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Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

The Appeal to Reason of Girard
Kansas, has announced that it is now
with the United States for liberty as
against autocracy, and will support
the war. The name of the paper is
to be changed from the Appeal to
Reason to the New Appeal. Good.
The most inconsistent thing we ever
saw was Socialists and autocracy. di-
rectly opposed in theory. working In
harmony in war to destroy democ-
racy. This is the Socialists country
If they are citizens of this nation, of
these United States. and this is a war
for and of and by the people of the
world for freedom and liberty. Why
should socialists, of all our people,
Join hands with autocracy? And we
are more than pleased to see the old
Appeal to Reason, leading socialist
organ in the United States, come to
its senses. The talk of this being q
rich mans war is the worst lie ever
uttered that we are fighting to col
lect Wall Street money is worse than
bunk Forget 1t. Then buckle in
with all your might, no matter what
your politics. and fight. fight. fight
fer your country, your liberty, your
light, and the rights of all mankind.
Fight in the trenches if you are call
ed; In the navy If needed there; in
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14
AN INDECENT TRICK.

Any decent newspaper will cor
rect articles it accepts for publication
and nothing meaner can be done, nc
dirtier insult offered, than to expose
a farmer to ridicule because the man
violates some rules of spelling or cap
italization. or gets the grammar
twisted People not accustomed to
writing and spelling are not expected
to be able to prepare error-prooi
copy for a paper, and it is not neces-
sary, for any decent paper will cor
rect such errors as are apparent. Last
week Chas. Long, a plain, common
farmer, prompted by most laudable
purpose, wrote good booster letter
to the Orofino papers. The Tribune
took the mean advantage of Mr.
Long to expose him to ridicule by
reproducing the letter without cor
recting any of the errors, a policy
the Tribune has always shown to-
wards people who try to boost the
country. Mr.. Longs letter is most
excellent one. based on the truth,
and the Republican is ashamed to
confess that any newspaper would do
such Il petty. inexcusable trick. This
week the school children have been
carrying around the Tribune cont
tanning Mr.. Longs uncorrected arti-
Gle and ridiculing and criticising the
writing. The Tribune is entitled 10
all this kind of fun it wants. but
sensible people will regret such sort
of newspaper depravity Ii Mr..
LONGS very excellent letter was NOT
worth decent treatment why did the
Tribune not have the deceney to
throw it IN tn. waste basket? The
Tribune preferred to humiliate Mr.
Long
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14
LOST OR STRAYED.

One light red yearling heifer.
branded Esp" on left hip; earmarks
right ear cropped and split; left ear
cropped. Finder telephone me: Orofi-
no 5316. at my expense Will pay all
charges VIM. PHAR, Gilbert, Idaho.
Dec 14-28.-pd
Dan Delaney. Nels Halgeson and
Mr.. Ashley, leving below the wood
flume, came in Tuesday from their
deer hunt at Headquarters. Each
bagged deer. Mr.. Halgeson got a
5-point buck
Frear Bros. and VIM. Pharr have
moved their cattle. about 40 head
from the upper Whiskey creek to the
Gilbert section for the winter.
Jack Kenard, brother of Mrs. Tim
Edwards, has enlisted in the Engi-
neers' Corps, according to Saturdays
Spokesman.
Miss Hattie Swartwood returned
to Orofino after spending the past
ten days in Spokane. She has taken
up her work once more at Noftsgers
Samson Snyder went to Elk River
Tuesday on business connected with
the Clearwater Highway.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14
UNFOLDING THE HAND OF
TREASON.

All Hofstede did was to urge on,
young men not TO enlist; many Of ouf
farmers to slow down on crop pro
duction when the government urged
increased production; approved the
/. w w. and circulated their treas
enable literature. wrote reasonable
letters to many mothers with the
studied purpose of interfering with
the raising of an army: held public
meetings where he preached sedition,
treason and anarchy; placarded his
windon facing the United States post
Office with reasonable literature in
sultins men who wear the army or
navy uniform, and branding the pat
riotic citizens of the community as
tools of Wall Streets, as towards,
murderers or scoundrels. He called
the American flag a rag and advised
young men never to take their hats
CT to it; he condemned the Red
Cross, slurred at Decoration Day,
opposed to HIS limit the sale OF Lib
city Loan bonds, and ridiculed the Y.
!. c. A. He personally solicited the
en- working on the Rex Theatre
Hiding to meet him at his Office and
here urged thew not to enlist in the
Hr01y or nav whom the government
rent recruiting officers to Orofno at
time Of national disaster. ~
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14
THE FOOD PROBLEM.

Dumb Animals: 1t is inconceiv-
able to us that any lover of his coun-
try can refuse to cooperate with the
Government in every attempt to
economic in those articles of food
we should most carefully conserve.
How little the sacrifice for us to re-
duce our indulgence in meats, fats,
and other food products so greatly
needed for our soldiers and allies
And yet merchants report hundreds
of their customers who seem only in
tent on laying by in store for their
own selfish ends the largest possible
supply of the very things we should
be most anxious to send abroad He
is traitor to his country who fails
her in this respect as we'll as the man
who deliberately betrays her to her
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

That is about all Hofstede did, and
the Orofino Tribune applands the YER
dict when the court makes it four
months in county Jail. with an
apology.
|. Yes, Hofstede is a peach, a patriot,
a bright and shining light, and the
Oroiino Tribune has the braZen eff
frontery to pat that kind of yellow
cur on the back and approve when
treason stalks the land.
But one of these days there will
come the news of American boys,
some of them from Clearwater coun-
ty. going over the front line trenches
with the American flag, and there
will come the long list of the dead :;
we will look for brother, son or
friend, for they are there now, and
with heavy hearts and tear-dimmed
eyes will find their names among the
dead.
Hofstede aided and comforted the
bloody Huns our sons and brothers
are giving up their lives to over
throw. Hofstede expressed the hope
that every America boy who fought
for Liberty would be killed; he was
with the Prussian autocracy against
Liberty and democracy: he was a
traitor. and aided the Prussians who
will murder your boy. He would
destroy this nation, and on the ruins
unfurl red flag of anarchy. He
went the limit in this game of trea-
son, and the Orofino Tribune, under
the banner of democracy. says Hofs-
tede is alright.
We send our boys to the front to
fight Prussiamism. and the efforts of
Prussian spies at home to stab our
boys in the back is applauded by the
official organ of the democratic
party in Clearwater county.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

In town not far from Lewiston,
so the story goes, a farmer, who is
well TODD, refused to buy a Liberty
Bond, or to contribute in any way to
any of the many war relief measures,
such as the Y. NJ. c. A., and other
things To every appeal he was in
different. A few days ago this man
rode into town and asked the black
smith to shoe his horse. Il am not
doing work for people who are not
loysl to the ration" said the black
smith. The town barber refused to
shave the man, and everybody "cut
him" he people would not speak
to him. nor have any dealings with
him. Then the man woke up He
began TO understand. and proceeded
to make himself right in the sight of
his neighbors
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14
HoW'S This1

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Medicine.
Halls Catarrh Medicine has been taken
by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty
five years. and has become known as the
most reliable remedy for Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Medicine acts thru the Blood on
the Mucous surfaces, expellng the Poi
son from the Blood and healing the dis
eased portions.
After you have taken Halls Catarrh
Medicine for a short time you will see a
great improvement in your general
health. Start taking Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine at once and get rid of catarrh. Send
for testimonials free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by all Druggists. TIC.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14
RED CROSS SALE.

The Red Cross Sale will be held at
Bert Bakery Saturday afternoon,
Dec. l 5. This time it will be sale
of miscellaneous eatables for the Red
Cross. There will be Pies, Cake,
dressed chickens. Potatoes etc. La
dies please remember. Come out and
buy.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
December 16, 1917.

Sunday School 10 A. M.
Preaching II A. M. and 1850 PM.
Epworth League GAS.
All are invited to these services.
Rev. and Mrs. MacCaughey of
Moscow who have been here a week
conducting meetings left for home
yesterday morning Good crowds
have attended the services and have
been delighted with the eloquent and
fearless message delivered by Rev.
MacCaughey.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

Here is the best article on adver-
Using we ever read. and it is only a
few lines. In the last issue of the
Cottonwood Chronicle we found the
following: The man who has some
thing to sell or trade but does not
advertise it is in about the same fix
as the fellow who winks at his best
girl in the dark. Nobody knows it
but himself
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

The Appeal To Reason has finally
got over on the side of the people
against autocracy. but the Orofino
Tribune goes right on sympathizinS
with Hofstede. But then nobody has
ever accused the editor of the APP
peal of being a damphool.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

Cottonwood Chronicle: A number
OF newspaper publishers throughout
the country have been exempted
from army service on industrial
grounds, it being held that the oper-
alton of newspaper is just as essen
tial for the thu winning of the war
as fighting in the trenches.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

True patriotism means sacrifice; it
is not patriotism when 1t pays finan-
,cially. and our motive is mercenary
one. When one is willing to give up
something, to make a sacrifice, for n
principle, then they can lay claim to
being patriotic
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

The Government has recognized
the newspapers as of immense impor-
lance and value as a military asset,
and editors who have asked 1t have
been excused on the ground that the
Federal Government needs every 10y
al editor right where he. is-at the
helm doing work that could not he
rendered in any other way The
Government could not have f1oated a
single loan during this war without
the newspapers of this nation; the
Red Cross drive. the Y. M. C. A. cam
paign for funds, the raising of an
army. and the education of the peo-
pie for the creation of the right sort
of public sentiment, all have depend
ed, not in small measure. but abso-
lutely on the loyal editors of our
country. In the first Liberty Loan it
was estimated by the Government it
self, not the publishers. that the Gov
eminent received, free. not less than
$5,000,000 worth of publicity. So it
is not difficult to appreciate the in
jury that even one small disloyal, or
indifferent local paper may do at i
time like this. Treason Is bad, but
1t Is worse, and the damage more far
reaching, when paper justifies trea-
son, or minimizes it, finding an ex-
cuse for one like Hofstede.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

Dumb Animals: Rev u. Myers, of
Catawissa, Pennsylvania. attended
the Bloomsbury Fair last week for
the thirtieth consecutive time. That
in itself is not of particular interest,
but when we add that he has driven
the same horse to the fair each year
during that period it is a record of
which few. if any. can boast. His
steed, said to have been a fast trotter
in his day, is nowforty-three years
old
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

Remember the Red Cross sale of
cooked foods and other eatables Sat
urday. Put your money to work in
a righteous cause.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

Cereals and other food should be
kept in glass jars or tin cans when
ever possible. This will keep rats,
mice and vermin away.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

Cottonwood Chronicle: One of the
Grangeville printers got his foot in
1t" recently in a rather queer man
ner One of the society leaders of
the town gave an elaborate dinner
party to number of friends, and the
editor wrote an item saying it was a
swellsaffair. The printer by mistake
put in an for an e and made it read
"swill affair" OF course the printer
had to take to the woods for few
days.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14
DON'T FORGET.

Don't forget that your horse works
much harder than you do, and treat
him accordingly.
Don't forget on the cold stormy
days that he is doing his very best to
pull your heavy loads over the snowy
or muddy roads or streets. Make it
as easy for him as you can
Don't forget that he's loyal, will
ing friend who is helping you earn
your weekly wage Treat him as
such.
Don't overload your team! Take
all the short cuts you can-see that
your horse is properly shod and
warmly covered
Be good to your horse-he de-
serves it,
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

This is the time of the year when
ones mind turns to Christmas, and
no part of the Republican will be
more carefully read that the Christ
mas announcements of the local
stores. The Christmas spirit is be-
ing manifest in great arrays of sea-
sonable things and these ads will
offer many valuable suggestions, and
help save you money. War times
will incline many towards the ser
ious side of life, and good sensible
things to wear or eat will no doubt
be the rule this year.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

a factory or mine or on a farm If
needed most there, but wherever you
are do your best. If you would end
this horrible thing in the name of
the young men who arc facing He'll
at the front for you and me. don't be
indifferent; don't see ho, little you
can do, but do your best. When our
nation gets thoroughly aroused, and
we show by our action that we mean
business, Germany will weafen, for
no nation can long face certain de-
feat. We believe Germany is waking
up to the fact that even the great
mass of American Socialists are loyal
Americans, and that all their intri-
que and falsehood and deception has
failed to keep Socialists lined up wit !
Prussian autocracy.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

Plain color, fine pin stripe
OF blue or black, a prac-
teal Christmas present
each 81.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-14

Christmas boxes with sox,
ties and hose supporters
to match.
A practical gift.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-22
"Pommes de Terre"
Are Now Imported
Like Other Gems

While there's life there's hope, and,
likewise. while there's hope OF get.
ting plenty of spuds, there's life and
no spud boycott.
So news Of the pending importa-
ton of many carloads of potatoes into
Omaha from Canada Is putting life
into the tuber business and into the
hearts and homes Of local high-cost-
of-livng victims.
Collector of Customs McCune
breathed a sigh Of relief Wednesday
at his federal building office when
a big local commission firm took out
a permit to import potatoes and
onions direct from Alberta and Sas-
katchewan to the port of Omaha. Ar
rival of the first carloads is expected
soon.
In spite of a duty of 10 per cent
on such importations, Omaha deal
ers say they believe the present dia-
mond- and-egg prices of spuds may
be smashed by the arrival of a lot
of the Canadian vegetables.
Though Canada has been sending
shiploads of spuds to Britain and the
war front, there are plenty left and
prices are said to be much lower in
Canada than here.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-22
ARE ALL MINISTER'S
SONS NAUGHTY, TOO?
Cigar Dealers Indignantly Deny
Clergyman's Edict of Morale
of Their Stores.
SMOKE IN DEVIL S HOME

Vigorous exception is being taken
by cigar store proprietors to utter
ances credited to Rev {. w, Savidge
in his Sunday evening sermon. The
paster OF the Peoples church is said
to have characterized the modern
cigar store as the home OF the devil"
J. T. McVittie, president OF the
Omaha Retail Cigar Dealers associa-
ton, says that a number OF owners of
high grade cigar stores have consulted
with him on the matter.
I'VE decided to take no action" he
explains, as we believe the preach
cr's attack does not merit serious
consideration. We cannot, however,
refrain from taking exception to Rev
Mr.. Savidge's classification OF all
cigar stores in one group.
at would be just as sensible to say
that all ministers sons are bad, be-
cause the well-known son Of GER
tain Omaha preacher was found gam.
bling in a place that sought to hide
its true nature by pretending to be a
cigar store"
Other cigar dealers protesting
against Rev. Mr.. Savidge's broad at
tack on their business include F
Wirthsafter, John Alperson anc
Tracy Bros.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-22

Of biological science called electro
physiology" which deals specially
with the electric organs of living crea-
lures. AS already intimated, these
organs are made up Of modified forms
of muscle acuated, like ordinary mus
cles, through the nervous system.
Aside from the underlying mystery
of all life action, there is nothing
wonderful about the electric organs,
for the muscles of any animal ex-
hibit slight electrical disturbance
when in the act of contraction, and
it seems rather surprising that the
ability to impart electric shocks is not
more widely distributed through the
animal kingdom. There are circum-
stances in which man would give
much to possess the power of the
gymnotus, or the torpedo.
The torpedo, which has lent its
name to one Of the most fearful of
modern weapons of war, belongs to
the family Of the rays, or skates,
found widely distributed around the
Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans,
and also in the Mediterranean sea.
1t is as powerful as the gymnotus,
and its electrical organ, although diff
fering in the details of structure, is
essentially the same in kind.
There must be two points of con-
tact between the torpedo and the OBJ
ject that receives its shock, otherwise
the electric circuit will not be COM
pleted. But the animal can be de-
pended upon to make an effective con-
tact, for it uses its electrical weapon
continually, both for defense and for
aggression, stunning its prey before
beginning to feed upon it. The shock
may be communicated without direct
contact with the torpedo through
some electrically conducting body
In the torpedo the upper surface OF
the electric organ is positively
charged and the lower, or belly, sur
face negatively.
There are other electric fishes be-
sides those named, such as the "elec-
trical catfish" found in the River Nile
and the significantly named "cramp-
fish," species of torpedo found on
the Atlantic coast, and which, it is
said, sometimes attains a weight Of
200 pounds OF the wonders of crea-
ton there is no end!
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-22

Wedding Announcement.
Mr.. Murlin DAWSON OF Gearing,
Ia, and Miss Edna Shenk OF Santa
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-22
For John Haynes Holmes.

John Haynes Holmes of New York
will be entertained at dinner Thurs
day by Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Baxter,
following which he lectures at the
Boyd theater at 8 p. m. on "The In
ternational Mind" keen analysis OF
world politics, a protest against war,
and prophecy Of new social order.
The reception that was to have fol-
lowed the lecture has been cancelled,
IS Mr.. Holmes must hurry away to
catch a train. Box parties will be
given by DR.. and Mrs. A. D. Dunn,
Miss Jeanette Mcdonald, Mr.. and
Mrs. Halleck Rose, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
w. Russell, Mrs. Draper Smith and
Mr.. and Mrs. Baxter, The other
seats are already largely reserved.
The lecture will be under the aus
pieces of the Omaha Unitarians and
the proceeds will go for the new
church building.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-22
| Social Affairs Planned.

Mu Sigma, the Oldest study club in
the city, will observe its anniversary
next Monday with an informal after
noon tea at the home of Mrs. Waite
H. Squier. Mrs. A. B. Somers, Mrs.
George Thompson and Mrs. H. D.
Nicely are three members who have
been on the club roster since its
inception.
To supplement the card party at
the Blackstone next Wednesday for
the benefit of the Jewish war relief
fund bali will be given at the Audi
forum Thursday evening, March %,
Mrs. Cora Wolf, Mrs. Reuben XII
lakofsky and Mr.. Leo Rosenthal head
the committee of arrangements,
which will include representatives
from each Jewish organization in the
city.
Mrs. Emery Peterson has post
poned her party OF Thursday until
Saturday afternoon, when she will
give a tea at the Fontenelle for Mrs
John Wolfe of Patterson, Cal, and
Mrs. Thomas w. Jones of San Fran
cisco.
Mrs. Charles Voorhees, and her
daughter, Mrs. Charles Herdin Bean
are entertaining at bridge Friday aft
ernoon.
Miss Myrtle May will be hostess
for the next meeting of Sigma Theta
Pi sorority March |,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-22
lightning
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.

A correspondent asks whether such
creatures as electric cells exist. II
they do, what are they, and what wa.
tiers do they inhabit?
Anybody who doubts the exist
ence of electric cells" would get a
mental as we'll as physical shock il
he should happen to take hold of one
of those animals while it was alive, es-
pecially if he got both hands upon it
1t is true, however, that this won
derful animal is not member of the
eel family. 1t gets its popular name
simply from its resemblance in form
to an eel. Its geological name is
Gymnotus electricus. Its best known
places of residence is in the swamps
and marshes of Guiana and Brazil
where it haunts the pools. Ordina'
rily it is about three feet long, but
individuals are said to exist having
a length OF six or seven feet. Sc
powerful is the electric shock from
the gymnotus that it will knock dowr
a man and kill small animals out
right.
The famous philosophical traveller
Humboldt, who wrote the best Of al
travellers stories because he studied
and explained the things he saw
found that the South American In
dams liked electric cells as food anc
to capture the dangerous creature:
they drove horses into the pools il
order that the cells might tempora
rily exhaust their electric charges il
repeated attacks upon the horses. Til,
cells lost their courage with theil
power and lurked helpless about thu
banks, where they could then b.
safely harpooned.
Humboldt says that there were 10
calities where the electric eels wer'
so numerous that the courses of road
passing through flooded marshes hac
to be changed. Even horses wer'
sometimes felled by the shocks. TIL,
appearance of gymnotus is alon'
enough to impart shock to sensi
tive persons, for although only yarc
in length its body is thick as man
thigh. The electric organs, consist
ing of modified muscles and nerves
extend the whole length of the body
the rear end being electrically posi-
tive and the front end negative an,
the current passes from tail to head
through a series of between 200 anc
800 superposed cells" or plates"
The gymnotus is not the only "elec
trical' animal and there is a brancl