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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
Farm Topics.

The farmer who sets a good,
straight fence also sets a good
example.
The mole never waits for some
thing to turn up; he goes right
out and does it himself.
More than one horse has been
ruined for life by being made to
pull hard when young.
Better have patches on your
pants, than lot Of unpaid bills
and threatening creditors.
How can any man sleep we'll
at night when he has scolded
and whipped his horses all day.
Even the most learned Of us
never realize how little we know
till small boy begins to ask
questions.
If you tell a boy, day after
day, that he isn't earning his
salt. he will soon be likely I'd
work down to that estimate.
Father sent me over to bor-
row your paper; he only wants
to read it. = Tell him I'm COM
ing over to borrow his breakfast;
/ only want to eat it.
It pays better to be behind
everybody else in getting fall
grain sowed, and thus have the
ground well stirred, than to hog
over it and have it half done.
A spirited horse will in the end
be made slow and spiritless by
constant nagging, twitching Of
the lines, peevish urging and
other wearing processes that
fretful drivers practise.
Match your farm horses. They
should be alike in size and shape,
but by far the most important
part is that they should possess
like characteristics of temper
and disposition SO they will work
in harmony. Farm Journal.
Picking apples: It is best not
to pick winter fruit during very
warm days. Do the work before
ten o'clock in the morning, or
wait until cooler day. More
hints: Never pick fruit while it
is wet, nor pack it while it is
warm. Some careful growers
pick their orchards more than
once, gathering the fruit as soon
as it is well colored, leaving the
poorly coiored and immature
fruits until they have become
well colored. Pick apples with
the stems on. Keep the sun
away from picked fruit. Fruit
keeps and ripens best in a cool,
dark place. If you store fruit in
a cellar or stOrage-room, keep
the windows open nights and
shut them during the daytime;
thus you can get the temperature
down and keep it SO until winter
comes.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08

w. j. Departee, of Culdesac,
claims the record for producing
two Burbank potatoes that
weighed 5 pounds.
Local grain buyers at Moscow
estimate that a total Of 600, 900
bushels Of grain will be market
ed at that point this year. This
is at least 10000 in excess of
the crop Of last season.
The Snake is the seventh river
in point of size in the United
States and the Columbia, Of
which it forms the principal part.
is third. The Snake is larger
than any of the tributaries Of
the Mississippi.
The Jensen creamery at Poca-
tello is paying 500. 900 a month
to farmers of the southeastern
counties who are sending their
butter fat to that point. The
company is now marketing more
than two carloads Of butter a
month.
Thursday morning five wagon
loads of residents of this section
left Ilo for Indian Valley where
they will locate. The party in
cluded G. S. Griner and family,
George Westfall and family, H.
S. Westfall, Dick Shaw and r.
A. Johnston. All have lived
near Ilo for a number of years
and their many friends here re-
gret their departure but wish
them well in their new location.
lilo Register.
Morgan Woodward, a we'll
known river man of the North
Fork country, has disappeared
and is thought to have been
drowned in that treacherous
stream. The last seen of Wood
ward was when he left his home
to mail a letter at the Big Island
Office. He went down the stream
on small raft which is thought
to have been wrecked and its
driver drowned.
LATER. Woodward's s body has
since been found lodged on rocks
in the stream a short distance
above Big Island.
Robert Broberg, we'll known
stock nah of the Culdesac coun-
try, was drowned in the Clear
water river at Spalding Saturday
morning while attempting to
ford the river with bunch of
cattle. Broberg's horse floun-
dered and fell in the stream and
the rider floated down the river
for some distance before sinking
from sight. His companions,
Ben Sirgenson and Sam Maxwell,
tried to rescue him and the for
mer came near to drowning be-
fore he could reach shore again.
Broberg lived at Culdesac and
was married. He was about SO
years old. The body has not yet
been recovered.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
Notice.

To whop it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that from
and after October 1, 1909, the use
Of slot and card machines of any
and all descriptions must be dis
continued in Idaho county, Idaho.
These machines are held to be
gambling devices, and as such their
use must be stopped.
Dated at Grangeville, Idaho, this
the 18th day of September, 1909.
]. M. GILMORE,
Prosecuting Attorney of
Idaho county, state of Idaho.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08

Coats and vests from 25 cents
to $500 at w. G. Brust.
W. C. George and wife return
ed the first of the week from a
visit to the Seattle fair.
A farmer over near Grange
vile sold three hogs this week
which brought him in $50.
Messrs. Warren and Kellogg,
Of Spokane, are in the city this
week trying, to interest our peo-
pie in the new wireless telephone.
]. F. Wasem, A. P. Mundt and
Thomas Grunewald left Wednes-
day for Seattle and will also visit
the Alberta country before re-
turning.
W. L. Brown and family left
the first of the week for Lewis
ton where they have rented a
residence and will spend the
winter months.
Sam Goldstone is seriously con-
sidering plating part of the land
ne recently purchased from John
Proctor and putting it on the
market in 10-acre tracts. Owing
to its location the land would no
doubt find a ready market.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08

]. w. Crea was in town this
morning from near Denver and
advanced his subscription an
other year.
The local option petition has
been filed in Nez Perce county.
It has 1922 signers, only 81 of
which were from the four Lewis
ton precincts. The Forest pre-
cinct gave the lightest return,
the petition having but one sign
er from that place.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
MISS ECKERT
MARRIES
Popular Young Lady of This City
Was Married at Lewiston We'd
nesday to Melvin A. Pierce, of
Spokane.


Miss Nell Eckert, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Eckert, and
Melvin A. Pierce, of Spokane,
were united in marriage in this
city last evening at the home of
the brides parents on Normal
hill. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. baltimore, Of
the Presbyterian church. The
couple will depart this morning
for visit to coast points. The
bride is one of Lewiston's most
popular young ladies, and Mr..
Pierce is the well known travel
ing representative of Wadhams
& Co., of Portland. Mr.. and
Mrs. Pierce will reside in Lewis
ton. Thursdays Lewiston Trib-
une.
The bride is a native of this
section and is one of Cotton
woods most charming and ac-
complished young ladies. She
has spent the greater part of he,
life here and has a large number
of friends who wish her a very
happy married life. The CHRoN-
IcLE extends sincerest congratu-
lations.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08

Improve the looks Of your house
by painting it with the world S
famous Sherwin Williams paint.
For sale at Hoene's 5 Hardware.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
EnsIey An Intenral Part.

A casual observer would see at
 glance in looking over a map of the Bir
 mingham district that Ensley is bound to become a part of Greater Birming
 ham, said a man who has done much for Greater Birmingham. eAs Bnsey has no railway passenger service, but is de- pendent on the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company for transpor- tation, it is inevitable that all of the territory between Birmingham and Ems ley will soon be one compact city. Ems leys water, light and gas are all fur nished by Birmingham companies. If Ensley were to be left out of the Greater Birmingham bill 1t would be bottled up anyway with Birmingham surrounding 1t on the north, east and south. Ensley has taken out a slice of territory of about one and one-half square miles out Of Greater Birmingham since the old act was declared invalid, This does not look very becoming on the part of Ensley. The territory in the old law is to all intents and purposes res adjusdicata so far as Birmingham's moral right to this terri tory goes. In taking this Fairview ter ritory Ensley did not pretend to consult Birmingham about it. Pratt City would have much better right to complain at annexation than Ensley, because her tax rate is doubled, while Ensleys Is the same as that in Birmingham.
 AS a matter of fact. Ensley has levied a street tax on its citizens, while Bir- mingham does not levy this tax. This makes the burden of taxation in Ensley greater than in Birmingham.
 Many citizens have worked industrious, ly for years to get a 5-cent rate from Birmingham to Ensley, but the company has never consented to the reduction in fares. The city of Birmingham has no authority to compel a 5-cent rate so long as the street railway lines run out of its territory. It is believed that if Ems ley should become a part of Birming- ham the 5-eent rate would be enforced.
 Another reason why Ensley should be annexed now is that she will add about 16000 or 1S,00O people for the next census including Wylam and Thomas, which will put Birmingham right in the front rank. It if is to be annexed eventually it should be done before the census is taken, os Birmingham can get the benefit of the large increase shown. Heretofore we have talked about what Birmingham ought to what she really is.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17
TELEGRAPHING PICTURES

tween the poles of a powerful electro magnet.
 The amount of electric current employed is less than the hundredth part of that re- quired to light an ordinary eight-candle- power lamp, yet it has to perform it's work and build up a pictures perhaps thousand miles away.
 The Daily Mirror receives a telauto- graph picture from Paris every evening and has now installed an instrument at Manchester, from which late news pie lures are being wired to London for pub lication in the next mornings paper. The time of transmission is only six or seven minutes.
 A splendid example of the possibilities of the telautograph was furnished re- gently by the transmission of a picturs of the finish of the grand national race. This photograph was taken from the racs course by special motor car to Liver pool rushed" thence by train to Man. chester, quickly converted into a line picture and telegraphed to London, where 1t was received many hours before the first photograph arrived in London by train. The telautograph will certainly link up all the chief cities of Europe, be enabled to keep in touch with the cus- toms and incidents of neighboring co1n- tries, and we shall be able to see as well as read the dongs of other nations simultaneously.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17
PADS OF MuRpERERs.

From Pearsons Weekly.
 Oscar Slater. who murdered Miss Gil- christ, in her Glasgow flat, proved himself a typical dandy even in the condemned cell, and also a stickler for the proprie- ties. He insisted, for instance, from the very beginning in being called "Mr.' Sla- ter and each morning he changed his linen. varied his neckwear and demanded polished boots.
 Similar exhibitions of strutting, peacock vanity are not uncommon on the part or men doomed to die on the gallows. Waln- wright, on the day preceding his excution, absolutely refused to dress because his clean linen had not arrived from the laun- dry and a new shirt and collar had to be bought for him. When the evening ar rived-his last on earth-he craved smoke. A pipe and tobacco were brought to him, but he rejected them with dis dain. He would have a cigar. And he got it.
 Lefroy, who murdered poor old MT. Gold in a railway carriage on the way to Brighton. wore an evening dress suit dur ing the whole of the period that elapsed
  ton. Also he was greatly upset at the refusal of the authorities to allow him to be hanged in a new silk hat present. ed to him in court
 As a rule, however, the thoughts of the condemned turn mostly toward food. Rush, the Standard Hall murderer, was an educated man. "I want my slippers and the Times" were his first words on returning to gaol after his conviction. But a little later he called for pen and pa Der, and wrote out an order for his next days dinner, Pig and plenty of apple sauce"
 In those days 1t was the custom to give capital convicts whatever they asked for in the way of food. But the rule was abolished soon afterward, one of the first delinauents to come under the new reg ulations being a certain Jeffry, who mur- dered his 6-year-old child by hanging him in a cellar in Seven Dials. He was un- aware of the alteration and called for a roast duck directly he entered the con- demned cell, and when 1t was refused him he behaved so violently that he had to be put In a straightjacket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17
THE AMERICAN NOVELIST.

From the London Chronicle.
 The American novelist of the newer order is apt to write, as the American young woman talks, at the top of his voice. There is something in the atmos- phere of the United States partly nat ural, partly artificial, and the effect Of an inveterate spirit of rivalry which stimulates the organs of expression to an excessive, often a strident, pitch Of energy. The itching national desire to be thought original, to have snap and eo', in season and out of season, leads inevitably to freakishness, reverence, slang and grievous maltreatment of language.
 The literary ideals of Hawthorne are evidently obsolete. Even those of MT. Henry James and MT. w. D. Howells are condemned or forgotten. The ambition of the younger school of transatlantic novelists is, as we are frequently told, to nroduce real live" stories. Assuredly that Is one of the most laudable or ambitious but 1t miscarries sorely when 1t results in a fussy effort to galvanize inert matter to a semblance or vigor and gayety Not thus Is the novel en- dowed with organic life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17
STARS AT NEW THEATRE.

From the New York American.
 Mime. Ala Nazimova and Rose Cogh- Ian, it was reported Friday, are the first two stars to be engaged for the New The atre on Central Park west which opens It's doors to the public next November. It was reported some time ago that Julia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern would open the New Theatre with Shakespearian rep ertoire, but this was denied by both Miss Marlowe and MT. Sothern, and the honor. it is now understood, will go to either Miss Coghlan or the great Russian actress.
 Miss Coghlan, according to the plans of the managers, Messrs. Lee Shubert, Winthrop Ames and John Corbin, is to appear in old English comedies, with which she has long been identified Miss Coghlan has not been playing of late and the rest has restored her to good health and spirits. Mime. Nazimova, who has been hailed as a genius and a great beauty, is celebrated for her interpre- tation of Ibsen. The Russian actress, who is recognized as one of the foremost liv- ing artistes mastered the English lam guage in five months when she first came to this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17
In the Country Precincts

The beats in the rural districts of Jefferson county will be benefited by the proposed bond issue for two court houses fully as much as the municipali- ties in the county will be. It is as good Q business proposition for them as it is for the towns people. and when they are drawn as jurors or become witnesses or litigants or have other public business to transact they will appreciate ample accommodations and appropriate conyeniences.
 But after all the rub of the issue is the county jail. It is inadequate and insanitary. The state authorities have condemned it. Something must be done. The Board of Revenue submits a proposition that will take the sub ject out of controversy until 1850, and it submits that proposition as a piece of sound business sense.
 It should not be forgotten that struc- tural steel is lower than it has been in many years-probably lower than it will be in years to come. The pro- posed new jail can be built at low cost, and the precincts in agricultural sections are as much interested in talk ing advantage of low steel material as lying precincts is very apt to be sound, wise and honest.
 At any rate there should be full vote in all precincts A full vote will defeat selfish schemers and that is all that is needed in this matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17

the Diary of a Tramp in the cornhin Magazine Stanley J. weyman vouches for the veraeity of the diary. which narrates the experiences of a poor boy, with a taste for books, beginning work at 12 years in a mill forced out of em- ployment some years later by hard times and a shutdown, then tramping for weeks and months until the last penny was gone, and finally finding temporary refuge in a workhouse-shoeless, hatless, sleep- less and hungry.
 The workhouse he found "too bad for the honest unemployed and too good for the habitual vagrant. who ought to be segregated and forced to work" He learned on the road that it was very easy to get beer, but terribly difficult to get food' His bitterest experience, however, came from his inability to get work because of his gentlemanly de- meanor. You look like gentleman, an you speak like a gentleman, an you're aslSin for a laborer's job at IS bob week." said one man who gave that as the reason for not hiring him.
 Barring the young mans literary bent, there are doubtless thousands of parallel cases among the unemployed in England and also in our own great land of op- portunity. It is no easier here than there to distinguish between the honest unem- ployed" and ''the habitual vagrant," for the former too often merge into the lat ter by innumerable and imperceptible gradations. And so the only humane as well as the only wise course is to give the unfortunate the benefit of the doubt. It is sad commentary on human nature that hungry man finds it easier to get glass of beer than slice of bread, fault.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17
HOME AND COUNTRY.

B. E. Hale in The Man Without
 Country.
 Youngster, let that show you what 1t is to be without family, without home and without a country. And if you are ever tempted to say word or do a thing that shall put a bar between you and your family, your home, and your country, pray God in His mercy to take you that instant home to His own heaven Think of your home boy; let 1t be nearer and nearer to your bought the farther you have to travel from 1t, and rush back to it. when you are free, as that poor black slave is doing now.
 And for your country, boy (the words ratted in his throaD, and for that flag (and he pointed to the ship, never dream you, though the service carry you through 1000 hels No matter what happens to you, no matter who f1atters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let night pass but you pray God to bless that flag.
 Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself-your country-and that you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother if those devils there had got hold of her today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17
WEALTHY POETS.
From Tit Bits.

From Tit Bits.
 That poetry is not so badly paid after all is proved by MT. Algernon Charles Swinburne's will, the probate of which was recently granted in London. His es- tate has been valued by the sole executor. MT. Walter Theodore Watts Dunton, at e24,2S2 gross, including personality of the net value of e19,996 The whole of the property has been left to MT. Watts-Dun- ton.
 Tennyson left e57, POS. He appointed his son his literary executor, and bequeathed to him al his manuscripts, literary works and copyrights subject to the payment of in income therefrom to Lady Tennyson for her life. The copyrights of the late poet laureate's works were valuable and Ten nyson was paid by the publishers hand some sums for his poems.
 Robert Browning, of whose will "A. Tennyson" and "F. T. Palgrave" were the attesting witnesses, left personality in England to the value of a16,775. The will was in Brownings own handwriting, with the initial letters of all the nouns substantive in capitals, after the old style. Victor Hugo, who, like Lord Ten nyson, attained the age of S3 years, had personal estate in this country to the amount of G92.1 126. Dr. Charles Mackays property was valued at f263O and that of Eliza Cook at a5O57. Matthew Arnolds estate amounted to 9104 His will, in his own handwriting, was one of the short est that have ever come under probate. It was: "I leave everything of which I die possessed to my wife, Frances Lucy" Mr. Frederick Locker-Lampson left ESQ., 419, MT. Coventry Patmore GS777, and MT. William Morris, who died in 1S96 f55.069. In the last named case, however, it Is tolerably certain that poetry did not con- tribute very large share of the total.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-17
AldrlCh-Tait Compromise

The democrats and progressive re- publicans would have put an income tax amendment into the Aldrich az eregation of jokers for special inter ests if the Aldrichites had not devised by the administration route a com promise. This compromise is a 2-per- cent tax on the dividends of corpor- ations. with a delusiye promise of a general income tax through a consti- tutional amendment. The compromise was devised to bring back into the Aldrich ranks the republican senators of the middle west, and it will accom- plish it's purpose. The Bailey-Cummins income tax will be turned down, but Senator Bailey should at any rate se- cure a square yea and nay vote on it. The subject will be taken up in tine Senate tomorrow.
 The President is at heart opposed to au income tax. His environment is such that he is in truth a reactionary. He selected an attorney general who is a reactionary in every fibre of his body. The action of the administra- tion on the income tax proposition is rot at all surprising, for the admin istration is counting wealth at every turn.
 Unless the Wickershaw amendment for the taxation Of dividends is skill fully drawn small investors will be taxed under it. As a rule a corpor- alton would pay the proposed tax and in doing so it would use money belong ing to small investors. Small in- vestors have, however, no voice in the Aldrich circle and it will not be sur prising if they should be taxed while the tariff bill is stuffed with the jokers guarding the tariff-bred monopolies of the country.
 Immediately after the adjournment of Congress a campaign will be begun in New York, Pennsylvania and New England to defeat the proposed consti- tutional amendment. The republican party does not consider itself pledged by Congress and the administration to support it, and plenty of eastern dem ocrats" can be found who will vote against it. It will not be put into the Aldrich bill with any expectation 1t will be adopted. It is put in the bill to insure the passage of provisions that the special interests need in their businesses, and to fool the people who are willing to be fooled. The elections of next year will decide whether or not such people constitute majority.