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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
OUR OYSTER

The citizens of our beautiful state
have reason to congratulate them
selves on'the docility and amiability of
their oyster-the Sound oyster. While
the states of MARYLAND and Virginia
are compelled to maintain "oyster
navies" at great expense to keep their
fierce and savage oysters from depre-
dating on estates of the citizens, lay
ing waste their chicken-roosts, suck
ing the best blood of their terrapins,
digging up the young corn and max
ing themselves unpleasant, the Sound
oyster is disporting himself in our
bay and deporting himself in man
mer that has won for him golden opin'
ions from all sorts of people.
He seems small in stature, but
he is in fact large and ele.
CANT, seeming small only because
the bay, the hills about it, the business
future of Fairhaven, the islands anC
cloud-capt towers in sight of it ano
the beauty of our maidens are on Sc
magnificent scale. He is called the
Sound oyster, not because Other
oysters are unsound, but because wher
one goes fishing for him he makes
sound to indicate his presence anC
readiness to be caught. In every shell
there is a pearl of rare beauty anC
often, since Sarah Bernhardt has Sc
the fashion in Cleopatra customs, GU
hostesses, in banqueting strangers
serve wines with pearl dissolved II
them. Champagne au perles is il
great favor just now.
That ancient philosopher who wep
when about to eat an oyster "becaus
it was so human" would all the NOR
regret to eat one of ours, yet would b
comforted by the jocund way in whicl
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
GROWING EVIL AND ITS REMEDY

Numerous writers have Of late been
discussing plans for the diminishing
of pauperism, and nearly all have ar
rived at the same conclusion on the
subject, that is that the submerged
tenth" must be raised, if at all, by
municipal regeneration.
Among the estimates that have come
within the notice of the HERALD that
are arrived at as nearest correct is
that so far as the United States is con-
cerned the funds annually expended
directly for pauperism must exceed
$4,000. 900. That such a sum is an
underestimate is shown by the fact
that New York alone eXpends for
charitable purposes - through its
various institutiOns-over Sl3,OOO,OOO.
IL we place the average number of
persons in the country supported by
charity at 10000, and estimate the
loss of productive power for each one
of these at 500 per year, we shall have
an indirect loss Of Sj0,0OOO0O to be
added to the direct expenditures. One
hundred millions Of dollars year must
be regarded as a conservative estimate
of the total direct and indirect pecuni
airy loss to the country on account OF
pauperism. a far more serious loss
however. is the loss in manhood anC
womanhood.
A thorough study Of the subject
however, such study as afforded By
General Booths book, points TO thu
indlsputable fact that the great mas
Of pauperism is a durable disease
Wherever there has been any earnes
and intelligent attempt to cope will
the evil the success has been beyon,
what the most sanguine could hope.
OF course there are incurable adul
paupers-sOme willing TO work bu
without the capacity for so doing
these require treatment in asylum
especially provided for them, but it
safe TO assert that all the children
even of the most degraded classes, ca
be redeemed.
The famous personal police system
referred to at one time in the HERALl
requiring that to each responsible II
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
MONEY

There is today in the United States
treasury 800, 100000 and yet there are
some people who imagine we are bank
rupt.
The hard times are often brought
on by everyone talking hard times.
There are some people in the world
who always imagine they are sick
when they are well, and so with many
who always declare times are hard
when they are not.
The body has much to do with the
mind, and the mind has much to dc
with the body. Banks are often in a
great measure responsible for the So
called hard times. When deposits are
heavy they imagine they will always
lend, and often too much money is
loaned out, and when the banks com
mence to draw in, and all commence
at once, the money market tightens
up and we commence to think we have
hard rounds. The banks of the cOun.
try often cause it by trying to make
too much of the deposits.
On an average there is one bani
failure in hundred years in China
The penalty of bank failure is the
decapitatiOn of the manager. We
would not be so harsh in Christian
civilized America, but there would
never be an excuse for bank failures
in this country if proper care should
be taken, and there should be penal
ties that would superinduce prope
care. Fairhaven banks are happil!
conservative and able to keep them
selves as safe as the going and coming
| of day.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

dividual shall be assigned the over
sight Of a number Of families has
worked so fayorably in certain cities
that pauperism in such communities
is practically thing of the past.
What are the causes of pauperism?
The most general answer to this
question is heredity and environment.
OF course pauperism is greater in
winter than in summer, and in hard
times rather than in prosperous ones.
Now as to the cures. The first
thing to do-and this is outlined in
General Booths books to break up
criminal and pauper bands and at as
early an age as possible, remove the
children from their poisonous atmos-
phere. The secret is to go among
these Elapsed and lost" as Christ
went among the sinners of old, shar-
ing their SORROWS and helping them
by bring them into contact with su-
perior natures. Every time money is
given on the street a wrong is com
mitted, and there is nothing worse
than the attempted cure by the appli-
cation Of technical religion. This is
admitted by no less an authority than
the late Charles LOring Brace, who
worked so successfully among the poor
of New York City. Mr.. Brace was an
extremely religious man, but he be-
lieved that the body must be strength
ened before the citadel of the soul is
attacked.
The great curse Of pauperism begins
in the home. Early thOughtless mar
riage, excessive offspring and the ulti-
mate result, unhealthy, degenerate
paupers. This is one of the most diff
ficult points of attack and must be
done by aiming directly at instincts
and appetites thought at one time to
! be only the outcome of moral natures.
Improved education of every sort,
gymnasiums, play grounds, increased
| facilities for making small savings, all
point toward the disappearance of the
slum and the final establishment Of
the home in its best and highest sense.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
A Noble Work.

Mrs. James S. Gibbons has turned her
benefcence in the channel of charity,
and her large contributions to the Wom-
ems Prison association have done much
to make its standing solid and sure.
Mrs. Gibbons was one of the first found
ers of the home, and it has been mainly
through her untiring efforts that law
has been passed demanding that women
prisoners should be searched and looked
after by women. Mrs. Gibbons visits
all the prisons and talks with the wom-
en-. When they leave the prison she
gives them a refuge in the home until
they get started, and oftentimes she finds
them situations.
"Mine is particular calling, that OF
helping the female prisoners" she sid
"Such woman is the most unhappy OF
all human beings. Once a criminal al
ways one, and the world has not tear
for her. Our prison association hunts
all these women up and leads them to a
higher and nobler purpose in life. New
York Recorder.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
WASHINGTON

No state of this great Union has
ever begun so auspiciously as that
whose name heads this article. What
one of them all has had the variety
and the quantity of products to sell
outside of her own borders? We have
wheat in great quantity; barley more
than is, as yet, called for, but with
capacity for producing it in any guam
tity; oats, beef, hops, lumber and
timber of every kind, from a baby's
chair to a gallant ships main mast;
wool in small quantity, but opportuni-
ties for millions of pounds on millions;
fruit of choice quality, and quantity
beyond belief, considering the almost
entire neglect of fruit-growing as a
business, and last, but not least, fish,
which attend to their own Matching,
feeding and growth, only to give them
selves away at maturity.
Soon we will have coal to sell oyer
an area imperial in extent; stone, with
gold, silver, copper and lead to follow.
We have a summer kingdom which
must draw many thousands of
tourists here. The boosted summers
of Colorado are not a circumference
to ours, as Mrs. MalaprOp would say;
our scenery embraces all that theirs
does with much that it it does not
Beautiful Denver" as her people
call her, is a heap of brick and stone
noble in its way and of its kind. but in
a desert of cactus and sand. Her citi.
zens surge from one end of town to the
other and from side to side, on holi'
days seeking for some sight grateful
to the eye and for breeZes to mitigate
the glowing heat of their summer
days.
Unlike Denver, we can cOnscien
tiously invite the tourist to come ant
enjoy fair islands, quiet lakes, COO
sea-breezes, deep groves and food, Il
not luxurious, better than the misera
BILE resorts of Colorado can possible
afford
Here they do not run after tourists
neither drive them away, but the.
can surely come with pleasure ant
profit to themselves and at reasonable
outlay of time and money.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
CASTELAR,

'Tis bitter to love her thus, he said
It's bitter that she loves me.
'Twere better to go where death hath led.
Where war is cruel and blood is she'd
Far better than thus TO be.
She hath lord Of her owns we'd
Forsooth a man Of low degree.
But many league Of land outspread,
He holds by a fef, inherited,
And a vassal tenantry.
l have a ief; tits In my hand,
A blade that did never rust,
And east, and west, in every land.
held my own with the trusty brand,
But now it must sheathe in dust
Why do linger about her gatesY
/ seldom see her, alas!
And who but a laggard mopes and waits
BY the window, the wan moon tesselates
To see her shadow pass?
The gold of her hair has tangled me,
Yet have never loved gold.
The white Of her throat, and the ivory
OF her bosom, chained me in ecstacy
When her lips the secret told.
l envy the lily upon her breast,
The rose in her shining hair;
1 chlde the sun who lags in the west;
l wait in the garden she loves the best
She promised TO meet me there,
I held her close in my arms last night,
Oh. the pain Of stolen blissl
She checked me with grief that was half de
light;
The loves that we're wrong, the hearts that
were right,
| Chung close in that pleading kiss
Her lord Is brawny and strong Of arm,
| But comedy and kind men say
The brute that is in him may take alarm,
| When he knows her heart with its depth OF
calm
| Has passed forever away.
| Why tarries she yet? IT'S very late,
| And the night-bird boGeth III;
| But hist! l hear by the oaken stair
Loud angry words-a cry Of despair
| All, God! Now all is still.
| knew no bars knew no bolts,
knew no door Of oak.
| l traversed the stairs and. sounding floors;
| The chambers were closed-the great carve
doors
| Fell to "a thunder-strolIe.
Oh rose! Oh lily! Oh poor white dove;
| And the blood stain on her breast,
And the parting lips still quivering-
Great God, l heard rude laughter ring,
| BY the cross stand confessed.
By the cross, saw his brutal bulk
Stand midway in the door,
Twas hard to Stay so strong man,
But | had slain the Saracen
And her blood cried from the floor.
Little may vulgar strength avail,
'Gainst arm that's nerved with steel;
He lies at the foot OF carven knight
And II kissed her lips Good night"
Good night All peace, all rest go hence;
Good night TO all but penitence.
WILL l.. VIssCHER.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

lriC phAoaoputE ana htlsLs GIhAtD-
born near Bordeaux, France; died 1881.
lsD-Nictoria Alexandria Guelph, only child
of Edward, fourth son Of George III and
Duke Of Kent, born at Kensington Palace;
June %, 1897, she became Queen Victoria;
on the day Of her birth the Savannah, first
steamer TO cross the Atlantic, arrived at
Liverpool, % days from Savannah.
lS0-Miss Jane Porter, novelist, died.
lsdS-Four battles in Virginia-at Middletown,
Newtown, New Bridge and Chickahominy.
isTS-William Lloyd Garrison, aholitionist and
journalist, died in New York city; born
1905.
isO-The United States War Department re-
moved the troops from Ellis Island In New
York harbor and turned it over TO be an
immigrant depot
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

he allows himself to be in-sinner
ate-ed. Long may this amiable and
artless gem of the ocean live to be a
Joy to himself and us. The son of the
sea, whatever his kind, is ever jolly,
VIII le-souled fellow, ready to sacrifice
his own convenience to the good or
the pleasure of others.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24


through wounds"
For her at this hour, for her Gas
queen and mother; for her as typify-
ing national strength, the'blessings Of
liberty and the lasting felicity of vir-
tuous domestic life; for her as the de-
fender of the yirile and qnickening
Protestant faith; for her as the pro-
tector and friend of every creed
through which any aspiration for JUS
tice breathes, Vulnerable prayers
ascend.
Nor do they last only from the
rising of the sun until the going down
of the same, but from the rising Of the
sun until its rising again; and if
human prayer ayails on high,
these prisons rolling around the
earth, as it moves Eastward
and leaves "the orange sunsets
waning low" and meets new mornings
must insure her bodily comfort and
peace here, and hereafter everlasting
Joy anu W hllC bllC lNll 3 III
of the queens happy reign is due to
the institutions of the great nation of
which she is nomlnally the head, the
glory of her reign as wife and mother
is her own. 1t almost seems as if
Fortune, herself a woman, had, in
womanly wise, regretted the happiness
she bestowed on Victoria as wife and
impaired it all she could by taking
away the noblO-hearted and accom-
plished gentleman, the true philan-
thropist and man Of true worth, whom
she thought of as husband more than
as prince and COnsOrt. ltTeminds one
of that picture by an ancient poet of
the boys jOyfully gathering flowers
and strawberries, while deadly adder
lies hidden in their path. And if like
the musician, of classic story, on the
lonely shore, who sang "Of thee, sweet
wife, the day approaching; and sang
Of thee, the day departing" she has
somewhat loudly swept the string of
her willow-dressed harp, it should, all
the more, appeal to the gentle and the
manly heart as the grief, not of a
queen, but as of woman truly and
nobly matched; truly loved and loving
How does a woman like the once
Empress Eugene compare with this
good woman? A fribble whose dynasty
in dying leaves no sign, at least nc
sign of hope to those who are to come
after us. Turn where you will, among
her contemporaries for comparisons
and you will find something in Vic
toria's life which raises her above any
of them. Still steadfast, still un
changeable, as truly the friend Of
virtue: of simplicity Of life and single
ness Of heart, better than her OWL
children; a model for them now; he
life will stand, as it we're, token anC
a tone to them land unto all men" a.
long as history shall last.
And here, in Washington. we ma.
extend our good wishes to her will
especial heartiness, and say, "thy PEG
pie shall be my (our) peoples" and WI
might add cur people shall he thine
for we live beside, visit and swap will
her Canadians, and desire to trad
with her Australian, New Zealand ant
Indian subjects, and as many more a
shall choose to come.
Many happy days to you, good queen
great need of happiness hereafter
good fortune TO your people; peace t
your little island; peace be on it
pillows and breezes.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
Date in Hstory-May %.

ET4-John Pye Smith, theoLo-
gian, born.
Ls@-Ralpn Waldo Emerson,
the Sage OF Concord, I"
born at Boston, Mass;
died 1872.
f"-Dr. William Paley, au-
thor OF Natural Theoso-
gy," died.
fa8-Francis Edward Todle-
ben, renowned military en-
gineer, born.
iS-First battle Of Winches-
ter. Va; Gen. y. p. Banks
defeated by Stonewall
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
ONE KIND OF VERSATILITY

The Democratic party is versatile,
to say the least. 1t sings in whatever
key the tune is pitched. Discordantly
and harshly, it is true, but then it
does the best it can. In the last pres
idential campaign the wild and weird
song of the Democratic press and
orators, was the surplus in the treas
ury. They howled long and loud
about it, 1t was the burden of every
speaker and writer's song. They de-
clared that keeping so much money
locked up in the treasury was running
the country. They were defeated at
the polls and a Republican secretary
of the treasury relieved the treasury
of its surplus millions by paying of
the public debt, thus putting the
money into circulation, and at the
same time stopping interest on bonds.
Now the Democratic orators and
editors have changed their tune and
are bowling because the surplus was
not kept in the treasury.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

The Spokane Review says the Great
Northern twill eventually find its
way into Tacoma, Portland and Fair
haven" The fact is that Fairhaven
has today the only branch of the
Great Northern in the state under
operation, and people of this region
are riding every day over the Great
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

The Anacortes American of yester-
day says. "The Fairhaven HERALD
of May Il, hit the Port Gardner fake,
worked by the Seattle papers, so fairly
in the eye as to render further COM
ment unnecessary. The HERALD
arose grandly to the occasion and
scored a neat victory over the colum-
biads of the Sound with one we'll
directed blow
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

Northern road in Great Northern
cars, with the only offices from which
the road is conducted, in the city Of
Fairhaven. "Will ultimately find its
way to haven"-Indeedl
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
This Date in HistOry-May "a.

f0s5-Pope Gregory VII, the
noted "Hildebrand." died;
born in lOls; he established
the papal supremacy over
temporal princes.
53-Nicholas Copernicus,
astronomer. died.
l6l2-Robert Cecil. minister to
James / died.
l7jO-Stephen Girard. eccen-
trio philosopher and deist.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

The summer days have come, and
the lassitude superinduced by the first
warm weather has seized those who
haven't sufficient nerve to shake it Off
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

The Democratic party is building its
hopes upon continued depression of
business and the possibility of poor
crops. But from present appearances,
it will be doomed to disappointment.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
Eastern Advertisers

ern ADVERTISERS is called to the FAIRHAYEN
HERALD as a judiclous advertising medium
Heretofore no foreign advertising OF any ue-
scription has been received.
conIpaCtcl received through all the re-
1Ohll uOtoi spOnsible eastern advertising
agencies.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

jackson and driven to the Potomac.
Long Battle" began near Dallas,
Ga; ended June g. when Johnston vacated
his works at New Hope Church.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

The prediction made in Thomson's
spiritual ode, Rule Britannia" while
not yet realized, has made such a
showing toward it as to be comfort
to his shade as it walks about in the
lower world. Here it is:
ITO thee belongs the rural reign;
THY cities shall with commerce shine;
"All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles thine"
Though Britannia rules the waves
it is some comfort to know that
brother Jonathan rules lots of land,
and it is growing more valuable every
year, while the waves are not worth a
cent more than they were at creation
dawn.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

Few people remember, even if they
know, that cold tongue is mentioned
by several poets. Gray, who wrote
the famed and beautiful elegy, says in
his Pindaric Ode, the Bard:
Gold is Cadwallo's tongue,
That hushed the stormy main"
And Virgil tells us that when
Orpheus was torn in pieces by
Thracian women, whose smiles were
smOle in vain on him, his head was
thrown into the river, his cold tongue
still called on the name of his wife, as
it floated away. 1t is never safe
emitting to acknowledge and recipro,
cate any intimation which lady may
give of partiality for a fellow, fol-
Sheol knows no fury like a woman
scorned.
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