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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-09-15
Red Cross Nurse Coming

Miss Agnes Carletin, Red Cross
nurse, will arrive in Boomers Ferry
this week and will begin at once a
health survey of all the school child
rem OF the county. Miss Carletin will
also make arrangements to meet the
mothers with children of pre-schooI
age and will assist and instruct them
In health matters. She may be found
at the court house in Boomers Ferry
by those desiring to communicate with
her. WIN
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-09-15
SPECIAL TEACHERS EXAMINATION

On Saturday, September "a, an ex-
animation in Idaho Civil Government
and School Law and in the Manual of
Methods and Course of Study for both
the elementary and high school will
be given at the Court House to all
candidates for state certificates. Can
didates for state certificates must take
this examination at this time Copies
OF the school law and manuals can be
obtained at the office of the County
superintendent. sens a.
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Henderson Ranch Sold

recent real estate transfer was
the sale of the James H. Henderson
place near Moyie Springs to Frederick
A. SHELTON and George T. Shelton, who
came here short time ago from the
Gallatin valley of Montana. The ranch
comprises 100 acres and the consider
alton was $1,000. The new purchasers
will move upon the place at once with
their families and develop the ranch.
The deal was put through by Chas.
O'Callaghan.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-09-15

=. W, Cromwell recent arrival
mere from Nebraska, has purchased a
half interest in the Squirting ranch in
the Copeland district. the deal having
been closed last week. Mr.. Cromwell
is a brother-in-law of E. B. Squirting
who has been one of the most success
ful farmers of the Copeland district
Tor several years. The deal includes
half interest in some 400 acres of
land, so head of cattle and the imple-
ments and equipment of the Squirting
ranch.
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BIG PRIZES WILL BE OFFERED
Continued from first page.)

The following subscriptions were
made by the county officials and en-
ployes for the grand sweep stakes
nriZe.
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us This a Time for Hope or Dis
pair" will be the theme at the Union
church Sunday morning.
Last Sunday morning our audience
filled the house. Gomez This is the
community church-your church.
Bible school 10 a. m.
Preaching IL m.
Choir practice Thursday evening,
1870. GEO. FOWLER,
Pnone Ia Pastor.
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Union Church

A. H. MORTON, Pastor
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Methodist Church Notices

Sunday school at TO- Morning SER
vice at II. Epworth League at $50.
Preaching at 1880.
You are cordially invited to attend.
Strangers will receive home like
welcome.
A. H. MORTON, Pastor.
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Marnot-The best floor varnish
made. Bliss Paint and Paper Store. tt
For Sale-Fruit Boxes of all kinds.
Standard apple boxes, 15c (. o. b. mill.
Other prices in proportion. V. ID.
Coglon, Copeland, Idaho. sep1-22p
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NOTICE = For firstclass PAPER
Hanging Painting and Calcimining.
see Roy Hamilton or call at Farms
worth's Hardware Store. apr14tf4c
The Washington times., 1921-10-29
MINER SOUGHT IN DEATH
or SOUTH DAKOTA PRIEST

LEAD. s. D., Oct 2s.-oftcers
and volunteers today are securing
the Black Hills country near Roche,
ford, twenty five miles south OF
here. for Andrew Rolsndo. a miner.
sought In connection with the killing
OF Father A. b. Belknap. pastor OF
81. Patrick's Cathedral here. early
Wednesday morning.
Suspicion was directed toward
Rolando. officials said. when Il de-
yeloped that he had been missing
since Wednesday. and that a pistol
and hammer. similar TO wea pons
used In the killing OF the priest,
were found In the miners room. In
connection with this development. a
The Washington times., 1921-10-29
ALCOHOLISM DEATHS
DECREASE IN CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO. Oct. 2s.-Dssths
from alcoholism In California have DC
creased 81 per cent since national pro
hibition became effective. according to
a report made public by the State
Board OF Health. Twenty-three deaths
were caused In California during the
first six months OF 1921 by bootleg
whiskey. the report states. In 1917 a
total OF 2+0 deaths were recorded In
California In which the contributing
causes were alcoholism. and In 1890
but 81 are charged TO this cause.
The Washington times., 1921-10-29
FAST WORKER
IN STOLEN AUTO
ROBS2OW WOMEN
Took Good or Thriller" He
Says, as Police Unload
BusheI Of JeweIry.

CHICAGO, Oct. 2s.-Frsnk VII
kins. twenty-six years old. 10 fast
worker. Just TO start the day rtsh'
he stole a flivver. and before tht
police could chase him into a blind
alley he had stopped and robbed
twenty women. His methods were
simple. but effective. and had ne
stolen a faster car and had not
run into a blind alley he might be
going yet.
He would ride up to women in the
residence districts. hail them, snh'e.
tip his cap and alisht. All Of
them fell for the deception, thinking
II was some acquaintance. He would
poke an automatic In their ribs. eau.
ton them to make no outcrsy. ana
rings. and other vaiuables, and speed
away.
The police had no trouble picdng
up his trail. which was marked by
screaming, fainting women. The
rifle squad. in a highpowered car.
soon overlook him and riddl.d his
stolen machine with bullets. Un-
for him. he steered into
an aHsy ard found his pfo< <'"sn
stopped by n .S-foot brick wall
81 took 'hITer. so'sd o'c
TIM iller. bovs," was his only Comment
as the porns nailed him. At tue
station a Wh"elLarrow load OF purres,
frs. rings. recklaces. costly wrap,
9 nd mone- was unloaded f-om The
'rolen Cal and The pockets Of ne
10 ndit
The Washington times., 1921-10-29
NEW DEVICE MEASURES
TRAFFIC WEIGHT ON ROADS

An ingenious device, perfected by
the Bureau Of Public Roads Of the De.
department of Agriculture. will dis.
close what happens under a roadway
as traffic passes over 1t. It was an
nounced recently. This unique instru-
ment was developed to ascertain what
thickness Of roadbed is required for
light or heavy traffic on various kinds
Of soil.
The device measures, at desired dis
tances, how the. burden of traffic is
distributed through the roadbed to the
soil on which 1t rests.
When the facts have been fully OBJ
tanned and the traffic burden on the
nearby and underlying soil can be
correctly measured. II ID expected to
prove Of invaluable aid to road makers
as to the proper thickness Of the roads
they should construct on varying
kinds Of subsurface-
The Washington times., 1921-10-29
THIEF WRITES TO THANK
OWNER OF STOLEN APPLES

LONDON. Oct. 2s.--openins an un-
stamped letter ON which she was sur
charged eight cents. Mrs. Hearn. OF
Barnet. was astonished 10 find an
anonymous note thanking her for
some apples stolen from her orchard
The writer said he had robbed the
orchard for five years In succession.
The apples are still very good. he
finished, but i hope that you viii
use a good fertilizer before next year.
The Washington times., 1921-10-29
ALL VARIETIES OF LIQUOR
At ALL KINDS OF PRICES

KANSAS CITY. Mo-. Oct. 2s.-The
Heart OF America" may be far from
the rum-runnins borders, but It 10
also far from being dry"
The police are very active in max
ing arrests, but bootlegging thrives
Good whiskey costs $40 to SIS a quart.
but "corn"-bootleg whiskey-is serv.
cd for thirty-five to fifty cents q
drink and sold for from - to IS per
quart. Corn" 10 the common drink
and It II easy to get. Some beer IL
sold. at a quarter q glass. which is
near beer. doctored with alcohol and
ether. Drug stores are doing whole
sale business In selling whisksy on
prescriptions.
The Washington times., 1921-10-29
DANCING
DINNE

GLOVER, ua s2di private Lessons any
time. u: class Tues. and Fri. West iisS
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PLYMoUTH-CHERBoURG-BRENEN
AMERICA: 49, Nov Nov. 2S-J.n 4
GEORGE WARRINGTON:
Nov. s-Dec s-Jan ~
The Washington times., 1921-10-29
CITY CLOCK ON A SPREE;
DASnEs orr i4o STROKE

BELLAIRE. Ohio. Oct fs.-Ths
city clock on the Central school build
ing here ran wild recently.
The striking apparatus refused q
quit after striking twelve and con-
tinued working for several minutes.
At O'Clock the apparatus struck
lt0 times.
Similar striking sprees" were re-
ported at each hour until daylight.
The Washington times., 1921-10-29
Sim Feiner Routs Thugs.

BOSTON. Oct. 29.-Visiting men,
bers of the Sim Fein army are most
unsatisfactory subjects for hold.up
men. 1t was demonstrated here by
John A. Kennedy. a twenty-one-year-
old veteran of the Irish Republican
Army. Two highwaymen attempted
to relieve John OF $3.50. John object
ed and treated the bandits to a vollcy
Of revolver bullets.
The Washington times., 1921-10-29
STEAMSHIPS.

Saiiin9s from 'ier ~, S4th St., ". r.,
S. S. Geo. Washington and America
piers s and 1, Hoboken) excepted.
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BREMEN-DANZIG
POTOMAC; Nov. is-Dec 81
HUDSON: p>o. ,
PRINCESS hATOikA' Dec. 10
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young woman whose name is with
ASAS - tAs affiaeFs. n heanG xpsrd
ed IN a private home 70 b. hold As
witness.
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ii. u Wells writing is much more difficult
TO read. Some of bis longer words land
they are many) often look like hieroglyphics
which it would take knowledge of Eastern
languages to decipher -. -s ..t.- .
On the othey hand, Israel Zangwill, Ar
mold Bennett and Sir A. Conan Doyle are
welcome in any composing room by reason
OF their excellent and clear writing
Probably the worst handwriting of any
English author today is that of Arthur
Lynch. the famous ex Boer colonel and
novelist, who has unblushingly confessed
that he often cannot read his own hand
writing.
The causes Of eligibility are many. Prob
ably the mental stress and impatience which
writing develops are among the chief of
these causes, The more man writes the
greater facility he acquires of fitting Ian.
guage to thought and the distressing ten
dency of the mind to outstrip the pen lis
thereby aggravated. With many people,
too, good or bad handwriting depends a lot
on the kind of nib they happen to be nsing
The old-fashioned quill could be altered to
suit a mood.
While this is not quite true of today, the
quill is still popular in England, and it
has one advantage over its steel brother,
which at all events compositors viii agree
with--it is very difficult to write microscop-
ically with it.
But with the coming of the typewriter,
which most modern writer's use, the trials
Of the compositor, who squints blinks and
wakes profane at times, have decreased.
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small electric lamp, the voice Of President
Harding on Inauguration Day was 90 in.
creased in volume as to be heard clearly hg
individuals two blocks svsl.
"One very practical result from this
ampiifer comes In the fact that Il has been
adapted to the Transmission Of telepbons
messages and may be attached 10 a tele-
phone wire run such distance as thst be.
tween New York and San Francisco and
may at regular intervals step up the mes
sage that ia Foins over that wire and make
conversation "a audible between a man An
New York and a man in San 'Ffapci.co a.
between tvo men In either Of those eit,es.
In fact, there are undreamed CT possibilities
at every stage Of the development Of thsss
experiments. for science has become the
hsndmaiden Of industry to such an extent
that following its development is like fol-
lowing q vein Of sold into . nountais
side, where II may at any time widen ssi
into vast pay deposit" :
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The Handwriting of Famous Authors

Sir Walter Scott, who in his earlier years
wrote very clear hand, were difficult to
decipher
Coming to the more modern writers, a Pc
culiarity common to many of them is the
minuteness of their penmanship. Take,
for instance, three of the foremost authors
Sir Hall Caine, H. G.. Wells and Ge9rse
Bernard Shaw. They all write similar
band-the small, upright, round style SO.
beloved and employed by the student ana
scholar OF the three, the deciphering OF
Hall Gaines writing is Infinitely the most
difficult task, 1t is said that his English
publishers have special conpositors VINO
have made a long study OF the famous
novelist's handwriting, and that the ordi-
nary comp cannot handle it.
Only recently writing to the London Daily
Telegraph to correct a misprint in letter
from him which had appeared in its columns,
Sir Han attributed the blame to himself;
-'cH is 5ne OF the penalties Of advancing
years" he wrote, 'that ones handwriting
becomes increasingly difficult to the much :
afflicted printer, and that one has to pay
the hard, and sometimes embarrassing price
Of iIlegibility."
George Bernard Shaw writes an almost
.inconceivably small hand, and frequently
gets hundreds of words on an ordinary post
card. But to do him justice, his caligraphy
is surprisingly clear, and, with the aid OIL q
lens, can be read without difficulty. In fact
one is struck by the care with which each
letter Is formed.
Althoigh almost as small as Mr.. Shaw's,
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eiectrons, some Of which are lost in the
process of its radioactive transformation into
iead. which has eighty two electrons.
Thus we have the picture Of the atom
ana the elements that 20 to make II
up. Thus we know, that If one Of these
positive units in the core can be removed
from the atom Of any element, that element
VIII De transmitted into another element
oeiow It in the scale. In addition to tnst,
we nave found q way of setting up these
atoms OF given element, Of making targets
Oh them and thus attempting to shoot from
tnem the units necessary to transmute them
into other substances. In producing x-rays
we actually shoot into the atom, displacins
some OF the units that go to make it up. To
do this we may use solid target or con-
vert the element into q gas, inclose that
gas in a tube and pass currents Of electricity
through It. These currents are made mp Of
electrons which are hurled through space
just - bullet might Be 6rsd through y.
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Once them, use them. Some Of these scien
lists were burned BY them and later died II
their burns. y Others. peculiarly; were 20
sterilized that they wers rendered unable 70
reprodpce their kind. In the end they learned
how to produce X -rays at viii. how TO handle
them with safety, how to use them for such
purposes as X-ray photography.
BY this time scientiHs had fairly wen
substantiated the Moseley theory Of the con-
struction Of the atom. 1t had become pos
sible to draw a comparatively accurate pic
ture of one of these stoms. The sodium
atom, for instance, Is q fairly simple one
how an atom js constituted.
"As small as it Il, 1t is undoubtedly true
that the sodium atom ii built upon the same
principle ~ the solar system. 1t has Q
central unit, or sun. which Is generally re-
ferred to as its core. This core in the
sodium atom Is made up Of q charge Of
eleven positive units of electricity. For each
positive unit Of electricity In the core there
is q negative electron revolving around that
core. The sodium atom, for instance, has
eleven electrons that revolve around the sun.
Each Of these electrons has an orbit which
1t follows as carefully as the earth revolves
In its constant course around the sun.
'sThe atom of each element has a core like
that of sodium, with electrons revolving
around It in different orbits. Mercury, foi
instance, has its eighty electrons circlini
around its core, which is made up OF eight,
positive units. Radium has eighty -eish'
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0IJow far does the handwriting Of great
II authors deteriorate?'' This was the
subiect of discussion by a small hand OF
New York literary enthusiasts recently. All
agreed that in many cases the handwriting
does deteriorate, and often is atrocious. But
Is to who was. or is, the worst offender in
this respect. history sayeth not.
Practice makes perfect" runs the old
axiom. But this does not hold good when
the manuscripts of some authors are com.
pared with those written by the same hand
years earlier.
Carlyle's handwriting, bnee plain and
straightforward, grew more and more
grabbed as time went on. There is a story
Of an Edinburgh compositor whose lot It
was to have to set work after work of the
Sage till he could stand it no longer. and
migrated to London. There on the first
copy" with which he had to deal he read
In the well known script: ~
oLIyER CRoMwEEL's LETTERS
AND SPEECHES
By THOMAS CARLYLE
..This fellow" he cried in despair, ''has
followed me to London!
Thackeray's handwriting remained clear
and beautiful TO the end. But Il SHOULD be
Remembered that though ThAckeray Is looked
upon a. q wise old gentleman" partly.
perhaps, because he was delighted to speak
what is, today, considered almost a young
nan when he died.-being only fifty 1.-TWO.
We know thas the later manuscripts Of
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NUT at the Bureau Of Standards, that
" great scientific agency Of the Govern
ment situated on a hilltop overlooking
Washington, DIR. Paul Darwin Foote,. a
young man of those laboratories, smoked his
pipe quietly at his desk and told me hew the
baser elements might be transmitted into
gold. -a- e.ss
This transmutation is not actually taking
place today and there-is one mere physical
difficulty in the way of 1t, :: difficulty which
DR.. Foote believes it is reasonably expected
will be overcome in the very near future,
and when this is accomplished the actual
process of transmutation will be put into
operation.
Men of science now understand the
fundamental physical structure of gold as
compared with the structure of the element
which is closely akin to it, mercury. This
Is an understanding that has become pos
sible only within the last half dozen years
From a physical standpoint, gold and mer-
curry are almost identical. The unit Of
structure in mercury consists of eighty
particles and that of gold consists of
seventy mine particles. These particles are
Just alike. If the extra particle can be
that unit will become a gold unit an. the
material it will build will be gold. The
scientists have developed an actual, physical
gun for shooting those extra particles out OF
the mercury structural unit, but they
haven't quite got the range. They need a
little more practice.
Ii is like this: II eighty bricks are
grouped together to make up the structural
unit of a house, those units may be piled
one upon the other and will produce
certain type Of house, an alright house. IL
you take one brick oft of each of these units
and then put the units together it will
make an entirely different sort Of house-a
sieve like house. 1t is just like that with
mercury and gold. If you knock one brick out
of each group of eighty ip the structural
unit of mercury you have a different thing
gold.
An electric current Of just the right Sort
will knock out those bricks. 1t is the gun
with which the mercury structural unit is
bombarded. If you should make a mistake
and knock out.two bricks you would have
still another element, fifty times as precious
platinum. ..
Scientists are just learning how to do this
sort OF thing. Ihey nave alreau' Iounu
way to knock out a structural brick n'the
element nitrogen, transmitting it into the
element hydrogen.
, Radium is kicking the spare bricks out
of its own wall and it is these kicks which
produce the gamma rays that penetrate the
core Of a cancer and are believed to exert
a curative effect upon it. When radiuu
spontaneously gets rid of all its spare bricks
Il becomes the element closely akin to it
lead. The transmutation is complete.
TT is Just during the last decade thai
j scientists have made the great steI
toward learning the structure Of the elements
that 20 to make up all the substances in th'
universe. A generation ago the talk of th'
laboratories was largely of molecules. o
their actions and reactions 1t was know
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releases 300 amperes of electricity. When
one ampere of electricity is released for
one second, six million million millions Of
electrons go by. So, when you put your
foot on the starter for a second, 1900
million million millions of electrons scamper
past, and If you let it remain there for ten
seconds, which you are likely to do, you
open the gate which lets $1,000 million
million millions of electrons out of the pen
There is but small group of scientists
in the world who are juggling with these
electrons. One of them is Dr. Foote, this
youngster stationed at the Bureau of
Standards in Washington. He is a truly
American product and was born not so many
years ago out in Ohio. From his biography
in American Men of Science we learn
that he is editor of prominent scientific
journal and has sheepskins from the Western
Reserve University, the University Of
Nebraska and the University of Minnesota.
To him has been opened up a field as new
as columbus gave to the venturesome spirits
OF his day, and he is wandering around
open-eyed -
1T was generation ago." DIR. Foote ex-
planned, that the so.called cathode rays
and canal rays were produced quite by'
accident. Some one had introduced two
electrodes into a gas-flled tube and was
sending electric current through it. A pencil
of light appeared in the tube and it wa,
observed that when magnet was placed
alongside the tube il attracted that light.
IAis was "a peculiar influence which a
magnet never exerted on ordinary light.
There was something peculiar about this par
ticular pencil of light
Nothing much was ever done with the
cathode rays, but studying them led to an
other discovery in 1S95-the X-ray. When
a stream of cathode rays strikes metal
target, the X-ray is liberated. Certain
electrons in the atoms making up the target
are released much as light rays and heat
rays are liberated by FIRE, They could not
be seen, but they spoiled all the photo
graphic plates in the vicinity, Their pres
ence was revealed by these spoiled plates.
Scientists studied them, learned how to pro-
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to make up atoms. The subdivision OIL
matter has gone that far. 1t may be the
end. The electron and a corresponding
charge of electricity may be the funda-
mental Constitutional units. At any rate,
taking the atom apart and finding out how
it is made; gives new understanding OF
chemistry, with possibilities in it which have
heretofore not existed-possibilities of which
making gold from mercury is but an ex-
ample.
PUT to get proper picture Of this new
- building block of the universe, Just how
big would you conceive this electron to be?
As a matter of fact, the scientists know its
size quite accurately. DR.. Foote saws that
as the world is to a grain of sand, a smallish
grain OF sand, So small as to be nearly in
visible, so is grain of sand to an electron.
The electron is as much smaller than the
grain of sand as the grain of sand is smaller
than the earth. 1t is these tiny structural
units with which the scientist of this decade
is dealing. He Is reaching into the atom
and lifting out individual units of this size.
Here is another way in which one may
get ,an idea Of an electron. 1t should be
realized that this electron is the unit for
tne measure of electricity. When a current
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By,William A therton Dur Ply

of electricity goes over wire, y y -
an innumerable army of these eiectrohs so'ls -
over the wire. Great as is the number OF
them scurryinr past. il is possible for the
scientist TO count them. When one puts
his foot on the button which starts the
engine of his automobile, for instance, ne
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that molecule was made mp of Ger.
tain atoms. There even conjecture
stopped. Nobody dreamed of attempt
ing TO go beyond the atom.
Just at the beginning of the war,
iD 1914, a young scieptist in England,
H..sG. j. Moseley, made certain OBJ
servations and formulated theory.
He photographed the X-rays from the
various elements. This is one OF