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The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
Try New Signal System.

Rockport, Mass., Aug. Is The hat
tleships and torpedo boat destroyers O.
the Atlantic squadron returned to Rock.
port harbor tonight, after day spen,
In secret signal practice and in manenv.
ers. Since the wsrships have been in
port here Tor the summer operations.
the fleet officers have been studying
new system of signals entirely inda,
pendent OF wireless telegraphy, asgs
and siren whistles, and the maneu vess
today included experiments in this nsw
system, which is declared to be abso.
luteiy unique.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25

Boise-With number Of states yet
to be heard from, more than 1900 del
egates have been appointed to the ma
tional irrigation congress and have no.
titled the executive committee that
they will be present when the congress
convenes ON the morning Of September
L. While under the constitution each
state is entitled to but 10 delsegates to
be appointed by the governor, but lit
tie attention has been paid to this re-
striction.
Governor Hanley, OF Indiana, ap-
pointed "a citizens to accompany Vice
President Fairbanks; Governor Nc
Donald, of Colorado, appointed AZ;
Cover os Chamberlain, OF 0. ezon,
and Cutler, OF Utah, more than 100
each, and other chief executives are
appointing all who want to attend
Fulsly 1000 delegates are expected.
Local committees have completed ar
rangements for entertaining the dele
gates and visitors to the congress. A
house-to house canvas of the city has
been made and all will be comfortably
accommodated at reasonable rates. At
the close OF the congress the delegates
will be taken through various irrigated
sections Of the state.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
CoquiIIe Mills Are b..

c;ni,ys "a,as-lhe sawnillH in this vi.
r nra n., are running overtime, which l.
prsc ..',y the first time they have RIM
sven ' iuil time since the San Frarc; i1,,
r I'LL Many Of them would rnu
nlsnt and day II hands could bs n ~
.1lned- All kinds Of labore - ~.
scarce especially carpenters. "'s
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25

Burke = At an approximate cost OF
$4,000 the Hecla Mining company is
irsialling at its mine here an ore sort
ing plant to increase the output of the
mine and concentration without altera-
ton of the mill. The work, announced
Manager Mccarthy today, will be com
plsted in about two months more, it
LAYING been in progress some weeks al.
ready.
Now the ore cars are pushed by man
power from the shaft over the tramway
to be dumped together into the bins.
Thence it is shipped by rail to the con-
centrator, a short distance down the
canyon.
The shatt house is being heightened
enough to install hosting apparatus,
by which the cars will be raised so feet
above the collar of the shaft, where the
contents will be run over a grizzly. The
line ore will fall onto conyeyor
which will carry it to the ore bins over
the railroad track. The coarse stuff
tails onto a ocnveyor belt that passes
the men engaged in sorting out waste
and shipping rock. The milling ore
from the conveyor goes through a
crusher to be ground to the required
hneness and from the crusher il is
turned onto the fine ore conyeyor and
carried to the bins.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
GENERAL STATE
NEWS OF IDAHO
items That Are Likely TO Interest All
Our Readers.
A Brief Review of the improvements
Growth and Development Along
All Limos of Industry Throughout
Our commonwssIth--minins' H's-
torical and Commercial.

SIND ,oint = The recsnt rain falling
was ona Of tie b essi &c b ] m 'ermen
and farmers have been praying ior sev.
ersl vesks. The forest fires are almost
extinguished, and the gardeners are
pleased over saving crops. Nay ium'
bermen will be able to 60 to WORK
again soon. The rains also q ared tne
atmosphere, so that Standpoint resi-
dents can see across the lake.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
Freight Tunnels undsr c.;.

., lineage I'm Aug. 15.-The freight bore,
=. sne Illinois Tunnel company will
larry merchandise OF all kinds in car
loao lots Tor the first time TO-DAY Tbi,
increment will mark the practical com.
ple.lon Of the Illinois Tunnel comnsnr',
e oss.em Of underground freight railroads
obstruction vsa ~ OF which was begun fys
ssa,s ago and which has cost its own,
era about $50, 000, 900 ' o""'
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25

Santiago de Chile, Aug. 20.-One
third Of the city Of Valparaiso was de-
stroyed and 500 lives were lost BY the
earthquake Quillots, Vino del Mar
and Limsehe are completely destroyed.
me functions arranged for the enter
tainment OF Secretary Of State Root will
be abandoned on account Of tbs upi-
yersal mourning in Chile.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
Strikers Charged With RIOting'

San Francisco, Aug. ia nuI ;.sd
Of former tracklsyers OF the o% .;ts
Railway company, who are Oh 'sbieb
after following a number OF cars via" u;ou
they supposed were carrying non I'iSsrO
work-aen, boarded car on De''' THEW
street and attacked two men. .sbsd
dragged them from the car ana ,Ds here
them down to Fillmore street. W." A
they were met by two policem1'en,.. ,ssd
fight ensued. The policemen u''f'
the crowd and returned the men'
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
SANTIAGO HURRYINe RELIEF,
No Railroad for Month - Madman
ProcIaims End of World.

Santiago, Chile, Aug. 21.-The may
or Of Santiago declares it will take one
month to re-estabish railroad commu-
nicstion between here and Valparaiso.
II has been discovered that certain
parts OF the bay Of Valparaiso are con-
sideiably shallower, and new soundings
will be necessary.
As result OF the destruction OF all
the drugstores in Valparaiso, medicines
and drugs are lacking. Eighteen am
balances with beds, consignment OF
medicines and number OF nurses are
leaving for Valparaiso. Consignments
OF provisions are being shipped as
quickly as possible.
The destruction OF the villages of
Pspulo, Zapilla and Renza has been
confirmed.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
FIRES ARE QUENcHED.
Valparaiso Guarded by Troops-Pro
visions Cannot Get Through.


visions Cannot Get Through.
Valparaiso, Aug. 21 The fires which
broke out after the earthquake have, az
result OF stubborn efforts, finally been
suppressed. Dynamite was largely
used to this end.
The streets OF the city are constantly
patrolled by military and other forces
Many robbers have been shot and kill
ed. Martial law prevails.
Telephone communication between
here and Santiago was restored today.
The telegraph wires, however, are still
down, and the railroad is not yet work
ing. Letters to the outside world are
sent to Santiago by horsemen.
Meat is being distributed in the
streets here by order of the authorities,
and trainloads Of provisions have been
started from Santiago, but cannot get
through.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
FIRST INSURANCE TRIAL.
Test Case Upon Earthquake Clause
Set for Trial.

Test Case Upon Earthquake Clause
Set for Trial.
San Francisco, Aug. 15.-The first Of
the insurance cases involving the earth
quake clause was set for trial today by
Superior Judge Hebbard. The case is
that of the Rosenthsl Shoe company
against the williamsburg City Fire In
surance company. The attorney for
the insurance people asked that the
case be not set for trial until opportu-
nifty could be given the judges mutual
ly to arrange with the insurance COM
panies for test case. He said that
the insurance companies would demand
a jury trial in each case, and unless
proper arrangements were made for a
test case the courts would be occupied
for years in hearing insurance litiga-
ton.
The attorney for the plaintiff declsr-
ed that there were points Of fact in this
connection that could not be settled by
test case. The court then asked the
insurance attorney if he waived a jury
trial, and was answered, "No." The
judge then asked, "Do you demand a
jury trial?" but could not get direct
answer.
The attorney for the shoe company
then announced that to save time he
would formally demand a jury trial.
The case was act for August 27.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
Poor Old Robinson crusos.

New York, Aug. 2l.-A report reach
ed this city today that the South
American earthquake destroyed the is
land OF Juan Fernandez. off the Chill
can coast. 1t belonged 70 Chile, ant
on II were a penal settlement an a fort
This lie the island made famous b,
Daniel de Foe, as the scene of The
tnriliiDg adventures OF Robinso
Crusoe.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
c,uas Lin Polar Trip.

London, Aug. le.-A dispatch ItSsl
Christiania to the Daily Mall says from
private letters received tnels re late.
Spitzbergen state that owing 'vwsllmsn,
ness OF the season Walter Iusrsld
chief Of the Chicago Reco,u ,ad ths
Arctic expedition, has ab anuUstS pOls
project OF ballooning to the nor"
this year.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25

Boise : The state board OF equaliza.
tion has fixed the valuation Of RAILWAYS
Tor the purpose OF taxation 1t in.
creased the main lines some $500, some
$500 per mile, others being left with.
out change. The main lines. with
assessments last year and this, are as
follows: 90
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
BEGIN WAR
ON POLICE
Killed 10 Scores by Bombs and D.,
lets Of.Reds. ''

warsaw Is Center of Attack. s,.-.,
Outbreaks in Many Other e c1,,s'
Slaughter in Polish c.n'.' .'us'
Forth Effective voIIeys-ps.a ''s
Mail Trains. s mob
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-08-25
COOLIE LABOR
Nl9CANAL
Contractors Asked 10 BID on Supply.
Ing Chinese.

To Work Tan Hours a Day and Be
Paid by the Hour - Wants $500
In First Batch - Strict Terms for
Their Return to CHINA Reserves
Option Of Calling for More.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
Iudues by Popular Vote.

The Age-Herald trusts that the words of wisdom spoken by Judson Harmon, member of Grover Cleyeland's sec ond cabinet, and a lawyer of high standing in Ohio before the Alabama Bar association, assembled at Annis- ton, will not be overlooked or soon for gotten in this state.
 MT. Harmon spoke at Anniston on The Independence of the Judiciary" and he did not hesitate, out of his wide experience, to commend the selection of judges by direct popular vote. The people, he went on to say, have neither means, opportunity nor desire to in- terfere with the action of the judges they select, whereas when judges are selected by a few men, or by single man, the latter come to regard them as subject to orders, even when no definite pledges are made. Definite pledges become in that way tacit un- derstandings, and fayoritism, to say the least. creeps in-favoritism to some boss" or some corporation, or some interest that serves the few instead of the many
 Mr Harmon presented in excellent terms the experience of the states that have tried both plans and, strangely as it may sound in Alabama, he stood unquannedly by direct popular action. Judges selected by popular vote are better than judges selected by legis- latures or by conventions. This is the story of America, as any one can see who will study any state in which both plans have been tested
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
uNsHAvED ON SUNDAYS.

Special Correspondence Pail Mall Gazette
 The movement for Sunday closing grows. Sometimes 1t has an odd result The barbers have resolved to keep their shutters up all day, and something like consternation has spread through the town. To let you into a secret, no French man can shave himself. He Is the com plete slave to his coiffeur when his coif- fuer closes, his beard grows-that Is all about it. Hence on Sunday next when the new order comes into being, one may expect to see the street dotted with the black astersks of the unshaved chin. It is most annoying on the very day when the Frenchman wishes to impress his rela- tives. A stubby chin rubbed twice Gas Is the French custom) on the fair cheek of the mother-in-law or of a rich maiden aunt might be fateful to any prospects of a legacy. There is another side to it; the barber's shop is a species of club, espe- cially on a Sunday morning. There poli- tics are discussed and the latest tip for Longeamp given. Suppress the Sunday morning barber and you suppress mans legitimate excuse to flee from the wife of his bosom while breakfast is being pre- pared. Every reform has it's martyrs, in- voluntary or otherwise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
Southside Baptisfs.

The Southside Baptist church is rich and strong organization, and it has wisely decided to retain it's lot and building on Avenue F for religious pur- poses. Its lot on Twentieth street Is to be sold, but the property on Avenue F, including the unburned portion of the church, is to be retained.
 The congregation is preparing to build large, fine church on the South Highlands, but it has not forgotten the population massed about the old site. It sees their needs, and no doubt 1t in tends to maintain on Avenue F an in- stitutional mission church adapted to the demands of the Baptists in that locality. This determination cannot be too highly praised. The central churches as they withdraw to this or that highland should not overlook the masses they leave behind in the cen u di hiStliSlS LII AhC Cltys 4SO IldllGI how many pew holders withdraw to either side of the valley, there will all ways be a call for central churches Tn the business district The Southside Baptist church has met the change in the right spirit and in the right way It will put up a new building and it will also maintain mission church at the old location. It is to be hoped the problem will be solved in a like acceptable manner when the other cen tral churches withdraw to the High lands. for in the long run parishioners will slip away from crowded dusty streets to the green hills on either hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
Richard H. Clarke and Free Delivery.

The blessings of rural free delivery nearly 800 established routes, and 1t will certainly interest the people who are served each weekday along those routes to know that the first bill call ing for the rural free delivery of mails was introduced by Congressman Rich ard H. Clarke of Alabama. This was done in January, 1892, and from that bill has sprung the great system that is bringing the farmers and other resi- dents in the country in daily touch with the busy world by carrying to their doors all possible facilities and advantages of the postal service. It is not necessary to recount how much in the way of public education and in commercial advantages has thus been brought to the homes of those who were formerly more or less isolated. The people who live along 800 rural routes understand these things.
 MT. Clarke's bill of 1892 was not passed, but an order was at once issued by the Postmaster General to make ex. pertinent on the lines of Mir Clarle's bill. The experiments were. in fact. begun at MT. Clarkes instance and solicitation. In 1893 Congressman Thomas E. Watson introduced bill to appropriate $10,000 or the experiments in rural delivery already begun, and in this way the system was started.
 All the facts were brought out by Congressman Flood of Virginia, who proceeded to show what Mir. Clarke had done and what the democrats were entitled to credit for. MT. Floods speech appeared in the Congressional Record for March IS. 1904, and who ever has a file of the Record can read in it what Mr. Clarke and Alabama did to usher in the rural free delivery of mails. s,....ss ....s-..s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
Failures in Six Months.

Tn the first six months of 1906 there were In the United States 1858 fail ures. as against 5241 in the core spending period of last year, and 5SSS in the first six months of 1904. Scarcely any six months surpassed in desirable results the first six months of this year. Liabilities were lower than in any year since 1902, which was an exceedingly favorable year.
 Alabama made a good record in the six months just ended, for she had but 70 failures as against 96 in the first half of last year. The assets, too, of the 70 failures footed up $1,460,07S, as aSainst .s33G.24S. ia the. ,96 failures of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10

the first six months of 1905. The per centage of assets to liabilities was higher.
 Nearly all the southern states made a good showing in the six months. The total number of failures in the south in the six months of 1906 was 1016, as against 1242 in the corresponding months of 1905. Liabilities were about 20 per cent less. The entire country sends in prosperity figures except Ohio Illinois and Missouri, and New York city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
To Resume Operations.

"The forge will be put in operation at the Birmingham rolling mill next Mon day." said Walter Winburn, foreman. be- fore leaving for Atlanta on a short va- cation. "It will be towards the end of. the month before the finishing depart ment will be started up. At that time practically all of the departments of the mill will be in operation, and will be continued indefinitely. During the idle ness there will be much improvement done and when we are working again the mill will be in better condition than ever before. The new management is liberal in the matter of approving requisi- ton for improvement purposes, and believe that this means that the mill will be operated for a longer term and under better conditions than ever before."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
THIEF IN PRIESTS CLOTHES.
Gets Away With All the Wealth of
 Sightseer From Lockport.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Wendell Alegar, German, about 50 years old, came to New York last evening from Lockport with nearly $500, which he had saved up on the farm in order to see the city. On leaving the train he met a man in priests garb, who told him he knew Alegar's brother. priest in Lock- port and had come to meet Alegar and take him to stay at the mission.
 Alegar accompanied the kindly stranger on the Twenty-third street ferry and the two talked about the dangers of New York. Alegar, growing alarmed, confided to his friend that he had lots of money and a new gold watch in his carpet bag He said he felt uneasy about 1t, so the friendly man in the clerical costume took charge of the bag and treasured him.
 They got aboard a Twenty-third street crosstown car but though Alegar got a seat and wanted to give 1t to his prlestly friend the latter remained standing. The crowd as the car went on carried the freind gradually toward the front platform and out of sight.
 When the car turned back at the East River Alegar rode back to the ferry and waited for his friend to come back and look him up. After couple of hours he told his troubles to Policeman App, who understood German. He was taken to the West Twentieth street station house and cared for over night, as he had not cent left
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
suNFLoWER PHILOSOPHY

From the Atchison Q<an) Globe.
 You can never really know how mean a woman can be until she hates.
 Every person has something to be thank full for if circumstances and age have not made of him or her A problem
 Perhaps one reason the corpse of boy looks particularly unnatural Is that 1t is the first time the neighbors have ever saw him when he wasn't eating.
 By the time a man has made enough money to enable his Wife to command elegance in dressing she hasn't the form that will show off clothes.
 The average woman dQesnt go away on vacation feeling perfectly safe about her husband until she has daughter old enough to stay home and see that he behaves
 Adam and Eve should have got along better than they did considering that there was never any dispute about one leaving no room in the closet for the other to hang his clothes.
 A woman can put this and that to- gether and tell everything her husband Is doing. But a woman can fool her hus- band whenever she wants to- Fortunate ly, women do not often care to fool their husbands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
Age of Cyniclsm.

"It seems to me- remarked a man last night, that the future historian of man ners in searching for the salient char acteristic which marks the spirit of our time could aptly call 1t the age of cynic- ism Or perhaps indifference would fit better. Anyway somewhere between the two lies the proper definition We have gotten in the habit of being .callous of feeling and soeptical of belief. The things outside of his personal sphere of interest don't appeal to the average man very strongly.
 "Of course in the case of spectacular calamities like San Francisco it Is diff ferent. Every man who has any human nature in him at all must to some ex- tent be awakened out of his habtual lethargy by that sort of call on his sympathies. But in the ordinary run of things there isn't much love between pco- pie these day. We are too busy watch Ing out for the other fellows game, and playing our own, to be loving our neigh bors as We should.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
PAINTERS OF PEASANT MAIDS.

From the New York Mail
 Shakespeare mated Audrey, the peas ant girl in "As You Like It." to the ban ished court fool, who described her as 'ill-favored, but my very own" The peasant girl has a more exalted place in the canvases of that school of artists of which the late Jules Breton was shining example Millet said that the peasant girls whom Breton painted were too pretty to remain in the country. But some of them. at least, are true enough to remain in the memory The figure of that splendid tall country girl with reg ular features in her broad. tanned face, with dark hair and eyes in which lurked the weariness of a day in the harvest field. abides in the remembrance. It has some of the sincerity and rugged per manence of nature itself, some of it's unconscious greatness.
 The peasant girl has been long in coming to her own with the painters, but it seems that she has arrived. When the artists of an elder day chose coun- try background they filled it in with fiugres that did not belong herewith transcripts of the knightly gentlemen and courtly ladies who move through the pages of Sidney's Arcadia" If the peasant girl was present. she filled the function of the merry villagers of opera. Perhaps she poured water or set the picnic table for the gallants in court costume and ladies in trained gowns that animated the artificial landscapes of Fragonard and his brethren of the eighteenth century school. She was nearly a negligible figure then, her posst- bilities of picturesque and vital effects quite overlooked.
 George Morland did much to restore A true feeling to English country life as re- corded upon canvas. His village and cot tage and harvest pictures are faithful and full of a simple charm. In them at least the peasant Is shown as part of an ap- pealing setting, as naive and veracious figure. With Mlllet peasant men and women arose to their full stature in art. In his work and Breton's, and that of Josef Israels, Anton Mauve and other painters of the modern Dutch school, the peasant girl fairly stands out of the can vas, a veritable portrait study, dominat- ing 1t as Ruth the .alien corn among which she gleaned.
 She belongs in that setting, and the set ting itself has all the charm and dignity of sunset skies and great still country spaces. With her simple but picturesque garb, rich in it's variations of the primary colors, with the atmosphere of old legend investing her homely tasks. the peasant girl presents a figure more grateful to the painter than any fine lady in her silks and faces sketched against the ele- gant artifices of the drawing room. In- deed, so much truth as her lines and setting provide cannot be gained In figure painting elsewhere unless draperies ara discarded and the artist has recourse to the nude.