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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
He Could Wjeld an Ak,

The skill of the old Maine shipbuild-
ers in the use Of the ADJ and broadax
was wonderful. One old time yarn Is
Of a carpenter who applied very drunk
at shipyard for employment In or
der to have a little fun with him the
foreman set him to give proof Of his
skill by hewing out wooden bolt with
no chopping block but stone. The
carpenter accomplished his difficult
task without marring the keen edge of
the broadax and showed the foreman
a neatly made bolt. Then he brought
the ak down with terrific blow that
shattered its edge upon the stone. II
can hew fust rate on your chopping
block" he hiccoughed. but I'll be
blamed II can make the ak stick In
1t when git through" The story runs
that the foreman lost no time In EN-.
ploying such q workman.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
The Family Look.

NO eloQuence of tongue, nothing that
stands written in any book. may sway
the heart as does that elusive quality
the race mark in face And this Is
true less of the obvious physical aspect
than of its thousand secret connota.
lions. All the world knows the Haps,
burg lip, the jaw line of the Bona
parties, the subtler marks of clanship
keep their eloQuence for their own
Consciously or not, each family group
stands before these symbols as the
small company of the learned might
before some inscription ON desert
ruin. Mere strokes and scratches to
you and me. To the few who under
stand here is the key that unlocks the
past
So the family look. In the arch OF
an eye orbit. the curve of chin. we
read the signature OF race. Chance
imprint maybe. maybe seal of some
struggle so profound as to have sci
our lips at this particular angle. OF
through dimming attenuations to per
petuate a gesture born a thousand
years ago In Joy or In some stark
agony Of body or OF soul.
The family look. The first we re
member; the last we shall forget
Elizabeth Robins In Harper's Maya
zine
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Sea Toll of Sailors,

Intercourse between Russia and Eng
land began in the middle of the six.
teenth century by the White sea- 1t
was a hazardous and costly voyage.
The crews of two of the three ships
with which Richard Chancellor made
his first trip in 1858 were frozen to
death, Sir Hugh Willoughby among
them. On his second venture, in 1856,
Chancellor brought back with him a
Russian ambassador, Osip Nejea. Two
of the ships were never heard OF
again, and Edward Bonaventure, after
four months at sea. was wrecked on
the Scottish coast Chancellor, many
of his crew and seven Russians per.
ished, but Osip Nejea was among the
survivors, and the English lords and
merchants went out in state beyond
Shoreditch to welcome this Duke Of
Muscovia. London Chronicle.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Fathers and Children.

I'm the earlier years." says Pastor
Charles E. jefferson In the Woman's
Home Companion. children can be
controlled by their mother. but by and
by there comes a time when they begin
to note the conduct of the father. No
eyes are keener than the eyes Of a
child. He sees everything the father
does. He reflects on what the father
does not do His logic is memorable.
He argues his way to conclusions
which cannot be shaken.
IF his father does not pray. prayer
must be unnecessary. Grown men
surely know what is needed. II his
father never reads the Bible then the
big book can be dispensed with. Fa.
theirs know what books are most worth
reading, If he does not go to church
then church attendance is q pastime
and not duty, for men so old and
wise as father is would not neglect
church If church were of value to
them"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
FUTURE OF THE HORSE.
Can the Heavy Draft Animal Survive
the Motor Truckf

The heavy draft horse Is doomed.
He will not vanish suddenly, b It his
hour has struck. Motor vehicles al
ready are displacing him in cities. The
cheap farm tractor will do the same in
the country. In a few decades the
great. magnificent brutes will be little
more than memory. Their places
will be taken by bloodless machines,
that never whinny greetings to kind
master. never search ones pockets for
sugar-and never break their legs on
icy pavements or drag out friendless
old age under the whips of stupid.
greedy drivers.
When one thinks of these last con.
siderations the horseless age doesn't
seem so gloomy prophecy. But II
man is wise there will be no horseless
age
If man has any real wisdom-and
that belief, though often disappointed.
never dies-the horse will be promoted
to the position Of humanity's chief pet
and plaything, but always with sub
stratum of usefulness which will keep
him from degenerating into mere toy
The draft horse, the trotter-even the
general purpose animal"-may go, but
the saddle horse ought to stay and
thrive. Just as a medical prescription
he Is well worth while. for the old Eng
lish phrase that 1.-The outside of u horse
is the best thing for the insides of q
man" still holds true. and as an in
structor Of youth and means Of rea
contact with nature he has no rival but
the dog.-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
MIGHTY MOUNT RAINIER.
Seheaded by q Volcanic Explosion. II
Still Towers Up 14,4os Feet.

oeheaoeo py volcanic EXPLOSION, "
Still Towers Up 14,4os Feet.
Mount Rainier. In Washington. COW
ers 100 square miles of territory and
rises l4.40S feet into the air. In shape
slender. pointed summit like Fujiyama.
the great volcano Of Japan. II Is rath.
er II broadly truncated mass resembling
I'M enormous tree stump with spread.
ing base and irregulariy broken top.
Its life history has been varied one.
Like all volcanoes. Rainier has built up
Its cone with the materials elected by
its own eruptions-with cinders and
steam shredded particles and Jumps OF
lava and with occasional flows Of liquid
lava that have solidified into layers Of
hard basaltic rock. At one time 1t at.
tained an altitude OF not less than l6.
WW feet. II one may Judge by the steep
INCLINATION Of the lava and cinder layers
visible In its tanks. Then followed q
great explosion that destroyed the top
part Of the mountain and reduced Its
height by some 1900 feet The volcano
was left beheaded, with q capacious
hollow crater surrounded by a Jagged
| rim.
Later on this great cavity. which
| measured nearly three miles across
from south to north. was filed by two
small cinder cones. Successive feeble
eruptions added to their height until at
last they formed together low round
ed dome-the eminence that now con-
stitutes the mountains summit. The
higher portions Of the old crater rim
rise to elevations within few hundred
feet Of the summit and. especially
! when viewed from below. stand oui
boldly as separate peaks that mask and
seem to overshadow the central dome
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Interval,

The twenty-year-old daughter of the
president of one bank. director of two
others and railroad or two stood be-
fore her dressing table In brown
study. Meanwhile
Three men, each one of whom want
ed to make a loan Of 100000, paced
the floor.
Her father sat inwardly Turning In
the auto while a hundred business let
tiers remained unread.
Twenty clerks paused until the work
of day could be given out
Six cylinders. accomplishing nothing
buZzed on.
Four servants, leaving their morn
ing's routine. rushed aimlessly about
And the girl called: "Oh, papa, Il
isn't my fault | cannot find my
glovesw-Life.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Judges Wigs.

The wig is only worn by English bar
risters to give them a stern, judicial
appearance, and no one can say that
it fails in this respect The custom
was originated by French judge in
the seventeenth century when, happen
ing to don a marquis wig one day, he
found it gave him such stern and
dignified appearance that he decided to
get one for himself and wear 1t at all
times In court. This he did. and the
result was 30 satisfactory from legal
point of view that not only judges, but
barristers also, took up the custom
throughout Europe.-London Graphic.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Silent Enthusiasm.

Charles Rowley. in his book, Fifty
Years OF Work Without Wages" tells
story against himself A nature en-
thusiast, he was climbing Snowdon
and overlook an old gypsy woman. He
began to dilate upon the sublimity of
the scenery in somewhat gushing
phrases. The woman paid no atten-
ton to him. Provoked by her irrespon-
siveness, he said: You don't seem to
care for this magnificent sceneryT
She took the pipe from her mouth
and delivered this settler: II enjies 1t;
I don't jabber."
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, U. s.
Land Office at Lewiston, Idaho, Nov
ember II, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that John s.
Hokenson, whose post-office address is
White Bird, Idaho, did, on the 26th day
of May, 1915, file in this office Sworn
Statement and Application, No. O6127,
to purchase the Lots 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8,
Section 33, Township go NJ, Range l E.,
Boise Meridian, and the timber thereon,
under the provisions of the act of June
8, 1878, and acts amendatory, known as
the Climber and Stone Law" at such
value as might be fixed by appraise-
ment, and that, pursuant to such ap-
plication, the land and timber thereon
have been appraised, the timber esti-
mated 70 M board feet at so cents per
M, and 1855 M board feet at $1.00 per
M, and 1900 fir posts at cents each,
and the land 5000; that said applicant
will offer final proof in support of his
application and sworn statement on the
Goth day of January, 1916, before G. ].
Wright, U. 8. Commissioner, at White
Bird, Idaho.
Any person is at liberty to protest
this purchase before entry, or initiate
contest at any time before patent
issues, by filing corroborated affida-
Wit in this office, alleging facts which
would defeat the entry.
OF q uanrx, ua;ffaId Paoi OF ~
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
A Chance at Last.

Held your mother appear pleased
when you broke the news Of our en-
gagement? She-Yes, indeed. She
said she had always wanted to tell you
what she thought Of your habits of
dress and speech and total lack of good
manners and literary taste. and felt
now she had the right to express her.
self.-Richmond Dispatch.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
WOMEN OF sEDENTARY HABITS

Women who get but little exercise are
likely to be troubled with constipation
and indigestion and will find Chamber
lain IS Tablets highly beneficial. Not
so good as three or four mile walk
every day, but very much better than
to allow the bowels to remain in a con-
stipated condition. They are easy and
pleasant to take and most agreeable in
erect. Obtainable everywhere.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
How To Treat a Wife.

An ancient Egyptian moralist, writ
ing to his son, said: EFF thou takest
wife try to make her happier than any
of her women friends She will be
doubly bound to thee if the tie is sweet
to her. Accord her what pleases her
She will appreciate the effort"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Proof Positive.

Mr.. x, the subeditor. was asked to
write an article on superstition and i'm
becility. When the article was printed
the opening sentence was found to be
as follows:
THAT imbecility is not on the wane
perusal Of the following lines will am
ply demonstrate" London Telegraph
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Letter For Letter.

why does a poet begin so many of
his sentences with OF inquired the
politician.
There's no answer replied Mr..
Penwiggler why does a speechmak
er begin so many OF his sentences with
III Washington Star.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Warship Pennants.

The commission pennant on United
States war vessels goes up when the
vessel is placed in commission and is
flown continually while she remains So
The jackies have many pet supersti-
lions based on the way this bunting
behaves.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Like the Bee,

Hokus-Why do you liken Harduppe
to the busy bee? He isn't particularly
Industrious, is he? Pokus-Oh. no; 1t
isn't that! But nearly every one he
touches gets stung.-Town Topics.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
DISGUISED.

Customer-Tm going to a masked
ball, and ] want something that will
completely disguise me. Costumer-
Certainly, sir. will give you some
thing nice.-Pele Mele.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Could Handle Both sids..

Simmons-Isn't Barker always will
ing to hear both sides of a question:
Kimmons-Not unless you let him do
all the talking.-Judge.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Il Sure 10.

Patience-Do you ever look back
over the past?
Patrice-Why, bless your heart!
That's the only way one can look at
the past."-Yonkers Statesman.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
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. IL
proved to be just what I needed. It
broke up the cold in a few days, and
the cough entirely disappeared. I have
told many of my friends Of the good I
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, 1916-01-13

Most Of our misfortunes are more
supportable than the comments Of our
friends upon them.-C. @. Cotton.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13

The Bathroom That Pleases
is one which completely
satisfies the demand for
sanitary security, durability
and beauty of design.
A Stat,dard Modern
Bathroom installed by u
with a careful regard for
sanitary efficiency and the
following out of your in
structions aOiU please yoaI.
Ask for booklets.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13
Chester Arnold
Plumbing and
Heating

The Hub Tailor shop does all kinds
OF cleaning, pressing and repairing.
located with Hub Clothing Co., Jess
building. 23-tf
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13

Exercise n the chief source OF I'm
provement In al our faculties. Blair.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-01-13

One hour at bowling time well spent
IN amusement innocent. 21-tf
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-24
Business and Guesswork.

a. In a recent issue of The News was printed
a highly interesting statement from Vice
President Hurley of the federal trade COM
mission regarding the failure of many cor
porations and individual business firms to
conduct themselves proftably. Out of $780,
900 corporations 100, 900 do not earn pen
ny, according to Mr.. Hurley. Of the re-
naming $4,000 only a few make the most
of their opportunities. The remainder err
miserably in failing to charge off deprecia-
ton and in ignorance regarding costs.
The modern tendency toward slipshod
business methods is truly appalling. Cor
porations and individuals guess at costs and
profits and throw their chances for business
success into the hazard on such slender
probabilities that they will emerge success
fully.
In no other line of endeavor is this truer
than in the newspaper and printing bust
ness. There is nothing approaching stand
ard charge. One publisher exacts so much
per inch for his advertising space, or so
much per thousand for printed circulars,
merely by comparing his price with his com
petitor's. He makes his figures equal to or
lower than the competitors, and INDUCES
in a wild-and often fatuous-hope that a
kind fate will take care of him and his esti-
mates.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-24
GAY AND MONEY MAD
How Present-Day Life in New York
Strikes an Englishman.

| New York, always a feverish and pleas
ure-loving city, is today simply drunk with
money, according to Sidney Brooks, we'll
known English publicist, who, in the North
| American Review, comments as follows:
| Even during the height of the steel boom
of II or Ii years ago when every train from
| the West seemed to bring fresh carloads of
brand new milionaires the metropolis was
not so openly reeling with dollars as it is
at this moment, when the gayest season"
of its history is drawing to a close. 1t al
most appalls an Englishman to find there in
full swing the rotten life that we in Eng
land have put completely behind US. And
it appalls him still more to reflect that a
bare two years ago he was leading if one al
lows for the extra intensity that New York
throws into all its activities, very much the
same life itself.
One despairs of ever being able to convey
to ones American friends how completely
the war and its conditions and consequences
have become not merely part of, or side
issue to, but literally the whole British ex
istence. They are SO dominant, have so utter
ly swallowed up everything else, that no
other form of life, least of all the trivial
carelessness of peace, seems normal or even
credible l catch myself in New York if l
enter lighted room instinctively reaching
out to draw down the blinds lest a Zeppelin
raider should note the glare; and of all the
sights that crowd in upon me that multi
tude of young men who are not in khaki
strikes me as the strangest and most repel-
lent. 1t may be one more proof of our de-
mented state, but it is the bare fact that not
for anything would we in England change
places with you in America or part with the
waste and misery of the war to receive in
return the BLESSINGS" of such peace as
yours. Stay-at-home Americans simply can
not enter into or even conceive the atmos-
phere of the belligerent nations in this strug
gle, and conversely, as long as it lasts, Wis
itor from any one of the countries at war
will continue to be shocked by the atmos-
phere of America as something unnatural
to the point of being grotesque.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-24
COrking Columbus FLASK.
From the Savannah News.

Girard, Ala, is in the center of the stage
at this time because it is just across the
river from Columbus, Ga. Some persons
seem to have thought they could use Girard
as base of supplies of wet goods for Co
1umbus and vicinity, concealing their stocks
in Alabama and disposing of them by retail
or to bootleggers and blind tigers for the
Georgia trade. They made miscalculation.
Alabama intends to enforce her own prohl-
bition laws, however much their enforce
ment may interfere with the process OF
quenching thirsts in Georgia that cannot be
satisfied as readily as they were before the
first of May. The raids at Girard will be
taken as warning by Alabama blind tigers
if this gentry is wise.
Other things being equal, it has been more
difficult to enforce prohibition laws-except
as they affect moOnShining-near state lines
than in the center of the state; and at ports,
or in towns that lie just across the line from
big cities, it has been unusually difficult to
enforce them to the letter. Girard is small
place, but Columbus, its Georgia neighbour
is large, and it is not at all surprising that
some persons believed they would find it no
hard matter to shift back and forth across
the state line and keep out of trouble while
carrying on a business that is outlawed both
in Alabama and Georgia. The lesson to be
learned from the Girard raids, then, is that
where officials are determined and vigilant
state lines that are bordered on both sides
by dry territory can be kept dry. And in
the same way ports can be kept dry.
The Girard raid makes the raids at Sa-
vannah seem small indeed if it is true that
liquors valued at 100000 were found in
the former place. That is lot of liquor.
Think of the thirsts it never will have the
opportunity to assuage
There should be no sympathy for the men
who will lose a fortune on account of the
seizure of this great store of intoxicants.
They knew they were violating the law by
keeping it, and if they were selling any of it
the violation was double. There is no excuse
for them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-24
Root For Dawson.

Nearly all of the money which will be nee
essary for financing Dawson's baseball team
has been raised. No time should be lost in
securing the remainder, and those who col
Iect the subscriptions should have no troub-
le at all with their work.
The Dawson spirit should be as prevalent
in baseball as in anything else There is
a right way and wrong way to do any
thing. The national game means much to
Dawson in many ways, one of the most
important of which is that it provides inno-
cent amusement at a season of the year
when innocent amusement is needed
By standing together in the past the peo-
pie have had baseball of the first-class vari-
ETY., with results of which we have all been
proud Let's be up and doing now, so that
We shall be able to say as much of this sum-
mer's efforts
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-24
A Serious Indictment.

There is another Indictment against Yam
kee greed. 1t really seems that there's
nothing at which it will stop, either by adul-
Iteration or inferior manufacture, in order
to make unwarranted profits from the con-
sumner.
That American shrapnel seldom explode,
and whenever they are used in battle Ger
man soldiers have holiday, is a statement
made by a German artillery officer now in
this country.
This recalls, also, that when the soldiers
at Columbus, New Mexico, tried to employ
their machine guns in repelling the Villa
raiders something went woefully wrong, and
the guns were of little use.
Attention has recently been directed to
the Canadian shell scandal in which a
prominent public official of the dominion
was charged with giving munition contracts
to an American company supplying defective
materials.
Russia entered upon war with Japan
only to find that its guns and ammunition
were defective. France, very fortunately,
discovered that millions of rounds of cart
ridges in her arsenals We're without explo-
sive powder back of the bullets, and repaired
the criminal defect some time before en-
gaging in the current war with Germany.
Our own government has had some minor
experiences of this kind both as to muntion
and food supply.
Certainly, there should be some investi-
cation to verify or disprove the indictment
brought by this German artillery officer.