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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30
A Comedian,s First Appearauoe.

Jimmie Powers always tells funny
stories, so he is right in line when he tells
a funny one about his first appearance
The play was "Buckshot Nell' and was
chock full of blood and thunder II was
produced at Aberle's thcater in this city in
1878. Powers played n juvenile part, and
he was frightened half to death.
"'Stand back, Phil Remington, you shall
not harm a hair of her head, were my first
lines" said the comedian, "to which the
villain replies, Who and what is this wom-
an to you" | lost track of what / was do
ing for the moment and answered, she is
Mary Dalton, my fiancee.' Nix, Gull, - said
the leading man in an aside, you've got 'em
mixed. That's the soubrette's name.'"
II had nothing but trouble the first night.
One-half of my mustache came off, and /
was obliged to finish the act with a goatee
on my upper lip. No one who knows me
remembers that | ever threw anything
straight in my life. In one of the scenes in
the play ! am protecting the heroine from
the villain. As the latter comes forward /
pick up the bottle from the table and say.
Stand back, l say or / will kill you as /
dash this bottle against yonder WALL l
threw the bottle with all my force. It missed
the wall by about a mile and struck one of
the supers standing in the wing He dropped
as if he had been shot. The blow laid him
up for four weeks, and out Of my princely
salary of Sl4 "A week was compelled to pay
him 81 week during his illness or take
the chances of going to jail."-New York
World
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

An Englishman who was present at the
Tichborne trial gives an amusing account
of the way in which Arthur orion, the
wrapping butcher" was nonplused by
Mr.. Hawkins, counsel for young Sir Alfred
Tichborne. Mr. Hawkins leaning back
against the bench and looking over his eye
glasses at the portly claimant, said to him,
"You, of course, having been brought up
on the Tichborne estate, remember the lit
tie village of Owlsbury on the estate?"
Mr.. Hawkins pronounced the name of the
town as it has always been pronounced by
the people of that country-as if it were
spelled "Husselbcrry."
"Now," he continued, will you kindly
spell the name of that little town with
which you are so familiar" The claimant
without a moments hesitation spelled it
exactly as it is pronounced. Would you
be surprised to hear" asked Mr. Hawkins
quietly, that it is spelled 'O-w-l-s-b-u-r-y,'
and that everybody within miles Of Itch
borne House is aware of that facts" The
claimant, who had been surprised so often
that he had become callous, simply nodded
his head.-New York Tribune.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30
How to remove stones From Land.

Large rocks should be heated by burning a
quantity of brush on each one, and then
with a good heavy sledge and steel wedges
most of them can be split into fragments
that can be hauled off upon the drag
Medium sized rocks may be gotten out by
digging round them, fastening a log chain
upon the lower side and attaching the
team. Let the horses start slowly, and
with little effort the stone may be pulled
out at the second or third pull. A good
way to get rid Of stones is to bury them,
but bury them deep-not less than three
feet from the surface-as they will be GER
tain to work up to the top in few years,
when the work has to be done over again
at considerable cost.-Baltimore American.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30
Anti-Bellamy.

A book that is bound to make as great
. sensation as Edward Bellamy's Look
ing Backward" has lately been written
by German, Eugen Richter. Mr.. Rich
ter is a leader in the German parliament
and an opponent Of state socialism. His
book is entitled Pictures of the Future"
and it promises to be the most telling
blow that Bellamyism has yet received.
The story purports to be told by an ar
dent state socialist, one Schmidt, work.
man whose dream it had been that all
mankind were equal and that the state
should enforce this equality and regulate
all things. At the beginning his dream
has been realized; the socialistic republic
has been proclaimed. People are no
longer to live in little separate homes,
but they are to lodge wherever the state
orders them to and take their meals in
great public kitchens all alike. There
are no more rich and no more poor.
The golden dream is first rudely shak-
en- by the breaking up of the socialists
family. The state took charge of all the
children and sent members Of families
wherever their work was most needed
In the republic. Schmidt and his wife
were separated, their youngest child was
turned over to apublic nursery, and the
older children were scattered far and
wide. The little girl died, and Schmidt's
wife went insane. Nothing turned out
q had been expected; nobody was pros
porous; everybody was wildly unhappy.
At the close the socialist state was de-
stroyed By ssvOlution and q French in
w>~;on 49, -
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30
How Newspapers should BE Run.

A number of estimable gentlemen
have been at it again, telling newspaper
editors how they should run their jour.
nails. Frequently rise your people whose
mission it is to reform the press. Some
times it is a professional reformer, some
times a minister, sometimes a ladies
club. Most of them pursue the same
methods. They set in first and berate
the public press as the vilest sinner.
They MARBLE their WARDS about the pub
LEGATION of crime and scandal, the publ
cation of divorce trials, the giving of so
much space to racing and sporting news
Just so. Doubtless these things are
Objectionable from the standpoint of the
great press purifier who stands outside
and never had anything to do with the
publication of a newspaper in his life.
But we are not proud, and we are will
ing to enlighten even a kicker. There
fore we pause a moment from our
weightier labors to give a word of advice
to the person who wants to reform the
press. 1t is this: Reform your people
who support the press. Newspaper pub
fishers are in the business to make liv-
ing. They give the public exactly what
it wants and will pay for. When gro
GERS customer wants bottle of prime
old rum, the grocer does not try to force
on him bottle of mineral water because
it is more promotive of the cause of tenn
perance, does he? If the ideal newspa-
per were to be started tomorrow, it
would never get beyond second num-
Der. The public would destroy the
presses and mob the editor out of town.
The ideal newspaper will follow the ad-
vent of the ideal people who call for it.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30
Captain Miles standish's Book.

In the whole lot Of 1000 volumes in the
old book store of the late T. o. II. p. Burn
ham of Boston there is one which will in
terest collectors greatly This volume,
which the owners hold for the modest price
of s., 500, was published in London in 1921
and bears for its title: THE Passions Of the
Minde in General; in sixe bookes corrected,
enlarged and with sundry new discourses
augmented. BY Thomas Wright" 1t is
not the book itself, however, but its former
ownership that gives it highest value, for
once upon a time this work belonged to the
valiant Captain Miles Standish, forming
one of the very few works which his libra
ny contained. So far as is known, this is
the only book from that library now in ex-
istence. On the outside it bears the auto
graph of Captain Standish, and on the in
side is written in bold letters, "Myles Stand
ish his booke 1926. Chicago Herald.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

The country has had IA week or two
in which to discuss with itself the
presidents order excluding officeseek-
ers from the White House, and I'M
questionably the impression is favor
able. Not one person in "a thousand
probably cares for an office, or cares
what particular person has an office, so
that the order seems to them whole
some rebuff to the unthrifty suppli-
cants who are anxious for recognition
for the work they have done for De-
mocracy or for future use in the way Of
extending their influence at home.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

A Limerick tobacconist of the name of
Lundyfoot, doing a comparatively small
trade, was unfortunate enough to have his
establishment destroyed by fire. On visit
ing the ruins the next day he saw some of
his poor neighbors among the debris gath
ering the half baked snuff from the CAMS
tiers which had not been entirely destroyed
by the fire He tasted what he considered
the worthless article, and to his surprise
found that the heat from the fire had added
pungency and aroma to the snuff. Profit
ing by the discovery, the shrewd Irishman
at once set about baking his snuff in ovens,
and the fame Of the Backyard snuff"
was established and an immense fortune
soon made by Lundyfoot, founded upon a
mere accident and growing out a misfor-
tune.-Boston Herald
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30
Ex.snenler Crisn is aid to be sure of

Ex-Speaker Crisp is said to be sure of
a unanimous reelection on the assem-
bling Of congress in extra session. That
is to say, it is settled that the admins
tration will not oppose his candidacy,
but will endorse it. The conditions of
such endorsement are that the Mills
crowd, or the tariff reform or Cleveland
element i'm the house, shall be restored
to their former places of leadership.
This view is borne out by the reported
certainty that Mr.. Wilson, of West
Virginia, is to be the next chairman of
the ways and means committee. An
other condition precedent Of admins
tration support of Crisp should be the
bouncing of Holman from the head of
the appropriation committee.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

Since the Umbria broke her shaft in
midocean and had to limp slowly into
port in her disabled condition the bright
idea has occurred to an electrician that
it would be well for all ocean steamers
to carry an assortment of electrical tools
with which TO mend breaks. All steam
ers have electric lighting machinery. 1t
would be easy to add to this the attach
ments necessary for working tools by
electricity. Holes could be bored by the
electrical drill rapidly, and other tools
could be fastened firmly 10 handles or
holders and used in any part of a vessel
in place 50 small that man could not
work in it. The current could be sent
to any part of the ship and work done
in few hours that would require days
with the use of hand tools
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30
In the manufacture of all malt liquors

In the manufacture of all malt liquors
one of the most important elements Of
success is knowledge of the exact amount
Of acidity in the materials at every stage
of the process. A single mistake may
result in the loss of thousands of dollars.
Electricity has come to the brewers as
sistance in this matter and enabled him
to gauge every stage accurately. A ma
chine arranged on the principle Of the
voltaic pile is plunged into the ferment-
ed liquid. The acid reacts on the pile
and produces an electrical current. A
galvanometer attached registers the
strength Of the current, consequently
the amount of acidity in the beer.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

SO singularly intermingled are inter-
national affairs that it is not improb-
able that the financial collapse Of two
years or more ago in the Argentine re-
public has had something to do with
our present financial condition. In the
slow liquidation that has been going on
in England for sometime past, one re-
suit has been the sale of a very large
quantity Of American securities held by
foreigners and the Discrimination of
these same foreigners to take their
usual share Of issues of new American
stocks and bonds. This Discrimination,
coming at a time when public conf
dence has been shaken in the security
of our monetary system, has tended to
intensity the evils we have to contend
with. We are now undergoing one of
those depressions which come from
time to time in the history of the world,
and which are frequently world wide
Ia their operations.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

President w. c. Van Horne and
party, who were on the Bay yesterday.
expressed themselves as being delighted
with Bellingham bay and its surround
ings. While Mr.. Van Horne was re-
ticent as regards his company's actual
intentions in regards to this section,
there is little or no question that his
visit will result in vast benefit to
all concerned.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

Hugh Wallace says he backed Ma
loney for United States marshal and
II. j. Snively for United States district
attorney, and yet both men were
turned down; and yet the P.-I. says
that "Wallace is on top" The COED
Pr. hasn't consulted Wallace, or worse
still, Wallace has not consulted the
ID L
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

A merchant put a sign of boy Wanted"
in his window. The first applicant was an
overgrown youth who inquired II he would
do.
mo, you are too large. | want cheap
boy to run errands."
II see," answered the youth, you want
a little one for a sent"
The merchant was SO pleased with his wit
that he gave him the place.-Detroit Free
Preaz.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

There is a prospect that several
splendid Improvements and some great
developments will be made on Belling-
ham BAY before the summer is over.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

iClose connection with n. p. train from
Portland and San Francisco.
steamers city Of Kingston and City Of
oehItle make close connections at the Taco
ana with the east and west bound overland
\ ull information concerning rates, time of
trains, routes and other details, furnished
on application to any agent, or to
N. ID. CHETHAM,
Agent, New Whatcom.
A. ID. CHARLTON,
First Sts., Portland, or.
RICHARDS & EASTON,
Harris Street. Fairhaven, Wash,
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

Electricity is now used to produce local
an@sthesia for surgical operations, and
Its success IN this field y perfect.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

There will be no issue of the HER
AID tomorrow, today being Decoration
day and legal holiday.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30
L. HENsPETFR. MASTER.
Str. ISLAND BELLE

NJ - - a IL ID
Whatcom, Farhaven. Olga. Newball
East Sound, Orcas. Lopas, Friday
Harbor, Roche Iiarbor,
Victoria
VIII leave Whatcom, am; FaIrhavep
1;20 a. m; every Monday. "Wednesday
and Friday for the above points. arrivlny
at Victoria at $3.50 y. m.
Returning, leave Victoria at 7 a. m.
Tor above points. arriving OF Fairhaven
o p m; New Whatcom, $3.50 D. m.
for tfelght ana passenger rates apply at
Ocean Dock or
s. s. LESTER,A
Manager, New whatc&
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

"The use OF 'Castoria Is so universal and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
OF supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach"
CARLOS MARTIN, d. D.,
Nsw York City.
Late Pastor Bloomingdhle Reformed Church.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

Weather Bureau Forecasts
Monday Occasional showers; station
airy. Tuesday-Clear; warmer.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

"Castoria Is so wen adapted to childrenthat
lrecommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" II. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
iii So. oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

For Terminal and Interior Points the
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30
for Infants and Children.

Castoria cures Collie, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, DiarrhRa. Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes d.
geStion,
without injurious medication.
"For several years have recommended
your Castoria, and shall always continue TO
do so as it has invariably produced beneficial
results"
EDWIN F. PARDBK M. D.,
"The Winthrop, l25th Street and 9TH Ave-,
New York City.
COMPANY, n MURRAY STREET, NEW YoRK.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30

steamer Calls at All Lake Ports
:. II. RosENER, Master
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-30
is the line to take
TO ALL POINTS EAST AND SOUTEr

'UGET SOUND AND ALASKA DIVISION
VICTORIA ROUTE
Steamship "City Of Kingston"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-27

about US; then he turned against us. He
said "Mohammedan much cleaner than
Christian He wash hands, face, feet,
before every prayer, and he pray hve
times a day. Eat is why every Moham-
medan have a fountain in his house like
dis You American women much booti-
fer than Turkish woman, but dey we're
"a long French phrase meaning dicta-
torial aud grasping. Il tell die first who
come, Zis room for men. Eat room on
other side of fountain for wOmen-ze
hareem. Eat is from haran, meaning
woman. She say, You Bedouins take
nice room for men, not so nice for women.
Zen / tell next American lady Eat IS for
men and Zis for women, and she say Just
the we're same thing. Now, l say bot
are for woman, and re men 60 where zey
can" The harem was all in rich red
satin, embroideredsin gold, the old style
of Turkish embroidery, now lost; the
mems apartment was in greenish bro
cade and more modern, with low tables,
on which were incense jugs, lamps,
hOokahs, an imitation of real Damascus
blade and other things. The fountain,
Mr. Barakah declared was 600 years old
and of thousands Of bits of mosaic, all
different.
The dances, he plainly declared, were
put on because the American pubic de-
mandcd them. "a we're old man no." he
observed with grave particularity and
a little bape, bot came to my door when
/ first opened Damascus palace, and said :
You got dancer When l said no, they
not come in and nobody else. So ! make
my women dance.n This, as Mr.. Barakah
said the Bedouin mon were very lazy and
the women did all the work, must have
been Jolly relief for the ladies' but it
sounded like solemn arralgnment OF the
whole American people as the degraded
orator thanked the audience and went
out 10 help on the tent performance.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-27
THE JEwELED COBRA.
An Electricians Adventure With a
Peculiar Serpent.
From the Electrical Review.


From the Electrical Review.
In India there is a common superstition
to the effect that the ieweled cobra,
most poisonous reptile, can never be found
without it's precious stone. The natives
assert that as soon as a cobra loses its
stone or has it taken away, it eventually
dies a lingering death or commits sui
eide. These snakes are rather rare, other
wise this superstition would have ceased
TO exist; however, an entOmologiSt of an
inquiring turn of mind and dabbler in
electricity, recently returned from India,
tells the following incident, showing how
electricity can even serve the double pur-
pose of exploding mines and false the
ries.
1t appears that he was anxious to
catch a number of Indian tirefiies, and as a
decoy he used a half candle-power in
candescent lamp, current being furnished
by a small sulphate Of mercury primary
battery. The battery and lamp he de-
posted upon the ground in a neighbor-
ing thicket or Jungle and awaited develop
ments. 1t should mere be mentioned that
only the male fly is provided with the
brilliant light, while the female gives but
a faint glow, and does not leave the
ground.
The first night that the lamp remained
on the ground very few of the male flies
came near it. This he surmised to be due
to the fact of the light being too intense {;
so the next night he set the decoy again.
dimming the lamp, however, by covering
it with some tissue paper.
He laid this down by tree and, net in
hand, awaiting the coming Of the male
flies They came, too, in short order, and
in quite a little while he had secured a
fine lot of specimens.
Suddenly, however, the air was FREQ
from flies; they disappeared as if by
magic Just then the entomologist,
thinking that the cause of their sudden
departure must be due to something un-
usual looked down to see if the light was
still burning. II had gone out. STOPPING
down, in the darkness he placed his hand
where he thought the lamp ought to be,
and to his great horror, he found that he
had touched the moist skin of a living
cobra The reptile had swallowed the
lamp, thinking it to be a "cobra's Jewel"
II is almost needless to say that there
was mutual surprise, but it is compare.
lively easy to tell which was the more
frightened.
The snake slurried off, and as the bat
terry was a little too heavy for him to drag
along the wires being too strong, the
lamp was forcibly removed from his
mouth
This incd led to an investigation,
and it was found that the cobra, while
young, makes a search for phosphores-
cent pebble, composed probably of barium
sulphide, which, upon being slightly
heated, produces a light which resembles
that emanating from the female FREELY.
This he lays upon the ground Immediately
in front of his mouth, and as the winged
insects approach they become an easy
prey TO this most venomous reptile
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-27
TALLAHASSEE NOTES.
Progress OF Education in Leon Coun-
ty-"Trusties" system Abolished.


tallahassee. Fla, Aug. 26.-Sixty-six
free schools viii be opened in Leon county
next winter, and the county board of ed
ucation, at meeting held this week, Sc
lected thirty-three white and forty col
ored teachers. Other teachers will be
elected at future meeting of the board.
The faculty for Leon Academy are
Prof. II. W. Deuielly, principal; Misses
NJ. MOrel, Carrie Brevard, II. Charles,
and NJ. w. Gotten, assistants. For Lin
coin Academy: j. j. Hendley principal,
J. G.. Riley. J. W Jones, en-. J. Anderson,
NJ. G. Forbes, }. W. Davis and Julia VIII
liams, assistants.
The board of state institutions has
adopted a resolution abOllShing the sys-
tenn of "trusties" in the convict camps.
The session laws of 1898 have been
printed and delivered to the binder. They
make volume of 500 pages and copies
can be supplied next week.
Messes julius Ball and II. II. Diamond
have gone to St. Teresa.
Mr.. Jas. h. Meginniss has returned
from three months tour north,
Mr.. f. p. Woodward and bride are
home from Suwanuec sulphur Springs.
Gen. w. II. Sebring Of Bronson was at
the Capital this week for the first time in
five years.
MIS-. Geo. +. DelulS anu MISS Idb
Whitfield of Lloyd were guests Of Mrs.
Il. A. Whitfield this week
Mr.. W. w. Hoke of Atlanta is here to
manage the Tallahassee compress during
the cotton season.
Mrs. f. r. Lamb of the st, James has
gone TO Asheville for a few weeks.
The latest arrivals from ST. Teresa are
Mrs. Mary Archer, Mrs. B. A. Meginnis,
Misses Matte Houstoun, Flora Hender-
son, Minnie Choate, Mamie Ball and
Maud Myers, and Messrs. A. H. Williams,
Charles Hopkins and S. w. Myers.
Mr.. L D. Ball, Jr., has gone north to
enter college this fall.
CIVIL APPOINTMENTS.
The governor has made the following
civil appointments:
j. NJ. Rivers of Jasper, to be notary
public for the state at large; Owen p.
Lamerson of Grove City and T. B. Lanier
of Tavares, to be notaries public for the
state at large