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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-05-08
Many Lake Steamers
Held by Ice FlOes

Duluth, Minn.-Twenty-nine freight
ers and one passenger ship today COM
prised the ice-bound fleet at the head
of the lakes. Twenty inbound ships,
including the steamer Huronic with a
small passenger list, are stuck in the
ice, while ten outbound freighters are
anchored in the harbor unable to sail.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-05-08
May Snow Storm
in South Dakota

Aberdeen, S. D. A snowstorm was
general over the northern part of
South Dakota, according to reports
received here today, more than an
inch having fallen since last night
with no indications Of cessation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-05-08

San Francisco.-The result of
the presidential preference pri-
mary in California in which he
was defeated on the face of returns
today sis no real disaster" u. ).
Senator Hiram w. Johnson said to-
day in a telegram from Washing
ton to his state headquarters here.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-05-08
CALIFORNIA In
COOLIDGE COLUMN
President Leading Johnson
Over 10000 votes in
Home State.
INDIANA is IN LINE
Goes to Coolidge and Ku Klux
Candidate Wins Nominal
NJ ton for Governor.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
San Francisco. - Returns from
1886 precincts complete of the
states 6,974 give from yesterdays
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07

Tornadoes play many freak antics
The following story, told by Gays
Pickwen in Nature, is just sample
Of them:
Mrs. LEM, young farmers wIe
had placed her sleeping baby upon
bed and had gone out among the scat
tering pellets of hail, to look aftel
some baby chicks. Her husband was
at distant pasture watering the cat
tie. Mrs. Lenz noticed the pecuiiai
cloud, dangling like thick rope from
the sky, heard the roaring, guessed
the awful import and rushed to the
house and In to the baby. she tnen
threw herself upon the bed elasping
the child. The house, which nap
pened to be directly in the path OF the
tornado, was completely demolished
Two hours later the frantic husband
found his wife beneath pile OF de-
bris In his uprooted orchard a hum
bred yards from where the house had
stood. The woman was unconscious
but, aside from a few bruises, unhurt.
The baby was fast asleep, held tight
1y In the mothers arms.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07
Fly Awoy, Birdie

An indianapolis school teacher de-
cided to take one Of her women
friends to the theater. AS she was
anxious to have good places she re-
Quested two end seats" when she went
to the box office to make her pur
chases. The request was taken literal
ly and each seat was on the aisle, one
In front of the other. When the two
women found that they were seated In
such an unsatisfactory fashion the
teacher began to wonder whether some
way out of the difficulty could not be
found. Sitting next to her was man.
Beyond him was woman and some
children. but as the man said nothing
to the others she decided that they
were not together. He, being alone,
doubtless would be willing to exchange
his seat for the one directly behind the
teacher, then the latter and her friend
could sit side by side. The teacher in
clined her head slightly and whispered
to the man who was her neighbor.
Pardon me-" she said, prefacing her
request, "but are you alone7"
ely away, birdie" the man respond
ed, "the whole family's with me."--
indianapolis News.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07
NOT Engaged to Think

Many are the stories told about the
late Judge Walter G. Ong, and here Is
characteristic anecdote related by
that veteran Cleveland newspaper
man, Elmer e. Bates, whose beat" al
the time the incident happened in
cluded the old courthouse in the days
when the judge was on the bench.
"One day." says Elmer, "the judge
was explaining to me the intricacies
of technical case, when country
veterinary came in to report that a
valuable horse that the judge had en-
trusted to his care was dead
"Did you give the horse the ,medi-
cine left with you exactly as I In
structed you to do?" the judge in
quired.
"Why, why, no." stammered the
man. "You see, judge, thought some
medicine / prepare myself would be
better"
"You thoughtl' Numbered the
Judge. "You thought! Good heavens,
man, do you suppose for a single mo-
ment that if I had been engaging a
man to think would have hired
your Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07
Have You This Habit
BY Margaret Morrison
TRAVELLING AND SEEING

A 7 THIRTY Priscilla knew that in
"A the little town where she had
grown up -fiourished the fine flower OF
civilization. Her town happened to be
'located," as her geography said, in
the northeastern corner of the United
States, and Priscilla went each winter
to New York or to- Boston or to Phila-
4 delphia for two weeks. Once she had
even been as far as Washington. But
''traEel," in the true sense of the word,
! was TOO expensive. Priscilla had been
brought up not to spend her income.
Moreover, Miss Elizabeth, who lived
with her mother down the street and
was Priscilla's model in all matters
Miss, Elizabeth said that II one had
"the seeing eye" one found at ones
doorstep what many went across the
world for and missed.
Then came Priscillas Invitation
from her cousins In Florida to spend
a month with them. So she rented her
house and went. AT Richmond, there
boarded the train family Of returned
missionaries from China, a mother and
father and seven children; and Pris-
ella, whose section was next theirs,
fell into conversation She had, of
course, read of armed guards and revo-
buttons; but never before had she
talked as an equal with anyone who
had been under arrest. 1t made her
feel excited Then someone told her
that the little brown bushes stuck over
with white that she had been watch
ing for half day were cotton, and a
kind of scared sense of great expert
ence crept upon her. The negro cabins
of the Carolinas, and the mules, and
later the hanging moss and sugar cane
of Georgia, made her feel positively
Don. Juanisn. And then came Florida.
To Priscilla, who had never seen
anything older than Plymouth Rock,
the Sixteenth century town was a
revelation Of another world. The
white coquina walls with the crimson
splashes Of the poinsettia blossoms, the
orange trees and the fragrant yellow
roses, the hooking birds, and the blue
water and skies, gave her an actual
sensation Of growing-the top of her
head seemed to have expanded was
as If windows had been opened in a
close room.
Then one day came letter from
Miss Elizabeth. Priscilla seemed to
see Miss Elizabeth out there on the
plaza under the palmettos among the
sisters on their way to mass in the
cathedral Miss Elizabeth
was fifty, but Priscilla suddenly felt
twenty years her elder. Next year
Priscilla would go to China. She
would save and sell and spend and
zee the world. She felt as If she had |
o make up for Miss Elizabeth and for
III others who had deliberately and
dug themselves in. She
would acquire the habit of travel
HAVE YOU THIS HABIT?
20 by Metropolitan Newspaper Service,
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07
Increase Of Candle Power

The United States burns as many in
candescent lamps as all the other coun-
tries of the world combined. II Is es-
timated that we use S50,000,00O bulbs
annually and that the rate Of consump-
ton increases 10 per cent every year.
The yearly production of lamps to
maintain the supply amounts to approx
imately 200,000000. The average can
dle-power of a lamp has grown from
10, in 1905, to more than 60 at the pres
ent time. while the average number of
watts consumed has remained at about
55--that is, practically stationary
Compressed Air Magazine.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07

Mayor Hylan said at a dinner In
New York:
"An Irishman can make bull or
two in short speech, but there was
a Galway squire once who slammed a
dead squirrel down on the hall table,
hung his gun In the rack, took swig
Of mountain dew and said making
whole drove or herd of bulls:
1.-THE first and last bird shot the
day was this here squirrel, and the
first time hit him | missed him alto
gether. and the next time hit him in
the same place, be jabers, and sfther
that took stone and dropped him
from the tree, and he fell in the
wather and was drowned and that's
the first and last bird / shot the
day."
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07
ALL WORN OUT?
So Was Mrs. Stevens Who Tells Her
Experience.

Are you tired all the time; worn
out night and day? Does your back
ache as if it would break? Do you
suffer dizziness, headaches, rheu-
matte twinges or distressing urinary
disorders? You have good cause then,
to be alarmed about your kidneys. Dc
as many folks in this locality recon-.
mend Use Doan's Pills-a stimulant
diuretic to the kidneys. This typical
case is convincing:
Mrs. L. Stevens 705 N. End st.
Occur d. Alene Idaho says: s'My
kidneys became disordered and
hardly knew what it was to be without
backache. My back panied so con.
stantly / was obliged to sit down dur.
ing the day. became nervous, tired,
depressed and worn out and the mac.
tiveness of my kidneys was one of the
worst signs of kidney weakness
Doan's Pills from the Lakeside Phar.
macy cured me of the attack"
60c, at all dealers. Foster ilburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07

The commercial magnate paid sur
prise visit to branch office and dis
covered junior Stacking.
you're fired Y, he shouted Take
this note to the cashier"
He scrubbed a note in the hand
which everybody in the company knew
but which nobody had ever been able
to read.
After looking at 1t upside down and
from the northern and eastern aspects,
the junior took it to the cashier
whats all this about?" asked the
latter, after severe mental struggle,
and hoping that he held the slip the
right way up.
81 can't read It," said the lad. but
the boss said he wanted me to have a
So raise"
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07

FOUND HEALTH IN
TESTING AT DEATH
Lusty "Youngster' of SO
Recommends Adventure.

"Never say die" Back In 1861, wher
wanted to enlist in the Confederate
army, they told me I'd die In few
months. gritted my teeth. pulled my
self out Of my rut and here am, hale
and hearty at eighty-nine"
Il was rabid Confederate in those
days" he grinned '.From camp to
camp wandered, begging them to let
me enlist. was cussed-looking
specimen OF humanity, twenty-six
years old, weighing less than Ito
pounds.
Every doctor who examined me
threw up his hands and predicted that
I'd die within month. They always
handed me my hat and told me to get
out Of camp before fell to pieces.
Il was the most down-hearted chap
in the world. / didn't care for any
thing. Life was all shadows. Said /
to myself one day: Look a-here young
fellow, you are fool. Don't let those
fellows tell you you're going to die.
Fool EN- And did.
"How did do 1t? Well, I was In
an awful rut. / lived In Fairville, NJ
O., and life was very dull. decided
I wasn't SO sick as / was lacking In
Initiative.
$50 I set out to seek adventure.
sailed for the British West Indies. It
was during the Civil war, and we had
to run the blockade. 1t was great fun.
1t gave me taste Of adventure, so /
did it over again.
1T was then I decided 1t was adj
venture I craved. / wasn't so sick
physically as / was starved In spirit.
So settled down In the West Indies,
looking for more excitement.
1T was strange how picked up. In
a short time I was weighing 1870
pounds. I had been light eater, but
my meals began to agree with me.
"Then I was struck down with yell
low fever. Here was another blow. I
guess / would have passed out, If
hadn't cultivated a sense of humor
and willingness to fight.
AAs soon as got over my Illness /
pulled up for England. running the
blockade again. Later, when / came
back to America, struck out for the
Indian territory and played around
with the Choctaw Indians when the
West was really wild and woolly.
$50 here ! am, eighty-nine, still en-
|oying life. Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07
Quake Wrecked Phones

Sixteen telephone offices were de-
stroyed by the recent Japanese earth
quake, according to dispatch from p.
X. Condict, vice president Of the Inter
national Western Electric company,
who was in Japan during the disaster
The entire telephone system In the
earthquake zone was practically
ruined, some $1,000 telephone lines be-
ing severely affected and thousands
Of miles Of wire made useless.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07
NEW JERSEY FARM
ONCE KINGS HOME


| few citizens Of the United States
at one time had the rare privilege of
neighboring with king, for Joseph
Bonaparte. after wearing the crown OF
Spain and Naples, spent the remainder
of his life as country gentleman on
his magnificent estate near Borden
town, N. j., writes Irene Cowan Tap
pert in Country Life.
What picturesque figure, this
Frenchman, brother to the great Cor
sican, Napoleon Once playing lead
ing part in brilliant world drama,
later we find him going about the
commonplace duties of landholder,
clad In favorite old tramping suit
and faded hat. Suaye and courteous,
he won universal respect and admira-
ton.
The idea of selecting New Jersey
as place of residence originally
came from Napoleon while he was still
emperor of France. On one occasion,
in the presence Of Joseph and several
of his officers, he unrolled map OF
the United States and indicated a spot
half way between New York and Phil
adelphia, saying:
IF I am ever forced to fly to Amer
lea, shall settle there-where can
receive the earliest intelligence from
France by ships arriving at either
port"
Later, when preparing for his es-
cape, Joseph sent final message to
his brother urging him to go in his
stead and seek refuge In the quiet
spot he had previously selected, which
offer, as may be imagined, was imme-
diately declined.
Josephs escape to America as mar
rated by his secretary, Maillird, In
"Bonaparte's Park and the Murats,"
tells us that the vessel selected for
the journey was a small, common
looking brig, the Commerce, weighing
200 tons, and loaded with cargo of
Bordeaux wines.
A skillful captain, Messervey, a
Swede, was in command Of the Com
merce. Three times the vessel was
stopped on the high seas and
searched by English frigates who
were on the lookout for the de-
throned emperor, but SO carefully had
the papers and the passports been
prepared that even the captain did not
know the identity of his distinguished
passengers until after the vessel had
landed On the following day, in blaz-
ing headlines, Messervey read all
about the voyage and the successful
escape of former crowned head of
Europe.
The city Of Philadelphia became the
first place Of residence for Count de
Survilliers, which was the former
kings title in this country, and he first
occupied house on Ninth street. later
renting one Of the ten pretentious
houses of the Girard trust fund in
Girard row, located on Chestnut street
below Twelfth. He lived in apparent
comfort for the space Of several
years.
Soon after his arrival In America
Joseph had applied to the legislature
If New Jersey for permission to hold
.eai estate without becoming natural
zed. Approaching his peculiar posi-
ion, the legislature, after due consid-
,ration. complied with his request.
The count then purchased some
and. His real estate consisted Of ten
arms on the banks of Crosswicks
reek, extending up to the opposite
dllage of Groverville, and park of
bout 1000 acres. This park, known
IS Bonaparte's park, was situated on
N elevated plateau near Bordentown.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07
Surrey Farms Fron, Air

Measuring crop areas at the rate Of
mile minute Is the latest achieve
ment of the United States Department
Of Agriculture, says Popular Science
Monthly. The fields are photographed
from airplanes at attitudes of from g.
500 to 1000 feet BY means of plant
meter, an instrument for measuring ir
regular areas In photographs, the &C.
tual area of each field Is determined.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07

The five leading ports of the world
and the value of their commerce are
as follows: Liverpool, $4,000, 600 900;
London. 1888, 604, 600; New York city,
1902, 521, 600; Bordeaux, France, ST.
266, $4,000; Marseilles, France, ST.
~. 609, 600.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07

BERTHE was told that he must ask
permission for certain things.
where does Permission liver he
inquired. -Everybody's Magazine.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07
A LINE o. CHEER
BY John kendrlck Bangs.
NEEDLESS

rF. AS they say. all flesh is
grass
I'm going to atart at early
And do my best ere day shall
pass
To prove myself a perfect
Lawn
TO keep my spirit fresh and
green
AS having sprung from best Of
seed,
And smiling as the sky, and
clean
or every sort of noxious weed.
70 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-07

Bangkok, Siam, and many cities on
the Malay peninsula are planning to
install scenic railways and other
amusement-pa devices.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-06-20
COMING: JELLs AND JAMS

The jelly and jam season is upon
us, so it is well to brush up on few
points-and to guide the June brides
bit in the wonderful art Of preserv-
ing. Not everything in a jelly glass is
worthy the name Of jelly. Good jelly
is clear, sparkling, transparent and Of
beautiful color. It should hold it's form
and CULVER, but not flow when slipped
out of the glass. 1t retains the surface
and angles and clean, distinct c1eav-
age. when cut. It is both firm and
tender.
To make good jelly the fruit juice
must contain the right proportion Of
acid and pectin, and be combined
with the correct proportion of sugar.
Different fruit juices vary in the
amount of pectin and acid. Not all
fruit juice contains pectin, which is
what makes the jelly "jell." One may
add acid or pectin, or flavor, when the
juice to be used has not enough Of
its own. The natural fruit juice is
more artistic than that made with
substitute colors and havors.
Better jelly is made of fruit not
quite ripe, than of that bit over
ripe, as the sun changes some of the
pectin into fruit sugar in the ripening.
Some fruits rich in pectin do not have
enough acid, as ounces, and will not
make jelly without acid added. 1t
helps bring out the pectin in fruit to
add a little acid before cooking. Heat
is also needed to develop the pectin.
Better jelly is made if you have a
thermometer, to be. sure Of your tent
perature. IT 3,ef ts.-s-
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-06-20
DEFINITION FOR AN n
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Many still think of an agricultural
college as place where one learns to
pillow or milk cows, just as a so-called
BARRIERS college teaches how to shave
and cut hair. This is the wrong point
of view" says Dean E. c. Johnson
Of the State College of Washington,
new bulletin, "The College of Agri-
culture, just off the press. 1t describ-
ed the purpose of college courses in
agriculture and the life work for
which they prepare students.
1t contains outlines of the 4-year
courses offered, describing briefly the
major lines of work for which stu
dents in these courses may prepare
themselves. 1t is profusely illustrated
with photographs of classes in labor
atories, orchards, and on the campus,
busy with the different types of live
stock and farm equipment, as we'll as
views Of the campus, buildings, dor
mitories and club houses in which the
students live.
THE majority of the young men
who enroll at the college already know
how to pillow and milk" Said Dean
Johnson. college courses in agricul-
ture are not designed to teach simple
farm operations, but to fit men for tn.
farming business by giving h m
thorough instruction in the fundamen-
tails on which agriculture is based, not
only agricultural and general sciences,
but economics, marketing and Eng
lish.
Agricultural education today is
broad and fits for many occupations
besides farming, as work with farm
ers' marketing organizations; ban k
ing in country communities; the feed
seed and fertilizer business; farm ma
chinery manufacture; dairy manufac-
ture; the milling business, etc. In
short, it fits for citizenship in the
largest sense.
This is now realized to such an
extent that in some of the land grant
colleges there are so per cent to 60
per cent of the students from cities
and towns. In the agricultural classes
at the State College of Washington
about So per cent of the freshmen this
year are from towns and cities. Many
of thes plan to farm; others perhaps
will enter businesses closely related
to agriculture. While most of the
boys who take agricultural courses ul-
timatcly take up farming, consider
able number enter business enterprises
in which not only the work which
they do in college but their early farm
experience as we'll, is especially help
full. The polne of view they acquired
on tie farm and in the college will be
reflected in their bus ness and this,
in the long run, will be helpful to
which rnef>witl, such widespread favor
agriculture also
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-06-20
VIGILANCE UNRElAxED

There has been a steady and graft
Tying Improvement in conditions in
california, with respect to the foot
mouth disease. During four days of
this week but one single new outbreak
was reported, and that was on Tues
day, in Los Angeles county, with a
herd OF l06 head affected. There have
been five days out of the last ten with
no reports of new infection and for
the past two weeks all cases of infec-
ton reported have been in but three
counties out of the eighteen in which
previous cases of disease had appear
ed.
1t is now clear that the strenuous
and expensive work which has been
carried on in California has brought
results and that it is now but ques-
ton of time when there will be COM
plete eradication of the disease in
that State. There is only one possible
chance for this to be mistaken con-
clusion. Where the disease appeared
among range cattle, the opportunity
for close inspection of all the stock
is limited. Grass is short and the
cattle range widely. There is always
of course, the possibility of infection
surviving among some Of the cattle
on the more remote ranges and new
cases therefore developing later, when
these cattle come in contact with
others. This, however, is but posi-
bility or remote probability. The
present outlook is for a restoration
Of normal conditions before the sum-
ner is over and for the resumption
Of free and unrestricted commerce
with all parts of California. The pos
sibility of the disease reaching this
State is lessening day by day, but no
precautions will be relaxed until alb
solute safety is assured, according to
the statements Of Director French,
who lis assured that his successor will
follow thes plans which he outlined
and has followed ever since the dam
ger first appeared.