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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

nincc. the enormous size ana weight or
tho trees necessarily entails very con-
siderable brcakage when one OF them
falls. such u tree strikes the grouho
with force Of many hundreds or even
thousands Of tons, so that even slight
INEQUALITIES ARE sufficient to Smash the
brittle trunk mt It's upper extremity lh'o
almost useless fragments. The loss
from this cause Is great, but 1t Is only
one of the sources OF waste. The great
diameter of the logs, and, In spite OF the
lightncss Of the wood. their enormous
weight make 1t impossible to hahdle
them without breaking them up. For
this purpose gunpowder Is the most
available means. The fragments OF
logs blown apart In this way are not
only often of wasteful shapes. but I'M
less very nice Judgment is exercised III
preparing the blast Il great deal OF
wood itself is scattered In useless splin-
ters."
"At the mill, where waste Is the RUE
in the manufacture of lumber In the
United States, the big tree makes no
exception. This waste, added as 1t Is
to the other sources of loss already men
toned, makes total probably often
considerably in excess of half the total
volume of the standing tree, ana TINS Is
only one side of the matter.
"rhe big tree stands as rule III
mixed forest, composed OF many spe-
cies. The result of sequOia numbering
upOn this forest is almost ruinOus. The
destruction caused by the fall of enor-
nous trees is in itself great, but the
principal sourse of damage Is the i'm
mense amount of debris left OH the
fires. This mass of broken branches,
trunks and bark. is often five or six or
more feet in thickness and necessarily
gives rise to fires Of great destructive
power, even though the big tree wood Is
not specially infiammable. The devas-
tation which follows this numbering is
as complete and deplorable as the I'M
touched forest is unparalleled, beautl-
full and worthy Of preservation. AS
rule it has not even had the advantage
of being profitable. Very much of this
appalling destruction has been done
without leaving the owners of the big
tree as we'll off as they were before 1t
began"
Series of Pamphlets to BE Issued.
The pamphlet which was published
by the forestry division Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture is one of series
80 k1Nn
big trees. The report was prepared for
the information of the Senate Commit
tee on Public Lands, which was at the
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

the mole on your nose, or your vulgar
kinsfolk. The American has vivacity
almost French: he gives himself easily
to the OCCASION: he Is ready to weep and
laugh with you. and is sincerely inter-
ested in your new bicycle or baby. At
the same time he has something of the
phlegm of the Asiatic, and seldom frets
or grumbles. He shifts. the odors Of
foul drains, quaffs typhoid germs in
his water, sits in Overheated steam cars
and stands in overcrowded street cars
year afteryear with imperturbable good
humor.
"Why, with all these qualties-why
is he not more agreeable fellow? Why,
with all the traits that go to make up
courtly gentleman-why Is he vulgar?
Simply because he Is not certain of his
own position. He asserts himself every
moment lest you may mistake him for
an inferior. This uneasy self-assertion
is the explanation of all our bad man
ners. I'm as good as you! is the secret
thought with which too many Of us
meet every fellow-creature."
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

writes. LAUNDERING is rapidly sweep
ing them off; forty mills and logging
companies are now at work wholly or
In part upon big tree timber. The
southern groves show some reproduc-
ton, through which there is hope of
perpetuating these groves. In the
northern groves the species hardly
holds its own"
In introducing a history Of the big
trees, with facts concerning each Of the
groves now existing, the writer says:
"At the present time the only grove
thoroughly safe from destruction Is the
Mariposa and this is far from being the
most interesting. Most Of the other
groves are either in process Of or in
danger of being logged. The very finest
Of NIL. the Calaveras grove, with the
biggest and tallest trees, the most un-
contaminated surroundings and prac-
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

tically all the literary and scientific as
sociations of the species connected with
1t, has been purchased recently by a
lumberman, who came into full posses
sion on the LIST Of April, 1900.
'The Sequoia and General Grant Ma
tlonal parks. which are supposed to en-
brace and give security to a large part
Of the remaining big trees, are eaten
into by a sawmill each and by private
timbering claims amounting to total
Of 1,172,S7O acres. The rest Of the
scanty patches of big trees are In fair
way to disappear-in Calaveras, Tuo-
lumne, Fresno and Tulare counties,
they are now disappearing-by the ak.
In brief. the majority Of the big trees
Of California, certainly the best Of
them. are owned by people who have
every right and in many cases every
intention, to cut them into lumber"
.cientific Value of Big Trees.
Further along these same lines the
value of the big tree is thus considered:
1.-THE big trees are unique in the world
the grandest, the oldest, the NEST ma
iestically graceful trees-and II 1t were
not enough to be all this, they are
among the scarcest Of known tree spe-
cies and have the extreme scientific val
ne Of being the best living representa-
tives of former geologic age. They
are trees which have come down to us
through the vlcissitudes Of many cen
turtles solely because Of their superb
qualifications. The bark Of the big tree
is often two feet thick and almost non
combustible. The oldest specimens
felled are still sound ut the heart and
fungus is an enemy unknown to it. Yet
with all these means of maintenance
the big trees have apparently not in
creased their range since the glacial
epoch. They have only just managed
to hold their own on little strip Of
country where the climate is locally ia.
vorable."
Everyone who is interested in the big
trees, as everyone must be either from
curiosity. Il natural love Of the forest
or for scientific reasons. must deplore
the destruction of these forests. Every
one who has visited forest In any part
of the world will regret the destruction
Of these jungles Of beauty. Every
thoughtful American Is waking to a
realization Of the criminal carelessness
with which the forests Of this country
have been wiped out. The numbering
Of the big trees. with Its accompanying
waste and devastation. seems a partic-
ularly unnecessary and almost immoral
proceeding.
Forester Pinchot says Of It: 1.-THE
numbering Of the big tree IL destructive
to q most unusual degree. In the first
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
King Oscar Was His Host.

A story illustrating the simple bon
homie Of the King Of Sweden and Nor
way Is told by NJ. CASTOR Bomber, the
botanist. NJ. BONNER was botanixing
near Stockholm, when he met a
stranger similarly occupied. The two
botanists fraternized, and NJ. BONNER
suggested that they should lunch TO-
gether ut an inn.
mo; come home and lunch with me
instead" said the stranger; and he l4l
the way to the palace and opened the
gate.
NJ. BONNER was naturally astonished,
but his new acquaintance was most
apologize.
I'm sorry" he said. "but I happen
to be the king Of this country, aud this
is the only place I've got to entertain
anybody ill.," So they went in and
lunched. and talked botany together
all the afternoon.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
The American Is Vulgar,

1--WE must all agree that the American
has beyond other men an innate respect
for women and for helpless things"
writes IAN American Mother" In the
Ladies' Home Journal. He has usu-
ally. too. wide acquaintance with the
world which hinders him from intoler-
ance and vanity. He has also n tact
too fine to blurt out unpleasant facts to
his companions, as does the English
man. who. quite unprovOked. hurls dis
agreeable truths at you with II feroclty
and gusto that is indecent. a week
with your dearest English friends Is
enough to make you IN love with lying.
The dearer you are to them the more
likely are they to talk necessarily Of
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
RUSHING INTO THE CITIES.
Young Men Invite Failure by Essay
ing Untr;e Fields.

Young Men Invite Failure by Essay.
ing Untrie Fields.
Some published fragments Of the new
census statistics are very depressing to
the old-fashloned, yet very sensible,
people who have been hoping that the
movement of villagers and country peo-
pie to the large cities had been checked.
What Is the meaning of the continu-
GUS rush to the cities? The old eXpla-
nation was that farmers sons and
daughters wearied Of work that was
never finished; they had heard of city
demands for labor and of city wages,
payable always in cash and at stated
dates. They had also heard Of city
pleasures, some of which were said to
cost nothing, while others were very
cheap. But young people do not con-
stltute the whole body Of people who
are crOwding into the cities, for me-
chanics and artisans Of all kinds are In
the throng, for in the villages and coun-
try districts employment is irregular
and pay uncertain. The more aspir-
ing Of them hope for the larger oppor-
tunities and recognition that the coun-
try dares not promise; they know, too.
that such Of their children as incline to
study may become fairly, even highly,
educated in the city without special
cost to their parents. OF the ''seamy"
side Of city life they know nothing.
for their acquaintances who event to
town. have not returned to tell of It.;
few of them could return If they would.
The few who 60 back to the old home
steads are the men who have succeed
ed, and in any village such man in
effect resembles gOld-laden miner
from Cape Nome or the Klondike-his
example threatens to depopulate the
town.
Nevertheless the rural districts are
not going to be depOpulated, except
when their soil Is very poor and their
malaria overrch. A countryward
movement started in some cities few
years ago and it has been increasing in
volume, 1t may be almost invisible in
some localities, for 3.OOO,OOO square
miles Is an area so great that any city's
overflow might be lost in 1t. The men
who are trying scientific farming are
all from the cities and they have car
rled their city ideas with them. AS a
rule, city brain and city money are
suggesting and backing the rural at
tempts to have good roads, pure wat
err. perfect drainage. high farming.
high-grade schools. free libraries and
many other amelloratlons of old-time
conditions. Yet In one respect the city
man in the country is disappointment
to all classes of the dissatisfied, for
when they talk Of going to the city he
persistently says, "Don't," and he sup
ports his advice with dismal array
of facts and tigures.-Saturday Even
ing Post.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

time considering the preservation Of the
Calaveras and Stanislaus big tree
groves. 1t Is the first document on the
subject which has ever been published
by the government, strange as the fact
may seem. Prof. w. Il. Dudley, of
Stanford University, who aided with
the work, is now preparing more de-
tailed account Of the big trees and the
big tree groves, which will be published
by the government forestry office. The
pamphlet now out contains an excellent
map Of the forests Of California, con.
tanning big trees, together with de-
tailed account Of each Of the larger
groves.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
DESTROY BIG TREES.
CALIFORNIA GIANTS ARE RUTH.
LESSlY CUT DOWN.
Necessary Waste of Lum bcrinH Mann.
moths over Fifty Per nt-Forcstry
Department Demanl That Efforts 1sc

Clifford PinchOt, United States fores-
ter, has issued a pamphlet concerning
the big trees of California which has
created no little comment through Its
endeavors to state clearly and emphat-
ically the necessity for the preservation
of the California mammOths. The
writer protests against the rate at
which the big trees are being destroyed
by private owners, pointing out clearly
that the chances of renewal Of the
wonder growths are to be little cOnsid-
cred
"Most of the scattered groves Of big
trees are privately owned and, there
fore, in danger Of destruction" he
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

When people say they will do any
thing in the world for you. they mean
about as much as candidate when he
says his ambition is to serve his
country and his countrymen.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
a Matter OF Taste.

BEG pardon" said the postal clerk
who had sold her the stamps. but you
don't have to put a 5-cent stamp on q
letter for Canada"
IL know" said she. but the shade
Just matches my envelope. you know"
philadelphia Press.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
Florida Tobacco.

Florida, according to local papers, is
becoming one Of the great tobacco-pro-
ducing States, and the product has been
pronounced in some respects equal to
that Of Cuba. Sumatra wrapper tobac-
co raised in Florida recently took the
prize at the Paris exposition over the
world
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
Key to the Working.Girl's success.

whatever vocation the girl wage
worker settles upon she may as we'll
accept the fact, first as last, that slip
shOd performance and Inadequate
equipment will win no favor, will not
even secure fOothOld," writes Narga-
ret Il. Sangster In the Ladies' Home
Journal. "Tfe ranks are everywhere
crowded, and the second-rate work
must 60 to the wall. In most fields the
supply Is we'll In excess Of the demand.
and only the capable, the efficient, the
competent and the trustworthy may
hope to find their niche. AS n grain Of
satisfaction let 1t be added that those
possessed Of these desirable qualities
those who are ready for service and
are responsible In their work, are sure
to be appreciated and will never cease
to be wanted"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
Barter.

II should like to subscribe to your
paper. Would YOU be willing to take
it out in trade?'
Country EditOr-Guess so; what's
your business?
I'm the undertaken brooklyn Life
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
JUST COMMON FOLKS,

II only sweetest bells were rung
How we should miss the minor chimes
II only grandest poets sung.
There'd be no simple little rhymes;
The modest clinging vine adds grace
To all the forests giant oaks,
And mid earth's mighty is place
TO people with just common folks.
Not they the warriors who shall win
Upon the battlefield name
TO sound the awful din;
Not theirs the painters deathless fame;
Not theirs the poets muse that rings
The rhythmic gift his soul invokes;
Theirs but to do the simple things
That duty gives just common folks.
Fate has not lifted them above
The level of the human plane;
They share with men fellow love
In touch with pleasure and with pain.
One great, far-reaching brotherhood,
With common burdens, common yokes,
And common wrongs and common good
Gods army of just common folks.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
Our Overftarnished Homes.

"More simplicity in our homes would
make our lives simpler" writes Ed
ward Box, in plea for the exercise OF
better taste iu furnishing our homes in
the Ladies' Home journal. "Alany wom-
en- would live fuller lives because they
would have more time. AS 1t Is, hum
dreds of women Of all positions In life
are to-day the slaves Of their homes
and what they have crowded into them.
Comfort is essential to our happiness.
But with comfort we should stop. Then
we are ON the safe side. But we get on
and over the danger line when we go
beyond. Not one-tenth Of the things
that we think are essential to our hap
piest living are really so. In fact. We
should be an Infinitely happier and
healthier people II the nine-tenths were
taken out Of our lives. 1t Is astonishing
how much we can do without. and be a
thousand times the better for 1t. And
1t doesn't require much to test this Cos
pei Of wisdom. We need only to be nat
ural-to get back to our real. inner
selves. Then we are simple 1t is only
because we have got away from the
simple and the natural that so many Of
our homes are cluttered up as they are.
and our lives full Of little things that
are not worth the while. We have bent
the knee to show. to display. and we
have lowered ourselves with the trivial
and the useless; and filling our lives
with the poison Of artificiality and the
unnatural we have pushed the Real.
the Natural, the Simple, the Beautiful
the best and most lasting things out
of our lives"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
leave you to lunch alone and shall flnd

u HOIIl0 tISVWIItTV.
"While puzzling about what this
might mean, l heard a terrific yell from
Della, my parrot; opened the store
room door and Della, my wife, fell Into
my arms.
"After explanations had been made
I restored her to brother Henry as
housekeeper, but claimed her In five
weeks for my own. Now do you be-
lieve that you are a matchmaker"-
Boston Post.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
Guards ON European Royalty.

Every royal palace in Europe has it's
special private police. who. in one guise
or another. are always on the lookout
for suspicious persons.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
Heavy Penalties for Selling Whisky.

Heavy FehaItIes IOr SeIIth4 WH1sKys
Charles Steinbrink who was convict
ed at st. John. Kan, on fOrty-nine
counts Of selling whisky in violat ton Of
the prohibitory law. was fined $4.NN
and sentenced to forty-nine months IN
iail. AS he cannot pay his fine he will.
II the sentence Is carried out. have to
serve 1t out In Jail at the rate Of 80
cents a day, making his total sentence
practically thirty years and nine
months.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
Enelish Public Buil,tings.

The public buildings of England alone
are valued ut sum approaching
$l.335O. 2OO.OOO.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

A woman Is never so proud as when
her boy voluntarily asks for fork
with which to eat his pie.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

Capital represented by him. .$1OO,OOO,OOOt
His personal wealth ....... 22,ooO,OOOt
Copper interests represented 75,OOO,OOO
First price paid for his cop
per mine ............... $4,000
His annual wage roll paid. 5000, 600
His horses cost. ........... 100000
His works of art cost. ...... 100000
His private car cost. ...... 100000
His hotel cost. ........... 2oo,ooot
His personal living cost per
annum ................. 5,OOO{
His annual income was APP
proximatcly ..,,......... 2,5OO,OOOt
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

A hospitable shoemaker has card
In his window reading: "Any man,
woman or child can have fits in this
shop"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

You can't tell by the size Of the bill
what the size Of q ton Of coal =.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
He Taught Us
To Hold
In Loving Reverence
Poor Men and Their Work
Great Men and Their Work
God and His Work.

God and His Work.
In connection with this competition it
is interesting to quote what Ruskin
himself said on epitaphs: "Take care
that some memorial Is kept of men who
deserve memory in distinct statement
on the stone or brass of their tombs,
either that they were true men or ras-
cals-wise men or fools. How beauti-
full the variety Of sepulchrn} architec-
ture might be, in any extensive place
Of burial, II the public would meet the
small expense Of thus expressing its
opinions in verify instructive manner,
and IL some Of the tombstOnes accord
ingly terminated in fools caps, and 9TH
ers, instead Of crosses and cherubs,
bore engravings Of cats-o'-nine- tails as
typical Of the probable methods Of en-
tertainment in the next world of the
persons not, it Is to be hoped, reposing
below.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06


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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

Reported the Lincoln-DOuglas debates
Reported the first Lincoln campaign.
War correspondent, the Civil War.
Foreign correspondent of American
newspapers.
In 1861 owned New York Evening
Post and Nation.
In 1879 president Oregon Steamship
Company.
Receiver Of Kansas Pacific Railroad
Company.
Completed in 1883 the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
President Northern Pacific Railroad
Company.
President Edison General Electric Com
pany.
Chairman in 1889 of the Northern Ia.
ctic directory.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06
An Enitanh for Ruskin.

The London Academy has awarded a
prize Of one guinea to ]. II. Anderson,
Lairbeck, Keswick, for the best in
scription suitable for the proposed me-
dalton Of John Ruskin in Westminster
Abbey. MIR. Anderson's epitaph Is as
follows:
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-06

A tailor is justified In giving his Gus
toners ats occasionally.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-16
Raw or With Mustard on Toast.

The officers of society well known all the coun
try send from Philadelphia resolution sympathy with
the Galveston sufferers They fail whether the
pathy is to be be used clohe the hungry
with, whether when the filling and covering effects OF
that resolution have been exhausted another
expected In this of the world the impression that
resolutions of order and that substantials
like bacon -four and what wanted 1t is
hoped that the Philadelphia gentlemen will repeat their
But the peope of this counties respond
ing with something substantial than resolutions
sympathy Up Friday night there been contributed
and forwarded from the cities of
country nearly 100000 New Yorks response being up
that time $134,S94 with ST. Louis next with $42S12 From
Bangor Maine, to stka Alaska, committees raising
and loads of provisions clothing have
been dispatched.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-16
The Great Strike Will Be on Tomorrow

Barring happening Of the unexpected one hundreo
and fifty thousand miners will throw down their picks
and shovels and go indefinite labor strike to-
morrow at the behest of their head or leader John
Mitchell and million of people, the larger half OF
them women and children will be left without means OF
livelihood And not only these but hundreds of thousands
Of others will be additionally inconven
enced Factories close for want of fuel and
through these other working people will find themselves
without the chance living. Whether John
Mtchels power may characterized as tyranny or not
his power is absolute than that of any
employer or combine doubt large cent of these
strikers prefer work and wait but it is only left
TO them to wait work The price of coal for rich
and poor alike be advanced numerous industries will
cease for the being, and politicians will howl, with
no possible arbitrator of the situation
Without discussing the right OF the matter
everybody must agree msfortcne which is sure
10 result in distress calamity and probably boodshed