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The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
An Unreflned Language.

Esperanto is gaining ground. 1t has
entirely superseded volapuk, and has
other victories yet to win. 1t may do
service In the business world, and 1t
may serve as a medium of communi.
cation between members of different
nations who have no other common
tongue. But, remarks the Christian
Register, that 1t will ever become a
literary language seems to us more
than doubtful. We do not believe that
AZ Is mere stupid conservatism that
makes us recoil from 1t as medium
for transmission of the higher forms
|of thought. In Esperanto "bulbo"
means bulb, but 1t may mean an
onion. Such language does not pre-
serve the nice distinctions which
mark the work of refined thinker
and expert writer
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
HARLAN's FIRST GOLF STROKE.
ITS Success Made Justice an Enthusl
asst from That Moment.

The celebration by Supreme Court
Justice Harlan of the goth anniversary
OF his elevation to the bench by play
ing golf all day recalls the story of
how he was first infected with the
golf microbe.
AS weekend guest of Senatof
Newlands he drove over with party
of guests to the links, where the sena.
tor was to play. The justice was urged
to take club and begin the game,
but steadily declined, with some side
remark about it being foolish sub
stitute for real sport, and popular
probably only because 1t was British.
But you will never know what 1t
really is until you try" urged Senator
Newlands, good-naturedly. Take this
club and try a stroke at the ball"
The justice is no kill-joy, SO he took
driver, and with mighty swing
swatted a terrific swat at the liver
pill The unexpected happened. There
was sharp, crisp kiss of the wood
and the ball and the almost startled
justice saw the little white sphere sail
gracefully away for $50 yards. What
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
FRESH DISCOVERIES IN WYOMING
BRING TO LIGHT MORE FACTS
ABOUT THEM.
Harlan |. Smith, of Archaeological
Department of American Museum
of Natural History, Closes a
Successful Season.

Eastern Wyoming has under the
persistent search of Harlan l. Smith
of the archaeological department of
the American Museum of Natural His.
tory yielded fresh knowledge concern
ing the prehistoric days in America.
Quarries covering many acres and
similar quarries in seven other places
in the states have been discovered
which give fragmentary evidence of
| the existence of race of people ages
ago. Hundreds of stone circles mark
ing prehistoric sites of large vii
lagos have been found, some of them
covering acres and numbering scores
of circles, also several cave dwellings,
rock inscriptions and new type of
steatite dish.
1t was found by Mr. Smith that the
Indians had treated the buffalo as our
cowboys do eattle--in other words,
that the Indian had been practically
a wild cowboy who hunted wild cat
tie called buffalo or American bison,
and that our cowboys are tame In
dams who hunt tame buffalo called
cattle
He brought back from Wyoming
to the museum eight boxes of speci-
mems of the handiwork of the prehis-
toric people of the plains, large
number of Photographic negatives,
and mass of field notes and infor-
nation about places he saw as we'll
as of things of which he was told,
but which there was no time to visit.
Among the problems to be solved"
said Mr. Smith, the following may be
mentioned: When did man first ap-
pear in the region? Judging from the
results of exploration in other places,
1t may take many years of the COM
bined efforts of all who are interested
before extensive evidence on this point
is discovered What was the culture
of these first inhabitants? Was there
more than one culture in the area,
either at various places or during
different periods? How was the cul-
ture affected by the Introduction of
the horse? No doubt the coming of
the horse to people whose only
beast of burden was the dog caused
eat advance in their general cul-
ture, as 1t would enable them to travel
further in search of food, to possess
and transport more property, and to
become somewhat more Independent
of the scanty water supply.
THE horse figures as perhaps the
most conspicuous element in all the
more recent photographs and petro-
glyphs seen by me in Wyoming BY
recent | mean since the introduction
of the horse. Photographs made be-
fore that date would, of course, not
contain representations of the horse,
an animal which the Indians had
never seen. The exact date at which
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
Killing Of Savage Sled Dogs.

Malamute dogs, deprived of suffi-
cient food, have become so ferocious
In Nome that the northern camp has
been compelled to establish a pound
and to take up all dogs whose owners
will not care for them.
Unless the dogs can be tanned they
are shot. Scores of valuable sled
dogs have already been killed this
winter, and before spring, it is be-
lieved, hundreds will have to be shot
to make Nome safe for women and
children.
A score or more of women and chill
dren have been attacked by half-fam-
ished Malamutes and it Is almost I'm.
safe for children to wander about town
unprotected. Even men have been at
tackled at times by the dogs and only
heroic measures adopted by the town
will prevent death or manning of many
people this winter. 1t was this that
led the Nome council to order the
hungry dogs killed.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20

Health officials of New York city
have been making tour of investiga-
ton in territory from which large
quantities of milk are supplied to the
metropolis, and report that they find
sanitary conditions all that could be
desired. This is complimentary to the
farmers who furnish the milk. and
suggests that less credit may have
been given them for care and consci
|entiousness than they were entitled to.
|The average farmer undoubtedly lis
honest and DESTROYS of dealing Justly
with his patrons. As has been
|abundantly demonstrated of late. de.
|clares the Troy IN. W Times, he has
many difficulties to contend with, and
ne sorely needs announcement. That
Inc does so well In the face of the
problems he has to confront is proof
pr his integrity and sound judgment.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
THE CAVE JEWELLERS

the horse reached Wyoming I do not
know, but certainly the Indians of the
plains had many horses when Lewis
and Clark made their famous explor-
alton, over hundred years ago They
could have had no horses before the
discovery of America and the bringing
of the horse to Mexico by the Span
iards. 1t must have taken some time
for the horses to be traded from
tribe to tribe, and to spread from
Mexico to Wyoming Then, too, it
must have taken still more time for
them to multiply to the extent that
they did before Lewis and Clark's
time. 1t will be remembered that
Lewis and Clark had no difficulty in
securing horses by barter.
"The petroglyphs which | photo
graphed of horses all represent that
animal in a conventional way. That
is, the horse is not depicted in a
realistic or natural way but his Shout
ders are always made unnaturally
large in proportion to his hips.
THE central portion of the area
was the home of the American bison,
upon which the Indians when first
met by the whites, depended for not
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
PASSING Confederate Money.

Ii seems strange that. more than 10
years after the civil war and with the
confederate states of America only a
memory, every now and then some
one turns up with confederate bill
and finds no difficulty in passing 1t
No properly informed person needs tC
be told that such bills represent the
value only of the paper on which they
are printed, and as the quality of the
material then obtalnable was not OF
the best that value may be counted as
a negligible quantity. 1t Is astonish
ing that anyone can be deceived In
this way, for the confederate notes In
their best estate are 80 widely differ
ent and so inferior in appearance com
pared to any of the currency of the
present time that suspicion should be
aroused in the mind OF the least wary.
Yet the bills pass Not SO very many
years ago one Of large denomination
was received and change given for II
by business establishment in this 10
cality. says the Troy IN W Times
A few days since down the river a
800 confederate note was offered In
payment Of purchase, and the seller
did not discover the truth until he
took the bill to his bank There must
be considerable confederate money In
existence, for it was very cheap after
Appamattox and thousands of bills
were carried home by union veterans
as souvenirs. But no one need be
fooled by dishonest use of the worth.
less paper II he will take the trouble
to read the inscription in big lettering
which tells how the Confederate
States of America promise to pay
something they never can pay.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
ENDURING FRESCOES

tanned for him permission to pursue
his researches in the Vatican library
There he formed the acquaintance of
two divinity students, who he found
were far more deeply interested In
art than in theology. The three young
men browsed about among the treas
ures of that enormous library, de-
ciphering manuscripts of medieval
days, admiring the exquisite illumina-
tons made by ancient monks upon the
parchments of manuscripts, and revel-
ing as only lovers of books and art
could in that storehouse of priceless
treasures.
One day one of the divinity students
brought to young Friederang manu-
script which had struck him as extraor.
binary 1t was small, bound volume,
apparently diary, filled with ammo
tations, recipes and memoranda, iotted
down, often abbreviated, but in a fair
ly legible hand. The recipes were those
of a chemist and artist-the name
written on the fyleaf was that of
Michelangelo!
And 800 years after Michelangelo
had made his entries Max Friederang.
the humble German student, sat in an
alcove of the Vatican library reading
the story of Michelangelo, written in
Michelangelos own hand, copying
into his notebook the precious recipe
for making plaster and mixing color.
his heart beating faster as he looked
forward to the day when he, too, would
dazzle the world with frescoes painted
after the recipe of Michelangelo.
Friederang told his friend, Mgr De
Vail, rector of the German college,
all about the diary of Michelangelo,
and the good priest was no less in
terested than his protege. He obtained
permission to borrow the manuscript
from the library, and one evening he
and another priest started with it for
a library at the other side of Rome.
intending to show 1t to some anti.
quarians. But as they were crossing
the Tiber their carriage came into
collision with another and was upset.
The priests were thrown out against
the parapet Of the bridge and the
satchel in which was the precious man
uscript fell over the parapet and into
the river, which swept it away, and it
was gone forever.
Fortunately Friederang had made
copious notes. Strangely enough, the
fresco painters of Italy and Germany
ridiculed him when he told his story.
He came to America and met with al.
most the same cold reception.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
a Short Christmas.

Christmas Day is only three hours
long In the Finnish town of Tornea,
said traveller. II spent last Christ.
mas there. AT sunrise got up to see
my presents and to read my Christmas
mail, and night had fallen before got
through breakfast.
"Tornea," he went on, has a day
20 hours long In June. Pretty good,
eh? But that is nothing beside Ward.
bury. Wardbury, in Norway, has a day
that lasts from May Il to July %. And
Spitzbergen's longest day lasts three
and a half months"
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
Got His Answer.

The victim of the dentist held up
his hand.
Doctor" said he, before you put
the lid on my conversation, will you
answer a question:"
YES" said the dentist, selecting a
square piece of rubber and shipping 1t
with his scissors.
DO people chew more on one side
of the mouth than the other?"
Sure" said the dentist, picking up
the clamps.
How interesting! Which side?"
"The inside" replied the dentist,
slipping the rubber dam over the
verbal one that issued from his pa.
TENTS lips.-Lippincott's.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20

Michelangelo in his frescoings in
st. Peters at Rome. The story of this
ancient and long lost process is one
full of romance. 1t is the process used
by the Greeks and Romans, lost in the
Dark Ages, re-discovered by Michel
angelo and used by him in decorating
st. Peters in Rome, only to be lost at
his death. 1t was discovered again a
few years ago and is now being APP
piled to the adornment of che greatest
public building in America.
A few years ago young German art
student named Max Friederang, pu-
pill of Arnold Boecklin, went to Rome
to study. Mgr. De Wahl, then rector
of the German college. near the Campo
Santo, took fancy to him and OBJ
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
Impertinences.


How many days of your life have
been so utterly happy that you would
like to live them over again?
Beyond this vale of tears it is as
sumed that man may wear his last
winters coat without casting suspi-
cion on his financial standing-that
is, If he goes to the place where he
needs an overcoat.
When physicians have learned to
cure pneumonia they will have put
Death in the stoutest adamantine
chains yet invented.
Blindness to the future is a blessed
thing for our creditors.
The Good Book says we shall know
our friends in heaven. At any rate.
let us hope that there, at last. we NAV
really and truly know who of all those
who call themselves such, are really
and truly our friends.
If, when we die, we go ito lie in cold
obstruction and to rot" possibly we
may have the satisfaction of knowing
that John d. Rockefeller and men like
him, have none the best of us theret
There surely must be another and a
better world where man gets his
reward for cultivating meek and
lowly spirit while trying to fix his
own eye glasses.
Achilles may have been very great
but he certainly was not in it for
strength with two blind mice the iani-
tor poisoned in fiat where | once
lived.
And in the end, may we all tread the
great worlds altar stairs that slope
through darkness up to God!"
The reason a poet wears long hair
is that his wife may pull it and make
him forget all his other sorrows.
There are more flowers of sneecb
than vegetables of diet In a garden
of verse.
If oil Is a sure cure for cancer az
is now claimed effort should be made
to keep the news from John D. Rookie
feller unless we want to pay cancer.
cure rates for illuminating.
Ssr@M4A.4.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
PROLONGED His Life.

II can't understand" said the doc
tor, after the operation had been per.
formed and the patient had been pre-.
pared for burial, how your husband
was able to live, with such an af.
fiction as he had" well, you see, "
replied the sorrowful widow, ut was
years and years before we could per.
suade him to go on the operating
table. Chicago Record-Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20

A policeman in Long Island City
ihot at a cat and hit an editor. Jour.
lalism seems to be leading the strenu-
lus life just now In the Empire state.
but amid all Its blows from fate this is
he unkindest cut of all,
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
Great Display to Be Held.

A great pageant of Darkness and
Light" series of descriptive repre-
sensations Of famous scenes In the
history of missions. is being arranged
for the exhibition of the London Mis-.
sionary society, to be held in London
next June, an affair for which 10000
helpers have enlisted.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20

Baroness Goto of Japan is now In
Washington and is being entertained
by members of the diplomatic and of.
icial circles. The titled lady will re.
urn to her home after three months
pr enjoyment among the notable
scenes of American life,
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
Brain Leaks.

Kind hearts may be more than
coronets, but your uncle of the three
balls wouldn't advance as much on a
heart as he would on a coronet.
Seeing the elephant in the circus
never was as expensive as seeing the
one about town.
In choosing a rival for pretty girls
hand always choose one with faint
heart.
If the thermometer gets up to 50
in the shade this winter, remember
not to worry. On second thought,
don't worry, anyhow, no matter what
the thermometer registers.
You cannot scare a girl from get.
ting married by telling her that love
flies out of the window when poverty
comes in at the door,
An Iowa boy doesn't want to go to
Heaven He prefers staying here at
home with mother and father!"
A New York newspaper insists that
woman should wear her waist where
God put it.
Another Texas newspaper, The
Granger News, asks: do you trade
in Granger or do you trade where you
buy your whisky" In most cases of
this sort the tail follows the hide,
doesn't it?
General Prosperity seems to be all
right, but somebody evidently has
mixed the drinks on Brigadier Finance.
Shorty Smith has quit the black
smith shop and gone to cutting meat
at the butcher shop.-Anderson (Neb)
Eagle. Probably Shorty" noticed
that dead "critter" never kicks.
Many poor man, dying, has left his
all to an orphan asylum. That is, if
he left any children.
According to American law, it is
wrong to have more than one wife at
a time. According to the law of COM
mon sense, it is not only wrong, but
foolish.
Even change of grievances is well
coined by the weary.
The Chicago News says fat people
do not spend their vacations in the
mountains because they do not like
the climb it.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20

A French scientist has produced sea
lrchins without stomachs. If he could
surn out a line of land urchlns With a
similar lack of the usual attachments
ne could show many struggling fam.
lly how to save money.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
MiCHELANGELO'S SECRET IS EN-
RiCHlNG CAPITOL AT WASH.
iNGToN, D. C.
His Formula for lmperishabIe Color
Discovered by New York Artist
and Now Being Used in
Decorations.

The decoration of room in the
capitol at Washington has just been
finished which the artist who has done
the work claims is laid in imperishable
colors after the formula used by
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
A Knot Hole,

Texas man carries his coin in his leg
And makes lots of money-he does, on
my soul
The leg 1t is wooden and when he walks
out
The wind blows draught In his leg
through a hole
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20

death. Death is the price we are
obliged to pay for our organization,
Tor the differentiation existing in u.s.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20

was his finish? He has been a golf
enthusiast from that transcendent mo-
ment.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20
lcopyright. 1907, by Byron Williams

Love and the Bakerman.
Love and the Bakerman met one day
Down at the Corners of Rockaway.
Give me some bread for my lady, pray"
Thus sayeth Love to the Bakerman.
Bread Is not made of a Lovers kiss!
Where is the money to pay for this?
You should have thought of today, 1
wis.,"
Thus said the Bakerman, stern and
short.
"She is the fairest that ever we'd"
Answered the youth with tousled head
Surely such virtues are worth their
breadl
Give me a loaf for the Queen Of
Queens"
Gruffiy, the Baker refused to trust.
why did you marry without a crust?"
This was the point of his parting thrust.
Love turned away with a saddened
heart!
Love sought his lady with hanging head,
Hungry and saddened he went to bed,
Weeping salt tears till his eyes were
Fearing the wolf at the cottage door!
Where is my LADY," he wildly cried
Then he jumped off of the roof and died!
Wasn't he naughty-the Bakerman?
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-02-20

The picture shows
Shawnee tribe
wood the handle of the omahwk
similar material
and said be taken from near the town of Pesone MINI
buckskn
believed be snew taken from the backbone
the Apache
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-10

guilty Of any Of these offenses men
toned Some of these WHO were re-
moved are excellent school men, but
they were placed IN these positions
by republicans who were intensely
partizan and were associated with
other teachers who were enemies OF
statehood.
No doubt gome mistakes were made
but they were not intentional and viii
be lectified
1t must be understood that those
who disbelieved In some OF the pro-
visions OF the Constitution aud op,
posed them az did many honest QUE
spoken republicans were not censured
but those who petltloned Congress Dy
kilograms and letters to delay the
passage Of the Enabling Act and
those who circulated the anonymous
circulars styling themselves "a group
of university men villifying candi'
dates and misrepresenting the pur'
poses of The new from Of government
really forfeited their rights and drew
trouble about their colleagues.
In the l.angston faculty a large ma
| iority are republicans and IL always
has been so. I'm the University there
are about an equal number of demo.
Gratis and republicans and it has all
ways been thus. In the other state
schools the number OF democrats exi
ceeds the number OF republicans In
the new faculties now, but formerly
this condition was the reverse; how
ever. it is safe to guess that no oppon.
ents of statehood Will be In the new
faculties
We have always had politics in the
Oklahoma schools under republican
rule. In less decreasing proportion
we still have politics In the Oklahoma
schools under the present democratic
rule, but forced in by the unpatrlolc
conduct Of certain republican leaders
The democratic party VIII continue 20
decrease and finally eliminate poll.
Tics from the Oklahoma schools. The
republicans fully demonstrated thai
they would never have done so.
The ideal condition for Oklahoma
schools would be no politics In tne
| schools, OF civil service for teachers
The republican administrations tend
ed away from this condition ALSO
lutely, placing republicans at the
head of every state school and limit
ing the selection OF men for the bes
places to coterle OF Kansas republi
cans.
The present democratic administrd
ton tends towards the ideal condition
OF no politics in Oklahoma schools fol
Combining all the faculties OF the
various state schools) more than TIVE
fitths OF the new faculties SO com
bined and two presidents OF stat
schools are republicans We're elected
by democratic appointees.
In view of these facts, what shal
We say TO him who now ihat this ey,l
Politics In Oklahoma schools, Is be
ing abated, suddenly begins to or.
aloud, and to publish with malicion
intent all this misrepresentatiOI
about politics IN the Oklahom
schools?'
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-10
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and you are in no danger Of consump-
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ing some unknown preparatics when
Eoley's Honey and Tar is safe and GER
tain In results.
The function Of the kidneys Is to
strain out the impurities Of the blood
which is constantly passing through
them Foleys Kidney Remedy makes
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Take Foley's Kidney Remedy and it
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Delay in commencing treatment for
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ney Remedy may result in q serious
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