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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-07-08
LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION

keene's wheels run easy.
J. P. McCafferty left last evening for
Boise City to consult specialist.
II you want to learn ping pong 60 to
the lawn social at Walter ]. Reeds next
Saturday evening.
Furnished new house to rent reason
able to right party. Enquire lOS Rain
Ter avenue north.
Editor Geizentanner of the Pasco
News-Recorder was in the city on bust
ness last Wednesday.
Prof. f. N. Nagler left town on two
weeks trip to Gold Hill and vicinity to
look after some of his valuable mining
interests.
Agents wanted for the best most pop
MAR faucet filters made. Easy sellers !;
large profits. T. G. Pigott, Vancouver,
Wash. 27.1t
Ticket No. IL, held by Mrs. w. J.
Roaf, drew the handsome haviland set,
at the store of the Yakima Tea company
on Thursday last.
The West-Ends of Tacoma having
played four games here the past week
and being defeated in every game, went
home Monday afternoon.
Frank B. Shardlow will be in readi-
ness about the first week in August to
do business in his new saloon at the
corner of Yakima ave. and Front street.
Alex McCready expects to start BUSH
ness in his new store at Simcoe station
about the first of August. Mr.. J. l..
Banks will be in charge when every
thing is completed.
Three crippled members of the Taco
ma League team passed through here
Monday afternoon on their way home.
They were Swindells, catcher, Starkells
and Dennis Mccarthy, pitchers.
Lost-Between the Holton place and
the Bounds timber culture on Ahtanum
road one Colts revolver-short barrel,
No. 275, 3S-calibre. Finder leave at
this office and receive reward. 81
Rev. James Cheal, who for the last
year has had charge of the Sunnyside
Episcopal church, left for summer va
cation to the Sound. Mr.. Cheal has
been living at the home of Mrs. Guy
MacL. Richards and has a large num-
Der OF friends here.
I. N. Richardson, the osteopath, treats
all diseases without medicines. Office
at residence, l02 South Ahtanum avenue,
two blocks from N. P. depot. Consulta-
ton and examination free. City resi-
dents desiring consultation can have
free carriage on application. 27-4t
Alfred Gordon, who ten years ago
lived here with the family of A. B.
Weed, and was we'll known among the
boys at that time, who have since be-
come young men, stopped over in the
city to visit the Weeds on his way from
Madison college, Wisconsin, where he is
now taking course in mechanical
engineering.
Rev. J. L. G. Stiverson, pastor of the
Brethren church here, has just returned
from Lyle, Wash, where he attended
the district conference. Mr. Stiverson
has been returned to this field for
another year, and was elected a delegate
to the general conference representing
this district, which will be held in
Northwestern Ohio next spring. Next
Sunday morning Mr.. Stiverson will
preach at the Marks school house up
the Ahtanum; services called at IL
O'Clock On Sunday evening he will
preach a missionary sermon at the old
Congregational church on the west side.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-07-08

Nothing tends more to cngender dis
ease in poultry than filth in the coops.
In feeding foW'~ closely confined.
never feed more T. n i eaten m cln"r.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-07-08
new YORK Cash STORE

Alarm Clock only -. SOC -
Ladies' white H. s. Hand @
kerchief ....... &c, 10, vi
Same, in silk. 15c, zoe, 25c ~S
Mems white kerchief &c, 1Oc
Same, pure linen. ...........15 c
Ladies' white Belts, Calf ... .25c
Mems leather Belts .25c
Ladies' silk Mitts. .25c
Silk Gloves, black. .......4O c
Ladies' black Lisle Mitts . 1Oc
Black Lisle Elastic, yd. &c
Pompadour Comb. .12c, 13c, 25c
Turkish Bath Towels, bleached, pr..25c
Buggy Lap Robes ,.......5O soc
Same, in linen, hem stitched. SOC, 81
Silk Yelling, white and black. .15c
Ladies' black Hose, lace effect. 1 &c, 25c
Same, pure isle, fine gauge, high
spliced heels, double sole. SOC
Children's fast black Hose, ribbed.
......1Oc, 1890, 15c, 171ac
Woven wire Bustles. .25c
Red, White and Blue Decoration for
the Fourth and Fire Crackers.
Opaque Window Shades. ... .3Oc
2 dozen Clothes Pins ..............5 SC
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-07-08

Before insuring your life write j. X.
Gay $685. A. w. Denny Bldg, Seattle,
general agent Home Life Insurance
Co. of N. Y, for plans of this old conser-
vative company. 26-tf.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-07-08

In Shoes we can save you some
money. Our Queen B, usually
sold for $3.50. So 90
Mems Kid Oxfords. ....... so
Our $3.50 Shoe for men in kid or box
calf is up to date for style, and are hon
estly made. No better are sold for $500
Hammocks ~ SOC, 81 90, 81 rs
Buggy Whip. ............Y...1 5c, 25c
Rawhide Whip. ................. 4!jc
Rawhide Whip from butt to tip, it soc
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10
THE FUN OF CAMPING OUT.

More and more popular Is camp life
becoming each year, says Country Life
in America. With those who go Into
the deep woods in quest of big game
and fish the camp life Is, after all, the
real attraction, and not the mere de-
sire to kill. But where one can make
these trips there are thousands who
cannot. For these there are peaceful
rivers, wood-girt lakes and ponds and
beautiful spots on the shores of Old
Neptune available for quite as charm
ing a two-weeks' outing beneath can
vas. In making up a camping party,
choose you such congenial spirits as
shall be foresworn to philosophical
optimism.
And let there be wag among them.
who, catching the humor of every sit
uation, puts to fight all thought OF
discomfort. A level site near a spring
with plenty Of shade, a pleasant sheet
of water with good fishing, pine boughs
for bed and driftwood for fire.
and who would trade his life for a
kings patrimony? How delicious the
fish favored with the pungent smoke
of the fire! How rarely satisfying the
simple bill Of fare, and how few, after
all, are the needs Of this life! Yours
Is the joy and happy freedom of the
gypsy and vagabond. You have be-
come species Of civilized barbarian,
and it is good. Sunshine or shower,
what matters It? You take what
comes and give thanks, and if you are
of the right sort some of the beauty
of each is absorbed into your very
nature. Long days, lazy days, but hap
py days, are the days in camp. Hap
and mishap will don the TESTERS cap
and bells and parade through memory
many time during the after months.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10
Birth of London Bridge.

On Aug. 1, 1881. William w. and
Queen Adelaide formally opened with
much ceremony the famous London
bridge, so that the structure now is
little over seventy-one years old.
Their majesties went in grand process
sion from Buckingham palace to Som
erset house, and thence by barge to
the bridge. The awnings Of the royal
barge were removed, that full view
Of the royal pair could be had along
the whole line. At London bridge a
grand pavilion had been set up close
to the site Of Old Fishmongers' Hall.
It was constructed of standards cap
tured in hundred fights, canopied in
crimson and decorated with massive
shields. When the King stepped ashore
he said to two members Of the London
bridge committee: "Mr. Jones and Mr..
Routh, I am very glad to see you on
London bridge It is certainly a most
beautiful edifce and the spectacle is
the grandest and the most delightful
in every respect that 1 ever had the
pleasure to witness" This, Of course
says the London News, was before
any one thought Of building an annex
to Westminster Abbey.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10
PAGAN aIrEs IN SCOTIA.
Many Scoffish Customs that 0ri8i.
mated In Superstition.

HaHy Scoffish Gusfome that ora4e
mated In Superstition.
Nearly all travellers In central Africa
have referred to the curious customs
prevalent among all pagan native tribes
of driving quantities of nails into sa-
cred trees and other objects that have
been adjudged worthy ofveneration,
and this not in malice, but as religions
rite, the nails in question being intend
ed as votive offerings Exactly the same
thing may be witnessed to-day at the
sacred well of st. Maebruha, In Loeb
Maree, Rossshire, where Is an ancient
oak tree studded with countless nails
of all sizes, the offerings Of invalid pill
grims who came to worship and be
cured, says a writer in Stray Stories.
Pennies and half pennies also are to
be seen in enormous quantities driven
edgewise In the tough bark, and
friend of the writer's who visited the
spot some little time back discovered
in cleft high up In the trunk what he
took to be a shilling. On being extract
ed, however, it proved to be counter
felt. Probably the donor, finding that
he could get no value for his coin In
the natural world, concluded he might
as well try, as last resort, what effect
it might have ON the spiritual.
OF course, the poor cottars and 9TH
ers who flock to st. Maebruha with
their nails and their pence do not for a
moment admit that they are assisting
at a pagan ceremony. But they most
undoubtedly are. Well worship has al
ways occupied an important place in
paganism, and the sacred oak, before
which each pilgrim must thrice kneei
ere humbly presenting his Offering
what is it but an obvious survival of
the sacred groves of Druidical times?
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10

! mounting handed a negro a note ad-
dressed to Mrs. Theodore Benton. 1t
read:
"Are you Of the same mind as in the
summer of 1862? If so, 1 will go away,
and when you wish an annulment Of
our marriage 1 will not oppose it.
THEODORE"
In a few moments Barbara appeared
at the door, and between hysterical
tears and laughter held out her arms.
Benton sprang from his horse to her
embrace.
The first piece of news the husband
received was that Mrs. Ritchie had
died; the second was an explanation of
the renunciation which had occurred
when Benton had been there before.
Mrs. Ritchie was a woman who, when
her mind was made up, would stop at
no means which she regarded legiti-
mate to accomplish her object. She con-
sidered that her daughter had been
stolen from her. Therefore she had .
right to repossess herself Of her own
property. She would not lie. She had
asked Benton, IF my daughter comes
into this room and confirms what
have said, will you believe herT' Then
she ordered Elizabeth to personate her
sister. Elizabeth, without strength of
character to resist her mother, had
done as she was told. Barbara, on the
arrival of her husband, had been locked
in her room and had not known of the
outrage that had been committed until
after her mothers death, when her Sis
ter confessed and begged forgiveness.
Barbara, when she learned how she
had been misrepresented to her hus-
band, was in agony. She had resolved
to go north In search of him when the
| Union troops appeared.
Benton sent a note to his command
| ing officer announcing that he had
! found a loving wife, and asking that a
leave be granted. 1t was given, and
that night the wedding was celebrated,
not by the attendance of the neighbor-
! ing planters, but by the rejoicings of
the negroes for whom with their new
T, master the day of jubilee had at last
come.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10
TWO CAMPAIGNS

~ n the James River some miles be-
II u low Richmond is plantation
manor house that was built in
1860. About the middle of the last cen
tury the owner of the estate was Il
widow, Mrs. Margaret Ritchie, who had
two twin daughters, Barbara and Eliza
beth.
Mrs. Ritchie was very wealthy and
very ambitious. She took her daughters
to Europe with view to their marry
ing noblemen.
A German baron proposed for Bar
bara and was accepted by the mother
who did not consult her daughter In the
matter. intending, If necessary, to en-
force obedience. The mother did not
know that Barbara had a love affair
with lieutenant In the United States
army, Theodore Benton, a fine young
fellow, but without a cent in the world
except his pay.
Had she been aware Of this attach
ment she would not have brought her
daughter back to America, which she
did, thinking 1t proper that the baron
should come for her at her own home
Soon after her return Barbara met
Lieut.. Benton at one of the houses fac
ing the capitol over which soon was to
float the Confederate flag Already
there were mutterings of the great
struggle to come. Benton was a North
ern man, and both knew that this
would be an additional reason why Mrs.
Ritchie would never consent to their
marriage.
Benton urged her to marry him at
once without her mothers consent, but
she dared not Soon after, while Benton
and Barbara were still in Richmond,
came the news of the firing on Fort
Sumter. Benton fastened to find Bar
bara, told her that he must at once
make his way north and again urged
her to marry him.
She consented, clergyman was call
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10
All SirlOin.

Holman F. Days pine Tree Bal
lads" tells in verse a number of stories
that actually happened down in
Maine" and are remembered there to-
day by old narrators. One relates to
Barney McGauldric, landlord Of that
State, at whose house famous men lik-
ed to stay, that they might enjoy q
merry joke.
Barney was always loyal to his
friends. At one time a new meat deal
er came to town, and tried to secure
the landlords trade.
II have always bought meat Of Jed
Haskell" said Barney, "and guess
I won't change"
But" said the other, "old Haskell
doesn't know his business. He doesn't
even know how to cut meat"
"Well," drawled Barney, 1--WE al
ways found that he knows enough
about 1t to cut sirloin steak clear to the
horn, and that's good enough for me" Z"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10
Old
FAvORITES
LITTLE 1REEcHEs.

don't go much on religion,
1 never amt had no show;
But I've got middlin' tight grip, sir,
On the handful o. things / know.
/ don't pan out on the prophets,
And free-will, and that sort of thing
But b'lieye in God and the angels
Ever since one night last spring.
/ come into town with some turnips,
And my little Gabe came along
No four-year-old in the county
Could beat him for pretty and strong,
Peart, and chippy, and sassy,
Always ready to swear and fight
And I'd larnt him to chaw terbacker
Jest to keep his mflk-teeth white.
The snow came down like blanket
As l passed by Taggarts store;
l went in for a jug Of moiasses
And left the team at the door.
They scared at something and started
/ heard one little squall.
And hefl-to-split over the prairie
Went team, Little Breeches, and all.
Hell-to-split over the prairie!
l was almost froZe with skeer;
But we rousted up some torches,
And searched for 'em far and near.
At last we struck horses and wagon,
Showed under soft, white mound,
Upset, dead beat-but Of little Gabe
No hide nor hair was found.
And here all hope soured on me
OF my fellow-critter's aid
l jest Topped down on my marrow bones,
Crotch-deep in the snow and prayed.
By this, the torches was played out,
And me and Isrul Parr
Went off for some wood to sheepfold
That he said was somewhar thar.
We found 1t at last, and little shed
Where they shut up the lambs at nigat.
We looked In and seen them huddled thar,
So warm, and sleepy, and white,
And thar sot Little Breeches and chirped.
As peart as ever you see,
II want a chaw of terbacker,
And that's what the matter Of me-"
How did he git thar? Angels.
He could never have walked In that
storm,
They Jest stopped down and toted him
To whar 1t was safe and warm.
And 1 think that saving little child,
And fotching him to his own,
Is a burned sight better business
Than loafng around the Throne.
John Hay.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10
Reported Him Literally.

Fault was found with the way in
which the shorthand writer's reported
the speeches in a legislative body. They
retaliated by giving the speech of one
of the members exactly as he made It,
with the following result:
"The reporters not to-the re-
porters ought not to be the ones to
Judge what is important-not to say
what should be left out-but-the
member can only Judge Of what is i'm.
portant. AS las my speeches the
reports-as what say is reported some
times, no one-nobody can understand
from the reports-what it is-what
mean. So-it strikes melt has struck
me certain matters things that appear
of importance-are sometimes left oui
omitted. The reporters-the papers
points are reported-I mean-to make
a brief statement-what the paper
thinks Of interests reported. ."-Cleve.
land Leader.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10

ed, and the two were made man and
wife.
Benton reached Washington safely.
Barbara went home to her mother and
broke the news of her marriage.
The next summer those at the Ritchie
plantation listened every day for a
week to the distant boom Of cannon in
the battles about Richmond.
Then a sound, like storm that had
come, roared from the top Of Malvern
hill, but short distance away. Even
ing had come and with it only the
cracking of rifles on the picket line
when a young officer rode up to the
plantation, announced himself as Liept
Benton and, upon being told that the
family were there, demanded to see his
wife.
Mrs. Ritchie came into the drawing.
room and received him with naughty
manner by no means softened by the
fact that he was an invader of her State
and her plantation. She told him that
Barbara was Ill and that she did not
wish to see him. When the war ended
she would apply for an annulment OF
the marriage. Benton fatty refused te
believe the statement. Since he was
with an army, Mrs. Ritchie could not
have him rejected. She therefore resort
ed to strategy.
IF my daughter comes into this room
and confirms what have said, will you
believe herY'
II Will"
Half an hour later a young girl stood
upon the threshold, pale apparently
with Illness. Benton seeing what ap
peared to be the shadow Of his wife
stepped forward The girl motioned
him bao6.
Theodore" she said, 81 did wrong In
marrying you without my mothers con
sent. Go away. / wish never to see
you again."
Benton staggered from the house
mounted his horse and rode away.
Two years later Grant laid a pontoor
bridge across the James, advanced te
Petersburg and besieged the place
During the passage of the Union troops
across the river an officer rode up tt
the Ritchie plantation, and without dis
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10
FUNERALS IN OLD MEXICO.

Street Cars for Hearses, and CofRus
Peddled from Door to Door.
"Did you ever see street car funer-
alp" The questioner was drummer
for large Eastern house, and had just
returned from an extensive trip
throughout Mexico.
"a street car funeral?' the reporter
repeated.
the moment he crosses the Mexican bor-
der, but he reaches the climax in the
City of Mexico itself, and from what
canlearnit is the only town In the world
where street car funerals are an every
day occurrence. Funerals, like all other
things Mexican, are divided into two
classes. Those who can afford luxuries
procure the hearse drawn by four blacit
horses, with q coachman and a foot
man, and ornamented with gold and sill
yer trappings of every description. But
the poorer element must be content
with just plain, ordinary street car,
with the seats removed, few pieces Of
cheap black cloth tackled here and there
to LEM. 4 somber effect, and drawn by
pair of sunburned but energetic
mules.
when a Mexican dies the street car
company is Immediately notified to
have a hearse and the required number
of coaches at a certain point on their
track as near as possible to the late res
idence of the deceased. The coffin is
then placed upon the shoulders of four
friends and carried from the house to
the street car pageant in waiting. The
remains are carefully deposited on the
platform Of the first car, the gaudily
attired mourners climb in the remaining
coaches, and the funeral proceeds, in
more or less state, to the cemetery.
Cigarettes are very much in evidence,
and casual observer might well sup
pose from the ascending smoke that the
remains were being cremated en- route.
eff the mourners are extremely sor-
rowful they may pull down the blinds
and close the doors, thus enjoying COM
plete privacy. The great objection, how
ever, to the street car funeral is the de-
gree of speed that must be maintained
in order to keep the tracks cleared for
regular traffic. In fact, on one occa-
sion just before left the capital saw
the little mules attached to the second
class hearse coming down the street at
full gal1op, affording us an astonish-
ing combination Of the quick and the
dead
"And speaking Of funerals reminds
me Of a little incident which occurred
up In Queretaro, town some miles
north of the city. l was sitting out in
front of the adobe hotel one evening
when noticed an old man going from
door to door with plain pine coffin on
his back. He was what Is termed a
coffin peddler,' and was trying to in
duce the residents to lay in supply of
coh1ns for the approaching winter. The
principal argument used in disposing Of
his grewsome wares was that all are
bound to die sooner or later, and one
might as we'll be supplied with all the
necessary requisites to a funeral" -
Washington Post.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10
BANKRUPTS IN LIVERY.
Curious Laws Once Enfoy ced In EE-
gland and Scotland.


At one time England and Scotland
bankrupts were compelled to wear a
distinctive dress. This was a result
of enactments passed at various times
in Scotland from the year 1905 to 1858.
The Edinburgh Court of Sessions speci-
fed the dress to be Of parti-color, one
half yellow and the other brown, some
thing after the style Of the dress now
worn in English prisons by the worst
class of prisoners, those who have at
tempted to escape or been guilty of
murderous assaults on officers. The
enactment also provided that the bank
rupt should be exhibited publicly in the
market place of his town for a period
of two hours and then sent away, con-
demned to wear the dress until such
time as he had paid his debts or some
one else had done it for him.
Although this was a period Of laws
which can only be described as fero-
cious, this law was such an outrage
on public sentiment that in 1858 it was
SO far repealed that the wearing of the
dress was only compulsory in cases
in which fraud had been proved, or,
curiously enough, If the bankrupt had
been convicted of smuggling. The
same practice was legal, but not gen.
orally in force in England down to the
year 1896. The idea was, of course, to
warn persons who might have given
credit that the bankrupt was not able
to pay, but popular sentiment soon rec
ognized that it was wholly unfair to
impose excessive penalties on a man
who might have become bankrupt
through no fault Of his own, and, as
usual, when the law became contrary
to public feeling it ceased to be op-
erative.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10
Original View of an Old Tar.

Few persons who take out life insur-
ance postpone that action so long as did
an old English sailor who recently ap-
piled for a policy. When he presented
himself at the insurance Office he was
naturally asked his age. His reply was
"a. "Why, my good man, we cannot in
sure you," said the agent Of the COM
pany. why not?" demanded the appli-
want. "Why, you say you are 81 years
of age" 'sWhat of that?" the old man
cried. Look at the statistics and they
will tell you that fewer men die at 81
than at any other age"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-10
Equally Divided.

A good story is told Of twin brothers.
one of whom was clergyman and the
other doctor. A short-sighted woman
congratulated the latter on his admira-
BILE sermon. Excuse me, madam. +"
was his reply, cover there is my broth
er, who breaches; only practice.
Evening Wisconsin.