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Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13
ALCOHOLIC BRAVERY IS
DUE TO partial PARALYSIS
Preventive Medicine Expert of the
State University Tells Why of
Drunken Courage
Facts Put to Route What Has been
Written by Sentimental Scribes
Concerning Drink


Much that has been written in the
past concerning the use Of alcohol has
been colored by sentiment and moral
considerations rather than facts con.
corning health, but careful studies
carried out by scientific methods have
at last taught us the truth concern
ing the use of alcohol.
First, it is an irritant to the lining
membrane of the stomach. Second, it
retsrds digestion and, in larger guam
titles, arrests it by a depression of
the and circulatory system.
Death is not infrequently caused
from large quantities taken on an
empty stomach. 1t invariably has a
paralyzing effect on the erveou sys-
tenn. All those effects which we US
ually consider as stimulating are due
to the partial paralysis in one way
or another. For many years alcohol
has been absolutely forbidden to
those exposed to extreme cold, like
Arctic explorers.
Its apparently stimulating effect
on the physical functions is due
to loss of control. judgement and
sense Of proportion are lost and the
emotional nature comes into play.
The courage displayed by a drunk
mar is due again to paralysis of judg-
ment causing him to lose the sense of
danger. The energy displayed is due
to the partial paralysis which dead
ems the sense of fatigue given to us
normally a a safeguard against
overtaxation. The gesticulations are
due to the loss of control over the
brain centers, a foolish waste of en-
energy coupled with lack of self-re
straint.
1t is a common thing to take al
cohol to alleviate the 'blues" or men,
tai depression. 1t does this again by
paralysis of the higher cehters, and
the reaction comes with double force.
The question as to whether or not it
is a food has been much debated. A
small amount of It can be burned up
and used as fuel, but at the best it is
a very expensive sort Of food and a
very dangerous one, according to DR..
M. P. Ravenel Of the department Of
preventative medicine of the Univer-
sity of Missouri at Columbia. Alcohol
as a food is a joke, he says.
A collective Investigation by 43
life insurance companies, extending
over 25 years, and embracing 2,000,-
900 lives, showed that saloon keepers
have a death rate of 10 per cent in
excess of normal. Even moderate"
drinkers accepted by the companies
as good risks, showed a death rate
SO per cent in excess of the normal
expectancy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

to fifteen or sixteen that the natural
abilities of children begin to awaken
and develop. Their natural aptitude
for this or that line Of work becomes
more pronounced and leads them to
put forth greater effort along lines
in which their abilities lead them. It
is a time when a child should have a
chance to try many different lines of
work to see just what he does like
and to give any latent ability = chance
to develop. The aim of the school
during this period should be to de-
termine the pupils natural aptitude
in some line of work and to discover
at the earliest possible moment ar '
pronounced lack of ability. For these
reasons the child should have a chance
during these grades, beginning at the
seventh, at a variety of courses. In
general these courses should be aca-
demic, offering Latin or German for
those who wish to study the languages
commercial offering spelling and writ
ing, ETC., for those who are thinking
of a business course; and industrial
offering special courses for girls in
needle work, cooking, ETC., and for the
boys in mechanical drawing, and the
elements of wood and metal working.
With a curriculum broad enough to
enable the child to find himself early
in his course, his chances of success
in life would be greatly increased.
In the many cases over the United
States where the organization of the
seventh and eighth grades has been
changed and the course enriched as
suggested above a great decrease in
the loss of children has followed as
we'll as great increase in the enthus-
iasm and pleasure with which the
children attack the problems Of the
revised course.
1t is nothing more than justice to
say that some most excellent work is
being done in the grades mentioned
at Mexico. Modern methods are be-
ing used with good results. But some
far reaching and fundamental changes
are necessary in these grades before
the great waste of children's time and
energy can be stopped. These changes
will be as far reaching as those that
have revolutionized our primary and
high schools during the last decade or
So
In my next letter | shall give some
facts and statistics the views set forth
at this time.
Yours sincerely
HERBERT PRYOR.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13
MINNEAPOLIS WOMAN LIVES
IN PAST FOR THIRTY YEARS

Minneapolis, Mimi, April 8.-The
woman who stopped the clock and sus-
pended the flight Of time a third of
a century ago, so far as her mind and
her interests were concerned, lives in
Minneapolis. She is Mrs. Dora M.
Bugbee. For a third of a century
her existence has been a living death.
Time and storm and strife have pass
ed her by. At the age of rs she is
the same in mind and spirit as she vas
at AZ.
As weird as the fantasies of Poe and
Hawthorne, the life history of Mrs.
Bugbee contains willfully wide gap
of more than three decades. Mrs.
Bugbee dedicated herself to her hus-
bands memory at the time of his
death thirty-three years ago this
month. She has refused to accept
progress or change since that day,
Her mourning dress has never been
discarded.
Minneapolis people of a generation
ago-men and women of memory for
the most part-still live in her mag
nation as her old friends. When she
goes out upon the streets it is as a
dazzled prisoner who has been incar-
cerated for years.
Doesn't anyone remember anybody
any more?" she walls, as she sees
her references lost on her hearers.
Her house is alive with ghosts of
memories of other days. The furni-
ture has been unchanged since her
husband died. An antique mantel
shelf ornament has stood for thirty
three years where George G. Bugbee
placed it. Chandeliers to be found in
every room never will be lighted, for
the house has no gas.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13
BUSINESS MAN SHOULD
HAVE PuRLIC INTEREST

THE citizen is the only protection
against the politician, said H. J. Al
len, of the Wichita, Kansas, Beacon,
in an address delivered in Sc. Louis
recently. "And the average citizen is
a pretty bum" sort. The more he is
able to buy an automobile, and draw a
good salary the less interest he takes
in citizenship. He begins not to care
q rap what happens, just so it does
not happen to him. If you men would
put the same efficiency into your po-
litical life that you use in managing
your business you could make this
State and nation what you liked"
Allen told of a study he made of the
new municipal Government of Dayton
and said he believed results had justi-
fed the payment of higher salaries for
men of brains to manage the city. He
said st. Louis probably has the best
municipal Government of a city as
large as it is, but that it could be i'm
proved by adopting the commission
form with a city manager at the head.
why in Dayton" he said when I
went to see the city manager l found a
tall, hawk-nosed, ~sharp-eyed man such
as I had often seen in charge of a
railroad engineering office or at the
head of a business that does things.
Such a man, / had never seen in a
Mayors Office. I was met at the door
by a young man who asked me what I
wanted. He told me I could see the
Manager for 20 minutes If / would
wait until he was at leisure. Think
of it.
Employees Actually Working.
II waited and was surprised at what
/ saw. There were no loafers in that
Office, no spittoons as inviting targets
for poor Workmanship. Typewriters
were clicking and people were actual
ly working. Those employees were eff
~fcient; they had not been recommend
ed by some ward boss.
"When l was shown into the City
Managers private Office he didn't
wiring my hand and did not massage
my elbow. It was plain he was not a
politician. He didn't warm up much
until l told him l wanted to write a
piece about him for a magazine and
then / thought / saw a look in his eyes
as if he were thinking of the pictures
he had at home that he might give me.
"There was a man with the power
to issue manifestoes. He took me out
to the part of the city where there
were vacant lots. We found them bios
soming with flowers. I was surprised,
for | had seen nothing of the kind in
any large city. He told me he had is
sued a manifesto asking that every
vacant lot be cultivated and offering
the city of Dayton do the blowing free
Tor any man who could not do it
himself.
"It was wonderful and SO different
from our city governments out in
Kansas, which | think are the most
archaic in the w~orld-except those
of Missouri"
Allen reviewed the progress of Day
ton under the new form of govern
ment and declared such results were
possible only when there was a man
at the head who had no such entang-
ling alliances as obligations to the
politicians.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

Mr.. RoosEvELT's devotion to
the United States as set forth in his
latest manifesto, is not to the United
States over which Woodrow Wilson
presides, but to a United States Of the
future which will be worthy of every
mans loyalty because Nh. Roosevelt
himself will be at the head of it. I'm
til that happy day arrives, it is the
Oyster Bay theory that every Ameri-
can is at liberty to sand bag the presi-
dent, jayhawk the army and navy and
hang the old flag bottom side up.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

THE suggestion has been made that
those who intend leaving their motor
cars in front of any building longer
than fifteen minutes park them
around the courthouse square with
the rear against the curb. This would
relieve congestion in the narrow down
town streets and make driving safer.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

indicates that Wilson will be re-eIect-
ed President of the United States BY
an overwhelming majority. There
isn't a bit of doubt about It. II there
was ever a time in the history of a
country when patriotism demanded a
united support Of our President, that
time is now. And American patriot
ism has never yet failed to respond to
the country's need.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

pate decision that poker
isn't bar a man from Of
the good old days when it
He recommendation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

|utant general reports that
R43, 482 men in the United
have had military training
got their present address?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

ehould conduct themselves
bay be honored by the ap-
pf their ex-M Mayors to high
|fice. At least Cleveland
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Says in roof-gutters may act as
mosquito breeding places?
Americas most valuable crop is
babies?
The public cigar-cutter is a
menace to health?
The United States Public
Health Service maintains a loan
library of Sereopticcn slides?
The typhoid rate measures ac-
curately community intelli-
gence?
Whooping cough annually kills
over ten thousand Americans?
Bad housing produces bad
health?
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
is spread by a wood-tick?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

martyrs aren't over in
!. There is the fat wo-
ies to squeeze into a cor
of sizes too small for her.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

itish are said to have $4,000
Fight of the pyramids. The
pc desert alone are safe
|edoes.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

IS who had Villas obituary
week or SO ago are begin
'lize that this preparedness
b be overdone.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

Nv York American, the
Rge informs us, have recall
Probably use him
bases are full.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

ID of going to hell, as Villa
hite us, Uncle Sam will be
NJ giving it to him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

.lroads announce that they
cars to handle the
sore Democratic hard times.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

~ Of little nations in war
D depend more on inacces-
Bins than irrefutable argu-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

FzA, it is said will let us
lroads on the quiet. This
Several more ties between
whiskered patriot.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

lNLY the Colonel is not a
for the nomination. If the
hnt's the nomination he'll
II. That's all.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

/ comes to working for the
Ms Of Mexico and Audrain
u should be no "slackers.'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13
LL in time saves nine

make yourself unhappy try
happy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

|ENT Wilson is going TO
denomination to the people
All that's necessary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

needs at this juno
! executive who can do a
executing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

L cordially invited to attend
h revival services at the
Church.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

E poor have something to
for. A shortage Of rab-
rted this year and rabbits
thrust upon the poor in
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

fork judge said that a per-
being would be an intol-
Rnce. Wonder what hap
he got home 2.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

ubination of chinchin col
Drt skirt indicates that
Othcs are working away
round.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

have to do is to keep on
Panama canal will
noon.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

|gsent indications are that
BE men who runs against
J get out of it will be the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

ause Washington said ain
E prepare for war" is no
we should wait till the
before beginning on pre-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

Col. Jap Stevens, of Martinsburg,
was in this city on business Saturday.
]. W. Perkins is up from Bellefiow-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

n be easier 10 respect Mex
.rity II she would only show
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

]. E. Sterner, who now resides at
Victor, Mo-, was in Mexico, Thurs
day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

1000 seward for his own
pout the only loose change
pat Villa does not hope to
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

Ian who tells you he is no
merely be mistaken.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

,eople are willing to be good
| it, and others are good for
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

of 7. RS, West
was beyond reproach,
Rhere they even carefully
ew bird for him to dis
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

know whether a dollar
h as it used to but it GER
faster.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

INC of preparedness, moth
! mans soul like the sound
Rr bell.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

|ES with Villa are rumored
| frequently as crises with
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13
For Inc Housewife.

The addition of a little soda mixed
with a teaspoonful of cornstarch to
the cream before pouring it into the
tomato mixture will prevent curdling
in the making of creamed tomato
soup.
Flavor deviled eggs with a dash of
vinegar from sweet pickles and use
olive oil instead of butter. A tiny
picked cucumber chopped fine and
mixed with the yolk of the egg is an
improvement.
Before rolling jelly cake up, damp
On a napkin with warm water, wiring
dry and then cover with a sheet OF
~paraffine paper. Turn the cake on
this paper and roll quickly. The
cake is not neal as apt to break as
it is rolled.
To prevent fruit juices from rising
over in pies when making fruit pies
sprinkle a little carbonate of soda
over the fruit before the top crust
is put on. This will prevent the
juice from rising over, which spoils
both looks and taste of the best pies.
Some people like a thick gravy with
sausage, and this is made by cream
ing the ordinary essence of the sau-
sage and the flour just as you would
butter and flour, seasoning to taste
and then thinning to the desired con
sistency with water. There are others
who like a cream gravy with ham,
and here you moisten the flour with
the ham essence and use milk instead
of water.
Hot Milk Sponge Cake.
2 eggs.
l cup sugar.
Y cup hot milk.
! cup flour.
3 level teaspoons baking powder.
Beat the yolks of eggs until thick;
add half the sugar slowly; continue
beating; add hot milk and rest of
sugar and whites of eggs, beaten un-
til stiff; fold in flour and baking powd-
er. Bake % minutes.
Apples en- Casserole.
4 peck apples.
~ cups brown sugar.
Pinch Of salt.
Wash and quarter, pare and core
the apples. Lay in casserole dish,
cut side down; cover with brown sug-
ar and salt. Bake in hot oven until
tender. Serve in casserole dish.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

than waste time arguing,
bn will let a fool have his
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

DR.. and Mrs. Rudolph Witt, of st.
Louis, are in this city to visit their
son who attends M. M. A.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

William Greer is home from st.
Louis to spend a few days with his
parents.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

er to spend the weekend with his
family.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

o. A. Lindenmeyer and wife are
visiting relatives in Hot Springs,
Ark.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

Mrs. Schultz, after a pleasant visit
with Mrs. Frank Sanford, has return
ed to her home in Hannibal, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

Easter Display at the Vogue. Sue
cessor to Miss Rosamond. 104tf-w1
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

as IL Russia might obtain a
|piece from Turkey.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

c. M. Clay is home from st. Louis
with a new Packard runabout.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

vote taken by the New
among its subscribers,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

George Lee went to Columbia on
business today.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

]. J. F. johnson, of Benton City,
was in this city on business Saturday
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-04-13

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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-26
CONTRACT AWARDED
ON UNlONTOWN HILL
Important Link in the Interstate High
way Will be Built by General Con-
structiOn Company of Spokane and
Security Bridge Company

LEWISTON, April Especially
Last evening the contract was award
ed to the General Construction com
pany of Spokane for the grading of the
Lewiston-U niontown hill state high
way, while the award for the concrete
work was made to the Security Bridge
company. Work on the contracts must
start by May Is and be finished by
September /.
The bid of the General Construction
company for the grading was $685.
721.87 and that of the Security Bridge
company for the concrete features was
$3619S8, bringing the total award up
to $67,341.75. The estimate made by
State Engineer Booth for putting the
road in complete condition for sur
facing was SOL 900, so an adequate
fund within that estimate remains
available for culverts, drainage sys-
TEN, engineering and supervision.
The road embraced within the con-
tract will extend from north approach
of the Clearwater bridge in Lewiston
to the Washington-Idah state line
near Unontown, distance of SO
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-26
THE WORST ROAD AND THE
WORST WAY

There may be more uneven AND
more generally unsatisfactory high
ways in Latah county than that on
Third street in the city of Moscow
from Polk to Hayes, but if so the
news of their existence has not yet
reached this office.
The friends of paving are divided as
to the proper course to pursue with
regard to Third street One set is for
constant agitation of the question with
the hope that ultimately the properly
constituted authorities will take those
few blocks in hand and overcome the
bad effects of the worst road manag-
ing to be found in the whole country.
The other friends of paving advo-
cate silence and no temporary grading
and sanding. The idea seems to be
that if the road is allowed to get as
bad as possible the city and the resi-
dents of that section will finally take
up the matter of paving the four or
five blocks included.
We think this latter policy is all
wrong and perfectly hopeless. In the
first place the maximum of bad con-
ditions was reached during the recent
stormy season, and no appreclable eff
feet was noticed in regard to an in
creased sentiment for paving on the
part of those who reside along that
highway Short of having mud so deep
that pair of horses could not be
found except by excavation, the street
could not have been worse than it was
for months upon months. In the sec
end place, the people who live along
that street claim that they do not have
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-26
WHY IT SUCCEEDS
Because It's For One Thing Only, And
Moscow People Appreciate This

| Nothing can be good for everything
Doing one thing we'll brings sue
cess.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for one
thing only.
For weak or disordered kidneys.
Here is reliable evidence of their
worth.
H. Lovelace, painter, Alt Fourth ST.,
Lewiston, Idaho, says: "My back was
very lame and painful through my kid
neys and often l could hardly endure
the pain. l was also annoyed by too
frequent passage of the kidney secre-
tons and this weakness obliged me to
get out of bed often at night. Doan's
Kidney Pills fixed me up in good
shape"
OVER FIVE YEARS LATER, Mr..
Lovelace said: II am glad to con-
firm all l have ever said in praise of
Doan's Kidney Pills.
Price 50c,. at all dealers Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills = the same that
Mr.. Lovelace has twice publicly rec
Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, ~ Y. adv
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-26

either cars or buggies, and that they
do not expect to have any. They say
there are good sidewalks and that as
long as they can get back and forth
in comfort on foot they never will
sign a petition for paving.
If Third street west of Polk were
an ordinary and obscure highway, this
settled determination to oppose paw
ing or the mending of the street would
not affect very much of the commun-
ity. But it so happens that Third
street is the principal approach to
the city from the east and that hun
dreds upon hundreds of vehicles pass
daily over the worst road surface ever
traversed.
The street is uneven. i is full of
chuck holes. 1t is very rough; and
in wet weather it is a mire. 1t hap
pens to be the highway next the city
park, and, in juxtaposition to one OF
the neatest of parks, the appearance of
the street is even more disgraceful.
The city owes it to the business in
terests of Moscow, to the farmers who
trade here, and to patrons of the park
to do something to Third street.
We believe that the people in gen
eral are definitely opposed to letting
Third street get as bad as it can in
the hope of disgusting nearby resi-
dents with it. We believe that the tax
payers as a whole are opposed to
neglect OF badly use one of the most
highways connecting with
this city.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-26
A. TAIL OF WOE

Fishing stories are not the only kind
that break out in spring. Arson
James, a farmer of Delaware, Ohio
claims that when he went to feed his
pigs the other morning, sixty of them
we're minus tails. The sixty-first
porker was frantically chasing his
own tail, with his mouth wide open.
tails of all the others and-was trying
to bite off his own before Mr.. James
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-26
"OH, DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MAT
TER RE?

Mrs. Annie Matters was today in
of foisting an alleged spurious heir
on the estate of her late husband.
Mrs. Mattress brother-in-law, james
Matters, contends that little Irene
Matters is no relation of the late
Frederick Matters.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-26
Police Superintendent Mathews of

Police Superintendent Mathews of
Pittsburgh has just issued drastic
order to his force that 'any police
man so lacking in brains as to dis
turb spooney lovers in the parks will
be placed on the books Spring has
evidently come early in Pennsylvania
and has hit the superintendent a tell
ing blow on the left side in the region
of susceptible heart.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-26
ATTENTION HORSEBREEDERS

The famous and well-known import
ed stations, "Hockwold President"
and Kings Challenger" the former
a hackney and the latter Clydesdale
has begun the 1916 season at the Nee
ly cab barn on 4th street in Moscow
where they will remain on Friday and
Saturdays of each week during the
season of 1916. Full particulars may
be seen on posters at the foregoing
barn. 66-79