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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-06-09

President Taft, in two or three of
his recent speeches, has been squirting
toward reciprocity, or as he says, "a
different policy as to imports and ex-
ports from Canada that obtains with
| regard to European and oriental coun-
tries just what he means by that
is made pretty clear by an interview
with Secretary Root, the brainiest
lawyer in the cabinet, and the most
cold-blooded, as reported in New
York paper which we quote:
Il should think that progress in a
matter of that kind would be slow, al
though there is tremendous senti-
ment all along the border Of the two
countries for reciprocity in natural
products. The time is past for reci-
proeity in manufactured products.
Canada has adopted a policy of protec-
ton for her manufactured products
and would not want reciprocity along
this line But there unquestionably
is deep interest among several millions
Of people in both countries in bringing
about a mutually satisfactory under
standing regarding reciprocity in nat
ural products.
Unquestionably "tnere is deep in
terest among several millions Of people
in both countries in developing a
scheme of reciprocity in natural pro-
ducts. The manufacturers and OPP
eratives in the east want cheaper eggs,
butter and potatoes from Canada.
Both western and eastern millers
want reciprocity to keep their mills
running on Canadian wheat. The
big ranchmen want cheap cattle from
Canada, many of them owning large
tracts for grazing purposes.
So long as we were exporters OF
wheat, it did not matter much what
kind of tariff we had with Canada fol
the reason that we were selling on the
same market in Europe and compel
ing with all the world. That il
changed now. One year in the las1
decade we had short crop of whea'
and none to export. Secretary Shaw
kindly came to the aid Of the miller
and made ruling that they pay thu
duty, mill in transit and have draw
back of ninety-nine per cent of tn
duty on -four exported.
The time is coming when we vii
not have wheat enough for ourselves
The wheat area in the Unite state
cannot be increased In fact, it vii
be decreased by the wearing out of tn
land both in the winter wheat belt II
Canada and in the three great whea
states of the northwest.
This is as sure as fate When j
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-06-09
From Last Week

Charles Baird, enc of the Salmon
river cattlemen, is in Grangeville to-
day looking after matters of business.
Rev. Jukes returned this week from
Boise.
Charles Wilson and wife, of White
Bird, are in Grangeville today.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schwal-
ing baby oov.
Mesdames Hanson, Pfeufer and
Turner returned this week from Lew
iston where they went as delegates
to the convention of Women's clubs.
j. P. Orvis, who farms what is
known as the Hartman ranch, near
Denver, was in the first of the week
trading. Mr.. Orvis has just finished
seeding and has over two hundred
acres in grain While the spring is
late he anticipates heavy yields of
grain the coming fall.
George Martin, of Culdesac, Grand
Vice Chancellor of the X. of p, came
over from Cottonwood, where he as
sisted in making "Dokies' out of
number of the members of that or
der, and spent Sunday in this city.
A. D. Hollingsworth of kamiah, wa
in thp citv Sunday
Henry Parsley of West Lake was
county seat visitor the last of the
week.
H. C. Johnson, of Kamiah, was
among the Clearwater people in the
city last Sunday
John Powell left Friday morning
| for Idaho Falls on matters of bust
ness.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Campbell of H.
linols, are here for stay of several
weeks.
C. w. Doty of Kamiah, was in the
city the first of the week looking
matters Of business.
G. L. L. Basket, the Elk City drug
gist, was in Grangeville the first of
tho week on business.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-06-09

comes to this a tariff on wheat would
mean something to the American
farmer. We have anticipated for
some time past that this would be
taken off as soon as there was a chance
of it doing the American farmer any
good
The farmer has been an awful
chump in this tariff business. He has
been tick led like a child with a new
rattle when the men who made tariffs
gave him twenty-five cents on wheat,
gave him tariff on corn and other
things, which were purely paper tariffs,
and could under no circumstances do
him a particle Of good. They appro-
priated to themselves the full breast
and put the farmer off with sugar
teat.
We have no doubt that before long
the tariff will be taken away not only
on wheat and cattle from Canada but
on cattle from Mexico, and by and
by on corn from Argentine The
question is whether the farmers of the
west, who are now just beginning to
study tariffs from non-partisan point
of view, will be satisfied with this.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-06-09

IF you are not satisfied after using
according to directions two-thirds of a
bottle of Chamberlain's stomach and
liver tablets, you can have your money
back. The tablets cleanse and invig-
crate the stomach, improve the diges-
ton, regulate the bowels. Give them
a trial and get we'll. Sold by all
dealers. K
Sue Harris and Frank Bowman,
two of Grangeville's young men, left
this week for Walla Walla, where
they will remain during the summer
in case they secure employment.
Atty. Duffy of Cottonwood, was in
the city on legal matters last
week.
Commissioner Butler of Sites was
in the city the first of the week.
For Sale-Airmotor windmill com
plete. Enquire of c. A. Pangborn.1- IL
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-06-09
Continued on page 7
Something N eW

In Photography all the time. We
keep posted in the latest styles and
fads. We keep up to the minute, and
buy the latest and best, to give you
the latest and best.
The Rembrandt Studio,
Grangeville.
Opp. Big Buffalo Store. %
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-06-09
To Hay Contractors

The undersigned will receive bids
up to june 20 for cutting, curing and
stacking the hay on our 200 acres
near Grangeville. We will also re-
ceive bids for baling and delivering
same at Grangeyille warehouse on or
before dates as may be agreed on. All
bids to be on tonnage basis. Parties
may bid separately or collectively on
baling and hauling. For particulars
call on Batty & Parker,
Grangeville, June 4, 1910. %
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-06-09

VII Il. j. Smith and James White,
M are delegates to the grand lodge
|and - at Biackfoot, June 12-15-17,
- q. Cassidy, past grand chan
ben VIII leave for that city the
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-06-09

Hay and steam rolled grain of all
kinds at Knorr's warehouse. 24tf
The place to buy groceries is at
Hanson-Miller's. loft
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18

have been stating important if unwel
 come truths about the conditions oi
 food supply. These have shown ever
 the urban people that the problem oi
 farm development comes close home
 to them. The government has had g
 Commission on Country Life, which
 has made important suggestions upon
 how to keep the farm population uI
 to an efficient level. The commission
 found, for one thing, that there was
 deficient social environment on the
 farm which tended to make young
 people quit 1t and go to the towns.
 But this is not all. An educator, Pres
 ident Beard of the Iowa Teachers As
 sociation. has found that very young
 people, children in fact, are sent from
 the farm to be educated in the city
 schools. Of these there were 14,00o in that State last year who paid tui
 tion of $176.000, and other expenses which he estimates at million more
 This depletion of the rural school at tendance results from two causes. the actual loss of farm population. and the emigration to the town schools. From the report of the State Superintendent Mir. Beard quotes these facts about a number of school districts in Iowa: Nine schools had two pupils each 36 an enrolment of three; 137 an an rollment of five; 432 an enrolment of ten. Out of such schools he considers 1t impossible to get stimulus for either teacher or pupil. Children are gregari- | ous. Nothing compensates the child for the absence of companionship. Hence these graveyard schools, where | there are not enough pupils to organ. ize game, must nightly disgust chil. 1 dren with rural life. The child de mands comradeship, and if he Is | taught from his earliest conscious | years that 1t cannot be had on the | farm. he will. when he grows up. seek 1t elsewhere. It is then too late tc | implore him to stay on the farm. He | should have been taught. through the | best schools and the best teaching, to 1 enjoy the farm from the start. What i President Beard asks, and it is not an | unreasonable demand, is that the farm child be given as good a school, but | not the same kind, as the town child and that, above all, he be brought in contact with a sufficient number of his neighbors to make school life attract i've and bright.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18
A HINT TO THE WISE.
Nineteen of Every Twenty Persons
 at Age of 60 Are Dependent.

Nineteen of Every Twenty Persons
 at Age of 60 Are Dependent.
 According to Dr. J. c. Clemmer, Of Columbus, O., 95 per cent of all men are dependent upon their daily earn ings or those of their relatives for their support when they reach the age of 60.
 Yes, sir said Dr. Clemmer recent ly, "19 out of every 20 persons living at the age of 50 are dependent. In looking through the probate records of one of the principal counties of Ohio I found that in a period from January 1, 1901, to January 1, 1905, four years, there were close to 5000 deaths of adults, and of this number more than 6,000 left no estate at all. A few more than 500, or 10 per cent, left property valued at less than $1 1000. Six hundred willed estates of less than S5,0O0, while 200 had worldly goods amounting to from s10,000 to s2O.OOO There were only 76 who left property valued at more than $25,000. In New York S5 per cent of the men who die leave no estate. and this aver age, I believe. will apply in most of the large cities.
 Tt is strange, perhaps, but when man reaches 40, he must, according to all statistics, be an exception if he does not lose all his accumulations. At 45 years 97 per cent of the persons have lost everything, while at 50 but one person in 5000 can recover his financial footing. These are unpleas- ant truths. perhaps, but they may cause some young men to think while for the rainy days that are sure to come"
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18
HOW THE DRUG MAN ~sTUNe. 7,
Mixed Up n Few Things for 10 Cents
 Got 50 Cents for It.

Mixed Up n Few Things for 10 Gents
 Got 50 Cents for It.
 Dr. Charlie Hearn, of Swarthmore, always has a new joke to tell, and in his latest a prominent advertising man of this city was the victim, the Philadelphia Telegraph says The lat ter had a touch of indigestion, and, meeting a doctor who was a friend of his upon the street, asked him what to take for 1t.
 "A little bicarbonate of soda, a few drops of aromatic spirits of ammonia and some water" advised his medical friend
 Write it down, will you, doc?" ask ed the advertiser The doctor did so. The man went directly to a drug store, Dr. Hearn says, and asked for cents worth of bicarbonate of soda and also 5 cents worth of aromatic spirits of ammonia. The drug clerk got them for him and was wrapping them when the purchaser pulled the prescription blank from his pocket. Say" he ask ed. this just says put them in some water. How much ought to user"
 The druggist leaned forward and took the blank. I'll fix it," he said. and disappeared.
 A little later he came back with a bottle labeled.
 'I added the water" he said, tri- unphantly. Fifty cents. please"
 Fifty cents!" roared the customer. You sad 1t was only 10 cents, Do you usually charge 40 cents for a bot tie of water?"
 The druggist frowned This is a prescription" he said. and we never put one up for less than 50 cents" And the customer, whispering "stung!" left the shop. wiser and poor. CT by 40 cents.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18
OF.THE

he called the man at Belle Isle over the strait hundred miles away, and told him to pass the word along the line that there was big work ahead. The word was passed down to the of flee of the management in Ottawa. Sprack1in worked twenty hours out of every twenty-four for five days alone and unaided save for the relief his engineer gave him while he was eat ing his meals. Spracklin and all the others pounded the key during those five days. not knowing at what min ute the spark would fail because of the strain pnt upon the apparatus.
 Spracklin would send two. three or four thousand words, then stop. Each succeeding station below would re- ceive, then forward this amount, and cables at Cape Ray would the next installment be launched.
 Here Is how Peary's story was zig gagged down the coast through the air to the cable end From Battle Harbor 1t went southeastward across the Straits of Belle Isle to the sta tion situated on the northern tip of the island of that name. Belle Isle relayed to Point Amour, back to the westward and on the southern tip Of Labrador.
 Point Amour sent the message to the east and south again to Point Richie, on the west coast of New foundland north of Bay of Islands. From Point Richie the spark jumped westward once more and across the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Heath Point on the island of Anticosti. The final jump was back again to the New foundland coast, where at Cape Ray the message was put on the cable.
 Not for many years will the men who sit on the tops of crags in New foundland and Labrador and send through the air to the world below the news of ships and Of men have such a task to perform
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18

A dozen men in the wilderness up beyond the gateway of the St. Law renee where the shreds of civilization fray out against the barrier of the great North link up the world with the wilderness of the Atlantic and the wilds of the Arctic regions. They do it with a wireless key and the mes sages they receive and send pass over barren wastes where no man lives and land wires have never been strung. A dozen there are who serve as operators; others of the repairing crew and the supplying department come and go. but these dozen men are year after year held practically 3ris- oners on the bald cliffs of Labrador and Newfoundland before the key of the wireless. They send through the air the tales of ships that come and go, reports that may interest St. Johns or Montreal shipping ex- changes; relay from the one to the other the meagre commercial mes sages that must pass from dealer to fisherman; send down to the land telegraphs the occasional news of shipwrecks and sea sufferings that find way into the papers. At Battle Harbor Gordon Sprackling, a young Nova Scotian, Is the MarcoRi opera tor, and Leonard Stephenson his en- gineer. Compared with some of their fellows Sprackling and Stephenson are fortunate in the environment of metropolis.
 But the wireless men are far from the maddening crowd even at that To reach the wireless station requires a nice training in alpine climbing, a sure foot and an undisturbed sense of balance. Here, in a cleft below the summit of the cliff Is the wireless hut and in this hut less than two months ago events occurred which need re- cording. They should be recorded be- cause they measure the stamina of the men who work the wireless in this cheerless country.
 The polar ship Roosevelt worked her way into the narrow harbor one sunny morning, and while the town seethed with excitement Commander Peary climbed the crag to the wire less station to interview Spracklin. He told the operator that he wanted to send to the world below his account of the discovery of the north pole.
 He believed that he could put it on the land wire at Chateau Bay down the coast, but the wireless man at Indian Harbor had told him that the Dominion government had abandoned that land wire since last he had come down from the North and he must use the wireless. Could the wireless do 1t?
 Spracklin said that it could. Then
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18
THIS WINTERS DINNERS.
Courses VIII Be Fewer, but Will Include All the Luxuries.


 Include All the Luxuries.
 In way dinners are to be simpler this winter than before. They are not to be composed of less rich or luxuri ous materials (indeed, the use of lux uries in food will be of greater vogue than ever), but according to the pic ture, the simplicity will be present in the form of fewer courses and less elaborate of dishes.
 Dinners will begin with one of the hundred canapes, with cavfare or with oysters. The grapefruit as an opening course for dinner Is quite out of it. It comes first to the luncheon table frequently, but when 1t figures in the dinner 1t Is as a salad. And salads of any sort must be removed as far as possible from the ornamental vari- ety. Above all, they must not be mussy or messy.
 Yet this appearance Is not to be avoided if several kinds of vegetables, for instance. are collected in the salad bowl. Three vegetables make the very limit of those that may be employed, dnQ III Iu0 IuTSG IS the l6I- tuce that is the background.
 The French vegetable salad, to be sure, consists of several kinds. But it should not make it's appearance in a formal dinner of courses. It is for luncheon or for dainty home dinner, which consists of but a soup, a chop with vegetable, salad and a light dessert with crackers and cheese.
 Wines. it goes without saying. must be of the choicest variety to form harmonious note with the simple din ner composed of luxuries- -paradoxi- cal as that may seem. And the pleas. ant custom of serving an hour or so after dinner an imported mineral water will be more popular the com- ing season than ever. short time after dinner a dryness of the throat is often experienced, and this mineral water is a refreshment at such a time to be appreciated. It is also to be re garded as an excellent digestive
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18
English Woman. Club Life.

A French woman has been makinA an investigation of the women's clubs in England and her report is favor able, the Minneapolis Journal says. She says the club Is the woman's haven, that when she enters 1t she Is free from molestation by her husband and able to find enjoyment and re- taxation without the intrusion of out side cares. For the unmarried wom- an the club in England is a place where she can entertain her friends of both sexes and gain companionship.
 If the French woman came to this country she would find the woman's club a different institution from that in England. The average woman's club here does little more than meet once month"; in the East 1t is mainly used for social politics, while in the West it dabbles in real politics and expresses its views on every public question. In England the club idea is followed to the letter. There every woman's club has it's restaurant, its library. its card rooms, its lounging room, it's billiard room and many have gymnasiums and swimming pools. The London clubs are crowded with women every noon for luncheon and in almost every club women are permitted to smoke-and do smoke
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18

The sobranje of Bulgaria has passed a law imposing a tax of about s a year on all unmarried men who are 30 years old and older. At Tirnovo. the ancient capital. it has been a GUS tom for many years to humiliate un- married men, On the first Monday in Lent all marriageable men who had not selected life partners in the car nival season were beaten on sight with inflated pigs bladders. The bachelors always dreaded D. the day, while the girls looked forward to it with pleas urc. Since the tax act has been passed the bachelors of Tirnovo have entered a formal protest against the continuance of the practice. They say they will gladly pay the tax. but want the chastisement declared unlawful.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18

Women. not to mention children, usually feel better after "a real good cry" It seems that tears not only soothe the spirit. but also serve anoth- CT useful purpose. for an eminent spe- cialist asserts that the saltiness of tears clears the eye and refreshes its delicate organism. In their passage down the face the tears stsrilize the skin and kill germs upon which soap and water have no effect, and thus serve as natural beauty bath.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18

Ever since the presidency of George Washington. every citizen has felt it his inalienable right to shake the chief magistrate by the hand, and the chief magistrate has usually submitted with very good grace. During Mir. Taft's Western trip, however, the custom was started of changing the form of greet ing The names of the guests were called out, and bows and smiles were exchanged No doubt, the new way seems less cordial than the old, but the reform is good one.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18

Forestry methods of the most ap- proved sort are applied to the great Vanderbilt estate at Biltmore, N. c. From the ten thousand acres of wood land are taken annually four million feet of lumber, five thousand cords of tannic acid wood and fuel. thousand cords of tan bark, and considerable quantities of pulp wood. Yet the for est, far from being injured. increases in value every year. What a blessing it would be if more owners of timber land were content to regard their prop erty as permanent investment, and not an opportunity to "get rich quick" at the expense of the future of the landi
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-18
Poetry md Prose.

What a beautiful sight it is, Mrs. Bates, to see your two little boys all ways together" the summer boarder exclaimed, in an ecstasy, on the ap- proach of Bobby and Tommy Bates, hand in hand. Such brotherly love is as rare as it is exquisite.
 Mrs. Bates nodded in pleasant as sent.
 "I tell Ezry,' she said. that they're as insep'r'b ble as pair O pants"