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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-03-23

Grangeville Savings & Trust Co.
FoR SALE 700 bushels of good
seed barley at l cent per pound.
M. II. Baulch s miles west Of
GraDgeville: M-28
Barn paint mixed with pure lin
seed oil $l.4O per gallon at the
paint shop on Meadow street near
Vollmer b Scott. A. w. Robinson.
Duck-back umbrellas are rain
shedders. Nice assortment in
ladies' and gentlemens' at Alex
ander & Freidenrich's.
| Do first what others do last.
Come here for your plows, har-
rows and drills. The cheapest be-
cause they are the best. Grange.
vile Implement Co. milo
It will bringrich, red blood, firm
flesh and muscle. That's what
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea
will do. Taken this month, keeps
you we'll all summer. S5c, Tea or
Tablets. j. J. Pulse.
Special to everybody il your
strainer or strainer pail needs re-
pairing or new straner take it to
Rudolph Bertsch, opposite the
poet Office. His tin shop needs the
work. II will cost you nothing.
Why let the children's money
lay in their little bank when BY
depositing it in our savings bank
department., can draw per cent
on monthly balances.
| Grangeville Savings & Trust Co
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school improvements, when the little
girls stopped playing to see Alexander
and his glittering host go by on their
way to conquer the world The same
game may have been interrupted, too,
when one little girl had occasion to in
form another small maid about what
my papa had just related concerning
the "awfully horrid time" some Greek
soldiers had been having in the noun
tain SHOWS, on their way home from a
place where Mr.. Cyrus had had
dreadful fight with Mr.. Artaxerxes.
The weather.. the basketball, and
even the religious worship in st. Paul
reminds the few Armenian residents of
their far-off country where the curtain
rose on that continuous tragedy called
History.
I'VE go to the Episcopal church here,
to Christ church. said Mr.. Keljik
ITS most like our own church, though
our service is not so very different from
the Catholic service. In fact, when
/ was at Jerusalem was edu-
Gated there for a priest, but 1 never
took orders-I used to notice that our
Armenian worship, which is so very
old.-is very much like both the Greek
Catholic and the Roman Catholic wor-
ship.
Were certainly all Christian broth
ers together, and we Arn1enians are the
eldest brothers. Our church goes back
to the third century. Our country was
the first TO adopt Christianity as the
state religion. We separated from the
Greek church in the sixth century, if
I am not mistaken.
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Our .catholicus' or pope, as you
might call him, lives at Elchmiadzin in
a monastery on Mount Ararat We
nave patriarch at Constantinople;
but in America our highest clergyman
Is Bishop Saragian, of Worcester,
Mass. One of our American churches
IS at Worcester. There's another in
New York city and another at Fresno,
Cal.
We'll have church here, I suppose,
when we can get together more of our
people. Some persons wonder why we
don't have our own church now They
tell me, Why, I've seen lots of Armeni-
ans in st. Paul..
But that isn't true The men from
Asia Minor that go about selling rugs
and peddling are not Armenians at all.
They are Syrians.''
Speaking of churches reminded Mr..
Keljik of a beautiful Armenian church
in his own venerable city. And by the
Kharput church was suggested a great
castle or citadel, around which he had
played when he was young
Its dimensions were so remarkable
that they should have attracted more
attention from travellers.
oh, it was a big, splendid castle on
a high HILL Mr.. Keljik declared. 81
have tried to remember how big it was
compared with the blocks here and
with your tall buildings, like the Ma
sonic temple in Chicago. And should
say that the old, old castle at Kharput
was so big that it covered about twen-
ty st. Paul blocks, and was about forty
stories above the hill"
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years practice, .sbut really had more
fun out at my uncle's, going swimming
In the Tigris. You know that river
starts near Kharput. It's very small
river at the village where my uncle
lived, and fine for swimming. 1t was
always cool on the hottest summer day.
It's waters We're fresh and clear, too,
just like the Minnesota lakes.
Armenia Like Minnesota
Yes, Armenia is a good deal more
like Minnesota than it is like most of
California. But you can't get away
from the cold weather as easily as we
could when was at home. We weren't
any OF US as fond of travelling as you
Americans are. Our. family had lived
around kharput, they used to tell me,
about 1,200 years-'old settlers I sup
pose, We were. But if we very much
wanted change of weather in the win
ter time We had to go south only
little farther than from here to Du-
luth, and we could then sit in the rose.
gardens around Bagdad. Another old
town, Bagdad is, of course A good
many of the people in the ARABIAN.
Nights used to live there, if they lived
anywhere.
And then if we found the. weather
too warm in the summer at zKharput
we could run up to- EEzerum That's
higher up in the mountains and snow
is on the ground there about eight
months In every year. 1 said run up
but our people don't run over there,
If they can help it.. I'm afraid it will
be some time before you'll see many
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automobiles on the streets of Erzerum."
A familiar climate and f1ouriShing
business are not the only reasons why
Mr.. Keljik feels at home in St. Paul.
Most of his relatives are now living
here with him. His old father and
mother and his youngest brother came
over from Armenia to Minnesota only
two months ago. He now has five
brothers in ST. Paul and one in Mime
apOlis The first brother emfgrated to
the United States fifteen years ago.
Paul Keljik followed two years later.
He has sisters here also, sisters in law,
cousins as we'll.
The Keljik family, indeed, constitutes
five -sixths of the local Armenian coll
ony. Members of the family and their
compatriots are engaged here in various
industries The Keljik brothers sell
rugs. Three of the Keljiks' cousins are
porters and "housemen'' in ST. Paul ho-
tells. A brother-in-law is employed at
a shoe factory. One other Armenian is
a restaurant porter, another hotel
cook, a third is a stationery engineer.
niece of Mr.. Keljik is attending
the Jefferson public school, from
which she will soon be graduated into
the Central high school. She is expert
at basketball. She tells her uncle, Its
just the same thing-alnost, 1 mean
as we girls used to play down on the
river bank at home when 1 was very
little.
.'fhe river bank" was the bank of
the hoary Euphrates. And the ''bas-
ketbalp of Kharput was doubtless
played thereabouts, minus the Jefferson
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central station lines are also run to
the commercial and substations prac-
tIcally the same pattern.
superintendent Hadlich traced the
course of a supposititious letter mailed
at Lake Harriet, Minnea polls, and ad-
dressed to a cattle man lat South ST.
Eau, IN order to show how the idea
works.
The letter is Mailed" said he, Fat
1890 in the morning atsLake Harriet.
: A carrier is due at the box at that
time and receives the missive. He
conlnues his round and at IL O'clock
arrives at the substation.
he letters are sorted and the mes
sage TO the cattle man finds it's way.
into cartridge destined for the cen-
tral office in Minneapolis in less than
five minutes
The cartridge is a cylindrical OBJ
Ject, just fitting the bore of the tube.
1t is two feet long and opens on the
side by sliding panel. One of these
cartridges holds 500 letters and may
be packed full in an instant.
The edges of the cartridge are COW
cred with soft material that tends to
I'LL the bore air tight when the head
of the cylinder is inserted.
The receiving end of the tube is on
an inclined plane and strikes the con-
duit proper at sufficient distance from
the place of entrance to give it a good
start. The mail clerk closes the car
fridge and pushes it into the pipe that
stands in the roon1
The cartridge slips in easily and
moves slowly out of sight. The slow
movement, however, is but momentary,
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lis of Northwestern Armenia in Amer
lea. There are twenty four travellers
here, as told, from the SHOWS Of the
upper Tigris, and there are but fifteen
in Minneapolis. No Armenians, it is
said, are to be found elsewhere in Min
nesota. There are none in South Da-
kota, none in Montana and only two
in North Dakota.
Yet the total number of Armenians
in the United States is about 80, 600.
Most of them have settled in the New
England states, in and about New
York city, and in California
In California? This would be nat
ural, one would imagine. California
must remind them of their home in
Asia Minor, of their fig trees, and their
fervid sun. =
Not at ALL. was the abrupt an
swer of st. Paul Armenian yester-
day.
armenia continued Paul Keljik, a
local rug dealer, armenia is much
more like Minnesota. Only your vim
ters are SO short and your bluffs look
to us like very little mountains
Americas Idea of Asia
And then an American whose con-
cepts of Asia Minor had inevitably en-
tangled that land with glaring sand,
date trees, rose gardens, the cooling
sherbet, and the caravans rest in
shaded khanyard till the sun drops low
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for when the clerk swings the gap to-
gether an air pressure of about a hum
dred pounds to the square inch is ex-
erted behind the cartridge and the
same kind of suction pressure is eX-
erted in front of it. In second it darts
away like a rifle bullet on its journey
to the central office.
s.The power is furnished by heavy
motors and air pumps, one of which
pulls and the other pushes giving the
air current in the pneumatic tubes a
speed slightly greater than mile a
minute. This is strong enough to break
steel plates and it whisks the cartridges
along as if powder was behind them.
sThe distance is about four miles
from the station and in about four min
utes the cartridge from the substation
is in the federal building on First ave-
nue. south. 1t is forced into receiver
and rolls out on table provided for
that purpose. A clerk opens the car
fridge and shakes out the contents.
Then the mail is sorted again and the
.stockman's letter is placed in another
receptacle and slipped into tube on
the other side of the room. In less than
five minutes from the time of its re-
ceipt it is on it's way again.
At Lightning Speed
Across the river it shoots at the
=
more it is in Merriam Park substation.
We are supposing that the letter is
contained In a through cartridge and
the transfer to the st. Paul tube is
made In minute. Five minutes later
it is here and the clerks have shaken
out and distributed the contents once
more. Then it goes to the tube con-
Meeting the central Office with South
st. Paul and four minutes later the Of
fcials at South st. Paul are wondering
when Mr.. Jones will call for his mail.
The trip has sbeen made in twenty
four minutes, which time is slow COM
pared with that made in New York on
some classes of the service.
Now to show just how fast it is
from station to station / would call
attention to the fact that under no sys-
tenn of transportation in use here aside
from the telegraph and telephone could
it be done in less than three hours
with every condition favoring.
+ Another advantage of the pneumatic
service, aside from its speed, is the
fact that it is continuous. A cartridge
| may be sent every fifteen seconds and
the power is sufficient to move them
along even when they are heavily load
ed without dimiunition Of speed.
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CHILDREN OF ASIA FIND H0ME I'M ST. PAUL


er-then he stopped to think of Ar
menia as 1t is of Armenia as a land
of mountains well nigh as icy as those
of hymnal Greenland He remembered
Ararat the snowy. He pictured Uncle
Noah standing, with CONCEALED beard,
upon the quarterback of the stranded
ark, Tapping his prehistoric mittens
against his patriarcha1 ribs and anx-
iously inspecting the original goose
bone weather gauge.
Minnesota, therefore, feels .1ike
home" to most Armenians. Except that
In this state the summers are longer
and more moist; the winters are short
er, and the snow is not so deep
Why in Kharput, where I came
from Mr.. gKeljik said yesterday, ethe
winter and the snow usually last six
months. They arrive in October and
they don't leave until April But to
make UP for the winter the sun is very
hot in summer and there's scarcely any
rain"
Attired strictly a PAmericaine and
holding derby hat in his kid -gloved
hand, Mr.. Keljik turned from a tele-
phone in his store yesterday to watch
an automobile puff its way up the
snowy street.
Il used to go fishing in the Eu-
pirates" he said reminiscently, while
the secretiye smile of the Mysterious
East illumined his languorous, black
brown eyes.
But he continued in the excellent
English he has learned by thirteen
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'One of the great points to be
urged in favor of the tubes is the ex-
tension Of time during which the mails
may be held open. AT present it is
necessary to close all mails at the cen
tral Office at least thirty minutes be-
fore train time. This is necessary in
order to carry the mail to the depot
and prepare it for shipment. A letter
mailed after the mail for certain
train is closed must wait for the next
train, even though the train will not
move out for half an hour. In the
case of a letter to San Francisco this
may mean delay of twenty -four
hours.
Under the tube system it will be
possible to hold the mails open prac-
tically until train time. It would cut
off anywhere from twelve to thirty six
hours in correspondence between the
Twin Cities and points out In the state,
and in local business will be even more
serviceable."
Work Is Under Way
The buildings of the national capt.
tol are connected with tubes and SO
are the departments. They have
proved their worth there, and now the
business men of st. Paul have become
interested in the plan. Mr.. Hadlich
made long talk before committee
of the Commercial club some time ago
and outlined the whole method as he
understood it. The committee was
impressed and work has been started
to secure the advantage of the sys-
tenn for st. Paul.
1t is proposed to have a line from
the central station to the union depot.
Another from the depot to the COM
mercial station: another from central
to Bradley street station, and a fourth
from central to St. Anthony station.
These are all the local lines that will
be recommended to the committee, but
st. Paul line to Merriam Park and
connecting line with Minneapolis, as
well as similar local system in the
Flour City. are said TO be favored by
the authorities and business men.
In New York the tubes are used to
some extent to ship newspapers from
the presses to subscribers, and the sys-
tenn is said to work Very nicely.
The tubes require little repair work
and seem to get better and more eff
cient the longer they are in use. In
the great European capitals pneumatic
tubes are in general use and are part
of the governments equipment in Ger
many. The tubes in Berlin are much
smaller than the American tubes. but
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dollar at the least calculation to hire
United States government did the trick
for less than 25 cents.
This apparent impossibility was ac-
complished by means of the system of
pneumatic tube, in use in the metrop-
oils. 1t illustrates -he value Of the idea
better than any amo1aS of argument,
for it shows results, and results are
what are demanded in this age and
generation.
Postmaster General John Wanamak-
er, of President Harrison's cabinet rec
ommended an appropriation for the in
stallation of pneumatic tubes for ham
ding mail. After his retirement short
line of conduited tubes was placed be-
tween the main station in Philadelphia
and one of the substations and this
was the beginning of the practical use
of the system in the United States.
Five Lines in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia today there are five
expensive lines carrying practically all
the first class mail of the big Quaker
town to and from the trains and the
central station.
New York, Boston, st. Louis and
Chicago are also provided with the air
pipes. thus constituting a pneumatic
delivery system in each of the five
largest cities of the country.
Reports on the operation of the sys-
TENS are monotonous in their unanim-
ity. Each year when the postmasters
of those cities inform the department
at Washington of the doings of the
sections under their charge, they tell
the same story. They pile praise on
praise and recommend the extension OF
the lines wherever practical.
Last years report of the Boston
postoffice showed that the pipes were
handling something less than 100000
nices of mail matter to and from the
trains each day and that it would be
possible with the same equipment to
carry six times as much.
The worth of the idea has been fully
demonstrated according to the reports
of the postoffice officials, and it has
been received with so much favor by
the people that constantly growing
demand is heard in Washington for an
extension of its beneficence to smaller
cities
With the idea of satisfying this de-
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mand or at least of looking over the
field with great care a commission has
been named by the government to call
at any place where a strong demand
comes from and investigate the condi-
tions surrounding the case.
The men are experts in mail matters
and since the formation of the COM
mittee have been called Ito look into
the claims of numerous cities. Towns
of the size of Cincinnati, New Orleans,
San Francisco and the Twin Cities are
given first attention under the inStruc-
tions of the postmaster general, and
the committee has been called to in
yestigate all of them. st. Paul,
through the commercial bodies, has
made an application for visit from
the committee and has included Min
neapoliS in the terms of the request.
Will Visit st. Paul
Superintendent of Mail Deliveries H.
]. Hadlich strongly favors the intro
duction of the pneumatic tubes here
and has urged the fact upon the at
tention of the Commercial club and
other organizations. He says that the
committee will call in ST. Paul proba-
bly, within the next two months, but
could give no definite date for their
arrival.
The system in use in the big cities
is one in which the pipes are of eight
inch diameter These pipes are laid
in conduits and protected amply from
injury.
There is no great engineering prob
lem involved in putting in the system
for a little frost or lot of water
makes little difference in working the
system. All that is required is to have
the pipes out of the way of other sub
terranean structures and to guard
them as much as possible from toe
much stray electricity.
In the big towns where they are in
use they are buried all the way from
two feet to a dozen or more and fol-
low any kind of reasonable curve
without special care from an en-
gineering viewpoint. The tubes are
air and water tight and are highly
polished on the inside. This, however
is more the result of use than the
original condition of the interiors.
How the System Works
From the central station the most
used line of course extends to the rail-
road depots. 1t is continuous, with
the exception of place into which the
cartridges" can be inserted and from
which they nav be taken Out of the
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N AMSEY county, Minn., includes
among its residents many wan
derers from the land of the
Caliph Haroun al Raschid.
There are Arabs here-both of the
tame, or urban, variety, from Joppa
and Jerusalem, from ancient Sidon and
the Tyre of the Crusaders; and one
or two specimens, it is said, of the
wild or Bedouin, Arab, taken from
the desert at an early age before they
left Old Asia for Young America.
There are many Syrians, a Kurd or
two, and even a whiskered pilgrim
from Iran.
lHBut without rejecting upon the or
thodoxy of a county and city fa
nous for their many churches, it may
be disclosed that, until recently, neither
the county of Ramsey nor the city of
st. Paul contained a single representa-
tive of the original Christians, SO to
speak-that is, of the most ancient
Christian nation in the world, Arme-
MA
AT present the local colony of Ar
menians has risen to fair proportions.
1t contains twenty-four members. The
children of Mount Ararat have become
more numerous here than the Kurds
or Persians, although they are far OUT
numbered by the Syrians, and probably
by the Arabs.
ST. Paul, indeed, is now the metropo-
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ER WO weeks ago in New York city
special delivery letter was
HI mailed at the Harlem station. 1t
was directed to a young woman
who lived four miles from the station.
In a fraction less than thirty-flve min
utes an answer from the girl was
placed in the hand of the sender of the
original message.
In order to get to the girl and return
the message had to traverse the busiest
part of the city twice, but it reached
her in ten minutes. allowed her ten
minutes to think of the answer and ten
minutes to return. The odd five min
utes was occupied in handling the let
ter at the stations at each end Of the
route.
Under ordinary circumstances it
would take messenger, equipped with
everything in the way of transporta-
ton and endowed with all the good
luck possible, at least two hours to
accomplish the trip. 1t would cost a
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in spite of the size, which is only three
inches, the vast frst-class mail of that
city is moved through the tubes with
out hitch or apparent effort.
The government places limit on the
amount to be spent on the tubes, but
the construction is done by private
companies like other classes Of governs
ment work.
1t is hoped by the officials that one
line of tubing can be finished and in
operation in St. Paul by the first Of
next year.
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IA AMSEY county, Mimi, includes
TX among its residents many wan
II II derers from the land of the
10, r,I
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will write to me I will tell them how they
can be cured of this terrible disease
/ will send the names of hundreds who
have been cured and a booklet describing
the disease and how it is cured
have devoted 80 years to treating Ep-
ilepsy and there are few cases that my
treatment will not cure. If you are a
sufferer or know of one write me at once.
My advice and book is free.
DIR. w. TOWNS,
Fond du Lac, Wis.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1905-10-06
Wants $4,000 From p. s. r.

The plaintiffs statement was filed
yesterday in Bloomsbury by Fred L.
Keller, ESQ.,, in an action in trespass
brought by Solomon Fensteimacllfr,o of
Catawissa, VS.. TIE Philadelphia and
Reading X. II. in which damages in
the sum of $4,000 are claimed.
Tho plaintiff in his statement al
legcs that OH October 2, 1904, while
employed as laboler ON the work train
of the defendant company, he was as
sisting in clearing and moving
wrecked cars near Ringtown; that ! e
WAS directed to enter wrecked car
which was loaded with pic ces of ironI
and tipped over on one side and was
not lacked" up; that when the car
was about one half unlosded the work.
mon were assured by tho wrecking
boss that it was safe for them to COLI
tinuc work, and upon rcsuming work
almost Immediately aft,r, the Car tip
ped OIL its side, casting the plaintiff
upon the ground, causing tho iron TO
fall upon his body.
The plaintiff fuI thor ayers that by
reason thereof he was permanently in
jured in the body and the tight leg,
the bones of the latter being crushed,
and the flesh cut and laoerateh. He
was confined to the hospital for more
than IS weeks and has been perman
Nently deprived Of the use of his right
leg