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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11

We have built the cantonments, we
have commenced to assemble the
great army to carry our flag to the
battle fields of France The start has
been made. But our men, their
horses, their guns. their equipment
most all of these are still on this
side of the water.
We know that we must get across
and we know that there is only one
way to do so. That way is to build
ships and keep on building ships.
Without them all other preparations
win go for nothing.
And we are building them-by the
dozens, the score and the hundred
in every shipyard and on every
coast. Ohr coast-the Pacific Coast
lis doing its share. Such sights as
that represented by the picture may
be seen in. bays and harbors and
river mouths from San Diego to Sc
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11

attic. 1t is all one great workshop.
It takes money to build ships, it
takes men. But it takes more than
these It takes the help of every
body to do this great big job. And
there is way for everybody to help
The very best way that most of us
in our section of the country can
render this help is to do this, or
something like it, Build at home.
A little explanation and you will
understand Just what we mean and
jusi why this kind Of help is gen
uine help
Ships can be built only from GER
tain kinds. sizes and qualities OF
lumber. As a rule the trees as nat
ure grows them, will produce only
about twenty per cent of good ship
building material, and the remain
ing, perhaps eighty per cent of the
tree, has to be put into other pro-
duets.
For instance, in cutting the big
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11
LIEUT.. REGAN, WITH MER-
IDIAN BOYS TELLS OF TRIP

The first contingent of Idaho hoysl
arrived in France about Dec. 10th.
A letter from Lieut.. John NJ. Re
gan, of the old Second Idaho, to his
parents in Boise, Mr.. and Mrs. Tim
Regan, written from "a port irg
France" Dec. 11th, stated the Id1
aho boys arrived last night" thej
10th.
Lieut.. Regan said the trip thrul
the danger zone was uneventful, all
though the transport nearly had II
collision in the fog shortly before thdI
port was reached.
The boys were in good spirits and
mighty glad to get off the boat. One
of them said: Il know now why Col
umbus kissed the ground when he
landed"
On account of the press of Official
business it was impossible for the
boys to cable nwes of their safe arri-
val. Lieut.. Regan says the mails are
also irregular and the censorship is
strict. ANY bad news will be trans
mitted promptly through channels,
he says, but folks at home will have
to wait for good news.
Letters written to relatives by
Lieut.. Regan at sea- Dec. 3 and 5,
were also received. He refers to the
sea coming up" during the Thanks
giving dinner and from the tenor OF
his observations along that line one
imagines the sea was not alone in its
tendencies. Practically all the boys
were sick, but they had mostly re,
covered when the letters We're being
written.The lights were put out daily
at p. m. and the boys had to un
dress in the dark. Lieut.. RegaI
said the boys would all be glad t,
have the trip over. Submarines hat
no terrors for them, but the rougl
sea did.
Lieut.. Regan tells of the feeling
of the hoys with relation to the au
preaching holiday season and o
their realization of the lonesomenes
at their homes during that period
For himself he writes: Don't lie
yourselves be unhappy about my alb
sence 1t is in the service of ou
country mad we are glad to rende
our share of that service. 1 recog
nize that your part in it is create
than mine
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11
TRAP NEST is USEFUL.

Poultry growers are inclined to
shy away from the trap nest, be-
cause of the labor required to oper-
ate it. hut specialists of the depart
ment of agriculture say that a nest
of this type is of much value, in in
creasing the average egg yield, and
that is something in which every
poultry grower is interested. An in
teresting article in this issue of the
Meridian Times gives explicit direct
ions and working plans for the con
struction of nests of this kind. Ev,
|eryone interested in poultry grow,
ing should read this article.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11

timbers the mills naturally make
large amount of so-called side
lumber slab pieces from the side
OF the log of such thickness as will
cut only into boards and small franz
ing material such as we use in build
ing ordinary houses and barns.
This is merely one simple illus
tration. When one understands the
eXacting requirements as to length,
grade and grain or texture it at. once
becomes evident that there is no pos
sible way of utilizing more than a
fraction of the log for these ship
building purposes that the produc-
ton OF tremendous quantity OF all
sorts of lumber is absolutely nm
aYoidable
And this other material naturally
piles up very rapidly when the saw
mills are working day and night to
produce the ship plank piles up Sc
rapidly indeed as to eongest even the
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11

largest saw mill yards in very
short time
There is then. Just one thing to be
done We must keen moving the
lumber away from the saw mills We
must continue to use lumber and use
lots of it,
Instead of holding back on our
building. We ought to do every bit Of
it thar we can afford to do, except
the kind of construction that requir-
es unusual sizes and kinds that are
needed tor the ships
This then is the place where We
can all help build the ships. The help
will he real and genuine.
We need ships. ships, and yet more
shils. Nothing is more important.
Don't you want to help? There's a
way to do so. Read this article
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11

For the Joint Conference of Agri-
cultural, Live Stock. Engineering
and Irrigation Societies OF Idaho, to
be held in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Janu-
AIRY IA 10 1g Inclusive, 1918, the
Oregon Short Line Railroad Com
pany has authorized a round-trip
rate of cents per mile in each di-
rection from o. l.. stations in Ida
ho, Utah and Montana Pickets
from points in Idaho, Pocatello and
North, will be sold January l3, IA.
Is and 16: from other local points
on January 13 and / f. Return OF all
tickets, January 21
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11
Boise alley Realty Co.

is prepared to list Your property for
sale or rent. Call and see them AT
Room 1 in Parkin Building. in AIer-
idian.
If you want to sell. list your farm
with us. We have two buyers for
well improved, up-to-date forties also
buyer for close in acreage.
A dandy buy. IL acceS. IA in
prune. New trees full bearing 1918
Modern house, good improvements.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11
Note from DIR. II. t. Cook.

have been commissioned in the
the army but have not received or
ders, and until orders come. I win
continue To practice my profession in
Meridian.
DR.. II, T. COOK, Veterinarian.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11

Attorney General Moody says the
next call for men registered under
the draft law win not come until ar
ter February 10th.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11

lFOR SALE-A Second Hand Buick
car, in good condition. Inquire of
I REV c. A. Quinn.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11

Rhode Island Red Roosters For
Sale, thoroughhred Mrs. w. P.
Drake, = mile east of Victory school
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11
Announcement

On and after Jan. 1st we will 60
On a CASH basis. This j. in line with
the plan Of rhc stores throughout the
country, and aims at the elimination
of unnecessary expense during the
war period.
BY this means we can sell goods
cheaper To our customers and il will
simplify the delivery problem.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11

For the illustrations and text for
this article We are indebted to the
Gem State Lunlher co..
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11
Every Sunday.

Every Sunday.
Sunday school AT t.... .l0:3n a. m.
Preaching. at 1850 a. m.
Praise service ........ 7:30 p. M.
EyangeIistic service .. 500 p. m.
All are cordially invited to come.
Charles E. Mitchell. pastor
Carl Mysinger. S. S Supt.
The sun., 1918-09-15

the Dutch. Some of the justifcations read
like Henty.
The young East India company, to
which its earliest expeditions seem to have
been mere wildcat speculations, so many
ships and men and pounds, shillings and
pence risked around the tempestuous Cape
and through hideous scurvy on the chance
of lucrative cargo or two of pepper from
the Spice Islands, had no really dependa-
BILE backing from the flaccid Stuart Kings.
If its commander could hold his own
among the dour Dutch and the arrogant
Portuguese with their Papal demarca
ton, well and good. If he could wrest
trading post from the one and relieve the
other of a galleon's riches, so much the
better. But if he failed and found himself
racked or gibbeted, that was his private
affair.
1t appears to have worked all three
ways. None of the rivals could look to
home for help that might precipitate a
war, and SO every sort of high handed act
was constantly leading to bloodshed, the
devil taking the hindermost, without rum
pling the politics of Europe.
These English ventures required and
found real men. As one persisted another
took up the struggle for the trading foot
holds They lost out in the islands to the
Dutch, but from the Portuguese they won
the Persian Gulf, the favor of the declin-
ing Moguls, and finally Bombay the
consequence among others that German
Emperor two centuries later took pains to
represent himself to the Turks as Mo-
hammedan with a seraglio, for the sake of
little projects Of his now in process OF
Illustration.
The course of events Mr.. Wright sets
forth clearly and entertainingly, including
not portraits exactly, but all the material
imagination needs to paint each redoubt-
able adventurer. He is a good popular
historian and a competent writer, more
like Prof. Charming than like the old
Encyclopedia Britannica. His book can
The sun., 1918-09-15
and brakes of the India Main

the treacherous Rejb aga, who has
played cat-and-mouse with him for
months, at one stage making him cap
tive. Middleton's notes to the Asiatic are
the round, ringing notes of trumpet.
Bernard Shaw, in one Of his fits about
Shakespeare, compares the bard's rhetoric
with John Bunyan's, disparaging "Lay
on. Macduff," and the rest, in contrast to
II am void of fear in this matter. Pre-
pare myself to die, for l swear by my
internal den that thou shalt go no further.
Here will I spill thy soul"
The Spacious Buffer.
Read a passage from one of Middleton's
reports: of l shoot at the town he
Rejib Aga) saith he will requite me with
the like, which he cannot do, as YOU well
know, because his ordnance is far inferior
to mine Whereas he saith for any harm
l do amends must be made, amends is
already made for any harm | do them.
Though 1 should fire the town and beat it
smooth about their ears, whether it be
pleasing or displeasing to the Grand Seig-
nor, care not. I am out of reach of his
long sword, and for the reasonable
wrongs that the Basha and Rejib Aga
have done me he doeth well TO bring the
Grand Seignor as a party therein; let
the Basha and Rejib Aga likewise con-
slider that the King of England will not
take well the betraying, robbing and muir
dering of bis subjects to the great dis
honour of the Grand Seignor and their
nation"
The last clause, if the sense of it was
expressed to Rejib Aga, was sheer bluff,
and Middleton knew it. But what bluff,
and how superbly worded!
And now what your reporter wants is
a Masefield or a 1900 Kipling to take
this book and its sources and make Of
such gorgeous material the epics it de-
serves.
EARLY ENGLISH ADVENTURES IN
THE EAST. BY ARNOLD WRIGHT. Z. P.
Dutton & Co. s..
The sun., 1918-09-15
Read ROLAND and Live in the Paris OF l789

more charitable than those in power and
with Danton as your reluctant leader you
plan to break the power of Saint Guillo-
tine.
Robespierre enters to bid you desist
your efforts against the judges who are
Kidding the country Of traitors. You will
not; your soul is sick with looking upon
death; you can endure no more; the ma
ton suffers. In act II. you overhear
Robespierre planning with his heutenants,
Vadier, Saint Just, Billaud- Varenne, your
undoing. In act III. you are brought to
trial.
The people throng the court; the jury
sit bored with the monotony Of a justice
that means only guilty, no matter what
the charge; all effort is useless; you were
already condemned before arrest; Danton
makes brilliant fight for deliverance; the
mob is stirred on your behalf but in the
end you are led out to die-you are dan
The sun., 1918-09-15
By HARRY EsTY DoUNcE.

IN the present state of the world and
L white paper the appearance of a
large, thick book. printed on good stock,
devoted to the histories of England's sea-
faring pioneers in the East, 15SO-l6S0, or
Whereabouts, and sold at the tidy price Of
81, is an interesting phenomenon.
The author being an Englishman and
a scholar, well read for this work, as his
first chapter shows, in the India office
archives and the Hakluyt Society's publ
cations, but also of an amiable weakness
for the picturesque, you promptly imagine
him clustered in college Gothic tower,
rocks eawing in the elms his worst dis
traction from the congenial labor OF
refurbishing the true romance. The while
khaki or raw blue Blighty suits diversity
the quadrangle below, and sometimes,
when wind and hour are just right,
throbbing, drumming monotone, more like
a sensation than a sound, troubles the air
from the direction Of the Channel.
An Ante-Bellum Affair.
Mildly and quite without censure you
marvel at this scribe. Is not the wild
world orange and black and scarlet enough
to-dayf But on reading his preface
and his fly leaves (something book re-
porter really ought to do now and then)
you observe that Early English Aduem-
lures in the East was completed in 1914
and is in its second American edition.
Still how is that-things being as they
are7 Who ate up the first and wanted
more?
Tradesman's reflections rejecting In
nowise on Mr.. Arnold Wright himself or
his book, which is a good performance,
strong in the proper honest hearts of oak,
trade follows the flag vein of honesty.
Except Michelbo1ne, of whose rank pira-
cies Mr.. Wright makes naught but skull
and bones, you are shown all these rare
old British seadogs in the right in every
rumpus of their long drawn, seadog eat
scadog rivalry with the Portuguese and
The sun., 1918-09-15

gerous, not to La Patrie, but to Robes
pierre; yet the Republic will do nothing
to save you.
Enthralling in the library, these plays
(as you can see) have no place upon the
stage. They are modelled on the histor-
les, King John, Richard H., Henry w.,
which not even the genius of Shakespeare
can hold to the theatre. They are pageants
full of action, enlivened with every man.
ner of man, thrilling, absorbing, but re-
counted in narrative rather than dramatic
style-historieal novels told in the flash
ing give and take of ably conceived dia-
logue.
The translation is, l believe, the best
work yet done by Mr.. Barrett H. Clark,
and his introduction is enlightening. I
am deeply his debtor for a great expe-
rience.
THE FOURTEENTH OF JULY AND
DANTON. BY ROMAN ROLAND. Henry
Holt & Co. $50.
The sun., 1918-09-15

duces in criticism (using the word to con-
note all questioning whether in art, philos-
ophy or history so vivid an impression OF
reality, life as man feels it to be; they can
make the dead walk with wan majesty be-
fore the. eyes of the most sceptlc OF
readers.
Monsieur Roman ROLAND is a true
Frenchman. His Jean Cbristophe is one
of the great creations in modern literature.
And he has written sixteen full length
plays. His plays, in so far as am ae-
uuainted with them, are not so brilliant,
SO fired with genius, as is the great novel,
but being written in history they are his
tory, vivid, alert, appallingly true to the
spirit of the times.
In The Fourteenth Of July you storm
the Bastile. On Sunday at the Palais
Royal you gather with the idle crowd,
courtesans, gamblers, shopkeepers, citi-
zens, and are swayed by the gossip Of
neighbors to anger against the queen,
shamed into silence by the flaming indig
nation of an actress from the Theatre
Francais-by what right, on what grounds
do you judge? Would you exile every
pretty woman? You are reused again by
rumors on the wind, lifted to heroic rage
by the speech of Marat, united in purpose
with the mob as Desmoulins, breaking a
small branch from chestnut tree, shouts,
"In hoe signo vinces. Liberty, Liberty"
You take up the cry, help build barri-
cades in the streets, attend the councils Of
republican leaders, stand by as Desmol-
Inns kisses Lucille good night, and with
The dawn you join the nondeseript force
that shall free France-and so the world
from despotism. Then suddenly, as the
scene shifts again in the third act, you are
within the Bastile, almost afraid, vacillat-
ing, Inundated, as the people thronging
the square outside shout their threats
against the Government and the officers,
the rulers; the Swiss Guard do nothing;
until in the end, still believing you might
have swept the mob away with one blast
from the cannon, you surrender and are
yourself driven from the stage as the host,
exultant, lusting, rushes through the gates
and on toward Versailles.
In Ddnton, five years later, you meet the
lion Of the revolution at the home of
Desmoulins, now married to Lucille and
very happy. The streets run red with the
blood of France. You have had hand in
bringing about the terror. With others
The sun., 1918-09-15
By GEORGE GORDON.

TT seems a far cry from the quiet hills
i of Maryland to the Paris OF the
French Revolution, yet have l listened to
Danton, Robespierre, Marat, Saint-Just,
Camille Desmoulins and many another,
fellows to them, speak in accents un-
xearied by time, unhindered by distance;
have, I would almost swear, seen them
about their business, at home and abroad
upon the streets.
The period faseinates me. 1 read Mon
sieur Anatole Frances The Gods Thirst
with devouring eagerness; l turn to Car
Iyle's exhausting history again and again.
The French are nation peculiar to God,
set apart, destined to travail; theirs are
the pains of labor as, generation after
generation, man seeks new life in the
spirit. And they are articulate, making
good use of their lamentations to stir the
world.
When in 1776 we announced the birth
of liberty, the overthrow of tyranny, we
spoke only for ourselves; King George
was not unseated from his throne. When
the French in 1889 overthrow the Bour-
bons they declared war on all kings pro-
claiming liberty, equality, fraternity
throughout Europe. Ours might have been
bastard child for all the stir it made in
the great world; theirs, legitimate or no,
was forced into recognition. And it is
fitting that while we fight valiantly, I'M
selfishly, for democracy and freedom, that
doctrine of deliverance should become a
living force first on the fields of France.
do not say that they, the children of
Voltaire, Rousseau, the Valois, are nobler
than the English or more moral than we
ourselves, but who will deny them the rank
of best belovedi Love is not given as
reward for virtue. They are of all peo-
pies the most susceptible to the varying
moods of humanity, the most constant to
the heritage of all ages, the great achieve
ments of the past. They stand rooted in
tradition swaying to the gentler winds of
to-day. II hear that the men in the
trenches stir very little to hate; do they
take no infection from the soil on which
they kneel to pray for strength')
And as / have said, they are articulate,
blessed with great powers of speech. Il
is literally true that no other nation pro-
The sun., 1918-09-15

be picked up on two or three horrible
lapses Of grammar, but for these you
exonerate the author and convict the proof
desk; the proofreading in nine books
out of ten is so atrociously bad that one
judges all the qualified proofreaders must
be at the front. But as has been said, his
patriotic preoccupation with ethics seems
rather gratuitous. The grand old swash-
bucklers themselves would have had small
patience with it.
After He Left Pocahontas.
Otherwise, however, Early English 4d-
renturers might serve very well as text
book on an important phase Of world
history which in America is too little
known. Can it be such service that has
called for the second edition7] For
trivial instance: do you know what became
of Sir Thomas Dale, who brought Poca
hontas to England, and whose favorite
punishments were lash or wheel or a
bodkin through the tongue after his Gov
ernorship of the jamestown colony? Here
you will meet him again, commander of a
eompany's fleet protecting its merchant
men against the Dutch.
He learns of the plight of Courthope,
cut off on Poolo Room. He does what you
would expect Of him-grabs the nearest
Dutch ship and sets her crew ashore with
a warning, puts to sea, fights the stronger
Dutch feet to a standstill- then? He
astoundingly sails back to India, leaving
Courthope to die fine death in night
ambush on the water and losing the isl
ands to Holland once for all. As for
Dale, he dies ingloriously Of sickness.
And here is the Arctic Bafin, Baffin of
Baffin's Bay, an officer of the fleet that
fights the Portuguese at Ormuz. Cannon
are landed to breach their fort; Baffin is
in charge; q sharpshooter gets him as he
aims gun-"another example of the life
of navigator of distinction sacrificed on
the altar of patriotism in the East"
Particularly de we like Sir Henry Mid
deton at Mocha, standing stoutly up to
The Glenwood post., 1918-02-09
PROPERTIES WANTED

/ want some Glenwood Springs or
close IN properties in partial exchange
for fruit ranches, stock ranches, lay
and potato ranches we'll located. Also
will list some good ranch property for
sale. 1 have inquiries for such proper
ty and good chance to sell if prices
are right. Give full and accurate des-
cription, direction and distance from
nearest town. State what improve.
ments are on the place and give your
lowest price and terms of sale. If in,
cumbered state amount, rate of interest
and when due. If you will exchange
for other property, state the kind want
ed and your preference as to location.
Don't put fictitious value on yoal
property if you want to sell.
.L A. J. DICKSON.
The Glenwood post., 1918-02-09

property. The t,ees are in healthy
and thrifty condition and arc just IN
iag into bearing, having produced their
tlrst carload of apples last year. If
you are looking for place where you
aan really enjoy country life and WOO
back your failing health among the
chickens, pigs. bees. garden and frui.
you need not look farther. Owner is q
professional man in the city and cannot
enjoy the place as he had planned to
do, without more Of sacrifice of time
than he can afford, but it is just the
right place for someone who can come
here and make home of it. This prop
erty has cost the owner over $4,000
cash as checks will show, but he has
authorized me to offer it at $4,000 with
cash payment of $3.50 or upwards
and time on balance to suit buyers
convenience, or might exchange for
Denver property of good value.
The Glenwood post., 1918-02-09
SPLENDID LITTLE HOME

No. 1875
Twenty acres choice mesa land 2k
miles from Silt, excellent Improvement
consisting of Groom frame bungalow
nearly new and in first class condition,
good barn for five horses; place is
well fenced and set to choice lot Of
fruit trees, nearly all apples Of stand.
ard varieties. Good water right with
the property. Admirably situated and
just right for desirable country home
for small family. Belongs to eastern
party who cannot give his attention
and I am offering it for $4,000 and the
house alone cost considerable more than
this amount. This price is subject to
quick sale for I cannot guarantee this
sacrifice offer for any great length Of
time: Don't fail to ask about this
property II you are looking for rare
bargain. fI- 81 i-Tr rrf -rl .-G ust. 81.