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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

tering into their games and sports
with a true American zest and fervor,
believing Japanese traditions and prac-
ticing with their weapons, his mill
tary environment was such that the
profession Of arms seemed to him as
youth the noblest in the world. By
the time he had arrived at maturity,
HIS skill in the game Of war was I'M
questioned, and he had made himself
an adept at handling Japanese weap-
ons, even the short two-handled sword
which demands such lightning like
dexterity and swiftness of eye and
hand.
This liking for the clash Of arms
and the call of battle, says Human
Life, may appear strange when taken
in connection with the calling of his
father, DR.. Guido Fridolin verbeck,
who went to Japan before his sons
birth as a Dutch Reformed missionary
in the clipper ship SURPRISE six
months trip in the fifties.
General Verbeck remained in Japan
until sixteen years of age, always in
a military environment, coming, how
ever, to California in 1880, to enlist
in the Fifth California infantry, where
he served successfully as private,
quartermaster, sergeant, sergeant ma
jor, first lieutenant. quartermaster
captain, adjutant and major. Fifteen
years sfter his arrival he was appoint
ed commissary general of subsistence.
New York National Guard, and was
rendered supernumerary four years
later. He Joined the Forty-first Sep
arate company as a private. New
Years day of 1889, being later COM
missioned second and first lieutenant
and captain. For the next three years
he was assistant inspector Of the
Fourth Brigade, and in 1907 was elect
ed major OF the third regiment Of in
fantry. one Of the crack New York
commands.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
SPY IN THE CAinr
sUMMARiLY EXECUTED BY OR
DER OF CouRT-MARTIAL.
founs Woman. Disguised as Youth,
Goes TO Death Without Attempt
Ing to Offer Any Defense to
Serious Charge.

Darkness was just settling down.
and the advance had halted for the
night, when a squad of cavalry
brought in a young man from the
front. They said he was a spy. They
said 1t carelessly enough. but there
was an awful Significance in the term
at that hour. In camp he would have
been searched, INTERCEPTED and inn
prisoned. 1t might have been weeks
before his trial. and he would have
been allowed every chance for his
life.
We were on the march There had
been fighting; there would be more
tomorrow; that meant drum-head
trial for the spy.
How speedily everything was ar
ranged! l was at headquarters, ana
saw and heard it all Within half an
hour court-martial was convened
grave-faced officers who looked into
the face of the young man at first
with interest, then with something
like admiration. said a young man.
| was wrong. He was a boy seventeen
or eighteen. He had big blue eyes,
chestnut curls. and his cheeks were al
smooth as a girls. He was a hand
some lad. and l believe that every
man in the tent felt pity for him.
What's your name?"
James Blank"
What regiment?"
No reply.
Are you a citizen or a soldierY~
No reply
Can you make any defence to the
charge of being a spy?"
No reply.
The officers looked at each other.
nodded, and the president waved his
hand. It didn't seem minute before
a file Of soldiers came. The face of
the boy grew white, but he moved like
one in a dream. His big blue eyes
looked upon one after another, as II
searching for friend. and my heart
yearned to cry out that he was only a
boy and ought to be given more time.
Tramp! Tramp Trampi
1t was the detail marching him Off
into the darkness.
Halt Tie this handkerchief over
his eyesl"
They had brought a lantern. BY it's
light l saw the big blue eyes for the
last time as they looked round In a
dazed way. I wanted to shout to the
boy and warn him that It was not yet
too late to prove that he was not what
they believed him to be, but the grim
ness of the scene parched my tongue
place him there Fall back At
tentionl Ready-aim-fire
Ten minutes later the officer ia
charge of the firing party touched his
cap and reported:
Orders have been executed, sir
ANY further evidence?"
No, sir except that she was ~
young woman!"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
Try To Bust Trusts.

Prosecutions by the government de-
signed TO accomplish the dissolution Of
Standard Oil and of the American To
bacco organizations, embodying the
greatest antitrust" fight of the gen
GRAFTON, viii be taken up for the second
time by the supreme court of the Unit
ed States at the beginning of its work
for the new year. Continuing its con
sideration of affairs of government, the
court will Immediately afterward give
its attention to the constitutionahty of
the corporation tax provisions of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff act.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

coyery that his reputation as an edi-
tor Is lost in the CLEAN of his reputa-
ton as a scientist. One of his most
celebrated inventions or discoveries is
the Crookes tube--a glass tube from
which the atmosphere has been ex-
hausted and into which have been fit
ted platinum wires passing through
the glass walls and terminating in
metallic plates. The most important
use of these tubes is for the produc
ton Of X or Roentgen rays.
He was born in London in 1892,
studied chemistry, and in 1854 became
superintendent of the meteorological
department Of the Radcliffe Observa
tory, Oxford. A year later he was
made professor of chemistry at the
Chester Training College. In 1859 he
founded the Chemical News, of which
he is still the editor Since 1864 he
has edited the Quarterly Journal OF
Science. He has been a fellow of the
Royal Society since 1868 and was
knighted in 1897, so that the Order of
Merit is only an addition to other hon
u . lOL TIC uIol ItCOBnlllOn OI HIS
eminence by the powers that be.
Sir William is an authority of the
first rank on sanitary questions, espe-
cially the disposal of the sewage of
towns. His method of producing ex
IRENE vacua was a necessary prelimi.
nary to the achievement of electric
lighting. His original researches led
to the discovery Of the metal thallium
in 1861. Among his other discoveries
have been the sodium amalgamation
process for eliminating gold and silver
from their ores (1S65), and his new
method for the spectroscopic investi.
cation of substances-one of the nu.
merous and brilliant results of his pro-
longed studies of radiant matter" He
also devised the radiometer, and the
otheoscope, a greatly improved form
Of the Observation-Disclosures sensi
tive to the impact of the ether waves
which cause the phenomenon of light.
He is the author of several standard
scientific books.
Unlike many of the great scientists
of his day, Sir William has never
leaned toward materiallsm. Indeed
so strong in his conviction of the ex
istence of intelligence independently
Of material mechanism and so broad
is his spirit Of investigation that he
has given countenance to mediumistic
tests This has led the Spiritualists
to claim him as belonging to their
persuasion, without. however. any
public commitment on his part war
ranting the claim.
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To weIoh Perf,,re

1t was the Italian physician Salvious
who devised a microbalanee of such
extreme delicacy that 1t clearly dem
onstrated the loss of weight OF musk
by mobilization. Thus the invisible
perfume floating OF In the air is IN
directly weighed.
The essential part Of the apparatus
is a very thin thread of glass. f1xec
at one end and extended horizontally.
The microscopic objects to be weigh
ed are placed upon the glass thread
near its free end. and the amount OK
fiexure produced is observed with q
microscope magnifying 100 diameters.
A mote Weighing 1900 OF a MILF.
sramme is said perceptibly to benQ
the thread.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
Another Martyr.

Poor Tweedledum was in trouble.
He was up before the local magis-
trate.
"Onicer." demanded the dispenser
Of Justice. read the charge"
Mumbledum's chest expanded.
Constructing the traffic by causing
q large crowd to assemble in Ditch
water street on the goth inst. yer
worship"
And defensef" raped out his wor-
ship, turning to Tweedledum.
Tweedledum cleared his throat
-Sir." he replied. Il happened to ap.
pear in my front garden wearing a
tie my wife bought me for my birth
day, and II got about that was going
to give comic entertainment That
IA all."-Idea&
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

who must suffer in that period just as
she did.
That is how the Good Cheer So
ciety" sprung to life. When Miss Car
ter recovered she returned to New
York, then her home, and began tC
talk he. plan for a Society of Good
Cheer and Comfort to her wealthy and
influential friends.
Humanity is, after all, quickly re
sponsive to ideas of help that are prac.
teal and Miss Carter's plan took
hold" With an enthusiastic band OF
her friends to second her efforts, the
Good Cheer Society" was organized,
and not long after Miss Carter's re
turn from Chicago, Incorporated un.
der the laws Of the State of New York
with Miss Carter as president, Amelia
Morrison as vice-president, and Mar.
earet Ellen Ward as secretary.
sixty was to have been the charter
membership, but so much did the
nlan appeal to those who had heard Of
q and who had means and time to de
vote TO the objects Of the association,
that this number was extended to 100
oKindliness, companionship and sun
chine are more to a sick man or WON
an than all the money In the world
Mas Carter said, in explaining the
aims of the society, land our members
,,,pst be women who can give these
out of a heart truly overlooking. They
,is,t the rick-'the least Of these
,aLdng flowers or books or something
~ ike nature to brighten their days.
and more than this they read and talk
20 the patients whose names have
bean given them by the secretary"
Though the society has been in ex
,stence only a short while, according
"a Human Life, It has proven so true
n a need long unfulhlled that Miss
carter has now left the detail of the
,sork to the other officers, and is en-.
taged In organizing branches in Chi
oago. Washington, Seattle-her PREF
emit homs-aSA "fhA- large cities.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
At the Spokane.

A story which deals with the modern
frenzied finance" problem of the
United States, is "The Dollar Mark, -
the play by George Broadhurst, which
will be presented by the Baker Stock
company at the Spokane theater all
this week. The story links the work
ings of the money combine in New York
with the development and investment
fields of the west, and the love plot
which invades the play centers around
the refinement and social system Of
New York's "4OO" and joins hands
across the country and brings a part
of the story into the rich gold fields
Of California. To follow: David Be
lasco's masterpiece, "The Girl Of the
Golden West. -
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
Patrick Tries Again.

Albert Patrick, the lawyer who was
convicted in 1902 of the murder of the
aged William Marsh Rice in New York,
and who has never ceased to protest
his innocence, is now about to make
a new move for freedom. An applica-
tion will be made by Patrick s counsel
to the governor of New York for an
unconditional pardon.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
aHanaar.U

1t was to be expected that the 40
vent of the aeroplane would add a
number of new words to the language,
or at least cause several foreign words
to be adopted by the English-speaking
race. Both have happened. Probably
the one foreign" word which one en-
counters most frequently in reading
Of the aviation contests is hangar"
1t is a French word and means she'd
and 1t is no better word than shed"
either. 1t wouldn't sound well to
some people to read where the
Wrights wheeled their aeroplane to
the shed-not half so well as to state
that they placed their machine in the
hangar, but 1t is the same thing. and
We are not certain but the good old
English word shed" has some advan-
tage over the French word. II is
shorter and more easily written and,
while the word hangar" is not so
hard to speak or pronounce as gar
Rge"-which came into use with the
automobile-just as many records
would have been broken II we had
stuck to our own language and talked
about the aeroplane shed.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
Prospective Meat Prices.

While the general trend of meat
prices are upward, there is little doubt
but what the upward tendency has been
travelling at an unwarranted rate dur
ing the past year Perhaps it is not
quite right to say high prices have not
been warranted by conditions. 1t
should be said, however, that for the
present, OF for a period in the near fu-
ture, the high prices of today will not
be maintained. We will drift toward
a general higher level, but at a slower
pace than we have been going recently.
says Chicago Retailers Journal.
The country today is full of corn
and pigs, and these pigs will soon be
fat hogs. Farmers have found it profit
able to feed stock at the high prices
meat has been fetching. But before
prices went soaring there was a scare
ity of young hogs. The fancy price
for pork has induced the farmers to
raise more pigs, and pigs grow into
pork very fast. The pigs bred several
months ago will soon come into mar
ket, and the indications are that there
are enough of them to pull the market
price down and keep it down for some
time.
Prices have been so high that there
has been a tendency to ship heavy hogs
to market. This has disturbed relative
prices of loins, hams and bacon and
salt pork.
But as prices go off we may expect a
better grade of hogs to be sent to mar
ket and this will tend to restore
proper relation between the various
pork products.
People are not eating as much meat
as they did. They have got into the
habit of doing with less meat, and
most likely they will continue to do
with less, even after prices are lower.
People are more economical with meat
than they formerly were. When they
paid twenty-five cents for a steak they
ate the choice parts and put the rest
In the garbage. They learned to make
good use of the less desirable parts of
a steak when the cost went up to forty
cents.
There are other conditions that will
tend to put down the price of meat.
Among these may be mentioned the
fact that we have lost much of our for.
elgn trade. The high prices that have
prevailed here has stimulated the meat
industry elsewhere to such an extent
that we have successful competitors in
the foreign markets.
We are growing country, growing
away from the old farming ideas and
becoming more and more a nation of
manufacturers. We shall not raise our
meat as cheaply as we once did, and
what we do raise we viii need at home.
Eventually meat in this country will
reach a higher level of prices. But for
the present prices are higher than they
will be in the near future.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

81 sincerely hope the next year will
be full of prosperity and as much hap
piness as can come to us all in this
country" is the New Year greeting
sent to the people of the United States
by President Taft through the mem.
bers of the National Press club of
Washington.
He was welcomed by them at an in
formal New Years reception in the
clubhouse Saturday afternoon.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
COMING
THEATER ATTRACTIONS
AT SPOKANE

Have seats reserved by mail, sending q
deposit to manager and stating about where
you desire seats naming attraction and date
THE AUDITORIUM, H. G. Hayward
Post St., north OF Riverside Ave. Mgr
HighClass Productions
THE SPOKANE, Chas. w. York, Mgr
Post ST. south Of Riverside Ave.
Every Night-Popular Prices.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
Winnipeg Strike Ends.

The street car strike which has been
in progress in Winnipeg for the past
month which was submitted to com
mittee for arbitration, is ended The
men return to work under the old con
ditions and only those who refrained
from violence will be reinstated.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

state of New
York, might al
most be called an
American s a m .
urai. B orn in
Nagasaki, brought
up In the strictest
military disci-
pline, mingling
W 1 t h Japanese
boys of his own
age Of the higher
classes, who were
destined to be-
come soldiers, en-
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

who has success
fully played the
role of chaperon
to young women
tourists. Prof. Il.
w. Murray of the
department Of Lat
in spent 20 days
last summer con-
Quoting a party Of
young women on
a sightseeing tour
through several
European coun-
tries.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

der of Merit, is
a man whose
name has been
known the world
over for many
years. AS an edi-
tor his publica-
lions reach every
quarter of the
globe, but he is
so famous in the
field of original
scientific investi-
cation and dis
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

from the ravages
of pneumonia,
that Miss Theora
Carter, almost a
stranger in that
great city, CAM
to KIN o W t h
dreadful e n n u 1
of convalescence
and 1t came tc
her that there
were thousands
in hospitals all
over the land
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
MAN CHAPER0NS A PARTY
OF YOUNG WOMEN TOURISTS

There is one man, a member of the
faculty OF the University of Kansas,
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

"Who are those corpulent gentle
men getting aboard that private car,
attended by a retinue of servantsf'
"Oh, that's a delegation going down
to the state capital to see if they can Z
get some relief for a poor, half-starved
railroad"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

Railroad Vernaculsr.
"He says you wrecked his train Of
thought"
-Umphi A string of smptiss.~
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
AN ENGLISH SCIEHTlSr
RECEIVES ORDER OF MERIT

Sir William Crookes. upon whom
King George V. has bestowed the Or.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

"Ihat man higgins is away ahead of
his time.'
whats he doing nowf''
He IS working out a code Of traffic
ordinances for aeroplane drivers.,'
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

That's All.
Has your auto broke Anycalaa
yetT'
Nothing but me-
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
A SAMURAI SOLDIER WHO
HEADS NEW YORK MILITIA

Gen. William Verbeck, the chief Of
ncer of the National Guard of the
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT
OF GOOD CHEER SOCIETY

It was while she lay for weeks II
y Chicago hospital slowly recovering
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07
At the American.

The popular pastoral comedy drama,
@ Shore Acres" will be produced at
the new American every night this
week, matinees Wednesday and Satur-
day, as the second Offering of the Law
renee Players. Written by the late
James A. Herne and used as a starring
vehicle for himself for many seasons,
1t has been pronounced by many critics
as the one great American pastoral play.
1t deals with life on the down-east
farm, with the conflict Of the two
brothers, Nathaniel and Martin, over
the sale of their mother IS burial place,
and finally with their reuniting through
the influence of Martin s daughter.
Helen Berry. Beginning January g.,
Brown of Harvard"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-07

Two friends met one day after a
long absence. One of them had very
ruddy complexion, and his nose was
carmine. The other looked into his
face and said:
"Ah, John, doot''-
But John said he was not to Judge
by appearances, as he only drank one
glass of beer in a day.
ooh, weel,v said the other, eyer
face, perhaps, is like our gas meter
1t registers mair than it consumes. -
Diek-You got engaged last week,
old chap, didn't youf
Frank-Yes, my boy, but that's all
Off now.
Dick ~ WhyG Incompatibility of
temper7
Frank-Not at all; rather the reverse.
She advised me to practice economy,
and I started by getting her an imita-
ton gold ringi
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1911-04-06
@aafi.
(Sertonut 81. Goof, nonfien boioon
barroStoia.)

barraStaid.)
Mottustelesiani Gn9lanniSIa ass
tuin er6Gieen rautotien jnnaon ia
buomoIin muutaman nuorufai en-,
iptu torttuuoella luti roomattuan a.
S6nen bimufIenIa olifpat armelittas
man lpbpet. Se berdtti minusla ore
nelua, ettd bGn fentieIi OH olut
m~anteubeeIa ia on MT FUN iulfai a.
%tolintu, ionea bDpbenet oltapat idls
leen fasmao. &obio antauin pofi'
uoimaan bdnen tonsIania ia fpipin,
miutdt6boen bdn min innoffaoSti
lufi Sumolon %ionao. Gen ioboosta
tertpi bGn Ieurootuao;
&iuioutIen betfeaG lonfeiin rifofs
leen, oietettiin oiteuoen eteen ia tuo'
mittiin ipanfeuteen. Sieud oil erds
opuloispappi, ianfa toimi maati ban.
I'd iota aomu fuIfemaon len ieIlin
Quahtltppin) obitie, iosfa nina tpDs'
fentelin. Sdn ndptti alma Min pstd'
! naaileltd, ettd lie tuntui minusta OF.
fsen bppdlta, ia moiffa minun Iie'
lunboitpni eli fuulunut bdnen toimia
loon,a, buomoIin tuitenfin bdnen os
floottonoeti Iilmdilemdnm iuud. Sas
pobtui iefin. eitd tnnnele ,pierdbti
bdnen IiImddni6 minua tuiIeleeIodn.
Minusta tuntii fuin oliIin moimut
fuola bdnen eoestddn. 9,n tuumis.
telin itIefieni, miten moiIin ola bd'
neue mielitIi, Min tuli mieIeeni: ,lue
roomothuoIi, min iIabutot bdntd"!
Geuraamana aamuna fun paStori
fdpi p%uolefIi oponaiien ofpeni o.
bite, isthin mind mfemosIu. ia ndin
bdnen bpmpiIewdn. pdimdetd tois
Iecn pitfitettpdui Iufemisio Jain bdms
mdstptiefiei ndbbd faootetun tiIani,
mutta Fun Ippennpin enemmdn ia'
nam. opin mpostin tuntemnon ia
rofostomaon Wopo btojooni. Gn ole
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1911-04-06

I'll funnia file, iofa on tulIut ia mei'
ban faittien eoeStd fdriinpt. Mlfddms
me omistafo itieuemme iitd mitd
tuuluu &ariHaue Seelutleue. 9dnen
nimenid funniaffi tebfddmme tpbtd.
2aritIaue oltoon funnia ia fiitoS
taitesta NIT ia alma iianfaittiiesti.
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