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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24
MARRIED LIFE OF 81 YEARS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer Spears, who
live at Eagle Creek. Ohio, recently cell
ebrated the sixty-seventh anniversary
of their marriage.
The couple We're married in 1885. Mr..
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24
The Secret.

$50 you and Tom were finally mar
ried Ell. Nell?"
Yes. but were not happy"
why how's that"
1--WE didn't marry each other"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24

When you see a man shaking dice
the difference between sound and sense
is apparent.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24

Spears is nearing 80 years OF age, while
his wife is in the eighties. A remark
able thing about this aged couple is
that they have never suffered any Sc
we're illness.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24

If woman can keep from 3eing a
fool about a man. the probabilities are
that she will be of some use in the
world.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24

A father never thinks that his chill.
dren are old enough to think for them
selves until they agree with him.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24

MICS kUFLITZ 10 De q u II z u
against her, and that IL a jury Is in
duenced by the comeliness OF plain
tiff it Is not for the courts to deprive
her of her natural advantages.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24

stories is that they are wholly uure.
liable.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24

A man seldom gives his health a
thought until after hS Loses it
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24

1t does them no more harm than has
been done for countless generations.
For women are nourshed upon fiction
from the days Of their birth. Our girls
are reared in an atmosphere rarefied
and cleared from all impurities. The
world Is shown them through rose
tinted glass. Fiction without discrimi-
nation Is fed to the girl who looks with
heaven-given trust into the eyes Of her
we'll meaning teachers. And when she
becomes woman, the habit has sent
its roots into her soul, and be she hap
py or pensive. she reads fiction. With
men 1t Is different. They do not ex-
pect from life what women do. When
they read novels 1t Is to forget the rig
Ors Of business, to enter deliberately a
region which they know does not exist.
But women can seldom quite believe
that it does not exist. To them life Is
romance. If 1t does not turn out well.
so much the worse for life. and they
turn to books, where the happy ending
Is fairly sure to be counted upon. In
women's love for fiction there Is some
IlllS uOIe tudu 10 SuPCihCiohy OPPui-
ent.
Why Girls are Getting Drawer.
At Bryn Mawr we consider Out-Of-
door exercise, in connection with gym
nasium work. very important. Our stu.
dents are encouraged to play basket
ball. hockey, tennis, golf, and tether
ball; also to swim, and to ride horse
back and on bicycles. In the spring
we have our match games in basket
bali. Out out-of-door games tend,
moreover, to develop a spirit Of gener-
osity. endurance, and fortitude. These
last three considerations are very
strong ones IN favor Of the rough
sports.
For instance. a pupil came to me the
other day with very badly hurt
thumb. which l noticed although she
said nothing about it. She had hurt it
playing hockey. but she did not seem to
think it was anything at all. Ten years
ago, a college woman would have con-
sidered it rather serious injury. Sure
ly no one can consider incidents like
that without realizing all they stand
for, and what they will mean in the
future lives of college women.-LOuisa
Smith In Success.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24
Her Beauty Won a Verdict.

Miss Emma Koplitz's good looks
have won far-reaching decision from
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-24

II takes real genius to originate
new ideas in loyemaking.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1902-05-09

AFTER WHAT'S IN THE BOTTLE ~ GONE "
n mile or so and he has -four turnlps
under his arm. ] begs for one. but no
turns me down. Then | tells him to
go to the bad place. lie sasses back
and puts up me dukes and let's fly.
He gives me n black eye, but knocks
blazcs out Of him."
"Stopr' exclaimed Miss Mccson as
she held up both hands. 81 cannot
listen to any such language II my
own father should talk that way I'd
dlsown hnv'
"But had to tell you how | put up
me dukes. ma'am," he protested.
'Dukes? Dukes? Whit do know
Of dukes? | never heard such awful
language In my life. You seem to have
a bottle In your pocket. Is 1t possible
that you carry the soul destroying
liquid around your"
IT'S to keep Off the chills, miss" he
explained as he exhibited pint bottle
half full Of whisky.
"And men can sink so low MS thls2
wouldn't have believed It. There IL no
iif'AH'i w 'piiDhlt WIN YOU pO YOU
think It possible that there Is one little
spark Of goodness left In your soul2'
" wouldn't bet on It, miss" ruefully
replied the man as no gazed at his
wayworn shoes.
perhaps there Is. DO you want to
reformT
"Of course"
"lf you made me n promise would
you keep ltr'
I'D try me hardest"
"1hen there Is some faint hope. I
want you to begin by repeating the
Lords Prayer after me-"
lie humbly repeated II, and when II
was finished he seemed considerably
affected. Miss Meeson took this as an
encouraging sign and went on:
"Now promise me that you won't lie
or steal again as long as you live"
Il promise"
"And you1l let whisky nlone from
this time on"
"Aftcr what's In the bottle Ia gone"
"And you'll never fight or swear
SgainT
Never, 30 help me joiner"
Now | have some hopes OF you"
said the schoolma'am In more friendly
tones. II hope you'll take a bath and
wash up as soon as opportunity oc.
ours, and II you will call at Farmer
Nelson's in a day or two I'll coax him
10 give you work. lie Ia my father
and you will be directly under my In
nuence. shall do my best TO regener-
ate you. am hopeful that my In
fuence"-
She was interrupted by the entrance
OF three more tramps, each one Of
whom out-toughed the nrgt caller. IL
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1902-05-09


"Why did the court refuse to accept
that wOman's letters as evidencof"
ut was decided that they were not
genuine"
Didn't the handwriting experts de.
clare that she wrote themT
Eyes but there was evidence 20 tho
contrary"
what was itT'
"The letters contained no post.
scripts" York Herald.
Partisan tion.
A political critic Of former genera.
tion was engaging an apartment I'm
one OF the chief streets OF Paris. The
lnndlady, wishing, like all landlndies
to make the best Of her rooms, led
him to one OF the principal windows
and ns she swung back the venetian
blinds remarked, ut Is from this point,
sir, that all Of our revolutions pass"
The good woman was no cynlc, but
spoke from her heart and Just As an
English landlady who harps upon the
splendid view Of the sea from the two
pair frOnt.-LondOn Answers
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1902-05-09

Miss Mary Louise Boyle, who count
ed Dickens, Lever, Browning, Lowell
ana Tennyson among her friends, re
cords In her Book" story about q
sporting parson she knew, the Rev
Lorraine Smith. who hunted in purple
instead OF pink because the former
was the correct episcopal color:
His reverence was always well
mounted and was q keen sportsman
tie had pretty living and good
church In the nelghborhood, but he sur.
prised his purishloners very much by
altering the whole disposition of the
tombstones. lie thought they looked
awkward and untidy I'm their actual DO
sition, 10 he had them all taken up and
rearranged according to his fancy In
lines, crosses, squares, etc. One Sun
day morning. very cold winters day,
he had performed the service to n
scanty congregation, and on going up
into his pulpit. instead Of opening his
sermon book, no pronounced the fol-
lowing address: My dear friends, II
you require 1t | will preach you the
sermon which I have brought with me,
but II you are as cold and hungry as
| am think you Will prefer going
with me to the rectory. where you will
find some cold beef and some good
ale.'"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1902-05-09

A traveller In the Bolivian Andes says
that ut one time, while his cart was
making It's progress through passes and
over dizzy heights, lie had chance to
learn how two taciturn persons may
show their satisfaction at meeting In
other than the conventional way.
II was midday, and under the glnring
vertical sun drowslness had invaded US.
We slept until we were awakened by
the approach Of the mail cart coming
In the opposite direction, the first civ
tlized vehicle we had encountered. Both
drivers stopped and gazed at each other
long IN silence.
They were evidently pleased 10 meet,
but had nothing whatever to say. At
last one inquired:
"What ncwsT
Nothing replied the other.
what did he snyT asked the first,
doubtless continuing conversation n
fortnight old.
Nothing"
Good" And they drove on
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1902-05-09
ROCKVILLE. MARYLAND. FRIDAY MORNING, Mayo
A FAIR
BACKSL|DER
Copyright, 1901, by
By James Arthur Cook

1t was Saturday afternoon, and Miss
Meeson, the good looking schooltencher
of district No. 4, was at the school.
house to secure book she had left
the day before. She was sitting down
to rest after her walk of mile or
more when shadow darkened the
open door and she looked up to find a
tramp on the threshold. There was no
MISLEADING his avocation; he was lem
and ragged and hungry looking; he
was sunburned and tough. 1t was half
mile to the nearest farmhouse, and
yet after the first thrill Of alarm the
schoolma'am was not frightened. On
the contrary, she saw the opportunity
to read a fellow being moral lesson
and she was rather pleased. Miss
MeesOn had ideas. They were Puri-
tanical and more. II she had been the
governor of Connecticut she would
have vigorously enforced all the blue
laws on the statute books and sought
to ennct dozen more.
"Come In here and sit down." she
said to the tramp, to show him she was
not afraid.
"Yes'm," he humbly replied as he
tlmidly advanced and took a seat
Now, then" she continued after
looking him over you are lazy good
for nothing and wouldn't work II work
was offered"
"K'rect, miss" he answered.
you 20 trnmplng up and down the
country, and you do not hesitate to
steal as well rs beg"
"Perfeckly true, miss"
you've probably been In Jall2"
"a dozen times"
IL thought so. You have red nose.
and I've no doubt you drink"
Like n fish, miss, when can get
IT,"
"a pretty specimen Of a man you
are" she continued as she warmed to
her subject. "a vagrant. a beggar. a
thief and n drunkardl You are also
Jailblrd, and | don't suppose you ever
speak the truth except by accident"
you've hit 1t, MISS" replied the
tramp, with neeting smile.
Cast In the mold OF a man. yet wit
ness the degradationv' sighed the
schoolma'am. AS II you hadn't got
low enough, you have been fighting.
No doubt you also used profane
wordsv
81 did. mlss-I did. You see, It was
this way: ! meets weary down here
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1902-05-09
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was clear from the FIRST that their In.
tentions were evil, and AZ they stood
grinning and wlnking at each other
the schoolmaam moved back In alarm
and her convert followed and put him
self In front of her.
"Are-are they wicked2" she asked
in whisper.
"a bad lot, MISS" he answered, while
one Of the trio demanded a kiss nll
around.
"Oh, but hear theml They mean me
harmr'
II expect they do. miss, and you see
how It ia with me. You made me
promise not to swear any more and
how can l blast their blooming eyes
without swearlngT
The trio began dancing about, and
the girl grew white faced as she said:
But l guess you may swear If you
think It will do any good"
And me dukes, miss. ! promised
not to put 'em up again. can't fight
three wearies with me nose"
''Oh, don't fight" she walled; "but II
you must. then put up your dukes, or
whatever they arel Seel They IRE
tearing the seats outr'
"And one thing more" continued the
convert. "'ve got to take a drink of
whisky to brace me up. It's one to
three. and I'll need a bracer."
"Then take it--take itv she exclaim-
cd as the trio began to crowd closer.
"And can ! leave out the bath and
wash up and workT'
"Yes, yes! Protect mer'
"I'll do It. miss, and here goes"
Her tramp reached for his bottle and
took hearty swig, and as he restored
1t to his pocket he opened on the enemy
ut the rate Of seventy-hve swear words
q minute. He swore and swore till
the schoolma'am held her hands
over her ears. Then he pushed up his
greasy sleeves, put up his dukes" and
while Miss Meeson prayed he sailed
In and slam banged. He got many a
bang In return before victory perched
upon his banner, but his cause was
Just and he finally put the lust one to
sleep and stood over his body md told
the half dead girl that the way was
open. She hurried to the door, but
paused there to turn and say:
Il think III bachslid."
you did, MISS" he replied.
"And you'll continue to swear and
fight and drink whisky and"-
II think I'd better, mn'am-for the
cause Of eddecashun. Pears to beat
the other way all holler."
And as the schoolma'am hurried
down the road with her heart in her
mouth she couldn't help but think the
same thinu
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1902-05-09
TO the Consumers of our
CONTEMPLATING
AND
n FL H a L H I NJ q.
IN ALL IT'S BRANCHES.

THE undersigned, having suitable shop,
Il Is prepared to do the following work In
a thoroughly practical manner Making new
parts and otherwise repairing, scraping, pol
ishng and upholstering all kinds and grades
OF Furniture, Baby Carriages, Trunks, Vi
olins and Bows and all kinds Of Musical In
struments repaired. Gaming Chairs and re-
pairing all kinds Of Cane Furniture. Mat
tresses made over In sections. Ticks renewed
and new ones made to order. EnameinR
Iron or Wood Furniture; Ebonizlng, Gid
ing, Bronzing, &c.
Samples Of Upholstery goods always on
hand, and cost given before work is DONE
Old Mahogany Furniture n specially.
can give best Of reference from those for
whom have done work. Satisfaction in all
cases or no charge. Terms moderate
Place OF business, W. ". Ricketts' Build
ing, Rockville, Md
Thankful for past patronage, | respectfully
solicit continuance of the same.
oct IDLY &C. GRIFFIN
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1902-05-09

Professor Shore In very nbsentmlnd-
ed. Ills son rushed into his study one
morning and exclaimed:
"Just think, fatherl I've swallowed
n pint What shall I DOR
"Ah. we'll" replied the big man.
don't worry about II. Here's another
pin."-Chums.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1902-05-09

Mrs. Mltford-What do you think Of
this vIyisection question? II must DO
awful 10 be cut up alive.
Mrs. Graham Yes. and II In awful 10
be cut dead. M was by one Of my
dearest friends last evening Boston
Transcript
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-06-05

to say whether there was danger there
or not. Then, too, the governor was
coming, and, moreover, his family was
coming with him. Could there posi-
bly, be any danger where so eminent
and so important personages as these
were? Also company of soldiers
from Fort de France we're coming,
and while the st. Pierrans were talk
ing of their arrival the company APP
peared.
1t seems singular that the presence
of this small band of soldiery should
have inspired a misplaced confidence,
but it was so, though none seems to
have asked what good the soldiers
could have done, or even the might
est army have effected against vol
canic Pelee.
The governor came, and with him
his family arrived from Fort de France
on the little steamboat Topaz. With
the governor came the biologists, the
wise men who were to sit in judg-
ment and to so fatuously misjudge.
They pondered long, and then gave
fatal assurance that all was we'll. The
people read the assurances which the
papers printed, drew a long breath of
relief and then turned their attention
and pleasure and all that goes to
make up the indolent, happy life of
the pleasure loving natives of this
isle. And that night-the night of
May THE wise men fastened back
to Fort de France.
The governor and his family were
to have followed the next day, the
French cruiser Suchet having been di-
rected to leave her anchorage at Fort
de France at o'clock for the purpose
of bringing home the governor and his
party.
That plan, if carried out, would
have brought the cruiser to her doom,
and her crew will never cease to
thank their saints and bless the blum
dering mechanic who broke something
in the engine-room as the vessel was
about getting under way, which acct
dent delayed her departure and proba-
bly, saved the lives of all on board.
Wednesday night-eve of horror!
There are none left alive to tell
what the city was like that night, but
just around a little promontory at
it's southern edge nestles the little vii
lage of Carbet, pretty town of some
six or seven hundred people. And
not one of them was hurt, the town
having been screened by the high
ridge which lay between it and st.
Pierre and runs sheer to the sea.
Its northern wall was precipitous
and built close up to it was the south
ern section of st. Pierre, a thickly
populated district whose houses left
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-06-05

strange quiet of ...S lacked earth.
Thomas T. Prentiss, United States
consul at st. Pierre, was sitting on
the veranda at his home in the early
hours of the following morning. A
friend came driving by in a buggy.
"Ycn had better get out Of this"
he called to the consul. 81 am getting
out. and getting out as fast as can"
"Oh, you are just merely a little
scared" Mr.. Prentiss replied. "There
is no need of anyone going away"
ut is better to be safe than sorry"
retorted the citizen as he whipped up
his team and fastened on.
1t is from this man, who witnessed
the disaster short time later from
a neighboring elevation, with few
who survived the wreckage in the Of
fng, and the few who looked on the
cataclysm from distant points, that
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-06-05

throes Of death. One moment and
church bells were ringing joyous
chimes in the ears of st. Pierre's 30
OOO-the next the fame-clogged bells
were sobbing requiem for 10000
dead. One watt of morning breeze
flowed over cathedral spires and
domes, over facades and arches and
roofs and angles of populous and
light-hearted city-the next swept a
lone mass of white-hot ruins. The
sun glistened one moment on spark
ling fountains, green parks and frond-
ed ponds-its next ray shone on fusine
metal, blistered, f1ame-wrecked squares
and charred stumps of trees, One
day and the city was all light and
color, all gayety and grace-the next
its ruins looked as though they had
been crusted over with twenty cen.
turtles of solitude and silence.
Prof. Robert T. Hill, United States
government geologist and head of the
expedition sent out by the National
Geographical society, has just come
in from a daring and prolonged in,
vestigation Of the volcanic activity in
Martinique.
Prof. Hill chartered a steamer and
carefully examined the coast as far
north as Port de Macouba, at the ex
IRENE edge of the island, making fire.
quent landings. After landing at Le
Precheur, five miles north of St
Pierre, he walked through an area OF
active volcanism to the latter place
and made a minute examination OF
the various phenomena disclosed.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-06-05

barely enough room for streets, the
buildings budding close to the steep
and wooded ACTIVITY, as If seeking to
escape on the other side of the ridge.
The intervening distance was short.
By the broad, finely graded, BRIDGE
and tunneled highway which connect
ed city with village, one would Judge
that five minutes brisk walk would
be amply sufficient to, reach the one
from the other.
But none sought safety by that
road-at least none escaped by it..
The heart-breaking pity of it all is that
safety was so near-at the end Of
ones fingers almost. For just over
the ridge the grass and palms are
everywhere as green as any in the
tropics today, while up to the very
crest of its northern slope are the in
effaceable marks of ruin and disaster,
as if some sea Of flame had brimmed
to the very crest of the ridge, to suck
back again before overlooking on the
other side.
So it is the the village folks of Car
USI IAnI OAO AAuoS Jul u LUZ Sn0 ldSS
act in this horrible tragedy.
Night fell, the villagers say, with
an unnatural, unearthly quiet. Not q
breath of air to stir the palms firing.
ing on the shores; not a ripple to
break the mirror-like clearness OF
still waters. 1t was as If the hush OF
death lay everywhere. True earth.
quake weather, more than one of the
villagers observed as they noted the
oppressive stiffness of the air and the
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-06-05
Professor Robert T. Hill.

Professor Robert i. Hill.
First Man to Penetrate to the Crater
of Mont Pelee and Report on the
Eruption.)
indian town awakes, was filling with
lenders and purchasers, when the
irst murmur of Pelee, the sleeping
giant, was heard-a deep-toned, Jared
yrowl, which instantly blanched the
hces of all who heard, for those bred
n the shadow of the volcano had long
:ince learned to dread its wrath, and,
growing up, these in turn had taught
,ther generations of the malevolenc
Il that giant bulk. Startled eyes were
mrned to the gloomy mountain
ind were treasured to see it still quiet
70 far as vision went, for it's top was
hidden in white mist, and there was
10 sign of boiling lava and no fall
# hurting rocks
Those who by chance were in the
Aty that morning, and who by far
hckier hazard were out of it before it's