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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-26
THE CITY COUNCIL
is CONFRONTED WITH SEVERAL
PROBLEMS IN PRINTING.
E. c. Finch is Called in as an Expert. The
Contract Awarded to the Sun, for Less
Than Cost Of Composition. Theater
License Denied Pound Located, Etc.

Mayor West and all the councilmen,
except Benn, we're in attendance at the
meeting last evening.
The street committee reported favora-
bly, on the improvement of First street.
and the alley in block 3, w. & BIS addi-
ton, and the attorney was directed to
prepare resolutions accordingly.
The finance committee reported that it
had checked up the water report OF
Clerk Clark, aud found it correct.
The matter OF laying the wooden water
pipe was referred to the street committee
and Supt. Linn.
Supt. Linn was directed to fix dog
pound next to the city Jail.
A petition, asking that upper II street
be graded, was referred to the street
committee.
A liquor license was granted to Jas
Dolan.
On recommendation Of the committee
the application OF the Olympus theatel
for license was denied.
A resolution was adopted for the build
ing of sidewalks on Front street, South
Aberdeen, and March Is fixed for hear
ing protests.
Bids for the city printing were received
as follows: HERALD, 25 and 10 cents
Weekly Bulletin, 6 and cents; Com
ment, cents straight; Sun, 5 and
cents. The bids were somewhat per
picking to the council, unacquainted
with the technical terms OF print shop
and Ed. G. Finch was called in to advise
in the matter. The contract was award
ed to the Sun, at a figure that will not
pay the cost of composition at the pres
ent scale of wages.
A profile OF the proposed road to the
eastern limits OF the city was filed by
Engineer Hunt, and was referred to the
street committee.
The assessment rolls Of Improvement
Districts y, "A and II we're equalized.
The following bills were allowed:
The Comment. $50 70
Dr.. Overmeyer, salary. ........ So %
Wash. Abs. Co. .... ............. l q
| l. e.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-26
Boats and Boat Building.

N. W. Springer is again in business At
his new place foot Of Wishkah street.
Estimates on and contracts taken for
building boats Of any description. Boats
for rent. Parties wishing them on Sun.
days will engage Ia advance. Aim
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-26
MinSles at Cost,

$4,000 Shingles to be sold at once /;
also some wood, a. We need yard room.
Call up Phone 81. Western Cooperage
Co. It
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-26
r Curs . Geld In one Day

Take LAXATIVE 'Btomo' Quinins. Tablets
All druggists refund the money II Il fails
ocurs. e. ". Grovs's signature u O.
sanh box.9fc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
Decline of the Bicycle.

"The bicycle is something of decadent institution" said hardware man yes terday. q remember when the machines first came into general use ten or twelve years ago and at that time every man, woman and child who was ablo to affard the luxury. purchased a bicycle. Then some woman started the bloon,er craze. giving the funny papers of the country joke material to last indefinitely. It Is a long jump from S150 to S7.95, but that tells the tale of the bicycles decline. At first wheels were an expensive luxury, but now they can be bought for a song.
 Since the advent of the automobils the poor old bicycle has dropped still fursher behind and before many more years 1t will serve only as a relic of the past. Even for business purposes bicycles seem to be in disfavor The messenger boys are about the only persons who stick to them. Just why this state of affairs =x- ists is hard to say. Perhaps riding a bicycle Is too much like work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
Tragedy in Baseball.

There always appeared to me to be something essentially pathetic in the downfall of a baseball player" said a local sportsman. When a man loses his old time prowess and gradually drops behind in the race for percentage he can see his end No mater how popular he may be among the fellows when he loses his grip he will be allowed to play no more. Then comes the sad part The former idol of the small boy and the star of a league team drifts around in hope less fashion until he manages to sign with some minor club that he seorned in his palmy days. He has learned no pro- fession and is forced to stick to the game as long as there is hope of his making living. If he has saved no money during his career he is indeed in a bad fix.
 NO one seems to know exactly what becomes of the decrepit players, but 1t is safe to say that very few of them end their days in luxury unless they have had the foresight to lay by penny when their reputation was at Its zenith"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
STRANGE HABITS OF coWeIRD.

From Country Life in America.
 The cowbird is black and little smaller than the red-winged blackbird. There are three species. two of which-the common and d-eyed-migrate to our northern states and are found associated together. The male of the common cowbird has a head and neck of deep wood brown, while the red-eyed is wholly black and very lus- trous The females are smaller than the males and duller in color, although the red-eyed female is quite black.
 The bird receives its name from it's as- sociation with cows, besides which it feeds, snatching up the insects that are disturbed by their heavy tread. About half a dozen usually attend a single ami nal or a bunch of cattle, part of which may be of one species and part the other. Indeed, the two associate together as peacefully as though they were of the same species.
 The most serious indictment against the cowbird is that 1t builds no nests and does not rear its own family Its eggs are laid in the nests of greenlets, warblers, finches and other blackbirds, most of which are smaller than itself. Of the first five redwinks nests examined in 1902 four contained the eggs of the cow bird. The summer warbler was one day found burying the detestable egg in the bottom of her nest. together with one Of her own. Two orchard orioles nests not fifty feet apart, each contained the egg of the parasite, probably of the same
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18

equally true that the real nose for news comes along on parallel lines. No school can give man the coveted nose, ang moro than it can give him a sense of humor if nature had denied that boon.
 The new "col1ege of journalism" eau not possibly do better than Auburn or Tuscaloosa is doing, or any other school that teaches a boy to think properly, to love the best literature. and to handle facts and figures to the best advantage. The technical details are better picked up step by step in newspaper office than in a palatial school on the banks of the Hudson. The proposed school will do no harm, but it will not create an additional number of efficient or valuable news paper men. The new school may fill a long-felt want in New York, but it will not jar the west or south par ticle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
A suNELowER BIRTHDAY.

From the New York Sun
 The Hon. Edgar Watson Howe of the Atchison Globe kept the twenty-fifth an- niversary of the foundation of that cele- brated Kansas institution by an all-day concert and picnic. Fifteen thousand persons showed their fondness for music refreshments and MT. Howe by going to his show. He is the head of the Sum flower realists, novelist, philosopher a wit, a maker of epigrams and trouble and an outside and independent citizen of the universe. Without him Atchison could not exist; at least there would be no special use in It's existence. The man who defined a chaflng dish as ia frying pan that has got into society," is boon and treasure to Kansas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
Course of the Hurricane.

The storm born from the joint ac- tion of summers heat and the sea, was first felt at Martinique. and as it crossed the Caribbean sea it devastated portion of Jamaica, passing thence to Yucatan, and then to Tampico, a Mexican port on the gulf, where it did much damage. The presumption is that 1t will be turned towards the northeast by the shore districts about Tampico, and that New Orleans and Mobile may yet feel the force of the storm, and that 1t will then seek the Atlantic coast to die away in high northern latltudes.
 Such storms arise at any time be- tween July and October. A similar storm occurred on August IA, 1879, and it's course to Nova Scotia and Cape Cod was strewn with the wrecks of hundreds of vessels. The govern ment Is still sending out messages against the cyclone.
 It may, however, never appear on our coasts. It may expend its force in Mexico, and not another word will be heard from it, but if this should prove to be the case this country will escape easier from this tropical cy- clone than 1t usually does in such / cases. It passed across the Caribbean se;. at the rate of about fifteen miles an hour, and fl. its violence is to be felt in this country it will soon be due
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
Straiqht Line to Savannah.

The Savannah News, in the course of an intelligent and sensible discuss sion of the Seaboard-Frisco deal, ex- presses the opinion that it will result in a new direct line between its city and Birmingham. The Seaboard now controls the Macon, Dublin and Savan- nah road, and it is reported that 1t also controls the Macon and Birmingham, now completed to LaGrange, thus leav- ing gap about seventy-f1ve miles long between LaGrange and Pell City on the Seaboard's East ana West road. The filling of this gap would give the Rock Island-Frisco, ,Seaboard combina- ton an almost airline connection with Savannah over It's own lines. The News expresses the opinion that Rock Island control of the Seaboard means that the gap between LaGrange, Ga, and Pell City, Ala, will be speedily  filled. This is reasonable expecta- ton, although at this distance 1t is not easy to understand how Savannah and i,i morning newspaper dare even to propose railroad line that altogether ignores the existence of Atlanta.
 President Yoakum fully appreciates Birmingham. A recent St. Louis dis patch reports him as saying: 'In twenty-five years the tonnage out of Birmingham will be c5 great as the present tonnage of Pittsburg, and that is the greatest of any city in the world" The Savannah News can find comfort in this appreciation of Bir- mingham's possibilities. It means that a direct line to the sea from Savannah will be needed, and the line pointed out ,sby the News seems to be one that will first suggest itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18

Colorado on a vacation. 1Is desk will be occupied during his absence by John I. Evans.
 Brevora D. Miller of siluria is stopping at the Morris.
 J. A. Young of coanth. Miss, IS at the Metropolitan.
 R. F. Thompson of Chattanooga Is reg istered at the Hillman.
 sss
 R. c. Harris of Coal City Is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 J. J. Geer of Philadelphia is at ;he Nor ris.
 P. D. Youngblood of Sheffield Is stop ping at the Metropolitan.
 A. B. Simmons of Chicago is registered at the Hillman.
 S P Metcalfe of Huntsville is stopping at the Morris
 F. II Miller of Montgomery is regis tered at the Metropolitan.
 E. M. Crenshaw of Baltimore Is stopping at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
Joseph PuIitzer's Millions.

MT Pulitzer's diversion of two mil lions from his newspaper earnings to a school for journalists as part of Columbia university, will not prove q highly successful investment, because the country is full of schools that offer all the foundation a newspaper man needs. They make possible newspaper men, and only the effete east is in need of Journalists, whatever they may be. In the west and south the journalist is an unknown animal.
 All that any newspaper worker needs from schools of any sort is an academic education. No school can give him "a nose" for news; no school can put in his mind some information about every known subject. Poets are said to be born, not made; baseball experts say batters are similarly created, and 1t is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
VOLUNTEER PHYSICIAN
 FIGHTS FOR PRACTICE

From the New York World.
 An automobile accident in Sixth avenue near Fiftieth street, ended last evening in a free fight between the husband of a woman who had been run down and a physician who wanted to render medical West Forty-seventh street police station, and there the irate husband discovered that in his eagerness to protect his wife where protection was not needed he had lost their suit case, containing cash, jew elry and some deeds.
 The victims in this new comedy of err TOTS were MT. and Mrs. Harris Barrari of South Twentieth street. Philadelphia. The physician said he was Dr. George W. Will of West Forty-ninth street. Barrari came to this city with his wife to see their son Harry rehearse in "The Silver Slipper
 They were crossing Sixth avenue near ing when large automobile bore down on them at high speed. It belonged co H. I. Denny of Milton Point, Rye, but contained only the driver. Robert X. Schoonmaker. Barrari got out of the way, but his wife Was hit by the ma chimes big lamp and knocked uncon- scious. She also suffered a broken ankle.
 In the crowd that quickly gathered about there was Dr. Will, and he hasten- ed to offer his professional services. The first thing he did was to give a boy a quarter. with orders to run to the nearest drug store for bottle of whiskey. Then he began to unfasten the dress of the un-
 Hey. there! What are you doing?" cried Barrari. indignantly.
 conscious woman at the neck.
 Dr. Will looked up in surprise, but did not deign to answer. Instead he proceed ed to unclasp brooch which held Mrs. Barrari's dress together.
 You quit that. say" snarled the hus- band. What do you want with that brooch?'
 Dr. Will dropped a few profane remarks regarding the brooch and then tried in a calmer mood to explain that he was a physician and that Mrs. Barrari seemed to be very much in sneed Of his services. being still unconscious.
 And send in a big bill afterwards. l suppose remarked Barrari. Not for me. You leave her alone. ! guess I'm able to take care of my own wife"
 Dr. Will expressed his doubts on that point very strongly. Then one man hit the other and the physician proved as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
RIVER QUESTION IN AUSTRALIA

From the London Chronicle.
 Notwithstanding all the tactless as- saults on the federation and the paro- chial attitude adopted toward national obligations at the recent premier's con ference, writes our Melbourne corre- spondent, the premiers have made tremendous stride toward the settlement of the rivers question.
 They have secured five years truce between the three states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, which are vitally interested in the waters of the Murray, by means of an agree ment which, if ratified by the three par liaments, will enable the states to carry through important water conservation works.
 Taking the second and clearer step first, it is a subject of intense satisfac- ton to Australians that conflict over riparian rights has been avoided. As the Nile is to Egypt, so is the Murray to great areas in New South Wales and Victoria. For prosperity to reach those areas irrigation and the conservation of flood waters are a sine qua non. South Australia has fought the schemes of her neighbor because she feared that the flow of water, when the Murray reach ed her territory, would be so low as to impede navigation. The agreement guarantees South Australia flow of S37.- GOO cubic feet per minute. provides a com mission to administer the schemes of the other states, and limits the diversions of water during the seven months. July to January inclusive, to 293,000 cubic feet per minute on the part of New South Wales, and 147,o00 per minute on the part of Victoria, with lesser quantities during the rest of the year. The making of the agreement has been received with accla- nation throughout the commonwealth. Nothing short of a cataclysmic disturb ance, or another drouth can hinder the continuance of the agreement for a de- cade or more after 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
TO AUTUMN.

By Jihn Keats. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun! Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch caves run; To bend with apples the messed cottage trees. And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
 To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
 more. And still more. later flowers for the bees Until they think warm days will never cease,
 For Sumer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor. Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing 2 wind; Or on half-reaped furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of pc.cies, Miiiit lAS flOOh Spares the next swath and all its twin-ed flowers; And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cider-press, with patient look Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay. where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,- While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in wailfuI choir the small gnats mourn Among the river swallows. borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from garden croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18

ready with his fists as with his tongue. For several minutes there was a scrap which many of the spectators declared to be as good almost as anything profess sional
 A policeman put a stop to 1t by taking the fighters to the station, and send Mrs. Barrari, who had just regained conscious ness, to the Flower Hospital The boy who was sent for the whiskey never came back.
 At the West Forty-seventh street sta- tion Barrari and pr. Will made charges and countercharges until the sergeant de- clared that the only way out of it for him would be to lock them up. Then they repented and each withdrew his charges. pr. Will only insisted that Bar had run away with.
 Barrari protested. but submitted when the sergeant held that it was his duty to pay. Searching his pockets, he was not able to produce more than few cents
 "All right he said, "I'll have to change bill. Where's my suit case. offcer?" he asked. turning to the policeman who had arrested him.
 T ain't seen no case" replied the cop. A few questions by the sergeant revealed that Barrari, in his eagerness to protect his wife against Dr. Will, had put down the case on the ground and had forgotten all about 1t. The case he said. contained his and his wife's pocketbooks, a large sum in cash, his jewelry and several deeds to property
 The police could find no trace of the missing suit case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
Will Help Negroes.

La Crosse, Wis. August 17.-Prof. B. Fuerbinger of St. Louis addressed the German Lutheran synod of the north west today on missionary work among the negroes In the south. He referred to the race problem and made an eloquent plea for the extension of mission work among the negroes. The synod will con- tribute money toward the maintenance of a seminary for the education of young male negroes for missionary work among their fellowmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
CIeveIandism in Rampant Form,

The Montgomery Advertiser, as the mouthpiece of the bolters of 1896, dis. cusses Senator Morgan and Pettus and the rest of the democratic senators as lot of men hopelessly hoodooed or befooled-as a lot of men who mis- take cunning for sagacity, affability for true goodness and trickery for statesmanship" It brushes them all aside as it would an equal number of poor drivelling idiots, and all because they will not accept and wear the am. pie Grover Cleveland collar.
 It goes clear out to Oregon to fish up islanders upon MT. German, who is the democratic leader in the senate, and upon MT. Hill, who is the undis- puted leader of New York democrats, a state essential to democratic success next year. The Oregon sheet says MT. Gormansis satanic, and MT. Hill is de- void of all principle and honor. The esteemed Advertiser gives this Ore gonian outburst of bile prominent place on the editorial page, and practically endorses 1t, thus showing what the Cleveland adherents of 1896 are "up to-" It shows that they have adopted the rule-or-ruin policy, and that they propose to cram MT. Cleveland down democratic throats regardless of facts, or peace in the party, or anything else. It permits a nameless Oregon sheet to say that Messrs. Hill and German are 'unprincipled wreckers," whose Clutches" are satanic" This means that all opposition to Cleveland in this state must be crushed, and that all democrats must accept Cleveland on a Cleveland platform. The bolters of 1896 have suddenly become confident | that the tall can wag the Alabama dog. They do not ask for compromise, or for peace, but they boldly demand a sur render both as to candidate and plat form, and a part of the programme consists in the denunciation of all op. ponents.
 The Advertisers best "holt" is cali bre and statesmanship. What it does not know about them is not worth know ing. "Calibre" is believed to be Mont gomery word expressing mentality in general, while "statesmanship'' Is something confined to politics. Calibre seems to call for big bore and states manship for big collar, and where are they better combined than in the Sage of Princeton? However, the weather Is still hot, and The Age-Herald urges the esteemed Advertiser to modify and moderate US Groverian campaign until the Cleveland d-Whitney-Lamont circus | arrives or at least prints it's dates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
Fishing Party.

fishing and camping party of Bir- mingham men returned yesterday morn ing from Shelby county, where several days were pleasantly spent The camp was pitched on the banks of the Coosa rivr.
 In the party were Tom Parker, chair man of the police commission; Dr. George Eubank, .Dr. Robert Morefeld. Dr. Dill lard. Dr. Reece, George Eubank. Jr, and John P. Abbott. chief deputy clerk of the Jefferson county Criminal court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
Discussion Tiresome.

T am getting very tired of the race question discussion" said an old citizen "Every paper pick up has something on the subject. know 1t is a serious ques- tion and one that must be discussed from time to time but I pray that the editors will give us a rest for a few months at least"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
om the New York Press

From the New York Press.
 Women don't like surf bathing. be- cause they have to be very careful or they will get wet.
 It takes a lawyer to estimate that what he keeps you from paying some- body else you should pay him.
 When girl refuses man it is a sign she thinks he is going to ask her again. when shS will accept him.
 Some men figure how much real estate they could have bought with their cigar money, and some how many cigars with their real estate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-18
Standard oil Dividend.

New York. August 1.-The Standard oil company has declared a dividened of $5 per share payable September 15 to stock of record August 21. This Is g less than was paid in June last. t''' the same as was declared for the same last year