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you'd better ask about that. 1t mightnt sound well
in repeatin and it might" here he poked me in the
ribs, scare the doctor so he'd like whitehead.
He laughed softly. But III say this: didn't talk
to her like no bloomin' church member-drat her!
Toward the end of May Jobs wound which had
troubled him through the month, became badly in
famed, and he took to his bed with high fever. |
attended him carefully, and at first had no special
misgivngs as to the result 1t was this week that,
CHANGING to be in Treats grocery one evening,
l heard the loungers discussing Jobs failure to
attend the Memorial Day reunion.
AS briefly possible told the gaping crowd what
Job had done with the money he had saved for year.
great silence fell the uncouth throng One
or two got up and slouched outside without
a word l saw tears in the eyes of big Jim Treat,
and for Miles Tanner, he suddenly sprang to the
top of the cracker-barrel
''Job's heroi" he yelled, waving his old brown
wooden cap. Three cheers fer him!
And they were given with hearty goodwill.
When next | went to see Job, to my amazement
l found Tanners big hulk blocking up the door
way to the sick mans " | was jest a-sayin,
doc he stated sheepshly, that if Job wants any
thin done he has only ter holer and I'll git a-gon
Milly at his bedside day and night. His
eyes constantly followed her about the room and
then turned to me with wistful significance.
understood what passing through his mind,
and day, pressing his hand, asked ham if he
would give his little girl. He smiled and nodded
with evident satisfaction, and soon thereafter fell
into untroubed sleep
And now l come to mystery to which have no
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Do you want to work here for twelve month";?
do you want me tor" asked the boy, eying the
man sharply.
The man never fnched. He decent sort
knew what life was to some people mo, don't"
he said squarely. IN give you four dollars week
to start with, and more when you earning it.
The boy took off his hat He had kept it firmly
on his head during the entire interview.
I've got plenty of manners when see they amt
a-goin' to be wasted" he said in different tone.
Now show what you want me to do and | II do
it if | can, and if l can't, III learn. Mother says the
boy that is wn and will stick to it will git there
by and by, and | amt caught her in lie
yet"
Did she ever catch you in one?" laughed the
man
Not if I could help it" grinned the boy faint
healthy for me if she does" and he twisted his
shoulders around as if he hadn't forgotten.
4 guess you'll do" said the man, and handed
him to the foreman
And he did.
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Quill the same Ola COCK
of the walk, eh Tom?
And Lord save us, it's
Bill! Do you remember
that day in the trench
es, Bill, before Chancel-
lorsville! And Jocky
Graham! Hoot mon, do
ye ken Gettysburg? And
there's Captain Terry
and Major Smith and
Lieutenant Tyler! | am
proud, gentlemen, that
you should visit a poor
old soldier. And here
here come the colors! F"
With one last supreme
effort Job Danvers
proudly drew himself up
and raised his hand in
final salute as the invisi-
bic flag went by.
Round the bed,
through the doorway,
down the stairs, the
garden walk, the road,
over the bridge, dying
away into silence, went
the sound of the tramp
ing feet.
We buried him on
Memorial Day. And all
the village turned out
to do homage to this
humble hero as he
marched in the parade
to Kingdom Come.
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'ern on that poor girls
head. l jest walked in
and says /: Ellen, there
hain't no need fer We ter
stand such inhuman and
terrible abuse as that.
Here's money enough ter
take ye ter Iowy ter
your sister. Wall, honey,
if you'd seen her face
as she looked up at me
through her tears-why,
| got more comfort out
of it than | ever could
out of lookin' at the
Governor, or even Gener-
al Miles. So you mustn't
feel I've given up much,
fer | hain't.''
But Milly had thrown
herself into his arms and
was crying over him and
kissing him and telling
him he was the best man
that ever lived; which |
do not think was far from
the truth.
What did you say to
Malviny, father?' Milly
at last asked when she
had recovered her COM
posture.
e" Well now, honey"
rejoined Job APOLOGIZE
cally, Il don't believe
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W7HEN the boy came into the office the man
w was busy but the boy did not appear to
be in any extravagant haste, and sat down
to wait awhile He was not pretty boy, by any
means, but he impressed one as. being of the foxy
kind, so-called. As he sat waiting his eyes were
busy and he saw everything in sight. Some of it
pleased him, and some did not. You could see that
easily enough by watching his face
Well" said the man, getting round to him at
last, what can I do for you1'
The man, by the way, of the things that
the boy looked upon with some degree of approval.
A sharp boy knows his man.
Il don't know replied the boy with confidence.
Then what you here for! inquired the man,
slightly nettled
TO find out"
ITO find out WHAT"
What you can do for me-
The man looked the boy over more carefully than
at first Wel he said at last, Il can't do anything
for you"
"Good-by," and the boy started out.
Hold on" said the man, taking second thought
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By w. J. L a m p t o n

How can II" grinned the boy Didn't you say
you hadn't anything for to hold on to-?
Is that what you are looking for? smiled the
man
Sure" said the boy.
why didn't you say SO at first?"
You never asked me-"
"Um-er," hesitated the man, amt you rather
sassy for boy of your age?'
Mother says I'll outgrow it, she hopes, startin
young"
80 you've got good mother?"
She amt got much chance"
How do you meant" The man was becoming
interested.
We'll, you see," the boy said half angrily, "she's
got five children to support not countin pop and
she says if | pay the rent she guesses she do
the balance"
How much is the rent, asked the man, feeling
interested.
Twelve month, and not worth it.,
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key, a puzzle L can
not unravel. | am
well along in years
and have studied
many books and
argued and dis
Gussed with many
scientists and psy-
biologists, and yet
| have never found
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round, and with them soft brown eyes l remember
when she used ter come a-playn here with you,
Milly | can see you a-settn out there under
them lilacs with your dolls plain if twas
yestiddy. Delicate, pretty little creetur! Who'd
ever have thought she would come ter such pain
and sorrow? Wall" with long-drawn SIGH she's
back
Back" questioned Mily her voice trembling.
"Yes, she come back to Malviny s-her aunt
Ma1vinv Slocum" he explained to me. She lives
up North-st. in that old red house with horse
block in front. I dunno he added reflectively,
what on earth Malviny wants with horseback.
She hant never kept no horses and she discourages
visitors Mebbe, though, she thinks it looks tasty
and stylish. Have you met Malvlny, doc? Wall,
boy, you've escaped lot. She's hard, is Maviny
hard as nails-dretful pious and God-fearin', but
coldern the tomb. She don't want Ellen there
with her babe Guess she'd have turned her out
inter the street if it hadn't ben fer the speech OF
people.
Wall" he resumed after moment of silence,
Miles he was a-sayin that Ellen hadn't other
place ter go ter; that she would go out West ter
fowv to live with her sister, if she had the money
ter git there with She'd like ter go away and begin
life ag in-fur away, We know from the tongues
of folks Ye know folks's tongues can be awful
cruel sometimes"
And So" broke in Milly with half sob, you
are going to give her the money you saved?"
lob coughed again in deprecatory fashion. -
hain't a-goin' ter give it ter her, honey" he said
gently; fer I've ben and gone and done 1t already
Milly broke down, and hiding her face on his
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Now, now, honey, don't take on So" Job
expostulated Il know We want your old
pap ter go off on lark and raise Ned along
with the boys; but Jest listen a minute Milly.
When | went inter Malviny Slocum's house
an hour ago, what did l see and hear? | see
a poor broken-hearted girl a-holdin' of a little
mite of a baby in her arms and a-cryin' over
it in a so't of hopeless way And l heerd
gol-blamed sanctimonious old she-dragon jest
a-layin' her tongue ter every abusin and cruel
word she could think of and a-heapin' of
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
stensIand Was smno4b

Bank Examiner Jones, in his report
10 tne auditor of public accounts on
tne Milwaukee Avenue State bank Of
Ohlcago' estimates the total defalca.
tlons through the manipulation of the
AFFAIRS OF the bank by President STEMS
land to be $1,OOO,OOO and possibly
more. He is of the opinion that Mr..
Alsborg, the chief clerk; Frank Kow-
alsk' the assistant paying teller, who,
mas committed suicide; John Gillin-
SKI and Mr.. Esdohr, the paying teller,
and without doubt, others of the en-
ployes of the bank, had guilty knowl-
edge OF many things which were not
oivulged by the directors to him.
Mr.. Jones declares that Cashier Her
ing IN swearing to the statement OF
January 80, 1906. perjured himself to
the amount of $1S4,S39, and in the
April statement to the extent of 1902
1913. - T1O-'
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
$25O,OOO,OOO LOSS
VAST PROPERTY DESTROYED At
VALPARAISO, CHILE.
Estimate of Fatalities by Earthquake
and Fire placed at 2ooo-In One
Night SO shocks-WhoIe Population
Sleeps in Hills, Parks or Streets
Worse than in San Francisco.

Valparaiso, Chile, Aug. 20.-Valpa-
raise experienced an earthquake of
great severity and during the night 80
shocks were felt.
Most of the buildings of the city are
either burned or damaged. The loss
will be enormous, probably reaching
$25O,OOO,0OO. Two thousand persons
killed is considered to be fair esti-
mate of the casualties.
Vina del Mar, three miles from Val
paraiso, and having a population Of
over 10000; Quirihu, 225 miles to the
southwark, with population of $4,000;
Santa Limache, Is miles to the north
west, with a population of $500; Quill
lota, rs miles to the northwest, with a
population of 10000, and villages all
around were destroyed.
Most of the damage was due to fire,
which started Immediately after the
first shock. The whole population is
sleeping in the hills, the parks or the
streets.
Food is very scarce. Milk costs two
Chilean dollars liter, and it is almost
impossible to obtain meat, even at
high prices.
The railways are all destroyed.
Rain, which began to fall immediate
ly after the first shock, stopped an
hour afterward. The nights are very
cold and windy and the people sleep,
ing in the open are suffering greatly.
The captain of a steamship which
has arrived from San Francisco, says
the situation here is worse than that
following the disaster at San Fran
cisco.
From London comes the report that
sixty per cent of this city has been
completely destroyed. The death roll
is very heavy. There were shocks
during Thursday night and there have
been 300 more since then. The ire
mors still continue. One hundred
thousand people are homeless and des-.
titute. Water is given out. Surround
ing towns have been destroyed and the
railroads have been cut.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
SPORTING NEWS.

Charles Neary of Milwaukee defeat
ed Aurelio Herrera of Bakersfield. Cal.
in the seventh round of an eight-round
bout before the Badger Athletic club
at Milwaukee recently. Herrera's sec
ond threw up the sponge after Neary
had floored his man in the first min
ute Of the seventh round and he had
taken the count of 10. It was Neary's
fight from start to finish The Mexi
can was floored in the sixth round
and was saved from knockout by the
bell
The finishing touches have been put
on the new grand stand at Natatorium
park, Spokane. The new ampitheatre
is being painted over with an asbestos
paint, which, while not claiming to
make the wooden structure fireproof
is said to make it difficult to ignite
The total seating capacity will be
something over 5000.
The German-American regatta com
mittee of the Eastern Yacht club
elected Caramba, AUX and Vim to de,
fend the Roosevelt cup against the
three German Sender class yachts
next month. The Spokane was left
out.
Efforts are under way to bring Sc
attic into the Northwestern league
next season.
George siler of Chicago has been
selected as referee of the Gans-Nelson
contest at Goldfield.
The bet between Cans and Nelson Of
800 that Jack McGuigan did not lay
hands on either contestant during the
McGovern-Nelson contest in Philadel.
phia has been decided in favor of Mel
son. 1t will therefore be incorporated
N the articles that the referee for the
Labor day contest shall not touch
either Cans or Nelson in the breaks.
The series Of bicycle races between
yer Lawson and Frank Kramer al
he Salt Lake Palace saucer track 70,
I purse advertised as $250O has beer
declared off. Lawson, who won tn
irst race, refused to go on the tract
He resented criticisms that had bee
made in local newspapers.
Construction work on the big aren.
t Goldfield for the fight has begur
is estimated cost is $4,000. It wiz
ave seating capacity as follows
24S $25 seats, 1000 $40, PAPA $40, 331
5 seats, which makes a grand tota
f 1884 seats to cost $4,000.
The fight at Newport between Ki6
Parker and Dude Lewis was won by
Parker in the seventh round.
Michael F. Dwyer, long one of the
most prominent figures of the Ameri-
can turf, died recently at his little cot
tage in Brooklyn.
Axtell. the stallion that in 1889 made
the worlds trottinp record, died re
Gently near Terra Houte, Ind.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
Amerlean elrIs In ParIs.

The American girls sent to Paris
by newspapers in Kentucky, Ohio and
California, and popularity known as
peaches" have come and gone. Re
ally they captured not only Paris but
all France. One French newspaper
made canvass and discovered that
the members of the party had already
received over 1000 offers of marriage.
1t may be taken as indicative of the
good sense Of the average American
beauty or peach" that up to the pres
ent time none of these offers has been
accepted.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
PLUNGE IN RAIN 10 RuIN.
Flying Freight PIows Through Work
train.

Flying Freight PIows Through Work.
train.
Johnstown. Pa, Aug. 21.-Plunging
through a binding rainstorm at the
rate of As miles an hour, fast freight
train on the Pennsylvania railroad
crashed into a slowly moving work
train at San Hollow, killing seven and
seriously injuring seven others of the
workman crew. Three of the latter
probably will die
Acting Secretary Ryan of the inte-
riOr department has authorized the
North Coast Railway company to ex-
tend its lines across the Yakima In
dian reservation. The company has
agreed to safely bridge all irrigation
bitches along it's route.
]. w. Townsend, a pioneer settler of
Stevens county, died recently of abb
scess.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE NEARLY
DESTROYS WHOLE CITY.
Without the slightest Warning the
City Rocked Back and Forth--5uiId-
ings Went Down and Fires Started
Hundreds of Lives Were Lost and
Thousands Were InIured-san Diego
Also Damaged.

Valparaiso, Chile Without the
slightest tremor or warning an earth
quake visited that city last Thursday
night bringing death to hundreds of
persons and leaving many hundreds
more imprisoned in the ruins, many
of whom were burned to death before
aid could reach them. Fire started
Immediately after the first shock and
every branch of the citys service was
raralyzed. Panic and CONSERVATION
indescribable followed, and those who
escaped death and injury became fren-
zied with fear and could render little
assistance to the victims.
The business section Of the city is
almost entirely destroyed. AS night
comes on the city is everywhere
aglow with dnobstructed fires, and
clouds of smoke and vapor settle in
the streets where throngs of homeless
ones are wandering about crazed by
the awful calamity.
Telegraphic communication is cut
off in all directions and every one here
is too much depressed by the calamity
at home to seek information in other
places. No trains have arrived in the
city or left it since the shock came,
as all of the railroad tunnels are filled
and miles of track are twisted and
rendered useless. 1t is only known
from general accounts that death and
destruction are on all sides.
There were two distinct shocks, the
second one following almost instantly
after the first and completing the
work of destruction.
The day had been unusually calm
and pleasant. At 8 o'clock the whole
city seemed suddenly to swing back
ward and forward, and there came
sudden jolt of such mighty force that
rows of buildings toppled to the earth
as If made of brittle plaster. Whole
rows of buildings were down in few
minutes.
AS soon as the second shock had sub
sided it became known that the bust
ness part of the town was doomed.
From the Bella Vista section little was
heard, but before midnight fires were
seen burning there, and 1t was learned
that that section Of the city also was
doomed
The city stands upon formation of
granite gneiss, which seemed to accen-
tuate the force of the shock.
Before the stunned people were
given time to realize the magnitude
of the calamity again the city was
shaken with violence greater than be-
fore. The earth in places lifted and
pitched the buildings forward. In
other places there was a terrible ire
NOR that shook every structure to the
ground. This shock continued longer
than the first. When it subsidized fires
were blazing up and thousands of ter
rified persons were praying, and panic
swept the city.
Many landslides have occurred
around the city and scores of lives
have been lost.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
SEVEN PERSONS DROWNED.
Bathers in Minnesota Waters Meet Un-
timely Death.

DSGlS' WI "luUGSOId waters Meet IN
timely Death.
The water claimed seven victims in
the head of the Minnesota lakes region
Sunday
While bathing at Lake Minnetonka,
Ralph Strole, aged %, and a man nam
ed Baker were seized with cramps and
were drowned.
Frank Zutter, aged %, and his broth,
er William, aged 81, while bathing near
Hibbing, got beyond their depths and
sank
The 16 year ola son of Harry Thorn,
seven miles north of Aitl1in, was
drowned in the Mississippi.
Hans Nelson, 10 years old, was
drowned in st. Louis bay in the sight
OF number of companions.
W. B. Peck was drowned at Scion
Springs, Wis, in the presence of his
two young daughters.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
Body Was Found.

San Diego, Cal.-The dead body of
Matthews Huntley, with the throat
cut and bullet wounds in the head
and heart, was found at his residence
on Fourteenth street. The CHASTITY dis
covery was made by his son-in-law,
Rev Stephen Millin. That robbery
was the motive is inferred from the
TACT that Huntley's watch was missing
and his money gone.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
Lewis Morrison nies-

New York, Aug. 2O.-Lewis Morri-
son, an actor whose work as Mephisto
in Faust" gained him fame, died sud
denly of shock, after undergoing an
operation for a disease of the stomach.
He was 81 years old.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
Struggled From Mexico.

Discovery has been made by James
r. Dunn, immigration inspector in
charge at st. Louis, of a wholesale
smuggling of immigrants from Mexico
into the United States. Every one of
the immigrants was barred by the law
from entering the United States be-
cause of trachoma, a contagious dis
ease of the eyes.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
HARvARD's OLDEST GRAD. DIES
Rev. J. H. L. Cross Was Friend of
Webster and Holmes,

Lawrence, Mass, Aug. 1S.-Rev. Jo-
seph H. Lawrence Cross, the oldest
graduate of Harvard college and the
Oldest Congregational minister in the
United States, died of old age at the
home of his daughter here today.
Rev. Mr.. Cross was born in 1903 and
was graduated from Harvard in 1928.
He was friend of Daniel Webster
and at Harvard with Oliver Wendell
Holmes and Charles Sumner.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
FEELING HIGH OVER WHIPPING
Public Demands Punishment of Rus.
sian Guards,

Both Premier Stolypin and War
Minister Rudiger of Russia are receiv-
ing many letters demanding the pun
ishment of the officers and soldiers
of the chevalier guards concerned in
the whipping of Anna Smirnoff, and
the newspapers continue to be filled
with indignant articles on the sub
ject.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
WATERS CLAIM TWELVE VICTIMS.
One Sundays Record of Drowninus in
New York Citv.

New York, Aug. 2O,-Twelve persons.
lost their lives in the waters about
New York Sunday. Most of the vic
TINS were bathers. A number of he
rolc rescues of imperiled swimmers
We're made, and these reduced what
otherwise would have been a much.
larger death list.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
Fearful Earthquake at Santiago.

Santiago de Chile. The worst
earthquake ever remembered has oc-
CURED. Houses fell in the streets.
which were filled with hysterical peo-
pie. The clerks at the cabinet office
say that the telegraph lines to the
coast are severed.
The electric lights are out, and as
the correspondent was trying to file
his dispatch the earthquake was again
starting. He could hear the people
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24

The first typewriter ever made ap-
peared in TIA, the work of Henry
Mills.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24

Buenos Ayres.-Most of the damage
is done in the center of the city, ex-
tending from the Plaza del Orden to
the Plaza Prat. Probably one-third
of theN city is in ruins. Many lives
were lost, but the number is not yet
known, estimates varying from 500 to
5000, Hundreds of persons were in
jured. The property losses will total
scores of millions. A state of panic
prevails.
Los Andes, Is miles east of San
Felips, and having a population of
5000, was almost totally destroyed.
The finest buildings of the town-gov-
eminent houses, hotels and public of
fices-were completely wrecked.
Other towns on the Chilean side
of the Andes, wholly or partially de-
strOyed. are Quillota. with a population
of 5000; Lay Llay, with a population
of $500; Illapel, with population of
5000; Vallenar, with a population of
5000, and San Felipe, having 10000
inhabitants. Quillota is a mass of
ruins and there was a great loss of
life there.
From Santiago to the Andes every
bridge and tunnel on the railway was
utterly wrecked and the railway lines
torn up.
The shock is supposed to have been
caused by the eruption of a volcano
near Jenin Los Andes.