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Eaton went to second on a wild
pitch but was out on a fielder s
choice when Loeffler hit to Gray
son. Critics windmilled. No runs
Seventh Inning Christie out,
short to first: Sheppard struck out
Parker singled; Martin singled,
Parker going to third and Martin
to second on the play for Parker at
third. Pellen grounded weakly to
Loeffler and was out on his toss TO
Hayes. No runs.
Ross janImed the air; Lick drop
ped one in Parker's glove and Bee
cue tried to puncture one of the
rain clouds that was lowering over
the park; White was under it
when it finally did come down. No
runs.
Eighth Inning fell over
Whites bounder and he was safe
at first. He went to second while
Eaton threw Oswald out at first.
Grayson popped to Critics but Kirker
hammered out single and White
scored. Christie gave Loeffler a
chance to throw him out at first.
One run.
Grayson in this inning pitched
three balls, Holwerson, Hayes and
Eaton lifting to Martin, Oswald
and Pellen respectively. No runs.
Ninth Inning Sheppard singled
Parker hit liner that Holwcrson
made phenomenal catch OF. 1t
took him off his feet and enabled
Sheppard to get back to first. Lick
got under Martins long fly. Pei
len singled, but White left them by
popping to Critics. No runs.
Byrle whitfield, Loeffler out,
Grayson to first; Critics out, Martin
to first. No runs.
The tabulsted score follows:
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-23
FNANCIERS TALK OF
OUR OPPORTUNITIES.
Greatly Impressed With the Work Being
Done in this Vicinity.

Visitors to Mountain Home and
vicinity are enthusiastic in their
praises of this vicinity. The vast
improvements accomplished during
the past few years, the enterprises
and projects under way, draw forth
words of highest admiration for the
conditions and forces at work to
bring about these results. The vast
amount of money and energy re-
quired to reclaim this arid waste
and transform it into flourishing
little city surrounded by farming
lands and gsrdens, the patience and
persistency of the men engaged in
this work is a subject in the mind
of every visitor to Mountain Home.
'Mr. Garrett is doing a great
work heie and the citizens of Noun
tain Home and the surrounding
country should appreciate the
benefits they are receiving by the
efforts OF this public spirited
man." is the statement made to a
representative of the Maverick by
S. G. Yerkes of Seattle. Mr..
Yerkes in company with n. w.
Stimson of New York are men
prominent in business and financial
circles in their respective homes
and were in Mountain Home in the
interest of large financial firms
who sent them here to make extern
sive investments in Idaho proper
ties. ''The productiveness of the
land, the opportunities for the
farmer, the business man and the
investor is unlimited. The re-
sources of this section have never
been fully told and not until the
traveller visits the valley and ac-
quaints himself with the actual
conditions can he fully appreciate
the possibilities for the future
greatness of this section. - Mr.
Yerkes continued his compliments
to the community by alludiug to
the men actually engaged in bring
ing about these results.
When we first arrived, my
friend Mr.. Simpson and were
greatly impressed with what has
been accomplished by your fellow
townsman, Mr. Garrett. His name
is associated with everything of
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-23
Decoration Day Exercises.

Decoration day will be appropri-
ately observed next Thursday in a
way befitting the occasion. The
band will furnish music, the var
ious fraternal orders will appear in
the line of march and others will
assist in observing the day. Let
everyone observe the day in remem-
brance of the many heroic men who
faced the line of battle for the pres
ervstion of the flag and their coun-
try. Show the comrades in the
whitening line the respect due
them. They are an honor to the
land and their very presence
should be held in reverence. One
by one they are answering the
great roll call and only a few
years remain for us to do them
honor. This is the great day, the
day when we should give our
thoughts and reverence to these
heroes both gone and remaining.
The following is the order of the
day and the program.
Order of the procession to the
cemetery starting from city park at
80 a. m. sharp:
Band; Soldiers, Blue and Gray
Relief Corps; Sons of Veterans
Daughters of Veterans; City Off
cials; Commercial Club; l. o. o.
F. Rebekahs; A. F. & A. M. [; Or
der of Eastern Star; X. of p.
Pythian Sisters; Modern Woodmen
Royal Neighbors; Women of Wood
craft; Eagles; Episcopal Sunday
School; Congregational Sunday
School; Catholic Sunday School
Baptist Sunday School; Citizens on
foot; Citizens in Carriages.
At the cemetery:
Prayer, REV. c. E. Mason; Mu-
sic, band: Decoration of graves; I;
Disperse.
Afternoon at city park 80 p. m.
Music by the band; Prayer, Rev.
c. M MacLean, PhD.; Music, vo-
cal; Recitionat; Music, vocal; Mu-
sic, band Music, vocal; Recitation;
Music, vocal; Speaker; Music, band;
Disperse.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-23
This Is II.

A group photograph of the Noun
tain Home Base Ball Club, Manager
Goddard and ]. H. Garrett is tho
latest addition to Helms photo post
cards. A copy will be mailed t.
any address on receipt of price, 10
cents. Address Milton Helm.
Mountain Home, Ida.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-23
HOW IT HAPPENED.

The batteries were Loeffler and
Beccue; Grayson and White
First Inning. On the first ball
pitched Parker grounded to first.
Loeffler hit Martin on the leg. He
Immediately stole second and went
10 third when Pe1lon grounded to
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-23
Score by innings :

oUUTc Dy innings
Mt. Home 1-0-2-0-0-0
Emmett 0.0-2-0-0-0-0-0-0--2
Earned runs: Emmett 2, Mt
Home /. Two base hits: White
Holwerson and Byrle. First bas'
on balls. Loeffleri, Grayson 1
Struck out by Loeffler 3, Graysor
10. Left on bases: Emmett,
Mt. Home 9, Wild pitch Grayson
First base on errors: Emmett I
Mt. Home 4 Hit by PITCHED ball
Byrle, Martin. Stolen bases: Mar,
tin. Sacrifice hit; Loeffler
Umpire ]. Erwin.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-23
HOW THE TEAMS STAND.

Games last Sunday:
Weiser 6, Boise O.
Caldwell S, Huntington 0.
Nampa- -Payette called off in
ninth.
Games next Sunday:
Caldwell at Huntington.
Payette at Mountain Home.
Weiser at Boise.
Emmett at Nampa.
Mountain Home visited Emmett
Sunday. Teh occasion was a ball
game between the former and latter
teams. 1t is not of the game, how
ever, that we desire to speak, but
of the journey and reception ten
~dered by Emmett's citizens.
The trip was, from start to finish,
most pleasant and enjoyable and
will long live and be remembered
by more than one hundred and thir-
sy of Mountain Homes citizens as
"A day when all cares and worries
were cast aside and everybody went
to have roaring good time. From
the time the. special pulled out of
Mountain Home at 9 a. m. Sunday
morning until ten O'Clock p. m.
when it returned, there was some
thing doing. Of course Mountain
Home won-score to 2-but it
was not walk over by any means
The game was crammed full of SEN
saiotnal plays from start OF finish.
Everybody played ball, but what
imprsesed us mot was to see how
good naturedly Emmett took her de-
feat When the game was over
everybody paraded back to town
with the band. After reaching the
hotel the band gave a forty minute
concert, every number be nfg encor-
ed. T hat Mountain Home has the
best band in the state there seems
TO be no doubt. That was the opin-
ion all along the line. When the
train arrived at Nampa. about II a.
m. the band marched to the Dewey
palace where short concert was
given, every number being greatly
appreciated and applauded.
But this Emmett bunch-were
they good Indians? Yes, ulquss-
tionably yes, the best we have met
royalty. The town was ours.
Emmett is indeed a beautiful lit
tie city, hidden away in the upper
Payette valley, as beautiful and
pictur esque spot as can be found in
all America. Quiet, yes some what,
but al the people and country seem
TO bre t1e peace and coltentn ent
and the spirit of good will undoubt-
edly reigns supreme. The people
seem thrifty and the country is
undoubtedly in an active, healthy
condition. 1t must be, as every
body was boosting the town and
country. Emmett, beautiful En-
NETT, you carry us back many, many
wears to our homes South of Mason
Dixie. Everything seems southern
like, most of all your hospitality
For one short day we lived over
again the days, yes the years, of our
boyhood-way down south. We
lived again to enjoy the hospitali-
ty-help yourselves and take plenty.
Emmett will always retain warm
spot in the hearts of Mountain Home
people May you live long and
prosper and may we soon meet
again.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08
PUBLIC OPINION.
Power Of the Country Press and Its
Influences Upon the Community.

While the influences of the great
city papers are recognized and the
great magazines fill necessary field,
neither of these conveyers of general
information can ever supplant the field
that is occupied by the country press
The home paper is the medium that
conveys local intelligence to it's read
ers. 1t fills a place in the journalistic
world that no other publication can
ever supplant. The country press is
one of the greatest powers in the
molding of public opinion. 1t may not
be up to the highest classical standard,
but it's rough literary gems are contin-
ually shining resplendent and cast
their rays in the most remote corners
of the land. 1t is power for good.
In its reflections of events, in the local
field are shown the progress of the
people whom it represents. 1t is the
mirror of the condition of the town
and the country. The residents Of
every community should take the
greatest pride in assisting in making
the home press more powerful. Stand
up for your home paper. 1t is the one
staunch advocate of your local inter-
ests and to an extent is indicative of
either your prosperity or your lack of
progress.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08
StarIIngs Egg-steaIers.

A correspondent, writing from
Leith, England, expresses strong
opinion tina tstarlings rob small birds
nests.
Some years ago there wassa large
tree opposite my dwelling house.
There was a hole in the trunk Of the
tree about ten feet from the ground,
and sparrows built their nests in the
cavity. / have time and again seen
starlings driving away the parent
birds, enter the nests, taking hold
of the eggs with their bills and fly.
ing away with them.
A gravedigger in Banffshire once
told me that a yellowhammer had
built its nest in the churchyard, and
it contained four eggs. One day a
starting attacked the hen bird as she
sat on her eggs. The yellowhammer
defended her nest and made great
noise, which attracted his attention,
but before he got up to the nest the
yellowhammer had been killed by
the starting, and the latter was on the
nest and breakinS and eating the
eggs. Forty years ago starlings were
rare birds in many parts of Scotland
but now they are to be seen in thou,
sands everywhere, and there can be
no doubt they have some destructive
habits.
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was originally founded had died out,
and is not even now entirely extinct.
The horrible concoctions prescribed
by doctors in the middle ages might
seem to have been intended for the
forcible eviction of evil spirits. Me-
diaeval pharmacy is fairly represent
ed by the contents of the witches
caldron in Macbeth"
The chronological theory of dis
ease held sway over the minds Of
men for thousands of years. But If
the simple pathology of primitive men
causes us amusement, the smile dies
on our lips when we reflect on the
appalling consequences of that belief
translated into action. It was the no.
tion that disease was caused by
demons that led to the belief in witch
craft, which survived in full rigor till
the seventeenth century, and is not
by any means extinct in this century
of light. The belief in witchcraft
caused the persecution and judicial
murder Of countless human beings,
chiefly old women, guilty of nothing
worse than eccentricity or madness.
The medical profession may justly
| pride itself on the fact that to the
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08

found such beliefs as that disease is
caused by ghosts of the dead, or by
the spirits of animals killed in hunt
ing invading the living. These no.
tions must be carefully distinguished
from the later concept that disease is
punishment inflicted by an angry
/, deity.
This notion of the causation of dis
ease naturally led to methods of treat
ment directed to the dislodgment of
the demoniac intruder. Sometimes a
hole was bored in the sick persons
skull to provide an outlet by which
the evil spirit might escape. But the
most common plan of expelling the
disease demon was to make his
usurped abode as uncomfortable as
possible. The patient was beaten,
starved, smoked with eviLsmelling
substances, and drenched with every
foul thing that the savage imagination
could conceive.
In the matter of medication, too, the
system of ejecting the trespassine
spirit by making the quarters in
which he had established himself as
far as possible uninhabitable persist
ed long after the eeIief on which II
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08
MONDAY UNIVERSAL WASH DAY.
Recognized as Such Over Almost All
the World.

Why does nearly all the civilized
world wash clothes on Monday? What
has Monday to do with washing? 1t
was originally the moons day and
was sacred to the queen of night.
I read in a schoolboy's history that
the Pilgrims landed on Monday and
the good women Immediately set
about washing the clothes that had
been soiled on the trip over. We
might judge from that alleged fact
that no washing was done aboard
ship; yet the finest place for such
necessary work of sanitation and
blessedness is out at sea where there
is plenty of water and nearly al
ways a drying wind.
The voyage of the little Mayfiower
lasted 63 days, believe, and as near
ly as we can now reckon the landing
was made at Plymouth Rock on a
Monday, though some historians in
sist on Friday. 1t must have been a
vile and filthy vessel on arrival, with
102 passengers and crew going over
two months without washing their
linen. Linen? What did they wear
in 1920? Can you realize how big
was the Mayflower? A miserable lit
tie bark of 100 tons (Capt. John
Smith) or 1870 tons (according to
Bradford).
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08
Close Confinement,

The new phonograph had just ar
rived and in her husbands absence.
Mrs. Jones thought she would give her
parrot a treat, so she set the machine
working on a record of In Old Ma
drid," sung by Mr.. Jones in his best
style. .....
At the very first bar Polly opened
her eyes in surprise, and rocked her.
self to and fro in deep and speechless
wonder. ...
She was evidently thinking deeply,
and her excitement was intense. She
cooked her head on one side, with an
expression that indicated interested
conjecture, and irritation at not ar
irving at a satisfactory conclusion.
AS the song finished, an idea dawned
upon her
WELL" said Mrs. Jones with pride.
what do you think of that, Polly?"
Then the bird found words:
Great Scott" she shrieked. you've
got the old man boxed up this time"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08

teaching of some of its members the
abolition of atrocities which make the
heart sick was mainly due.
Witchcraft is by no means dead
yet, and, as readers of ]. K. Huys.
mans know, "Satanism' with the
"black mass" and the like supersti.
-tions have still fascination for minds
of certain kind of morbid culture.
With these things the demoniac
theory of disease has a close affinity.
The same superstition survives in an
other form in the doctrines held by
many at the present day that disease
is the result of sin, and that sickness
is in itself sinful. From this teach.
ing springs the rank growth of quack.
cry which chokes the good seed of
truth in the minds of so many OF
those to whom the higher education
has failed to teach the right use OF
their reason.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08
-AZlZ02 2CH<5Alzw BOT

the city to send formal challenge to
the Basutos, or for the natives of, say
the Robinson mine, to challenge those
of the Driefontein to combat on the
succeeding Sunday. All Saturday
night the rival warriors soak them
selves with rum, until the vile potato
alcohol has reduced them to state
bordering on insanity. In the morn
ing, half dazed and infuriated, they
take their knobkerries-a species of
shillelagh-and assegais, and sally
out to the battle. The opposing party
is equally intoxicated, and a furious
combat ensues, several deaths and
scores of casualties constantly oc.
curing. The white overseers, know.
ing that in the condition of their EN-.
ployes their own lives would be prac.
tically valueless should they interfere,
remain spectators of the fight until
both sides are exhausted; then up
come the police and separate the COM
Observation-Disclosures American.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08

forth with the ingenious patter of their
tribe the world over, trying to dis
pose of secondhand furniture or worn
out horses which they vainly guar
antee to be "salted"-that is, immune
against horse sickness. There are
Syrian women, with shawls across
their faces, offering laces to the in
spection of the voluble vrouws who
have accompanied their husbands up
on their journey, to take charge of
the receipts, in fear that Hans, c- Jan,
or Paulus may happen to fail in with
jolly companions; and, passing deftly
among these, are the native attend
ants, leading horses to water, or herd
ing oxen.
The Rickshaw "5oy."
One Of the most picturesque sights
in johannesburg is the Zulu 'rickshaw
boy" one of whom is shown in the
accompanying Illustration. These
"boys"-grown men, in fact-have
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08
The Chronological Theory of Disease
and Its Curious Phases.

The earliest conception of disease
seems to have been that evil spirits
for the time being took possession OF
the body, says the British Medical
Journal. This general notion ex-
pressed itself in various ways. .a
The Hindoos built temples to the
goddess of smallpox-a fact used with
deadly effect by Edmund Burke in his
Impeachment of Warren Hastings,
whose apologists had pointed to the
temples erected in his honor by the
natives as evidence of the mildness of
his rule. The Romans had no fewer
than three shrines dedicated to the
goddess of fever, which was doubtless
malaria. AS to the present day, there
is a church in Rome dedicated to our
lady of fever, which is a lineal de-
scendant Of these shrines
Another belief was that the demon
of disease was introduced by evil-dis.
posed persons by means of magic.
Again, in different races or tribes are
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08
Mo Good to Town.

The man who spends his time loafing
about the town stores and complain
ing of the conditions of his environ
ments is no good to himself, his family
or his town. There are class of men
who spend their time In bemoaning
the fact that they are not getting the
right kind of living which the world
owes them, and who never once think
how much better this living could be
II they would only hustle. The man
who is constantly grumbling about
the dullness of his town is never found
looking around to discover a means by
which he can make it livelier. s
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08

beener down to Capt Town for a num-
Der of years, to help In construction
work on the breakwater.
Few to Enact Role of Spy.
But the vengeance of the liquor
syndicate was no less far-reaching
than that of the illicit diamond brok-
ers at Kimberley, and thus it occurred
that the role of Noah Claypole was
never popular one.
To-day the traffic is chiefly in opium.
The importation of $4,000 coolies from
China, accustomed to smoking it, has
led to an insatioble demand for the
product. Upon the Rand, the name
given to the districts along the gold
reef, there exists yellow population
of indentured servants-virtually serfs
equal in number to all the whites in
johannesburg. Lodged in overcrowded
compounds, where they are confined
like animals, liable to be flogged for
any infraction of discipline by their
white overseers, who have learned the
summary ways of the Beers with ma
tives, from time to time some of this
seething horde overwhelms its guards,
breaks out, and takes to life of pill.
lage and murder along the outlying
districts.
South Africa is not an especially
.law-abiding country, and the punish
ment of the opium smuggler is usually
summary He is offered the choice
between a tlogging and period OF
| Imprisonment, and, of course, chooses
the former. Thereupon he is strapped
tightly to a wagon wheel and receives
SO lashes from whip of hippopotamus
hide, welded by half-castes. These
men, delighted at taking their revenge
upon one of the white race, do MOI
spare the victim. His back is literally
cut to pieces, and, at the end, half
dead and streaming with blood, he ii
flung out of the compound.
At Night In the Square.
The farmer, arriving at Johannes
burg about midnight, after long days
| trek, "outspans" in the great marke
square, and goes to sleep beside his
wagon, while the native boys" hav
ing fed and watered the animals, kin
die a fire in the square, round which
they crouch in their blankets unit
the morning, chanting and twangins
upon their one-stringed Tyres, or play
ing some cheap Swiss accordion. A
break of day coffee is made, and break
fast prepared-the latter a haphazarC
mixture of hare, steimbok anC
partridge, or whatever else may have
fallen to the farmers rifle during his
journey, stewed in the ubiquitous po
and eaten with a coarse porridge made
from ground maize. Soon the square
will be filled with a chattering crowC
farmers with vegetables and sack!
of produce. anxious to dispose of then
and TO return; auctioneers holding
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08

The Mckinley monument was planned
and executed under the direction of a
commission of prominent men, at a
cost of $15O,0OO. Gov. Charles E.
Hughes, with his military staff, will
take part in the ceremonies and Presi-
dent Roosevelt and former President
Grover Cleveland have been invited to
attend and speak. Military parades
will be a feature of the occasion.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08
Birds Lured BY Mirror.

Cock partridges are caught on
French. shootings by means of a trap
that closes on the entrance of q
bird, the lure being q mirror in which
t sees its own reelection. which 1t is
anxious to attack.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-08-08
Room for All the World.

In the state of Texas you could
place each man, woman and child 70
feet apart, giving each 4,90O square
feet of land-room sufficient for house.
cattle and vegetable garden.