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Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
IMPORTANT MATTER or Liun
Coco Reason Why One Should Be
Careful II Should Always Fall
From the Left.

The widely-known fact that, when
using the eyes for any near work, the
illumination should come from the left
side rather than the right is often dis.
regarded. Let anyone who considers
the matter of little importance once
demonstrate to himself the difference
and he will never forget it. Take a
pencil and pGper and try to write while
in such position that the light will
fall from the right side. The shadow
OF the hand or pencil or both is thrown
on the paper in such a way as partly
to cover the characters one is making.
This necessitates a closer viewpoint
and conscious strain on the eyes.
NOW let the position Of the writer be
reversed so that the light falls on the
work from the left side. He will no
tice that the shadows fall away from
the work he is doing and leave the
Held unobscured. In making the
change he cannot help but notice the
feeling OF ease that Immediately IS ex-
perienced by the eyes, This appEes
to any other kind of near work in
whic& the fingers work under the guild.
ance of the eyes. This fact should be
remembered in planning schoolrooms,
workrooms, offices and any places
where steady close work is to be per.
formed.-Journal of the American
Medical Association.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
BORING THROUGH THE ICE
Seals Have Laborlous Method Of
Keeping Themselves Supplied
With Air.

Not many people know how the seal
Of the far North gets air when the
Arctic ocean is entirely covered with
many feet Of ice.
The small spotted seal, which is a
hair seal, and not fur bearer, is the
hardy dweller of the northern waters,
remarks the Youths Companion. I'm
der his tough, thick skin he has an
inch or more of blubber. When the ice
closes up the open water in the Arc
tic the seal selects spot and begins
to drill a hole to the surface by press
Ing his warm nose against the ice. No
body knows how many hours it takes
him to accomplish his task, but he
manages it; and although he is obliged
to work most of the time, because the.
surface of the hole is continually
freezing. he keeps it open all winter,
and obtains air
Seals have been known to drill in
this manner through so feet of solid
ice. Whether or not they take turns
in the slow drilling is not positively
known
1t is at these seal holes" that the
polar bear seeks food in the winter,
and there the Eskimo waits, spear in
hand, for his weekly supply of meat.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
Putting Him Wise.

A physician who worthily bears a
distinguished name, occupies an old
mansion in the suburbs of Boston.
His aunt, who lives with him, tells a
laughable story, illustrating his calm
ness of manner and love of method.
Not long ago his aunt tip-toed into
his room on the second floor some
time after midnight and told him she
thought there were burglars In the
house. The doctor attired himself in
his dressing robe and went down.
stairs.
In the rear hall he encountered q
tough-looking man trying to open a
door that led into the back yard. The
burglar had successfully unlocked the
door and was pulling at it with all his
strength. The doctor, seeing the rob.
'ber's predicament, called to him:
1T doesn't open that way, you IDIOT
1t slides back!"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
With Nauqht But Her Breath.

An Irish charwoman, employed on
the upper floors of New York sky,
scraper, was recently telling a friend
OF her terrifying experience during a
storm.
Sure, l had an awful time" said
she. In the middle of the afternoon,
Saturday, when they'd all gone from
the upper floors, an | was there with
me mop alone, there comes up the
fearfulest storm that ever was. Whin
1t burst, l runs to coat-closet, an
shut mesilf in, an I says to mesilf:
'Whin the thunder dies down, I'll step
out, an not before An If you will
believe me, | was there two full hours
In that closet with no vintilation but
me own breath"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
WHERE THEFT is UNKNOWN
No Need for Locks or Bars In the
Land Of the Tyrol, According
to Traveller.

A land Of almost Utopian simplicity
is described by a writer in the Field
who a year ago started on foot from
Innsbruck and went by way of Landeck
to the Stelvio pass, and back across
the Tyrol to Weischnofen One of the
joys OF walking trip in Tyrol, he
says, lies in the friendship of these
exceedingly simple, honorable and re.
ligious peasants.
They leave their agricultural nipple
ments lying all night in the field, COW
cred with heavy cloth, for the dew
is as dishonest among these holy
mountains as elsewhere. They have
no locks on their barns They lift a
cross with cry for prayers and the
remembrance of God at every quarter
of mile. These crosses mark the
spot where some poor soul has died
during the wild storms of winter. How
dreadful those tempests are can be
judged from the fact that we found six
such homely wooden monuments, not
one more than ten years old, within
half mile.
At Longarone-which Is over the
Italian border-we discovered that our
chamber, the best in the inn, had its
lock screwed on topsy-turvy, so that 1t
could not be fastened. Out in the hall
way, | beloved for Maria. She came,
all surprise. But the honorable herr
cannot have another bedroom with
better lock, for that's the only lock in
the hotel; the only one in the village.
The landlord bought it because the
foreigners insisted, but he had never
seen lock before. II the honorable
herr will wait until tomorrow, perhaps
--ah but everyone in town knows the
honorable travellers are here; every.
one knows that they go long trip
and must need much money, SO no one
could be wicked enough to attempt to
deprive the honorable herr and his
honorable frau of a thing they need
so much. Youths Companion.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
Facts of Evolution.

From the evidence of its fossils, 1t
seems clear that before the continent
of Africa took its final shape, 1t was
more or less directly connected with
the now distant continent of South
America. But that Ia another story.
1t is fact, however, to be borne in
mind in the present connection, since
1t serves to remind us of the vast
measure of time which has gone to
the making Of the world as we know
1t today. These fossils show US that
what is now burning desert was
once a steaming forest, and, before
this, was the hunting ground Of
sharks! The days of arsinoitherium
date somewhere about the middle of
these tremendous happenings.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
The Might OF Example.

Example is one of the most potent
OF instructors, though it teaches with.
out a tongue; it is the practical school
OF mankind, working by action, which
Is always more forcible than words.
Precept may point to us the way; but
1t is silent, continuous example, con.
veyed to us by habits, and living with
us In fact, that carries US along; good
advice has its weight; but without the
accompaniment of a good example it
is of comparatively small influence,
and it will be found that the common
saying of do as l say, not as | do"
Is usually reversed in the actual ex.
perience OF life.-Smiles,
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
TWO MORE BELIEFS ENDED
Scisnce Says RattIers and Antlers
Have Nothing to Do With
Matter of Age.

A couple of more fond beliefs have
been knocked in the head by the un.
sentimental scientists-that the age OF
a rattlesnake can be told by the mum.
Der of his rattles, and that deer's
span of life is accurately recounted
by the rumber of points in his antlers.
AS the Geological Society Bulletin
says:
"The largest RATHER may have few
rattles and a small one twice the
number of the big one.
He grows three year. At birth the
rattlesnake has tiny button where
his rattles are ultimately to be. There
fore at the end of the first year-if
he should live-he would be, according
to theory, three years old; or perhaps
three and half, if one considers the
button as the nucleus of another rattle.
1T is quite probable that the rattles
increase in number for certain num-
Der OF years; remain that number
during another period of years and
then degenerate as the snake attains
Its longevity.
THE degeneration of the antlers of
male deer presents a less bewilder-
ing problem, inasmuch as it is posi-
BILE to prove beyond doubt that the
points on his antlers have no bearing
whatsoever on his age.
In the first place several species
may be reared in captivity with as
much certainty as domestic cattle, and
therefore the recovery of the shed
antlers before they are destroyed
either by decay or the teeth of rodents
is an assured fact.
With such means no other testi-
mony need be presented than two
series OF antlers, one from an Amerl-
can wapiti and the other from an axis
deer
THE first antlers of the wapiti bear
eight points, which, according to the
popular theory, gives him the age of
eight years. In reality, as he was born
In June, 1906, at the time his first
pair of antlers had attained their
maximum size-in September, 1907
he was exactly seventeen months old"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
ALIENS STILL SERVE LONDON
Wholesale Dismissal of German Wait.
ers Did Not Help British
Brethren.

ondon,-According to the Central
Unemployed Body for London the
Wholesale dismissal during the last
month of German and Austrian wait
ers has not helped the English waiter.
The vacated places have been filled by
Italians, Frenchmen and Dutchmen.
The explanation is that waiting on
table is not business which the Eng
lishman adopts very rapidly and that
the vast army of walters, who usually,
at this time go to the South of France
and Italy, find no market for their
services in these countries and are
eager for work In London.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
FLYER LANDS AMID ENEMY
Russian Aviator's Aeropane Is Hit
$40 Tlmes--He Makes His
Escape unhurt.

Petrograd. praise is given to
the work of the Russian aviators in
dispatches from the front.
One Russian airman landed in the
middle of the German army, but es-
capped unhurt. He managed to get
his aeroplane into the air again and
reach the Russian lines, although the
machine had been struck by 140 bull
let's, 48 of which hit the shield pro-
tecting the aviator. The steering
gear was struck three times.
Two German aeroplanes that were
accommodating near Lodz were brought
down by high angle guns and cap
tured.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
Z;
Origin Of Christmas Tree.

The Christmas tree is supposed by
great numbers of people to have orig,
mated in Germany, but from a re-
liable source we learn that the Christ,
mas tree came in the first instance
from Egypt, and its origin dates from
period much earlier than the Chris.
tian era. The palm tree Is known
to put forth branch every month
and a spray of this tree with IL
shoots on 1t was used in Egypt at the
time of the winter solstice as sym.
Dol of the completed year.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
Cement Fences.

During storm vessel loaded with
cement ran ashore on Block island,
short distance from the coast of Rhode
Island. In trying to save the vessel
they threw the cargo into the water,
and the cement hardened in the bar
rels. Then the farmers near by
knocked the barrels apart and hauled
the contents, which looked like CYL
inders of stone, to their farms, and
this accounts for some extraordinary
hitching posts and supports for
porches or gates. Some of the bar
rellike stones are serving in fences,
but they aren't as PICTURESQUE, as the
usual stone fence Of New England.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
!AANDY HAD MIND MALE 9
After Sad Experience With the Othe
Kind, She Was Going to Marry
a Sinner.

Just when a Louisville woman wa
at her wits end after many unsuccess
full attempts to engage a cook Mandy
applied for the situation and wa.
promptly hired. Mandy was a CO."
try niger" of generous proportion
and an unlimited ability along Gull
nary lines, and her mistress soon
found that she had regular cook at
last
Unlike many of her kind, Mandy
showed no desire to pry into the af-
fairs of her mistress, and was equally
silent about her own. She had been
employed for some time before her
mistress, engaging her in converse
ton, discovered the bitterness ran
king in her dusky cooks soul.
You've never been married." she
inquired.
"oh, yesm," said Mandy. Use a
wilder"
Your husband died?"
Nom; Use grass wilder"
You've been divorced, them"
Mandy's indignation at past wrongs
got the better of her natural reserve
and she blurted out:
Now, Use a-goin' to tell you all
about 1t. | married a preacher--a no
account niger preacher. He done run
off with one of the sisters of the con-
| amt got no divorce. But
I'm goin' to get one and marry again
And when | marry, believe me, Use
a-goin' to marry sinner "-Louisvill
Timns
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
The Children,

1t is base thing to be at anything
It our best before children. We may
link that a child will not know that
r show of temper or irritation is not
tilled. We may expect him to be-
that it Is right because we do it.
If he does look upon our failure as
ething entirely right, how we have
cred his standards! Just because
hid is so ready to believe trust
that what he sees in others Is
we should be all the more keenly
It % let him see in us only the
ST \ specialist in children's books
ID atly before the Booksellers
New York "All the money
axe out Of distributing IN
uAt BOOKS could not take away the
anne We should feel if it came back
d us that we had in any way assisted
2 he mean work of lowering a child's
1ste or character ideals" Do we ever
Wer the tastes or ideals of the chill
rem IN our own home, or school, or
eighhorhood? To do wrong before
hose who may innocently think 1t Is
light, is about as disastrous way of
ropagating our own failures as could
e imagined Exchange
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
MINIS THE VICTORIA CROSS
British Private Kills Seven and Cap
lures Machine Gun They
Were Working.

London.-The Victoria Cross has
been bestowed on Private George
Wilson, Second Battalion Highland
Light infantry, for most conspicuous
sallantry near Verneuil, In attacking
hostile machine gun"
The official announcement describ-
ing Private Wilson's gallantry says:
He was accompanied by only one
man. When the latter was killed he
went on alone and shot the officer and
six men who were working the gun,
which he captured"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
BRITISH PAID BY FRANCE
Republic Bears Cost of Auxiliary
Troops Even to the Pro-
visioning.

Berlin.-The Berliner Tageblatt
publishes an account of wounded
German officer upon his return from
France, In which he says;
1.-THE French government bears the
ost of paying the British auxiliary
roops, each man getting four francs
80 cents) for each day ON which no
ighting takes place, while on battle
lays each man gets eight francs
$3.50 per day. Besides, the entire
british force now on French soil is
)rovisioned at the expense of the
french government"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
Not a Thanksgiving Proverb.

Japanese bravery is perhaps due
20 Japanese pessimism," said the JAP
dnese consul to San Francisco. "The
japanese have black strain of pes
simism in their veins. This Is evil
denced by their proverbs.
There is one proverb which, in its
iisparagement of the human lot, is
1erhaps the most pessimistic proverb
N the world 1t runs:
To revenge yourself on your en-
envy, let him live"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
Taste In Girls and Rave

Girls have more sensitive taste for
bitter havors than boys, and boys
nave a more sensitive taste for sweet
havors than girls, according to DR.. @.
Conn., author of a book on Organic
FlaVoring Materials" The taste of
boys and girls for saltiness is equal.
Among adults woman has a taste for
sweet bitter and sour that is more
highly developed than that of man.
For salty things there is little differ
ence, man, if anything being slightly
more sensitive than woman
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
Odor of Iodoform.

The odor of iodoform can be re-
moved from the hands by wetting
them taking a pinch of dry mustard
rubbing 1t we'll in and washing 1t off
with soap and water. In the same way
the odor of iodoform may be removed
from utensils that have contained It,
only In this case the mustard should
De made into a paste, spread upon
them and left for two or three hours.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26

From every branch, sad tears drip
In transforms fierce endeavor.
The flowers may come, the flowers may
go,
But l am green forever
Now bark! the woodman's ak is heardi
A sister tree he's telling.
What can this cruel destruction meanf
The winter wind Is telling:
do not bemoan thy mournful fate,
Tho axmen WELD with madness.
Bedecked in tinsel bright and fine,
You'll soon bring children gladness.
Thou canst not die, although thy trunk,
Harsh Ratchet blows may sever
Within the little children's hearts
Thou wilt be green forever!''
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
Medical Aid for Wives.

Berlin.-To alleviate the anxiety OF
husbands at the front, the Bundesrath
of Germany has decided to furnish
financial and medical assistance tt
prospective mothers.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
Song of the
ChriStnlaSTree
BY Gene Morgan

| come from northern forest lands
Where men would tarry never
The seasons come, the seasons go,
But am green forever.
The flowers of spring bloom at my feet.
The shadows always spreading
Near by there runs a forest path
Where watchful deer are treading
The summer passes all too soon,
And autumn winds are chilly.
Poor flowers, they wlther, droop and die
Amid the woodland hiily.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26
Youth Leads CHARGE.

London.-Private Preston, eighteen,
and known as the baby" of a Man.
chester regiment, led the charge of his
company against the Germans after
ali the officers had been killed.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-26

New York society crowded the ball
room Of the Biltmore recently on the
occasion of the Russian festival ar
ranged by Miss Barbara Rutherford,
laughter OF Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt.
fhe proceeds of the festival go to aid
russian war sufferers.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1914-10-29
FIFTH PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

The fifth proposed amendment is con-
tanned in Chapter 588 of the Laws of
Minnesota for the year 1913.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this
amendment IL to permit the permanent
school and university funds of this
State to be Invested In first mortgage
loans upon im~roved and cultivated
farm lands of the state. This amend
ment would change Section 6 of Article
8 of the Constitution. which now reads
as follows:
Sec. 6. The permanent school and
university fund of this state may be
invested in the bonds of any county,
school district, city, town or village Of
of commissioners desig.~ al by law to
regulate the investment [ the perma-
nent school fund and the permanent
university fund of this state; nor shall
such loan or investment be made when
would make the entire bonded indebt-
edness exceed fifteen (15) per cent Of
the assessed valuation of the taxable
real property Of the county. school dis
trict, city, town or village issuing such
bonds; nor shall such loans or indebt-
terest than three CD Per cent per an
mum, nor for a shorter period than five
go years. nor for a longer period than
twenty COY years, and no change of
the town, school district, city, village
or of county lines shall relieve the real
county, village or city in this state at
the time of the issuing of such bonds
from any liability for taxation to pay
such bonds
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1914-10-29
THIRD PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

The third proposed amendment is
contained in Chapter 586 of the Laws Of
Minnesota for the veal 1918.
PURPOSE: By this amendment it IL
Etrlct roads, ditchcs, fire breaks
through and around unsold state school
and swamp lands. and n $25O,0OD re-
.yO!ving fund, realized and kept up from
;I,e sale of such lands, is to be set apart
for such This in an amend
ment of Section 2 of Article 8 of the
Constitution, which law reads us fol-
lows:
Section 2. The proceeds of such
ed by the United States for the use Of
schools within each to" nship of this
State shall remain a perpetual school
fund to the State; and not more than
one-third (h} of said lands may be
sold in two (2) years, %one-third (M)
IoJ years but the lands of the greatest
valuation shall be sold first; provided,
that no portion Of said lands shall be
sold otherwise than at public sale. The
principal Of all funds arising from
Sales or other disposition of lands or
to. this State in each township for edu-
c%ational purposes, shall forever be pre-
served i%nviolate and undiminished; and
the income arising from the lease or
sale of said school lands shall be dis
tributed to the different townships
She number of scholars in each town
ship, between the ages of five and
twenty-one years and shall be faith.
fully applied 70 the specific objects Of
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1914-10-29
SECOND PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

The second proposed amendment is
contained in Chapter 5S5 Of the Laws
of Minnesota for the year 1913.
PURPOSES: The purpose and object
of this amendment is to add two Assoc
ctate Justices to the Supreme Court; to
require the concurrence of 1--WE Justices
of the Supreme Court before any law
shall be declared nconstitutiona by
such court, and make the office of Clerk
of the Supreme Court appointive, and
Is an amendment of Section 2 Of Article
6 of the Constitution. which law reads
as follows.
Sec. 2. The supreme court shall con-
stst of one chief justice and two asso-
ciate justices, but the number of the
associate justices may be increased to
a number not exceeding four, by the
legislature, by a two-thirds vote, when
it shall be deemed necessary. 1t shall
nave original jurisdiction in such rene
dial cases as may be prescribed by law,
and appellate jurisdiction In all cases,
shall hold one or more terms in each
year, as the legislature may direct. at
the seat of government, and the legis-
lature may provide, by Il two-thirds
vote, that one term in each year shall
be held in Zach or any judicial district.
1t shall be the duty of such court to
appoint a reporter of it's decisions;
electors Of the State. one clerk of the
supreme court, who shall hold his office
for the term of four years, and until
mis- successor is duly elected and quail
court, or a majority of them, shall have
the power to fill any vacancy in tho
office Of clerk of the supreme court UNI
til an election can be regularly had"