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The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-06-15

you can call it anything, for the rea-
son that it is a safe proposition to
Islander the dead. But as / have had
four dogs killed with strychnine and
about forty or fifty cases Of poison
ing besides a dog with a purple ton
que and staggering, also frothing, is
rather common sight to me.
AS one of my hounds showed up
about a week ago with a good sized
strychnine jag and as a neighbours col
lie disappeared about the same time,
have a bunch that there is a dog poi
soner that needs shooting, or else the
dogs got gopher poison accidently.
l don't suppose any of the hounds
around here are muzzled, and why
should they be for none of the other
dogs around here are muzzled? The
sheepmen seem to see more mad dogs
and mad coyotes than any one else in
the state, and while they were driving
IS or 20 bands of sheep past here
this spring land incidentally eating
up my pasture) I never saw a single
one of their dogs muzzled. I keep six
hounds and l can assure you that a
person don't go to the expense of rails
ing or keeping that many dogs unless
IDIOT and though none of them have
been killed for mad dogs so far, still
the idea of people wanting to kill
them on such a pretext as they have
had for dog killing here of late is a
proposition that don't go very well. If
anyone has any positive proof of such
a disease as rabies l want to know
where you get it.
TD.c1 I 4 1 ~
best medical works on dogs l could
get and not being satisfied fully, l got
the u. S. government works on Rabies
and Hydrophobia and from all I could
learn from them I have decided that
anyone that says a dog positively or
undoubtedly had rabies is showing his
own ignorance, or else he is exactly
what Mark Twain said, "a liar of the
first magnitude" OF course my books
may be clear out of date and super
ceded by later discoveries for / got
the government work nearly two
months ago.
| am not claiming that a dog bite
will not cause death by blOod-poison-
ing and would no doubt cause different
effects than other wounds that were
infected with a different germ. 1 don't
think for a minute that the party in
the case of the Hollister doy misrepre-
scented anything purposely about that
hound, but l would like to have seen
that mad CD dog for l believe 1 have
had about as much experience with
dogs as any one around here, and
though l have lived through five mad
dog scares in the last 25 years, and
they were killed all around me, still
never got to see a mad dog but
have missed lots of other sights, too
for l never even saw a ghost nor g
witch nor a hoop snake, but 1 know
lots of other folks that did see them
Yours respectfully,
A. DOUBTER.
HOLSTER, Ida, June z, 1916
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-06-15

good intentions. The whole scheme of
right living contemplates that man
should not put off until tomorrow the
things he should do today.
One of the habits we hope to acquire
some time is the habit of thrift. This
habit often comes late in life-not al
ways from choice but often from nee
essity. Having satisfied habits that
are destructive, when the passions are
burned out of a decaying mind and
body, men find themselves more or
less free from temptations, and mis-
take a Pickering flame for ripening
virtue. Any habit which is forced is
likely to find itself in an unhealthy en-
vironment, and becomes meaningless
in its practice.
Before you can practice a virtue,
you must desire the results which that
virtue brings, and understand the pro-
cess through which it comes. Many
a man has gone to his doom because
he hoped to stop drinking, or spend
ing, or gambling, some day, but his
hope never got to the point of action.
Frequently you will find standing
alone, or in groups, on a wind-swept
plain, trees with no branches on what
the sailor would call the "windward
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-06-15

SIDE" and leaning sharply in the di-
rection in which the wind blows. This
has been no sudden process. For years
the north wind has blown gently or
fiercely against the tree, so that little
by little it became distorted in shape,
until it has become its habit to grow
lopsided
No bad habit is acquired in an in
stant-it is a subtle process, little by
little becoming so fixed that the ma
ture becomes distorted, like the tree,
battling in vain against an adverse
wind.
If this habit of thrift is to be a
wholesome, sweet, and fruitful one, it
must be acquired while the body is
healthy, and the mind vigorous. 1t
must not be a dying reformation. Its
best work can be done when the earn
ing power is greatest, the resisting
power strongest, and the future, it
may be, afar off.
No man ever becomes a spendthrift
at a single leap. The wasteful habits
which he allows to grow become so
fixed that, struggle as he may, and
wish as hard as he might, he cannot
change his nature. Old age may COM
pei thriftiness because there is moth
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-06-15

ing more to waste, but the saddcNt
commentary on human life is to finc>
at the close nothing stored up of en-
ergy, money, or property, for which
the best years of life have been given.
Thrift is a composite virtue. 1t in
cludes the desirable attributes of eco
nomy, self denial and saving; but it is
no relative to niggardliness or mean
ness. The man who would let his
grandmother starve is not thrifty
man, but a brute. Any virture car
ried to extremes becomes undesirable.
and no longer a virtue. The thriF
that does not make a man charitaHe
sours into avarice. Thrift means pet
ter homes, better citizens, more Com
forts, more enjoyment, little waste,
little anxiety,=peace. Out of it grows
productive energy, steady courage, OPP
portunity, independence, self respect,
aimfulness in life, manhood. 1t is the
one material habit that has no shady
side. 1t is acquired little by little-a
steady pressure Tin the right direc-
tom until it becomes second nature to
save and thrift becomes a habit
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Public Forum
RABIES STORIES IMAGINATIVE.

If we must have more mad dog stor-
les, don't you think it is about time we
had few facts regarding such things,
for the stories you and both the other
Twin Falls papers have been printing
for the last five months are the worst
lot of fabrications and workings OF a
scared imaginatiOns, / think, that ever
got into print. l notice that you
always say reported" in telling mad
dog stories and not that you saw 1t
yourselves, for if you had seen 1t, the
explanation of the scare that comes
along afterward would not look very
WELL as for instance, that poor Grip
pied, wounded coyote that scared the
Rogerson folks into fits; then the
hogs that went mad north of HOllister.
The doctor that you quoted didn't seem
to agree with the hog owner. Then
the Chamberlain wolf hound that bit
CD the stranger that was trying to
put chain on him. That dog was
regular man-eater and he nearly got
me three years ago when Washburn
owned him. A wolf hound of mine
died last winter from an over dose OF
porcupine auills and if any stranger
had ever tried to chain him up or man
handle him (Which they were doing
with that dog l could guarantee that
they would have got bitten enough so
they could tell if it was a bite or
scratch. I notice also that the expla-
nations of such of the mad dog bunk
that gets into the papers is never
printed with big black headlines Chat
looks like a Kansas cyclone cOming)
as the original story was.
1 won't claim to know what was the
matter with the hound that was killed
in Hollister last week for as soon as
you can get a dog dead and buried
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A LETTER FROM FLORIDA.

AS we promised to write and let our
friends hear how we like the sunny
south, l will try and do my best. Our
motto has always been, stand up for
the state we live in, and boost" so l
think we had better keep still in re-
gard to this part of Florida. We say
Fort Myers is a pretty town, although
no place for a poor man. There is
nothing to do in any way for white
man. COlOred men and women do the
work; everything is very dear here,
except cows. They can be bought for
from S35 to $50. Hay, and poor hay
at that, is 2l9 cents a pound; the
water is very poor People use rain
water to drink, and milk is forty cents
a gallon wholesale, and fifty cents re-
tail, so poor people cannot drink milk.
There are some lovely winter homes
here. Henry Ford bought a place last
week and Thomas Edison has his
home here. The people are the very
best and do all they can to make a
stranger feel at home We have met
one Twin Falls man, Leo Rexford.
We want to say to the people of
Twin Falls, that they had better not
sell their homes and leave, thinking to
find something better, for there is
nothing better and few cities as good
l was visiting in Wisconsin and Illi-
nois and saw nothing to compare with
the Twin Falls tract
We are not homesick or sorry we
came, as health first is what we are in
search of.
S. c. SEXTON.
Ridgewood Park, Fla, June s, 1916.
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TALKS ON THRIFT
. . . . . : . . .
THE THRIFT HABIT.

The trouble with a great many peo-
pie is they expect to acquire good hab-
its in old age, while they spend most
of their youth in cultivating bad ones.
1t is so easy to postpone doing the
things that are hard until tomorrow,
and so easy to drift along today. Not
only is He'll paved with good inten-
tions, but the pathway of the average
man is strewn with the wrecks OF
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-06-15

Choice alfalfa meal, manufactured
at the Anchor Hay, Grain and Feed
Co. Give it a trial. 249-251 Sixth
Avenue West. Telephone 23 ADV
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-10-20
IF HAIR IS TURNING
GRAY, USE SAGE TEA
Eere's Grandfather Recipe to
/ Darken and Beautify
: Faded Hair.

That beautiful. even shade of dark,
glossy hair can only be had o. brewing
. mixture OF Sage Tea and sulphur.
Your hair Is your charm. It makes or
mars the face When it fades. turns
gray or streaked, just an application or
two of Sage and Sulphur enhances its
appearance a hundredfold.
Don't bother 10 prepare the mixture:
You can get this famous old recipe i'm
proved by the addition of other ingredi-
ents for SO cents a large bottle. all ready
for use. 1t is called Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Compound. This can always be
depended upon to bring bacl, the natural
color and lustre of your hair.
Everybody uses "Wyeth's" Sage and
Sulphur Compound now because it dark
ems Sc naturally and evenly that nobody
can tell it has been applied. You simply
damPen a sponge or soft brush with it
and draw this through the hair. taking
one small strand at time; b. morning
Che gray hair has disappeared and after
another application it becomes beauti-
suliy dark and appears glossy and lus.
Gous. This ready-to-use preparation il
. delightful toilet requisite for those who
sesire dark hair and youthful appear
snee. 1t is not intended for the cure.
mitigation or prevention of disease.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-10-20
SALTS r KIDNEYS
Or BLADDER BOTHER
Harmless to flush Kidneys and neutral
lie irritating acids-Splendid
for system.

Kidney and Bladder weakness result
RON uric acid, says q noted authority.
ahe kidneys filter this acid from the
ehod and pass it on to the bladder, where
- often remains to irritate and inflame,
causing saIrning, scalding sensation, or
setting up an Irritation at the neck of
tAe bladder, obliging you to seek relief
two or three times during the night.
Vie sufferer is In constant dread, the
Bpter passes sometimes with n scalding
sensation and is very profuse; again,
Nee ID difficulty in avoiding it.
Siedder weakness, most folks call it.
kealse they can't control urination.
mie it is extremely annoying and some
elies very painful, this is really one of
he most simple ailments to overcome.
let about four ounces of Jad Salts
Aom your pharmacist and take a table
spoonful in glass of water before
breakfast, continue this for two or three
lays. This will il .tral'e nc acids in
ehe urine 80 it no ,cnger 10 ,urce of
irritation to the bla ider anu urinary or
Fans which then att normally again.
Jad Salts Is inexpensive, harmless,
and is made from the acid of grapes and
kemou juice, combined with lithia. and
is used by thousands of folks who are
tulbject to urinary disorders caused by
prric acid irritation Jad Salts is SPLEEN
did for kidneys and causes no bad
effects whatever.
Here you have pleasant, effervescent
Iithia water drink, which quickly relieves
bladder trupblA
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-10-20
BY FRANK G. ODELL
Editor of the Nebraska Farm Magazine

The farmers of America recently
faSpd n crisis. from which they were
delivered by prompt action by the
President of the United States-the
threat of the nationwide railway
strike. The railway managers and
the representatives of the 100000 men
employed in train service, were dead
locked over hours OF labor and wage
schedules. President Wilson volun-
teered To act as mediator, out had
no power TO force arbitration. An
impasse was reached.
The Brotherhood issued a strike
order effective on Labor Day, Septem-
Der t. The railroad Arrangements
showed that they recognized the i'm
minence of the strike. Embargo or
ders were issued on freight shipments.
Supplies and strike breakers were mo-
bilized. The country waited, breath
lessly, for the STERN to break. 1t was
apparent that neither side was bluff
fing.
The President saw a national calsm-
ity impending. He called leaders of
his party into conference with him
and with them wrote the hill present
ed 10 Congress With the special mes
sage Of the President next, day. Mel.
Their the railroads nor the railway
broth srhoods were consulted. Neither
side knew what the bill contained;
neither made any demand, or had the
slightest influence in. the framing of
the bill.
That portion of the bill providing an
eight-hour day for employees engaged
In the operation of trains became
law. Ii was accepted by the Brother
hoods, the strike order was cancelled,
the calamity was averted.
No class stood to lose 50 much from
this strike as the farmer. A single
week of inactivity In freight and eH-
press service would have paraIyzed
his market for 5month or more. Com
ing at the time Of marketing of perish
able products, his loss from this
course alone would have run into mil
lions.
Staggering Losses Averted.
Il i estimated by the railroad man
agemenlS that the increase in wages
because Of the eight-hour day will
amount 70 from $5O.0O0,0oo To $780,
100000 a year. Allowing their high
est figure. 500. COO. 900, the farmers
OF tine United States would have lost
more than this in thirty days had
there not been man in the White
House big enough to protect the in
terest Of the whole people.
Five cents bushel on wheat Is
easy picking for the pit gamblers
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Hot Water for
Sick Headaches
Tells why everyone should drink
hot water with phosphate
In u before breakfast.

Headache or any kind, KS ycansed by
hntointexicadon-which means. self
poisoning. Liver and bowel pofsons
called toxins, sucked into. the blood
1hrough the lymph ducts. excite the
0eart which pumps sthe blood so fast
Fnat 1t congests in the smaller arteries
and veins of the head producing yio-
1ent, throbbing pain and distress. called
nsadache.. You become nervous. de-
spondent sick, feverish and miserable.
your meals sour and almost nauseate
you. Then you resort TO acetanilide.
aspirin or the bromides which temper
srily relieve but do not. rid the blood OF
these Irritating toxins
n glass Of hot water with teaspoon
ful OF limestone phos phate in il. drank
before breakfast for awhile, wil not
only wash these poisons from your sys-
TEN and cure you OF headache but viii
Cleanse. purify and .freshen the entire
ennentary canal
b Ask your pharmacist for a quarter
pound of limestone phosphate. 1t is in
expensive, harmless as sugar, and al
most tasteless, except for sourish
tWlnge which is not unpleasant.
III you aren't feeling your best, if
tongue Is coated or you wake up with
bad taste, foul breath or have colds.
indigestion, biliousness constipation
or sour, acid stomach, begin the bhos-
phated hot water cure to rid your
system of toxins and poisons
Results are quick and it Is claimed
That those who cont inue to flush out
the stomach, liver and bowels every
morning never have any headache or
know miserable moment
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-10-20

Crisis for Nations T0lars.


What the laborer didn't see under
The Republican regime was that High
Tariff does not regulate wages, but
makes Ii possible for the manufacture
er to So regulate prices that he can
control labor. The farmer, with his
characteristic self-reliance and natur-
ally independent spirit, asked no fav-
Ors. All he wanted was an equal
chance with other business men. Will
son saw the farmers interests in a
big way.
The Rural Credits Act alone, of
more than a dozen big things this
Democratic Congress did for agricul-
ture, gave greater direct benefits 70
the farmers than any legislation en-
acted since the creation of the Depart
ment of Agriculture q generation ago.
There came time when the laborer
saw that his labor was a commodity,
thing to be bought and sold, or re-
strained or enjoined by the unwar-
ranted issuance Of injunction writs in
Federal courts; he saw that he did
not have the right-guaranteed him
by our constitution-of voluntary as
ISOLATION for his own protection and
welfare; in short, he saw that he was
wage slave! He saw that he was
up against Capital-Organzed and en-
.trenched behind the Powerful Pull of
the Political Bosses Of the Republican
High Finance Gang,land Organized
Capital fought to prevent the Organi-
cation Of Labor
What did Tabor demand? Merely
this: That Labor be made part OF the
national councils;' that its patriotism
be conceded; and that its knowledge
of its own needs give it paramount
voice in legislation directly and pc
culiarly affecting its own rights.
And what has been the spirit of this
Democratic Administration? Let Sam
uel Gompers. President of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor tell
I'm my experience with United
States Congresses during two score
years / have not seen anything like
the fine spirit toward labor, toward
the rights and welfare of all the
HtOIpc. PEI dulilS ali TIE DIdutlltS ID
the Wilson Administration. This fun
damental right spirit has guided tle
Wilson Administration to wise and |
righteous labor legislation"
In the age long struggle between |
Capital, which has always had per
mission TO combine. and Labor. which |
was denied the right TO combine, the |
greatest step toward the full enfran- !
chiSeinent of labor was recommended /
by Il Democratic President and put
into law by Il Democratic Congress-
the anti-Injunction Amendment Ia
the Clayton Law.
Farmers and I.aborers Of America
biggest of all Big Interests-the crest
of the crisis has come. YOu-the big
element in our national life and the
real makers of our prospertyryou
are 10 decide: Are We TO continue Il
democracy or are Ne 10 go back 10 the
Good Old Piiile of SpeciouS admins
tration which WOULD buy your vote h!
damning the man who has given YOU
what You asked for-and gave ii 10
you because ii was right and proper
and just,
Make no mistake. The Issue of this
campaign is as plain as the nose on
your face. IL is:
Big Interests We. the biggest Inter. |
ests.
Invisible Government VS.. True Dem |
ocracy.
Big Words VS.. Deeds.
Promises vs.. Accomplishments
Huohes'vs. ! Wilson. /
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when they can play the market at
their own sweet will. 1t would have
meant S50,000,0O0 dollars loss to the
farmers on the billion bushel crop.
James h. Armsby, one of the larg-
est shippers Of fruit in California. "a
Republican, recently said that if the
strike had taken place it would have
bankrupted many of the fruit growers
of that State. He said it would have
caused loss Of not less than $40, O0o.-
600 to the fruit industry of California
alone. This amount is probably much
too low.
The peach crop now going to mar
ket, with value of about SIS 100000,
would have been practically a total
loss. The s2oo,oooooo apple crop
would have shrunk by half in value
The potato crop, OF value of about
S220,000,00 would have involved a
further loss Of at least $50, 1000 900. The
cabbage farmer of Northern Ohio, the
grower of tomatoes for the cannery
and the celery grower Of Michigan and
Florida would shave kept mourufus
company. Melons from Colorado, Cali
fornia, Arizona and Delaware, grapes
from western New York, and from
Yakima and Wenatchee. prunes, pick
les. poultry, butter and eggs would
have gone down in the common cata-
clySm.
What would strike have meant To
the live stock market of the farmer?
And what would il have meant to the
consumer. with the cold storage facili-
ties in control Of the packers COM
bine?
Would Have Paralyzed Industry.
The direct and immediate loss which
the farmer would have sustained in
case of a strike is but one phase of
the danger which threatened his inter
ests. The depressing influence upon
market prices, resulting from the in
ability of consumers TO buy because of
lack OF employment, would have been
felt in every item of this years farm
products. Take this single instance:
This telegram, sent to President Will
son on September I'd by Henry Ford
the worlds greatest automobile manu-
facturer:
The President: The moment il
is positively known that Il strike
will become effective on the rail
roads, the Ford Motor Company
will of absolute necessity Shut
down its factory and all of its as
sembly plants throughout the
country, and every man of its more
than $4,000 workers will have to
go off the pay roll.
Our business * 50 organized
that the supplies and products
must be kept moving constantly.
We cannot move day without
railroad service. We are making
100 cars every day. Tie materi-
ais must be moved in and cars
out. sincerely hope something
can be done IL avert the strike
Your efforts are appreciated and
should be commended by every
citizen In the country.
HENRY FORD.
This telegram i typical Of wha; |
would have happened Ia practically |
every American industry had n strik,
enSued. Millions Of Iaborers woulc |
have faced enforced idlenesS. poverty
and restitution. The strike would |
have paralyzed every American indus /
try and preclpitated a panic, such rs
has never been Witnessed
Has not the farmer good reason To
thank God that Woodrow Wilson was
in the White House, with nerve and
sanity enough TO stop such national
calamity?
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STAYED OFF RUIN
WHAT FARMERS OWE TO PRESi.
DENT WILSON FOR AvERTING
RAILROAD STRIKE.
HIS COURAGE SAVED DAY

Loss of S100,0o0,000 to Apple Crop,
s55,ooo,Coo to Peach Crop, and $780,
100000 to Potato Crop, Only a Drop
in the Bucket
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AN j OND Wiz OON' III
TIE EXTRAORDINARY SERIES
OF LEGISLATIVE AND EXEC
UTIVE ACTS ACCOMPLISHED
BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
IN THREE YEARS AND A HALF
WILL REALIZE TWO THINGS:
FIRST, THAT PRESIDENT
WILSON HAS PROVED HIMSELF
A PARTY LEADER OF UNUSUAL
POWER; AND SECONDLY, THAT
TIE PARTY THUS LED HAS
Done MUCH MORE FOR THE
COUNTRY THAN THE REPUBLI-
CAN PARTY ACCOMPLISHED IN
FIVE TINES AS MANY YEARS -
Or. Charles ". Eliot,
President Emeritus of
Harvard University, In tht
Atlantic Monthly.
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AS THE SUPREME COURT
CANDIDATE CANNOT SAY WHAT
HE WOULD HAVE DONE IF IN
PRESIDENT WILSON'S PLACE.
OR WHAT HE WILL DO IF He
SUCCEEDS HIN AS he Is
CERTAIN ONLY OF THE WRONG
FULEESS OF EVERYTHING THE
ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE
HIS INDICTMENT TO CHANGE
OUR FOREIGN POLICIES WILL
BIZ GREAT. WILL 1T BE A
CHANGE TO SUIT GERMANY,
OR HAVE TIE COUNTRY GET
INTO SOME SORT OF FIGHT
From an article by Rich
ard O1ney in The New York
World.