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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
BED TIME TALES
Tommy Jay Gives Bad Advice
By CLARA INGRAM JUDsoN

To be sure, Toppy should have re-
membered that Tommy Jay loved to
tease; he shou I have watched for
that tell-tale twinkle in Tommy's
eye. But Toppy was so excited
thinking that he was making a dis
covery of a new bird that he wasn't
remembering or noticing anything!
No wonder Tommy found him easy
to teasei
What did the bird look like?"
asked Tommy Jay eagerly.
He was brown" said Toppy,"
brown with a red spot and wings of
golden brown-a most handsome fell
low, I'm sure you'd remember II you
had ever seen him!"
"Goldy Flicker of course" said
Tommy Jay to himself. If that stu
busy with his own affairs he would
out loud he said, wings of golden
brown-let's see who could that be?
You surely are a discoverer Top
py." And that made Toppy feel all
pulled up and important as Tommy
had known 1t would.
Tommy Jay looked wise and
thoughtful and Toppy watched him
to see what he was going to do and
say next.
Finally he cooked his head to one
aide, looked Toppy over and then
said. 81 think you have made a great
discovery Toppy, and you'd better
get some one to go with you back to
that bird and see 1t and decide who
Ii is-someone whose word Is law in
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

years before the time OF Christ, These
bracelets, composed of amethysts, tor
quoise, gold beads and twisted gold
coils, are almost complete parallels of
those which may be seen today in the
window of any jewelry store on Fifth
avenue.
BY the Romans bracelets were first
used as a reward for valor, Curtius
Dantaius receiving no fewer than 100
of these decorations. Among the wo-
men Of Rome, as of Greece, the craze
for this form of adornment spread to
an extent to call forth the condemna-
ton of Cicero. From Rome some cen
turtles after the Christian era the Gus
tom of bracelet wearing spread to
eastern Europe and thence to Britain
Edgard, best and wisest OF the line of
Saxon kings, bestowed bracelets upon
the men and women OF his court, while
the Danes, making peace with Alfred
tho Great, swore fidelity upon them
Through nearly ten centuries have
bracelets in one form or another main
talned strong hold upon the affec-
tons of women, although until the time
of Benvenuto Cellini they had been
crudely simple in form and design.
The armlets of graceful shape pro-
duced by Cellini and his contempo-
raries, and later generations by Ghib-
erti and Arditti, set the standard for
the elaborate bejewelled designs Of to-
doy
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
MEXICO, FRIEND OR FOE?
(New York World.)


The demand made by the United
States upon the de facto government
of Mexico for a categorical reply to
the question as to its attitude toward
Germany is fully justified.
1t is not the note of Foreign Secre-
tary Zimmerman alone that requires
explanation. 1t is known that for
months past Germany has sought to
embroil the United States with it's
southern neighbor. German intrigue
has not addressed itself to any one fac
ton. Intent first of all upon giving
this country a military task south of
the Rio Grande, it has addressed itself
to Huerta, Villa, Zapata and Carranza
in turn.
Now that the latter has some SEM
blance Of authority, he has become the
object of Berlins most devoted atten-
ton, and his words and deeds of late
prove his susceptibility at least. II we
overlook his truculent attitude toward
President Wilson, who has sought to
befriend the Mexican people, we can
hardly ignore his recent presumptuous
attempt, obviously in ths German inter-
est, to persuade all neutral nations to
establish an embargo against the Eu-
ropean belligerents for Germany's
benefit.
War between the United States and
Germany is possible only as Germany
persists in making war, but If we
must face that conflict, Mexico, in an
archy and desperation, easily bribed
and more easily cajoled, cannot be left
to the temptations which an avowed
foe of the United States is now allur-
ingly displaying. The questionswe ask
of Mexico admits of no equivocation
and no delay. on the reply momen-
tous events may depend.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
JOAN"

JOAN" by Amelia e. Barr, is a
pleasant story of the English coal
fields, written with sympathy and APP
probation. 1t is a bit old fashioned
and sentimental, but it affords never
theless little oasis of relief in a
world filled with war and death. 1t
is good to turn aside for few mo-
ments from the tales of slaughter and
be once more among the cottages and
the roses, with nothing more strenuous
than the domestic lives OF simple peo-
pie to occupy ones thoughts.
Joan, the daughter of a miner is a
lovable girl and when she becomes the
Squire's bride the reader will feel that
she is fully forthy of her new station.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
Observation-Disclosures

. Almost every race of the earth is
contributing fighting men in the world
war against Germany. Contemplation
of these many foes has led a German
ethnologist to catalogue the following
list of his country's so enemies:
For Great Britain-English, Scots,
Irish, Hindus. Australians, Canadi
ans, New Zealanders. Beers, Cape
negroes, American Indians.
For France-French, Moors, Ka-
byles, Anamites, Senegalese. Arabs,
Moroccans, Malgash, Turcos, Antil-
lans, Hovas. Dahomey negroes. Con-
go negroes, Cambodians, Tuniscians
and men of Monaco.
For Italy-Italians and citizens of
San Marine.
For Russis-Russians, Firms, Poles,
Lithuanians, Kirkhese. Kalmuks, Tun-
guses, Caucasians. Siberians, Tartars,
Turomans, Georgians, Ukranians.
Mongols.
Miscellaneous Japanese, Portu-
guese, Belgians, Serbs, Americans.
Montenegrins, Rumanians and Alban-
ians
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
SYM PToMs.

Some people take more pride in
their symptoms than they do in their
children. If you are fortunate enough
to acquire or inherit number of
alarming symptoms you may be able
to spend a happy lifetime being mis-
cradle. There is something peculiarly
charming and piquant about one who
complains about his ailments. How he
is welcomed into any little scandal
throng! How a room brightens at his
appearance! Nervous disorders are
perhaps the most enviable endowments.
Have you some? Persons of this de-
scription are charming conversational
lists. They are never at q loss for a
remark. They can talk of their COM
plants at any length. Sick headaches,
loss of appetite, weak back, dizzy
spells are only few of their favorite
topics. In talking to persons of this
sort 1t is pardonable to say, I'D rather
you'd die of your symptoms than talk
of Them"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
IN kNIeHTLY DAYS.

Coming to hand among the weeks
books are three new stories Of the old
days of knights, ladies and the plots
of the mighty.
In Greater Than the Greatest"
Hamilton Drummond has romance
of the thirteenth century. in the period
of the struggle between Pope Gregory
and the Emperor Frederick. The prin-
cipal figugre is Blanca Pandone, beau
tiful niece of the Cardinal of San Mar
co del Monte, employed by her willy
uncle to lure the young Frederick to
the purpose OF the Vatican. Rome is
the chief scene Of action. The back
grounds of the story and the life rep
resented have been carefully studied.
Romance of a different sort is in
1.-THE Highwayman," the work of H. c.
Bailey. The scenes here are laid in
the England of Queen Anne, and the
Queen herself, with His Grace of
Marlborough and James Stuart, the
Old Pretender, will be found among
the people of the book. A love story
begins with the holding up Of Mistress
Alison Lambourne on the highway and
her rescue by Harry Boyce, young, gall
liant and poor. And this story runs on
through lively maze of gallantry
mischief plotting and swashbuckling
The end is happy.
George w. Clough, writing "The
Yeoman Adventurer," follows the lead
of those story writer's who have turn
ed to the time of Bonnie Prince Char
lie" and his Jacobean rebellion. The
story opens in December, 1745, with
the prince in Derby, and closes in Au-
gust, 1857, with the elimination of the
romance of oliver, the young hero, out
of Staffordshire fields, and his Marga-
ret, daughter of a doughty colonel.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
MY CREED
BY VIRGINIA MaecRAIG.

My creed, It's simple, only this,
That none of mortal cast may say,
This is the path by which God meant
That thou shouldst find the great
white way"
One great white way there only Ia,
One temple all Gods own
Rooted in by naught or concrete mould
Nor walled by brick or stone;
Yet fair must be it's altar white,
And moulded well each wall,
Fen lest by one false portion laid,
That House of God mayest fall.
One temple then, within your heart,
One church, one God, one love,
One charity whose wings soft-press
AS press the wings of dove.
One church alone: God meant 1t So
One church whose holy flame
Broad as the universe, forbids
That you or l should give it name.
No name it needs-'twere like to Him
If He but knew it there;
If you but keep His face therein
And speak to Him In prayer;
Aye voiceless prayer and 1t may be,
Unconscious from the heart to Him
Nor will He heed nor will He care
That it were not a we'll made hymn.
If you for His names sake alone
Seek the, one spot of white
Deep hid within the blacklist pail
And bosom 1t in light,
Or seek to see through tender eyes,
The faults of fellow-men,
Methinks that thou, when death shall
call,
Mayest duitely say Amen.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

POWDER.

Prominent among the powders OF the
earth just now of course Is gunpowder.
But let us not forget that the face,
bug and seidlitz varieties have their
triumphs too.
Who but has seen the sprightIy
coclzroach fallen victim to a squirt of
the bug brand from vest pocket how
itzer?
Who but has witnessed the agonies
of young men as they staggered away
from the battle-ground of love with the
powder marks of conflict on their
shoulders?
And who but knows the glory of a
battle won by seidlitz against rag
ing stomach the morning after?
There La power in powder of every
kind.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
nMAG pNEm

The young heroine of the Baroness
Won Hutton's new book, Mag Pye."
comes Of a day in London to deliver
the laundry of Victor Quest, a middle
aged barrister with few briefs and a
small fixed income. Taking up the
girl, with fatherly eye to her well
fare, Victor finds in his hands, even
tually, the clue to the mystery of the
disappearance, long before, of the ar
tist-lover of Lady Edith. to whom he
is in the habit Of proposing marriage.
Many complications radiate from
this center of a story plot. The Bar
oness works them out with practiced
skill, and the reader follows and
guesses to the end.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
GREEK Killed TROOPS.

The Greek killed troops, the Eu-
zones, bear a variant of a name which
was given to troops in the days of
ancient Greece. Euzonoi meaning WELL
girdled and so grit up for exercise as
killed men are, were light troops or
even the heavily armed hopi;tai. but
without their weighty shields. At first,
however, the term, as in Homer, was
used only regarding women. the zone"
being the lower girdle worn by them
about the waist, but by an easy and
natural transition this came TO mean a
mans belt. Then, as the belt supported
the short skirts. killed men were called
well belted.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

Wells latest Fleming Stone detective
story, New York financier is discov-
cred murdered near the Van Cortlandt
Park golf links. and his dearly loved
niece becomes the victim of a remark
able will After everybody else has
failed, Stone and phenomenal office
boy solve the mystery completely.
Ingenuity in this work Of Miss Wells
laughs at probabilities and at the
small details Of scrupulous literary
neatness. She has accomplished. pre-
sumably, her main object in making
sure that her readers are in the mists
up to the clearing off chapter.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
LYDIA OF THE PINES"

Lydia of the Pines" by Honore
Willsie, is pleasant, homely story Of
life in the small capital of state
which she says is in the north Missis-
sippi valley, butu which the reader will
Identify as Wisconsin. 1t has strong
literary quality. abundant sympathy
with average American life, which is
so sound at the core, and one of the
most attractive heroines to appear in
eic..on for some time.
Lydia is the child of New England
parents who have gone to the west in
search of fortune. But her mother
dies early and her father is incom-
petent, leaving only little Lydia. with
her heroic soul, to hold the household
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
TWAS EVER THUS.

Alas! that it should ever be
When l would make q droll reply,
Somehow. it always seem to me,
Somehow no matter how 1 try,
l never can. But later
Am sure to think of something great.
And so wall and so sigh,
why do think of them too later"
Or IL with some delightful dame
l hope to score and make a hit,
When l would please and charm the
same
l cannot talk little bit.
In tupid daze l simply sit
And yearn to crack my empty pate.
But later-Oh, the gems of wit!
Why do l think of them too later
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
CHEER uPI READ THIS.

The average man who complains
about the high cost of living has 1t
pretty soft, in the opinion of Edward A.
Sharp, of Rogers Park, a suburb of
Chicago. Mr.. Sharp is the proud faith
err of II children. and when his prepares
a meal it looks like the dinner bill of
a fair sized restaurant. 1T requires n
peck of potatoes, four loaves of bread.
SO or 81 worth of meat, five heads of
cabbages and four pounds of coffee for
a meal at our house," said Mrs. Sharp,
as a couple of grocery boys staggered
in with the stuff for dinner. I'VE use
10 quarts Of milk daily and 1t takes a
bar Of toilet soap to wash all the chill
dren," she said, as she sailed into the
preparations for the coming meal.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
Wf1ATCf1AMA
COLUMN
Pc Ps
Patriotism also going UP.

p T. p s
Patriotism also going UP.
Why don't they change it to read
"till divorce do us part?"
Unfortunately those who dictate
food prices talk to more than their
stenographers.
Stacker Les Darcy beat Stacker
Stone to 1t.
why do not legislators keep all
party pledges?" asks Pro Bono Publico.
Perhaps for much the same reason
that men do not kiss each other.
II it's shortage" with long "a"
why not the same with garage" in
stead of "garahze"
Extra session of congress-! Haven't
the countrys nerves had enough1"
o.
Senate foreign affairs committee Is
to continue with a Stone head.
Logrolling stops when payrolling
does.
The United States shifted from neu-
trail to high seas.
Merchant vessels carrying arms may
no longer have to leg it.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

he to be known as a discovereri
Isn't that just what everybody most
wants to be? And to think he, lit
tie rabbit had discovered something!
Wasn't 1t just too fine for words!
He was so excited and happy that he
paid little attention to what Tommy
Jay said after that, You know your
self that when you are very happy or
excited you don't listen as carefully
as you might, do you?"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
RevieU of Books

together. How she does IT makes an
inspiring story.
The tragedy is supplied by a schem-
ing and successful attempt to seize
some fine lands which constitute a
reservation for small tribe of In
dams. The tricks and dishonesty of
the white men are well exposed, and
the young educated Indian, Charlie.
who in the face of his own ruin en-
deavors to protect the red men In their
rights, wins the readers sympathy.
This is a good, sound, honest Ameri-
can novel, written with intelligence
and power.
1.-THE MARK OF cAiN.w
In "Ths Mark of CAIN carolvr
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
BY REV. DIR. WORTH M. TIPPY.


BY REV. DIR. WORTH M. TIPPY.
The church has been too
Tong dominated by the idea that
a mans relation with God is
personal matter. In my opinion,
that is only half of religion.
Mans relation with his fellow
men is quite as important-up
to a certain point. And it is to
developing this relation that |
intend to devote my efforts, but
with the other always in mind.
This socializing of the church,
as this work is called, has been
attempted by many pastors and
churches, but there has been no
national movement.
There isn't so much the MAJ
ter with the church as with
many New Workers. One great
fault, for instance, is the large
number of religious FOUNDERS.
Perhaps the term is new, but
the FOUNDERS" are not. They
are causing much damage to the
churches. By religious round
ers | mean people who seldom
pass consecutive Sabbaths un-
der the same pulpit, but who go
from church to church simply
to hear preaching that enter
tains them. Too many New
Workers go to Gods edifice sim
ply to be entertained. Religious
institutions cannot be built up
by congregations of this sort.
In fact, | know of numerous
churches in the land that have
absolutely been ruined by work
ing on such a basis.
New York needs many more
open churches - churches
which are open every day in the
week and in which the building
is used for services and actiyi-
ties that are useful to their own
people and to the community.
This work of improving living
conditions, lettering home life,
helping those who really need
assistance, and fighting for So
cial justice and social recon
struction, is lust as much the
duty of religion. in my opinion,
as aiding in the salvation of in
dividual souls. There must be
more of it if the churches are to
accomplish the Masters pur-
pose. This social service better
enables them to stimulate the
spiritual side of their appeal.
Do not misinterpret me as plac-
ing merely secoEdarily the duty
of spiritual ministration, for it is
first, but souls are enshrouded
in human bodies, and men live
in society, and if you forget the
flesh and blood interests of
your congregation, you will
probably, sooner or later, find
yourself deprived of the oppor-
tunity of furthering their spir-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE cHURcH9

EPHIS question has been discussed in forum and print
and still it is not fully answered Perhaps there is
Ii not so much the matter with the church the ques
ton implies 1t to be well in the front of the pro-
cesson yet constantly hear criticism at least to the
tent implied in the query The other day two New York
pastors, who had resigned although holding the pulpit in
the highest esteem and it's efficacy undoubted to take
up evangeistc and social service work, answered the
question in the following manner and their versions may
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

THE KIDDER.
He laughs and chortles fit to split,
And snorts and smokers in a fit
When he can get
YOUR goat and yet
Should you get HIS, why then the
fat
Head doesn't see the fun in that
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
BY REV. DIR. JOSEPH w. KEMP.

The great trouble with such a
Christian church is that it is not
Christian and is not a church.
1t is not Christian in that it does
not meet the test that Jesus
gave: "By this shall all men
know that we are my disciples, if
We have love one to another 1t
is not a church in that it does
not separate itself from the
world and accept the great as
signment which Jesus gave
GO ye into all the world and
preach the gospel to every crea-
ture."
Unless the Christian church
accepts this mission, it must die.
1t can have no influence in the
regeneration of the masses. The
only hope is that the masses
will accept it and regenerate the
church.
One great reason why the peo-
pie have not accepted the Cos
pei is that it has not been pre-
scented to them in their own Ian
guage. 1t would do the average
man little good to hear the aver
age sermon in the average fash
ionable church. He doesn't un-
derstand the language. But here
is man who talks to them IN
their own language. He can talk
to scholars also, and not use Z
word of slang or a phrase ia
which an English purist could
take exception. But when he
carries his burning message to
the great, suffering heart of the
people he can not afford to talk
in what is to them a foreign ton
que. That is why the people
hear him gladly-the people
who feel depressed and alienat-
ed by the very atmosphere OF
the formal church.
The people, | know, are wait
ing for such a message. 1t is an
error to assume that they are
Indifferent because they are not
attracted by an Indifferent
church. And some of the
churches, or a controlling ele-
ment within them, are not mere
ly Indifferent; they are hostile
They are perfectly willing that
the people should be saved, but
they do not want them to be
saved in the pews they have re-
served for themselves. They dc
not want the lost sheep flock
ing into their expensive folds.
They do not want their minister
to go out into the highways and
hedges and compel the people
to come to their particular feast.
Their attitude is so entirely at
variance with the whole New
Testament doctrine that | some
times wonder how they ever
came to consider themselves
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
PoLIcEME

Policemen always may be known,
Should you desire one in the street,
Sometimes by just their shape alone.
Or by their color or their feet
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

So when Tommy Jay said, ayou
should go to the big hollow tree yon-
der; wake up Policeman Billy and
ask him to go and see the bird YOU
have found" Toppy didn't think that
silly thing to do at all---he just
went and did It.
And then of course trouble began.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

Some folks seem to think
they can't have a good name
and a good time both at once.
Old Man Sage.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

A heor4~rendrn9 story IS
thad Of y0918 PfPg e.
Tor q course when, he,learned
Ehaa she cared ncL drip
He al once vent rlShd
out on o Tear: 6S
No man Is hero To his conscianca
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

When whitening a hearth or step,
dip the cloth in drop of milk and rub
over after applying the hearthstone;
this prevents the white from coming
90
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11
oftsn. It Is true,

Policemen often. 1t is true,
Wear buttons, whiskers and hat
Sometimes they wear suspenders, too
OF course you can't be sure of that.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

Merchant vessels carrying arms may
no longer have to leg it.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

Senate foreign affairs committee Is
to continue with a Stone head.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-11

Extra session of congress! Haven't
the country's nerves had enough7"
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-11-01
Has Victoria Cross.

Lord Charles Beresford's winning
the Victoria Cross was famous Incl
dent. The Zulus Ind led detachment
Of the British under Sir Retlvers Bull
Ter. into an ambush, whence several
thousands Of them rose out of the long
grass and made ready to attack. Bull
Ter give the order to retreat, and as
the men galloped of two were killed
and one wOunded-his horse letting
the last fall. The poor fellow, Fitz-
maurice by name. was at the mercy
Of the advancing horde Of snvages
when Beresford galloped up and tried
to lift him on his Nurse. The Zulus
were close on them. and 1t seemed 30
impossible to get away that Fitzmau-
rice begged him to go. Yet Bcresford
actually got the man, fainting from
loss Of blood, on his frightened and
rearing mount, and rode away with
him. That night as he was sleeping
the sleep Of exhaustion from his hard
day. Archibald Forbes approached his
tent with the news that he had been
recommended for the Cross. and wax.
Ing Reresford, had boot thrown at
his head for his pains.