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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-02-19
Echoes Of Woman's Clubs


made to arouse public attention to
the vital necessity of the entire sepa-
ration of the public business of the
state from the private interest of poll
tical parties, by the enactment and
enforcement of an effective merit law
applicable, not only to the state in
stitutions, but to all departments of
the public service"
Believing that it would give great
er support to the resolution the club
also adopted the measure and ordered
copy of the same sent to Mrs.
Standrod Of Pocatello.
Action was also taken in regard to
improving the means and methods of
securing greater safety for the school
children by the adopting Of the fol-
lowing resolution. presented by the
Department of Civis and Current
Events:
Whereas, 1t is of great Importance
that every possible precaution should
be taken to protect the school chill
dren Of the city from danger In case
of fire, and that there should be
ceaseless diligence upon the part of
all in seeing that the public school
buildings are safely arranged and
conducted, and that the children
should continually be instructed in
such matters and that there should
be regular fire drills in all the
schools.
Resolved, That committee con-
sisting of five members of the club be
appointed by the president to confer
with the heads Of the various schools,
the city fire chief and the members
of the city council and report to the
club, after such investigation what
the present situation relative to this
matter is, and whether or not every
precatuion is being taken and what
further steps in this direction they
recommend should be taken.
LULIE MCPHERSON.
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To Echoes:
In response to call from Mrs. For
ney, president of /. S. F. w. C. in
Echoes of recent date would state
that the Fortnightly club of Occur
d'Alene, Idaho, while still in the in
fancy, having been active only since
September, 1908, has accomplished
much in literary way since the
literary club will remain the inspira-
ton and terminating center for other
useful and helpful club endeavors,
feel we have made happy beginning,
however. the club hopes with the new
years to broaden it's work in order to
include some form of phiIanthrophy
or civic improvement, with the mat
uring Of these plans, we hope as
Mrs. Pittinger says, ito speak much
and often.
The Fortnightly club organized
with 90 active and five associate
members. The dues are one dollar
annually. The year has been de-
voted to the reading OF Shakespeare's
Merchant of Venice" and "As You
Like IT, VIII outline our program
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The obvious remedy is to weed out
these undesirable youths and put
them in a room by themselves in
charge Of teacher authorized to use
a rod according to his discretion 1t
would be better still to put them in a
building apart from other schools.
No city could make better invest
ment.
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o give some idea of the work.

to give some idea of the work.
Roll call.
Response in Shakespearean Quota
ton.
Reading of Minutes.
Paper, Social and Political Condi-
tions of England in Shakespeare's
Time"
Reading, "Act I, Scene ILL.,
Comments in text obscure pas
sages, etc.
Oral sketch, stage History Of the
Play"
Music
Current events.
List Of Officers.
President, Mrs. William Dollar;
vice president, Mrs. Frances White;
recording secretary, Mrs. E. r. Keefe;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. s. G..
Sargent; treasurer, Mrs. F. w. Tin
kle.
Progrm Committee-Mrs. Burgan,
Mrs. w. w. Leeper, Mrs. Charles
Norquist. lol
Inclosing will quote. in part, from
Mrs. O. T. 8. Denison's 1.-THE Long
Path"
THE wonderful Nineteenth century
=. 4 NH.ff . 10 i .4l \
has been called woman's century.
She is part Of the great forward
movement, and must take her place
willingly or unwillingly, In the work
OF the world, and she must take her
place with men In transforming life
into something better than itself.
Each must vie with the other in esti-
mating life at its true value, and
bringing out Of it the best Of hui
manity's service In Idaho woman is
certainly proving that she is part of
the great forward movement. have
latest reports from Boise before me.
We are making good are we not?
Sincerely,
NELLIE M. LEEPER,
Club Reporter.
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page 2. and with this issue we add
the department called Farm Life"
and another one covering Bible
Studies" that is designed to meet the
needs of persons situated so they can
not have the advantages of study
that are afforded by the more dense
ly populated districts.
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PREACHING TO PRISONERS.

Few ministers would consider Zulu
prisoners in South African Jail an
ideal congregation. but Rev. f. A.
Bridgman, an American board mis-
sionary in Durham, evidently holds a
different opinion. For he writes:
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FROM WALLACE.

t : ~.
February 13, 1909.
To Echoes:
In compliance with the request
from our state president and secre-
tary published in the last issue of the
Echoes" am sending the following
report:
The officers of the Wallace Study
club are: President, Mrs. ISABELLE w.
clyde; first president, Mrs. Elizabeth
Gibbs; second vice president, Mrs.
Lily s. Gassert; secretary, Mrs. Mabel
G. Shonts; treasurer, Mrs. Minnie X.
Otterson. 81
Committees.
ProgramLil J.. Fairweather,
Mary Wickersham, Grace e. Boomer;
Elizabeth Gibbs, Mabel G. Shonts.
Relief -Lottie A. Protesting, Har-
riet France, Marie Candee.
House Elizabeth Sutherland, Min
ME X. Phinney. Georgia Whitmore.
Objects The object Of the Wallace
Study club is purely literary. AT the
present time there is serious dis
cussion as to ascertaining the neces-
sary requirements for establishing a
Carnegie library In Wallace. The
matter will be decided upon at the
next meeting, February 17th We
have every reason to hope that we
will get the loyal support of every
influential citizen in Wallace In fur
thering our purpose Of obtaining a
Carnegie library building.
Dues The dues OF our club are 81
a year, payable usually at the date Of
each members election to the club
and after that by the middle of Mo-
yember each year.
The w. s. G. has Az active mem
bers and one honorary member. The
club meets every Wednesday after
noon. As we have no club room this
year we meet for one month at the
homes Of different members.
The study for the club year is
Nineteenth century fiction, including
the works Of Walter Scott, William
Thackeray, George Eliot, Chas. Dick
ems and Robert L. Stevenson and the
contemporary Americans, Washing
ton Irving, Edgar A.. Poe, Nathaniel
Hawthorne and Mark Twain Samuel
Clemens),
r AT the beginning Of the club year
a leader was appointed for each
writer who uses her own judgment
and pleasure in assigning the work.
The usual method Of study is an in
formal discussion of the writer's life
and critical study of his representa-
tive works, We have found this more
interesting and helpful than having
one or two long papers at each meet
ing. Every member feels RESPONSE
BILE for her share in the work and
study.
Three weeks are allowed for each
leader. Hoping | have included the
necessary information, / am. Sim
cerely yours,
MABEL G. SHONTS, Secretary.
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Il Ontario, Oregon, who entered the
race, but. withdrew a short time
ago to throw her remaining votes
to her cousin, Mrs. Byram. Mrs.
Draper is a club woman and fra
ternity woman of some note in
Oregon, and we codnt 1t an honor
to have women of her type say in
withdrawing from our contest, II
have been fully repaid for all my
trouble, by the pleasant work and
what ! learned in your school of
journalism.
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Who took the work of the school Of
journalism but very generously
withdrew from the contest when
the time to vote was reached, for
the reason that she was not living
in the country, this being a con-
test OF out-of-town writer's. Mrs.
Smith is the proprietor of the mil
linery parlors on Bridge street,
and has a notice in this issue, rela-
tive to the contest.
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BAD SCHOOLBOYS.

From Kingston IN. " Freeman.
One of our city teachers is now I'M
der accusation of having beaten pu-
pill with more or less severity. AS the
matter is now pending in court and is
also being investigated by commit
tee of the board of education, it
would be improper for us to express
any opinion regarding it's merits, but
it will serve as text for a few gen
eral comments upon the subject of
managing bad schoolboys.
Those of our grandfathers who
were teachers stood firmly upon the
doctrine that to spare the rod was to
spoil the child. Their unvarying re-
source was to whale" offenders, and
in many schools ability as rough
and tumble fighter was a more i'm
portant qualification for pedagogue
than was profound knowledge. Later
on the opinion that the rod spoiled
more children than it helped began
to spread and, like all new ideas that
find favor, was carried out to unrea-
sonable extremes. Much was said
and written about the beauty of
moral suasion and the teachers duty
to make his pupils obey him out of
love. 1t was found In practice, how
ever, that men who possess tact and
magnetism enough to become at once
the idol and master of roomful Of
assorted urchins prefer to become
drummers or follow some similar oc-
cupation which promises financial
rewards commensurate with their
talents. Meanwhile, the use of the
rod proceeded surreptitiously.
In recent years it has been discov-
cred that most stupid and vicious
children are detectives. Nasal growths
obstruct their breathing and their
vision and hearing are impaired.
Nearly always medical attention
changes the character of the bad pu-
pill 1t is a reason for national hui
initiation that the United States has
Jagged behind other civilized coun-
tries in taking advantage of this dis !
covery. If there is anything being
done along this line in Kingston, It
has been kept very quiet. Yet a |
large part of our taxes go to support
schools, and 1t is pity to have their
hampered merely because a
few children need to have caustic APP
piled inside their noses.
Yet, after all has been done that
science and common sense can sug-
gest, there will remain children who
lave been brought up by ignorant and
brutal parents, who are taught at
home to despise decency and to de-
light in obscenity and truancy. 1t is
to punish the parents
who are responsible, for there is no
place to draw the line of criminality.
Moreover, there are children of de-
cent and intelligent parentage who
are degenerates of a more or less
hopeless order. These pupils are
of the worst kind. They
keep their classes back, impair the
educational opportunities Of the stud
GUS, lower the average of morals and
waste vast sums of money extorted
rom taxpayers.
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ST. ANTHONY LITERARY CLUB.

Organized 1901; federated 1902.
Officers-President, Miss Sadie
Nichols; vice president, Mrs. Eliza
beth S. Houghton; secretary and
treasurer, Mrs. Matte R. Hummell;
critic and parliamentarian, Mrs.
Matte R. Hummell.
Motto Pleading with whatsoever
touches life with upward influence"
Lowell.
Colors-Pink and white.
Flower-Carnation.
Meetings twice a month. Dues
local, one dollar Object, literary and
social.
Programs-One day devoted to
civil service; one day devoted to
forestry. Literature, noted poets
and prose writer's. Leading topics of
the day. Music.
MATTE r. HUMMELL, Sec'y.
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Money is not everything in life, but
it has very satisfying influence.
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PORTTA CLUB.

Portia club held it's regular meet
ing on February 8. Mrs. Campbell
gave the governors of Idaho in the
order they held office. Mrs. Driscoll
gave short but interesting talk on
the capitals and capitols of Idaho.
There was quite an interesting dis
cussion during and Immediately fol-
lowing the program. Portia Is GER
tainly proud Of her faithful members
who can always be depended upon
We have some MEMBERS that over
come all ordinary difficulties when
their presence at Portia is in ques-
ton. We feel like making roll of
honor and enrolling these names in
capitals. If you want your name on
this list become an enthusiastic
Portia member, Some one suggest
an effective method to stir up the
dead embers.
Portia club will have Arts and
Crafts day on February 22nd at 1880
p. m, in the Commercial club rooms.
Every one is cordially invited. There
will be display of artistic work of
all kinds, curios, baskets, pictures
and many interesting things from
home and abroad. There will be
program of vocal and instrumental
music. Refreshments will be served
in the banquet rooms, Everyone
come and bring your friends. Pat
ronize the home club, whose object
is the improvement and betterment in
every way of your home town. Ad-
mission ten cents. Pearl.
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material to become the champion en-
tertainer and story-teller of our
locality, it will not be our fault.
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WRITER'S CONTEST

Continued From Page One.)
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FROM COEUR D'ALENE.

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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09
A BROTHER EDITORS TRIBUTE.

Editor Jeffersonian:-You article
on Foreign Missions in the August
Jeffersonian is a "clincher."
The missionaries" may as we'll
own up that you have them where
they can't move without putting their
foot in it.
Your article is the most powerful
arraignment of the unnatural, un-
Christian and unpatriotic" methods
used by modern missionaries in for
eign lands that was ever written. No
other man in America could or would
do it, And yet it is absolutely and
imperiously necessary. You have
shown up the hideous character of
Popery and the false character Of a
large part of Professionalism" in a
manner which will receive the heart
felt thanks of all true patriots and
nerve them to greater vigilance in be-
half of civil and religious liberty.
May your life be spared to carry
on this tremendous work to a sue
cessful issue.
/ am with you to the end.
EZRA j. WEAVER,
Publisher American Whip"
Lancaster, Pa, August 13, 1909.
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0be 5etfersontan
THE GYPSY TRAIL.

THE GYPSY TRAIL.
The white moth to the closing vine,
The bee to the open clover,
And the gypsy blood to the gypsy blood
Ever the wide world over.
Ever the wide world over, lass,
Ever the trail held true,
Over the world and under the world,
And back at the last to you.
Out of the dark of the gringo camp,
Out of the CRIME and the gay,
(Morning waits at the end of the WORLDLY
Gypsie, come away!
The wild boar to the sun-dried swamp,
The red crane to her reed,
And the Romany lass to the Romany
By the tie of rowing breed.
Morning waits at the end of the world
Where winds unhaltered play,
Nipping the TANKS of their plunging
ranks
Till the white sea horses neigh.
The pied snake to the rifted rock,
The buck to the stony plain,
And the Romany lass to the Romany
lad
And both to the road again.
Both to the road again, again!
Out of clean sea track
Follow the cross of the gypsy trail
Over the world and back!
Follow the Romany patteran
North where the blue bergs sail,
And the bows are gray with the frozen
spray
And the masts are shod with mail.
Follow the Romany patteran
Sheer as the Astral light,
Where the Bosom of God is the wild
west wind,
Sweeping the sea-foor white
Follow the Romany patteran
West to the sinking sun,
LII lie uIk Sails IllC through Uno
houseless drift,
And the east and west are one.
Follow the Romany patteran
East where the silence broods
By purple wave on an opal beach
In the hush of the Mahim woods.
The night-hawk to wind-swept sky,
The deer to the wholesome wold
And the heart of a man to the heart of
maid
AS it was in the days of old.
The heart of man to the heart of
maid
Light of my tents, be fleet;
Morning waits at the end of the world,
And the world is all at our feet
-Rndyard Kipling.
A BROTHER EDITORS TRIBUTE.
Editor Jeffersonian:-You article
on Foreign Missions in the August
Jeffersonian is "clincher.'
III
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began to think it was natural for me
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The new era., 1909-10-28

is seaeSel canal across the fsthmus 500 or
feet wide. To accomplish this however. lock canal
must be built first and subsequently widened and deep
ened until the ideal reached There 10 data avail
able for such canal With mountains instead Of hills
to be removed estimates Of impossble:
the most optimistic figures suitable alone the ideal
are offered bait. In any event It II also caimU
that Bohio should have been selected for the site of
dam In lieu of Gatun
As between Gatun and Boho. both places tho
tAnce from the natural surface to the great
that any attempt to found the dam the named
material will be attended by enormous expense At Bo
bearing gravel and to make the the underAow
through these strata would have to be BY
means extending down 165 feet No strata exist
at Gatun for this alone leaving Of consid
Grafton the advantages in the control ChAgres
river and navigation by the greater extent
of lake. Gatun offers the better site
Both the majority and minority Of the board Of
sulting engineers considered Gatun suitable
for dam; the former adopted It typical
canal used for comparison with the canal
latter for the S5foot summtleve canal The majority
however feared the existence OF an UNDERGROUND now
in Of the higher DAM but Investigations failed
to disclose The great Of underlying material
Is not sandy and gravely deposits supposed
with clay to make the in which they occur
.mpervious to water.
Foundation At catun 10 satIssaetory
venture the statement. without fear contradiction
that the site Of public private work Of any kind
has received such thorough and exhaustive sxamna
locks at Gatun There 10 longer doubt concerning
of the underlying strata neither impermsabiy
the ability Of the foundations the loads that
will be brought them be questioned II the
tons fail to disclose any waterbearins or
stence of that underground stream with discharge
equal to the Chagres river ITSELF which vss recently
asserted as tact on the aoor Of he ssaatA
The new era., 1909-10-28

% feet above tide extending to Miranores the
location of the final lock. The ruling bottom. width Of
the canal prism nxed $50 feet increased At the
and in the submerged channels In Panama bay
the width fixed At 200 feet and In the artificial char
mel In Limon bay 500 feet adopted with turning
places 800 feet wide The minimum depth 35 feet
and the locks have usabe lengths of 74O feet
and widths OF "a feet The commission assessed the
value of the rights franchises. concessions lands mn.
finished work. plans and other property including the
railroad Of the New Panama Canal Company, at $40.
100000.
BY OF congress- approved June g. 1902 the pres-
dent OF the United States authorized acquire At
cost not exceeding $4,000 600 the property rights OF
the New Panama Canal Company Isthmus Of Pan
and also to from the Republic of Colombia
perpetual control OF strip Of land less than six
miles wide. extending from the Caribbean sea to the
Pacific ocean
Pursuant lesslation negotiations we're entered
into with Colombia and with the New Panama Canal
Company with the end that treaty made with the
Republic of Panama granting the United States con
troll OF l0me strip. constituting Canal Zone with
the right to construct maintain operate canal This
treaty ratified by the Republic Of Panama on Ne
cember 2 1903 and by the United States February
g. 1904.
The formal transfer Of property Of the New Pana
ma Canal Company On the sthmus made on May 4
1904 after which the United States began organiza
tion of the the lock type OF
canal In the meantime continuing the excavation by
utilizing the French material and equipment and such
labor AZ was procurable ON the isthmus.
Lock Type is Adopted.
The question of senlevel canal vas again axitated
and secured such recognition that the president coli
vened the engineers consistng OF
IL members. assemble Washington on the hr, DAY
Of September 1906 for the purpose Of considering
various plans for the construction Of canal that
would be submitted It.
result Of deliberations the board submitted
majority report and minority signed by ave OF
ts ncmbcrs the former advocating sealeveI cans and
the latter lock canal with summit level IS feet
above tide
The isthmian Canal Commission. with one dissenting