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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-06-07

The acme Of goodness is to love the
public, to study universal good, and to
promote the interests Of the whole
world, as far as lies in our power
Ruskin.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-06-07
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-06-07

The streak of yellow in the average
man is larger than his streak OF
genius.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-06-07

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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-06-07
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-06-07
A WONDERFUL GAIN.
A Utah Pioneer Tells a Remarkable
Story.

J. W. Browning, 1011 22d ST., Ogden,
Utah, pioneer who crossed the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-06-07

Aspiring minds must sometimes sus.
tain loss.--Plato.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03
SAMUEL pEpYs, SUNDAY.

Samuel Pepys describes a seven.
teenth century Sunday outing. and the
tale has a very modern ring in Il.
Lords day" he writes, up, and my
wife q little before to make uB
ready" And here he records his an-
noyanee that "she was SO long about
it." Pepys then goes on: "She ready,
and taking some bottles Of wine and
beer and cold fowle with u.s." Coach
and four horses from London to Ep-
som, where they arrived at 8 o'clock,
drank the waters. ordered dinner ana
ate it. "A good dinH~r and very
merry" After dinner. "th1 day being
wonderful hot to sleep
Then followed a coach to take the
ayre,' when they met shepherd with
a little boy. reading the Bible with the
forced tone that children do usually
read that was mighty pretty. Inc
shepherd did bless God" for that boy.
Then to the coach, it being about at
night.
Sc pleased was Pepys with his days
results that he records this resolution:
Never to keep country house. but TO
keep g coach, and with my wife on q
Saturday to go sometimes for day TO
this place and then quit to another
place. and there is more variety and az
little charge and no trouble as there
is In q country house."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

VT is now forty years since Schia-
parelli was so certain that he had
discovered canals on Mars that he
proceeded to describe them. The
astronomers of those days-a number of
them survive-received his deductions
with grave and polite incredulity, but
time has proved that the clever Italian
saw only that which may be seen by
others. Since that day those canals or
channels as Schiaparelli termed them.
have been seen by many astronomers,
both professional and amateur, and at
the present time no one doubts their
existence except perhaps those who
still cling to the "sun do move" theory
or Uncle Jasper.
But those canals are not the less mys-
terious on account of their willingness
to show themselves to jewellers on the
earth at certain seasons and under GER
tain conditions. They are a fruitful
and thus far fruitless-source of con-
lecture both to the astronomers and to
those whose imaginations go far beyond
the observations of the astronomers
who are as a class the most prudent
men alive. For twenty years the Amer
lean astronomers have been making
wonderful appearances in the planet
Mars q special study at the observatory
at Flagstaff. Ariz. This observatory is
provided with fine twenty-four inch
telescope, the largest in the world at
its elevation, 1880 feet above the sea
1t is on account of this altitude and the
remarkable clearness and dryneSs of the
atmosphere that this Arizona observa-
tory has long been regarded by e1-
perts as the point at which some OF the
most battling of the questions concern
ing Mars are likely to be settled.
Foremost In the Quest.
Professor Percival Lowell, director of
the observatory at Flagstaff, has long
been foremost in this effort to solve the
Marian secret. For a long time his
deductions were not accepted by the
more conservative scientists, and his
photographs of the canals Of Mars were
discredited. In time, however, other
observers secured successful photo
graphs, and Professor Lowells observa-
tions were confirmed both in America
and abroad One OF the most scholarly
and trustworthy investigators has been
the Able Moreaux. director of the OBJ
servatory of Bourges. who has con-
structed a map of Mars which is a
model of ingenuity. Professor Lowell
has also made one which shows no less
than 400 canals and IT'S GASES. The best
photographs show only about forty
canals and four GASES, but the eye is
superior to Photographic plates in de-
kning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

fireplaces require wood in winter. Be
fore he was president Mr.. Roosevelt
always spent several weeks in winter
at Sycamore Hill to enjoy sleighing on
the fine roads and to tramp over the
hills on snowshoes. When he gets back
to Sycamore Hill for the winter time
he will have enough firewood on hand
to last several seasons, for nearly every
morning now he picks up an ak, goes
out into the woods and chops down a
tree The mornings when he doesn't
chop tree down he chops one up. He
strips the branches from the tree he
felled the day before and cuts the
trunk and larger limbs into fireplace
lengths. Thus he enjoys both the poet
ry and the prose of roaring fire on
the hearth +rrs .
Sometimes He's Peter Pan.
Mr.. Roosevelt hears and heeds the
call of the wild every now and then
Perhaps it is call of the boy to the
man, for he likes to go and camp out
just as all boys do. Boys sometimes
play hockey from school and retreat to
some sequestered nook where they can
build a fire, cook sneaked food in to-
mato cans and be free for time. The
president of the United States is al
ways under guard. Uncle Sans secret
service men surround him, even at
Sycamore Hill But boy named
Theodore Roosevelt, ST., sometimes
manages to play hockey He eludes
the guards and goes out with another
boy named Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03
i'll Searching For the Inhabitants of Mars

courses Of the canals and has found that
one of them is 3,450 miles In length. Be-
side it the Panama canal and all the if-
rigation canals now under construction
in this country are trivial indeed.
It is for the sake Of his theories that
Percival Lowell has made this study
of Mars his life work. It was for this
purpose that he established the observ-
atory in Arizona, the subsequent stas
ton in Mexico and more recently the
Andean point of observation. from
which come of the most satisfactory
photographs have just been taken by
Professor Todd, his enthusiastic assist
ant. Endowed with money, brains and
the ar1or OF an enthusiast, no man is
better equipped for the undertaking.
The world expects great things of Pro-
lessor FeroivaI Lowell
JAMES E. TAYLOR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

a pitchfork and forled hay up to Ed
ward Maloney of the village, who
spread it on the wagon. When the
Roosevelt walked to the barn. Then
Roosevelt climbed into the hayloft
with his pitchfork, while Maloney
forked the hay through the window
and Roosevelt crammed it back in the
loft. If you eever worked at haying
you are well aware that Roosevelt
chose the hardest and hottest job when
he elected to do the inside work. Ma
loney says Roosevelt had on a white
negligee shirt and adds:
Before the first load was done you
wouldn't have given 80 cents for that
white shirt and talk about sweat
drops like peas, the president had them
as big as black wa1nuts dropping from
his. face, and he didn't stop to wipe
them off either, but kept right on pitch
ing up forkfuls SO big. that he had to
get under them and shove them up to
me. Then when he climbed up into the
loft and took the hay from the fork
and slowed it away more big drops
fell from him in streams"
No moIlycoddle could do that kind of
work. Mr.. Roosevelt can do it be-
cause he has been in lifelong training
for it. 1t is play for him.
"Oh, Woodman, Spare That Tree!"
There are many trees on the seventy
acres of Roosevelt land near Oyster
Bay. In the big house on Sycamore
Hill there are three ireplaces. Those
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

and the brothers and cousins OF this
Theodore. The big boy and the small
er boys get into a boat and row miles
and miles away to some quiet maven,
where they put up tent and camp out
overnight Theodore senior likes to
bury some CLAIMS in the sand and build
a fire over them for clambake. He is
one Of the boys. He is Peter Pan, who
never grew up. OF course in his other
identity he is president of the United
States, but he forgets it. Such SOL
emn responsibility as that is a good
thing to forget every little while.
A Vigorous Swimmer.
At the outlet of Owl creek close to
the Roosevelt home, is a bathing beach
Mr.. Roosevelt is not such a beach f1end
as the bow who recently loafed twelve
hours in the hot sunshine in his bathing
suit and lost large sections of his skin,
but he likes to swim. Frequently he
finds an hours leisure before luncheon,
after working at his official duties.
Lets all have a swim,' suggests pater-
farnilias. Down to the beach trips the
Roosevelt tribe, carrying towels. In
they go. and the father of the family
swirns vigorously, varying his stroke
to get the benefit OF muscle exercise.
A Fearless Rider.
Three saddle horses in the oyster
Bay stables give Mr.. Roosevelt variety
Of thrills in horseback exercise. One
of the animals is a specialist in jump
ing stone walls and rail fences. Mr..
Roosevelt is something OF a specialist
in sitting a horse at that exercise, and
during the summer he samples many
of the fences in his neighborhood. The
other horses he uses for riding along
the shady country roads and the sunny
stretches of Long Island scenery where
trees are scarce. Only a few days ago
he rode along a road where a laborer
was digging a trench. Everybody
around Oyster Bay is supposed to know
Mr.. Roosevelt, who makes a habit of
bowling or speaking a word in greet
ing when he passes by anybody. The
president was wearing a panama hat,
probably out of compliment to a GER
tain important ditch He lifted his PAN
anna and smiled affably at the trench
digger, who regarded him with a stony
stare. The president of the United
States passed on. The man in the
ditch turned to a bystander and asked
disgustedly, who's that fresh guy?'
The ditch digger of course was a
stranger in those parts and likewise
a stranger to the fact that there are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

men rich enough to ride a spirited
horse and wear a panama hat and yet
democratic enough to take notice of
man who is doing his days work in a
ditch. Mr.. Roosevelt, in following out
his individual theory of playing, has
come in contact with all sorts and con-
ditions of men. and to him a mans e
man.
He Plays Hard.
Sometimes Mr.. Roosevelt plays-ac-
tualIy plays--at games. He likes lawn
tennis best. While this is a pastime
for ladies' as we'll as for men, when
played hard it is really quite as vigor-
Gus as forldng hay or chopping wood.
Mr.. Roosevelt plays it hard. His ten
mis- courts at Sycamore Hill furnish
him frequent opportunity to make his
white negligee shirts look like 80 cents,
in Mr.. Maloney's lingo. Many golfers
feel sighted because Mr.. Roosevelt
cares little or nothing for that game.
1t Is probable that he ignores golf be-
cause it is too long between strokes.
He prefers playing that keeps his mus
Giles in constant action, particularly the
arm and shoulder muscles. Fighting q
pasture full of cats--if there were such
a game--would be more in his line than
golf.
The first president of the United
States owned a large farm and was
wont to guperintend 1T by riding around
and giving instructions. He rode one
day in o chilly rain, caught cold and
died. Fancy the twenty-fifth president
of the United States catching cold be-
cause of getting wetl Perhaps II
Washington had fortified himself
against such exposure by forking hay
he might have lived well into the nine
teenth century.
Mr.. Roosevelt studied too hard at
Harvard and found it necessary to take
to ranching as q means of recuperation.
The outdoor life developed him into a
vigorous physical man. Physical vigor
is the bulwarlx Of mental vigor, despite
some few instances to the contrary
Theodore Roosevelt constantly prac-
tees what many others preach, the
philosophy of keeping up a sound mind
by keeping up sound body. That is
one reason why he plays so much. The
other reason is that he likes to play.
ROBERTUS LOVE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

HE Theodore Roosevelt of Saga
more Hill is not the Theodore
Roosevelt of the White House.
At Washington he works. AT
Oyster Bay he plays. When the prest-
dent plays he plays almost as hard as
he works. He is about the most vigor-
Gus player we have. There are those
who would call some of his playing
hard work, but Mr.. Roosevelt finds it
merely pleasant and beneficial recrea-
tom He throws off the cloak of off,
ciaI dignity when he gets back home
for the summer vacation and puts on
his old clothes, his last years pants
and very likely his 1898 rough rider
hat He revels in personal liberty He
feels bully. He is dee-lighted. The
man is a boy again. and the president
is just Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt OF Saga
more Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island,
New York, U. S. A.
A long time ago a young man named
Roosevelt learned that all work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy. He learn
ed also what some young men never
learn, that all play and no work makes
Jack an incubus, a wart on the face
of society. There are two classes of
men who transgress natures laws in
regard to labor. One is the class
which works all the time and never
takes a vacation or a day off. The
other is the class which never does a
days work, but is always on the bum.
The members of this class may be mill
Honaires or tramps.
Betwixt and Between.
There is an intermediate class which
works when work is required and plays
when play is required. These are
really the first class people. Mr..
Roosevelt belongs to this class. He
was born with money enough to loaf
all his life. If he had loafed without
ceasing he would be unknown now ex-
cept perhaps as chicken slaughtering
automobilist. If he had worked with
out ceasing he PROBABLY would be
represented by a tombstone in Al Long
Island cemetery He chose the saner
and safer middle course; making both
work and play his business, for play in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

is work.
Mr.. Roosevelt now holds a job at
which he works very hard during eight
months of the year, though he insists
upon play enough for physical exercise.
The other four months he passes at his
Oyster Bay home, doing what work is
necessary in order to hold his job, but
dsvoting the time chiefly to play By
play, of course, recreation is meant,
and recreation means relaxation. If
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

have been dug by intelligent beings,
perhaps far in advance of man IN gen.
eraI knowledge and special attainment.
These inhabitants of Mars naturally
must live along the strips of vegetation
bordering the waterways, for all the re-
mainder of Mars surface must be des-
ert. This means that these GASES are
centers of population, even cities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03
A BIG CLOCK.

What is said to be one of the largest
clocks in the world has been placed
in the new tower at Elizabeth, N. J.
1t is thirty-eig feet in diameter, with
eighteen foot hands. The tower, which
is $50 feet high, was built expressly for
the clock, which will be Illuminated at
night and will be visible for many
y1ai1aR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

1t may be said Of him that he is doing
everything that lies within his power
to produce what Swe demand of him.
Since 1892, the year in which Schia-
pareli retired from actual scientific
work, Lowell has been his most as
slduous disciple. He took up the work
that the old Milanese astronomer laid
down. and he has arrived at some
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

startling conclusion in regard to the
probable conditions on Mars.
LoweIl's Startling Theory.
For this man who has devoted his
strength and his time and his money
to the solution of the Marian problem
is the chief advocate of the theory that
the canals are elaborate engineering
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

The greatest advance in recent years
made in our knowledge of Mars &C.
Cured in May and June Of last year at
the observatory at Flagstaff. A good
many extremely interesting photo
graphs were secured by Professor Low
ell and his assistants. One of the most
valuable points established by these re-
cent observations is the similarity be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

hensive scale that in comparison the
greatest canals on earth would seem
insignificant. Some observers, notably
the Able Moreaux and his school, have
suggested that these mysterious appear
ances may be merely tracts of land.
Others regard them as lines of vsgeta-
ton growing along big irrigation
works. Still another school sees in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

works undertaken for purposes of irri-
cation. What the telescope shows US,
he declares, is not water, but vegeta-
ton that has been made possible by
water conducted to the scene in chan
nels too narrow to be seen from the
earth Professor Lowell has made even
more startling deductions. He is of the
opinion that these geometrical canals
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

them great riffs on the surface due to
the cooling and consequent contraction
of the planet.
Having established by actual photo
graphic proof that the canals do exist,
it is incumbent on the discoveries to
tell us all about them. 1t is to Profess
or Lowell that. the world looks for an
intelligent clearing up of the mystery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

and that we may some time find out a
great deal about the planet and it's
geography.
And now that these various and sun
dry canals are found, what are they,
after all? There seems to be q re-
markabIe difference of opinion on this
point. Some astronomers regard them
as actual waterways on such a conpre
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

Mr.. Roosevelt did not relax for a few
months at Oyster Bay he could not
stand the strain at washington.
Teddy Would A-haying Go.
We read the other day that Mr..
Roosevelt took recreation in his hay
field. He did not go out and sit on the
fence under the shade of a tree, as
some gentlemen farmers might do,
watching the hired hands work. He
got into the middle of the field, grabbed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

tween Mars and our planet Its sea-
sons, axis of rotation and other phe-
nomena present many resemblances to
those of the earth. The discovery in
1877 that Mars has two satellites added
to these similarities. All these things
suggest to stronomers-Professor Low
ell is now the most advanced in his
theories-that Mars may be inhabited
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

Although this deduction seems ro-
mantle in the highest degree. Professor
Lowell supports it by the most detailed
account of the surface of the planet that
seems to be so like our own He eSti-
mates that the canals are fifteen or
twenty miles in width and that the
GASES are at least a hundred miles in
diameter. He has even measured the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-27
LoCKJAW KILLS CHEMIST.
DR.. Joseph Peasden succumbs to
Malady at Chicago.

CHICAGO. December 27.-Dr. JOSEPH
Peasden. head of the fertilizer and glue
department of Nelson Morris & Co.. meal
packers, died last night of lockjaw after
an allness of seven days. A wife ano
six children survive him.
DR.. Peasden met with an accident last
Thursday. He had his hands in his
pockets and was going up a stairway ir
the Morris fertilizing plant. Preoccupied
he stumbled and fell headlong. His hands
were SO placed that he could not break
the fall. and his nose struck the edge OF
a step and was broken.
Later DR.. Peasden noticed certain symp.
toms which alarmed him. AS an expert
in chemistry and bacteriology, he recog
nized his peril from locktaw.
Last Monday the muscles of the face
were affected, and he went to hospital
He did not alarm his family. but told hi:
attendants exactly what the trouble was
The disease developed rapidly, and Tues
day night DR.. Hanmore called into con
sultation Drs. ]. B. Murphy and Franz
Wieland.
DR.. Peasden took part in the conference
and by written statements made known
his opinions. He was in great pain, he
said, and he did not believe he could
live. The attending physicians replied thai
If he could live through the eighth dag
the crisis would be passed and he might
recover. Today would have been the
eighth lay.
Antitoxin was used and no means tc
save DR.. Peasden were overlooked. 1t was
felt that II his constitution could with
stand the convulsive attacks he stood &
chance Of pulling through. At a critica
moment the heart gave out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-27
FRED TENNEY GLAD
TO LEAVE BOSTON

BOSTON. December 27.-Fred Tenney
will be delighted to leave Boston for New
York or any old place. Fred was the man
who got the option on the Boston National
League franchise from Arthur Soden and
Uncle Bill Conant and took $4,000
worth of stock in the organization.
George Dewey, who is said to be backed by
Barney Dreyfuss of Pittsburg. furnishing
the balance of the capital necessary to
effect a change in ownership
Fred being compelled to depart for New
York, and learning that the Doveys had
had a most successful season, imagined
that his minority stockholding would be
taken off his hands at a fair appreciation
in value.
AS a minority stakeholder all Tenney
can get is statement that the club has
tied up all the cash ordinarily available
for dividends in purchasing new players.
Some of Tenney's friends are talking Of
getting up testimonial for him. based on
the long and faithful work he did for the
Bostons. He was one of the few men who
stuck to the South Siders when the
American League was offering all sorts Of
Inducements to National League players
to jump. AS reward his employers
raised his salary trifie and he had three
times as much work to do while the Bos-
tons were on the road.
In view of the latest lemon that has
been passed to him there is small wonder
Fred welcomes his departure to pastures
new