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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
ARTEMESIA CLUB NOTES.
MOUNTAIN HOME.

The Artemesia Mothers Club will
meet at the school house December
16, 1908, at 2:30 p. m. After the
routine of business the club will be
entertained by the following inter-
esting program:
song, America, Club
Roll Call Household Hints.
Parliamentary Drill -. Mrs. Wolfe
Simplicity in Child Manage
ment". Mrs. Freeman
Baby Table Manners Mrs. Green
Reading of the Burton Children,
continued.
All members are requested to be
present If possible.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
THROUGH THs1 CASCADE
| TUNNEL BY ELECTRICITY

Passenger trains hauled by electric
locomotives will be runnig through
the cascade tunnel of the Great
Nortnern railroad before January 1st,
8. The identification of this
long tunnel, which has been such a
source of trouble and annoyance since
the road was built, is the largest un-
dertaking of it's Kind ever attempted
in the West, and the Great Northern
is the first of the great western roads
to adopt electric propulsion for any
considerable portion of it's road.
Not only is the Cascade develop
ment the largest of it's kind in the
west, but it is the first three-phase
railroad system to be installed in this
country and one of the first in the
world. The most unusual feature of
this electric service, as planned by
the General Electric Company's engi-
neers, is the fact that the motors,
which pull the electric locomotives
and trains up the grades, will natural
ly and inherently become generators
on the down grades and return cleo
trical energy to the line.
The Cascade tunnel is a little less
than three miles in length. The cleo
trification of this division will elm
mate the present congestion of traf-
fic, because steam locomotives cannot
pass through the great bore very
often on account of the Sitting gases
and deadly smoke. The danger of
suffocation will be removed, and the
traffic cost will also be lowered as
the electricity used is manufactured
in the vicinity from water power.
The Great Northern has secured
the rights and titles for water power
along the Wenatchee to develop
100000 horsepower, and it is said,
upon good authority, that several of
he heavy grades near the tunnel will |
also be electrified in the near future,
Ind 1t is prophesied that the entire
western division will be run by cleo
richly within few years.
While this railroad is the first in
he West to adopt electricity as a mo-
i've power to any great extent, it is
'assing evident that it will not be the I
asst, as nearly every railroad in that
ection, from the Canadian Pacific IN I
he Southern Pacific, is planning r
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18

licans in the next legislature should
show disposition to crook their ell
bows with the cabinet, the Demo-
cratic members may desert the
cause" in body to escape the
odium Of responsibility. Borrowing
a halo they would say 'See, we are
pure and undefiled." But, after all.
the Democrats are not causing the
saloon men nearly so much insomnia
as me Republicans. Without them,
all is lost. And the effort now is TO
reduce the loss to the minimum. The
Brewers organization and the Retail
Dealers association are bending
every energy-but so is the opposi-
tiqon, and it unquestionably is max
ing the greater progress at the pres
ent time.
In order for the liquor men to win
they must overturn the Republican
state platform and any number of
county platforms and they must do
it through Republican instrumental
ties. That means in a number of
COUNTIES there would be more or less
frigidity exhibited towards returning
solons. The local optionists would
scorn them as things polluted and
the other fellows, knowing how and
why they broke their pledge, would
never trust them. They would be
political and, perhaps, social outcasts.
That is exactly the proposition the
local optionist sare putting up to
elect in counties where per-
sonal honor and political pledges are
held at their true worth; and none
SO blind he can not see the inroads
being made on the liquorites. Many
solons help, but they're afraid to go
home in the dark.
The political future of the Repub-
lican party also operates against the
liquor men. The party's pledges have
once more been accepted in good
faith. Local option heads the list.
One more violation of public conf
dence and the party's chances in this
state, according to the views of it's
shrewdest leaders, would be about
as reassuring as the longevity of an
lcicle on gas jet.
All in all, the chances for local
option are Enthusiastically improving,
which is a marked change from the
situation few weeks ago.
The battle is neither won nor lost,
,hough, for as a last recourse the |
liquor interests may be enabled to
present the farce of precinct option,
which would damn the party re-
possibility for it more emphatically |
han out and out repudiation-al-
hough it might soften flinty hearts
It home.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
ed Pull Gives Power.

done more to conquer the vicious than
brutality ever did or ever will do.
When kindness goes hand in hand
with education and the teaching of
high moral principle, 1t becomes the
most effective implement that has
been placed in mans hands for the
uprooting of wrong. When woman
lashes another over the back with a
whip because her authority has been
defied, some one is merely invading
the realm of the brutal, and this
without regard to whether or not the
person dashed is an inmate of a state
reformatory.
One of the needs of the times is an
institution for the training of men
and women in the handling of the
lawless. One of the cures of the times
Is the system that puts the supervi-
sion Of our jails and prisons and
warehouses; and reformatories, and
often our asylums, in the hands Of
political favorites who are utterly UNI
fitted, both by disposition and from
lack of training and experience, for
the work to which they are assigned.
The question with them is not: Am
capable of undertaking this great
work." but the more brutal one:
What's the salary" Our gigantic
prison system as it stands today, from
the workhouse and reformatory to the
penitentiary, is blot on our civiliza-
ton. 1t is one relic of the dark ages
not yet wiped out
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
AN OLD LOG CABIN.

Mrs. Butterfield is corresponding
with a club at Meadows, which is a
town situated on the road to Payette
lakes. Near this town is an old log
cabin used in early days for all sorts
OF state assemblies, those in attend
ance coming from the mountains
either way for the purpose. We hope
the club mentioned will evolve some
plan to preserve the house, and make
its historical relations known. Mrs.
Butterfield suggests as it is near
Weiser, the Outlook club will be glad
to help. When the Methodists were
installing the Jason Lee Memorial
window at Blackfoot, the question
arose as to correctness of the asser-
ton that Jason Lee preached the
first sermon west of the Rockies, at
old Fort Hall, on the reservation near
here. In the interest of right, we
wrote some letters of inquiry, one of
the replies received was accompanied
with this remark, THE West was too
busy making history in those days to
stop to record it." Lee preached the
sermon sure enough and was thought
full in keeping dairy to tell about 1t.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
PUNISHMENTS.

Investigations being made by ;
state commission, appointed to in
quire into the causes of degeneracy
and crime in New Jersey, developed
startling facts regarding methods 81
punishment employed in the State
Home for Girls. Similar investiga
!tions made recently in other states
notably in Illinois-have resulted in
similar disclosures. 1t is the old story
over and over again, of the dark room
bread and water diet and severe
whippings. In the New Jersey case, a
woman is responsible. In most other
instances that have been brought to
public attention, men have been to
blame. The matron of the Home for
Girls, Mrs. Elizabeth Mansell, has
admitted that girls were frequently
locked in the dark room for one or
two days at time and that there had
been at least one instance of such
solitary confinement for period of
five days. Mrs. Mansell admitted
also that there were rats in the build
ing. Impertinence is one of the Of
lenses for which inmates of the
Home for Girls are whipped with a
strap The matron says that she
does the whipping una1ded, except in
cases when she Is defied. Then the
engineer is called upon to hold the
girl across bed while the lash is an
piled to her shoulders or hips.
Advocates of the theory that crime
should always be physically punished
for examples sake would doubtless
justify the beating of inmates of
reformatory for discipline's sake. On
the same theory, the more horrible
the example, the less likelihood of a
recurrence of crime or breach of dis
cipline. In olden days ,actuated by
the Horrible example" idea, criminals
we're drawn and quartered. Mems
heads were often seen staring from
city walls and buildings. But not
sven punishment of this radical kind
served to lessen crime. We have
been Furnishing men and women and
children physically for generations
Ind today there is just as much crime,
,roportionate to our advanced civili-
'ation, as there was when punish
nents were first devised. Punish
nent, as such, has very seldom re-
ormed bad man and even less fire.
luently has the fear of punishment
the commission of crime by
he criminally inclined. Men who are
morally depraved or so unbalanced
hat they are unable to distinguish
etween the right and wrong in
olved in particular act that they
do not take conse-
uences into consideration. Neither
oes the normally reputable citizen
'ho Stays or assaults another man in
fit of passion Punishment is no
lore preventive of crime than the !,
ledicine that man takes after he /
as contracted disease is a preven-
we of that disease, either in his own
ase or in that of others.
Argument of this nature, however. Il
lust be unavailing unless an effec-
We substitute for punishment is Il
lggested. And it was suggested Il
undreds of years ago. Kindness has
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
BOISE CLUBS.

Something very unusual in Christ
mas gifts may be secured this season
in Boise in the exquisite blue and
white needlework of Berea college,
Kentucky. The instructors in handi-
craft at this southern school have
revived the old blue and white needle
work industry and have sent to the
city, where they will be on sale at a
local shop, some of the old blue and
white coverlids, table covers and pill
low covers. They were sent for the
proposed exhibit to be given by the
Municipal Art league, which had to
be postponed until later date,
word of which did not reach Berea in
time. The pieces range in prices
from $3.50 to $40.
The art and travel section met in
regular session Wednesday morning
in the club room. The hour was one
OF pleasant instruction. Mrs. Blitz'
paper on the ''Decadence of the EN-
pre- augustus to Nero) was of
much historical value while the
Character Sketch of Nero and
Persecution of the Christians by
Mrs. Beggs, was an exceedingly inter-
esting subject, treated in careful
manner.
The secretary read an extract from
magazine descriptive of Ancient
Rome" The next meeting of this
section will be held December 80. The
Columbian club will hold its next
meeting January Q.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18

The Methodists have now placed this
memorable sermon on record, which
is quite proper. Club women over
the state will be interested in the
progress of the Meadows club with
making record for the little log
cabin and the important matters dis
cussed within its walls.
4. !. i.
THE OUTLOOK CLUB.
This Weiser club has been holding
q very successful bazaar, cooked food
and rummage sale, clearing $110, all
of which will be spent for books and
periodicals for the library. They
have adopted this as an annual Gus
tom. They will also give annually a
musical entertainment.
4. + i
FOR NEXT YEAR.
Several of our brightest club
women Of the state will be invited
to write special articles for Echoes
in the next month to appear during
the club year. These will be con-
sidered In an educational way in re-
gard to club work in general. We
need fuller knowledge Of the work
to strengthen our bond of federation.
Our clubs, many of them, are entire
strangers to each other because Of q
lack Of information. The local work
may be on entirely different lines and
the fact that no understanding of how
work of the other is accomplished,
prevents any interest whatever, being
manifest. Echoes feels that but few
of us are in touch with the general
federation and hopes inspiration for
the work at large will be gathered
from the biennial report, that will be
given from time to time.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
MAY BE AFRAID TO GO
HOME IN THE DARK
Possible Predicament of Legislators
Who Fail to Keep Local OPP
ton Pledge.
lBy Reg Osborne

The big Republican majority in the
coming legislature undeniably wor-
ries the heads of the Brewers cabi-
net. They thought in the early hours
Iof election returns it was cinch ;
most every other observing man
thought so-but when the story of
November Bird had been told in de-
tail it was discovered that lot of us
had been gazing on mirage. Too
lany Republicans are about to spoil
the broth that has been brewing for
so long.
When the anti-local option fight
Started it was the unanimous opinion
of every member of the cabinet that
it be a partisan Democratic
movement or somethinb of that sort.
Not that they loved the Republicans
less but because they loved the more
the vacancy in the Democratic state
platform from which a local option
plank had fallen.
The Republican party had local
option plank. The cabinet could
never establish an alliance there, al
though the. entente cordiale could be
readily preserved.
After the subject. had been dis
cussed at great length the decision
VISA reached that it was the part of
wisdom to elect numerous Democrats
to the legislature but not to overlook
any of the Republican chips on the
layout Whenever it was shown to
be possible to elect Republican who
would find ways (they would fin
to repudiate his state and
county platform, assistance would be
siven-but the greatest caution was
enjoin.u ~ the end that too many
be not elected.
Too many Republicans were elect |
I'd. In fact the people seemed to
lave lain awake nights in an effort
% make it unanimous. The party |
hat had no local option plank in it's
and which received the sup
)ort of the saloon men for that rea-
ION, also has practically no votes in
he legislature; whereas, the party
whose platform contained a ringing
ocal option plank. but whose leaders
lidn't ring it during the campaign, is
III but embarrassed with the one
ided character of the roll call. The
ituation is anything but encourag-
ng to the saloon interests; what was
t first regarded, not only by them
ut by many disinterested people, as
he knell of local option seems to
ave been the tocsin to which the
nti-liquor partisans have rallied and
rom which numerous pretending po-
tical allies of the liquor dealers
ave run.
In the first part of the book the /,
abinet is now sadly perusing, there I
a chapter entitled Making Cross 9
s." Some of the Democrats, in con- 8
smplation of the election returns, '
ave moved to insert the word "dou- t
le." They think they got it. Be-
lg disciples of Jeffersonian SIMPLE t
y, they don't know; but they are t
lspicious. This situation may lose In
the liquor interests some votes Ii
lat have been regarded as most de- S
Moreover, if the Repub- t
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
BUSY CLUB WOMAN.

Mrs. Sam Hayes of Boise, who
very kindly acted as secretary of the
state federation in the absence of the
regular one, Mrs. Ford of Weiser, has
had her time SO completely occupied
with home duties incident to the in
stallment of new heating plant, fol-
lowed by the work of painters, that
she has been prevented from writing
up the minutes of the federation. If
we will just exercise little patience,
however, all will come our way.
The editor of Echoes, who has been
unable to do her part in the work
since the middle of September, Is
very much better, and now If the club
women will be patient until the first
of the year, she will do her best to
carry out the plans arranged for and
the wishes of our state and district
presidents Every club woman should
consider it her first duty to make
home a special pleasure and those
about her happy for the Christmas
tide season and to this end release
from the duties Echoes imposes is
granted until the first of the year.
Let us then begin five months of ear
nest activity by undertaking just the
amount of work we have time and de-
sire to perform well. The question
is not how much we can undertake,
but how much we can do well and not
neglect home or feel burden. To this
end we will be happy, joyful work
ers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18

more or less Identification work,
which will be started during the COM
ing year.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1908-04-09
TANEY COUNTY REPUBLICAN
BY W. H. AND r. b. PRICE.
Taney County

fancy is the fourth county from the west
line OF the state, in the extreme southern
tier and so bordering On Arkansas aud en-
ioying TO its fullngsS the wonderful climate
Oi the Sunny Side" OF the OZarkS, where the
temperature rarely touches zero In winter and the
nights in summer ARE always cool enough to make
sleep delight. ,.
scres. OF which about 5000 acres ARE under I'M
proveneni The soil varies from the rich aluV1l
bottoms to the strong limestone soils OF the rldE-
sS, producing successfully wheat, ON which Tile
county WAS awarded the silver medal ~ the Lou
isana Purchase exposition, corn second To uOhe
Ia stalk on display in this Office measuring seven
teen feet four inches IN length,) potatoes cotton
melons tame grasses, berries, fruits, vegetables
in fact everything except tropical products Pears
and pesUhrS do especially wei,
The surface is rugged ana picturesque covered
with forests and trHverscd by streams OF spArh'
hng cearness, among them the beautiful White
river. famed for its scenery ana ltS hhhy ttlo"S
including the gamcy black bass and JACK salmon
while the wooded eI panseS abound ~ small game
Of various kinds including fox, ruccO0n, upOSNOm
squirrel, quail and turkey, aUordihg abuhdaht
recreation with rod aud gun.
The population OF the county by the last census
WAS III ll7 only two Of " hOm were cUlOrcd aud
al but w American born Taxes are not heavy.
Wood for fuel is plentiful and remarkably cheap,
selling in Forsyth for Al wagon'lOad with Site
boards. Church and school facilities are iair And
Increasing, many Of the schools manlicNtlnE such
y
Tor the use OF pupils. Improved farms are valued
at $40 TO go an acre, while unlmprUved lands can
be had at 81. .25 to sS There are still about SOOO
acres OF government lands, subject to homestead
or cash entry. The county is finely watcred, the
White river alone winding IN and out for about
hundred miles within It's borders.
There is considerable timber OF commercial val.
ue, including hickory, whteoak, walnut, pinc aud
cedar. and vast mineral wealth, rs Indicated by
the little prospecting that has been done. Our
mueyas include marble, hydraulic lime, m.nGau'
rsc copper lead aud zinc in their multitudinouS
forms, silver and gold, recent prospecting showing
the presence OF both in paying quantities, all OF
which will anOrd wcalh.lnaking opportunities to
men OF means, judgment and energy
In no spot on earth, perhaps, can poor man
so easily acquire Y home and make IlrIng, ANA
Auy man who is honest aud energetic Will be wei
coined, be he rich or poor, The railroad, white
River line OF the Missouri Pacinc) i Stimulating
enterprise aud enhancing values, River trailc
aud electric roads are certainty OF the near nut
urr to give new stimulus to every material inter
eat and enhance all realty values Now Is the
time to get IN right and reap the benefits.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1908-04-09
Getting Even.

"No, l don't believe in expensive
practical jokes" said San Fran.
cisco business man, except by way OF
retaliation.
Now last year | received tele-
gram from friend who was travelling
in Italy. 1t came collect and cost me
seven dollars: and when | opened it,
all read was, Thank you, am we'll. >
Then sailed forth and sought me
out cObblestOne-a nice large cObble-
stone weighing about eleven pounds.
And wrapped il in excelsior, pink
cotton and white paper, and boxed it
upin handsome box; and | sent IL by
express, collect, 10 my facetious friend
far across the bounding pillows.
And when he had paid his little
fifteen dollars, and had opened the box
in st. Petersburg, if remem Der right.
ly, he found in addition to the precious
contents note from me that explained, =,
This is the load that rolled OIL my
heart on receipt OF the news OF your
good health. Woman's Home Com.
panion.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1908-04-09
Poetry Won Bandits Heart.

Prof. Bliss Perry tells story to H.
lustrate the advantages OF literary
wisdom. A friend, he SAYS, was trav
cling in French mountains when on q
lonely road he was stopped by high.
waymen. his ;ife threatened, and his
valuables demanded. His literary in.
stincts were to the fore. even in his
extremity, and half unconsciously he
burst forth with an appropriate coup.
let, quoted from some obscure French
poet.
Hold" cried the leader Of the high.
waymen. My comrades. this gentle.
man is Acquainted with the works OF
our friend. NJ. So.and-So, He Is, then.
our brother"
The purse was returned. courtesiea
extended, and the traveller and three
bandits adjourned to an inn near by
and spent a pleasant evening, ,--Bos.
ton Herald.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1908-04-09
TIL, MISSOURI THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1908
Strong Drink.

Tom Watson in the Weekly jriIersouiah.
IT is II warrior whom no victory can
satisfy, no ruin satiate. II pauses at
no RuhiCOn TO consider, pitches no
tents at night, goes into no quarters
amid the burning plains Of the South,
where the phalanX Of Alexander
halted in mutiny 1t c0nquers amid
the snowdrifts Of the North. where the
grand army OF Napolean found its
winding sheet Its monuments are in
every burial ground lie badges OF
triumph are the weeds which mourn
crs wear. lis song Of victory is the
wall that was heard in hannah
"Rachel crying for her children and
weeping because they are not,
The sword is mighty, and its blooiy
traces reach across time, from Nineveh
TO Grnveloua, from Murathon to
Gettysburg. Yet mighttr is lis broth
er, the wine cup. say brother, and
history says "brOther." Castor and
Pollux never fought together in more
fraternal harmony. David and Jona-
than never joined in more generous
rivalry. Hand in hand, they have
come down the centuries, and upon
every scene of carnage, like vulture
and shadow, they have metand feasted.
Yea: pair OF giants, but the great
er is the wine cup The sword has "a
scabbard, and is sheathed; has Il con-
science, and becomes glutted with
havoc: has pity and gives quarter to
the vanquished The wine cup has no
scabbsrd and no conscience; its ap,
petite is a cancer which grows as you
feed it; to pity, it is deaf; to suffering.
it is blind.
The sword 10 the lieutenant OF Death,
but the wine cup is his captain, and il
ever they come home to him from the
wars bringing their trophies, boastingof
their achievements, them can imagine
that Death, their master, will meet
with garlands and song as the maidens
Of Judea met Saul and David. But as
he numbers the victories OF each, his
paeau will be THE sword is my Saul,
who has slain his thousands; but the
wine cup is my David, who has slain
his tens OF thousands"