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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-11-24
2 Day Of Days.

This is the day Of all our days
When we in crowded cities sigh
For one sweet breath of old time wavs
hat once we passed so needless bv.
How romance clothes the stubbled mead!
What glory crowns the bare brown hill!
How sounds afar the ancient creed,
Oh, if we could be children stillr'
A million roofs its echoes send;
The lonely street gives back its cry;
Its message stirs the citys end;
Its vision cheers the longing eve.
We mount the charger of desire;
He wings us thru November haze
And drops us by the farmhouse fire
With childhood friends of childhood DAYS.
How rose the turkey mountain high
And how we sighed with cough and call,
As plate on plate went passing by,
Lest aunts and unclcs eat it ALL
How blazed the logs while tales were told
And apples roasted russet brown
How fancy filled the CRATE with gold
And chimney ghosts came tumbling down!
Well, Well! I'd better rub my eyes
must have turned a hidden page
Back to the realm where memory tries
To bribe us with forgotten age.
Thanksgiving? Why, It's everywhere.
Youth may not claim it for its own.
'Tis just little JOY to spare
Out of the harvest we have known.
Percy Shaw in New York American.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-11-24

Cu't,n workers numbering 81, 600
have received u! per cent advance in
wages this year.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-11-24

Miss Rankin OF Mon ana is The first
W ,man ever elected TO congress.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-11-24

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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-11-24

The school board has ordered 90
tons OF coal.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
463 PASSENGERS SAVED
FROM BURNING SHIP
MARSHFIELn Ore sent LIZ

MARSHFIELD, Ore, Sept. Is. -
A calm sea last night probably pre-
vented a great loss of life when 253
passengers and ITO members of the
crew were transferred from the cost
wise steamer Congress, which reach
ed Coss Bay with a fire raging in her
hold.
The Congress reached Coos Bay
after a dash up the coast and she
was met down the bay by rescue ships
which rushed out in answer to fran
tic wireless calls for help.
When the burning ship with its hu-
man cargo reached the entrance of
the bay, she was enveloped in huge
clouds of smoke. Immediately she
entered the bay, about two miles off
shore, the work of the rescue began,
the passengers being transferred In
the bar dredge Col. P. S. Mechia, and
the schooner Tillamook.
While the debarkation was in pro.
gress, flames broke out amidships
adding to the panic of the passengers
and difficulties to the life savers.
The lighthouse keeper reported that
when the first lifeboat was lowered
the decks and bow of the Congress,
were crowded with frantic passen.
gers, The smoke wa so dense thai
the ship could not be seer at times.
When the Congress first came with.
in sight Of the lighthouse BLOCK
smoke was pouring out of the vessel
but no flames were visible from shore
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
DIR. Tralle Likes Mexico.

DR.. H. E. Tralle, formerly of Mex
leo, now of Kansas City, in renting
for his subscription to the Mexico
Ledger, says:
Messrs. R. NJ. White & Son, Mexico.
Mo-: Dear Friends - Please find in
closed n dollar for which you MAY
send me the Weekly Ledger for an
other year. We appreciate the oppor.
tunity of keeping in touch with Mex.
leo affairs.
We enrolled $50 students last yeaI
in u Kansas City School of Relig-
ious Pedagogy, and the prospects are
fine for a much larger enrolment this
year.
Wishing you continued success in
your good work, | remain, Yours cor.
daily, H. L. Tralle.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
5 OF IL SHOTS HITS MARK

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. A
new worlds record in naval gunnery
has been made by the new SUPER
dreadnaught Pennsylvania, the Navy
Department Credit is
given to the big battleship's IL i4-incn
rifles, mounted as q main battery in
four turrets, which on a simultaneous
discharge in a recent trial registered
five hits on a small target IL miles
away.
The Pennsylvania is the first vessel
to have It's entire main battery mount
ed three guns to a t~urrent, and her
performance is declared by ordnance
and construction officers to be the final
answer TO critics opposing the three
gun tarrent system.
The Nevada and Oklahoma, also
new additions to the navy, are equip
ed with three-gun currents. Neither
Of these has been able to compete with
the Pennsylvania, although both made
unusually good scores during their
preliminary practice.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
Misssouri's Ben Davis Crop
100000 Barrels.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Mis-
SO uri will lead in the production of
Ben Davis apples this year, according
to an announcement made today by
the Department of Agriculture. 1t
is estimated production will be t.
O60, 900 barrels, a decrease of al per
cent of last years crop. The Ben
Davis variety this year falls to second
place as to quality, bcbing passed By
the Baldwin which will have an esti-
mated production of 9,302,0 900 barrels
or an increase of IL per cent over last
year
The September first forecast of to.
tai apple production in the United
States, as reported by the Bureau Of
Crop estimates, is 67,679,000 barrels
of three bushels each, as compared
with 7~6,670,000 estimated produced
last year, of which not quite SIS per
cent were sold.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
NEW CONS

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. Is. - The
United States Mint here is having
trouble in making satisfactory dies
for the new dimes, quarters and hali
dollars from the designs furnished by
the Treasury Department, and in con
sequence there is delay in getting the
new minor currency into circulation,
The treasury authorities hoped to
have the new silver money in circula-
ton July l. According to DR.. Albert
A. Norris, chief clerk Of the Phila.
delphia Mint, the die makers usually
have trouble when designs are made
by artists outside the mint not fami.
liar with the mechanical problems tc
be solved.
At present the mint is working Of
nights manufacturing silver coin Of
the old design to keep up with the de.
mand.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
FLIRTS MUST APOLnGIzE

MANASSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 49,
Judge ]. M. Brady, who stopped wife
beating in this city by ordering wife
heaters exposed with a ball and chain
at a principal street corner, has a rem
edy for flirting. A. L. Money, recent
ly candidate for Judge of the North
Side City Court, was the first victim
of Brady's new remedy.
Money tried to flirt with a sales.
woman and asked her to go motor car
riding with him. The woman was
married and her husband was a park
policeman. When she told him Of
Moneys action, the husband hunted W
Iovey and arrested him. When thC
story was told to Judge Brady, he
said he was tired Of flirting cases anc
that he had a new remedy. Money
was given choice of a sentence in jai
or making a public apology to Mrs
Jones. Accompanied by the woman
husband, Money went to the store and
before the clerks, made his apology.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
IWOMEEs FEDERATION
HAS MEETING 1T LIBRARY
Mrs. +. A. bearing Is Elected Presi.
dent TO Fill Place Vacated by
Mrs. c. c. Hammond.
A%TTEDANcE Is r
Social Service COMMITTEES Makes Fav.
orable Report on Pledges for So
eial Service Worker.

The Mexico Federation OF Womaa'a
Clubs met at the Library Monday,
This was the regular monthly meeting
and also the first meeting of the OH
cial year. The attendance was excep-
tionally large. The committee which
had been appointed to revise the con-
s~titgtion made its report and tho
changes they advanced necessitated
the election Of new officers. Owing
to the removal Of the president. Mrs.
C. c. Hammond, from the city the Off
&c of President was left vacant. Mrs.
T. A. bearing was elected to this Office
Mrs. ]. G. Mundy was elected first vice
president and Mrs. C. F. Clark, second
viee-president The social service
committee which has been trying to
obtain a social service worker for
Mexico made an excellent report.
Each of the four larges churches Of
Mexico have been asked to give 500
for TINS work and there is no doubt
that they win raise this amount for the
work, already the Babtist church has
pledged $1,000, the Stoddard Society
of the Presbyterian Church $50, the
Christian Church s145, and the jew
ish community s35. The Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance Company has also
pledged $50 for this work, and the
committee feels confident Tat all the
other institutions of Mexico win aid
in the work.
After the meeting of the Fedora
ton the Division at Large held a
meeting at which the following officers
were elected: President, Mrs. r. R.
Sanford; Vice-Prcsidcnt, Mrs. Harry
tchison; Secretary, Mrs. I. Silver
stein, and Treasurer, Mrs. j. G.
Strict.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
NEW ST. JOSEPH POLICE

care to go back to ST. Louis, to re
sumo his pulpit here
D wiElianson's rise was meteorie,
At William Jewell College, where h
studied for The ministry, he took every
medal except one with elockwork reg
ularity. while ne still vas studying
he laid the FORMATIONS Of the mission
which was later &c become the Bales
Baptist chnreh with . membership
Of loo. throughout its growth
DR.. Williams was its sole pastor.
In 1900. after ten years in Kansas
City, the pastor, then only 81 years
old. received a call to the Third Bap-
fist Church IN St Louis.
The first brit Of Doctor William
sons failing came in February. when
after a disappeannce Of several
weeks. he Wa found IN the Battle
Greek Sanitarum. In April he re-
signed. and shortly after went to the
mountains Of colorado. from which he
has just retErned.
Il Is unhkely the pastor viii accept
the pulpit Of he Bales Church, Y e
Il Il is OEerN That he viii GO back
to ST. Louis he made certain last night
BY his own statement He will prob
ably leave tomorrow night.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
Mark Twain's Birthplace, Florida, Mo

,age stone mounted by q bronze head,
the whole standing about twelve fee,
high.
The house and grounds are jealously
and almost reyerently cared for by Mr..
Merritt violette. who cordially well
comes all visitors and furnishes any
desired information.
Florida has not yet become a mec-
Ca for lovers Of good literature and
admirers of great authors, and one
reason is the condition Of the roads
In the region Immediately adjoining
the village. The town itself is situ-
ated at the confluence Of Salt River
and North Fork and the gorges thru
which these streams flow are deep
and the roads approaching the town
are steep and somewhat rough. IL
these nearby roads were pat in good
condition for a mile or two out from
the town, they would run into roads
as good as there are in the county
and the county as a whole is famous
for the excellence of its highway.
Mark Twain" as is well known, is
not the real name of the celebrated
writer, but the pen-name Of Samuel
L. Clemens. Mr.. Clemens was once,
when a young man, a pilot on a Mis-
sissippi river steamboat. The river
men at times took their soundings to
ascertain the depth of the water, and
as they cast the lead they called
Mark Twain, Mark Twain, instead
Of mark two" 1t is said that this
suggested to Mr.. Clemens the pseu-
donym which he adopted and by which
he is best known.
The Clemens family a few years
after the birth of our hero, removed
to Hannibal, Mo, where he spent his
boyhood. His parents were poor and
his own struggle with poverty was
hard. II there are self-made men,
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was
one. He inherited from his father the
trait of strict integrity; he was a man
Of honor, his word was as good as his
bond; when later in life he lost all he
had, and more, he set to work with
the zeal of a young man to repair his
fortune that he might pay his debts;
and this he did, he paid them all to the
last cent. However much we may
differ as to the real value of his works,
all must admire these stirling quail
ties and give him due honor.
Mr.. Editor, If you or any Of your
readers, are fond Of hunting or fish
ing, or viewing grand and rugged
scenery, or going up hills and down,
or meeting some Of the best people in
Missouri, or would visit the birth
place Of one of the worlds illustrions
literary characters, go to Florida, in
Monroe county.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21

EdT5ors Progress: Several notst
thinkers, among them Dr. Mas
Nordan have argued after 3eHtt
nothing shall ws i've sgsan-
This Is the eternal question, as cd a.
death l. IL. and ever vii be. TIE
problem Of religion. science and phI-
osophy. The bor5sr land hFtwesn
@ths living ard the rot living is the
Waterloo Of SCENE
The great question Is: What p7oaf
have We q life beyOad the grave. 7
the rejecting mind TIRE FTuof "a so
clear as &c almost be a certainty.
The immortality Of the soul, is first
Of all. suggested by Mature We plant
q seed ia the sprne uns, and Ia az
IN - reap ~ = &@ = ~
The thing tina; eanunDss IN the seed
the vital force - the life. Tie par
t5ds mzy Be different bat the life
the sane Take oat the life. ard It Is
all dead matter. Tie reaPpeAraacs q
this life y had and leaf and n0Eer al
least suggests that the life nsnta-
moral and spiritual n rs may eont5n1e
after death
The fact that the sgui s net e Is
10 proof against It's existence, bit
rather presumption In favor Of Its
continuance, for there Is 10 micro
scope which has yet revealed To the
eye the life q the seed
4 skspeical physician ono asked Il
any enc had seen a soul or heard or
tasted ore - the answer Of course
was TO, but wheH he was asked Il he
had ever cen q pain, or heard q
tasted one.h he realized there were -four
senses against one as to the reality
Of pain and yet he kseS there is pain
The invisible part Of Us is the real
part The unseen Is eternal The5ody
is the casket which ha.dE the jewel Of
the soul.
Furthermore, the Immortality Of tEs
soul is taught by universal conscious
ness. The rude savage believed in a
future estate. The Indian burles
with his eornrade the blanket, the bow
and arrow, believing that he viii need
these things in the happy hunting
grounds Of the future. Even modem
infidelity does not deny IT, When tho
champion infidel # Aner,ca stood
over the corpse Of his brother, be spoke
Of the star Of hope rThicr the soul sees
in the night. The heart is sometimes
wiser than the head Socrates, when
asked where he would choose % be
buried, made reply: Bury me where
you win, If you ean catch ne"
There you have the wisdom Of tEe
wisest Of ancient philosophers. Like
Job Of old, he declined TO entertain the
conception that death wal the cX-
tincti0n Of consciousness.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21

]. MEXICO. No, Sept i6. Editors
Of the Ledger; Dear Sirs; II was the
good fortune of the writer 70 visit re-
Gently the birthplace Of Mark Twain
at Florida, Monroe county, In COM
pany with Dean Walter Williams OF
Columbia; Mr.. J. B. Powell, instructor
in Advertising in the University, and
Edwin, son Of Mfr. Williams The
Journey was comfortably and quickly
made for win. the ehaufer. was mas
ter Of the machine and conducted us
over the hills and hollows with eaie
and skin.
At Moline we were kindly greeted
by DR., Flint, the genial physician of
that locality. and Mr.. p. h. eau
thorn, the successful cashier and man
ager Of the Moline Bank. After the
usual questions had been asked as to
the purpose of the tall building which
stands on the west side of the town,
and the usual nswer had been Civ
en-, we proceeded northward, past the
well appointed farms of W. E eau
thorn, James Dudley, T. c. Henderson,
Henry Fisher, J. A. Bolts and others;
on to Santa Fe, the northern termi-
nus of the electric line. The MONDAY
lunch was spread in the shady yard
Of Mr.. Nelson Dull neal the village
and after it was disposed of we set out
to find the road to Florida. That town
resembles ancient Rome in one parti-
cular at least, viz: that all roads lead
to it, so it seemed from the various
directions received from different ones
each having his favorite route and
no two the same. After drawing
straws, so to speak, we chose
own way and in due time arrived at
our destination.
Probably the chief point Of interest
to the visitor at Florida is the house
in which Mark Twain was born. 1t
is a frame building of two rooms,
erected prior to 1885, kept in as good
repair as possible, and at the same
time, so kept that its antique appear
anee is preserved. The walls and
ceilings are rudely plastered and
neatly whitewashed. Rag carpets
cover the floors and the furniture, all
of which is at least one hundred years
old, consistes Of a corded bedstead and
bedding Of feathers with Counterpart
Of large white and blue checks, a spin
ming wheel for fax, split bottom
chairs (no rockers) and tables on
which are plentifully displayed Indi-
an relics of various kinds.
Near the building the State Of Mig
souri, has placed a monument to the
memory of Mark Twain. 1t consists of
a base and square shaft Of Garth
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
SUIT TO BREAK WILL IS
AFTER DEATH--SOMETHING
JAMES C. RENsHAw, formerly Of Mexico. in the CharOttzvTBs Va,
Daily Progress

I The Immortality Of the seal Is CO...
frned By observation Any srst- lass
book O. nestal philosophy gives IL
stances ia wbieh neasory has grpVu
stro5ger while the bOdy has grown
weaker.
Thee are cases O. record where
/ page after page IN foreign languages
lore forgottes, have been rsPetsd y
us1 on beds q Sickness So magma
lo1 Is sometimes nzoss briIIian; when
tbe body IS weakest II yea rave ever
ocen in MAMMOTH Cave, Ken.g ks,
and stood ever the River StyN va
VII recall that il disappears ah5sf the
cavern sails Up 70 the point q ds-
appearance the current is swift
Is there q mAn foolish enough to
sappose there IS nc river after the
swift current disappeareas Does be
not believe. that the river, though
hidden, continues 70 HoW Ca Ana
whea Up 70 the point Of dying W find
memory. Imagination. reason. love and
conscience as srrong. L rot stronger,
thar ever before, Is kere rot 3 pre-
sumption which mounts to 3 convie-
tor Of certainty ths; these faculties
q the soul vii continue TO I've after
the body dies, Theimnorzlity Il the
soul, suggestive by Nature, taught By
universal consciousness. and Of The
Christian mind, confirmed by reyela-
ton, l. know, AID the Patriarch II ca,
that my Redeemer Iivsth and
though after my kin worzus destroy
this body, yet IN NY flesh shall I sse
God"
The verdict Of history? Lock
you will and see the ~phenemepa
Of religion. religion that spells three
- God, the soul and ir-mortai-
ity. The doctrine Of immortality is
at the hack Of all Egyptian history; it
built the Pyramids. decorated the
wrote Book Of Dead founded
Thebes, and gave the first poets t1eir
songs, and runs its golden webb thru
all its literature
It is the same everywhere; oalock
the mysterious eunejform reaiing on
the clay tablets Of Assyria, Babylon
and Chaldea, and there is practically
only one message - life beyond the
grave.
And furthermore, when we formn-
late our belief Of life beyond the
grave. it is not Of ourselves alone we
must think, but Of those who love US.
Lead Kindly Light" has two lines
never to be forgotten by those who
have seen dear ones pass through
deaths door TO live everlasting:
"And with the morn those angel faces
smile,
Which / have loved long since and
lost awhile"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
KANSAS HAS 100000 AUTOS

TOPEKA, Kan, Sept. 16. KAN
a has more than 100000 motor cars.
n for about every II persons, Oh.
every four families. in the State, and
lately has been buying cars at the
rate of 200 a day. In July and August
the new registrtions in the Secretary
Of States Office exceeded 200 a day.
The average price Of the new cars ex-
ceeds $500. Sedgwick county, with a
population Of less than 10000, has
5000 cars, or n to every Ia persons.
In most of the western counties the
ratio of cars to population is from one
10 ten.
1t is expected that, within the next
fiscal year, ending July /, 1917, the
number of cars will increase so per
cent, and there will be an average Of
one car for every IL persons.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21

The Niche was standing by several
hundred yards distant, evidently fear.
ing an explosion.
The Tillamook and Niche took the
passengers and crew off. The sky was
red from the flaming ship. Six life,
boats were used between the Congress
and Niche. The passengers are be
ing brought here.
At 8 o'clock flames were shooting
out from all parts of the steamer
She will be totally destroyed.
The fire vas discovered about {
ocloek. 1t broke out near the sec.
ond hold in the Storage cabin. The
cause was unknown.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
pees . Zen CO too Fat 70 Law

The Qaestion. Does a hen get too
fat to lays is often asked and natur-
ally this question Is associated with
feed and feeding.
After observing many experiments
here and at the Experiment Station,
we are led to believe that this question
should be revised and instead Of say
ing the hen gets too fat to lay, we
should say the hen can't lay is the rea.
son she gets too fat
II a hen is fed a ration which makes
ten yoiks for each five whites, she will
make only five eggs and the other five
yoIks are taken back into the hens
system and built into fat. In this case
the hen is not al fault. for If she had
been given a balanced ration, she could
have manufactured eggs instead of
fat.
A good example of a mistake Of this
kind is permitting hens to eat with
fattening hogs. We often hear far
mers say that the hens eat with tire
~fattening hogs and waste the feed.
They are right so far as egg pro
duction is concerned, for a ration that
is good for ~fattening hogs is not good
for laying hens. The reason is that
the ration produces more than whites
and therefore the hens get fat in
stead of producing eggs.
II the hens have range and access
to the hog feed, the better plan is To
furnish meat food Of some kind which
is heavier in the production Of whites.
In this way, the hens eat less of the
hog feed, yet produce more eggs.
During late fall and early winter
the hens meat supply is cut off fol
during the summer they have a sup.
ply of worms, bugs, grasshoppers,
tee, but frosts and cold weather de.
stroy this supply, 1t is a mistake moi
to correct this condition for most
grains fed TO hens are stronger in the
production Of yolks than in the pro.
duetion Of whites. Meats of all kinds.
SKINNED milk, etc, are stronger in
the production Of whites than yolks.
and would therefore be good to feed
in connection with gran to form o
balanced ration.
About the only solution for this
promlem where hens have free range
and access to grain is to place thu
meats, milk, etc, where the hens car
get it and let them balance their owl
ration, which they do very we'll whert
they have an opportunity, but if the,
are allowed to eat all the grain they
want, such as corn, they will get ia
and lay only a few eggs, yet SHOULD
be held blameless for the condition.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
GIRLS OFFICE GARB cRrrIcIsEp

NEW YORK, Sept. is. Kalso-
mined noses, deliberately pulled hair,
Swiss cheese shirtwaists, abbreviated
skirts and striped stockings do not
conduce to the orderly and expenditi-
Gus transaction of business in a big
office, President Edward E. Rhoades,
Of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Co., Newark, N. j., yesterday told one
Of the many young women the compa-
ny employees. She took the hint and
passed it to her associates.
Eve do not pretend to dictate to thu
young women in or employ how they
shall Dress" said Rhoades. "Wc do
not object, Of course, to their making
themselves attractive. But we mus.
insist that they do not come to bust.
ness clad as If they were at a dance,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21
Audr.in Be, Killed in France.

Readers Of the Ledger will remem-
Der Dick Shell, who years ago was
one Of the prominent citizens Of Led
donia, No, but who moved 20 Canada
where be bought . large wheat farm.
One Of Mr.. Shells sons Joined the Ca
madam army, and We learned this
week that be was killed somewhere
in France" The Ledger joins othT
friends il extending gineers sympa-
thy 70 the bereaved family.
The soz killed was the Oldest ard
named Marx Shell