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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14
PROMPTLY ANSWERED.
Ceneral Ryan's Conundrum Didn't Bother
the Irishman For . Moment.

General RyAn's Conundrum Didn't Bother
the Irishman For . Moment.
One Of General Ryan's peculiarities
is that ne never tells the same story to
the same man a second time. Not long
ago he was talking about his travels in
the United Kingdom. II had always
thought said he, THAT the famous
Eish wit and repartee were only to be
found On the stage or in Levers novels,
but I came away from Ireland with
very different idea
II was stopping at little country
inn, and q game Of cards was in prog
sesS Twas invited to take hand, and
as an Americanized 1ishman I thought
I ought TO keep up the reputation Of the
country for sociabihty. I asked what
they were playing, and they replied
Forty five an old time Irish game. I
told them that barely knew the rules,
but that I could play seven up, euchre
or nearly any other American card game
But they insisted on my taking o hand,
and I did 50. One Of the pages, who was
standing at the back Of my chair,
watched my hand pretty closely, and
the first time / made bad play he said,
soto voce: Holy Moses, I niver see
such play in me loife. I wonder
phwere the divil the mon cum from.
! paid no attention TO him, Of course,
and went on with the game. The next
time made a bad play, and 1t wasn't
very long, he again said, talking to him
self, 'Bedad. niver did see mon play
the loikes Of that began to be an
noyed, but still said nothing, although
q man never likes to hear it said that
he plays game bad =, but the man was
talking to himself aad meant no harm.
However, when he broke out the third
time I could contain myself no longer.
I turned around and said. Look here,
my friend, are you playing these cards,
or am II The Irishman looked at me
for a moment, and then said, 'Nayther
Nv Us, your honor, savin your prisince,
sor.
II Joined the rest Of them in the
laugh, and said, Well, boys, order up;
hat puts 'em on me. '"-Cincinnan
Trihnno
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14
HANDOUTS STOP TALK.
Add Breaking . Prisoners Jaw Keen
Him From Running Away.

Add Breaking . Prisoners Jaw keep
Him From Running Away.
A police officer was under cross ex.
animation in the police court The de-
PENDANT was charged with using vulga,
language, battery, disturbing the peace,
drunkenness and resisting an officer.
you pot the handouts ON this man,
didn't you:" asked the attorney for the
defense.
Yes, SIR"
why did you do that: Was be resist
Ing OF attempting to escape at tia,
timer
He was walking along quietly
enough, wasn't hep
Yes
Then why did you handcuf him.
he YVES using vulgar language.
But why did you put those thinss
on his wrists:''
II couldn't put them on his mouth.
what did he do them"
he tried to run
And what did you do:"
II broke his jaw for him"
Why did you break his jaw"
We'll, I couldn't break his leg, could
I:''
Then. as I understand it, you put
handouts on him to keep him from u.s.
ing vulgar language and broke his jaw
to keep him from running
Yes, sir; that's right; that's what
did"
did the handouts stop his vulgar
language
That's what they did"
How"
well. he's deaf and dumb, and he
was swearing with his fingers
did breaking his jaw stop his run.
ning:"
eyes, sir. When he came to he was
wherehe couldn I run. San Francisco
Post
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14

It is now getting to be well under
stood that many plants that it was
thought could only be grown under glass
do remarkably we'll in our climate uu-
der summer shade The begonia Is es-
pecially suited to this summer work.
The writer came across a little piece Of
rockvork constructed under the shade
Of some large f1sas, in which the whole
mass Of rocks was completely covered
with species Of besonia. Every night, or
nearly every night, water was showered
On them through hose from a hydrant
Nothing could exceed the beauty Of this
mass. -Meehan's Monthly
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14
In the Right Place.

Rubberneck Bill stood looking down
at the inanimate form Of his thirty-sev.
enth.
Fer a greaser, said Bill, she put
up purity game fight"
That's what" assented Soapless
Jones. PITY he had to go. Fer, If be
was q greaser, his heart came mighty
near being In the right place.
1T is lucky fer me that it WIZ
S'posen when I plugged him thar il had
been On the other side '-Cincinnati
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14
A Rope Barometer,

In the Office Of the Des Moines Regis.
ter is the best barometer in the state. Il
consists Of an ordinary rope attached to
the carrier box between the first and
fourth floors, making it nearly 60 feet
long. This rope is wonderfully sensitive
70 changes in the atmosphere. At least
- hours before the average rain 1t be-
gins to tighten by the absorption of
moisture Its predictions nearly always
come true
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14
HE KNEW JERSEY EGGS.
The wiss Printer Could Tell By Theil
Size and Shape.

size ana ShApe>
Two printers lunched at q Park row
restaurant the other day One ordered
beef and" and the other two boiled
eggs. When the eggs were placed before
the one who ordered them, he said to his
companion, Why, those are jersey
eggs"
How do you know they are Jersey
eggs: They might have been laid in
Pennsylvania or Kentucky for all you
know"
well. guess not Those eggs came
from Jersey, and know it..
To prove it the proprietor was called
into the discussion, and when asked he
said the eggs were Jersey eggs
Then the egg eater explained: lover
In Jersey the farmers, or some Of them
at least, use q beard with holes, large
and small, bored in il. AL eggs that
will 60 through the small holes are sent
to market, and those which will only 60
through the large holes are reserved for
home consumption.
Another printer devised q scheme for
procuring good butter at his boarding
house table. The landlady had two ia
b!es for her guests ranged one each side
Of large room. At one the women
boarders and married couples sat, while
at the other table the bachelors were
placed At the women's table there was
always good butter, but at the other the
butter was emphatically inferior. A
printer boarder suffered long and pa
tiently, but at last he rebelled. He went
70 the dining room just before dinner
one evening and changed the butter
from one table to the other. A howl
hom the women's table shortly after
had the desired effect
The butter was Of equally god quail
ity at both tables thereafter. New
York Journal
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14
HAshton CHANCES

Mrs StyleI want hat, but it must
Be in the latest style
Shopman-Kindly take chair, mad.
am. aud wait few minutes The fash.
ion is Just changing. -Loudou Tit Bita
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14

A mean landlord raised the rent Of
one Of his houses because the walls have
bulged out, and therefore made the
house larger.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14
A Neat Home:

SIX room house, with bath room sinh closets ali il \
co"oton with its own system This house with Two
of $780, or will trade for OF horses wagon and harness
or young cattle
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14

Tacoma Markets.
WHOLESALE.
From West Coast Trade:
FLoUR-Standard, So lO@s3.0o.
BrTTER-Creamery, pc; dairy, l4@
16c; cooking, 10c.
CHEEsE-Washington full, 1sc; hall
skim, 10c; California, S@l0c.
EeGs-S,rictly fresh ranch, l2,s@Is.
PouLTkY-Dressed chickens, l2c pey
h.; ducks 1l@l2c; geese Ice; turkeys
Ice; live chickens (springl. $i.OO@A.5O
per doz.; ducks, $3.00t13.5o; geese. s76
VEGETABLES Cabbages, California
s1.50@$l.75 per GENITAL potatoes, Yakima
$l2 per ton; heme grown, $7@$s: Onions
Silverskin, 81 25 per GENITAL; Turnips. 5lc
@75c pc. sack; Beets, 5Oc@75.
MILLsruFFs-Bran, 1890; shorts. s14
rolled barley. $l5.75; choppd feed. s14 A,
@l5; chicken wheat, 1880.
OArs-Sound, s19@$22 per ton.
HAY-Timothy, esst-oi-the-mouptains
slo:0o@ 1900; Sound timothy, 5000
1000,
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14
ABERDEEN MARKETS.
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, ETC

Prices are given as of day of publication and
Are subject 70 market changes during the week
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14
MEAT AND LIVE STOCK.

COrrected by H, Sr0ECKE.
BEEF-Live weight, first-class steers.
2@2lsc.
MurroS-Live weight, 2is@Sc.
HoGs-Live weight, first-class, 4@4lsc
STOCK CArrLE-Average, sl0@ $50 per
head.
Bulls AND SrAGs-1hac per ID.
Day Cows-2@2Ec per 10.
CALvEs-Live weight, s@4c per ID.
LsMBs-s1 .0o@s2.0O per head.
PouLrRY-Domestic ducks, live, $3.50
per doz.; chickens, 400 per doz. geese.
N.oo@sS.00 per doz. turkeys, l2lsc per
pound.
T,LLow-5c per ID.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-11-14

Cottage on North Beach:
81, COTTAGE ON NORTH BEACH One and ouehan y
win one acre of ground fenced and in cultivation
0e"sh'rui summer resort. Price, $500. Terms easy. %
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-20
GcneraI Notes.

WASHINGTON, March 19.-Capt. VIM. n.
Tisdall, First Infantry, has been ordered
home to await retirement.
The Department of State is officially adj
vised that the Queen Regent of Spain has
signed a decree s~uspending the existing ex-
port duties on lead and argentiferous galena.
Treasury shows; available cash balance,
1874. O09, sos; gold reserve, $50, 445, O32.
The Secretary of State has been advised
by the diplomatic representative of the
United States at the City of Mexico under
date of March 6. 1895. that between seven
hundred and eight hundred negro families
States at Ilahualilo, Durango. Mexico, as
coloDists under q federal concession granted
to w. Fl. Ellis, an American citizen.
Rev. J. p. Tidwick, attached to St.
stephens rectory, New York. and Rev. j.
B. Frazier, of Knoxville. Tenn. have passed
examinations for admission to the navy
as chaplains.
Admiral Meade to-day cabled the Navy
Department that he had sailed with his
squadron from Laguayro, Venezuela, for
San Domingo. This move is in accordance
with his prearranged itinerary and If the
plan is not interrupted by unexpected
events, the next points visited will be Port
Au Prince, Hayti, and then Santiago de
Cuba.
The President has pardoned Blue Duck.
convicted of murder in Arkansas, and W..
Fl. Faucet, sentenced in Arkansas to six
months imprisonment for counterfeiting.
I. A. Roper has been appointed postmas-
ter at Neville, Green county, vice George
Pugh, resigned.
Charles d. Bond, a letter carrier in the
Washington office, was arrested to-day
charged with robbing the mails. He has
Chief Inspector Wheeler says he has a clear
case against him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-20
WHISKY TRUST SENSATION.
Prospective Suits for Recovery of
$2,OOO,OOO or More.

CHICAGO, March 1.-THE Tribune says:
1t is expected that the experts will have
completed their examination of the books
of the Whisky Trust for the fiscal year
ending March 81, 1898, by the end of this
tain developments more sensational than
any yet brought to light in the investiga-
ton of the career of the corporation. These
developments will be made the foundation
for suits against certain officials and di-
rectors of the trust to recover moneys which
will aggregate $4,000. 900 or more. Incident
ally, it is said, they will lay bare the facts
in the conspiracy which eliminated in the
sale of the Shufeldt distillery, and which
was marked during its progress by attempts
to destroy the distillery with dynamite, and
by the arrest of George j. Gibson, then sec
rotary of the trust, on a charge of being
implicated in the plot. The receivers and
others interested refused to discuss
the situation. They admitted that
certain suits were in contemplation
but declined to give details. saying the
matters at issue must be first tried in the
courts. From other sources it is learned,
however, that the experts have found en-
tries on the books of the company showing
that upward of $4,000 were expended soon
after the arrest of Gibson and before the
for all this vast expenditure no debit en-
tries were made. Further, the actual dis
position of most of this money has been
learned from records found in the inner
which was opened by expert locksmiths
ten days ago. 1t is on these discoveries
that the civil suits to recover money SO
paid will be based. Some of these suits
those officials refused to make any admis-
sionS in this regard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-20
WHY Grand opera Is Costly.

Madame Melba, in Lippincott.
People sometimes complain that the opera
is expensive. Why should 1t not be! Paint
ings by Daubigny, Rosseau, vibert, Cain,
Jean Beraud, Detti, ETC., are expensive, be-
cause they are excellent, and the possessors
of the technique required to produce them
are few in number and know their W
value.
There are very few composers who are
able to produce really great operas, and
they must be well paid. Then how many
vocal artists are there in the known world
who are competent to interpret music? Do
we appreciate the enormous expenditure of
time and effort, the long, laborious, unin-
terrupted training which the singers must
go through with, before audiences will lis
ten to them? This species of training. too,
demands the sternest and most conscien-
often a Spartan regimen, great forfeitures
of social pleasures, daily and unceaSing
study and practice, no matter at what cost
of WEAKNESS and often irksome labor. All
this must be accomplished while the golden
hours of youth are fleeing and without the
sure promise of ultimate success as an in
centive. The attainment of renown as a
singer Is like the high prize in a lottery, and
after all the aspirant may draw a blank.
Even when fame is achieved, and in the
great cities of both hemispheres the brow
of the singer is crowned with laurels, and
opulent managers outbid each other in or
der to secure engagements. some unfore-
seen accident may at once destroy the en-
tire fabric of availability so carefully con-
pacity, ma fervor and CONSCIENTIOUS
devotion to art. Then the voice is silenced
forever, and the singer lives only in mem
Dry, while the income stops.
calist is brief. The great lawyer or physi-
clan often touches his zenith at threescore,
or perhaps threeScore and ten; a Gladstone
retires only from choice at eighty-five; a
but what of the singer when %inexorable
time attacks the vocal organs?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-20
OFF FOR LIBERIA.
The Steamship HOrsa md 1917 Negro
EMferants Leave Savannah.


SAVANNAH. Ca, March 19.-This after
noon the Danish steamship Horsa, with 1877
negro emfgrants aboard, slowly sailed down
tie river on her long journey to Liberia.
The docks were crowded with the emf
grants and their friends. Thousands of ne
groes cheered the emigrants, who sent back
cheers. while their leader waved a large
American flag. The emigrants are in ex-
cellent shape for colonizing purposes. They
carry an immense amount of baggage,
probably five hundred large boxes having
been taken on the The emil
grants expended several thousand dollars
here for agricultural implements. household
goods, etc., and are thoroughly equipped
for their new life. Many of lI.cn carry
considerable money. They will be given
board sang a farewell song, the refrain
of which was taken up by thousands of
negroes on the wharveS. Great crowds fol-
lowed the steamship to the end of the
wharves, nearly two miles away. The en-
igrants continued to sing until the steam
er had been lost to view.
The party that left to-day is believed to
be the best equipped that has ever sailed
for Africa. They will endeavor to get about
three thousand acres of land together and
organize a town government of their own.
There are three ministers with them and a
decor. The first building to be put up in
the country will be a church. Treasurer
Howard. of the Migration Society. left for
Memphis tonight to organize another party.
1t is his intention to send a shipload over
every month in possible. One party is form
ing in Savannah. This is expected to be an
initiation of an extensive Liberia craze
among negros all over the South.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-20
TIRED OF BEING A NUN.
Carrie Pollard Scaled the Walls at
yette and Escaped.

Carrie Pollard Scaled the Walls at
and Escaped.
special to the Indianapolis journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. March 19.-Carrie
Pollard, of Memphis, aged twenty-three. to-
day. scaled the walls surrounding the Sis
ters' Catholic Hospital and appealed for
protection to passersby. She came here
Monday afternoon, having recently joined
the Catholic faith to become a nun. Her
bangs were cut off, a white cap and cape
given her, and she says she vas placed in
a little tornb-like room containing a narrow
bed. She was told she must sleep in this
room, which resemhled the Savior's tomb.
and be born again" She is a delicate girl.
and says a strange panorama at once un-
furled itself to her vision. with scenes of
the crucified one and %tortures of the mar
tyrs, all of which frightened her. She
sought the first opportunity to leave, and
jumped over the high fence, a Sister tear
ing her dress in efforts to restrain her:
Prosecutor Wood was sent for, and went
to the hispital, procured Miss Pollard's
clothes and the citizens raised money and
sent her home. The Sister Superior says
the girls story of what she saw is untrue,
and says there was no opposition to her
leaving. The affair is creating much talk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-20
wAGos-wHEEL TIRES.
Agricultural Department Bulletin in
the Interest of Good ROadH.

WASHINGTON, March 19.-The Agricul-
tural Department has issued a bulletin COM
piled by Roy Stone. special agent in charge
of road inquiry, containing Information con-
corning the use of wide tires on wagon
wheels. Mr.. Stone regards it of special inn
p%ortance in the maintenance of public high
ways that the vehicles used on them shall
have tires of greater width than are now
IN general use. Extracts from the State
laws respecting the width and tire to be
used on vehicles are given. some of which
tax on wagons with rims or tires not less
thsn three and three and a half niche in
width. Ohio makes 1t unlawful to trans
port over m~acadamiZed, gravel or stone
roads in any vehicle having a tire of less
than three inches in width a burden of more
than two thousand pounds. Indiana has
a law against hauling on a wet gravel road
q load of over two thousand pounds on
the wagon or over $500 pounds
a distinction in favor of broad-tired wagons
In fixing toll rates. The results of expert
ments with wide tires in various States are
also given.
The bulletin concludes by printing extracts
from the consular reports concerning the
width of tires prescribed in various foreign
countries. In France every freighting and
market cart lis said to be a road maker.
Their tires are from three to ten inches in
man law prescribes that wagons for heavy
loads such as coal, brick. earth and stone
must have a width of tire at least four
inches. switzerland requires wagons to be
provided with wheels having tires of a width
proportional to the largest loads admissible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-20
TALL INDIAN GUESSING.
~Puyaiiups and Black Rivers Engaged
i'm "a Novel b Game
New York World.

New York World.
"A great game of chance is in progress on
the Puyallup Indian reservation, Washing
ton, and. has been going on steadily for the
past three weeks. The Black Rivers are
keep ii up until they succeed or are them
selves stripped of all they possess. 1t may
pul IN that time either side or the other
VIII have parted with its last blanket, its
last calico dress and its last of everything
that has value in Indian eyes. The Black
Rivers may go home laden with spoils or
they. may walk sorrowfully to their native
heath without even a gun or a squaw to
keep them company, for in the excitement
OF gaming the Indian often wagers his
"klootchman." as his wife is denominated
in the mellifuous Chinook"
About twenty of the Black Rivers have
come over to the Puyaliup stamping grounds
game is played in a frame shed on a dirt
floor. Around the sides are the sleeping
mats of the visitors and their lankets In
the center is a fire, while a faring and flick
ering light is shed upon the players by a
blaze of pitch knots. TIL game begins
about 8 o'clock each night and often lasts
until late the next day.
When all is ready two patriarchs enter
with the layout" consisting of wooden
of a silver dollar and 40 tally sticks, all
wrapped in gayiy decorated mats Two
bags of thin bark ~shayings complete the
and two men from each side seat thern-
selves. facing each other. and are ready
for business.
One of the players takes ten chips, one
of them distinguished from the others by a
white ring, and divides them into two equal
piles and carefully mixes them with the
bark shavings. He then grabs one pile,
shavings and all, in. each hand and moves
his hands in a circle rapidly from right to
left, while one of the opposite side guesses
in which hand he holds the white ringed
chip, or queen" as it is called.
If the guess is right one of the tally
sticks is taken from the palyers pile and
given to the guesser, but if wrong the
guesser's pile suffers. Each side starts with
sixty sticks. and when one side has won
them all the game will come to an end.
The Puyallups are now thirty-Six ahead,
but the end is not yet in sight. Bets are
constantly being made, not on the sepa-
rate plays, but upon the outcome of the
game, and all will be settled at the same
time. These bets consist of money. blank
cts, horses, watches, guns, cows. buggies,
harness and everything the bettors possess,
even to the clothing on their backs.
AS the game progresses the friends of the
players, who are all deeply interested in
the outcome because of having staked
their worldly wealth upon it, encourage
them and assist them in every way posi-
BILE. The women appear to be as inter-
ested as their lords. They arrange them
selves in lines on either side of the players,
and occasionally break into monotonous
chants or indulge in the peculiar move&nts
that pass for dancing among the American
Aborigines. All night long this is Kept up
without intermission, the Indians appar-
emily being incapable of fatigue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-20
Strike of ohio Miner,.

POMEROY, o., March 19-At a mass
meeting here this afternoon the eight hun
bred coal miners in the Pomeroy bend re-
solved to strike. The strike was unexpected.
1t was the result of the operators of the
Peacock mine cutting the rate one-fourth
cent from the contract signed May last
for one year for 2 cents a busnel. As yet
but three large mines are affected, Peacock,
Minersville and Syracuse, hrowing four
hundred men out of employment and stop
ping three salt works. TIL operators held
a meeting tonight. Captain Fred Eber-
shach, superintendent of the Peacock mines,
refused TO restore the price. Others cannot
do so, as all are competitors in the same
market. A general effort is being made to
settle the difficulty without a prolonged
strike. Captain Ebershach is being harshly
criticised by the miners for precipitating a
strike at the hest season for work