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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-10-19
A MESSAGE ON A HAIRBRUsH.


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In an interesting criminal case a
message was conveyed to a prisoner
BY a most ingenious device. The
prisoner gave the guard small
coin, asking him TO purchase hair
brush. That evening when the
guard went of duty he stopped in
a little shop in the village and en-
deayored to buy the brush for the
prisoner. But the shopkeeper
thought that a hairbrush could not
be bought for the triding sum
which the prisoner had intrusted to
the guard.
As the guard came out Of the
shop he found an old peddier at the
door. The peddler had a variety Of
junk in his basket, and among other
second hand articles conspicuously
displayed was a hairbrush with a
smooth pine handle. The guard
asked the peddler what he would
take for the brush. The peddler
named a small sum. The guard Of
fered him the coin which the pris-
oner had intrusted to him and
which the peddler finally accepted.
This brush the guard turned over
to the prisoner. There was no mark
Of any kind on IT, Nevertheless, it
conveyed vital message to the
man in the prison, which he was
able to read BY soaking the handle
Of the brush il his water jug.
The method BY which this mes
sage had been put on the handle
Of the brush is exceedingly inter
esting. The letters forming the
message had been cut IN the soft
wood Of the handle. After this the
wood Of the handle had been scrap
ed With a piece Of glass until the
letters cut into the wood had en-
tirely disappeared. They were no
longer visible. The wooden handle
seemed smooth, and to the eye bore
no trace Of any craven character or
any indentation.
But the fact is that the fibers Of
wood where pressure has been ex-
erfed to cut IN letters are compress
ed below the cuts and remain thus
compressed, although after the let
tiers are scraped of no trace Of
them is visible. If, however, the
wood is soaked in water, after a
time these compressed fibers swell
and the writing stands out in clear
relief.
Foreign authorities tell Us that
the finer the grain Of wood the bet
ter it is adapted to this form of
secret communication. They insist
that all articles formed Of wood
taken at criminal rendezvous or in
PRODUCED into prisons ought to be
examined with the greatest care
Melville d. Post in Saturday Even
ing Post.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-10-19

The Inquisitive Guest - / sup
pose, now, you would like to get a
lob in a restaurant patronized BY
millionaircs where you'd get big
tips. The 0bsequious WaiterN .,
sir. I'D rather have job In a
restaurant where fonrnushors on
sic week salaries bring the girls
they are trying to make hit with.
Exchange.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-10-19
pERILs or THE SEA DIVER.
a vstsran's Story Of His Battle For
Life Under Water.

Life gn0@r Water.
ut isn't the depth Of water that
always makes for danger in my
business" remarked the veteran
diver. You know, man can drown
just as dead IN a bathtub as in
200 fathoms Of water. The clos
est call / ever had was in water not
more'n twenty-five feet deep, right
close to a wharf in q city harbor.
Il was looking for a boiler that
had been lost oif'n scow, walking
slowly through the muddy, dark
water, close to the rows Of piling.
had my spare air hose iooped up
over my arm, the way divers always
carry it, paying out the line behind
me as ! advanced.
Il passed big grating Of iron, a
hatch grating lost from some ship.
1t had fallen into the water end
down and lodged in the soft mud
that way. 1t stood almost as high
as my head as passed it.
"a few steps farther on ] was
brought up with sharp turn. The
air hose had got fast somewhere.
Cropping my way back, ! found that
the disturbance Of nay passing had
upset the big crate, and it now lay
fat across my hose.
Tn order 10 ever reach the sur
face alive ! had to free that hose.
| stopped over 10 lift the grating
and ! found couldn't do it.
II had only gone d few steps be-
You'd the crate when il fell, and
there was not enough length Of line
between il and me to give me any
freedom Of movement.
Well, I'm in fix this time, for
sure. thinks J.. II was pretty seri-
Gus, too, because there was no way
Of telling my helpers on the float
what was wrong. II was strictly up
10 me to get out Of that tight place.
aF0r a time | tried saving the
air hose back and forth, hoping To
disi0dge Il 10 some way. That didn't
do me a Bit Of good. The mud was
soft, and the hose wasn't pinched so
tight | didn't get some air, shut the
pressure was TOO heavy on II to Lex
me get it free.
Il used to be pretty good at lift
ing weights as young fellow, and
It soon struck me that I'D have TO
lift that grating, whether twas
easy or not.
Il rested a little, saving up my
strength for the lift. took Just as
good i hold as the short length Of
hose would give me and heaFed.
The CRATE came up a little. ] heaved
harder till | had one end breast
high. just an inch or two more
and it would be past the lifting
point, and | could shoulder 1t over.
Il never lifted SO hard before or
since. The exertion made the blood
hammer in my head and started
regular fireworks display in front
Of my eyes, like a drowning man
sees when he suffocates-
I'll lift il or bust a blood yes
sell says ], and by heaven it lifted.
| toppled the grating over, gave my
signal cord yank and was hauled.
to the top.
ed certainly have felt pretty
cheap if I'D died down there in
hardly enough water to cover me.
kansas City Star.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-10-19

A lady was once talking to Queen
Elizabeth Of Roumania and advanc-
ed the theory that sorrow ID child
hood cast a shadow over the whole
life, rendering happiness IN later
years impossible. do not believe
il, /" replied the queen Happiness
is like n. ocean. 1t bears yon away
from the past and all its many sor-
rows, provided only that you do not
persist il looking backward"
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-10-19

Herald, 81 per year
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
NOT TO BE BOTHERED AGAIN
Of His Trouble Taken Out Of
the House.

Simon Mish ian extremely busy
mani was enjoying his first bath of the
year. He splashed luxuriously, enjoy
ing the unwonted sensation.
Suddenly the telephone bell rang.
Simon Mish was alone in the house.
The telephone bell continued to
ring.
"Bother!" swore Simon Mish, and
got out of the tub and went and an
swered it.
Hello" said strange voice. "Does
Selig Wif1eshank live here?"
Simon Mish slammed down the re-
ceiver and went back to his bath.
(He was alone in the house.) Five
minutes later the bell rang again.
Again Simon Mish left his bath to an
swer.
Hello" said q second strange voice.
'Is this the Mickentootle residence?"
Simon Mish positively hurled down
the receiver and went back to his tub.
A minute later Che was alone in the
house, it rang again.
For the third time Simon Mish de-
serted the tub and answered the tele-
phone, and third strange voice said:
Hello. may l speak to Rhudorf Wish
washer?"
That evening Simon Mish had the
thing taken out of the house.
No, gentle reader, not the tele-
phone; the bathtub.-Buffalo News.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
SPRAYING FAVORED FOR sCAB
Lime-sulphur and Bordeaux Are Rec
commended by an Expert Of Flori-
da Experiment Station.

Do not wait until scab and melanose
appear before spraying for them. 1t
will be too late to do anything then.
Neither can be cured. They must be
prevented. according to B. F. lloyd.
plant psychologist to the University Of
Florida experiment station. Pruning
dead wood is q good measure against
melanose.
Both lime-sulphur and bordeaux are
recommended for scab. The lime-sul-
phur should be mixed in the proportion
of one gallon of 80 degrees Baume
stock solution to thirty gallons of wa
ter. II the solution is weaker than 81
degrees smaller quantities OF water or
more of the solution should be used.
Bordeaux il recommended In two
strengths. $3.50 and $3.50. The
same spraying is thought to be effec-
tive in helping to control melanose
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
First Guide to Beauty.

9Ss0C " 00S0sys
BY singing. and by singing only. q
little child of 1--WE may come in con-
tact with q pure and perfect form of
beauty. Not only that, but the child
can reproduce this beauty entirely un-
aided, and in the process Of doing so
its whole being-body. mind. heart,
AMI souls engaged. The sing, for
the moment, is the child. There is TO
possible realization Of the little per-
sonality comparable to this. Here. in
sounds, is that correlation Gf impulses
in which the stars move; here is the
world of order and beauty in minia-
ture: here il q microcosm Of life;
here il Q talisman against the cold un-
meaning facts which are driven into
children's brains to jostle one anoth-
or in unfriendly companionship.
Through this they can feel q beauty
and order and sequence which their
minds are incapable Of grasping. The
Joy which q child gets in reproducing
beautiful melodies il like no other ex-
perience In life.-Thomas Whitney
Surette, IA the Atlantic.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
DREAD VOLCANIC SEA WAVES
Most sklllful Sailors Fear Disastee
From Which Human Skill Can
not Save Vessel.

Occasionally there appears . great
wave sweeping across the calm sur
face of the ocean In the fairest wealth
er and when no wind IL blowing.
There are few perils Of the sea to be
more dreaded than such q wave. For
tunately these are very rare. yet more
than once q ship has encountered one.
A vessel of British line not long ago
was met by a wave of this kind, which
rolled upon her like q wall Of water,
and. breaking against her sides. swept
the deck with irresistible force, kill
ing one sailor and seriously injuring
others.
The cause Of these singular waves Is
believed to be some disturbance of a
volcanic nature at the bottom Of the
sea. Volcanoes exist in the ocean as
we'll as on land; in fact, nearly all the
volcanoes known are on or near the
seacoast. 1t is easy to see that an up
heaval at the seabottom may start q
billow at. the surface of the water,
when we remember that 1t has been
reported that huge waves have been
sent clear across the Pacific to our
coast by volcanic shakings Of the earth
on the borders Of Asia.
The world under water is not only
three times as extensive as that which
is covered only with air, but it pos
sesses many Of the same great natural
phenomena on scale that is perhaps
eroportionately vast. but Of whose ex.
istence we are made aware only by
such indications as the volcanic ocean
waves that ships occasionally encoun-
ter.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
Il Stopped the Bleeding.

My brother, during one Of his sur
veying trips, met with q very painful
accident, which would have proved ia
tai had not the cook acted promptly
and with great wisdom. He was cut
ting down a bush when his ak slipped
and nearly severed his toe. In few
minutes he was unconscious.
The cook tore of his shoe and
sock, made bandage of clean towel,
at the same time ordering one Of the
men to bring a large dish and the bag
of flour. While they worked to revive
my brother, he threw into the dish q
quantity of flour; then placed the foot
in the flour and proceeded to pack it
solid with the -four. The bleeding soon
stopped, for the blood could not pene-
trate so much flour. When the doc
tor arrived he expressed great sur
prise and told the cook he had saved
a life.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
\ DESSA, Russia's first naval
base on the Black sea and the
J starting point for over-the-wa-

~ DI<OoA, ANuooid . Ia oI nav "a
base on the Black sea and the
I starting point for over-the-wa-
ter attacks on Bulgaria, Eu-
ropean Turkey and Asia Minor, is the
most imposing milestone on the Mus
covite's shortening road to Constan-
tinople and the warm waters of the
Mediterranean, says a bulletin of the
National Geographic society. The
great and flourishing port is one of the
youngest cities of the East. for it was
founded by Catherine II after her war
Of conquest against the Turk had end
ed in the treaty of Jassy in 1871, and
its foundation was largely due to the
desire to have a strong city just as
near to Constantinople as possible. as
a well-equipped point Of departure for
Slav armies of future generations.
1t is said that the Russian is the
dreamiest and the longest-memoried of
all the races of Europe, and it has
been on its way toward the world-city
on the Bosporus, where its national
faith was Graded, ever since Arab in
vaders broke the communication be-
tween Santa Sophia and the Russian
church in the ninth century.
The only un-American thing about
Odessa, Mark Twain said, are the cut
Of its droshkies and the stupendous
girth Of their drivers. The city is
modern, new, and more European or
American than any other city in the
cars empire. with the exception of
Petrograd.
Becomes Great City In a Century.
Odessa has only recently passed it's
one hundredth year, yet, at the out
break of the war, it was ranked by but
three other cities in the empire for
size and commercial importance-Pe-
trograd. Moscow and Warsaw. A few
huts of mud and reeds and a Turkish
fort were all that marked the site,
when Catherine the Great commanded
a city here. In 1902, eight years after
its foundation. 1t numbered 5000
Greeks. Italians, Russians and Alba.
mans. 1t enjoyed. however, unusual
imperial patronage for strategical rea-
sons; even the Emperor Paul. who
delighted to make vain all that owed
its title to his mother, continued to
favor the young town. A statue of
Catherine, represented trampling the
Turkish flag under foot. stands on one
of the finest squares. Today the city,
wealthy, and important among world
ports, houses more than half a mil
lion people.
The city lies on a semicircular bay,
about midway between the mouths Of
the great Russian rivers, Dniester and
Dnieper. It is LOTT miles south-south-
west from Moscow by rail and 610
miles south from Kief. Varna, the
nearest Bulgarian port. and one re-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
SHIP EGGS LONG DISTANCES
When Carefully Packed In Basket
With Good Cushion Of Excelsior,
They Give Good Results.

II Matching eggs are carefully
packed in a basket with q good cush.
ion Of excelsior in the bottom they win
carry great distances and give good
results. It must not be expected. how.
ever. that they will give as large q
percentage Of hatch as might be the
case nearer home.
It is the jolting eggs are apt to get
BY transportation by rail that Is likely
to weaken q strong germ or kill .
weak one. For that reason they should
be well packea In excelsior. Excel
sior is to be preferred to any other ma
terial. as 1t IL Of a springy nature: and
baskets are better than boxes. for the
reason that being more convenient to
handle. railroad employees are nat
urally more careful with them.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
Straight Lines.

your work is imperfect" said the
master, bending over a student and
his work. That line is not straight,
and it ought to be perfectly true"
Il can straighten it," was the care
less answer, and the student put out
his hand toward the eraser. and put
his pencil behind his ear.
do you not know that "A straight
line does not need to be straight
ened"" said the master gravely.
Perhaps you can straighten that
crooked mark, but 1t will take time
and skill, and how much better in any
case to make line in the first place
that needs no correction. 1t is very
hard to rub out a crooked mark, to
make a place for a straight one"
How true this is in regard to a line
Of conduct. How wise and fine and
every way better it is to do well in the
first place, to do what cannot be Ques-
toned, and needs no Strengthening
OUT
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05

Gently bombarded by the Russians.
lies 29O miles across the Black sea to
the southwest.
Has Six Fine Harbors.
Odessa is builded in the midst Of a
dreary steppe. 1t is regularly laid out
in broad streets, faced with substan-
tial modern buildings, and wears its
commercial prosperity patent to the
most casual visitor. Its port Is
equipped with six good harbors-the
quarantine harbor. coal harbor. petro-
leum harbor, new harbor. practical"
harbor, and the harbor of the Russian
Company for Navigation and Com
merce. the principal shipping company
of the port. The freezing Of the har-
bors and the bay interrupts navigation
for an average Of 16 days each year.
Novorossia, or New Russia, which
includes the governments of Bessa-
rabia and Kherson, has its Intellectual
and commercial capital at Odessa.
The social capital is also there, and
the life of the metropolis has been de-
SCTlDtu dS 1uCA mOAO Soy tAdh tAC
life of Paris or Vienna. The nights in
the Odessa of pre-war days were giddy
and irresponsible, the avenues filled
with people and ablaze with cafes un-
til early morning hours. The merry
making of Odessa did not really begin
in the cafes chantants until midnight
and it's gayeties lasted until between
three and five in the morning.
There was a dark side to the pic
ture, the usual one to contrast with
the bright in every great city. A mis-
cradle army of poor. whose ranks were
largely filled by the tides of transient
labor that washed the greatest trading
city of southern Russia, lived from
hand to mouth on stray crumbs of the
places prosperity. The number of the
very poor was estimated at $4,000, and
many of them lived in the extensive
catacombs beneath the city, which
were formed by the quarrying of sand.
stone for building.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05

In each case those In charge of the
work select the additional vegetables
with reference to local agricultural
conditions, market demand and suit
ability for canning. Many garden COM
binations other than those suggested
are possible. For instance, II the COM
munity is interested in canning soup
mixtures and creole sauce, they must
secure from their gardens tomatoes,
peppers, okra and onions. In fruit
growing sections the girls are advised,
when conditions are right. to substi-
tute from FIVE to ten fruit trees for
one of the vegetable crops. The men,
Der then becomes responsible for the
pruning. spraying and general care Of
these trees.
The development of crops of peren-
NAL vegetables and fruits Is insisted
on at the end of the third year. and in
many cases the work is begun at the
end of the second year. The peren-
malls are substituted for some of the
annual vegetables. and the girls are
6lNCn VI Gull AOA IuC COuOitiNu Vi tuCAI
bushes or trees which are not yet
bearing and therefore do not yield q
product that can be counted in the
canning score.
1t is hoped that as a result of this
planting of perennial fruits and vege-
tables several thousands of the girls.
before many years. will have at the
end of their Junior garden permanent
gardens containing some such profit
able combinations as the following:
Strawberries. asparagus and cher
ries. II
Raspberries. rhubarb and plums.
Gooseherries, currants and peaches.
Strawberries. asparagus and ounces.
Strawberries, rhubarb and pears.
Dewberries. rhubarb and pears.
Dewberries. figs and pecans.
Currants, asparagus and grapes.
Blackberries, figs and scuppernongs.
Strawberries, figs and oranges.
Asparagus. Strawberries and kum-
Quats.
To enable them to use the products
of these permanent gardens. the
agents give the girls special instruc-
ton in making preserves. jelly. mar
malades. pickles. etc.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
Poets Strenuous Life.

A letter from Shelley, the poet, to
q friend, which was recently sold at
auction at $1,485 in New York. gives
a picture of Byron's strenuous life:
Lord Byron gets up at p. m. get
up at twelve. After breakfast we sit
talking till six. From six to eight We
gallop through the pine forests. We
then come home and dine and sit up
gossiping till six in the morning. !
don't suppose this will kill me in Q
week or q fortnight, but / shall not
try it any longer"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
MANURE HEAP IS VALUABLE
When Il Lies Very Long the Nitrogen
10 Transformed Into Ammonia
and Quickly Escapes.

The manure heap Is scene OF bac-
terial activities. When 1t lies very
long the nitrogen is transformed into
ammonia and escapes. When it es-
capes 1t is gone forever.
Some of the manure changes into
nitrates, and these are washed away
and lost II the manure heap is uncov-
cred.
Nitrates are soluble, and when they
are washed away the farm loses all
their value.
A part of the nitrates are attacked
by bacteria and become nitrogen gas
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05

And
simultaneously
and In n the loop
Then vast efugence
first The
formula
adhered
We've been
One at time," said the Who hooked your"
I brandishing magnetic
so did l."
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Teller SS
River
so did l." yelled
I him show
so compaiots
Il think Howard Wendt," speaker.
You went think" corrected the
Howard had hired 600 81
folded his the night A. Perry
had
enthusiasm
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05

From the United States Department Of
Agriculture.)
To meet the demands of thousands
Of southern girls who have been sue
:essful in raising a tenth-acre of to-
matoes. and who want to "go on" the
representatives Of the department and
the state colleges in charge of the can
ming clubs in the Is southern states
have worked out what might be called
progressive. four-year practical gar.
den and canning course for girls. The
purpose of this course is to start the
girls with one crop and from year to
year add new annual crops, encourage
them to run winter and glass-frame
gardens. and, finally, in the course of
their work to lead them to plant peren-
NAL small and orchard fruits. 1t is
hoped that under this system the girls
will gain knowledge Of how to handle
. wide variety of garden vegetables
and trees. and that the member. by
the time she gets ready to go to high
school or college. will have a garden
Of perennial fruits that readily can be
cared for by other members of her
family.
The first year of girls club work
throughout the southern states con-
sists in raising tomatoes in tenth-acre
gardens. 1t is believed by those in
charge that every girl should first
master this plant and learn how to
utilize or sell its products before she
takes up other vegetables and fruits.
In sections where tomatoes suffer from
blight and wilt. however, 1t is some
times necessary to substitute another
garden crop.
The second-year girls continue to
grow tomatoes on one-half Of their
garden space and devote the other
half Of the space to one other crop.
preferably beans. peas. peppers. okra,
beets or onions. The girls also are
encouraged to start winter gardens in
the late summer and fall on one-fourth
to one-haf of the tenth-acre plots. Let
tuce, spinach and kale are the crops
recommended.
The first year Of girls club work
crops. continuing the two that have
been grown the second year and add
Ing cucumbers, eggplant, fg toma-
toes. satisfy. parsnips. or horseradish.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05


a
scutng bpne This
YES SIR said Mr. Browning That's exactly what
] difficulties n he
wait till the weather becomes pleasant and until
IL
I'll chauffeur q
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
Dust Bath u Essential.

Remember that the dust bath is es-
sential to the healthfulness Of fowls,
especially Of the chicken kind: hence
facilities for dust bath always should
be provided. A liberal supply of ashes
in the bath makes 1t better, and If lice
or mites are feared. pulverized sui
phur may be mixed in 1t to great ad.
vantage.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05

Poultrymen are finding out that hens
will lay as freely without the company
Of males as with them. This fact per-
mits the lessening OF expenses by do
ing away with the ROSTERS. II is also
fact that eggs that are infertile will
keep much longer. These are two
points of importance to egg-farm spe-
cialists.