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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02
This Date in History-Sept. 9.

81 g. The battle Of Actium decided the
future of the Roman world; Octavius Caesar
defeated Antony and Cleopatra
lUso-St. stephen, king Of Hungary. who Chris
TANNED the nation, died.
l6Sj- Lady Alice Iisle beheaded in the market
place at Winchester for giving shelter 70 a
fugitive rebel
I7s5-Jehn Howard, philanthropist, born; died
l1pO.
l7H3-Princess Marie Therese Louise de Lam
bale murdered In open court by the revo-
lutionary mob Of Paris.
1873 General Jean Victor Moreau MORALLY
wounded at the battle OF Dresden.
lS9-Henry George journalist and advocate
of the single tax, " born in Philadelphia.
1851 Minor battles at Worthington w. Va;
Behers Mills, Va, and Dallas and Fort
Scott, Mo.
ls62-Beginning Of two days fight with Indians
at Birch Coolie. MINI.
is6+-The Federal army entered Atlanta; bat
ties at Lovejoy Station and Big Shanty,
Ga.
ls0O-The sloop Petrol capsized at San Diego,
Cal; six persons drowned.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

If the government statistics published
by the republic of Colon bia are reliable,
life under the tropics is by no means un-
healthful The death rate in Chiriqui,
a province Of Panama, in years when
there is no revolution, is only little
over seventeen to the thousand, rate the
most healthful city of the United States
might envy. The state of Panama, ac-
cording to the government census, con-
tains 2S5, 900 inhabitants, yet in its one
province of Chiriqui above mentioned
there are 100 persons 100 years old and
upward There is one old fellow who
confesses to being 151 years old, but his
neighbors say there is document in ex-
istence which he signed 142 years ago.
He takes a bath every day end drinks
nothing stronger than coffee or choco-
late. He owns coffee plantation and
works on it every day. What is more,
this truly marvellous tale goes on to mar
rate that the old gentleman enjoys ex-
cellent health and gives promise of hv-
ing several more years. How tired his
heirs must be of waiting to inherit that
coffee plantationl
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02
OUR BURNING FORESTS
The Waste of Timber Bewailed by an
Eastern Writer

A melancholy sight in British Col
umbia and Washington, says a writer
in the New York Sun, is the enormous
areas of forests through which fires
have swept, leaving only blackened
trunks. The forests of the Pacific slope
are going good deal like the bison of
the plains. The people of this CONT
nent do not realize how many hun
fine timber in that region is being an
nually destroyed. Through the Rocky
mountains along the Canadian Pacific
railroad one may travel for many miles
and see hardly a bit of live timber,
though the blackened trunks standing
quite thickly together show that only
few years ago the mountain sides were
covered with spruces and hemlOcks.
A good deal of this devastation is
wrought by hunters and locomotives,
and the fires are accidental. In some
par of British Columbia, however
and i'm Washington the farmers are de-
stroying great deal Of timber to clear
land for agricultural purposes.
In the last days of July the atmOs-
phere was beautifully clear, and for
many miles the grand pyramids of Mt.
Baker and Mt. Rainier could be seen,
rearing their splendid cones high above
all their surroundings, and showing
their great sides covered with snow
that never seems to melt. Three days
later a New Yorker was within ten
miles of Mt. Baker, and he could not
distinguish the grand mountain, for the
air was Oppressively heavy with smoke.
1t did not take long to find out who
started these fires. Here and there i'm
the timber through which the train
sped across Washington were little
clearings, and farmers and their men
could be seen telling trees and setting
fire to the branches. 1t is the on.y way
they have of removing timber, 50 that
they may plough the land. They have
no means of getting the wood to mar
ket, and the only thing they can do is
to reduce the enormous grOwths to
ashes and then pull out the stumps,
and thus add a little to their tiIlable
area. They are fortunate men if they
are able to clear more than an acre or
two a year, for the work is enormous:
but when an acre is finally freed of its
heavy burden of timber it is found to
be magnificent farming land, and is a
factor added to the wealth of the young
state which is not to be despised.
But it seems a terrible waste to see
these mighty forests reduced to moth
ing but smoke and ashes. Now and
then one sees a more cheerful picture
in these woods. At side track he will
find a large number of fiat cars, loaded
with big logs already to be taken to
sawmill. This is a lumber camp, and
through the timber may be seen the
little pine or canvas huts of the lum-
bermen, who are telling the trees and
trimming the logs ready for shipment.
Then again the traveller sees a sawmill
where lumber Is being turned out in
great quantities; but probably fifty
times as much timber Is destroyed
without profit to living soul as is now
being utilized in the forests of British
Columbia and Washington. 1t is
terrible waste, but there is no present
prospect that it will be stopped.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02
Those Censas Bulletins.

They are all right, Of course. Experts
have counted up the figures and profess
sors have prepared them. But there is
one thing that is to be regretted from
the standpoint Of the people who, un-
like government experts and professors,
have not plenty Of time. Busy news
paper writers would like to give a sum-
mary Of the statistics of their country
to waiting and anxious readers; but
what newspaper writer in America can
spend three hours a day summing up,
averaging and percenting the figures the
experts and professors have strung out
so beautifully?
Let US take the education bulletin,
for instance. Look at page 4 There is
one Of those learned and elaborate
tables. 1t contains the names of the
states and territories. After these is
printed over and over again, hundreds
of times, in long columns, the word
Eyes" or mo-" sometimes one and
sometimes the other. Now, might one
ask without offense, what is the particu-
lar point to repeating these words yes
and no several hundred times? They
are fascinating, thrilling words, but not
in a census bulletin. Newspaper writers
are shallow Oh, yes, they are super
fetal, too, we are told. But if the news
paper people Of the country had those
statistical documents to make out they
would condense the INFORMATION about
half, give it in more completeness and
at the end Of each table provide sum-
mary and per cent. of it all that other
newspaper writers could lay hold of in a
few minutes and give 20 the public. AS
it is-well, no wonder valuable public
documents lie unused and rat eaten for
ages and are then carted off for waste
paper.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02
HOME FOLKS AND VISITORS

Postmaster 5. II. Keller, who re-
Gently returned from the East, was in
Dakota during the recent frosts which
wrought so much damage. Two days
before the weather was burning hot.
The frosts were severe, killing every
thing growing, but, fortunately, the
wheat crop of South Dakota was so far
matured as to suffer but little damage.
Mr.. Keller thinks that there will be an
unusual immigration to Puget sound
from Dakota next year. For several
years past crops there have been poor.
The large wheat crop of this year, he
thinks, will enable them to get safely
out of the country.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

Agents Of the Northern Pacific and
Union Pacific railroads appeared before
the commissioners Of Whitman county
a few days ago and asked in vain for a
reduction of the assessment of
$4,000 a mile on all the trackage
operated by the companies i'm
that county. The Union Pacific
man offered to compromise on $1,000 a
mile but the Northern's agent de-
manded tibet the rate be fixed at s., 500.
The commissioners, however, refused
to make any reduction, evidently con-
sidering the enormous wheat traffic of
the county, at the "cinchp rates
charged by the railroads, well worth all
the companies are asked to pay for the
privilege Of doing business there. In
this county the agents of the Northern
and the b. b. and b. G.. had better
luck. They asked that the assessment
be reduced from 5000 to $1,000 ard
the commissioners complied with the
request. In proportion to the revenue
at present derived from the operation
Of railroads in the two counties, com
panies can better afford to pay taxes
upon a valuation Of $4,000 per mile in
Whitman county, where the grain ton
mage is enormous, than they can upon
basis of $1,000 per mile in this county,
whose resources, though greater and
more varied than those of Whitman
are yet in the infancy Of their
of their development.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

According to Pension Commissioner
Raum the annual expense of interest
and pensions is only S2.H per capita,
an amount which it would seem should
be most cheerfully paid by every lover
Of the land which the "boys in blue"
so nobly defended and with their blood
forever consecrated TO freedom. When
the great war ended the public debt
amounted to one-tenth of the entire
wealth Of the country, $63.50 per cap
ita. Now it amounts to about one
fiftieth, or 1915 per capita. Thirty
millions of people have been added to
the population Of the country, which,
thanks to the valor and patriotism of
the soldiers of the Union, is now the
grandest of the nations of the earth.
In the light of these facts it i'll becomes
any man whose great privilege it is to
enjoy the blessings of peace and pros
perity in this united Gland Of the free"
to raise his voice against the payment
of this pittance to the federal veterans
Of the greatest civil struggle in the
history of the world.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02
NOTICE

The business office of the HERALD,
az well as the WORLD, is now estab-
lished in the Allerton building, north
west corner of Harris avenue and
Twelfth street. All accounts will be
kept there and all bills for advertising,
subscription or job work may be set
tied there. Telephone number $40;
telephone number at publication Office
52l.
The publishers will esteem it a spec
ial favor at this time owing to ar
rangements for the consolidation of
the two papers, if all persons indebted
to either will make prompt settlement
of their bills.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

A recent issue Of the Troy IN. "
Daily Press contains an able article on
the Canadian Pacific railroad as a fac
tor in bringing about the federation OF
the Canadian provinces, written by
Rev. Walter Laidlaw, who, as many
of the HERALD's readers will remem-
Der, visited Fairhaven a short time ago
in the interest of the proposed Presby-
terrain university. Mr.. Laidlaw refers
to the Canadian Pacific's "frst train
into American territory, giving passen-
gers who took its magnificent boat The
Premier at Fairhaven, through rates
to Seattle and Tacoma" as probably a
prelude TO the extension of the system
southwark in the West to San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, mayhap to
Buenos Ayres."
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

The negroes Of the United States are
in advance of their race in Hayt at any
rate The Afro-American National
league passed resolutions expressive Of
perfect confidence in Minister Douglass.
The Haytian negroes on the other hand,
are reported as preferring a white man
for minister to their country. Perhaps
the Haytian blacks believe with the gen.
tlemen in the poem, who tried to Dust
Banty Tim, that ''this is a white mans
country"
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

northern states the yield this year has
been relatively large-in striking con-
trast with the almost utter failure of
the crop in Russia, the great granary of
the old world. The new world profits
by the misfortunCs of the old. Seldom
or never does Mother Earth bestow her
blessings evenly. As Robert Burns
puts it;
Some haze meat and Gamma eat,
And some would eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And so the Lord be thankit."
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

The big boom in the cereal market
at Chicago continues. Gable advices
from Vienna are to the effect that the
shortage in the worlds crop of wheat
this year viii be 9O,OO0,OO0 bushels, and
in rye 330,OO0,OO0. The potato crop
also in continental Europe is more or
less a failure, and throughout the old
countries the people are looking long
ingly to America for relief
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

Murat Halstead argues that "the
Democratic party is not likely to make
the contest of 1892 on the ground of
giving foreign silver the freedom of our
minis, and the unconditional repeal of
the tariff law. The Democracy, not
responsible for details of administra-
ton that often embarrass and irritate,
have vast recruiting fields in the West
and South, where there are many evil
dences of popular dissatisfaction; but
as the doctrines that are stamped as
new, though very old and familiar in
history, are more sharply formulated,
it may turn out that they are too dan
gerous for show Of acceptance"
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

The wheat crop Of Canada this year
is estimated at 6S,OO0,OoO bushels, very
much the largest yield in a single year
i'm the history of the dominion. The
latest conservative estimates Of the crop
of this state place the yield at about
100000 bushels, or between 1900, 600
and 100000 bushels more than the
immense crop Of last year. All
through the great wheat belt of the
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

Judging from the lurid stories i'm the
Seattle Telegraph in reference to Con-
gresham Wilson's alleged grievances
against Senators Squire and Allen, a
birthstone streak must mark the course
of that gentleman's present tour Of the
Sound country. Really the editor of
the Telegraph has developed a truly
wonderful talent for high coloring, as
is daily evidenced by his word paint
ings Of political subjects.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

and as he is chairman of the sewer
committee and has made a careful
study Of various sewer systems during
the past three months some important
recommendation and suggestions are
looked for.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02
No Modified Militia

The scheme to mobilize and federal
ize the states militia has fallen fiat, as
it should. State pride and wealth
should be sufficient, and really is sufii-
cient, to fill the military needs of the
nation. The United States wants no
army, no matter by what
name it is called.--Seattle Press Times.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02
THEY SAY
The Great Wheat Outlet

The natural outlet for the wheat car
goes Of Eastern Oregon and Washing
ton is through the ports on the Sound,
and no matter how much money the
p rtlanders may spend to improve the
Columbia river, they can hardly hope
to change the existing condition of
and Shore Is. F.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

If our esteemed contemporary, the
Express, of Whatcom, has any desire
to establish a reputation for reliability
it will do well to be less ready to give
publicity to vagrant rumors-that is,
rumors which have no visible means of
support.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02
No Objections in America

If the car should really decide to
put duty on export wheat he will
please receive evidences of most distin-
guished consideration from American
farmers and the clemency petitions
will be fewer.-St Joseph Herald.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

In the county road matter the county
attorney seems to have been guided
much less 10y the law than by his
understanding of the wishes of the
commissioners, who are apparently de-
sirous Of doing something substantial
toward providing the county with
creditable public thoroughfares. The
"mossbacksn are doubtless in great
glee because the law will not permit
the Inauguration Of any extensive road
this fall.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

The large export movement of grain
means a credit balance in our foreign
trade which must come either i'm gold
or securities that we are quite as will
ing to take.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02
support.

1t is estimated that the Palouse
country this year raised for export
225, 900 carloads of wheat. That would
make 1900 trains Of fifteen cars each
or fifty trains day for every day in
the year excepting Sundays.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

Councilman Donovan having re-
turned it is expected that for the first
time in many weeks he will be present
at today's session of the city council,
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

The great London Times gravely an
nounces its opinion that Chicago is
destined to become one of the greatest
wheat raising states in the Union"
The fact that wheat has risen very
rapidly i'm Chicago of late doubtless had
something to do with the sage observa-
ton OF the Times savant. 1t would
really seem TO be in order for the people
Of the great pork and grain city to do a
little advertising in the worlds metrop-
oils, and at least one writer for Eng
lands great paper should be coached a
little in American geography.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02

The Whatcom Reveille makes very
gentlemanly mention of sundry rumors
concerning various gentlemen of this
city and certain business changes, and
expresses the hope that whatey err
changes may occur the gentlemen re-
ferred to and Fairhaven "may live
long and prosper In the same con-
nection the Reveille says; "There is
talk Of starting another da IL in Fair
haven; but if men will consult their
pocket-books they will not rush i'm
where wild and woolly angels would
doubt a reasonable interest on their
money"
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-02
Eastern Advertisers

EuoloIn huI6I llSeIo tention OF East
ern advertisers is called to the FAGRHAvEN
HERALD as a Judicious advertising medium.
Heretofore no foreign advertising OF any de-
scfipUiOn has been received.
I'0niPACtSl received through all the re-
~" - ooeSl sponsible eastern advertising
agencies.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-12-19
At d n
IMPROVED CATTLE sTANcHIoNs.

in the illustration one is removed to
show how they are fastened. A A are
the stationary parts; G c the movable
sides that hold the cattle in; II Il are
automatic fasteners which hold the
stanchions shut. In stall A the stan
chion is shown open. The space II is
filled with a triangular board to keep
the animal from putting its head III
the wrong place. When the animal
puts its head in place a push on G
closes the stanchion, Il drops auto
matically in place and holds it shut, as
shown in stall b. AS seer in the en-
craving, the movable part G has no
pin In the lower end to hold it in place,
but one on each side of it. A pin at
the top keeps it down when it is shut.
In stall c is shown how the movable
part is taken from its place when taxi
ing the stanchions apart. Stall D
shows a simple continuance by which
the cattle can be shut in If they know
their places and let out, too, without
going in between them. A strong
string s is tied to. the staple N, passes
through the staple l and to any con-
%venient place. Pulling on this will
close them, and on the one attached at
w and 4 will open them and let the
cattle out. American Agriculturist.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-12-19
ALL IN THE RAISING.
How Differently the Cold Affects Person
of Different NationaIities,

of Different Nationalities,
1t was an odd coincidence that a lone
robin red-breast should have flown
down into the gutter, where a hungry
sparrow crouched down close to the
ground. Still the weather was cold,
and poor robin, looking forlorn enough,
perhaps wanted company. At any
rate, he Struggled close upto the spar
row, and exclaimed, in shivering
tones:
"Wretched cold weather we're hav-
ing isn't it?"
'Oh, / don't mind it at ALL" respond
ed the sparrow cheerfullY, as he plant
ed himself more firmly on the frozen
pavement. "You see | come from a
race of birds noted for their hardness.
My ancestors are of the good old Anglo
Saxon race, | am told, who thought
nothing of wind and tide and weather.
Neither do /, for | love the storms that
| sweep over lake and river and dale.
TO me they are but the sweetest lula
by, and often when the elements are
tt rui L lttl III IL pll htloi VI itllII III.
ugh, | don't see how you can talk
that way" and the poor little robin
shivered in the chilling blasts, and
looked disconsolately up into the sky
where a heavy bank of gray clouds
tloated, and from which fell at inter-
walls a few whirling flakes of snow.
81 am going south in a few days."
continued the robin, for | know il |
stay here | shall surely die. | have
such a cold now | can hardly breathe!
Dear old sunny south, with its orange
groves and its fields Of green; how |
long to be thereln and the robin sighed
as memory carried him back to more
congenial chimes.
That's all very we'll for those that
like it." rejoined the sparrow, hall
contemptuousV, ''but give mt the dear
old northland, with its frozen high
ways and ice-bound rivers, that's
But the sparrow neve finished his
story, for a well-directed pellet from
the slungshot of a mischievous boy laid
him low, and as his body fell acros,
the ruffled breast of the robin, who
had also been stricken unto death, he
feebly gasped:
81 am done for"
But the vicious boy who picked NJ
the dead birds never heard the birt
language and knew not that the rude,
boisterous winds were singing a requi
EN- to the slain.-Cbicapo Press.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-12-19

The torpedo" or ''cramp fish" has
two complete electric batteries on
either side of its head, constructed after
the most approved scientific principles.
Each Of them consists OF about four
hundred and seventy cells in the shape
of six-sided tubes placed side by side.
The walls OF these cells are lined with
nerve tissue and each one is filled with
a clear, trembling jelly. Precisely how
many volts this duplex galvanic appar,
atus is capable of administering has
never been determined, but frequent
experience has shown the power u ba
sufficient to knock down and temporari-
ly paralyze a mar. Natives in Central
America are said to make q practice of
driving wild horses into water where
cramp fish are in order that the latter
may stan the frightened. q~uadrupeds
and make them ensy to captute. So
that a shock shall be administered, the
object m ust be brought into contact at
two points with the torpedo, thus CON-
pleting the electric circuit. Scientific
men regard this as one Of the most in.
teresting Of natural phenomena Two
other kinds OF animals possess galvanic
batteries III catfish and an eel. The
two latter have the storage cells sit.
mated In their tails. Ia all three cases
the electricity is merely transformed
ervous energy. Washington Star.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-12-19

Martha n-if YOU viii only give ne TIE
right T. give il to you
= You are not very explicit Nh Irav-
er she said, looking down
Martha he said, seizinE her hands
you are a airt ike the ( ; Of your
sex, You know l love YOU have
loved you iron the first and L yea VII
marry a man who can neither Kill nor
carve a turkey viii do my best to
learn"
She looked up at him, smiling
Roast turkey IS mott the only meat IN
the world, owen" she said, shyly. Il
can very well do without ii
But She was not obliged To do that,
for Travers has conquered his 1neth-
cheney. and he kills all the poultry
in the most approved manner. And
as for carving, his wife Martha thinks
him.and justly, tap-the dainuest ear
yer for miles around,-Woman's Maya
zine