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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-23
GRANTED INJUNCTION
Against Big Additional Stock Issue by
the Great Northern Railroad.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
st. Paul, Mimi, Jan. ga temper
airy injunction. restraining the pro-
posed sixty million additional stock is
sue by the Great Northern railroad
was granted today by Judge Hallan.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-23

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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-23

FOR sALE-Good Printing at right
prices. The Herald. Phone 444. The
Hamilton Boys, You know"
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-23
San Enaaae In Cuisines.

Special to the Herald.
Guthrie. Ok. Jan. 23.-The constitu-
tional convention has adopted a pro-
vision giving the State the right to
engage in any occupation or business.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
Mail Delivered at Churches.

/, That seems tremendous big
bunch of mail to be delivered at a
church" remarked an early caller to
the sexton.
"a goo deal of it belongs to the
parishioners," he explained, Il do not
mean to the regular worshipers, but
to persons who drop in for an occa.
sional service. They are mostly COM
parative strangers in town. When
leaving home they have no idea what
they will do or where they will be
located, so In order to relieve the anx-
iety of their friends they give in
structions to send their mail to some
church of which they have heard.
The mere fact that the wanderers
have to call at such place once or
twice week for letters Is considered
guaranty of their safety. The
pastors welcome such an arrange.
ment. 1t may be an additional re-
sponsibility to take care of the letters,
but 1t keeps them in touch with many
strangers who otherwise probably
would not 90 near church. IN. Y.
Sun.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
TALK As MUCH As EVER.
Man Thinks Phone Has improved Con
vocational Powers.

"A count In the indictment against
this businesslike age" said the doctor
is that the art of conversation Is
dying out l wish respectfully to sub
nit that one of our modern institutions
effectually prevents any such catas.
trophe, II catastrophe 1t be. | refer to
the telephone and its use. have
learned by experience that people not
only say good many disagreeable
things over the telephone that they
wouldn't say II they We're face to face
with you, but also that the. telephone
gives flip to ordinary conversational
powers quite amazing in its results.
The detailed statement of symptoms
over the telephone is s. -,.sthing with
which every physician is familiar. and
there are patients of certain mental
makeup very apt to diverge easily into
general remarks which, however valu.
able In themselves are singplarly de,
void of professional interest. | shud.
der to think what such persons have
to offer In the way of talk when they
go to the telephone for purely social
purposes. Judging from the difficulty
have frequently in getting the wire,
should surmise that we live In net
work of society telephone calls-all
well enough in their way, but not sup.
porting the hypothesis that as peo-
pie we are suffering from dumbness.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
DIDN'T SEND THE SEATS.
Actor Not so Gallant as the Fair Ones
Had Expected.

A well-known American actor, who
Is old enough not to consider himself
matinee idol by any means. was
somewhat surprised and pleased in a
st. Louis hotel short time ago, when
a pretty girl stopped him in the corri-
dor and presented him with rose,
without saying word. He wa more
surprised and less pleased to receive
note the following day reminding
him of the incident. and asking him to
send the giver Of the flower two seats
at the theater In which he was play
ing as memento of the OCCASION"
my dear young lady," the actor re-
piled, waxing sarcastic as he realized
what had been the object of the atten-
ton he had been paid. Il would be
glad to send you the seats you ask
for, but, on consultation with the man
ager OF the theater, have been in
formed that the seats are all fastened
down, and that he Is opposed to hay-
ing them sent away as souvenirs In
any event, so that you will have to be
contented with an autograph for a
souvenir of your benevolence of yes
terday instead. Montreal Herald.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
Mayor as Bell Ringer.

The following story is told in Paris
OF village priest and a mayor: In
a village in the department of the Ain
the cure was his own church warden.
For want of money the church was
abandoned, and for many days the vii.
layers heard no Angelus when work.
Ing in the fields at daybreak, at noon,
and in the evening. The mayor, a re-
tired gendarme, an ardena radical
missed the cure and the chimes as
much as any other villager, and when
the cure had been gone week he be-
gan to ring the bells. One night re.
Gently the village was reused by the
notes OF the Angelus. 1t was 10 call
to mass, still less fire alarm; II
was mistake OF the mayor. Tie
moon, breaking through the cloud Al
Just before going down, had brought
him from his bed thinking 1t was sun
rise. And now he Is awaiting letter
from the project reproaching him, and
perhaps revoking him for having
rung the church bells before sunrise.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
AII-Steel Box Cars

With their own all-steel passen-
ger and postal cars now on the rails,
the Omaha shops of the Union
Pacific have turned out to sample
all steel box cars from designs Of
the motive power department.
This is another step toward the ap-
preaching era of steel rolling
stock of all kinds. 1t leaves to be
produced only the all-steel din
ing car, which calls for no new
structural feature such as are en-
bodied in other types.
With greater cubic capacity, the
all steel box car weighs 81, 800
pounds, or two tons less than the
standard wooden car. Besides
the element OF greater safety and
protection to goods in transit, the
steel car has the advantage Of re-
quiring less repair than the wooden
car, will be out of service less fire.
quently and will therefore give
more, as we'll as better service to
the carrier and to shippers.
A single fifteen-inch "I' beam
forms the center sill of the car,
below the double steel flooring,
the sides and ends are of thin sheet
seel, riyeted every two feet to carl
ms. Each door is a single sheet
Of steel, reinforced, like the sides
and end Of the car by diagonal
bracing.
The, only difference in dimen-
sion between the steel and wooden
car is four and a half inches
wider and two inches lower.
The length, forty feet, Is the
same, but the steel car has greater
by fifty cubic feet.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31

fea.s ever planned by the United
States Coast & Geological Survey
is now under way near Vernal,
Utah, in the Strawberry Valley,
to irrlgate several thousand acres
of unproductive soil in the south.
ern part of Utah county. A stor-
age dam having a capacity of
nearly 5 billion cubic feet of
water will be thrown across the
Strawberry river and the water
will be led through a tunnel more
than three and one, half miles
long to the distributing points,
where it will be diverted into
canals for irrigating the various
ranches.
This stored water power will
also be used to develop electrical
current, which will be used to
light neighboring towns and to
drive the centrifugal irrigating
pumps. A temporary power house
is being erected at Spanish Fork,
so that electricity will be available
for for construction work. The
electrical equipment will be fur
nished by the General Electric
Company.
Work on the tunnel is already
under way, and curing the month
of March over 200 feet of exca-
waiting was done. 1t Is expected
that the work will be greatly
facilitated when the temporary
power house is complete and
electricity can be had.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31

state--a revolution that bids fair
to spread throughout the Union"
Oklahoma, Dakota, Washington
and various other states are bor-
rowing Oregon's idea entire or in
part, or are striving to secure re-
forms along similar lines. Vari-
GUS writer's have given..sone atten-
ton to the Oregon movement,
but comparatively few people,
other than its originators, seem to
have grasped more than hint Of
it's far-reaching and revolutionary
character. 1t hasl remained for
Mr.. Pease, who has followed the
movements from its incipiency, to
tell the story intelligently and in.
terestlngly.
Oregon complacently confronts
the pessimists Of the republic with
startling statements somewhat as
follows:
flour representatives do not rep
resent us, we have power to
force them to do SO.
We can reject any law that
we don't want, or ourselves
enact any law that we do want.
We have knocked out the boss
and thesmachine.
We have just elected two United
States Senators In twenty minutes
without "boodle or booze or even
a cigar" and our legislature has
just completed a session Of ex-
traordinary activity, untalnted BY
any charge Of corruption.
"And for such achievement the
state and the United State at
large may give thanks for the per-
sistence of a small coterie, once
laughed at by politicians as Crops
franks and Missionaries led by
a dreamer S. U'Ren."
1t can truthfully be said that no
subject Of greater interest, Of
greater moment to the people Of
entire country, has ever appeared
in our National Press. Let us
hope that every believer IN our
National slogan, ga government
Of the people and for the'people, .
may read the story. Of Western
freedom and success, and that it
may be the seed which falls, not
on stony ground but in fallow
fields to sprout and'spread through
out our nation.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
Oreson's big Stick. :"
The Story Of the Initiative and
Referendum.

The Story OF the Initiative and
Referendum.
Is the subject for an intensely
interesting and timely article in
the May issue of The Pacific
Monthly published in Portland
Oregon - interesting to every
citizen becaise it tells Of the use
OF supreme power by the people.
Timely, because it offers a sure
ard safe antidote for the poison
and graft of corrupt machine
politics. The subject is handled
graphically by Lutte Pease the
well-known Western writer-who
gives an extremely interesting and
authoritative account Of the direct
iegislatlon.direct nomination move
ments, and other great reforms
which have placed Oregon in the
forefront of the worlds political
cit mas been said that
every form Of government except
apure democracy has been weighed
and found wanting" Oregon
has practically become a pure
democracy. "a peaceful revolu-
ton has been accomplished in this
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
O..S. L. Reduced Rates.
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
The Oregon Short Line has reduced
rates from Blackfoot to San Francisco
and return, via the lSouthernl Pacific
Railroad, S3640;.one way via Portland,
s43.50; to Los Angeles iand: return, via
Southern Pacific; Rairoad.l s47.3O: via
San Pedro Railroad, 1890; one way via
Portland, S54.40. Dates of sale June %
to July 6, inclusive, return limit Sep
TENDER Is, 1907
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
Making History.

why are you weeping?" asked Al.
exander's biographer.
Because the cook put too much
cayenne pepper in the sauce!" an
swered the conqueror. But don't you
dare to say 30 In print!'"
And thus originated the story Of
his grief because there were NO more
worlds to conquer.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
Poll Parrot a, = Game Bird.

While the parrot Is a bird of beauti-
full plumage. rs table delicacy 1t II
not recommended. as I know from sad
experience. My first essay at eating
a parrot was attended with modified
success. The bird must have been
comparatively young. and after sew
eral hours boiling became soft enough
to masticate AID finally swallow, leay-
Ing behind 1t an impression that We
had lunched on the sole Of a rubber
hoot.--Field and Stream.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
RATES TO PORTLAND AND SPOKANE.

'-''~ ~AA''i' p chhNH'
To either point7tickets:wlll be on sale
May q and 30, June 3, Z, u and IA, good
returning until.September 30, at rate of
S3l.o0 for the, round. trip from Black
foot.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
TEACHERS EXCURSION RATES EAST.

One fare for the Round trip plus
500: dates Of sale May q and 30, June
3, 7, II and IA, 1907, good returning I'M
til October IA, 1907, to Chicago, st.
Louis. Kansas City, Omaha, st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Denver. Colorado Springs,
Pueblo and other EASTERN points.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
Sunday Rest Law.

rendered an opinion OF the Sun
day Rest Law which we copy in
part:
1t will also be noticed that the
law does not prohibit the perform
ing OF labor or the doing of work,
but that it's entire object seems to
be the stopping of business on
Sunday; accordingly of making or
preparing of things, articles and
products to be put in business or
trade on secular day is not with
in its prohibition, SO that all fac
tories, breweries, distilleries and
shops may run on Sunday provid-
ed the business part thereof is
closed down.
| find also that the courts have
construed such laws to permit the
carrying on Of the respective bust
nesses or trades in SO far as they
relate to works Of charity or neces
sity, thus: A gas company may
supply gas, a water company
water, milkman deliver milk, an
iceman ice, and a telegraph COM
pany may keep open for the send
ing Of kilograms relating to sick
ness, death and the like, but
bath houses may not keep open
for the purpose Of selling baths,
as that is held not to be neces-
sity on Sunday. Since "every
place of business whatever" must
be closed except certain enumer-
ated ones, should you wish to
know whether your place must be
closed, it will be necessary to de-
termine whether yours is a work
of charity or necessity or is one
of the excepted ones. Shaving,
bathing. shoe shining, running
street cars, have been held not to
be works of necessity or charity,
hence all printing shops, barber
shops, the Natatorinm, ard all
shoe shining parlors must be
closed, and street cars are prohi-
bited from doing business on Sun
day.
The Oregon Short Line depots
are places of business and must be
closed, at least so far as the sell
ing of tickets for pleasure or bust
ness is concerned; it may be that
they could sell to those who could
show their contemplated trip one
of necessity or charity, such as
doctors or others visiting the sick
or needy or attending funerals or
to save life or property. Messen-
ger services aud A. d T. shops
must be closed except in so far as
the carrying of messages from
necessity or charity, such as the
delivery Of medicines and sick
room articles sold by drug stores,
and the law specially excerpts the
quiet delivery Of newspapers, but,
of course, this does not permit the
crying of newspapers on the
streets. Cigar stands are per-
mitted to keep open, and give it
as my opinion that the card rooms
connected with most cigar stands
may run because the words "or
any such place of public amuse-
ment" found at the end Of section |
8, relates the games and amuse-
ments similar to those particularly
enumerated. Baseball playing is
not prohibited, but is not the play
ing of league ball where an ad-
mission is charged, and as now
generally carried on, a business9
Ifso, it would be prohibited. | am
asked whether the Netatorium can
keep open for the purpose of its
usual Sunday afternoon concerts,
fer which an admission fee is
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
HOME SEEKERS RATES ro.rHE:wEsr.

Omaha, Kansas City, st. Joe
and all Missouri River points to
Blackfoot, Idaho and return $50 10
Chicago to Blackfoot,1 Idaho,
and return -..,............, 35 10
st. Louis to Blackfoot,;, Idaho,
and return .,..........-,........... 80 10
! st. Paul and Minneapolis to
Blackfoot, Idaho .,...--.., .,............. 81 60
Date Of sales first and. third
Tuesdays Of May andl June. Return
limit 81 days. Return1limit 81 days.
Stop overs not exceedingil5Hays on 60.
ing trip.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-27
FARMERS WAYS IN JAPAN.
How They Live, Work and Have
Their Being.

Their Being.
Straw which American farmers
throw away Japanese farmers would
utilize, says the st. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat
Whatever grows or passes to decay
is Of value to him, he managing to get
along and be happy and contented on
very little.
One who Is the possessor of a horse
and cart is considered to be wealthy
1t seems very good to US, but most of
the horses belonging to the farmers
wear shoes made Of rice straw, even
the clumsiest horses.
A farmer taking goods to market
will take extra shoes with him to re
shoe the horse in the event of one pair
wearing out. Ilhe shoes are tied
around the ankle with straw rope
made Of rice straw, braided so that
they form a sole for the foot about
half an inch thick.
The average shoe usually lasts about
eight miles of travel
In Japan in former times it was US
ual to measure the distance BY the
number Of shoes it took to cover the
distance. The horses hat and harness
is also made of the rice straw
They are too poor to buy harness
like American farmers would have.
The farmers wear shoes, hats and
| raincoats made Of rice straw.
Tho IanonpSo farpoar .5xr->I1a
in a comfortable, inviting, faultlessly
clean home, without a particle Of dust
or dirt.
The transparent paper wall Of his
house made of the bark Of the mitsu-
| mata shrubs, floods his dwelling with
| light and keeps out the wind
He enjoys good food served in dam
| ty but inexpensive dishes made Of ma
| tive woods.
Even in the houses of the poorest
there are no visible signs of poverty.
| There is no squalor in agricultural
Japan. The humblest peasant farmer
| Is clean, industrious and comfortable.
| The area of fence corners abandoned
| on many American farms to wild mus
tard, pigweed, etc, would furnish a
| comfortable living to a japanese farm
er. In Japan, when a Japanese farm
er permits a telegraph pole to be erect
ed on his land, he has made a great
| concession to modern reform.
Only the exceedingly rich have fences
around their farms. Not because of
the cost of the fence but the value of
the ground the post and picket would
consume.
If a border is required it is custo-
mary to plant a mulberry tree.
A farm laborer only receives from
10 to Is cents a day and rice, but new.
ertheless Is happy and contented.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-27
SHORT METER SERMONS.

No soul can grow without solitude.
Often a hot old town Is due to a cold
old church.
Every occasion for pessimism Is a
call to Improvement
They who grow in grace surely will
grow more gracious.
If you cannot stand ridicule you
never will earn applause.
It is no use preaching about happi-
ness with vinegar in your voice.
Folks who always are looking for
faults always are far sighted
The less religion n some men the
more theology they can hold.
You are not likely to make straight
truth by twisting scripture texts.
There's more affection in blunt truth
than in the caresses of affection.
When men have bound their eyes
they always open their mouths wider.
When a church really has a worthy
work she will not want for workers
You may know a mans power when
YOU know the things that provoke him.
You cannot establish your citizenship
in heaven by lodging your taxes here.
Heaven heeds not the prayer for
strength that has no objective In SER
vice.
The fairest pictures on memories
walls are those seen through the mist
Of to-
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-27

The way fishes sleep is a study which
few people have taken up, but which is
nevertheless very interesting. They are
very light sleepers and frequently as
sumo singular positions, but the most
remarkable thing is the change of color
which the majority of them undergo
while asleep. Usually their spots and
stripes become darker and more dis
tinct when they have successfully
sought temporary oblivion.
Sometimes the pattern of their color.
ing is entirely changed. The ordinary
porgy, for instance, presents in the day
time beautifully iridescent hues playing
over its silvery sides, but at night, or
falling asleep, 1t takes on dull bronze
tint, and six conspicuous black bands
make their appearance on It's sides
II it "a suddenly awakened by the
turning up Of the gas In the aquarium
it Immediately resumes the silvery col
or that It shows by daylight.
NaturaGSts ascTibe these changes tc
the principle Of protective coloration'
and point out that the appearance OF
black bands and the deepening of the
spots serve to conceal the fish from
their enemies when lying amid the sea
veeds.-BuffaIo Times.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-27
BRAZIL is A GREAT LAND.
Area Equals that of the United
States and Part of Alaska.

Brazil has an area Of 3,2SO,Uo
States with half Of Alaska added, says
the Review of Reviews. This is, ap-
proximately, five-sixths of the whole
Of Europe, or almost one hundred times
the size Of the mother country. Com
pared with Australia. Brazil not only
holds her own, but mas a surplus area
that would overlap the State of Texas,
while on her own continent she almost
equals the combined areas of the 9th
er twelve republics and colonies, one
half of Argentina only having to be
deducted. This will readily be appar-
ent on consulting an atlas, as will the
equally astonishing statement that her
extreme length from north to south Is,
approximately, 3S1a degrees, or the dis
lance from the northern extremity of
Maine to the coast of Venezuela.
Finally, dividing the land area Of the
new world by language into English,
Spanish and Portuguese (Which In
cIudes all but Haiti and the small CO
lonial holdings of France, Holland and
Denmark, we arrive at the following
remarkable facts. The United States
with Alaska, Canada, including the
islands within the great arctic circle,
Newfoundland, British Guinea, British
Honduras and the various British
islands of the West Indies make total
Of 40 per cent Of the whole; the is
Spanish-speaking republics, with Porto
Rico, 80 per cent, Brazil alone making
up the remainder, or % per cent And
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-27
SIENKIEWICZ IN APLEA.
Novelist Addresses Men of Science Ask
ing Them to Protest Prussia's Con-
fscation of Polish Lands.

PARIS, Dec. 1S.-The Echo de Paris
prints an appeal which Henryk Sien-
kiewicz. the Polish novelist, is addressing
to the most eminent representatives of
science, literature and the arts through
out the world, asking them to protest
against the Prqssian scheme, of forcibly
expropriating the lands of the Poles in
order to settle Germans upon them.
This, Sienkiewicz declares, is some
thing the Poles have done nothing to de-
serve.
NJ. Sienkiewicz acknowledged the debt
to the press of all countries for condemn
ing this attempt to crush out a noble
people, but he says the work of the press
is not sufficient and calls on eminent per-
sons in science, literature and art in
dividually to express their opinion. Such
a stop, he declares, will show the YER
dict of the universal conscience.