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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1912-04-12
Watch Your Drain Tile outists.

Watch Your Drain Tile outlstA.
A thing for every farm owner to re
member should be to look after bis tile
drain outlets in cold weather. that they
may not get clogged BY muskrats. rab-
bits or other rodents. NOT by sods slip
ping over the tiles. thus waterlogRinR
the soil during the wet season.-Farm
journal.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1912-04-12
School Meeting and Election

Notice is hereby given that on Monday,
18th day of April, 1912, the annual school
meeting and election in and for School Dis
trict No.22 of Latah County, State of Idaho
will be held at the school house in said dis
trict
At o'clock p. m. of said day, at said
school house, a meeting will be held TO Sc
lect a Judge and Clerk of Election, and to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20
A Fable for Advertisers

From the Chicago Reeord-Herald.
 Simeon Ford. the noted humorist, said in praise of newspaper advertising at a banquet in New York:
 There is a fable that all advertisers should have by heart It runs like this {.
 "As shopkeeper dozed. his head on the dusty counter of his shop, the gray cobwebs across hs dor were rent apart, and goose entered.
 "rhe sflopkeeper rose, with glad smile; he thought he had a customer: but when he saw the goose he muttered an oath.
 What do you want here2 he said. This is no place for geese
 Isn't itT said the goose. Quack, quack! And, 1t regarded the shopkeeper derisively, then went on:
 I've come, my dear sir. because saw your advertisement on the fence that incloses our barnyard. l knew that you must be a Roose--or else a donkey-be- cause otherwise you would place your ad- vertsement in newspaper. where 1t would be read by human beings, and not upon an isolated fence, where 1t Is only read by donkeys and geese and other barnyard denlzens. So, being lonely to- day, I thought I'd make you a fraternal call A couple of donks will probably drop in later. Quack, quacki
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masterpieces of nature and tho ancient
 products of mans handicraft and cun-
 ming by the mystic light of luna's rays. Who has not reveled in ecstacy as he
 wandered over the tragedy-steeped
 arena of the colosseum under a pale
 moon? Who ever neglected an oppor- | tunity to view the sphinx by moon | light? and who can ever fail to sense
 the spell cast upon by vision of Philae
 under the rays of the orb of night or
 the fascination wrought by the glorious pillars of Baalbeck's incomparable ruins when the crescent lamp of the sky sent the shadows courtesying through a trolls minuet down corridor, aisle and arcade?
 Thus 1t was that l fingered to view | those tanks bolstered in antls, as 1t
 were, in the dead crater by the light of an Asiatic moon--a moon which like the idols of old never bllnks nor mods. and turns to silver and gold all upon which it's rays of mysticism fall
 Where were now the countless
 myriads whose parching thirst had been quenched by the flood of those ruined reservoirs half a dozen of cen turies before the world ever knew or dreamed of the water of llfe?"
 The tragedy of centuries was unfold ed before me as I gazed up at those mammouth cisterns suspended as the hanging gardens of Babylon, Haunting as gonfalon to a starry but silent host that solitary grim Parsee temple O: the dead and displaying as a burgee, not the eagle of the Roman hosts, but the uncanny vulture of the tenants of the tomb. Becklin's haunting De insel der toten flashed upon my memory for It was presentation the canvas of which was mountain of rock and the pencil a ray of silver moonlight glossed with the brush of night Time was when that crater spat its fires in the face of the moon and nature shriveled and recoiled before it's tophetic spew-
 ngs; time was when that same crater as if to make amends for ruin, de- struction and devastation, poured out q l.bation to g. grateful humanity and time was again when destruction re- turned. this time with a spirit Of retri-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20

usually gets 1t. Lately minister of the interior told Roumania's chamber that merchants complained they are robbed wholesale by their clerks .on a romantic basis"
 These all-night excursions are possible because mad Bucharest respects no con- ventions as to the relations of the sexes. The city, like all Roumania, Is progress sive" in the sense that it abjures social lines" This means that young Rouman- fans, men and maids. do exactly as they like. Papa and mamma are laughed at as "antlquated" if they interfere. To be loose in morals is practically the pro- gramme of all liberal sections of Rou- manian society. and that Is another reason why Ferdinand. who is a highly respect able prince. wants to call halt to Mad Bucharests unsteady race.
 Ferdinand Victor is serious soldier. He was bred in a stareh-stin Prusslan regiment he Is now chief inspector of cavalry; he has read lectures on tho moral factor in war" and he has sadly concluded that the moral factor in war is not on the side of corrupt, dissipated. please-yourself Roumania Roumania's army Is the strongest in the Balkans. It's technical and medical equipment are be- yond doubt best, and 1t as first-rate ar- tillerymen, with good gtls. During the Russian attack on Plevna Roumanians proved their worth. and ever since then King Carol and Ferdinand Victor have looked on Roumanla as a semi great pow err destined to lead tho Balkans. But Ferdinand Victor grieves to admit that the richer and fatter Roumania becomes the worse are it's morals and manners.
 Reform Is to come through sthe court. says Ferdinand After last winters rev citations about gambling in the smart club "Bucuresci," no member Of the club was invited to court. Ferdinand now pro- poses to boycott flower oorses. balls and festivals at which "an excessive luxury appears" He wants "a Spartan spirit in the army" Some one distorted this into "a Prusslan spirit" An explanation had to be issued that II. k. II did not say "Prusslan." But the story held good, and increased the anger of Bueharestls young bloods at the Germanzatlon of the court King, queen. heir and wife of heir are all Germans. Are We to be degraded Into race of slow-going, goggled saul sage-eaters7n askes Mad Bucharest.
 Probably not. More likely Mad Buch- arest will grow madder than ever. At least until money gives out. or until war comes. Then the tough. rough penurious, semi-Scotch Bulgarian boor will eat up the brilliant Latin Rouman. For. of all Balkan peoples. the Bulgar is the only one sane-painfully and unconscionably sane.
 Copyright. 1912, by Curtis Brown)
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the flow of water was not impeded nor it's quality impaired.
 stone coping originally suNounted the tanks, but 1t has long since been utilized as building material for the Arab homes.
 Wonderful as 1t is. the ingenuity dis played in the construction of these tanks is by no means their chief con slderation. Their most remarkable fea- ture Is the marvellous enamel-like ce- ment which constitutes their facin 2 and lining. It has withstood the erosion of floods and fierce heat of an Asiatic sun for hundreds of centuries and yet 1t is sufficiently plastic to receive the impress of a lead-pencil. as the num- berless thousands of signatures thereon inscribed attest With a hue subdued to the shade of antique ivory or smoked pearl and threaded with umber-toned mammoth jmpanta or gigantic screen.
 But its composition Is & mystery which has defied the researches of the worlds analysis. Like tho pottery pro- cess of the Robbias, the hidden recipe of the chartreuse of the monks of Ger tosa and the welding of copper with steel known only to the Moors its fash ioning is secret-a secret which the old Persians carried with them to their long forgotten graves.
 Alas those ancient reservoirs are now filled only with the memories of their tragic days. There were grafters, and contractors and quasi-trusts In those olden times as well as now and their operations were based upon a gamble. When Alden drank from those tanks their water was sold by the authorities to the highest bidder The successful bidder retailed 1t to his fellow towns men who Hooked to him in myriads and carried off the precious stuff in dirty leather bottles and he was the lead ing figure in the local commercial world until the next rainfall, for his contract only endured until the coming of the next shower. after which he had to vie with new bidder.
 In one sense of the word I am q lunatic-that is l love best to view the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20

ence are usually gained at the expense of comfort, or to say the least, ease. I have slept soundly over n COW stable ar oberammergau and rested eontentedly In tan yard at Nablous. have slum- bered all crouched up In a crash ham, mock at PernambucoN and sweltered on a hard roof terrace at Tangiers. I have smothered under ton, more or less, of feathers as my only covering at the Simplon hospice and shivered all night under blanket as thin as charity upon an imeprial Russian sleeping coach, and I did it all without a protest .ots murmur of complaint The only slum- Der accoutrement that I ever baked at was a scorpion tower at Sakkara. preferred to take my chances at elud- Ing the reptile by walking at intervals upon the desert sands all night.
 As for meals. my stomach Is my last consideration when travelling. No chef ever produced or fashioned or concocted a sauce or garnishment that can ap- proach keen appetite. Never did I. find a more appetizing meal than at roasted egg and a cake of parehed corn meal discussed in the house of Mar-I rlott the French excayator near the serapium on the borders of the great African desert; I have enjoyed the birds nest bouillon of China and even found the horse flesh of Paris quite palatable. But I must confess thar broth made of donkey's head. often favorlte in the Quarter Latin, l was compelled to draw the line have eaten with a relish maninoes in Brazil and partaken of plstach cake in Jern- salem and l have even eaten the name- less connections that are served in the restaurants of the Muscovite. and the kahns of Palestine.
 No. I have never regretted Alden, but to my brazen companion the memory of that city by the sea Is a bete noire. Hence I seldom hear the story of the tanks of hell from the steamy lips oe my reminiscent and singing samoyar.
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times, however. things happen that even drag the police out of their own gambling dens. Lately the suicide of Lieutenant Luders (of German origin) led to great kick-up. It was then that respectable Ferdinand got his first shock. He learned that not only Bucharest and Kustendili which is Roumania's chief port, were thick with gambling hells. but that the royal borough. Sinaia, is thicker still Sinaia Is a small town at the foot of the high Carpathian Buccecs. It boasts the fine royal chateau of Pelosch and the crown princes palace. Pelischor; there are parks, walks and hotels, and of late the land owners have taken to building villas there. It was short-sighted Ferdi- nand who set them building the villas, and now he's sorry, for the villa owners turned Sinaia into the biggest gambling center of it's size on earth.
 Ferdinand was so keen on developing Sinaia, and on creating a Roumanian Versailles that he built villas himself He dragged out of dusty Bucharest the half Oriental magnates. They were to live in European style; that means to wash, keep nice gardens and wear silk hats The magnates came to Sinaia and trans formed it into a blossoming Monte Carlo. Tn the little town of 40oo residents there are numberless secret and private hells.
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practices. The first Is to get the flesh soft and plump by eating starchy foods and sweets; the second to give it life by rubbing in burning paprika This work is done by the ladys cook. Dirt and magnificence enhance one another. Just now there is a reaction from fat, for the directoire dress and thin Crown Princess Marie have set the mode. But fatness indicates prosperity in mad Bucharest, and the solid, sensible classes rightly cherish their reputation for prosperity more than they cherish their reputation for chic.
 All this is distasteful to ultra European Crown Prince Ferdinand He thinks that gambling men spoil the army, and that ladies tattooed with paprika make bad mothers for soldier lads. What offends him more Is that mad Bucharest never goes to bed. After its bad theatres-and
 its worse Italian opera at the National theatre-olose their doors, mad Bucharest asks itself how 1t will spend the even ing. If it goes to Kostretscheni, or some other lively suburb, it returns next day. Every park outside the city is full all night of flirting pairs attended by gipsy musicians with weird talents and weirder greed Bucharest's lovers show their merit by throwing extravagant sums to these gipsies. The gipsy picks up the coins. stretches his hand for more, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20
Bucharest, Maddest Of Cities Refuses to be Refo

Vienna, October 1s.-(Speciai. Mad Bucharest is wroth with mild Crown Prince Ferdinand Victor Albert Mein- tad. Bucharest is happily, gloriously,
 mechanically insane and unreasonable
 Ferdinand wants to make it sane Ferdi- land is heir to the throne, nephew of fhildless King Carol. and of enrolling Farmen Sylva. He has handsome wife Ind still handsomer daughter. He is fich, 47. and slightly asthamtic. He Ehould, therefore. know better than to Eo about correcting this lncorrigible
 world. But Ferdinand is an optimist and wants to reform Bucharest.
 Bucharest Is optimistic also, and de- flines to consider the grim contingency bf reform. 'I was mad" 1t chortles,
 Hong before 'Se. when first Doctor Fer hinand arrived from his native Hohenzol- lern, and shall be mad, please heaven. long after he returns
 Bucharest's madness lies in an inordi- hate craze to be the smartest, widest, pizarrest. lirtiest. gambly-est of all Flu {ope's reprobate cities. Compared with 1t most towns are nests of Puritan bore iom. All who want vice without charm, luxury without comfort, gambling with put honesty and splendor without soap, rush Bucharestwards. They have a good time in Roumanian style. But 1t is not good enough for reforming Ferdinand, who says that since the other Balkan states are going mad-politically-it is time for Roumania to get sane. Rou- mania leers insanely. It has two record ,harvests, and boom of factory building, shotel-starting. speculation, swindling, ,enrichment and ruin. and 1t is in no mood for the sour-faced counsels of Saw .onarcola Ferdinand.
 Bucharest's madness effloresces various ly. First. in hell-f1re craze for gambling which has seized all Roumania from princes to gipsies. Rightly, there are gip- sies, but no princes. Wise Roumania' s law-givers forbade titles, but there. as lin other democratic lands. people invent their own titles, and there is no land owner, however hard-up, who does not discover-at least when abroad-that he's 3l prince. lHe Iouiiidiiiahs Hd'o idteiy lhad their land-rents doubled by the kind- lily Providence which ripens crops, and their idea of having a good time with 1t lis to sec it pass to swinders.
 l All Roumanians gamble. Small boys gamble for used matches, and antique Ibeggars gamble for their last grey hairs Mad Bucharest has 350,0oo citizens, and 50 the Romanul says-it has 6S0 gam bling dens. About one for every 800 citi- zens. Gambling goes on without cease punctuated by murders and suicides, which no man takes notice of. Some
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20
STREET SeEu
 lN BUCHAREST

where baccarat, ecarte. rouge ct nois, roulette and some buccaneer Roumanian swirding games are played from morn ing to night
 Prince Ferdinand has heard sad tales ficer who came suddenly into $235, ,000. gambled three-fourths of 1t away on an August night. Next day he had to join his regiment at Braila. He insisted on taking with him the gambler who had won his money, so that the game might be played out. Before the train reached Braila he lost everything. He died a day later. Only when his heir was presented with I. O. us for s29o,oO0 did society guess that he had died by his own hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20
American Enterprise

From the Chicago Record-Herald. Robert Lorraine, the noted English actor, was asked by a reporter on the Olympic If he liked America
 Yes" Mir. Lorraine replied. T like America very much. I especially like American enterprise American enterp prise makes the enterprise of other na- tions look like Tommy Price.
 Tommy Price was a grocer fin my na- tive Australia. I entered his shop in my boyhood once and asked him for a bar. of certain kind of soap.
 "'Ah, I've stopped keepin' it., said Tommy with a facial movement that was half yawn and half a scowl
 That's the trouble,' said Tommy Price. People keu' comin' and comin' for it. By crinus, I'd get sold out as fast as I'd get stocked up. So I jest stopped keepin it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20

appreciable share of my interest. My goal and quest were the great tanks high up, clinging to the edge of an ex- tinct crater which in ages past were over a century ago were described as fine remains of ancient splendor, serv- ing to cast a deeper desolation over the scene-tanks supporting a super imposed Parsee temple of silence with it's ever-attending, expectant vulture observing a ceaseless vigil-tanks that bear semblance to a chimney of hell tanks that vie with the pyramids in sublimity and stupendeousness of con- struction, contest the mystery of the sphinx and challenge the antiquity of Stonefenge.
 I have marveled at the engineering skill of the Amalfi drive; have stood wildered before the mechanical perfec- ton of the Grotli road and wondered as to the character of the vehicles of transportation which placed the great stones of Baalbeck in position. but the daring spirit and cunning design of the Persian engineer whom tradition cred ite with the construction of those tank 5 600 years before Christ are provocative of astoundment and engagement. Our engineers of the twentieth century might learn much from the contempla- ton and inspection of these ancient wonders.
 The genius who constructed them was a master of nature and rendered her vagaries a subtle, passive, sub servient creature in his hands. Every irregular outline of rock and salient contour of lava became an ally to his scheme and a furtherance to his prof. ect; every projecting spur and wave of stone was an auxiliary to his pur pose. By his ingenious system, elab- crate and irregular as it was, he so arranged the plan that the uppermost tank was the first to be filled by the rainfall and its overflow replenished the next lowest one and so on respec- lively. Nor was altitude the sole req : son for his selection of the site of his plan; the sides of the crater were void of soil and bare of impurities, so that
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Naturally there are protests. The Archbishop Prima of Roumania said; Everyone gambles excessively. Many never work; they live on gambling profits while they win, and when they lose they beg or swindle." report issued by the ministry of domains shows that of a group of 7s5 estates in little Wallachia, 175 changed hands in year, and that in the last seven years $50 changed hands. its successive owners being ruined. Half the sales were forced by creditors or mortgages. The same feverish change of property ownership goes on in Buch- arest. A town house seldom remains in the same hands for five years. Its more usual fate Is to be staked at gambling
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orgy, during which vast quantities of raw tipples) are drunk. Yet Bucharest is not drunken city. It's too busy with other vices.
 In it's small way mad Mucharest rivals Europe's great cities. The fashionable Calea Victoriei, which runs north from the center, shows fine automobiles, well groomed fat trotters which excel Mos cows, and well groomed fat gentlemen who rival Berln's. The "birjari' put to shame the cabs of Paris They are well patronized Mad Bucharest holds 1t bad form to walk. 'To thirst-to walk-to die" says it's proverb. ill-combed ladies, half Parisans, half Adalisques Cavalieri would faint at their beauty principles and
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I, however. never regretted my ex- perience during that detention for am not traveller who looks for a Del monico or a Waldorf-Astoria in foreign lands especially when those lands are semi- -barbaric. Knowledge and experi-
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button, and spread a pail of silence over all nature, not humanity, was now It's victim and under that pail 1t lay as
 gazed upon It's stricken sublimity and palsied energies.
The citizen., 1912-01-05
From Behind Prison Walls.

Not long ago story drifted down
from Sing Sing about one of the
colony of local bankers now doing
time, says the New York correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Times Star. The
banker had caller, who had been of
service during the trial, The caller
had then learned to regard the jugged
financier with an affection which was
not reciprocated
81 want to see Mr.. Banker" said the
caRer to a keeper
("Write your name on a card and
I'll take it in," said the keeper.
"And what do you think" said the
caller to friend, on his return to
the city. "That keeper brought my
card back to me- Sorry, sir said he,
but Mr. Banker isn't at home today"
A complementary yarn is the one
now told of "P K" Connaughton, who
for years has been principal keeper
at Sing Sing. The other day Con-
naughton told prisoner to drop bag
of onions he was carrying at the door,
and come into the keepers office to
be questioned about some recent of.
Tense The prisoner stood the cross
exami ltion well. When the prisoner
and K" came out the bag was
there out the onions had disappeared.
"By i Under" said "P K.," there's o
thief this place"
The citizen., 1912-01-05
Moneys Part in MARRIAGE,

Scores of persons lose their chances
of being happily married through max
ing an unnecessary obstacle of money.
The Importance of it is often exagger-
ated. Many a man hesitates to pro-
pose to a girl because of his small in
come. Very often much misery, mis-
understanding and tangled lives result
from the silence. More unfortunate
love affairs are the result of what has
not been said than of spoken words.
When man has a small sure in
come, and prospect of increase,
there is no legitimate reason for his
not speaking of his love; no reason,
for that matter, to prevent marriage.
People are so desperately afraid,
though, of beginning married life in
a small way They fear the sacrifices
which they will be called upon to
make-of the criticism to which they
will be subjected. Many years of hap
piness are lost in this way. 1t is such
a mistake for young people to want to
start marriage in the state that their
parents are ending it.
To delay marriage until comfort
able" income is available is to prove
something lacking in the love.-An.
Swers, London.
The citizen., 1912-01-05
TSss3t' 3'sI. 'II.ss !, aaS ,f' a

'T assure y6n,N q US
suitor, "that l will not "
an answer" n.
"You needn't" replied Mise I'D
II say yes upon one cohulay a
"Ahl Name the conditioYr al
"Just ask me if / am Dig, or
not to marry you under anossess
stances. Catholic Stands
Times.