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Show THE SAUNA MW SAUNA. mil IDAHO BRIEFS famous American (rap gtbiiiit util tasay held her lit Mr. W4-- r etih lf Sr your lastyricnd railway desetwyou f tr Mooes, 87, found ante NeM it Vuifct nnuada o heart. Nm oMailty tyf ir- A rra-- Minting torees ihm It Sn rtrtd. - until wa a shoot l of I ha Mate Mes, sd is Dont IVere la laJuas July 4 death hat aarwiesd. Tils la the hoavirM death tat for a lie pthd la Mtj tears. The lot lod aa nasic, lake la t.tl, shooed I Mi person. ihaMtog Wister nea la IJab of M f ivot bowed a n4iiN ir Mental April I, a compared with 77 It 1 I pef Dieter It oohUIKs of April lat J. II. Jinh lmied year. A oat, stats trq ntsfrMirian, the this Jeer Will l 9 MMMO hoobris as otarrd with 1I.MMM1 hubea la IDA. I. P. Hunt, former la-la- b pef fetl lat leetjile. l-- y rt 7 rt a a reality farm sufwrlniredeet aul deputy sheriff, rbargnl with pmIuii of liquor, ha leru trta II lued 5U of Ju-i- lr y Vaee Barge. os I ok I'sytll la up earlier than rime Uriel, The beemri nru.n b to this year's early melting waa In I'JlL The gum dnl-- a this raua I about one month earlier than uual Tiwr are mote no lb rainpua of the l'ulverliy of Idaho than at any corresponding In the of the nnlvrrrity. At tie end of lb fir--t week In April Iay-tle-e- e ato-le- Id-lo- ry were registered. While is.liuaie on the ISKSI population of Tola Fell are variously el limited the most peiMtlttil-ti- c place the gain over BOD at n ta Bel una from ILa county than . In the town and vilshow dor-relages with four exception. Jerome show an Increase of nearly WO In tit 1070 MLdcnt Jr rout .ftinqtciil'TomiTncnt Money HankS Lincoln Monument T41 of Ihla year Is Mother's day. a day fur honoring our mother. not who ar here to receive only tin who ar no our lor tmt aim tin longer wl'.h u. It la alao a day paying tribute to those mother of lli pari alio irav to a tuition Ita great men. In virtually every case Hi funi of their auti liaa ao far tranaeended their own that they are hut little known, even though those aona hare been the llrat to acknowlto their edge their Indebtedness fur whatever element of mother greatness they theniaelvea possessed. Such waa the rare with the first great American, Georg Washington, and hla mother, Mary Ball Waahlngtun. In an address to "the Mayor and Commonalty of the Corporation of Fredericksburg" In 1706 he thanked them for the honorable mention which la made of tny revered mother, by whoae nmternal hand (early deprived of a Fathhr) 1 waa led to manhood." When ahe died In USA and congress passed resolutions of sympathy, hla reply contained Ihla tribal to her: "1 attribute all of my success In life to the moral. Intellectual 'and physical education which I received from tny mother." Bren though that statement la closely akin to Lincoln's famous tribute to hla mother, "God bless my mother All that I am or hope to be 1 owe to her," It la doubtful If there was the warmth of feeling In Washington' words that there were In Lincoln's. For the truth of the matter la that there waa never the close tnother-and-so- n attachment between George Washington and Mary Ball Washington that there was between Abraham Lincoln and Nancy Hanks or even between the Great Emancipator and hla atepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. Left motherless at the age of thirteen, Mary Ball waa married to Augustine Washington at twenty-twand gave the name of George to her first-bor- n In honor of her guardian and girlhood benefactor, MaJ. George Eskridge. That she was a stern parent seems to be the unanimous verdict of all of the early Washington biographers. Of her, Lawrence Washington of Chotauk, once said: I was often there with George his playmate, schoolmate and your.g man's companion. Of the mother I was ten times more afraid than 1 ever was of my own parents. She awed me In the midst of her kindness, for she waa Indeed truly kind. I have often been present with her sons, proper tall fellows, too, and we were all as mute aa mice; and even now, when time has whitened my locks, and I am the grandparent of second generation, I could not behold that remarkable woman without feelings It Is Impossible to describe. Whoever has seen that air and manner, so characteristic In the Father of His Country, will remember the matron, aa she appeared when the presiding genius of her household, commanding and being obeyed." Because she was a stern parent. It has pleased gome biographers of Washington to paint her as g Spartan mother. But this role did not include sending him forth to war with the classical Injunction about "returning home with your shield or upon it," for we have the evidence of George Washington Parke Custls that she had two great fears, one of war and the other of lightning, and the evidence of contemporary documents that she persistently discouraged Washington In his military ambitions. Much of the latter has been brought to light by a modern biographer, Rupert Hughes, whose honest effort to learn and present the whole truth about Washington has brought down npon him so many accusations of being a since the first volume of deliberate bis life of Washington was published by William Morrow and company four years ago. Ib that volume be says of Mary Ball Washington, "While she has been the victim of almost as much deification as George she has been set next to the mother of Christ she seems to have been a terrifyingly strict mother, and not to have ghared George's Ideals of rebellion . , . Few women have ever had such rhetoric of adulation heaped upon them, and Washington Is quoted aa aaylng that he owed all he was to his mother. But It Is cruel truth that she was chiefly remarkable as a very human, cantankerous old lady .who, from being a fond taskmaster in her early (etherbood, evolved Into a trial for everybody. Un-coi- o t g well-ordere- d ldol-emash- n, bt VV4jCU:S itinl) xetruatt tut iJStbutovi ar u. fr ul vS. w 4 AT 11 Wor-ahlpf- aa to bis Inheritance through her of the qualities which he deemed to le nun of the within him, he pohe with deep feeling, "God bless my neither. All that I am or hope to he ( owe to her." Although In this uttern Soke of the inenlnl traits he ance, her thought himself to have Inherited from her, rather than her direct Influence over him. It waa of her mind and character he spoke wnen he aah1 that however unpromising her early surrounding m'ght have boon "she waa c- - H.l UV. k . a tJv. f ;i inrvrtmiyjLi a Xt w-- s It JUl. Mf ! JkUl, r , -- i.. !.. highly Intellectual by nature, had a strong memory, accurate Judgment, and waa cool and heroic." 11 4a !i Mother Town" Tablet Horrodsburg,'Ktj: These are the abundantly supported facts, and there Is no excuse for the maudlin perversion of the truth; yet the picturesque little old woman atruggllng with unusual hardship and her own trulta should have all the sympathy In the world. It cannot he comfortable to be the mother of ao arch-rebel.- " In a later volume he says of her: She was a difficult mot tier, though he was a devoted ton. . . . Mary's name appears Incessantly In Washingtons account books and diaries, lie took good care of her business for her, visited her with fdlnl regularity, and paid her profound respect, saying at the Inst: T attribute all of my success In life to the moral. Intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother.'" So, even though we cannot think of Washington's mother as an outstanding example of the warm, which we associate with the gentle mother-lov- e idea back of Mother's day. snrely the result of the ''moral, Intellectual and physical education which she contributed to the making of the great character that was the Father of Ills Country should he enough to Insure for Mary Ball Washington the lasting gratitude of this nation. While there do not exist, and probably never have, any such contempftrary records, as In the case of Washington and bis mother, to show the closeness of the bond between Nancy Hanks Lincoln and the son that was born to her on February 12, 1800, yet there Is a wealth of tradition, reliable enough to warrant Its acceptance, about the tender and deep love that was theirs. One of the lending Lincoln scholars, Dr. William E. Barton. has aptly called her a backwoods madonna" and In his book, "The Women Lincoln Loved," company, he prepublished by the Bohhs-Merrlsents these glimpses of mother and son: li Southern Indiana was then a wild region, and the settlements back of the Ohio river were few and sparse. There were at first no regular church services, no physicians, no schools, Perhaps Thonius Lincoln did not regret the absence of schools so much as Nancy did. There Is no reason to believe that he opposed such education as ,hls children were able to secure, but apimrently the mother was more Intent on the securing of an education for her children than was the father. ... Abraham Lincoln was old enough now te look with more possibility of appreciation on this mother of his. and to estimate somewhat her qualities. She was now approaching the She was above medium age of thirty-five- . height and had a slight stoop as though predisposed to consumption. Stie weighed about a hundred and thirty pounds. Her complexion was dark, and her face whs thin and sallow. Her forehead was unusnnliv high, and all her relatives commented on this ferture of her appearance as belonging to and exhibiting her Intellectual nature. She was usually cheerful, but her face In repose was sad. At times she displayed a marked tendency to mirth, but she had moods of melancholy. Abraham had a hoy's limitation of Judgment; perhaps he did Dot appreciate these qualities so fully In his youth as he did later, but we have no reason to suppose that he was wholly blind to them. She was a good mother t him, and he knew It. She was ambitious for him. and desired that he should have the opportunities which both she and her husband bad missed. . He loved his mother while she lived, and he loved her memory afterward. It was a pathetic memory, and had In It elements concerning which he was properly reticent; but If Abrahnm Lincoln received from Ida mother a rich heritage of qualities which contributed to also owe much to hla greatness, that greu tnc another woman who bore the name of Lincoln. She was Sarah Bush Johnston, widow of a Dan Icl Johnston, a Kentucky pioneer, whom Thomas Lincoln married In 1SJA. Already the mother of three children, marriage added to her responsibilities that of tho rearing of Tom Lincoln's motherless son and daughter. Of her Barton writes : Sully Bush was not slow to discover In her new sou qualities which were not present In the son who was of her own flesh and blood. With no word of disparagement of her own boy, she never failed to praise and encourage Abraham. The time had come when Thomas Lincoln and his son did not understand each other any too well. The boy had shot up marvelously in stature, and the changes of adolescence wrought In him unaccountable transformations. He became dreamy and at times unsociable. There were within him the stirrings of strange ambitions which did not please bis father. . . . Thomas Lincoln now and then became angry at hts boy's perverseness. Ia this situation the mother often understands the boy when the father does not This fact Is the basis of much silly sentimentality, and has become the occasion of a most unjust disparagement of fatherhood and a flabadulation of motherby and hood. But the exjierience of the Lincoln household Is not unique. Blessed Is the boy who at such a time has a mother who understands him and is able to express a sympathy which the father perhaps does not know how to define or perhaps even to think necessary. Such sympathy Ahrnhnm Lincoln found In his new mother. She encouraged his reading, and persuaded Thomas Lincoln to look upon It d with favor. Sally Lincoln saw this lad outstrip her own son. and was not Jealous, but encouraged Abraham to persevere. So far as we have any data to serve as the basis of correct Jndgment, her Influence on him was wholly good. Year in and year out, through the long period of his late boyhood and young manhood. Abraham Lincoln saw and admired and new mothloved this handsome, curly-haireer of his, and he carried Into life a finer ideal of womanhood for what he discovered in her. . . . raw-bone- d But great as was the contribution of these two pioneer mothers, who bore tbe name of Lincoln, to the building of the nation, they were by, no means the only ones of their type who had a hand In that In a little park In the city of Ky stands a massive granite boulder upon which Is a bronze tablet bearing these words: Erected by the Woman's Club of honoring the Mother Town of Kentucky, founded June Id. 1774. and remembering the First Mothers of the West to enter the wilderness: Mrs. Daniel Boone, Mrs. Richard Hogan. Mrs. Hugh McGary, Mrs. Thomas Denton. A tribute from womanhood of tbe present to womanhood of the past. June 10, 1926." The erecting of monuments to the pioneer mother has become a frequent occurrence In recent years In many parts of the country. Some of them are great statues which show what manner of women were these who pushed the frontier ever westward. But there are those who say that no more appropriate monument to the pioneer mother was ever erected than that which stands In Harrodsburg its severe simplicity telling of the simplicity of their lives, its rugged granite and enduring bronze bespeaking those qualities which only the wives of a race of wilderness-breakers and tbe mothers of a race of aation-buHdsr- s have. last HI years. Industrial union Kellogg Wardm--r favored fat time Ihla summer, 78 to C7. It la expert! that daylight sating will I effected here aa a result of this vote. Emmett Edward Morcbose, Cfl, a Bra m sell district rancher, leaped from a wagon drawn ly runaway lioraca and was killed. Ilia neck was broken. Boise Arthur Hodges, former mayor cf Boise, was arrested on a charge of obtaining money under false pretense from two Boise bank. Complaints were made by the Boise- - City National bank, alleging loss of flfkiO, and by the Fir-- t Security cormratlou, claiming a loss of $1500. Hodges waa mayor here In 1913 aud 1014. Twin Fulls Hotel Millitn, the only hostelry In the village of Rogcrsou, 20 miles south of Twin Falls, burned to the ground about five hours after a deputy marshal had padlocked the place for one year under ordeni of the federal district court at Boise. The building was owned by Mrs. Edne I leaner, ,who had recently completed sentence in the serving a county Jail on a federal charge of violating the national prohibition luw. The hotel,, oue of the oldest structures la this section, being on the route between Twin Falls ned tbe mining districts of Contact and Jarbldge, for cowmen iu Nev., was a hang-ou- t the past. Boise Two hundred miles of hn provement on the north and Bouth highway, which extends from tin? Canadian border to Weiser, was outlined by the department of public works as part of this years program. Tbe work Includes fifty miles of new construction or ether major improvements such as realignment and widening, thirty miles of surfacing and resurfacing and 120 miles of oiling, practically all of which includes some additional surfacing. Already as part of this program a number of Jobs have been advertised, including the Harrison bridge across the Coeur dAlene river and oiling and resurfacing projects in Benewah, Latah, Nez Perce and Washington. Twin Falls Risking her own life, Miss Maxine Smith, Washington grade school teacher, leaped into deep water at Dierkes lake in the Snake river canyon near Shoshone Falls, to rescue Miss Thelma Tollefson, high school mathematics teacher, who had fallen off a twenty-foo- t cliff into the lake and was unable to swim. Boise John Lafoy, who tells fellow prisoners of his campaigns in the Boer war, the World war and with the French foreign legion. Is now engaged as a gopher catcher on the state prison farm. Lafoy, who has passed three score years, was sentenced to the penitentiary for one to fourteen years for grand larceny, ne had been an inmate of the soldiers home until recently, when, impelled by a bit of wanderlust, he started westward. Arriving at Weiser he found himself without food or finances, and his trouble followed. To feed himself, he says, he appropriated a a slab of bacon and some bread, but was caught Pocatello Wet side of prohibition is favored by straw vote In this city. Moscow If he existed, the average freshman man student at the University of Idaho could run the dash in 12.9 seconds, heave the shot 24 feet 2 Inches, high inches, run the half Jump 4 feet 4 mile in 2 minutes 48.6 seconds, and broad jump 15 feet 8 inches. 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