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IDOL 



that obtained by white farmers. The Chinese 

 practice intensive farming, and raise chiefly 

 market vegetables. 



The usual law of riparian rights (which see) 

 does not hold good in Idaho, for all the 

 waters of the state are reserved for public 

 use. O.B. 



Consult McConnell's Early History of Idaho; 

 Bancroft's Washington, Idaho and Montana. 



Related Subjects. The reader interested in 

 this subject is referred to the following 1 articles 

 in these volumes: 



Boise 



Coeur d'Alene 



Alfalfa 



Clover 



Copper 



Gold 



Lead 



Butte 

 Irrigation 



CITIES AND TOWNS 



Lewiston 

 Pocatello 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Sheep 

 Silver 

 Wheat 

 Wool 



UNCLASSIFIED 



Mormons 

 Snake River 



IDAHO, UNIVERSITY OF, a state university 

 founded in 1889 at Moscow, and opened for 

 instruction in 1892. Tuition will always be 

 free to both men and women students who 

 reside in the state, and up to 1916 no tuition 

 had ever been charged to students from other 

 states. The university maintains a college of 

 letters and science, including home economics, 

 music and forestry, and colleges of engineering, 

 agriculture and ( law. Agricultural experiment 

 stations and movable schools of agriculture 

 the latter in connection with an agricultural 

 extension service division are also conducted 

 by the institution. Freshmen and sophomores 

 are required to take military drill. The fac- 

 ulty numbers about eighty, with an extension 

 staff of seventeen, and the student enrolment 

 is about 860. The school is equipped with a 

 library of 39,000 voKimes and 8,000 pamphlets, 

 and with buildings valued at over $500,000. 



The University of Idaho seeks to maintain 

 as its aim, "Idaho education for Idaho youth," 

 and to offer service to every person in the com- 

 monwealth. The school stands for the highest 

 ideals of American citizenship, for strong and 

 sturdy scholarship, for the best there is in char- 

 acter and the best there is in life. It is making 

 no strong appeal for a great and unorganized 

 student body, but rather is insisting upon the 

 highest standards of scholarship for admission 

 and for continuance within its walls and for the 

 highest kind of reliable service throughout the 

 entire state. M.A.B. 



IDES, the fifteenth day of March, May, 

 July and October in the Roman calendar, and 

 the thirteenth day of the remaining months of 

 the year. The name is derived from an obso- 

 lete .Latin word meaning to divide. The fif- 

 teenth divided the month of thirty-one days 

 into two nearly equal parts. Julius Caesar was 

 warned to "beware the Ides of March," the day 

 on which he was assassinated. 



IDIOM, id'ium, a peculiar mode of expres- 

 sion of one's thought; the use of words char- 

 acteristic of a particular language, especially 

 an allowable irregularity; a form of speech pe- 

 culiar to a writer or a tongue. An idiom or 

 idiomatic phrase is an expression whose mean- 

 ing is different from the literal meaning of its 

 parts. The following are examples : to come by 

 (obtain), to put up with (tolerate), to bring 

 about (accomplish), to carry out (accomplish). 

 The term is also applied to a peculiar jargon or 

 dialect of a language. 



ID'IOT, a person of a very low order of 

 intelligence. Such a condition may be pres- 

 ent from birth, or it may be induced by acci- 

 dent or neglect in infancy. In law, an idiot 

 is one who from birth has been without under- 

 standing. He cannot be held accountable for 

 commission of crime, cannot enter into any 

 contract or be held in any way responsible ; 

 he can, however, inherit property, which is 

 thereafter held for him by a trustee. 



I'DOL, a word derived from the Greek 

 eidolon, meaning an image, is applied to rep- 

 resentations of gods or of superhuman persons. 

 The conviction that there is either a supreme 

 being or a number of spirits guiding earthly 

 affairs has been 

 implanted in the 

 human breast 

 since the begin- 

 ning of history. 

 The desire to see 

 the gods, or at 

 least to look at 

 images of them, 

 was but natural. 



The conception (o) Worshiped by na tives 

 of what the rul- of the Philippine Islands be- 

 . . fore they had been reached by 



ing spirit really Christianizing influences. (&) 

 was, varying of An old Aztec idol, 

 course according to locality, imagination and 

 tradition, was embodied in some image, which 

 usually took the form of a man. Combina- 

 tions of human and animal forms occurred, 

 and even animal forms alone were not rare, 

 but man from the earliest time has generally 



