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The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
WOmdn'S PAGE
Hdpice To Christmas Shoppers.

In the Christmas number of the Pictorial Review
is given the following good advice to Christmas
shoppers
There is general belief that editors take special
delight in advising Emperors how to manage en-
pires Presidents how to republics; political
parties how to win success fnanciers how to avoid
mistakes ETC.. but rule, they do not dispense
timely advice of vast and practical Importance to
idea and convey to readers who have Christmas
gifts to buy this advice DO your shopping early.
Every year. just before Christmas, enormous, chaotic
wild-eyed and frenzied crowds push, pull, tug and
scramble through the doors and about the counters
of all the stores Everybody is in such hurry that
nobody gets what he or she wants There is little
opportunity to pause and consider and debate over
purchase. Since the charm of gift often consists
in its being exactly the right thing there is real
loss in purchasing presents in a tremendous hurry.
If you, dear reader, begin at once calmly and leis
urely to make your holiday purchases, we trust and
believe you will be happier and more content on the
twenty-sxth day of December.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

The Bureau of Labor has taken much pains to
avoid all appearance of evil in this respect. "All
intend to do said the Commissioner, SIS to get
the facts, and it must of course, be of equal
whom these facts please and whom they
displease We cannot take into account, for instance,
whether our report will please the Manufacturers
Association the labor unions. And every agent of
this bureau is instructed to simply all and report
accurately what he sees, without bias and without at
tempt to draw conclusions"
If more Investigators operating in the South
at present than in New England, it just happens
that way, DR.. Nel says. This investigation will con-
tinue all through next spring and summer, and the
whole country will be covered. The investigators
do better work at this of the year in the
South than they in New England, where they
go next summer
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
Women and Their SrOcerS.
(Spokane Spokesman-Review.)

Deprecating the increasing use of the telephone
by women in ordering supplies from their grocers, a
writer in of the current magazines says the tele
phone and the order clerk or solicitor have probably
done more to kill the housewfely instinct in women
grocers than any other laborsaving household inst
tuition of the century"
His theory is that to get a really good service
every should know her grocer, should go to
the store herself, see how goods kept and han
died. note the degree of cleanliness maintained and
make her selection from what there is to choose
from. He figures it out that with one-half of the
tors there 100000 people in the country being
fed by women who do not know or try to know what
they are buying.
1t is rather unfair to assume, however, that groc-
generally will take advantage of the person order
ing by telephone. In these days when large pro-
portion of the articles for domestic use are sold in
original packages there is little choice left to the
grocer. Of course there things sold in bulk
which it is we'll to inspect before buying but the
average grocer knows that if he doesn't give salts
faction to quality he is likely to lose customer
1t is probable that many grocers appreciate tele-
phone orders because of the saving of time. A wo-
man will take minute two to order over the
phone, while visit to the store would take up per-
haps ten twenty minutes of the clerks time
Nevertheless, on general principles it is better
that women should know their grocers or at least
go to the store often enough to see for themselves
what there is from which to select
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
The american Woman.

We have had the French idea of the American
woman, the English idea and one or two others in
recent issues of the magazines and now comes the
Literary Digest with translation of an article from
the pen of Mr.. Max Brandt originally published
in the Deutsche Revue (Stuttgart), giving the Ger
man idea.
According to the Digest Mr.. Brandt is a
German writer of authority and has served in many
diplomatic capacities at home and abroad. He thinks
that in this country several things conspre to render
the mothers and daughters peculiar. They are sim
guar both from racial and social standpoint and
he endeavors, with true German thoroughness and
ponderosty, to point out the things which distinguish
our girls from those of his native land He en-
phaszes the fact that he is speaking merely of those
who neither African, Chinese nor Japanese in
origin. He also excludes from his cancellations
those of the Latin and other races who form
colonies in the United States and never blend COM
plete with the population He calculates that there
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
child Labor Investigation.

The investigation into the conditions surrounding
woman and child labor recently begun by the Bureau
of Labor under appropriation of $15O0O0 is
ing much interest not to say excitement at various
points where the agents of the Bureau have been
active The subject of child labor has been such
a bone of contention, particularly in the Southern
States, that it not expected that these agents
could make an investigation at the various mills
without experiencing some difficulties. But whatever
excitement is created the investigation will be made
thoroughly if the officials of the Bureau of Labor
do what they promise. At present there forty
special agents of the Bureau of Labor working in
different parts of the country Commissioner Neill
will give out information as to where they are
or as to what they are doing. He has answered
many letters nquiring to whether this or that
or woman represents the bureau by saying that
cry agent of the Bureau has his or her credentials
and is instructed to show them to all persons
titled to know Each agent is specifically instructed
when asked to state frankly who he is and what
he is DOING but to say no more. Any agent who di-
vulges any of the information he gers will find
himself out of job.
absolutely nothing is to be given out about the
work of the investigators" says the Commissioner,
until the investigation is completed 1t is to be
prehensive and complete so far make it,
embracing every industry and every section of the
country. L he lnVeSugatlOn is open ana aDOVeDOarQ
but at the same time it is, for obvious reasons be-
ing conducted in as quiet manner as possible 1t
our earnest desire, if possible, that nothing what
ever be published about until the report is made"
1t is learned from an outside source that some
resentment is being felt in certain localities in the
South because Southern cotton mills have been pick
ed out as the ones specially to be investigated Be
cause of misrepresentation of conditions by various
newspaper writers and agents strongly suspected of
being in the employ of New England manufacturers,
the idea is expressed that the Government is trying
to discredit Southern mills in the interest of New
England manufacturers and labor organizations The
jealousy between the two sections in
industrial matters has assumed an acute condition
with respect to the employment of cotton mill labor
Whenever an Investigator of any kind comes into
one of the cotton mills villages of the South he is
suspected of being there for the purpose of misrepre
,enting conditions in order either to drive labor
away or to bring about legislation which would Grip
Die the Southern mills.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16

The doting parents of Connecticut boy who had
gone to New York under the patronage of prosper
Gus hardware merchant naturally most desir-
Gus to know just how the lad was getting on"
When, after fortnight the father wrote TO his
boys employer, saying that his son was mo hand
at writing letters he stated that he was anxious
to know the boys progress. "And," he added, "I
wish you'd let me know where he sleeps nights"
In short while reply came from the hardware
man, who, among other things impaired this infor-
nation:
Your son sleeps in the store in the daytime. do
not know where he sleeps nights "-Harper's Weekly.
Peggy-Now, will you listen to me while tell Won
the plain truth, Reggy?
Reggy-Pm all ears, Peggy.
Peggy-That's just what I was going to say only
should have put it differently illustrated Bits
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-05
PRESERVING
OUR FORESTS

1t will be unfortunate if for any
cause the impression is stamped upon
the minds of the people of other parts
of the country that the men of the
far West are opposed to the preser-
walton of the forests, says the Denver
Republican. The people of this sec
ton are practically unanimous in ia
vor of protecting the growing timber
on the mountains, for they all recog-
nize that it's destruction would be an
overwhelming disaster.
Men may differ concerning details of
forest administration, but in respect OF
the broad proposition that the inter-
ests of the arid region demand that
the forests be preserved there is no
difference of opinion. The forests are
needed to maintain a uniform flow in
streams, although they may have no
effect upon the amount OF the rain
fall The decaying matter which ac-
tain forest checks the flow of water
and thus acts as a great natural res
ervoir. The forests also protect the
snow from the direct rays of the sun,
and thus prevent it from melting as
rapidly as it would were it exposed.
About all such matters there is little
dispute, and so the people recognize
that by all means the forests should
be preserved.
The timber value of the forests is
another consideration which our peo-
pie recognize, and it is forcing itself
more and more upon them because of
the rapid destruction of timber in
other parts of the country. The posi-
bility of timber famine in the course
of the future is acknowledged by all
intelligent men.
Another thing which the people of
this section recognize is that the pur-
pose of the federal government in es-
tablishing and maintaining forest res
ervations is beneficent. No one be-
lieves that any responsible official is
prompted by motives of oppression
or a desire to deprive the people OF
their rights. Western men may not
approve certain features of the forest
administration, but concerning the
wisdom of forest preservation there Is
not shadow OF doubt in the minds OF
vast majority of the people of this
part of the country.
Bearing In mind the prevalent SEN
timent in favor of preserving the for
ests, 1t would be unjust to represent
that the most destructive agency Il
the greed Of men who desire to cut th'
growing timber. BY far the most de-
structive agency, as every man know
who knows anything about thes
mountains.is IRE: end the state ha
enacted laws to prohibit the careless
ness Of campers ana others In conse
Iquence OF which fires have sometime
started. It is this danger from fir
which makes the maintenance OF for
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-05
AMERICAN PLAN
NOT The BEST

1t is customary with many Ameri-
cans who know it all' to sneer at all
things European. But 1t would be ad-
vantageous to all people If the states
men of the world, foregoing for a sea-
son their provincial boasting, would
convene in international session and
exchange ideas regarding the worlds
progress. says Harold Bolce in Apple
toms Magazine.
In New York 1t takes two hours to
send a special delivery letter from
Harlem to Twenty third street. In
can be sent similar distance in two
minutes.
l was impressed with the fact when
had occasion to Budapest to send a
registered letter. Instead OF having to
wait for a clerk to copy the super
scription and hand me a receipt, / had
simply to show the letter. properly
stamped, and then drop it in me-
chanical contrivance, which immedi-
ately issues a receipt card, automatic
the system Of registering a letter in
Hungary as simple as dropping a piece
| of mail in a letter box in America
1 desired to test this innovation, and
| so I mailed letter in Budapest ad-
dressed to myself in a hotel at Munich
Two hours later took the train Il
the Bavarian capital, and the day after
I arrived in the hotel / received word
that there was registered letter fol
me at the postoffice. The German
system of postal money orders Is fal
superior, it seems to me, to the Amer
! lean. You hand the money into {
German postoffice, give the address o
the person to whom it is to be sent
and walk away with the receipt. Tha
ends your responsibility. The govern
ment carries the money to the house
and even to the room of the ADDRESSED
To this may be added that in Ger
many, when you want to subscribe 70
a paper you need not write to tn
publisher. You just go to the neares
postoffice, state the name of the pape
you want pay for one quarter (thre
months) in advance, and you get you
paper regularly. The postoffice act
as an agency for the paper, which
very satisfactory to the publisher an
the subscriber, and profitable to tn
postoffice.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-05
MONUMENT TO
YALE HEROES
Student Patriots Who De-
Tended New Haven
Against British
Special to Evening Teller.

Special to Evening Teller.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, July 5.-One
hundred and twenty-eight years ago
today, on July 5, 1879, small body
of beardless Yale students marched
bravely out to the edge of the town to
give battle to the British veterans who
had come to take New Haven. Today
monument concentrating the he
roism of the youthful Students was
placed on the spot at West Bridge
whore the British were repulsed.
The monument cost $4,000, and was
designed by James Edward Kelly of
New York. The monument consists
of three bronze figures of heroic size
and dressed in the costume of the
are seen operating piece of field ar
tillery. and the whole is mounted on
pedestal of granite suitably inscribed
The conflict which the memorial
commentaries was one of the stirring
incidents of the American Revolution.
The British had planned to cause
Washington to weaken his forces at
West Point in order to defend the
Connecticut coast. New Haven, then
town of 1900 inhabitants, was to be
the object of the British attack. Pres
dentStiles, from the steeple of Yale
college, saw the British fleet preparing
to sail from West Haven, and called
out the students for the defense of the
town.
Under General Garth the British
forced landing, hotly opposed by the
Yale boys and the patriots. and pro-
ceeded to plumber and destroy. A
pitched battle was fought at the
northwest corner of Broadway, and
the defenders were eventually over.
whelmed by superior numbers. Mean.
while the British had landed 1,50t
men at Lighthouse Point and ad
vanced from the east with the inten
ton of forming a junction with thos,
in the town and crushing all opposi
ton, while Sir George Collier bonn
barded the town from the warships il
the harbor.
BY this time, however, the entir
countryside was aroused, and the pat
riots gathered In such numbers tina
the British withdrew and burned Fair
field. The heroic students OF Yale wer
j, therefore left in possession OF tn
college town.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-05
FATHER AND SON
FOUND GUILTY
Must Serve Life Sentence
for Murder of Sheriff
Compton

ALBION, ILL.,, July 5.-David ancss
Albert Kellems, father and son, char
ged with the murder of Sheriff Alex
ander Compton on December 20, 1906,
were convicted by the jury and their
punishment fixed at life imprisonment.
Both listened to the verdict with stoi-
cal Indifference.
In the case of the 19-year- bay,
Albert, mercy was shown, and the
death penalty spared only for the rea--
son that at the time of the deed pos
sibly his brain was dulled by whisky
The sentence of the court were defer
red until July 6, at which time attor-
neys for the defense will argue mo-
Ction for a new trial.
The crime of which the men are
convicted was one of the most heart
less ever committed in Wabash coun-
| ty.
Alexander Compton was one of the
most popular young men OF the coun-
ty and the Kellemses lived on his farm
near Keensburg. The sheriff was their
friend, and almost the only friend that
David Kellems had
On the evening Of the fatal day
David Kellems, as the evidence SEEM
ed to show, lured Compton to an alley
In which, hidden behind telegraph
pole, stood the boy Albert with dou-
BILE barreled shotgun. AS Comptom
passed a charge from the gun left the
lifeles form of the sheriff on the
ground, while the boy and his father
ran away. Two witnesses were With
In sight, and one of them who attempts
ed to approach the body of the dead
man was ordered to flee If he valued
his life.
: No attempt was made to refute the
charge of having committed the deed.
The only defense offered was that ON
account of the long continued indul-
gence in whisky Albert Kellems had
dulled his mental and moral nature to
the extent that he was not responsible
for his acts. Much expert medical evil
= dence was introduced in the attempt
to prove this claim. David Kellems
is socialist and is a practical an
archist. He has advocated the equal
distribution OI wealth. anu IldS uG~
clared himself against all the laws that
exist.
Although the defendants were desti-
tute of means and without known
friends, eminent counsel appeared from
\ another county and for a week battled
desperately to free the men. It has
b en- rumored that Oh cago anarchists
put up fund of $500.
Kellems' wife, from whom he is sep-
= arated, has a married daughter and
two bright little sons and she furnish-
ed some of the most damaging evil
dence against the defendants When
the daughter and son-in-law called al
the jail to bid the young man good-by,
old man Kellems greeted his daughter
with a storm of curses and proceeded
to curse those who testified against
him until he was forced to desist
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-05
INVENTION MAY
USE STREAMS
German Wizard Has Motor
to Utilize the Energy
of Rivers

The Portland board of trade Is in
with an invention In
Germany with a view to purchasing
patent from him which Will enable
oregon to utilize practically all the
water courses of the state, says the
Portland Oregonian, which are now
unavailable for power service because
there is niw not sufficient fall to gen.
crate the required amount of electrical
energy to make it worth while har-
Messing them.
The invention, according to Secre-
tarv ]. B. Laber of the board Of trade,
is a combination of low dam and a
highly improved water motor which
has the property of magnifying ana
concentrating energy something after
the way in which telephone trans
mitter magnifies sound.
The particularly appealing advan-
tages of the new continuance Is that 1t
is not extraordinarily expensive to ap-
ply it, is Simple of construction and
effective in results where it has been
tried on the other side.
The peculiar topography Of Oregon
is such, and the state Is so perme-
ated with a network Of mountains
streams and rivers that IL a device like
| the one above mentioned could be put
TO elective use, Oregon could be put
far to the fore in the development OF
electrical energy and lead all states in
the amount of power that could be
transmitted to towns and cities for the
development Of all sorts of resources
| for turning the wheels Of industry
for lighting streets and operating
street cars. In fact the uses to which
it might be put are numberless. Fol
instance, it could easily be used in ir'
rigation projects where it would bt
necessary to raise water to certain
levels before distribution.
An effort will be made to induce
the German inventor to come Owe
here to make demonstrations of hi
invention, for upon the success of tn
practical tests would depend the rea
value of the device.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-05
WARSHIPS co
TO PACIFIC

OAKLAND, Cal, July 5.-Secretary
of the Navy Victor M. Metcalf, in an
interview yesterday with the Oakland
Tribune, confirmed the report that a
large part of the United States navy
will be soon in the Pacific and in quar-
ters by next winter. Eighteen or 20 of
the largest battleships will come
around Cape Horn and a practice
cruise will be soon held in. San Fran
cisco harbor.
MANY false impressions have gain
ed circulation about the proposed
movement of this part of the United
States navy" said Secretary Metcalf.
It have held all along that there was
practically no significance to this
movement from military standpoint.
stated before leaving Washington,
what l am saying now. thought as
the news concerned the people of the
Pacific coast, today would be an APP
propriate time to announce the exact
plans.
at is the policy of the navy depart
ment at the present time to keep the
fleet in American water as much as
uossible. 1t is also their policy, as
has been stated, to keep as large a
number of battleships together as pos
sible. We might as well spend the
money that is devoted to our navy in
American ports as abroad. In the past
we have sent squadrons to various
European nations with less advant-
age than in keeping them at home
Il have planned this cruise around
Cape Horn for the practice of the
squadron. How long they will spend
in these waters cannot say at pres
ent. 1 can promise the people of Oak
land and San Francisco that they will
see one of the finest naval spectacles
ever witnessed in Pacific waters.
Il hope that the talk of japanese
troubles and of international differ.
ences may be dropped by all the news.
papers of the country. There is moth.
ing. to produce any feeling except thil
talk of the newspapers. 1t is withou
/ foundation. The story that Ambassa
| dor Aoki is in disfavor with his owl
government, I believe purely an in
vention. I know of no reason at tn
! present time why Japan and tn
i United States should not be on tn
friendliest terms"
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-05
WILL ENTERTAIN
SEC. GARFIELD
Head of the Interior De-
partment Will Reach
Wallace Today

James r. Garfield, secretary of the
forester, will be royalty entertained
during their stay in Wallace, says the
Wallace Times. This is assured from
the arrangements which have already
been mad
The first intimation these distin-
guished visitors will have of their
proximity to Wallace will be when
they are met at Saltese by a commit
tee of citizens, Messrs. B. F. O'Neil,
Stanley A. Easton, c. K. Cartwright,
James Murphy, L. A. Smith, F. G.
Norbeck, w. H. Batting, J. F. McCar-
thy and Herman J. Rossi, the commit
tee selected by the committee on ar
engagements, in turn selected by May
or Toole.
Immediately after the arrival Of the
party in this city and after being
dined at the Grill a reception will be
rendered in the Elks' club rooms. The
program will be informal, as will be
the program for the balance of the
time in this city.
1t was the intention Of the recep-
ton committee to arrange for the en-
| tertainment of the visitors at resi-
dence in this city, but word was re-
ceived here to the effect that the triI
of Messrs. Pinchot and Garfield wal
purely business. and they preferred
not to be placed under any obliga.
tons. So rooms were engaged at the
Kosy Korner.
Whether either Mr.. Garfield or Mr.
Pinchot will consent to make a pub
/ lie address is not known. Howeve
they will be invited to do so, and II
case they accept, the address or ad
dress or addresses will be in Masonic
Temple theater Friday night.
On Saturday morning 1t is the in
tenton of the local reception commit
teeto- take the visitors to see the Heel
and Standard mines and bring Their
back to Wallace in time TO catch tn
noon train for Spokane.
1t is also understood that while i
the city Mr.. Pinchot will make an in
vestigation of charges made agains
the forestry service.