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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31

we want new club or society of
some kind organized, one which can
do very large and very profitable
business on very small capital. The
capital invested will consist of a little
money, some attention and manage
ment, and little watchful care. The
profits will not consist of money or
lands, or other material things. hut of
JOY and happiness and sunshine in the
hearts of all who love the sweet and
beautiful in nature. Our society shall
have for its purpose the importation
and introduction into this part of the
world variety of those sweet singing
birds which contribute so much 10 tho
harmony and beauty of life in many
other places. 1t is a real misfortune
that there are no song birds here. One
travels for miles through our forests
and fields uncheered by musical
voice, and without having the eve de.
lighted with single symptom OF bird
life, excepting only the large scavenpers
and birds of prey. In a state of nature.
for some reason, the smaller birds did
not flourish here. Perhaps the density
Of the forests and the scarcity Of food,
and the great rainfalfs were the causes.
Now, however, there is no reason WHY
the open fields and more plentiful food
should not support bird life, and Ger.
tain Of the more domestic birds would
surely flourish welt about our towns.
-Four years ago,in the city of Portland,
a few gentlemen brought from Ger
many 5000 singing birds and they
were liberated in the city. They be-
came acclimated, multiplied as In their
native homes, and wherever trees are
to be found in the residence districts
there may be heard music as sweet as
was ever produced by the most dainty
touch of the keyboard. The cost was
very small, the dividends are large.
There is no reason why we cannot add
greatly TO the brightness and cheer of
life In the same way.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31
Sad Case of Color Blindness.

The newspapers in great cities should
hereafter subject their reporters to a
rigid examination as to color blindness
before engaging them. Then they will
not make the break that two writers on
New York newspapers did in their de-
scription of the gown Mrs. Cleveland
wore to the Inauguration ball. OF course
1t must be remembered that these Jour
mails claimed to have the exclusive known
edge beforehand Of the dress the presi.
dents wife was to wear. Each Of their
special reporters had been favored with
the only sight of the gown that had been
vouchsafed to any mortal outside the
dressmaker and Frankie" They were
therefore exclusively able to Law before
the public description of the gown on
the morning before the ball. The other
common tackles of papers had to wait
TIL the ball had commenced before their
correspondents could see that gown.
On the morning of March 4 one of
these exclusively favored journals told
the public that in spi te of the usual GUS
tom for the presidents wife to wear
white at the Inauguration ball Mrs.
Cleveland was SO fond of colors that she
would shine on the great occasion in a
heavily brocaded garment in heliotrope
tints' The SKIRT was to be stiffened with
crinoline.
Inc other Journal, equally favored ex-
ciusively, informed its readers that with
her well known preference for white
Mrs. Cleveland had decided on that color.
and that the Inauguration ball gown was
TO be of heavy white mosre--aIas for
crinolinei-with clinging skirt" and not
trace OF stiffeningor fare around the
bottom. Only two young men or WON.
en- who were hopelessly color blind could
have given such opposite descriptions Of
gown which they exclusively had seen.
At least. If they were not hopelessly blind
they were hopeless liars, and neither Of
them had seen that gown at all.
p. S.-Mrs. Cleyelands Inauguration
bail dress was really Of ivory tinted
satin
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31
GREAT NORTHERN MOVEMENTS

The Seattle papers of yesterday
issue bring the news that the Great
Northern railway has acquired all the
property interests which it requires in
the Queen City for its various purposes,
having paid an approximate sum OF
$235,OOO for its last and final purchase,
which is to be used as the site of an ex-
tensiye depot which the company in
tends erecting there. Notwithstanding
this important purchase the Everett
papers are still jubilant over what they
believe to be Mr.. Hill's favorable in
tentions with respect to their city. In
its editorial comment over the situa-
ton the Seattle Post-Intelligence., after
claiming about everything IA sight,
graciously adds that mot only will Sc
attic be benefited, but the cities of
Everett, Fairhaven and Whatcom will
come 10 for their share Of the prosperity
That mus, follow lower freight rates
and better railroad service" Fairhaven
will be glad to enjoy share of the gen
eral prosperity to ensue upon the better
railroad service and lower freight rates,
ana in the meantime the HERALD
congratulates Seattle over the invest
ments being made there by the Great
Northern, but Mr.. Hills operations
were not completed with the securing
of all he desired in Seattle, and we re-
spectfully urge the residents of the state
and nation to continue looking towards
Fairhaven, for since its tributary coun-
try is richer in resources than that of
Seattle, and its harbor incomparabIy
better and more favorably situated with
respect to the transatlantic trade, so
must it inevitably be larger and more
prosperous city, and as such will of
necessity command larger railroad |
activity. The city of Seattle has citi-
zenship which is to be commended for
its perseverance, energy. courage, and |
above all else, for its answering |
loyalty to Seattle. These virtues have
combined in the building of splendid !
city, the possession of which ought to
be a matter of pride to every resident
of the entire state. That it NAV con-
unue to grow and flourish, in common
with every other part of the state.
should be the desire of every patriotic
Washingtonian. But Seattie's pros
perity is by no means check upon
Fairhaven's future, nor is even
hindrance to it. The natural condi-
tons for the Western coast metropolis
are on. Bellingham bay. Their de-
velopment is a mere question of energy
and perseverance, and that even bal.
ance of cause and effect which must
occur before long. When that day
comes, as come it must, no resident of
Fairhaven will have cause for epvv
over the prosperity of any sister city.
Rivalry is a confession of equality
Fairhaven will have no equal, hence
can experience no feeling of rivalry.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31

President Heston, of the Pullman
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31

A Grabbed old bachelor who was In
the habit of calling at a Washington
postoffice for his letters was so much
impressed by the kindly attentions of
the postmistress that he one day walked
up to the counter, and, remarling that
she was the only person who had spoken
. kind word to him for years, handed
her parcel which contained deed for
five acres Of land worth 5000.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31

It is notable that the French critic and
academician, a. A. Taine, died of the
same complications of disease that car
ried off Blaine-kidney trouble first, then
pulmonary affection VI. Tame was the
first man who reduced literary criticism
to scientific principles 1t was left for
him, a Frenchman. to tell the English
people scientifically more about them
selves and their own literature than they
had ever known before. The individual
who has not carefully read Taine's his
tory of English literature has as yet
something seriously lacking to his edu-
cation and at the same time so great
pleasure in store that he is to be envied.
But Taine did not admire Millions par
adise Lost" He declared the poet had
brooded on this work so many years that
by the time he had leisure to write it he
was elderly, and the enthusiasm that in
spired its inception had all gone, leaving
it a great work. to be sure, and thor
oughly respectable and conventional, but
tiresome.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31
THE SOLAR CORONA.


The journey of Professor j, NJ. Schae-
berle OF the Lick university TO Chill to
observe the coming eclipse of the sun
ON April 16excites intense concern among
all interested in astronomy, and may be
regarded in current history as a romance
Of science. Not only does the professor
go almost alone, trusting to hire assist
ants in Chill, but he takes with him
ton or more of instruments and machin.
cry, which must be transported over the
highest mountains in primitive fashion
and for the means TO do this he is in
debted, as the university lacked the funds,
to the hberalty of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst of
San Francisco.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31

For Terminal and Interior Points the
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31
FAIRHAvEN WEATHER


THURSDAY. March 30-Temperature, Z
a. m. As; p. m, IS; Q p. M, as; mean tenn
perature, 400. Barometer, morning, 20 "a;
evening, 1901.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31

Weather Bureau Forecasts
Thursday Occasional rain; cooler, Fri
day-Clear: stationary.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31
for Infants and Children.

"Csstoriaissow wen adapted to children that
Recommend itas superior to any prescription
Known to me-" II. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. oxford ST., Brooklyn, NY.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-31

steamers City Of Kingston and City CT
Seattle make connections at Port Townsend
Tor passengers going from Bellingham BAY
points to Victoria and return.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-22

For Inflammation of the lungs use R
Halls Pulmonary B alsam, price so cents
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-22
An Indian Challenge.

Two tribes of Indians in the upper
part of California had as boundary be-
tween their districts. low ridge
where the streams headed If you
should 90 to where one of these
streams, Potter River, rises. you would
see still standing tall pile of stones
beside neyer-failing spring; on one
side of this cairn was the territory OF
the Pomo Indians, and on the other
the land of the Chumaia. These tribes
were enemies. and were often at war.
When the Chumaia wished to chal-
lenge the others to battle, they took
three little sticks, cut notches round
their ends and in the middle, tied them
at the ends into faggot and laid it
on this cairn. If the Pomos accepted
the challenge, they tied string around
the middle of the three sticks and left
them in their place. Then agents of
both tribes met on neutral ground and
arranged the time and place of battle,
which took place neutrality-suspicious.,
noersoH. IN 50. Nicholas.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-22
REMARKAsl z PRESERVATION.
Strange Sight That Greeted the Eyes Of q
New York Undertaken.

W +. Hawks. the Sixth avenue
undertaken. who for the past few
months has been engaged is disinter-
ring the dead bodies of old Knicker-
booker families from the vaults in St.
Luke's churchyard. received a special
order from an old New York family
recently to remove the bodies of two
children from vault in the church
yard, and to RENTER them in family
plot at Greenwood Cemetery
Mr. Hawks went 10 work immedi-
ately and succeeded in getting the
bodies out of the vault. saws the n. I.
Sun. Before burying them again it
was thought best by Mr.. Hawks to
open the collins and see if everything
was all right. The bodies were in old
fashioned metallic collins. made to
conform to the lines of the body. with
rounded aud narrow ends and bulg-
ing center. Glass plates covered the
faces of the dead. aud these plates were
in turn protected from damage by
metal shields.
When Mr.. Hawks and his assistant
raised the metal shield and beheld the
faces of the dead they were astonished
that in spite of the fact that the bodies
had been in the vault for forty Years
they were as perfectly preserved AS if
they had just been buried.
The bodies are those of boy and a
girl. According to the inscriptions on
the Baskets the boy died on Nov. "a.
1856, at the age of four Years six
months and seven DAYS. aud the girl
on Feb. 7, 1851. at the age of ten years.
Physicians who saw the bodies are
at loss to account for their relBarka-
BILE preservation. The little boy looks
as though he were asleep. His mouth
is just open enough to show set OF
pearly white teeth. The little girl is
just as well preserved. She also has
beautiful blonde hair falling down over
her forehead almost to the eyes. The
body is dressed in white gown with
a yoke worked of magnificent lace.
Mr. Hawks saws that he has taken
100 bodies out of the churchyard. hut
that none Of them were in anything
like such state of preservation as
those of the two children. The
only other body that was at all pre-
served was that of union colonel who
was killed at the battle of Antietam.
This body was Inferred in st. Luke's
churchyard one week after the battle.
when it was taken out of the vault it
was found that it was still recogniza-
BILE. although the cheeks were some
what sunken.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-22
BURNED THE REBEL FLAG.
A Stirring Story Told Of DIR. Juncklii
Father-in-l Of Stonewall Jackson.

Z. ID. Ludwig of Erie Pa. who just
before the war, was teacher in the
Sundav-school of which ''Stonewall"
Jackson was Superintendent. relates
the following story to the Detroit
Free Press: Thomas Jonathan Jack
son, that was 'Stonewall's' full name,
was Professor of Mathematics aud
Artillery Practice in the Washington
College, of Lexington. and his father
in-law. Dr. George Juncklin. was
President of the college. President
Juncklin was an incorporating
Union man, and just before the war.
when the secession spirit ran very high.
party of students one night raised a
When DR. Juncklin came down next
morning and saw the flag he ordered
the janitor to take it down. The stu
dents told the janitor that if he lower
ed the flag they would kill him, and he
refused. DIR. Juncklin. although up
wards of 70 years old. mounted to the
DOME cut the halyards and brought
the flag down. Stepping into the bal
cony he lighted a match, set fire
to the flag. and as it burned said, in a
clear voice that was heard by all be-
low, SO may all attempts to destroy
the Federal Union end He was at
once seized by crowd of the infuri-
ated students and citizens, and it re-
quired all the energy of his son-in-law.
Stonewall jackson, and number of
others to prevent his being hanged on
the spot. A compromise was ar
ranged by which he was to leave the
State. He hastily entered his family
carriage and with what few effects he
could lay his hands upon readily, set
out for Harper's Ferry escorted by his
friends. When he bad crossed the
river he stopped the carriage and di.
rected the driver to wash every parti-
Gle of Virginia soil from its wheels
and body. Now there's true story"
concluded Mr.. Ludwig. "and one that
| don't believe ever appeared in print"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-22

both sexes are contained. The fact
that trotting horses are compelled to
stick to a particular gait may have
something to do with solving the
question. There may be something in
the build Of female trotter which en-
ables her to go faster than the male.
In running, where the animals are
sent along ut the fastest possible gait,
the males have proved themselves
superior.
Again. the difference in the times
made by male and female trotters has
not been sufficiently great to afford a
convincing argument on that side of
the question. Proba bly, if Jay Eye-See
before his injury had had the advant-
age of pneumatic-tire sulky and
other perfect conditions, he could have
done mile in 2.05 or better. 1t must
be remembered that great as Nancy
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-22

quet, Tenny. Longstreet, Kingston, and
many others, most of whom, it will be
found, have been geldings or stations.
Whether this is an indication that the
average female trotter is faster than
the average male, and that the reverse
is the case with runners. or whether
this is simply fortuitous combination
of circumstances. it is impossible to
say. Before any positive inference
could be drawn it would probably be
necessary to obtain a greater number
of instances. At any rate, the ex-
amples here given show that outside OF
the human race there is not much diff
ference between the physical powers OF
the two sexes. And as we go further
backwa in the animal kingdom this
difference will be found to decrease
until we reach those animals in which
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-22
Confederate Prisoners at the North.

One of the Northern illustrated pa
pers published a picture of the Belle
Isle prisoners which certainly showed
an extreme state of emaciation. Some
of the mess suggested that | compete
with him. kindly offering to back the
Confederate entry. think they would
have won their bets; for. though re-
GREETING that | must acknowledge the
fact | am confident that | was the
worse-looking specimen of the two. |
had entered the prison weighing over
40 pounds. and then weighed less
than 100. To a demonstrators OF an
atomy would have been invaluable
as living astrological textbook. The
prolonged confinement had told Sc
verely on us. and the men could not
but yield to its depressing influence.
There was little to vary the dreary
monotonv that made each day the rep
eLition of the day before and the type
of the day to follow. This alone would
have been sufficient, but when scant
food and cold were thrown into the
scale it is little wonder that both mind
and body should yield under the con-
slant strain. Many of us were far in
to the second winter of our confine-
ment, and with all hope of release
gone we had nothing left-only to wait
for the end, whatever that end might
be; and it was weary waiting. 1t was
generally known among us that some
mitigation of our condition would be
afforded such as took the oath of al
legiance, and as this meant increased
food and better clothing some few
availed themselves of the offer. But
one case came under my notice-that
of member of the mess; he. pre-
sume could not help it, as il was with
him simply question of endurance,
and he gave it up. 1t was said of him
that he froze up early in the first No.
vember, and did not thaw out until the
following June. The prospect OF q
repetition was too much for him.
Plain Lining at Jolnson's Island" IN
Century.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-22
Hardships Of the Fourth Fremont
Expedition.

The Century printed a posthumous
account by a survivor OF the fourth eS-
petition of General Fremont. The
scene is in the neighborhood of the
Rio Grande del Norte. The writer
Micajah McGehee. of Mississippi thus
described the effect of the cold upon
the animals.
The farther we went the more OBJ
stacles we had to encounter; difficult
ties beset us so thickly on every hand
As we advanced that they threatened to
thwart our expedition. The snow be-
came deeper daily. and to advance was
but adding dangers to difficulties
About one-third of the men were al
ready more or less frost-bitten. every
! night some of the mules would freeze
to death. and every day as many more
would give out from exhaustion and be
left on the trail 1t seemed like fight
ing fate to attempt to proceed, but
we were bent on our course, and con-
tinued to advance. At one time men
were sent ahead to report the pros
pect. and returned stating that grass
appeared in the distance before them;
they supposed that the snow was abat-
ing, but on coming up what they saw
proved to be the tops of bushes six feet
high projecting above the snow; nor
did anything appear upon which the
animals could subsist. The corn we
had packed along for them was al
ready consumed. Sometimes we would
attempt to move on. and the severity
of the weather would force us back
Into camp. In one of these attempts,
before we could beat our way half a
mile against the tempest, our guide.
Old Bill Williams, was nearly frozen;
he dropped down upon his mule in a
stupor and was nearly senseless when
we got into camp. A number of men
came in with their noses. ears. faces
fingers, and feet partly frozen, and
one or two of the mules dropped down
and froze to death under their packs.
Poor mules, it was pitiable to see
them! They would roam about all
night, generally. on account of their
extreme weakness. following back the
path of the previous day, paving in
snow three or four feet deep for some
sign of vegetation to keep them alive.
They would fall down every fifty yards
under their packs, and we would have
to unpack them and lift them up. and
that with fingers frozen and lacerated
by the cold. Finally they began eat
ing the ropes and rawhdes lariats with
which they were tied, until there we're
no more left in camp to tie them with;
then they ate the blankets which we
tied over them at night; then they
came into camp and ate the pads and
rigging off the pack saddles. and ate
one another's names and tails entirely
bare, even into the flesh. and would
come to us while sleeping and begin to
eat the blankets off us; they would
even tumble into our fires, over the
cooking utensils. But poor things.
little relief could we afford them, for,
although they suffered much, we were
in no better condition.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-22
A Matrimonial Strategist.

Brown. / don't see how it is that
your girls all marry off as soon as they
get old enough, while none of mine
can marry"
''Oh, that's simple enough! | marry
my girls off on the uckwheat-straw
principle"
But what is that principle? l have
never heard of it before
well, | used to raise good deal of
buckwheat and it puzzled me to know
how to get rid of the straw. Nothing
would eat it and it was great bother
to me- At last l thought of plan.
Il stacked my buckwheat straw
nicely and built high rail fence
around it.
MY cattle. of course, concluded
that it was something good and at
once tore down the fence and began to
eat the straw.
Il drove them away and put up the
fence few times. but the more | drove
them away the more anxious they be-
came to eat the straw.
After this had been repeated few
times the cattle determined to eat the
straw, and eat it they did, every bit of
it.
AS | said, marry my girls off on
the same principle.
when young man don't like be-
gins calling on my girls | encourage
him in every way | can.
Il tell him to come as often and
stay as late as he pleases, and l take
pains to hint to the girls that | think
they'd better set their caps for him.
1t works iirst-rate.
He doesn't make many calls, for
the girls treat him as coolly as they
can.
But when a young fellow that l
like comes round-a man that | think
would suit me for son-in-law-l don't
let him make many calls before give
him to understand that he isn't wanted
around my house.
Il tell the girls, too, that they
should not have anything to do with
him, and give them orders never to
speak to him again.
The plan works hrst-rate. The
young folks begin to pity each other;
and the next thing know they are
engaged.
when | see that they are deter
mined to marry | always give in and
pretend to make the best of it, That's
the way | manage it."-N Y Weekly.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-22
The Same-Reversed.

Now and then Senator Leland Stan.
ford tellsa joke and smiles YEARLY as
IT he almost regretted it was so hui
morous. Here is an amusing skit OF
of the variety order that he occasional
ly relates;
One day ! was riding in street
car in San Fran, SEQ, when | over
heard II conversation between two men
that struck me as peculiarly funny.
They may have been comedians re-
hearsing. One of them said:
well Bob, I've got job down
town.
"'YesP What doingP
"'Mixing lather.'
"'Ihats queer; I've got a job up
town IN IA barber shop lathering
nirks.