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The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
RIDICULOUS FAD OF FASHION
Description Of Head-Dress Worn by
Women Some Centuries Ago Ap-
pears Almost Incredible.

Fashion plays constant pranks with
n woman's hair. Addison says In the
Spectator Of 171S: There Is not SO
variable thing In nature as lady's
head.dress; within my memory have
known 1t to rise and full nbove 80
degrees" In the reign of Henry vi,
ladies wore horns, having on each side
ears so large that when they would
pass through the door of room 1t
was necessary to turn sideways and
stoop. 1t was judged necessary to en-
large the doors OF the Chateau de
Vincennes. The correct angle for the
hair was 45 from perpendicular. which
entalled great strain upon the hair
growing from the forehead. Little
thought OF what we call cleanliness
or even decency was present at the
Embarrassing of that day. Not only
was rhe hair left untouched for most
revoltingly long time, but materials
were used In the dressing OF the hair
md making the rolls (as Anna Green
Winslow related, which We're most
incredible. The Boston Gazette of
May. I'LL, tells of young woman
driving In Boston streets who was
thrown from her carriage and her high
tower partly torn of. 1t proved to be
stuffed with yarn, tow, wool, curied
hair, and even hay.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
Explaining Knockout Blow.

When the lower jaw Is struck on Its
point especially with an uppercut, the
bony portion of the ear inside is
driven forcibly upward into the glen
old cavity Of the skull, above and be
hind which Is situated the delicate
labyrinth of the inner ear.
The jawbone strikes hard upon the
thin plate of bone that supports these
sensitive organs and gives a shock
TO the semi-circular canals that ia In.
stantly transmitted by them to the
bulb, producing dizziness, nausea and
momentary paralysis.
This explains why sideways blow
on the jaw is more effective as a
knockout than one delivered directly
upon the point OF the jaw. For the
shock of sideways blow is received
In one glenold cavity. that on the side
opposite the one on which 1t is struck.
while the shock of blow In the cen
ter is divided between the cavities on
the two sides.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
GROW FAR ABOVE SEA LEVEL
cedars Flourish In Full vioor at AltI.
tudes Surprising Height Of Most -.
Mountain Peaks.

Eleven thousand one.hundred feet al
titude above sea level is some distance
above the clouds for the habitat OF a
species of IL great tree which nttains
a circumference of 10 and even IS feet.
The tree Is the western mountain &C.
dur, and 1t is found growing In full
vigor at elevations of from 5000 to
over IL 600 feet In the southern portion
OF the Sierra Nevada and where this
huge mountain chain merges over int
the Sierra Madre, running down into
Mexico. In most Of the mountain re.
gions Of the United States 1000 feet
is at or above timber line, hut in these
southern Slerras are many genial high
valleys and pockets where huge trees
are found at attitudes which surpnss
the height Of most mountain peaks
The snow covers the peaks and slopes
for n great portion of the year, but
with the earliest melting the trees
start growing and In the case of the
mountain cedars make an even greater
annual growth than many Of the low.
compels short growing season. These
huge mountain cedars are close cous-
ms to the great cedars OF Lebanon
from the timbers of which the temple
at Jerusalem was built The American
cedars, however, are more upright In
growth than the cedars Of the Old
World.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
When Spiders Mott.

When n spider is preparing to mott
1t stops eating for several days and
fastens itself by short line of web
to one of the main lines of Its snare.
which holds 1t firmly while 1t proceeds
to undress. The skin cracks all around
the thorax, and Is held only by the
front edge. Next the abdomen Is un-
covered. Now comes the struggle to
free the legs. 1t works and kicks Wig
orously. and seems to have very hard
work. But continued perseverance of
about II minutes brings it out of the
old dress; it seems almost lifeless. and
is limp and helpless for several min
utes. but gradually 1t comes back to
life and looks brighter and pretticr
than before. To young people this is
an operation OF extreme interest. A
little boy watched the melting OF a
nearly full-grown pet spider. and ran
to his mother, saying: Mamma, my
spider undressed and hung his dress
on line"
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
Goat Is Regiments Pet.

As a rule, regimentul pets are ami
mails which are more easily domesti-
Gated. such as the goat of the Royal
Welsh fusilers. who have long en-
joyed the privilege of leading theIi
pet, with shield on Its horns, at the
hend Of the drums.
On st. Dnvfd's day, after dinner,
the drum major, accompanied by Billy,
enters the messroom with dish of
leeks. He solemnly makes the round
OF the table, followed by the gout, and
offers the national vegetable to euch
officer.
Even in the case of such pet nc
cidents. however, sometimes have haI.
pened. Once n drummer's boy. light.
weight, wns on the goats back, when
some incident annoyed the animal and
the youngster was summarlly thrown
on the mess table and killed outright.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
EnqIand's Bio Mistake.

On the Sth OF March in 17G5 the
honse of lords in England passed the
stamp net. which led to the famous
Boston tea party. the first militant act
Of the Revolution.
The English treasury had been
drained by the Seven Years war and
the country needed money. The people
OF England were already taxed to the
limit and King George and the English
parliament decided that the most eS-
pedient way to raise money was to
tax the American colonists and to es-
tnblish the principle that the colonists
must pay taxes to the crown even
though they were not allowed repre-
septation in the English parliament.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
WERE MARvELs IN CHILDHOOD
Those Whom the World Has Reeoe.
mixed as Men Of Genius Remark
able for Preeoelty.

One character common to genius
and to Insanity, especially moral In
sanity. Is precocity. Cesare Lombroso.
professor of legal medicine. University
OF Turin, relates that Dnnte, when
nine years of age. wrote II sonnet to
Bentrice Tnsso wrote verses nj ten.
Pascal and COmte were great think
ers ut the ages OF thirteen, FORMER nj
fifteen. Niebuhr ut seven. Jonathan
Edwards at twelve, Michel Angelo at
nineteen, GassendI, the Little Doctor,
at four. Bossut at twelve. and Voltaire
nj thirteen. PIco de In Mirnndoln knew
Latin, Greek. Hebrew. Chnldean and
Arabic, In his childhood; Goethe wrote
story In seven languages when he
was scarcely ten; Wleland knew Latin
at seven. meditated an epic poem at
thirteen. and Mt sixteen published his
poem. "Dle Vollkommenste Welt"
Schiller was only nineteen when he
wrote "Rauber." Victor Hugo COM
posed "Irtamcne" Mt fifteen. Pope
wrote his ode to solitude ut twelve,
md Byron published verses at eight
cen. Moore translated "Anacreon" ut
thirteen. Meyerbeer ut five played ex-
cclently on the piano. Claude Joseph
Vernet drew very well mt four. md ut
twenty was n celebrated painter. At
thirteen Wren Invented an astrOnOm-
ical instrument, and offered 1t to his
father with Latin dedication.
Raphael was famous Mt fourteen.
Beethoven composed three sonatas at
thirteen. Eichorn. Mozart and Eybler
gave concerts at six. Weber was only
thirteen when his first opera, "Das
Waldmnrchcn." was presented. Bacon
conceived the "Sovum Organum" ut
fifteen. Charles MI manifested his
great designs mt eighteen.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
In a Girls Pocket.

A great deal has been written, In
both poetry and prose, about the relics
the boys carry In their pockets, writes
the high school reporter for the To-
ronto Republican. but for some reason
they missed the girls. Recently our in
vestigation committee held an inquest
upon a girls pockets and found the
following: One scented pocket hand
Kerchief, one vanity case containing
powder, mirror and some small change,
one powder rug. one crochet hook, one
ball crochet thread and work, one tat
ting shuttle. one button hook, Que nail
file, one wire hairpln. one coat button.
one stick chewing gum, note fro0
Lur last beau. and three sen-sens, be.
AIDES numerous unidentified odds and
ends Of miscellaneous nature.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
SUGAR GROWN UNDER PAPER
waiian Islands Said to Have Prov
ed Highly Successful.

A new and very odd method of grow.
Ing sugar cane is proving highly sue
cecsfH In the Hawaiian islands. When
the cane Is beginning to sprout. yard
wide strips of heavy kind Of paper
are laid lengthwlse over the rows OF
little plants and held In place with
cane-tield trash. The paper is strong
enough to keep down and smother the
starting weeds. but not to Kill the
stout and hardy young cane. In five
or six weeks the weed seeds beneath
the paper have all germinnted and
been smothered to death, but the cane
shoots have either forced their way
through or erected themselves sutii.
GENTLY to make little tent-like eleva-
tons. Laborers then pass along the
rows and with long knives make Sits In
the sheets, permitting the shoots to
come through. The liberated shoots ut
first are blanched white, but quickly
turn green and lusty. Wedding there
nfter Is almost wholly needless, be
cause there nre very few weeds. There
Is an increase of ten tons (nbout % per
cent? in the yield Of cane per acre. the
Baltimore Sun says. Half the labor Is
snvetl and the production of actual SUI
gar per acre Is augmented by more
than ton. The paper used is made
out of "bngnsse," which Is the residue
Of the cane after the sugary sap has
been squeezed out OF 1t.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
Educational Problems In India.

The Girls school at Katra. Allaha.
bad. can accommodate but few Hindu
girls In the boarding department be-
cause of the difficulty of caste. One
Brahmnn girl who was very anxious
to enter the school had to be refused
because she could not do her own
cooking and take the full course, and
she could not because of caste regu-
latlons eat at the clubs with the Chris
tim girls. A woman was found who
would cook for her but this woman
refused to wash the dishes. because
to do so would make her ceremonially
unclenn. A second woman said she
would wash the dishes, but she couldn't
cook for the Brahmnn girl because she
WAS Of such low caste that the girl
would not eat her cooking. AS II was
impossible to take In two extra Won
en- besides the girl she had to be re
fused.-The Continent.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
EMBODIED THE GERMAN IDEA
Mother Of the Great Napoleon mi9hf
We'll Be Described a. Typical
Teuton "Hausfrau."

Probably the only marble bust or
Nnpoleon's mother was one OF the OBJ
jects that the Potsdnm palace counted
It's most Interesting relic. For beside
the bust the visitor came upon small
library every title OF which relates tn
the Bonaparte family. This collection
Is vaguely accounted for as the fruit
of Butchers capture OF the emperor's
personal luggage, beside the seizure OF
most OF the Bonaparte family when the
empire fell In 1914. Prussian agents
In Puris during the various revolution.
airy outbreaks are credited with ms
sembling" anything Identified with
Bonaparte or his family. One volume.
the alleged memoirs OF Madame
Mere" (the mother OF Bonnpnrtc)
was specially cherished by the Hohen-
zollerns. for old Kaiser Wilhelm
caused the chapters to be read to him
when too III to share the soldier drills
and army maneuvers. The kaiser's In
terest in the Madame Mere rcmlnis-
cences was that Lnetitia Ramonini.
M pictured by herself. was an exact
type of the Teuton "hausfrau." II was
q never ending embarrassment to the
children OF Madame Mere thnt the old
lady couldn't he induced to assume an
Imperial state; that she remained to
the Inst the sagacious, economical
housewife. upon whom rested the re-
sponsibility OF bringing up brood OF
eight.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
The "EviI Eye"

The evil eye was the power sup
posed to be possessed by certain envi-
Gus persons to bring woe and misfor-
tune upon the prosperous and happy
by means Of n malevolent glance. It
was n belief that spread itself pretty
well over place even In minds of the
highest caliber. 1t Is odd that Bacon.
who conceived and explained new
system Of philosophy, could seriously
consider piece OF nonsense like that
Of the evil eye, yet he energies mo-
ment from the charmed realm of
knowledge to say: Envy, which Is
called an evil eye. seems to emit some
malignant md poisonous spirits that
take hold of the spirits of another ;
and is said likewise to be of greatest
force when the cnst of the eye Is OBJ
lique."
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30

1t is not generally known that there
exists In the Mexican gulf half
brother to the cuttleflsh Of the Indian
ocean. from which formerly the
worlds supply OF India ink was OBJ
talned.
The Indian cutie, when pursued by
sharks or other birds of prey, exudes
n black, pastelike substance, which dis
colors the water In Its wake. binding
Its pursuer, and, screening itself from
view, makes its escape. This evidence
gradually comes to the surface In a
foam and Is eagerly gathered by the
natives, who knead It, dry 1t, press It
Into cakes, ready for the market-nl-
ways commanding a good price.
Drnughtsnen have for two or three
centuries used Indin ink because Of
its deep eoDy and indelibiliv.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
TOO PRECIOUS TO DlvuLeE
II Man Ever Really Learns How tG
Manage q Wife He selfishly Keeps
II to Himself.

II has come to be almost tradition
that men give advice, not take 1t. A
pleasant novelty appears In Good
Housekeeping in the shape Of punsent
philosophy on the marriage question
written by Dorothy Dix.
DE papers Is full of heart-to- heart
talks to wives bout how to keep young
an willowy. so as to retain delr hus.
bands affection, but dere amt word
In 'em, from kiver to kiver, to men
bout how to keep de hair on dair
haids an from gittin' to look lax beer
kegs on skids In order to preserve del
wives love.
AN when gal Is gwine to git mar
ried, her INA, an her married sisters
an her cousins, an her aunts tukes her
OF to one side an des fills her up wild
useful hints bout gittin' on on de right
foot, and strikin' her husbnn' for his
pay envelop befo' he gifts well enough
acquainted wild her to dast to refuse
her. an drDwln' de line ut mo- dan one
evenin' out week, an de Odder mat.
tiers dat helps woman be de fust
finger In her house.
But you never heah of father. nor
brother, nor friend whut's passed
through de fluctuations of matrimony
hangin' up any red lanterns MS danger
signals for any odder man dat's about
to start on de matermonial 'scursion
Nawm. eff man ever finds out how to
manage wife he keeps de snap to
hIsself an leaves ev'y odder man to
work out his own salvation de best he
can"
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
Mammoth and Man.

The first mammoth remains dug up
In Europe were supposed to be those
OF gigantic men. In 1917 learned
professor at Lucerne, from a pelvis
and one thigh bone. Reconstructed"
man 10 feet high. Nor was the mistnke
without excuse. inasmuch as the bones
of the mammoth are remarkably hu-
man like. The vertebrne look like
magnified copies Of human spine Sec
lions, and the same Is true of the
shoulder blade. the pelvis. the femur,
etc,
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
Where She "s.umped" Him.

You are to imagine that you are lis
tening to the conversation between n
young man and young woman ut a
football game. And you are to i'm
agine a harder thIng-that the young
woman has never seen football before.
The young man Is saying:
'Now II there Is anything you want
explained. just ask me. l suppose
some Of the plays are meaningless to
you"
Everything I've seen and heard so
far Is meaningless" she responds.
"Some of the things are positively
silly"
For instance?"
For Instance, why do they call the
seats the stands?'
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
To Be a Soldier In France.

Oh, II today you dream OF home,
Think OF the road We know
Untangling a blue skein Of hills:
And how the birches Erow
Against the light. and Of that day
Only q year ago!
For here alone those hills again
Your little son and
Arc wishing the enchanted trail
Would lead us round the sky
And drop US In a Flanders Held
To see you marching by.
And now the child Is eager for
A wonder-tale of Greece:
tell him how you sailed away
Like Jason for the Fleece.
To md glory more than gold
Beside the windinx-Lys
But while his deep eyes glow and glow,
II seems another tells
d. The tale and beauty to my heart
No word of mean spells.
And the river on the valley floor
Flows over Flemish bells.
Grace Hazard Conkiins In the Century.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30

calls the "He's
the-man" joke.
In some vuria-
ton or other 1t
has appeared In
ev cry co IN ! e
magazine and In
every almanac
since the begin
ming Of human
speech. Example.
In its simplest
form:
"yVho Ia TINT OF.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
Association Of Ideas.

"why do you object to the study Of
botany In the schools?"
at nearly ruined my digestion"
snId Mr.. Growcher. II cultivated the
hnblt Of calling vegetables by their
Latin names until nearly everything
ate sounded as II 1t had come out
Of a doctors prescription"
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
No Real Equality.

She-At last the time Is coming
when the sexes will be ON an equal
footing.
He-That can never be.
She-Why not, sir?
He-There will never be any real
equality between the sexes while a
man can't go through his wife's pock-
cts for the loose change he wants.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30

First Bird-What, back agaIn2 I
thought you had Job as one Of those
educated songbirds that sing popular
airs?
Second Bird-So I did, but the peo-
pie next door thought was a phono-
graph and started throwing things; so
l quit my job.
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
WIille's Joke,

sPa. what funny word -wholcE,me'
IL.
swhat's funny about tf''
~Why, take away the whole Of r. and
Iou have some left."-f$cst0n Tran.
script
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
- The -.
Scrap Book
JOKES AGE CANNOT WlTHER
Laughter Producers That Have Been
Part Of HumorIsts' Capital
Throughout the Centuries.

Perhaps We should say the second
Oldest Joke. for this is different
one. 1t Is the only rival to the "what-
do-you-expect-for-fift With
cism for age honors. This one we
The Meeker herald., 1919-08-30
Might Be Partly True.

"They say your husband sQueezes
his employees"
"Well. don't know. but have my
suspicious about that blonde type.
writer."-Boston Transcript.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-07-13
COULD FORTUNES
AGAIN At FLOOD
Come Out Of Lane of Disappoint-
ment and Depression.
LUCK IS 4 LARGE FACTOR

story OF Comeback" 10 Told by Rich
ard splIlane-Hardly Property
Over Which oeuids One Time Held
Sway but Went to oisaster-Now
From Out Of Western Waste Comes
Mighty Golden Shower to couIds.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-07-13
REFUSED TO QUIT NAVY
Woman Objected to Be Bothered With
News Of Big Fortune.

A fortune valued at 100000 has
not iured Miss Bette Fisher. a yeoman
In Uncle Sans navy. from her desk
in Washington. She has announced
that she will stay on the Job until her
work has been completed.
Miss Fisher was busily engaged In
her office when an Oklahoma attorney
called and notified her that she had
been left the entire estate of her
uncle, John Patrick MCGOWAN OF Me
ridlan. Okla. He told the yeoman that
all she had to do was to sign some
papers.
81 cant be bothered about signing
any papers now" said the millionair-
ess. "The yeomen are scheduled to
parade and be reviewed this after
noon, and l can't let any legal matters
stand In the way"
After the parade that afternoon Miss
Fisher signed the papers. then re-
turned to her duties at the navy de-
partment.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-07-13
mo.h.r Dies Of JOY a, Seeing Son.

Overcome at the sight of her n
Fremont, who returned home unexpecf-
edly after serving In the navy, Mrs.
Lillian 3. Hanson, f~orty-five years old,
of Springfield. Mass, died almost Inn
m~ediately.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-07-13

Among the many old saws is the
n that II is a long lane that has
no turning. The Goulds have come
Out from the lane Of disappointment,
defeat and depression into the high.
way OF big profits and bigger promise,
writes Richard Spillane In the Chi
cago Post.
Queer Is the history OF the Goulds.
Old Jay Gould rose from a peddler Of
mousetraps TO be the greatest manipu-
lator Wall Street ever has known. He
died leaving n fortune of S7O.OOO.OO o
and n record without one constructive
net and many of destruction.
George J. Gould testified some six
or eight years ago after his fathers
death that the Gould fortune, instead
of being decreased, as generally sup
posed, had been increased up TO that
time.
There can be no doubt, however, as
to what happened later. The millions
melted. Hardly a property over
which the Goulds held sway but went
10 disaster.
Look at a partial list Of those that
went bankrupt The Missouri Pacific.
Denver and Rio Grande, Wabash. st.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern.
Texas and Pacific and Western Pa
cifc.
Saved by Absorption.
But for It's absorption by the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph It was
inevitable the Western Union would
have followed the others. Only the
Manhattan "L" in New York contin-
ued TO prosper.
George J. Gould and the various
other Goulds dropped out OF the d.
rectorates Of many corporations and,
gradually, came 70 be numbered among
the has-beens.
And now from out OF the western
to the Goulds.
The Texas and Pacific Railroad COM
pany never has earned a dividend. II
has been n waif and a stray and n
worry for 10! these many years.
To every great corporation there
are pendant little corporations. So II
happens that 10 me Texas and Pacific
there is a Texas and Pacific Coal com
pany. This concern has certain land
rights which were taken over by IL
10 develop. for there Is some coal in
north Teuls. This Texas and Pacific
Coal company dates back TO 1888.
II never amounted to much until they
.Nu..l- III L. R.rtL Tawaa N.u- Nha
lands of the company are pock-marked
with oil holes. The shares of the
Texas and Pacific Coal and OIL COM
pany They've added oil to the tltle)
are quoted above $500 a share. this
despite the fact that the capitalization
has been increased 100000 on three
occasions within Il comparatively
short time. The new capital has gone
TO the old stockholders Mt 500 n share.
Had Texas and Pacific In Junk Box.
The Goulds had T. 4 r. coal shares
IN their strongboxes along with
no ends OF stuff OF little or no
worth Of other Gould properties
that went 10 ruin. Now these certif-
Gates OF the T & r. have m amazing
value. How much of the S5.0OO,0Ot
outstanding the family owns is not
known outside n select circle.
They couldn't sell their shares at
80, 100 a piece. That Is the asked
price. But IL Is the confident belief
that before the coal and the Oil on the
lands controlled by the company peter
out there will be profits In excess OF
100000 700. or several hundreds OF
millions to divide among the share
holders.
The Goulds hive Come back" by Q
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-10-17
School Notes

Harold Hanson, Donald Miller,
Minnie Torgerson, Lyle Harrison
and Slater Whiddon enrolled IN
Senior high school Monday.
Betsy Kleth, Mildred Holt and
Carl Stanton enrolled in sjunior
high school Monday.
Robert Perkins, Alfred Swanson
and Esther Kleth, enrolled in Miss
Baken's room Monday. Other new
pupils are Dorothy Holt and Mil
dred Kleth.
The primary grades are getting
ready for Halloween, by starting
the making of cats and witches.
The typewriters ordered some time
ago have come and are in use. They
are fine machines. Typewriting mas
been made a permanent course lr
the Senior high school. There is g
large class in the subject this year
Part of the physics apparatus i:
here. The physics class is large
and the work is interesting anC
practical.