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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
OUR GROWING COLLEGES.
10000 Students in Ten Largest
Universities.

10000 Students in Ten Largest
Universities.
The attendance at American univer-
stiles annually compiled by Prof. Ru-
dolf Tombo, Jr., of Columbia, shows
some interesting figures for 1907. Har-
ward holds the lead as the largest uni
verslty, with 5,345 students, Columbia,
Michigan, Chicago, Cornell, Minnesota,
Illinois, Pennsylvania, Yale and Cali
fornia following in the order named.
These ten universities, says the In
dependent, represent a total attendance
of over 10000. The largest gains were
made by Columbia, New York Univer-
sity, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota : that is, two Eastern and
four Western institutions.
At three of the prominent State uni
versities of the Middle West a decrease
in the number of male students en-.
rolled is counterbalanced by an in.
crease in the number of women. Wis.
consin has eighty-seven less men In
1907 than in 1904, but 1873 more WON.
en-. There is a steady gain In the en-
rollment at Smith, Vassar and Bryn
Mawr.
The greatest number of degrees con.
ferred in 1907 was for Harvard, with
1,1S7 to her credit. Michigan, Colum.
bla and Yale followed In the order
named.
The decrease in the number of Amer
lean students at all the German univer.
stiles is this year more marked than
ever. According to the registration
statistics of Berlin University, which
has been the most popular of all the
German universities with Americans
there are now only ninety-1ve students
from this country-sixty-e ight men
and twenty-seven women enrolled
Three years ago there were 1O3 and ten
years ago 400.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
LincOIn's Rules,

On one occasion President Lincoln, on
entering the telegraph office Of the War
Department, writes Mr.. Bates in 'Lin-
coin and the Telegraph Office" was
heard to remark to Secretary Seward
by jings, governor, we are here at
last" Turning to him in a reprovlng
manner, Mr.. Seward said: "Mr. Presi-
dent, where did you learn that inele-
CANT expression?" Without replying to
the Secretary, Lincoln addressed the
telegraph operators, saying:
Young gentlemen, excuse me for
swearing before you. by jings' is
swearing, for my good old mother
taught me that anything that had a
by before 1t was swearing"
One day Secretary Seward, who was
not renowned as a joker, said he had
been told that a short time before, on
a street crossing, Lincoln had been seen
to turn out in the mud to give a col
ored woman a chance to pass.
Yes" said Lincoln, at has been a
rule of my life that If people would
not turn out for me, ! would turn out
for them. Then you avoid collisions. y
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
The Roupell Mystery
BY Austy G. any vile

been swept partly clean. NJ. Cassagne
smiled with pardonable pride, and. saying
that he had for the present nothing fur
Their to examine in the bed chambers led
the way down stairs, first of all, however,
replacing, carefully, the seals which he
had removed.
Taking his hat from the rack in the
hall, and inviting Dr. Mason to accom-
pany him, he passed quickly around to
the rear of the chateau. A man servant
was shaking some carpets on the back
lawn. He ordered him to bring a ladder,
and, placing it against the wall of the
chateau, assembled it nimbly.
II thought So" he called down to the
doctor. 1.-The ladder will bear two of us.
Come up, please"
what is it this time?" inquired Ma
son, craning his neck so as to be on a
level with the window sill.
Cassagne directed the physicians at
tention to a slight abrasion of the stone.
THAT was caused by the mans shoe
when he leaped from the SILL" he explain
ed.
"But where did he leap to-" inquired
the doctor. This window is twenty feet
from the ground, at least. Even if he
had been in his stocking feet he must
have left some impression, and you say
he had shoes on"
HE reached the ground another way
that is ALL" replied Cassagne. "Most
likely he jumped into that tree. Let's
see If 1t is possible"
With the agility of a sailor ascending
the rigging of vessel, he climbed Ut
the rest of the ladder, and stepped on tc
the window sill. After measuring the
distance with his eye for few moments
| be said:
1T was desperate leap for man
to take in the night time; but recollect
he was a desperate fellow"
Then gathering himself together, and
exerting his enormous muscular strength
he sprang from the window. A project
ing bough nearly a dozen feet away was
his objective point. He caught it, and
with the agility of a trapezist passed
hand over hand down to the trunk. AS
he swung himself around the branch, his
eye fell upon a small, gittering object
stuck fast in the fork of the tree He
picked it up, and slid rapidly down to
the ground, where the doctor was await
ing him. Placing in the physicians hand
small gold locket, the detective ex'
claimed in delighted voice;
"I'll have him-I'll find him now, If
have to hunt for him all over France"
Just then one of the servants approach
ed. 1T was twelve o'clock Would the
gentlemen like breakfast?"
THE gentlemen will have some break.
fast by all MEANS" replied NJ. Cassagne
"Our labor has been immense, our reward
ought to be proportionate," and the ply
stefan led tine way, and together they
passed into the chateau.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24

the whistle. For instance, If one whistle
has a note eight seconds In length,
coming every half minute, another
whistle may have a note five seconds
in length coming every quarter min
ute. No two whistles within section
where there would be the slightest
chance of confusing them are alike.
Neither are any two lights alike
where they may be mistaken one for
the other. There are nowadaysNfive
different classes of light fixed, rekolv-
ing, flashing, colored in intermittent
There are some combinations of these
also which provide still other varia-
lions, such as intermittent flashing
lights and group flashing lights.
Oil Is still the fuel used. Wherever
else it may be back number, it keeps
its lead over all other lights for steadi-
ness and reliability in signal work.
There are some buoys which are cleo
trically lighted and some which have
Pintsch lights. There are also some
lightships which are electrically light
ed. But the well-known instability of
buoys and ships is the result Light
houses stick to coal oil.
The pay of lighthouse keepers aver
ages from 500 to $1,000 a year. The
isolated ones are supplied with food
and fuel, too, and 1t is a fact that 1t
often costs more to get these supplies
to the lighthouses than the supplies
themselves cost. Men who receive 500
year or other small salaries do not
have charge of first-class lighthouses
They are the men who attend to light
ing one Of the small beacons, but even
in that case they earn their money.
Lighthouse keepers are not allowed
to take up any occupation that would
interfere with their duties, but some
of them manage to earn an honest
penny occasionally by making shoes
or doing tailoring or other intermit-
tent work. One Is reported who
preached every Sunday at a little
church near the light. Another was a
justice Of the peace. Another taught
school.
Tie summer isn't so bad anywhere
On the northern Atlantic coast things
go to the other extreme. Summer
folks become veritable pest at many
of the lights. Those which are near
the large resorts are made the ob1ec-
tive points of hundreds Of yachting
parties, of launches, of idlers in any
kind Of thing that will float.
When these visitors come by scores
every day and must all be taken I'D to
see the light-a very respectable little
climb If the tower happens to be 100
or more feet high and must all be FED
with the same facts-all of them indi-
gestible to the average mind on sum-
mer vacation-and must all peek and
peer into the private quarters of the
family, then the isolation of January
doesn't seem to be without its redeem
ing features.
The wife of lighthouse keeper has
no sinecure. One wonders what hap
pens If a man in that position marrieS
an untidy wife. According to the testi-
mony Of one woman who lives in q
lighthouse the inspector would make
short work of domestic slattern.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
CHAPTER TX

Hardly had M. Alfred Cassagne swal-
lowed the last mouthful of his breakfast,
than his active mind reverted again to
the mystery which yet surrounded the
death of Nine. Roupell.
Who was the man, at present unknown,
who had crept like thief in the night
into the chateau, and as quietly stolen
away when his foul work had been ac-
complished? And what was his motive in
committing the crime? Was he in any
way connected with NJ. Chabot? Could
it be possible that the project of police
had stumbled on the real instigator of
the murder in the person of Chabot, and
that this unknown person was his con-
federate? Most likely at that moment,
some officer from the prefecture was en-
gagged in closely watching Ohabot's slight
est movements. There might be some
thing in the projects theory, after ALL
Mature reflection convinced NJ. Cassagne
that it would not do to dismiss it with
a mere shrug of the shoulders. Chabot's
accomplice might be the man they were
looking for. Anyhow, it would not do to
leave the point uncovered.
81 must write at once" he said, pres
emily, ito Cliquot. Cllquot is my assist
ant. We must have him keep watch of
this Monsieur Chabot's movements"
NJ. Cassagne wrote out a series of in
structions, particularly cautioning his as
sistant to keep track of NJ. Chabot, and
under no circumstances, If he ran across
any of the people from the prefecture, to
let them really know who he was. Then
he appeared to be engrossed In thought
He rubbed his hands violently together,
as il he would impart activity to his
brain by the friction. He arose, thrust
back his chair, and began to walk rapidly
up and down the room, stopping occasion
ally to examine the pictures on the walls,
with the eye Of a critic.
"Madame's husband left her very well
off, l should judge" he remarked at last.
Very" replied DIR. Mason.
"How long ago did Monsieur Roupell
dep
about fifteen years"
"And then she took up with the
nieces?"
mot Immediately. 1t was not until
the death of their parents that Madame
Roupell went to America to fetch them"
''Tell me what relatives Madame Rou-
pell had besides these young ladies'"
''There were no other relatives except
brother, dissolute character, who fol-
lowed his sister from America to this
country"
And his name?"
"As recollect it, Henry Graham, l
believe. A man of fifty or sixty"
when did you last see this Henry
Graham?"
Il never saw him but once. He came
to the chateau, on some begging expedi-
ton when l happened to be here. lie
| pretended to be very affectionate. He
was poor looking creature, quite broken
down when | saw him, and not at all the
kind of man to commit a daring crime
"Recollect that the moment Madame
Roupell died he had an interest in her
estate. He was her nearest hnir,at-law. -
But she had made her will, she had
disowned him, and utterly cast him of.
That will bequeathed all her property to
her nicces, l witnessed it, l knew what
was In it."
NJ Cassagne began to grow more and
more interested. He no longer cast his
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
YOUNG TURKISH ATHLETES.
Eject of Foot Races and Ball Play
ing on Their Costumes.

Ing on IheIr Costumes
"Oriental people are very averse to
physical exercise Of any kind. Their
idea of enjoyment is to sit under an
awning and play backgammon" said
Edward o. Donaldson of Constantine
pie, Turkey, the director Of an Ameri-
can and English wholesale importing
house In the capital of the sultan, to a
Washington Post man. THAT man
should go out and run around track
In shameless nakedness, and this with
no hope of gain, only confirms them In
the belief that all Americans are mad.
But they are initiative people, and some
years ago the influence and example
of the young teachers got few of the
preparatory boys out for foot races.
THAT day, for Beu-Beirut, at least,
the death blow was struck to the pic
Dturesque dress Of the orient You can't
run a 100-yard dash with long, baggy
trousers and a silk gumbez that fiops
around your ankles. Even If you tuck
your skirts into the sash tie effect is
more startling than speedy SO one by
one the students ordered European
trousers from the city tailors.
"At first they were poorly cut and
viewed with suspicion but to-day there
are not three men in the collegiate de
partment who wear the old costume,
and many Of the students dress with
taste and an elegance that their profess
sors cannot afford to emulate. Tennis
and basketball soon won their place in
the studental favor, and now we have
gymnastic apparatus and a regularly
graduated athletic director, who has
learned physical culture and boy ma
ture through a long experience in the
gymnasiums of America.
"But it was football that did the
most toward unification. The value of
team work is new idea to eastern col
lege men. The old ideal was that of
| every man for himself It has been
so since the time of Alcibiades and Alb
salon. If it had not been so the his
tory of the world might have been diff
ferent 1t was comparatively easy to
see the Joy of winning a foot race or
tennis, match, but to play an unthe-
atrical part in football game, obeying
captain and working for the good Of
the side-that was a different thing"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24

In winter time, says a writer, life
In lighthouse is no joke. Even when
the house Is on the mainland, where
the keeper and his family can get
around somewhat as other folks do
the winter is long, hard pull.
In the United States there are about
LOO lighthouses, built in a large va
riety Of situations, not one of which
was chosen with a view to tie comfort
and social advantages of the occupants.
For instance, when 1t comes to linked
loneliness long drawn out the eight
families who keep the Scotch Cap and
the Sarichef lights off the coast Of
Alaska are candidates for first prize.
There are four of them at each light,
but they do not see each other for
months at time.
AS for seeing anybody else, a passing
steamer occasionally lowers a boat and
sends them mail. But as the steamer
company charges Uncle Sam $50 every
time 1t does this the lighthouse folk
have to put up with rare visits.
Life on a lightship is even worse
than 1t is in lighthouse. The house,
at any rate, keeps fairly steady, where
as a lightship is never absolutely still,
and In stormy weather rolls and
wrenches, douses and drenches its
crew unit they almost go crazy under
the strain. The best of them can't
stand too long a spell of that sort of
thing.
The Diamond Shoals lightshlp, thir-
teen miles out In the ocean off Cape
Hatteras of evil memory to mariners,
was kept there once for five months in
stead Of the three prescribed by the
regulations.
Even when the crew were half dis
tracted from the strain of their long
duty it did not occur to them to aban-
don their post. AS a matter Of fact
only three or four instances have been
recorded of American keepers abandon
Ing light which was in their charge.
Probably when it comes to out and
out wintry rigors some of the light
houses on the Great Lakes suffer more
even than those on the seacoast. They
become coated with thick Ice and have
also to stand up against onslaughts of
cake Ice forced up out of the water and
driven against them with terrific force.
One lighthouse on Lake Erie had to
stand on one occasion against Ice which
piled up against it to a height Of forty
feet.
But It's no summer resort in the
tower Of any lighthouse in winter. No
heat is allowed, as that would cause
dimming of the plate glass window
or the lenses. The heat from the
great lamp Is carried off by a ven
tllator overhead and the turret Is so
cold that on the New England coast
keepers say that glass Of water will
quickly freeze solid If set on the win
dow sill.
The big lamps, by the way, are al
lowed to burn only four hours at a
time. If they burn longer there Is apt
to be vaporization of the gases in the
oil, lessening the brilliance of the light
So the lamps are changed twice every
night. When there is fog or storm a
6rst-class lighthouse will keep three
men busy all night tending to lights
and the engine which keeps the siren
whistle going.
These whistles differ from one an
other, Just as the lights do, so that
even If vessel cannot distinguish a
light it can determine its position by
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
Ito be continued.)
WHY They BIubbered.

did you notice that nearly every one
in the audience shed tears during my
great death sceue?" queried the leading
lady.
"Yes," answered the soubrette, land
l don't blame Them"
Don't blame them !" echoed the |. !.
"Why, what do you mean"
''They were next to the painful fact
that your demise wasn't real," explain
ed the soubrette.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
Comparisons.

"Why do so many of our ablest men
turn their backs on the public and de-
vote their talents to the service of
great corporationsp
well" answered Senator Sorghum,
81 shouldn't be surprised If 1t was be-
cause a corporation generally stands by
a man who has worked for 1t and the
public generally doesn't"-Washingbon
Star.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
Helped His Ambition.

THANK you, judge" said the prisoner
sentenced to thirty days on bread and
water.
Seeing that the magistrate was puz-
zled, he explained that he long had de
sired to try the simple life, but lacked
the courage to begin.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
strikes Gold Every Week.

American tourist in England, seeing
a farm laborer digging a deep drain :
"What are you digging here for?" ask
ed the tourist.
Cold, guv-nor," replied the laborer.
Tourist-When do you expect to
strike It?
Laborer-One O'Clock on Saturday.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
steps Unnecessary.

"Why hasn't Lightfoot his dancing
class this yearT
Because his old pupils did not come
back and he would not take steps to
get new ones."-Baltimore American
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
Discouraged.

Lovely Fiancee-Oh, George, l some
times think l would rather die than be
married
George What, darling! Rather dieT
Lovely Fiancee-Yes, you don't have
to rehearse half a dozen times for that
YOU know.-Chicago Tribune.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24

Perhaps the Young Things would
study better if love story were run in
with the geography, and the arithmetic
tables. In order to catch their atten-
ton, love story Is run into everything
else.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-02-21
Roadside Wit,

He who matched wits with the au.
thor of 1.-The Ancient Mariner" had In.
deed a lively task before him, for Cole.
ridge was never caught mapping. The
poet was so awkward horseman that
his riding often attracted comment OF
anything but complimentary nature
One day he was riding along the turn.
pike road In the county of Durham
when wag who met him fastened
upon him as an excellent subject fol-
sport. Consequently he drew rein and
said in an impertinent drawl:
my graceful friend, did you happen
to meet tailor on the roadY"
I'm inclined to think I did" said
Coleridge meditatlvely. 81 was not
sure at the moment. but he said some
thing about my meeting a goose far
Their along the road"
The wag put spurs to his horse, and
the poet logged calmly on his way.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-02-21
IN THE WASTE-BASKET.

~~~~~

The recent death of Miss Julia Bry-
ant, the daughter of William Cullen
Bryant, has called forth number Of
"reminiscences of the poet and his fam
lily. Although always kindly, Bryant
was not man Of winning personality.
He was too dignifed. But at home
he could unbend ; with his children and
! their intimate friends he could occa-
sionally even romp With strange chill
dren the poet, perhaps being little
shy Of them, became even more than
usually dignif1ed, with the result of re-
ducing them to solemn and hopeless
good behavior.
II always, In my infantile mind"
confessed lady who knew him slight
ly In her childhood, connected him
vaguely with the Old Testament, and
revered him accordingly. Such beard
and such a brow We're his as | knew
only in Biblical illustrations depicting
Methusaleh and jeremiah. 1t would
have shocked me, am sure, to see
him laugh
With another little girl, whom he
and used to perch her on his desk to
listen to her amusing chatter. When
he had had enough Of it, and wished to
resume his writing, he would put her
In the big waste paper basket, carry it
outdoors, and merrily tip her out on the
grass.
His own girls were at that time
grown up, but it was a method of clos
Ing conversation first practiced upon
them. Sometimes, too, he used the
same receptacle to hold daughter toe
small to be overconversational, but
large enough to mistakenly demand
amusement. Dumped in among the
scraps, she would be happy for a long
time, grooming to herself and tearing
bits Of paper into smaller bits.
Not until the grooming stopped die
her father need to give her any further
attention, but silence was a signal MOI
to be disregarded, for it~meant that she
was, by no means figuratively, exercis
ing her literary taste upon his lates
discarded poem. Her opinion 1t wal
never possible to extract; but the poem
it was-more or less chewed-and i
was removed from her mouth as rap
idly as possible, and the little lady sup
piled with some other plaything les
tempting or more digestible
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-02-21

woman who writes to the American
Magazine about race relations in the
South touches on this point to say that
the dangerous negroes are dangerous
to all women and girls, white or black;
that the negro children go to school In
groups, as the white children do; and
that the negro women, like white wonl-
en-, in the South recognize that 1t is
not safe to go far from home unpro-
tected. This statement has probability
in its favor, and for various reasons
sounds true. 1t was worth making !;
the more so that we do not remember
to have seen it in print before. We
have all along known and deplorel the
peril to the white women and chill
dren, but no one before this has thought
it worth while to mention that the
negro women and girls were in any
danger. The reason why this ought to
be known is that a common danger is
strong tie, and the blacks and whites
in the South are developing antag-
onisms SO fast that no tie that remains
ought to be ignored After the Atlanta
riot decent people, white and black, got
together to discuss preventive meas.
ures. That was the right way. Shot
gun methods will only increase their
perils.-Harper's Weekly