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Evening star., 1924-11-10

ment dwellers on New York's East
Side. He is ably supported by Edith
Roberts.
A good many hearty laughs have
been worked into Jack Dempseys
picture, "Alrs Swell on the Ocean,"
an added attraction. In tho climax
Dempsey has q rather unique ex-
perience battling q Frenchman who
swings his feet as dexterously as his
fists.
Evening star., 1924-11-10
Ambassador" Secrets.

Norma Talmadge in the difficult
role of Mary Carleton, heroine of
Secrets" her newest picture, was
also the attraction at the Ambassador
Theater yesterday, and will continue
today and tomorrow.
Owing to the length of this feature
no subsidiary attractions are shown
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
High Value of Brick

IT is an interesting fact that brick
making. the most ancient of all the
industries producing manufactured
building materials, is today one of the
basic industries of the nation. 1t is
difficult to destroy brick. Vast guam
titles of the bricks made in the early
days of the industry may still be
found on the sites of the ruined cities
of antiquity. Bricks made nowadays
are composed of exactly the same me-
terlaI and manufactured according to
the same principles as the ancient
product. The composite price of brick
all over the United States works out
today at little over SIS per thousand.
Brick. therefore, is a manufactured
article weighing from four to hve
pounds, costing about cent and a
half, and capable of giving several
thousand years of service. 1t is the
cheapest manufactured material on the
market.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
Smelling a Rainbow

From time immemorial English
country folk have believed that they
can smell a rainbow. Of course it is
a mistake to believe that rainbow
has any smell, but the peculiar odor
may be caused in this way: Rainbows
are most common in the warm days of
spring, when growing vegetation OF
many kinds is giving out fragrance
and the moist air is filed with won
derful blending of aromatic odors. How
many people believe that the direction
of the wind at the turn of the season
indicates what is to be expected dur
ing the coming three months There
is no scientific evidence that such is
the case. Probably the idea arose from
the circumstance that British weather
tends to preserve it's character. Thus,
If a certain kind of weather is expert
enced for ten days, the probability is
greater that the type will persist for
another period, rather than that
change will come about"
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
Esparto Grass Used
for Many Purposes

The route to Gafsa is constantly
traversed by trains of cameIs with es.
parto grass. This grass is very plen-
tiful in the central uplands of Tunisia,
but as depot is sometimes a six days
journey and 60 confines is the price
Of load, thereAis not much of for
tune in it for the collectors. remarks
the Christian Science Monitor.
AT the depots it is pressed into
bales with primitive presses and then
exported. Esparto is of very tough
texture and great flexibility, and for
centuries it has been used for making
ropes, sandals, mats and baskets. In
the Spanish navy cables made of es-
parto are used.
Gafsa is an Arab town with no Eu-
ropean buildings except the barracks.
Two Arab houses, at a little distance
apart, constitute the only hotel The
oasis here Is specially beautiful, par
ticularly the apricot trees which are
of immense size and apparent age and
laden with very small fruit. Arabs
never prune their trees; when the fruit
becomes too woody to eat, down comes
the tree.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27

What visiting sea captain calls
che harems" are to be found among
the Marquesas islands of the South
seas. The bulky, brown Amazonian
women are unspoilt by association
with oriental ideas, and collect half
dozen husbands or more. The col
lection is done by the simple expedi-
ent of driving the man with a bamboo
pole into the harem, thrashing him
well to make him thoroughly under
stand who is In command-and set
ting him to work on the coconut plan
tation or at the homework. These
conditions only obtain in the islands
that are unvisited by steamships.
The windjammer trader is the only
white man who finds the natives in
their primitive condition.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27

loomed gayly before them a-futtei
with flags and pulsing with gay voices
and the sounds of strings. Yet a semi
hush fell upon 1t little later as the
Mystery Twins, still bound with the
Oriental scarf, fioated upon the ball.
room floor Together they whirled
and swayed, dipping like flowers in
breeze, suddenly stopping for halt
a breath's space, then dancing on,
every motion more enhancing than
the last. Came a pause in the music
Anderly darted to the dancers, crying
gayly: "Message! Messagel You
came for that you know"
1T can be spoken only in silence
and utter darkness p from the two In
unison. Command it-then you shall
hear"
II was weird-no denying 1.-THE
sudden eclipse of everything. Through
it came yet more weirdy: "Seek We
the Gain of Loss" Then as light
flashed up all stared in daze-at
empty space. The twins had vanished
but left behind one golden sandal, one
scarlet slipper.
"Oh. but you ran it awfully fine,
Glen said to the twins as their car
vanished. "How ever did you make
up all that patter? 1t fooled even me
until I saw your ankle" this to
PHYLLIS. who answered severely:
understand, sir, the queen OF
Spain has no feet"
aPm main glad her understudy is
better situated" Glen flung back
"You were riots-both of you-oniy
hone I can keep all the rest guess
ing until l take the pair OF you Dack
again." ;, rao,o,
"Anderly doesn't know, IsoDel
began.
aNo-he only guessed" Glen inter
runted. "But-he'll be no less keen
than | am in seeking the gain OF loss.
Nav we come and talk 1t over TINS
afternoon? It's long past midnignt
now" - os.
oJf YOU promise not to ask ques-
tions." Phyllis began. .,
clen shook his head, saying: I'VE
shall keep asking questions-thi we
get the right answer.
Sure enough they did.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
Danger in Carrying
Good Hunor Too Far

1nere was once q woodcufter whs
had the reputation of being the mos,
good-humored man for twenty mile.
round, says a writer In the York
snire Post His life had been hard
t2r his parents had died when he was
barely sixteen, and he had had te
support himself by woodcutting. will
no help from any one. He had never
been able 10 marry. and lived By him
self In small hut deep in the forest
one day he was out cutting down u
very hard oak tree; he had onl,
struck a few blows when-crack-
handle of his ak broke in two. and
the head, bouncing off a knot in the
wood, rolled away down the steep hill
side, and in moment had vanished
from sight into deep ravine.
This was the only ak that the wood
cutter possessed, but be simply smiled
scratched his head, lit his pipe and re
turned home. 1t was cold weather.
and on reaching his hut he found thai
wolves had broken in and eaten nearly
all his food. "Never mind" he said
to himself. mo use getting angry
It's lucky still have bit of cheese
locked in the, cupboard, and as for the
ak, I'll have to try TO borrow one"
That night there was heavy snow
fall and the woodcutter woke TO find
his roof leaking, and snow streaming
onto the floor. II must mend that
tomorrow" he thought. I'm lucky to
have a bed to lie in" But during the
next hour, the blizzard redoubled; the
woodcutter's roof gave way complete
ly; he was showed under in his sleep
and never woke. This story shows
plainly that good humor, though
useful quality, is little dangerous if
entirely unmixed.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
Cuckoo Superstitions

There are numerous superstitions
associated with the hearing OF the
cuckoo's first call. In the maritime
highlands and Hebrides if the cuckoo
is first heard by one who has not
broken his fast some misfortune is ex-
pected. Indeed, besides the danger, 1t
is considered reproach to one 10
have heard the cuckoo while hungry,
saws the Detroit News
In France to hear the cuckoo FOR
tbe first time fasting is to make the
nearer ian idle do-nothing for the rest
of the year" or ito numb his limbs
for the same period There is SINH
lar belief in certain parts OF the west
Of England. In Northumberland one
e told. if walking on hard road when
the cuckoo first calls, that the ensuing
season will be full Of calamity 10 be
on soft ground is lucky omen.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
"Seek Ye the Gain
of Loss
By MARTHA WILLIAMS

(CopyFight.)
uDYE reckon they really meant
- to conner" Phyllis asked dis
consolately.
"Cads-if they didn'tl" Isobel shifted
scornfully. I'm sure we didn't even
look as if we wanted their company.
Unless they show up in about two
minutes, I'm for going all by our
selves"
1--WE can't-we don't know another
soul amongst the managers" Phyllis
lamented, a little TREMENDOUSLY.
Don't matter-at a masquerade
Isobel said resolutely. 'In fact, !
think it will be great fun. Suppose
we tie ourselves together with gran
ny's India scarf and say we're the
Mystery Twins instead of Little
Sunshine and the Horrible Example"
A scant half hour later, swathed in
vaporous black from head to heel, jet
mummies, indeed, poised upon the
daintiest of black satin slippers, they
saw a car with two passengers Wnlri
past in high, roar up the drive, stop
dead, two figures leap out and as
sault but vainly the big front door,
walk around the house, loiter at the
back, then race back to the num-
ming car, climb into it, and set up
such long and shrill whistling as
set echoes growing all up and down
the pike, then with a last despairing
Shrek of the horn come back to the
highway as though bent on destruc-
ton, but check suddenly at sight OF
the black mummies, who mad ao-
vanced to the middle Of the ROAD.
Music had given Phyllis smatter OF
Italian-she made her hating en-
treaty in it, secure that 1T was Greek
or worse to the recreant gallants. 80
1t fell to Isobel to say In her softest,
most musical half-whisper: Help
In the name of kindness, gentle sir
We are weary-there is yet way
to gol"
"Pile in. and welcomel Billy Glen
cried, leaping out to help the mum
mics. Soto voce he said to his cnum'
Anderly: "Our prayers were nearo'
you see. We don't have to go stag
after all our Dragging over the ne"
beauties we had discovered"
"Where?" Glen asked solicitousiy'
with his best smile.
ITO the company of the ungooiy
Our message is for them," In lsopei .
thrilling whisper, to an acconlani-
ment of Italian declensions lroin
Phyllis.
1.-THE Country club, of course: Might
have known it," Anderly CALCULATED.
IsobeI made gesture, STARING
hard at him, then asked sepulcnrally'
Are you hermits that you dare iiu-
ing alone in world so wearyT
"Not a bit of it-only poor oeViis
who were behind time, through no
fault of their own. Had Smash sus'
as we started, and had to get Iresn
car" Glen explained. ~,
"It may be thus the Great oon
saved you for his work." lsoDei GULF
mented, still sepulchrally.
And then the lighted Clubhouse
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
Danfe's Accuracy

Dante wrote parts of the "Divine
Comedy" with map spread out be-
fore him. So think scholars who have
found brief descriptions of regions in
that great poem extremely incisive
and accurate. Certain passages In the
"De Vulgari Eloquentia," work in
(which the great poet lays down the
rules of poetic composition, could
hardly have been written without ref
erence to q map. Though Dante wrote
no treatise devoted specifically to
geography, he had clear understand
ing Of the relative positions of places
In Italy and it's neighboring lands
and his greatest poem Is based on the
orthodox geographical theories of his
time.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
THE BUTTERCUPs

r TITLE MISS BUTTERCUP, looked
II at her cousin, the Daisy, with en-.
vious eyes. She envied her the dainty
white frill she wore around her bright
face. "And then she is so tall and
graceful" sighed Miss Buttercup. u
am so short, ! never shall be graceful
Oh, dear. will no one help me to get
4 white frill?"
"How silly you are buzzed bee
who was passing. "You are brighter
gold color than your cousin, Daisy.
You might not look well wearing a
white ruffie.."
"Oh, but should, know" pouted
Miss Buttercup. Il might be prettier
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
Get Rid of That Backache!
Nezperee People Are Finding The
Way.

The constant aching of a bad back.
The WEAKNESS, the tired feesang,
Headaches, dizziness, nervousness,
Distressing urinary disorders
Are often signs of failing kidneys
And too serious TO be neglected.
Get rid of these troublesl
Use Doan's Pills--a stimulant diuretie
TO the kidneys.
Hosts of people recommend Doan's.
This is a typical case.
Mrs. A. J. Hendriekson, SIT S. JEFF.
ferson St., Moscow, Idaho, says: "Ths
first sign of the complaint was back
ache. could hardly get around to do
across my kidneys. was nervous.
depressed and irritable, too. My kid
neys were inactive, also. Doan's Pills
made me foellilxe different woman. -
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don t
simply ask for kidney remedyget
Doan's Pills-the same that Mrs.
Hendrickson had Foster Milgurn Co,
Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27

Steam-heated nests with steam baths
are being used by pair of blue birds
In Yellowstone park, according to re-
ports to the national park service
headquarters at Washington. The
happy couple have. however. avoided
expensive modern plumbing and steam
fittings They have simply taken over
one of natures big steam plants by
constructing their cozy home In the
nearly extinct Excelsior geyser cone.
Every morning they can be seen dart
ing in and out of the steam.
Plants are also using the geyser as
natural greenhouse. Wild straw
berries have been found growing not
far from the cone two weeks ahead
of their usual season
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
Turkish Name for Capital

Stambol is the Turkish name of Con.
stantinople. 1t is specifically applied
to that portion of the city-Constan-
tinople proper--that lies south of the
Golden Horn, as distinguished from
Christian Constantinople, lying on the
north side. Stambol occupies the site
OF ancient Byzantium and contains the
mosque of st. Sophia, the Seraglio and
almost all the antiquities to be seen in
the city. Christian Constantinople is
pre-eminently a commercial quarter.
The name is written also Istambol--
Kansas City Star.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
M9l{| || (f|l(|{T|Y|

N.~fst
IrL'? Oh, dear; oh. dear hon, -.
nappy we are!" w
~" 10 those days the gold butter.
cup was not a cup at all but inst q
n'tle NAT petaled flower, making Tho
nelds bright as they do now, but not
cup-shaped. o1' Ao'
put nothing the bees or the birds
could say stopped the buttercuns
from crying and one night when ths
fairies and their Queen were fIitting
through the fields and meadows thew
heard the sobs of the discontentad
Buttercups. 'eA'eu
90 the fairies stopped to ask wbv
lhey cried so hard and when the But
tercups told them they wanted .
white frill like their cousins tbe
DAISIES, the fairies ran to their Oueen
and asked her to grant the Butter
cups wish.
'oh, but my dear, can't Won see
what would happen?'' said the Queen
The fields would be robbed of a
Hover and Mother Nature knows hest
what should grow just where she has
placed each golden flower"
But the fairies begged their Queen
so hard to do something for the But
tercups that she at last said she
would curve each petal till it formed
a cup and then they would be butter
cups indeed.
SO the Buttercups stopped crying
and the fairies worked alp night curl
ing each petal until the morning Mr..
Sunman looked down and saw a field
OF gold cups where the flat gold flow
ers had been the night before.
Still the Buttercups wer not happy.
They had not got the white frill they
mad cried for. Often at night they
cry But now their tears do not roll
from their gold-colored faces. The
cup-shaped petals hold them and Mr..
Sunman has to dry their tears before
they can hold up their heads as they
should to make the fields all gold.
See all the work you have made
me-" he says as he wipes their faces.
why are you so silly as to cry for
white frills?"
But this makes no difference to the
Buttercups and when some morning
you see drops of water in some of the
Buttercups in the field you may know
they are still crying for a frill like
the one worn by Cousin Daisy.
4 20, Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
Famous Roman HighDdy

The Appian way was construc'eu
&c military road from Rome 70
a. : distance of about 132 miles
Nv the Emperor .Appius Ciauolus'
~ oSout a12 B. G., and was later extend nd
al 70 Brundusium. total of about ooo
81 ~ and completed by julius Caesar.
r. IT, nos Known as "the Queen of Roads
"a was adorned with statuary ana
nagan temples. 1t was Dullt WIN. ua
p pue regard to cost by slave labor ana
ous sa;d to have been in excellent con-
d,tion 500 years after its complexion.
To bnild such road today would cost
in the neighborhood OF szou'Oo
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27

even than Cousin Daisy If / had a
frill like hers. Oh dear, will no
one help me to get white frill to 90
with my bright yellow color?"
Don't be silly" piped a robin.
'1f you don't stop fussing you soon
will be crying and will spoil your
bright looks. There are plenty of
white frills in the field now. If you
wore one you would spoil the picture
of gold you and your sisters make.
Be happy and remain as you are"
But no, Miss Buttercup did not
wish to wear all yellow. She fused
and fretted until she had all of her
sister buttercups discontinued as well
and pretty soon they all began to cry,
saying between their sobs, "Will no
one help us to get pretty white
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
Human Beings With Tails

Borneo gave the worlu us W.,
man. and now an explorer IRON a,
there reports human beings with wen. wen.
defined stumps of tails. He said there
wore oulte few children born there
m considerable rear appendages due
nossibly to intermarriage many years
goo with a completely tailed human
race An expedition into the 1ungies
- Now cuinea to find out more about
4haso neonIes is planned.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27
NEIGHBoRs OF WooDCRAFT

Reservation Banner Circle NO
337 meets at Fraternal Tempo
second and fourth Tuesday ev-
enings of each month. Visiting
neighbors welcomed.
Emma MeLennan, q. N
kathryn McCown. Clerk
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-11-27

PRIMROSE CHAPTER NO. Is
Eastern Star viii meet on the
Monday nights before and after
the regular Masonic meeting.
Laura rowe, w. M.
Mrs. Jessie Croker, Sec ".
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-19

Even so, with the workingman
able to buy his beer, wine or hard
liquor if he wants it, there is an
impressive lack of street disorder.
In the hotels, where wine and
beer are served with meals, there is
an unmistakable atmosphere g of
cheer, but disturbances are rare.
May Pay Quebec Debt
In the taverns, MontreaPs proto-
type Of the saloon, on can buy beer
to drink on the premises. But when
the customer shows effects of his
imbibing the avcrnkeeper refuses
him any more drinks.
Hard liquors, any brand, may be
purchased from the stores conduct
ed by the Quebec Liquor Commits
sion-one bottle day.
Every sale is for cash, and the
price is stamped on the bottle.
Within II years the governments
profits on liquor selling are counted
on to pay off the entire provincial
debt.
Sales for 1923 are conservatively
estimated at $24,OO0,OOO. Profit
amounts to about 25 per cent. Sub
tracing $l,000,O00 for handling, the
government clears approximately
S5,000,000 to spend on new roads,
new schools and to deposit in it's
general fund.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-19
HAGEN BACK
FOR HIS TRIAL
ives Explanation For First
Failure to Appear

Grand Forks, N. D., March To-
j. Hagen, former president OF the
Eandinavian American bank of Far
B, whose bonds were declared for
ited last week when he failed to
bpear for trial on charge of re-
living deposits while his bank was
solvent, arrived here from Renton,
fash.
His trial was to open today, Judge
j. Kneeshaw having instructed the
rors and attorneys to be here at
lat time.
Mr.. Hagen today made the follow
g statement:
TT returned Sunday from the coast.
" family there wired me about a
onth ago to return there on ac-
unt of my wife being taken sud-
Fnly ill. Her condition was found
be serious, for when I was called
return here for trial she had a
Econd apoplectic stroke, and her
bctor naturally discouraged me from
aving. When conveyed this stu
1Ou " luc COuTt ucI|1 lutCNoSu "
me here as quickly as possible dur
"a the week.
ri regret exceedingly that this
ou1d have happened at this time,
hen the long looked for end of the
|se would be reached. I also found
ter coming here that the court
(und' it necessary to postpone the
al on my account.
ri feel that have done my duty
a man and a citizen. / have dur
my four years stay in Washing
n responded promptly to calls to
turn for trial or for other purposes.
lis is the first time any delay has
en- caused by me, and now l am
re to stay until all difficulties are
eaned up if it takes all the rest of
e year. My many friends well
low that during my SO years So
arn in this state, ] have never been
|e to shirk."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-19

lower standard of community
morals.
Province in Control
In 1919 the people by 3 to l
vote, legalized light wine and beer;
hard liquor being available for medi-
cinal purposes. Bootleggcrs thrivcd.
Hotels and restaurants sold "hard
stuff" to their quests. Conditions
were little better than they were be-
fore.
In 1921 the "act respecting alco-
holic liquor was passed, placing the
entire liquor trade under state con
troll and ownership.
Arrests went down and the police
force was reduced under the new
law.
Death rate in MONTREAL IN 1920 was
lie per 1000; in 1922 it was 1919.
Infant mortality rate cropped FROM
1922 TO 1904.
The lower death rate, DR.. s.
Boucher, director of the Montreal
Board of Health, says cannot be
cons dcrcd result of the liquor con
lol.
No Poison Booze
"Moral conditions improve imme-
diately," he declares, "but health
statistics are only valuable or ac.
curate when they cover Il period OF
years, say 20. Then we will have
had "A chance to study conditions
and to nave determined what per
centagc OF deaths may be rightly at
tributed to your so-called poison
BOOZE
Convictions for drunkenness ir
the province dropped from 10000 il
1920 to 7l03 in 1929. In Montreal
with approximately 100000 popula
ton, the arrests were 1918 in 1926
as against 1892 in 1923.
The visitor would never suspect
| that liquor is available at compare.
lively low prices. 1t is true the po
| lice are ever vigilant to pick up any
| intoxicated man.