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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19
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The Japanese government is waging a
successful war on rats by paying for
every dead one brought in, and giving
each rat slayer a ticket to a lottery
with valuable prizes.
Mrs. Nellie G. Upham was the only
can mining congress which met at
Pittsburg She is the owner of a pay.
ing mine, which she manages herself.
The women of Wisconsin have lie
ciared their intention Of getting every
man and woman in the State who ia
u or over to sign the petition for wom-
IN suffrage which is to be presented to
the present Congress.
A permanent national exposition at
Madrid. for the promotion of which an
organization has been formed in Spain,
will have for one of its chief objects
tue stimulation of scientific methods in
agriculture and manufacturing.
On the basis of bushel Of corn pro-
ducing 2.5 gallons of alcohol, 1t has
been figured out that last years corn
crop in the United States was sufficient
to furnish 2O,OOO,0OO horsepower for
ten hours n day for an entire year.
The largest single inhltration in tina
world is said to be the one recently
completed for Pittsburg. The sedimen-
tation basins have a capacity of 120.-
100000 gallons, and the filtered water
reservoir room for 100000 gallons.
A new stop watch has been brought
out for use Of physicians and nurses In
counting pulse beats. The pressure OF
q button starts it and another pressure
stops it and marks the time when q
given number of beats have been count
ed.
Louisiana is estimated to waste rs,
900, 900 cubic feet Of natural gas daily
more than one-twentieth of that con
sumed in the United States, and the
Secretary Of the Interior has with
drawn from entry $500 acres Of nat
ural gas fields.
To avoid the troubles besett1ng com
passes on steel ships, the metal O.
which defects the needle, German in
ventor has devised a needleless one, IL
the form of a gyroscope, the axis o
which always adjusts itself parallel t.
the eartn's axis,
British automobile exports nov
amount to a value of $22 100000 year
: Factories are full of orders as a result
of the recent automobile show at tn
Olympia in London. About so per cen
J Of the orders are for closed cars, usual
ly Of the landaulet type.
Tho new woman in China, instead q
following the example Of her Englis
and American sisters in railing agains
: the tyranny of men has revolte
{ against her relations-in-law. One {
: the women's clubs In Shanghai pr,
claims as its object rebellion againl
mothers-in law"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19
The NarrovH Path.

There are occasional doubts in the
minds of the elders Of the Morse fam
lily as to the quickness of Bobby's WITS
but there has never been any doubt
that a lesson once learned by him.
however slowly, is forever after remem'
bered.
won't you shake hands with me-
BobbyT asked one Of his sisters ad'
mirers, but Bobby hung back.
-'I don't care to-" he said, with ter
rible distinctness.
Don't you like meT asked the un-
wise visitor.
mo, 1 DON'T" replied Bobby, ana
then there was a shocked chorus from
the family.
Bobby" said his aunt, reproachfuF
ly, as she withdrew him from the
public gaze, "why did you say sucn
rude thing to Mr.. Brown"
Because, aunty," said her virgins
charge, 81 got spanked last week toE
not telling the truth, and shA'nt new
er take any risks agGinr
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19
CHAPTER XVI,


II was after eleven when the Madame
de Stael regained the harbor. The cloud
burst had spent itself. Out from the
land rolled an unctuous smudge which
bore suggestions of the heinous impartial
ity of a great conAagration. The harbor
was cluttered with wreckage, a doom-pic-
ture for the eyes of the seamen. Dimly,
fitfully, through the pail, they saw the
ghosts of the shipping-black bulls with
out helm or hope. The Madame vented a
deep-toned roar, but no answer was re-
turned-not a voice from thu wreckage,
not the scream Of a gull. A sailor hcaved
the lead, and the scathed steamer bored
into the rising heat.
Ahead was emptiness. The woman was
standing forward on the main deck. The
wind tunnelled through the smoke, and
she saw the hills shorn of her city The
hope that the guns of P.lee had been
turned seward was crushed with other
hopes. A cry was wrung from her breast
at last. The anchor chain was dropped,
and two men were bearing the brave
Negley down from the bridge. Macready
hastened to the woman's side.
Arrange to get small boat, Denny
We must 60 ashore" she commanded, re-
covering self-possession.
Macready felt that 1t was now time tc
force matters.
"You can't 60 ashore yet, lady r. he ex
claimed. III cud bake a potato here, sure
in the holla av my hand. What, thin
must 1t be in that pit aV dishtruction2"
He was staring In a smoke-stained face
The purpose there was lmmovable a
granite. The voice that he heard mad
him vince with fear, lest she should dl
rect upon him words such as had beel
Pugh's portion.
"AIr. Macready, get small boat ready
am going ashore"
"SurS, an I'll 60 Wit you, ma'am," b
said hastily.
81 did not think you would Withhold
your aid from him, Denny. Make haste,
she added gently.
The sailor whom Denny persuaded I
accompany them was the old lion, Erns
who had held the launch at the pier I
long, and who had been relieved for Il
3 last trip. Water, medicines, food, spiri
and many cakes of Ice, thickly wraps
In tarpaulin, were placed In . small bos
The woman suffered herself to be garb,
y according to the ideas Of MacrOady. o.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19
Ito be continued.l
NOT A MENACE.
We Are Better on for Some INAmi-
grants We Receive.

We Are Better on for Some 1NAmA.
grants We Receive.
"You like dis-perhaps" said the
pretty Syrian woman, holding out some
crocheted lace toward the lady Of the
house,. 1t was in New York home.
and there was possibly something in
congruous about the beautiful sur
roundings and the poorly clad woman
seated on the floor in the midst of her
laces and embroideries. The incongru-
ity did not strike either mistress or
visitor, however, for each was, in her
way, dignifed and simple.
do you make these things hereY
asked the lady, interestedly.
81 have made them at home, in Sy-
ria. l have not long been in your coun-
try-two days onlee."
"Ah! Did you have to pay much
duty on them?" The lady was think
ing of her own experiences with the
customs officers.
A smile lighted the little Syrian's
face as she answered, 81 pay not one
cent. Some say to me, 'Emptee your
pillow and sew all your things inside,
like we.' But l tell them, No, l
will not begin new life in new coun'
try with deceit. We are Christian.
went to the customs man and I say
please see my things. They are al
have, but they cost not much mon
ey.'
"'Dis Lace he say, how much II
costY
"I made It, 1 tell him. 1t cost
the thread-onlee three cent
at make you no charge for that,
say the man. How much this EN-
broideryT
att is onlee the cloth and thread
that cost thirty cent / tell him.
made all myself. He charge me no
one cent, and l go back and say to thu
others, Look Is it not better to b
honestY"
"But why did you leave your beau
tiful country I'm afraid you will FIND
it hard to get on here" said the lady
alphabetically, opening her purse.
"Ah, Syria is no more beautiful II
u.s." said the little woman, sadly
There we are-what you call it?-
prosecute because we are Christian,
she said, as she accepted the money TO
her lace and began to pack her cases
my man, he stand one day on tn
street, and a boy run by and cry out
when he pass, and say that my hus
band take money from him. My hus
band is good man. He not steal iron
any one, but because he is Christian h
must pay the money. 1t Is always SC
Here we can be--what you call it?-
freedom, and the good God will he'll
u.s."
eleven thousand three hundred an
forty-three foreigners landed in tn
port of New York yesterday" read tn
man of the house the next morning
"The highest days record. Well, wha
Is going to become of us all?" said h
what menace they all are!"
mo, not ALL" replied the lady acros
the breakfast table, and she began
tell him Of the little Syrian woman
Youths Companion.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19

OF Constaole'S pith helmets was upon ner
head; his rain coat was buttoned about
her, the sleeves rolled up to her hands:
and pair of his shoes was laced over her
own. 1t was difficult to move about in
this regalia, but it kept off the whitening
draughts. The boat was lowered.
half-hour later, they were forced to
put back to the ship. Ernst was whim-
pering at the oars, his lips twisted in ag-
ony. Macready was silent, an eloquent
signal of his failing endurance. Lara had
not swooned: her will was not broken. but
conditions had been encountered which
flesh could not conquer. The boat was
pulled about to the lee of the steamer. and
at a port~hole glass she saw the sneerins
face of Pugh. still in irons.
There in the boat the three renewed
their strength, and another terrific down
pour came to aid them. Lara sat in the
stern, hands and lips tense, during the
cloudburst. 1t was nearly two in the az
ternoon when the boat was bailed. the
stock of ice replenished. and a second
start made. The sailors gave them
cheer.
Deeper and deeper in toward the gray,
low beach the little boat was pulled, its
occupants the first to look upon the heap
ed and running over measure of Saint
Pierre's destruction. Denny and Ernst
took turns at the oars, sometimes pulling
a single blade together. Rare running
mates, they were, odd as two white men
could be. but matched to a hair in cour-
age. Ernst bent to his work, a grim.
stolid mechanism. Denny jerked at the
oars, and found breath and energy re-
naming to assail Pugh, with his barbed
and poisoned tongue. The woman, in the
stern of the boat, knelt before them. prais-
ing, cooling their faces with ice, her words
often incoherent, but her spirit unconcuer'
able.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19

mysterious its nsidious
isolation
distinct methods known by which
BY
another Edisons
transmitted by induction
the
which utilities the EARTH uppemening
paraus producing
terminating plate Another
called the ultraviolet
electric light the
station constitute the medium whereby the receiving station sparks
interrupted circuit Still
method the visible light emitted from seachght
invisible tabeng still uncertain which
This the basis
radlophone Finally there
successfully operated by
discovered that
uve passing conductor ether radated
all directions surrounding the conductor and that these
all similar those light except that they
velocity those Of light
have the reflection and refracton
the Marconi method of wireless
induction coil, Of
produced at electric circuit where these Hean
ranmtte Marcon made the essential
his method until March 80 1885,
that his sending the English channel distance
htwo miles called the the world the possibilities
wireless teegaphy.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19

turned to face an apparition, wind-swept |
and drenched as If risen from the sea, |
who pulled at his coat and called above
the deluge:
"Turn back to the ethyl Didn't they |
needs his ship?"
go below, miss. I'm trying to save
his ship for him."
In q stunned way she stared at the
officer. Don't you know he was to be
back in two hours7"
Pugh whirled around to Macready, who
was standing behind the woman. You
don't seem able to manage one passenger,
he said in an ugly tone. "I'm shorthand
ed, but I'll get help for you'll"
The Irishman was too wise to reply.
"But you must turn back y the woman
cried hopeessly. Captain Negley would
never leave his owner to die back there !!
Captain Negley is not In command
now" Pugh said, his small eyes burning
wickedly. Get below or I'll call the sail
ors to help you down. don't need a
woman and a sniveling valet to help me
run the ship"
Lara turned to the ladder, brushed back
IuS udlE LkOEl nCA Eyes, ohN SSNAN
coldly, slowly, II see there is a coward In
command J"
For that one instant she was vivid
replica of her mother. The viperine face
of Pugh turned ashen under her eyes.
Reaching the main deck, she told Mac
ready to bring two sailors into the own
er's cabin. A moment later she was bend
ing over the unconscious form of the
ships commander in the berth. She seiz-
ed his we'll hand.
Captain NegleyI oh, Captain-Cap-
tain Negleyw
Her voice ranged higher.
The lips of the seaman moved.
at is Miss Stansbury Listen to
me just once Pugh is a coward-a cow
ard. He is running away! Mr.. Consta-
BILE Is still ashore. and we are miles at sea
miles out to sea I"
In a slight opening of the bandages
appeared dazed gray eye.
"Do you hear, Captain Negley2 The
coward is running away, and Mr.. Consta-
BILE is ashore! Pugh-coward !"
Nature was trying to right herself In
the brain of the stricken seaman. In the
gray eve, she watched the struggle as she
impressed her message. 1t was torture to
bring him back. = He asked if the
} fires were out. He asked for
Laird and Plass. The simple problems
of time and place were mountains to him
Macready entered with two sailors.
Command Pugh to turn qbont! Oh
speak for me-for mel" she implored.
Negley tried to rise. Bring Pugf
here !" he mumbled.
1t was a sweet duty for Macready
whose colors had been lowered in the
presence Of the woman. Pugh gave ar
order to the man at the wheel, and fol
lowed the Irishman below. Lara had helt
the light in the gray eye.
"What do you mean by putting GU
without the owner?" Negley demanded
thickly.
Pugh's black eyes roved from the fac,
Of his superior to the sailors; to tn
, drenched woman who had caused t all: Il
the hated Macready at the door. The.
were enemies all.
"As l explained to the lady, wa
, trying to save the ship" he said.
"Turn back to the harbOr at once
full speed"
Pugh hesitated.
: ''Turn back, sayl Get out Of here {!
! "But a freely couldn't i've In there
|. sirv"
! "Put him In irons-you REM Ncgle
commanded the sailors. "Macready, lif
me to the bridget
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19
The Fick1e sumner Maid.

Rodrick-Man at the seashore dis
covered diamonds in the surf. Did you
ever discover any jewels when you
were there1
Van Albert thought discovered q
jewel last summer, but after she Tilted
me came to the conclusion that she
was only an imitation.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19

Municipal pawnshops have been
opened in Pekin for the relief of the
residents who have been heretofore
the victims of extortionate private e.
Establishments. The city charges are 10
per cent, while they have been pay
ing 90.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19

The coal supply of the Philippines
has been found to be much larger than
was anticipated and of a uniformly
good character. 1t is stated that a
large vein crosses the entire group Of
islands and it has been clearly traced
in one vicinity for twenty-five miles.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19

To dream that some one bears you
malice foretells a pleasant prospect ~
your worldly affairs; and that you WI.
soon be advanced to some imports"
Station
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19

The price Of feed is so high that the
woman who can make money by keep
ing a cow this winter, should be en-
trusted with the finances Of the nation.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19
Wonder Of the Wireless
I'D - 4

1ENEVER men formerly went down to the
sea in ships whether the ships were wooden
whalers or Gloucester fishing smacks; wbetb.
er they were long Lucanias or Oregon-tvno
battleships the men who ventured to cut loose
from land, whether for a period of months
or days, they cut loose, and they were iso.
lated, were cabined, cribbed, confined. From
New York to Queenstown they heard no world
news, were trimmed by monotonous horizons
were subject to the chance of burial In mid.
ocean, leaving their friends to imagine, never
to know, the manner of their taking off, Wire
less supplies, as it were, sixth sense Wire
less suggests the uncanny fourth dimension.
Wireless arms a ship with an immensely ex.
tended tentacle that warns that gives mes.
sages and sends them. That insect on tho
bosom of the ocean is no longer lost, is as
much in the worlds eye as a London hanson
cab or q car upon Broadway Wireless +ha
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19

The day IL always his who works In
1t with sincerity and great aim
Charming
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-14
RAILROAD NEWS.
AtchisOn Boasts of Youngest
Master Mechanic.
f. w. Shultz, of Central Branch
Road, 33 Years of Age.
A NATURAL MECHANIC
He Inherited Genius From His
Father, an Engineer.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.

Atchison, Kan, May 1.-THE Globe
prints the following:
F. w Shultz, the new master me-
chanic of the Central Branch and
Omaha divisions, with headquarters
at the Central Branch shops, has the
distinction of being among the
youngest master mechanics in the
country. He is only 3S, but has al
ways been too busy to find time to
mediate over his climb up the ladder.
1t is always interesting to know
how a man happened to choose his
"line'' of profession. When Mr..
Shultz was a small boy. his father,
who was then an engineer In Iowa,
once took him into the engine cab
and permitted him to make the
terested, and made up his mind to
some day enter some department of
railroad service. He has come from
a railroad" family. Not only was
his father a railroad man, but most
of his uncles.
Shortly after completing his high
school education, Mr.. Shultz entered
railroad service for the first time as
a caller and messenger for the ROCK
Island. at Stuart, Iowa, receiving $50
a month. That was in 1892. In 1884
he became a rate clerk and ticket
agent, but later entered the shops at
Stuart. to learn the machinlsts trade
During the first year of his appren-
ticeship he received cents an hour'
the second year, 10 cents an hour'
the fourth year, Is cents an hour
He remained with the Rock Island at
Stuart for twelve years, and then be
gan to work in various shops over
the country, to acquire ideas ana
wider experience; In 1903 he was as
Horton, and, during the following
three years. he was foreman of the
Rock Island shops at Goodland' Ran
He also was a foreman in the ROCK
Island shops at Phillipsburg ana
Fairbrrv, Neb. One year he was a
Burlington foreman at McCook, Neb-
Tn 1907 he became general foreman
of the Missouri Pacific shops at
Osawatomie. In November OF the tol-
lowing year he went to McGehee'
Ark to become Missouri Pacihc
master mechanic. He remained mas
fer mechanic at McGehee until lew
weeks ago, when he resigned to en-
ter business. But the missouri Ia
cific was loath to part with MN: ap5
nreciating his services. and offered
him all kinds of inducements to re-
main at McGehee. But he was de-
termined, and finally, as a last re-
sort. the company offered 10 MAKE
him master mechanic at Atcnlson, ene =
positfon here being more important
| than the position of master me-
chanic at McGehee.
Mr.. Shultz's family consists OF a
wife and two children. Mr.. and Mrs.
Shultz are now staying at the Byram,
| but will soon begin Housekeeping at
| 1887 Parallel street At present theIr
two children are visiting their grand
parents at stuart, Iowa. Mr.. Shultz
was born in that city. The people IN
McGehee held Mr.. and Mrs Shultz
in high esteem and gave reception
q few nights D6IOT6
+ba1T departed for Atchison, when Mr..
Shultz was presented with diamond
shirt stud, and Mrs. Shultz received
an elegant silver service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-14
Battle of the Sparroxrs

An army of sparrows, thousands
strong, resenting an invasion of their
spring nesting and hunting grounds at
Windsor park, Thursday attacked an
equally large force of chipping BIRDS
or chippies, as the American sparrow
is known to distinguish the bird from
its somewhat larger English relative,
and after battle of an hours dura-
ton the sides left the field with hon
orS even.
When the rival forces were finally
exhausted every garden had it's quota
of dead. OF wounded there was none.
as whenever wounded feathered
warrior attempted to retire the bird
was set upon by others and promptly
Observation-Disclosures dispatch to the
New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-14
FEWER RAILROAD FATALITIES.
Nearly Two Thousand Less Last Year
Than in 1861.

Chicago, May 14.-There was silver
Inning under the financial clouds of
1913 in the form of a remarkable de-
crease in the number of railroad IA
ta1ties according to special report
made public by Slason Thompson, edi-
tor Of the bureau of railways news and
statistics. The report, which is based
on statistics of the interstate COM
merce commission says:
There were 1882 fewer fatalities to
passengers and employees in railway ac-
cidents during the calendar year 1908
than in 1907. Comparing the returns of
1908 with this of the fiscal year 1867,
the decrease in fatalities was even
more gratifying. being 2,173, or 43.4 per
cent. OF these the decrease in passen
gers killed was from $40 to 292, or near
ly 4S.S per cent and in employees from
4,430 to 1855 or 43 per cent
Fatalities to passengers in train ac-
cidents decreased 20 per cent in the
calendar year 1908 as compared with
the fiscal year 1867, and 81 per cent
among employees hurt in the same class
of accidents. This decrease among en-
ployes is qualified by the fact that dur
ing the panic their ranks were reduced
by Is per cent laying Off"
Mr.. Thompson notes that the railroads
or Great Britain went through the year
1908 without killing a single passenger
in a train accident.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-14
RIPLEY RETURNS HOME.
Says Western Railroads Will Prosper
Unless Tempered by Politicians.

Chicago, May 14-President Ripley
OF the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad returned here today after a
trip over the system
THE railroads of the west" he said,
have but one thing to fear and that
is meddlesome and malicious inter-
ference in the conduct of their business
by legislatures and commissions hav-
ing no interest in the property and no
knowledge of railroad matters; elected,
not to do Justice, but for the sole pur-
pose of getting as much as possible
out of the corporations in increased
service and reduced rates
81 think public sentiment has chang
ed slightly and is less tolerant of the
persecution of the railroads, but there
are yet some politicians who have not
found this OUT