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^ag? Two ********* * PIONEER LIFE * * IN * * IDAHO * * * * By L. N. Parkin. * 2f. x. ... .v v. if. if Jim McCarter and Joe Reedy were the owners of the Tyru us. the former being t brother ?f my companion. The next morning after we arrived i;i Ha ev J.n? Aicl'artcr said I to me: "I thought > u might wish to buy a cajiise. An old prospector has some here to sell, if you wish we will] go look at them." I had never heard of a cay use, and had no idea what: they would look like, hut I did not wish to expose my ignorance and be laughed at so 1 said "Yes I would like to see them, where are they?"" "Oh, they ar?* in a corral back of the livery stable" said he. So in a short *????" " ?! \roM itri r \i : c tn Pi.l' ral to sec the cay use: When we arrived at the ccrral. whar do you think we -aw ' Nothing more or less than a few Indian ponies trotting aiound the lot. Cay . th< Indian name | for a small h r-c. a i was borrowed I ftom the Indian- <1 mean the name) and much in use a that time. The Indian pony v,as a \? ry valuable horse and was much used y prospectors, traveler . etc. They are not to be1 co: 1 :sed with the "dollar a dozen'* Shetland ponie> we have in the- U. S Those ayi;s> wo urry a mar.: 60 miles a day one day with another] and live on bunch grass. After we had examined the m-u1 ieiently Mr. McCarter and 1 each bought a Cayuse and before fen o'clock we were on our way to Tyranus. The horse 1 bought proved to be a very valua-1 ble one that I Kept as long as I lived in Idaho, and then I gave him to my nephew who kept him as long as he lived. He had been trained by an old prospector and w as not afraid of wild game and would .->tand perfectly still and allow you ot shoot off of him as long: as you wished which was a great advantage to hunters after game as you can get much nearer to wild game en horse back than on foot. I will have to explain what was known as a "prospector" in that country. They were professional miners, but were not i ontent t-?? work for wager, bat expected to make a fortune ' ' v ke it ri? '.i" - they would call it, y hunting oven the hills and i mountains i . : i i eeo.us metals, j They would work in the mines in the! winter months ami g< i little money] ahead, then v.hen spring came they1 would g 1 t.-em a cayuse, a .-mail! camping outlit, a pick and shovel,j frying pan arid eofl- .? p 'and would; spend the summer months hunting ov er the hills and mountains for gold i ami silver, camping: out alone, living mostly on wild game their nearest neighbors being coyote-, mountain lions, hears, etc. There Were a great number of them at that time all over those minuig localities and they would keep up the business every summer as long as they were able to work. One perhaps in a thousand would Btnke it rich and become independent, but the great majority of them eventually went to an alms house and filled a pauper's grave I know one man personally who made an independent fortune mining. He worked in the mines unt?l he had some money of his own and he then ob- j tcined an option on a silver mine | umi irairey ior ^ou,uuu. went top London, England and sold the mine j for half a million dollars, thus mak-: [ ing a clear profit of over $4OO,0GO. 1 < Another a young m.ui j: from I i.knots came to Wood River[\ Vailcy and decided to try prospect- J injf while. He bought him a pick' I and shovel, went out into the hills > S when there were some men at work * on a claim, and told them his busi- t ness. They :-.t once set hint down as [ a green horn from the states (which [ he was) and thought they would c have some lur. at his expense. So I they took him to an old abandoned [ excavation and told him that was the [ place for him to work.?thought he \ would soon strike it rich?and went [ back to then work chuckling ov. . r their stunt, The young man w. nt to ' s work with a vim and in less than a \ month he struck a rich vein of na-jj sold his claim for $2,500.00, put the [ money in his pocket and went, back ' home leaving U> rm-:i who .-hov ed j him the claim sitting on the hill j cursing their fiSlySjSuch instances i I as these are rure hut they aie enou- j gh to excite the mining men ?,o try j j their luck with the results mention- | ea hdovc. as before mentioned the Tyranus was situated about thirty ! miles from Hailey near the base of the Saw Tooth mountains, near a ? TURKISH I VIRGINIA i I aURLCY I .-mail stream of water known as little Smoky. On the day mentioned our party arrived at the Tyranus a little before sun down This was a -o 't-th I Oth of -July. There was plenty of snow on the north side of the hills, much of it remaining all the year. We found the toys comfortably situated in their mining cabins which were built of logs. They were working a few hands and had a fhineso cook. There were several mines in that section, the most of th-m payirg properties, but tht 'camp** as it was called was twelve or fifteen miles ' from any farming section and the \ hills were rough and the south sides 'covered with grass and sage brush. The north sides were covered with a heavy growth of fir timber, nd along tht water courses tlie bo;, ag hot springs were numerous, so much so that a perpetual steam was rising from the water that in the distance very much resembled the smoke from a steam engine and the strange part about it was the close proximity of the hot and cold water. I have stood in places where I could put one finl'it of mv hand in boiling hot water arid at the same time I could put the other hand in ice cold water. I was shown one spring where tin hunters and miners would cook their meat by putting it in a bucket and sinking it into the hot spring, and it would cook it as thoroughly as it could bt done 0:1 a cook stov? I have tasted the water from ?hU\ rent hot springs after it had cooled enough to drink, and it all ha> the same ta>tc, which though not unpleasant, has a strong mineral taste. It is supposed to have medicinal properties and is recommended for rheumatism arid other ailments. We stayed one day and two r.ights at the mining camps and then mounted our cayus? s and started to Big Camas prararie a distance of about twenty miles, from the mining camps across a small mountain. I enjoyed my visit to the camps and was much interested in the mines and the personal of the men who work in the goid and silver mines. They are very different from the men who work in the coal mines. (1 spent a few days with my brothers who had charge of a coal mining camp in Kentucky before 1 visit, ri the silver niir.es of the west) the gold and silver miners are intelligent and 11111 -t of tin m fairly well educated and it i.- a nleasure to eon v; rwith them on accouii oC their | rientes in different parts of the country; sonic of which will fee ?>f interest to man\ who arc not acquainted with mining men. (to he continued) Chinese students attending the university of Chicago avail ther,t elves of 'JO.onO books of Chinese, .Japanese] Mongolian and Tibetan literature.! This library reports the possession of| 101 books printed pr.o** to TOO. j 1 be hniequat is a new citrus fruit obtained by crossing1 the West Indian lime, with the kumquat orange. The new hybrid possesses the hardy characteristics of the kumquat and is more disease resistant than the lime. The color js light yellow and the rind is edible. "Bootleggers oppose any movement for the return of light wines and beer." novates an exchange 'preferring Mr. Volstead?s open shop." pju ciiu cju c- [u [-\i j j rrti u r_3iJ tr [U crju c*? u r' QJ q I r5 1 WILL SELL MH | THE BALANC SALE TO TERMS::: cash IF WEATHER FAIR, OL ? Come 1 Needs? 1 J- S- ! THE WAT AUG/ The Spiritual Message of Radio. (Reverend F. M. Hu(^ins of Boom i:' th Western Recorder, Louisv lie, Kentucky ) \\JtiO maketh the clo ids his chariot: yf Who walk th upon the wings of | the wind (Psalms 10 i. ) God's gr at thought ^ were expressed in articulate peech. Man. unlike all the other crea(tire whom God made, was endowed with t hi - capacity. He was giventthe power of speech that he might glorify his Creator and bless man. To this end we have seen the development of this God-gi\cn faculty. The order of the development has been as follows: -poecb, written language, printing press, telegraph and telephone, and radio. The biditor of the llomiletic Review has referred to these as "epochal milestones of human progress." They have been used to express the thoughts and purposes of God, and will be so used in the future, as they have been in the past, as they are consecrated to these high and noble end ft. That thro are great possibilities for the development of radio in the service of humanity, no one will doubt. Its possibilities are along the lines of government service, navigation-gui <ianc?\ ana protection oi snips ai sea. in the realms of commerce and industry. as an educator, and as a means; < f spreading1 Christianity. My purp-? -e. however, is not to d;>cwss the development ami p?e oi radio, hut to indicate its spirituc! message, *?vhich to my mir.d. arc suggested along paiailei lines of thought as follows: 1. The messages of radio go out; in every direction from the broadcasting station. It "washes out" to every point of the compass. It does not show* any honor: as to directions j or people to be served. It is irrespective of races, nationaities, or con - \ ditions of humanity. It practically annihilates distance, and goes with the | J speed of light to the ends ?>f the earth j It is said that messages have been re- 1 ceivcd from the broadcasting stations' of Schenectedy, N. V. in every state in the union; in the far off provinces] of Canada; in Mexico; 200 miles in : the Atlantic; southeast 2,450 miles ion the Pacific;; and in France. The messages are easily heard within a, ! radius of 2.500 miles. Just as the broadcasting station sends its messages in all directions to] ; a!! people, so God's love, his concern,] i and interest in man whom he has j made, go out from the neat broad-j i ca.-iimr station oi" heaven t * everv i j one of his creatures. The high, and; J the lowly, the rich, and the poor, the t [great -inner, and the moral man, and the savage bound by ignorance and superstition, are alike the- objects of I hi'- love. His love knows no classes,! is bound by no lines of geography.! Like the sunshine, it beams upon all, and is with hob! en from none. lie., love is winged with the flight of om-j niscience to the very ends of the earth brooding with solicitous con-!' < evn ovi r the miilioiis of China, and Japan; over India and the suffering people of the east; over Africa, South America, and Mexico. Peter declared in the household of. Cornelius: "Cod is to respector of;' persons." God's love recognizes no ' distinctions of race, color or social standings. Peter's declaration under | mmstORSiSaSiRSS f ftSerchandas at public auction I0AY MARCH 21 week) and continuing unt :e o fth entire sto the watauga supf tStLiiN A I 1'tN O'CLO Sal. BAD SALE WILL BE 1! ITDOORS ! and Supply ' at Your Own McBride, i DEMOCRAT mines the stand:ng ground of the anti-missionary and teaches us that ?uKi loves ?.! And si've God loved he sent his Son, to die that he ?-.? -'t save ail who would accept him , \ repentance and faith. 'J. There must be the proper ad\\ nient of the receiving instrument rJer that the sound may be heard, word can be received without this uljustiuent. The air is full of messa i?ut we ar<* unable to hear them f had the instruments unless they properly adjusted. 1ho soul v Inch God has given us he receiving instrument. Proper dj istment of the soul mu.^t be made C are to hear the m ^-ages of ; ?.?i t* >r our lives. If we allow sin in .i y form to enter our lives, that sentivc receiving instrument, the soul, v..: i become maladjusted. The fine isensitiveness and receptivity of the soul i> marred by evil thoughts, permuting the mind to dwell upon the obscene and impure things of life, by lite pursuit of the vain pleasures ?>f the world; by deception; by dishorn ty, compromising one's integri i, -r .1 -i.i. w.. cloning engrossed with the affairs of the world, materialized to the exten that we lose sight of the spiral: by the cultivation of a scient pirit which docs net take into a. i: * the things of (toil; and by -k ipticism, the spirit of un1. and lack of reverence for saore?. thing. , to get the ascendency life- These things will dull the sit;\\?ness of the soul to the voice o1' tied, and leave the life parched a ad arren. If we are to receive the mo.wigo of God for our lives we must live dose tc God; we must come to him daily for cleansing in the precious blood of Christ. We must live clean before God and man. 3. The third suggested similarity is from the fact that the message of radio is actually received. The concert. the address, or the sermon is distinctly heard and understood for thousands of miles from the broadcasting station. For the Christian there is no doubt in his mind that he hears the message which God speaks to his soul. Through Jesus Christ, the Saviour and Mediator, he is in communication with God. Jesus Christ is his one, only, ar.d sufficient medium. In Jesus Christ God speaks to men. It is the Holy Spirit; v.-ni-.h reveals the things of Christ to us. "The spirit bcarcth witness wuh our spirits/' i i..relation of communion with Cod it- reached and maintained thru pt ivad.ng of the Word, and the icii? ? ition of one's life to the service <<( God. God also reveals himse.f in. u<gh nature, and by contact w.th eeod people. There are many way- in which God reveals him. e f, bv*t - a Saviour, only in Christ, if we could be more in the listening attitude. we could hear him more. It is the privilege of every one to "lister, in if he will comply with the conditions. The message of God received in the soul strengthens one for the iluties ai d responsibilities which come upon him. 4. Finatly, the voice on the radio is recognizable. We can recognize the voice of a friend. So the voice of God as it comes to us is recognized. Jesus thinking of himself as the geud shepherd. and speaking of his disciples <aid: "They knew not the voice of -trangers." In some way we have the I moral capacity to recognize the voice! 111 P il sold ggj CK BELONG'LY CO. CK A. M. Rain or Shine vl HOUSE?IF Your I Prices !j , Receiver. | of our heavenly Father when h? ;peaks to us. We can tell that voice from Satan's voice or any other. It is reassuring to recognize his voice from the many others, for just as the air about us is full of messages going in every direction, so there comes up from the world many voices to the Christian. Many of them are sinister and devilish. They seek to turn us aside, this way or that, from the right. Some of these voices are high-sounding but they are deceptive. But the voice of God comes to us also, and that voice we know, and should follow. A noted preacher of the south, whose church is equipped with a strong transmitting instrument, has placed a receivi ing apparatus in the home of his moth er, who lives back many miles from the city in her little mountain home, voice of her son as he brings the message of God to his people. Think you not that the voice is not recognized from any other she might hear? Think cf an accomplished daughter, the pride of her mother, who has attained success in the musical world She is to have a part in a great concert to be given in a distant city. The mother is "listening in" not only to On Sunday morning she hears the __ _ __ If LOV PR1 In the Hi Ford Mot I II j j| Chassis j Runabou j Touring Truck Ch Coupe Sedan All Prices-! A t these lowes Ford cars are day than ever | for reasonably 1. BOONE AN1 ____________________ r oj L,oc= MCUj?? Iouiuy "When I feel ztapld, get constlp; two of Black-Draught end it seta tr Haislep, of R. P. D. 2, Columbia, S all right, and hare not used any otli ot it I am a guard at the State or more years. When I first heard IBLACK-E Liver I and the good medicine It was, 1 a I'd get up la the morning. I wouk I bad taste in my month, but didn't I stupid and didn't feel like eating?I I was then I began black-Draught, i I kind at work, ready to eat and alee H I take Black-Draught, and toe 25 y I wouldn't be without It at alL My I lot 1 am out of doors, and tres I r- "'rises 1 Deed. I recommend It Sold Ev< MARCH 1*, IMS hear the concert, but to detect, if sher . may. the voice of her daughter. There n the sound of many instruments and; voices. Presently she catches the beau tiful voice of her daughter. As she listens it grows more distinctly, and all the others almost cease to be heard. If you are "listening in*' silently and reverently, with clean souls and pure lives, we can hear the voice of God as it comes to us over the tumult and confusion of the world's j many voices, saying "Peace be still.'* TTdWpiiisT ^ Unejualed as an Jr IAMTI- BILIOUS MEDICINE stimulate torpid liver, strengthen I ' digestive organs, regulate the I ^owsis^rrbev^^cl^^Mdache^j The first saw mill within the Arctic Circle will be established at Herschcd Island, at the mouth of the McKenzie river. The engine accom; panying the mill is of the two-cycle | kind, without carburetor or ignition j and can be run on fish oil or crude I petroleum from tliel Fort Norma | wells. VEST PFS I Aa0 story of the or Company . . $235 * . 289 || assis "380 I F. O. B. Detroit Toe*a* Bi lied, or biiioat, I take a good dote ar || ie straight," writes Mr. Oeorge B. I >. C. "It cleanses the liver and 1 tee! |1 , ler medicine as 1 do not see the need w|| Reformatory, sad have bees lor three I Id >RAUGHT H Medicine bad been having a fired feeing when I I be stitt and sore, and bad a star, 55 think so much ot K till 1 begna to ieei | then I knew 1 needed medicine. It | ind I tett all made over, ready lor any | p. So, lor any return of this trouble, 59 ears it has been my medicine, and I I work is constant I am on my ieet a I h sir and Black-Draught are all Am 51 to often for I know it la good."
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