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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28
HOW DYNAMITE is MADE.
Erroneous IDEAS About Elk plosive Pow
ers-Wi11 Ruru ga OuietIv 90 Won,1

Erroneous Ideas About Elk plosive Pow
crs-Wil1 Burn as Quietly as Wood.
Dynamite is composed of nitro glycer-
inc and dry substance called the alb
sorbent. In its manufacture we make
first the nitrO-g lycerine, which is pre-
pared by the action of mixture of
concentrated nitric and sulphuric acids
upon glycerine. introduced drop by
drop. The ntro-glycerine is introduced
into large tank arrangement which
is filled with the absorbent-a form of
powder made UP of wood meal and
nitrate of soda. AS a result of this
absorbing process dynamite is obtain
ed. The substance very closely resem-
bles brown sugar.
Then the dynamite is made into car
tridges or sticks. The cartridges are
cylindrical in shape and are generally
s inches long. IA inches in diameter,
and weigh half Il pound each. The
outer coating of the stick is of heavy
waXed paper. In fact. cartridge is
simply II cylinder of this waXed paper
tightly packed with dynamite.
1t is generally believed that it would
be suicide for any one to touch match
to Il stick of dynamite. The idea is en-
tirely false. Before dynamite will eX-
plode from heat the temperature must
rise to 800 degrees. Dynamite will
burn like a stick of wood. without the
least danger of explosion. saw a
freight house containing 800 pounds of
dynamite burn and with it the dyna-
mite. as quietly as so much coal.-Pop-
ular Mechanics.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28

and acquaintance had gradually real
lied that the touches of color which had
of late begun to tighten the heavy dead
ness of her widows weeds had again
faded into black as before, and that the
strange heart-wearing. heart-sicke ning
time eff mourning seemed to have gone
back step, and resumed its old bag
gard Uncertainty.
For Maria Roupell was widow, and
no widow Her husband was dead
so said ordinary surmise, so said hui
man probability. SO said the newspa.
pers, which gave an account of the
sinking of the Atlantic liner Ramadan
with all hands but two, in the bay three
years before. There was only one
thing lacking, positive incontrovertible
proof: and that thing tarricd.
She had been passionately in love
with Martin Arthur. In the old DAYS
of racking uncertainty as to her hlls.
bands fate, she had met the rising
author whose name WAS then appear
ing above flames horizon. as the edge
of the suns disk looks over into the
world. He became deeply interested
in her. She was IL handsome woman
of the nght-dark Spanish type, Il crea-
ture of strong emotions distracted with
suspense, torn this way and that by
hopes and fears
When ii woman is suffering through
her love for one man. another may
wrap himself ineXplicably in the flying
threads of her life and become more
near, more dear to her than she has
any knowledge of, by standing silent
nut ever i'll readiness at her right hand.
She Will turn to him for help. And
when woman goes to Il man for help
those feeble hands so piteouslv out
stretched hold in their open palms the
links of Il chain which binds lives to.
gether-loosely. it may be. but there is
bond nevertheless. and the bands of
love are sair to loose"
Martin Arthur and Maria Roupell
found their lines laid side by side, felt
the letters that stretched lightly from
wrist to wrist were necessary to each
other, and knew that it was so.
Three years passed and George Rou-
pell did not return, and out of the life
of his widow his memory was slowly,
softly. irresistibly shouldered by the
tilmy, insidious ghost of the personal
ity Of another man. One day the ghost
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28
THE REPULSIVE RATHER.

Huntin. This Species of Reptile with
a Camera in California.
Few creatures create greater repul-
sion of feeling in the average person
than the snake. And yet there are men
who devote n good share of their time
a recent number of Country Life in
America. Il writer describes some of his
hunts after the RATHER in southern Cali
fornia. that he might study it and pho
tograph it in its many poses. We re-
produce one of these picturesque head
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28
KEEP OUT OF THE PAST.

Whatever you do in this wonderful world,
In business. in church. or ut play;
Whatever of gain or of loss you have met
With the others who go your way,
Keep ont of the past
From the first to the last
And away from it's worries stay:
The present has wealth you would never
suspect,
If prudent you are and wisely elect
To live in the light of to-day.
The things that are past did very we'll
To-day they are rusty and stale.
That trouble you had with your fellow
Did you struggle in vain and fail?
What of it. indeed?
There is all the more need
That YOU start on different trail
Don't take to the woods, whatever YOU
do.
Just look right ahead-there's fortune
In keeping well-trmmed sail.
So cramped can we be in our mental
states.
So burdened with might -have-becns,
That life will become woeful waste
For its may outs and ms.
But stop and reflect
You will never be wrecked
BY your own or anothers sins.
If the past you will keep in its proper
place,
And meet what is yours with candid
face--
IT'S the man of to-day who wins.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28

ing the fluid even as far away as New
Orleans, where, it is asserted, it is to
be distributed to houses in the same
way as gas.
Infringing in" Well.
The two engravings accompanying
this article were made from snapshot
photographs taken at the bringing" OF
gusher at Beaumont. After the drill
had been sent through the quicksand
and the cap rock, the fiinty substance
which is the roof of the cavern in
which the oil has long been stored. it
was known that success had crowned
the efforts of the drillers after Just a
year Of labor. The drill was immed-
ately hoisted out of the 1.1OO-foot pipe
which incased it, and the bailer was
brought into use. This is a bucket
fastened to Il contrivance which forces
it down into the tube and then pulls it
back out full of the mul water and
the bottom. With each dip of the bali
en-, gas rises higher in the pipe. and
when the pressure has been reduced to
a point where it is less than that of the
gas and oil underneath the flow com
mences.
Along toward the last the bucket
came up with so much gas emulsfied
with the mixture of mud and water
that the contents of the bucket fairly
boiled Then came time of great
anxiety. Would she come in with
rush, shoot the bailer away up through
the top of the derrick and send out
great shower of greasy rain in all di
rections or would she come softly, with
a heavy, smooth flow? 1t was an eX-
citing moment, when what was believ-
ed to be the last trip of the bailer was
commenced. Then. as the bucket came
up there came with it gush of brown
foam.
Then slowly, majestically. arose
fountain of green fluid until there was
steady stream of oil reaching nearly
to the top of the derrick. Suddenly
there was a whish of gas, as the last
vestige of pressure over the oil reser-
voir was removed and with a roar the
great jet arose far above the derrick.
The drllers then congratulated one an
other most joyfully, for. to all appear
ances, the we'll was equal to flow of
$4,000 barrels day. should Its full ca
pacity ever be necessary.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28

swindles, pure and simple. Opportuni-
tbs for bunko games were many and
We're all improved.
Most of the manufacturing plants in
southern Texas have given up coal and
are using oil as fuel. This at first costs
considerable, but the saving is great,
after the first start is made. One firm
which paid 81, 200 for the necessary al
terations in their furnaces, says that
amount was saved in the first six
months. Several of the divisions of
the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific rail
Arrangements are being made for pip
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28

"H'' D"' '-A"Nr'i' deals Il deadly blow
to the Englshman's Sunday. This sch
timent was warmly applauded by the
congregation.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker. ID. d., has
been preaching since 1913. Since 1869
he has been in London. where he built
the City Temple at cost o. $3.50, 600.
This church has many branches and
missions throughout London and en-
joys large reevnues. The pastor is one
of the finest orators and most popular
ministers in the great metropolis. He
declares he wears a gown in the pulpit
because he has the worst coat in the
congregation. Rev. DR.. Parker has
published "People's Bible" in twenty
five volumes, being series of sermons
eXpounding the books of the Bible.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28

that his theory could be thoroughly
tested. When the drill hal passed
through the quicksand. what is claimed
as the greatest reservoir in the world
was struck. and in Il night Beaumont
went crazy.
Scores of Spouters.
There are now in the district between
$50 and 100 spoutcrs AS one conse-
ouence, coal. the lowest price for
which had hitherto been Sc a toll is
now very rarely used in southeast
Texas, oil having taken its place rs
fuel.
Within four months, S2.000.000 was
spent in advertising Beaumont oil COM
panies. some of the concerns having
least merit advertising the most. \
good share of these companies were
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28

per. Anything in the shape of lease
or land title was foundation enough
for an airy structure to attract the at
tention of the gullible. The lust for
money was rampant. 1t was all gaul-
BILE. II fortune smiled, you made a
million; if not, you lost what you had.
But everybody seemed willing To take
the chance, to the full extent of his
pile.
Prices paid for land in the oil dis
trict We're fabulous. Two negroes, liy-
ing in tumble-dOwn shacks, received
for them $4,000 each. Men who want
ed to start bank paid $4,000 for the
and the same amount was paid to a
small dry goods dealer whose lease was
wanted by spectators. "A firm paid
$3.50 a month for the use of platform
SX1O, on which to conduct their opera
tions. Land went from 81 to 100000
an acre in few days.
"OId Man" Higgins.
"Old Man" Higgins, who had been
N,
is the man who is responsible for Beau
mont's boom. For five or six years he
had, been talking about the possibilities
of striking oil at Spindle Top, his talk
at last becoming so incessant and
wearisome that the people refused
longer to listen to him. That there
was oil in southwest Texas was CON
coded. but that Spindle Top had great
possibilities in that direction was look
ed upon as absurd.
At last, however. "Old Man" Higgins
succeeded in interesting George w.
Carroll, president of lumber company
and wealthy resident. Carroll put up
the cash and Higgins began the search.
The first well struck oil at about 800
feet. but quicksand stopped operations.
This was repeated in a second well.
Then Carroll drew out and the folly"
of Higgins and Carroll was the joke
of the town. An observant man named
Lucas did not believe the venture was
an entire failure however. He leased
Il small patch near by and sunk a shaft
COO feet, finding oil and being stopped.
as We're the others. by quicksand. Be-
lieving that If this vein of quicksand
could be pierced oil would be struck
below it, Lucas went to Pittsburg, and
after much hard work obtained enough
capital to bore a well deep enough so
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28

g + e gat i on a list
pre- a g h err, II e V.
J o S g p h T. a rker.
ID. d.. Of London.
Duringthe course of
4 sermon in the City
Temple DR.. Parker
that hat the
king does is likely
to be initiated 10y
others: therefore If
t he king goes to 4
Sunday concert he
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28

We believe that if we wanted to sell
ally that it was good for the complex
ion, and begin to plan how to spend the
money we make.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28
Work of Watch Wheels.

The main wheel Of watch makes
AGO revolutions a year, the central
wheel S,76O, the third wheel 7O.OSO.
the fourth 525,G0O, and the scape-
wheel 4,731,S6O.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28
In THE OIL COUNTRY.
BRINGING IN" A GUSHER NEAR
BEAUMONT, TEXAS.

Tales of the Great Boom When For
tunes We're Glade in IA Daytime In
itial Discovery of Oil and the De-
veiopment of the Oil Industry.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28
Tabloid Restaurant for Chicago.

A tabloid" restaurant is promised for
Chicago. Here" says the Hotel World
food will be given in tablets resem-
bling caramels and meal can be car
ried in the vest pocket. The promoter
says that mankind needs nutriment in
homeopathic doses. not great bulk that
has little nourishment. There will be
no great rays of dishes under which
struggle muscular walters. The tabloid
can be shot through tubes to the dining
table and no one will be visible but the
guest. who swallows dose and sud
denly finds that hunger has departed.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28
REBUKED THE KING,

Noted Preacher Accused Edward VII,
of Violating the Sabbath.
Because King Edward VII. of Eng
land attended Il Sunday concert he las
been taken to task by the famous Con-
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28

There are Societies for the Friendless
in almost every town. but have you
ever had such a painful experience
that you decided that the great need
of humanity is a Society for Those
who Have Friends!
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-28

ing the fluid even as far away as New
Orleans, where, it is asserted, it is to
be distributed to houses in the same
way as gas.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02
wHooPINe COUGH.

A woman who has had experience
with this disease, tells how to prevent
any dangerous consequences from it..
She says: Our three children took
whooping cough last summer, our
baby boy being only three months old,
and owing to our giving them Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, they lost
none of their plumpness and came out
in much better health than other chill
dren whose parents did not use this
remedy. Our oldest little girl would
call Justify for cough syrup between
whoops.-Jessie Pinkey Hall, Spring
vile, Ala. This remedy is for sale by
c. P. Champney, Druggist.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02
CLIPS AND CULLS.

Owing to the advance in the price of
crackers and scarcity of water this pa
per is forced to suspend.-Blaine
(Kas.) News.
The fellow who left open the back
gate to Benschoter's pasture better
come back to town by another road.
Loop City (Neb) Northwestern.
For over year our devil has been
almost in control of this paper. Hence
forth an angel will rule. We are mar
ried.-Arcadia CKan) Champion.
An up-country pastor posted on his
church door this notice: Brother
Smith departed for heaven at 1890
a. m" On the next day he found writ
ten below: Heaven, 0:4O p. m.-
Smith not in yet. Great anNiety."-
Hooper (Neb.) Sentinel.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02
ISN'T IT STRANGE

What expenditure man INDUCES in
to crafty senseless display?
How many men go upon the prin-
ciple chat might must be right?
What odds and ends a man picks up
which are worthless after his death?
How many women accept attention
as right rather than as a compli-
ment?
How many women take pleasure in
administering petty stabs to other
women?
How many women regard age as a
destroyer of attraction?
What little knowledge many men
have of the men who figured in Amer
lean history?
How many women try to convince
themselves they have great conversa-
tional powers? ?-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02
DON'TS FOR BABY'S MOTHER.

printed in the baby's interest and. ac-
cording to the New York World. based
upon the latest revelations of science)
Don't pick it up every time it cries
or you will instill into it a restless
disposition.
Don't try teaching it to walk before
it's year old. If you do you may make
its legs crooked.
Don't give il any toys till it passes
it's first year. Let it bite its fist and
play with it's toes.
Don't worry about it's crying. 1t
isn't sad, and nothing hurts it. That's
just it's own way of developing it's
lungs.
Don't give it elaborate mechanical
dolls. The rag doll of old times suits
it better and furnishes n lesson in
economy.
Don't hurry it into talking. You umay
overwork it's brain and, besides, 1t
will make up for any lost time be-
tween the ages of four and eight.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02
Lived 100 Years.
CSC. An ,.ravei5fz.

There has just died at Gobshealach.
Ardnamurchan, Miss Mary Stewart,
who had lived under five sovereignxs
and whose life completely spanned thu
nineteenth century. She was born in
1892, and up to the middle of last SUM-
mer she was able to perform WON
derful amount of work, and was In
full possession of her faculties. Her
eyesight never failed her. For the past
six months, however, she was confincd
to bed a good deal, and lost strength
rapidly. Miss Stewards parents wcus
farmers on the Ardnamurchan estnta-
OF the language of the Saxon she waa
utterly ignorant, but her vernaculRA
Gaelic she could speak with sing gulxE
idiomatic purity. Last year she rs'
ceived from Queen Alexandra, through
Miss Knollys, basket of sweets and
u quantity of tea, etc., on the queEs
ascertaining that she had completed
10S years. The parcel was accompan-
led by gracious and sympathetic ie4-
ter.-London Express. 4
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02
WON'T FOLLOW ADVICE AFTER
PAYING FOR 1T.

In . racent article prominent phy-
siCiar .ays, 1T is next to impossible
for Tie physician to get his patients
to carry out any prescribed course of
hygiene or diet to the smallest ex-
tent; he has but one resort left, name
ly, the drug treatment" When medi-
cines are used for chronic constipa-
ton, the most mild and gentle OBJ
tainable, such as Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets, should be
employed. Their use is not followed
by constipation as they leave the
bowels in a natural and healthy con-
dition. For sale by c. P. Champney,
DRUGGIST
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02
NO Loss oE TIME.

l have sold Chamberlains Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for
years, and would rather be out of cof-
fee and sugar than it. | sold five
bottles of it yesterday to theshers
that could go no farther, and they are
at work again this morning.-H. r..
Phelps, Plymouth, Okla. AS will be
seen by the above the threshers were
able to keep on with their work with
out losing a single days time. You
should keep bottle of this remedy in
your home. For sale by c. P. Champ
ney, Druggist.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02

There is more catarrh in this sec
tion of the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed TO he incura-
BILE. For great many years doctors
pronounced it local disease. and
prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Sci
ence has proven catarrh to be & con-
stitutional disease, and, therefore
requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
F. j. Cheney 6 Co., Toledo, Ohio, is
the only constitutional cure on the
market. 1t is taken internally in dos
es from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. 1t
acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials. Address.
+. j. CHENEY G. CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists, Use.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02
rev Electric Lines in England.

Surface electric lines are COM
paratively new thing in England.
They are considered too American
and not enough English, and in Lon
don they are still wholly without
them. An electric street car system,
however, has been in operation in
Liverpool for some years. Now, a
movement has been started to do
away with it. Petitions, signed by
nearly all the influential people of
the city, have been filed with the
municipal authorities, asking that
the system be abolished.-Washing-
ton Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02
tfionecr Association from first page,

ttioneer Association from first page.)
which time the committees will re-
port progress.
Now that it has been demonstrat-
ed that the purchase can be accom-
plished only through local associa
tion, it is hoped that the owners Of
the historic old spots will be reason
able in their demands.
citation is doing everything in it's
power to accomplish what has long
been uppermost in the hearts of many
citizens of the Maumee Valley, but to
secure the desired results the associa-
tion must have the united support of
the people. Anent the efforts that
are now being made the war depart
ment has been furnished a copy of the
articles of incorporation and the de-
partment has been requested to state
whether it has any records of the
heroes who are buried on the several
sites under consideration.
The Daughters of the American Re-
volution are doing all they can to
assist the association in its great un-
dertaking, and the local chapter has
appointed a committee consisting of
Mrs. j. K Hamilton, Mrs. Hays and
Mrs. e. Ford. This committee is to
work in conjunction with the COM
mittees of the Pioneer association
1t might be we'll to state, in this con-
nection, that the Daughters of the
American Revolution have not made
any movement in the direction of pur-
chasing the old court house on their
own account. 1t is desirable, how
ever, that the court house be secured
by the association, and if that is ac-
| complished the historic old building
will be transformed into a museum in
which will be stored all available ar
ticles of historic value to the people
of the Maumee Valley.
1t will be remembered that a
Michigan lady not long since wrote
several letters to President Roosevelt
regarding the soldier dead at Fort
Meigs and other points up the
river, and that through the influ.
ence of these letters the President
appointed Captain Biddle to make an
| investigation. Captain Biddle recon-.
mended that the bodies be taken up
and transferred to the national ceme-
terry at New Albany, Ind. Such a
course would meet with a storm of
protest, and it is not likely that it
will be attempted.
With the full knowledge, consent
and approval of the President of the
United States, and the Hon. Secretary
of War, the Society, Wives and
Daughters of the Boys in Blue of the
Maumee Valley, has been organized
for the purpose of securing, through
private subscription. and in other
ways, funds, wherewith to purchase
and beautify Fort Meigs and erect
thereon a monument to the memory
of its heroes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
No Crowds Allowed in Russia.

In Russia no meetings of private
citizens for any purpose are permit
ted. The privilege of holding meet
ings is granted only to chartered cor
porations or associations. All
crowds, except in places of amuse-
ment or worship, are dispersed by
the police. No premises can be hired
for the purpose of holding a meeting
without permit from the police
n. Y. Sun.