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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-12-22
Mrs. A. s. Dam is quite Ill, threatened

Mrs. A. s. Dam is quite Ill, threatened
with pneumonia.
Mayor Fechter has gone east to be alb
sent about two weeks.
Mr.. Personeous, the father-in-law OF
ex-senator Lesh, has been visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Dan Lesh, returning
home to Seattle on Monday night.
Wade Lilies trial in the superior court
on the charge Of assault with a deadly
weapon was contn for the term. DR..
McCracken, a witness for the defense
was too i'll to appear and hence the con-
tinuance.
Sonr sauerkrsut at Kinsey's.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-12-22
q license as yet. action on the protest was

q license as yet. action on the protest was
deferred.
When the protest against the re-issu-
ance OF Thos. Lund's license came up,
the expectant throng looked for a display
Of aldermanic oratory, pro and con, but
Ex-iudge Graves quietly arose and asked
permission to interject few remarks
which was granted. He evidently APP
peared as counsel for Lund and said that
the time for protest had two days yet to
expire under the ordinance requiring 10
days notice to property owners and hence
any action taken at this time by the
mayor concurred and the protest went
over to the next meeting OF the council on
the second day OF January. The follow
ing property owners on the avenue filed
the protest: |. II. Dlls, 3 lots; NJ. A.
KershaS, lot; Nessey * McRae, lot !;
Schlodtfeldt Bros, . lots; A. B. Weed, .
lots; Louis Janeck, | lot; W. l.. Stein
veg. = lots; J. X. Lewis, lot; A. f..
Ward, > lots; making in all 10 lots or
three above the required number.
A protest was filed by J. L. McCatierty
and A. b. Weed against the building of
sidewalks in block Is was disallowed. An
ordinance was directed to he drawn for II
local assessment district No. & including
block IS on third and +. streets. The IL
nance committee Was directed to employ
expert George Bosdet at $500, to overhaul
the books OF the treasurer and clerk
since they were last exported. On mo-
ton of Dudley, the treasurer's bond was
reduced from $4,000 to 5000. The az
sessment roll OF district No. } Was APP
proved. An ordinance was passed de
claring the following raise in salaries :
Marshal 500 per month, night police 500
per month; police justice. SO per month
city attorney $50 per month. The mayor
refused his assent, but his absence from
the city will doubtless make it law
The city attorney holding an elective Of
fee does not tins term come under the
provisions of the ordinance relating to his
office.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-12-22
City Council DOingS.

A full council, the mayor and his cabi-
net and a large concourse of citizens at
tended the council meeting Monday
night. Much interest was manifested in
regard to saloon licenses. j. II. Timm S
license being about to expire, Mr.. Mich
ae, of the Hotel Bartholet, filed pro-
test, but as Mr.. Timm had not asked for
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-12-22
SAVE YOUR LIFE
And use more pure Yakima Whole
" heat -four. Sold by all grocers. 40.

Walter Harrison. OF Potomac, ILL.,, has
arrived in the city with his bride TO
make his home here. He is brother OF
r. n. Harrison. and will be employed by
him In his store.
J. B. George, OF Zillsh. has purchased
the business OF the Modern Store"
formerly conducted by Messrs. Needhsm
& MacCrimmon.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-12-22

A divorce WAS granted by Judge Dsv-
idson Monday in the the case Of Stroud
against Strond.
Strayed-From the Buckley pasture
on the Natchez, a sorrel mare branded
b. X. on left hip; right front foot scared
10y accident. A liberal reward will be
paid for the return of the animal to the
o. X. livery stable.
G. p. Dunaway was married on Mon
day to Miss Vicy Steiner in the office OF
the county treasurer, Justice MacCrim-
mon officiating. The witnesses were
Matt Bsrtbolet and Miss Media Steiner,
sister Of the bride. The groom is "A
and Miss Nicy, sixteen years old.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-12-22
The BEST FOOD

In winter time il the fresh ground Yak
ina Corn Meal and Graham flour. 40.
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04
Memphis Route.
Kansas City, Fl. Scott &
MGlpliS R. R.

The best line to Kansas City, the
West and Northwest. Palace
Sleeping Cars and Reclining Chair
Cars seats free on all through
trans. Entire equipment first
class. Close connections at Union
Depot, Kansas City. The only
line with through service from the
West to the South and Southeast.
Entire tram runs through from
Kansas City to Birmingham Ala,
and to New Orleans, Send fol
map and Timetable folder, Write
for Illustrated papers and pamph'
lets, with county map, descrlp
tive of Missouri, Kansas and Ark
ansas, mailed free. Address
J. E. LOCKWOOD,
J. J. Fletcher,
Traffic Manager,
ansas City.
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04
TW ElE1VEI REASONS.

The St. Louis Republic
gives a dozen good reasons
why newspaper readers should
read this paper. Here they ar
l. The Republic Is the grca
est newspaper published.
3 1t has a cable news service
over the entire civilized world
which no other st. Louis paper
can secure.
3. Special correspondents in
all the large cities and capitals
Of Europe.
4. News Bureau in New York
City AMI Washington, D, G.
s. Special correspondence in
7. Publishes daily the mark
ct reports of theworld,
S. Issues "a magnificent color
ed magazine cover witn the
sunday paper.
8. More rotedwiters nj ar
lists contribute.ro the Republic
than any other paper.
10. Issues an unequaled four.
page comic with each Sunday
paper free,
II. Publishes pages of inter
est and value to womankiud.
II. Its 10 cent Dress Pattern
Department is the most popular
featrre ever introduced ay a
every city and town inth e Yves.
tern Uuited States.
z, Member Of the Associated
Press, the greatest news gath
Serer IN the world.
newspaper. Thousands patro-
nize it.
The daily and Sunday St.
louis Republic is 6 sdoIIars a
syear, 3 dollars for six months
and 100 for threemonths. The
Week Republic is /
doll aa year-!04 papers, two
each week.
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04
"A hGTEAEl yaGNEY

n vested in the great i~ad and
Zinc mlOug region Of Missouri d.. ,
Kansas .Galcm, Empire Guy,
Joplin, webb Ci'y CmCcrvrb~.i,
very likely to make you a fortune.
That is common experience II tIu,
rich mlnug section, New mineral
strikes are beng made dny
Good mineral lands ARE vet cheqp
No other mines Of any character
offer 80 sure a road to wealth.
The Kansas Nty, Fort Scott and
Memphis rolIroad Is the ouly line to
all of these great mOiug oamps.
For map and time tablo' folder ad.
dress
J, Il, LOCKWOOD,
Gen'l Pass'r AgL,
Naueas City, Mo
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04
its climax.

its climax.
All of Natures after penance
bresthes in the signing minor OF
the descending scale. Surely
thai was a human sob that rang
through the room, a fellow
morJal's burst of sympaty. No,
it was just the old fiddle, who
"knew things cause she'd been
lyin' so long ag'in his hear" "
And now from out her CULVER
ing strings she sends forth a
melody SO divinely pure, 50 i'm
measurably sweet, the coldest
ear must open to greet it.
In it are the prayers of mothers.
the tears of wives, the sobs OF
little children-all Of unlanguag-
ed pain, all of unlanguaged
love.
1t is the echo Of that song
which beats forever against the
throne of God in tender tireles;
cadence-the united voices OF
many women pleading for the
souls of men.
The violin slips from the gov
ernor's hands and his head sinks
upon his breast.
The old fiddle has told her
story straight"
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04

A farmer and his wife called
at Il Detroit photograph gallery
last week to order some photo.
graphs Of her, and while the op.
orator was getting ready, the
husband gave The wife u little
advice rs 10 how she must act:
"Fastcn your mind on some.
thing he said, cor else you will
laugh and spoil the job. Think
about early days, how your father
got in Jail, and your mother wac
an old sooldor, and what you'd
have boon If hadn't pided youl
Just iaston your mind on to
thatl" She didn't have any
photographs taEen,-Ex.
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04
Snap Shots Al South
EHRASOURHn

Is a magniicen; book of SIXTY or
more photo>engrayed views of
Varied scenery IN South Missouri,
From these views an accurate
knowledge can be obtained as to
the productions and general
topography Of that hlghly'favored
section that ls now attracting the
attention of homes kers and in.
vcstorS the country over.
Address J. E. LOCK WOOD,
G. p. \, Memphis Route,
Kansas City, Mo.
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04

When witnesses were found who
corroborated the statements of the
prisoner and jail wardens certified
to twenty years of exemplary
behavior inside the prison walls
the governor sent for Abner
Hill to be brought to his private
Office.
The day he expected him he
placed the violin in a conspicuous
position on the desk.
There was ushered into his
presence a tall, angular man,
with the worn face and STOPPING
shoulders of three score years;
hair scanty, muscles flabby, eyes
dull; nothing to bespeak youth
but the faint red that crept into
his sunken cheek when the
servant announced his name. A
single stroke of sin and it's after
writing on the brain had done the
work Of twice twenty years.
He stood inside the door with
down-cast eyes and nervous,
trembling, fluttering, hands.
The governor called his name,
and something in the kindly ac-
cents gave him courage to look
up.
Something else in the homely,
humorous face that no man ever
looked into without loving gave
him courage to speak, and his
eyes caught sight of the violin.
Reaching a trembling hand out
to his dumb friend as though for
confidence, he whispered hoarse-
ly:
"Guv'ner, what did she tell you
fer me? What did my old fiddle
tell you?"
The governor waited for a mo-
ment, perhaps to steady his voice,
then laying both hands on the
shoulders Of the other, his eyes
reading with a fathers tender
ness the piteous, expectant face,
he said;
"Abner, she says-the old fd-
die says-that you can 60 back
TO the mountains. And, my
man, may God go with YOU"
The convict stood for a mo-
ment like one struck dumb a
womanish palor overspreading
his cheek; then with a cry which
his listener never forgot, he
threw his arms around his hber-
ator and sobbed like a heart
broken child.
And the governor was not
ashamed TO admit that something
in his throat and
broke out at his eyes, too -
Nora 0, Franklin, in Lippincoits S
Magazine,
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04
TME EEGDAE TOaID.

IuG SOfGTllC' 3iJ dlDne III MS
private office. His clerk had
just left him,
The Christmas season was a
busy and responsible one with
him, for he chose that time to in
vestigate thoroughly the criminal
records of the state and pardon
such prisoners a. good conduct
or extending circumstances plac-
ed within the pale of executive
clemency,
If questioned as to the selection
of the holiday season for the ex-
ercise Of the "benign prerogat-
i've" he was wont to answer "Oh,
| may be helping to turn the tide
in the soul of some Paul, and |
have a fancy to do it when peace
and good will are most likely to
be at the flood; that is all" "
Whether this were all and it
were not in response to some
deeper sentiment those who knew
him best alone could say,
Tonight as he looked at the
pile Of mail matter on his desk
yet to be disposed Of he pushed
back his chair with g smothered
groan and started to the door,
moved by wild impulse to get
outside and turn the key on it
all.
An obstruction in his path
caused him to stumble, and he
saw a curious looking bundle in
brown paper, clumsily tied with a
coarse twine string, lying on the
floor at his feet.
He remembered the clerk hav-
ing mentioned a package from
the state prison-this must be it
and he pushed it impatiently to
one side; but as he did 50 some
thing in the coffin shaped out
lines made him stop and tear
away part of the cover.
He found, to his amazement, a
violin, and appended to it soil
ed, pencil-wrltten note, evidently
an appeal Of some kind.
Curiosity conquered fatigue.
He had handled many and var
ious petitions, but never one in
shape like this.
Detaching the note from its
fastenings, he crossed toe room
to the window, and by the waning
light of the winters day de-
ciphered the following illiterate
text:
"To the goyner: They tell ME
thet yer Hart gifts tender to pris-
ners at christmas time and you
listens to what they has to say.
I've ben heco twenty years fer
KILN q man and I've ben sorry
every day senseI done it. was
a hot headed Boy Nv % and the
man called pap q Liar and sed
things again man. / couldn't
noways stand thet and | nocked
him down. he was q pale sickly
Completed tender-foo and he
never got up again, | never
ment to kill him but my fist was
hevy and some mad things inside
Nv me sirked me on, they never
Civ me ne sort NV a Trial but les
put me in Hear fer Life. his foks
was rich and mino pore and
couldn't pay no lawyer, pap is
gone blind and nam is old and
they aint got nobody to look after
EN- but Joseel, Joseel is the gal
thet was goin to mary me, She
left her home whom they sent mo
Hear and went to look aftor the |
old Folks sames they was horn.
if / could git back to Joseel and |
the old folks and the montains
lde never liz my han again no
man agen coptin it was to help .
him 50 help me God,
"rhey tell me as how you kin
make a Fiddle talk till tho chill
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04
letter, Salt-Rheum and Eczer

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Sharp County record., 1898-02-04

shell be tel I'm lou ABOUT. seems
like she know ,hinrs as well as
/ do. Praps cause she's ben lyin
again my Hart So lone, and if
she cant tell you nnthn Guvner
let her talk TO yer wi.o. It's about
Wimmen she tel mastly. VIM
men and Sorrar And Wimmen
is quicken men to under5san them
things"
THAT'S all. its tux me 3
weeks torite this letter. Goodby.
God 90 with the old Fiddle and
help her tel it swate.
"Abner Hill"
When the governor turned
away from the window there was
look on his face that few had
ever seen there except his wife.
He lifted the violin carefully
from the floor, tore away its
wrappings and looked at it long
and curiously. 1t was roughly
made of native pine and maple
and vanished with the home
made varnish of the mountains,
but tho strings gave back the
true viol tone, clear and ring
ing.
Bringing his chair closer to the
CRATE, he placed the instrument
in position, drew the bow, and
there sin the still of the evening
let her talk to him."
He was a mountain boy him
self, and as the first soft notes
fell on the air, plaintive and
piercing like the cry of the whip
poorwill in the early spring, he
felt the youth stir in him and
heard again the far call Of the
hills.
He saw the log cabin high up
against the side Of the mountain,
where the laurel and the sumac
grew and the ash made bright
the scene with it's dark fruit;
where the breeze came laded with
the odor of pine from the forest,
and the birds touched the high
est notes in their shrill treble.
He saw the boy with his sturdy
limbs, his bold blue eyes and his
waving hair, bare foot and
scantily clad, searching for the
earliest berries in summer and
the nuts in the fall--free, joyous,
innocent, happy.
He followed him in the "lOng
long thoughts" Of a lad across
the distant crest of the "Deyils 8
Backbone" and wove with him
mystic dramas amid the shades
of the haunted ravine.
He sat with him at the foot Of
the mountain lass and listened
while he poured the crude poetry
Of his awakened soul into the
sensitive instrument which alone
could interpret the mystery with
in him,
He stood besidehim and watch
ed the blazing pine knots roar up
the cabin chimney, while the old
folks in tho corner looked at each
other across the3 boy with that
surreptitious tenderness Of the
eyes which takes the place, in
those grown gray and sure Of
each other, Of the moro open
demonstrations.
He saw the whole twenty-five
years Of clean humble living; she
inspiring, pastoral life of the
southern mountaineor, compan-
ionod of nature; simple, fearless,
brave; scornEul Of the false,
reverent Of the true; tender to
weakness, fierce to wrong, and,
alas! uncontrolled as the ele-
ments around him; crushing, in
somo mad output of strength, the
obstacle in his way, to stand
afterwards in awful recoil before
tho unknown potentialities of his
own organism,
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04

DR.. Cady's Condition Powders
just what a horse needs when in i
condition. Tonic, blood purifier i
vermifuge. They are not food
medicine and the best in use to put
horse in prime condition. Prie
cents per package.
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04
Many Persons

Are broken down from overwork or household
cares Browns Iron BittGrS
rebuilds the system, aids digestion, removes eX.
cess of bile, and cures malaria. Get the genuine
Sharp County record., 1898-02-04

s8OO0. 90 year is being maoo W John 3
Goodwin Troy NY .,at work for us. Reader
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-09-01
French Detectives.

The ability of French detectives in
the matter of Disgusting their identity
is marvellous. Some years ago one OF
them made bet that he would, in the
course of the next few days, address a
gentleman with whom he was acquaint-
ed four times, for at least ten minutes
each time, and that he should not know
him on any occasion until the detective
had made himself known. AS matter
of course, the gentleman was on his
guard and mistrusted every one who
came near him. But the man won his
bet. 1t is needless to enter into the par
ticulars. Suffice it to say that in the
course of the next four days he present.
ed himself in the character Of a boot
makers assistant, hack driver, ven
cradle old gentleman with great inter
est in the Bourse, and finally as waiter
in the hotel where the gentleman was
staying. York Ledger.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-09-01
Burning Out Stumps.

The months of August and September
are the best for the eradication of old
stumps. A correspondent of Orange
Judd Farmer thinks there is no better
way than to burn them out by a method
which he describes as follows: A sheet
iron cylinder large enough to slip down
over the large stumps is used. This CYL
inder tapers into cone shaped figure
the size of stovepipe. Several joints
of stovepipe are then added to this, and
the whole apparatus is placed over the
stump. Previous to this the soil is dug
away from around the stump, and fire
is kindled. Then the cylinder is added
the smoke evolves from the pipe, and
you have good working stove princi-
pie complete. The stump will be burned
up as completely as if it were put in a
stove manufactured for the purpose. At
this season of the year the dryness of
the stumps will render them in good
condition to burn.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-09-01

brace. Use good Georgia pine to cell
with and flooring not over three inches
in width. Make your "manholes"
small, door fashion, without hinges, and
to take out on the inside.
When the silo is completed, make
some good cement and pry up your silo,
a side at time, and drop it back into a
good, liberal "mush" Of cement, and
then on the inside fill the angle where
the walls and ground meet with cement
and small stone, out into the silo foot
and up on the sides, and on the outside
cover the sill completely. Draw the
soil from the center of the silo up on to
the cement and pound down and make
the bottom quite kettle shaped, fully q
foot below the stills at the center. Do
not cement the bottom unless you fear
rats coming up from below. a clay
floor for silo is preferable by far if
there is no danger of surface water get
ting under.
Whenever your silo gets to decaying
on the walls, then will be time to paper
line and double cell, and then you will
have a new silo. A stone foundation
adds nothing to the value of wooden
silo, and you cannot join wood and
stone together and make a No. job
without more work and cost than tc
run the wooden walls to the founda.
ton, and it will never be so satisfac
tory as an "all alike" silo.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-09-01
"To Cut Stick"

This expression had its birth in the
days when people relied more on thew
legs as means of locomotion than they
do nowadays.
When q man started to foot it from
one town to another, he usually cut a
stick or sapling to help him along on
his journey.
This habit was particularly common
in Ireland, and it is more than probable
that the expression found birth in that
country. About the year 1920 song re-
lating the adventures of an Irishman
was very popular in Glasgow. It began;
"Oh, creished my brogues and cut
my stick"
The phrase took hold of the American
mind in the days Of slavery.
A runaway black would generally cut
D stick to help him Oh his travel to pos
Bible liberty, and the advertisements
concerning runaway slaves were nearly
always headed with crude woodcut Of
negro with a stick and a bundle ovel
mis- shoulder. New York World.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-09-01
EAdR3Aaaso.ss,=
zssSGHRBgA
AN ALL ALIKE SIlO.
An Ohio Farmers Idea of the Best Way
to Build One In q Barn.

An Ohio Farmers Idea of the Best Way
to Build One In a Barn.
We would not put in any founda-
ton of either brick or stone were we to
build in a barn." says John Gould in
Ohio Farmer. We have none under our
two silos, built 10 years ago. In the
barn we would make square silo, put
the girths on round and round, spacing
a little more as they approached the top,
where they can be as much as three feet
apart, but using more toward and at
the bottom. Level the ground on the
basement floor and put the first girths
fiat on the ground, the next eight inches
above, the next foot, spacing little
wider each time until above the CEN
ter, where they can be much farther
apart.
Make the silo distinctly independent
pf.barn and walls. Lap the ends of the
girth and spike them we'll and then cut
a short board and nail across the cor
ners, as shown in the cut. Cut it out in
crescent form-a little-and when you
cell up your silo side up right round
on this crosspiece and make "round
corner" without any break or angle.
Fig. / shows how the corner is put to-
gether; Fig. 2 shows the crescent shaped
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-09-01
One Thing and Another.

According to Orange Judd Farmer,
the heavy cabbage sections, taken as a
whole, point to a fair but not especially
large crop under continuance of ia
yorable weather.
The prospect ahead of timothy hay
producers does not appear very bright
to writer in The National Stockman,
who says: There is class of consumers
that will always continue in the belief
that timothy hay is the only coarse feed
that should be given to horses, but
there is rapidly growing class that
prefer to substitute straw and corn fod-
der for hay whenever the latter is not
very low in price.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-09-01
One Verdict,

The Atlanta Constitution tells of O
curious verdict rendered by Georgia
jury in case where the guilt of the
prisoner was clearly established. 1t was
not thought the jury would be ten min.
utes in recommending him for the peni.
Tertiary, but three hours elapsed before
the ~ men filed into court again, when
a verdict of "Not guilty" was read, tc
the establishment of all.
How could you bring in such YER
dict after the evidence?" asked the
judge.
"Well, jedge," replied the foreman
"he's a man of large family and los
one leg and two sons in the war"