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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
"Just Common Good"

There is a story of small boy who,
having come to grief in his effort to do
something extraordinary, wrote In his
diary his resolution to TRY to be Just
common good all the time"
It Is the common good" that really
counts for most, after all. The great
events are rare, and the commonplaces
are many-so many that they scarcely
give place even to the few unusual hap
penlngs Whatever of Joy or sorrow
sweeps through the house, they follow
close In its train. After the wedding,
after the funeral, after the terrible ac-
cident, somebody must pick up the
scattered articles, begin to restore the
wonted order, and set about getting
dinner or supper for u humanity that
must have it's daily food whatever be-
falls.
Common little everyday Offices, rem
dered by hands 30 familiar to the task
that We seldom think to praise them
for, how much their faithful doing
nSanSi Our lives are not blessed nor
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
WAR AVERTED AGAIN
TROUBLE SETTLED BETWEEN
VENEZUELA and U. S.
Special Commissioner w. B. Buchanan
and President Gomez Given Great
Praise for Settlement of Gases OF
Long Standing Great Asphalt Beds
One of the Bones of Contention.

Caracas, Venezuela.-The signing of
the protocol Saturday settling the differ
ence between the United States and
Venezuela has caused general rejoicing
in administrative circles and both Pres
ident Gomez and United States Special
Commissioner w. 3. Buchanan are being
given unstinted praise. While it has
never been feared that an lmpasse would
result, there was apprehension that
Venezuela would ultimately be forced
to settlement that would spread dis
satisfaction by reason of the indignity
that it would offer Venezuelan pride.
The claim most difficult of settlement
was that of the New York and Ber-
mudez Asphalt company, which had been
deprived of the right to take asphalt
from Lake Felicidad and was fined S.
100000 for its alleged instigation and
support of the Matos revolution.
The civil court of first instance, in
August, 1907, found the company guilty
of completely in the revolution and
taxed the cost of putting down the re-
bellion, $5,000,000, against the company.
The court of cessation affirmed the
lower court IS findings. After Commits
sioner Buchanan and Foreign Minister
Guinan had accepted the general prin-
ciple of arbitration for the settlement
of the various American claims, Blu
chanan raised the points, the question
of the validity of the judgments of
the Venezuelan coutrs, the awards of
the mixed commission or the compile
ity of the company in the Matos revo-
luton. President Gomez, however, de.
manded arbitration as to the prelim-
mary question" whether the umpire
really committed errors which Justify
revision. Buchanan finally waived the
objection to arbitrating the awards of
the mixed commission, but held out
firmly against any review of the high
est court IS review. He acted under or
ders from Mr.. Root, secretary of state.
Win Venezuela Over.
"We are holding to uphold Venezue.
Ian dignity and the honor and sanctitv
of her courts, the United States state
department declared. By permitting an
independent settlement of the asphalt |
claim Venezuela has prac-
tically been won over to the United |
States contention.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
MARK TwAM's PLAYMArEs.

Are Hard to Find in Town Where
People Grow Old Slowly.
Lots of Mark 1wain's old school
mates are still living at Hannibal,~
said Robert Blackwood of Hannibal,
private secretary to Congressman LLOYD
OF the First District to New York Sun
man, but 1t Is hard for strangers to
find them.
Many Of them are much older than
Clemens, but over in Hannibal we don't
call a man old till he gets beyond 70.
The papers and the magazines have
been so much in the habit OF referring
to Mark Twain as the aged humorist'
that many of our people have gathered
the idea that he must be 100 or there.
about. That's why the ambitious young
men who go to Hannibal seeking Mark
Twain data find 1t nearly impossible to
meet any man who will admit being
a schoolmate of the author OF Tom
Sawyer
Clemens will be T3 on Nov 30 That
may be quite ancient according to the
strenuous East, but we have any num-
Der Of men actively engaged in business
who are much older.
"You see Hannibal is almost noun.
tain town. Climbing up and down tho
streets gives a man physical vigor and
the cool, pure breezes always blowing
from the river fill his lungs with the
sort of oxygen that kills disease germs
Being way up, where the airs so pure,
you sleep sound, and nobody catches
wrinkles till they're getting along to-
ward the SOS.
IF Clemens had remained there he'd
be in the juvenile class yet, and nobody
would have thought of calling him one,
Of the ancients."
1t may be added that Judge ThomaEs
II. Bacon, who died at Hannibal re-
Gently, was referred to In dispatches
announcing his demise as "the play
mate of Mark Twain" Judge Bacon
always resented being so classified, not
because of any dislike to Clemens, bat
because he regarded the humorist an
too much his senior to be called hiA
playmate.
Judge Bacon was 60, making a differ
ence of four years between his age ana
Clemens. A few years ago the writer
called upon him to get some boyhood,
stories about his playmate.
you are another Of those fellows
Fostering me about Mark Twain" said
the Judge testify. "Will you never learn
that Sam was great deal older than
me? There are lots OF people here
about his age. Hunt up George Moore,
the United States clerk-he's about the
right age"
Mr.. Moore had sent the interviewer
to Judge Bacon with pretty much the
same sort of speech
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
MIND OVER MATTER.
Electricians Whose Experiments
Are Startling and COnvincin@

Electricians Whose Experiments
Are Startling and COnvincinE.
Inc power of mind over matter is
Illustrated in recent electricity expert
ments made by DR.. Otto Won der Pfor-
dten, who believes he has shown that
the action of electricity in the human
body may be modified or even neutral.
lied by the state of the mind. Aspi-
nails has already noted that electric
ians who when asleep, have touched
dangerous live wires have suffered no
injury except burn; and JeIlinek
found that an ordinarily deadly current
did not harm rabbits when they were
chloroformed. OF greater interest still
are the cases where the action of the
current is neutralized by a mans
strained expectation or attention. Elec-
tricians, he says, often touch parts of
the machinery to ascertain if there is
a current in them and while this con-
scious and deliberate act results in no
harm, unintentional contact with
less powerful current proves fatal. In
experimenting on himself Jelllnek has
found that an unexpected shock Of $50
volts was terrible, whereas an ex-
.pected shock of 500 volts made little
impression. But this was a bagatelle
compared with the exhibition of cour-
age given by Herr Won Dobrowolsky,
who broke wire containing 10000
volts and picked up one end of it in
the presence Of several dismayed ex-
perts without suffering the least harm.
To do such thing one must be alb
solutely fearless of death, or else one
must have the force Of an engineer
who has learned to control the power
full electric fluid" The force, DR.. Won
der Pfordten declares, is will power,
and he adds: "There is something i'm
posing in this idea that the will power
in such case opposes itself to death
as an equal force and comes out trium-
plant" DR.. Hufeland was convinced
that most nervous disorders are caused
by mental influence and passiveness, a
weak yielding to bodily sensations and
impressions. AS he cites Pinel, who
found that during the excitement of the
French revolution many persons who
had for years been weak and sickly be-
came healthy and strong, this being true
especially among the indolent members
of the aristocracy, whose nervous trou-
bles disappeared entirely.
The Japanese have a special method
of training the will from early child
hood, and it has been plausibly argued
that it was this study of will power
more than anything else that enabled
them to overcome the Russians.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
"Brewster's Millions. 4"

The Cohan & Harris comedians, head.
ed by Robert ODER, will present the big
New York comedy success, "Brewster 3
Millions" at the Spokane theater at
Spokane, Feb 81, 20 and 23. The story
is of young man who has to spend a
million dollars in year in order to ac-
cede to the terms of will that left
him 100000 more on condition that
he should get rid of all his previous
fortune without dissipation or assist
ance, and furthermore, the young man
was not allowed to tell anyone what he
was trying to do.
This trick is accomplished after Brew
ster has alienated most of his friends,
who tried to check his extravaganza,
and the other millions come to him
when he gets rid of the last penny of
his first million.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
F1REMEN DIE UNDER BRICK WALL
Dozen Men Injured by Falling Debris
While Fighting Blaze at
Milwaukee,

Milwaukee, Wis.-Five fremen were
killed and about dozen injured, two
fatally, by the topping of brick wall
while fighting fire in the H. w. Johns.
Manville Manufacturing plant Satur-
day. An employee of the concern suf-
fered burns in his attempt to escape and
died later at hospital. The damage
is estimated at $25O,OOO. The dead:
James Cunning, assistant chief, aged
AZ; Leonard F. Curtis, aged 81, pipe
man; John F. Craft, pipeman, aged 32;
Joseph Belinski, pipeman, aged %;
Nathaniel j. Whaley, lieutenant, aged
80, and Thomas Petches, laborer.
The fremen were caught under the
mass of brick and timber, which smash
ed through the roof of the piano ware
house, carrying them to the floor below,
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
WEALTH IN WATER POWER.
Engineers Figures Show the West Has
Big Majority.

~~NNJNASSJs
Supporting his contention that great
danger of the monopolization of water
power sites exists, President Roosevelt
has caused a further compilation of flo.
ures by Maurice o. Leighton, engineer
at the head of the photographic service
OF the geological survey, showing that
Oregon, Washington and Idaho have
one-third of the total possible water
power of the United States. For the en-.
tire country the possible power is a..
100000 horse power, and for the Colum.
bia river basin 100000 horse power
Mr.. Leighton, commenting on the flo.
ures, says: SIN the future the indus
trial system of these states will possess
something priceless, because the scarcity
of fuel will give water power site own.
ers industrial control. -
Roosevelt's fight to prevent the ac-
QUESTION by fee simple of any more
power sites from the federal govern.
ment will be carried over to Mr.. Taft IS
administration, congress holding the
Dill giving away power sites in Mis-.
souri,, which the president vetoed, over
to the special session, when the issue
Will be put up to Taft to ascertain if
he will uphold that policy.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
|5|gI2!AAR25TlRyGS

The blind population of Great Brit
ain is about 10000.
Up to the year 1854 the newspapers
Of England labored under the handicap
Of a special government tax.
The Japanese system of individual
licensing is decreasing opium smoking
in Formosa. The number of users fell
from 165,750 in 1900 toz120,33O in 1905.
Washington is the only one Of the
Pacific Coast states in which coking
coal has been found. Its coke produc-
ton last year totaled Stops tons, an
increase over 1906 of 1886 tons
Condensed milk imports in Japan
are increasing enormously, rising from
a value Of $4,000 in 1901 to $1,O31,-
600 in 1907. The United States sup
plies So per cent, Great Britain 25 per
cent, and Switzerland Is per cent.
Mrs. A. F. Goddard, of Arlington,
Mass, has resigned her place as
church organist after a service of
forty-four years, said to be the longest
term Of any woman in the church his
tory of New England. She has been
successful director of choruses and
quartets and has produced several pop
ular musical compositions
John Boyes, the white king of the
Kakykus, will, it is said, pilot Presi-
dent Roosevelt in his great hunting
trip through British East Africa.
Boyes has lived in British East Africa
for ten years, after having been ship
wrecked. He was made king of a
large tribe, and his authority is recog-
nized by the British government. He
is a Yorkshireman by birth.
Miss Janet NJ. tombstone, a teacher
in the girls school in Kanazawa, ia
largest in the history of the school.
She reports that there has been a won
derful increase during the last few
years in the Japanese women's inter-
est in athletics. They are no longer
willing to be a race of little people.
In their anxiety to become tall they
are willing to take almost any amount
OF exercise. Walking especially has
become extremely fashionable.
Medina, the holy city, which has
been rejoicing over the opening Of the
Hedjaz railway, triumphed long ago
over all the rivals in various parts Of
the world which bore the same name,
which means simply Getty" Notable
among them were the old capital at
Malta and Medina Sidonia in Spain.
The Arabian city was originally known
as Yathrib, but owes its later name,
(the city, or Medinat Ra-
sui Allah (the city Of the apostle of
God), to the Koran. To a good Mo
there is only one city with
q big @"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
MARRIED TO BOTH.
Have Lived for Years Together, Man
as Husband of Both Women.

AAN'S @AFSA AVA 4OS6Gu6G, MAN
as Husband of Both Women.
st. Joseph, Mo-, Feb. 15.-In the
shooting Of William Smith, carpenter,
here today, which is expected to result
fatally, there came to light one of the
strangest entanglements in the lives of
three persons ever known. A girl %
years old, who shot Smith, AYERS to the
police that she married him knowing
that her mother was already his legal
wife. The three have lived for years to-
gether, the man as the husband of both.
The shooting this afternoon occurred
over the sending of a comic valentine.
The girl, who styles herself Mrs. Cora
Smith, while her mother is known bv
the name of Mrs. William Smith, sent
the carpenter comic valentine. Smith
grew angry when he received it and
after packing up his clothes started to
leave the house.
Thinking he was going to desert her.
the girl shot him.
The girl mother says she married
Smith in 1902. Her daughter was by
former husband. A year after their
marriage, she says, she found that her
husband had improper relations with
her daughter. She made him marry the
girls, she says, without first securing
a divorce. The girl and husband both
bear out the story.
The girl was placed under arrest by
the police and will be held.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
BIG STORM RACED SUNDAY.
All the Way From the Lakes to Texas
Snow, Sleet and Wind Prevail

Snow, sleet and Wind Prevail.
Chicago.-A heavy fall of sleet and
snow, driven by high wind, interfered
with wire communications over large
portion of the Lake Michigan district
Sunday. The storm was general through
the. central west. Northern Illinois.
northern Indiana, Missouri, Kansas and
southern Wisconsin had little communi-
cation with the outside world by wire
tonight.
All over Kansas the fall of snow has
been heavy, causing delayed traffic and
bad wire communication.
Railroad traffic throughout Minnesota
was badly blockaded by snow and wind
storm.
Birmingham, Ala.-Two persons were
killed and seven badly injured at West
Point in a tornado
Bitter Cold in North Texas.
Fort Worth, Texas.-North Texas ex-
perienced the coolest weather in biz
zard since 1899.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
A Leading Quention.

Before we proceed any further, -
said the American heiress to the imps.
cunious duke, 81 want to ask you q
leading question"
"a dozen," quoth the duke, although
he looked little anxious.
Zone is enough" said the noble girl.
Il want to ask you how you got your
title, because If 1t is tainted l unaIter-
ably and decisively decline to receive
it."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
ROBBERS Steal MAIL
ROID HOLD-UP OF TRAIN NEAR
DENVER, COLORADO.
uoldup Occurs on Denver & Rio Grande
Near Fort Logan-Deed Character
lied by Boldness Which Showed the
Bandits Knew all the Tricks of the
Business.

Denver, Col, Feb. 14.-That holdup
Of the Denver & Rio Grande passenger
train near Denver early Saturday morn
inc was the work of three men and that
the robbery of the mail car gave them a
loot of possibly $4,000 are indicated
bv the investigation of the railroad and
notice officials today. So far no tangi-
HE clue to the identity or whereabouts
of the robbers has been found, but it
seems probable that the men came to
Denver and are now hiding in this city.
Eighteen packages of registered mail
were secured.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
FLEET HOME FEBRUARY 90.
Half Way Across Atlantic on Last Leg
of Wondrous Cruise.

On the last long reach of their spec
tacular cruise around the world, the 16
battleships of the United States Allan
tic fleet are steaming today in leisurely
fashion towards the anchorage grounds
of Hampton roads, from whence they
sailed just IA months ago. During these
months of record steaming the heavily
armored fighting vessels have travelled
approximately $4,000 miles and are re.
turning in condition still fit for ga
frolic or fight" The cruise has been
a veritable expedition of the seven seas
and task heretofore deemed impossible
for the modern ironclads have been ac-
complished with an ease bordering on
the commonplace.
President Roosevelt will greet the
feet on February %, from the bridge of
the Mayfower, at the point from which
he bade farewell IA months ago.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
Ballinger for Cabinet Job.

Seattle.-Judge Richard A. Ballinger
has formally rendered his resignation as
vice president and trustee of the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifc exposition corporation be-
cause of the fact that his new duties,
if Taft names him as secretary of the
interior, will necessitate his residing
permanently in the national capital.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
One old Tree.

A boy of eight said to his mother:
We'll, there were only three boys in.
schocl to-day who could answer one.
question that the teacher asked u.s."
And l hope my boy was one Of the.
three" said the proud mother.
You bet l was" answered Young
Hopeful, land Sam Harris and Harry
Stone were the other two"
Il am very glad you proved yourself,
SO good scholar, my son; 1t makes
your mother proud of you. What dues-
ton did the teacher ask, johnny"
"'Who broke that glass in the hack
Window"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
Assignment for General Brush.

Observation-Disclosures General Dan
iel Brush, recently relieved of command
of the department of the Columbia and
ordered to the Philippines, has been as
signed to the command of the depart
ment of the Viscayas as the relief of
General Charles H. Hodges, who is com
ing home.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
Lightning Frees Rowe.

Springfield, Mo-, Feb. 16.-A flash of
put out the lights in the Jail
here last night and Oscar Rowe escaped
through the prison door into the base
ment, making his way to freedom
through coal chute. Rowe was await
ing trial in the criminal court on a
charge of burglary.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
interchangeable.

$50 you have determined upon a pub
lie career" said Senator Sorghum.
YES" answered the confident youth.
Which shall seek, riches or famer'
''Take either that comes your way
and be thankful. If you're rich you
can hire people to write articles about
you, and If you're famous you can write
'em yourself and sell 'em."-Washing-
tnn Star
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
Send Liberty Bell Free.

The interstate commerce commission
has granted permit for the free trans
portation of the Liberty bell and a
guard of Philadelphia policemen to the
Alaska -Yukon-Pacife exposition at Sc
attic, Wash, and it is probable the ia
nous old relic will be taken to the far
west this summer.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
SICILY IS AGAIN SHAKEN
''nquake Shocks Felt at Messina and
in Calabria.

neggio, Feb. 13.-A violent undula,
|at 90 aoftlcal earth shock was felt here
In 0 0 o clock this evening. 1t lasted
w.I Ie'onds' threw down many damaged
people. PAni' among 'ne
mo e;e severe earth shock, last
Bbo.l. seconds, was felt here. The
ana G'H was felt throughout eastern Sicily
|paIas along the northern coast, including
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
A Neat LittIo prohlam .

1t often happens at a social gather
Ing of boys and girls that light and
trivial games become monotonous and
tiresome and something of a really In
structive nature is welcomed when sug-
gested. At gathering of that kind
recently, for example, boy submitted
an arithmetlcal problem that was much
enjoyed. Now, If those young people
had been In the classroom, they would
not, perhaps, have received the propo-
sition with any enthusiasm, but ''cir-
cumstances alter cases In different
points of view," and they all went to
work at the problem with real interest.
Here 1t is:
If man and a boy together can eat
a barrel and half Of apples in days,
and the man can eat the barrel and a
half of apples in IL days, how long
would it take the boy to eat one barrel
Of apples?
Zach member of the company was
furnished with a sheet of paper and a
pencil, and they were soon busy flgur-
ing. A 15-year-old girl was the first to
claim that she had obtained the answer,
and following is the analysis that she
read aloud:
If the man and the boy together eat
a barrel and half Of apples in days,
they will eat one barrel in 6, days If
the man alone can eat barrel and
half of apples in IL days, he will eat
one barrel of apples in s days, or one
eighth Of barrel in one day. Hence,
in 6 days the man will eat six-eighths
of barrel, and the boy two-eighths or
one-fourth, of barrel. And If the boy
eat one-fourth Of a barrel in G days,
he will eat four fourths or one barrel,
In four times days, or "a days
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
BABE IN HER ARMS KILLED.
mother and Two Other Children Hurt
by Shot.

Hoquiam, Wash.-News of a distress
lug accident on the Quiniault river has
T Sacneo this city. While Mr.. and Mrs.
PFea Pope and children were on their
way. wa nome from the Quiniault agency a
f,;T:g was accidentally discharged,
a4 nilng babe held by Mrs. Pope, in,
o" aptly' mortally wounding the mother
U Gnu lnJuring two other children, one of
"nom may die. The family was return
NJ: nome in a canoe, in the bow of
o nml'n the father had placed his shot
t gun The rolling of the canoe caused
1' gun TO fall and it was discharged.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
ALL ABOARD !

He comes running in, for the train makes
a dash
We stop-he jumps on-then we're off
like a flash
No matter how much it may snow, blow
or rain,
Fathers always in time for the six o'clock
train.
St Nicholas.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
safehlowers Get $4,000.

Lincoln, Neb.-The State bank Of
Chappell, Neb., was robbed Saturday
night, and the safeblowers are reported
to have secured $4,000. They es-
capped.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
.@wa$ Nooo0oo

do we bless others or serve our Master
half so much by remarkable talents
and rare heroisms as just by the uni
form common goodness" Of the com,
mon days.-Forward