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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
JAMES McLAREN LECTURER.
Fourth Number on Lyceum Course-At
Opera House Wednesday.

DIR. James McLaren, the dramatic
orator of California, will lecture at the
|. o. o. F. opera house next Wednes
day, February 3. This is the fourth
number on the lyceum course and is one
of the best. McLaren is a favorite on
the lyceum stage and holds the rapt at
tention of his audiences from start to
finish His lecture, 1.-THE Flags of the
World" which will probably be chosen
as his theme at his appearance next
Wednesday is masterpiece of elo-
quence and patriotic thought DIR. Nc
Laren carries with him and displays the
standards and flags of number of the
nations, ancient and modern, in illus
trating his lecture on the topic indicat-
ed This number and the theme is not
only educational in its purpose but holds
more than usual interest at this time
when nations are struggling against
each other. Do not miss it. Besides the
course needs your hearty support if you
would continue to have a series of high
ly intellectual Entertainments in Grange
vile.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28

probate court and justice courts on APP
peal or change Of venue.
Andrew Kuhnen appears on the
docket as defendant in three eases. One
of them is a suit, of former divorced
wife Katherine Kuhnen, for division of
property. Another is a suit of pres
ent wife for. divorce. A case was re-
Gently filed against Kuhnen by his
former wife, Katherine Kuhnen and his
daughter, Orc Kuhnen asking for &c.
900 damages for seduction.
j. l.. Gross of Kooskia also appears
to be a popular defendant and three
cases appear on the docket against him
two being entitled the Village of Koos-
kia VS.. J. l.. Gross transcript on appeal
from the police court of that city on
charges in each of breach of peace, and
the other case being civil action.
The above indicates briefly the ex-
tent and nature of the business before
the court at this term. Whether the
same can be disposed of in five weeks
term is doubtful but Judge Steele has
always managed to dispose of a large
volume of business in short length of
time than any other district judge in
the state. All unfinished business. will
have to 60 over to the August term.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
BAKER BUYS MODERN PROPERTY

J. ". Baker, who returned last week
from Montana, closed deal the first
of the week for the purchase of the
Modem furniture store property on Main
street from R. M. Tombleson, the con-
sideration being close to $4,000. Mr..
Baker intends having a new front put
into the building at once and will re-
arrange and paper the interior and get
it into shape to receive small stock
of goods which he intends opening up
there some time next spring. Cotton
wood Chronicle.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
DAY OF THE QUILL PEN.

When Writing Paper Was Poor and
Envelopes Were Unknown.
The constant mending required BY
quill pens must have proved a severe
trial In the days when no others were
available. says the London Chronicle
Alexander l. OF Russia thought it>nec-
essary to employ man whose sole
duty consisted in cutting pens. He
was required to nave supply OF NOT
less than 100 quilts always ready NJ
This number was by no means ex
cessive, for Alexander would never use
the same pen twice Even the writing
OF signature spoiled a pen. In his
opinion. for subsequent use. The quill
cutter. who received salary Of f34O
year. accompanied the car on all his
Journeys, including campaigns against
Napoleon.
Writing implements changed consid
erably for the better during Sir Wal
ter Gilbey's long spell of life. Though
quill pens are still In use," he remarks
In bis "Recollections of Seventy Years.
II remember the time when one sell
dom saw any other kind Steel pens
in their early days were expensive and
III made, and few people used them
The paper we had seventy years ago
may have been partly to blame. 1t
had neither the substance nor the sur
face we take as a matter of course
nowadays
Il remember when envelopes came
into use. and what boon they were
considered after the old system of clos
ing letters with waters or wax. Be
fore envelopes were invented letters
were always written with an eye to
the position of the wafer or seal. a
blank space being left to correspond
with the space where this would be
put on the outside, lest the written
portion should be torn in opening
New York Sun.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
French Officers Mad. Thrifty

The French army officer has to be
a thrifty man TO make ends meet on
his salary OF very few francs day.
and borrowing or running into debt
is an offense against military law An
officer convicted OF debt is suspended
by the war office for three years. and
at the end OF that time his reinstate-
ment or dismissal from the service il
decided by kind OF court martial
comprising five officers OF his corps.
one of them OF his own rank.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
SHADOW PICTURES.
The Silhouette as the Origin Of All
Pictorial Art.

The Silhouette as the Origin Of Al
Pictorial Art.
In the year 1853. when Etienne de
Silhouette was minister Of finance UNI
der Louis XIV, a man whose name has
NOT been preserved started In Paris an
exhibition that ne called Chinese
shadows. Fhis consisted In throwing
upon sheet the black outlines OF men
or objects and making these shadows
take part in play. Ii 30 happened
! that at this time silhouette was unpop
ular. He had spent many years in
England and had returned TO his ma
tive country greatly impressed with
English methods of public economy.
Undertaking to apply these principles
to French finances. he met with decid-
Led disapprovai by the Parisians. But
little thanks did he get except to have
his efforts branded as parsimonious.
Some one recalled that N. de ST.
hOuette had written book, - Gen
eral Idea Fer the Government Of the
Chinese" In which he exploited his
theories. The popularity
VI thC ShAncSS oAtuOWS Was NSSpO0bI-
BILE for the jibe that silhouette had 10
sued the book as an advance notice for
the show; hence the shadows were
called silhouettes, and the name was
naturally extended to portraits that
were then coming into vogue. in which
were presented only the outlines OF
faces and figures filed In with black.
Though the fashion and the name OF
the silhouette are of comparatively re-
cent origin. the art itself is ancient Ii
was used by Etruscan potters eight
centuries before Christ. and classic
legend, which has been illustrated by
Benjamin West In famous picture
called The Origin of Painting" claim.
ed that all pictorial art originated In
an attempt to paint the dieting shad.
ows OF men and women as they fell
upon wall or blank space.-Detroit
Free Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
Siittinu q Pen.

The center slit In a pen is cut by
machine which seems almost to think
1t consists OF two chisels which barely
pass each other when the slit Is made,
and the exact way In which the pen is
poised SO as to place the chisels In the
proper position for cutting is one OF
the marvels of penmaking.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
Pins.

1t seemed as If it would take a whole
paper of pins to mend the torn dress
The wearer appealed to her car neigh
Dor.
Have you any pins?" she asked
The woman had none. but passed the
query on. and in little while every
passenger was feeling along concealed
edges and turning back lapels. In ALL
sixteen pins were produced Fourteen
were contributed by men.
I'VE never need them as much as the
women. but somehow we carry them
and the women don't" said one of the
male passengers. New York Post
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
BAD COLD QUICKLY BROKEN UP

Mrs. Martha Wilcox, Gowanda, N
Y. writes: "I first used Chamber.
lain IS Cough Remedy about eight years
ago. At that time I had hard cold
and coughed most of the time. II
proved to be just what needed. II
broke up the cold in a few days, and
the cough entirely disappeared. have
told many of my friends of the good ]
received through using that medicine
and all who have used it speak of it in
the highest terms.'' Obtainable every.
where.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
BELL co. WEEK OF FEB. s-15.

With his complete company in new
repertoire of comedies and dramas, the
old stand-bys of the western show
world, Raymond Bell Co. will open a
weeks engagement at the Opera House
Monday, February sth. Each year
Bell means to have a new surprise in
store for his patrons, and the scheme
for this season will be fully outlined
in these columns next week. It's inter
esting watch for it. w
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28

Antiquity of Tin.

We find that brass. and consequently
Tin. existed In Tyre. the great seaport
town Of the Phoenicians. on the coast
Of Syria. about 1000 B. @. They are
frequently referred to In all works re
iating to tin or to Cornwall The Phoe-
nicians were merchants and carried on
an important trade from the ports of
Tyre and SidoD. These cities rivaled
each other In magnitude. fame and an
tiqulty
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
Curious Legend.

At Painswick churchyard. a pretty
spot between Stroud and Gloucester.
England. there are Dinety-nine yew
trees. The hundredth always dies.
though it has been planted many times
A local story says that when the
hundredth lives after 1t has been
planted the world will end"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
DISTRICT COURT WILL CONVENE
ON MONDAY.
(Co- tinued from page 1.)
tinued from term to term.

tinued from term to term.
There are five suits for damages for
personal injuries and for injuries to
property. There are two suits for con-
demnation of land for public highway
use, one being the Woodland Highway
District VS.. Emile Bethman and the
other the Keuterville Highway District
vs.. Joseph Hartke. Their is one action
in claim and delivery. Of all the cases
on the docket five or more have been
brought into the district court from the
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
Shifting the Blame.

"Have you anything to say before /
pass senteDcey' \.
Yes, your honor. would can your
attention to the fact that the fool law.
yer who defended me was assigned to
the case by yourself. Philadelphia
Ledger.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
CARD OF THANKS

I wish to thank my customers for
their liberal patronage during the time
I have been in business in Grangeville
and trust that they will extend the
same curtesies and patronage to my sue
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
A Suggestion.

He's his own worst enemy"
Then he ought to apologize to him.
self and start all over gain-"-Detroit
Free Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28

What | want to try TO do Is to Judge
my fellow human being as kindly as l
do my dog. Gerald Stanley Lee.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28

DR.. Jackson, the Eyesight Specialist,
cures headaches with right fitted
glasses. 18-tf
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28

II thou art terrible to many then be-
ware OF many.-Ausonins.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.
Red Glover Seed. State test No.
1942, per cent purity 99.5, no noxious
weeds. A. w. Talkington. 33-tf
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-28
New Primary Bill.

Bearing the names of Johnston OF
Bingham, Koelsch of Ada, MCGOWAN
of Latah, Shattuck of Bonneville and
Randall of Nez Perez a bill was in
trodueed in the house Saturday pro
posing to remodel the direct primary
law. Tt would do away with the direct
primary as applied to state offices,
provinding that the shall be nominated
by convention.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-11-05
IMPROVING. TIE DAIRY STOCK
University of w sconsin Expert
Discard Unpro fitabIe Animals.

Professor Humphrey of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin gives the fol-
lowing ten commandments for better
dairy stock:
l. Treat COWS gently and avsid ex-
element.
2. Be regular in time of milking
3. Keep stables clean, well-lighted
and ventilated.
4. Weigh the milk of each COW at
milking time.
S. Get your neighbor to share with
you in owning Babcock milk tester,
and test the product of each COW.
6. Discard the animals which have
failed at the end of the year to pay
for their keep.
Z. Breed your cows to a purebred,
registered dairy bull from a family
having large and profitable produc-
ton of butterfat.
s. Raise we'll the heifer calves from
cows, which for one or more genera
tons have made large and profitable
production of milk and butterfat.
8. Breed heifers to drop their first
calves at twenty-four to thirty months
of age. Give COWS six to eight weeks
rest between lactation periods.
TO- Join a dairy cattle breeders as
ISOLATION. 1t will help you keep post
ed and in touch with the best and
most modern ways of managing your
dairy herd.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-11-05
TURNING
THE TABLES
By
GEORGE E. COBB
Copyright, 1915, by w. G. Chapman.)

Copyright, 1915, by w. G. Chapman.)
James Rose was "a gray-haired old
reprobate!" He did not believe it
himself, but his wife had called him
so that very morning. She was forcible,
often convincing, and he rubbed his
head obviously as he wondered if,
after all, she might not be right.
II haven't amounted to much, that's
a fact" ruminated Rose, but repro
bate! She don't mean that. She's in
one of her tantrums and says anything
that comes to her mind when she's
cross"
Cranky, diabolical would have best
suited the case, for Mrs. Rose was
possessed of a veritable demon that
especial morning She almost recog-
nized the fact herself, but felt that she
had due provocation for being irritated
and snappy. Rose had let loose pack
age of tobacco fall all over a rug Just
swept clean. He had stumbled on
leaving the kitchen and had tipped a
platter to fragments. Done on pur-
pose!" she had declared, and then she
had "let loose at him" in her charac-
teristic way.
Mr.. Rose started for town to get
the mail, trying to devise some plan
whereby he could get Mahala down to
a fairly rational average as to temper
and outbreaks. When he got to the
post office, besides the weekly newspa-
per, there was letter. He studied
the superscription and postmark.
From Henry-well!" he solilo-
quized, and wondered that it was ad-
dressed to himself. Mrs. Rose con-
sidered it gross infringement on her
privileges for any of her family to d.
rect their missives to anybody but
herself. Mr. Rose wondered no longer
as he opened the letter.
1t informed that Henry, who had
been absent from home for nearly two
years in the city, had taken wife to
himself. By rare good luck the firm
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-11-05

ing that made eveu ~.
'Mahala," he observed, read that
letter."
She did so. Her lips set Here was
a family marriage. and she excluded
from the knowledge until it was eff
fected! She was about to break out
in her usual TRADE, when Rose artfully
anticipated her
I've something to say" he began
grimly. Il don't propose to be sat on.
and won't! | shall telegraph Henry
that you've got about enough to do.
Shaving yourself to death, without any
added burdens. The cheek of that
Henry! foisting himself and some silly
noodle of a wife on us. 1t can't be.
done-no, sir.ree!"
Mrs. Rose listened in establishment.
Never before had he ventured to ex-
press an independent opinion until she
bad her say.
oh, that's your decision, is it?" she
exploded. We'll, James Washington
Rose, as the mistress of this house |
fancy things shall go as l say. You
stop Henry from coming here and I'll
go after him and his dear little wife,
and fetch them!"
Dear little fiddlesticks!" growIed
Rose. "Oh, go ahead. Be imposed on
but scant treatment they'll get from
me, | tell you'll" and he strobe away,
an apparent volcano of wrath. She's
got to go by contraries, sure as
live!" he chuckled gleesomely, once
outside of the house, and alone. "Now
to keep it up"
Rose did keep it up. He was glum
and disagreeable all that week. When
Henry and his wife arrived he was
positively savage. He barely spoke
to the pretty little creature he would
like to have taken into his arms in
warm fatherly hug. When she got him
alone, his wife berated him to no avail.
He refused to talk, while she empha-
sized her opinion of the soulless old
villain who was driving his kin from
heart and home!"
Rose maintained his role nobIy. One
day he nearly chuckled outright, when
he entered the sitting room to find his
wife holding his sons weeping wife to
her bosom, consoling her poor dear
lamb" who was heartbroken at the
cruel treatment of father!"
1T works-I've hit it," gloated the
"gray-headed old reprobate," and 50
he had Mahala began to act meek.
One day as he was leaving the house
she came to him with great bouquet
of her choicest flowers.
Take them to Nell,' she spoke
weakly, and ask them to come and
spend the day with us-please!'
One day later Henry and the old
man danced hilarious jig behind the
barn. A changed woman, Mrs. Rose
had at last gathered a loving flock I'M
der the home roof Old sores were
healed, old enmities forgotten and the
new Mahala put up a new motto over
the parlor mantel, reading: Its love
that makes the world go round!"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-11-05

he worked for had decided to have
him establish branch of their bust
ness at Durham. His plan was to come
on within a week. He and his wife
would like to spend a. month or two
at the old home, while they looked
around for permanent quarters for
themselves
Why Henry wrote to his father was
that, in addition to the letter, he in
closed written slip for his own read
ing only. 1t ran:
you know how queer mother is.
She never liked it when Nell got mar
ried. My wife is lovable timid little
thing, and if mother should begin on
her. believe it would break her dear
little heart. Sort of feel around and
see il mother is likely to get offish. If
so, we will change our plans"
HIM" commented Rose thought
fully-"Hm!"
He did not go directly home. In
stead, he meandered on till he came
to a secluded pasture lot, where he
sat down on tree stump to mediate.
Yes, Henry had it right. His moth
er's habitual prejudices and whims
were we'll worth considering at the
outset of a welded career. All Rose
had to think about to substantiate this
fact was the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Nell. five years before. She and
her husband had remained at the old
homestead for a month. 1t was a BIT
ter period for Nells husband. Mrs.
Rose made it point to instruct the
new husband in the way he should
60" When he took her injunctions
pleasantly she fancied he was derid-
ing her When he got serious, she
imagined he was pugnacious, and. tried
to egg him on to an open quarrel
The result was that, after Nell and
he had got settled in their own home,
he rarely went to visit the old folks
and the relations of the two families
had been quite strained ever since.
Mrs. Rose had made this outland.
ish treatment" bone Of contention
She had caught her husband sneaking
some bouquets to Nell and her hus.
band. In her autocratic way she had
taken the flowers away from him.
No overtures. James, she had de,
cded, until that rebellious husband
of Kell's shows the right respect for
us ola folks" and Rose was mum and
docile.. knowing that he dared not re.
sent che strong will of his resolute
helpmeet
by heck, III do i'll"
Up from the tree stump with re-
markable activity Rose leaped. His
eyes danced, his face flushed, he
pounded the air with both fists He
danced about in state of tremendous
excitement.
Then he laughed. Then his face
grew serious as he grappled with
mighty problem. He Strengthened up,
practicing dignity. sternness, indiffer-
ence. silent rage He stalked home
with new bearing. He burst in upon
his wife with chilling, austere bear
nor marvel
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-11-05

in the sand of the Yukon for hundreds
of miles up the valley. Dawson City
is situated on the alluvial fiat where
the Yukon is joined by the Klondike
river, two tributaries of which are the
famous Bonanza creek and Hunker
creek Although traces of gold we're
discovered in the Yukon valley in
about 1869, it was twelve years later,
in 1881 before it was found in the
Big Salmon, and in the Lewes, after
ward coarse gold was found on the
Fortymile, a tributary of the Yukon
discoveries of Bob Henderson and
George Cormack, in bunker and b.
nanza creek and many miners made
fortunes in a short time, but unfor-
tunately most of the gold was spent
foolishly or in debauchery. One man
is said to have taken 100000 out of
a claim Sc feet by 300 feet, but, so
the story goes, he spent it in a few
years and died in poverty. The quick
est fortune on record was secured by
two men who cleaned up gold to the
value Of $4,000 in 81 hours Stories
of the proceedings at Klondike during
these golden days" are not edifying,
but point to the moral that wealth
too easily and quickly won is apt to
work i'll.
The total output in 1898 was $780,
100000, from which figure it jumped
six million annually until 1900, when
the production reached $22,275,000,
the highest point. From this point a
steady decline began until in 1908,
when it was $2,S29,131, at which time
hydraulicking and dredging began,
and the total output rose slowly until
it was $5,018,411 in 1918. 1t has been
estimated that only about s20,000.000
worth of gold remains to be produced,
out of the original available amount of
nearly $1S0,000,O0e At the height OF
the boom in the winter of 1899 the
population of Dawson is said to have
reached $4,000; recently, however, it
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-11-05
WOMEN IN MANS SANCTpM
Daring Invasion Left Mere Males Lit.
tie to Do but Gasp in Sur.
prise and Indignation.

At last the chronicle of woman's in
vasiOn and occupation is complete.
Two charming members of the gen.
tier sex the other day penetrated to
the innermOst recess of a sanctuary
which man had set apart for himself
as his very own, relates the New
York Times. This is the club car on
the Pennsylvania which is attached to
the train that carries bankers and
brokers to their summer homes along
the Jersey coast. The club car is
fitted with low easy chairs, with
small tables and other comforts Of
home. Woman has long known of the
comforts, the idleness, the restfulness
of selfish man in this car, but never
has the swish Of skirt been within
earshot. Yesterday when two smart
ly dressed young women swung
aboard and sat down in two Of the
easiest chairs the invasion struck the
car occupants like blow. They had
expected to see the women turn in
dismay and nee through the smoke.
filled atmosphere. Not they. They
settled themselves comfortably and
began to chat just as IL there wasn't
man within mile. But the wonder
was yet to come. It came after the
train started. One of the yowng wom-
en- produced gold cigarette case.
Wont you have one, desrr- Yes,
dear would have one and a match. too.
This tired business man watched and
watched and the women puffed and
pulled and chatted. It was a COM
plete invasion. No longer was the
club car the sanctum sanctorum OF
the male.