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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-25

aud guide the pillow. What Is TO be.
come Of that nation where poverty
breaks the crowns of tbs queens or
she homie despair halls a moiher's
love from irs throne and hunger drives
Innocent children from the schoolroom
10 the hoe? ~
The census bureau shows that 1885,
900 Of these women are forfy.fiye
years OF age and over There Is no
more pitiful sight Ia civilization than
these sanity mothers Of Israel stopped
With age, drudging. in the field from
sun until gun and at night drenching
their tiimgy pillows with the tears OF
despair as their aching hearts take
Il all TO God In prayer. Civilization
strikes them q blow when II should
give them crown. and their only
friend Is he who broke bread with
beggars and said sCome unto me all
We that are weary and heavy laden and
! viii give you rest
oh. America. The land OF the free
and the home OF the brave, the
worlds custodian OF chlyalry, the
thNffiHtoH VI HhAAdtl iibheS Hhu eA'C ~
fender or the oppressed shall we per-
nit our maidens fair to be torn from
| The hearthstone by the ruthless hand
OF dehtiny and chained TO the pillow
| Shall we permit our faithful wives,
whom we cQsenanted with God to cher
| ish and protect, to be hurled from the
home to the harvest field, and our
mothers dear to be driven from the old
| arm chair to the cotton patch?
In rescuing our citizens from the
forces OF civilization. can we not apply
to our fair Dixieland the rule Of ths
sea women and children first?"
There must be a readjustment o.
the wage scale OF industry SO that the
women can be taken from the field o.
given reasonable wage for her sery
ices. Perhaps the issue has never beer
fairly raised, but the Farmers Union
with membership of ten million, put
its organized forces squarely behin'
the issue and we now enter upon tn
docket OF civilization the case of "Th
Woman in the Field" and demand q
Immediate trial.
II
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-25
ustick items.

Mrs. +. Il. Hickey Of Wendell,
Idaho was down on short bust
ness trip aud calling on old friends
at Ustick.
Glenn Morris, Of Long Valley
was a guest at the home OF his
aunt, Mrs. James Tasp, Glenn
has sold his Interests in Long Val
ley aud will leave this week foi
Oakland, Cal, whore he will take
a business course.
Mrs. Cleo. Hannum, who hai
been visiting relatives at PoinI
Pleasant. Iowa, since the first o
November, returned home recent
ny
Mrs. Roy Hiner aud two chill
drcn have returned from Bots
where they had been visiting a
the home 81 her father, Geo, But
Ter, for some time,
Mr.. ,TingIey, o. South Boise
has moved on to the Emma Char
man place vacated this fall BY Wu
Pfost.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-25

Five hundred children were
given presents last night from the
Rig Christmas tree 81 tbe Aasocia
led rbariiics n The dilieea II We
Iduho Power a Light company Or
Tenth street in Boise. The tree
was furnished by the power com.
pany and 10 the largest ever
brought into the city. II was
brilliantly lighted with hundreds
81 coIored lights besides being
bountifnIly hung with presents.
Al shipment Of artificial eyes
from Dresden. Germany, has ju !
been received by the Globe Opti-
Cal company, The eyes were ship
ped from Dresden March 20 and
we're little over nine months
reaching Boise. This is probably
the last as American manufactur'
ers will hereafter supply the de
mand
One Of those fortunate in being
selected to represent Kootena
county in the state Legislature
which meets at Boise next monti
Is James II Frasier son Of MR.
Alice Frasier, Of Meridian. He I
expected 10 arrive from the norti
10 few days.
| The Meridian Rural high schoo
closed Wednesday, Dec. ", =
open Monday, Jan ith Tn
| grade school will have the sam
/ Xmas vacation, with the exceptio
that the sessions were held owe
Thursday, instead Of closing Wee
| nesday evening
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-25
TENIH lNSTAlIMfNT

OF "The Trey Of Hearts" TIE
tenth series Of The Trey Of
Hearts, 10 be shown at Idle Hour
Tbea,er Christmas eve. Manager
Howell will start the pictures at
seven o'clock promFt, giving those
who have been following the great
serial chance 10 see the pictures
before attending other social fnnc-
tions that will no doubt be in pro
gress. Up to date Tile Trey Of
Hearts' is acknowledged by critics
10 be the greatest story ever pic
tured and Meridian people hav'
even better advantage than mos
cities by being able to pursue ihii
great story each week in theii
home paper and sec the picturel
later in their home town,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-25
NOTICE or SALE.

Notice is hereby given that on the
20th day OF January. az ~ O'Clock
NJ. at my ranch. V miles nortneast
Of Meridian. In Ada county, state o.
Idaho. there Will be offered for sale
and sold to the highest bidder Tor
cash. payable at the contamination
81 sale. one bay horse, shout IL
wears old, VT about ESQ lbs; also
one sorrel mare. age ~ or IA yrs.
VT 1000 Tbs. Also one suoklins coll
This sale ia to cover all bills FOL
pasteurage etc.. OF said stock. salt
win 10 at the john III. Jones Ranch
by G. N, lliner
G.. N. HINER
49, -. aE 1914
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-25
Meridian News.

man, two miles east OF Meridian,
December Goth. i girl.
JA. Fenton has arrived home
after trip 70 Long Beach, Saiir
furnia.
Attorney Claude Gibson has re-
Gently returned from q business
trip 10 New York City
Mrs.. SedgwicA. mother 81 Mrs
Alfred Hennsman, has moved tol
Meridian from South Dakota
Born 10 Mr.. and Mrs. A. n
Maynard. residing two miles soath.
seat Of Meridian. Friday, Decem
Der 18th. girl,
Born 10 MIR. aud Mrs X y y.
Finch, residing five miles south.
vest of town, December 2ist a
girl,
For Sale 40 young pigs, eight
weeks old, in fine condition. leie-
phone $40 Red. Meridian.
Aiilk Route-I will deliver milk
avery morning 10 Meridian. i. "
Griffith, west Of MEMBERSHIPS,
Leave orders with me or at the
Times Office.
Monday was the shortest day q
the year. The sun rose here
Al SIT O'Clock and sei in the even
ing at $40.
Mr.. aud Mrs, j M. Parker have
returned from Claypool, lnd',
where they we're called recently BY
the death OF Mrs Parker's father
Miss Hazel Hunt, who is attend
ing the state normal at Lewiston
il spending Christmas week with
home folks.
Miss B!anch Hedges, who IS at
tending the Lewiston normaL =
spending vacation with relatives
and friends 10 Meridian.
Miss Josephine Slater, who !
teaching at Garden Valley, spen
Sunday 10 Boise and Monday re
tnrged tc her home in Merida
10 spend her vocation.
When you make your New Yea
calls you want 10 look right BET
ter have that suit or overcoat cleat
"a aud pressed Open every da
now. Ada Tailoring Co, Merl
dian.
Miss Winnie Baird IL hero FRO
Pnllmau. Washington, for 9 Chris
mas week visit with her hrothe
JF. Baird. and family She
principal o. one u the ward schoo
10 Pullman. and likes her ne
position very much.
A nail keg too near the stove
IA @. Wilson's shop near Y
Tines Office. caught lire Tuesd'
a. noon, and before The blaze "
exsineuished had caught the si'
cf the bcilding, A pail Of wat
put ont the blaze
Miss Keo Currie, a teacher
the Pocasello high school. is
Meridian for Christmas 4
school building III which she v
employed burned last week, a
considerable Inconvenience TO I
scholars aud teachers resulted,
Mrs Ada Cunning and daugh
Miss Ada, have started tue bun
ing OF nice A.room house on
east 81 the Christian church q
will move down from Boise vi
the place is ready for cccupau
Mrs Cunning is sister OF \
@. Il. Kookeu.
August Hackert will coDne
as soon as weather permits
erection Of bungalow on his n
~ acquired four acre tract on
state highway, in the north par
town He will pnt up Z
house aud expects to mike q h
for himself ana family
Uncle George Powell is a
ority for the prediction that
will have cold winter. Al
old settler, he remembers the {
ment Of the Indians at this
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-25
Dated Dec. IS. 1914.

Tho dairy and hog men will
have q big convention in Boise the
sacond week Of january.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-27
CHANGE BUDGET,
PROPOSAL MADE
BY TRAINERS
Finance Committee Agrees to
Amend Sheet if Opposing Al
dermen Will Pass 1t Then,

In an effort TO end the fight be-
tween the two factions in the city
Council over the budget the Finance
Committee met Friday and agreed TO
make a number OF changes in the
budget IL the four Aldermen prevent
ing its passage would agree to vote
for st.
The changes contemplate cutting
down certain appropriations and add
ing TO. other, the total changes aggre-
eating $4,000, which is TO be taken
from the following sources:
From the $4,000 appropriation for
the widening of the Peachtree street
bottle neck $1,000. $4,000 from the
street grading and repair fund; $4,000
from the asphalt repair fund; $5,2ou
from the salaries of the operators OF
the new fire alarm system; $1,000 APP
propriated for the salary OF boiler
inspector ana S2,460 from the appro-
priation for interest on bonds.
The Reapportionment.
They would reinstdte Street In
Rpectors D'Alvigny and Dozier, which
would take S2,40n. add $4,000 TO the
1000 appropriation for the paving OF
Cherokee avenue. and provide $1l0OO
for the Improvement OF torsyth ahu
Peachtree streets.
Alderman James r. Nutting and
John S. owens appeared before the
Finance Committee representing the
Aldermen They proposed 10 ahtlcl-
pate SIS, 900 more revenue and by cut
ting down certain appropriations 10
make new appropriations aggregatlng
S3S, 500. They announced the WIN
drawal OF opposition from the spring
and Pryor street improvements.
After hearing the Aldermen, the
Finance Committee went into exec
utive session in Mayor Woodward 8
Office. Chairman Humphrey VIII
submit the proposal of the Finance
Committee to them Friday afternoon
Woodward Approves.
Mayor Woodward approves the
course OF the Finance Committee. bnt
ne said he was feeling so badly tina
ne was unable TO take much part ~
the discussion.
In a written statement to the
Finance Committee, the Aldermen
Nutting. Owens, Maddox and Thorn
son. declare:
1T seems to us that the time for
action has arrived. and we trust that
the Finance Committee win now join
with us in unleashing the forces OF
the Construction Department and 10
pushing forward to early completion
the various big improvements that
are proposed, in which so many OF
our citizens are vitality Interested
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-27
Much TaIked-Of Woman Disarms
Many of Her Critics With Sim
pie AttractiveneSS.
BY TARLgroN COLLIER.

A slender hand was thrust into
view from between the folds of
great curtain. and the audience at
the Atlanta Theater Thursday knew
that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was about
to appear 1t was quite a dramatic
moment with the white hand poised
against the dark velvet, and in the
few seconds II remained there was
buzz of adjustment and sincere eX-
citement over all the house, a hasty
focusing OF opera glasses, q craning
of neCks.
Then the hand pulled aside a wee
bit OF the curtain, and a womau's
face looked out over the audience.
one of the brightest and smilingest of
faces. which everybody recognized at
once. 1t was withdrawn for an in
slant. and then Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
appeared and walked out toward the
footlights, holding the hand of Jack
Clifford, her dancing partner. II was
a most effective entrance.
Not Like Her Pictures,
The first thought-in fact, the su-
dible eXpressiou-of those who saw
her was that she does not look like
any of her pictures That Is very
natural conclusion, for the picture
and Evelyn Thaw's charm is her ra-
dance
With half an eye anyone could have
seen that all the audience was intent
on the details of her face and figure
and apparel. everybody leaned for
ward in watching the smiling young
woman.
What they saw was a youthful
looking person, appearing younger
than her years There was nothing
exotic or glazing about her beauty;
rather. il is very wholesome and nat
ural; IL is Ike British" types that
the illustrators give us-a modified
Roman profile. a Ions rather narrow
face. a we'll defined chin. Altogether
il was distinctive face, and one
whose clear outlines will lose none
OF their attractiveness for years,
That Friendly Smile.
She wore her hair low, Hattened
over her forehead aud along the level
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-27

ThaW uses little makeup. indeed. ex-
cept tie black paste in her eyelashes.
IIer natural hue seems as fresh,
her features as full and as untouched
by any mint of experience or tragedy
as they probably were ten years ago,
when she was really the girl she
seems now. 1t was plain that she
capt.Vajed the women first of all 1t
was Trey who were the best custo-
mers of the boy selling her pictures.
The face that has been pictured as
probablF has that of no other woman
is mobile and possessing many pos
sibi;ities Of expression.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-27
in Atlanta.

Of her eyes, and flowing girlishly at
the back. And all the time she
smiled, friendly, attractive smile.
Immediately upon her entrance she
began to dance As a cancer she
proved hardly as graceful as some of
the best whom the stage knows. but
she is as energetic and as sprightly
as the best; and much more intrepid
than any other dancer ever seen in
these parts, conhding the safety of
her life and limb into the keeping IF
Jack Clifford's strength. in many
unique and acrobatic measures.
The dances she gave were decorous
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-27

enough. considering great mann
stage exhibitions of the art. With
Clifford she danced the tango princi-
pally, and then whirling, rapid in
depreciation OF the turkey trot-or
mavbe 1t was the one-step. The two
were on the stage for only a few
minutes in the dancing exhibition.
Face Untouched 3y Tragedy.
In the second part of the show. a
musical pantomime, Mrs. Thaw APP
peared with several other young
women, and it was easy enough to
see that the audience fell to making
comparisons at once, Most striking
of all the observations was that Mrs.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-27
hansen Urges Aeros
To Explore Arctic
Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.

LONDON. Feb. 27.-"To learn the
distribution of the ice IN the Kara
Sea and adjacent waters, aeroplanes
might be more useful than ships"
says DR. Fridtgof hansen. the ex-
plorer.
THE distance between YalmaI and
NaigatCh across the Yugor Strait is
only between 100 and $50 nautical
miles, distance easily covered by
modern aeroplane."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-27
Hasn't Had a Drink
Of Water in 80 Years

DENVER. Feb. 27.-Denver has a
man who has not had a drink Of water
for 30 years He says so himself His
name Is J. c. Iehner restauranteur.
water has only one use" said he.
That's washing / have not tasted
water since ] was "A years old, and /
tasted very little before that"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-27
Wrights to Protect
Aeroplane Patents

NEW YORK, Feb. 27-The Wright
Company has issued warning 10 ev-
eryone engaged in dying that IL would
proceed against arrangements Of Its
basic patent.
This is the first action taken since
the United States Circuit Court OF
Appeals upheld the decision obtained
against the Herrick-Curtiss Company
and Glenn H. Curtiss. which held that
use of ailerons and wing warping was
an infringement Of the Wright patent.
This decision affects all makes of
aeFoplanes.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-27
Educator Urges Big
National University

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Presi-
Gent Edmund James, of the Univer-
sity of Illinois to-day before the
House Committee on Education urged
the passage of the bin providing for
e national university at Washington.
He argued that such an institution
would have an uplifting influence
that would be far-reaching.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-22
BITS OF NEWS

Chief Gleason would separate men
and women bathers. May ask for or
dinance on compulsory segregation.
Unidentified man hit by Or. j. R.
Ballinger's auto. Skull fractured.
Benezette Williams, first engineer
of Chicago drainage canal, dead. 90,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-22


around department stores and it will
be easier to regulate the big stores"
said the attorney.
81 am not predicting that such a
fire is going to happen in Chicago.
1t may happen here or it may happen
in some other city. The department
store fire peril is about equal in all the
large cities.
Department stores today are reck-
less in the piling of infammable ma
terials at points where dense crowds
of people are passing along jammed
in the aisles. They don't realize what
they are doing. They don't under
stand how suddenly and Unexpectedly
a wide flame of fire can be generated
and start a panic among the crowds
of shoppers and employees nearby. 1t
is the panic that causes the most
trouble. The fire itself might bring
injury to only a few. But the stam-
pede with plunging mass of people
tramping the weaker women and
children under foot, that is the seri-
Gus side of it, where there are such
crowds as pass through several of the
big State street stores every day.
you might have thought building
ordinance as reasonable as this one
concerning second basement sales
rooms would have met with quick CO.
operation from department stores.
Instead of falling in line to imme-
diately obey it, they instruct their at
torneys to fight it. A municipal Judge
declares the ordinance arbitrary, un-
reasonable, invalid though the last
public utteTance of Former Fire Chief
Koran, as remember it, was upon
this ordinance and his words to the
council committee were: For Gods
sake, don't amend this ordinance; let
it stand. We can sometimes save
people who are above ground in a
burning building, but when they are
in a second basement in big fire you
MIGHT as well murder Them
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-22

ings put up in Chicago since that IRE
there have been but few deaths from
lack of fire safeguards The heavy
losses of human life in fires since
then have been in the older build
ings."
Hornstein takes it as particularly
significant that the fight to knock out
the ordinance is based on a techni-
cality. Attorneys Tolman and Red
field for Mandel Brothers argue that
there is no second basement at Man
del Brothers. They do not admit a
breach of the city ordinance and put
up the claim that instead of first
basement and second basement I'M
derground there is only first base
ment and a balcony. At the first
hearing Tolman said: "Open your
eyes and you will see it is one floor,
with a balcony; l don't care what
they call it; it is wasting time to call
it basement or sub-basement."
Edwin F. Mandel said he intended
operating the second basement in
spite of the courts decision, until
they were absolutely forced to close
it up.
Chief John C. Mcdonnell, head of
the fire prevention bureau, sounded
the real genuine note of warning
when he said that, in spite of the fact
that the Mandel Bros. sub-basement
was supplied with the automatic
sprinkler system, there was danger
that in case of fire the wires would
be grounded, plunging the basement
into darkness. and that costly panic
would result
He was asked if he would oppose
a third basement and would not an
swer definitely, but made the signi-
fcant remark that the 'lower you go
the greater the danger"
BITS OF MEMS
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-27

the raw flesh chopped up with the blood
in It. This was to be drunk with the
addition of little chicha, the common
beer of the country. My lady friend tells
me It cured her dyspepsia.
Chicha is the common beer OF the
Andes and the best is made by chewing
up grains OF corn in the mouth. The
natives have chlcha parties, where tho
young girls come together and sit down
in circle. In the center is a basin of
wood. As soon as they are seated they
begin chewing Ithe uncooked grains of a
certain kind Of Indian corn. They masti-
cate this until II is reducedSto pulp and
is saturated with saliva, when they spit
the oud out into a basin. At the end of
the party there is great bowl of the
mixture. It is left to ferment. and with
the addition of water soon turns to an ex-
cellent beer. II may be that this beer
rather than the lizards. cured my friends
stomach.
Fauna IL interesting.
The fauna OF the high Andes is inter-
ssting and the domestic animals are espe-
cially so. l never grow tired of studying
the ilamas. alpacas. vicunas and guiana
ouas They all belong to one family.
whose home is in the high Andes. The
llama Is the beast Of burden. 1t is num-
bered by millions and It carries the most
Of the freight OF the highlands. The
alpaca is of the same shape. only smaller
Its wool Is among the finest. sortest and
siikiest known in to the world. Hlpacas
are kept in great flocks, watched by
shepherds and cared for as we care for
ehaAn ThaV H..
years. when each should yield about five
pounds of long wool. The animals are
quiet and easily handled.
The vicuna- looks not unlike an alpaca
except that II il smaller and more deli
cately formed. In habits It is more like a
deer than a sheep. and its flesh tastes
like venison. II cannot be domesticated,
although It viii sometimes come down
from the mountains and Craze with the
alpacas. II is often killed for it's wool
and skins. The wool is golden yellow.
1t is finer than that OF the alpaca, and
so soft and firm that clothing made of II
Is practically waterproof. The supply is
limited, and at the present time it brings
$50 pound. whereas the common alpaca
wool sells for less than % cents per pound,
and llama wool and Sleeps Who'll are
much lower.
Vicuna skin rugs when we'll tanned
with the fur on are like silk plush. and
they bring from so to 500 apiece.
There are millions OF sheep on the high
Andes. but they are poorly kept and have
been ruined by inbreeding. The native
sheep does not produce more than q
pound and a half or two pounds to the
fleece, and some farmers shear their
sheep only once in two years,
FRANK @. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-27
Quaker Quips.

When a doctor is irritable it may be
because he is out OF patients.
IL Is an impossibility 20 make both ends
meet by burning tho candle at both ends.
You never can tell. Many a man has
been praised TO the skies, only 70 come
down with the proverblal dull, sickeniag
thud.-Philadelphia Record.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-27
AeoAeAEua Ixisses sky.

am writing this under the shadow
OF Mount Aconcagua. Il IA about 1900
feet high and It kisses the sky far above
any other point ON our hemisphere.
Mount Mercederio In Argentina is only
zoe feet lower and Tupungato and Sorata
are each more than 1900 feet The same
is true Of nlimani which. like sorata,
looks down on Lake Titicaca, and Chin
oorazo In Ecuador Is very near the same
height The average range OF the Andes
throughout Is more than ls000 feet high.
IL Is the highest range ON earth, with
the exception OF the Himalayas. which
are about eOOo feet higher.
/ have seen the great mountains I
Africa. Mount Kenia = mile under the
TOP OF Aeoncagua, and Kilimanjaro Il
400 feet lower. KilImanjaro and Chin
oorazo are OF about the same height, and
Il you could have a wireless station on
their tops you might communicate with
one another on the same plane OF air.
And this reminds me that we ace now
sendng wireless messages right over the
Andes Peru has wireless station ON one
OF her foothills which Is farther below
the tops OF the mountains than the height
OF Pixies Peak Nevertheless, they have
sent messages right over the range and
nave had them received by wireless sta.
lions In Rio De Janeiro. nothwithsta ndine
me whole continent lies between. Rio az
saneiio Il on the level Of the sea Those