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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-06-14
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PEACH TREES.
August Budded Stock Finds Favor
With Many Planters.

August Budded Stock Finds Favor
With Many Planters.
An INQUIRY regarding the best time
to bud peach trees elected the follow
in. replies. among others, as given i'll
Rural New Yorker:
From middle of June to last of July
III Georgia and Aug. 20 to about Sept.
Is in Connecticut. II. Hale.
In Maryland.
Two carefully made trials of both
June and August budded peach trees.
by planting of same varieties Of both
tyres of trees in same orchards, show
ed the following results: The smaller
June buds-started more promptly and
led in growth the first two years. pro-
duced more freely at five years of age
than the standard or August budded
trees. but at ten years their vigor was
spent. while the standards We're ut their
best and bore profitably after the 9th
ers were exhausted. Where quick
bearing and short lived orchard is
desired the June budded trees would
be preferable. but here in this county
Caroline. where peach trees Of stand
ard type bear proftably up to twenty
years and even longer q have an Old
nixon Free that is fifty-seven years old
and has fair sprinkling of fruit on 1t
this year,, the August budded trees are
largely in favor with we'll Informed
planters. To any one familiar with the
operations Of June budding it should
be obvious without further explanation
why the life Of such tree is shorter
than that of the August budded tree
For my own planting the latter is de-
land.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-06-14
FINLEY FACTS.

Mr.. Simmons and Miss HOvey have
been engaged to teach the school All
Finley for the fall term. The en-
plOyment for the second term shows
that their teaching has been salts
factory.
A nice shower Tuesday cooled the
atmosphere and gave the lawmakers
rest.
There is quite lot OF drift wood
coming down the river now, and
some brave spirits like Charley Deus
c * and Skinner are fishing lots of it
O 1t, but your humble servant would
RI Their eat his "vittals" RI ", or haul
sagebrush home ON Il wheel barrow
than to risk his carcass ON the bosom
Of that turbulent stream to save a
few chunks of drift W )od.
Three different petitions contain
ing the names of three-fOurths of the
citizens of this vicinity, We're sent to
the County Commissioners asking
VIldC IlO SttIOOu iICclSc Dc ETUuIcu 10
anyone to sell liquors in finley. One
member of the Board informed the
party getting up these petitions that
ii the majority of the people said no
to IL license that none would be
granted. The little building across
the railroad is to be dedicated next
Sunday to His Satanic Mrj,sty f'r
the purpose Oi dealing out liquid
damnatiOn shows how we'll they
have kept this pledge. The proprie-
tor of this saloon did not get up a
petition. He did not have to, SO
said one of the Board. But if the
temperance people get a hearing
they have to be on hand with a re-
monstrance to shove under the nose
OF each applicant who applies for Il
incense, Or it does not count, SO says
the Board. Their explanation does
not go down with this people.
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A Cure for Lame Back

Ii Won are ever troubled with ud
or lamress in the muscles Of 10
back use Chamberlain's Pain hI
and they will quickly disappear. |
Alexander ViOlette, of Vnlcan, Md
says it is the best liniment he en-
used for lame back. For sale By \
Columbia Pharmacy.
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Taking It Internally.

AS he crept softly upstairs the clock
struck 2.
where have you been. Alfredo" sb.'
asked quietly.
"At the Office, taking Stock ca,,"
the glib reply.
81 thought l smelt it," said his VIE
New York Press.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-06-14

FOR SALE or RENT-My store
bnildinG. dwelling and warehouse,
corner of Washington and Second
streets. l.. S. ERLEY,
Il. +. ID. l Occur d Alene, Idaho.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-06-14

For nice fresh flowers for funerals,
decorations and weddings, write or
phone Spokane Florist Co., Main 5,
Spokane, Wash.
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Married..
SMITH MASIkE2

At Pasco, Saturday, June 9Th,
at the Eagle Hotel, Miss Myra
Masiker WAS married to Victor NJ
Smith, J. D. Mccarthy, Justice OF
the Peace off ciating
The b. ide is daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. w. Masiker, who
own a ranch west of town and have
been long time residents of the
valley and are we'll and favorably
known.
Mr.. SIN til, the groom, is al i'll
dustrious mechanic, who has teen
working at his trade Oh the various
new buildings fol. year or more
and is we'll liked by his fellow work
men who speak we'll of his work
The new couple have the best
wishes of their many friends
They will reside in Kenne wick.
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HIRST GLOVER

Sunday, at Occur d'Alene City.
Mrs. Nellie NJ. Glover ard Aller
Hirst were married after a brief
courtship Mr.. Hirst is not know
here. Mrs Glover is we'll known
here as the widow of ex- Marshal
NJ D. Glover, and is the mother
of six children. The marriage
was great surprise to the COM
munity. They retu ned here the
first of the week but no announce
ment of their fu ure plans has been
made public.
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Get your strawberry plants now;
81 per 1000 in the patch. j. Storland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23
MONKEY HELPED TO FISH.
Valuable Assistant in Landing Catches
for His Master.
From the London Field.

From the London Field.
For some years l lived In a small town
not far from Frome, and being very fond of
fishing l was able to indulge in my favorite
pastime very often, as the little river
abounded In trout and l had permission to
fish about eight miles of It.
The only boat on the lake belonged to a
Captain c., who rented a large house with
grounds coming down to the lake, and he
very kindly allowed me the use of the boat
at all times. The captain was perhaps the
finest fly fisherman l have ever seen, an
enthusiast at the sport, and was often to be
seen in the boat, his page boy rowing him
about.
The other occupant of the boat was in
variab'y a monkey that sat stolldy In the
stern sheets. But when the captain hooked
a fish Jocko was all activity, dancing about
the boat in a most excited manner and as
soon as the captain had drawn the fish
near enough the monkey, holding on the
gunwae with one hand, would seize the fish
with the other, throw it into the boat and
then resume his usual seat.
l never saw the monkey lose a fish, and
Captain c. told me that he very rarely did
miss one He never took a landing net
with him when the monkey accompanied
him. am well aware that few will believe
this tale, but it is true in every respect and
there are no doubt many still living at
Stourton or in the neighborhood who could
testify to the correctness of what | have
written.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23
STRANGE INDIAN NAMES.
Civilization Hasn't Altered the Red
Mans Fondness for Odd Titles.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York sun.
However rapidly the Indian is travelling
the path of civilization, 1t is plain from
casual reading of the notices in the South
Dakota newspapers of inherited Indian
lands for sale that their names do not
change. In one of these advertisements
appear the following:
Edward Snow Boy, Emily Crow Dog,
Joseph Red Leaf, Little Bird, R. Spotted
Eagle, Lob Long Ear, Lizzie Lone Bull
Jonah Iron Whip Samuel Four Star, John
Omaha, Julia Hummng Bird, j. Pretty
Feather, Jonah One Elk, r. Crazy Eyes,
Lizzie Long Ear, Medicine Horn, Feather
in-the-Ear, Cecilia Curly Feather, Robert
Kill Bear.
Probably a fourth of these Indian heirs
bear the names of white fathers. Half a
century ago colony of Frenchmen settled
in the vicinity of the Mandans and Brule
Sioux, and nearly every one of them mar
ried an Indian. Their progeny are repre-
scented by such names as Picotte, Archam-
beau, Arconge, DeFond, Brunot, Dezera,
Tasagye, Bruyer. Descendants of these
Frenchmen own great tracts of land and
many cattle in the northwest.
Many of the Indians still retain their old
form of name. From another advertise
ment come these: Sunkakokipapi, IVAN
kemwastwin, Cuncagewokanna, Ouncage-
topawain, Wawoklyewin, PejutatoWin,
Yakocoarawin and the like.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23
A SCHOOL OF DUELING.
Frenchmen Taught How to Behave on
the Field of Honor
From the Wide World Magazine

From the Wide World Magazine.
Although dueling has long been laughed
out OF court in this country, our continental
friends by no means share our opinion Of
this method Of settling affairs OF honor.
Though tine French duel is usually carried
through without any serious injury TO
either combatant. ii is regarded with grave
consideration. and every detail has to be
attended to most punctiliously.
In order that gentlemen who may be
called upon TO defend themselves at the
point Of the pistol may have some train
ing for the ordeal, there has been estab-
lished in Paris a school of dueiing, one
prominent member being exPresident
Caslmr Perier.
This academy is conducted by DIR. de
Nillers and combats frequently take place
there by way of practice. In these mimic
duels wire masks are worn TO protect the
face and bullets made of wax are used, so
that no injury may be sustained by the
combatants.
In all other respects however. the con-
duct of the affair is carried through as on
the iield of honor, so that when the time
cOmes-if il does come-for the
scholars to take part in serious duel they
may acquit themselves with credit to them
selves and disaster to their adversary-al-
though this latter point is not u much i'm
portance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23
DEERS GREAT SPEED IN THE WATER

The appearance of deer in the waters
of the Potomac only a short distance below
the wharves of the capital" said local
hunter recently, and its unsuccessful pur-
suit by a steam launch a few days ago,
caused the old salts along the water front
to tell some tall whoppers to how they
used to bag catamounts and pop over deer
under the shadow of the nearby Virginia
hills, but the nonremniscent man no doubt
naturally wondered why the steam launch
didn't overhaul the deer.
'Ornithologists have determined, with
comparative accuracy, the speed of various
wild birds in their flight through the air,
and those of the fastest species put to the
blush the mechanical speed marveis or
man. but only hunters understand how
rapidly deer and other animals move
through the water when swimming and
pursued by their natural enemies.
Man is a slow swimmer when compared
with the average land animal. His lung
and muscular powers are quickly exhaust
ed. Even with the recently adopted side
strokes, which cause the body to be more
completely immersed in the water than
the oldfashioned strokes of our younger
days, the propulsion of his body through
the water sets up a comparatively large
divided wave, and. with some strokes, par
ticularly the overland. his splashes lose
certain amount of momentum and he en-
counters corresponding resistance from the
solid body OF water he is constantly press
ing against. The physical structure OF his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23

cooking and not a few labor out in the
fields. Indeed their situation makes one
think of the vaudeville song:
''Oh, the women do the work, do the work,
While the men lie around the house.
Or of that other sweet and well-known
Everybody works but father"
Thrifty, but Lazy.
The Kabyle men are a strange combina-
ton of thriftiness and laziness. l saw
many of them loafing about the streets,
while the women passed by loaded with all
sorts of burdens. While at home they let
their wives do as much as they will, but at
the same time they will hire out to the
French farmers of the Tell to aid in plant
ing and harvesting the crop. At such times
they make from forty to sixty cents day
and save almost the whole of it. They are
small fortunes Of a few hundred dollars
or SO.
Village Republics.
Indeed these people have many qualities
which distinguish them from the Arabs and
Moors, by whom they are surrounded. Their
white blood crops out in their desire for in
dependence and self-government. They are
ruled by the French, but as to local mat
tiers they govern themselves. Each town
Is a little republic, with its own council
and public meeting house where town af-
fairs discussed. 1t has its own munich
pal laws and elects its own officials. Each
village has a mosque and a school. The
school is supplied with teachers by the
French and the children are taught to
speak and write French as well as Arabic
The mosques are rude affairs, but the
Kabyles go to them regularly and face
Mecca as they play They are naturally
religious, but they have changed the Mo-
hammedan faith to suit themselves, and
they have their own ideas of morals. right
and justice. Many of them are intelligent
and altogether they have most Of the quail
tiles which have made the white race the
ruling one in other parts of the world
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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body, with his broad, wedge-shaped Shout
ders dividing the water is at all times
against his speed and particularly SO when
he is faugued.
with animals and particularly the deer,
the opposite rule obtains. The deer is very
narrow forward, and when swimming SUBJ
merges its body completely, leaving only
the nostrils and forward part of the head
visible. Resistance is thus reduced to
minimum, and, being very muscular though
slender animals, they cut through the water
with scarcely ripple with amazing speed.
In the northern forests deer take naturally
to the water. They will swim a lake five
miles in width with ease rather than go
around it, and, as though conscious of
their water prowess, will invariably take
to the water when closely pursued If q
lake is adjacent to the line of pursuit.
have seen many a race between two mus
powerful buck with the latter crossing
the finish line of the opposite shore win
ner.
Even the conn., ION house cat, as much as
tabby dislikes to get her paws wet once
she is in the water swims with astonishing
swiftness when timed by a stop-watch, and
doubters on this point should throw kittie
overheard on some fair day and count the
split-seconds between given distances. The
average dog, and especially the trained
water dogs of the spaniel breed will beat
a man handily in water sprint. In fact,
most any animal will discount the average
man In the water on a test for short dis
tances, and for long distances and endur-
ance the animal will win out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23

Berbers or Kabyles since I came to the
black continent some months ago. I met
them first in Morocco and again in Spanish
Africa, and have found them everywhere
during my travels in Algeria. / have spent
the past week in Grand Kabylia, where
they are almost the sole inha bitants, and
have gone from village to village invest-
eating their customs and photographing
them at work and in their homes. Within
the past three days have ridden for more
than a hundred miles through the widest
of these African mountains. crossing the
Grand Atlas chain from TizI-Ouzou, the
capital of Kabyla, by way of Fort Ma
tional and Michelet, over a pass almost as
high as Mount Washington, and then COM
ing down to this little town of Maiilot, in
the rich valley of the Tell, where 1 now am.
The road we took over the mountains
covered a distance of about 10 kilometers
1t was built by the French as military
highway to hold these people in order, ana
it is so smooth that one could go over 1t
in an automobile. Indeed, l was offered an
automobile for the trip at cost of SO
per day. but 1 found that 1 should have
To pay one days return fare for every day
l used the machine making the cost really
$50 per diem; there was also danger of
breakdown in the mountains. and l con-
Guided to hire a carriage instead. This l
got for S15 per day. 1t had an Arab driver
and three horses hitched up abreast, and It
enabled me to make my way leisurely
LACE and now at the little fields where the
kabyles were working.
The French Military Road.
This road over the Atlas Is a wonderful
piece of civil engineering. 1t goes along
the sides of the cliffs and has been fairly
cut out of the rocks. In places the drop
to the valley below is something like 1900
feet and at times, when a caravan of cam
els passed by us, each beast loaded with
two great long bags of barley which tripe1
its width, we had to stop for fear we might
be crowded over the rocks and dashed to
pieces in the valley below. At other places
we met droves of donkeys, which their
Kabyle owners had to bring down to single
file in order to pass, and again companies
of Kabyle natives, with loads on their
backs, who walked the same way.
The road is a limestone pike, with fire.
Quent stone culverts and now and then
bridges of stone and iron. Away up on
the top of the Atlas there is a tunnel which
has been blasted through the rock; and
on the very top of the pass we went
through a deep cut which had been made
of broken stone, showing that the repairs
are going on all the time, and there are
guard houses at every few miles, where
the men who take care of the road ara
stationed This pass Is, in fact, military
highway, and it enables France to control
the whole region about.
A Dangerous People.
The Kabyles are among the most insur-
rectionary of the population of Algeria.
Like the Swiss they live in the mountains.
and they have the same love Of freedom.
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A KABYLE TOWN.

which shines out Of their every picture
The Kabyle villages are everywhere. There
are thousands of them in the Algerian
mountains Every great hilltop is spotted
with them, and they cap all the lower
peaks. The people build right on the tops
of the hills. Their little huts are of stone
and plaster, with roofs of red tile Inc
walls are whitewashed, and every town
makes a great patch of white and red on
the landscape.
The villages are usually far off the road
and are reached only by mule paths. l
climbed up and visited some OF them. One
was entered by a gate forming a sort OF
loafing place for the gOwned, bronZed-faced,
turbaned citizens. Passing through this, l
was right in the settlement TIE houses
stand close together, built along narrow
streets with no pavements of any KIND.
They are all of one story, and look more
like stables than homes. The doors are
rude, although some have Carving upon
them They enter into a court upon Whcn
are sometimes two houses, the walls OF
both facing the street. The average house
is about fifteen feet square; it has ridge
roof, which is seldom more than twelve
feet in height at the comb. Here In the
Atlas these roofs are of red tile, and in
other places they are of thatch.
The houses are entered from the court
by doors rough as those which face
the street. They are absolutely without
ornamentation. They have no windows,
and, with the exception of little hole
about foot square under the roof at one
end, no Eight but that which comes in at
the door.
In a Berber Home.
Let me give you a picture of one of these
Berber homes which l visited yesterday.
My dragoman, Emmanuel Dammit, who
speaks the Kabyle language, acted as my
interpreter, and through him the owner
gave US permission to enter. We had tried
at several other houses, but the women
ran from US as though we had the plague
and the boys slammed the court doors in
our faces.
Like all Mohammedans, the Kabyles are
jealous, and their women will have nothing
to do with strange men. In this case both
husband and wife were at home, and the
man was more liberal than most of his
kind He did not introduce us to his wife,
but she was with him in the hut, and, as
usual, unveiled She had a baby at her
breast, and there were half dozen small
children sprawling over the floor. Indeed,
we had to step carefully at first for fear
of trampling baby, but as our eyes be-
came accustomed to the darkness we got
along very well.
In this house there was no sign of what
we call furniture. There We're neither
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chairs nor tables. The members of the fam.
lily were sitting around pile OF figs which
they were sorting as We entered. They sit or
the floor and eat squatting about the single
bowl which usually contains the main dish
of each meal. They eat with wooden spoons.
using common knife. They eat most
up bread and soak it in the soup or stew.
They have meat about once week, but
their chief diet consists of fruit and of
bread made Of wheat or other grain. They
grind their meal themselves, sometimes in
the family mill and sometimes in one be-
longing to the village in common.
In a little home like this the winter sup
plies of the family are stored. One Of the
receptacles l noticed was a stone jar for
figs, with a hole in the bottom to allow
the juice to run out; another was larger
vessel of the same material for wheat or
corn. The latter would hold perhaps
twenty bushels. There was also a large
clay jar for the olive oil. which is made on
the little home farm and pressed out by
the family.
asked where the cooking was done,
and in reply the woman pointed to hole
in the floor in one corner of the hut The
floor Is the bare rock, so that there is no
danger Of fire.
Donkeys Sleep With the People.
AS 1 looked about me 1 heard a sheep
bleating. 1t was apparently right under my
feet. and turning around 1 saw a long
cared ram and nanny goat looking at me
from under a shelf at the back of the hut
This shelf was the chief sleeping place Of
the family and the space below it served as
a stable. There were some chickens in the
same place, and at night the donkeys and
other animals belonging to the family are
brought in and all sleep together. These
Kabyle sheep are tame, and they follow
their masters from place to place like dogs
The people have many sheep, which they
pasture on the mountains in one common
flock watched by shepherd The sheep
and goats are brought into town every
night. AS soon as they enter the village
each runs for its own home and remains
there until morning
The Pretty Berber Girls.
Some of these kabyle women are fine
looking The wife of my host was about
twenty, and she would have been considered
pretty in any crowd Of American maidens.
Her cheeks were rosy and her features as
regular as those of the Venus de Medici.
She wore a dress of bright red calico which
came almost to her feet, but still showed
the heavy silver rings about her bare
ankles. She had heavy earrings and brace
lets. Around her neck was chain to
which many ornaments were hung. ana her
breast was covered with great pins Of white
metal set with bright-colored stones. l
venture that she had at least two pounds
of jewelry upon her. Her eyelids were
blackened to add to her beauty, and she
was also tattooed on the cheeks and on
the forehead and chin.
Nearly all the kabyle women / have seen
are tattooed, and even the poorest wear
more or less jewelry. Outside this, many
are ragged, and those who go through the
streets have their skirts so pulled up that
they show large eXpanse Of bare calf l
see them doing all sorts of hard labor
They carry water from the village well In
clay jars; they gather the wood needed for