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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-05-10

"Once in thirty years the people OF the
United States drink the full value OF all
their property. Three millions of wage
earners walk the streets empty handed,
while one thousand million OF dollars of
the peoples money goes yearly to satisfy
the lum king. Lately procession OF
eighteen thousand men walked the streets
Of Chicago, bearing banner with the in
scription, Our children cry for bread.
Then they went to grove, settled down,
and drank one thousand four hundred
kegs Of beer. Silver agitates the people
from sea to sea, though the entire coined
money is less than 100000, 900; tax
tariff is problem, though it amounts to
less than $500, 900, 900; the great pension
question amount to less than $50, 100000,
but the nations liquor bill is 81 ,0O0,-
600, 900. EXTRACT from late report OF
DR.. Power, secretary OF the Congressional
Temperance Society, Washington, D. c..
As you grow better there are some
things which are always growing loosen
in their grasp upon you; there are other
things which are always taking tighter
hold upon your life. You sweep out OF
the grasp of money, praise, ease, distinc-
ton. You sweep up into the necessity Of
truth, courage, love and God. The gray
itation of the earth grows weaker, the
gravitation OF the stars takes stronger and
stronger and stronger hold upon you.
And OH the other hand, as you grow
worse, as you go down, the terrible oppo-
site Of all this comes to pass. The high
est necessities let you go, and the lowest
necessities take tighter hold of you. Still
as you 90 down, you are judged by what
you cannot do without. You come down
at last where you cannot do without a
comfortable dinner and an easy bed, but
you can do without an act OF charity or a
thought of God. The poor sot finds his
misery sealed with this double seal, that
he cannot miss his glass of liquor, and he
can miss without sigh every good COM
pany and virtuous wish. He
who lives in the spirit acquires certain
sort of feeling OF the infniteness OF others,
so that renown, wealth, dignity, sympa-
thy, comfort, friendship, amusement, life,
stand on one side, and honor, truth,
bravery, purity, love, eternity, God,
stand on the other These last he must
have. Those others he can do without.
Phillips Brooks.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-05-10
w. c. T. U. DEPARTMENT.


Out in the highway, wherever we 20,
Seed we must gather aud seed we must sow;
Even the tiniest seed has a power,
Be it Il thistle or be it a flower.
Out of each moment some good we Cbtain.
something to winnow, and scatter again;
All that we listen to, all that we read,
All that we think OF, is gathering seed.
Gathering seed we must scatter as well;
God will watch over the place where it fell.
Only the gain OF the harvest is ours
Shall we plant thistles or shall we plant flowers.
Sow an act, and you reap habit; SOW Il
habit, and you reap a character; sow
Character, and you reap destiny
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-05-10
TINE SCHEDULE.

For information, time cards, maps aud tickets
call OH or write
W. b. MACK City Ticket Agt., Aberdeen,
A. c. CLARK, Agent, South Aberdeen.
A. y. CHARLTON, Assistant General Passenger
Agent III First street, Portland, Ore.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-05-10

Fine Job Printing, latest style, lowest
prices, this Office.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-05-10

COAST LINES NORTH AND SOUTH
THROUGH TRAINS TO
EVERETT. MOUNT VERNON,
FARHAvEN, New WnATcoM,
BLAINE. BROWNSVILLE,
New WESTMINSTER.
And VANCOUVER.
Train leaves Seattle daily a. 9:l5 a. m.
Train arrives Seattle daily at $50 p. m.
For publications and information apply
to or address ]. c. BURGESS, Agt.,
ABERDEEN, WASH.
F. l. WHITNEY, General Passenger and
Ticket Agent, st. Paul. MINI.
Depot Ticket Office, Commercial Dock,
bet. Madison and Marion Sts., Seattle.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties Of a perfect lax
atiye; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and feyers
and permanently curing constipation;
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03
A BRILLIANT WANDERER.
The Historic Comet Which Appeared the
First Year of the War.

The Historic Comet Which Appeared the
First Year of the War.
The wonderful "War Comet of 1861
sprang so suddenly into view and
blazed as to astonish the astronomers
and brighten those u%nlearned in ome
tary lore half out of their wits. The
unlearned declared that the civil war,
which was just getting well under
Roadway, must nave something to do
with it. However this may be, it burst
forth. unheraled and unlimited, shin
ing with greater brilliancy and magni-
tude than any phenomena of a similar
nature which that generation had yer
On. the night of July 3 of that
year it exhibited a most wonderful
spectacle. In the evening the nucleus
did not appear to be larger than a star
of the first Or second magnitude. As
the small hours of the morning ap-
increased in both magnitude and
brilliancy. The tail waved back and
forth over our little world in a
most threatening manner, at times
sending rays almost to the zenith. On
the morning of July 5 the astronomers
announced through the daily papers
that the head of the great comet was
only separated from the earth by a dis
lance of :, 1000, 900 miles. According to
a report sent out from the Cambridge
observatory the comet appears to have
passed its ascending node between the
27th and the Goth of June. in longitude
27e degrees. the longitude of the earth
being 277j degrees at the same time.
On October 10 its tail extended over a
space of SO. 600, 600 miles, and at several
points was not less than o,0O0, 600 miles
in width.
At first it was generally conceded
that it was the famous comet of 1856,
the one which caused Emperor Charles
v. of France to resign his imperial
throne, he taking it to be a warning
from God. All surmises were subse-
quently set at rest By the discovery
that it, was the famous Thatcher comet,
discovered by Prof. A. F. Thatcher at
the Rutherford observatory ia New
York sity.-St. Louis Republic.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03
AN OLb.TlME G


1t WA Made a Gala occasion and Helped
Trade.
Executions were not then restricted,
as they now are, to the prison. yard; ID
the presence of a limited number OF
witnesses, but were celebrated con-
spicuously on an open field, before "a
large and often rollicking and tumul-
tuous crowd @snhhieitGAh
Sucha body | remember to havesseen
gathered on such aH amphitheatet
more than sixty years ago to witness
the hanging of a murderer. The man
was a farm hand. and well knowS
When under the influence of strong
drink he was %sullen, truculent, and
dangerous; but when sober. he was so
prcverbially quiet and inoffensive
that he was the easy-going
butt of his associates. While at work
one day in harvest-time. moving a
meadow near town, he drank freely;
and became tipsy: whereupon one of
his comradesi ndulged undergraduates
and rough horse-play at his expense,
till in an access of passion infauled by
rum he turned upon his tormentor and
slew him on the spot. OF course he was
Immediately arrested, and never shall
| forget the wave Of horrcs that swept
over the little town when. the news of
the murder was bruited. and the victim
was carried to the home of his parents
on a barn door. During the trial
of the htmicide the courthouse
was crowded to Overlooking with
people, who focked in from tie
country for miles around to listen to
the grewsone details of the Staying,
and to gaze upon the murderer as he
was escorted to and fro by the consta-
bles between the Jail and the court
house. For several days Immediately
preceding the hanging that was before
the day of railroads, it should be re-
called (multitudes from the country fol
twenty and more miles around tlocked
to the town to see the execution, and
some of them "to turn an honest pen
ny" On the fatal Friday the 'Big
Field surrounding the gallows was
fringed with booths and tents for the
sale of cakes, pies, small beer and other
refreshments, interspersed at frequent
intervals with farmers wagons laden
with watermelons, muskmelons, APP
pies. peaches and otherfruit, the enter
.prising vendors of which drove a brisk
trade under the very shadow of the
fatal tree. It was estimated that on
that tragic summer day over twenty
five thousand people, a large proper
ton of whom were women and chill
dren: were clustered around the gallows
to witness the dying throes of the
wretched man. And, thoughtless boy
though 1 was, I was shocked by the
horrible Indifference to the dread event
for that poor soul which was mani
tested, and by the still more horrible
testing, profanity and drunken com
bats that We're INDUCED in. 1t was a
saturnalia of brutishness and indiffer-
ence never to be forgotten.-Charles d.
Deshler, in Harper's Magazine.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

payin taxes or sheddfn eye teeth. I
was a plum show to the whole entire
settlement that day, and everybody,
from the little niggers aloug the road
to the preacher in the pupit, had some
slack remarks to fling out about me and
the clothes | had on.
Blu. at any tatss it cooked me, Rufe,
aud it cooked ms aurner than a crack
lin: l never did GO to college, cause I
never got another chance. And from
that time henceforwards never see q
steamboat but what l feel a comm ap-
petite &c &C off and kick my fool self. I
/ don't wear nothin but plain clothes
and but blamed few of them, and /
don't know nothin much but niggers
and mules till yet"
RUFUS SANDERS.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

gle combs. The cuckoo Dorkings have
a peculiar plumage, consisting OF a
marking OF bars or pencilings of dark
blue gray on a ground of lighter gray.
lp size it is slightly larger than the
white, but smaller than the other varie-
ties,
Dorkings have full broad breasts,
short i'll the neck. They have five toes
on each foot. The male in good con
dition will weigh twelve pounds and
the hen nine pounds. They are fair
layers. good mothers. mature early and
grow rapidly. The great objection is
the delicacy of the young birds, which
renders raising them difficult. The
climate. or the soil, or both, in many
parts OF the United States does not
seem to agree with them. This may,
however, be due to too much inbreed-
ing, as fresh blood is difficult to pro-
cure.
Dorkings can only be successfully
raised on a dry soil, dampness being
peculiarly fatal to them. They also
require a wide range. The Dorking is
not exactly suited to the requirements
of the American market, its shanks
being white, while we generally prefer
yellow ones. Its skin is also white or
pale yellow, instead Of the gold color
usually demanded; but for the produc-
ton Of cross-breed fowls for the table
it should prove of great value.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03
HINTS FOR HoRSEMEk.

In case of fire in stables, put q sad
die on your horse and you can lead
him out without difficulty. j.
Jusr before driving a Light feed OF
oats should be given instead OF a heav-
Ter feed of a more bulky grain
THE power and longevity OF the
horse are in exact ratio to the intelli-
gent ARE and feeding he receives.
HORSES recovering or suffering from
facilitating diseases are readily over
come by heat and should not be PIT to
exhaustive work.
THE horse was used as food by the
early Saxon settlers of Britain, but as
civilization advanced horseiesh be-
came unfashionab BILE. z.'f
IN training q colt the safest rule Is
TO teach him one thing at a time, and
be sure that it is learned thoroughly
before attempting some thing else.
BY using a bit that hnrts you will
teach a colt to dread the bit and shrink
from it. This should never be. He
should be taught to drive well up o.
the bit and yield a auiel. obediencr TO
It
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03
Early Rising.

The following calculation is interest
ing: Suppose one boy. aged ten years,
determines to rise at five o'clock all the
wear round. Another at the same age,
indolent and fond of ease, rises at
eight, or an average of eight, every
morning. II they both live to be sew
enty years old, the one will have gained
over the other. during the. intervening
period of sixty, years, 65. 145 hours,
which is equal to 2,739G days, or just
seven and a half years. If a similar
calculation were applied to the whole
country. how many millions OF years
of individual usefulness would it prove
to be lost to societv?-Good Health.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03
AGRICULTURALH HINTS,
ALL O

Some of the characteristics OF Very
Popular English Breed
This breed of fowls IL older sven
TITAN the English nation, by whom is
is Considered the ideal table fowl. In
fact, the breed is SO populss ii that
country that it is generally regarded
as an English breed Of fowl. There
are 1od= varieties ct the Dorkings.v viz:
Gray, silver gray, 9@Eits snd cuckoc.
The cocks Of the gray variety Ravs
either a pureSlack or slightly notified
breast, the necR and back being white,
striped with black, and the wings
nerrlv white crossed by a well-detned
black bar. .fhs silver gtays are always
alike IN color, the male having a blars
Breast Enits wings crossed by a black
bar aud , black tail. The hesdi neck
and back are pure silvery white, with.
u sign of yellow or straw color.
The white Dorking is not quite 50
large as the other varieties which 1t Is
considered to surpass In symmetry. Its
plumage is pure white and it possesses
what is khowp as rose comb" the
others having a somewhat larger sih-
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03
BEE-kEEPiNG MISTAKES.
Why Some Men Never Make . Success q
the Business.

Why Some Men Never Mako . Success of
the Business.
In the American Bee Journal q
writer says: To think that the man
who never made a success at anything
tried, will make a success with bees.
To try to keep one hundred colonies
where fifty would starve. To neglect
to give the bees proper care in spring
and fall-in fact all the time-and
hope for generous returns. To neg
lect to put the bees away into winter
quarters in good condition, then ex-
pect to find them strong in the dawn
of early spring. To rob them Of their
stores too late for them to r%eplenish,
thus causing them to starve, then
blame them for perishing and curse
your luck. To try to use all patent
hives and appliances because some
oiIy-tongued agent tells him to, and
expect to succeed. To ventilate his
hives with cracks in the root and knot
holes in the bottom. To keep plenty
of weak colonies on hand, and expect
to escape the ravages Of the comb grub
by using a moth-proof hive. "Son-
sense!" To fail to put on the surplus
cases at the right time, then blame
God, nature and the bees for
no surplus. Watch, work and
wait" must be your motto in hop
ing for success. To let the
grass and weeds grow SO rank around
the hives that the bees can't find them,
then expect to become a prince in the
business. To use old fogy dog-box
hives, whose internal mechanism you
cannot view without cutting out the
combs, then expect to become scien-
tifc. To allow dirt and filth to accu-
mulate on the bottom-boards of the
hives, as a hot-bed for the propagation
of moths. To buy an extractor before
you know what to extract from-one
pound sections or br~ood-nest. To
boast of your knowledge-talk about
drones laying eggs and the queen be-
ing the king bee. To try to keep bees
and not have some books on bee cul-
tnre at hand, with which you are well
acquainted, and think yourself a
bee master. TO expect to reap won
derful results with bees without labor,
knowledge, patience and costs. mo
excellence without labor" To become
cranky and think no n else keeps
bees as you do. This is = progressive
age. To grumble because you have to
feed your bees some seasons s..stf
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03
Are Won Going Abroad

For health, p1east,rs or busi,!ess, and
would not have your VOYAGE marr.d by sea-
sicknessa Then take along with ::sou Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, and vince you feel
the nausea try a wineglassful. 1t yin effect
a magical change for the better insyour in
terror, and a continuance of it wilEsave you
from further attacks. As a mean3 of over
comitig mslarial, kidney, dyspeptiG, nervous
and rheumatic troubles the Bitters is I'M
equalled.
IN the Adirondacks-''H You should lose
your way in these woods, Jack. what would
YOU dos walk straight ahead, said Jack.
The world is rounded, and I'd be sure to
get back home that way sooner or later
Harper's Young People.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

Golden Medical Dis
covery, even after the disease has pro-
crossed so far as to induce repeated bleed
ings from the lungs, severe lingering cough
with copious expectoration Cncluding tu-
b~ercular matter), great loss of flesh and ex-
treme emaciation and weakness.
Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases
reported to us as cured by Golden Med
ica1 Discovery were genuine cases of that
dread and fatal diseased You need not take
our word for it. They have, i'll nearly every
instance, been SO pronounced by the best
and most experienced lone physicians,
who nave no interest whatever in mis-
representing them, and who were often
strongly prejudiced and advised against
a trial of Golden Medical Discovery"
but who have been forced to confess that
it surpasses, in curative power over this
fatal malady, all other medicines with
which they are acquainted. Nasty cod
liver oil and its filthy "enulsions" and
mixtures, had been tried in nearly all these
cases and had either utterly failed to bene-
fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little for
a short time. Extract of malt, whiskey,
and various preparations Of the hypo,,
phosphites had also been faithfully tried
in vain.
The photographs of a large number Of
those cured of consumption, bronchitis.
lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal
catarrh and kindred maladies, have been
skillfully reproduced in a book of 100
pages which will be mailed to you, on
receipt of address and six cents in
stamps. You can then write to those who
have been cured, and profit by their ex-
perience.
Address for Book, WoR1D's D1spENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

GUEST Observation-Disclosures are two
spoons in my tea cup. What is that a sign
of" Hostess Little Son-'That's a sign
that somebody else hasn't got any spoon
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03
Cheap for Cash

did Miss T%rotters make any pur-
chases while she vas abroad?
.tYes. indeed: she got an Italian
count off the bargain counter in Rome
Chicago Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

THE custard pie is the poor m;.u's natural
dessert. There is no aristocracy about the
custard pie. That is to say, no upper crust.
Boston Transcript.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

SHE-"1 don't see you with Miss Gotrox
any more. Have you and she had a fnisun-
d~erstanding7' He-'No: an understanding.
She rejected me.h-Brooklyn Life.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

s1ss mat deep into the past we would
naturally have to turn loose and give
up a heap of pleasant things in the
present time, but seems to Inc like /
would be wlllind to turn around and "a
pack and start over and try It on sor a,
lew days anyhow. Don't You know IA
would be bully fun for us bows lest tc
slip the bride for a little spell and ruiz
ous win the dry cattle, as it were?" Il
Then it looks like a busy silence set
tied down on the front porch. 1 was
.monstrous busy-smokin and
lninkin and l reckon NC doubt Ben
Shrls was busy thinkin and smokin.
but presently he broke the spell and
went O
No Fifteen To Be Great,
A you know, Rufe, I ain a farmer
ana nothln In particular but a farmer.
I 0 nave much time for readin, and
about the best that | can do is to give
the papers a lick and a promise. But I
read that long rigamarole YOU bad ia
the papers about the way in which you
and Susy Ann Stringer weaned Bunk
peatherford and Rosebud Castleberrv
and busted up the camp meeting with
tne clothes, and it put me to thinkin.
1t made me think q how I went off on
a wild goose chase oncst upon a Tina
and brought my fool self into a great
1ret n a mighty eeptsSionment with
fine clothes.
1t wa way back there in our bovhood
Gays, and II you remember right, whilst
we lived up in the hill country nv
father had a big plantation down on the
river, where he raised corn and cotton
and niggers from who laid the bottom
rail. From the general appointment I
reckon the old gentleman had took DIP q
notion thai he could make a great law
yer. or . doctor, or a preacher, or q
president out Of me, so he fixed up
that summer to send me off to college.
l fold him it want no use and l knowed
what l was talkin about, cause I was
h sam Ben Chris Weaver then that I
am today, only | have got more age on
me now. I didn't know nothin then
and l don't know nethin now-ex-
ceptin niggers and taules, but I'll be
d~adburned if I don't know them more
samer than a scholar knows his books
But my private opinions in the case
wouldn't go down with the old gentle
a He had took up a notion-like
many and many a noble and good man
that money would git anything, whilst
there is one thing that money never
would buy and colleges never could
make, ard that is brains. So the old
folks went to a whole lot Of trouble and
expense that summer fxin me up to 60
off to college. Mother made me two or
three new jean suits-red and gray and
brown. They were home spun clothes
of course, but as good and as pretty Is
anybody in them diggins could put on
at that time.
And along in the last days Of July
the old gentleman put a hundred dol
lars in my pocket and sent me over to
the river landin and left me there to
take the first up boat and 60 to college.
Now it so come to pass that the first
boat to come along was a down boat
headed for Mobile. But it didn't make
q blamed bit of difference with me
which way the river run, whether Invent
ap stream to college or down stream to
come other seaport. knowed the cap
tain and he likewise also knowed me,
end vas soon at home on the boat.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

'THAT organ grinder left out a portion Of
the tune" That's all right. We're even.
The dime gave him had a hole in it,
Washington Star.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03
HARD One To Hold.

sssoon one mornin. after we had w1n
q right nice pile the night besore. hed
come to me and went to " say 70.
Ben Chris. me boy. you have got the
stuff ii o that makes goers and stay
ers. and luck is still runnin our way
Ike a shot. It is time now for yon 70
spread out q little and put on some
You amt no grennie now You arc
snort. Ben Clnis, and q dnrn hard 2
to hold. You must go and take on
them plain country buds and crawl up
on the inside Of some sportin clothes.
Make a big spread now u puton .
whole lot Of dog whilst you an. TOT mig,
rer iu,k u sspnethin that comes ano
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

THERE is no lack of good form at Atlantic
City, especially during bathing hours.-Phii-
adelphia Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

WA1rER-"That's quite possible, sir. Our
beefsteaks are so small that they easily es-
cape the memory."-Fliegende Blatter.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

PUT q poor man on a balky mule, and 1,e
will quickly realize that he's better etr.-
Philadelphia Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03

BLrsKs-"slimley is a great social light
Spinks-''In what way!' Blinks-'He
isn't heavy.'-N. Y. Press.