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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Had Courage Of His Convictions.

Francis Bacon, who was born In
London January 20, 1850, had an aver
sion for dueling, practice prevalent
In England In his day, observes writ
or In the Washington Post. He lived
from 1850 to 1926. The great essayist
made an address against dueling, in
star chamber session In proceedings
against two men-one for writing and
sending challenge, the other for de.
hvering 1t. Bacon was then kings 1T
torney general.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Faith sublime.

We wonder If there ever was q
woman whose faith In her husband
was so absolute that when she found
the small shreds of a letter in a fem
mime handwriting in his wastebasket
she didn't try to piece them together
but dismissed the matter from her
mind with the reflection that of course
1t was business communication
lumbus (O.) Journal.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Wealth In Alaskan Matters.

Nearly all Alaskan waters teen with
herring, whose value as a food fish Is
just beginning to be recognized In
those parts. Important In Alaskan
fisheries is the whaling industry. The
species of whale most common are the
hump-back, fn-back, sulphur-bottom
and sperm, The sperm whale is plen-
tiful about Resurrection bay and Cook
inlet waters. A good-sized sperm
whale is worth about $4,000. The
great Alaska salmon industry is the
most important industry In Alaska
next to mining.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
REPUBLICAN TRADE AT HOME DEPARTMENT

order and cash without considering
the injustice lie is doing himself, his
merchant and his home town
The catalogues of the mail order
house are Illuminated with pictures
to catch the eye of the unwary. They
range in complexion from brunette
banana to blond canary bird. They
offer to sell you anything from a
philosophers stone to a cypress
single sawed out of sunbeam.
Cash Versus Credit
1t seems unbelievable, but it is
nevertheless fact, showing the en-
tire lack of any sense of justice, that
many people regard their local
stores as merely institutions of ac-
comodation. When these people
have cash to spend it goes to the far
away mail order houses, but when
times are dull, when they are sick
or out of work or during the season
when farmers are not turning their
produce into cash, what do they do?
Do they write to the catalogue house
and ask for credit?
If they did do you thing they would
get it? Not on your life! Those
concerns must have cash, must have
it in advance, must have it before
you can even see the goods you buy.
The consumer sends his money and
then sits down and waits until the
mail order house gets good and ready
to fill his order.
But when home people want cred
it or favors of any kind they hustle
off to their home merchant, very
obligingly to charge it, expecting
him to wait at least from one to
six months for his pay.
Dealing With Neighbors
In buying from your home mer-
chants you deal with neighbors. Buy
with goods before you. Pay when you
get the goods if you so elect. Have
goods delivered free Return gods
If not satisfactory. Build up your
home store.
Help build up your own home
town and make of yourself a man
worthy of your day and time Every
man should take pride in being a
good American citizen, and we be-
lieve most men do and that most
men are, or at least desire to be,
but what kind of citizen is the man
who supports an octopus? Should he
not be placed in class with the man
that knocks his own business? That
sort of man is invariably neither a
good neighbor nor a good citizen.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23

Duty is power that rises with us
in the morning and goes to rest with
us at night 1t is eoextensiye with
the action of our intelligence. 1t is
the shadow which cleaves to us, go
where we will.
Let us do our duty in our shop or
kitchen, in the market, the street, the
home office, the farm, the school, the
home, just as faithfully as If We
stood in the front ranks of some great
battle and knew that victory for
mankind depended upon our bravery,
strength and skill.
When we do that the very hum
blest of us will be serving in that
great army which achieves the well
fare of the world.
A Dollar Lost.
1t should be the slogan of every
rural consumer never to send away
for goods that he can just as well buy
at home. Every time you send a
dollar to mail order house that
dollar as far as you or your COM
munity are concerned, is practically
out of circulation.
Your own home merchant is the
one who helps to keep up your schools
your churches and your town. He is
the one who deserves your trade and
not some catalogue house in Chicago
or elsewhere.
Goods on Unsecured Promises
When you have nothing to give in
exchange, to whom do you go for ac-
comodations until some uncertain
time when you can pay?
Do you not always find your home
merchant ready and willing to let his
goods go on promises, not guaranteed
notes, but verbal promises, trusting
to your honesty and good luck in
meeting the obligation later?
How many farms have been paid
for by your merchants advancing
both the goods necessary to keep life
in the body and cash to meet that
dreaded interest on the mortgage?
Under the same conditions would
the farmer trust the merchant for
months and months with the produce
of his farm, or would he ask for cash
or its equivalent upon delivery of the
goods?
Not Robber or Cheat
We know that the average con-
sumner does not feel that his local
merchant is robber or a cheat; but,
like all humankind, the catalogues
and prices of mail order houses APP
peal to him, and he forwards his
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
MAY Be a Hairless Race.

The hair growth on various parts of
the body is regulated to perform a
specific purpose. When we tamper
with this growth for centuries we de-
velop new forms. Perhaps this Is why
badness Is modern affection, en-
tirely unknown in primeval periods.
Eventually the human race will prob
ably be denuded of all hair.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Puzzled Youngster.

Our grocery mans delivery boy is
always accompanied on Saturday by
his younger brother who In looks is
exactly like his older brother. The
younger one always brought on our
groceries, but one Saturday he was
out of town and the oldest boy had to
come In. Five-year-old Marian looked
for a few seconds at him with puz-
zled face and then exclaimed: "Say,
did you growed up."-Chlcago Trib-
une.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Samples OF Ancient Daya

Down to comparatively recent times
every little girl worked her sampler
and examples of seventeenth-century
work are still found and are the OBJ
jects of the collectors search. They
usually contain the alphabet, the work.
er's name, the date, Bible texts, mot
toes and pious admonitions, the whole
surrounded by an ornamental border
Of some conventional design. The ear
Hest sampler in existence is said to
bear the date of 1913 and Ia in the
South Kensington museum, London.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Good Work Done by Amateurs

10 not leave experiments with
plants to professionals. Much of the
best work in the improvement of plants
and flowers has come through the
work Of amateurs. The latter class
travelling abroad have also been first
to send valuable plant introduction to
the home land.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Consolation.

Little Joe's mother was the proud
possessor of a new automobile, which
she was learning to run with some diff
hculty. Watching her efforts to back
the car out of the garage one day, Joe
consolingly said, Anyway, mother,
you know how to work the self-starter
fine, don't your
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Soap as Germ DESTROYER.

Lately medical science has been try
Ing to find out to what degree the
chemical action of soap can be de-
pended upon as destroyer of germs.
Professor Symes, after experiment.
ing with many varieties of soap,
declares that "all soaps possess anti
septic properties in some degree, and
that any germs rubbed into soap or
dropped upon its surface are not capa-
BILE of multiplication"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Diplomatic Burular.

eWhat have you to say for your.
selff' asked the indignant household.
er, carefully covering the burglar with
bis revolver. after thoughtfulIy con.
sidering the situation In Its several
aspects" said the burglar, I am per,
force inclined towards a policy Of ar.
bitration."
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Marvellous Banyan Tree.

The giant banyan under which Alex
ander is said to have camped with
7OOO men, now measures nearly 1000
feet across the head, contains about
5000 trunks and forms a dense can
opy through which the sunshine never
penetrates. Several other species also
propagate In like manner.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Origin of Razors.

1t was not until the early part Of the
eighteenth century that razors were
made of steel blades. The men in the
middle centuries resorted to pumice
stone, with which, to use the words of
Mr.. Pepys, they went through the proc
ess of trimming their skins"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Altar of Roses

Altar of roses, which is an oil. is
obtained from three species of wild
roses: Rosa centifolia, r. moschata,
and X. damascena. The rose gardens
ct Ghazipur, India, have long been
famous for their output Of oil of roses.
All these roses thrive with little care
In California.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
See II Your Diamond 10 Genuine.

Here is test that can be made
when diamond is quite clean and dry.
Place on the surface of a diamond
tiny drop of water. Now take needle
or pin and try to move the drop about.
II the diamond is genuine, experts say,
the drop can be rolled intact. On the
other hand when the gem is an imita-
ton the water spreads directly it 10
touched with the needle point.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
KEEP IDAHO MONEY IN IDAHO"
80. ~ ssrIstlcs Of Eamoua ~

When l meet a famous man | note
that all he has Is little sense, lit
tie politeness and disposition to look
after things. Many famous men are
very ordinary, except that they are un-
usual In the respects noted.-E. W.
Howe's Monthly.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Why Not Swat Him.

Another form of the double distilled
essence of pest whose framework above
his shoulders is composed of re-en-
forced concrete, is the omnipresent
nuisance who insists upon breasting
the current Of pedestrian traffic of a
crowded street on the wrong side of
the pavement.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
No Chance for kidnaper.

Billy was quite proud of his baby SIS
ter and he thought the women really
meant 1t when they said they would
like to take her home with them. One
day he was standing beside her buggy
while his mother was shopping in a
store. A woman came by and said,
"Myl Myl What pretty baby" and
Bill said, Eyes, and there's a mamma
belongs to her."
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
His Dearest Wish.

The neighbor children were all in.
vited to Roy's birthday party. As
each child lit candle on the cake he
was to wish for something. Charley
said: Il wish my mother would for
get to tell me dasn't have two pieces
of cake when l come to your party
again"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Where Birds Have ADVANTAGE,

Birds have no transportation prob.
lens. Embargoes, blockades, auto
cratic commands Of traffic officers are
unknown to them. When 1t is sufti.
cient for the human traveller to get
a good breakfast and start for the
worlds end forthwith, he can begin
challenging the migrating birds, but
not before.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Good In Various Vegetables,

Potatoes are said to improve the
hair, which may account for the won
derful heads of hair In Ireland. Gel
cry and lettuce are aids for the nerves,
and cucumbers and carrots affect the
complexion benefcially.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
"Speed the PartInu."

The Departing Guest-"T hope my
two weeks stay here with you hasn't
proved big additional expense to
YOU" Mrs. Inwrong-"Oh, mol George
ana l have what we call 'Catastro-
phe Fund that we've saved for Just
such emergencies. New York Times.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Sounds Deceptive.

Someone has estimated that there
are 30000,000 cats in this country.
Inasmuch as few cats may sound
like millions at certain uncanny hours
at night, we demand a count.-Pitts-
burgh Post.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Had Felt Like Doinu the Same,

"What was the gunpowder plot~
"Some Englshmen wanted to blow up
their whole legislative body "Well,
! couldn't go that far. Still, | under
stand their point Of vlew."-Louisvill
Oourier-Journal.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Similar Tsstes-

A French lady recently married be-
cause Of the bridegroom's taste and
hers were similar. II don't care very
much for him and he doesn't care very
much for me-" she explained.-London
Opinion.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Such Ii Was.

Twelve baldheaded men were Jurors
In Il Massachusetts hair-restorer case.
rs this justice2' asked the Brooklyn
Eagle. at may be retributive justice"
suggests the Albany Argus. Let's call
1t destiny.-Buffalo Times.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Terrestrial Maanstlsm Blamed.

In the opinion of French scientist,
the swinging motion that often breaks
electric transmission lines is due as
much to terrestrial magnetism as 1t is
to wind.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Book Ends.

You could make your own book ends
by Joining two pieces Of metal or
wood and then covering 1t with a cover
made of green linen, heavily en-
broldered in conventional design.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Model Shopper.

First Shop Assistant-"What a tire
some customer that woman Isl Sec
ond Assistant-"Yes; she always
knows what she wants, and she won't
buy anything else"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23

California Lesson In Natural History.
Man is not giraffe by any means,
but when pretty girl trips along he
can twist his neck In a dozen different
ways.-Oakland Tribune.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Could Tell Him That.

Cllent-"How much will your opin-
ion be worth in this case2' Lawyer
Il am too modest to say. But can
tell you what I'm going to charge you"
Boston Transcript
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Doqs and Docs.

"You can keep a real fine dog In
food" says the Fort Worth Star-Tele-
gram "at an expense of about $40 a
month, while real sorry dog can get
out and make living for himself"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
The Ultimate Consumer.

Frieda-"What is an ultimate con-
sumerT Father-"The ultimate con-
sumner, dear, Is someone who ultimate
ly consumes his last penny In keeping
body and soul togetl' Puck.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
SkY SnIltter.

Marcy, the highest mountain in the
Empire state, was named in honor of
Gov. William l.. Marcy. Its Indian
name is "Tahawas" Che splits the
sky).
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
IrreVerent Mink.

I'm my time" declared grandma,
girls We're more modest" 81 know"
said the flippant girl. at was a fad
once. We may get back to it."-Life.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Business Head.

Cohensteln Ito lawyer)-"My wife
Jumped in front Of railroad train
ana a policeman pulled her off der
track. Could l sue der city for dam
agesT
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Shoes.

Shoes are made nowadays from all
Kinds of skins. Even banana skins
make slippers.-New Idea.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-23
Not a Robber or Cheat

We know that the average con-
sumner does not feel that his local
merchant is robber or a cheat; but,
like all humankind the catalogues
and prices of mail order houses APP
peal to him, and he forwards his
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-14
HEALTH HINTS

Vacation trips are to blame for many
cases of summer typhoid fever. Many
people carefully watch their health
during the trying winter months and
then recklessly expose themselves to
typhoid fever in country and resort
places.
Germs of typhoid may be conveyed
by direct contact, by eating food or
drinking water contaminated by dis
charges from a person with the disease.
The fly is a busy little carried of ty-
phoid germs.
A person cannot be too careful in
the use of drinking water when on a
vacation trip. The old.fashioned open
well which is still found in many ru-
raj districts is especially apt to be
polluted by draining from stables or
outhouses.
The typhoid germ is strong and har.
dy. 1t will live in water for several
months. Almost half of the typhoid
in this country is water.borne.
Milk, too, is likely to become con-
taminated If it comes from COWS hous-
ed in dirty, insanitary sheds.
Typhoid is easily preventable, but
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-14

with satisfaction as Mardy took the
proofs. ut is very nice picture" she
said
Mardy looked at the face critically.
Yes, she told herself, the picture was
very pretty. 1t flattered her, she was
sure. She did not dream-for her
mirror had never told her-that her
eyes showed that look of spirit and
coquetry and that her mouth turned
up at the corners in that appealing
smile. But then Mardy didn't have
much time or inclination to look back
at that mirrored image.
Does the picture look like a girl
that knows a lot about cooking and
keeping house?" she asked.
ooh, no. not at ALL" answered the
photographers clerk in surprise.
Mardy gave one last lingering look
at the proofs and then quite deliberate
ly tore them in town. LET me have
the bill and then destroy the proofs"
she said. THAT picture won't do. Ill
have to buy picture Of girl that does
look as II she wrote recipes"
So it was that the picture that ap.
peared with Mardy's daily talks on
matters culinary was that of calm
eyed, young hausfrau, and the readers
were delighted. 1t was just the sort
of person they had expected to see.
You could tell to look at her that she
could bake cake to a turn and keep
down the butchers bills. Several read.
ers wrote and told her in spirit of con-
fidence, that the picture pleased them.
Mardy was not surprised, for she had
had such confidential letters before.
But she was a little surprised when
she received a letter from the editor
out in the West who published the pa.
per, telling her that he, too, had been
charmed by the picture. I'm sur
prised, however" he told her, "for l
had very different impression Of what
you were to look like. l saw that the
picture was not from a photograph
but from painting. 1t has reproduced
very well, however. and Is a decided
addition to the talks"
Mardy answered this letter, and be-
cause she felt a little lonely the day she
wrote she told the editor little more
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-14
:: CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE $:

am wondering, little book, if in all
lives there is secret garden into
which ones naked soul wanders-it
this secret garden sometimes becomes
the Gethsemane Of despair and If some
times the beautiful slopes Of the Mount
Of Olives soothe the spirit.
know, Of course, that Eliene, Mary,
Alice and Annie have all had great
Joys and great sorrows. Even poor
Kitty Malram and Eleanor Fairlow
must have remembered the terrible
heartbreak that was theirs in the gar.
den even when their imagination took
them up the slope Of the Mount OF
Happiness.
But do natures like Mother Waiver
ly's Tor I suppose should call her
Mrs. Trent ever reach the highest
latitude of Joy or the lowest depths
of sorrow?
Does Mollie know?
Are those with the greatest capacity
for sorrow capable Of the keenest en-
joyment?
Today after thinking over every.
thing that Dick said to me yesterday,
l am wondering, little book, If have
ever known my husband. Certain /
am that he has never known me, the
real Margie. All these years we have
both been living with imaginary peo'
Pile.
have never given Dick credit for
the least thought or plan of life and
yet In his most momentous experience
he thought out a plan of action that
was clear and logical in the extreme
something that no human being could
have done If he had not had the habit
Of Judging instantly and making plans
quickly.
have accused Dick Of being a phil
andered simply because have known
Of his sex lapses, and yet here fino
that he has strict code Of action and
honor which he has lived up to rigid
".
"a man must care for his own" is
Dicks code-must care for them ma
terially, he means. Dick has always
done that for me. He has never paid
much attention to my spiritual life
and because Of that had begun tn
feel that Dick at best only the rudi'
mentary beginnings Of a soul.
wonder what Jim Eide thinks
about Dick. You can't fool Jim very
much he surely knows that Dick came
back and let Malcolm drown without
lfying to save him How would such
an action trike q man?
Jim has always stood by Dick
through thick and thin. He must know
him better than | do even though !
rave lived with him all these years, !
would like to know Just what Jim
lhfnks OF it all way down deep In his
heart. But can't ask him, little
56ok I can only guess that Jim thinks
Dick did the right thing from the way
be- eihbps his hand and from the way,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-14

Dicks eyes light up when Jim comes
into the room.
With the exception of Jim and my
self, l do not think another person
dreams Of the soul tragedy that blots
out the physical tragedy Of Malcolm
Stuart's death.
Did Dick tell Jim?
Do men seek to justify themselves
to their friends In cases Of this kind
as women do?
Little book, am putting up to you
many questions and the only thing
you will probably make Of them is that
/ am afraid to look into my own heart
and see what Is there.
am going to wait until l see DR..
Virot-wait until see Just what Nal
colin Stuart wrote me, for l am sure
he did write me and yet It is very
strange that he should write me OH
the very day that he expected we
would be going away together.
Again comes the awful question,
would have gone with him? / am
quite sure now that n did not love
him with that wonderful love that
might excuse anything. This being
true, what / have been weak enough to
have thrown my life away?
know what you are thinking, If
you can think, little book. 1t is Mar
gle Waverly, you have thought your.
self so cirtuous, 80 impeacable virtu'
GUS, are only human after all. And
now that you have found 1t out, 1t be.
hooves you to be most charitable to all
human weakness.