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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-21

of this farm will be set aside as a
unit of a diversified farm. An effort
will be made to determine the amount
of pasture, the proportion of hay and
grain land, and the rotations desir-
able for the best success. Suitable
sized herds of dairy cattle, sheep,
and swine will be kept on the farm.
The remainder of the farm will be de-
voted to the growing of feed stuffs
for a rather comprehensive series of
feeding Investigations, aimed to de-
termine the place that sheep and cat
tie have in southern Idaho as a mar
ket for grain and forage crops of
that region"
"The farm at Aberdeen has been
used for some time as a combination
dry and irrigated farm. 1t has now
Neen turned entirely into an irrigated
rsct. devoted to varietal and Gull
tural tests of grains and forage
crops"
"One of the most interesting farms
IN tne SUaJe Is the new high Altitude
Satisfaction at Felt, consisting of 100
acres of dry land and 40 acres of irri-
gated land. The farm is located at
an altitude in excess of 5000 feet, and
the problem is to determine those
crops that can be most successfully
and ~profitably grown under those
conditions"
"The farm at Standpoint will be
handled as a diversified farm, and
will do some work in testing the va
rieties of grains and forage crops
best suited to the cut over regions of
north Idaho. An innovation in sub
station work is the introduction of
an apiary as a feature of the work
at Standpoint"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-21

which became congested in the saw
mill. Frances Larson was also
thrown from the carriage and sustain
ed a bad cash about the head. They
were both treated by DR.. E. t. Helm
and Mr. Odell vas taken to the hos
pital at Palouse.
The Rev. w. A. Hitchcock has ar
rived today from Seattle and will be-
Gin his duties Easter Sunday. The
| Christian Endeavor had a Sun rise
PRAYER meeting at $50 Easter morn
ing. Other services were at 9:45 and
II a. M, evening services at 8 p. M,
with special musical numbers both
morning and evening.
The Potlatch Home Guard opened
it's seasons range work last Sunday
and despite mud, rain and wind, many
creditable scores were made. Firing
today is to be done by the company's
second class.
The regular army course is to be
fired, commencing with the lnstruc-
ton practice followed by recorder fir
sharpshooters and experts are to be
awarded government medals, in addi-
ton to gold insignia issued by the
Home Guard.
The company is commanded by
Captain G.. B. Craney, with First Lieu
tenant R. F. Kicker as financial sec
rotary, and Second Lieutenant E.. G:
McFee as range officer and physical
director. The officers anticipate a
very lively session with many local,
state and interstate matches, and a
good percentage of membership is ex-
pected to qualify in the three govern
ment grades.
Word was received today by Mrs.
Lester Flasher that her husband ar
rived in New York with E Company
End Battalion, goth Engineers Forest,
served about sixteen months
Guy Van Buskirk also OF
Potlatch, has wired that he has land
ed safely. Mr.. Van Buskirk and Mr..
Flasher have served in the anne COM
pany since entry in the service Octo-
Der LIST, 1917.
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ChiIdren's Eancjes.

Children live in a world of fancy.
Whatever may be the real nature of
the things they see those things to
them are real. Remember that the
child has had no experience by which
to judge the Importance of practical
relations of what they see or imagine.
Even men and women sixty years old
misjudge events, misunderstood rela-
tionships of things, attach absurd i'm
%pOrtance to their im%aginings. How
must it be with a child who has not
been here long enough to test his
visions by the standards of observa-
ton and experience Exchange.
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was learned that Walter, although
only II years old, is in high school,,
having finished the eighth grade. He
called at the office of The Star-Mir-
ror and when questioned about it
readily admitted this is true, but he
thought he was entitled to enter as
he is under II years old. When shown
the rules governing the contest which
are that "only boys or girls in or I'M
der the eighth grade are allowed to
enter the contest, he withdrew all
claim to the award in such a manly
way that he won the admiration of
those present.
Miss Burch was adjudged second
by the judges of the contest and the
withdrawal of Walter May, who was
placed first, leaves her the winner of
the prize of S. which she can have
by calling at the business office of
The Star-Mirror tomorrow forenoon.
She is to be congratulated on her
good fortune. Her letter follows:
why My Mother Likes Calumet
Baking Powder.
"My mother and | myself are very
fond of using Calumet Baking Pow
der. Every housewife should use this
because it makes the bread, biscuits
cakes very light and sweet. When
ever you bake you always are salts
fled with the good results of this
Calumet Baking Powder.
"Goldia Burch, 920 South Logan st.
Moscow, Idaho"
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SUBSTATION FARM
PLANS REVISED
More Adequate Appropriations Rem
der Possible Effective Service
fO State

W.
Dean E.. J.. Iddings of the College
of Agriculture has just returned from
a visit to the substation farms in
various parts of the state. The Uni
versity owns or controls through
lease 1900 acres Of land, handled for
investigational purposes. Dean Idd-
ings held conferences with the SUI
p~erintendents of these various sub
station farms with reference to the
plans for the biennium.
"For the first time in the history
of the state" says Dean Iddings,
"these farms have been given enough
money to enable them to do some of
the things contemplated when the
farms were established. 1t is hoped
to make these farms more active in
agricultural development"
"The farm at Caldwell consists of
800 acres, the larger portion of
which can be irrigated. A portion
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-21
GLEE CLUB ON TOUR

Annual Trip Through Northern Idaho
The young mems glee club of the
University will leave on their annual
trip about the middle of April. Six
teen men, the director and accompan-
list will make the trip.
The opening concert will be in Mos
COW. The towns where engagements
have been made for the glee club are
Lewiston, Cottonwood, Grangeville,
Occur d'Alene, Wallace, St. Maries
and Kellogg.
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- I
NARROWING OF FIELD PEAS
Of No Advantage Following Drill

vi ANO EoFdAttdSS &OiiOWhhS ~
AS a rule, unless the peas are seed
ed in rows, nearly all of the cult
walton must be given before the crop
is seeded. For this reason the prep
aration of the seed bed must be thoro.
A number of farmers, however, plan
on narrowing the crop Immediately
after drilling; others harrow after
the crop is Up. A few growers har-
row at both of these periods. A num-
Der of men harrow a couple of times
after the peas are up, this undoubt-
eddy being a very good practice, es-
pecially if there are many weeds in
the field. In case two borrowings
are given it would be necessary to
increase the rate of seeding slightly,
since the narrowing cannot help but
tear out some of the plants.
AS far as increasing the yield is
concerned the practice of narrowing
the peas Immediately following the
drill is of no value. This is shown
conclusively in the data obtained
from 1877 growers of field peas in
northern Idaho.
The Effect of Narrowing After
Seeding on the Yield and Average
Acre Value of Field Peas in North
ern Idaho. Data from the Question
n~aires, 1917-1918 Inclusive:
Narrowed
No. of Yield, Lbs. Blu. per Ave.
Reports per A Acre Acre
1917 1918 1917 1918 Ave. Ave. Value
81 SIS 1916 535 465 II $27.90
Not Narrowed
90 26 1856 $50 5O7 8.4 3O.42
Difference in favor - -
of not narrowing AZ OF S 2.52
No grower of field peas can afford
to follow a practice that does not in
crease the yield, or is not of benefit
to the land. Yet a large number of
growers of this crop are narrowing
the land directly after seeding and
on the average they are receiving a
decrease in yield of or bushels to the
acre. In narrowing Immediately af-
ter drilling, the harrow tends to I'M
cover many of the peas and thus a
less uniform termination is the re-
suit. There is one possible Ease in
which this practice might be recon-
mended: if the seed bed had not been
thoroughly prepared, a light harrow
ing would sometimes be of advant-
age; otherwise no advantage is gain
ed, and the drill has killed any weeds
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GARDEN TIME AT HAND

AS soon as the ground can be
worked early spring garden vege-
tables can be planted, such as lettuce,
beets, endive, spinach, radishes, onion
sets, smooth peas, carrots, asparagus,
rhubarb and swiss chard. The es-
sentials of home vegetable garden
ing may be found in Bulletin 106 of
the Agricultural Experiment Station
of the university.
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GOLD|A BURCH IS
WINNER OF PRIZE
WALTER MAY NOT ELIGIBLE BE-
CAUSE IN HIGH SCHOOL
WHICH VIOLATES RULE

Goldia Burch, of 900 South Logan
street, Moscow, was awarded the SIS
prize for the best essay on "Why
Mother Uses Calumet Baking Pow
der" The judges of the contest
awarded the first prize to Walter May
of 416 Lewis street, whose very x
cellent letter headed the list pub
lished in Saturdays paper. Today it
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the grower is out the cost of harrow
ing.
There is advantage from narrowing
after the peas are up. This will be
discussed in the next issue of the
News Letter.
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POTLATCH PARAGRAPHS
EASTER SERVICES

Potlatch.-Melvin E. Odell of this
city received painful bruises and cuts
about the head and badly and a frac-
tured pelvic bone on his right side
when he was thrown from a carriage
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v. G. Cochrane Of Harvard was in
Moscow yesterday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Travis OF
Princeton we're visitors III Moscow
Thursday.
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CHAPTER XVII.
The Last Victim.

THAD listened to all this as
though to voices in a fever.
- 1 had been trying to get up
my courage for a leap. 1t seemed
to me now a desperate, hopeless
undertaking. but it was easier to
die in a struggle than to lie there
in cold blood while she strangled
me with those long, cold, iron
hands.
She was not calm. 1 could see
that her eyes were shifting, her
arms and legs twitched, her fingers
moved restlessly. Black and hard
as her lost soul must be, it shrunk
a little from this killing. The muir
der of her own child gave her a
very ague of dread.
1t was partly, no doubt, the de-
sire to postpone the hideous act
that had kept her spinning out her
tale so long But the end had come
now 1t was, knew it we'll, the
last moment of my life. looked at
the candle.
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At the same instant heard a
window open somewhere in the
house. Thank God! 1t was morn
ing. The household was awake.
The sound was all needed to fire
my courage.
l flung myself bodily upon the
candle, rolled away, scrambled to
my feet. and fed along the passage
way-With the speed Of my despair.
She was after me like a fash, but
had an instant's start.
Down the inclined plane I slid.
1 leaped along the steps, and there,
at the foot, she fell upon me, and
we lay, painting, within a stones
throw of the closet wall. And I
realized that our flight had been
no more noisy than the scuttling
of rats. l gave myself up to death.
Madame took me up in her arms
as though l had been a little child,
and, soft-foOted as a panther, car
ried me back to the side Of the iron
box. There she laid me down and
bound my ankles, not gently, so
that the blood flowed under the
Irvine.
Then, with steady hands, she re-
lighted the candle. l saw her face,
livid with rage and fear, pitiless,
glaring. She slid her hand into the
pocket of her dress-that gray
dress which she had copied from
mine. Again, for a fantastic, icy
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Ro-moY &3o,co Gvodee<
% H3umQaAA TO tho
1fhboG Aeltcota Ski.

that does not contain starchy rice
powder or dangerous white lead tc
make it adhere. White lead is a
deadly poison and rice powder turns
into a gluey paste that encourages
enlarged pores, blackheads and rice
powder irritations. Because La-may
is so pure and because it stays on so
we'll it is now rsPd by over a million
American women. The large size Is
only fifty cents. Most dealers also
carry the small trial size. Be sure
to try La-may. You will really never
know a perfect face powder until
you use it. You will be sorry If you
take a substitute. When you use
this improved powder and see how
beautifully it improves your complex
ion you will understand why La-may
so quickly became the most popular
beauty-powder sold in America.
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We again remind you that you can
now use face powder that positively
will not cause enlarged pores, black
heads and irritations. In fact, while
it is considered the best face powder,
it is also a remedy for complexion
troubles. 1t is guaranteed pure and
really harmless to the most delicate
baby skin. 1t beauties the complex
ion wonderfully because it helps to
clear and tighten the skin and pro-
tect the complexion from blemishes.
This new kind of face powder is
made largely of an ingredient that
skin specialists use in the treatment
of the complexion. And it really
stays on better than any other face
powder. OF course, after saying this,
every one will know we are speaking
of the famous La-may powder French,
Poudre L'Ame). This is the powder
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second, had that awful feeling
that she was /. that I was she. that
we we're Of the same spirit and
flesh.
When her hand came out it held
a slender knife. fine and keen and
delicate as a surgical instrument.
With her other hand she sought
and found the beating Of my heart
] now knew the manner Of my
death. 1 shut my eyes and prayed
that it would be over quickly.
There was the faintest sound
above my head and opened my
eyes. Before the woman saw my
deliveranee. 1 saw It. A beam that
had made part Of the sill that
crossed the passageway above rs
slid quietly from its place. and into
the opening a figure swung and
dropped.
Before even it could reach the
ground the woman had put out the
light and vanished like a ghost.
heard not so much as the rustic Of
her dress.
The figure from above landed
lightly beside me and flashed on an
electric lantern. It was Paul Dab
ney! He bent over me and drew a
quick, sharp breath.
tried to cry out Follow the
woman!" but my bound lips were
soundIess.
II have caught you" he said.
duly. "It is the end"
To Be Concluded Next Sunday.
Copyright. 1919. By Katharine NewHn Burt.
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FRECKLES
Now Is the Time to Get Rid of These
Ugly Spots

There's no longer the slightest need of feel.
ing ashamed OF your IrecEIes. as othine-
double Strengths guaranteed TO remove these
hOmely spots.
Simply get an ounce Of Othine-double
strength-frOm your druggist, and apply a little
Of IL night and morning and you should soon
see that even the worst freckles have begun u
disappear. while the lighter ones have van.
Ished entirely. IL Is seldom that more than
one ounce is needed 10 completely clear the
skin and gain a beautiful clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength
Othine as this is sold under guarantee OF
money back II 1t fails to remove freckles.
nv Star Company. Great Britai
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81 risked my own life by bribing
George to leave you in Pine Cone
to foot it home alone, and risked
it again by following you and lay
ing that trap for you in the woods.
risked it because / was certain
that you would have the transla-
ton hidden in your dress.
81 pushed the pine tree over after
George had passed; it needed only
a push. Nom de Dieu! You can.
not know what frenzy seized me
when / found out that again you
had outwitted me. l wanted to kill
you that day. l wanted to beat you
to death there and leave you dead.
But you were a little too valuable.
l decided to cripple you, to put you
out of the running for a few days
while l got hold of the fool priest
myself. That was only yesterday
but it seems an age.
you must be made Of iron,
Janice. You came near defeating
me to-night-the insolence of it!
You, a chit of girl!
"This morning l gave Mazda
letter for Blast, and | thought it
was to mail it that she went out
after supper tonight. When /
found her note under my plate l
had a shock. I was sure she had
found out something important
81 went down to the bridge. Yes.
You may have the satisfaction.
Make the most of it. i did go down
to the bridge, but I didn't wait long.
Ten minutes was enough. Do you.
suppose Mazda would be late for an
appointment with me? Not if she
was living.
mo, my girl. l stood there and
realized that you might have
worked the trick, that you might
have sent Mazda out of the way,
might have decoyed me; might,
even at that instant, be on the track
of the jewels.
God! How l ran back to the
house! When l found the kitchen
door locked knew. | went round
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l was -oung and strong and &C
tive. l must not die here in this
horrible wall. / must not bear the
infamy of this woman's guilt. l
must not lie dead and unspeakably
defiled in the sight of the man /
loved.
Paul Dabney's face, haggard,
wistful, appeared before me, and
my whole heart cried out to its
gray and doubling eyes for help,
for pity, for belief.
Unluckily, the woman, sensitive
as a cat, had become aware Of the
changed current of my thought, of
the changed direction of my look.
She, too, glanced at the candle and
gave a little exclamation of dismay
that stabbed the silence like sud-
denly barred knife.
"Bah," she said, 'it must be day
light, and / haven't half confessed
myself. Pests on the timei We've
been here four or five hours. Are
you cramped?"
was insufferably cramped. The
pain of my arms and shoulders, the
cutting of the Irvine about my
wrists were torment was very
thirsty, too. But nothing was so
cruel as the sinking of my heart
which her words caused me.
81 suppose l shall have to cut it
short" she said. After all, you
must know it almost as well as l
do, especially since you had the
nerve to play my part with MAZDA.
The worst trick you put over on
me was when you Pulled Dabney
out of the mud-curse the mud any
way, if it had been a real quick
sand he'd have been done for! His
getting back alive that night GER
tainly crossed me, and, as for
MAZDA, she was in a devils rage.
"She couldn't understand how
he'd escaped. She cursed and
raved and even threatened me. It
was all that Jaffrey and l could q
to hold her, she was for giving up
the whole game and making a get
away before it was too late. AS
matter of fact, it was already too
late for anyone but me.
"Hovey had you all just where
he wanted you. At any instant he
could bag you all. l had known
that for some time. If it hadn't
been for your beau, Janice, and a
little bit, perhaps, because Of my
own pretty ways, all of you would
be jailed by now.
After you'd rescued your Dab
ney, l had to play a bold. prompt
game. l knew that the spell
couldn't hold much longer. l could
see by the strained look on that
boys faeS that he was at the snap
ping point.
81 told MAZDA to search the book
case that night. Action of some
kind was necessary to keep her in
hand. l didn't know that you had
already taken away the paper.
Blast had told me about the paper
when I was in New York. and the
Baron had limited at its possible
hiding place. He came down here
that day to tell mel bribed him
for all was worth. He was going
to leave word with Mazda. Then,
of course, he saw you, and the poor
fool thought / was playing house
keeper under Dabney's very nose.
"The night after Dabney's rescue,
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81 was fascinated by this plan OF
using you, Janice, of getting wit
nesses to swear to your identity as
Madame IRENE, of batting trap
with you for bait-into which all of
my accomplices would tumble, as
they have tumbled, and, then, as a
last stroke, putting an end to you
and making clean getaway my
self. If anyone swings for your
murder It will be MAZDA, who left
the Pines so hurriedly and secretly
tonight.
There's another reason why
didn't take them into the secret of
your resemblance: / was glad to
have them fancy themselves al.
ways under my eye. The risk of
their giving themselves away to
you was very small, for / had ar
ranged a signal, without which they
were positively forbidden to show
by sign, or look, or word, even
when they seemed to be alone with
me, that they had any collision
with Mrs. Brane's housekeeper,
that they thought her anything in
the world but Mrs. Brane's house
keeper. have my tools pretty well
scared, Janice, and 1 knew they
would obey my orders to the let
ter"
In this madame was wrong.
MAZDA and Jaffrey had both dis
obeyed this order. With no signal
from me. they had spoken in their
own character to me as though I
had indeed been Madame Irene.
Like the plans of most generals,
madame's plans had their weak
points.
"You know how it al worked"
she went on, unconscious of my
mental connotations, ''and, then,
sacre nom de Dieu! came Dabney!'
How the rats scuttIed in the
house the night after he camel 1
had MAZDA to thank for putting me
wise. That innocent faced, slim
youngster, with his air of begging
OF punishment. / admit, he'd have
given me very little Uneasiness.
You see"
AS she talked l had been watch
ing her with the fixity of my de-
spair, but, a few moments before
this last speech Of hers concerning
Dabney, the Pickering of the light
across her face had drawn my at
tention to the second candle. 1t
had burned for more than half its
length, and l knew that morning
was at hand.
Morning, and a faint hope! The
story was not finished, and, though
l thought / could tell the rest my
self, the woman was so absorbed
in the delightful contemplation of
her triumph and her cleverness,
that / knew she would go on to the
end. The wild resurgent hope
deafened me for a few minutes to
her low murmur of narration. It
had come to me like a flash that,
with my legs unbound, l might be
able to knock over the candle, put
it out, get to my feet in one light
ming spring and make a dash for
the hole In the closet.
Would there not be a chance Of
my reaching it alive? Would not
the noise Of my fight, in spite of
my stocking feet and the handker-
chief over my mouth, be enough to
attract the attention even of a
sleeping house, much. more certain
ly of an awakened and suspicio 8
one?
1t was, Of course, a desperate
hope, but / could not help but en-
terrain it, II l could force myself
to wait till morning had surely
come, till there was the stir and
murmur of awakening life, surely,
o, dear God, surely, there might be
one little hope Of life!
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nursery. So / made myself up as
the witch that lives under the
stairs, and walked him by bending
down over his bed with my hair
hanging in his face. 1 was nearly
caught at it, too, by Mary, and l
scared the old woman out Of the
house-which 1 hadn't in the least
intended to do.
81 didn't half like Mrs. Brane's
plan Of getting a man and wife to
take the place Of the old woman,
and saw at once the necessity for
Jaffrey and Mazda. However, was
determined not to let them know
that there were two red-haired
women in the house.