The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-07-04
The Light He Saw.
Spelling Sisters Chances.


The daylight. SIR
Spelling Sisters Chances.
Little Johnny while whiting with
his new knife accidentally cut his fin
ger. He rushed right into the parlor
where sister was entertaining her beau
"Oh, Mr.. Brown" said he, will you
please cure my fingerY'
but how can cure 1t for you,
Johnny, any better than your mother
or sister canr' asked the unsuspecting
caller
well, the other night sister told pa
that you was sticking plaster, and as
can't reach ours without standing on
chair thought maybe you'd do in
hurry up case"
Tho Monotony Of Duty.
The supremacy of duty Is one Of the
insistent facts of life. Its calls are
claimant and will not be denied, and its
claims are often tyrannous. Like the
galley slave OF ancient Greece. we
chained to the oar. while the constant
drudgery to which we are bound both
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
honal guard field battery were ordered
to Are 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 aud |
the trigger pulled. The officer in 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 Eliza eth--at least so the
story goes. A country gentleman be
Queathed his estate to his eldest son |
and flo to the younger He had only
two sons, who were twins. The first |
born claimed the estate, but 1t seemed |
kkaf ha haI tka
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 Flo in
his 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 Q number Of smaller
threads were attached. like fringe
to keep a record of events. This was
called quipo. Each color Of fringe
denoted 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 Aristoeratie.
Tho head of the London tramway
system said at a railway dinner In New
York,
"There Is q class In London that will
not use the cars; hence our abundance
Of hansoms. This class Is aristocratic
II cannot mingle with the vulgar herd
But 1t is not foolishly arstocratic, like
the italian countess | heard of recent
w.. 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, I perceive that you are
becoming overheated. You may 60 out |
ride and perspire Bit"
A hansen Poem.
This snowiess ice plain is like life
without love--nothing to soften It, The
marks of all the battles and pressures q
" the Ice stand forth just as when :
hey were made. rugged and difficult $
% move among. Love Is life's snow.
Il falls deepest and softest into the 8
yashes left by the fight. whittier and .
,urer than snow itself. What Is life |,
without lover II Is like this ice-a
.old. bare. rugged mass. the wind I
IRVING It and rending It and then fore.
ne It together again, nothing to cover
he open rives. nothing to break the
rioience Of the collisions. nothing to 8
ound away the sharp corners of the !,
,roken hoes-nothing, nothing but ;,
ARE. rugged drift ice.-Nansen in Far :
hegt North"