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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28

d. II. Stovall says neighbor who
makes good living frem his apiary
successfully winters his bees through
the cold months in a cellar provided
for the purpose. He states that bees
may be successfully wintered In cellars
provided the cellar Is given over entire
ly to the bees and used for no other
purpose. There is always an IN
healthy odor. that is as disastrous to
bees as anything else. emitted from de
cayed fruits. vegetables and such things
as are usually stored in cellars The
bee cellar should not be entered nor
disturbed any more than is absolutely
necessary 1t should be made a quiet.
unmolested home for the little honey
EnRkore
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
FOREIGN MISSIONS GROWING.
Addition of $4,000 to Protestant Faiths
Big Receipts.


The foreign missionary work done
By the united efforts of the Protestant
churches of America and Europe dur
ing the last year is summarized by sta
tistics published by the Rev. e. e.
Strong, secretary of the American
board of foreign missions, showing a
gain of nearly 100000 over the to-
tai receipts of the previous year. and
an addition of $4,000 communicates.
making a total of 1,59S,644 now en-
rolled
In the United States there are 81
principal organizations engaged in this
work. with multitude of auxiliary So
cieties. These organizations are now
supporting 52Ss missionaries in foreign
lands.
In the churches occupied by these
missionaries there are enrolled 61O. 1885
communicates. The contributions re.
ported by the 81 organizations in the
United States within the year have
amounted to sS,99797O.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
The Up-to-Date Cow,

The improved cow, says the American
Farmer, is the COW that continually i'm
proves in her milking qualities. she is
not the only improved COW, for the pro-
Queer Of good beef stock and Of the I'm
nroved steer is an improved cow. It Is
not only necessary to have the .s=y=S=-
ed dam, but the sire should also be
Improved, If the improvement is made
that is necessary. Keep UP the i'm
provement lest there be a retrosression.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
unwrItten Law Holds Good

Ogden, Utah, Dec. 22.-Because the
evidence showed that improper rela-
tons had existed~between his wife and
the victim Of his wrath, F.. c. Walker
was found not guilty of the murder of
Or. Earl S. Beers. The jury took but
two ballots. Walker and Beers had
a desperate struggle in the rear of an
electrical store last September and
Beers was so injured that he died a
few hours afterward.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
Cannon Shells Come Hiqh.

The navy department has awarded
contracts for furnishing shells for the
bureau of ordnance as follows:
The Firth Stirling Steel company.
5000 Pinch at 1920 each, 1900 eight
inch at $40 each. 5000 seven-inch at
$50, and $4,000 six-inch at s26.5O each.
The Crucible Steel company, 100 10
inch at 800 and 800 1s-inch at $500
each.
The Bethlehem Steel company, 40
600 flveinch shells at $20.5O each.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
BILLIONS IN THE 1907 CROPS
Wheat Brings More Than A Half
eiiIion-Stupendous Sums From
American Farms.

Washington. Dee 2S.-The total
value of the farm crops for 1907 GOV.
cred in today's census crop reports
was SS,4e4 zoo, 600, an increase of s47s..
100000 over 1906. The farm value on
December of four chief grain crops
follows:
Corn. s1.34O,446,O0O; winter wheat.
sS61,217000; spring wheat, $193,22O,-
600; oats, 1894, 56S, 900.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
TWO KILLED AT sRocKET.
Freight Trains colide-Trainmen Die
Operator Was Asleep.

Cranbrook, B. c., Dec. 24.-In a
heod-on collision between two freight
trains, at place called Brocket, 20
miles west Of Macleod, brakeman
named Ormsby and a fireman named
John McKinnon are reported killed.
1t is said that the operator at Pincher
fell asleep and allowed the east
bound freight to pass his station.
where he should have held it. The
line is heavily INSTRUCTED with all man.
ner of wreckage and the breakdown
gangs have been hurried to the scene.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
Keeping uogs in Hounds.

Here is an easy plan of keeping hogs
from going from hog pastures to COW
pastures, and at the same time allowing
the cattle to go from one pasture to
the other at will As shown in the
sketch, the opening in the fence may
be as wide as desired. Two by twelve
inch plank are nailed to the fence posts
about four or six inches. from the
ground, and two extra posts are set out
from the fence about a foot. The plank
and this plank should be about four
feet longer than the one fastened to
the fence so as to 60 by the opening at
each end about two feet. The hogs
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28

The merino sheep industry In Yer
mont is again entering an era of pros
perlty that presages a boom. While
by no means approaching the palmy
days of thirty years ago, the industry
Is revivlng and each year for q decade
past has shown an Increase In Ship
ments Of fancy strains OF merlno-
breeding sheep to Africa and Aus
trsiia
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
Mrs. Bradley in salt Lake.

Having sold sufficient books to Sc
cure transportation west, Mrs Annie
Bradley is now in Salt Lake with her
family to enter civil action to secure
part of the late Senator Browns es-
tate. Brown left property worth about
100000 to his son Max and daughter
Alice.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28

cannot jump the two planks. and small
jump over, as they are lengthwlse Of
hogs that go between them cannot
the opening. The cattle will readily
step over. The same plan may be used
for sheep, only three planks may be
necessary to retain them, although the
writer uses only two for them ALSO
Varmre.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28

ing the fruit 1t is bad practice to
shake any kind Of fruit from the tree.
1t should always be picked by hand
and carefully placed in the package In
which 1t is sent to market BY this
method injury to the extent Of 10 to
% per cent may be avoided
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
AamIIton Powder Work. Blow up.

The Hamilton Powder company's
works blew up Sunday morning at De-
parture bay, four miles from Nanaimo,
B. G. Damages, $4,000. No one was
killed or injured. In Vancouver, SO
miles away, houses were shaken so
badly that it was believed an earth
quake had occurred.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
Return Via suez.

Admiral Evans has authorized the
statement for publication that he per
sonally believes that the navy depart
ment's intentions are that the feet
shall return via the Suez route next
summer or fall.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
Sample Pills Prove Fatal.

Worcester, Mass, Dec. 24.-RIiss
Annie Mcguire, IS years old, of Gin
ton, is dead after having taken two
headache pills that were left at the
door of her home by a sample dis.
tributor.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28


Beans may be planted late and ma
ture before probably frost. For sew
eral years beans have borne a good
price, and II the wheat crop proves to
be as short as threatened at this writ
ing the consumption of them is likely
to be larger than usual. The planting,
harvesting and thrashlng Of beans may
be done by machinery now, which re-
moves former serious objection to
Their culture; and II the crop area on
farm has been made smaller. than
desired, by reason OF the cold spring,
field Of beans might be advantageously
used In extending the seasons crops.
Good corn land is excellent for beans,
and their cultivation does not differ
materially from that of corn, hence ii
does not require any special instructor
or skill to grow them successfully.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28
SHAH OF PERSIA GIVES UP.

Yields struggle With Parliament
Signs Declaration.
Teheran, Persia Dec. 26.-The shah
has yielded in the struggle between
himself and parliament He has
signed and sealed declaration on the
Koran accepting the demands of the
constitutionalists, which include the
punishment of the leaders in the riots
and the dissolution of the court clique
This declaration he sent to the assem-.
bly, as a mark of his determination to
adhere to the constitution.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-28

This basket)is made from an ordi-
nary Delaware fruit basket. A strap
goes over the shoulder of the picker
and leaves both hands free for gather
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
How 1t Impressed Him.

Ex-senator "Brly" Mason tells of a
political campaign in South Dakota
wherein he had been called upon by
the State Committee to take a part.
When Mason arrived at his first town,
where he was to deliver speech the
next day, he found that the two So
called hotels were crowded to the
doors.
Not having telegraphed for accom-
modations, the Illinois man discov-
cred that he would have to make shift
as best he could.
He was compelled for that night to
sleep on q wire cot that had enly
some blankets and sheet on 1t. AS
Mr.. Mason is man OF considerable
,avoirdupois, he found his improvised
bed anything but comfortable.
Well" asked the proprietor. when
the politician appeared in the morn
ing. how did you sleepg"
Fairly well, answered Mason,
shut l certainly looked like wand
when got up. -harper's Weekly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
rMn wosIAN WIFE rnn nRooM.


Bowed by the cares of cleaning house she
Upon her broom and gazes through the
dust,
A wilderness Of wrinkles on her face.
And on her head knob Of wispy hair.
Who made her slave to sweeping and Ia
soap,
A thing that smiles not and that never
rests,
Sanctioned in stall. sister TO the cowf
Who looseped and made shrill this angled
jaw?
OF sluggish men folks and their morning
firey
is this the, thing you mad' bride and
To scour the stairs and search the bin for
70 bear the burden of maternity
Is this the wife they wove who framed
our law
And pillared bright land on smiling
Down all the stretch of street to the last
There is no shape more angular than hers,
More tongued with Rabble Of her neigh
bors' deeds,
More filled with nerveache and rheumatic
twinge,
More frausht with menace of the frying
pan.
o lords and masters Of our happy landl
How with this woman will you make ac-
count;
How answer her shril question in that
hour
When whirlwinds of such women shake
the polls,
Needless Of every precedent and creed,
Straight in hysteric haste to right the
wrongy
How will it be with cant Of politics,
With king of trade and legislative boss,
With cobwebs of hypocrisy and greed,
Whtp she shall take the ballot for her
broomg
And sweep away the dust of centuries?
Edwin w. Sanborn, in New York Sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
Hole in the Watch Key.

"The queerest patent?" said the
attorney. well, the queerest patent
know of was the patent OF hole.
IAN old farmer out st. Louis way
patented hole, and what is more. he
made a lot of money on it. Now,
though, 1t isn't worth the paper it is
written on.
This farmer ons morning in the
dim past went to wind his big silver
turnip and found the key stuck full
of dirt. He tried to dig the dirt out
with a pin. No go.
'Consarn ye,' he said, I'll fix ye.'
"And he drilled hole in the key.
and with single breath blew out
every bit of the dirt.
"He patented that hole. He built
a factory, bought millions of keys and
made holes for them. His plant
turned out 27,500 holes a day.
"In fact, all the world used the
farmers watch keys, which were the
only kind that would keep clean, and
the old fellow got rich.
That, of course, was in the dim
past. The hole factory is only rum
ming on half time now, for few per-
sons to-day use any save the stem
winding or keyless watch. Mime
apolis Journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
sane.
5 Ss72doE9JM

Bim-"He's going south for the
grip" limits cheaper to get 1t
here. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"You are beneath my contempt,
sir!" 80 are you beneath mine, and
I'm piling on more every minute. -
Philadelphia Ledger.
when opportunity arrived at my
door," said the Harlem pessimist, II
suppose the electric bell, as usual,
was out of order. Puck.
The -Father-"Why do
you loaf around here all day?" Son
well, l wouldn't If they didn't
make the school hours so long,
Judge.
Lives of some great men remind US
That we will if we are wise "A
Leave our modesty behind us, IA
And get out and advertise. i
Judge.
MAY l ask your father for your
hand tonight, Miss Ketchem?"
Cant you wait until tomorrow
night, George? I think Charlie
Chumpley is going to ask him to-
night. ."--Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Very few people read my poems,'
said the discouraged youth. ''In
that case" answered Miss Cayenne,
you should have less hesitancy
about writing them. Washing
Star.
Caller-"so sorry to hear of your
motor accident" Enthusiastic Mo-
torist-"Oh, thanks. it's nothing.
Expect to live through many more"
Caller-"Oh, but trust notl"---
Punch.
Day by day the blessed trolley
Thumps, flat-wheeled, along the street;
Day by day the people murmur,
Using words we can't repeat.
What the need Of all this protest?
Why the endless round of talk!
There is such a plain solution
If you're in hurry-walk.
Public Ledger.
choolmaster-"Why did you stay
away from school, Frankie?" Boy
"Me muther brawke 'er arm"
Schoolmaster-"But why did you
stay two days?" Boy-"She brawke
1t T. two a-aces!"-Punch.
First Magnate-"This problem of
taking care of the poor is a hard
one" Second Magnate-"Most difi-
cult. It's easy enough to get money
for them, but it ruins them to give
1t back. Life.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
White as Mourning Color.

The news that European has been
noticed in Jamaica wearing white as
mourning for a relative lost in the
recent catastrophe recalls the fact
that that color was originally em-
ployed in many countries to indicate
reverence for the dead.
In fact, the custom obtained In
Europe as late as the reign OF Charles
VIII. OF France, and in Italy, too, 1t
fingered. though for women only, the
men wearing brown. In Ethiopia the
white soon changed to gray and in
Egypt to yellow.
China, however, employs 1t to this
day. other colors have had their
vogue--blue, for instance, which even
now is used in Turkey, Armenia and
Syria. The latter signifies the heav-
emily region, white stands for purity,
gray and brown typify our mother
cath, and black, most repellent of
mourning colors. would seem to sug-
gest an eternity of night.--London
Chronicle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
The Wortl, of Nurses.

Contrasting his Indian experiences
with those of South Africa, Field
Marshal Lord Roberts said that for
the first two or three months Of the
siege OF Delhi not single case OF
amputation survived, and at Luck
now the death statistics were very
similar. In fact, It would hardly be
possible to describe what the wound-
ed and sick suffered during the In
dian campaign from the oyerpowering
heat, the swarm of insects. the stencil.
the lack OF surgical and medical
treatment and the want OF proper
nursing. During the South African
War a totally different state OF affairs
prevailed. and the presence OF trained
nurses materially contributed TO the
difference .---London Hospital,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
Relieving the Poor.
BY BOLTON HALL.

81 hear you have Joined the Stole
Settlement, o Eupraxsillies. Is your
Settlement another Society for the
Suppression of Vice-among the
poor?"
mo, Socrates, we have had such
a society ever since the fourth Olym-
piad, and we have more suppressed
vice than ever"
what, then, do you accomplish,
Eupraxslllies?"
mo man knows what the Gods
accomplish through him, Socrates,
but we try to save the poor from
the consequences of error and vice."
But IL you succeed, o Eupraxsil-
lies, will they not commit more err
rors and vices?"
"Well, perhaps l should rather
say, from the evils of poverty. We
have a Neighborhood House."
"BuS who made the House, Eu-
praxsillies?"
"Why. we indeed paid for It, but
necessarily the poor people made It."
And do they make all the wealth
that you spend in relieving their pow
erty Eupraxsillies?"
Certainly they make It them
selves, Socrates, for we do not work.
In truth, we do not know how to
make such things ourselves"
"Then would 1t not be better to
teach them how to keep for them
selves what they maker"
''It would seem SO, Socrates, but
they are too ignorant, SO we give
them back part of what we get"
you do we'll to call 1t Settle
ment,' although It is more like
Compromise - with Creditors. But,
Eupraxsillies, you said that they pro-
duce what you do not know how to
produce, except that you know how
to take what they make. Is 1t not
rather, then, you who are ignorant?"
NAY, Socrates, they know only
how to build houses and such things;
they know how to make things-we
know how to get them, but only in
accordance with the laws, and we
do good with what we take"
But we make the laws, Euprax-
stiles; are we, then doing any good
by relieving the poor of their wealth,
and then making them more comfort
able, and so more contented with
such laws?"
''Well--at least, Socrates, we have
improved the neighborhood. Since
we made our Settlement, that street
has become safe and respectable, o
Socrates, and a better class live
there"
"Have the rents risen also Eu-
praxsillies?"
"It is true that the rents have
risen, so that the purchase price Of
the land next to us has more than
doubled"
"Then 1t seems, Eupraxsillies, that
1t was not for the Lords of Heaven
you have been working, but for the
Lords of earth-not the good Lord
but the land lord. Is that of any
use?"
"You say truth, Socrates, but II
is of use-for l am the land lord;
and 1t is natural that every improve
ment in the condition of the earth
should benefit the owners of the
earth"
do such improvements benefit
also those who, on account of them,
pSy more for the use of the earth?"
1T certainly seems that the benefit
to the one class must be at the ex-
pense of the other, Socrates"
Then it seems to me, o Euprax-
STILES, that yours is Society for
Improving Conditions and Increasing
the Number of the Poor. From
Puck.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
Keep Mum.

Women, as women, are pretty
much alike. They have the same
hair, differingslightly onls as to color
and length; same features, same
thoughts. When we love one OF
them, therefore. we are in reality
loving them all. But It is Just as
well not to mention this.--.Lifs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
Called 70 oracr.

ARMED with only sensu Of our
wrongs" began the suifragctie,
we IA
"You forget our hatplns." lptes~
posed the lady In the chair. she being
q stickler for accuracy. PhiladelphtA
IedEer
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

What is regarded as the worlds
shearing record has been established
by nine men on Hawkes. Bay station,
Australia, They succeeded In shear
Ing 23s4 sheep in nins hours.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

We are so tried and tossed, so
compassed round with pain, so much,
apparently, the sport of fanciful pas
sions, so ouriously framed, as it were,
for temptation, with high aspirations
living in us, along with base desires,
so lowering ever on the verge of
good or i'll, so weak to choose the
good, so troubled by the necessity
of battle, when our heart is weary
with the passionate longing for rest,
that God knows that We do want
some sympathy higher than any one
ON earth can give us-some sympa-
thy which will not weaken, but
strengthen, some certainty that the
eternal love and righteousness can
feel with us and assist us,-F. w.
Robertson.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

For in heaven the stature is meas
ured by love, and not what by what
men call genius or skill or wit or
fancy; and, therefore, those that
love most and grieve most give them
selves most to the care of God, and
He will never disappoint the hope of
a loving heart.-Henry Wilder
Foote.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

In the meanest things of every day
no one liveth, no one dieth unto self
alone, so inwrapt and interfolded are
human destinies in the continual ac-
ton and reaction that goes on
through life.-Dora Greenwell.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Character is kind of worship; all
true life is worthy. y.-Robertson.

There is always a certain air of
peacefulness pervading a clear con-
sciousness of duty. A sense of duty
which does not bring with 1t quiet
restfulness of soul is an imperfect
sense of duty.-Newman Smith.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
Rubbing Stones.

The buffalo's practice of rolling on
the ground, which, when the ground
was wet, made the wallows that have
been spoken of was, no doubt, often
done for the same reason that horse
rolls; that is, In order to irritate the
whole skin by thorough rubbing or
scratching. In the timber country
where buffalo were abundant 1t was
not uncommon in old times to see
cottonwood trees Drowned and pol
lshed to height OF five feet or more
by the rubbing against them of the
buffalos' bodies. A hundred years
ago Henry the younger speaks of
places where the bark had been
rubbed off the trees by the scratching
of the buffalo, and a river not far
from the old fort he occupied for
years at Pembina was named the
Scratching River.
Close to the mountains, or along
streams where there is much timber,
these scratching places are scarcely
noticeable. because each one was used
by only few animals and at long in
tervals, and the evidences of their
rubbing have been removed by the
weather. But In some sections OF
the treeless Northwest over which
In glacial times the great ice sheet
passed, there will be found boulders
dropped by the Ice. sometimes very
large. and at others projecting only
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1907-11-13
TILLMAN's POLITICAL TALK
Sage of South South Carolina Says
Bryan is Yet Boss and Roosevelt
Will Retire

Danville. H.. Nov. Ex-senator Ben
jamin r. Tillman, Of South Carolina,
who was present in this city, when
interviewed this morning by a local
newspaper man, declared that he was
satisfied that President Roosevelt
would not accept a third term under
any conditions; and further said that.
in his opinion, Uncle Joe Cannon will
be the republican nominee"
Bryan" said Mr.. Tillman. will be
the democratic nominee without the
shadow Of doubt, as he is the great
est living democrat of the present
time and the proper man TO entrust
with the affairs OF the government"
The senator was then asked as to
what he thought of the present finan-
cial troubles. TO which he replied that
he did not consider that the people Of
the country need worry over these
matters al all and wound UP his re-
marks with the statement that This
country has reached the point in its
prosperity where financial fiurries in
financial centers can no longer affect
it"