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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02
ANIMALS WANDERlNGS.
Rats the Most igratory-Lemming's
Race with Death.

The fable of the country mouse and
the town mouse has a foundation In
fact. Mice occasionally migrate in
large numbers when food grows scarce,
and travel considerable distances to
fresh houses. Farmers In a part OF
Perthshlre had a good reason to be-
come aware of this fact when, a couple
Of years ago, vast swarms of mice In.
vaded their cornhelds at harvest time
But the mouse only travels when II
has to. The rat, on the contrary, seems
to take a yearly outing, in very much
the same fashion as do human beings.
Rats are the most migratory creatures
In the world. Whole troops of rats
leave the towns at the end Of summer
and spend a month or two in the coun.
try, apparently in order to enjoy the
change of food which the country af-
fords at that time of the year in the
way of fresh fruit and grain. Before
the cold weather sets in they are all
back in their old quarters.
Reindeer migrate with the same reg
ularity as swallows. They move south
when winter sets in, but as soon as
ever the snow begins to melt they
travel steadily north, sometimes for az
, much as a thousand miles.
To end a holiday by deliberate sui
eide is so strange n phenomenon thai
for long time naturalists looked up.
on the stories of the migration of the
Jennings as an improbable fiction
Yet the facts are beyond dispute. Al
irregular intervals these rat-like crea.
lures start out from their homes in
the Businesses of northern Scandlna.
via in huge droves, numbering tens OF
thousands, and travel steadily south.
ward. Death pursues them in a hun
dred forms. Hawks and other birds of
prey hover above them. Foxes, wolves
and man declmate them. Thousands
are drowned in rivers. Yet the rest
struggle on until they reach the sea
They do not stop. They plunge In
swim out and struggle on. until al
last their strength fails and they
drown Not one ever returns from thl.
Journey Of death.-LOndon Answers.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02

In their instructive experimental
work the agricultural stations have is
sued a bulletin on the food advantages
of milk and apples not only for chill
dren but for grown up people. Though
no one would think so from looking at
a fluid glass Of milk and a solid apple.
the percentages of solids and water in
apples and in milk is almost the same,
apples being S5 per cent water and
milk SO per cent.
There Is more sugar in apples and
more acid in milk. A diet Of both APP
piles and milk is one of the most
wholesome and well balanced. The
potash contents of both are high. They
are the best food for brain, bone and
muscle nourlshment and in their effect
upon the nerves they are soothing.
In skimming milk the cream re-
moved lessen the fat percentage, and
for older people, or fat children the
skim milk is equally desirable, in some
c0ses better. In eating apples the
skin. too, should be eaten. Pared ap-
Piles are not so nutritious, as the ash
contents Of the apple skin are valuable
Ia the human system.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02
TITLED OWNERS OF STOCK
james ]. Hills Northern Securiti
Company Attracted British Nobility

james J. Hills Northern Securities
Company Attracted British Nobility.
For a man who was once a mud
clerk" on the St. Paul levee and stool
around in the ooze as he checked in
freight from the pioneer steamboats,
James j. Hill has a right to be proud of
the aristocratic company he brought
together in the late Northern Securi-
ties Company. The list Of sockhold-
ers filed at Trenton in connection with
the liquidation reads like pages from
Burke, and even the Almanach de
Gotha has been drawn upon.
The Duke Of COnnaught, brother Of
King Edward and son of Queen Vie
torla appears as the owner Of 1,2SI
shares, and his wife, the duchess, hs
the owner Of Oil shares. Reckon
ing these 6,09S shares at 100 the Con
naughts had the neat sum of $1,119,-
$50 invested in Northern Securities. 1t
Is not strange that their royal highness-
es became a little anxious while the
paying OF dividends was enjoined, 4
state which, we are told, was happily
relieved by Mr.. Hill advancing the div
idends out of his own pocket.
Two other ducal families are stock
holders-hls grace OF Argyll, with 100
shares. and her grace or Buckingham
and Chandos, with fifty shares. The
Marquis of Lausdowne, Great Britain's
foreign secretary, has $3.50 shares,
worth S1,372. 800 in his name.
Other titled British stockholders
were: Lord Elpninstone, 11.150 shares;
Earl OF Leven and Melville, 9,641
shares: Lord Clanwllliam. 5,7l9; Lady
Margaret Douglas, l.461; Earl Rob
erts. the conqueror of the Beers, 2.340;
Earl Waldegrqve, 1,150; Earl and
Countess Of Lichfeld. 1888; Baron
Rothschlld. 10000; Countess of Ross
Ign, 500; Earl Of Sandwich. 315; Lord
Seymour, GAS: Lady Burghclere, 52S
Marchloness Of Bath. 40; Marchloness
OF Bristol. 400; Marchloness Of Duffer.
in and Ava. $50; Baron Harlach, $50
Lord Hobhouse 26O; Earl of Leltrlm
los: Sir Henry Stephenson, X. c. B..
395. and. finally. the two following TO
markably named persons. Reginald Ii
Norman Brabazon, Lord Ardee and
Gates Stephen II. Fox-Suangeways
Lord Stavordale. who owned 53i
shares jointly.-New York Globe.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02

She is one OF the most interesting
women In the world. over IS years
old slight built, sensitive and nervous
and though she has seen more suffer
Ing than falls to the lot of most women
she is still young
Her prescription for youthfulness is
interesting and well worth trying.
How do l stand all this wear and
tear? Economy. That's It. economy. 1
save my strength. When I'm not work
ing ut the business which is my very
life. either rest or play. don't
putter. That's what ages women-put-
terlng. When l see a teacher breaking
down or a trained nurse giving up with
nervous prostration. l wonder when
women will learn to stop putterlng
1T isn't work that wears out: it's
fretting and putterlng. The way to
keep young? Stop worrying and go to
work. Throw yourself. heart and soul.
brain and nerve, irto some one thing;
make fetish Of it; throw every bit OF
energy you've got into it-housekeep-
ing taking care OF children. teaching,
writing. nursing-it doesn't make a bit
OF difference what you do: it's the way
you do It that counts. Copy the first
young looking man you see; do the way
he does; work when you are working,
but when you are not working cult.
yate the art OF being amused"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02

ia the homeless family. TO stay until
they could find some other home.
Mr.. Larkson at once sought anoth-
er farm to rent, without success. AS
the weeks went on. Turner found that
the merry family OF children bright
ened up his gloomy house amazingly.
Mrs. Larkson's cooking was better
than his own, and Larkson had more
practical ideas OF farming than his
foreman had, and so-well. as the vii
lage wag put It, Turner might as
well have had mortgage on the whole
family
"Turner-Hod no longer, but by
some indefnable change Of feeling, Mr..
Horace Turner 10 the whole village
lived to a good old age with his adopt
ed family, and when at last he died no
one was surprised to find Roy, little
Roy no longer his sole heir"
The sun was setting. the shirt was
mended, the story was told and 1t was
supper time. Aunt Martha paused a
moment when she had folded her work
and l am sure | heard her murmur,
And a little child shall lead them
The Homestead.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02
TRIAL OF FERocIoUs WARDEN.

Man Named Foss Charged with Bar
barities While on Duty.
A Reuters dispatch from st. Peters
burg says: THE court OF justice at
Ekaterinburg recently tried man
named Foss, who was charged with
committing horrible barbaritles while
employed as director OF a house Of de-
tention and correction Of that town,
and also with embezzling money IN
trusted to his care. He exploited the
prison labor for his own profit, and he
had the prisoners beaten with rods
dipped in salt He treated his subor-
dinates with such severity that not
only the warders but also the prison
doctor and the chaplain were afraid
to resist his orders. In the course Of
the evidence It appeared that Foss re-
pressed revolt on the part OF the pris-
oners with such feroclty that the room
in which the punishments took place
resembled n slaughter house. His
cruelties extended over several years,
thanks to his enjoying the favor of The
local administrative inspector An
other instance OF his methods stated
at the trial was to the effect that
prisoner who attempted to escape was
terribly beaten by the warders and by
Foss, and before his wounds healed
they began to beat him again. Others
Of the prisoners were subjected to
brutal punishments for the slightest
offense. and some of the prison EN-
ployes who refused to carry out their
directors crueltles were dismissed by
him. Foss was sentenced to three
years Imprisonment, together with
the loss of civil rights, privileges, dec
oratlons and medals. and with the adj
dition OF four years police super
vision"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02
Observation-Disclosures
CHINESE HARyESTS.
,ooooooooooooooooooooooo


While hundreds Of men are harvest
ing the big crops OF Oklahoma or the
Dakotas different sort Of harvesting
is going on I'm southern China, where
Wong Poy gathers in his wheat. JACK
Smith, Of Oklahoma, is a great land
holder, with his twelve or fifteen thou
sand acres. Wong Poy, says a writer
In Everybody's Magazine, is a great
and magnate. He owns and farms four
acres.
His envious neighbors hold compe-
tence Of one acre or bare pittance Of
an eighth of an acre; but Wong Poy
is lucky. His father before him was
frugal man, as was his fathers
father, and he himself is an only son.
He has even been able to afford a wife
Two "hands" work for him In these
harvest days, at the panic wages OF
twenty cents a day. The men squat,
Oriental fashion. at their work, chop
ping down the stalks with swift stabs
Of their little sickles Mrs. Wong POy
and her eldest, a daughter, follow be-
hind, and tie up the sheaves with
wispso of straw. The two cherished men
children, sole hope of heaven for Wong
Poy, play through the stubble and steal
grains of wheat to chew. 1t is mat
ter for corporal punishment If they
are caught in this, for in China every
grain is numbered.
When the wheat is all in, and has
been beaten out on the thrashing- floors
and stored in the well-guarded granary
under Wong Poy's house, the family
makes rejoicing. There is a little mess
Of fish for the pot A punk stick and
a cup of rice brandy are offered up to
the gods Of grain, and before them
Wong Poy, his hands tucked in his
sleeves, bows to the ground while he
recltes prayers.
In their harvesting China and the
Dakotas have this, at least, in COM
mon, that when the crop is in every
one makes holiday. While the Chinese
is making sacrifices to his gods, the
American farm hand amuses himself
with more materialistic pleasures. The
holiday of harvest home is observed
alike by the peasant of Tyrol and the
farmer of Kansas. The red Indian,
when his corn was husked and shelled
and packed into baskets, danced under
the harvest-moon in gratitude to Mani
tou, the Giver. Under that same moon
Chinese peasants sacrificed long be-
fore the Aryans came out of their
mountain Businesses.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02
LIFE IN GREENLAND.
The Ways ofthe People, Their Pleas
ures and Their Food.

n
ures and Their Food.
Greenlands west coast is considered
to have the grandest scenery of any
coast in the world by Roger Pollock,
who writes of a journey thither as
follows: "The sunny arctic day, which
lasts for months; a sky all flaming
glory, the fretted spires of the Alps
hanked with stupendous cliffs ana
based on the restful levels of the sea,
cities of crowded bergs, compound OF
dazzling light and radiant color-such
scenery as that blots out ones former
memories. Our first port of call was
Jakobshavn, at the head of Disco
strait biggest Of the northern villages,
a metropolis of nine white people and
400 natives. Beside a pocket harbot,
perched on round shoulders of the
naked granite, are the buildings, all
tarred black, of the Royal Trade Com
pany. For a background to the dismal
scene rise higher rocks, Uttered with
garbage and turf huts, the homes of
the natives. At heart the place Is
gay, for our sailors went ashore every
night to dance with the Eskimo girls,
while the officers Of ship and colony
snapped dinner parties, breakfasts and
luncheons all through a nine days fes-
tival.
Men and women alike" the writer
continues, "were llnguists, well read,
accomplished, a little too polite for
comfort, living a metropolitan life on
enc batch Of letters year in an arctic
outpost. Expecting the pathos of ban
ishment, found the gayety of perfect
content The Danes of all the settle
ments were alike in social charm. gen.
tie and polished-arrant gossips, too
and the indoor life had little to re-
mind one of the outdoor wilderness.
The Innuit servant maids wore the
furry breeches, boots to the hip and
curious topknot of their national dress.
One had to fall promlscuously In love
with all of them.
even the Danish men wore native
dress, but there was one important dis
tinction-they washed The food.
apart from Danish groceries, was seal
meat, fish, reindeer, venison, shellfsh,
ptarmigan, sea birds and their eggs,
which, as served in Greenland, are al
ways pronounced in flavor"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02
A BUSINESS POINTER.
Embarrassed a Financier, and Lost
stenographer Her Job.


One Of the new publications which
purport to give business woman"
points on how to deal with business
men and make a success In life, cost
a young woman stenographer In the
St. Paul building her job a few days
ago.
IF a mysterious woman, who does
not want to give her full name.
either calls or telephones to your EN-
ployer during his absence, do not
leave her message where other eyes
than your employers may fall upon
It, and do not mention the matter to
him in the presence Of a third per-
son." was one Of the injunctions EN-
phaslzed in large type in the book
This piece of wisdom had just fixed
itself in the mind of the young woman
when symphony in violet, glittering
with jewels, rushed into the office and
demanded Familiarity to know If Mr..
was in.
NO" replied the studious stenogra-
pher, but would you like to wait for
him or leave a messageY
mo, I'm In a hurry. Just tell him
Josie was here, and he'll know what
| want"
The discreet stenographer prepared
the rest of her memoranda, and when
her gray haired employer entered a
little later with several equally re-
spectacle and prosperous looking men
Of his age the typewriter slips Of
calls and callers were handed TO him,
but no mention of Josie was made.
The rest Of the afternoon was spent
in conferences. When o'clock came
the stern, gray-haired financler rang
for his new stenographer and Informed
her that he would not require her SER
vices until the following day. Several
men were present.
"Ye-e-s, sir" stammered the wise
amanuensls, but might l speak to
you alone for a moments"
The gray-haired man gasped,
"Wha-at?" and then excused himself
to follow the blushing young woman
into another office.
81 am sorry to disturb you, sir, but
a handsome young woman called this
afternoon and told me to tell you that
-that-well, that Josie had called,
and-and you would know what she
wanted" exclaimed the young
woman.
"Why IN thunder didn't you tell me
before?" asked the employer.
/ "I-vou werp-that is-VOu have not
been alone, sir"
Light dawned on the financler. II
want to inform you, madam" he said,
that l am a married man, that young
lady was my daughter, and her mes
sage was important. Further, shall
not require your services after to-day"
New York Sun.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02
Enriching Experience.

Why has art so large a place in the
liv-s OF the Japanese? Perhaps be-
cause they begin to teach art early in
life.
In recent trip round the world the
eminent English surgeon, Sir Freder-
lex Treves. spent considerable time in
Japan. On the occasion of his visit
to a famous temple the only living
creature met with in the temple
grounds was an old woman carrying a
golden faced baby-her grandson.
"Why have you come to place so
solitary" Sir Frederick asked.
81 thought 1t would do the baby good
to see the plum BLOSSOM" the old wom-
an replied. with the soft urbanity of
her race
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02
ONLY WORKERS WANTED.
Too Many Drones An South Now. with
ont Inviting Worthless Ones.

Desirable as the right sort Of immi-
grafton to the South may be, it is well
for everybody interested in the per-
manent welfare OF that section not to
permit enthusiasm In the cause Of I'LL
ing up its waste places TO outrun dis
erection In the selection of material,
says the Southern Farm Magazine.
Just at present it looks as though
special interests Of one kind or another
were taking advantage of the SNuth's
desire for immigrants and the public
discussion of that question to work an
imposition or to make mistakes In
judgment For example, a recent dis
patch from New York said that q
steamer Of one of the coast lines had
sailed for Norfolk crowded to its full
capacity with immigrants from the
south of Europe who would settle
along the rich truck farms of the
Chesapeake and that daily shiploads
would follow. The dispatch further
stated that this was but a feature OF
the most remarkable movement in i'm
migration that has developed in years.
A telegram to the president of the
steamship company brought the infor.
nation that while there was consider
able immigration business going South
and West, there was nothing unusual
about It for this time OF the year, and
that the destinations of immigrants
were generally beyond Virginia.
The telegram pricks a sensation al
the right time. Opportunities for Inn
migrants are unsurpassed, to be sure
and 1t Is undoubted that the persistent
work OF many years is now having the
desired effect The Wish for general
results, however. must not be permit
ted to be married by sensatlonalism In
furthering the cause of immigration or
by heedlessness in sending to the South
undesirable classes. The South has
already too many drones and is seek
ing means either of turning them into
productive agents or to be rid of them.
The most effective means is to bring in
industrious men. working men, thrifty
men. men who propose to live In and
for the community and not Off the COM
munity, men prepared to make their
permanent home in the South and to
develop with 1t. 1t Is possible to OBJ
tain such men even from among the
horde OF immigrants now pouring into
New York and other centers without
misleading statements and without the
aid of yellow Journalism.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02
Hold Turner'S Mortgage
r GAIN Aunt Martha and l

11( NAlN Aunt MtTlud anu WERE
/6\ on the broad, pleasant veranda,
she In her sewing chair and |
In the hammock. Not even an invalid
could have taken cord that day, 80 the
patchwork quilt was neatly folded and
laid on a convenient hassock, in readi-
ness for use If sudden breeze should
spring up. Auntie was busy, as usual,
not darnlng stockings this time, but
putting n neat patch on n shirt that
looked much too small for Uncle John
n either OF my two stalwart cousins.
Dear Aunt Martial suspected she
was earning a blessing from poor over
worked Widow Austin, who, with her
FIVE children, lived down the road
a piece"
lay passlvely watching her flashing
needle longing for a story. but hest
tating to suggest even lingual exertion
on so enervatlng day. Presently,
however, glanclng up and catching. /
suppose, a wistful look in my tell
tale eyes. Auntie seemed to divine my
unspoken wish and smiled indulgently
"A story? Well. choose a block and
We shall see If there is anything worth
telling about It,"
Delightfully."- availing myself of the
kindly offer. leaned over the edge OF
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02

In Recollections and Letters OF
General Robert 70. Lee" Captain X. L.
Lee describes his fathers return to
private life after the surrender OF APP
pomattox. He says:
"A day or two after the surrender
Gen. Lee started for Richmond, riding
Traveller, who had carried him so well
all through the war. He was accom-
panied by some OF his staff On the
way he stopped at the house of his
eldest brother, Charles Carter Lee, who
lived on the upper James, In Powhatan
county. He spent the evening In talk
ing with his brother. but when bed
time came, though begged by his host
to take the room and bed prepared for
him, he insisted on going to his old
tent, pitched by the roadside, and pass
ed the night in the quarters that he
was accustomed to. On April 10 he
arrived In Richmond. The people there
soon recognized him. Men. women
and children crowded around him,
cheering and waving hats and hand
kerchiefs. 1t was more like the wei
come to a conQueror than to a defeat
ed prisoner on parole. He raised his
hat in response to their greeting and
rode quietly to his home on Franklin
street, where my mother and sisters
were anxlously awaiting him. Thus
he returned to that private family life
for which he had always longed and
became what he always desired to be
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02
Colony Composed of Owls.

On the banks of the Santa Ana Riv-
er, in Southern California, is a queer
colony. 1t is situated in the cliffs
which rise above the surface of the
river and has a multitude Of inhabi-
tants. In passing along the river by
daylight one would not imagine that
the cliffs were inhabited, for the men,
bers of the colony are fast asleep in
the chambers of the cliffs.
But at dusk there is a change. At
every one of the openings with which
the cliffs are perforated appears a
countenance so humanlike in its ex-
preston that the beholder Is apt to
imagine that these must be the faces
Of the pixies and elves of whom he de-
lighted to hear in his childhood days.
The tiny faces belong to a family
having a name nearly as large as the
individuals are small. 1t Is the family
of strlx pratncola, or monkey-faced
owl. SO much do their faces resemble
those Of human features that they are
often called the human-faced owl. In
the holes of the cliffs they pass their
days and rear their young. At night
they emerge in fiocks and search the
fields for mice, gophers and insects
upon which they live. This owl does
not boot, as do most owls, but utters
low, chuckling whistle as 1t flies
about in search Of prey.
Farmers and frult-raisers in south.
ern California are warm friends of the
bird. for 1t destroys many of the pests
which annoy them and injure then
crops. The eggs Of the little owl are
white and FIVE or six form litter.