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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18
MOOSE LIKES VIOLIN MUSIC
Becomes Friendly With Trapper and
Listens, Reiiy-Deep in Stream,
to Mans Playing.

Duluth. Minn.-TYle tale of a strange
friendship between a lonely trapper
and a large bull moose through the
COMMON language of music has been
brought back from the Stony river
territory in northern Minnesota by
Thomas Denley. chief forest ranger
Of that district.
Thirty-fiye miles from the nearest
human habitation in the heart of the
remote Stony river district lives
Charley LAME in Il trapper's cabin,
Denley relates.
Besides being one of the most sue
cessful trappers in the Minnesota
wilderness. LAME has ability with a
violin bow and spends many of his
evenings in the lonely woods playing
old songs. favorites of years ago.
One of his most interested listeners
is a large bull moose which comes to
the river neal the cabin and stands,
belly deep in the water while it lifts
it's heavily antlered head toward the
cabin and listens to the violin. When
the concert is over, he turns and dis
appears in the woods.
LAME has had numerous Opportuni-
ties to shoot the animal, but the kim
bred appreciation of music has stayed
his hand.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18
ESCAPES SMYRNA,
TELLS OF FIRE
Greek, Saved by American Sail
orS, Saw His Parents Killed
by Turks.
COMES HERE AS STOWAWAY
Band of Cutthroats Fire Buildings
That Were Not Already Burning
and Kill Inhabitants and
Loot Houses.

New York.-ConStandinoS SsatziriS,
a Greek, twenty-seyen, a refugee from
Smyrna, saved by sailors from the
United States destroyer Litchfield, ar
! rived here from Naples as a stowaway
on the steamship Guglielmo PIERCE.
He told immigration inspectors that
his parents had been slain before his
eyes, but that his sister, whose
whereabouts he does not know, had
been saved.
Skatziris said that he had kept a
small grocery store in the Greek sec
ton of Smyrna near the plague hos
pital. On October 16, three days after
the town had been fired, a Turkish
bandit, a giant in stature who had
been a hamel, or porter, on the Gus
toms quay before the war and who
had acquired fame as a wrestler, had
entered Smyrna at the head of a band
of cutthroats and had set fire to any
buildings that were not burning. Then
they had started to kill the fnhab-
itants and loot houses.
Father and Mother Killed.
"They rushed into my store in the
SalQ the DTdH-
dishing long, broad-bladed knives, and
attacked my father and mother and
my brother Thomas, who were trying
to keep the Turkish robbers from tax
ing goods. My parents were killed.
One bandit seized my sister Katherine
and pore her away on his shoulders. /
pursued him while my brother fought
desperately in a corner of the store.
81 searched everywhere for her. At
last l was told she had been carried
off by the %brigands to their caves in
the mountains back of Smyrna, where
they had beer hiding and preying on
the country people since the Greek
army had entered in the spring of
1921. ;
"After hiding all day, I went to the
American consulate, where I found I,
naval officers and sailors from
destroyers in the harbor which
were taking off the refugees to the
bound for Greece.
81 got to the waterfront with great
difficulty, as the heat from the burn
ing ruins was intense and the smoke
rom the tobacco warehouses was suf-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18
FIND TWO WILD BOYS
Fight Like Animals When They
Are Captured.
Small Boys Have Grown Like Jungle
Animals, Without Education or
Knowledge of Anything Out
side Hills and Forests.

Cairo, Ill.-Two small boys, about
eight and ten years old, are feeling the
touch Of civilization after passing the
greater part of their lives in the man.
ner of prehistoric cavemen.
They We're caught after a running
and scratching battle by a sheriff's
posse, which trailed them into the for
ests and hills of Pulaski county, near
here. Both surrendered only after ex-
hausting their infant strength in a bit
ing and scratching conflict with the
men.
That the boys were existing in a
primitive manner was first discovered
by county authorities when a woman
living in the northern part of the coun-
ty, asked for aid for her father, who,
she said, was suffering from tubercu-
losis.
The boys ran away when she went
into the forests for her father and took
him to her home, she said. They were
grandsons of the sick man, she told
the sheriff.
Several attempts were made by the
sheriff to find the place described as
the abode of the two children, but be-
cause of the wildness Of the country
these attempts failed. The place was
finally located only after a systematic
combing of the forests.
When the posse arrived the boys fled
deeper into the woods, climbing through
the thick underbruSh and into trees
with surprising agility, the sheriff said.
The posse then surrounded the hut and
waited until night, when the two lads
returned and were seized.
Fighting like wild animals, they dug
their teeth, fingers n toe nails, which
were like long claws, into the flesh Of
the sheriff and his deputies. One got
away and climbed a tree like a mon
key. In trying to swing to another tree
he fell and was recaptured.
How long the lads nave lived in the
woods officials do not know. They have
grown like jungle animals, without ed
ucation or knowledge of anything out
side their hills and forests. They lived
a little hut made of boxes and sub
on wild roots and forest animals.
They were dressed in rag the older
wearing a pair of tattered overalls
the other having but a torn coat
which hung in strips from his Shout
iers almost to his knees. They were
to tell their names and had diff
iculty in talking in even the most rudi-
n%pntarV terms.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18

locating. Because the streets are very
narrow In Smyrna it was impossible
to pass down them. The flames had
spread across from side to side, and
the roadway was piled with debris.
Sailors Save Sister.
"At the custom house steps l met
a boatman who knew my family. He
told me that Katherine had been
saved by sailors from the American
destroyer, but could not inform me
which steamship she had been taken
to. There were fully 1000 refugees,
men, women and children, on the quay
when I was there, five days after the
fire started. The last news I had was
that the American consulate had been
fred by the Turkish bandits, or irreg-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18
BELT CLASP STOPS BULLET
Saves Fathers Life and Lears to Rec
onciIiation of Family Long
Estranged.

Louisville.-A family row at the
home of Thomas l.. Howe, Jr., twenty
four years old, 800 West Lee street,
ended when Howe fired two shots from
a revolver at his father, Thomas l..
Howe, ST., forty-nine.
The father collapsed, and it was
supposed that he had been seriously
wounded until the police arrived and
found that one bullet had lodged in
the wall and the elder Howe's belt
buckle stopped the other.
The shock of his narrow escape was
the only i'll effect the father suffered,
and the turn of events resulted in the
apparent reconciliation of the family.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18
SEEKS TRUTH GIvER
Doctor Would Experiment on
Convicts With Twilight Sleep.
Believes That Under Influence Of An
esthetic Subjects viii Tell All
Facts About Crimes of Which
They Are Accused.

Hot Springs.-Dr. E. Il. House, Fer
ris, Tex, physician, will probably con
tinue his efforts to secure permission
to conduct experiments on prisoners
at the federal penitentiary at Leaven
worth. Kan, to demonstrate his theory
that while under the influence OF
scopolamine a~nesthetic, or during
twilight Sleep" subjects will tell the
facts regarding crimes Of which they
are accused.
In addressing the convention here of
the Medical Association of the South
west, Doctor House said that he in
tended to use every effort to secure
permission to make experiments on
1880 prisoners, taking the stand that
this number of experiments will prove
his theory to the satisfaction of both
physicians and criminologists.
The medical association failed to
give its official Endorsement to Doctor
Houses plan, but the subject was
widely discussed in an informal man
ner, and much interest was expressed
In the continuation of the expert
ments, which Doctor House says have
been under way for several years and
have brought invariable satisfactory
results.
In the informal discussion of his
paper the physician emphasized that
the results of HIS experiments could
not be expected TO stand as evidence
in any court, but claimed that the
facts obtained through questioning Of
accused persons or witnesses during
the period of twilight sleep" could
be advantageously used by authori-
ties in the solution of many mystic
rious crimes, and in dozens of instances
would prevent a miscarriage of JUS
tee, even if the real criminal was not
brought TO justice.
In one experiment in Dallas, which
he cited to the association. he said
that n man under arrest, charged with
a serious crime, seemed almost GER
tain Of conviction N circumstantial
evidence. Twilight sleep" was in
duced without the prisoners knowl-
edge. ard he gave information which,
when checked up by the Dallas DO
lice, proved the mans innocence and
resulted in his acqui.tal.
The physician held that. when his
theory has been adequately proved by
thorough experiment In hundreds Of
cases, a new field in criminal %investf-
cation Will be opened up Which win
only prove a powerful aid in the
detection of criminals, but will also
become a great protection to those
.unjustly accused OF crime.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18
CITIZENS AND DIDN'T KNOW IT
Michigan Man Makes Application for
Aliens License and Discovers
He Is N~aturaIized.

Kalamazoo, Mich.-An application
for an aliens hunting permit revealed
to Michael Schmidt Of Augusta that
he had peer a citizen for fOur years.
What he believed were his first pa
pers were discovered by the cou-ty
clerk to be his naturalization papers.
The papers were issued to Schmidt
during the war, his service in the
army emitting him to immediate nat
~uralization without the customary
tH4H-
lapse of time.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18
KRAUT YIELD IS $4,000 TONS
Wisconsin Cabbage Growers Report
Bumper Crop; Onion Harvest
Also Huge.

Milwaukee, Wis.-Wisconsin, second
state in the Union in cabbage produc-
ton, will turn out $4,000 tons of
sauer kraut this fall. according to the
estimate of Joseph A. Becker. crop
reporting service. Last years kraut
shortage was the result of a meager
harvest of $1,000 tons of cabbage.
The fragrant onion has also bloomed
and Mr.. Becker imparts to the enthusi-
asst that a great harvest of 407, 900
bushels is expected, compared to 100,
900 bushels last year.
Third ranking state in potatoes,
Wisconsin will have 37,453 900 bushels,
%, ISL 900 bushels.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18
NEW Y0Rk'S AGE
is IN QUESTION
Celebration OF the 3COth Ami
verSary Is Involved.

Strengthens Claim That Observance
of Anniversary of Founding of New
Amsterdam, Now New York. Should
Be in 1926, Rather Than in 1924, as
Tentative PIans ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Description of Place Where 6,oOO,-
600 Now Live.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18
uIars, as they were styled"

uIars, as they were styled"
The stowaway said the Turks had
not attempted to interfere with the
A~rmenians, Greeks, Jews nd other
refugees when they had come under
the protection of the American sailors,
but that many had been killed in the
streets before they could reach the
waterfront. Their bodies had been
thrown into the flames in order to
hide all traces of the crimes commit
ted by the invaders.
He said an Italian steamship had
taken him to Brindisi. At Naples he
had hidden away on the Guglielmo
Peirce to get to America, where he
says he has friends. although he does
not know where they live.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18

Out of the archives of 300 years age
Hollanders have brought to light a
letter with which the Netherlands
chamber of commerce strengthens a
claim that the celebration of the three
hundredth anniversary of the found
ing of New Amsterdam, now New
York, should be in 1926, rather than
in 1924, as tentative plans announced.
Here is the letter, with it's quaint
and brief description of the spot
where now 100000 persons live;
where the assessed valuation is &c.
900, 000, or $500 600 an acre; where
the exports are 100000 times those of
the year of its founding:
Recep., Z November, 1926. High ano
Mighty Sirs:-Here arrived yesterday
the ship The Arms of Amsterdam,
which sailed from New Nederland out
of the Mauritius river (the Hudson)
on September %; they report that our
people there are healthy and live
reaceably. Their women also have
borne children there.
Tells of Buying Manhattan.
N"They have bought the island Man
IiOih tnc VIII ucH lOI Tie VII
lie of go guilders, is 1000 morgens in
extent. They sowed all their grain in
he middle Of May and harvested it
in the middle of August. Thereof be-
ing samples of summer grain, such as
wheat, rye, oats, buckwheat, canary
seed, small beans and flax.
1.-The cargo of the aforesaid ship is:
Seven thousand two hundred and for
ty-six beaver skins, 1872 otter skins,
675 otter skins, forty-eight mink skins,
thirty-six cat skins, thirty-three mink
skins, thirty-four rat skins, and many
logs of oak and nut wood.
Herewith, High and Mighty Sirs,
be We commended to the Almighty's
Grace.
I'm Amsterdam, Nov. 5, Ammo 1926.
Your High MIightinesses' Obedient,
"P. SCHAGEN.'
The 60 guilders mentioned, at the
present rate of exchange. amount to
the $24 price of Manhattan known to
every s%choolboy; the 'Mauritius riv-
er" is the Hudson river, from whose
waters, by the way, a giant air cruiser
recently took fight for Brazil-tha
descendant, 300 years apart,
Of the little ship thai carried 'sotter
rat sims. and many logs of oak
nut wood"
L. Witter Van HoogIand, secretary
IF the Netherlands Chamber of Com
nerce in New York, points out in
1926 as the year for
tercentenary celebration, that the
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18

Ether has been adapted 10 II new
role of usefulness by +. n. Peter,
chemist of the dairy division of the
United States Department of Agricul-
tire. Mr.. Peter recently discovered It's
value as an agent in determining the
expansion in force when freezing ice
cream. 1t is the first time that ether
has been applied in the process of
refrigeration. The apparatus consists
Of a large Dewar flask wrapped in
heavy felt.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18

Mrs. L. Blue, who has been confined
to her home for several days by ILL
ness, Is much improved.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18
Finds Old Oyster Shells.

Brownsville, Tex.-Giant fossil oys
ter shells, said by scientists to be more
than 100000 years old and some o.
them measuring more than three fee
in length, have been discovered in !;
clay bank in Starr county, Tex, nea
q petrifed forest.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-18

earlier settlers, contrary to the belief
of historians of years ago. probably
settled in Fort Orange, now the city
Of Albany, while Manhattan remained
a trading post until a group landed
there as settlers in 1926.
The Washington herald., 1922-04-20
Pretty But Naughty.

A PRIL in Washington is like a maiden at high
n school, pretty but irresponsible.
One moment she smiles sweety and holds up
her red lips to be kissed. The next moment she
slaps your face District people yesterday were
forced to associate with her when she at her
naughtest
Her tantrums knocked askcw the best laid plans
of tenants and landlords 1t that the warm
days of her advent so encouraged apartment house
janitors that many of them allowed the furnaces to
die out. Tenants resorted to gas stoves cooler
evenings and made complaint
Then came the sudden, wet, dismal cold Tues
day night and yesterday, according to number of
indignant telephone calls received at The Herald
Office, life almost uncomfortable in apart
ment houses. Entire families got all the available
bed clothing from the closets and snugged into bed
to keep warm
Jantors were harassed and worried men. They
had accepted vampish Miss Aprirs plighted troth
with too much faith. 1t appears that when many of
them turned off the heat they made no plans for
starting the fires again in of emergency. The
result that their ingenuity was overtaxed when
the call came Tuesday evening. Some had no fuel
left. Others had orders from the owners not to
build more fires this year. Some had, it is rumored
even dismantled their furnaces not expecting
them again until next fall.
Then again, the impish little "Aapper" per-
suaded good many of her admirers to discard
heavy clothing for the rest of the season. She
promised to be very good, sweet and loving if they
would comply with her request. With impunity she
has broken her promises. Like other heartless
maids she has caused some damage She has left
long trail of colds behind her. Some of these may
result in pneumonia. She has caused much dis
comfort II there is any human abode more un-
comfortable than unheated Washington apart
ment house a cold, damp day it must be the
ice hut of Greenander
Some measures might not be amiss to protect
people from the responsibility of April For ex-
ample if the health department given authority
to establish some date before which apartment
house furnaces must not be abandoned a, good deal
OF sickness might be prevented and 9ome lives
saved. Landlords and jantors are susceptible folks
just coy smile, wink of the lassies cherry bios.
som eyes-and they lose their heads. Means should
be found to strengthen the characters Of these poor
men against such wiles these. :
The Washington herald., 1922-04-20

etc, get rich quick out in Kansas.
There's a reason-antifag law. Two
bits q fag out in Kansas. and
youngsters will give you a nickel
for the butt.
Out in Kansas in about 1910 there
was man in our church who raved
about the sins Of commission. He
wanted an anticigarette law. when
his poor old mother was dying Of
cancer and hadn't enough dough to
have a doctor. he wouldn't send her
even a postal card was a boy
and observed. They can't legisIate
to make a man honor his dear old
mother. So started smoking ciga-
fettes SO that wouldn't be in his
class. Carlyle had Il boiled down:
Not how much char is In you, but
have you any wheat" No law
against selfish hness-the big sin. So.
strain at a gnat and swallow a
Camel mot a ChesterheldD.
Cigarettes neither help nor hurt
a man unless he smokes excessively.
Mr. Howell says we are neures-
thenic as a nation because Of ciEa-
rettes. I say not because OF ciga-
retes, but because OF dollar chasing.
We don't take time to live. Can
also tell Nun. nave Sccn men IKE
Drs. LanEmuir and whitney. Of the
General Electric Company. pun their
fass. II he wants TO use arRumen-
tum ad hominem. the rottenest kind
of bum logic. Also. smoked hams
erdureth longer than fresh ones.
As a chemist. ] know something
about nicotine. Practically all of
the nicotine in a cigarette is decom-
posed into ammonia. carbon dioxide
and carbon monoxide as Il burns
The only nicotine absorbed is what
might fall into the mouth in to-
bacco form. There isn't as much
nicotine in a carton Of cigarettes as
their is in the bowl of the average
strong smelling pipe. There are
more injurious gases inhaled every
day in stuffy street cars poorly
ventilated schoolrooms and in sub
ways than in all the fags that can
ever possibly be made Carbonic
acid gas under strong pressure is
dissolved in practically all OF these
so-cailed soft drinks. making them
more harmful than light wines or
beer. No. they give tho dentists
work. Live on predicested foods
and develop corpulent waist line
but taboo fags.
Ex-BUCK.
The Washington herald., 1922-04-20

wards eliminating this factor. The officer knows
the private. as rule. through work in the same
Office. association the same baseball team. studs
ies at the same college. equally close assc-
eistioa. Through such knowledge he Is able to
judge when discipline approaches the line where Il
degenerates into injustice
OF course II the commissioned ranks are filed
with inferior men this condition becomes disad-
vantage. But If care is used in awarding bars. oak
leaves and eagles. however. it works for ncaicul-
able good. cooperative spirit is achieved which
could be duplicated through the scientific ap-
plication of psychological principles by men trained
at West Point sfvst;.s
The regular army has announced policy Of
renewed cooperation with the National Guard which
will be appreciated. certainly by the organizations
themselves. Through the. citizen soldiers the pro-
fessional establish contact with the great surge
ing American life outside military posts which is
not governed by the articles of the I. D. R.
The contact will work to the advantage of both.
The Washington herald., 1922-04-20
A New Calendar.
To the Editor. Tn. w.shinr,o, u.,,

To the Editor. The Washington Herald.
Not long ago there was a bill in
troduced in the House for changing
the calendar. II that bill becomes a
law a year will be thirteen twenty
eight-day months and one day long,
except when the year happens. to be
on leap year. when It will be thir-
teen months and two days long.
The bad feature about that plan
would be that there would be one
good for nothing day at the end OF
each year. and when the year hap
be two good for nothing days" at
the end of that year.
Ny plan for changing the calen-
dar Is to have twelve months in a
year. seven thirty days long and fve
thtrty-one days long. except when
-he year happened 20 be a leap
year. when six OF the months would
be thirty days long and the other
six would be thirty-one days long.
That would account for all the days
and hours and minutes in a 3s5-day
wear. and In a 366-day year, and
less than thirty days long. therefore
my plan would improve the present
calendar just that much. have
given this matter a great deal OF
thought and can not see how the
present calendar. can be improved
In any other respect.
JOHN ANscHUTz.
III Newton, street northwest
The Washington herald., 1922-04-20
A Distinguished Guest.

WZAsHINcToN had distinguished guest yes,
w terday In the Capital of the United States
there could be no question of the welcome due to
Joseph Joffre marshal of France.
History has moved rapidly in the past seven
years. Other names have replaced the lips Of
the world that of the great soldier who turned
defeat into victory at the Marine. But the feat
he accomplished and the debt the world him
can be forgotten.
The fate of France seemed scaled in those
black days Of 1914 as the green-clad hosts Of
Germany advanced behind their screen of artillery
FIRE. 1t seemed certain that the story of "soxante
dix" would be repeated, that Paris would fall. Then
the grand old gentleman who honorcd by his
presence yesterday performed of the bona hde
miracles of history.
Marshal Joffre is of the ten twelve
soldiers IN the past 1000 years who changed the
fate of the world His victory at the Marne won
with handful Of hastily modified troops, was
the most decisive of the world war Had
II not been for this the original plans. of the
German general staff would have been successful
and the would have ended in overwhelming
reutonc victory in the of few weeks.
1t most appropriate that American veterans
of the pay the greatest tribute to this
in the Capital. They can best appreciate the re-
markable work he accomplished.
The dragged with shifting fortunes and
heroes came into prominence. To Foch, to
Pershing, to Haig the final glory Of victory.
For time, it seemed, the man who made victory
possible was lost from sight
Marshal Joffre, understand, dslikes great
public receptions. He shrinks from accepting the
honors due to his character and his accomplish
ments His journey from the Pacific Coast his
present visit to the United States has been far
from triumphal procession, due largely to the
fact that he himself has avoided attracting attention
Washington greets the most lovable of the
great soldiers of the late war with Difference
to his wishes but with determination, the less
that he should leave without understanding how
much we honor him.