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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11

deville houses, the prosecution of cigar
stores selling cigarettes 10 minors. the
throwing of intiammable refuse into
fire escapes, supervision of immigrant
girl employment and other reforms.
Every member of the force will be
equipped with police whistle and in
structed to summon regular police
man TO her assistance at the first show
of trouble. Wherever II is necessary
the women will be directed TO make ar
rests on their own initiative, under au-
thority of the law. A number OF the
women have volunteered to act as su-
pervisors of the play streets" recently
opened by the police. in addition to
their regular duties. These enlistments
are counted on to work wonders In the
way of juvenile reform. as well as to
reduce the percentage OF deaths from
traffic accidents.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11
Crime IS Laid
TO WITCHCRAF7
Queer Murder Committed in
Reading, Pa, Stirs the
Authorities.
HEX DOCTORS ACTIVE
Blacksmith Who Killed Friend Said
Charcoal Burners Consulted the
Seventh Book of Moses" and
Told Him TO Stay.

Reading, Pa.-The murder of Abra-
ham Flick, an inoffensive German la
borer, by his friend, Peter Leas, Jr.,
in Hyde Park, a suburb, few days
ago, revives public curiosity in "The
Seventh Book OF Moses and in the
witch doctors and powwow practi-
TONERS who still infest that region.
In his confession, Leas, who Is thought
by some to be insane, said that char
coal burners at a settlement several
miles from his home had consulted
'TThe Seventh Book of Moses" and had
ordered him to end Fick's life to pre-
vent Flick from numbering him.
That Flick, in all probability, never
dreamed Of attacking Leas, a black
smith with reputation as a fighter,
and a man of quick temper, seems
to be well established. Using an ak,
Leas ambushed Flick and, after stun
ming him, hacked or his head, quietly
surrendering himself to the police
some hours later.
Other indictments May Follow.
1.-THE Seventh Book of Moses is
identical in some respects with the
booklet first published in 1919 by John
George Holman, the prince of miracle
workers of the powwow, hexerei
school: He was the first to collect the
recipes or formulas used by the hex
doctors in their war against witches
wizards and witchcraft.
Not in years has so much public in
terest been stirred up In the fallacies
Of powwowing, witchcraft and the
remnant of beliefs in hexes and hex
erei as through the Flick murder. Il
is likely that the district attorney
Wilson S. Rothermel, who conducted
q coroner's inquest holding Leas re
sponsible for the murder, will make
every effort to learn if reader of this
book OF nonsensical rhymes and for
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11

is in line with the vessels smokestack
and constantly kept there by moving
the glass. Bells ring simultaneously in
both these stations on the twenty
eighth, twenty-ninth and thirtieth sec
ond of each observation. On the third
bell both observers read the angles on
the scale and telephone those findings
TO the men at the plotting board big
semicircular table, equipped with
swinging brass arms to be moved
across the board to give angles and
distances.
That plotting room in firing time
sounds very much like the old-fash-
Toned schoolroom when the awful hour
came for oral arithmetic.
Only in the plotting room they throw
in lot of decimals, and one man takes
up the problem at the instant it falls
from the lips of the one ahead of him.
and they not only have to think but
use lot of mathematical instruments
at the same time. And when you think
You have the answer, that is only the
beginning That is merely the uncor-
rected range.
More figures are to tumble into the
situation as fast as a man can talk,
several men rather. The wind is blow
ing and something must be allowed
for that, three-tenths of a degree, say,
for an eight-mile breeze. A man ut the
Misunderstanding table must figure that
out and contribute his bit. Don't for
get the tide. With reference to the
beach, where the gun is, the vessel or
the sea. there is decimal or so higher
or lower for every shot. Somebody
figures that out. The ship is moving
over her course. Somebody else mus
work on that trifle to see by what hun
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11
Women of New York's East Side
Form Force to Regulate
District.
PROTECTION FOR The GIRLS
Principal Crusade viii Be Waged
Against Cadet System and Mod
ern Dress and Movie Theater
Evils Will Be Fought.

New York.-What is said to be the
first mother police force in the his
tory of the world has been organized
on the lower East side of New York
city. The primary purpose of the or
ganization, which is composed exclu-
sively of mothers of the district, Is the
protection of young girls. To this end
ii will make war on extremes in mod
ern day dress, wage a campaign
against that type of dance and movie
hall regularly known as the cadet.
and keep open house at all times for
the young girl in need of advice.
AS side lines of endeavor. the wom-
en- police will keep a look out for false
weights and tricky scales in trade
shops. instruct immigrants in the re-
ouisites of good citizenship, keep
watch on the public parks TO prevent
waste paper, litter and other forms Of
Dissertation, and generally aim at the
upbuilding of community life.
The mother police is the idea of
Harry H. Schlacht, young attorney
who started the boy police movement,
which has spread through the coun-
try with such rapidity the past few
years. 1t wa from the operation of
his boy police force that Mr.. Schlacht
received his inspiration for the organ
ization of this new department.
The Juvenile cops" as the boys
STYLED themselves, were denied en-
trance TO dance halls and were looked
upon with disfavor at many moving
picture theaters-or In general in fields
of endeavor fruitful for the cadet. The
Young attorney talked the situation
over with a number OF mothers OF the
East side and 100 Of them volunteered
to lend their aid In the formation or an
organization TO abate the cadet evil
Mr.. Schlacht assumed active charge OF
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11
GOOD HORSE SENSE
FOR THE HORSEMAN
Among Other Things to Carefully
Observe Is Manner of Feed
ing and Care of Feet.
CBy H. PRESTON HosKINs. Minaesot,
Agricultural College.O

By H. PRESTON HosKINs. Minaesot,
Agricultural College)
Don't overload your horses.
Don't feed too much corn in hot
weather.
Don't make sudden changes In the
feed.
Don't keep your horses in poorly
ventilated stables.
Don't feed grain to warm horses.
Give them hay first.
Don't allow the harness, especialls
the collar, to chafe, nor neglect to
clean the harness once in a while.
Don't expect your horses to relish
their feed unless the managers are
clean.
Don't let your horses drink large
amount of water on coming into the
stable very warm. Allow them to cool
off bit first.
Don't allow young horses to wear a
set of shoes more than month. Have
them removed. the hoofs leveled, and
the shoes reset if they are worth it.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11
CREAM GRADING HAS
BECOME NECESSARY
Better Prices Stimulate Farmer
in Obtaining Improved Breed
of Dairy Cattle.

(By L. G. RINKLE, Missouri College of
Agriculture.)
The American farmer who sells
cream should insist that the creamery
grade his cream. This will tend to cuii
out the poor quality of cream and
make possible a better grade of but
ter. Give the creamery a good grade
of cream and they can make good
grade of butter. Good butter sells
for high price, therefore top prices
can be paid for the cream. Better
cream prices stimulate the farmer in
obtaining better dairy cattle and in
crease the desire for q more careful
study of economical milk production.
The close grading Ct cream has be-
come absolutely necessary. Within
the last few years creamery butter of
the United States has been meeting
with greater competition from foreign
butter. Butter from Siberia, Aus
tralia, Denmark and South America
has come to our shores by the ship
load and sold in our large markets
alongside American made butter. 1t
has poured into the United States on
both the eastern and western coasts.
Imported butter does not reach our
markets in as fresh condition as our
own butter, consequently the majority
of it sells as second grade. In many
cases it leaves the point of production
as a first-class article, but is so long
In transit that it deteriorates and ar
riyes as second-grade butter. Unfor-
tunately the greater part of American
made butter is also second grade. This
is not because it cannot reach the mar
ket at once, but because it is made
from a poor quality of cream. The
American farmer is not producing as
good quality of cream as his foreign
brother.
First-grade butter is still in big de-
mand in this country and the pro-
ducers of good butter are realizing a
nice margin in price over the producers
of second-grade butter. Because of
foreign competition with our second
grade butter the difference in price be-
tween first grade and second grade is
wide. Foreign competition has not
materially increased the supply of
frst grades.
Because of our poor markets for
second-grade butter the farmers in
every community should compel their
creamery to grade the cream, and
should do all In their power TO see
that every farmer preauces only first
grade cream. The and only then
will that creamery be able to pay top
prices for cream.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11

(By DIR. A. r. HANER, Veterinary De-
rartment, Idaho Agricultural College)
AS a general rule the handling of
the pregnant mare will not differ ma
terially from that of the unpregnant
animal. Practices Of feeding or ham
ding which are dangerous to one may
also be dangerous to the health of the
other. 1t is best to allow the mare to
perform her usual work until within
few days of foaling time, but in the
latter part of the period of pregnancy
prevent straining while working, and
take especial care to prevent the feed
Ing of moldy or musty hay or grain.
Both these factors may endanger the
life of the fetus and the mother by
causing abortion.
Where weather conditions permit,
II is best to allow the mare to give
birth in the pasture; but be sure the
pasture does not include the barn
yard. The next best place is a large
well-constructed box stall, well bedded
with bright straw. In regions where
navel i'll is frequent it would be policy
10 thoroughly disinfect the walls and
floor of the stall and the external geni-
tai organs, the udder, the tail and the
hind quarters of the mare a few days
before birth time. 1t is well to cut
the mares ration to one-half for a few
days before and after birth.
In preventing navel i'll in addition
to the above some advocate the appli-
cation of powders, others of liquids to
the navel shortly after birth. In either
case the agents are both disinfectant
and somewhat astringent. Before APP
plying either there are two precau-
lions that are necessary: First, be
sure to disinfect your hands before
handling the navel. Second, squeeze
the jelly from the cord as it is a fa-
vorable medium for bacterial growth.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11
HE PULLED WRONG WHISPERS
Bartender Becomes Subject of a Ser
bian WrestIer's Mighty Feats OF
Strength.

Chicago.-About one and three
quarters seconds after Daniel Martin,
a bartender in saloon, had pulled the
realized his error. For Zebich. who is
a Serbian wrestler and professional
strong man. lifted Martin lightly from
behind the bar and hurled him through
the plate glass window into the street.
Zebich is thirty-eight and very burly.
He and Martin We're arrested and later
gave bonds. About q peck of broken
glass was extracted from Martins
person.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11
SH0RN LAMBS SOON
REGAIN LOST WEIGHT
Experiment Recently Made at
Nebraska Station Establishes
Truth of Old Theory.

The old idea that a shorn lamb will
regain in week or ten days the
weight of the wool removed from it
at shearing time was indicated re-
Gently in an experiment at the Ne
braska state experiment station. Five
lots of twelve lambs each were used
in the experiment, each lot fed little
differently.
As the lambs were too heavy to hold
for the experiment, there was an aver
age loss of cents per animal, but
the fact that the lambs did especially
well after the fieeces were removed
proved the old theory. The daily gain
was 81 pound.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11
Big COAST GUNS
MAKENEW RECORD
Sandy Hook ArtiIIerymen Beat
the World in Big-Gun Fire.
SIX HITS IN SEVEN SHOTS
Scored on Moving Target Six Miles
Out at sea-AIl Seven Shots Fired
in Four Minutes and Twenty
one Seconds.

New York.-They did a reassuring
thing with their big guns at Sandy
Hook the other day, reassuring for any
people Of this city who may be dis
turbed from time to time by the peri
odic outbursts of the army critics who
think that the Coast artillery doesn't
know how to shoot. On the contrary
they shoot so well that on the day In
question they broke the worlds record
for big-gun fire on a range of over ten
thousand yards. Seven shots were
fired and six hits scored with a 12-inch
gun playing on moving target some
think over six miles away, IL, 120 yard>
to be exact
The target was a floating pyramid,
II feet square at the base and 10 feet
high, mere dot on the surface of the
sea to the gunners at Fort Hancock.
And vet so accurately did they locate
the dot and gauge the motion through
the water that had the flimsy pyramid
target been a battleship, six of those
7,000-pound projectiles would have
torn through her engine room. There
We're not only six hits, but they were
punched hits. And all seven shots
We're fired in minutes and 81 seconds.
Furthermore, the target was two or
three miles farther away than a ship
would be before she could get into the
channel that would enable her to come
up within hitting distance of the city.
The Men Who Did II.
| The artillerymen who made this rec
ord were the members of the Forty
eighth company, Lieut.. Marcellus H.
| Thompson commanding. OF course,
| shooting 12-inch guns so they will hit
something is their regular job, but that
particular days work did attract some
attention. Zone hit in seven at 10000
yards or over is considered good shoot
| ing) Thompson says his men did it,
and the men say Thompson did it. The
silence of a 12-inch gun Immediately
before and after is as impressive as its
roar.
But the supreme instant of it's ST.
| lence is when II gets up to speak. Il
has been SO well fed-1,046 pounds OF
steel and PCS pounds of nitrocellulose
this chief speaker at a party thai
is sort of International entertain
ment for a visiting feet. Lieutenapt
Thompson, toastmaster, in word Of
army lingo and gesture, makes tn,
introduction. Somebody releases
metal tooth that had locked and hello
another metal tooth, and the 80 ton.
of gun gets up above the parapet. rise,
20 feet into the air without a sound a:
its lead counterweight sinks as silentl!
90 feet down into the emplacement
Then. the speech to the audience OIL
the horizon
Lieutenant Thompson lodges com
piimenrs and congratulations by ex
planning how the record shooting of hi
company never would have been pos
sible but for the long years of hare
work and training of the Coast artil
lery corps as whole under the direc
ton of General Murray and Genera
Weaver.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11
Fuss About Missed Shots.

The men &C the Firty-eighth COM
pany fuss more about the one shot that
missed than the six that hit. They ex-
plain apologetically that at the instant
the range for the fifth shot (the one
that missed) came over the wire from
the plotting room the gun was fired
and the man at the time-range board
did not hear accurately. He got the
second or third figure beyond the deci-
NAL point wrong, and that made the
next shot fall a trifle short. But the
very next shot not only came within
the limits of battleship's vitals but
demolished the pyramid target itself.
Before thinking that they must have
been very careless on that lost shot.
try to visualize and "audibilize" what
goes on in the emplacement and the
range-finding station when they are
firing big guns. Remember that they
fire every half-minute, that a thousand
and one things must be done to the
gun between shots. and that with n
moving target each firing involves a
brand-new problem involving a mass
of hifalutin higher mathematics. Also
that you have to know the answer TO
each of these problems in 80 seconds.
For each gun there are Is men in
the range section or position-fnding
service, and they must all agree on the
result, and what they do must be sun
plemented by the u men who serve
the gun itself. There can be no hitch.
A blunder of one sort will lose a shOt.
A blunder of another sort will destroy
gun and scatter the fragments of
half hundred human bodies up and
down the beach.
Again, only 80 seconds in which TO
do all those tremendous things accu-
rately! Teamwork. if ever there was
such a thingl You can't say that the
brains Of the thing are here or there
They are everywhere, one great com
posite brain.
How They Do II.
The beginning of each operation Is
In the base-line observation stations.
two observatories 1900 yards apart
on the beach. In each of them a man
Is observing the moving battleship
| through powerful glass; the intersec-
ton of tha crossed hairs In tha ola ~
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11
Many Deaths Due to Takers.

Some years ago the deaths in one
week Of six infants who had been
powwowed for TO cure infantile all
ments, focused attention all over the
country to the practices that still -four
ish in the Reading region. regardless
of prosecutions by authorities. The
spread of education and the efforts of
reputable doctors TO save lives endan-
gered by the powwow doctors had no
effect. The hex doctors still use in
carnations, passes in the air, amulets
or charms worn in bags around the
neck instead of using medicine to cure
their patients. That the patients were
really victims did not lessen the hold
of the takers and impostors on the un-
lettered part of the community.
A few years ago a family of 20
children. II of whom died at short in
tervals. their parents attributing their
deaths to witchcraft, came into promi-
nence in Reading. Their parents gave
credit for the survival of the three
children to the use of charms and a
powwow formula.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11

Cows Improve Land.
There Is constant improvement An
the land where COWS are kept
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11

dredth pet of degree the travel Of
the targ ct affects the problem.
All in Half Minute.
Then the shot itself, In a journey Of
six miles, is going to deviate some
from a straight line. Answer to that,
please. SO all these things are called
out to the man at the range board,
who must coordinate them and correct
the first answer. This, too, is all done
in 80 seconds. And by the time tbs
gun has been fired and loaded the o0
servers and the plotters have done
the thing all over again and flash the
next range to the men at the gun
Then there is muzzle velocity, which
is never twice alike from two lots or
powder. SO the coast artillerymen blend
their powder by hand, taking grains
from different cans Ia grain Of nitro
celIuTose is about the size of a spool or
thread) till they get the mixture they
like. make a trial shot with that TO
see what muzzle velocity it gives, and
then figure on the factor remaining
the same so long as the same blend is
used through one period of target prac'
tice. OF course, after little while
change in the weather or temperature
will upset that calculation, and an
other blend has to be made.
And after all this care in blending
powder, all this precision in the mathe.
MATES of the thing, there comes in the
gun pointer, not the man behind the
gun. but the man crouched alongside
it on his narrow, shelflike platform,
with his eye on the target, too, and
his hand on the delicate mechanism
that in the last instant must be cor
rect to hairs breadth if the shot is
| going home.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11

mulas really advised Leas to kill his
friend. In that case there may be
more than one indictment for the
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11

the membership campaign and already
has succeeded in enrolling more than
1000 applications from mothers who
want to lend their support to the move
ment. The head of the force is Mrs.
Rose KelhOffer. strong. aggressive
woman upon whose shoulders rests con-
siderable responsibility. She has de-
clared herself for the removal OF
blinds" for disreputable houses, dance
halls moving picture houses and vau-
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-11
Make Every Acre Work.

Every acre of land that does not
produce a crop is burden to its own
er. 1t costs money to let land lie idle
and 1t is just as much of mistake as
idleness in a healthy man Is a crime.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-10
START ACTION ON
7. II LITTLE SALARY
Point Will Be Settled in a Suit
Brought by Attorney Gen.
eral Linde.

Attorney General Linde in the near
future will begin action to try out
the question Of the right of James A.
Little, rate expert I'm the railroad
commission, to draw further salary.
The action is to taso the form of
injunction proceedings to restrain
State Auditor Jorgenson from paying
Mr.. Little, on the ground that the
emergency for which he was employ
ed, that of adjusting the Ignite coal
rates, has ceased to exist.
1t is alleged that no appropriation
exists and that the 1915 legislature
refused to make such an appropria-
ton. ... g.. .....
The Ignite rates were repealed by
the decision of the supreme court
and the railroad commission then pc
titioned the emergency board for an
appropriation to hire an expert to fix
new rates in conformance with the
decision
Permission Was Granted.
1t is claimed that the state and the
railroads soon came to an agreement
on that issue and that no further ne
cessity remained for an expert.
Theodore koffel Of Bismarck ap-
pears of counsel and will handle the
case for the plaintiff.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-10
GIRLS -.
nH 0Yny n .r-es-f fs''s. .-.s.U
STAR IN ''FOLL|ES"
R ollicksome, Swinging Comedy to
Be Presented Tonight at
Auditorium,

A pleasure that viii be enjoyed by
a very large number of Bismarck peo-
pie and those from surrounding
towns, is the "The Follies OF Now"
which appears for two nights, tonight
and Saturday, at the Auditorium.
Leon Erroles who presents this charm
ing entertainment comedy, has made
a decided hit in all parts of the coun-
try where he has presented the FOL
lies Of Now" and the people of this
place will be delighted with it.
twenty-five People.
There are twenty-five in the cast.
Pretty girls with all the latest in
dainty dances and catchy songs. The
swing Of this great success is "catch-
inf and from the first till the last
the audience is carried along with
the action of the play.
Mary Fuller Also Here.
Mary Fuller, of international fame,
Will also be in the photopiay, "The
Strength Of the Weak" which will be
given in five parts.