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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-07-28

Peace agitation is spreading in the
provinces of Spain.
1t is again limited that there will
soon be third call for troops.
Spanish bonds with face value of
S., 900 were sold in New York for 800.
1t is reported from London that the
Spanish ambassador to England "re-
Gently informed colleague that he had
unquestionable information to the effect
that there was an ironclad alliance be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States before the war began"
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01
HERE AND THERE.

Success in swine breeding can not
be gained by wintering the brood sows
on an exclusive corn diet.
While tree will stand almost any
amount of water, it can not exist if any
water remains about its roots. Good
drainage is most essential
Never mind about the condition Of
the moon when setting out trees.
Plant them right and care for them,
and they win do their best.
Don't fail to prov de comfortable
quarters for the sheep; it will increase
the vitality of the lambes, pay ia in.
crease of weight and help to prevent
loss.
There is no lack in the demand for
good mutton, and it is now the most
profitable meat to raise. The market
is pretty well stocked with inferior
sheep, and their mutton is a slow go,
Costly poultry houses are not nee-
essarily part of the poultry business.
More profit can be had from the use of
cheaper structures, and the hens will
be just as happy and JUS as busy in
them.
Two of the most useful articles to
keep handy where sheep are grown in
large or small numbers are good shot
gun and vial of strychnine Buck
shot, strychnine and silence. form
useful trio for the shepherd.
Much more depends upon proper
rotation OF crops throughout a series
of years than many people believe.
Corn, small grain, root crops, pastures
and forage crops give the live stock
farmer the opportunity of his life.
The ability to keep things neat
about the stables and barnyards is
presented when we pursue the method
of hauling the manure TO the fields
and spreading il as fast as made, per
mitting tito leach whore IS viii do the
most good,
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01
Planting of Fruit frees in the South.

The farming class of our population
are generally very busy gathering
their crops, and have but little time
to attend to anything else. But if they
are going to plant fruit trees they
should by all means set them during
November and December. Set early in
the fall and they will immediately com.
mence to callous and throw out young
white roots from all cut roots, and in
our mild climate where we have but
few, and some winters no deep freezes,
they continue to grow all winter and
are prepared to make fine growth
when spring opens. Trees should be
Immediately planted when received,
unless they are dry, in which case they
should be trimmed up, the roots care
fully cut back as for plantin then
wet both bodies and roots and bury
root and branch and let remain in that
condition until they become perfectly
fresh, and then if possible set out DUR
ing cloudy weather. In setting trees
the land should be well broken, and il
low land-such as contains standing
'"bNi oHi my W SIlOuiu Dt
plowed in "lands" as wide as you want
the trees to be apart, leaving a drain,
and set the trees in the highest part.
All branches Qf they are branched
trees) should be cut back, leaving two
or three buds on each limb, or if trees
are small cut off all limbs, making a
switch; cut top back to two and half
or three feet, just above good bud;
trim out fiberous roots and cut back
larger roots six to eight inches, and all
broken or bruised roots to good
healthy wood, even if it takes all the
root Set trees an inch or so deeper
than they stood in the nursery, and if
rabbits are bad at gnawng fruit trees,
wrap with paper and string too high
for them TO reach. Any clean crop
will do to grow among trees for two
or three years. Cultivate well and have
good land, and fine trees will be the
result. L. Sanders, in Farm and
Ranch
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01

If the north and European countries
can afford to buy cotton seed meal and
ship it for consumption in distant Sec
tions, surely it can be consumed at
greater profit upon the southern farm.
1t is simply question of doing it.
There is no other agricultural prod
uct that will produce an equal amount
of valuable manure when consumed by
live stock, and when utilized in this
way the farmer secures both its food
and its fertilizing value. The time is
certainly not far distant when the
south with entire control of this pro-
duct will cease to ship north to be fed
TO cattle, the beef which is consumed
in the south. There is nothing to pre-
vent the south from fattening the cat
tie and shipping the beef north at an
increased profit to the south.
But the most striking example of a
failure to appropriate it is in the use
of fertilizers. There is, perhaps, no
better fertilizer than the cotton-seed
meal when properly mixed with acid
phosphate and potash. good average
fertilizer for the south can be prepared
by mixing 1000 pounds to 1. 200 pounds
of acid phosphate. 500 to roo pounds of
cotton-seed meal, 800 to 500 pounds of
kainit, 100 to 125 pounds of muriate or
sulphate of potash, these latter two
being more concentrated would save
the farmer something in freight
The proportions can be changed
to suit, the requirements. But the
point that | make is this: All of
the necessary ingredients for a COM
plete fertilizer, except the potash, are
produced in the south in practically
unlimited quantities, and instead of
buying fertilizers from the north, the
south should supply the north with
nearly all of its complete fertilizers,
at least large share of them.
believe that the time is not far dis
tant when every cotton-seed oil mill
will find it Improbable to supply the
entire demands of the farmers for con-
eentrated feed stutfs and fertilizers at
rates which will be mutually profitable
to the farmers and the oil mills, and
check this drain upon southern re-
sources. The key to the situation is
held by the cotton-seed oil mills, and
it is to be hoped that these great en-
terprises may prove to be the benefae-
tors of the agriculturists of the south.
1t is to their financial interest to do SO
and believe they will. A mutual ex-
tension of business will prove mutual
ly profitable, both to the farmers and
the owners of the oil mills,
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01
COTTON-SEED MEAL,
Importance of Utilizing 1t as a Feed Stuff
and AS a Fertilizer.

and AS a Fertilizer.
[By DR. John A. Myers ex- Director of the West
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
There can be no question that the
profits of agriculture in the south are
greatly reduced by the failure of the
farmers to utilize in an economic way
their valuable cotton seed and its prod
ucts. The proper utilization of this
product is sufficient of itself to change
the account of many farmers from the
loss to the profit side of the column.
There is no product in the United
States that offers the advantages from
an agricultural standpoint that are
offered by the cotton crop when it is
properly utilized. Even with the waste
full methods of the past it has been
profitable. No other crop could have
been. The farmers of the south are
making a serious mistake in failing to
utilize the cotton seed and its products.
Every part of the cotton seed, except
the oil, should be used upon the south
ern faems, either in the form of feed
stuff OF fertilizer. The cotton-seed oil
mills are sufficiently numerous in most
sections of the south TO enable the
farmer to exchange his cotton seed for
cotton-seed meal, which is better suited
for economic use upon the farm.
As a feed stuff ii is too concentrated
to be fed alone, but when mixed with
eotton-seed hulls in the proportion of
about one pound of the meal to five
pounds of the hulls, or in little less
proportion with southeru-grown hay.
IL forms most excellent cattle food.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01

not have believed "owt again Jim" on
the testimony of an archangel, and
went out into the frosty air, straight to
the station, and away to town 80 miles
distant, to make a fresh start. His
sweetheart was still in the mill. He
ought, of course, to have waited for her,
and told her. But he didn't. He would
write. She would learn soon enough.
The village would buzz with the news,
as though the new "hooter" had pro-
claimed it, by nightfall. And it did.
There were girls who seemed to be glad
to tell Rachael, and when she hared up
and said:
"Yo' know as well as aw do 'at Jim
ne'er did it," they only replied
well, he's ta'en his hook at any rate.
Yo'r Aunt Bet seed him goo, and says
good radiance to bad rubbidge.' She
doesn't seem to think as weel o. Jimmy
as her niece does" What could Rachael
say? She went home with rage in her
heart against her aunt, and something
like resentment against her lover for
hasting away without a word TO the
girl who could have died for him. All,
little did she think-yet even now a
dead misery had taken hold of her.
"Well, Miss Proudie, an how's thy fine
gentleman naa?" (Aunt Bets own lad
had had hopes of the "ofiice" once, but
had turned out wastrel-hence her
bitterness.) "Aw thout wot it 'ud be.
Some fowk can't stand gettin' up i tn
world. Pride'll hev a fa', an thy whip
persnapper's come a cropper at ony
rate"
In tongue warfare Rachael was no.
where; besides, Aunt Bet wasn't worth
answering. Then, that very day the
overlooker had threatened to reduce her
10 two looms, and had humbled her so
terribly before the other weavers, that
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01

tage along the emhanIment of the
great reservoir.
"Why, how's that, my lass? Aw
thought tha' wur all rect now, an
gradely set up wi four looms, an av-
eragin' nineteen an six a wik"-for,
though Jim was an assistant cashier,
he dropped. like his lady love, into his
native Dorie on all familiar occasions
IAN tha' towd me that even thy cross
grained owd aunt could speyk civil
now"
CAY, aw was fain enuf Jim, but
Fh, lad aw can hardly tell yo awe
kept it to myself for days, but aw can
not bear it no longer-th' overlooker's
ta'en one o. my looms off me, an SAYS
he'll taxi another if aw don't mend my
work."
"Dost mean Jabe Smethurst? Aw'll
see that reet-neer beed, Rachael" and
as they had passed the railway station
which stood at the upper end of the res
eryoir, and were in a somewhat secluded
place, he put his arm around her waist,
drew her to him, and kissed her fondly,
''Say nowt, jim. ten do no good
CATER thinks weel o Jabe. He hearkens
to him as if Jabe knew everythin' an
him nowt. An it does look as if my
work was bad, for he gives me such bad
'soarts' 'at aw con on'y do half what
t'others con, an my aunt says whoo'I
gle me tn key O. tn street if aw cannot
addle more than a little weneh. It's
piece work, tha' knows"
"Ay-well, ne'er heed, my lass. Kis.
masll soon be here, an we'll get wed as
soon as tn New Yer comes in. AVN
gettin' two pounds a week now, an
aN m promised rise wi tn New YER
A month had passed. Poor JIM AL
his fair hopes seemed blighted. Brim
ley Brothers, a firm in the neighborhood
with whom Messrs. Peel occasionally
did business, in checking their ban,
| book, found themselves indebted with
an amount paid by check TO Peel & Co
| for which they could find no CORE.
spending item in Peel's account, and
on making inquiry from them, founC
| that there was no account of its re
ceipt in their cash book. nor did such an
account appear to have been paid in the
usual way to their credit at the bank
Evidently a check had been drawn anc
paid of which the books of neither firm
had any record. 1t was a sum under
ten pounds, but as the youth whc
ran between the mill and the bank il
the adjoining town of Blackbrook ap
peared too unsophisticated to trans
act such fraud, and as Jim Sumner
was Immediately responsible for the
current cash, of the firm, he was hello
to be morally responsible, if not actually
criminal, and, according to the imme
mortal custom of the firm, ''had to go.
Poor jim! He did not wait to, mee'
his chapel folks and intimates. He just
kissed his widowed mother, who would
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01

picked her up and carried her, he knew
not how, up the bank and away till he
staggered into his mothers cottage.
Could she be in better hands2 Still
unconscious, but with signs of return
ing animation, he left her and fastened
to the mill. The lights still burned in
the office. The masters were seated by
the fire, and in the background sat the
messenger and Jabez Smethurst.
How dye do, James-you got our
wire?"
81 did, sir, thank you"
"Boy, tell us again what you told this
morning" Whereupon the penitentlad
with fearful looks at Jabez, told how
the overlooker had terrorized him about
small betting debts; how, at his insti-
cation, he had obtained a blank check
from the office lad at Bromley's; how Ja-
bez had filled it in, copying the writing
from another of Bromley's checks; how
he had presented it with the rest at
the bank and got the cash. The sequel
was known, and did not need recount
ing. Jabez swore il was a parcel of
lies, but the boys evident sincerity, rev.
elations of Jabez' boolSmaking trans
actions, and, later. Rachel's account Of
her rejection Of his suit and his subse-
quent threats and persecution, con-
vinced the masters of Smethurst's
guilt. They simply discharged him and
eased their consciousness Of Jim's over
hasty dismissal by raising his salary to
c 15O a year.
The folks who cheered a happy pair
on New Years day and pelted them
with rice did not see a scar on the brow
Of the bride, for it was covered by her
bridal veil.-London Tit-Bits.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01

- Nav, an ina
cannot help loyin' someb'dy else, con
tar Tha'll live to rue it, aw tell thee,
an so will that hupstart tha's sect thy
heart on-mind that"
The girl thus addressed blushed faint
". but did not hang her head, Rather,
she lifted it with a proud look which,
despite her working shawl, plain black
hat and somewhat pasty-white com
plexion-the common heritage of mill
girls-lent something queenly to her
whole appearance.
Had you seen Rachel Swami on Sun
day, as She walked with her Bible and
HYMN book to the Methodist Sunday
school to teach her class, you would
scarcely have known her. Dressed in the
latest style-or the latest that had per-
colated to the provinces-from the
''tips" in her hat and the "fall' which
expressed rather than hid her delicate
features. to her neat little shoes, she
looked-what she was-a lady. And
had you seen her at the chapel door
after evening service, without ado or
even greeting, beyond a mutual look
of satisfaction, meet pleasant-faced
Young man and walk away by his side.
YOU would have been in possession of
the secret-no secret now--that James
Sumner, assistant cashier at Messrs.
Peel's mill, and Rachel Swami were
excepting company"
Jim Sumner had started life as half
timer and little-piecer, but naturally
an intelligent lad and a great fayorite
with the schoolmaster, he had, in spite
of the great disability of beginning TO
earn his living at ten, made such good
use of his opportunities that he was
early taken into the office and was
now quite "looked up to" by right
thinking folk as a man who could adj
die (earn) his brass bout takkin his
cooat off" Moreover, he was junior
chapel steward" at the Methodist
chapel, and altogether man any girl
in that place might be proud TO keep
company" with.
That Rachel was proud of her lover
everybody knew. They had only "made
il up" a short time ago and had walked
in, public less than fortnight when
the above conversation took place. The
man, for such he considered himself,
who threatened to "mak' her rue" was
considerably older than herself and an
"overlooker" at the mill in which they
all worked. lie had long forced his at
tentions upon Rachel, who, while giving
him no encouragement, had not abso-
lutelv repulsed him until she heard
that he did a little private bookmaking
among the youths and young men in
the great mill. Until then she had re-
parded him as a decent fellow and
shrank from hurting his feelings. hop
ing he would desist in time and give
it up as a bad job She did not know
Jabez Smethurst. He was the sort OF
man whose love can turn to bitter hate.
and now. both against the girl and the
man he deemed his supplanter, his rage
burnt fercely.
"Aw';o fair miserable AZ my work,
Jim. NOW, said Rachel, as she walked
with her lover from his mothers cot
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01

Unto weary autumn's signing
While those we love are dying
Every year.
The days have less of gladness,
Every year;
The nights more weight of sadness
Every year;
Fair springs no longer charm us,
The winds and weather harm us,
The threats of death alarm us,
Every year.
There come new cares and sorrow,
Every year.
Dark days and darker morrows,
Every year.
The ghosts of dead loves haunt US,
The ghosts of changed friends taunt US,
And disappointments daunt us,
Every year.
To the past go more dead faces.
Every year;
AS the loved leave vacant places,
Every year;
Everywhere the sad eyes meet us,
In the evenings dusk they greet us.
And to come to them entreat us,
Every year.
"You are growing old" they tell us
Every year;
you are more alone" they tell US,
Every year;
"You can win no new affection,
You have only recollection,
Deeper sorrow and detection,
Every year"
Too true!-Life's shores are shifting,
Every year,
And uya q 20 cen " ri driffipp
Every year;
Old places, changing, fret US,
The living more forget us,
There are fewer to regret us,
Every year.
But the truer life draws higher,
Every year;
And It's morning star climbs higher,
Every year,
Barth's hold on us grows slghter,
And the heavy burthen lighter
And the dawn immortal brighter,
Every year.
Albert Pike, In Washington Post.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01

"Now. aw wonder what's come out
about this money!" thought Jim Sum
ner, as he struck the reservoir bank
ON his way from the station home.
Folks are fain to stay in to-neet, aw
reckon Aw'm glad nob'y'll see me till
awe cleared myself clearin' it is
and what can tn masters ha' taken TIL
trouble to get my address fro mother
for nob'dy else knew it-an' tele-
graph me to come instantly, If it's not?
My! but tn frost has bin keen this
two days. Anvil bet tn lodge'll bear" !"
So saying, he ran down and tried it
with his foot, and, finding it safe,walked
a distance on the margin.
"What's that? Good heavens!" He
had stumbled over the PROSTATE form of
woman lying a few feet from the en-
banliment. The ice was starred in every
direction where her head had struck it.
Poor wenchl" He turned her over
and tine moons light fell upon a face he
had often kissed. He reeled as though
lie had received the blow that made the
blood flow from that marble brow. How
cold she was! But she breathed He
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01

all the spirit seemed clean gone 1t OF
her. She went to bed. but not to steep.
The "knoeker up" had an easy task
next morning. That day was the black
est of many black ones during the past
few weeks, and now no lovers comfort
awaited her. Everything went wrong.
The stuff wouldn't weave Her looms
seemed bewitched. The oyerlooker
overlooked with a vengeance.
"Yo'll start on two looms to-morn,
he said; "think on thatl Awe lots
a wenches o IA 'at weave better nor
thee, an do moor wark on two looms
tan tha' con O three"
1t was the last straw. She dare not
face Aunt Bet and her sneers.
"Oh, Jim, jim was the cry of her
heart, "why couldn't you say word
10 me?" For when her heart spoke it
cried for j i'm and not for looms. Com
inc out of the hot mill it was bitter
cold. Next week was Christmas week.
Merry Christmas! She drew her shawl
over her head and hurried away. Not
10 the place she called "home." She
scarcely knew where she went. A hepe-
less despair weighed on her sensitive
spirit. Tears unchecked and unheeded
dropped as she walked. Anywhere,
anywhere, out of the world" would
have been her exclamation could she
have expressed her deepest wish. Sud
denly she found herself on the top Of
the reservoir embankment. The moon
was shining upon the water, which
sparlled and shone with a crystalline
brilliance.
"There's nowt left to live for, an I
won't live!" and, casting her shawl
from her, she threw herself from the
embankment. There was a sharp, ring
ing sound. The moon shone on, and all
was still.
The Van Buren press., 1898-01-01

There are always 100000 peoplo
IN the seas Of the world.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-08-26
PRESS COMMENTS.

Congressman Reed, of Maine, re.
fuses to open the campaign because
there is nothing to open" He might
open the bottle into which Mckinley
thrust him.-Kansas City Times.
Senator Hanna has declared for
Mr.. Mckinley for president in 1900.
Mr.. Hanna is suspected of going into a
decline. lie might have accomplished
more for the president by pretending
to be against him.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Every time coin dollar takes
the place of corporation note ii helps
to put down the London gold tandard
interest rate against American mer-
chants. and to put up the London gold
standard prices for American farm
Mississippi Valley Demo-
crat.
In the midst of the evidence pro-
duced by the Wilson tariff that the
industries of the United States had
outgrown the milliness of infancy and
and in their lusty manhood we're cap
turing the worlds markets the Ding
ley bill was enacted. SO far from catch
ing a glimpse of the commercial revo-
luton. the authors of the bill adjusted
the schedules Of duties to condition
Of things that had passed away. In the
rapid march Of commercial events the
Dingley tariff. so far as protection is
concerned. has already become an
nnachronism. while its failure as rev.
enue measure is almost universally ac-
Observation-Disclosures Record
There has been need OF strong
administrative mind IN the war depart
mcnt OF the cabinet ever since the war
commenced. and the nation has not
had 1t. President Mckinley cannot be
absolved from responsibility here.
Either from lack Of resolution to
break with the officer that he original
ly called 10 that place or from consid.
crations OF politics Secretary Alger
has been retained IN p position which
constant occurrences proved him 10
be incompetent &c fill satisfact orilv.
The nation was entitled 10 the best
man attainable in that place: IL has
had one whom there Is general con-
viction was below the average OF com.
uetency for Its duties.-Boston Herald
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-08-26
THE SON OF STEPHEN DOUGLAS
His Convention to Democracy IL
Political Event OF Unusual
Significance.

The announcement Of Stephen A
Douglas. Jr.. that he considers himself
a member of the democratic party is a
political event of unusual significance.
Mr.. Douglas has always been repub-
lican, a hard party worker, conspicu-
Gus in republican conventions a nd pop
ular meetings and favorite campaign
orator. The democracy of Mr.. Doug
las. though but recently acknowledged
comes to him by distinguished descent.
He is the eldest son of Stephen A.
Douglas. the illustrious democratic
statesman and leader. whose name
and public service are among the
highest honors of the state of Illinois.
On his dying bed he bequeathed to his
sons their most valua bic patrimony
his parting parental counsel Tell
them TO obey the law and uph old the
constitution" These words are
sculptured on the base of his monu-
ment at Douglas park. They consti-
tute the foundation principle of the
democratic party. With this admoni.
ton left as his political inheritance.
the younger Douglas has remained too
long out Of the democratic party. He
is welcome TO its ranks and will be-
come one of its most powerful and
persuasive advocates before the PEG.
pie. In 1896 he secretly voted for Bry-
an. A few days ago he made his public
declaration of faith. He will take the
stump for free silver. the main cause
of his conversion.