Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-23

over again. Wherefore, earnestly,
| repeat unto you certain things which
YOU must remember and tell to your
children after you. You must tell
| them that when water Is made hot by
fire there resides in 1t a wonderful
| thing called steam, which Is stronger
than ten thousand men and which can
do all mans work for him. There are
other very useful things. In the light.
| ming flash there resides a similarly
strong servant OF man. which was OF
old his slave and which some day will
be his slave again.
Quite different thing Is the alpha
bet 1t Is what enables me to know
the meaning of fine markings, whereas
you boys know only rude picture writ
ing. | have stored many books In
that dry cave on Telegraph hill, where
you see me often go when the tribe Is
down by the sea In them Ia great
wisdom. Also with them, have
placed key to the alphabet, so that
one who knows picture writing may
also know print. Some day men will
read again; and then, II no accident
has befallen my cave, they will know
that Professor Smith once lived and
saved for them the knowledge of the
ancients.
"There is another little device that
man inevitably will rediscover. II Is
called gunpowder. It was what en-
abled us to kill surely and at long dis.
tances Certain things which are
found in the ground, when combined
in the right proportions, will make
this gunpowder What these things
are, have forgotten, or else | never
knew But wish did know. Then
would I make powder, and then would
certainly kill Cross-Eyes and rid the
land of superstition"
After ! am man grown am going
to give Cross-Eyes all the goats and
meat, and skins can get, so that he'll
teach me to be doctor" Hoo-Hoo as
serted. "And when | know, Ill make
everybody else sit up and take lotice.
They'll get down in the dirt to me-
you bet"
The old man nodded his head sol.
EMMY, and murmured:
Strange 1t Is to hear the vestige
and remnants of the complicated Ar
yam speech fall from the lips Of a
filthy little skin-clad savage. All the
world is topsy-turvy And 1t has been
topsy-turvy ever since the plague"
"You won't make me sit DIP, Hare
Lip boosted to the would-be medicine
man IF paid you for sending of
the death stick, and 1t didn't work, I'd
bust In your Northumberland you
Hoo-Hoo, you?"
I'm going to get Granser to remem-
Der this here gunpowder stuff, Edwin
said softly, "and then I'll have you all
on the run. You, Hare-Lip, will do
my fighting for me, and you, Hoo
Hoo, will send the death stick for me
and make everybody afraid. And II
| catch Hare-Lip trying to bust your
head, Hoo-Hoo, I'll fix him with that
same gunpowder Granser amt such
a fool as you think, and I'm going to
listen to him and some day ri beeboss
over the whole bunch of you"
The old man shook his head sadly.
and said
"The gunpowder will come. Moth
ing can stop 1.-THE same old story
over and over Man will increase, and
men will fight. The gunpowder will
enable men to kill millions of men,
and in this way only, by fire and
blood, will new civilization, In some
remote day, be evolved. And of
what profit wifi 1t be? Just as the
old civilization passed, so will the
new. 1t may take fifty thou
sand years to build, but 1t will pass.
All things pass, Only remain cosmic
force and matter. ever influx, ever act.