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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-01-03
MACKAY BRANCH

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No. 202-Arrive $500. $50 p. m.
TIME CARD-O. s. l.. Ry.
MAIN LINE.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-01-03

*TOnS **LbS
The many surplus products not here
enumerated will bring the total pro-
duct on in excess of 00,00O,000.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03

6AdPA ilOul IlcuIy Jdilco lCdu lOuu
by lady with a Southern accent,
cold, and tendency to pause and
gasp after each comma.
Another point, also in passing,
which any self-respecting chronicler
should set down for the perusal of,
at least, future generations If not
this one, is that baseball is a terrible
demoralizer We need only consider
the awful lies which are told by fans,
either to their business associates or
to their wives, in order to attend
game. Think of the young lives
which are started wrong; consider
the ancient grandmother fib. AS the
twig is bent so the future business
man is inclined. Nowadays young
America is committing perjury by
the bucketful Worse than that
They are becoming adopts at bur-
glary, invasion and trespass. At
recent game | saw ten year old
lad being led out of the grounds by
a special policeman. The lad was be-
ing held by the ear while the special
cop poured words of wisdom and ad-
vice into said orifice. He said
"YOu are over sixteen years DID,"
- which the culprit was not 49, "and
you can be indicted for the Offense
you have committed. You can be
sent to JAIL" (Tears.) Think of
your poor father and mother dragged
into court because of this" more
tears from the ten year old) Think
of the heavy fine they would have to
pay. Now this is the last time | will
let you co. the next time l catch you
l will see to it that the full penalty
longed sobbing)
After the boy had left, I learned
that he and twenty odd others had
taken a twoby-four and pried off
some iron bars set in concrete in a
basement window of the grandstand.
Damage, about ninety dollars. Incl
dentally / am panied to relate that
all the other boys got good seats in
the stand and the policeman was un-
able to find these base malefactOrs.
Could infant infamy go further? An
swer, no. | remember in my younger
days another young man who leaned
a board against a fence in Kansas
City and climbed up it on his hands
and knees to see the old X. C. Blues
wallop Boston. This was in the days
when Jimmie Manning never consid-
cred it a good afternoons work un-
less he stole home. This vicious lad
not only wore out his stockings in
the attempt but, there being barbed
wire strip around the top of the
fence, he utterly collandered a fine
new pair of pants for which his poor
and yet honest parents had paid
three dollars. All to steal his way
into a game which he could have
rightfully attended by paying the
small sum of twenty-five cents.
TN conclusion l would like to say
that | know an American citizen,
forty-five years old, who has been
newspaper man, a magazine editor
and successful man of affairs in
general. He seems to be Of sound
mind and quite normal. Yet he has
never seen a baseball game in his
life - and he boasts of it.
1t is almost impossible to believe
that there is such a poor benighted
simpleton on earth. Yet know him
and he lives. Just think of him -
not man, but crustacean. Not a
live paloitant American, but a lob
ster. A dull drone who knows not
the wild joy of whooping loudly over
fellow mans skilful accomplish
ment. A business sOt, routine runt
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03
A Base Ball Canard
Continued from Page s.

HIS SlOSle lulO lllc BIOuuuS anu
shrieked thus:
"Yah, you big hick You poor simp.
You bone, you. Whadda you know
about baserunning? Huh? Who told
you you was champeen? Doncha
know you can't get but just so far
off'n foist? An doncha know that
when you re that far off if you lean
your body just the least bit toward
second, he s got yuh? Why, you
dope, you, what s yer VAUDEVILLE act
= the Sleepin' Beauty? Who put
morphine in yer coffee? Why doncha
get sofa if yuh wanta take nap?
Yah, you champeen!" And so on. He
kept it UP until the next play was
started and then sank back into his
seat, quivering and almost exhausted.
| tapped him on the shoulder.
Just as a matter of psycho-sociol-
ogy, l inquired, what business are
you in?"
He glared at me defantly and said
II am a jeweler."
The next man got base on balls
The next man made short hit.
Then the side went out in tWO-three
order
The irate diamond man almost had
a fit. YAH" he yelled so that half
the grandstand could hear him, 'if
Shafer had only stood still on that
bag Just as l told him to, we d have
scored a run and won the game.'
Which was true, as it turned out
afterward "If he ID only stuck his
spike in the bag; if he d only got
pot of glue; if he'da set down on the
Il oh h &c,
thing, dnything." Shafer happening
to trot by at this moment, the whole
thing began over again. "Yah, you.
Call yourself a baserunner. You
could MT beat blind cripple with
the wind behind your back. Why, a
turtle is Hans Colemine compared
to you. Run? You could mt run an
ad in noospaper. Yah, you cham
peen!"
THIS, as the reader knows, is one
of the joys, the national joys. of at
tending the national game. While
George was tinkering the watches
Cor else had let them go hang and
was sitting somewhere else in the
audience) this little wedding-ring
merchant was giving expert advice
J, to his hirelings of the afternoon.
And on all sides of him sat we 9TH
ers, gormandizing the ozone and
breathing it forth full of inside in
formation for Manager McGraw.
Besides this vocal hullabaloo while
the game is going on, there is an
other branch to the passion. l refer
to the national pastime of dropping
the local manager post card, thus:
Why don't you can that shrimp
that hides behind second every time
a ball comes his way? Are you a
baseball manager or are you char
liable organization for the support
of imbeciles and cripples?" This sort
is always signed, "A Fan"
Or thus:
Keep your eye on Poke Swank,
now playing first for Little Rock.
This feller is Big Lig material. He
can play better ball right now than
that half-witted behemoth you got
holding down the sack" Signed,
'Rooter."
To return to the little jeweler for
a moment.
His TRADE against Shafer brought
out another typically American trait
- the use of sort of sarcastic ex-
aggerated humor, what Kipling
called our "acrid Asiatic mirth' We
have developed purely American
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03
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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
LET THE FREE PRESS SPEAK

The Grenada Sentinel claims to know a mighty heap about
what Vardaman is and is not going to do. 1t says he is "agin" The
Issue and The Issues candidate for Governor, and bases its knowl-
edge on what it has heard close personal friends of Vardaman say.
Now, since the Sentinel knows so much about it, we challenge it to
name the men who ire s. close up to the Sentinel, who know so
much about what Vardaman thinks of these matters. Wedare it to
name them. We don't believe Vardaman has given anybody author
|Hy to speak for him with reference to this matter. and the Sentinel
don't believe it, either. That's why he is not going to name the men
he hides behind in making a statement solely for the purpose of
.sandering a man who is more popular with the people of Missis-
sippi than the Sentinel or its candidate for Governor. Your char
ges by insinuation won't go this time. It's up to you; put up or
shut up.-Poplarvlle Free Press.
The Free Press spoke its hearts desire when it told us to "shut
up" 1t wishes we would "shut up" and as much Is We dislike to
harrow the feelings of anyone, we respectfully say to the Free Press
that we are just too full to shut up right now. 1t asks for informa-
ton. 1t a we'll known legal proposition that A. is not required to
give B. information on a point about which b. is already informed.
The Free Press knows. or ought to know, what we think we know,
that Vardaman is not going to support Blbo for Governor. The
Free Press wants to know our informant, or informants, and wants
us to tell it right now. This will doubtless get to the public in due
time and the Free Press certainly will not deny the right of an OPP
ponent to choose his day to file his plea.
Still further Calculating the matter that is undoubtedly giving
the Free Press serious concern, let it ask the following gentlemen,
who are also candidates for Governor and are friends and support
|ers of Vardaman: H. +. Blakeslee, Hilrie M. Quin, John r. Tally
and Joe Nicely Powers; ask these if Vardaman is going to support
Bilbo. If the Free Press knows what Vardaman is going to do, and
is not DESTROYS of keeping it from the public, why does it not come
out with a hatfooted. unequivocal declaration as to Vardamans at
ttude1
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
JOHN Il. TALLY FOR GOTERA OR

Last Saturday the Hon. John R. Tally Of Hattiesburg formally
threw his hat into the ring as a candidate for Governor. His home
paper, Daily News, in speaking of his candidacy says Mr.. Tally
states:
Here am; invite your inspection. open my life book TO
be read of all men. My private life and public character is subject
to investigation. If you find aught in it that reflects upon my char
acter as an honest man; anything that would render me unworthy
the high honor ask at your hands; anything that would cause a
blush to mantle the cheeks of any Mlississippian at the mention of
my name as Governor of this proud state, then it is not only your
privilege, but your duty to yourself, to posterity and to your state,
10 prefer someone more worthy; hut if from the reading of my
committed to my charge; if you find that have been faithful. to the
trusts that have been committed to my keeping; and il, judging my
future by my past, (s you have a right to Judge the future of all
men by their past records you think am capable and worthy the
highest Office and greatest honor in your power to give, then | ask
your support, and pledge myself to my best efforts to be faithful to
the trust you repose in me"
MI. Tally is said to be a very forcible speaker. AS a district
attorney of his district, he made a very excellent record. He sup
ported Vardaman in the last campaign and achieved no little dis
tnction for meeting and "vanquishing" John Allen in a Joint discus.
sion.
Besides Mr.. Tally. Lieut.. Gov. Bibo has announced, aud it is
well understood that State Supt. J. N. Powers, Hon. H. f. Blakes-
lee and Hilrie M. Quin are candidates. May the best man win.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03

learn that because a man is a governor he must submit his private
affairs to the inquitions of his enemies. The question is: Has
Governor Brewer been true to the people, and to this question the
answer comes from a vast majority of the home loving, honest citi-
zenship of the state, ayes" Whatever the Governor has done or
left undone with reference to the Land Incorporation law, we ur
hesitatingly state that he has done nothing that he thought incom-
patible with the present welfare and future prosperity of the COM
|monweslth.
Now, we hardly expect The Issue to be satisfied with these OBJ
servations; the man in error before the bar Of Justice is hardly ever
satisfied with opposing counsers plea, and can always be depended
upon to object to the states contention.
In some respects The Issues plight is to be pitied. 1t is adrift
on the "tempest-tossed waves of uncertainty between the smiling
cliffs of hope and the frowning crags of fear" But it has chosen its
own company, let it keep it.
Will The Issue reproduce this?
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
THE GRENADA Fair

Any enterprise founded for the promotion of the general well
fare of the community and for the encouragement of necessary in
dustnes, is entitled to the active aid and support of all who are cal
culated to be benehciares of its results. All fairs are intended to
exhibit what has been done in stockrasing and in the production
of agriculture and further, to inoculate the general public with that
which is best in their neighbor and felow-countrymenA
We do most of what we accomplish by example; somebody has
set the pace; somebody before us has set the example. The wise
the thoughtful and the frugal profit by contact and always try to
emulate the best in their fellows. So the Grenada Fair gives the
people, especially the farmers and the stock raisers, of Grenada
county and adjoining territory, a fine opportunity. The world is
moving along whether we move with it or not.
Besides the educational features, there will be many things to
cause mith and that will please at the Fair. Everybody enjoys the
races, and these promise: to be unusually good this wear.
The ladies are working industriously to make their department
eclipse all past records, and the Sentinel bespeaks for every de-
partmento of the fair the proper support.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03

Grenada is in many respects, a most remarkable town. 1t is an
old town. 1t has not grown in size in proportion with its wears. but
while this is true; it has continued to add to its homeloving, good
citizens until its fame is more than state wide as one of the most de.
lightuly pleasant and attractive towns in the South. The people
make the town and Grenada's aggregation of citizenship can not be
exceled. y"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03

The correctness fthe Scriptural statement that .tbe love Of monev
is the root OF all evil" is strikngly proven in the riot at Haniston
last sunday. Some man sold the negroes cocaine because he
wanted their COIN. The negroes became crazed and the nubIc
knows the results. r
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-02-18

THE Saskatchewan Legislature,
now in session, has token two impor-
tant steps in tax legislation. Up to
this time, while farmers in the pro-
vince have paid no tax on their inn
provements or personal property.
they have paid a land-area tax. re-
gardless of the value OF the land. The
law has been amended in W. partic-
ulars:
First, the land-area tax has been
abolished. and the land-value tax has
been substituted for it.
Second, in addition % the land-val-
ne tax on all farm lands. the owners
Of unused farm lands will hereafter
pay an extra tax on all above a GER
tain number OF acres held cut of use.
Those pieces of legislation put Sas-
katchewan almost on equality with
Alberta, and ahead of British Colum-
bia and far ahead of Manitoba. as far
as tax laws are concerned
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-02-18
RABBI MEYERS said. in a recer

RABBI MEYERS said. IN a recent
address, many of the places on the
Barbary Coast were kept up not by
habitutes of that region. but by mem
bers of the upper classes OF society
whose automobiles might be seen
standing outside the doors of these
resorts. He also said he hoped no
one of his audience had seen the hor-
rors of that place.
Why should he hope this: To see
and understand is to take hold of a
intelligently. Why not fol-
low "the upper classes of society,"
Some Of them may be worth saving.
S. +. Star.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-02-18
Amusing

PENNSYLVANIA must be an OBJ
ject Of amusement i'll the sisterhood
OF states by reason of recent per-
formances of her Legislature. In
one week the House OF Representa-
tives in the Keystone State has pass
edd resolutions for Constitutional
amendments of a los radical char
acter, two in number.
With only three dissenting votes
the Federal constitutional amend
ment for direct election of United
States Senators was passed by the
body, and a day or two later a reso-
luton submitting the question OF an
amendment OF the State Constitution
for female suffrage was carried by a
decisive majority.
The fact of the matter is that
Pennsylvania has taken a rank among
the progressive States of the Union
-Ihe-combined votes of the Demo-
cratic party and the Washington OF
Progressive party in the State at
large and in the Legislature vastly
exceed the strength of standpat Re
publicans. The old regime which
long kept Pennsylvania at the head OF
the Corrupt and contented' class IS
nearing its end. It's only hope for
the future in in keeping the opposi-
| ton divided into two camps.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-02-18
Assembly Bill No. 10

ASSEMBLY BILL No. 10, which
is known as the Corrupt Practice
Act seems to aim to do away with
about everything pertaining to cleo
tons except the candidates, and they
even, are so restricted that they
would never know that they were
running for Office, in case the bill IS
passed and its provisions carried out.
1t starts out t. limit and in this re-
spect it certainly goes the limit. Its
provisions may contain a few good
things, but it certainly and without
doubt contains many OF the almost
impossible. 1t is a bill oe r%estric-
tons. Its title says:
"To limit expenditures for cam
paign and election purposes to can
didates, their political agents, and
managing committees of political
parties; to prescribe the appointment
of such agents: to limit the contri-
buttons, expenditures and liabilities
of candidates political agents. and
mapagiSsg committees Of political
parties: to define, prohibit and pun
ish corrupt and illegal practices in
nominations in primary, special and
general elections; to secure and pro-
tect the purity Of the ballot; to pro-
hibit the use of convcyances to car
,ry voters to the polls; to prohibit the
distributing Of liquors and cigars by
candidates for office: to prohibit and
punish the making, publication and
circulation Of false charges and state
ments against candidates, the doing
of any act tending to deceive or in
~terfcre with the voter. to provide for
furnishing information to electors
This bill has been introduced in
the Assembly and is now in the
hands of the Committee on Educa-
ton.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-02-18

1T is worth while to note that the
German Garment Workers strike in
New York, which affected 5000
workers, was conducted peacably. on
the whole, and is in process of set
Element with distinct gains to the
strikers. But the strike of 4,OUI
walters. which was carried on with
stone-throwing and sabotage. has col
lapsed. Again is the old lesson
taught that violence always Injuries
the cause of labor.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-02-18

Get your new shoes at the Carson
Shoe Factory and have the old ones
repaired at the same place. The
d work guaranteed.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-02-18

AT Fritz's Place on Sounth Carson
street, it is aimed to keep everything
Steam Beer is among the good bev-
e1ages.. Drop i'll and see Fritz.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-02-18

To cleanse and whiten the
teeth, remove tartar and
prevent decay.
To disinfect the mouth, de-
stroy disease germs, and
purify the breath.
To keep artificial teeth and
briCU work clean. OdOrlesS
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-02-18

20 remove nicotine from the teeth and,
purify the breath after smoking.
To eradicate perspiration and body
odors by sponge bathing.
The best a~ntiseptic wash known
Relieves and strengthens tired, weak,
nhamedeyes. Heals sorethroat. wounds
nd cuts. 25 and SO cts. a box. druggists
+ by mail postpaid. Sample Free.
hE PAXTON TOLL ct Co, eosror. M.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-12
NOn i'm This
Matter of
Furniture

Let us sit down quietly,
Mr.. or Mrs. Prospective
Purchaser, and find out
where the best place to buy
Furniture really is.
The first thing that comes 10 US
is that there are only two things
that you, without being an expert,
can tell about Furniture. First,
you may please your eye with its
artistic lines, and, second, you
may satisfy yourself with the ap-
pearasce OF the finish.
Now that is as far as your judg-
ment can go. The rest. we read
in the papers" We use a certain
kind OF baking powder because we
have read the name several thou
sand times in the papers. It may
be chemically impure.
Now, II you are not an expert
upon Furniture. and you cannot
form your judgment merely upon
an advertised name, what are you
going to do?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-12
There Is One Thing Left

You might not know that city
fellow who comes down to sell you
stocks and bonds, but you do know
your neEt-door farmer neighbor
that has been there twenty years,
and you do know whether or not
he is going to shovel a quarter Of
a ton Of earth into the ton Of hay
that he lie going to sell you.
In short. you do know the Young
& McComb Store. You do know
that II has the best Furniture, BE-
CAUSE you KNOW 1T MAKES
A BUSINESS OF GETTING THE
BEST. You do know that If you
buy a piece of furniture here and
II isn't satisfactory you are no. go
ing to have to come back and
struggle and haggle like a fish
monger's wife, but that you are 60
ing to get your money back or get
another piece CT Furniture, or have
II fixed.
That is the quality side. Here
Is the price argument
II you, Madame, wanted thou
sand yards of silk. you could get it
cheaper than you could get ten.
l. is the same with the store as
with the individual. There is no
retail organization within 10 miles
that has a better purchasing ca
pacity than the Big Quality Store.
AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT.
Now we are in the midst OF our
first Furniture season. The bust
ness is increasing in a manner that
surprises us daily, and We are de-
sirous Of personally showing you
through our three top floors. May
we do so?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-12
Let Us Show You the New
CretOnneS

The largest and best showing that has been
in Rock Island, at Young & McCombs. Every good
color and decoration, almost, that you think of is
here and Dant shades that have strength and
don't look faded out before used ALL and deep coors
not too heavy looking, with many shades between.
Come in and let show you these wonderful patterns,
I8c to $500 yard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-12
Orinoka-Sunfast Draperies
Guaranteed Nor tn E1do

Although sunshine is synonym for health, happi-
ness and optimism, still to the of the home and
the decorator it has always stood thing to be
dreaded.
Outdoors we all loved the sum- indoors we feared its
destroying effects the furnishings. Expensive drap
cries wall coverings and upholstery lost their uster
and gradually faded from the effects of light All
of expediens have been tried to prevent fading but
fabric found that could successfully with
stand sunlight until Orinoka-Sunfas Guaranteed fab
RIGS evolved.
You are safe in buying Orinoka Sunfast Guaranteed
fabrics backed by the following guarantee, you are
in accepting gold certificates
THE GUARANTEE
These goods guaranteed absolutely
color FROM
the merchant to hen
with goods purchase prie
(Siened oRHokA
Almost unlimited choice of coorngs designs
a
madras,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-12
Special Demonstra ton of
Perfection Vacuum Washer

will why should
We will show how 20 minutes with
hours of
rubbing,
heavy wash boil
ersb
perfectly white 1t is indeed
Perfection" price.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-12
We Sell On Approval

before
require you keep prefer your your
to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-12
Bohn Syphons

Bohns Refrigerators the finest
splendid the Ease Keeping Clean"
The ice consumed is lite-of Moisture is free
perfect drainng"s good be!