The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-07-16

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ways continue to do so for it is tn,
only picture based upon the principles
governing sight with our two eyes
the principles Of binocular vision.
Listen to the enthusiasm Of Olive
Wendell Holmes, the great physician
poet-essayist, In the Atlantic MONTH,
In 1861.
ITO this charm Of fidelity in The
minutest details, the stereoscope add.
its astonishing illusion of solidity
and thus completes the effect which
SO entrances the Imagination. Per,
haps there is also some half-magnetit
effect in the fixing of the eyes on the
twin pictures, something like Mr.
Braids hypnotism. ** At Least
the shutting out of surrounding OBJ
jects, and the concentration of the
whole attention, which is conse-
quence of this, produce dream like
exaltation of the faculties, a kind OF
clairvoyance in which we seem to
leave the body behind us and sal
away into one strange scene after an
other like disembodied spirits = 7 =
oh, infinite volumes of poems that ]
treasure in this small library of glass
and pasteboard! creep over the
vast features of Rameses on the face
of his rock -hewn Nubian temple; |
scale the huge mountain crystal that
calls itself the pyramid of Cheops.
pace the length of the three titantic
stones of the wall of Baalbek, might
est masses of quarried rock that man
has lifted into the air. y
look into the eyes of the Gagged tiger
and on the scaly train of the croco-
die, stretched on the sands Of the
river that has mirrored hundred
dynasties. stroll through Rhenish
vineyards, sit under Roman arches,
| walk the streets of once buried
cities, look into the chasms of Alpine
glaciers, and on the rush of waste
full cataracts. pass, in a moment,
from the banks of the Charles to the
ford on the Jordan, and leave my OUT
ward frame in my armchair at my
table, while in spirit | am looking
down upon Jerusalem from the
Mount of Olives. None can
dispute that we have a new and won
derful source Of pleasure in the, sun
picture and especially in the solid sun
sculpture of the stereograph. The
cream of the visible creation has been
skinned off; and the sights which
men risk their lives and spend their
money and endure sea sickness to be-
hold, are offered you for a trifie, to
carry home with you, that you may
look at them at your leisure, by your
f1resfde, with perpetual fair weather,
when you are In the mood, without
catching cold, without following a
in any order Of sue
cession, from a glacier to Vesuvius,
from Niagara to Memphis, las long
as you like, and breaking off as sud-
denly as you like; and you native of
this incomparably dull planet have
hardly troubled yourself to look at
this divine gift, which If an angel had
brought from some sphere nearer to
the central throne, would have been
thought worthy of the celestial mes
senger to whom it was entrusted.
Rev. Mr.. Edwards: Governor
Brady, ladies and gentlemen:
"We are gathered together today
to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of
the raising of the first flag of our
country, of the first flag in our fair
state.
Il would like to have it clearly un-
1erstood that it was not seventy live
ears ago today, but seventy-five years
ago this month that the flag was
brought to the State of Idaho.
"A few miles from the town OF
Blackfoot, in July of 1884, Captain
Nyeth and Captain Mckay establish
I'd Fort Hall, on the banks OF the
snake River.
This morning, your Excellency,
We are gathered together to celebrate
his Diamond Jubilee. We have in
vited you to raise for us this new flag,
which is the emblem of liberty. It's
white stripes and its red stripes will
tand for the same principles.
THE coming of this flag to this |
Western country meant larger life;
meant greater prosperity to the ma
ion; meant greater development in
he life of the nation; and it is scarce
y conceivable in the limits of the
mind what great development has
aiken place in the Great Northwest
nth in the past seventy-five years.
We are profoundly grateful to you
or your coming this day. We are glad
3 have you with us today. We are
lad to have one of our neighbors,
ow in the executive chair, perform
his sacred honor for us. And l as
ure you that this Diamond Jubilee
lag will be sacred in the hearts OF
le men and women in Bingham coun-
Y, and all over the great state OIL
iaho.