens of handwriting.
The late Lord Graulley married the
daughter of an island fisherman. His
widow beautiful but totally illiterate
woman, although she had become by
her marriage an English peerless of
the realm, survived her husband for
nearly twenty years without ever 1eav-
ing the island of Capri, retaining her
peasant dress and habits and living
happily and contented among her kins-
folk.
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale has
been elected president of the American
Antiquarian Society at its meeting just
held in Worcester, Mass Captain
comp1ished the most remarkable event
of the year in his rediscovery of the
Northwest Passage, was elected an
honorary member; also George Edward
Fox of London and Professor Bernar-
| dino M. Colmbra of Portugal.
1t is estimated that In all some 500
wealthy American women have married
titled foreigners and that the agere-
100000. The most heavily lowered
bride was the Duchess of Roxburghe,
with fortune of $40,000,0oO. The 9TH
ers include the Duchess of Marlborough
| SIC. 100000; the late Lady Curzon, s5,-
100000; Countess Castellane. $4,000
900; Mrs. Vivian, $4,000. 900; Baroness
Halkett. s1o.00o.oo0; Lady William
$2,500,0oo; Countess Won Larisch. s4.-
100000.
! A French writer attended the last
Lord Mayors parade in London and
was vastly impressed with the appear
ance of the coachman who drove the
newly chosen executives carriage. NO
body who has not seen him can imagine
him." says the writer. He is as round
as an apple. as round as a ball, or
rather as round as the earth itself. He
is rosy and chubby of face and his body
| is a formidable paradox. And this
astonishing man sits enthroned with a
wondrous dignity midway between
earth and sky. His lip is scornful and
he needs not the remarks of the crowd
He sees or hears nothing but his
horses"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18
Hu1nors of the Town
Bv james 6. Crawford

! trolman who was accused before tbs
Police Commission of an Eastern city
of having been intoxicated while on
duty.
II ask your honorable body TO dis
miss this complaint against my eli
emit" said the lawyer. because II IS
not properly drawn Should he be
punished in any way II would be my
painful duty to take the case TO the
State Supreme Court and enter an ac-
ton against your honorable body for
damages. The charge. as drawn, Is
perfectly absurd"
The commission fidgeted uneastly
and requested TO be enlightened as to
the alleged absurdity
ITO the most ebtuse mind" said the
pleader 1T should be apparent that Il
is impossible for man TO be 1ntoxi-
Gated on duty If he should be in
toxicated he Is. of course. incapaci-
tated for duty Therefore. II my cli-
emit was intoxicated he could not have
been on duty
That was drawing A technicality
even finer than the difference between
eating ice cream and drinking lemon
phosphate.
San Francisco's protracted passivity
while graft reigned is remindful Of the
story OF the boys and the crabs
When the boys wanted crab-claWs
they went fishing. pulled a claw or
each crab they caught and threw the
crustaceans back into the water to
grow new claws. and when the stock
of claws thus obtained was exhausted
the boys went grabbing again and re-
peated the performance. AT last the
crabs became so accustomed to being
behaved. so TO speak. that when they
saw the boys approach the water they
would hurry ashore. hold up a claw
and say:
Here we arel Hurry up and Grip
pie u.s."
Always do right" said the sympa-
thizer encoura giRgly to the indicted
looter. 'and your friends viii stand by
you"
Yes" was the bitter response. but
the time when a man needs friends 70
stand by him is when he does wrong"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18

rYGIENIC science may be bene-
IL fciary of the formal proceed
ing in which Police Sergeant
Birdsall is accused OF having
eaten Ice cream in a Van Ness avenue
freezery.
Admitting that he approached the
sizzling fount, the Sergeant sets UP
the technical plea that his purpose was
not to partake of CONCEALED milk. but
to purchase and consume a glass of
lemon phosphate, which" quoting a
newspaper report, lit was necessary
for him to drink owing to an epidemic
that was prevalent in his family 1t
now devolves upon the Police Com
mission, ere disposing of the charge
against the sergeant. to ascertain and
promulgate the exact nature of the
contagious or infectious disease that
can be baff1ed by means OF lemon phos-
phate.
There is no reason to doubt the
commissions Willingness to do this,
any more than there is ground for sus-
pecting that the arraignment of Ser
geant Birdsall was prompted by other
than hygienic motive. While no off,
cial statement to the effect has been
issued, 1t is logical to assume that the
sergeant was "carpeted' for eating
Ice cream because his superior officers
believed that ice cream might impair
his health. Else why was he brought
up with a sharp turn for eating ice
cream, while other wearers OF the uni
form are tacitly permitted to tmbibe
beer and other healthful beveragesY
Some OF us who are still young re-
member when the terrible tyro-tox-
icon, whose bite was sure death, was
discovered in Ice cream, and thought
full squires of DANES quoted the scien-
tific reports of the ravages to their
best girls-not one OF whom discon-
tinued ice cream and fattening the
purses of their masculine escorts But
feminine recklessness in the face OF
appetite should not pertain to sturdy
policemen
Apropos of Sergeant Birdsalrs tech
meal plea is the tale of young at
torney's argument in behalf OF pa
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18
MRS MALApRop & CO., PUBLISHERS

1.-THE ingenious rather obvious methods of literary exploita-
themselves the of
majority of the works they advertise We
familiar with the puff friendly the boost lofty fire.
cracker literary and the appeal startling Now
the ered chaprone Thus pleased noted
writer of fiction these:
1909 Vallejo Francis
October So 1906
c of
CASA GRANDE
By Charles Duff o
An idyll laid stirring and
Literature borrows the methods OF society writes
with air Of detachment and that
subject which suggests relationship
between stephr and godfather and does not
seven of Earring adectveskc others of the The
much sobrey that might be invitation pink
shall Mr. Duff Stuart dy laid among stirring
scenes with the remark that idys not laid that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18
Queensland, One Of the Australian
States, Is Prosperous

-HE dry weather which prevailed
during the winter and spring of
1905 was destructive of grain
crops in Queensland, Australia.
The 1885 acres of wheat yielded
1,137,S21 bushels. or an average OF 80
bushels per acre. In 1904 the total
acreage in wheat was 1898, with an
average of IT. bushels per acre. There
were $4,000 acres of barley sown last
year, 1000 acres less than in 1904 The
cultivation of maize did not suffer so
severely as other grains. There were
1l3.720 acres under cultivation, yielding
2,542,766 bushels. an average of 21.3
bushels per acre.
The year 1906 was the second best
sugar season ever experienced In
Queensland. From the 96,093 acres of
cane crushed there were obtained 4l5,-
745 tons of cane and 152,722 tons OF
sugar The machinery and skill avail
able for the manufacture of sugar are
of a character to leave little scope for
advance in economic productiveness
after the cane has left the field, ex-
cept with regard to the utilization Of
by-products. There was a marked in
crease in the cultivation of cotton,
when I'll acres, yielding $1,000
pounds, were grown, as against
so ac1es. yielding 1882 pounds, in
1904. Most of the crop was ginned
at Ipswich. where $4,000 pounds were
treated.
At the end of 1905 there were in
Queensland 43o.565 horses, 2,965,695
cattle. 12.535.23l sheep and 164.067 pigs.
an increase of 17.4o0 horses, 24l,355
cattle and l.s9l,76I sheep over 1904.
There were killed for export and home
consumption 264.9s1 head OF cattle ard
975,227 head of sheep during the year
The total export of wool was 53,07z, 1877
~,c,yuSc x1o1sxod 81 7E6 If ruxFic17