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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21

From the observations made by a
physiognomist Il appears that the
tongue when quite still can be as elo
quent In giving its owner away as
when It Is wagging sixteen 60 the dox-
en-. This Is a hard fact for silen,
man to swallow-in silence. His only
remedy Is to keep well so as TO OBJ
viate the necessary injunction OF the
doctor 70 put his tongue out for by
this thrust out sign the doctor shall
know him.
The tongue OF the talker when OBJ
truded inclines to the right side Of
the mouth. we are asked to believe,
whereas the seldom used tongue grav-
itates to the left side. Orators.
preachers and barristers are endowed
with the right-sided tongues. Verbally
parslmonious persons have left-sided
tongues.
Furthermore, the tongue that
shoots out straight without turning or
wavering, indicates solid. reliable
man OF AFFAIRS" Tongues that turn
up indicate impractical natures. A
downward. dropping tongue belongs
to person born to poverty and q
ready eye to the hopeless aide of
things.
The cruel tongue fiattens and broad
ems when extended. The delicate
speaking organ with curled up edges
is the property OF an imaginative and
artistic being When the tongue Is
sues forth as II gripped in a dental
wise. Il signifies love Of life more
than ordinary.
Finally we are warned that the IN
dividual who thrusts forth his tongue
to It's EXTREMIST verge Is person to
whom no secret should ever be con-
fded. for he is an irresponsible chat
Chronicle
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21

The question Is often asked how
many COWS a certain number OF acres
viii support. by the question Is
meaRt that the entire energy Of the
farm Is 10 be devoted 10 raising food
for the dairy COW. A farm Ia q good
state OF fertility can be easily arrang-
cd so that one could keep a COW
10 every two acres II the land Is all
good. rich. tillable Land. And one
Fonld be able 10 raise both the forage
o. bulky part OF the ration. and the
grain ration. too Il could be done
ia few years time with the proper
handling o. the herd on the farm.
Three crops upon the farm will do
thirst corn: second. clover hay. and.
third. peas, aud oats OF course the
clover sod would be plowed down for
corn and then the corn ground be put
into peas and oats the following sea
son. With these three foods one can
make a balanced ration for the dairy
coz without purchasing any other out
aide food. either concentrated or
bulky.
The statement has often been made
that an acre OF good land will sup
port cos the year around. One
dairyman made The remark that be
could keep two cows on an acre. but
practically the man Who keeps one
coz on mo seres Il doing very good
business II he gets fair prices for the
product. Il Is fact that the demand
FOR milk. butter and cheese Is inereas-
ing faster than cows and the prices
arc continually advancing There IS
no better business than dairying.-
Agricultural Epltomlst
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21
nsel.ImIas wa.hsa Lana.

tt"@A- y ~ " N"Nt"a ="
had about one acre Of washed
clay land on one side OF a good field
X was absolutely devoid Of yegeta
ton. had been left out for a number
Of years after wasting fertilizer upon
IL. and was an eyesore. Early In the
spring crossed Il with burrows abou;
feet apart In these burrows
dropped Wild blackberry roots. one
about every feet I dropped fork
fnl OF stable manure next 10 each root.
partially covering Il. and covered the
whole With one furrow made with the
turn pillow In the next fnrrow
dropped small pine tops and partially
covered them with the plow ! went
over all the land IN the same way.
The work required three days for two
men and a team. The following spring
piowed out the mlddles This was
ave years ago. and have not touched
the land since. ] have gathered two
good crops Of blackberries and the
land Is nov covered with heavy berry
bushes and a good Wild grass sod.
with no wash 70 speak of.-4C. ~.
Humphreys. IN Agricultural Epiio.
mist
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21

end OF the rope. thread on the sticks.
Knot the cord on either side Of the
sticks. then throw the same across
the cows neck (having regulated the
knots and sticks to suit the small OF
the neck and also the shoulder). and
the end OF the cords around the first
knot The accompanying illustration
shows the result This device pre-
vents the COW from reaching her
TANKS.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21

The Iowa Agricultural Experiment
Station has found out that. on rail-
roads running east and west. II Is nee
essary to plant different kind Of
grass on the north side OF embank-
ments from the south side because
the different amount OF sunlight that
ssrh aida r~aais
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21

Secure two lengths
OF small cord. also
slx pieces OF round,
light wood about
~ inches long and
~ Inches in diam
eter. bore X inch
holes al each end OF
sticks. then having
tied n knot at one
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21

Hank stubhs-S Seems quite citifed
70 see so many Nv them auty-mobiles
fiyin' past.
Biee Miller-wish they'd hol' up
long enough SOS I could git this durn
corn patch hoed out.--Boston Herald
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21

II Is estimated that fence post,
which, under ordinary circumstances,
will last for perhaps two years. will,
n given preservative treatment cost.
ing about 10 cents. last eighteen years.
The service of other timbers, such as
railroad ties and telephone poles. can
be doubled and often trebled By mex
Densivo preservative treatmsnt
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21


Bitter cream and butter may and
generally does result after the COW has
been feeding literally on moldy
hay. decaylng roots and certain weeds
Another fruitful source OF bitter cream
and butter Is the holding OF the cream
az too low a temperature, when objec-
tionable bacteria get In their work.
causing a pungent or bitter favor.
For best results cream should be cool
ed and held a. a temperature OF about
30 degrees for six or seven hours i'm
mediateIy after separation. after which
Il should be ripened in temperature
OF from so 10 70 degrees. When Il
begins 70 turn sour Il is ready 10 be
churned. and. then the sooner Il is
churned the better. In small diaries.
where several separator skimmings
are required 70 make up the quantity
OF cream for a ehurning. the cream
should never be run from the separa-
tor into the vessel holding previous
skimmings One needs a cream can Of
suilcient size 10 hold all that Is re-
qulred 70 make up the churnlng. and
such vessels should be kept IN place
where the temperature Is about 90
degrees. Each skimmlng should be
cooled before being emptied into this
storage can. when fresh cream Is
empiied Il should be At once thoroug-
~ incorporated with the contents OF
the can BY stirring with a spoon or
ladle chnrning should not take place
within fye or six hours after the last
cream has thus been added.-Field and
Farm.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21

Thls reservoir Is 100 feet high and
So feet Ia diameter and ALL hold
sfoo tons OF water an equivalent 70
80 acre-ineheS Of rain fall An aver
aFe rainfall Of lax inches during the
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21

growing season would on 70 the poipt
Indicated A rainfall o. inches. n
completely utilized. would produce a
yield OF 20 bushels Of wheat or is7
bushels or oats.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-10-21

The following description 8 given OF
device to prevent a COW from suck.
ing herself;
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-18
AMarAca AAa1z1S c5AN1

Pole to land is LOCO miles, while the
shortest distance is $50 miles and the
average distance is in the neighborhood
of 700 miles. AT the outset of our dash
toward the Pole we can certainly count
upon the assistance of a favorable wind
because we will not set out from Camp
Wellman until we have such favorable
wind. However, even If the wind proves
generally unfayorable after we leave the
permanent balloon station the project is
yet possible of accomplishment.
I'm order that our effort may be
crowned with success 1t is only necessary
that the America shall carry us some
where near the Pole, because we are GO
ing prepared to make the remainder of the
journey to the Pole and back again by
sledging. The America can proceed with
her engine power for 120 hours travelling
continuously at a speed of IS miles per
hour. The average wind of the Polar
Ocean in July and August is 10 miles per
hour If we are so unfortunate as to
have a wind of average force blowing d.
rectly contrary to our course throughout
the entire time of the voyage, we could
still make Roadway at the rate of eight
miles per hour, which would allow in the
100 hours travel permitted by our fuel
supply distance covered of about $50
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length of the car, and thousands of
pounds In addition are stored in every
available nook and corner so that all told
the America will carry upward of three
tons of this precious fuel.
But this Is by no means all of the car
go of the pioneer airship. Fully as i'm
portant as anything that has been men
toned are the 10 sledge dogs, sledges and
fully equipped life boat-practical life
preservers designed to enable the aero
nauts to make their way homeward
should their craft leave them shipwreck-
ed on land or ice or water. Then there
are provisions for 10 months In this
crowded space, tools for making huts
out of the heavy balloon fabric in the
event Of disaster to the airship, and g.
nally a formidable array of scientific
instruments of all kinds for making and
recording observations of all kinds. No
mention of the premier Arctic airship
would be complete without reference to
one feature the like of which has never
been possessed by any other sky craft
This novelty which could be used only
over the Ice fields where there are no
houses, electric wires or other obstacles
is known as an "equilibrator." This pom
derous tall of the airship weighs 1000
pounds. When not in use 1t is drawn up
under the car, but when needed 1t can
be let loose and dragging over the Ice,
serves as a powerful brake to prevent
the airship being swept out of her course
by contrary winds. The odd thing about
1t is that this Yankee invention serves
a double purpose, for the Interior is
stuffed with provisions for the use of
the balloonists The stuffed serpent is
waterproof so that no harm can come to
the food even though the retarder be
dragged through icy seas.
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of the city. Here all types of Russian
life are seen, from the proudest nobility,
driving in their auto cars and handsome
carriages, to the poorest peasants living
In one Of those immense, densely crowded
apartment buildings. The scene in this
portion of the street at about midday
may challenge comparison with any street
in the world and the spectacle is en-
HANGED by the magnihcence of the deco
ratIons. Besides the handsome residences,
fering recreation to the crowds prone
nading up and down.
St Petersburg has number of large
summer gardens, which are an adornment
to IT, ,tty and offer pleasant rest to
thousa1ff- IN warm weather. The Sum-
mer Cars q the largest and most at
tractive OF shese. Everywhere are the
large, well-shaded benches, thronged with
matrons, while the children play in the
sand and catch their balls. On one side
of the Summer Garden is the TIA riziu-
ski Lug, or Field of Mars.
There are number of buildings in st.
Petersburg that are worth noticing. OF
these the Exchange Is certainly the most
prominent. 1t stands on the farthest
point Of vasstli Ostroff. with large open
space before it. and it is reared on an
elevated foundation. The granite quays
on either side give solidity. while long
flight Of granite steps leads down to the
river. The space before the building is
decorated with two immense columns.
supporting the prows OF ships cast In
metal and erected to the me'' :. v of Mer-
curry. The building is of imm ,e proper
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lions and took IL years to build The
great hall is lighted from above. while
at either end and on both sides are spaces
in the forms of arcades. There is an
altar at one end. and a light is always
kept burning for the plous merchants,
who offer up a prayer before they COM
mence the undertakings of the day.
The Hermitage Museum is veritable
treasure prison there is a large picture
gallery, one of the finest and most ceie-
brated In Europe. The collection In
cludes a large number of Dutch cottages
such as Van de Nicer and Ostada painted.
The gallery is equally rich In the old
Italian and French masters A most IN
teresting part Of the collection are the
treasures that were once housed at NAL
maision. When the Emperor Alexander
was in Paris, he visited the divorced con-
sort Of Napoleon, who spoke of the prop
erty that remained to her and the inse-
curity of the possession. To protect "
until it could be reclaimed Emperor Alex
ander bought the treasures and took them
TO Russia.
The Founding Hospital Is another OF
the public institutions of which the peo-
pie are Justly proud. Though Russian,
it Is under German supervision me
place is extremely large; this Is neces-
sary. for it is never without 1000 or
5000 children. The principal buildings
are In St Petersburg. where the emil
dren pro kept a few weeks They are
then - to the peasantry In the coun-
try, they remain until they are SIX
years o.N The girls seturn 70 st. Peeers-
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especially for Ice navigation and of great
sailing power. She is also fitted with
petroleum motor, which makes her indie
pendent of her sails II need be, this motor
giving the vessel speed of seven miles
per hour without the use of sails She
carries a crew of u men. When the
Arctic discharges her final cargo at spltz-
bergen the denizens of the far North will
see a very different airship from that
which wellman brought to this outpost
of civilization several years ago. Melvin
Yaniman, the chief engineer of the ex-
petition, has occupied the interim in max
Ing many improvements in his craft. The
most important of these is found In the
installation of a second complete motive
system, separate and distinct from the
one originally installed. This extra en-
CINE power is insurance against accident,
and Will double the speed of the airship
II both motors are operated at the same
time, as they may be without interfering
with one another.
The America" which the adventu-
rous Walter Wellman relies upon to land
him at the Pole, is dozen times as
large as any of the dirigible balloons
with which Americans are familiar
through the exhibitions given In recent
years at county fairs and military tour
naments. 1t is not SO large as the Ger
man giant of the air with which Count
Zeppelin recently sailed 900 miles, to the
CONSERVATION of all Europe, and especi-
ally Great Britain, but 1t is twice as
large as the French airships regarding
which newspaper readers have heard
much. Expressed in cold figures the
America is 1874 feet long and 81 feet in
diameter at her greatest girth. She will
lift nearly 10 tons. From the cigar
shaped gas bag of the America is sus-
pended a steel car ITO feet in length.
This car will be pretty crowded when
the ship sails poleward. Here will be
stationed Aeronaut Wellman and his
party. Considerable space must be given
over to the two motors of s0-horsepower
each for driving the ship through the
air, and yet more space is taken up by
the all-important supply of gasoline. Some
1000 gallons of this gasoline Is stored in
a round steel tank, foot and half In
diameter, which extends the entire
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- o city in this country has ever
made direct and official attempt
( to get rid Of the rats within Its
boundaries except San Francisco. This
city has, however. spent tens Of thousands
of dollars in trying to exterminate Its
hordes of rats. 1t Is due to the fact that
1t is through the neas that live on rats
infected with bubonic plague germs that
the bulk of the spread Of this terrible
scourge occurs that this crusade was
begun.
The Citizens Committee which was In
charge of the work of rat determination
In Frisco has now set down the results
of its endeavors Most interesting is the
statement by this committee that the
most effective method of destroying the
rodents was the old-fashioned and homsv
tabby cat Thousands Of socalled chsan-
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of permanent headouarters.

institution of permanent headquarters.
With working base provided. the
Arctic aeronaut and his aids went north
ward the following year. the summer of
1907. filled with hope that they could
make their impatiently awaited dash for
the Pole. However, unkindly fate vetoed
the project by providing weather condi-
items which no aerial craft could combat
This was particularly discouraging be-
cause Wellman knew that business en-
gagements would keep him in the United
States during the summer of 1908 and
the weather handicap of 1907 meant that
the project must be put Off until 1909.
However, a brief respite In the gales of
1907 did permit Wellman to make q 90
mile voyage I'm his airship that clinched
his faith in the. flyer and has made him
all the more confident of the outcome this
year If he but has reasonable weather
conditions - something more suspicious
than the terrific summer of 1907.
In speaking of his unique project, just
before setting out for the North, Mr..
Wellman said THE object of our pro-
posed aerial cruise is not merely to reach
the Pole, but also to gain knowledge of
the unexplored region lying about it.
If the America were simply to pass over
this unknown area the observations as
to land or water masses, ice conditions,
the weather characteristics of the region.
etc. would, l think, be of immense value.
We believe that our airship, with its
ability to motor more than 1000 miles on
the supply of fuel we shall carry has at
least a fair chance to navigate from our
headquarters directly to the Pole.
1.-THE distance from our headquarters to
the Pole Is T15 statute miles. Once at the
Pole we should be able TO 20 with the
most favorable wind toward any part
of the land which surrounds the Arctic
Sea. The greatest distance from the
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This base of supplies. known as Camp
Wellman,' is located ON Danes Island,
Spitzbergen, an uninhabited and unclaimed
country. Here is a huge steel framework
80 feet high and more than 200 feet In
length, securely anchored and braced to
withstand the severest Attic blasts. 1t
is but necessary to spread an acre of sail
cloth over this skeleton structure and
there is provided balloon house that is
adequate for all practical purposes.
Machine shops and other incidental struc-
lures are all in place. having been con-
structed during the past few years
grouped within a stones throw of that
rugged monument which marks the spot
from which Andree set out on that tragic
first attempt to reach the Pole by the
aerial route. This balloon station and the
airship itself were provided by the invest
ment Of the Chicago capitalists who
backed Mr.. Wellman's aerial project at
the outset, but the whole installation was
this year turned over to the explorer as
a gift and his present quest Is made with
his own funds supplemented by the con-
tributions of several men who are am
bilious that an American shall beat ex-
plorers of all other nationalities to the
Pole.
While. as has been explained, Weilman
has headquarters ready to hand In the
Arctic. the airship must be transported
from Paris, where 1t has been since the
last attempt at a Polar cruise, and a
variety of other equipment must be as
sembled For one thing, complete new
gasmaking plant is to be installed to pro-
vide lifting power for the gigantic bal
loon. This new hydrogen plant involves
the transportatign to Danes Island of ITO
tons of sulphuric acid and 10 tons of iron
shavings. This paraphernalia. the airship,
and finally. Mr.. Wellman and the men,
bers Of his party are being transferred
from Tromso, North Norway to Danes
Island, by the motor ship Arctic, which
wIll have to make several Of these ferry
trips ere everything is assembled at the
base of supplies.
This motor ship Arctic which is playing
so important a part in Mr.. Wellman's
present preparations is herself an object
of no mean interest She was launched
only this past spring and Is three
masted schooner of $50 tons burden, built
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the balcony of the English club or strclis
up the quay, listening to the band in the
garden of the Summer Palace, the swift
moving passengers in their gayly trimmed
barks make a pretty sight against the
splendid buildings and gilded spires of
the churches.
Not all the beauty of st. Petersburg
lies in this one island The city Is in
delta and Is surrounded by whole chain
of islands, The widest and least In
habited is Neva, visited principally by
seals and wolves. Then there are the
Volny Islands, the Trukhtanof Islands
and some others. These are swampy and
overgrown with birch and scarcely known
by name to many Russians. They contain
magazines and are used for powder and
other stores. The most interesting or these
are the Gardens Islands, which at one
time were covered with scrubs, but Alex
ander and Nicholas saw in them possibili-
ties for raising flowers, and they have
gradually been transformed into splendid
islands Yelagin belongs almost exclusive
ly to the court; it is occupied by chateau
and beautiful gardens. The court live here
In the spring and early summer, when
the gardens blaze with brilliant colors.
The houses are certainly modest looking.
The most interesting feature is that they
are built on the bank of the rivers and
in different styles of architecture; one
Gothic. a second italian and third
Chinese The hothouses are wonderfully
supplied with cut and exotic plants and
the peasants cottages are filed with
splendid window boxes.
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miles. Now, as l have mentioned, it Is
only 715 miles from our base of sup
plies to the Pole
Granting these most unfavorable con-
dltlons we would fined ourselves at the
Pole with our fuel well nigh exhausted,
but there is every reason to believe that
our airship would remain in the air sew
eral days longer with large chance that
in that time the winds would carry her
as a free drifting balloon far toward some
land, and of course any land would mean
safety for our crew. Even should this
alternative fail we would have no reason
to be discouraged, for we have not put
all our eggs in one basket or in two bas-
kets. for that matter We still have re-
course to the sledging scheme. We go
prepared not only for the summer and
autumn, but with provisions enough to
enable up to remain In the North, II
need be, the entire winter. sledging back
the following spring. which is the season
when Arctic travel may be pursued most
favorably."
One important factor in favor of Well
mans success this season is that he will
not be compelled to lose much time In
experimental preliminaries. On the other
hand, he has In readiness carefully
planned and fully equipped headquarters.