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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-12-03

Connecticut She was one of the pref
test girls the colonel had ever seen
with her fluffy brown hair, gray eyes
red lips and unsophisticated ways
The colonel was little afraid of hel
at first but after a while he won hel
confidence. He knew how to do that;
Ne was always gentle and always q
Gentleman.
He had employed her as his secre
tary, at twenty dollars, for about 8
month when he learned about Tom.
Tom was a young farmer in her home
town, and they were engaged to be
married-perhaps in a years time,
when she had saved her trousseau
money and he had begun to make
things go better. He had only lately
taken over the land, and it was heavily
mortgaged.
Miss Elizabeth" said the colonel,
and, though it was the first time he
had ever called her by her Christian
name. his tone was so respectful that
it was impossible to take exception to
his words-"Miss Elizabeth, you are
much too charming a girl to take up
country life. Why, here you could
have your pick of dozen million
aires"
Miss Elizabeth laughed softly and
looked at the colonel with that inno-
cent expression that always puzzled
him.
I'll prove it," said the colonel. I'm
going to take you out to lunch with
me, and just you watch the men stare
at you"
Miss Elizabeth put on her hat and
accompanied him. She had never been
into big restaurant before, had never
eaten cold jellied consomme or tasted
champagne. She slipped about two tea
spoonfuls of the ice cold wine out of
courtesy, although her parents had
been prohibitionists. Still, she did not
want to hurt the colonel.
Il have had most delightful time
you are very good to me-" she said,
when they returned to the Office
Feel like repeating the expert
ment?" inquired the colonel, and Miss
Elizabeth nodded gayly.
/. That was the beginning of many
1uncheons. At times the girls heart
'misgave ner; she felt that she ought
not to accept so much kindness from
this friend. But he was always 30
gentle, SO entirely respectful to her.
1rhen one day the colonel invited her
To dine with him and go to the theater
For the first time that night, after
she had left him at her door, Miss ELL
zabeth began to dread that bis interest
n her was not wholly platonic There
had been an undertone Of something
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-12-03
Keeping Wine Properly.

To keep wine properly, the liquid
must actually touch the cork. for any
air that is compressed here by cork
ing the bottle is very injurious. Air
can be removed by taking small cop
per tube about the size Of quill and
filling it so as to make semi-tube,
then fixing thumb ring at the top and
sharpening the bottom end. Place the
tube in the neck with the fiat side
against the glass, and the cork is
driven In so that the air comes on
through the tube. When corked, the
tube is withdrawn and no air is left in
the bottle.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-12-03

Notice of Sheriff's Sale on Foreclosure
of Mortgage.
Idaho Irrigation Company, Limited, a
corporation, plaintiff,
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-12-03
GATHERING GUILLEM0T EGGS

The best known breeding stations
Of the guillemot, or aux. are the lofty
White Chalk cliffs of the Yorkshire
coast In England, which rise to
height from the sea of from $50 fee
to 440 feet. The cliffs are acknoWl
edged to be the most densely popu
lated breeding resort for sea fowl IL
England. Here are found hordes Of
guillemot, puffins and gulls. Anyone
DESTROYS of descending the clins mus
have a good nerve, for the cliffs are
very craggy and at their base are
huge rocks which are covered with
deep water when the tide is up. The
eggs to be gathered are found depos
tied, some in nests and others merely
in narrow lodges, from 200 to ESQ feet
from the top of the cliff. 1t makes
the visitor giddy to look over the
edge and see the clothes of the climb
er fecked with foam.
The men, in sets of four or five,
may be seen at work on any fine after
noon in the season. Each climber has
his own special mate above, just as
the sea diver has, to look after the
main rope and signaling line upon
which his life depends. The man on
the top Of the cliff, wearing round his
waist a leathern girdle, takes up his
position close to the cliffs edge where
are two-foot holes in the soil. A
three-foot iron stake having an iron
pulley is firmly fixed in the ground OPP
posite where he sits, and alongside ID
another iron stake for the hand line,
which is used for signaling purposes
when the adventurer is far out OF
sight.
If you watch the proceedings you
will see the climber put on what he
calls his breeches, belt OF nat rope
with small loop at each end, to
which the cord by which he Is sus-
pended is attached. 1t has two large
loops through which he puts his legs.
He wears on his left hand leathern
pad for protection, with steel protec-
tors at the ends of his boots for the
purpose Of pushing himself free OF
the cliff Skunk like game bags, he
carries couple Of haversacks to hold
the eggs.
When all is in readiness, he is low
cred out Of sight, some exertion on
his part being required to keep clear
Of the cold cliff wall. The climber
is no mere scrambler from ledge to
ledge. 1t thrills the onlooker to see
him kick out 80 feet in order to gain
impetus sufficient to reach ledge far
back, and no little skill is required to
keep up pendulum movement while
gathering the eggs one at time, with
his fingers, or long handled spoon
and bag.
The eggs are sent TO all parts OF
he country and are sold at about the
same price as the fresh farm egg, al
though they are double the weight OF
he ordinary egg. A gang Of these ad-
venturous climbers have been known
% gather 1000 eggs In a day.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-12-03
NOTICE OF sHER1FF's SALE
Notice of Sheriff's Sale on Foreclosure
of Mortgage.
Idaho Irrigation Company, Ltd, a cor
porstion, plaintiff,

/ porstion, plaintiff,
Charles c. Hunt, Georgia Mclaughlin,
William W. Seymour, defendants.
Under and by virtue of an order of
sale and decree of foreclosure, issued
out of the District Court of the Fourth
Judicial District, State of Idaho, in and
for the County of Lincoln on the Goth
day OF November 1914, in the above
entitled action, wherein Idaho Irri-
cation Company, Ltd, corporation
the above named plaintiff obtained a
decree against Charles C. Hunt,
Georgia Mclaughlin and William w.
Seymour defendants, on the 9Th day
OF October 1914, which said decree
was, on the 9Th day of October 1914, re-
corded in Judgment Book 2 of said
Court, at page 2l3, am commanded to
sell all the right, title and interest of
defendants in and to that certain lot,
piece or parcel of land situated in the
County of Lincoln, State of Idaho, and
bounded and described as follows, to-wit:
The Southeast Quarter (SEl-Q of
the Southwest Quarter (SW1-4) the
Northeast Quarter (NE1-4) of the
Southwest Quarter (SW1-Q the North
west Quarter (NW1-4 of the Southwest
Quarter (SW1-4) and the Southwest
Quarter (SW1-4 of the Southwest
Quarter, (SW1-Q of Section Twenty
three (29), Township Six (6) South,
Range Nineteen l9) E. B. M, contain
ing 100 acres; Together with water
right appurtenant to said lands describ-
ed as that certain water right sold and
conveyed by plaintiff herein to said de-
PENDANT. Charles C. Hunt, on the 9Th
day of June, 1909, under those several
written contracts to be used upon, and
to become dedicated to and appurtenant
to, the lands herein before described.
Notice is hereby given, that on the
18th day of January 1915, at 200 clock
P. M. of that day, in front of the Court
House door in the Village of Shoshone,
Idaho, County of Lincoln. l will, in
obedience to said order of sale and de-
cree of foreclosure. sell the above de-
scribed property, or so much thereof as
may be necessary to satisfy plaintiffs
decree with interest thereon and costs,
to the highest bidder for cash, lawful
nonav of tho TTnited Sfataa
L. M. ZUG, Sheriff,
Dated November 30th A. D. 1914.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-12-03

During a Portland (Me.) BARRIERS
so years in business he has had one
workman who has served for 40 years.
This workman has kept record OF
the number OF times the employer
tells his stories. One story which he
thinks his best one he has told 2.766
times, and says it gets better every
time he tells it
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-12-03

DR.. Marion Dorset. bi-chemist of the
federal bureau of animal industry, Is
the scientist who first isolated the
germ responsible for that farm scourge
cholera in the hog. That accomplished.
he perfected serum to combat 1t,
protected his processes by patents and
then turned them over to the public.
to be used without charge.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-12-03

However. the city chap who mag
ines he could get rich raising chick
ems on two acre farm may be per-
fectly sane on all other subjects.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-12-03
Out Of the Shower,

Out Of the Shower.
did you see that stunning gtrlr
"Yes."
IT stood in with her once"
IF you did. III bet It was a rainy
day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20

to fight side by side Fth the British Indian native states might provide an other 50,009 men. and the contributions of the elf-governing dominions IS problematical both in number and oual- ity. This is not said In any disparag- ing sense. but it is evident that the duminions must raise their troops by volunteering and that the men must be more or less untrained when they arrive in Europe.
 Kitchener has made up his mind that he must make a succession of armies In the United Kingdom, and he has set about it with characteristic vigor. His first request to Parliament was fNr power to add 5oo,0Oo men to the army and as soon as that was given he announced that he wanted 100000 men at once. At first recruiting was rather slow, but Kitchener was not discouraged. He called in a couple of the greatest advertising experts in London and the next morning every paper in the country and page ad- vertisements reading ''Your King and Country Need You" and explaining the terms of enlistment. Posters appeared on CNciy ndli III the three klnS- doms and every omnibus and taxicab in the cities bore the legend in great red letters, Enlist for the war Discharged when over" Within less than a month Kitchener had the 100000 men he de- manded for his first army and was on the road towards his second. He intends going right on until he has his five armies of 100000 each. Immediately after his first army was completed he called in ,taft of NF fl,a l,;r banks and insurance companies and other concerns employing large numbers of able-bodied and unma rried young men.
 T want your men," he said.
 But we must carry on our business" !" said the big employers.
 Get girls" was Kitchener's reply and when the employers protested further he said something like this:
 See here now. If you don't send me your men willingly l will go and take them myself and l will publish broad cast the name of every company and firm that discourages it's young men from enlisting You can sue me for libel if you like 1 doa't think you'n get much sympathy from any British jury. I want you to understand one thing, England wants every able-bodied young man, and l intend to see that she gets every one that is not absolutely needed to carry on industry. l don't want the married men yet"
 This was a long speech for Kitchener. but it had its effect. It must be said, however, that the objectors were very few in number, and that the great ma jority of employers fell in willingly with kitchener's scheme. They called their employees together and advised them to enlist. Some went so far as to say that every unmarried man who did not pre- sent himself for enlistment would be dis missed, and nearly all promised either pay or half pay and their jobs back again at the end of the war to men who joined the eolors One big London banking firm tried to restrain its clerks from joining. saying that too many had joined already. Kitchener secured statement from some ,ef the clerks and sent it to the papers,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20

many of which risked the libel law and published it.
 There is absolutely no doubt now that Kitchener will get his 500,e00 men. but a greater task than enrolling them awaits him. He has to turn them from rabble into an army, and 1t is for this reason that he has decided to enlist them in patches of 100000 rather tahn at once. The truth is that he is short both of instructors and officers. There are enough old soldiers and retired officers, too old or otherwise unfit for active service, to train 100000 men at time, but not enough for 500,000 and there is absolutely no supply of trained officers and noncom- missioned officers to draw upon. All the cadets at Sandhurst-tne West Point of England-have been turned out a year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
WHAT BALKAN WAR
 COST THE LOSERS

If the United States should call to the colors as many men in proportion to the population as Servia has done it wouldl mean an army upward of S.0o0,0oo mem and this does not take into account the fact that the recent wars in the Balkans have made such heavy inroads into the percentage of adult male population, says the Louisville Gourier-Journal Probably if the United States called as many men to the colors in proportion to the adult Elale population 1t would mean an army of l2,Op0009.
 How terrible the, ravages of the wars iii the near cast have been is indicated( by the census of conquered territory takenv by Bulgaria in the early month of the present year. That count showed that Where, previous to the wars there had been a population of s02.000 there is now a population of only 3ol000. Of course, Seivia did not suffer that much. but these figures are indicative of the depopulating effect of the great wars it had to face.
 M.lisary critics everywhere admit that in matters of discipline. leadership and spirit there is no army it's sic in the world that can make q better showing tha the Servian army made during it's wars with Turkey and Bulgaria.. It is a fighting force that is conceded to have every quality of strength that a military machine may possess.
 
 Compulsory service is personal for au able-bodied men and pecuniary for all who are incapable of personal service. These latter must pay an indirect tax of. 90 per cent additional. The military forces are divided into a national army and the landstfuni. which forms the last line Of defense. Service in the national army begins at 2l and ends after 45. In the landstrum it begins at Y. ends at 2l; begins ag;i.n | | 4G and ends at 5a
 The national army consist of three bans the first ban including. all abe-bodied men between 2l and 31, the second ban all between 3i and 3S and the third those be- tween 3S and 45.
 The first ban has it's cadre. school through which every able-bodied man of 2l must pass. No one is allowed to chang. his nationality while belonging 10 the first ban, nor can any member thereosp receive any outside appointment or be- come even a monk until he has served his term in the army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
CLOSE ESTIMATES
 BY CANAL ENGINEERS

comluring the engineers cost estimate of the, Panama canal per unit of work with the actual final cost. we find that as regards the largest items the money out lay is very close to the amount originally estimated These cost estimates involved special difficulties. asserts the editor of the Engineering News. /
 The work was of a magnitude wholly unprecedented. It had to be carried on at a distance of 2000 miles from the base Of supplies. The influence of tropical con ditions, of governmental control, of un- certain labor markets, all had to be taken into consideration with a view to their, possible influsnce upon the cost. Thm work had to continue over a term CT years, during which large changes in mar ket prices of labor and of materials were probable.
 A comparison between the estimates of cost per unit of work made by the enii- nent engineers who controlled the com- missions of 1899 and 1905 and the actual expenditures upon the canal is so inter- esting and makes such remarkable showing for the engineering profession that it deserves wide publicity
 We say per unit of work, which is. of course. tn eonly way Tn Nnlcn laii' comparison may be made. The total cost of the canal is. it is true, far more than was contemplated by the engineers who made the estimates for the work; but the chief reason for the excess of cost is that a much larger canal has been built than was originally planned when the cost esd inmates were made. z
 The biggest single item in the cost of the canal has been the digging of the Culebra cut involving in round figures about 110,000,000 cubic yards of excavation. The commission of 1899 estimated the cost of removal of the soft rock in Culebra cut at 80 cents per cubic yard. The inter- national commission of 1905 appointed a special committee to fix unit prices This committees estimate was as follows:, "Culebra cut. all material without classll fcation above elevation plus 10, 80 centS' per cubic yard" The committee there fore fixed upon the same figure as the commission of 1899 for the cost of the Cu~ lebra work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
Ho,u Kitchener Is Making Eag1ands Ne,o Army

ficer. This brings mo to another fea- ture of I<itchener's scheme. When he took oyer the war office even the lib- eral government had become convinced that compulsory military service was a necessity for England, but Kitchener said, "No.r In ordinary times he is, like most soldiers, an advocate of uni versal service, but he knew that to train the whole manhood of the Uni ted Kingdom to arms in a few months was too big task even for him. He wanted only the pick of the Kingdom and he knew that the way to get it was by calling for volunteers and he knows that he is getting now a class of men whose average intelligence is much higher than that of the ordi- nary soldier and who moreover is keen on his work.
 Another point is that the new armies are putting as much training into a week as the ordinary army gets in a month There is not q vacant field or open space around London that has not it's unit at drill almost from dawn tiil dusk and the same is going on all over the United Kingdom. Liverpool was the first city to complete full regiment. but it was only couple of ,uvs ahead of the rest or tho country. lr, land and Scotland have done noblN and many q the regiments of both the national anl the Ulster volunteers have joined as bodies. This has been mad,, possible by Eitchener's scheme by which parties of friends and acquaint ances joining in groups of 90 or more are assured of being posted to the same company and smaller parties are hot effort will he ln9tl,. to allow them to serve together.
 In fact this is a return to the old terri toral system under winch i.n2 and S armies under Wellington achieved their greatest glory. At Watesioo and m the peninsula the men from the same village fought shoulder to shoulder. n kitche- ner's new army they Niil do so again and to cary out the analogy more com petely he has revived the old territorial regimental names which it is true, had survived in popular speech for the oi,' army. but had been officially dropped
 If Kitchener works his recruits hard he does not spare himself He is usually the first at the war office in the morn ing and last to leave, if indeed he leaves it at all one of his first acts talk ing over was to send fer the caretaker of the building and ask if there was d bed on the premises. The caretaker sait. there was none except those occupied by bimSelf and the resident clerk. ''Get one, said Kitchener and few hours later the caretaker came up and reported bed arrived sir.'' Bring it nele,'' said Kitch- ener, and the man explained that it was too big to get to kitcheners room and that he had set it up in another part of the building.
 Get another said Kitchener. and q camp bed was finally instelied in his of flee where he sleeps most Of the nights with feleplope wlic1 repOrt says is connected direct with Sir John French in France at his side.
 Nothing seems too big or too small fos him to look after When the expedition ary army left for France each man car ried in his service book personal mes sage from Kitchener appealing to him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20

bell, and a moment later was high above the roofs of the buildings along the shore, with a magnificent view of the ocean below me. I could see the harbor with its shipping and the hundreds of small boats at anchor. while away off at the side around the end Of the bay was the town of Vina del Mar, the sum- mer resort of the Chileans.
 The seasons are changed south of the equator and it Is in January, February and March that the Chileans go to the coast to get cool. Vina del Mar is the Newport and the Atlantic City of the west coast. It has hundreds of luxurious villas like those outside of Paris, and all the accompanimentS of city of pleasure such as clubs. golf, lawn tennis and foot ball. It has mile track, where the Chil- cans bet on their favorite horses, and where races are run every day throughout the season. Indeed, the whole town looks like a fashionable resort one of the great spas of Europe The most of the houses are of French architecture; and many of them would cost, if built in our country. from S50.O00 to $10Q,O0O apiece. Not a few of them have beautiful gardens. There are hedges of roses, great beds of geraniums, and also palms and other trop- ical plants
 Walking down from the hills to my hotel. l observed many other things that reminded me of southern Europe The street cries were like those of Naples or Madrid. Peddlers were moving around with baskets of vegetables, fruit and fish oh their heads calling their wares The bread wagon was a horse with great basket on each side of his back; and I pa assed a milk woman on street corner, who was selling milk fresh from the COW. The COW had calf standing beside it. and l was told she would not give down her milk without her baby was present. The calf wore a cloth muzzle and it looked lean and lonesome. l stopped and bought a glass of milk for a nickel, re- ceiying therefor about a half pint.
 A little further on I stopped at a book store The clerk spoke English and Ger man, and the books were in a half dozen languages. Valparaiso is a cosmo- politan city. Most of it's business is done by foreigners, and it has foregign churches foreign clubs and charitable in- stitutions It has a branch of the Y. NJ c. A. and one of the Salvation Army. It has British hospital. and there are various institutions kept up by the Ger mans.
 The town is cooler than Santiago and it grows quite as fast. The new harbor plans provide for an expenditure of about