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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-11-18

Batty & Oliver know every good
ranch and town property that is for
sale in Idaho county. See them. 24tf
Midshipman Davis left Monday for
SanFrancisco, from where he will sail
for China
A bright baby boy came to bright
en- the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
Walden Monday.
J. w. Heath will leave shortly for
his old home in Mole, Mo-, where he
will spend the winter.
Evan Evans, who has been serious
ly i'll for the past three weeks is again
around on the streets.
DR.. Shinnick of Cottonwood was
among those from out of town in
Grangeville Saturday night attending
the Gore lecture.
Rev. Vickers, who at one time was
the minister of the Presbyterian
church of this city, was recently mar
ried at Walla Walla.
Mrs. Bert L. Crosby will leave
Friday for Spokane and Seattle where
after brief visit will return to her
home in Berkley, California.
Representative James Surridge of
Harpster, was among the out-of-town
visitors here Saturday night to take
in the lecture of Senator Gore.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-11-18
talk of winter in this valley is "a Josh.

taik OF winter IN TINS valley Is a Josh.
Frank Freeman returned home
from his ranch at j hree Forks on the
Clearwater and reports the n. p.
Railroad Co, is hauling lots of horse
feed besides other supplies and making
regular camps quite distance up the
rive. This looks as though the rail
ro"d company means to build this
piece Of road.
The kamiah Townsite Co., have
passed into oblivion as Judge Steele
on last Tuesday, granted their petition
for dissolution. The Company was
organized some five years ago for the
purpose os buying the present townsite
and succeed in so doing. The propo-
sition payed the promoters fair divi-
dends besides getting room to build
on.
j. II. Sprague of Charleston, Wash,
who is operating canning factories at
Charleston and also one at kendrick,
has decided, if the proper arrange
ments can be made, that he will put
in plant at this place. Mr.. Sprague
says that all he will want for the
farmers to promise him the produce
that he will be able to can and find a
market for the produce. This is
something that this part of the coun-
try needs, as a market is just what
the people have been asking for these
many years.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-11-18
kAMlAH
From Progress

j. A. NATION presented this Office
with fine bunch of raspberries.
They were splendid specimen Of the
berries and makes us think that the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
10 Keep Euas Fresh.

A gentleman, while travelling in
China, had his attention called by the
American consul to the fact that the
Chinese had, centuries ago, solved the
problem in a more effective way than
has ever been done by modern cold
storage warehouse systems. 1t hap
pened that he had had no opportun-
ity to test the Chinese method until he
was leaving the country, when he was
presented with fresh-laid eggs incased
in spherical mud pies. He brought
home these packages along with other
souvenirs, and kept them until fresh
eggs scared to so cents dozen; then
he opened his mud pies, and imagine
his surprise to find the eggs in first
class condition. Later" he said, "I
tried the experiment myself; buried
my eggs deep in mud and formed it
into cakes around them, allowing the
pie to dry out. The result was the
same-when they were opened sthey
were perfectly sh."-From the In
diana Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
The Junior Engineers Adventure.
By Laurence J. Yates.

some other flesh-eating brute of the
jungle might find him.
But no man-eating night prowler
came, and at last the first weak light
OF dawn began to creep through the
forest. Now he looked about him. lie
was lying beneath the top of a Young
sycamore tree, with the tapering body
OF the fallen tree resting across both
legs. His rife lay to his left. pointing
| from him, its butt just few inches
beyond his reach But he managed to
twist his body about until his eager
fingers could grasp the stock and draw
the weapon to him.
1t was rather early to expect that
searchers from camp would be within
sound of rife shot, so he began fir
ing at intervals. Fortunately he had
plenty of cartridges. The sun rose,
grew hot, and drew the moisture left
by the storm from the leaves and
grasses about him. But there was no
response to the shots.
About an hour after sunrise he felt
small crawling bodies on the bare flesh
of his uninjured leg below the knee.
His leg was rather numb from the
pressure upon it; still, he felt some
thing moving there. For just a mo-
ment he wondered what was the nature
of his creepy visitors. Then a pair of
small, seemingly red-hot nippers seized
the flesh Of his leg. Involuntarily he
tried to kick out, and could not, while
in quick succession other small, hot
nippers grasped his flesh at the same
point.
With a sickening shock of fear and
loathing, he guessed the identity OF his
tormentors, and instantly raised his
head until he could look the lenath
of his body. AS he thought, hundreds
of big black warrior-ants were crawl
ing about his pinned-down legs, and
among the grasses beyond swarmed
an army, millions upon millions of
these ferocious insects, all hungry for
any helpless prey. The splintered end
of a broken branch had torn away a
portion Of his canvas Logging and the
clothing under it, and thus his bare
skin was exposed. And here the war;
riors had begun their terrible work.
Warfield groaned with anguish at
the sight, for he knew enough about
these insects to realize just how hor-
rible was the fate that threatened him.
With a shudder he remembered hav-
ing been told not long since how it had
once been the practise of some of the
native tribes on the Upper Congo TO
tie down to four stakes driven in the
ground living captives, and leave them
as a feast for these warrior-ants.
Quickly the engineer broke off
small, thickly leafed branch from the
mass about him, and raising the upper
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
Be Friendly With the Colt.

Some men seem to take special de-
light in kicking and cutting the colt
around every time it bothers them or
gets in the way.
You may be sure the little fellow will
remember such i'll usage, and after
awhile, when it grows larger, and
strong enough to work, 1t will be look
ing for the same treatment when you
attempt to break it.
Naturally, it won't want any dealings
with you then, and it will take you ten
times as long to work it as it would
il you had always been on friendly
terms with it. Then, too, the way ii
will yank you around won't be slow;
neither will it be at all enjoyable
in fact, it will be quite dangerous,
both to you and the colt.
So get friendly with the colt-this
hope of future horse. Halter it, han
die it, feed and train 1t now as you
would have 1t be when it grows older,
for 1t is now surely laying the founda-
tion upon which to build. By teach
ing 1t to be handled while it is young,
you will be agreeably surprised how
naturally and easily it will fall into its
pace as a work-horse or driver when
the proper time comes. Indeed, we
find that this teaching the colt at such
an early age, so accustoms 1t to doing
as we wish, that there never is any,
breaking in" to be done-just grad
ual change from partial freedom to
complete hitching-up in full harness.
and the one-time colt is tractable and
valuable horse.-M. Albertus Coverdell,
in the Indiana Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
A Word About QuiItinu.

AS It is becoming "the thing" to do
your own quilting, | want to put in
hint or two about machine work, for
the Farmer sisters. Having quilted
seven for church and home the last
year. feel I am becoming a bit ex-
pert. So | say don't quilt In blocks
or pieces for it makes ugly seams, no
matter how careful you are; besides,
If you do all in one piece. you may
make one Of the beautiful, new rever-
sible quilts-that is, both sides pieced,
no lining Here Is the way to do it.
Have your two sides, well pieced.
If you have quilting frames, 1t Is
incest to tack it into the frames, with
long stitches. If you have no frames,
lay one side on the floor, securing
each corner with pin. Spread one
roll of good, smooth cotton on, lay
your top over, baste it smooth around
the edges, and run four Or five rows
of long stitch hastings acrss each way.
Take from frames (or floor) and be-
ginning at diagonal corners, roll the
quilt up, and secure with a few pins.
Fill plenty of bobbins, and slip your
quilter guide on the machine If you
have not one, ten cents will buy 1t at
any machine store, and you will find
much use for it in hemming and tuck
ing, as well as quilting. Set the quilt
er for an inch. or inch and half
spaces, begin at one corner and go
across, diamond way, that Is, diagonal.
AS you keep on, roll the quilt and pin
1t, unrolling the other way, being care
full to hold it smooth under the ma
chine arm. You will have no trouble,
unless with the two or three longest
crossings, and little practice will
end that. When quilted one way, turn,
and quilt the same the other way
When finished, bind edges neatly with
turkey red oil calico. and you will
have beautiful piece of diamond
quilting, just alike on both sides and
no seams. 1t is practically, two quilts
in one, and little trying will enable
any sister to do smooth, elegant work,
that will last lifetime.--M. n. B.. in
Indiana Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
Good Dairy FARMING,

A very interesting presentation of
intelligent and careful dairy farming
is given in a letter sent to Hoards
Dairyman by w. H. Jenkins. 1t is
carefully and impartially written, and
our readers will doubtless be pleased to
study the facts set forth. Here it is:
The owner of the herd OF Holsteins
is E. w. Jester. The. farm. contains
275 acres, rs of which is timber land
The winter ration is 40 pounds of en-
silage per day, and Z pounds of a mix
ture of corn, oats, gluten and mixed
wheat feed; some beets are added. The
summer ration is good pasture, with
oats and peas and green corn. This
ration, it will be noticed is very sim
liar one to the one Mr.. Arnold, who
owns the herd of Jerseys described In
the former article, feeds his Jerseys,
except somewhat larger quantity is
fed to each COW. The stable, like Mr..
Arnold's is warm, light and has the
King system Of ventilation. The man
ure is saved, and applied to the soil
without loss. Considerable clover is
grown, and the ensilage is Of mature
corn, heavy with ripened ears, but Mr..
Jester grows on the sarm more OF tn,
grain ration he feeds his cows rnan
MIR. Morgan. Only on a few farms are
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
Recipes.

Lemon Cake.-One cup of butter, 3
cups sugar, cup milk. 1-2 cups
flour, eggs. l teaspoon of soda, the
juice a. & grated peel of large lemon.
Sour iIk Cake.-One cup of sugar,
l table Aonful of butter, IL teaspoon
full of Ch Glove and cinnamon. lit
tie sal cup of sour milk, cups of
flour " / teaspoonful Of soda sifted
in it; l-5tly, l cup of chopped raisins.
Rye Drop cakes.-A pint of warm
milk, with half teaspoonful of soda
dissolved in it, pinch of salt four
eggs well beaten and enough rye -four
to make thin batter. Bake in small
buttered cups in hot oven,> or on a
griddle in small cakes.
Hominy Muffins.-Two cups of boil.
ed hominy, beat smooth and stir in
three cups of sour milk, half cup of
melted butter, two teaspoonfuls of
salt. two tablespoonfuls of sugar,
three eggs well beaten, a teaspoonful
of soda dissolved in hot water. and
two cups of flour. Bake quickly in a
hot oven.
Coffee Souffle.-Heat 1 IL CUPS of
strong black coffee, 1-2 cup milk.
tablespoonful granulated gelatine in a
top part of double boiler. add 2-3
OF a Gu? OF sugar, IA teaspoonful salt
and yolks of 8 eggs. slightly beaten.
cook until it thickens, then add whites
. 3 eggs beaten to etiff froth, mould
and serve with cream; vanilla, if de-
sired.
Rice Waffles.-One Quart of -four,
aalf teasDoonful of salt, two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, heap
ing tablespoonful of butter, two eggs.
half pint of milk and a cupful of
boiled rice Sift the -four. salt and
baking powder together. Rub the
butter into the flour. beat the eggs.
whites and yolks separately, and add
he whites stiff at the very last.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
Farm Notes.

Dairying means more money, richer
crops and greater prosperity each year.
The milking machine is rapidly
climbing out of the experimental class.
Keep grit, charcoal, and lime where
they can always be accessible to the
fowls.
One good COW beats three ordinary
ones for profit considering the feed
question.
No one can do dairying right who
will not take the time to keep records
on each cows production.
Only intelligent application in the
dairy will win. 1t is not all hard
work but thoughtful work.
1t has been well said that 40 bushels
of wheat per acre at one dollar
bushel don't beat dairy farming.
When you are ahead of your work
it isn't such hard matter to keep
there; then there is time for other
things.
1t is said to be good thing when
ants are found on plants, to look for
plant lice and spray with kerosene
emulsion.
The dairy is poor and improbable
one which keeps COW boarders which
do not pay the feed bill with milk and
cream returns.
1t has been recommended that the
traffic in horned toads be stopped, the
reason being their usefulness in de-
stroying insects.
The man who produces nothing but
the best is going to come much near
er getting his price than he who pro-
duces poorer stuff.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
To Build A Hoq House.

In building hog house the first
thing is TO select a suitable location.
where 1t is possible to have feeding
pens and runs. My hog house is 24x
80 feet with a feedway, 4 feet wide
through the centre, with three pens Sx
IL feet, on each side, which gives room
for ~ to 15 fattening hogs in each.
Each pen has gate opening into the
feed way. These gates are feet wide,
the same as the alley or feed way it.
self, so that when the gate is open it
closes the alley, thus making it handy
to handle the hogs.
The foundation of my house is a
solid brick wall, which is down below
the freezing depth of the ground and
inches above the ground. Use stud
ding, 2x4 feet, 10 feet long, placed 2
feet apart on the brick foundation. 1t
is better to dig out the dirt inside the
house to depth of or inches and
fill in with or inches of gravel
and inches of cement made by mix
ing parts of good, clean sand in one
part cement.
1t does not pay to use poor material
In building hog-house. Use good
drop siding and No. shingles. 1t is
always good plan to have room
above the ground floor to store away
straw for bedding. Put joists 7 feet
above the ground floor and lay good
floor above. An opening 2 1-2 feet wide
should be left around the wall to put
down the bedding. Have a 2x3 feet
opening out of each pen into the runs
outside, also window 2X3 feet and 8
feet above the ground floor, to admit
light and sunshine. Set the house
north and south so that the sun will
shine into the east pens in the fore
noon and in the west perts in the after
noon. AS you probably see, this hog
house is for shoats and fattening hogs,
not for farrowing purposes.
For the sows and pigs have houses
Of smaller dimensions, one for each
SOW. These houses for farrowing pur-
poses should be 5x6 feet on runners
with floor, the back side feet high
the front feet high, with drop door,
2xG feet. in front to admit sun and
air. Have door, 2x3 feet in one end.
Build these houses out of matched
lumber, give them a good coat of paint
and a good brood SOW will save her
pigs In zero weather.-A Reader in the
Indiana Farmer
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
ExG AGR,ICULTUR,EkzSs77zSz1| * *

the conditions for growing grain SO
favorable as Oh this one. A large part
is river fiat. 1t is rather light clay
loan, naturally under-drained and free
from stone. Here the wheel or gang
plow can be used, II one wishes, the
horse seeder, the binder, also the ma
nure spreader. In fact, on this level
and easily worked land, about all the
work can be done by machinery. With
large farm like this, where extra help
must be kept to milk the cows, 1t may
be profitable to grow part of the
grain fed to the cows, unless ones soil
is prepared for growing alfalfa. This
Is question for the individual farm
er to settle, but on the average farm
In Eastern New York, / think It is not
profitable to grow much grain, only as
nurse crop when seeding land to
grass.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24

ocious insect army with a radius of
eight feet Of him that had not been
annihilated was in full retreat.
For a moment he sank back faint,
but with infinite relief to be free froT..
the assault of the myriad of greeSy 1T
tie maws. But fearing renewal of
the attack, he hurried to take out
of his pocket dozen loaded cartridges
and make them over into blanks. Then,
with freshly loaded rife, he waited;
but not an ant came back; the rout
was complete.
Warfeld, however, had long time
to wait and suffer before complete re-
lief was to come to him, for its was
not until three hours later that the
chief engineer and half dozen Arab
axmen, who had been out since two
hours before the dawn, came upon him,
guided by his rifle-shots, released him,
and bore him to camp.-Youth's Com
panion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
A Criterion.

A physician at a recent meeting of
the College of Physicians in Philadel-
phia told story illustrating the witty
comprehension of patient of Irish
nativity. The physician declared that
one of his patients, an Irishman, could
not understand why, if one OF his
arms refused to perform its usual
functions, the other should remain
normal.
1T is the tala cling power of ma
ture,' explained { physician. "If a
a man is blind in ole eye, nature gem
orally provides additional strength for
the remaining eye. When deafness
is discovered in one ear, the hearing
of the other ear becomes unusually
acute"
Now thot you mention 1t, Oi be-
lavo tits so," said the patient. "Whin
mon has wan short leg, TIL other is
generally Longer. Judge.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
Spots On Linen.

One of the problems of the house
wife is the removal of ink spots from
white linen, and one Of the best ways
to get rid Of the stains is to dip the
goods in buttermilk, If 1t is convenient,
otherwise in sweet milk This dip
ping should be repeated until all signs
of the spots have disappeared This
applies to the fresh stains. If the ink
has hardened there are several eradi-
Gators purchasable. But the latter
compounds often cause holes to ap-
pear in the linen. The woman who
fears to use acids on valuable linen
can fall back on lemon and salt,
with several hours in the sun.-New
York Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
Flax for Calves

Il grow an acre of flax to feed my
calves" said A. D. Foster of Bloom
field, to an editor Of Farm and Dairy
of Canada, who was at his place re-
Gently, Il find that 1t is much better
than oil-cake meal and easy to raise.
1t will grow in any wet corner or wet
piece of land.
when | take it to be ground, add
to it about one-third as much oats,
which makes it grind better, without
injuring its feeding value. | scald
and leave it for half an hour before
feeding. 1t is fed twice day with the
milk, about teacupful being given to
a month old calf.
II commence feeding the flax when
the calf is weaned, and when we COM
mence to feed it skim milk. | have
been feeding flax in this way for five
years. 1t seems to supply the food
that is lacking in skim milk"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24

part of his body, he tried to bear back
the fierce insects by striking at them
through the tangle of intervening
branches with his bit of bough. But
pinned down as he was, he could do
little that was effective, and the host
of warriors behind swarmed on until
they covered all that portion of his
legs extending below the body of the
tree, in layers of half dozen deep,
and then advanced toward the upper
part of his body.
He at once began to fight this ad-
vance, sweeping the ants back with
vicious strokes of his bare hands as
soon as they appeared above his hips;
but the moment he paused in his battle
against them, q little black wave of
the warriors would come creeping up
toward his shoulders.
The cruel sting of their attack upon
his flesh, and this repeated, sinister ad-
vance soon completely unnerved him.
He writhed and struggled, SO that he
set the ends of the broken bone in his
leg to grating again, almost swooned
from this double portion of agony, and
then finally burst into tears of self
pity. But gradually he overcame his
weakness, and set his brain to thinking
connectedly.
Although his clothes protected him
in all but the one place at present, he
knew that the ants would soon succeed
in cutting through his garments and
reach his flesh in other places. and
would then, unless interrupted. sure
ly devour the lower part Of his body
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
bit BY bit. until they should kill him.
or at least drive him insane

bit by bit, until they should kill him,
or at least drive him insane.
Something must be done while he
was yet calm enough to control him
self, and this he realized would not
be for long. In fact, he did not real
ize that in his weakness, suffering as
he was from the shock of the accident.
he could bear the frightful torture that
he was undergoing for half-hour
| without becoming demented.
He thought of fighting his torment
ors with fire, only to see that the herb
age round him was too green to burn.
Besides. he found that he had no
| matches.
Yet no other idea came, and the pain
from the numberless pairs Of small,
cutting, tearing nippers upon his un-
protected flesh grew more excruciating
In complete despair, he turned his
eyes upon the rife beside him, almost
tempted to end his torment by turning
the weapon upon himself. Then, as
his fingers gripped the rifie-stock con-
vulsively, it came to him that 1t might
be possible to use this weapon to save
him from the swarm of insects, in
stead Of making it the instrument Of
his death.
His ammunition was home-loaded,
for the target-shooting at long range.
For this he had learned that better re-
suits can be obtained by merely seating
the long, conical bullets on the powder
charge without crimping the shells.
The bullets, therefore, were easily re-
movable.
Hope sprang up in his heart. BY re-
moving the bullets from the cartridges,
he could fire with the powder alone
upon the clustering ants and surely do
wicked work.
Quickly he emptied the magazine of
the cartridges that it contained. To
seize cartridge, draw out the elong-
ated bullet, and tear small square OF
linen from his handkerchief, and then
thrust the square into the end Of the
cartridge was but the work of a mo-
ment Now he had perfect blank.
upon his enemies; he continued the
work of making more blanks.
The ants, unmolested now, swarmed
up over all his body, and some ven
tured to set their nippers into the
flesh of his neck. Still he did not
heed them.
When he had six Of these converted
cartridges, he seized the rifle and
slipped the cartridges into the maya
zine with feverish haste. Then, paus-
ing just long enough to sweep away
the ants at his neck, he raised the up
per part of his body again, rested the
rifle-barrel over the body of the tree,
with the muzzle within three inches of
the thickest cluster of feeding war
riors on his leg, and pulled the trigger.
One moment he felt the hot gush of
fame strike and scar his flesh; the
next he looked to note the disaster
wrought among the hosts of the foe.
1t was much beyond his expectation.
Hundreds, thousands of the insects
had melted away-were blown to moth
ing. Scores, shriveled by the heat of
the exploding charge, writhed on the
ground.
That his own flesh had been well
scorched he did not mind in the least.
With a cry of delight, he made haste
to fire again, and kept firing until the
magazine was empty, at every shot
holding the muzzle or the rifle to that
point about him where the ants were
thickest.
When he had done, all of the fer