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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-08-03

new executive, Ar
thur II Il e | a y.
comes OF pure he
gro stock and was
born in jamaica, in
the est Indies.
While young his
parents moved TO
Liberia, and he
was educated in
the schools of the
black republic. He
has been postmast-
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-08-03
"A Tough Proposition,

"You say" she murmured as she
watched the moonlight on the sea,
that | am an angel"
Yes"
She was silent for long time.
why so penslve?" he inquired
slckishly.
Il was wondering whether, some
day when the Thermometer was up in
the vicinity of hundred. and the
ice man forgot us and the cream Is
sour, and you have n headache be-
cause you have been working hard
was wondering whether you would
call me an angel then Don't answer
right away" she added in that cold
buSiness-like tone that women are
learning to assume. Take your time
and think 1t over"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-08-03
Cyclone in Russia

st. Petersburg, July pa tornado
has passed through the district Of
Tschernigof. Three villages were de-
stroyed in few minutes. The loss OF
life was great.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-08-03
NEW PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA.

Something About the Black Republic
on the Vest Coast of Africa.
recently elected Il President who is to
serve for period of two years The
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-08-03

The man who says he will give his
last dollar to friend, seldom has a
cent.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08
DRESSING THE TREE.
How 1t May he Done to Secure the
best Effects.

The Woman's Home Companion
gives some hints on decorating a
Christmas tree safely. 1t is well
known that when tapers are fixed
to the laden branches, after the
gifts are taken off the lightened
boughs spring up and often set each
other on fire. The mode indicated
here avoids all that.
"First," says the Companion, ''thin
cut the branches sufficiently to al
low the gifts to show to good ad-
vantage. Then with an anger bore
holes in spiral row about four
or five inches apart the whole length
of the trunk. Have some fat sticks
prepared, an inch wide and half an
inch thick, and of varying lengths.
Sharpen one end, and insert them
according to their graduated lengths,
giving each blow or two with a
hammer to insure it's being firmly
fixed. Paint them green. At the
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08
THE MAN WHO swoRE OFF.
He Is Deserving of Respect and En-
cOuragement.

The world, if it knows it's business,
will doff it's hat to the man who
swore off New Years day. Notwith-
standing the outlaws of the crowd
at the bar when they hear about it,
that man, says the Chicago Daily
News, is worthy of respect and en-
couragement. Having the desire to
mend his ways, he has braved the
jests of his associates, the sneers OF
those whose unworthy methods he
hopes to forsake, and the curious
chances of casual acquaintances, in
order to exercise his will in resist
ing evil habits. His. militant man.
hood is worthy of praise. So, for
your own sake as we'll as for his,
do not laugh or sheer at him or
take patronizing attitude toward
him because of your well-known and
unassailable virtue. Express conf
dence in him and help him to stick
to his good intentions.
Why should not one resolve to for
sake ones bad habits on the first
day of the year? Why should not
one resolve to forsake them on any
other day? Having made the resolve
and entered upon the effort neces-
sary to carry it out, why should one
be the subject of jests, since there is
nothing foolish nor dishonorable in
trying to improve ones methods of
life? If the school of experience
teaches valuable lessons, as every
one knows it does, why should not
one profit by these lessons? Habit
is mainly relic of youth and ig-
norance, so far as it is not formed
on good models or by the firm hands
OF wise elders. To improve ones hab-
it's from year to year is the valuable
privilege of the man or the woman
who has been learning lessons in the
worlds academy of hard knocks. To
take no advantage of those lessons
is to write ones self down a fool.
Pity, therefore, the man or the wom-
an who never swears off.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08
The Birds Chris mas,

In Norway, the cold northern land,
the kind-hearted people wish to have
every creature rejoice at the glad
Christmas season, and they think of
the dear little birds; so there is al
ways sheaf of wheat fastened high
on pole in every farmyard, that
the birds may enjoy good dinner
of grain, and the little Norwegian
children are Santa Claus helpers,
when they help to bring Christmas to
the birds.-Detroit Free Press.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08
%111<y'7 Fp'7r* 7 TX
outer end the candle holder is firmly
R.n.bsosN

outer end the candle holder is firmly
fixed"
TO the topmost branch before the
tree is put up, aftix the "Christ-child'
the winged doll, secured by slight
rubber bands under the wings. Gilt
paper stars and crescents are pref
ty, affixed here and there to the
boughs. Gay silk and carleton bags
full of nuts and candy, oranges and
apples, bundles of stick candy tied
with ribbons, little baskets and
cornucopias of figs and raisins, gild-
e6 walnuts, popcorn balls, strings of
popcorn and cranberries, candy
canes, paper chains-an these and
other things they will suggest will
decorate tree so prettily that the
children for whose pleasure it is con-
structed will forget, in their delight,
that it is not weighted down with
costly gifts.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08
Those New Year RcsOlu lions.

Meadowbrook-How fine this world
would be if we should all keep the
good resolutions we make on New
Years day, instead of breaking them
all within week.
Hempstead-Yes! I guess the few
days after New Years, each year.
will be about as near as we will
ever get to the millennium.-Brook
lyn EAGLE.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08

An in hearts IT, kind O ove males Teller glad!
Till s~e're happy guess. mother an dad
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08
GO0d-By, Old Year.


The minutes are flying, the Old Year Is
dying,
The time will soon come when the old
clock will chime,
When the year, bent and gray, will pass
quickly away,
And; the New Year will come in the foot
prints of time
Old Year, you will go as you came, in the
snow;
For that emblem of childhood is waiting
for all;
And when in OLD age you will pass from
lifes stage,
The snowhakes will cover the place
where you fall.
For many you hold what is dearer than
gold;
We will never forget you, although you
have fed.
For the New Year is here, and so good-by,
Old Year;
We will number YOU now with the years
that are Gea0.
Marguerite NJ Hillery Gage l4), in St.
Nicholas.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08
A Time of Peril.

Clarissa-l@m always glad when
New Years day is safely over.
Fidelia-Yes; it is saddening an
niversary.
Clarissa-Oh, 1 don't mean that.
Clarence and l always have horrid
quarrel suggesting improvements in
each others conduct.-Detroit Free
Press.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08
Christmas Etiquette.

Christmas Etiquette.
No holiday joy can be complete to
those who have not tried to make
other hearts happier. This is Christ
mas etiquette.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08

Mrs. saurs (suspiciously) 49, Well,
now, what do you want?
George de Gent-Nuthin', lady,
nuthin'! Dis is JUS me New Years
call.-Chicago Daily News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-01-08

I'D you hear what the old
man said to me when he
gave me the temp" asked
Robert q Allerton of the
bright-faced cashier as
they prepared to close the
Office the night before
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
THE TERRIBLE TURK
Sultan's Troops at Old Game
Of Massacre and Pillage.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN NOT SPARED
Macedonians In Sofia and Through
out Bulgaria Are Planning to
Help Their Brethren over
the Frontier.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 25.--Authenti-
Gated statements by the Russian and
Austrian consuls at Monastir give hor-
rifying details of massacres and atroci-
ties by the Turkish troops. AT the vii
lage of Armensko they have destroyed
$50 houses out of total of 15T and
massacred every man, woman and
child. The women were subjected to
the most terrible maltreatment by the
soldiers.
Eighty revolutionaries captured at
Krushevo who were sent in the dlrec-
ton of Monastr In chains were slaugh-
tered by their guards.
The Turks are reported to have mas
sacred all the women and children in
twenty-five villages of the districts of
Florina and Monastir and to have
burned the villages. They are also al
legged to have killed number of pris-
oners.
The revolutionary committees are do
ing their utmost to force the hands of
the Bulgarian government. and the Inn
mediate outlook is exceedingly serious.
The villages of Bout Rakoro and Ar.
mesko, near Florlna, have been bonn
barded and their garrisons annihlated.
The mutilated corpses IF ninety wo-
men and children were found in one
building at Krushevo. Pieces OF the
bodies had been thrown into the streets
Fifteen of the principal merchants of
the town were killed and their heads
exhibited on poles at Monastir
At Monastlr the churches were de.
town is now Il heap of ashes. The pop
ulace fled to the hills, where they are in
starving condition.
1nsurgent bands have occupied the
stragetic points around Malkoternovo
Eight villages to the north of Losen-
grad have been burned by Bashiba-
zouks, while the insurgents attacked
two Turkish posts in the vicinity of
the same town and killed their entire
garrisons, consisting of sixty soldiers
and one officer. At Almogic sixty in
surgents engaged in fighting with 300
Bashibazouks. The result Is not
known.
The Macedonian organzat tions in
Sofia and throughout Bulgaria are
busily planning to help their brethren
across the border. 1t is said that the
rival committees have buried their diff
ferences and are now working in har.
mony, confident that the rich Bulgari-
ans who have hitherto withheld their
contributions on account of the COM
mittpe's disSpnsions will now pive Iiber
ally.
Travellers who arrived here from Ad.
rianople state that massacre Of Chris
tians has occurred there.
One version says the guns in one of
the forts opened fire on an insurgent
band which had attacked military
outpost. a panic followed inside the
town, and the Mohammedan popula
ton fell upon the Christians.
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Postage Stamps on Mail Trains.

An order just issued by Postmaster
General Payne requires railway postaI
clerks "to keep constantly On hand a
supply OF one and two cent postage
stamps for the accommodation of the
public at the Car, and such stamps
must not be sold for any more than
their face value"
This order will prove great con,
venlence for persons who mail letters
at trains.
A great many letters are thus mail.
ed on all principal towns along the
railroad lines every day, being written
after the closing OF the mails at the
post.office, there being some differ
ence between that time and the time
OF the departure Of the trains.
Commercial men are we'll pleased
with the new order.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
ITHACA IN DARKNESS.
storm buried Electric wires - Stop
ped TrolIeys and Phones.

ITHACA, n. Y. Aug. 2G.-The city
of Ithaca is without lights, street cars
and telephone service. Giant trees lie
across the streets in every part of the
city, and buried beneath are electric
light, trolley and telephone wires.
The storm struck the city about 1
O'Clock and lasted only ten minutes,
during which one and half inches Of
rain fell. A fifty mile an hour gale
swept the rain in sheets before 1t.
At the local office of the United
States weather bureau it was said that
half an inch of rain fell in four min
utes, record unequaled in Ithaca since
the establishment of the local bureau.
a score of small boats anchored at
this end of the lake We're driven on the
beach at Renwick. The steamer Agnes,
coming to ithaca with II load of passen-
gers, lost her hurricane deck, but land
ed ut Renwick in safety.
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cd nine minutes longer until the Sham.
rock ILL.,, with slight rent in her
spinnaker. but majestic looking even in
defeat, swept by between the stake
boats. The reception she received was
II anything more hearty than that ac-
corded to her successful rival.
On Tuesday morning in a glorious
whole sail breeze over triangular
course, ten miles to leg, the fleet foot
ed cup defender Reliance again show.
ed her heels to Sir Thomas LiptOn's
challenger, taking the second race Of
the cup series of 1903 by the narrow
margin Of l minute and 10 seconds. 1t
was as pretty and as hard fought a
contest as has ever been sailed off
Sandy Hook, and had the wind not fal-
len during the last ten minutes the rec.
ord for the course, 3h. 12m. los, made
by Columbia two years ago in her
memorable race against Shamrock H.,
would have been broken. AS 1t was,
Reliance sailed the thirty miles within
? minutes and 80 seconds Of the record,
which speaks wonders for her speed in
the wind that was blowing
The Reliance did not win by so hand
some a margin as her admirers wanted
to see, the Shamrock showing splendid
qualities in the beat to windward,
which was the first leg of the course
All of the Reliances gains were on
the two reaches that finished the tri.
angle.
There were no mishaps. and the
Shamrock showed a decided improve
ment over her form of last Saturday,
due no doubt, TO the change In trim.
The official boat fired the preparatory
gun at 10:45 o'clock.
This meant that the warning cannon,
giving the contestants five minutes to
prepare, would be fred at 1855. Long
before the course signals were display
ed the masters Of the aquatic duellsts
were busy IN hammer and tongs fash
lon with each other. Barr, the master
OF the American sloop, resorted to his
old tactics of chasing Captain Wringe,
the sailing skipper of the challenger,
about the broad eXpanse Of water In
side the excursion fleet.
1t was a magnificent test of nautical
generalship for the first ten minutes,
and for the first time since the two men
measured brains Wringe won, being
clever enough TO work 10 the northwest
OF the starting line and get from under
his rival.
II was a sacrifice, however, for when
time was eventually taken the Irish
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
TOW Ms INUNDATED.
Mnrysviile and vIcits. KIM, struck
by Grcnt Wood.


MARYSVILLE, Kan. Aug. 26.-A
cloudburst has struck this vicinity,
causing the Big Blue river to rise six
teen feet within a few hours and send
Ing n great flood of water south down
the bottoms along that stream. Many
Inhabitants In the lowlands were driv-
Ell from their homes and heavy dam
age to property was done.
Marysville was deluged, and the bot
toms were filed with water from ten
to fifteen feet deep. Fifty houses were
almost entirely submerged, their In
mates taking refuge in trees and on
housetops. Seventy-five persons were
rescued in boats. The storm washed out
the tracks on the Blue River branch of
the Union Pacific for several miles and
wiped out telegraph and telephone
wires, cutting the town Off from out
side communication till late In the day.
One of the rescuing parties was head
ed by Congressman William A. Calder
head. The river Is now falling, al
though farms for miles around will
be under water for several days. South
of here, at the town of Blue Rapids, the
Blue river rose to within few inches
of the highest point of the June rise,
causing much damage to farm prop
erty.
A wall of water struck vleits town
Of 1000 people on the Vermilion river.
east of here. in the same county, driv-
ing the residents of the lowlands from
had risen four feet in an hour, and now
Nleits Is five feet under water. All the
stores and perhaps twenty-five resi-
dences are inundated, and the damage
ut that place is estimated at $4,000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
STORM AT SANDY HOOK.
Many Yachts Torn From Anchorage.
Shamrock In Danger.

Many Yachts Torn From Anchorage.
Shamrock In Danger.
NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-A terrible
northwest wind and electrical storm
struck Sandy Hook shortly after 5
o'clock and Shamrocks III. and l., Re-
lance and fleet of half dozen fine
yachts, including the Erin, C. Oliver
Iselin's Sunbeam and Herreshoff's
Roamer, were in great danger for a
time. The yacht Eureka, breaking
from her anchorage, was blown vio
lently against q coal scow and carried
the scow before it, 1t seemed for a
time that the two boats would crash
Shamrock Ill, which lay almost in the
path of the gale, not hundred yards
away.
Reliance lay in position more out
Of danger.
The moorlngs of Shamrock III. and
Reliance held fast, though the wind
threw their bows around into the face
Of the gale violently, and they tugged
hard at their cables
Sir Thomas Upton left the Erin be.
fore the storm broke and with Colonel
Smith, Colonel Burbank and Colonel
Stewart, commandant at Fort Hancock,
viewed the havoc in the bay anxiously
from the commandant's headquarters
on Sandy Hook.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27

of Shamrock 1t was apparent that she
would have to lead the challenger at
the finish by more than three minutes
and twenty-one seconds to win the
race. This figure was obtained by add.
ing to one minute, twenty-four seconds,
the official time allowance given by
Reliance TO Shamrock of one minute
fifty-seven seconds.
Half an hour after the start the gap
between the two boats had widened
materially. Reliance pointing higher
and Shamrock footing faster They
were half mile apart when they tack.
ed off Highland Beach at 142. The
Reliance was the first TO 20 about.
When both yachts were filed away it
was clear that Reliance was gaining.
At noon the wind had increased to
ten knots and hauled about point to
westward, so that both yachts could
lay a straight course to the turning
mark, not more than two miles distant
The Reliance whirled about the
mark, gybed over, trimmed in her
sheets and romped away ON q close
reach toward Sandy Hook lightship
and the finish line. She was three.
quarters of mile away before Sham.
rock III. rounded the mark Both
yachts We're heeling before a twelve
knot wind from south by west and
were sailing at least one mile an hour
faster than the wind was blowing.
AS the wind softened Reliance first
set baby jibtopsail, which Shamrock
had been carrying since turning the
second mark, and then exchanged II
for big reaching jibtopsail, in which
Shamrock promptly followed suit. The
two yachts held their relative positions
for about a mile. When Reliance was
quarter of mile from the finish line
the wind died away considerably, but
Shamrock ILL.,. came booming along
carrying splendid breeze and fast
overhauling the leader 1t looked as
though the British boat was going to
get within her time allowance, but the
finish was too near, and Reliance
slipped across 1t with one minute and
nineteen seconds to spare. Shamrock
III. finished in a softening wind.
The third race will be sailed on
Thursday.
Sir Thomas Upton said
The only thing | can say is that we
did better than in the last race, which
Is hopeful l figure my defeat at a
little over one minute. If | make as
much progress in the next race as
did in this over the last | will be a
good bit ahead in the finish of the third
race. | was more than pleased with
the way my own boat was handled. II
is hard to admit it. but the best boat
won"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
New York MurIxets

FLoUR-Quiet but firmly held: Mime.
sofa patents, A.704495; winter straights,
SG5g39O; winter extras, s2.sOGS.25; winter
WllEAT-Ruled quiet but steady dur
ing the forenoon; most OF it's support
came from the higher Paris cables; Sep
tSSSmber. s6A@S6 ll-16c.; December, So 9-lS6D
RYE-Firm state and Jersey, 5OQ5Sc
NO western, 60Ssc., T. o. b.. adoat
CORN-Declined slightly under more IA
Norable crop news but was very slow
September, 57Ra57%c, October, 577sG.
OATS Nominal; track, white, state, 4O3
45e track. white western 4O0 i5c
$lIb0Gll775.
LARD - Firm; prime western steam.
. SUGAR - Raw Arm; fair refining.
BLOC.
TURPENTINE-Firm at 56Iaq67c.
.MOLASSES - Firm; New Orleans 3l9
.RIcE-Firm; domestic. +,4g64c, Japan.
,TALLoW-ouiet; city. aNa; country.
choice, AQ105
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
Katydids Have Arrived.

The katydids have made their an.
pearance and there is alarm among
the patrons of husbandry. The in.
sects have arrived two weeks earlier
than usual. II is a popular belief that
the FIRST frost will appear exactly six
weeks following the katydid's first
visit. Early frost will mean damage
TO corn, buckwheat and other crops.
Old residents say they have never
known the katydids to appear SO early
IN the summer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
THE JEWISH COLONY.
Zionist Congress mt Basel VIII Ac-
cept Britain's OHer.


LONDON, Aug. 23.-The English He.
brews are deeply interested in the an
nouncement made by DR.. Theodore
Herzl, president Of the sixth Zionist
congress, at its opening at Basel, Switz.
erland, that Great Britain, in view OF
the collapse Of the project to establish
Hebrews on the Sinai peninsula, had
offered the Zionists large tract of ter
ritory in East Africa for colonization
by the Hebrews, who would enjoy an
autonomous government under British
suzerainty.
The proposal of the British govern
ment to DR.. Herzl is for grant of a
considerable area in the British East
African protectorate for the purpose Of
establishing there Jewish autono-
nous settlement, the exact site to be
determinable by commission.
The scheme If adopted is not to inter-
fere with the Zionist work relative to
Palestine
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27

Inc following letters are held at
the Bloomsburg, Pa, postoffice, and
S VIII De sent to the dead letter Office
. Hep'' o, 1903. Persons calling for
'neSe letters, will please say that .they
were advertised July a7, 1909,
MI Geo b. Ayres, Nh Frank
Sybert.
one cent will be charged on each
letter advertised.
J. c. Brown, P. M.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
challenger was handicapped. crossing

challenger was handicapped crossing
nineteen seconds after the handicap
gun was fired at 1902. This nineteen
seconds was time lost, the official start
of Shamrock being reckoned at 11:02.
Meantime Barr, finding that Wringe
was too clever for him, had gone over
the line about his own business, his
official time being taken at 11:00:36.
AS the Reliance crossed the line one
minute and twenty-four seconds ahead
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
Died Trying to Save His Collie,

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-While trying
to rescue his dog, which was being ear.
ried away by the swift current that
flows under Central bridge, Rudolph
Tausch forty years old, was drowned
In the Harlem river, The dog. large
Scotch collie, sank with its master.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-08-27
WRIGHT TO BE GOVERNOR.
Vice Governor of Philippines VIII
he Promoted.

OYSTER BAY, n. Y, Aug. 26.-Gen-
eral Luke Il. Wright of Memphis,
Tenn, will succeed Judge Taft as gov
ernor general of the Philippines when
the latter becomes secretary of war
next January in succession to Elihu
Root.
President Roosevelt has authorized
the announcement that the post had
been offered to General Wright and
that he had accepted 1t.
General Wright is now member of
the Philippine commission and vice
governor of the islands. He is a life
long Democrat.