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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
ment Is based on the innocent third

ment Is based on the innocent third
party holder law.
The people refused to pay the first
tax levied to pay interest and learned
of the issue of the bonds. Then they
repudatcd the whole thing and sat
down satiticd no court would hold
against them. But in 1873 suit was
brought for $4,000 of the bonds and
decided against the county. Then Judge
Dillon issued II mandamus on the coun-
ty court commanding the judges to
levy the necessary tax. The Judges
learning of the coming of the marshal
with this order took to the woods. ana
it was long time before the officer
was able to serve his papers.
When he did serve them the order
was ignored. The judges were opposed
to the tax, and even if they favored 1t
knew the temper of their people too
we'll to take chances. Then an order OF
arrest for contempt of court was is
sued and the Judges hauled to Kansas
City for hearing. Judges Asabel Heath.
Thomas J. Younger. John Breeder,
John L. Love and Thomas Henley were
the first men to suffer voluntary i'm
prisonment rather than pay what they
believed to be an unjust debt.
When the fight began the people
fought the court because of their wrath
at the fraud put upon them. Now they
keep it up because they could not pay
if they would. The amount has grown
by accretion of interest compounded
from $3.50, 900 to over S1.300OO0. The
assessed valuation of the entire county
is only 81, 000. 900. so it will be seen that
to issue the levy necessary to take up
this debt would contscatc every acre
of land in st. Clair. The people are
willing to compromise and pay the face
of the bonds, but as this offer is reject
ed they keep up the battle.
After Il few courts had been locked
up in a body candidates for the office
became volunteers willing to go to jail
to prevent tax levy. For nearly thirty
years the war has continued, and is not
ended yet Every time Judge Philips
opens court he finds a group of threa
patient typical southwestern Missouri
farmers in court waiting for commit,
ment to Jail. lie offers them advice
and admonition. They reply with tn
stated offer of compromise. and of
course are turned down. Then thu
Judge winds it all up by YEARLY order,
ing his marshal to lock them up. But
the bonds have not been paid, nor any
of the interest. The Federal authorities
are puzzled, and the people of st. Clair
How it will end, if it ever
does get out of court. is a question for
chancery to wraugle with.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
WHY THE DOCTOR LEFT.
Royal Patient Takes Forty-six "eidlitz
Powders in Succession.


An English doctor attached to the
court of rajah made himself almost
Indispensable to his neighbors. He
had. fortunately, also made Il friend
of his prime minister. On one occa-
sion his highness, being slightly indis-
posed. had taken. by the doctors ad-
vice. a seidlitz powder. with which he
expressed himself delighted. Its ten
dency to boil and tiZz ready to blow
your nose off, seemed to him to scat
ter coolness,' and he seemed so much
better after taking it that the doctor
felt himself justified in joining in Il
hunting party.
Presently horseman from the pal.
ace, in the confidential employment Of
the grand vizier. galloped up to him.
MY master bids me tell YOU" he
said, that his highness has broken
open your medicine chest and taken.
first, all the white powders and then
all the blue
"Gracous heavens" cried the doc.
tor. There were twenty-three of each
of them
MY master adds" continued the
messenger. that you had better make
for the frontier without one moments
delay"
The doctor put spurs to his horse and
never drew rein till he was "out of the
jurisdiction of the court. "-Tid-B Bits.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02

The late Sir William Jenner is cred
ited with having enjoyed the largest
professional income of any physician
In Great Britain in his generation. his
practice having brought him $4,000 a
year for several years before he retired.
The London newspapers TEEN with an
ecdotes concerning him. One of these
has been told of other physicians. but 1t
probably originated with Sir William.
who had holy horror of tittle-tattle.
One of his lady patients would cheer
fully pay her fee just to have the op-
portunity of gossiping with him. Her
first words would be: Have Won
heard:" and Jenner would break in:
NO; l have not. Please to put this
thermometer in your mouth. that may
take your temperature" And he kept
the tube between her lips for ten min
utes, 50 that only five minutes We're left
for the lady to indulge in chatter.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
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VISITORS to Great CHI

Paris IN 1897 was visited by 500 600
visitors, Berlin by 617,00O and Vienna
by 364.OOO. Thirteen years ago the fig.
ures for the three cities were. Parts
ts4.OOO; Berlin. 26S.OOO and Vienna.
$4,000, the relatively larger increas So
In the last probably having something
TO do with the freedom from Dreyfus
affairs and lese majesty. In thirteen
years Paris hotels have entertained 8.
ooo,ooo guests, those of Berlin 1900, 900
and those of Vienna 100000. It
would be difficult to obtain accurate
hgures for New York and London ow.
ing TO the lack of police supervision of
hotel registers.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02

There are $1,000 or 10000 persons in
st. Clair County. These. save LOO at
oSceola, as many at Appleton City, and
half as many at Lowrey, are farmers
ana farmers folk. They are a type of
people who have had much to do with
the settlement and development of the
United States. They represent. as II
Is represented in Missouri and the
south Alleghanian hills of east Tennes.
see and Kentucky, as in no other parts
OF the Union. the smon-pure Anglo.
Saxon stock in the new world. Their
ancestors came over in the Mavt1ower
and Others of the first of the emirront
craft. They are an admixture of The
Briton and the Scot. and all their an.
cestral characteristics of neverbe
ing determination and unyieldinc stub.
bornness are apparent in this uniuue
fight of the people of st. Clair County.
Said one leading resident: "Afore
we'll give up they'll have to build n
jail around the whole county, and lock
us up, women, children and all. | ruess
this thing looks pretty funny to people
on the outside, but there's nothinc
funny about it to man with a home
and a farm in st. Clair County. and q
lot of money sharks waitin to Cobble
it the first time there's nobody comes
forward to go to Jail"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
COURT GOES TO JAIL.
A MISSOURI, COUNTY REBELLION
OEFlES SUPPRESSION.
Judges Serve Terms in Prison for Con-
tempt of United States Court Order
Strange story that Has Been Making
History for Twenty Years.

Nowhere in history is there an exact
parallel to the story of the farmers of
ST Clair County, Missouri. who stead
lily refuse to obey a rule of the law, and
who find in their midst men who are
willing to go to Jail, men who serve
their whole terms of office in jail-set
after set of them volunteering to suffer
for the common veal. For twenty-five
years the United States court has de-
clared st. Clair County indebted to GER
tain bondholders for principal and in
terest and interest upou the interest,
besides the court costs, in Il sum now
aggregating 81 800. 900, and has order
ed that the money be paid. For TWEEN
ty-tive years the people of st. Clair
County have answered the United
States court that they did not owe this
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
ALL ABORIGINAL TRIBES lAZr
Hence They Shun Exertion Beyond
Actual Requirements.

Inhabitants of the polar regions nave
an inor,linate appetite. measured from
our dietary standpoint. for lat anu
oleagnous fish, against when the
stomach of a deniZen OF the WARMER
zones would revolt. But the frozen TAT
of the animals Of the far north Is us
sweet and palatable to resident or
that region as is the yam or the iruit
of the plantation to an inhahitant OF
the tropics. Both kinds of food per-
form the required function in their re-
spective climatic zones. one furnishes
the maximum degree of heat TO the
body where it is needed. the other the
minimum degree of animal heat to sus-
tain life under its special climatic cou-
ditions.
The popular notion prevails that the
climate and foods of the tropics are
conducive to Incidence and human de-
generacy 1t is quite as much OF a
popular error as is the other popular
theory that fish is food for the brain
and thus conducive to greater mental
development ard activity. If the latter
were true of fish diet the Siwashes ana
other aboriginal tribes of the northern
coast of this continent would be the
most intellectual representatives of the
human race in existence. AS ii is they
constitute one of the lowest types of
the race. the black of the Australian
bush and the Digger Indian of Califor-
mia only being inferior to them in the
scale of human development.
AS matter of fact. the activity of
man is determined by other factors in
his existence than either food Of eli
mate. All aboriginal tribes are content
to exist. The energies of mind and
body are not eXerted by them beyond
the actual necessities of an existence.
The Esqumaux of the fligid north and
the Indians of the temperate zone are
quite as indolent as the aborigines of
the tropics. having no desire or ambi-
ton to acquire more than the bare nee
essarieS of life or TO rise above the
normal condition of their environment.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
WEST vIRGINIA'S NEW SENATOR.
Nathan II. Scott, Once a Grocery Clerk,
and Now Millionaire.

Nathan Bay Scott, recently elected
United States Senator from West Nir-
ginia, is Il native of Ohio. He was born
on a Guernsey County farm. At the
age of II he was a helper in Il country
store. receiving besides his board and
clothing the muniticent sum of $50 per
year. At Ii he started out to see the
world. His course lay westward and
he got as far as Denver. but found
nothing to induce him to remain there.
Coming back east he enlisted in an
Ohio regiment and fought through the
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
MARK TWAiN'S DAUGHTER.
pr.ttx Mis-, Clemens Inherits Her
Fathers witty Genus

The family of Il famous man IS az
WAYS interesting to the woriu ""'''''
crs of the mans books or paintings OF
...,,,,ovo, olse he has accomplished for
good. Clara Clemens the pretty ua1sn.
for of Samuel l.. Clemens CMarh
Twain'D. is deserved favorite in wen
pose society, where the family OF WE.
clemens are spending their second
winter. =,
Miss Clemens Is beautiful girl anu
,pherits her fathers ready wit ana his
love of pleasant company. In florehce'
when she was still a slender young
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
Peculiar Ceremony of the Chinese

The eXhumation of the bodies of Car
Poy and All Ben. two Chinese who
died at Barooga, New South Wales
about ten years ago. has taken place.
ny the authority of the colonial secre.
tary. Two Chinese came from Denil.
quin for the purpose. Proceedings
commenced by placing lighted tapers
and baked fowl and other food on
the graves. with bowl of whisky. into
which the Chinese dipped with small
cups and drank as they RECALLED them.
selves with the food. Each skeleton
was taken up. and the bones carefully
scraped and separately sewn ND in
calico and labeled with the names of
deceased for deportation to China
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02

money, either wholly or in part, and
that no power on earth could compel
them to pay it. The court has borne
upon them all its gigantic strength. 1t
has punished and pleaded: delivered
upon them all its mandates its dictums.
its DEGREES and its wrath. And in TWEEN
ty years it has moved them not one
particle. To its every command, its
every threat, its every application, the
people OF st. Clair County have an
swered: We will not" ana the history
OF their never-yielding response is the
story of fight without parallel in
America Il story of steadfastness. stub
bornuess and uuterritied. grim jawed
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
CURE FOR APPENDICITIS
Prominent Physicians Say 1t Ia Anon.
able to Proper Medical Treatm.u.


1his paper Is protest against the
current surgical theory and practice
that all cases of appendicitis must no
split open. This protest is based an
twenty-seven years experience as nhv.
stefan and surgeon, including service
in three hospitals, one western fort f,,
years in mining surgery. five ve,rs T.,
railroad surgery, twelve years in gen.
eral practice on the central western,
plateau OF Minnesota and four wears IN
this great city, which-uniaue in tho
speed of its rise, unique in the snon 80
lts people, unique in vast tributary FOR
rltory ana population-is decreed nv tho
fates to be the hub of the earth IN ~
nearby future. '4e
My experience is that appendicitis
ana other abdominal aches for wbinI,
men now operate are promptly amap-
able to proper medical treatment
ean recall loO cases treated with SWIM.
'oii,s OF TINS malady-or of typhlitis or
perltyphlitis, as it was formerly coll,
but have never vet met y ooso 80 :.
~ Wn'ch felt it was my duty to cut or
Which terminated fatally. Influenced
ps the prevailing craze to cut time ana
again in coming to new cosaS 90 t,,,.
KIND l have thought: "Now civ ,a,,,
tine mas come; in this case Won n,rs.
.u'' but presto! simple medical
treatment again prevailed. Iotar on
snail cite other unimpeachable n,an
.ilioners who share my views thai mod.
'ea' treatment avails in this moIadv
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
Inst How II u "

Smith and Jones were I
day about their Duslpa
Smith was a hotel man ""
a manufacturers agent
Il say" said Jones' y
you use such an enormVu
pears and peaches" =
Well" replied Smith, !.
we can, and what We y
can"
Indeed" said the uus
about the same in our p'S
How is that?' "a,
I'VE sell an order W.
it. and when we cant 70
it."-San Francisco ArC]
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02

civil war. After the war he opened a
country store at Bellaire, Ohio. Later
he went into glass manufacturing and
he removed to Wheeling. In this he
made fortune and is now multi-mil-
lionaire. For years he has been in poll
tics. He has been Republican National
Committeeman for twelve years. was n
state Senator once and has held the
post of internal revenue commissioners
under President Mckinley.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
FORTUNE IN HER n
Over 100000 Found I'd
"Countess of Balsch'oH T

.'yOOC OonO N
Countess of Balsch'f 1
Quite a sensation has
Jassy. in ROumania, byI
Nine. Balsch, who has y
cities for years past atm
tention in that town.
Some years ago she wA !
Herr Veldiman, by who'd
daughter. After a year d
ried life she divorced hln|
Il Herr Balsch, by whom ]
Soon after the latter's br1
second husband.
She then went to Pan
called herself Countess
Toward her children she |
to feel anything but
hatred, and when her SOD
the body to her father for
turned her daughter ont {
and the unfortunate glflV
from starvation by the X
atives. After the death I
husband she returned !
where she lived in c0mph
In spite of the fact tlt
tremely wealthy, she llvd
wretched manner and =
reputed to be a miser.
\ few days ago she Ole
daughter came to examln
ings no trace of money %
In going through her mol
however, she noticed tn'
petticoats seemed sOmewl
heavily lined. She rlpF
found over 100000 noles
the lining.
This put her on the trac
mothers petticoats, OF "
an enormous number, VI
In nearly every one Mrge
ey were found, amounu'
to between 2.0OO,W !
francs.-Fr emdenblatt
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02

Two OF the most famous living
Scotchmen are cripples-Lord Kelvin
VINO is the greatest living Scottish
scientist and DR.. James Macgregor of
Edinburgh who is said to be the pra.+
est living Scottish preacher.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02

The celibacy of Hannah Moore the
English writer, which gave her so
much time to bend the powers of her
mind to the interests of humanity. has
always been subject of surprise and
discussion. A writer relates this cir
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02

Inc more gracefully woman allows
herself to be deceived, the easier il no.
comes for her husband to be n sotisfos
tory one.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
Di,tautly Relates ~

At the wedding ann
railway magnate, one ~
noticing a somewhat W
and rather shabbily a'u' sl
corner of the parlor' w.
sat down near him. !
u was introduced 'o, y
but l did not eaten YOU 4.
MY name" replied =
Swaddleford." I'D
"Oh, then you are
host .s,.f
YES" replied the is,i
with a grin. Il am nls y.
removed" youths Oou
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
Two Kinds of PeopIe.

No. the two kinds of people on earth I
mean,
Are the people who lift and the people
who lean.
Wherever you so, you will find the world.
masses
Are always divided in just these two
classes.
And oddly enough, you will find, too. I
Ween,
There is only one litter to twenty who
lean.
In which class are you? Are you easing
the load
OF overtaxed lifters who toll down the
road?
Or are you leaner who lets others bear
Your portion of labor and worry and care
Ella Wheeler Wilcov
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
PAOeREWSkIs'

PAoeREwskIs lsJacobs
Six Month. Of H.rds,. 5.cobs
.,,., n ond'l's S5soobs
when Paderewsll \ ~,
tizky, in Vienna, som. : 81. n
was as a concert pe,,r an,
already achieved sucss ~, n
mastered an eztepas RI %
writes Cleveland Moas
heard his play for NJ 49,
said:
You have same vsu 0Or
you have talent. You hss
many things, and noAh,
Your wrist is hard and NVS
come to me you mus 4
months that you haye,s
must play nothing but 0e
technique, six hours adr
and nothing else.'
"Paderewski Thoughts ~
and decided that he hsdt. hes
will for this severe ten
self entirely in Leschss
All day long for six mor, OF
ed concert performer M
the mechanics Of piano !, -
ercises specially devised I'd
Leschetizky, and some b,
self with reference to n -
his own hands. EversJ 1t,
a lesson at the profextI .
being a mark of specdtp| ~
ordinary pupils all lesw
the afternoon, and one
weeks is the best that d
proficient may attain, N&ksn
hours, three hours thes,tjl
lasted, for Leschetizky Iy8 stf
time once his serious ur> -,
ed. These two men Wens -
stantly. They took hu ma,
played hard-fought ganuSo "a
both being adopts at ts ~ !
talked necessarily, for Id leali
a fluent tongue, and VIII pub
man knew of sounding d Z II
freely to the younger maj
disciple has given to tn q
dies Home Journal. ~
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02

It's pretty tough when the troll, 90
hohor consists Of BUTTERFLIES drv
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
The Real Owner.

do you own your own home, Twee-
dles:"
NO: we've had the same cook seven
years.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02
Poker

Poker. n
"There is sometnins. 4.
about four aces" said W
sometimes plays poker ,,. IN
"They are almost Ike = -, a,
the man who someliln'. - \
Yes. and they are ~
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-02

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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-01-19
THE SINGLE GOLD STANDARD.
Leaders BASED Upon n Bare
faced and fragrant FaIsehood.

There is nothing more certain than
that the first important measure that
will be taken up by the new congress
viii be currency reform" bill to es-
tai lish as fully as it has for years been
established in England, gold as the only
monetary standard in this country. In
such hurry are the advocates of this
reform that it is about settled that
an extra session of congress will be
called to hasten the consummation of
the scheme. And all this is based on
the claim that the result of the presi-
Dental election of 1896 was a decision
IN favor of the gold standard, and that
such decision was emphasized by the
elections last fall.
Political chicanery and regeneration
were never based on more barefaced,
fragrant falsehood. The great republic
an victory of 1896 was expressly and
distinctly won on the emphatic pledge
CT the st. Louis platform in favor of bi-
netallism. Free silver coinage was re-
jected by the platform as threatening
TO give the country silver monometal
lism. The single gold standard was
equally rejected as tending TO give the
country gold monometallism. What
was claimed to be the exact position of
the republican party had been thus
clearly set out by John Sherman in one
of his most memorable speeches in the
United States senate
To adopt the gold standard alone and de-
monetiZe silver would be to deprive the
which alone measures the value of their
production and their labor. Gold alone
Viii Io not ,,aess,,r roi tbe LII because y
great mass of mankind. The utter ruin
that would come to mankind. especially
to the poorer nations. by the entire demon
citation of silver cannot be estimated by
US. Take One-half of the solid money NJ
the world out of existence; take the sole
standard of more than two-thirds of the
human race, reduce it to a base metal and
the effect upon the commerce of the world
viii not be done There is no danger OF
II These two metals, gold and silver,
have travelled side by side from the begin
tory do not go back beyond it. They have
varied, sometimes one and sometimes the
other has been considered of superior value,
but they have gone on: gold, the money OF
the rich, and silver, the money of the poor;
the one to measure acquired wealth. the
life. No act of parliament. although IL may
disturb for the moment the relation OF
these two metals to each other, nothing
but an act of God can destroy the use OF
beth these metals among the nations OF
mankind.
Yet, hard as it is TO conceive-harder
still to believe-the amazing truth con-
fronts US to-day that the party which
went before the country In 1896 and
won on these truthful, eloquent and
statesmanlike words to-day is the con-
fessed advocate of the single gold stand
ard, and that John Sherman himself is
willing to be counted with theml--ot.
tawa Gill;, Free Trader.