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EVENING : CAPITAL : NEWS
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published Every Afternoon and Sunday Horning at Bola«. Idaho, a City of
SMtO People by
THE CAPITAL) NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY. LIMITEIX _
RICHARD STORY SHERIDAN.
Entered at the Poet Office at Boles, Idaho, aa Second-claaa Mall Matter.
Phonea—Business Office. 234; Editorial Booms. 234; Society Editor. 1101-J.
BOISE, IDAHO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1912.
THE APPETITE.
Oh, this fact will bear repeating, that unless you're fond of eating,
everything will seem discordant in this world that we Infest; If your
appetite is slender life will have n) joy or splendor, and you'll think
that this republic Is skedaddling galley west. Brooding prophets,
gloomy Daniels, say we're going to the spaniels, government Is all cor
rupted and we're headed for the dump; but If they were only able to
get busy at the table, tilings would seem far more attractive, and their
gloom would take a slump. Nearly all man's earthly troubles would be
evanescent bubbles, could all people eat with gusto, morns and eves
and sunny noons; could they shovel in their craters beef and beans and
boiled potaters, succotash and ham and spinach, macaroni, pies and
prunes. They could not bo drawn with horses to the courts to get di
vorces if their appetites were working In the good old fashioned way;
they would find ibis life loss hollow if they had desire to swallow
buckwheat cakes and eggs and doughnuts, scrambled rice and shredded
hay. Life should be and is a blessing, and the wails and sighs dis
tressing cyme from folks with balky stomachs, though they oft mis
place the blame. Learn to eat with frenzied ardor, take a fall out of the
larder, and you'll soon be quite en
amored with this cheerful human game. .
Copyright, 1912 by George Matthew Adams. .WlfM
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MEANING OF BUMPER CROPS.
The meaning of bumper crops ought to be brought
home to us as it is in a special article in the New York
Times. There are seven hundred and fifty million bushels
of wheat, one billion four hundred thousand of oats, three
billion of corn, and of minor crops like barley, buckwheat,
etc,, enough to bring the total up to five billion five hun
dred thousand bushels. Its total value is $3,500,000,000.
Of course, it is not all moved at once. It could not be. It
comes in slowly at the great centers like Duluth, Chicago
and Minneapolis, and thence filters out in the shape of
manufactured stuff, to a degree, to places where it is
needed. And all this involves the use of something like
half a billion of money. There are 1,130,000 farm hands
regularly employed. Harvest makes the number 2,240,
000 more. All told it is reckoned that more than four mil
lion men are in the field getting these bumper crops. The
money for the crops comes to them and through them to
various places for things needed. Then, of course, those
that buy the crops get profits. The railroads get profits in
the shape of freights, and thus the vast amount of half a
billion dollars is expended. But what the "man in the
street" wants to know is liow will this big crop affect
them? Will living be any cheaper?
There is no cause to think that it will. Figures from
the commerce and labor department show, for example,
that 1901 was a bumper crop year for wheat. But the
next year the cost of fifteen typical articles went up from
108.5 to 114.6, the 100 points being the average price of
the articles for the years 1890-99. The corn crop in 1901
was poor, and that may have had an effect. In 1905 and
1900 there were enormous crops of wheat and corn. But
the cost of the fifteen staple articles went from 116, where
it was in 1905, to 120 in 1906, and the next year it went to
125, and in 1908 to 130. Nor did bumper wheat and corn
crops in 1909 bring the level down. The department re
port up to .June of this year leaves the fifteen articles at
154—more than half as much again as in 1890.
So the average consumer may only hope that the
bumper crops of this year will hold prices from advancing
so rapidly. The explanation given is that while popula
tion grew 47 per qont from 1890 to 1910, our output of
staple crops advanced less than 30 per cent, and acreage
yield increased only about 5 per cent. We are not raising
so much to the acre, nor raising enough acres, to make a
dent in the demand. The problem immediately ahead of
us is to increase our acreage yield—to do better farming.
Until then we can expect no help from bumper crops, for
we still keep ahead of them. »
OUR AGRICULTURAL NEEDS.
The fact is that we are still in the dark ages of agricul
ture, according to Truman Cî. Palmer, in a paper published
as a senate document. He considers the relative produc
tivity of American and European fanning methods, and
says that the oratorical flubdub, of which we have had too
much, about our being the granary of the world, so far
from being true, conceals the fact that Europe is doing far
better than we in agriculture, and that unless we improve
we shall in a few years be importing more foodstuffs thau
we export. In spite of inferior natural resources, Gei'
mauy today is producing far more to the acre iu all staple
crops than we are. A remarkable thing about it is that
the change has come about in the last quarter of a century.
Before that time Germany was getting about the same
yields from fann lands as we. Even as late as 1891 the
yield of rye and barley in the two countries was the same;
but of wheat and oats Germany raised twenty-two bushels
to the acre to our twenty. The Germans have been farm
ing their laud for five hundred years. Most of it is sandy
plain. Hardly any of it is comparable to our western
lands. But in twenty years they have increased their
yield to forty bushels to the acre and we produce only
twenty-one bushels. That is, we have gained eighteen
bushels; or by percentage we have gained 6 V 2 > the Ger
mans 80.
Now this has not come about by any intricate opera
tion, but by the drill of the government which has taught
the German farmer that one year in four he must plant a
root crop. One of these is potatoes, of which Germany
raises so many as to export them and to use them to make
alcohol. The other is beets for sugar, of which Germany
makes so much as to have besides a domestic supply a sur
plus worth $80,000,000 a year for export. A root «crop like
sugar beets requires deep plowing and thorough cultiva
tion which gets the weeds out. Then in pulling the beets
many small roots are left in the ground—about two tons
to the acre—organic matter, which opens the soil and
makes it fertile. As a result all of Germany's crops grown
in succession to beets show an increase of from 30 to 50
per cent. By this system of crop rotation the whole of the
country's enormous agricultural prosperity lias been
achieved. Emigration has been largely stopped and the
food supply, which at one time seemed to be falling short,
has been restored. What Germany has done, Mr. Palmer
insists that we can do. He urges beet cultivation and says
that where beets have been used in rotation, crops in our
country have increased as much as 50 per cent and land
values have advanced as much as four times. We have
better soils than Germany and twice the area, and Mr.
Palmer insists that a beet crop in rotation with wheat,
corn, oats and hay would add billions to our annual return,
and go a long way toward halting the. upward tendency of
food prices. _
Letters From the People
The 8t. Anthony Reform 8chool.
Evening Capital News: Assuming
that many indignant persons are, like
myself, tired of waiting for this St.
Anthony matter to he decided, I want
to speak for these nervous folks.
Whether or not there Is another man
or woman In the state who feels as 1
do about it, here Is my say:
We conserve everything else In Idaho
but adolescent life. It seems to me that
It Is high time to be doing a little con
serving where It will do good In gen
erations to come. We arouse the whole
state over a little lire in some Isolated
forest where dead and dying pine trees
are about to be consumed, but we sit
complacently by and see a whole school
of unfortunate children subjected to all
sorts of Indignities and no one cares,
for they are the offspring of helpless
and unfortunate folks. I am In favor
of stirring up a sentiment on the side j
of the youth of this state, and whether
inside or outside of our Institutions it
Is our bounded duty first of all to
CONSERVE THE INNOCENCY IN
YOUTH.
In our St. Anthony institution there
is poor hope of ever doing an innocent
child any good. We have no right to]
send them there In the first place. If a]
child of mine in his Innocency were !
sent to that place and was there taught j
the evil everywhere rampant about
the unguarded region, I should sue the
state for malpractice on adolescent in
nocency.
If it is going to throw the entire
election to have a righteous Judgment!
on this matter now and guilty ones j
punished and changes made that will J
meet the demands of youth of this state, ]
then let the elections be thrown. If
we are going to cover up errors of the
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past and leave room for their perpet
nation in the future, let us know it now ]
The matters seem lo he simmered ,
down to a point where some female j
mind, governed by some politician i
somewhere, is afraid to say her soul is j
her own. Let
have minds at the I
heads of our institutions that will su>
what they think and stand by it.
am In fa
Anthony school
of dividing the St. |
t once and taking!
therefrom every child who is there
lng to poverty or misfortune. No use!
buying more land and spending more ;
failed j
•e are J
money' on the present institutions,
it has done its best, we haw
and if it has not done its best
worse than failing by allowing it to go j
on as it is. Let us segregate the inno- j
cent from the guilty and then conse
the innocent in the one and refrom the I
guilt in the other. That is the first
work of an institution like ours. It is
not simply' a boarding house where the
child is assisted in his downward
course.
What right»has this state to pick up
CONSTERNATION IN DOG LAND
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Ibe city of Mink* bee eetoMlzhed • muuicJpal dog «laughter hou»«, «***•**£<
Dog Mit te (-kl u> Dom Pocome *s»r popular there, aad I» ha« be*
an Innocent child and confine It In a
place where light and heat and food
are furnished It, but where there Is the
darkest kind of a dungeon from a moral
standpoint?
What right has this state to pick up
a lot of degenerates and turn them all
together in some unguarded and un
protected institution and allow each to
teach the other all he knows of evil,
and under the enthusiasm and edifica
tion of a combined human energy and
momentum 1 of unrestricted Inertia,
grow worse and worse while the only
restraining influence brought to bear
upon It is the corporal punishment af
flicted. 1 say you may scare a child so
badly that he won't do a thing, hut you
cannot scare him so badly that ho
won't want to do tt.
The child mind In that Institution Is
entitled to be brought right into direct]
contact with the Christ mind and be]
there given an opportunity to Improve :
by such association. I do not care a !
whit as to what church he Joins, but.
this state has no right to hedge the
this pretended reformation with Christ
h'tt out. Ils all bosh. No one was
**ver reformed save that one who was
child around about with degenerating
influence like wo have at the present.
I want to rise to ask what, if any,
Christian minds we have in this state
institution? How many of those di
rectors and teachers ever passes under
the blood of Jesus Christ and are today
living the twice horn life? Fie on all
brought into direct contact with the
mind of Jesus.
What is tills state doing to the end
that fallen children in her institutions
shall be caught up again? Nothing.
nd clothe them and
turn them out, and
We feed them«
whip them and
there you have it.
Philosophy is good enough as far as j
it goes. Confucianism is ail we are)
applying in St. Anthony. We mix with!
it a little Buddism. Confucianism says:
] "Oh, you are down and out, are you?
, Oh, you have been sent here have you.
Thon I know what yon need; it's a good
i flogging once In a while and advice to
j come up out of the mud hole as soon
I as you can."
, you are down
you? Now, If
Buddism says: "Ol
In the mud hole, are
| you will just get nearly out we will
roach down and pick you up and help
ow.lyou." Christ comes along and says
"Hold Just a minute until I lay down
; this cross anti I will lie down in then
nd lift you out." In another moment
j the Master is beside the fallen one and
J the t regeneration is complete. This is
want in the St. Anthony in
Now sonic one say
j what we
j stitution
I think of regenerating the child
reform school like ours. The
she is foolish to
•n in a
go on
and say r it is not done anywhere in any
institution of this sort? What if it is
not? Besides, that is just what they
are doing many places. And besides
again, no nation ever did, and no na
tlon ever will long endure, except that
nation looks well to Its youth and CON
SERVES ADOLESCENT 1NNOCEN
CY. It does not conserve Innocency for a
state to throw out Its talons and seize
a helpless child who has sidestepped a
little, brand It as a criminal, and then
submerge It Into an Institution where
its associates are worse than Itself.
A long story told In a few words Is
this: The question Is not "Shall we
keep the present management?" but
Is this, "Shall we continue a Confuclan
Institution In which Buddism Is the
best they get?"
MINNIE J. DICKINSON.
Oct. 26. 1912.
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ELECTORAL VOTE OF
STATES IN THE UNION
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Alabama .................
..12
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Arkansas ................
. 9
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California ................
... 13
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Colorado .................
... 6
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Connecticut ..............
.. 7
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Florida ..................
... 6
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Georgia ..................
... 14
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Idaho ...................
... 4
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Indiana ..................
... 15
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Kansas .................
...10
0
Kentucky ...............
...13
0
Louisiana ...............
...10
. . . 6
0
Maryland ...............
0
Massachusetts ..........
0
Michigan ................
... 15
0
Mississippi ..............
...10
0
Missouri .................
0
Montana ................
... 4
0
Nebraska ...............
0
New Hampshire .........
0
New Jersey .............
0
New Mexico.............
... 3
0
New York ..............
0
North Carolina ..........
0
North Dakota ...........
... 5
0
Oklahoma ...............
... 10
0
Oregon .................
... 5
0
Pennsylvania ............
... 3S
0
Rhode Island ............
... 5
0
South Carolina ..........
0
South Dakota ...........
0
Tennessee ...............
0
Texas ....................
0
Utah ....................
... 4
0
Vermont ................
... 4
0
Virginia .................
... 12
0
Washington .............
... 7
0
West Virginia ..........
... 8
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Wisconsin ..............
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Wyoming ...............
. .. 3
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Total .................
...531
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Necessary to choice .....
...266
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If
Responsible.
Jipes, I think I have
at
you say you have a cousin in the regu
lar army. He is an officer, I presume?".
"Yes, he holds some responsible |
position, but I don't exactly know the
nature of it. When he wrôte to me
last he »«aid he was in the guardhouse
—whatever that Is."
is
a
is
Little # for Much.
The coal pile In the cellar makes
A mighty striking figure.
But oh. the hill I got for it,
Today looms so much bigger.
* Showed Up.
"I foolishly told a suffragette that
women were not fitted for the ballot."
"What then?"
"She showed me up before a lot of
my friends. Asked me to ted what J
knew about schedule K."
Surprised.
lie—Would you cry if I kissed you?
She—I'd be astonished, I'd be speech
less.
Dentist, Dr. Carpenter. Idaho Bid*.
A Bold Rüse
By OSCAR W. TOWNSEND
A man rod« up to a party of miners
making coffee and frying bacon at a
campfire and said, looking earnestly
at one of them:
"Mart, the red devils have got Sam."
"Ob, my God!" moaned the man ad
dressed.
Martin and Samuel Gifford were
twin brothers who, In the middle of
the last century, went out to the min
ing district of Colorado to prospect for
gold. The country atilt belonged to its
original owners, or, at least, ita posses
sion by the whites was made uncom
fortable. The savages tortured their
csptlves before killing them.
"How long ago did they get hlmT'
asked Martin Gifford.
"Not over half an honr."
"Have they killed him?"
"Reckon not They'll probably tor
ture him first"
"Come, boys," sold Mart; "we may be
in time."
Five men, all well armed, rode off,
guided by Simmons, the one who bad
brought the news, for the purpose of
rescuing the captive. But the Indians
were not acustomed to going about in
small parties, and the white men had
little hope of finding a force that they
would be able to master. Besides, as
soon as they were discovered the sav
ages would kill their prisoner, if they
had not done so before. Indeed, they
set out on their enterprise because they
had not the heart to refuse Martin
Gifford rather than with any expecta
tion of making a rescue.
Simmons led them to the spot where
Sam Gifford had been surprised and
captured. Then one of the men dis
mounted and, leading bis horse, fol
lowed the footprints of the savages.
It was evident that there was a large
number of them, so many. In fact, that
It would be madness for the white
men to attack them. But they pressed
on till there began to appear evidence
that the Indians were not far ahead of
them, when they halted and sent one
of their party cautiously forward to
reconnoiter.
He returned to say thnt from an
eminence he had teen as many as 500
redskins on a plain below drawn up in
two»lines, between which a white pris
oner was about to run the gantlet
The party followed their guide to the
point of observation, and before reach
ing It they could hear the shouts—the
yells—of the savages, from which' it
was evident that their prisoner was
running between the lines and they
were belaboring him.
It was with difficulty thnt the whites
could restralu Martin Gifford from
to
| rushing down the slope to die fighting
for his brother. But they held him
back on the edge of a wood In which
they were lying on their stomachs and
used their persuasive powers to con
vince him that if lie betrayed their
presence. Instead of savlug Sam. he
would bring the Indians upon them
and they would l»e overpowered.
By the time they had accomplished
this the prisoner had run the gantlet
and was driven staggering to a tree,
where he was bound and the Indians,
standing at n distance, were preparing
to fire at him. The whites knew that
it was not the intention to kill him.
He would be reserved for a lingering
death. They would see how near him
they could send their bullets and ar
rows without indicting a death wound.
Mart." said one of the party. 'If you
want to die with Sam or have a chance
to save him I'll give you an idea for
trial. These red devils are as supersti
tious as they are cruel, and can easily
be Imposed upon by working n super
natural racket None of 'em could tell
you and Sam apart There's no differ
ence in your dress or height or build.
Suppose you start down the slope, un
armed, with the measured tread of a
ghost. They won't shoot an unarmed
man till he gets near enough for them
to see what he looks like, and when
they see Mart's doable stalking toward
them ten to one they'll run."
The words were no sooner spoken
than Mart Gifford waa Impatient to try
the plan, but they held him for a few
minutes to Impress upon him the Im
portance of keeping hia head and play
ing his part well. Some regretted that
they had nothing with which to whiten
his face, but others avowed that thla
would add nothing to his similarity to
bis brother and might detract from it
The Indiana were engaged In firing at
their victim when Mart, who bad pull
ed himself together for a great ef
fort. left the wood with folded arma,
looking op at the sky that be might
not be affected by his brother's danger.
There waa an interval of about ten
seconda between each of his steps. He
waa soon noticed by a redskin, who
called the attendes of the others to
him.
The gbostllneaa of hia measured
walk soon brought about a commotion
among his observera, and when he
came near enough for them to see their
prisoner's double they were dum
founded. When he hed approached
near enough to them for hie features
to be distinct to them be stopped and.
sdlt looking up at the sky. painted to
bis brother. Some of the Indians fell
on their faces, while others, understand
lng the ghost's motion to be a demand
far himself, ran to the prisoner end un
bound him.
8am Gifford soon divined his broth
er's maneuver and when released
walked slowly toward Mart, and on
reaching him the twins marched away
ride by ai de. f
Dentist, Dr. Carpenter, Idaho Bldg,
day's news today. tf
Birthday Calendar
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If This I« Your Birthday
Some accident threatens you, which,
being forewarned of, you may be able
to avoid. Try to keep In good health,
for an active year, crowded with suc
cess, awaits you.
Those born today will rise in life.
Though they will be quick to anger,
they will also be quick to understand,
and will generally win in games of
skill.
&
Burled Trsaaur«,
(From Judge)
Then to a garret's dark retreat y
He quickly went with eager feet.
And seeking in a corner there.
He lifted forth with tender care
An object, too good to be true.
Ah, how the thanks poured from his
throat !
For there, almost as good as new,
He found his last year's overcoat!
Positively Highest Price
paid for cast-off clothing, shoes,
hats, suitcasss, ato.
Phone 1526. Will call.
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Good music. Nothing better at
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and better quarters In the
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xou.