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Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
WAYS OF CARRYING MONEY
EnglIshman and American Usually
Soorns Poeketbook, Which 10
Used In France and Germany.

1T is interesting to notc." says an
observant New Yorker, the various
methods In which men Of different ma
uonalities carry their worldly wealth.
THE Englishman carries gold, sill
YER and copper all loose In his trous-
srs pocket, pulls out handful of the
mixture In an opulent way and selects
the coin he needs.
The American carries his 'wad or
TOLL In pretty much the same way,
the average man here looking with
contempt upon the pocketbook as in
dicative Of q tight disposition.
The Frenchman makes use Of a
leather purse with no distinguishing
characteristics. The German uses
one gayly embroidered In silks by the
fair hands Of some Lottchen.
The half-civilized capitalist from
some torrid South American city car.
ries his dollars In Q belt with cunning.
ly devised pockets to bafis the gentle
men with light fingers. Some of these
belts are quite expensive.
THE Italian Of the poorer classes
ties up his little fortune In a gayly-
colored handkerchief secured with
many knots, which he secretes in some
mysterious manner about his clothes.
"A similar course has charms for
the Spaniard, while the lower class
Russian exhibits preference for his
boots or the lining Of his clothes as
hiding place for his savings"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
SOME VICTORIES OF SCIENCE
World Today Owes Pasteur Miliions
OF Men Saved From Ravases
Of Plague.

Louis Pasteur, a French chemist, Is
the man Of all others to whom the
civilized world today owes its health
and its absolute certainty that the
great epidemics Of the psst-Cholera,
the plague, ship fever (smallpox was
conquered by an earlier genius)-
cannot recur. It is he who discovered
the microparasitic origin Of disease,
or the germ theory as It is popularity
called, upon which almost the entire
science Of preventive medicine is
founded. and which has shown the
way to many Of the greatest triumphs
OF the art OF cure. It is as certain as
anything can be In the domain OF
what has not actually happened that,
were 1t not for the development and
practical application Of the truths ca.
tablished by Pasteur the world today
would be mourning the loss Of mil.
lions Of men In every country in Eu.
rope and America from the ravages
Of the plague; the loss in money
alone would have been incalculable,
while the paralysis Of thought and Of
enterprise involved would have halted
human progress for long years to
come. Cholera would long since have
burst the confines Of Russia and
spread over Europe. and travelling on
ships from Europe In the east and the
Philippines and continental Asia In
the west 1t would have entered our
land on both coasts with such re.
suits a. the statistics Of the past may
suggest to us) and taken It's toll OF
those who had withstood or survived
the plague. Good Housekeeping.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
Chinese Bushes Honesty.

With due respect 70, others. the
Chinaman Is perhaps the most honor.
able and upright business man In the
world today His business principles
are founded entirely upon honesty.
and he adheres to his policy with
insistencyof leech. The chase after
dollars stops II he has to resort to q
low trick to get them. OF course. q
little thing like telling falsehood
occasionally does not bother him so
much; but when 1t comes to plotting
and scheming to defraud some one
the task becomes distasteful. Tho
equal Of the Japanese In initiative and
foresight. he 10 much their superior
when integrity Is concerned. A Jap
anese does not think twice before
deciding to get the best Of you. He
calculates that you are liable to
change your mind or get out Of reach
II he INDUCES in little mental de.
bate as to the propriety Of cheating
you.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
What's In q Book.

For the student every book is now
book of reference. What student of
continental history reads Gibbon, or
Gregorovius. or Symonds right
through? He Is not even exhorted to
do so. He secured handbook, which
refers him to certain chapters In q
certain volume of each, and that salts
fles him and the ordinary university
tutor. Green, Bright, Hallam, Mscau
lay, Gardner are similarly pecked at
Yet all these men had definite ideas
and comprehensive views Of the pc
RODS Of which they were writing
views which 1t took them one or more
volumes to expound, and which we are
not going to appreciate by reading
dozen pages every flfth chapter.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
Gas injured Street Trees.

Observers in eastern cities have
found that where tree has been dam
aged by Illuminating gas there is alb.
solutely no hope Of saving. Where a
tree has lost its leaves, or even many
of It's leaves from the evil effects Of
gas there is nothing to do but dig out
the tree, for 1t Is far beyond saving.
If one could stop the leak. dig up all
the soil about the tree 80 that 1t
might be thoroughly exposed to the
air so as to allow escape of the gas,
there might be some attempt at keep
ing the tree alive. but no case Is
known where any treatment has avail
ed anything in bringing the tree back
to health.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
An Old oarrst on a Stormy DAY.

know no nobler forage ground for
q romantic, venturesome, mischievous
boy, than the garnet of an old family
mansion on 4 day of storm. It Is q
perfect field Of chivalry. The heavy
rafters and dashing rain. the piles Of
spare mattresses to carouse upon, the
big trunks to hide in. the old white
coats and hats hanging in obscure
corners like ghosts-are great! And Il
Is 80 far away from the old lady, who
keeps rule In the nursery, that there
Is no possible risk Of scolding for
twisting of the fringe of rug.
There Is no baby in the garnet to
wake up. There is no company" in
the garnet to be disturbed By the
noise. There is no crotchety old I'm.
Gle or grandma, with their everlasting
-"Boys-boys!"--and then a loak Of
horror! q. Mitchell.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
Bob's Discovery.

Young Hopeful-Papa, you said
II I'd read the obituaries Of great men
In the paper every day for a year
you'd give me gold watch. Well,
| did, and the year is up.
Fond Father-Very well, Bob, but
said you must read intelligently and
draw lesson from the lives of those
who have won fame and fortune.
New, what have you most particularly
observed in your reading?
Y. HI noticed that nearly all the
great men fitted themselves for one
thing. and then got rich or famous at
something else.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
Dethrored Monarch hspoy.

Persia's former shah appears to be
supporting his exile more philosophic
ally than Abdul Hamid. According to
the Cri de Paris he has learned Rus.
sian and reads Tolstoy, Dostoievsky
and Cork in the original. He attends
some Of the lectures at the University
of Odessa, and has paid his entrance
fees to the school Of medicine. This
branch of study appeals to him most
strongly and he hopes in due course
to take medical degree and even to
practise as doctor, should his sub.
jects not recall him to the throne
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
Trees for pIttsburo STRAIT.

Pittsburg will be city umbrar..
GUS II its recently appointed tree com.
mission can make 1t SO. And the a..
zette-Times has given the project !.
boost by saying: 'Pittsburr ~.
caught the spirit. Its baked street.,
are to be cooled by shade trees. a..
limbs OF which will form protection
from the MONDAY sun and cast spsc.
trail shadows by night Its bare rocks
and rugged bluffs are to be adornsd
with trailing vines; from q city Of
streets It 10 to become metropolis Of
shady lanes"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
Killing.

Killing.
Paris. son Of Priam, King OF Troy,
was among the very first lady killers
to be mentioned in literature. Yet
he was no primitive buDgler, at that
Indeed, such was his skill and
6nesse. that there became current In
the polite circle Of antiquity a saying
which has endured to our own day:
SSee Paris and dial"-Puck.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
A Fallible Father.ln.Law

Two OF the gilded youth Of provi.
oence' X. l., we're in Newport and
came upon newsboy.
Let me have paper" said one a
tnsm. giving the boy 50 cents. -
cant change that" said the how
Lend me nickel" the gilded
youth asked his companion.
on, bother, let him have the 50
:. NO, indeed You let him have it
. you like. My father-in-law ia not
dead and yours is."-LAfe NV
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
BY WAY OF Variety.

What Will you do when you get too
old for your monologue, Jimfries 2" II
guess III go on the stage with a prize
tight. louisville CourierJournal.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04

The world progresses: Formerly We
found only the Police Gazette on bar.
psr shop tables. Now we And the
,est magazines. --Atchison Olssbe.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04
He Didn't Ston.

Horse ran away with you. chr"
Yes; ! was right on the edge Of .
bog when the darn horse stopped"
Lucky for you he stopped" Not 90
very | kept on going. "-Louisvills
Courier.Journal
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-04

You play poker 40 though II were
everything in life" But 1t isn't
There's limit to everything and the
kind Of poker play has no limit"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19
lFiexibiiity of Enalish.

English IL not only. as Richard lief
ferries asserted. the most expressive
and flexible of tongues. but also. in
Swinburne's opinion, the most must
cal. he proclaimed the lines
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes
to be unmatched for melody In any
language. And few would venture to
contradict such a master of music and
tongues. But surely French ranks
next on the roll of languages. For
clearness of diction it is unrivaled,
and, thanks to its abundance Of vow.
els tclose On one for every consonant,
1t f1owes rhythmically from the tongue
Against Westley's dictum. that French
Is to German as a bagpipe TO an or
gan. may be cited a saying Of another
famous divine, DR.. Dollinger, "L'Alle-
mand nest pas n langue. mails ceux
qui parlent ce Jargon Sc comprennent
entire eaux" German is not a IAN
guage. but those who speak this jar
gon understand one another,.-London
Chronicle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

Criticism is made of the Richards
primary law because it recognizes that
there will always be a difference exist
ing in regard to the choice of party
candidates, some terming this a pro-
longation of factionalism within the
party. Not at all. Ever since the first
state republican convention; nay in that
convention there was a big minority
which wanted another set of candidates
than those nominated, and this has
been true in every convention since. 1t
was this disappointed minority which
brought about the primary. Mr.. Rich
ards bill takes cognizance of this and
provides for a suitable way of placing
a minority and majority ticket on the
primary ballot. In the opinion of the
Dakotan it is an improvement in many
ways over the present a~w.-Pierre
Dakotan.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19
Facts About Giants.

That very few Of the giants who
have ever lived have been healthy or
well formed recent researches prove
beyond a doubt. All we know about
Goliath is that he was very tall. but in
the second book Of Kings we read
about another giant. who had more
fingers than an ordinary human being.
and, according to modern scientists,
this il invariably a token of degen-
eracy. Marcel Donnal saw at Milan a
giant who was so tall that his body
filed W beds at night. but whose
legs were SO weak that he could hard
" stand upright. William Evans, the
gigantic porter of Charles l.. had little
strength. and Cromwelrs porter. an
other giant. ended his days In a luna
tic asylum. Finally, O'Brien. the Irish
giant. has been described as ian enor-
nous sick child who grew up too
fast"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

The primary bill that is being formu-
lated by Representative Bigelow is GER
tainly an innovation and contrary to all
~preconceived ideas on that complex
subject. This industrious legislator
thinks he has discovered a way to hold
the primary and the general election at
the same time. If an election and the
turmoil incident thereto can be saved
by this measure, the people of the state
will certainly be glad of it; but with
this arrangement it appears to us that
an election would amount to a free-for-
all for all of the candidates of the prim-
airy. Some newspaper man has said
that the bill is so complicated that it
cannot be explained without a chart.
We will suspend judgment on this mat
ter until we see the chart, hut will say
now that if it makes the primary more
difficult for the voter to understand, we
are against the proposed law.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

Senator Curtiss, of Brown county,
has introduced bills abolishing the tele.
phone inspector and the Inspector of
scales. These are two offices where
the incumbents have done little else
than draw their salaries, and the sooner
they are abolished the better it will be
and the state saved the expense of
these useless appendages. 1t has been
suggested that Senator Curtis, while
he is in the business, could go along
down the line and abolish several other
useless offices. For instance, he might
include the hotel Inspector, who has
never done anything to improve the
hotels of the state that anybody knows
of, but has never failed K put in an
appearance to collect the annual fees.
1t may be that hotel inspection would
be beneficial, but if it is, the sheriff of
each county or president of the county
board of health could be made the hotel
inspector for his county, at less expense
and with far better results than can be
accomplished under the present system.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

Judging from the speeches which have
been made upon the floor of the United
States senate during the debate upon
Senator Lorimer's case it might be well
to have an investigating committee
appointed to investigate the sub-com-
mittee from the highest law-making
power in the country which made the
report withdrawing Lorimer. II
looks As though some others besides the
Illinois legislators might have been
Influenced"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

to whether this infinitely foolish meas-
ure stands any chance to pass, but II it
should ire publishers would of course
invoke the referendum upon it.
To say by law that a newspaper shall
devote an indefinite amount Of its space
to the uses of the state for a fixed sum
is to invade the rights of private prop
erty. This generous statesman might
just as well try to get a law passed
compelling farmers to sell wheat to the
state for 20 cents a bushel or hogs for
81 a hundred, or land for $12 per acre,
or a merchant his supplies at less than
cost. The law might pass but no bust
ness would be transacted under it. If
the rate named had been in vogue in
the last election the publisher would
have received less than nine cents an
inch for nonpareil matter, or about half
the average rate for display matter in
daily newspapers of fair circulation.
No self-respecting publisher would
accept the DuSlDeSS uilueT SUCH IeTflS
and the result would be that there
would be no publicity-in other words
that the voters would be asked to rem
der an intelligent verdict on a law they
had not even been given a chance to
read.
The member who introduced this
freak bill should attend the meeting of
the state press association at Pierre
and learn that newspaper space has as
fixed and definite value as farm land,
o. cartle, or wheat or hogs.
If the cost of publication of the refer
red laws is too high, the state might
well reduce the number of publications,
but it cannot expect to escape a refer
endum of a law which, so far as it goes,
is absolutely confiscatory of newspaper
values. -Argus-Leader.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

II. S. Volkmar, a former editor of
tim Milbank Review, who now resides
at Seattle, every now and then sends to
his friends at Milbank marked copies of
papers published at his new home,
showing weather conditions in the Paci-
fc coast country, and particularly at
Seattle. A Seattle paper, marked in
big blue pencil. published January 4th,
was received by o Milbank citizen SUM-
day. Under the headline, 1.-The
Weather appearsa cartoon showing an
old man standing under an awning to
get out of the wet, who says to a small
boy: Ever see a blizzard, kidd" The
temperature is given at As degrees
above, and the forecast is: Rain
today and tomorrow; Thursday cloudy"
On the editorial page is a paragraph to
the effect that there is a blizzard rag
ing in the m~iddle-west to mark the
coming Of the new year, while in Seat
tie the climate Is orderly, even though
the conduct of all the people may not
always be so. Among the advertise
ments, one dealer said he had sold all
his raincoats, but expected another in
q few days; and another urged the peo-
pie to buy at once as his stock of rain
coats would soon be exhausted. On
another page Of the paper was a pro-
cession of ladies wearing short skirts
and men with knee breeches, all carry
ing umbrellas and evidently heading fol-
the east, hoping some day to 9 the
rising SUM-. For the benefit of y good
friend, the former editor of the Review,
we wish to say that there has been nc
bad blizzard here or anywhere else in
the middle-west, All Of our people arr
comfortable, contented and truthful
except the editor. Last Sunday, wher
this Seattle paper was received, thu
Temperature was 81 above. the people
were going out without ~overcoats o
extra wraps. many automobiles Nigh
be seen on the the streets, the churches
were holding union meetings, attends
by crowd Of people, in a tabernacl
built Of common boards covered wit
tar paper in Milbank. And more thai
that-we had glorious sunshine blu
we thought nothing Of it because 9TH
sun always shines in South Dakota.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19
You will Never be Sorry

You Will Never be Sorry
For doing you level best.
For being kind to the poor.
For hearing before judging.
For thinking before speaking.
For standing by your principles.
For being courteous to everyone.
For being generous to an enemy.
For stopping your ears to gossip.
For asking pardon when in error.
For being honest in business dealings.
For giving an unfortunate person a
lift.
For promptness in keeping your
pro misses.
For putting the best meaning on the
acts of others.
Let US all resolve to practice these
admirable maxims during the coming
year, and thus establish more harmon
ious relations with our fellow men.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

Mark Twain onc said of the MEM
bership of the United States senate:
None resign and very few de-" We're
the great humorist alive the past four
months he would have seen many
changes wrought by death in the upper
house. The last United States senator
to answer the call was Charles j.
Hughes, Of Colorado, who died Wednes-
day of last week.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

After the legislature passes a law
providing 500 as the payment to news
papers for unlimited use of their adver-
tising. pages, it should also pass one fix
ing 20 cents a bushel as the maximum
price for wheat and So per hundred for
hogs. The principle would be the same
in either case and one would be no more
unfair than the other. --Argus-Leader
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

Ibid you see the lightning calcu-
lator' In the sideshowg" asked the old
farmer In the wide straw hat
by heck. yes" drawled the other
ruralite, and he was the biggest fake
In the show"
'How was that?"
"Why, thar was q thunderstorm go
ing ON while l was in the tent and
when l asked him II he could calculate
where the lightning was going to strike
be Just gave me the laugh-"-Chicago
News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19
X. 3. DENTON, Editor.
The Land Hunger

The Lana f1uHSSI
Seventy that's right, stranger;
Three score and ten-and lame
A queer old sort of a hester
To be stakin' a prairie claim.
But the land hunger has got me-
| must call some acres my own,
And that's why I've drove my home
stakes
Out here in the prairie loan.
/ wanted to come at twenty,
But the old folks took on SO
That / stayed in that down east village
Where a man don't seem to grow.
At thirty ! ear persuaded
My wife that ] ought to start,
But she was the sort that's timid,
And her fears made me lose heart.
And so through the years I've fingered;
The old folks passed away;
There was kids of ours to hold US
But my dreams lived day by day.
1t held till the kids had left us
To paddle their own canoes;
Then wife gave consent to'wander
To the land Of the sunset hues.
She's comm a little later;
! kin see how her smile III leap
When she sees me here in the sage
brush
A-drivin' our homestake deep.
Arthur Chapman in the Denver
Republican.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

If the South Dakota legislature pays
no attention to that bill to reduce the
size of women's coiffures, let the author
submit it to a refendum. Nearly every
body who has ever gone to the theatre
or to church is for it. That is, nearly
everybody who votes in South Dakota.
Sioux City Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

If we are to have a Pan-American
Exposition to celebrate the opening of
the Panama canal, it seems to us that
the best and most feasible place for it
would be at New Orleans.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

Crawford's alleged horror of the COR
ruption in the Lorimer case makes a
great many people smile who remem-
Der the Walworth county public land
deal and the subsequent "whitewash-
ing" by the United States grand jury
at Deadwood.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

largest herd of buffalo on earth. In an
earlier day it was the home of tens of
thousands of buffalo. Why not the buff
falo stated Coyotes, prairie dogs and
skunks are mostly undesirable citi-
zens. "-Groton Independent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

"A good wife ID heavens greatest
gift 70 man and the rarest gem the
earth holds" remarked Mr.. Jarphly
the other morning. ''She Is bis Joy.
bis inspiration and his very soul.
Through her he learns to reach the
pure and true. and her loving hands
lead him softly over the rough places.
She ISL
Jeremiah" said Mrs. Jarphly col.
0nnly ~ Jeremiah. what wickedness
have you heeu up to nowyv
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

Don't be kicking on the cold weather
Just think of the number of disease
germs it has put out of business.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

A-drivin' our homestake deep.
Arthur Chapman in the Denver
Republican.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-19

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