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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18
Race of Toothless Men in india.

In the Hindu Anil community OF
Hyderabad Sind, in India, there has
been found a type of men who have
no teeth. These men are further
characterized by a bald head and an
extreme sensitiveness to heat. They
are known as "Bhudas," which lit
orally means 'toothless." The fol-
lowing facts have been learned about
them:
When such a man Ca "Bhuda') mar
ries a normal girl having both par
ents free from these defects, all the
children, both male and female, are
apparently normal-that is to say, ap-
parently free from the defect.
When the females marry normal
males, their female children are ap-
parently normal, while the male chill
dren are "Bhudas."
No case is known in which a tooth
less man has married the daughter of
a "Bhuda."
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18
NEW JAP SUPERINTENDENT
Second Of Late Capital Ships to Be
Put in Commission in Navy
December l..

Tokyo.-The superdreadnaught Nut
su, sister ship of the Nagato and the
second capital ship to be completed
under the e%ight-eight program, will be
placed in commission by the Japanese
navy December 1, and will then be one
of the capital ships of the first squad
ron, together with the Nagato and the
Yamashiro. The Mutsu has a displace-
ment of 33.S00 tons.
The third capital ship under the
eight-eight program. the Kaga, is ex-
pected to be launched in December,
and to be completed in November,
1922. This superdreadnaught will
have a displacement of 10000 tons.
All the new Japanese ships are
equipped with 16-inch guns. The Nut
su and Nagato each carry eight OF
these monster guns, and it is probable
that the Kaga will carry ~
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18

in time we got so that we could lay
a ours by the tower of Abbott hall,
which dominates the entire village.
We would climb up to it to get a
fresh start, and usually found that we
were approaching 1t from another
direction than the one we imagined.
1t was a sort of Alice In Wonderland
progress, the thing being to go
where you knew you shouldn't in
order to get where you wanted to
be.-"O1d Seaport Towns" Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18
THERE is NOTHING QUAINTER
Marbiehead Lanes Keep Visitors 10
Gray Sea-Town Puzzled as to Whore
Streets Will Lead.

A rough village of huts clamped
down to the rocks and hugging it's fine
harbor, such was Marblehead for
many years. The huts grew bigger
and hner, the narrow footways broad
ened q tri1e, but kept the devious
turns and abrupt ups and downs with
which they began-sO abrupt that
ever today many a Marblehead lane
has to resort to steps to get itself and
its traveller where it would go.
There is nothing Q1ainter to be
found in our country than this gray
sea-town with its incredibly tangled
streets. Never does a stranger know
where he will end when he sets forth
to follow one of them. Sister and l
found ourselves walking briskly away
from the place we wanted to go to
oftener than not. Luckily the water
exists, for when you strike it you have
a chance to take new bearings, and
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18

Wills in possession of the descend
ants include those Of Josiah Bartlett,
New Hampshire; John Adams, Sam.
uel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Mas
~sachusetts; Stephen Hopkins and
William Ellery, Rhode Island; Will
liam Williams, Samuel Huntington.
Oliver Wolcott and Roger Sherman,
Connecticut Francis Lewis, William
Floyd, Lewis Morris and Philip Living
ston, New York Abraham Clark, John
Hart, John Witherspoon, Francis Hop
kinson and Richard Stockton, New
Jersey; Robert Morris, Benjamin
Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Nor
ton, James Smith, George Taylor and
George Ross, Pennsylvania; Caesar
Rodney and Thomas Mexican, Della
ware; Charles Carroll and Thomas
Stone, Maryland; Thomas Jefferson,
Francis Lightfoot Lee, Richard Henry
Lee and Benjamin Harrison, Virginia;
Joseph Hewes and John Penn, North
Carolina; Edward RutIedge, South
Carolina Button Gwinnett, Georgia.
The following signers died intestate,
according to the report William Whip
pie and Matthew Thornton, New
Hampshire; Elbridge Gerry and John
Hancock, Massachusetts; George ely
mer and James Wilson, Pennsylvania
George Read, Delaware; William
Paca, Maryland; Arthur Middleton,
South Carolina.
The records of Thomas Nelson, Jr.,
Virginia, were Destroyed by fire in
1865, and those of Carter Braxton, Yir-
ginia, during the Civil war. The rec
ords Of Thomas Hayward, South Caro-
lima, were also destroyed during the
Civil war, and those of Lyman Hall, !
Georgia.. were lost in a fire in 1856.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18

Our ancestors held their meetings
out in the woods with the sky for a
canopy. Even now we have evangel-
istic services in tents, and who knows
where congregations have not wor-
shipped; but not many people would
imagine this old landmark, a windmill
on Reigate Heath, Surry Hill, Eng
land, was being used for a place of
worship. 1t has a beautiful little al
tar and is lighted by a candelabrum
fitted on the oaken beams. Photo shows
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18
THE LIFE OF GAS MANTLES
Illuminating Device Should Last 1000
Burning Hours-May Be Destroyed
in Few Moments.

The following facts about gas man
house organ of the biggest gas company
In New York.
"a good gas mantle should last from
900 to 800 or ever 1000 burning hours.
~"Breakage, however, is o always
due to poor mantle quality. Turning
the gas off and on and the slight ex-
plosion that sometimes occurs when
1t is lighted is highly destructive Of
mantles. A mantle which, burning
steadily, might last for several thou
sand hours, may be destroyed in a few
minutes by rough handling or in a few
hours by unusual but unavoidable veal
and tear.
initial candle power is hat mens
ured when the mantle is first lighted.
1t is extremely high In cheap and In
fsrior nantes. But soon, often with
In a few minutes, the brilliancy of the
light fades, never to be r~egained. The
Intensity of this initial light is a snare
quently fall in purchasing cheap
ties.
Sustained candle power Is the eas
ure Of light given out by a mantle
over a long period, and is, Of course, the
real test Of q good mantle. The high
class mantle may not have an initial
candle power equal to that Of a cheap
er substitute, but in the long test is
superiority is demonstrated.
"Some of the gas companies are now
selling mantles with a guarantee OF
at least 90 days service"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18
Windows Easily Broken by Blasts.

Explosions of powder or other SINH
lar materials often are very destruc'
tive to windows, even If they are at 8
great distance from the point Of ex-
plosion. When an explosion occurs air
waves are thrown of with great VIC
lence. Sometimes these air waves are
thrown back with such violence that
buildings in the immediate vicinity OF
the explosion are destroyed.
The force Of the air wave acts In
all directions at the same time and
with equal force. Very often these air
waves are thrown for great distances
and, while the houses In its path are
strong enough to resist their violence,
the windows are shattered because
they cannot withstand the high pres
sure Of air.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18
SEEK SIGNERS' WILLS
Society Plans Collection of His
toriC Old TestamentS.
Descendants Of the Signers of the
Declaration of Independence Need
Four More Documents to Com
pIete Collection.

Philadelphia.-The Society Of the
Descendants of the Signers of the
Declaration of Independence is IN
deavoring to collect copies of the wills
of the Sc signers. According to a re-
port made to John Calvert, secretary
and registrar of the society, the wills
of Samuel Chase, Maryland George
Wythe. Virginia; William Hooper,
North Carolina; William Lynch, Jr.,
South Carolina, and George Walton,
Georgia, are still missing from the So
ciety's collection.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18

special print of The Four Horsemen
Of the Apocalypse" but English and
Continental exhibitors were clamoring
for an opportunity to see the screen
MASTERPIECE; and so Mr.. Macrae vol
%lunteered to carry a second celluoid
copy with HIM. on his way to France.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18
WILD HORSES ARE PESTS
Farmers in Northern Washington Kept
in Constant ear of Raids.

T III IVOI liz v a6ttiIt4kOII FNGRI
in Constant Fear of Raids.
Wild horses are giving the farmers
living near the Canadian border of
Washington much trouble. The ami
mails tear down fences and often chase
large herds of cattle. The farmers
have started a war of determination.
Domestic horses which mingle with
the wild ones soon revert to the out
law nature. Their home is in a faulty
bad land region between the Cascade
and Rocky Mountains.
A sleek black stallion, carrying an
unusually long silky name and massive
ta4l. is known to have in his "harem"
nearly 300 mares Of all ages and
colors. He carefully guards them
from other herds, and at the slightest
alarm stampedes and leads them at
great speed to the distant hills.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18
DOG SAVES MISTRESS
Tore OFF Her Burning Clothes When
She Screamed.

Joe. a shepherd dog, saved his
mistress from probable death when
her dress caught fire the sther day.
When Mrs. Martha Wood of Dunn, N.
c.. attempted to start a fire with gaso-
line. s%upposing it to be kerosene, her
dress started to blaze. She ran
screaming to the back porch. The dog
leaped to her aid, tearing the burning
garment from her body
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18

News of it's presence aboard the Adri-
ate spread quickly; the passengers,
pettioned for a view and SO Mr.. Mac
rae agreed to show 'The Four Horse
men of the Apocalypse.
June Mathis adapted it for the.
screen.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17
'TOWNLEY BUBBLE BURSTS.

1t appears that the day for deliver
ance for North Dakota is at hand. The
Townley bubble has been pricked, the
nonpartisan forces are disorganized
and the whole beautiful scheme of
state ownership is vanishing in thin
air. The state institutions controlled
by the nonpartisans have gone to the
wall. Townley wants $1O,OOO,OO0 to
straighten out his affairs, but the men
who are to assist in marketing these
bonds refuse to act until there is
promise of a cleanup in the North
Dakota state government. It is re-
ported that the independents are in
sisting upon the resignation or recall
of certain nonpartisan officials, one
of them being the attorney general
William Lemke.
At first there was talk of COM
promise with Townley and his follow
ers, but the sentiment seems to be
changing and the independent legis.
lators are urged. to make no com.
promise with socialism,.
Minnesota should thank her lucky
stars that she had enough sane, level
headed voters to keep her state gov
eminent out of the hands of the Town
ley forces. If the nonpartisans hat
captured our state offices last fal
North Dakota would undoubtedly hav.
been tided over her financial Difficult
ties this winter with Minnesota money
and later, when the crash came, twt
states would have fallen instead O.
one. &.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

External appearances, as has been
frequently remarked, are often de-
ceiving. Judging from external ap-
pearanccs the editor Of the Milaca
Times is big, good natured, calm
sort of chap, but closer acquain-
tancc with the man quickly dispels
such an impression. He seems to have
a high strung; irritable sort of a ma
ture showing really abnormal re.
sponscs to certain stimuli. He abso-
lutely flies off on tangent at the
mere mention of the words ''county
seat" and acts as though in his minds
eye he could see our county officials
with all their office paraphernalia
speeding down THE Scenic highway
bound for Princeton. Really, Mr.
Cravens, there is no necessity fo1
such undue nervous tension. Just
relax bit-according to the present
law the matter of changing the coun-
ty seat cannot be brought up again
until another four years have rolled
around
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

ment bodies to. police highways for
weeds. County boards would be au-
thorized to appoint local weed inspec-
tors and fix their compensation. Weed
inspectors are to be empowered to
have weeds eradicated on private
lands, where the owners refuse to
act, the cost to be lien against the
property. +,
Well it is to laugh! We confidently
believe that it would require deputy
weed Inspector for every quarter sec
ton in the state Of Minnesota and
we will bet dollar that the state of
Minnesota would go busted in less
than year if it should have an army
of weed inspectors large enough to
pull out all the weeds within our con-
fines.
Weed inspectors! For pity sake
what next Chisago County Press.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

If those airplanes which crashed to
earth and killed four men on the St..
Paul. Chicago mail route were of an
obsolete pattern, inferior in every
respect and untrustworthy, as charged
by L. P. Ordway, jr., president of the
St. Paul Aero club, and other aero
nautical authorities, it would seem to
US that Postmaster General Burlescn
is guilty Of manslaughtcr and should
be brought before a court of justice,
for he is the man actually responsible
for conditions existing in the mail
service.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

That gift Of 100000 bushels of
corn to the starving children of Eu-
rope by the farmers of the middle
west is such an expression of prac-
tical charity as few countries could
boast. The men who grew the corn
have given it free of all cost. Now
let the big milling corporations, who
made much more out of war conditions
than the growers of grain, show their
good faith by offering to grind it. The
farmers have set fine example and
the country will look for equal gen.
crosby on the part of those whose
business it is to convert the corn into
meal,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

ones civic duties and urges every
voter to join q party, for it is the only
way to achieve full expression. In
this she is certaily right. She believes
that in time women will take a full
share in the government of the people,
but says that they are not yet ready
for assuming the responsibilities of
the more important offices. As a
preparation she advises a thorough
study of government, starting with the
management of the city and extending
the course to include state and federal
rules. Intelligent wonderland that
includes large group-are great
addition to the electorate" she says.
"There is a group of the illiterate,
which is something of a menace, but
in time this group will be educated
along like lines. Many men are so
used to their citizenship that they re-
gard it casually as a matter of course.
They do not seem to be awake to the
responsibility it implies. Upon such
men the new voters will have bene-
fetal influence. If the wives, sisters
and mothers of these men take their
new responsibilities seriously, and
most, of them are doing so, the men
will &C nsequently be aroused to the
Importance of considering govern
mental matters earnestly and thought
fully. That is great work we
women have before u.s." AS Mrs.
Robinson has thoroughly studied the
subject upon which she speaks, her re-
marks are of more than passing in
terest.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17
The latest aerial prophecy is, Paris

The latest aerial prophecy is, Paris
to New York in eight hours. t is
made by Marquis Pescara, French
born subject Of Spain, who has per-
fected device for aerial navigation
which, by means of heletics rotating at
terrific speed, he asserts will enable
an airplane to hover in the air as we'll
as fly at great pace. He has closed
a deal with the French government to
deliver large number of his flying
machines providing tests in Barcelona
this month prove successful. There
is nothing impossible in these days of
invention.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

An American legion post over in
Wisconsin demands that President
Wilson Immediately sees that Berg
doll, the infamous draft evader, is
returned to the United States and i'm
prisoned. There is no doubt that the
president would have had Bergdoll in
an American penitentiary ere this
were it possible, but he is now Ger
man citizen and naturally the Berlin
government not only refuses to give
him up but is protecting him to the
fullest extent.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17
William Randolph Hearst. throu

William Randolph Hearst, through
his attorney, has filed suit in the dis
trict supreme court at Washington
for an injunction restraining Secretary
Of the Treasury Houston from making
any further loans to foreign govern
ments or any further advances on
credits already established for France,
Italy, Greece, Czecko-Slovania, Ii
IBERIA and other countries. Taking in
to consideration the fact that the
United States has opened it's treasure
chest to almost every country which
told a tale of woe and begged for
financial assistance, the action of
Mr.. Hearst is commcndablc.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

According to the collector of Gus.
toms at the port of New York SNUG.
Cling of goods into the United States
is being carried on to greater ex.
tent than ever. The collector attrib.
utes the situation largely to the col.
fusion of steamship crews and profcs.
sional smugglers. Why did he not in.
clude the connivancc of inspectors
many of whom have been discharged
many of whom have been discharged
of late for receiving brides from pas.
sengers who were permitted to bring
in their trunks from foreign countries
without inspection?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

Mr.. Bryan and his brother, Charley,
plan reorganization Of the demo
cratic party by lining up middlc-class
democrats and placing them in con-
troll, thus eliminating the Cox-White
and the McAdoo Woolley wings. The
plan followed in the last campaign,
says Judge Roper, one Of the demo-
cratic leaders, was to line up the gen.
erals, captains and lieutenants only,
in which event there was no effective
fighting army of privatcs. We fear
that Mr.. Bryan's efforts will be a
case Of loves labor lost.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

St. Paul Dispatch: "President-
designate" and "president-elect" ap-
parently are distasteful to the news
writer's as a title for Mr.. Harding, so
they are calling him senator" al
though he is not senator. Now that
congress has counted the ballot and
the last formality of his election has
been complied with, why can't they
call him "president?" He seems to
have more influence at Washington
than Mr.. Wilson, anyway.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

Hurrah for Charles M. Babcock. He
certainly scored a big victory when the
house, by vote of 81 to 81, endorsed
the single commissioner plan. Even
the members who favored the three
man-control joined with the advocates
of THE single commissioner in accord
ing to Mr. Babcock the highest COM
mendation for his efficient administra-
ton of affairs Of the highway depart
ment during THE last few years.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

a woman juror at the Old Bailey in
London expressed herself cmphatical-
~ in these words: - know ono thing
we women will do. We will make the
counselors wear clean wigs and have
better manners While American
councillors at law do not wear white
wigs as in England, we look for the
time when our women jurors will call
them down hard whatsoever they re-
sort to supplementary language in
the badgering of witnesses or >othcr-
wise act in an ungentlcmanly man
ner.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

Henry J. Ryan of Boston, chairman
of the Americanism committee of the
American legion, declares that there
are 5000 disloyal teachers in educa-
tional institutions of the United
States, 1000 of whom are in universe
ties and colleges, who must be re-
moved. If Mr.. Ryan's statement is
correct, and we have no reason to
doubt it's accuracy, the sooner these
disloyalists are ousted the better.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17
THE AUTOMOBILE TAX.

Editorials have been appearing re-
Gently in some of the leading papers
of the state as the St. Cloud Jour-
nal Press and the Long Prairie Leader
urging the legislature to keep faith
with the voters and redeem the
pledges that were made during the
Babcock amendment campaign in re-
gard to the tax on automobiles. Dur
ing that campaign the statement was
repeatedly made that Amendment No.
l would provide for an average tax
of $18 per car. The amendment was
adopted by the voters with this under
standing. A tentative schedule was
recently published which started with
a tax of SIG on a Ford and rose to $13O
on. a Packard. We do not know on
what authority this was published but
we do know that the highway Depart
ment is not recommending such a
schedule. The legislature is Of course
the body that will finally fix the tax
rate, but according to the present
plans the committee of the highway
department will recommend tax of
$3.50 on a Ford and $75 on Pack
ard. The members of the highway de-
partment are keeping faith with the
voters and are recommending slid
ing tax rate on automobiles which will
result in an average tax of SIS per
car.
In connection with this matter it
should be remembered that the auto
mobiles, according to the provisions Of
the Babcock amendment, will be ex-
empt from the personal property tax.
Cars, like most other personal proper"
ty, arc generally not listed with the
assessor at their full value, but let us
sec how this license tex will compare
with the personal property tax on the
cars. A new Ford today sells for ap-
proximatcly $500. Automobiles are
assessed at 33 1-3 percent of their true
value and the tax rate in the village of
Princeton is 1867 mills. The personal
property tax on Ford would then be
over $40, eight dollars more than the
proposed license fee. In some of the
school districts, where the tax rate is
between SO and 60 mills, the license
fee and the personal property tax
would be approximately the same
amount.
We have yet to hear of an automo-
bile owner living outside the three
large cities who objects to paying the
proposed license fee. Good roads are
a good investment for the motorist
not only because they effect saving
in gasoline, but because they save tho
ear from much unnecessary wear and
tear. Some of the automobile owners
living in St. Paul or Minneapolis arc
little disturbed at the prospects OF
paying the proposed tax on their cars
and having all the money spent in tho
rural counties only, but trip to Mile
Laos lake, on a fine summer day
would do much to soothc the rufflcc
feelings of such individuals. The only
people in our own county whom we
have heard complaining Of the Bah
cock amendment are those men who
do not own a car and will not have
to contribute one dollar to the trunk
highway fund.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

One headline in daily reads, russ
Mutineers Whip Bolsheviki" and an
other in the same paper, "Bolsheviki
Crush Mutineers." Take your choice,
but if you are no more interested in
the clash than we are you will not
care a continental which side won.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17

1t is said that the Greeks are fond
of their king. Many of them are also
fond of coming to the United States,
remaining unnaturalized, sending their
earnings to banks in their native land
and, after they have accumulated suf-
ficient money, going home and living
like princes.