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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07
LONDON FOR A QUIET 11Fn.
Cows, Nlshtinsnle. and Fowl Make

Cows, NightingRIes and Fowl Make
Country Too Noisy.
There Is only one spot on earth where
the jaded spirit, weary of the rush and
noise and hustle of modern life, can
find true peace and perfect quiet. 1t Is
known as London Town. What with
cows, dogs, poultry, motor cars and
nightingales the country nowadays Is
such an uproarlous pandemonium that
live there In comfort, says the Londor
Daily News.
Such were the arguments which DR.
Robinson, town clerk of Shoreditch, ad-
vanced when G. s. d. Murray conclud-
ed his Inquiry on behalf Of the charity
commissioners into the application of
the Ironmongers' company to remove
their almshouses from Kingsland road,
Shoreditch.
1t has been suggested, DIR. Robinson
said, that the old ladies In the aims
houses were disturbed by the noise in
the district, but probably the site was
always noisy. The coaches going to
York in the old days made quite as
much noise as any London county coun-
ell tram car did to-day. If the old la
dies thought they were going to escape
noise by removing to the country they
would be bitterly disappointed.
He lived in the country himself and
ne was often awakened at / o'clock in
the morning by the passing of an old
wheeling, croaking motor car belong
Ing to his majesty's postof1lce. If peo-
pie wanted to know what dust and
noise and stink meant, let them go into
the country, where there was no po-
lice commissioner to stop motor omni-
buses from carrying on their Internal
traffic.
To take only one night of his life,
there was a corncrake rasping outside
his door till 10 o'clock. Then he was
awakened by a nlghtingale-a bird
which made music for a quarter of an
hour, but became troublesome when 1t
sung for two hours. When that ceased
a COW began believing and then a dog
heard the local policeman walking
down the street and barked for an
hour. At dawn the birds began again.
London was the one place where peo-
| pie could get rest from Such noises
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07
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Burning orange peel will disslpate
the odor Of tobacco smoke in room.
The oldest known English picture Is
one Of Chaucer, painted on a panel Ii
1880.
In Portugal married women retain
their maiden names and are known by
them.
Oxford is the largest university in
the world. 1t has twenty-one colleges
and FIVE halls.
There are never fewer than 10000
tramps in England. Hard times double
that number.
Among the birds the swan lives to be
the Oldest, in extreme cases reaching
300 years. The falcon has been known
to live over 1852 years.
The value Of all kinds of fish landed
In England and Wales in one year is
over $35,000,000, and the number of
men and boys employed over 10000.
On one of the four typesetting ma
chimes which have just been installed
in the printing department of the Vat.
lean the Pope has set up ten lines.
The volume of freight sent by water
from New York can better be realized
when one considers the fact that 1850
tons are loaded on ships every hour.
Trained falcons to carry dispatches
in time of war have been tested in the
Russian army. Their speed Is four
times as rapid as that of carrier pig
cons.
Red glass hastens vegetation, while
blue glass suppresses it. Sensitive
plants, like the mimosa, grow fifteen
times higher under red glass than I'M
der blue.
There are only 104 miles of street
railway In England still holding to
horse traction. There are slxty-four
on which motive power Is steam, TWEEN.
ty-five cable and four gas.
The greatest heat is never found on
the equator, but some ten degrees to
the north, while more severe cold has
been registered In northern Siberia
than has been found near the Pole.
All German soldiers must learn to
swim. Some of them are so expert
that, with their clothing on their heads
and carrying guns and ammunition
they can swim several hundred yards.
Zinc cotfins are largely used in vi,
emma, but the more expensive ones are
made of copper, and cost as much as
$500, while bronze and copper cot
fin recently made for a Russian arch.
duke cost over $1,000.
Metals get tired as well as living
things, a scientist declares. Telegraph
wires are better conductors on Monday
than Saturday on account of their Sun
day rest and rest Of three weeks adds
10 per cent to the conductivity Of a
wire.
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Q|g!2@aR25l1RggS

There are forty-fve medical socie-
ties in New York City.
American butter is the name given
in Syria to oleomargarlne.
An Iowa man has invented a ma
chine for paraf1ining butter tubs and
boxes.
The estimated value of dairy prod
ucts for 1907 was $8OO,OOO,O 900, and that
of poultry $6OO,OOOOOO.
Bears are liable to taxation in some
japanese villages The origin of this
curious custom Is unknown.
The paper caps used on milk bottles
are made at the rate of 100000 a day,
and one man operates five machines.
Imports into Canada in 1907 ,(esti-
mated) from the United States will
amount to $165,0Oo,OOO, against only
$78,0O0,OOO from Great Britain.
Canada's government revenue from
all sources this year will be more than
$1O0,000,000. In the first seven months
the customs receipts increased $O,5OO,.
600.
A few days ago David Pingree, of
Salem, Mass, bought several hundred
thousand acres of the wild lands" of
Maine, thereby becoming possessor Of a
tract Of land larger than the entire
State Of Rhode Island. 1t is the best
hunting ground in the eastern part of
the United States.
A cosmopolitan citizen says that the
foreigners, artists, philanthropists, edi-
tors, scientists and sociologists who go
to New York City to study America
are likely to be led into all sorts of
errors II they conf1ne their studies and
observations to the metropolis, for New
York City is less typical of America
than any other part of the country.
The linen industry is the greatest
manufacturing industry Ireland pos
sesses. There is invested in it some
thing like fifteen and a half million
pounds, and it gives employment to
10000 people. 1t is a matter for much
uneasiness that year after year for n
considerable time has marked decline
in the area under fax In Ireland
Northern Wing.
Few people will have had the cour-
age to sit down thirteen at table for the
greetings of new year. But five-and-
fifty years ago Lord Roberts was one
Of thirteen who sat down to dinner ON
New Years day at Peshawar. Eleven
years later-though most of them had
been through the Indian mutiny and
half of them had been wounded-they
were all alive. And Lord Roberts is
still very much alive.-London Chron,
lclA.
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said / to myself, 1T would be a real pleas.

said ] to myself, 1T would be real pleas
ure to come to these affairs"
She enjoyed it thoroughly, for she was
young and healthy in mind and body. The
music, the light and brightness Of the sur
roundings exhilarated her; and then she
must have known that she looked well
and was admired, and believe such a be-
lief as that would set the Lord Chancel-
lor In good humor. think 1t mattered
little to her whom she was with, for she
was free from any idea of Irritation, and
just as innocent and pure and sweet and
| good as she looked.
l enjoyed watching her until the time
came for Lynn Yeames to take her home
and 1t stirred up all the bile in my ma.
ture when he took her hand and passed II
through his arm. He trod on one old
gentleman's toe, and wished 1t had been
mine for In that mood only wanted an
excuse to knock his head of.
The fact Is I was as jealous rs though
had been in love with Miss Dalrymplt
myself-which, Of course, was not an
old fellow In his sixtieth year--sixty-sec
ond, In fact.
| Ito be continued)
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You can't vote In Norway unless you
have been vaccinated.
OF London's population, 100000 are
members Of some sort of club
The whale catching industry is dying
out. Only $50 are now caught each
year.
Much of the tobacco grown in east
ern Bengal Is marketed in Calcutta,
whence it Is shipped to Burma, where
1t is manufactured into cheroots.
Higgins, cocker spaniel of New
York city, whose hind legs are para
lyzed, Is strapped backwards into a
small two-wheeled go-cart and gets
along quite well, thank you,
The bank at Bremen, Kan, having
been burned, experts in the treasury de-
partment at Washington have figured
out that quart of ashes sent on for
redemption will be worth about $4,000.
Having bet $500 that he had seen one
thousand snakes in one day near Mar
tinsburg, Ark, Michael Kelly, drum
mer, won the wager when he took the
committee to big cave filled with rep
tiles.
Edward Guerr, who drove a horse at
tached to a buggy over railroad tres
tie $50 feet above the Cuyahoga river,
In Ohio, the horse trotting over a plank
foot wide, was arrested on a charge
Of lunacy.
A remarkable petition has just been
sent to Washington, to the forest serv-
ice. from nearly 1,4OO school children
In northern California, asking for the
establishment of a redwood national
park. This petition, which is from the
children of the schools of Eureka, Hum
boldt County, California, is unlike any
other which has ever been sent to a
government department to ask for the
preservation of forests.
Two large paintings and seven water
colOrs by Ibsen, painted while he was
young, have been discovered at Nit-Da-
len, Sweden, in the possession of the
widow of one Of Ibsen's friends. 1t Is
well known that the dramatist during
ais youth was interested In drawing and
painting. So far only two paintings
and two water colors were known, be-
longing to a private collection. They all
were painted during his youth.
Bobby is the son of Methodist min
ister, and has had the experience of
moving" four times in the space of
his eight years of life Some time ago
an elderly minister was visiting Bobby's
father, and the course of the conyersa-
ton turned to heaven and Bobby was
asked concerning the abode of the
blessed. YES said the youngster
with sigh of deep WEAKNESS, 81 know.
It's the last place we're going to move
to-"
Women Of the town of KranIchfeld
which lies partly In Weimar and Dortlv
in Meiningen, Germany, have sent a ne
tition to the governments OF both prin-
cipalities asking that something NAV
be done to regulate the closing hours Of
the drinking houses. They complain
that after their husbands have been
turned out of the public houses which
lie in Weimar they cross the street to
Meiningen, where the closing hours ora
much later.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07
FEAT OF AN ARMY OFFICER.

Beat O'Leary's Walking Record I'm
the WiIds of Alaska.
The feat of O'Leary in walking 1000
miles in 1000 hours has reminded the
officers Of the Fourth Infantry Of q
feat accomplished by Captain Joseph
G. Cashier, of that regiment, who beat
O'Leary's record by about two miles
per day in the wilds Of Alaska. In
other words, Captain Cashier, who was
then lieutenant of the Fourth Infan.
try, walked a distance of 1875 miles
In fifty-two days, an average Of TWEEN
ty-six miles per day. The story Of the
hardships undergone by Lieut.. Cashier
during an exploring expedition in the
years 1S9S-99 is one of thrilling and In
tense interest. On June 6, 1898, he
Joined an exploration expedition sent
out by the government to find a pass
through the Alaskan Mountain range,
Of which Mount Mckinley, the highest
peak In America, forms a part. Start
Ing from the northwestern part OF
Alaska Lieutenant Cashier and two
privates of the Fourteenth Infantry
started in southeasterly direction
across an unexplored country, finally
arriving at the Yukon River, near the
mouth Of the Tanana River, Oct. II,
1898, having traversed q distance OF
nearly 1000 miles.
1t was a ragged and forlorn party
that was taken in charge by a band of
Tanana Indians at that point nd feted
on moose meat and other delicacles.
Lieutenant Cashier was delirious by
reason Of the privations and hardships
he endured. For six days the party
had lived on nothing but wild Gran.
berries, as even the rose apple, which
had formed a portion of their diet
with what game they could kill, had
become inaccessible on account of the
deep snow.
At an early stage Of the journey
Lieutenant Cashier and the two SOL
diers had lost their firearms and blan-
kets while floating on a raft down q
stream. A low tree had brushed the
members Of the party and all their eff
fects into the deep river. They were
lucky to save a few matches with
which to start fire. The shoes of the
officer and soldiers had become worn to
shreds, and they found 1t necessary to
strip themselves of part of their cloth.
ing with which to bandage their feet.
The soles and other parts of their
feet became a mass Of running sores.
The party started out with dogs and
sleds to carry their baggage, but the
dogs perlshed for lack Of food, short
ly after crossing the mountain range.
Once on the Yukon, the two soldiers
decided they had had enough of ex
plorlng, and Joined some troops a she
distance away. Captain Cashier, bel.
of adventurous disposition, found
Canadian who would accompany him
up the Yukon, so they started on their
tramp on the ice to the mouth of the
river. 1t was on this journey that O
record of twenty-slx miles a day was
made. Upon his arrival at Skagway,
on the western coast, on Feb. "a, 1899,
Lieutenant Cashier was informed that
the government was organizing a re-
lief expedition to search for him.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07
CHATTER VI.

do not know whether am particu-
iarly sharp in penetrating character
though / have a decent opinion Of my
ability In that respect-or whether other
people are particularly obtuse: but tn. Is
a fact--Lynn Yeames succeeded In de-
ceiving everybody but me.
He was Of that class of charitable peo-
pie who win give guinea at any time
to have their names In a subscription list,
no matter what the object beand Ave
to head 1t Lynn Yeames, Esq, Of The
Hut Gas with affected humility he called
bis mothers cottage when she had bought
it,, was down for everything. He inter-
ested himself in local matters, siding al
ways with the majority; he became a
member of the County Club. bought q
horse and got admitted to the hunt; and
with his good looks, manly bearing, adj
mirable horsemanship and skiilful free
handedness, made himself generally pop
ular. One way and another reckoned
be was living up to nearer eight hundred
than two hundred year.
= pretty rod you're laying In pickle
for yourself. my boy. said 1 to myself.
and ehuckled to think how he would have
to draw IN his horns when he found that
hA Was down ID his unele's will for
Citing legacy instead Of TIE Afb- 49,
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07
Bees Race Pigeons.

1t Is not generally known that bees
are swifter In flight than pigeons-that
is, for short distances. Some years
ago pigeon fancier of Hamme, West,
phalla, laid wager that a dozen bees
liberated three miles from their hives
would reach home in less time than a
dozen pigeons. The competitors were
given wing at Rybern, a village nearly
league from Hamme, and the first bee
reached the hive a quarter Of a minute
in advance of the first pigeon. Three
other bees reached the goal before the
second pigeon. The bees were also
slightly handicapped, having been rolled
in flour before starting for the purpose
Of misunderstanding Reader.
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MARRIAGE NOT A JOKE

Therefore the Rev. Mr.. Pool seelxA
a Monopoly for the Preachers.
The Rev. Thomas G. Pool wants the
general assembly of Missouri to pass
a law prohibiting anybody but a
preacher from marrying people, says
the New York Sun.
"Matrimony is not joke" said Mr..
Pool at is a serious proposition.
There Is something incongruous In max
ing a business out of marrying people.
Nearly every day we hear about
some enterprising justice who hunts
trade by giving prizes with every cere-
mony, and there are instances where
some have employed assistants to
drum up business, dividing the pro-
ceeds with the capper. One man Of
fers a spoon; another announces that
he will give honeymoon chair, and
remember reading about one newly
elected officer who aspired to control
the business offefing to meet the par
ty at the depot with a hack, take 'em
around to studio to be photographed
and then marry them to the strains
of a wedding march played on a
graphophone.
ut puts one in mind of the bankers
at a carnival. Walk right up, gentle
men and ladies, and get married while
you wait! This is the only real eigh-
teen carat, gilt edged matrimonial par
lor on the pikev
"Of course we all read those things
with a smile, but with the atmosphere
of the cap and bells about them young
people are not likely to esteem highly
the pledge they make.
"'Sallie, do you take Bill here to be
your husband? Yes? Join hands
40, your right. That's better. Bill,
you take Sallie? Did you say Eyes"
All right. BY the authority in me
vested by the law, l pronounce you
man and wife. Two dollars. Thank
you and wish you luck
That's the average ceremony, and
under the law 1t is as good as any.
But what about the sacredness of it?
Where's the prayer that should by right
be an important part in every real cele-
bration Of those most solemn vows?"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07
THE PEANUT.


It's Commercial Rise Since the Civil
War Has Been Remarkable.
Before the civil war the Virginlan
who had COW or a horse, or even
poultry, and worked vegetable gar
den, however small, gave corner of
bis lot to the raising of the goober
pea, known to the outside world as the
peanut and to science as Arachis hypo-
gea. Somebody brought 1t originally
from Brazil as cheap and nutritious
food for stock. The gardener pulled
up the vines, with the nuts clinging to
them, and stored them in the hay loft
to be fed to the animals.
At that time and for years after the
war the peanut was not common field
crop In the old dominion and no one
thought of it as a source of revenue.
Accident revealed its value as a means
Of enrichlng the soil. Where it was
left to decay the ground yielded re-
narkable crops of other kinds.
However 1t may be with men, tobac.
60 is bad for the soil, quickly exhaust
ing Its heterogeneous element. In the
few years Immediately following the
war the impoverished Virginia planter
raised all the tobacco he could, and
soon this crop hardly paid for the
work 1t required. Lands were offered
tor the traditional song. Then came
the wider planting of the peanut and
The increasing fertility of the soil.
Soon the popularity of the peanut in
the north led to its cultivation pretty
generally throughout Virginia and the
Carolinas. Now 1t is the favorite nut
for man, and is grown in every south
ern State and In California, Oklahoma
and Missouri and in several northern
and western States.
The value of the peanut crop In the
United States exceeds $15,0OO,0OO. II
reaches about 400000,OOO pounds and
nearly 100000 persons are employed in
Its cultivation. Some 100000 acres OF
land Is devoted to It's culture for mar.
ket purposes.
The scientists Of the Department OF
| at w nave COIL
mended the peanut as nutritious and
wholesome food for man and beast. To
the former it supplies protein and ash
materials and to the animals of the
farm it is particularly valuable In com.
oination with corn and other carbona.
ceous foods, notably for young and
growing stock.
AS an improver of the soil it is equal
to any leguminous crop. Its chief vir-
tue Is that 1t does not consume the
nitrogen of the soil, the rapid exhaus-
ton of which, together with slow pro-
duction of natural processes, has led to
melancholy forebodings by chemists
The tubercles of the roots collect nitro
gen from the air and feed it to the
plant without impoverlshlng the land.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07
Papa bathing the Baby,

Many fathers stand aloof from tn,
common domestic duties, not because
they are 80 busy or because they are
not willing. but because of ignorance
How many men are there who would
not gladly drop their business at any
time and stay home and give the baby
his bath, If they only knew how;
Yet in reality 1t is much simpler than
1t seems. Fill the bathtub full of any
good water, first carefully removing ali
germs Put your elbow in occasionally
to see If 1t Is the right temperature. II
Ice forms on your elbow you may know
the water is too cold. If there are Bills
tiers then 1t is too warm. Be moderate
In all things.
Take the baby firmly by both fee,
and shake him loose from his flannel
moorlnss until you begin to see safety
pins ahead. Then remove the safety
pins with gas nippers and unroll until
the baby looms into sight
Now, having put on your rubber coat.
put one hand firmly under the baby's
chest and the other on his back and
launch him on the still waters. When
he has kicked all the water out OF the
bathtub renew as before.
Be careful while you are manipula-
ting the baby to keep him face down.
Otherwise you would not be able to put
water anywhere else but In his mouth.
Don't be afraid Of soap. At first you
win iii his eyes with soapsuds, but
with practice you will get so that soms
Of the Buds will be distributed else
where.
Now rinse and dry with a coarse tow
Ell, cover with face powder and rolling
him up in blankets set In oven to dry
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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07

Thackeray's favorlte poets were
Goldsmith and the sweet lyric sing
ers," Prior. whom he thought the east
est, the richest, the most charmingly
humorous of English lyrical poets, and
Cay, the force Of whose simple melody
and artless ringing laughter he appre-
ciated. He admired Pope, too; but
while admitting Millions greatness,
thought him 'sueh bore that no one
could read him." 1t is not surprising,
therefore, that Thackeray never -.
sayed the ''big bow-wow kind" Of
poetry.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07

my wife is getting to be very tire
some" complained Groucher, "she
doesn't seem to know her own mind
from one minute to the next"
MY wife," said Kratchett, SIS the
same way. She's as uncertain = tho
weather"
Huh! Mines as uncertain ms tba
weather forecasts" - Philadelnbi,
Press.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07
just as Happy.

Jones new stenOgrapher can't spell
a little bit"
THAT'S all right. Neither can Jones
He's happy and If you leave him alone
she'll hold her job and he'll never know
the difference. Detroit Free Press
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07

A shade hustled up to st. Peter.
"My good man." he said, will you
tell me where l must go to procure
souvenir post cardsT'
And St Peter, cycling him sOurly, told
him where he could go to.-Puck.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07

mike" said Flooding Pete, "what
would you say If some one was to
offer you work."
~ wouldn't say anything. Such a
bad judge of human nature wouldn't
be worth talkin' to."-Washington Star
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07

Sandy Pikes-Lady, could yer help a
poor man dat has just found a sample
package Of Indigestion tabletsI
Lady-How can help your
Sandy Pikes-Why, you can give me
4 good solid meal of rich foods, 50
can get de indigestion and try de tab.
latA
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07

According to the Seattle Trade Reg.
lister the total salmon pack Of the Pa.
cific coast for 1906 was S,S05,311 cases,
of which 2,2oe,555 cases were put up
in Alaska, an increase for that terri
tory Of 81s.7sS cases over 1905
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07

1t never surprises a man to be ad-
mired, but no man ever lived long
enough to know why people dislike him
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07

1t is surprising how long a thing
VIII live after It Il on Its last legs,