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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-02
Tho Most Curious Known Animal.

The Most Curious Known Animal.
The most peculiar and remarkable
animal in the world is the Ornithoryn-
chus paradoxus, the famed egg laying
mammal OF Australia. 1t is shaped like
an otter, has fur like beaver. is web
footed like swan. has a bill like a
duck and II tail like that OF fox. 1t
is the only known fur covered creature
that lays eggs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
EXPLODING FISHES IN SEA

almost impossible to know. because
they are built to resist a tremendous
pressure of water. and when this
pressure is releaSed-as when they
are brought to the surface in net
sometimes the fish has burst; the
organs are crushed beyond recon-
struction
Similarly, If a fish of higher
stratum attacks a bottom fish in the
neutral zone where both can live
and-as sometimes happens-his
teeth become entangled so that he
cannot let go, and he is dragged into
deeper water, he strangles instantly,
for his breathing arrangements are
Of no use to him under the pressure
of water in the lower strata of the
sea. AS a rule however, the fish of
the various depths rarely feed on
those above or below them.
There have been brought to light
an astonishing number of forms OF
fish, and especially of prawns of a
brilliantly red color, living in the
ocean at a depth of 5000 feet. But,
astonishing as it may seem, these
brilliantly-col fish and prawns,
instead of being conspicuous in the
water at that depth, are nearly in
visible, when almost any other color
could be easily seen.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07

When a disaster occurs at sea and
people read that some 1eviathan ves-
sci has gone down to the utmost
depth Of the ocean. imagination is
stirred in wondering what conditions
surround her
According to Sir John Murray, one
Of the greatest authorities on ocean
ography, the bottom is a desert of
pitch black darkness, penetrating
cold and eternal silence. Worms, sea
buildings and coral polyps sluggishly
crawl or sway in the almost current
less depths, and only two species of
fish, both of them small, with much
head and little body, have been found
deeper than a mile and a quarter
down.
The range of fishes in the sea is as
though it were divided into layers,
one above the other, and no fish can
live above or below this layer. Thus
many Of the deeper fish-three-quar-
ters of a mile below the surface
have been found floating at the top,
They had swallowed a fish as large
or larger than themselves and its
buoyancy had lifted them out of the
strata to which they were accus-
toned.
The physiology of bottom fish is
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
AN ENIGMATICAL ATTITUDE.

THE ATTITUDE of Republican leadership in New Jersey
at the time enigma. The policy of political
organization command the popular support in order to
have been discarded the who control the Republican
organization They obsessed with the idea that political
history going written backward that the changes of
the three all for naught and that everything
will their way by kind of revolution in the
popular thought To dpassonae observer would
that these leaders badly organization the third
party New Jersey deliberately digging deeper the hole
which ii been tumbled How else explain their per-
regard constitutional convention the position
taken by the State committee the unauthorized and gratutous
opnion by the attorney and the attempt by the Re
publican minority in the Legislature TO give it official life?
theory these leaders that the people of
New Jersey don't believe that they and dead generation
sovereign they don't have the power in
dependent of the dead make Constitution? That doc
held before by the Republican party in this
all former years when constitutional revision
talked of the right of the people to hold convention
conceded There controversy that point The
attitude of Republican leadership is therefore something
extraordinary And it is taken time when the people
aroused before of their rights and de-
kind of figure would these
leaders make in general election the question of consu
Would they get thousand in the
Would they get thousand votes? And how will the
its leaders doctrine that the people have inherent right of
On that question the Republican organization
elect a single member of the Legislature?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
RAN 100 NILES AND
NOW HE is FORGOTTEN

"Have you ever heard of Ernest
Mensen? Sixty years ago his re-
nown spread all over Europe. Ills
exploits made the pedestrian feats
of the present day look insignih-
cant.
He was a man who first came UNI
der notice by running from Paris to
Moscow a distance of 1,760 miles, in
thirteen days and eighteen hours. In
1886 he ran through Central Asia
from Calcutta to Constantinople,
bearing dispatches for the East In
dia Company. The distance is 5,61i
miles, and he accomplished it in fifty
nine days. one-third Of the time
taken by the swiftest caravan.
A favorite employment for him
was as the messenger extraordinary
Of sovereigns He ran from country
to country bearing letters and dis
patches of the highest Importance,
and always beating mounted cour-
iers matched against him. He never
walked Invariably he took the di-
rect route to his destination, climb
ing mountains, swimming rivers and
guiding himself through forests in a
way known only to himself. His food
was a small quantity of raspberry
syrup.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
TAILLEss CATS

Sir Henry Layard saw in the mon
asteries of Mt. Athos huge, fat, over
fed cats, which at first sight seemed
to he akin to the Manx breed. But
he found that their taillessness was
not natural "I was informed by the
monks that their meals were served
to them on trays placed Turkish
fashion. on low stools, around which
suuatted those who ate, the cats,
which were constant guests at dinner
and breakfast, were in the habit of
sweeping off the viands and the wine
glasses with their tails, which were
consequently locked Sir Henry does
not mention whether these cats were
born there or imported; but one
imagines the latter must have been
the case. for Sir Charles Eliot tells
us. the Mt. Athos promontory is in
habited exclusively by monks, "all
women and, as far as possible, female
animals, being vigorously excluded"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Mr.. Wilson is trying to make Mr.
Bryan and Champ Clark bury the
Ratchet. If he does it will be worth
while to notice who they bury it in
Ambassador Bryce, of Great
Britain, praises our Constitution, but
he doesn't say much about the Dec
laration of independence.
DR.. Carroll says he can heal a
broken leg in four days, but as ye:
no cure has been discovered for q
leg that has been pulled.
What are traffic regulations to a
woman who is driving her new cleo
trio?
Easter falls on March 20 this year
Do your Easter hating early.
The airship trade is falling Off Sc
are many of the aviators.
Militant suffragettes are cutting
telephone wires in England, but II
doesn't seem like The suffragettes to
do anything that would interfere with
talking.
President-elect Wilsos says he
hopes to popularize the United States
Senate. But no President is expect
ed to accomplish the impossible.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
VACCINATION IN CHILDREN

The use of anti-typhoid vaccine
among children has, as yet, received
scant attention. Osler says that
typhoid fever is a disease Of youth
and early adult life. OF the 1900
cases treated in Johns Hopkins Hos
pital there were under 15 years OF
age, 231; between IL and 20, 253; be-
tween 20 and 30. $50; between 30 and
90. 227; between 40 and so, SO; be.
tween so and so. H." In a recent
issue of the Journal of the American
Medical Association, Major Russell
of the army medical corps discusses
the incubation of 359 children, be.
tween the ages of 2 and 16 years
who have been vaccinated by fifty
different physicians in many parts
Of the United States. No harmful
effects have been reported in any of
the $50 children, and so far as known
none has contracted typhoid fever,
although some of the vaccinations
were made over three years ago.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
DEER FARMING A SIDE
LINE, WITH BIG REWARDS

In a half-developed hill country a
few agricultural side lines may mean
the difference between farming at a
loss or a profit. Chalmers Roseberry,
of Stella, Mo. has half a dozen of
these side lines, and the most I'M
usual of them, deer farming, has in
recent years proved the most re-
munerative. There was no demand
at all for deer in the Ozark hills
when little over twenty years ago
as a boy of 16 Roseberry penned off
one and a half acres for a fawn,
which a neighbor gave him as a pet.
The first faWns that the young deer
farmer sold few years later brought
500 pair, and grown deer $50 pair.
The demand for the animals for
parks and circuses and country
places recently has got far ahead of
the supply, and Roseberry's common
or Virginia white-tails are fetching
$50 to $50 pair of fawns and SIS to
$S5 for a pair of adults.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
PRESIDENT TAFT's JOKE

A new joke has Travelled all the way
from Panama, President Taft and
Colonel Goethals were standing on
the summit Of the great Gatun dam
and the colonel was telling the Pres
ident that the date of opening might
possibly be in 1913, instead of the
official date announced, January 1,
1915 The President, who has been
personally acquainted with the de-
tails of the Panama canal from its
conception, expressed his surprise at
the immensely of the dam. The
special train carrying the President
required three hours to get over the
tracks overrunning the great fill.
why" exclaimed the President,
this is mountain, not a dam"
"Well we thought so at times
modestly replied the colonel, but we
have never forgotten that it was a
dam big mountain that had to be
moved just the same. National
Magazine.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
LAWYERS AND DOCTORS .
SHOULD EXCHANGE PLACES

Every lawyer when young should
be apprenticed to some good physi-
clan. and should return to him regu-
larly through life. Then we might
hope that from the neighboring pro-
fession of healing there might enter
into him spirit never to be wholly
uuenched by all the deadening infiu-
ences of his work.
No fact could we'll be more surpris-
ing or offer a more delicate psyche
logical problem than this. that, within
two professions touching life upon
matters of equal Importance, profess
sions of ancient dignity and learning
and inviting to their service men OF
equal and rare ability, there should
be SO different a spirit
Medicine stands in this strange con-
trast to law, that while the public is
clamoring for the lawyers to advance
the lawyers themselves as a class
offer the chief resistance; the medi
| cal profession constantly outstrips
end leads the public imagination il
devices to check disease. Although
much at the start was due to lay
men, the campaign against tubercu
losis against infant mortality
against malarial and typhoid fevers
is largely captained and manned by
doctors. who have the hearty supper
of the profession as whole.
OF two Rip Van Wrinkles awaken
| ing today, the physician would fine
his old methods as rust eaten ant
useless as his instruments; the law
yer, after a few hours with nev
statutes. would feel at home in any
| of our courts.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
GREAT SALT BASIN

At Salton, in Southern California
exists a basin of land between 200 and
300 feet below the sea. level. About
1000 acres Of the depressed area are
covered with deposit of salt, which
c. f. Holden describes in the Scien-
tific American as one of the sights OF
California. The salt is first thrown
into ridges by a peculiarly shaped
pillow drawn by a dummy engine with
cables, and then is piled into conical
heaps before being carried to the
driving house and crushing mill,
About 1000 tons of salt are removed
each year, but the supply is peren-
nially renewed by the deposits of salt
springs which flow into the basin. In
June the temperature of the air
reaches $50 degrees, and only Indian
workmen can withstand the heat and
glare.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
HEALTH OF PUPILS

Only in the last few years has the
law required every child attending
ly examined on entering and leaving,
and, therefore, statistics on the health
of school children in England are
only now available. About a million
annually. The report of Sir George
Newman, chief medical officer of the
Board of Education for 1911, has just
been issued. 1t shows the condition
of 1862 children in thirteen counties
and sixteen urban areas and is far
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
INVESTIGATION OF THE COMBINES.

GOVERNOR SULZER proposes thorough investigation
question resolution has been
passed by Assembly at Trenton for investigation of
the combines in New Jersey Investigation of the
proposed Pennsylvania. Would be policy
adjoining concidenty conduct Investigations
the life? There food combines
combines other combines all the States and in
Jersey PENNSYLVANIA
of the combines rela-
railroads There woeful lack of information
in legislatures and therefore, there be intelligent
legislation Systematic investigation this year
ply all that information TO the Legislature of 1914.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
Signs
Flash In Rival
Chinese Shops
Merchants in Shanghai and
Marking Discard Ancient
Methods of Competition for
Attractive Modern Ones.

Electric advertising is being extern
sively adopted by the native Chinese
merchants in Shanghai, and now,
says a report of the Shanghai Inter
national Settlement the large stores
in Marking road vie with one an
other in the splendor of their shop
fronts 1t has always been the Gus
tom among the Chinese to drape the
store on opening day in red hanSings
of silk, covered with pictures OF
fairies and genii and inscriptions Of
good omen.
With the coming of evening Ian
terms would be suspended among the
hangings and illuminated by candles,
This has all changed now. First the
Japanese brought in electric adver-
tisements for their patent medicines.
sprinllles a galaxy of electric lights
all through the hangings that cover
he front of his newly opened store.
At one large store in Marking road,
the Shanghai settlements principal
Chinese business street, where the
municipal authorities had forced the
property Owners when rebuilding to
move their premises back, so us to
allow for sidewalk space, fearing
! that they should be cast in the shade
by competitors next door who had
not rebuilt and were, therefore, not
moved back from the curb, they
leased the front sidewalk out as fal
as their old frontage from the Mu-
nicipal Council and erected thereon
steel staging completely covering
the front of their store.
Upon this staging they have ar
ranged magnificent electrical dis
play, which they change periodically
They had no sooner got the show
we'll started than another firm fur
Their up the street erected for itseli
a similar staging, and it Is now
competition to see which will outdt
the other in the magnificence of III
display. The Chinese cotton mill:
are beginning to use electricity FOL
power in the mills.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
NEVER BETTER TIME FOR
TARIFF REVISION THAN NOW

Notwithstanding all the confusion
wrought by agitation over other pro
gressive" issues, ranging from mod
crate to extreme radical proposals,
and the unwonted and undemocratic
devotion to the personal claims of
candidates, the question of tariff re-
vision became an influential factor
in the last election.
The question was more nearly ripe
for q rational decision than at any
time in fifty years. All parties were
ready to acknowledge the abuses that
have grown up under the tariff dur
Ing that period and the need Of a
remedy.
The question is what should and
can be done in a sensible and practi-
cal way in the revision of the tariff.
There will be a wide difference of
opinion between those who still cher
ish the belief that there is advantage
to the people of the country in MAIN
tanning industries on a basis of arti-
fetal cost and high prices, by shield
ing their products from competition
with foreign products of the same
kind in the home market, and those
who believe this policy to be dis
advantage With the former, so far
as they have no personal interest to
serve, it will be difficult to undo the
teachings of two or three genera
tions. SO far as they have such in
terest and are honestly convinced
that what benefits them is a general
benefit, they cannot be persuaded. For
the people as a whole It would be
a substantial advantage to adjust
the tariff upon a basis which would
yield the needed revenue at the least
cost for collection. with the least in
reference with the natural course
of industry and trade in the coun-
try, and with the smallest restriction
upon commerce with other natio. D.
North American Review.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07

from satisfactory. Only in one urban
area did the percentage of good"
nutrition reach 40 and from this fig
ure it ranged down to as low as 3,S.
OF 100000 children examined in Lon
don more than half were found to be
defective and over $4,000 were recon-
mended for treatment. The malnu-
triition is due in the great majority
of cases to ignorance of the relative
value of foodstuffs and the means of
using them economically and only in
the minority to poverty. About 0.5
per cent. Of the children are feeble
minded and of these about one
seventh are Of such low grade as to
be uneducable.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07

Is PropertyV
of y. S. Negroes
Their Total Holdings in 1868
Amounted to S2oooo,ooo.
Now They Average $3.50 Per
Family.

During the past fifty years there
has been a rapid increase in the
wealth of the negroes of the South.
This increase has been especially
marked in the past ten years during
which time the value of the domestic
animals which they own increased
from Ss5, 216,337 to S177,273. 1855, or 1o7
per cent; poultry from So, 1888, 1872 to
$5,113756, or 80 per cent; implements
and machinery from $1s,586,225 TO
1857, S31, AIS, or IS per cent; land and
buildings from $50, 6S6,42O to $273,501, :
665, or 293 per cent. From 1900 to
1910 the total value of farm property
awned by the colored farmers of the
South increased from SIT, 404,6SS to
$492, 1893, 21S, or III per cent.
In 1863 the total wealth of the
negroes of this country was about
$40, 900, 900. Now the total wealth Is
over $700000,000. No other enamel
pated people have made so great a
progress in so short time. The
Russian serfs were emancipated in
1861. Fifty years after, it was found
that 100000 of them had accumu-
lated about $685. 900 worth of
property or about $36 per capita, an
average of 5000 per family. Fifty years
after their emancipation only about
30 per cent of the Russian peasants
were able to read and write. After
fifty years of freedom the ten million
negroes in the United States have
accumulated over 500, 100000 worth
of property, or about $40 per capita,
which is an average of $3.50 per fam
lily. After fifty years of freedom 70
per cent. of them have some educa-
ton in books.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
ANOTHER GRADE-CRossING SLAUGHTER.

THE SLAUGHTER of two men in auto at a rail
crossing Abecon Atlantic county evening
CHASTITY argument for the Legislature instruct it
present will the
tragedies the railroad deahtraps add to the long roll
the dead. slaughter of human
matter what the Legislature do but the number
deathraps may gradually reduced if the bill
and it is the and practicable proposition
Legislature There is basis for argument
against bill except sefshness that approaches
huma
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
THE DISABILITY OF THE vICE-PREsIDENT

THE SIX-YEARTERM presidential amendment applies
alike the vicepresident If the President should die
should fraction of his
vepresdent would be ineligible to be candidate for the
presidency amendment should adopted the
vice presidency which has been regarded kind of political
shelf a that frstclass public
life take the nomination But what nice
rangement reactionary Repub-
Mcneys death 1t would have shut Roosevelt
In 1904 and changed political history.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
OBSTRUCTION IN THE SENATE.

IF IMPORTANT appropriation bills fail to pass this
session the responsibility will lie with the Senate The Repub
can members of that body bent upon securing the 1900
Offices that Mr. Taft has grabbed for and to block bust
until attain their object When the appropriation
bills before the Senate they acted upon they will
be amended swell their by millions and if
between the before
journmen the appropriations will fail and go the special
seesio
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
Differing View.

Il asked your husband last night II
he had to live his life over again II
he would marry you, and he said he
certainly would"
HE certainty wouIdn't."-Judge.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07
SAVE THE BIRDS AND THE CROPS.

If IT for insecvorous birds there would be
would the land
tables fruits Mans only guardians against this foe
which he ruthessly The robin
which every day than its weight of noxous insects
vanishing many parts of the country Eminent
naturasts urging Congress bills for national
lection of migratory birds all the United States They
sound warning that shoqld go unheeded =
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-07

FROM THE HIOkEYVILLE CLARION.
Some culprit entered the premises
of Mr.. Abel w. Fish, very recently
and abstracted therefrom with malice
aforethought one large Caruso roos-
ter, whose voice had long been
the morning tocsin in that locality.
The enthralling song of the chante-
cler had brought up the morning sun
for some time and nobody in Mr..
Fish's commodious farm residence
ever rose until the song had been
sung. On the morning after the
rooster was stolen there was, of
course, no early morning call and
the entire family, also the hired man,
remained in the arms of morphine for
three days. They were finally awalS-
ened by a gentlemanly canvasser who
was going through that locality ex-
pounding the charms of a patent mop
wringer. Mr.. Abel w. Fish was SO
grateful to the canvasser that he
bought three wringers. Mr.. Fish and
family now sit up all night so as to
be sure and be awake in time to
go to work at o'clock in the morn
ing, pending the arrival of a stem
winding six-cylinder, boredoor and
starting alarm clock frem the city.
A Teller that spend his time tryin
to teach a slot machine how to take
joke is never going to be a great
captain of industry.
The statesman of tomorrow are not
found in the pool room of today.
Elmer Jones says Miss Amy Prin-
giles bulldog is very much attached
to him recently. Elmer has bought
seven pairs Of trousers in a month.
A fashion journal says bustles have
been relegated to the background.
Well, by gravy. that's where they al
ways were.