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THE DAILY STAR-MIRROR
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1911.
THE MESSAGE OF THE STAR.
Go to the window tonight and look
out upon the city, yonder where the
barracks of want huddle in the sha
dows, and tenements stand bleak
against the sky; where pitiable, cowed
children of privation, wistful and wan,
vein-hungry and heart-hungry, lie in
the cold and dream Christmas dreams
that can never come true—dreams
such as you dreamed back in the
long ago, golden dreams spangled with
hope, dreams that will lose their way
and fall, broken-winged, to earth, says
Herbert Kaufman in Collier's.
Once, upon the pinions of fancy, you
sped in the mystic dawns; once, you
and faith in magic argosies set brave
sails for cloudland's purple zones,
And now, youth is dead and memory
Is stained with tears. And your ships
come home and they ride at anchor.
Wise man, what cargo did you bring
in their holds?
How did you barter with life? Did
you trade well? Are you content?
Where is your myrth and where
your frankincense? Where is hap
piness and where peace and where is
the glory of mercy and the joy of
giving and the strength that conies
with the lifting of burdens?
Look up, behold the Star of Bethle
hem. Heed the mesage.
A thousand gray-houled women sit
tonight with the ghosts of yesterday.
Women, bagged by toil, gaunt and
bruised; women with empty pockets
and empty pantries and empty stoves;
women face to face with the dreariest
tragedy in ail mother-hood, the
planation of the empty Christmas
stocking.
And the Star of Bethlehem keeps
calling to yoq: "Wise Man, Wise Man!
Gather your gifts and go forth in the
name of the Lord to the manger where
soever the Child awaits your coming."
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"I am for keeping every dollar's
worth of the county printing at home,"
said a prominent farmer to the Star
Mirror yesterday. "1 believe in build
ing up the community in which I
live, for it is to the interest of the
people who pay the taxes and
land here to maintain those who
working for the benefit of the people.
I prefer to have my part of the taxes
paid for printing spent here at home.
I want to see a paper like the Star
Mirror. that is benefitting me, get ail
the support the people have to give
it. and I know of a lot of people who
feel just as I do about it. I think
Mr. Gemmlll has made a mistake that
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GOOD
PERFUMERY
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Is one of a woman's strongest
weapons. Therefore one of the
most acceptable Christmas gifts
for a lady, young or old, Is some
of our Good Perfume put up in
beautiful Christmas boxes or in
a DeVllbiss Toilet Atomizer.
One that is guaranteed to work.
ECONOMICAL
PHARMACY
WHERE QUALITY COUNTS
BOLLCS « LINDQUIST, Proprietor.
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The Business Man's Bank
A Bank for Savings, Too ■»
We operate our Savings Depart
ment on the same principles
that have won approval for our
Commercial Department — and
that should be a safe guide to
you in choosing the right bank
for your savings.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF MOSCOW
he will regret, for he cannot convince
the people that he acted as they would
have had him. This work, I am told,
has been done here in the county, and
could still be done here, and why not?
Why should it be sent out to Spokane
and done at a price almost twice as
high ' as was charged but a year be
fore. For one I am pleased that the
supreme court has upheld the law,
for as long as public officials insist
on ignoring home people it is good to
know that there is a way to compel
them to respect the wishes of the tax
payers."
There is a lot of satisfaction in
knowing that Moscow is soon to have
one of the finest high school build
ings in the state. It will be a credit
to our people, and make our town the
ideal home city in the Northwest. It
will, therefore, add more than its cost
to the value of real estate within the
district. It will prove one of the best
investments a community ever made.
And now the people of the Yakima
valley and other famous fruit sections
are waking up to a realization that
there are other sections in the world
that can produce something besides
wheat. And Latah county isn't selling
land for $500 an acre either.
One consolation, when the present
taxes are collected there will be no
joke about Latah county being out of
debt. Let us give the county board
credit for this, for it is good business
to raise the money and pay the debt.
Too bad that Moscow put it all over
them at the National Apple show, and
it wasn't a good year for apples
around Moscow either. Think what
we could do if we'd really tried.
Moscow spirit is coming to mean
something. We are waking up to a
realization of what we have, and are
beginning to understand that the men
behind a town makes the town.
Now is the time of the year when
the féllow who owns a lot of prop
erty sort of envies the fellow who
don't.
it will take more than Coeur d'Alene
to turn the boody prize into a sweep
stakes. Before they get through with
it they will look like thirty cents.
It will be just like Moscow to wake
up and find that Santa Claus has filled
her stocking with sweepstakes.
Inquiries Coming
Thompson Brothers report increased
inquiries relative to Moscow and La
tah county, the direct result of the
winnings made at Spokane with Latah
county products and Moscow apples.
"The peculiar thing," said Charles
Thompson, "is that many of these are
coming from people who have lived In
the Inland Empire for years, but who
have just discovered that Moscow and
Latah county are on the map. It is evi
dent that there is to be something do
ing in the next few months."
TAKES DRINKS ON HOUSE
St. Joseph Imbiber Holds Up Bar
tender for Six Cocktails.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 19.—A new
kind of hold-up man came to light
yesterday, when James Chilton, night
bartender at a hotel bar, was forced
at the point of a revolver to make six
Manhattan cocktails for the highway
man. The robber drank the cocktails
as fast as they were made and then
walked out of the place. Although the
cash register contained a large sum
of money, the robber made no effort to
get it. He appeared satisfied when he
got the cocktails.
It was about 2 o'clock in the morn
ing when Chilton, who was dozing in
a chair at a table in front of the bar,
Was suddenly ordered to throw up
his hands. Looking up, he saw a mask
ed man standing over him with a gun
in his hand.
"Get around behind that bar and
make a Manhattan cocktail, and be
quick about it!" said the robber. He
liked it so' well he drank six.
Settlement by Nat Goodwin.
SANTA ANNA, Cal., Dec. 19.—By the
terms of four documents filed for
record in the county court here today
Nat C. Goodwin, the actor, has set
tled al Iclaims held against him by
his former wife, Edna Goodrich
Goodwin, for the sura of $60,000 to be
paid in three instalments.
WALLIS WINS FIGHT
FOR POUND BUTTER
Some of the largest creameries in
lowa and Nebraska which are doing
business in this state surrendered yes
terday to the Idaho health depart
innt. Letters received by James H.
Wallis, state dairy, food and sanitary
inspector, yesterday proved that the
creameries have abandoned their posi
tion and are going to co-operate with
the office in its demands for full
One case of butter,
labeled "one pound,"
weight butter,
each package
was received yesterday, and will be ■
pul through the most rigid tests that |
the office can impose to determine the
shrinkage points and the length of
time that they can stay in a store be
fore the action of the air causes them
tp lose weight or to fall below the
standards set by the state laws in any
other way.
Give Extra Weight.
The Blue Valley creamery of Sioux
City, Iowa, has been delivering butter
at Idaho points weighing 16% ounces
instead of merely the full pound.
They have been charging their deal
ers an extra half cent a pound for
this measure, but are now asking the
health office to make these tests in
order to determine whether or not
their butter will meet all of the stand
ards and weigh a full pound for the
period that they guarantee. In reply
ing to their letter asking if he would
make these tests, Mr. Wallis agreed to
do it, and said that he was not requir
WAISTE IN COOKING
AMOUNTS TO MILLIONS
BOSTON, Dec. 18.—More than $20,
000,000 is thrown away every year by
cooks, chefs, housekeepers and hos
pital nurses, according to Miss Fannie
Farmer, world-famous as an exponent
of scientific cooking.
ought
can mix up a batter with one hand;
break half a dozen eggs with the other
for a New England sunshine cake;
attend to the baking of southern "ap
ple cobbler," and see to it that the
meat does not burn as she passes by
the stove to concoct ingredients for
some luscious dessert—all at the same
time. And she can do this without
any waste. Miss Farmer has been ma
king delicious edibles for same years
over two decades, and she has been
teaching others how to make them
without much money.
Miss Farmer, according to herself,
is no radical but she "does get mad"
when she sees the way the young wife,
or the careless cook, or the non-think
ing nurse, will "murder good food."
"The cost of living has certainly
gone up with skips and jumps," said
Miss Farmer, "and it costs more now
to make a cake or a pie or roast a
beef for dinner than formerly. It is
true that many grocers, by their coun
ter characteristics, appear to be de
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GOOD FOOD
GLEAN FOOD
"Everything in Sight "
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LUNGH GO UNTER
" Tind the Price is Riäht"
ONLY a
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If neglected may lead
to disgusting Catarrh,
Chronic Bronchial ail
ments or Consumption
NYALS COLD
TABLETS
Are a happy
tion of cole
combina
d nipping
drugs—better, far bet
ter than quinine.
EVERY BOX GUARANTEED
Satisfaction or money
back.
Alward's Corner
Drug Store
"No Secrets—We Take Our Own
Medicine."
ing them to put in 16% ounces of but
ter. that all he was anxious about was
the full pound, and that he did not
think the dealer ought to have to pay
more for the butter simply because the
creamery was not meeting require
ments. The answer yesterday showed
that the method that the company
had used was a losing proposition,
and that the dealers were cutting
down their orders anej. buying else
where. Then they surrendered. The
took
Fairmont creamery at Omaha
the same view of things in the letter
that it wrote to the inspector,
Wallis Wins His Point.
The action is the sequel to the re
cent prosecution of dealers in various
places over the state for short weight
butter. In practically every instance
the creameries have' paid the fines
that have been imposed by the court,
and they have been made to feel that
it is up to them to ship full weight
goods into this state. They said that
they are putting butter up in especial
packages for the Idaho trade, in or
der to prevent a repetition of the re
cent prosecutions.
In view of the editorials, news sto
ries, anti-short-weight leagues and
other instruments of the kind that
people of neighboring states are using,
as told in the papers received here, to
solve similar problems, Mr. Wallis was
much elated yesterday when the com
panies decided to "come across."
scended from those roving gentlemen
who sailed the Spanish Main. But—
and spell it with capitals—the groc
er isn't to blame for more than 50 per
cent of the high cost of living nor
the cost of high living, either.
"Much of the waste is through ignor
ance. More is wasted through care
lessness and the growing shiftlessness
of the younger generation. Right here
in my own school, after I have con
cluded some demonstration, I will turn
away for a moment only to find that
the moment was costly. Twenty stu
dents, in that short time, will have
pared 20 apples or peeled 20 potatoes
with no care as to the thickness or
thinness of the paring. Out of the
parings of the 20 apples or potatoes,
an amount similar to that 'contained'
in two or three apples or potatoes
could have been saved."
Most of Miss Farmer's students are
cooks of the wealthiest Bostonians,
who have had some instruction in do
mestic science before their employers
have sent them to Miss Farmer to
learn some of her recipes. Many of
those who don the apron and cap, how
ever, are the wealthy Bostonians them
selves, Other students are nurses
from various hospitals. The students
are the most representative women of
the kitchen or of those who will be in
charge of kitchens some day. It is
from such that Miss Farmer draws
conclusions that, by systematic use of
food materials in the kitchen, $20,000,
000 and more could be lopped of the
much mooted high cost of living bill.
"Strange to say," said Miss Farm
er, "there is less real waste in the
hotels than there is in the homes and
hospitals—never forget the hospitals.
Sometimes in hospitals and similar in
stitutions I have seen enough wasted
in two or three days to furnish the
best of invalid food for a big institu
tion for one day.
"Here's an instance. In supplying
a convalescent patient with toast, the
nurse always carefully cuts off the
crusts to make it look more palatable.
Crusts from many hundreds of pieces
of bread daily are thrown in the slop
can. All this could be used to make
the finest bread puddings, for the
pieces are not real scraps. The same
holds good in regard to serving meats.
The clean, tender, but perhaps stringy
pieces are cast aside. The best kind
of hash for patients suffering from
wounds or similar injuries can be
made from them.
"Perhaps the greatest waste, how
ever, follows poor management in dif
ferent wards. Each ward Is given a
certain amount of milk and supplies
each day. This supply never varies;
the consumption does. All excess can
be used to make batter cakes, cottage
cheese and several other palatable and
nutritious dishes.
"I have seen a nurse prehaps for a
patient a meal of several dishes, only
to have the patient say, 'Why, I can't
eat that.' And out is thrown the tyhole
meal. 'Why take it back to the kit-'
chen?' the nurse answered my ques
tion, 'they would just throw it away
and I would get scolded.'
"Of course, the waste in the kitchens
of the rich, where servants have
charge, is enormous. I have known of
cases where, when sour milk was
needed for cake or other things, the
servant bought milk ahead and let it
1911
THE BEST XMAS GIET
A savings account opened with
this bank for children, relatives
or friends, is a superb holiday
present. The money will be safe
and will earn interest at the rate
of 4 per cent per annum, com
pounded four times a year.
I We invite you to make use of
this bank.
THE MOSCOW STATE BANK
sour, although several quarts could be
saved from left over milk In a day or
two.
"But, the waste that counts the most
in forcing up the cost of living is in
the kitchens of the middled ass fam
ily. The same lack of system seen in
the hospitals holds also in the private
family.- Three out of every five house
wives who complain about how their
grocery bills run up each month, cut
these same bills at least one tenth by
such means as by using the yolk of
the egg for coffee after using the white
for cake frosting, instead of breaking
another egg the next morning.
"We hear a great deal these days of
conservation of natural resources. Let
the women of the nation apply the
great principle to their kitchens and
we will be a richer and better nation."
KILLS BROTHER AND HIMSELF
Quarrel Over Chickens Causes Trag
edy ou Farm Near Centralia, Ill.
CBNTRALIA, Ill., Dec. 19.—Sam
Lewellyn, 32 years old, was shot and
killed by his brother, Stephen Lewel
lyn, 38, at the former's home at luka,
north of Centralia, today. Stephen
Lewellyn then shot and killed himself.
Sam Lewellyn was engaged in husk
ing corn in a field near his home when
approached by Stephen. There had
been a quarrel of more than two years'
standing between the two over the di
vision of some chickens which they
once owned. When Stephen approach
ed, Sam endeavored to get away, but
the former advised him he wanted to
make peace. As Sam came toward him
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The Loyal Order of Moose
INVITES YOU TO MEMBERSHIP
It is 23 years old.
Organized in Louisville, Ky.,
In the year 1888, April 12.
It is a Fraternal Order.
It pays benefits.
It protects yourself and family.
It aids you when you need it.
It has a membership of the best.
It is non-political, non-sectarian.
It has 800 Lodges in the U. S. A.
It has over a quarter million members.
It is the wonder of the Fraternal World.
Its watch words are Purity, Aid and Progress.
It has the largest membership in Los Angeles.
It has the largest membership of any single
lodge in Fraternal Organizations — over
6,000 strong in one lodge.
Our Deputies will call on you and explain, or
call at Moose Headquarters, corner Third
and Main streets.
Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt is a life
member.
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NOW ORGANIZING AT MOSCOW
"AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG CLOCK
99
a
Hand-Painted China
HALF PRICE
Our large assortment of Brauer
Hand-Painted China will be
closed out before Christ
mas at Ohe-Half
Price.
WALLACE-GRIFFIN JEWELRY STORE
STORE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS
to shake hands, Stephen leveled a
shotgun which he had been dragging
behind him, and fired. The charge
entered the left shoulder and breast of
Sam. He started to run, but Stephen
reloaded the gun and sent another
charge Into his brother's body. Stephen
reloading the gun and placing the bar
rel in his mouth, fired. Sam Lewellyn
made an ante-morten statement.
President's Program.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 19.—Two mes
sages probably will be sent to con
gress this week by President Taft.
The wool tariff message will probably
be presented Thursday. Later in the
week will come one dealing with the
government departments.
A special mesage with the report of
the economy and effeciency commis
sion will be submitted early in Janu
ary. Other messages planned by the
President after the holidays are on
Alaska and the cotton schedule.
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