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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08

Under the Hayes administration the
per capita expenditure was from $4.9S to
s.. 46 under Arthur it was 81 .63 to S4.94;
under Cleveland's first term it was 4.22
to 81 SO; under Harrison it was $5.07 to
rs. 70; under Ceveland's second term it
began at $537, fell to $4.03 and closed at
1901. The average under those five
presidential terms was $4.97. This has
risen now, due to war expenditures sole
ly, to $7.95 in the last fiscal year, with a
prospect of going still higher before our
military troubles are over.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08

Ex.Congressman Bourke Cochran. who
supported Mckinley in '96, now expresses
the opinion that Col. Bryan would be
elected president this year. in cam.
paign based solely on the Declaration of
Independence.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08

The voice that uttered the following
words is not that of calamity bowler or
a crank it is the voice Vi the Springfield
Mass } Republican, true blue, but one
that will not truckle: "The country has
been passing through period OF rare and
dizzy int oxcaton-dlunk with gold and
glory, drunk with the pride OF military
achievement and constituencies aggres-
sion, drunk with false expectations as to
the limitlcss possibilities OF trade which
conquest in the far east was to open up to
the nation-and so rushing on through a
vcritaNle saturnalia OF corporate conbln
ton, decentralization and wild and reckless
imitation to anticipate bonndcss pros
perity, or to reapa harvest OF dollars from
the pockets OF the people in exchange for
the wind blown paper Of the trusts"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08
Notice Of Dissolution.

Notice is hereby given that the partner
ship heretofore existing between W. W.
Wren and W. W. Harmon, under the
firm name Of w. W. Wren 4 Co., has
been dissolved bv mutual consent. w.
W. Wren will pay all bills due from the
firm and receipt for all accounts due the
same.
Dated Aberdeen, Wash. Jan. 81, 1900.
W. W. WREN
1S-4t W. w HARMON.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08

The republicans in congress are making
numerous bluffs at the trusts, but, having
clear majority in both the house and
senate. they will have to do more than
bluff in order to save their party from the
condemnation Of atiust.trampled people.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08

Hello! IL there "treason" in the Phil
ippine commission? Prof. Schurman.
one Of the commissioners, recently said
in public speech: 1--WE can govern the
Filipinos successfully only by letting
them, as far as possible, go their own way
by allowing them the largest measure Of
home rule"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08

Recent railroad deals indicate that the
time is not far distant when all tue big
lines will be merged into i single NAM
moth trust.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08
TO CONSERVATIVES.

The undersgle,. having been restored 20 health
by simple means. after suffering for several years
with a severe lung affection, and that dread
disease Consumption, is anxious to make known
to his fellow sufferers the means Of cure. To
those who desire it. he will chcerfully send free
Of charge) copy Of the prescription used which
they will find sure cure for Consumption.
lung Mslsdies. He hopes all sufferers will try
his remedy. as it Is invaluable. Those desiring
the prescription. which will cost them nothing.
and may prove blessing, will please address.
gsv EDWARD A.WlLS0N. Brooklyn, New York.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08

Advertised Letters.
List OF letters remaining unclaimed in
the Aberdeen p. o. for the week ending
Feb. 3, 1900:
Anderson. Matte Defauw. Jan
Mr.. Neic Gjukd. Jackson Bros
kelsOn Mr.. g. >. Jones, Mr.. Lewis
Leftwich. Marguerite Murphie, Mrs Ella
Mckeand. Mr.. Geo. Patterson. Mr.. WIN.
Proctor, Mr.. Whitfield Rogers, j, F.
Watson, DR..
Persons calling for these letters will
please say advertised"
C.. X. BELL, Z. NJ.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08

a rich lady, cured OF her Deafness and
Noises in the Head by DR.. Nichoson's
Artificial Ear Drums, gave $4,000 to his
Institute, so that deaf people unable to
procure the Ear Drums may have them
free. Address No. l24G5 The Nicholson
Institute, 80, Eighth Avenue, New
York.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08
Five Hundred Dollars Reward.

$500 reward will be paid for the arrest
and conviction Of any person found cut
ting lines or turning adrift any RATS or
boom sticks that are tied to our wharf or
boom on the Chellais river.
81 l yr. WILSON Bios. & Co.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08
Aberdeen Herald.

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ny
John !. CARNEY, Editor and Manager
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08
THURSDAY, FEB. 8, 1000.

CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08

Entered at the postoffice at Aberdeen, Wash''
as second class mail matter.
The Taney County republican., 1900-06-14

couldn't get over it. I always was
afraid OF burglars and ghosts" And
then she had nervous chill.
John said nothing. He took out a
copy of Spencer and lighted a cigar.
After a time the baby was brought
home and put to bed. Mrs. Trum-
ness and was peeking out from behind
window shade listening to 4 conver-
sation that was going on in the court.
The servant employed by the family
in the apartment just below the Trum-
bulls abode was in the fiat opposite
telling the occupants Of that place that
she was unable to get into the house.
Il can't turn the key. and if you
don't mind, ma'am, I'll go through
your window"
The people didn't mind at all. They
even held the girls parasol and pocket
book while she clambered from one
window sill to the other.
Then came a crash. 1t was terrific
crash. Had the girl fallen into the
court? No. The sounds that came
heard when Hendrick Hudson played
III tuc <At tidl
point came shrek, such as the stage
heroine gives vent to when the villain
gets after her with butcher knife.
1t vas sickening. Mrs. Trumbull wait
ed half a second. then stuck her head
out of the window. and with the help
of half dozen other feminine voices
called: "Mary! Mary! What's the
mattec?"
The reply was volley of sobs and
squeals winding up with: 'The flats
been robbed"
Mr.. Trumbull was surprised to see
his wife, with hair streaming down her
back and hands clutching the folds OF
a bath robe. go scooting through the
library out into the hall and down the
stairs.
In ten minutes she returned. Her
eyes were big and black and scared.
Her teeth were chattering. and her
hands were busy with each other. She
curled up on the divan and looked at
her husband.
"John, what do you think? The
Smiths fiat has been robbed and
there's hardly a scrap of anything left.
They even took some Persian rugs and
Mrs. Smiths Sealskin. And the silyer's
all gone, and the house-oh. you just
should see it! It's knee deep with the
The Taney County republican., 1900-06-14

| things that they've pulled out of the
| dressers and wardrobes."
John continued to read his Spencer
'That's too bad" he said.
Silence of five minutes.
"John." she spoke very softly.
''Yes?" he asked, not looking up from
Spencer.
John, do you know I'd just be scared
stiff if you weren't here
John smiled sadly.
"You won't go off on that hunting
trip. will you?"
"Well-ll-ll," he drawled, uncer-
tainly.
81 just won't let you, now. They
might come in and take my old candle
stick. or the baby, or my grandmoth-
er's set of china. And-I'm not a bit
afraid when you're here. Honest, I'm
not!"
Johns chest swelled up. This was
the floor and went and looked at his
revolver. Then he tried the dining
room windows. After that he threw
his arms out and doubled them up to
see if his muscle swelled up as it did
when he was lad at school.
He walked back and forth through
their bit of fiat and held his head
up high. Then he sat down beside that
little tyrant of a wife and looked her
in the eyes.
She giggled hysterically and ran her
fingers across his mustache, just as she
used to do when poor John was so
crazy with love for her that she could
have pulled out every hair of his head
and he'd never have known it.
''Dear." John said, softly, IL never
knew before that there was any place
for me in this house. that filed any
want here. But now 1 find that am
useful, that l am burglar-scarer.
God bless that man that stole those
things downstairs. It'll be hard on
the Smiths, but it's a mighty fine thing
for me-" 4..
And they lived happy ever after. Or
had for a week, as the burglary only
took plaza that far back.-Chicago
Herald.
The Taney County republican., 1900-06-14

DReckless and desperate as democ-
racy is it knows that the Americas
people will not incline their ea.' to
tales of debased currency, dishon.
est dollar, and disregard of con
tract obligations.-Denver Times.
The Taney County republican., 1900-06-14
GIVE Us One Good Mark.

Let us bear in mind, says the Wash.
ington Post. the fact that we stamped
out bull6ghting in Cuba.
The Taney County republican., 1900-06-14

DThe prospective value of our new
possessions, from a commercial point
of view, has been a matter of doubt
and controversy. Yet even under the
disturbed conditions which prevail,
the exports to Cuba, Porto Rico, the
Hawaiian, Philippine and Samoan is-
lands have almost doubled in 1899, as
compared with those for the year
preceding, and the outlook for the
future is promising. 1t follows, of
course, that with an increase of trade
will come increased opportunities for
employment and higher wages. The
great nations of the world are eager
competitors for commercial suprem-
acy, and this country must win fore
most place or be content with condi-
tions that invite national stagnation
and decay.-Youth's Companion.
The Taney County republican., 1900-06-14

DThe democratic party. since pop
ulism took control of it, has ceased to
appeal to the hope, the intelligence,
the energy, the spirit of the country.
1t banks on discomfort; it endeavors
to persuade all those who lack the
qualities necessary to helpfulness and
thrift that they are victims of op-
preston; it claims for inefficiency.
and even for idleness, the rewards
that justly belong only to active in
telligence and self-denying industry,
and its tones vibrate between notes
Of calamity and notes of fury, an
archy and revenge.-Portland Ore
gonian.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1900-01-04

IN UNCLE SANS SERVICE.
The Prejudice Against Women in
Government Employ l. Rapid
~ disappearing.

Women are eligible for appointment
to many branches of the government
service upon precisely the same condi-
tions as men, writes Barton Cheyney,
In the Ladies' Home journal. 'The
question of sex does not enter into the
matter when there are vacant positions
which are open to women. At the pres
ent time there are one-sixth as many
women as men in the service. The
prejudice that formerly existed against
the appointment of women is disap-
pearing, and in 1898, of 41s persons ap-
pointed TO positions in the departments
at Washington, 100 were females. In
addition to clerical capacities, women
are appointed assistant microscopists,
nurses, translators, teachers, matrons,
telegraph operators, stenographers and
typewriters, as we'll as to places re-
quiring skilled and unskiled workers.
AS assistant microscopists they have
the first chance of selection, there be-
ing always a demand for capable wom-
en- in this line"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1900-01-04
PLEDGED TO MARRY WIDOWS.
Nut the Bachelor Members of the
Club All Seem to Prefer
Young Girls.

There is Bachelors club in the west
whose only rule to which members
swear allegiance when they join the
club is: Marry a widow" Young girls
and old maids alike are barred, says
the New York Herald
One explanation this rule, given
bv a member consider it the
part OF wisdom ONE one VINO
has already dl, hat men are
not angels"
Another member gives this philan-
thropic reason: Young girls always
have the best chance with their fresh,
blooming faces, and we think the wild
ows ought to be given show, as their
lives have been in measure blighted,
as it were. Anyway, they seem to un-
derstand man better"
Another view of the case is the fact
that anything forbidden suddenly ac-
quires wonderful interest. A lot OF
bachelors who pledge themselves to
marry widows are sure to discover the
hitherto unappreciated charms OF all
the maidens in town, No marriages to
widows have yet been announced, but
several engagements of members to
young girls have been confessed. The
rules Of the club provide for this con-
tingency by der anding fine OF fiye
dollars and loss of membership.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1900-01-04
OPENING FOR YOUNG MEN.
Irrigation and Kindred Studies Open a
Wide and Profitable Field.

Irrigation and Kindred Studies Open a
Wide and Profitable Field.
Many young man takes a college
or university course these days with
out having i'll mind any definite idea
of what he wants to accomplish, or
directing his energies into any par
ticular channel
To many such the following sug-
gestion relative to work in the Agri-
cultural Department may be of in
terest and profit:
"One great difficulty in irrigation
investigation is to find an adequate
number of men who have had proper
training to fit them to prepare publi-
cations or carry on Investigations in
the manner which our work requires.
As rule, the men who are the best
fitted for this work are engaged in
other enterprises and cannot be in
duced to enter the departments SER
vice on the terms necessarily impos-
ed. In this, as in other lines of
investigation which the department
has undertaken, it will be necessary
to organize force to work under
the immediate direction OF the expert
in charge, and some time must
elapse before this force can be
thoroughly trained, so as to perform
the most efficient positions in the
service. The establishment of agri-
cultural colleges for education in the
sciences relating to agriculture has
done something toward preparing
scientists in several Directions, but
there are many lines in which very
little has been done, and this is one
of them.
"When the department requires
soil physicists, plant pathologists, or
scientists well informed regarding
animal husbandry and irrigation, it
has been found almost impossible to
get them. The western agricultural
colleges, where scientific knowledge
of the facts concerning irrigation is
imperatively necessary, are making
efforts to educate along these lines" ="
A course OF training and study on
these lines hold forth much promise
for the work of reclaiming arid lands
by the general government has but
| just begun, and, together with the
mining industry in the same arid
region, will continue to grow in vol
ume with each successive year for a
century to come.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1900-01-04

The postmaster general has re
peated his old cry that the govern
ment loses heavily on second class
mail matter. AS a remedy he rec
ommends the decrease OF privileges
to the country newspaper. Ii the
government would cease to send
millions of public documents, pick
axes and other tools for the Geo.
logical survey, and boxes and balls
of all sorts of government property,
as second class matter under Con-
gressional or Executive franks, sec
ond class matter would pay for itself.
Dundee Reporter.
TO THE DEAF-A rich lady cur
d of her Deafness and Noisesin the
Head by DR.. Nicholson's Artificial
Ear Drums gave $40, 900 to his lnsti-
tute, SO that deaf people unable to
procure the Ear Drums may have
them free. Address No. 6576 The
Nicholson Institute, 76O, English
Avenue, NewYork.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1900-01-04
TAKES MORPHINE In PUBLIC.
How the DeplorabIe Habit of wash
inEtOn Belle Was Accident
ally Discovered.

while l was in Washington last
month" said Chicagoan the other
night, II saw something which fairly
gave me cold shivers. We were sitting
in the street car, and in the seat just be-
side me sat one of the handsomest
women in all Washington, tall, we'll
developed, well-groomed creature of
perhaps 80, with dark-rimmed eyes and
bronze-tinted hair. l knew her for the
widow of man who was something or
other in the state department under
the Cleveland administration, l believe.
I know she lives in dainty apartment
in the newer part of the northwest
quarter. There was a man with her
on the car, mere boy of fellow, and
he gazed at her with admiring eyes.
There was hint of chilliness in the air,
and the woman shrugged her hand
some shoulders.
"'My!' said she, I'm afraid I'm taxi
ing cold
"'Can't l get you something before
we start?' asked the boy, anxiously.
"'Oh, no, she answered. IN just
take some quinine. I always carry it
with me-a habit I learned out in In
diana
"She took folded paper from her
purse and opened it. She emptied the
white powder it contained upon her
tongue.
ats an odd way to take quinine,
isn't ~ she said, with smile. It's the
way they do out in Indiana. I dpnt
mind the taste at all
"Then the car started, and the empty
paper futtered into my lap. Just lit
tie of the white powder clung to it.
Quite without any purpose whatever,
rubbed my finger against the paper
and touched my tongue with an in
fnitesimal quantity of the powder. Thc
woman turned and looked at me just
then, and as our eyes met she blushed.
It was an odd way, indeed, to take, not
quinine, but morphine. Chicago
HhroYioIa
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1900-01-04
Bachelors Roasted

The lady editor Of an Idaho sheet
voices her sentiments once more just
as forcibly and as follows:"A Bach
elor is a coward and a failure. He
shaves and primps, but is too cow
ardly to put his arm around success
and press it to his bosom. He re-
solves to marry every day for forty
years, but when the hour for the
dual arrives, when in the presence
OF trembling, rosy cheeks, when
beauty shakes her curls, his courage
doses, and he fees the field without
even learning Of the cowpath that
leads to matrimony. Better be old
darky Rastus iu his cabin, where he
holds old Dinah's hand and asks,
Who's sweetp' and Dinah drops her
head on his shoulder and says.
"Bofe OF u.s."
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1900-01-04
ANYHOW IT RAINED.
The Two Wrangled 30 Long Apeos
II They Got Caught In the
DOwupour.

Tit-Bits tells the story this wsy'
"It looks like rain"
~ beg your pardonW
II say it looks like rain" II
"What does|
"The--the weather"
"The weather, my dear sir, is a condi-
ton. Rain is water in the act of falling
from the clouds. 1t is impossible that
they should look alike"
"What | meant was that the sky
looked like rain"
Equally impossible. The sky is the
blue vault above us-the seeming arch
or dome that we mistakingly call the
heavens. Ii does not resemble falling
water IN the least"
"lFei,, then, if you are so thunder
ingly particular, II looks as if 1t would
raia."
"As If what would rain ?"
"The weather, of course"
Tile weather, cs before stated, being
conGiiier, ann ain.
"Ths Gds. then! md here ii
corlt. ard havs ken so much time
in talking to you mat ] shall get wet
to the skin before can get to the tram
r-a.T
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1900-01-04

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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1900-01-04

Acurious bond Of sympathy between
some Of the people of these United
states and one of the Philippine tribes
has been discovered by California SOL
dier' who tells his Luzon experiences in
the pages of the Overland Monthly.
When the Ygreto chief, badly wounded
In the February fight, was recovering
from his hurts in our hospital in Ma
nila, one OF our soldiers who knew the
Cherokee language, though he recog-
nised In the Ygreto'k talk words that
bore striking resemblance to Chero-
kee. He tried the chief with few
sentences in Cherokee, with the re-
suit that the two soon readily under
stood one another and became very good
friends. Az the California thinking
beyonst" whorecords the incident says:
Here 10 curious item for sthnolO-
GistA"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1900-01-04
Recording Assessment Work.

Most of the assessment work for
1899 is now done and the next thing
the claim owner needs to do is to
preserve evidence of it by filing an
affidavit.
The new State law of 1897 gives
more force to such an affidavit than
the law previously did, but the afi-
davit must be drawn according to
its provisions.
The requirements are: "the afi-
davit shall set forth the amount of
money expended, or value of labor
or improvements made, or 10th; the
character of expenditures or labor or
improvements; a description of the
claim or part of the claim affected
by such expenditures, or labor or
Improvements, for what year, and the
name of the owner or claimant of
said claim at whose expense the same
was made or performed. Such affi-
davit: or copy thereof, duly certi-
fled by the County Recorder, shall
be prima facia evidence of the per-
formance of such labor or the mai
ing of such improvements or BOTH '
The filing of such an affidavit is
not compulsory however, but it is
the best and easiest way to preserve
such evidence and hence that course
should be generally followed by
claim owners.