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Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
AGE HAS ITS COMPENSATION
Philosophical View as Taken by Thla
Man Seems to Have Much to
Recommend H.

He was lively old chap OF past
seventy at a lobster palace table with
a glass of plain water for tipple.
"Of course, he was saying to the
younger men with him, Il am not AZ
long for this world as you chaps are.
If you live to be as old as | am, but
| have a satisfaction in life that you
haven't. | know because when |
was in my forties every time | had
anything the matter with me | got
scared
Il was afraid that either 1t would
Kill me with only half my life lived or
that it was some lingering disease that
would make thirty or forty years of
my lie a burden. Nor was | alone
in thinking that way. Every man of
my age had the same feeling. / think
that comes to most men when they
are about thirty.
Youths carelessness lasts only a
very short tims I'D nan mighty
soon begins to wonder what will hap
pen to him next, or how long he will
stay in good shape When a man
reaches my age he begins to be care
less again. Most of what will happen
has happened, and he Is through with
it, and what Is to happen next doesn't
make much difference because in the
nature of things it can't Iast long
whatever it is and the tnality comes
as a resting spell and a cessation from
the worries of The flesh.
Il know some old men who don't
take the same view Of themselves that
! do, and am sorry for them, be-
cause a man owes it to himself, |
think, to quit bothering about giving
up when he knows he has to do 1t
whether or no."
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
Looking TO the Future.

We are to consider that nations like
Rome, France, Austria, Russia, Great
Britain, have gone forward by the
millennium-the thousand years. We
have not yet grown into our name. We
are a nation in our small clothes.
America! 1t is already-( dating from
1S9S)-something bigger than the
United States. We are even more
fortunate than Rome, for if it be ma
lures intent to widen our hive, and If
it would in .any way conciliate the In
dian-Spanish and Indian-Portuguese
of the South, we could wisely and
without humiliation abandon our ship
clerk Vespucius and accept our cap
tain's name of Columbia for our huge
portion of the western world, Column,
bia may become the gem of the oceans.
Six seas may lap her hes.-John
McGovern, in National Magazine.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
MOST NATURAL OF QUERIES
Probably First interrogation That
Was Ever Made Was, "is 1t
Good to Eat?"

In Farm and Fireside Herbert
Quick, editor of that publication,
writes an editorial in which he brought
out many interesting facts as to the
use of various meats as food. Follow
ing is an interesting extract from his
article
Whenever we boys found anything
animal, vegetable or mineral-almost
which looked not absolutely repul-
sive, our first query always was, Is it
good to eat?
THAT is the Oldest question in the
world Every animal asks it dozen
times day, and let's sight and smell
answer it. Now that war is making a
worldwide scarcity, Is it good to eat?'
becomes a worldwide question for the
human beast.
Take the whale for instance We
have been wasting the meat Of the
whale all the many years during which
we have been slaughtering this largest
of mammals. Why? The whale is a
swimming beast which suckles its
young and lives on clean food. Now
there is movement on foot to begin
the canning of whale beef, to be sold
at low price to those who have the
open4nfndedness and strength of pal
ate to tackle it.
I'm Japan the meat of red dog is a
great delicacy and dogs of other col
ors are preferred to beef, mutton or
poultry. Pork is looked upon by the
Japanese with much the same lack of
appetite with which we regard the
meat of the dog or horse.
Horse beef was not eaten in France
until after the great siege of 1871.
Now it is a regular article of com.
MERGE"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
Two Famous Names.

Thomas Atkins" is newcomer
compared with Jack Tar" of the senior
service. Jack Tar" as nickname for
a sailor is first recorded in 1885, but
sailors were known as "tars" for more
than a hundred years before that. The
name already appears in literature in
the latter half of the seventeenth CEN
fury. "Tar" may be short for tar
paulin." Sailors were called "tarpau-
lirs" early in the seventeenth century
Tarpaulin, of course, is canvas tarred
to make it waterproof, and the sailors
hat made of that material, something
like a sou'-wester, was called tar
paulin. However that may be, British
sailors have been honest tars," Jolly
tars" and gallant tars" for 200 years.
There Is more steel and oil about a
modern battleship than tarry rope,
perhaps, but probably Jack will remain
Jack Tar for another hundred years
yet.--Manchester Guardian,
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
No Ammunition,

A party of young folks gathered at
the home of a pair of neWlyweds on
the East side, and during the CONVEX
sation many and varied subjects were
discussed. Recalling a visit of the pa
troll to the neighborhood, one of the
young men began to talk of the pres
ence of burglars in the vicinity. lm'
mediately everyone present began to
tell of every time burglar had been
within a mile of his home.
The young wife naturally became
nervous and feared for her safety, de-
spite the fact that she had big, husky
husband to protect her. She let her
fears be known, and young gallant
Immediately replied that her husband
should purchase a revolver to keep in
the house to give her feeling OF Sc
curity.
81 have one now" replied the young
hubby.
ooh, yes, he has one" spoke up the
lady of the house, "but he hasn't any
capsules for it."-YoungstoWn Tele
gram.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
FEEL LURE OF THE LIZARD
Many Ships Sight and Pass the Fa.
nous British Headland
Daily.

"If the Lizard QLizard point, Corn
wall, England) could see as one half
believes it can, from that one piercing
eye, Cyclops-like, in its forehead, what
sights it could report--Phenician and
Roman galleys; the ships OF Hawkins,
Drake, Frobisher and Raleigh; the
Mayflower after its final release from
detention at Southampton, Dartmouth
and Plymouth; the broken winged ar
NADIA; and the Titanic on that first
voyage, 20 confidently and eheerfully
begun, which ending in the unforeseen
ice, was also its last" William H. Ride
ing writes in Scribner's,
All the ships of the famous lines
between American and English and
European ports come within mile or
two of it, eastbound and westbound,
those of the North German Lloyd, the
Atlantic Transport, the White Star
and the Red Star the Canadian branch
of the Cunard, the Holland-America,
the Hamburg-American and the Ameri.
can, most of them making their pas
sage so punctuallS that you know to
an hour when to look for them.
"Just beyond the tight is Lloyds
signal station and close to that Mar
conf station, subsidiary to the most
powerful of all that al poldu to the
west where the swish, sparkle and
crackle of the four high latticed tow
ers can be heard at a distance OF a
mile.
MANS ingenuity and benevolence
have turned the dreaded headland
from q menace into dispensary OF
safeguards. During fogs two horns
each with mouth six feet in diam
eter. blare across the cloaked channel,
and a submarine bell at the foot of
the cliffs tolls its number within a
range of sixteen miles to every listen
ing vessel provided with a receiver
Both light and sound have vagaries in
fogs, however II we can believe the
masters of ships which have come to
grief on and near Lizard there are
times when the $4,000 900 candlepower
of the lighthouse is invisible, and the
believing of those enormous trumpets
inaudible."
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
RIDING IN A JlNRINsHA
Sensation Not Altogether Pleasant,
Though Almost Every One Seeks
the Experience.

When the European or American
tourist first lands in Japan he at once
demands a iinrikisha Having read OF
f and heard SO IN III Of 1t he wants
n immediate experience of it as soon
rs he finds himself in the land of its
birth Almost any day one may see a
procession of men and women, ashore
FOR a day or two from a steamer in
mort, making their way up the crowded
thoroughfares of Tokyo, sitting rather
awkwardly in their jiIrikishas, trem-
bling unbalanced over the axle, not
knowing whether the thing Is going to
tip backward or fall forward, so loose
ly does the puller seem to hold the
shafts. The first time one gets into a
iinrkisha he always feels like baby,
and this gawkish sensation coupled
with that of the uncertainty of ones
position in balancing it, renders the
experience not quite so pleasant as
anticipated But the only way for
comfort is to sit back at ones ease
and leave the responsibility to the man
who pulls it-Japan Magazine.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
On clearance.

At the GermanAmerican Chamber
of Commerce in New York DR.. Adolph
Muller, an agent for the purchase OF
woolens, said:
"A better spirit spirit of toler-
ance, is now manifesting itself. On
the boat coming over a French shoe
buyer and an English cloth buyer
shared my table with me and we got
on well.
Gentlemen | said to those chaps
one morning, we Germans and you
English and you French are not all
thieves, vandals and murderers. With
us it is like the dog riddle.
"Why is dog like MANI boy
asked
"'Give it up said another boy.
"Recause it's bowlegged.
"But,' said the second boy, all dogs
are not bow-leggcd.'
"Well, neither are all men,"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
TAKE DISEASE FROM WHITES
tuberculosis Among Alaskan In
dans Has Been Laid at the Door
of the "Paleface."

The great prevalence of all forms
Of tuberculosis among the Alaskan In.
dams, as proved by a report by DR..
Emil Krulish, is explained by the
Journal of the American Medical Asso-
cation as follows:
Tuberculosis is a comparatively
new infection among Indians, be-
slowed upon them by the benevolent
paloface along with firewater and GER
tain other blessings of civilization.
Among these blessings must probably
be counted scarlet fever, measles, in
fuenza, whooping cough and diphthe-
ria. Not yet possessing the racial i'm
munity which it takes many genera
tons to acquire, the poor Indian suf-
fers from them in greater degree than
does the white, and more frequently
dies Of them. Then there are the
overcrowding and the unsanitary con-
ditions prevailing in most of the homes
of tuberculosis sufferers; while at
least this much good arises from their
misfortune that after the disease Is
we'll developed in them its progress
(unless they are well cared for) is
rapid, and death removes what would
otherwise remain a menacing focus
of infection"
tuberculosis was one Of the chief
causes of the dying out Of the In
dams all over North America.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Notice is hereby given that at 10
a, M, on he 18th day OF February,
1915, at Boise, County of Ada, State
of Idaho, before Margaret Ryan, Boise,
Idaho Boise City Natl Bank Bldg.
proof will be submitted of the COM
pletien CT works for the diversion of
10 cubic feet per second of the waters
of Hot Springs Greek In accordance
with the terms and conditions of q
certain permit Issued by the State
Engineer OF the State Of Idaho.
1. The name of the person or cor
poration holding said permit Is H. p.
Ustick.
2. The postoffice address of such
person or principal place of business
of such corporation Is Boise, County
of Ada, State of Idah.
g. The number of such Permit Ia
5000, and the date set for the compile
tion Of such work is February Is.
1915.
a. Said water to be used for irriga-
ton and domestic purposes.
5. Said works of diversion win be
fully completed on the date set for
such completion, and the amount of
water which said works are capable
of conducting to the place of intended
use, in accordance with the plans &C
companying the application for such
permit, is 10 cubic feet per second.
6. The amount of lands for which
sad water is available lis 1880 acres,
particularly described as follows:
Twp. 4 S., r. s e. B. NJ, So of
SWA, Sec Z; NV u of NWA, Sec.
18; We of Sec, 80 and NWA of Sec.
81 r. S., r. e. B. NJ, NEA of
NEA, We of NEA and E1s of NWA
cc. 13; WE of NWA and We of
SWA, Sec. rs and E1a of Sec. rs.
HERBERT WING,
Acting State Engineer.
j. 1880 f. 6-13.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
FOOD EXPORTS EXEMPT.
Shipments From United States to
Germany Permitted by Germans

Germany Permitted by Germans.
Neutrality-suspicious. Won Bernstorff
he German ambassador notified the
STATE department on Tuesday that his
government had given official assur
ance that no foodstuffs shipped from
The United States to Germany would
be seized for military or any other
governmental use.
The order of the federal council OF
Germany for the seizure Of all stocks
of corn, wheat and flour in Germany
by February / had been construed by
some officials here as likely to de
prive the owners of the cargo Of the
american steamship Wilhelmina of
he right they claim to land their
ood supplies in Germany The basis
Of their claim was the declaration
hat the grain was not intended for
The German army or the German gov
eminent, but for noncombatant indi
viduals, and therefore not subject to
seizure according to the terms of The
Hague convention
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
ROBBERS MURDER WOMAN.
Endeavored to Prevent Burglary and
Meets Death.

Salt Lake City.-Shortly after 4
o'clock Wednesday morning the body
OF woman, so years of age, was
found lying on the floor In the front
of the j. H. r. Franklin store, on
Main street, She had been murdered,
evidently by robbers who had entered
the store and ritied the cash register
of its contents. Hasty examination by
the police led to the belief that the
woman had endeayored to stop the
robbers after surprising them at their
work, 1t is believed that SIS was all
that was obtained by the burglars,
that being the amount that had been
left in the register when the store
was closed at midnight.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
SAILORS OF ELlzABETHAN AGE
Memorial to Famous British Mariners
Is Far Off the Tour.
lst Track.

Sir John Benn has persuaded the
London county council to commend
rate the Elizabethan sailors at Old
Ratcliife Cross, says the Manchester
Guardian The scheme hung fire for
a tlme because the antiQuaries could
not fix the site of the cross which
has vanished as utterly as the name
and reputation of the Radcliffe high.
way near by. The place chosen is
little east of Rotherhithe tunnel
where grimy wharf has preserved
the name of the cross where SO many
of the stout-hearted explorers set sail
for the northern seas.
Perhaps when Shadwell gets its riv.
erside park there will be a few bold
exploring sightseers from the West
to look upon the memorial which is
otherwise far from the tourist track
as any spot in London. 1t shows
square-ended Tudor ships under full
sail above the names of Sir John Will
loughby, Sir Martin Frobisher and
other great names in Hakluyt and in
English memories. Frobisher lies
near Milton in st. Giles, Cripplegate,
we'll within the tourist area
If you go from the memorial up
Butchers row into Stepney you are in
the traditional sailors town, although
nowadays you find the sailors far
Their east, where dockland has grown
up since the Elizabethan sailors went
to sea. The church in Stepney's one
bit of green is the sailors church of
London, unless Deptford with memo
ries of the shipbuilders is admitted to
have as good a claim. All the chill
dren born at sea were baptized par
ishioners of Stepney. Mariners tombs
are as thick here as those of Dutch
merchants in Austin Friars. The dis
coverers should go back by Mapping,
packed in between London docks and
the river and still keeping in score
of tarry inns suggestions of the Fro
bisher times. You can drink ale in
the North American Sailor" and think
of the great days of old when they
used to hang the pirates somewhere
about Mapping Old Stairs 1t was
Johnson advised Boswell to explore
Mapping, but Boswell did not find
much that was perhaps from
want of sufficient exertion," he says
humbly.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
Give Miners Sliding Scale.

Doug as, Ariz.-Six thousand men
employed by the Copper Queen Con-
Gclidated Mining company and the
Calumet & Arizona Mining company
will be placed on sliding wage
scale February l. The present wage
scale will be established as a mini.
mum and increases will be based on
the average price of copper for the
preceding month.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
Boring Thin Glass.

Everybody who has tried under.
stands how difficult it is to bore a
hole in a strip of thin glass. The fol-
lowing method is said to be very sue
cessful: Press a cake Of wet clay
upon the glass and then make hole
through the clay of the desired size,
laying bare the glass at the bottom
Of the hole. Then pour melted lead
into the hole, and it will drop through
the glass, making rough aperture.
The explanation is that the sudden
application of heat cracks the glass
in a circle corresponding in size with
the hole in the clay--New York Trib-
une.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
JEROME LOSES POSITION.
Nemesis of Harry X. Thaw Dismissed
by Attorney General.

New William Travers Js-
rome, for nearly nine years known as
Harry Kendall Thaw's Nemesis, was
removed from his position OF special
deputy attorney general of the state
of New York on Tuesday by Attorney
General Egburt E. Woodbury. and at
once ceased his fight to have Thaw
sent back to Matteawan.
Just why Jerome was removed is
open to much conjecture. Jerome
says that he was tired of the case;
shrank from the publicity it entailed
and had grown sensitive to the cal.
umny OF the crowds who cheered
Thaw as a prosecuted hero and boot
ed his prosecutor as a little old man
of the sea.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
WOULD TAX LARGE FORTUNES.
Daniel Guggenheim Suggests Plan to
Aid the Poor.

New York.-Taxation of large for.
tunes, upon the death Of their owners,
to aid the poor; the establishment of
government agencies to find work for
the unemployed and provision for the
comfort of aged workers, were' advo-
acted by Daniel Guggenheim, president
of the American smelling & Refining
company, on Thursday, at the inquiry
by the federal commission on indus,
trial relations into the cause of INDUS
trial unrest
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
NONSENSE TO STAY IN RUT

In every business there are many
who know nothing about their posi-.
bilities. They live humdrum lives,
plodding along in the same old ruts
from day to day, but in a business
sense they are practically dead and
finish their business careers without
waking up-they just exist, They
see an occasional man rise up from
the mass on the wings of fortune or
fame, He is a nine-day wonder, and
then the rest of the community set
tie down again and wait for some,
thing to turn up" for them.
The hidden forces for rising out Of
the ruts are to be found in all "ordi-
nary folk All that is needed to put
those forces to work is an awaken
ing-a realization that great effort Is
behind great accomplishments. Fame
and fortune do not come unbidden
They come only by reaching out and
grasping them as they pass by.
The man who is satisfied with things
as they are, will never rise above his
fellows, but the man who reaches
out and grasps every opportunity is
the man upon whom good luck will
smile.
The hidden power is in you, all
right, and there it will stay until you
wake up and go out in the world and
make yourself known. Modesty may
be a virtue, but merit that vaunts it..
self occasionally is tie kind that brings
home the money to the wife and chill
dren.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
First ENGLISH NeWspaper.

The first newspaper printed in the
English language, with it's old English
type and its quaint account of events
In foreign countries was a pamphlet
issued in 1921. It's title, "Corrant or
Nerves from Italie, Germanie, France,
and other places" is as curious as its
contents. For many years 1t had been
supposed that no copy of the Corrant
was in existence, but recently a copy
of this interesting document was dis
covered.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
CATASTROPHE IN CANADA.
Blasts Starts Landslide, Causing Loss
Of Life and Property.

Vancouver b. C.-Three engineers
were killed and five others injured at
the British Columbia Transport com.
panys quarry, Pitt river, twenty miles
from here. A blast so shook the four
acres of ground on which the com.
panys wharf Offices and machinery
stood that they sid off the banks into
the river.
More than a score of men were
caught in the landslide. Three still
are missing and are believed to have
been drowned. Where the company's
office formerly stood is now more than
thirty feet of water.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30

Amsterdam.--The correspondent at
Ostend of the Tijd says tht Germans
have evacuated all the coast towns
and villages as far north as Maria
kerke, which is north of Newport,
Westende and Middelkerke.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
La Praise Of Cornad Reef.

have never been to a dinner party
where corned beef was the piece de
resistance. Certain climbers doubtful
of their position would of course
shrink from offering q Wand generally
regarded as inexpensive; but if you
go to the right predatory butcher you
can spend any amount of money-even
to mortgaging the old farm-on cost
ly cut of beef, and then get it salt
petered with a wonderful and special
6rilliancy. Just as III Pendennis Miss
Fotheringay, of the Theaters Royal,
Drury lane and Grow street, declared
she would go anywhere with a gen
tleman who offered her lobster and
champagne with honorable intentions,
myself would go anywhere to a
hostess who offered me oorned beef,
no matter what her intentions.-
Franklin James, in the ATLANTIC
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
Austrian Premier Resinns.

Rome.-Count Karl Stuergki the
Austrian premier, has resigned The
count probably will be succeeded, the
dispatch adds, by DR. L. Won Bilnski,
the Austro-Hungarian minister Of
finance
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
Approves the Princess.

Berlin.-While distributing gifts at
Camnez, the German crown princess
was approached by soldier of the
landsturm battalion, who, unaware of
her identity, said: You're mighty
nice girl. When get back from the
war I'm going to marry you"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
Cardinal Makes Protest.

London. The Amsterdam GORE
spondent of Reuters Telegram com
pany telegraphs that Cardinal Mer
cier has made formal protest
against his treatment at the hands OF
the German authorities in Belgium.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
May Get Back Prize.

Washington Under the terms of a
bill introduced Tuesday by Senator
Lodge, former President Roosevelt
would have returned to him the $40.
coo Nobel peace prize awarded him
in 1906, which he turned over to the
government as fund for the founda.
tion for promotion of industrial
peacp
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-30
RusiIY Ennaned.

THAT boy of mine is mighty re.
sourceful," said the proud father.
"He makes a terrible racket" re.
piled the man next door.
Eyes. He has the whooping cough
Put he couldn't cough all the time .
mo. That's why ! had to give him
my automobile horn to play with"