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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1907-03-28

>The road between Nezpcrce and
Kamiah is said TO be the worst in
the history of this section. Tuesday
morning the mail stage left Kamiah
at z 80 and with constant driving
did not reach Nezperce until three
o'clock in the afternoon.
NJ asked young lady if me she
would wed. with smile or her face
and nod of her head-"Asx faith
err ''esNow she knew that knew
her father was dead and she knew
that I knew the life he had led, and
she knew that | knew what she meant
when she said: ASK father"
Sid and Dick Luther returned home
Friday having received a message
while enroute that their sister at
Chewela, Washington, was dead and
therefore It was not necessary to
proceed to visit to her bedside.
E. M. Luther and wife went on TO
Spokane where Mrs. Luther will
undergo an operation.
Eli Green. a prominent Indian land
owner of the Green Greek section,
died at bis home last night at hve
o'clock of quick consumption. He
will be buried at the Meadow Creek
cemetery tomorrow with the services
OF the Presbyterian church of which
he was member. He was 4S years
old but has no offspring. He leaves
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1907-03-28

Notice is hereby given that the BIZ
ennial election of the village of Nez-
perce, Idaho, will be held in the
village hall of the village of Nez-
perce, Idaho, on Tuesday, April 3.
1907. The polls CT said election
will be open at s 100 a. m. and con-
tiDue open until z 100 p. m. of the
same day. AT said election there
will be elected five trustees for the
village of Nerperce, Idaho, to serve
for term of two years and until
their successors are elected and
qualified. (. L. PARKER,
Chairman Village Trustees.
P. w. MITCHELL, Clerk.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1907-03-28


would be pleased TO issue a quit
claim deed to any resident owner
agains, whose property l have a tax
deed. by the payment of the amount
of the taxes plus the legal interest,
and tte cost of issuing of the tax
deed and recording of same. Ifany
of the resident owners against whom
| have tax deed viii write me I
will give them the amount of The
taxes and issue a tax deed by SIM
ply repayment of my money. | did
not have tax deeds issued to me for
the purpose of speculation, but SIM
ply 10 clear my own property and
keep my own titles clear; but non
resident owners who have not paid
their taxes will hold the tax deed
against the property for the full val
ue OF the lot, as / believe If they are
holding property for the purpose of
speculation they should pay their
taxes. c. D. THOMAS,
Twin Falls, Idaho.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
A Choice of Evils.

A young Scotchman fresh from
bis native land had "hired out" to
q western farmer as harvest hand
Hs was strong, industrious and full
af enthusiasm, but the mosquitoes
we're q revelation to him. In all his
experience he had never encounter
ed anything so fierce, bloodthirsty
and persistent, and they made his
life miserable.
~They won't bother you, Sandy, "
said one of his fellow lshorers, "h
you smoke a pipe when they're
round you"
Sandy had never "smokit," but ht
procured a pipe and some tobacco
and proceeded to follow the advice.
For a few moments he smoked
with much zeal and earnestness.
Then he became very pale. He LAID
the pipe down and placed the tObac
co by its side.
"Tis varra guide tae keep tbs
mosquitoes away nae doot," he said,
With long, quivering breath, 'but
I prefair the mosquitoesp
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
THE WRITER'S.

Max Beerbohm, wit, critic, novelist
RAd caricaturist, has just started Oh
bis first trip to Italy with commits
sion TO write his Impressions.
Sir Theodore Martin. author Of the
Bon Gaultier' ballads. is ninety years
old, but enjoys remarkably vigorous
health and takes daily rambles near
his beautiful home on the outskirts Of
Llangollen. Wales.
Bliss Perry. who has Just issued a
life of walt Whitman" spent the
summer in Belgium and is now in
Italy. he expects to return to this
country In January to begin his work
as professor OF English literature at
Harvard university. which he will car
ry on at the same time with his edi-
torship of the Atlantic.
An English critic having said that
Henry James -gropes his way through
the English language like q blind man
tapping with a stick" the London
Globe rejolRs that he might DO worse,
that his methods at least are better
than those of some other novelists who
dance through the language as If they
were doing a cakewalk."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
THE LIcoRIcE PLANT.
Whore It Grows and How Its Black
Juice Is Treated.

Where Il Grows and How Its Black
Juice Is Treated.
Black iicorice is made from the juice
of the llcorlce plant, mixed with starch
to prevent 1t from melting in hot
weather. The licorlce plant grows for
the most part on the banks of the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which
flow through immense treeless prairles
Of uncultiyated land. The climate Of
these great plains is variable. Half the
year 1t Is mild and pleasant. but for
three months it Is very cold, and for
three months in summer hot winds
sweep across the country, raising the
temperature to 104 degrees for weeks
at time.
The llcorice plant is a shrub three
feet high and grows without cultiva-
tion IN situations where Its roots can
reach the water. The usual time Of
collecting is the winter, but roots are
dug all the year around At first the
root Is full of water and must be
allowed to dry. process which takes
nearly a year. 1t is then cut into small
pieces from six inches to foot
long. The good and sound pieces are
kept, and the rotten ones are used for
frewood.
AS the valley of the Euphrates con
tanned one of the earliest civilizations
In the world, 1t is probable that llcorice
is about the Oldest CONNECTION extani
and that the taste, which pleases near
" all children today, was familiar to
the little brown boys and girls Of
Babylon and Nineveh 5000 years ago,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
She Was Excited.

TITS funny the way some women
act when they get excited" said a
conductor on the Broadway line.
He continued: "a we'll dressed, re-
fined appearing woman ran out Of
q store and jumped on my car just
as / was about to pull the bell for
the motorman to go ahead. She
stood up in the aisle and said: Wait
a minute; don't go yeti NY hus-
band will be here SOON Her hus-
band wasn't in sight, so I decided
we'd have to go. When 1 reached
for the bell cord she grew excited.
4 told you to watt she said. Ny
husband will be here in Just a min
ute.' we cannot wait for him,
madam 1 said. We're running on
schedule time It was then that
she did something funny. She grew
more excited and said to me,
Young man, if you don't hold this
car for my husband I'll smash you
in the face Just then her hus-
band came out of store on the
run and climbed aboard. When he
had dropped into a seat tho woman
looked at me and with sweet smile
said, Now you may go ahead, con-
ductor.' Thank you,' 1 said
Denver Post.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
SOME ODD ADS.

A Gold Coast paper. announcing the
death Of society woman. asserts that
'she was buried next day with the am
ateur brass band"
"Four good looking sons In the fam.
ily." This Is the last sentence Of an
advertisement for a girl for a dairy
farm which appears In a New Zealand
newspaper.
To the announcement In a Paris es
Establishment that I'VE speak English
and Man spricht Deutsch" the enter
prisIng shopkeeper has added ~. g.
spoken here"
An Australian settler who wanted a
wife TO share his hard lot In the will.
dernesS inserted this abbreviated ad.
vertisement In a Sydney newspaper.
Settler. alb. 80, start poult. farm, wd.
mar. girl past 81. fond outdoor simple
life; not afraid 2 or years rough II.
sake make somf love home. VIZ. M.
Single, @ !. o.. sydney"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
Tho Infant Terrible.

A Washington heights mother
had just sought to punish her
youthful son, and the son, to escape,
had crawled under a bed, when a
woman friend called at the apart
ment.
"What lovely place you have
here~ the caller remarked. $50
pretty and so bright and clean
You must give more personal at
tention to things than l do"
At this moment the small boy
crawled out, seeming safety.
"Say, mamma" was his greeting,
81 don't get under any more beds
in this house. Look at me. l guess
when you sweep you never sweep
under there. The dirt's an inch
thick"
The caller looked off into space,
and the mother exclaimed enthusi,
a8tically:
"Oh, let me show you my hat, my
dearw-New York Globe.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
LETTERS BY MESSENGER.
A Postal Law of Which You May Not
Have knowledge.

A Postal Law of Which You May Not
Have knowledge.
The statement made In an uptown
club one evening lately that the law
prohibits carrying an unstamped letter
past a postofIice and delivering 1t caus.
ed much argument. Inquiry was made
at the postofice, where an official said
that the question had been asked fire.
Quently. You may send letter by
messenger anywhere, past as many
postonices as you please" said the Oh
cial. but you have no right to send
your mall that way regularly or at
stated periods. This is prohibited by
the postal laws and regulations. Sec
| tons 1916 and 1877 were enacted to
prevent the establishment Of private
mail routes, because the postoffice de-
partment is recognized us having the
absolute monopoly of the transporta-
tlon Of letters and 'packets' or bundles
Of letters by regular trips and at stated
periods on all post routes. AS to open
letters and circulars, they may be de-
llvered by rival concerns, but the peo-
pie who make the delivery of circulars
a business have no right to deliver un-
stamped closed letters. The law shuts
out the milkmen and the tradesmen,
who travel regularly along established
post roads, who would otherwise be-
come rivals to the United States post
office for the purpose of accommodate
ing their customers. New York Trib
une.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
RossiM's Watch.

In 1924 Charles Y. presented Rossini,
the composer with repeating watch,
studded with diamonds, and playing
two Of Rossinl's melodies. Nobody in
Bologna could clean the watch, so It
was sent In the care of the tenor. Fa-
biano. to Paris, where it was destroyed
II a fire. Plivee. the Matchmaker,
thereupon made a second watch, the
exact counterpart of the first, except
that the diamonds were false, and Ros-
SIM, who never discovered this pious
fraud, wore the trinket all his life. On
his death 1t passed to a relative, whose
son sold 1t to IN Englishman. 1t Ii
said to contain ali excellent portrait In
enamel Of RoRsini a. be was In 1924.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
Conl In Folklore.

Probably most policemen could hav.
answered the question OF the riaEis
trate who asked burglar ih cour
why he carried about pieces of CO,
Among other coal folklore is the By
glars firm faith that the possessL
of a piece confers good luck, and WhG
searched in the police station it il
usually found in his pocket. A belief
In coal as n talisman is said to have
been held ny the early Brltons, and II
Is certainly frequently found In their
burial places converted into personal
ornaments, such as beads. etc. Beliov.
ers in dreams maintain that to dream
Of coal is certain sign of coming rich
es. Then, too, thee is the specu!um
or mirror Of diyin ation-thnt caused
such sensation in the sixteenth cen.
tury-of D.. Dee, which subsequently
formed part Of the Strawberry Hill
collection. 1t was formed Of camel
coal, though the doctor pretended To
have received 1t from the angels
London Chronicle.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
ay intention.

When a Scotchman has no argu-
ment at his tongues end to defend
his own line OF conduct, which an
other may have criticised, it may
safely be inferred that his ancestry
has strain from some other nation.
\ man who has an estate in Scotland
took his new plowman to task for
the wavering burrows which were
the result of his work.
"Your drills are not nearly as
straight as those Angus made,' he
said severely. 'He would not have
left such a glebe as this"
"Angus didna ken his work." said
Tammas calmly, contemplating his
employer with an indulgent gaze,
''Ye see, when the drills is crookit
the sun gets in on all sides, an tits
then We get early 'taties."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
Disests What You Eat

There are a great many people
who have slight attacks of indigss-
ton and dyspepsia nearly all the
time. Their food may satisfy the
appetite but it fails to nourish the
body simply because the stomach
is not in fit condition to do work it
is supposed to do, 1t can't digs at
the food you eat. Tie stomach
should be given help. You ougbl
take something that will do the
work your stomach can't do. KodoI
For indigestion sn 1 dyspepsia, q
DOM bination of natural digestants
and vegetable acids, digests the
food itself and gives strength and
health to the stomach. Pleasant to
take, Sold by all Druggists.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
AM Anci,nt Iri,h cu,ton,..

In the district k'.oTa AZ the baronr
of Forth" IN County Wexford, Ireland.
is to be found race OF hardworkIng.
industrious pcasanls living In matched
cottages with clean. whltewashcd walls
which by their perfect Wilderness AZ
once arrest tie attention OF the visitor.
These people differ in many respects
from the Inhabitants of the other parts
Of the same county and have habits
and customs peculiar to themselves
When funeral takes place two wood
en- crosses are provided. On the way
to the cemetery a halt is made at a
certain spot by the side of the road.
Here prayers nre said for the deceased.
after which one cross is deposited IN a
hawthorn bush or under It The pro-
cession then goes on its way, and after
the interment the other cross is hxed
at the head of the grave. This strange
custom dates from time immemorIaL
as the great pile of crosses by the road.
side indicates.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
THE oDoa5Js ONION.
"A Word or Two In Favor of the Pun
cent Veustable.


gent Vegetable.
The onion need have no fears. Its
position is secure. Born of the lily
family. probably in Asia in the faroG
centuries, 1t grows all over the world.
It was well known to the ancient
Greeks and Romans. 1t Is mentioned
In ancient Egyptian writings and iii
the Pentateuch. When the Israslites In
the wilderness grew weary Of mama,
they sighed for the good things they
had left behind, and they distressed
Moses when they lifted their voices in
weeping and cried: I'VE remember the
fish which we did eat In Egypt freely,
the cucumbers and the melons and the
leeks and the onions and the garlic,
but now our soul Is dried away. There
Is nothing at all, besides this mama,
before our eyes" 1t was not SO much
the neshpots of Egypt that they sighed
for as the succulent leek, the pungeni
onion. the od0fous garlic. The onion
Is the Welsh national emblem. In
Spain and Italy garlic, which is mere
~ a condensed onion, enters into near
~ all dishes Of both the rich and poor.
The onion thriYes IN Siberia and In
Honduras. 1t fourishes on the Milo
and on the Mississippi. 1t was IA
Yorits with the Ptolemies of ancient
Egypt, and 1t finds favor with the
highest and the lowest in Macon and
Charlotte. The lady Of Shalott died
of broken heart because she had to
give up either onisns or her lover. Her
lover was one of those fnicky fellow"
who objected to the odor Of onions.
and she would not give up the shallot
The onion is all right. 1t never seek,
to conceal itself It Is about the onl.
thing in hash In which one can hav'
ENTHUSIASTICALLY American.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
SURVIVAL OF THE FlTTEsT.
How Or. Wsflssp Came to Formulate
His Theory.

Dr.. Alfred Russell Wallace in his
autobiography tells how during his
long soiourn in Borneo and the Ma
lay peninsula he formulated indie
pendently of Darwin his theory Of
evolution: al was suffering from a
sharp attack Of intermittent fever
and every day during the cold and
hot fits had to lie down for several
hours, during which time 1 had
nothing to do but to think over any
subjects then particularly interest
ing me. One day something brought
to my recollection MalthuS tPrinci-
pies of Population which l had
reed about twelve years before. l
thought Of his clear exposition Of
the positive checks to increase
disease, accidents, war and famine
which keep down the population Of
savage races to so much lower an
average than that Of moro civilized
peoples.
ut then occurred to me that
h4ss causes or their equivalents are
continually acting in the case Of ami
mails also, and, as animals usually
breed much more rapidly than does
mankind, the destruction every yea1
from these causes must be enor-
nous, as otherwise the world would
long ago have been densely crowded
With those that breed most quickly
Vaguely thinking over the enormous
and constant destruction which this
implied, it occurred to me to ask
the question, Why do some die and
GONE hTsi
@And the answer was clearly that
on the Bh0le the best fitted live.
Then it suddenly flashed upon me
that the self acting process would
necessarily improve the race, be
cause in every generation the IL
ferior would inevitably be killed Of
and the superior would remain
thai is. the fttast would survive"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
He Knew.

A teacher in an isolated school
situated in the cattle country of
Wyoming, where the children learn
their letters from the brands on
cattle before they learn the alpha
bet, was endeavoring to teach her
pupils the different sounds of 'a''
as denoted by the marks above the
letter.
"Now, children" she inquired
hopefully, pointing on the black
board to the letter and the mark
Signifying the long sound, "what is
this?"
There was q long and discourag-
ing silence. Then an embyro cow
boy cried ezcitedly as he waved his
hand; 81 know, teacher. That's
Bar A"-Lippincott's.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
struck Him rnfnrornh11.

Mr.. Gaswell. who had come recently
into the possession OF considerable
fortune, had decided to erect a large
office building and was discussing the
plans with IN architect.
GAS to the floors, now" said the ar
chitect, "you would want them in mo-
sale patterns, I presumed"
81 don't know about that" responded
Mr.. Gaswell. obviously scratching h
jaw. Il hain't got any prejudice
against Moses as q man, and he GER
tninly knowed good Zeal about law.
but when comes to laying floors Il
kind O. seems to me I'd ruther have 'em
unsectarIan-like. Don't 1t strike you
that vavT"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
The BOOMERANG.
Even the Australians Know Little
About It's Mysteries.

"The Australian boomerang" said
a collector of queer weapons, ''is
formed of bent stick, one side
rounded, the other fiat. The Aus
tralians make it from boughs of
acacia pendula or from some tree of
similar growth, giving to the green
wood the desired curvature in the
fire. 1t is necessary to choose
very hard, strong and heavy wood,
and the best plan is to cut piece
from natural bend or root of
tree and to let the curve of the
boomerang follow the grain of the
wood.
Zone hardly ever secs two boom
erangs of the same shape, for they
vary from slight curve to nearly
right angle. They differ also in
length from fifteen inches to three
and half feet and in breadth from
two to three inches. They should
be about three-eighths Of an inch
thick, tapering toward the ends,
which may be either round or point
ed, while the edge must be sharpen
ed all around. One side must be
convex, the other fiat, the sharpness
of the edge along the conyexity Of
the curve varying in different BOOM
erangs.
"When thrown the boomerang
travels forward for some distance
and then generally returns in an
sllipse to wShin a few PAGES of the
thrower. If the boomerang strikes
Its mark it falls to the ground. In
throwing it must be grasped ait one
end, stretched back behind' the
shoulder and then brought rapidly
forward above the head, the inside
of the curve facing the direction In
which it is thrown.
at may either be hurled upward
into the air or downward, SO as to
strike the ground at some distance
from the thrower. In the frat case
it flies from rotary motion, as its
shape would indicate, and after as
cending to great height it sudden
ly returns in an elliptical orbit to
spot near its starting point. When
thrown downward to the ground it
rebounds in a straight line, pursu-
ing a ricochet motion until il
strikes the object at which it is cast.
"To throw the Australian boom
erang in such a way as to make
sure of its doing exactly what one
wants is one Of the most difficult
feats in the world. Alfred W. How
lit, who has seen the natives of Vic
toris practicing with the boom
erang, mentioned that he question
ed some blacks as to whether they
thought it was possible to throw ii
so as to insure its returning to the
hand of the throwcr. Sevcn said
no and characterized the statement
as fet bollan-i. e., falsehood.
The eighth paid he once made
boomerang that when thrown on q
calm day With great care would gy-
rate around and around until it de-
scended to the ground not far from
him, moving as slowly as o leaf fall
ing from tree, and that he once
ran forward and nearly caught it.
BE said also no kurni (black fellow
can catch a wunkan when he is fly
ing-he would cut his hands OPEN
The throwing Of boomerangs has
always been carried on in the open
air, and no Australian native has
ever attempted to use them in
building" Exchange.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
Why He Didn't RESIGN.

Sir William Wightman held Office
in the old court Of queens bench in
London far beyond the prescribed
time, and at last, on the eve of the
1ong vacation" he took q sort of
farewell of his brother judges. How
ever, when "the morrow of All
Saints" came around he turned up
smiling at Westminster hall. "Why,
Brother Wightman," said Sir Alex
ander Cockburn, "you told us that
you intended to send in your resig-
nation to the lord chancellor before
the end of August" $50 l did," said
Sir William, "but when l went
home and told my wife she said,
why, William, what on earth do
you think that we can do with you
messing about the house all day?
So, you see, 1 was obliged to come
down to court again"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09

The way to get rid of a GOLD
whether it be a "bsd cold, orjust
d little one, is to get it out of your
sYstem through the bowels. Nearly
all iooughicures, especially those
that contain opistes, are oonstipat.
ing, Kennedy's Laxative Cough
Syrup contains no opistes and aotr
gently on the bowels. Pleasant to
take. Sold by all Druggists.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-09
How to ston Runawavn.

The policeman had stopped the run
away very neatly. Now, though puff
ing little, he was quite calm.
ITS nothing to stop a runaway" he
said as he wiped his foam covered
hands. at is like jumping on or off q
moving carload easy when you know
how. What you want to do when you
see a runaway tearing toward you IS
not to stand still, but to run all your
might in the same way the nags ago
ing. Then, when 1t catches up to you.
you grab the bride and keep a-run-
ming. Then you are not thrown. you
are Tot trampled on, and in a minute
or two the horse slows down. I've
stopped dozen runaways without an
accident It's part of our training. and
the policeman who would refuse to
take chance would be disgraced the
same as soldier who would refuse to
fight New York Pross