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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15
A NEW MACHINE IN TOWN

To say that everything has already
been invented is a great mistake, and
each day brings evidence Of some
thing new in the way of mechanical
appliances. ]. F. Kinney the Bridge
street shoemaker has brought in the
latest machine for use in rebuilding
footwear. 1t is unique affair ope-
rated by electricity, and has all kinds
Of brushes, wheels and trimmers for
shaping shoes. 1t is supplied with a
heating plant for keeping the wax
hot SO that while it sews the strong
heavy thread, it wakes the thread
exactly alike all the while by draw
ing the thread through the box of
heated wax. The old way was to wax
the thread by drawing 1t through a
ball of cold wax, and keeping the
room warm enough to roast the ope-
rator and soften the wax. The work
was imperfect because 1t varied, and
the thread broke at the weak points
and the seam ripped out
The machine puts in a heavy seam,
all protected. perfectly by coat of
wax, and by passing the shoe or boot
from one part to another it is shaped,
polished and finished just as 1t was
in the factory.
People are coming to realize that
the custom of throwing shoes away
when something gave out is not only
a very extravagant way of doing, but
a most uncomfortable one as we'll,
for old shoes are the only comfort
able ones and he who is always break
ing in pair of shoes is always lame
and tired. A lame foot exhausts the
nervous system and the ratfence, and
makes life burden, and the public
has come to appreciate the up-to date
cobbler who can rebuild the good old
shoes and start them out again as
good as new and twice as easy.
The machine referred to, does
everything but drive the nails.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15

sort. can enumerate dozens and
dozens of advertisements that struck
my eye because they were things that
/ thought ! wanted, now or in the
near future. / looked through these
pages for an hour, and finished by
jotting down the names and addesses
Of several concerns whose announce
ments made me want their articles,
and these firms will receive letters
from me requesting additional in
formation.
After had finished with the ad>
vertising pages, ! read the first in
sallment of Judge Lindsey's story
In bed.
This experience with Everybody's
is duplicated by that of countless
people who, consciously or uncon-
sciously, value the advertising pages
things that are being advertised. 1t
was news of the most interesting
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15
BACK FROM EUROPE

l.. r. Thomas and wife arrived
home Wednesday evening from trip
to Europe. Mr.. Thomas says that
they had very pleasant trip, and
that Mrs. Thomas has been much i'm
proved by it. They were little home
sick for the Idaho sunshine at times,
having had only day now and then
of sunshine, most Of the weather be-
ing rainy or foggy.
The trip home was made in charge
of the remains of the late G. e. Will
liams, whose funeral occurs at
Thomas today, and while his death
cast shadow over the trip, they were
glad to be where they could perform
this mission of love for the bereaved
friends at home.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15
Rummage sale today

Rummage sale today.
j. T. Carruth is at home sick.
Go to Jackman's for novelties. Ill
Kinney repairs shoes on Bridge
Street. tt
Auction sale Saturday Opposite the
| postoffice.
James Hunter is out rusticating on
his farm this week.
Front quarter of beef, &c a pound.
IDAHO MEAT MARKET.
Before selling call up 1913 and get
prices on grain and potatoes. 13tf
w. H. Montgomery leaves today
for Portland to spend the winter
All boys clothing, all boys knee
pants except coduroy, IA off at Bic
htan's. 14-4
Wool bats and ready sewed bats
are fine. You will find them at Bic
than's. 14-4
Temp Hopkins fell from horse a
of his fore arm.
We will buy potatoes that are ma
tured enough to ship. Bond Bros.
& Co. Get prices. 13tf
Outlines of history for sale at the
Republican Office, for use with Mace's
history, 20 cents postpaid IL
When in the market with grain or
potatoes call up 1913 and get prices at
Bond Bros. & Co. 13tf
We are prepared 10 handle all kinds
of crops at the elevator. Blackfoot
Grain & Produce Company. 8tf
The Fourth Dry Farming Congress
will be held at Billings, Montana,
October rs, 81, %, 1909. If
Business Mems lunch at the Rum-
mage sale today. The rummage crop
am said to be very fine. Dinner and
supper both. Try EN-.
Norman Geyer of Pomeroy, Ohio,
has been here about three weeks, and
on leaving for Ohio he assured some
local men that he would return and
bring Others with him.
We call attention to the big auction
sale in this issue, the notice for bids
for driving a wagon for the delivery
of children to the city schools and to
the ball to be given Wednesday even
ing by the Commercial club.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15
A Personal EXPERIENCE

Last night | picked up the October
issue Of Everybody's Magazine, and
the first thing / did after tearing off
the wrapper, was to turn to the adj
vertising section. Perhaps | did this
by instinct, to see what new adver-
ing was appearing, but ] don't think
this was the reason. Many of my
friends and acquaintance, who do
not know what an agate line Is, do
the same thing.
believe honestly that ! did 1t to
keep up to date on the many new
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15
BRUCE-BENSON WEDDING

On Sunday evening, October 10th,
Miss Minerva Bruce and Mr.. M. J..
Benson were united in marriage at
Pocatello.
The bride is one of Blackfoot's
most popular young ladies, and the
REP GAL - % y. -. -. ;.
groom is a we'll known young man
who has been making many people
happy by the good work he has done
as plasterer, being past master at
his trade and much in demand in
these prosperous days of Republican
ism.
They will live at Blackfoot, and
for the present are located at the
Don Carlos home.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15
SOME WEDDINGS

Miss Rhoda Rowley and Mr.. Reu-
ben Wright of Idaho Falls were mar
ried at the Parsonage by Rev. c. A.
Edwards on Thursday afternoon.
On Saturday, October 8, at the
Parsonage in this city, Rev. G. A.
Edwards Joined the lives of Mr..
Archie Wilson and Miss Anna Knobel
of Butte. Montana.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15
TWO TRAINS ON MACKAY
BRANCH

"A passenger train, has heen> added
to the Mackay branch, leaAps Mack
foot at 1880 a. m. apd returni4g.r6t
6:25 p. m. 1t makes tbe run iD1hree
hours. The freight tkain rr&s tri-
weekly, going up Monday and down
Tuesday, and SO on. 1t leaves Black
foot at 10 a. m. and doks not carry
passengers. Freight must be billed
the day before. loft
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15
METHODIST SERVICES

The Memorial window will not be
installed for services Sunday, but
the new pews will be in position and
there will be place for you.
The unwilling of the window will
occur later.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15
D. \. B|ETHAN.
UNDERTAKING. and FUNERAL
DIRECTING.

Years of Experience lnsures Proper
and Considerable Attention. Em.
balming Carefully Attended to.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15

of their favorite periodicals quite as
much as the editorial contents.
Nine-tenths of the subscribers would
discontinue, If any standard maga-
zine gave up its advertising pages.
You would be one OF them, would
you not?
1t is no wonder then, that pub
fishers and advertising managers
realize the gravity of their respon-
sibility to the readers for the adver-
tisements they publish that they al
low no advertiser to use their coll
umns who is not honest in spirit and
in fact Golfers, by r. G, Patterson.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15

NEW SUBSCRIBERS AND RENEW
AIS
.
Lee billiard. Jno G. Brown, G. w.
.Glanville, Jos, Jordan, e. A. Bevins.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15

The following names are of those
who ranked first and second in the
different grades OF the high school
Seniors
/. Maurine Chalmers.
2. Lulu Gaumer.
Juniors
l. Frances Parkes.
2. Goldie Beasley.
Sophomore
/. Shelomi Van Blaucone.
2. Rose Fuller.
Freshman
/. Hazel Hickman.
2. Elsie Gibson.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-10-15
SCHOOL NOTES

The following selection was written
by member Of the High School,. Its
purpose is to bring out the color ele-
mar. IN daccr{ntinn
Evening star., 1909-09-11

year royalties for turning out gems OF
sentiment like They All Spoke Well or
You at Home, Geraldine
The artist who learned his calling In
Paris may be our greatest little colorist
and his portraits are speaking likenesses,
maybe, but YOU rarely hear of them
s. leaking anything about ready money
He's there with the art, Larry, bigger
than a house, but when it comes to
amassing those dark-green and pale-ye.-
low government rain checks that can be
saved up for rainy day. he's but as the
hole in the tumble. What boots him, his
training and his skill if he has portieres
on his cuffs and lives in side-street
boarding house, thus becoming the only
living creature. except the tapewOrm, that
never gets chance to pick out what it
going to eat in advance or even to see It
before 1t comes along. What does 1t boot
him? Not a boot, nor a pair of boots, nor
even congress gaiter. But the kid lad
who does the stuff for the comic supple
ment and draws fat man with crab
holding on to his toe to show that the
ba background is an ocean and not a NOUN
tain range, and puts a church steeple and
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CHATEAU OF CHENoNCEAU.

always delighted women-to the point of
crime Catherine built on the piles Of
the old Marques stronghold, cemented
into eternal rock of the river bed. She
planned to cross the river entirely, ard
Francis l. considering that the king
takes his pastime in the forest gave
permission. No one knows the architect.
The first Italians, Rosso and Prdmatice,
came to France eight years later. 1t
would seem that the Bohiers gave the
great work to a simple master mason
of Amboise-Pierre Nepveu. True, Nep-
veu rose. Later he built royal Cham
bord
And Catherine. her chateau finished
and furnished, waited Thomas, with the
armies for a great housewarming.
Chenonceau was too magnificent for
business man of those times. The long
waited Thomas died in the rout of the
French in Italy. Catherine died a year
later. Francis l, hard up from the
Italian war. brought suits against all
tie crown financiers. Why? Just to raise
ready money.
In five years the fourishing Bohier
family was ruined an. GATHERINGS son.
Antoine. glad to humbly offer Francis
l his chateau of Chenonceau al a valu
Evening star., 1909-09-11
The Trust Buster.
g ENATOR La TOILETTE at a dinner
~ ln,,., Il

g ENATOR La TOILETTE at dinner
- during the tariff debates illustrated
a statement with story.
The Caliph Haroun Al Raschid." he
said. had once TO wrestie with meat
trust in Bagdad.
Beef. for some reason. got a little
scarce, and Immediately a.; the butchers
met in secret conclave and doubled their
prices Nasreddin, a millionaire, was
the head of this trust.
The caliph heard all about the trust
from his grand vizier. He said nothlns'
but a day or so later he invited all the
Bagdad butchers to the royal palace
.'The butchers knowing their caiiph
vulgar love for the common people. went
Ia him with fear and trembling. But he
greeted them with kind words and 10.
in the great marble hall a superb fease
was spread. The caliph ere he lett the
room waved them graciously to table.
..They ate heartily. The meat course
was particularly good. Where, though
was Nasreddin, the millionaire organ
izer of their trust?
LAS they by turns praised the meat and
asked one another where Nasreddin could
be the caliph returned. His aspect now
was stern. II
Where he said from the dais, Is
Nasreddin, o butchers?
"Silence. No one knew. The caliplt
frowned as black as thundercloud
'Nasreddin,' he roared, is here You
have just eaten him. Go home and re-
duce the price of meat or your fate will
be as hisi' q
And since that day trusts have been
unknown in Bagdad.''
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alton of 10000 livres for quitclaim. 1t
was better than being confiscated and
hung at Montfaucon, like Jacques Beaune,
at the age of eighty-six years!
Chenonceau had cost the Bohiers co.
OCO livres 100000 francs, present value).
Some 10000 livres remained of the king s
faxed claim. The Bohiers were sucked
dry. So Francis benevolently called it
square-and gave a royal mortgage on
all crown domain to guarantee the quit
claim. He visited Chenonceau twice. a
sick and melancholy man. What he really
enjoyed was Bohier's cash. He soon died.
But Diane de POitiers had seen and
liked the Chateau of the Waters
Diane de Poitiers. celebrated in history
for her beauty, grace. with crookedness
and unlimited influence over the new
King Henri II. had been married at
fifteen years of age to the hunchbacked
Grand Seneschal of Normandy. aged sixty.
Two years later her father. caught
plotting. was being led to the Place de
Greve. Paris. to have his head cut OF.
But youthful Diane was hurrying to the
eighteen-year-old Dauphin.
Yes, / think she was noble girl. just
then. Her father was repriered when the
AK was in the air. and Diane became
political figure. Then she became a
CRATER.
When her Dauphin became Henri II, her
Evening star., 1909-09-11

American Terrys were the only owners
who honestly bought Chenonceau-and
were the only ones to live there peace
fully.
All others-royal grafters-came to
bad end at Chenonceau.
Now for the strong business woman of
old days who built the Chateau of the
Waters. Robbed by the royal rabble, she
defends 1t in these days against their
shades.
Look not at the separate donjon to the
right. 1t is the sole remains of the ruined
Marques family that after holding the
site 800 years, was sold out by the sheriff
for plain debt in 1913.
Catherine Binconnet descended from
small shopkeeper's family of Tours, fos-
tered to greatness, like SO many other
little people''-Herthelots, Ponchers, Bo-
hiers-by democratic Louis XI.
Behold Catherine. daughter of bank
er who died archbishop. married to
Thomas Bohier a farmer-general and
rich enough to buy up the Marques fief.
While Thomas financed the armies of two
kings Catherine, left at home, built Che
nonceau.
Yes, a woman gave its strange grace.
fairy charm. Built by woman, it has
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first act was to have him dispossess the
old kings favorite-the Duchesse
d 'Etampes-of all her property. Next he
ceded her the civil service taxes due
the change of-reign. and half the twenty
Iivres-per-cloche tax. On this Rabelais
remarked: The king has hung all the
bells (cloches), of his kingdom round his
mares neck Finally. by letters patent.
Diane obtained .'our pleasant chateau of
Chenonceau.'
Here is one of the crimes of Chenonceau.
A young gentleman. La Chateigneraie,
had been too much favored by Diane;
she feared him. Another, de Jarnac, had
married the sister of her enemy.
d Etampes. ASK de Jarnac how he
dresses so well?'' said Diane to La
Chateigneraie. MY mother-in-law helps
me out explained the unsuspecting de
Jarnac On this Diane caused the late
full whisper to go around: do you know
what La Chateigneraie says about de
Jarnac and his mother-in-law!
They fought with swords and daggers
in the presence of the young king and gay
court. Like Iago. (which kills t'other, l
shall benefit thought Diane. but felt
safer when de Jarnac slipped on one
Evening star., 1909-09-11

MILLIONS have been spent on historic
Chenonceau.
When Daniel Wilson went from Glasgow
laying the first gaspipes. His SON mar
ried President Grevy's daughter. His
daughter. marrying Pelouze. another gas
ma agnate, bought dismantled Chenonceau
in 1867 for $4,000 francs and spent 1000,
600 francs upon it's restoration.
When John Terry went from New York
to Cuba he was as successful with sugar
as Wilson had been with gas. Among his
descendants who became notable -Pari-
slams Francisco Terry purchased Chenon-
ceau from the Pelouzes for a round
..WD.COO francs. His wife, the accom-
plished flower of the Sanchez family, by
her collections restorationS and discov
cries revived its brilliance of the great
old days Under her was discovered the
secret chamber hiding the wicked account
books of Diane de Potiers. Under her
was opened the forgotten door and stair
way in the bridge pile to the river baths
of Catherine de Medicis' court beauties.
Now she is widow, all these triumphs
are but painful memories. The daughter.
married to Count Stanislas de CaStellane.
has other houses and chateaux to keep
up. The son. unmarried, automobilist of
renown and mighty hunter. would rather
be in Africa with Mcmillan. And Che
nonceau is expensive even for the rich.
Go back century. Claude Dupin, plain
tax farmer. purchased Chenonceau in
great dilapidation for 100000 francs in
1888 and spent 100000 francs in restora
tions. Here the Dupins held a brilliant
Rousseau, and the chateau went peace
fully to their descendants, from whom
Wilson's daughter bought 1t.
Plain Dupins. untitled Pelouzes and
Evening star., 1909-09-11
THE HOTEL CLERK ON THE HIGHER EDUCATION

ever get If he should quit. The Shakes
pearean brand of veteran actors are 10
cents each, or three for a quarter, on
Broadway. but young men who do can do
the George Cohan steps and pull rapid-fire
mother-in-law gags get their seven hun
dred week for working twice day sew
enteen minutes each time. What's the
use says the modern youth, of spending
several years that might be profitably en-
ployed breaking into Wall street in stor-
ing the crock full of knowledge that only
gives me a headache IL l keep it and
everybody else a pain if l try to dissent
nate it? What's the use of bulging the
sides of the human skull with superfuous
information when 1 can get ten thousand
useful facts in a red cover and years
subscription to a farm magazine, all for
two dollars? l don't want to be a Handy
Andy Compendium when / might be =
Hans Wagner or Charley Schwab or an
Evening star., 1909-09-11

on the force-they gave him post across
the river in one of those goat-haunted pre-
cincts. Well, his second day he came
across dead truck horse in the street
and he took out his little red book -
make his report At 1910 am. this MORN
ing found a dead horse. bay horse. at the
corner of - he wrote, with his tongue
out making the same motions his pencil
did. Then he looked up at the street lamp.
One side said Dean ave- and that was
easy enough, but the other side said
'Koskiosko boulevard and Casey was out
on a limb
THAT wus where an eddycation would
ha helped" said the House Detective
triumphantly.
Yes. but main strength came to the
rescue said the Hotel Clerk. Casey
took the horse by the tail and pulled him
down one block to the corner of Jones
street"
Evening star., 1909-09-11

they did not know how to make use OF
their discoveries until others had 10
show them, and could not take full
advantage of their progress. Ii is the
same with individuals "a with the Chi
nese. Many do not know how to take ad-
vantage of their knowledge. to use il
to their own and their neighbor's good.
simply because they have not tact to do
SO.
: Tact is a child of necessity. People
under tropical suns and where little
clothing Is needed, where food Is found
ready prepared. rarely exhibit high
state of civilization progress. be-
cause they have not the necessity 10
put their faculties TO the test to make
living. The highest development is
always found where men have to strug-
gle hardest.
Evening star., 1909-09-11

perfect gem of a quatrain for as much
as 81, payable on publication, which will
be in 1912. But how about the lad who
writes the popular song relating to THE
Valley in Virginia Where the Moonshine
Is So Stilly?' If you'd ask him if ne was
acquainted with the works of Shelley he'd
teI. you. with a plying look, that he has
no time to keep UP with the percentages
of the players in those little outlaw
leagues out west. He doesn't know
whether Wordsworth was the author of q
ready reckoner or d patent medicine, and
he always gets Charlotte Bronte and
Lydia Pinkham mixed in his mind. It.
seems to him that a guy named Omar
Khayyam wrote some verses once. or w1s
it Hunyad Janos?
Evening star., 1909-09-11
MAYBE, BUT YO
ANYTHING ABOUT MONEY.

down the fronts of their shirt waists 1t
every repetition of his pathetic refrain be-
ginning These heartbroke words she
then did speak to him, as follows Illus
trated-song baritones make his name
household word where moving pictures
move. and he is enabled TO wear more jew
elry than the Shah of Persia, and to ride
around in an automobile that looks like
one of those electric vacuum cleaners. I'd
ue willing to think the RCbiyat was 4
brand of Hungarian mineral water, too,
If / could knock down thirty Thousand
Evening star., 1909-09-11

SNORBISH lord in a parish meet
n ing in England made some prop
~ ositions to which farmer of
sterling sense objected, as abb
surd. The titled imbecile glow
cred on the objector. and pompously said:
DO you presume to object to my prop
osition? You are an ignorant farmer
and l have been educated at two univer-
sites" well, what of that" coolly re-.
Joined the farmer. Il once had a calf
that MIXED two cows, and the more he
MIXED the greater calf he grew"
This age respects the man who can
bring things to pass. The question is
not what college have you been through,
but how much of the college has gone
through you. The best diploma is the
book of acts.
The worlds greatest men have not been
polished scholars. Many of the world S
best achievements nave been brought
about by men who had little or no book
learning.
The men who wrested Magma Charta
and laid ,the foundations of civil liberty
could not write their own names Boil
ingbroke, scholar and statesman, fec
an exile from England, while Walpole,
who scorned literature, held power for
thirty years.
The speeches of Benjamin Disraeli
were literally luxuries. polished by the
rhetoric of genius. but they never laid
down a single principle of policy, nor did
their talented author ever bring forward
great measure that was not ignomi-
niously rejected, hooted out of the house,
while Sir Robert Peel, whose orat!ons
at best were but platitudes. and whose
quotations were usually from Elton $
grammar, reversed his country's financial
policy. regenerated Ireland and died with
the blessings of all Engl.shmen on his
head.
Charlemagne could barely sign his own
name. Frederick the Great could not
spell in any of the three languages whose
words he habitually mispronounced. The
strongest hand that held the helm of our
government was that of a man who was
born in the backwoods, never went
through a college. and had but little. OF
the learning of the master; yet what
master was as great as Abraham Lin
coin?
Books, as Bacon has justly observed,
can never teach the use OF books; II re-
Evening star., 1909-09-11
HIS PORTRAITS ARE SPEAKING

props show an inclination toward rickets.
And. besides, this is the generation when
pale mauve-tinted intellect is being jam
med through the hack drop by the lad
with the plum-colored wallop.
What of the pallid young poet who
knows everything that Owen Meredith and
Keats ever wrote off by heart and has i
forehead so high that you'd think he was
wearing a rat in it? I'll tell you what OF
him. He lives in hall bedroom gnaw-
ing his nails and cheese sandwiches. and
about once every six months he sells a
Evening star., 1909-09-11

I'm not saying whether he's right or
wrong, but this much l do know-it's a
good notion to slip few biceps in along
witt your cube roots and the like. There
was the case of Casey the cop. Casey
was large. strong lad with an arm on
him like leg and a fist like bunch OF
bananas, but he was a trife shy on book
learning. When he wanted to read book
he looked at the pictures and let it go a:
that. But through having a friend who
was a leader in the district he snuggled
past the civil service examiners and got