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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29
sKIBo's LovABLH HOSTESS.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie SUPERVISE
Every Detail of Her Home.

Mrs. Andrew Carnegie Supervises
Every Detail of Her Home.
One Of the happiest women and
most ideal wives in the world is Mrs.
Andrew Carnegie, If one may believe
the friends in this country and in Scot
land who pay homage to her many low
able qualities. She is essentially a
womanly woman, but for all that she
follows a regimen as rigid as any SOL
d1er's In her home life at Skibo, as in
New York and P-ttsburg.
There are many servants at Skibo
and In the Fifth avenue mansion, but
every detail Of the home comes under
the direct supervision of the mistress.
She has hours as rigidly kept as a
fashionable practitioners when she re-
ceives the butler, 1.-THE house mother"
a sweet Highland way of talking of
the prosaic Office of housekeeper. and
other heads of domestic departments,
the grooms and the gardeners and the
stewards.
Mrs. Carnegie is fond Of outdoor life
and intensely interested in all that
means better health for rich and poor.
But she has never gone in for athletics
nor anything which might be called
fads. She is devoted to music and,
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29

and dropped into this spot the waves
would still roll 1900 feet above its
crest.
Into this terrible abyss the waters
press down with a force of more than
10000 pounds to the square inch. The
staunchest ship ever built would be
crumbed under this awful pressure
like an egg shell under a steam roller.
A pine beam Is feet long, which held
open the mouth of trawl used in
making cast at depth of more than
$4,000 feet was crushed fiat, as If it
had been passed between rollers.
The body of the man who should
attempt to venture to such depths
would be compressed until the flesh
was forced into the interstices of the
bones and his trunk was no larger
than a rolling-pin. Still, the body
would reach the bottom, for anything
that will sink in tub of water will
sink to the uttermost depths of the
ocean.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29
ON THE LOOKOUT.
Fraidcats Among Those Who Inhabit
the Region of TOrnadOes,

Fraidcats Among Those Who Inhabit
the Region of TOrnadoes.
In the region where tornadoes are
common, which is pretty large terri
tory, nearly every family has one men,
Der who has a highly developed fear
of storms, says a western newspaper
writer. When warm weather and the
cyclone put in their appearance the
scary one begins the preparation of n
safe retreat, probably in the cellar I'M
der the house; or If he happens to be a
33d degree member of the Amalgamat-
ed Order of Fraidcats he has a cave
lined with REINFORCED concrete con.
structed somewhere in the back yard
In his cave or cellar retreat the cow.
ard puts a bed, and If he has 1t bad
he is apt to lay in stock Of provisions
and barrel of water. During the day
the other members of the family have
good deal of fun chatting the coward :.
but he gets even at night by disturbing
their sleep.
Among other peculiarities Of the cy-
clone coward is an optical illusion
which possesses him about the time. the
bass begin to bite. From then until
harvest time every cloud he sees as.
sumes funnel shape and he Is sure
we are going to have a twister. And
he never misses cloud. When he sees
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29
INDICTMENT OF ANnkAIa
JuFisprudence of Middle Ages Re-
called BY New Jersey Ordinance.

Jurisprudence of Middle Ages Re-
called by New Jersey Ordinance.
Montclair's new ordinance against
barking dogs has some resemblance to
a singular feature Of the Jurisprudence
Of the middle ages, when animals were
indicted for injuries inflicted on human
beings. The custom was not abolished
In France until the middle of the eigh-
teenth century, and the French court
records show that at least 90 such
trials took place between 1920 and
1741.
An early instance Of the custom was
In 1914, when bull escaped from a
farm-yard in the village Of Noisy, in
the duchy Of Valois, and gored a man
to death. The count of Valois, being
Informed Of the case, directed that the
bull be captured and formally prose-
and evidence was given by persons who
had seen the man attacked and killed
The bull was thereupon sentenced to
suffer death. after which the carcass
was suspended from a tree by the hind
legs.
IL 1886 a SOW was executed in the
square Of Falaise for having caused
the death of a child, and three years
later horse was condemned to death
at Dijon for having killed man. In
1857 SOW and her six young ones
were tried at Lavegny, on the charge
Of having klAed and partially eaten
child. The SOW was convicted and con.
demned to death, but me little ones
were acquitted Oh the ground Of their
extreme youth and inexperience, the
bad example Of their mother, and the
absence of direct evidence of their hav-
Ing partaken of the atrocious feast.
Ono Of the most grotesque Of these
trials took place in Basic, when a
farmyard cock was tried on the absurd
charge Of having laid an egg. 1t was
contended In support Of the prosecu.
ton that eggs laid by cocks were of
inestimable worth for use in certain
magical preparations; that a sorcerer
would rather possess cocks egg thar
the elixir Of life, and that Satan en-
ployed witches to hatch such eggs, from
which proceeded winged serpents most
dangerous to mankind.
The prisoners advocate admitted the
facts of the case. but contended that
no evil intention had been proved, and
that no evil result had taken place. Be
sides, the laying Of an egg was an In
voluntary act, and as such was not
punishable by law. Also there was 10
record Of the devil having made com.
pact with the animal. The public
prosecutor stated in reply that the evil
one sometimes entered into animals, as
in the case Of the swine which drown
I'd themselves in the Sea Of Galilee.
So the poor creature was convicted,
not as cock, but as sorcerer, or
perhaps the devil IN the form of q
cock; whereupon the bird and the
that was attributed to it were solemn
ly burned at the stake.-New York
Evening Post.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29
GROWING A MUSTACHE.

A Time When Your Friends Get
Funny at You.
Whether or not raising or attempting
to raise q mustache Is crime, a fel-
ony or a misdemeanor is very hard to
establish, but it is certain that it is
an offense. 1t must be, because If 1t
were not there would not be SO much
comment from your friends and we'll
wishers. Like having a toothache,
starting a mustache is invariably pro-
ductive of much advice, says the New
York Sun.
Take it OIL" It's a safe bet that
some one will tell you that the very
FIRST time 1t becomes apparent what you
are intending. That should be said
rather sneeringly. The only answer Is
something as follows: "You guys that
can't raise hair on your upper lips are
all Jealous"
did you forget to wash your face
this morning?" is one that is extreme
ly appropriate to the earliest stages.
1t is used very often by some Of our
best families. Some of them do 1t
quite unconsciously. 1t is very help
full, because 1t can be said entirely
without thought. The best possible
comeback Is: mo, I didn't forget to
wash my face. I always wash my face.
It's nothing new with me-"
There are more elaborate ones:
Question-Say, Bill, you must have
been awful careless when you wero
dressing this morning
Answer-How's that?
Q.-Don't you know after you brushed
your teeth you accidentally left the
toothbrush on your upper lipf
(Groans.)
Also, there IN another, where some
bright person comes up and asks:
"IIow do you spell 1t, with or without
the or And when you ask, "What?"
he replies, "M(o)ustache." And SO on.
There cannot really be anything
mean or debasing in attempting to
raise a hirsute decoration for the up
per lip. and some Of the men who say.
II believe in going clean-shaven," ought
to wear hair all over their faces as
an act Of charity to their fellow men
Really, some persons would have their
looks improved by 1t.
One young man was pestered by we'll
intentioned folks to know why he ever
started a mustache. The reason he
gave was sufficiently fantastic to make
them believe him.
"You know" said he, 'T'm going to
Spain pretty soon. and over there about
the only clean-shaven persons are bull
fighters. They aren't in the highest
grade of society over there, and rather
than take chances Of being mistaken
for bullfighter I'm going to get mus
| tache before | CO."
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29
one he gets up, gathers up his clothes

one he gets up, gathers up his clothes
and the insurance papers and proceeds
to try to herd the family to safety.
II the coward happens to be the man
of the house he sometimes succeeds in
dragging the sleeping wife and children
to the cellar while he looks out the
door until gentle summer shower be-
gins to fall. But If the coward Is the
wife she never has much success with
the old man beyond getting him angry,
and because Of her duty to the children
she takes them to the 'fraid hole, aban-
doning the husband to his fate-and
sleep.
Ab(t>once in 100000 times the cy-
clone coward makes good bet, and
then his name is numbered with the
survivors. But it costs him a lot Of
good sleep.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29
No Pay for Mother.

Mother gets up frst," said the new
Office boy. "She lights the fire and gets
my breakfast SO I can get here early.
Then she gets father up gets his break
fast and sends him of. Then she gives
the others their breakfast and gets 'em
ready for school; and then she an the
baby have their breakfast"
"What is your pay hereT asked the
man.
II get s. a week and fathsr gets So
a day"
"How much does your mother get?"
"Mother!" he said Indignantly.
"why, she don't have to work for any
body"
"Ohi thought you just told me she
worked for the whole family every
morning."
''Oh! that's for us-but there amt
no money In that"
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29
Hard to Believe.

More than half the surface of the
globe il hidden beneath water two
miles deep; 100000 square miles lie
at a depth Of $4,000 feet or more. Many
places have been found five miles and
more in depth. The greatest depth yet
sounded is 81 200 feet, near the Island
of Guam.
If Mt. Everest, the worlds highest
mountain, were plucked from its seat
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29
saved by tho Trolley.

Knox-Saw Green and his wife at
the opera last night. I can't see where
their enjoyment came in, as neither Of
them knows the difference between a
symphony and sonata.
Blox-well, ought to be ashamed
to confess my ignorance, but I'm in the
same boat. BY the way, what II the
differencel
Knox-Why - er - sonata, you
know-er-I mean a symphony is
say. there's my car, old man; see you
later,
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29
Pu..les the Small Boy.

The small boy Is apt to wonder why
q young man has the shoulders Of his
coat padded instead of the seat Of his
trousers.-Philadelph Record.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29

Everywhere Bouncer goes he il fol-
lowed by valet as black as a coal"
"Yes; that's his colored supplement"
Age-Herald.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29

A man Is only deceiving himself
when he thinks he, Is deceiving his VITA
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29

Every woman has cat or a dog
which knows as much as a human b.
tnR.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-29
Ruenos Aires has a NOM

Buenos Aires has population OF
100000, Of which about so per cent
Is foreign. the Italians forming about
90 per cent Of the foreign population.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-10
SETZzIXG-LIo DRILL

still wearing the clothes of civil life: Which DO
you think is the greatest man, Gen. George WASH
ington Gen. Ulysses s. Grant,"
Fred's answer blunt and quick, Washing
ton have been the greater man, but my ia
ther the greater soldier"
Mr.. Grant said the upper classman, Ito com
pare your father to George Washington in any
sense. is like unto the comparing of plucked hen
to the American eagle"
Then there followed a fight, 1T stopped
almost instanter by first classmen because
the place public.
Gen. John M. Schofeld artillery officer.
The army has it that Schofeld had distaste for
the infantry branch because of experience which
he underwent during his first week plebe at
the military academy.
Some yearlings chased schofeld up a ladder from
the cock loft of barracks to the roof. The future
hero of Franklin was clad only in a night shirt
When the rof was reached the cadets gave Scho-
field a rifle marked sentfnel's beat the
and started the future artilleryman on his
walk back and forth with the musket his shout
der They kept him at it with few intermissions,
from taps reveille.
Edgar Allan Poe cadet at West Point only
for short time Army tradition holds nothing con-
corning the hazing of Poe. The academy, however
is the custodian of one of Poe's first poems which
is nothing short OF a striking example of the boys
wit
While Poe at the academy Lieut.. Joseph
Lock stationed there a tactical officer. Lock
the strictest kind of disciplinarian he
constantly reporting Poe for ofenses reports
which brought as their natural consequence some
heavy punishments. Poe had his revenge in a poem
which the curious may find in a volume called
tic TAGS which published years ago by the
cadets
John Locke great name,
Joe Lock is a greater. In short,
The former is well known fame
The latter well known report.
There is, was, form of hazing at West
Point which has in it the of cruelty This
consists In making plebe read with appropriate
gestures and the proper infections, all the nice
things which the newspapers of his home town
printed about.him when the announcement of his
appointment to a cadetship made. Imagine If
you WILL the feelings of green youngster, 8 he
stands upon a barrel, reading to an assemblage OF
possibly so yearngs the editorial statement of the
local papers. that Henry Smith doubtless Will be
made corporal the eyes of the super
fntendent of the military academy fall upon his tall
and manly figure Henry has in him the making
of great soldier We shall hear of his deeds on
the field of battle leader of his countrys hosts
In case dread war shall come"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-10

In an elder day at the academy and it may be
today, the mail bag into which the cadets
dropped their letters hung with wide distend-
ed mouth just inside the door of the guardhouse
Until the first call for breakfast. the guardhouse
loft limits" The instant the drums rolled
the cadets could enter the building and drop their
letters One morning a cadet stood without the
door, holding his letter in his hands. The drum
mers sticks were poised tremblingly, waiting to
fall for the pounding out of the first call for
breakfast.
The cadet saw the poised sticks, entered the
guardhouse and dropped his letter just as the
first note of the call sounded He had passed
through the doorway just one-sixteenth of a sec
ond too An officer him mail his let
ter and a report of '-of limits" went in which
caused the unfortunate letter mailer to perform
extra guard duty for 16 long hours-not consec-
utive hours, however
On the first hook the wall of his alcove the
cadet hang specific article of clothing;
on the second hook another article, and
If, perchance, the youth hangs his dresscoat on
the nail sacred to the overcoat, he can bid fare
well to release from quarters for two Saturdays
at least, and if perchance, the shell jacket hangs
on the hook given over to trousers, he may add
three more days of confinement to those which
have accrued from the crime OF the misplaced
overcoat
The methodical cadet yardstick along
the toes of the extra shoes which under regula-
ton, must be placed in regular order beneath
the foot of his bed. Il the toe of one shoe pro-
trudes half inch beyond the toe OF its mate
the cadet gets demerit mark If more than
pair of shoes shows symptoms of irregular
ity in the matter toeing the scratch, the cadet
will receive sufficient number of demerit marks
to enable him to realize thoroughly the beauties
of a right line applied to something besides
geometry.
1t is "a beastly grind, the English clergy
said, but it is grind that has its uses, and
the proof of it is written in all the records OF the
service
Hazing is sense hereditary habit The
army officers who have been asked in the years
that past, and who are being asked to-day
to root out the practice of "deviling" the plebe
West Point, did not and have not all of them
their hearts in the work, for were they not hazed
themselves, and were they not in turn hazers?
Nine of of the hazed will tell you to-day
that they profted by the experience
When Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant entered
plebe camp first classman who noticed the
boys strong build minated him that it would
be a pleasure to have him call Immediately the
seniors tent Grant went There Is rule at
West Point, which q rule In Grants day as
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-10
MONEY IN FOX FARM
Maine Man Finds Animals Can
Be Easily Raised.
Peits Always in Demand at Good
Prices-How Rearing of Reynard
is Managed by a Typical
DoWn-Easter.

Bangor, Me.-Elijah Norton of Dover
finds foxes a more profitable crop
than potatoes or hay, and SO he long
ago quit planting and hoeing and
moving, and is now deyoting his en-
tire attention to raising the sharp
eyed and bushy-tailed little animals.
whose fur is in great demand always
and everywhere. When Norton began
now he has the business fully estab-
lished on a highly profitable basis,
and his sunny hillside farm on the
bank of the Piscataquis is known as
the best paying piece of land in Maine.
The Norton fox farm is not the first
in Maine, for foxes had been success
fully bred by a man on Heron island,
Boothbay harbor, years before the Do
yer enterprise was thought of. When
Norton got ready to go into the fox
business he visited the Heron island
farm, and one on Prince Edward is
land, in the Gulf OF st. Lawrence, to
get points, and also to buy some
breeding stock. Then he started in
to beat the original fox farmers, and
he has succeeded.
Being an old hunter, and knowing
the ways of foxes, Norton at the out
set recognized the fact that to be
healthy, and thus profitable, his stock
must be contented, and to insure this
happy condition he so constructed and
arranged his Enclosure as to dispel the
idea of captivity-which foxes cannot
endure He built a fence 16 feet high,
of a heavy and specially woven wire
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-10

school Infractions of regulations NAV in
sense be termed disobedience. but they are never
so regarded in of the worlds schools. Boy
nature would needs be remade if the rules of any
institution be kept to the letter of the
law
Discipline at West Point is rigid to severity.
As far as disciplinary methods concerned the
school never changes. 1t is the to-day
it in the days of Grant and Lee.
Take day at the academy and compare its
duties with those of any other institution, mat
ter of what country. and it will be that in
comparison to the cadets labor the work
dents at other schools is but play. During certain
months of the there is little play at West
Point. Drill in the open air gives the requisite
exercise to keep the physique right. and for
reation apparently there is need.
The routine has changed little with the pass
ing years, but in general way the days pro-
gram at the academy is like this:
Reveille at 6 o'clock; roll call 6:20; break
fast at 625; guard mount at 7:15; recitations
and study hours from until 1; dinner, 1 until
lao; recitations and study from 2 until 4; drill
from until 500; parade at $50; supper 6;
study from until $50; tattoo, then taps and
sleep.
military academy Saturday afternoons. and the
cadets given what is called release from
quarters. with permission to visit one another in
barracks or to roam about the reservation, Ia
king good care, under pain of dismissal, keep
from going off limits.
Release from quarters never comes for some
cadets. The breaking of some small rule
confinement to quarters the walking of extra
guard tours The boy who unwittingly puts
pair OF Wn1Ie trousers having an iron rust stain
them, and wears them at drill dress pa
rade, will know release from quarters for
days
Should speck of rust be found on his rifle at
Sunday morning inspection, he will shoulder that
rifle and walk two more hours up and down
the of barracks sentinel without
charge while his more fortunate comrades
experiencing the ecstasy which comes from per-
mission to ramble about the parade ground and
to view the hotel and other delights of civiliza-
ton from distance.
CALI upon friends at the little hotel the res
ervation. If, however, boy commits the enor-
offense of leaving the main parlor of the
hotel to visit his father mother in another
room, and the act should be discovered, he Will
the inside of that hotel again until
many weeks have rolled by and he has expiated
his crime by many extra tours of guard duty in
the broiling sun or zero weather Highlands
winter
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-10
Hypothetical.

Let me-" said the stranger at the
baseball gate, ASK you a hypothetical
question"
go ahead"
"Supposing that I had ten cents,
and desired to witness an exhibition
of the manly sport inside the en-
closure, the price being Is cents; and
supposing that were to approach you
for Is cents necessary to fruition of
my hopes, what would you say?"
That's easy. I'd say: Lend me the
10 cents as I have just Is myself, and
am a rabid fam"
Thus, after all this subtle eloquence,
there was nothing doing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-10

you show erudftfon beyond your
years Now if you will look at my
water bucket you will see that it is
as dry as chip. By the further ex-
ercise of your knowledge and observa-
ton, Mr.. Grant, can you tell me by
what means I may prevent the warp
ing and leaking of my bucket?"
Have it filed" said Grant.
Very good, again, Mr.. Grant; but
pray note what you said: have it
filed not fill it That necessarily
means, Mr.. Grant, that some one must
fill it for me. You have shown so
much acumen that 1 fear to violate
the terms of your prescription either
in letter or in spirit, which 1 should
do if 1 presumed to carry the bucket
to the water tank myself"
Grant filed the bucket.
A member of the West Point class
of 1870, now an officer of high rank
in active service, tells this story about
the first day in plebe camp of Fred
erick Dent Grant, son of Ulysses.
An upper c1assman, bent on nothing
else than having some fun with the
son of the famous general, asked him
on his advent into camp while he was
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-10

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the kidney secretions- 1 got so mis-
cradle I went to bed, but the doctor
did not do anything for me and no
one expected me to recover. Doan's
Kidney Pills first relieved, then cured
me, and 1 have had no kidney trouble
for seven years since"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
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