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The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-01-13
THE MOTHERS OPPORTUNITY

A wonderful amount of thinking is
going on in the little minds. The
world is full of mysteries. At first
perhaps the children are puzzled by
the great universe around them.
Why does the sun shine? What are
the tars?Where does the moon go in
the day time?
Then the mysteries of the more
intimate world began to suggest them
selves. What makes the flowers
grow? Where does the mamma cat
get her little ones? And finally, hav-
ing by long mental process, espar-
ated themselves from all the objects
about them and become aware of
their own individuality, the great
wonder seizes them as to their own
origin; and they come to mother with
the startling query-"Where did |
come from?''
This Is wonderful moment in the
life of the child. vital moment in
the life OF both child and mother; for
upon her" manner of receiving this
query may depend the future con-
fidence of the child in the mothers
honesty, and the future ability of
the mother to influence and direct
the child.s II she Is a wise mother,
she will have foreseen this i'm
porant moment, and have prepared
herself to meet it,.
8 She realizes that the information
asked for must some time be given
If the child grows up and is capable
Of assuming the responsibilities of
mature life. She knows that, If she
does not give the true answer some
one else, In all probability. will give
an answer. false in its import, even
IL true In Its facts. and the child
mind must consequently be warped
and tainted forever.
II motherhood is to have its divin-
est significance in the mind of this
potential mother. that significance
must now be given to it by the ac-
tual mothers answer to this inno-
cent query. This is the initial mo-
ment when shall begin that definite
instruction in regard to special func-
tons which shall fit the girl for fu-
ture motherhood. Now will be awak-
ened the divine altruistic impulse
which. governing her whole girlhood
shall make its deepest impression on
the character of her posterity.
, 1t q ignorance to suppose that
ignorance Is bliss, ignorance Is too
expensive and too disastrous to be
bliss.
8,4 By Mary Wood-Allen, ID.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-01-13
TOBACCO PRODUCTION

While some tobacco is produced In
almost all the states, less than /
per cent is grown west of the Miss
issippi, Texas being the only state In
which the industry has gained any
importance. Kentucky leads all other
states in tobacco production, grow
ing about one-third of that produced
in the United States and one-ninth
of the crop of the world.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-01-13
THURSDAY. JAN. Is. 1910
Mr.. PINcHoT's DISMISSAL.

'sssss gtOWt00fAI.
Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot has
been dismissed from the government
service by the president, and the
crisis in the cabinet, which reached
It's elimination on Thursday, when
Mr.. Pinchot's letter to Senator DOL
liver was read in the esnate, has
ended. There Is not the slightest
reason to believe that the forthcom-
Ing inquiry into the controversy be-
tween Mr.. Ballinger and Mr.. Pin
chot will have any other result than
to completely exonerate the secre-
tary Of the interior from the charges
of corruption made against him, and
this unfortunate attack. due to de-
partmental jealousies and the mis-
guided zeal of Mr.. Pinchot. will be
repealed by overwhelming evidence
that the charges made are without
foundation. M@ sa
General regret win be felt that Mr..
Pinchot in his honest zeal for the
principles with which he Is identified,
should bave overstepped the bounds
not only of loyalty to his chief but
of the ordinary considerations of
good taste. That he was guilty Of
both these offenses cannot be- denied.
His guilt Is pointed out In simple
and dignified language by President
Taft In his letter of dismissal. With
great ability and inspired by patri-
otto motives. Mr.. Pinchot has DELHI
erately thrown away his opportunity
to serve his country and much as
his loss in the public service may
be regretted, no loyal republican will
for moment question the justice
of the presidents action.
Unfortunate as this controversy
was, coming so soon after the inaug-
uration of President Taft's admins
tration, the course that the presi-
dent has pursued throughout cannot
but commend itself to the people.
The president has displayed great
patience and forbearance under try
ing circumstances. The immense
popularity Of his predecessor in Of
flee rendered Mr.. Taft's task one
Of unusual difficulty from the day of
his election. He found at the cap.
itol a powerful coterie devoted to
Colonel Roosevelt, and while Mr.. Tai
himself was committed to the con.
tinuation Of the Roosevelt policies
the official coterie appears to have
been somewhat jealous Of the new
executive, and prone to criticism
But the republican party and the PEG
pie at large have little sympathy
with any official clique, and the pres
ident undoubtedly has the people be
hind him. Neither is there danger
OF a serious split in the republican
ranks by reason of the dismissal Of
Mr.. Pinchot. The party is commit
ted to the policy of conservation Of
the natural resources, around which
the tumult and the shouting has
arisen. and that policy will be car
ried out
Efforts made by the disruptionists
to impress the people with the ides
that President Taft, is a reactionist
and that Colonel Roosevelt is likel.
to take the field against him hav,
absolutely failed of their object.
is well known that Colonel Roose
welt desired the nomination Of Judg'
Taft as his successor; that the tw'
statesman were associated closet,
in the former administrations an,
are entirely in accord with eacl
others views of public policy. 1t 4
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-01-13

time now for the republican party
to rally around Its leader and its
policies, and will not permit it's poll
teal enemies to make any capital
out of the little family quarrel which
has led to the downfall of Clifford
Pinchot.-Teller.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-01-13
Official County Paper

IN CHARGES FOR NOTICES:-Iocal entertain
ments from which a financial benefit is ex-
pected. cards OF thanks, resolutions and poetry
will hereafter be charged for at the rate Of FIVE
cents line for each insertion.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-01-13
RETURN FROM CANADA.

Loyal p. Brown and bride, nee
Miss Alice McGree, returned the
last of the week from Canada, where
they were recently married. They
have gone to the Brown ranch a
few miles northeast of town where
they win make their future home.
Both are highly respected young
folks of the county and the Globe
offers to them its best wishes.
of land. Must be good land and price
reasonable. Geo. NJ. Reed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

done by wire to his partners.
There was no time to write. He had
no cipher code. For a long time he
tried to think out some way TO send
the information so that 1t would be
plain to his partners and meaningless
to any one else. His secret was val
liable one and once sent over the wire
might be sold out to his rivals In Wall
street for a large sum-
At last he decided to take the
chances In plain English. Accordingly
he wrote the message and gave 1t to
his assistant to send. Half an hour
later, when the assistant came back,
he asked him If he had sent it.
mot just that way" said the clerk.
"I rewrote 1.-THE first word on a
Postal blank. the second on a Western
Union, and so on. I sent half by each
company, and neither half meant any
thing. Then 1 sent a second message
by one line, saying. Read both mes
sages together, alternating words"
The scheme was too simple for the
high financier to have evolved, but It
worked perfectly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

the rough and i'll kept main roads to
which had been but slightly improved
since Tudor times. The CHASTITY spec
tacle Of many Of the trees on the South
wark road bending under their burden
of hanged men had indeed been slight.
ly modified, but none the less the de-
composing heads of traitors still ill.
ed the atmosphere about London bridge
and Temple Bar with myriads OF bane-
full microbes.
Our immediate forbears were evi.
IDENTIFY not overparticular about sights
and smells. They were accustomed to
see men sitting in the pillory pelted
with rotten eggs and possibly included
among their immediate circle not a few
who had been deprived of their noses
and ears for expressing too freely their
opinions, political and religious.
The drains were in an appalling con-
dition. The innumerable churchyards
were so full of coffins that they often
projected through the turf. Bear and
bull batting, dog fights and boxing
matches were attended even by royal
ty as late as 1920. and FIVE years later
all the "dandies' in London were pay
ing high prices to stand I'm the carts
round Tyburn TO behold twenty-five of
their fellow creatures hanged for mis-
demeanors which in orr time woIrtn
be punished with a few days i'm.
- London Saturday Re
view
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
DIVIDED THE MESSAGE.

The Way a Finanoier's Clerk Extern.
porized Cipher.
When Wall street first caught the
fever for industrial combinations"
and began the reorganization of every
thing in sight one of the votaries Of
high finance found himself in Chicago
in extreme need of communicating
with his New York office.
He almost completed an arrange
ment for the consolidation of several
western enterprises, but in order to
get the final authority he needed from
New York he must explain all he had
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
PROBE NAY Be DEEP
Investigation of Graft Methods to
Set Record. Assert Committee
men In Answer to Adverse
Comment on Personnel.
thoroughly conducted by Insurance Su-
perintendent Hotchkiss.''

thoroughly conducted by Insurance su-
perintendent Hotchkiss."
Can Investigate Anything.
Then he exploded.
'TThat is not true" said Mr.. Toombs.
1.-THE committee has the widest lati-
tude. 1t can investigate practically
anything 1t sees flt. 1t could investi-
gate Wall street ora pause as
though looking about for some even
more improbable subject of inquiry
ut could Investigate this desk" We
were sitting at the time near a manag-
ing EDITORS desk, and there was prob
ably nothing In il to investigate except
a pair OF badly worn shears, a paste
pot, an ancient collection of Office dust,
a family of cockroaches, some manu-
scripts waiting to be rejected and q
fine assortment of general disorder.
Any committee that would probe an
editors desk for graft would search
the Sahara desert for q peach orchard,
In reply to question as to whether
he thought the inquiry would be real
one or not Mr.. Toombs naturally gave
an emphatic affirmative. Not only so,
but he said 1t would be the first state
wide graft investigation in the history
OF New York, the Lexow investigation
having chiefly concerned the city and
the Hughes, Aids and Hotchkiss
probes having related to particular con-
Germs or individuals.
The Armstrong committee that en-
ployed Hughes as its attorney and in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
day it would take him 8 years and

day it would take him years and
155 days.
Roosevelt speeches average about
an hour in length. Two thousand and
thirty-four of them, delivered contin-
uously. would consume "a days and
Is hours. or 254 days and hours If
he observed the eight hour day of the
Public Speakers union.
Talking at the rate of 70 words a
minute, which is the Roosevelt av-
erage, 2,O34 speeches would embrace
e,153. 900 words.
To print these e,153,o0O words would
take 9,153 newspaper columns and
would make LA pages, with one col
umn over.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
viii Wall Street Be Probedi

Notwithstanding his optimism Mr..
ToombS admitted that the committee
had received no charges except anony-
nous ones, but did not believe this re-
suit was due to the peculiar wording of
the resolution. AS to whether the
scope of the inquiry would extend to
Wall street, he said that he himself and
at least one other member would de-
mand that it do so, but feared a ma
jority of the committee would not agree
with them.
Others concerned In the investigation
have spoken in a similar vein although
they have not been so specific or en-
phatic as Toombs. Senator Wagner, a
Democrat, thought the powers of the
committee broad and manifold be-
Geved the committee should ''encour-
age powerful newspapers to aid In its
Investigation
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Hughes Gives Pointers.

Mr.. Merritt, the chairman of the COM
mittee, and Mr. Bruce, its counsel. had
a consultation with Governor Hughes,
at the close of which Mr.. Bruce is re-
ported to have made the following
statement:
During our talk with Governor Hughes
which was Of more than two hours dura-
don, we were pleased to find the governor
In thorough accord with our plans and
purposes. He gave us most valuable suE-
sest1ons. which It viii be our aim to fol-
low. 1t will be my object to make this
investigation as broad as It possibly can
ne made under the terms of the resolu-
ton which created the committee and pro-
vides for the present inquiry regardless
OF whom it may affect. and / trust our
work Will result in remedial legislation
There is another version of this az.
fair, however. 1t is that the governor
did not agree with Merritt and Bruce,
but talked to them very plainly about
the demand for a thorough inquiry
The only thing certain is that Mr..
Hughes freely gave the committee his
ideas and his advice. 1t is also GER
tain that Mr.. Bruce spoke of him as
"a master. investigator" This -esti-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
new EMPIRE STATE
William n. H0tChklSs. SupeTintend.
ent of Insurance. Is Central Fig
ure and Result May Parallel
That of Hughes Politically.
By JArrHs A. BDeBRroN.

Va y EW YORK Is to have another
IN graft Investigation, or, rather,
according to the members Of
the committee who are to con-
duct the probe, is to have the first real,
Htate wide investigation In her history.
This sounds promising. If the probe
2est now going forward outdoes the
Me. insurance inquiry conducted by
Charles r. Hughes, the investigation
which forced the resignation of SEN
aye Leader lothian P. Aids and the
quiz into fire insurance yellow dogs
carried on by Superintendent William
II. Hotchkiss, 1t will deserve well not
only Of the people of New York. but
Of the entire nation.
/ The present inquiry is of country
wide interest not only because New
York Is the Empire State. but because
It viii affect concerns that do a ma
t1onal business-that is, 1t will do so
provided it proves a real and not 3
sham investigation.
The general attitude Of the press has
been that it would be a whitewash
affair. The reasons for this impress
sion are not far to seek.
In the first place, the New York
legislature rejected the recommends
tons of Governor Hughes for q
sweeping inquiry.
In the second place. It provided that
Sharges could only be made on "knowl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Material For Doubters.

ndISI1d1
Another provision that cast sus-
picion on the good faith of the reso-
luton was that no candidate for office
could be Investigated.
Still another circumstance that
brought cynical smiles was the make
up and offering of the committee.
Its chairman is Assembly Leader Ed
win A. Merritt. and its chief counsel
is NJ. Linn Bruce, former supreme
court justice and lieutenant governor.
Now said the doubling Thomases,
however high the character of these
men, they belong TO the machine. Can
you expect the machine to investigate
itself?"
: So much for the discredit cast on the
Investigation in advance. Now for the
other side of the story. To make sure
of getting this at first hand 1 went to
a member of the committee, Assembly
man Frederick r. Toombs of New
York county. Mr.. Toombs, it should
be explained, is a newspaper man who
has been in the assembly several terms.
he is friend of Colonel Abe Gruber.
iToombs Is the man who introduced the
rwomen's suffrage bill and the Wall
street investigation resolution.
To make the asSemblyman feel good
and get him started right he was
shown an article in the Review of Re
views rejecting the suspicious attitude
Of the press toward the investigation.
He read down to this sentence:
with the best of intentions to hunt
out graft the committee is practically
confined by the action of the legisla-
ture to those evidences of corruption
already disclosed by the senate inves-
tigation last winter and the probing 80
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
English Mortality Lower.

As compared with the British isles
the infant mortality in Germany is
very high. Here are some English fig
ures for a year:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
EVEN ROOSEVELT FALTERED.

Years of Talk In Invitations He tias
Declined.
Theodore Roosevelt recently received
the two thousand and thirty-fourth in
vitation to deliver an address that has
been urged upon him since his return
to the United States on June -
If he made one speech each calen-
dar day it would take him years and
20S days to make 2,o34 of them.
1t be made one speech each week
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

"a y EW YORK Is to have another
AN graft investigation, OF, rather,
IL according to the members Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
OLD TIME LONDON.

The Days When Men In the PiIIory
Were PeIted With Eggs.
London in 100 was a comparatively
small city of about 900. Oo0.-inhabitants.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

vestigated life insurance was discred-
tied in advance, just.as we have been"
he continued. Even If we desired to
smother this matter and to conduct a
whitewash inquiry the press would not
permit us to do so. 1t would pound Us
until satisfied that we were seeking in
good faith to disclose the truth"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

ton and belief" Now, actual knowl-
edge of bribery transaction is usual
1y confined to the man accepting and
the one giving the bride, neither OF
whom, for obvious reasons, is anxious
to tell
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
DEATH LIST CROWS
Mortality Among Infants In
creasing in New York
City and Germany.
STATISTICS START PROBE
Health Department of American Me-
tropolis Is Arraigned in Report
by Municipal Bureau.

A tremendous growth in infant NOR
New York city. Across the seas a
similar cry comes from Germany.
The situation in New York led to the
issuance of a statement by the bu-
reau of municipal research. which ar
raigned the department of health,
charging that city physicians devote
so much time to their private prac-
tice that they are unable to serve the
city properly.
Totals Are Alarming.
The report indicates the seriousness
of the situation by citing these stats
tics:
'In the first week in June 20 per
cent more babies under one year of
age died than in the same time last
year." says the statement. "The ex-
cess during the second week in June
was so per cent, the third week 10 per
cent, the fourth 80 per cent, the first
week of July 60 per cent. the second
week 30 per cent and the third week
of July 80 per cent
'The week preceding July ., when
go per cent more babies died than last
year, the maximum temperature was
three degrees lower than in 1909, the
mean temperature was more than four
degrees lower and the mean humidity
was seven degrees lower. In the week
of July. when % per cent more ba-
bies died than the year before, the
maximum temperature was one degree
in fh0f
perature was a little over one degree
lower and the mean humidity was
four degrees lower"
Germany is alarmed over the rise
in infant mortality in the empire,
which now exceeds II per cent. Out
Of 100000 persons born during the
year 351 900 died under the age of one
year The highest mortality by king
doms is in Bavaria. % per cent. The
lowest mortality. 16.S per cent, is in
Prussia. OF the German cities Ham,
burg has the best record. which is I'M
der IA per cent. The infant mortality
in the other typical cities is:
Per cent
6reslau ...............--.......- 90
Munich Observation-Disclosures. 2o.4
StI ..'..---..'.'''''''' 10
IN 1o-f
otuttSaTl To-
English Mortality Lower.
AS compared with the British isles
the infant mortality in Germany is
very high. Here are some English fig
ures for a year:
Per cent.
united hlngdom- .-........--.........--' los
England and Wales. observation-disclosures. lis
LONDON -.........-..---.......... u'o
f.ulnourgh -....'--.'.."1A-.''.'.' IL
Scotland ..-..--....-.........- LID
1eidnd .'s..-.---.-.---.....-..-' S.S
In New York. based on the number
of births. the infantile mortality. by
the latest statistics from the health de-
partment, 1910. is about 16 per cent.
The great increase in the price of food
in America has led American doctors
to ask if America is not in danger of
n deterioration of race due to insult
cient nourishment This would show
first of all in infantile mortality, but
the data would not be available in
America until the end of the present
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-03-17
Personal
Friday Specials

12 1-2c Ginghams for 9 1-2c per yard; 10c Ginghams for ' 3-4c per yard; 10 and 12 1-2c short lengths for 5c per yard.
 WILSON BROS. & LIVINGSTON.
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-03-17
RING IS 3,2OO YEARS OLD
Ornament Once Worn by Court Beauty of Egypt-is Fine Example of
 Ancient Carving.

The Musee Guimet of Paris has just acquired priceless treasure, provided that it will bear investigation better than did the notorious tiara of the Louvre few years ago. NJ. Guimet, whose name the museum bears, Is an antiquarian and voluminous writer on antiquities. He seems quite satis fled that he has added to his collection a ring of the time of Rameses H., who fiourished about 1900 years before our era.
 The ring was acquired from family of Grenoble in whose possession 1t had been for long years, and the former owners produced documents which sat isfied NJ. Guimet as to the authenticity of his acquisition. The ring bears heiroglyphic inscriptions showing that it graced the hand of Nefritarimeri Mout, one of the wives of the once powerful monarch of Egypt.
 The ring is of thick gold carrying a comedian stone rectangular, large and flat The stone is inclosed in gold and the ring itself is ornamented with a
 fllet of gold. The stone tells the
 story in hieroglyphics said to repre- sent the king and Nefritarimeri. The perfection of the entaillure is consd- cred proof of the genuineness of the
 ring, for the modern engraver seldom succeeds with that sureness of cut
 which is the wonder and admiration of all who are familiar with the engrav- | ing of the ancients.
 The ring, we are further told. al though gracing the hand of court
 beauty of Egypt in the depths of the | past ages, would not be much sought after by fashionable lady today.
The log cabin Democrat., 1910-03-17
City Visitor Makes Protest.

"On a modest estimate" said the irritable man, there are 1l,000,0 900 things about New York that anger me, but the thing that does it most effectively is the waiter at the high priced table d'hote. To begin with, it is somewhat maddening to find fac ing you on the bill of fare the mes sage: An extra charge of 25 cents will be made for dinners ordered with out wine However, you always or der wine, so that that irritation soon subsidies. But your anger grows when the solemn head waiter approaches and without being asked extends to you wine list carefully opened at the page devoted to champagne. If you fail to order that particular drink no matter if you order a burgundy that is far more expensive, his nose turns up aLd he departs half angry half grieved that man of so low a caste still lives"