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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09
SMALLER FALL WHEAT
ACREAGE IN z COUNTRIES

Total acreage of fall wheat for
seven countries this year Is placed
at 69,945,000 acres, in official advices
received by the United States de-
partment of agriculture. This COM
pares with 0,966,000 acres for the
same countries in 1922, The United
States shows decreased acreage of
1,542,OOO acres. or drop of 3 per
cent; Canada a decrease of $4,000
acres, or 5 per cent; Roumania $685.
OOO acres, or 13 per cent; Czecho-
Slovakia $1,000 acres, or per cent,
and Poland 10000 acres, or 3 per
cent. France and Bulgaria show in
creases, the increase in France to-
falling 100000 acres, or 10 per cent,
and in Bulgaria $4,000 acres, or Ia
per cent.
Decreased acreages are reported
also in Hungary, Jugo Slavia, Eng
land and Wales, Germany, and Aus
tria, but actual statistics are not
available. A commercial estimate
places the decrease in Hungary and
Jugo Slavia at 10 per cent.
Condition of the European fall
grain crops is reported as good.
especially the early sowings. Good
crops are reported in England and
wales, tally, France, and Spain. Snow
coverings are protecting the crops in
RUSSIA Germany, Poland, and the
Balkans.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09
The kQst@E OF,
B d1Id III o.
~ By RoorRr LOUIS STEVENSON
By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

me like an old song. l was after the
fishing and l made bonny cast. Eth
but | was happy. | wonder, Mackel
lar, why am never happy now?"
my lord" said /, elf you would
drink with more moderation you
would have the better chance. 1t is
an old byword that the bottle is a
false CONSIDER"
mo doubt" said he, mo doubt.
Well, | think l will be going"
Good morning, my lord" said l.
Good morning, good morning"
said he, and so got himself at last
from the apartment.
In his cups, he was more excessive
will give but the one scene, close
upon the end, which is strongly
marked upon my memory to this day,
and at the time affected me almost
with horror
/ was in bed, lying there awake,
when l heard him stumbling on the
stair and singing. My lord had no
gift of music; his brother had all the
graces of the family, so that when 1
say singing, you are to understand a
manner of high, caroling utterance,
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09

At this / leaped from my place,
went over to his side and laid hand
on his bare shoulder, which was cold
as stone. He uncovered his face and
showed it me all swollen and be-
grutten like a childs; and at the
sight of my impatience partially re-
vived
"Have Done With This"
Think shame to yourself" said l..
This is bairnly conduct. might have
been sniveling myself, if l had cared
to swill my belly with wine. But /
went to my bed sober like man.
Come; get into yours, and have done
with this pitiable exhibition"
"Oh, Mackellar,' said he, my heart
is wae!p
''Wae?" cried l. For a good cause,
think. What words were these you
sung as you came in? Show pity to
others, we then can talk of pity to
yourself. You can be the one thing
or the other, but will be no party to
halfway houses. If you're a striker,
strike, and if you're bleater, bleat!"
"Cry!" cries he, with burst,
that's it-strike! that's talking Man,
I've stood it all too long. But when
they laid a hand upon the child,
when the childs threatened"-his
momentary vigor whimpering Off
my child, Alexander!"-a he was
at his tears again
took him by the shoulders and
shook him. alexander" said |. do |
you even think of him? Not you! Look |
in the face like brave man,
and you'll find you're but self
leceiyer. The wife, the friend, the
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09

The annual meeting and banquet OF
the Colville Chamber of Commerce
held recently advanced plans to have
the various towns unite in an adver-
Using campaign in the form of fold
ers, to be issued In quantities and fur
nished tourists headquarters and the
railroad offices. Work on this folder
will be started at once, and It is the
plan of the Colville Chamber to make
this folder as complete as possible.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09

which was truly neither speech MOI
song. Something not unlike is to be
heard upon the lips of children, ere
they learn shame; from those of a
man grown elderly, it had a strange
effect
He opened the door with noisy pre-
caution; peered in, shading his can
die; conceived me to slumber; en-
tered, set his light upon the table,
and took off his hat / saw him very
plain; high, feverish exultation ap-
peared to boil in his veins, and he
stood and smiled and smirked upon
the candle. Presently he lifted up his
arm, snapped his fingers, and fell to
undress. AS he did SO, having once
more forgot my presence, he took
back to his singing; and now | could
hear the words, which were those
from the old song of the "Twa Cor
bies" endlessly repeated:
"And over his banes when they are
bare
The wind sail blaw for eyermairl"
No Logical Succession.
| have said there was no music in
the man. His strains had no logical
succession except so far as they in
clined little to the minor mode;
but they exercised a rude potency
upon the feelings, and followed the
words, and signified the feelings of
the singer with barbaric fitness. He
took it first in the time and manner
OF a rant; presently this ill-favored !
abated, he began to dwell
upon the notes more feelingly, and !
sunk at last into a degree of maudlin |
pathos that was to me scarce bear. |
able. By equal steps, the original
briskness of his acts declined and
when he stripped to his breeches, he I
sat on the bedside and fell to whim-
pering. | know nothing less respect
Jul than the tears of drunkenness and
turned my back impatiently on this
poor sight.
But he had started himself q am
% supposed on that slippery descent
ii self-pity; on the which, to a man
lnstrung by old sorrows and recent
)otations, there is no arrest except
exhaustion. His tears continued to
low, and the man to sit there, three
'arts naked, in the cold air of the
hamber. | twitted myself alternate
Y with inhumanity and sentimental
now half rising in my bed
o interfere, now reading myself les
ons Of indifference and counting
until, upon a sudden, it shot
ato my mind; and calling to remem-
rance his old wisdom, consistency, and
atience, / was overborne with a pity
lmost approaching the passionate,
ot for my master alone but for the I
ons of man. t
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09

In his he excessive will give but the
scene close the end which strongly marked upon
to this day, and the affected almost with
horror.
was In bed lying there awake when heard him stumbling
the stair and singing My lord had gift of music; his
brother had all the of the family that say sing
to understand of hgh carolng utterance
which truly neither speech song Something not un-
like to be heard the lips of children, they
shame; from those of elderly strange
effect
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09

child, they're all equally forgot, and
you sunk in a mere log of selfish.
ness"
| "Mackellar," said he, with a won.
derful return to his old manner and
appearance, you may say what you
will of me, but one thing never was
Il was never selfish"
II will open your eyes in your de-
spite" said 1. How long have we
been here? And how often have you
written to your family? 1 think this
is the first time you were ever sep
arate; have you written at all? Do
they know if you are dead or living?"
Braced His Nature.
| had caught him here too openly;
it braced his better nature; there was
no more weeping, he thanked me very
penitently, got to bed and was soon
fast asleep; and the first thing he
did the next morning was to sit down
and begin letter to my lady; a very
was never finished. Indeed all COM
munication with New York was trans
acted by myself; and it will be Judged
had thankless task of it. What to
tell my lady and in what words, and
how far to be false and how far
cruel, was thing that kept me often
from my slumber.
My lords mind throughout this in
terval dwelt almost wholly in the
wilderness, following that party with
whose deeds he had so much con-
Germ He continually conjured I'D
their camps and progresses, the fash
ion of the country, the preparation |
In thousand different manners of |
the same horrid fact, and that con.
sequent spectacle of the masters
bones lying scattered In the wind.
These private, guilty considerations
would continually observe to peep
forth In the mans talk, like rabbits
from a hill. And it is the less won,
der If the scene of his meditations
began to draw him bodily
1t is well konwn what pretext he
.ook. Sir William Johnson had dip
omatic errand in these parts; and
ny lord and | (from curiosity, as was
given QUIT went in his company. Sir
William was well attended and lib
'rally supplied. Hunters brought us
tension, fish was taken for us daily
II the streams, and brandy ran like
water. We proceeded by day and en-
ampel by night in the military stvle
were set and changed;
very man had his named duty: and
sir William was the spring of all
'here was much in this that might
t times have entertained me: but
or our misfortune, the weather was
Extremely harsh, the days were in
he beginning open, but the nights
rosty from the first A painful keen
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09
IDAHO

c. w. Hungerford, plant pathologist
at the Universit yof Idaho experiment
station farm, has been elected a fell
low in the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, and
commissioner on the advisory board
of the American Phytopathologcal So
ciety for three-year term. Mr.. Hung
erford's directorshp will be for the en-
tire district west of the Rocky noun.
tains. The election of Mr.. Hungerford
to a fellowship in the American as
ISOLATION, an honor bestowed only
upon those making outstanding con-
to science, was in recogni-
ton of his valuable research work deal
ing with the stripe rust of wheat, the
relation of moisture to the control of
smut in wheat. and potato disease in
vestigation.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09

wind blew most of the time, so that
we sat In the boat with blue fingers,
and at night, as we scorched our
faces at the fire, the clothes upon
our back appeared to be of paper.
Solitude Surrounded Steps.
A dreadful solitude surrounded
our steps; the land was quite dis
peopled, there was no smoke of fires,
and save for a single boat Of merch-
ants on the second day, we met no
travellers. The season was indeed
late, but this desertion of the water
ways impressed Sir William himself;
and l have heard him more than once
express a sense of intimidation. Il
have come too late, l fear; they must
have dug up the Ratchet" he said;
and the future proved how just he
had reasoned.
Our advance into this savage coun-
try had thus uneventfully proceeded
for about week when we en-
camped for night at a place where
the river ran among considerable
clothed In wood. The fires
were lighted on a level space at the
waters edge; and we supped and
lay down to sleep in the customary
fashion. 1t CHANGED the night fell MUIR
derously cold; the stringensy of the
frost seized and bit me through my
coverings, so that pain kept me wake
'ul; and l was afoot again before the
peep of day, crouching by the fires or /
.rotting to and fro at the streams !
edge, to combat the aching of my
limbs
(To be continued)
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09

Save eggs after males have been
in the pens for ten days or more
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09

Articles of incorporation of the
lewiston Charleston federation was
filed recently by P. R. Parks, Vera
Parks and F. S. Randall, Lewiston,
and S. D. Steinnger and G. A. Foley,
Charleston, the capital being $4,000
The corporation on the first of Febru-
airy will take over the packing place
and storage building of the Valley
Fruit company, in Lewiston and will
engage in the general fruit handling
business. The company's operations
will be affiliated with the national
federation fruit and vegetable grow
ers.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09
Advance information.

She-How did you know / was 60
ing to wear my hair curled this eve.
ming?
He-I saw it in the papers this
morning.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09

Trustees of the Community Hospital
Idaho association of Newport, Wash,
have let the contract for a $4,000
modern hospital to be started about
the first Of February
The state senate has passed bill
abolishing the Idaho state constabu-
larry. This redeems pledges made by
three parties at the last election.
The Oregon Packing company, con-
ductng large fruit, canning factory
at Lewiston, announced today that 1t
had closed contracts for the output
of about 400 acres of cherry and peach
orchards in the Lewiston Orchards
district The contracts demonstrate
the confidence the packing company
has In the stability of fruit prices.
Fifty residents of Elk City basin
have petitioned the game warden to
request the legislature to create a
game preserve on the north side of
Salmon river.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09

Samuel Gompers is for the Column
bia Basin Irrigation project and has
written Rem H. Rice, secretary of the
Columbia River Basin Irrigation
league, giving assurance of the coop
Grafton of the American Federation of
Labor. Other labor organizations are
coming out for the project and are
offering important support. 1.-THE
American Federation of Labor is
heartily in favor of any plan of irri-
cation that will benefit large numbers
of people," the labor president said.
THE legislative committee of the
Federation of Labor has
standing instructions to do all that is
possible to encourage reclamation leg
Islation."
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09
Champion American Butter Cow


ny May w ak er
I Ollie Hampstead.
a 7-year old Hol-
stein, of Austin.
Mimi, is the U. S.
champion butter
cow yer all
breeds and ages
for 1922. She pro-
duced 121S.59 lbs.
OF butter fat or
31eO.6 lbs. of milk.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09
NORTHWEST NEWS

concentrations for action on the Co.
lumbia Basin project since his cleo
ton to the United States senate, G.
c. Dill recently suggested that some
time in May or early in June the
members Of the house irrigation COM
mittee be brought to Washington by
the Basin league, for a thorough and
personal inspection of the entire
project. This will probably cost
$4,000 to $4,000, but the results would
be worth the spending 10 times that
much in other ways" stated the SEN
ator-elect. 1.-The senate committee
has approved this appropriation once
and will probably do the same again."
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-09
"Why Am | Not Happy"

Then | think l will be stepping, ="
says my lord, and stood and looked
at me fidgeting with his hat, which
he had taken off again. q suppose
you will have no errands? No? | am
to meet Sir William Johnson, but 1
will be more upon my guard" He was
silent for time, and then, smiling:
DO you call to mind place. Mac
kellar-it's a little below Engles-
where the burn runs very deep under
a wood of rowans? l mind being there
when | was a lad-dear, it comes over
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-24
TALES FROM
BIG CITIES


Finally it spread throughout the
neighborhood, and at last, after six
months, reached the states attorneys
office. James Wolf. an officer Of the
Juvenile court, was assigned to inves-
tigate. He found john. and his
three-year-old sister, Margie. had been
deserted by their father and were liv-
ing with their grandmother, Mrs. Mary
Penzanic, at 1903 Grand avenue.
Penzanic was found living with a
woman at 2136 Taylor street. Cues
toned by Assistant States Attorney
William j. Grace, he repeated the
story he had told at the inquest.
Then Johnny Penzanic was brought
in. Slumped in a chair at the other
side of the room, covering al the boy,
was his father.
Tell US who killed your mother,
Johnny" Mr.. Grace directed. The boy
looked at his father, hung his head,
kicked a nervous foot against the 9TH
err and turned as II to run out the
door which had been closed behind
him.
Don't be afraid" said Mr.. Grace
kindly. NO one a hurt you here.
Tell us just what happened"
The child turned. Strengthened,
looked his father full in the eye, lev.
eled a tiny finger at him and blurted:
HE did,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-24

EATTLE, WASH.-Uncle Sam Is
now confronted with the serious
problem of having so many rein
deer he does not know what to
do with them.
The reindeer service in the last year
or two has completely outgrown its
organization the animals have multi
piled so rapidly they number in ex-
cess of 100000.
Most of the native herders are fac
ing the difficulty of possessing herds
so large they cannot handle them and
some plan must be Immediately de-
yised for marketing the vast surplus.
The government owned herds are
legions Of rafting antlers and clicking
hoofs. Something must be done at
once on the broad tundras for fixing
the boundaries Of ranges. At present
the innumerable herds of reindeer
roam the public domain.
These are the tasks assigned to w.
l.. LOpp, superintendent of education
OF the natives in northern Alaska and
ex-oliicio head of the reindeer indus
try.
Mr.. LoDp has gone north to un-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-24
Fakers Not Wanted at County Fairs

ready asking, "How did you have a
successful fair without the old lineup
Of midway concesssions?"
G.. II. Bliss, farm adviser of Carroll
county, who had much to do with de-
veloping the new idea, says, I'VE
staged a real historic pageant this
year as the chief feature of our fair,
and il beat any exhibition of midway
concessions ever held in this county.
Every one will back me up on that
statement. W. had big crowds daily ;
everybody had a good time, and every
body fayors having another fair just
like this one mex year. OF course,
well not use the historic idea in, our
future pageants but we have already
thought of several good stunts that
can be allegorized."
More than a thousand persons, all
living in Carroll county, took part in
the pageant depicting the development
of the community for the last 100
years. The total cost was only $500
$50 of that was spent in bringing a
team of oxen from Clinton, Ia, to
add realism to the pioneer phase of
the pageant.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-24

~ HIHUAHUA, MEX.-The Men
nonites just have bought co.
900 acres more in Chihuahua.
This new tract lies south of
the present holdings of $4,000 acres
and is destined for 5000 Mennonites
now on the way from the Ukraine in
southern Russia, where Mennonites
have been living for 400 years. These
are the vanguard of from $4,000 to
10000 Russian Mennonites who have
found Bolsheyism unbearable. The
Russian Mennonites, prosperous be-
fore the overthrow of the ear, are
now on the verge Of starvation In
many sections of the Ukraine, their
leaders here say. There are more
than 100000 still in southern Russia,
all of whom are looking to the new
world.
Prosperous Mennonites in the Unit
ed States and Canada have guaranteed
The payment for the latest purchase.
They say they are willing to guaran-
Tee payment for other large tracts.
With 1000 Canadian Mennonites al
ready here, 5000 on the way from
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-24
Waits Since Civil War for Her Lover

father kept. He gave her the wealth
of love and devotion for which she
had thirsted. And she gave him her
pledge for love. Riley Read, the girls
father, objected. Then, On the night
before the regiment struck tents, Read
strobe into the parlor. . On the old.
black ~hair-coyered settee sat the sol
der. Against the blue of his coat lay
the gold of Fannie's hair.
Rage so overcame Riley Read that
he could not speak. He sprang upon
the lieutenant, jerked him to his feet,
threw him Il of the house. He old
his daughter to go to her room. She
went and was locked in. When the
regiment moved the next morning
Lieut.. John Bellows asked for her, but
he could not see her. She was still
locked in.
Later, when her father told her she
could come out, she said she wouldn't.
And she didn't in his lifetime.
From behind closed blinds of the
old tavern now comes the mint notes
of a spinet sometimes on moonlight
nights. The tunes are when Johnny
Comes Marching Home Again" and
an Be Waiting in the Cleaning"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-24

~ INCLINATION, n. For 81
~ years Fanny Read, in a single
suite of rooms high up in a
huge old tavern at Hancock,
now deserted and gone to cobwebs and
memories, has waited for her Civil
war lover, Lieut.. John Bellows, TO
keep his promise and come back to
her.
In all that time, since the autumn
of 1861. she has broken her self-im-
posed exile in the gloomy 50-room
hotel only twice-once years ago to
attend a funeral and again recently
to attend another funeral-and now
she ows she has returned to her mem
cries and her exile forever.
Fannie Read today lives absolutely
alone in the gray, abandoned hotel.
She has for many years. Her only
near relative is Judge Howard Read of
Hancock, whose kindly treatment of
her for a quarter of a century has kept
her alive. He takes her meals to her
and does her errands.
Fannie Read was the belle of all
the countryside when in the first year
of the Civil war Lieut.. John Bellows
and his company ~bivouacked down on
the flats near the tavern which her
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-24
Uncle Sans Too Numerous Reindeer

scramble the situation. He will find
that native herders who started out n
few years ago with two-score rein
deer now have from 1000 to 5000, and
more coming. He will discover that
from IL individual government herds
in 1918 there are now 100.
The idea of the reindeer furnishing
a meat supply to Alaskans has doubt
ers. Many of these live in the fa-
vored sections where the millions of
caribou pass twice a year, going and
coming from the feeding grounds of
the seasons.
Caribou meat is supplied for the
killing. AS long as caribou exist-and
they are increasing-reindeer meat
cannot supply much of the meat sup
ply at home.
Mr.. Lopp, however, has the worlds
biggest pasture to scatter the reindeer
herds over, and 1t is likely he will re-
establish many of the cOngested sta
lions in new and more remote parts
Of Alaska.
Incidentally, reindeer meat has been
sent to the United States and has
found a market
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-24

~ HICAGO-John Penzanlc, 2257
Grand avenue, called u doctor
and told him to hurry as his
wife was dying from an acct
don't. The doctor hurried over, but
found Mrs. Lille Benzanlc dead. The
husband said she had fallen down the
steps. Johnny Penzanlc, six years
old, also said his mother had fallen
down the steps. Nevertheless, the
doctor refused to sign a death GER
tificate.
DIR. Joseph Springer c%oroner's ply
stefan. made an examination Of the
body and found severe abrasions on
the body, hemorrhage of the lungs, twO
ribs broken and rupture of the liver.
Mrs. PenZanic, he also reported, was
with child at the time of her death.
Penzanic testified at the inquest
that his wife had slipped and fallen
downstairs and died before a doctor
could get there. The jury accepted
his story and returned a verdict of ac-
cidental death.
But the night his mother died,
Johnny gave a neighbor a childish &C.
coun of how his father had beaten
her and kicked her under the table.
He also described how his father had
burned her clothes. The neighbor
didn't tell the police but passed the
story on to another neighbor.