The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-10-24


exhausts the strength and imbitters
the spirit The lot Of many lives APP
pears to have but little of poetry in it
and to leave but little room for imagi-
nation. Duty is undisguised monotony.
Strand Magazine.
Wanted His Share.
At the dedication Of monument in
New York recently two guns of ma
tional guard field battery were ordered
to fire the national salute of twenty
one guns After the twenty first charge
had been exploded there was momen-
tary pause, and one of the gunners or
dered another shot rammed home and
the trigger pulled. The oficerin charge
Of the firing rushed UP and demanded
from the offending gunner an explana-
ton. well, the other gun fired eleven
shots, and | wasn't going to let them
have anything ON u.s." was his reply.
The Youngest Was the Eldest.
A curious legal point was decided in
the reign of Elizabeth-at least SO the
story goes. A country gentleman be-
Queathed his estate to his eldest son
and f10 to the younger. He mad only
two sons, who were twins. The first
born claimed the estate, but 1t seemed
that he had been around the world
with Drake and so had lost day on
the voyage; hence the lawyers, sly
rogues, assured him that his brothers
claim was the best, and, the adven-
turer asquiescing in the decision, de-
parted on his travels with the f10 In
bis pocket.
Queer Records.
In Mexico and Peru the ancients
used a cord about two feet in length
tightly spun from multicolored threads
and to which a number of smaller
threads were attached, like fringe,
to keep a record Of events. This was
called quipo. Each color. Of fringe
denoted a certain thing. Sometimes
white stood for peace and red for war;
In other records white stood for silver
and yellow for gold. These cords con-
stituted register of births, deaths,
marriages, population fit to bear arms
or the stores In the government maya
zines.
Very Aristocratic.
The head of the London tramway
system said at railway dinner In New
York:
There is u class in London that will
not use the cars; hence our abundance
Of hansoms. This class is aristocratic,
1t cannot mingle with the vulgar herd.
But 1t is not foolishly aristocratic, like
H. This lady sat In her salon In the
Corso In Rome watching footman
busting a collection Of old family por.
traits. The footman naturally, under
his mistress eye. worked very hard
and got very warm. The countess
noted this and said haughtily;
"'Ascanio, perceive that you are
becoming overheated. You may go out
side and perspire Bit"
A Nansen Poem.
This snowless ice plain Is like a life
without love-nothing to soften It, The
marks of all the battles and pressures
of the ice stand forth just as when
they were made, rugged and difficult
to move among. Love is life's snow
1t falls deepest and softest into the
gashes left by the fight, whittier and
purer than snow itself What Is life
without love7 1t Is like this ice-a
cold, bare. rugged mass. the wind
driving It and rendlng II and then fore.
ing 1t together again. nothing to cover
the open rives, nothing to break the
violence of the collisions, nothing to
round away the sharp corners Of the
broken foes-nothlng. nothing but
bare, rugged drift ice-Nansen in Far
thest NertA"