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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-05-01
FAlRCHILD NAMED.
Governor Appoints Bellingham Nan
on Railroad Commission.

w H0UTOdV NOUlIVuSSSOu.
Olympia, April 26.-Governor Mead
has announced the appointment of r..
l.. Fairchild, Of Bellipgham, as NOM
Der of the state railroad commission.
The governor says he has not yet de-
cided upon the other members of the
commission, so it will probably be a
week or longer before the commission
is completed.
l.. Davis, an attorney, of Davenport.
has been named by the governor for .
place ON the state dairy and food com.
mission, to equip that body with legal
guidance in the active campaign for
enforcement of the pure food laws.
Charles E. Shepard, Of Seattle, and
Ira P. Englehart have been appointed
mem bers of the commission provided
for by the recent legislature to repre-.
sent the state in the national move.
ment for securing uniformity in mar
riage, divorce. pre- bate and other laws.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-05-01
FAULT NOT ALL IN LAW.
Said Interstate Commission Has More
Power Than Is Used.


Washington, April 26.-The senate
committee on interstate commerce has
resumed the hearing of the railroad
rate question. Walker d. Hines, FOR
merly of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company, appeared before it
to give an opinion on the subject. He
said in part:
There is in the present law definite
provision for the correction by the
courts of every unreasonable or unjust
ly discriminatory rate, with special
provision for the speedy disposition of
all such cases and with special provi-
sion to prevent any delay on account
of appeals by the carrier. Therefore,
the widely prevailing impression that
under the present law carriers may
at their pleasure and without control
charge unreasonably high and unjustly
discriminating rates, is thoroughly er-
roneous.
ION the other hand, every rate
charged by the carrier is subject to the
direct and effective control Of the
courts of the United States prevent
such rates from violating the interstate
commerce law in any respect. 1t is
the courts, and not, as frequently
claimed, the carriers, who are the
judges of what is reasonable under the
law.
The numerous failures of the com
mission in litigation have been due to
any defect in the law, but have been
due invariably either to the commits
sion's adoption of illegal methods or to
the commission mistaken condemna-
ton Of practices not prohibited by law.
IAN additional remedy Of considera-
ole Importance which is exercised from
time to time and which doubtless
could be exercised much more freely If
its use were encouraged is that where
by the commission may award repara.
ton to any person agrieved by the car
riers charging an unlawful rate.
Notwithstanding the interstate
commerce act provides definite and
practical method Of correcting all un-
lawful rates, there is undoubtedly a
somewhat general impression that the
act is absolutely worthless. This
opinion is undou btedly due to repeated
public declarations by the interstate
commerce Commission and its members
that under the present law the carriers
are utterly beyond any control as to
the interstate commerce.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-05-01
LITTLE STORIES
AND INCIDENTS
That VIII Interest and
Entertain Young
Readers.

den one day | came upon bottle
slipped over a little green fellow that
was still on the vines. and then | I'M
derstOOd. The cucumber had grown in
the bottle. l often see men with habits
that | wonder any strong. sensible
man could form, and then | think that
likely they grew into them when they
We're young and cannot slip out OF
them now; they are like the cucum-
ber'
Here is a suggestion for young gar
deners. Plant some cucumbers and let
one grow into large bottle with a
small neck. But don't forget the les
son while it is growing. Remember
that habits grow just like the cucum-
Der until they take possession of your
life. 1t is just as easy to form good
habits as bad habits.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-05-01
Reduced Rates for Teachers.

Chicago, April 26.-All railway as
sociations in the United States and
Canada except one have granted the
granted the National Educational As
ISOLATION at rate of one fare plus 81
for the round trip to Asbury Park and
Ocena Grove, N. j., for the convention
which meets July to z. The excep-
ton is the Southwestern Excursion Blu.
reau, with which negotiations are
pending. The complete program will
be issued this week. More than $50
papers will be read. President Roose-
Welt will make an address.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-05-01
RUMORS OF PEACE
Are AGAIN AFL0AT

St. Petersburg, April 26.-Mysteri-
Gus rumors Of another attempt at peace
negotiations is impending are circulat.
ed in:high quarters, and the United
States is directly mentioned as the in.
termediary. The Associated Press has
not been able to obtain any con6rma.
ton Of the reports. No intimation Of
such a move has reached the American
embassy. but at the foreign Office an
official inquired, perhaps significantly,
when President Roosevelt would return
to Washington.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-05-01
Buffalo Herd for Oklahoma.

Missoula, Mont, April 26.-Thirty-
five head of buffalo have just been
shipped from Arlee by M. Miller, who
sends them to a point in Oklahoma
about 800 miles south of Kansas City.
The animals are from the famous Pab-
10 herd, the largest in the world. The
animals shipped we're all adults and
an exceptionally fine lot.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-05-01
A Bottle and a Cucum Der.

"When l was a little boy" remarked
an old gentleman. somebody gave me
cucumber in a bottle The neck Of
Der so large that it wasn't possible for
it to pass through, and l wondered
how it got there. But out in the gar
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-05-01
r1iChiuan Antitrust Law.

Lansing, Mich, April 26.-The low
or house of the Michigan legislature
has passed unanimously the antitrust
bill, said to be the most sweeping anti
trust measure ever passed in this coun-
try.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-05-01
Georges JaCknife.

Washington was very careful of his
possessions. One little incident will
bring this trait near to boys. When
he was twelve years of age he was
one Of the big, clumsy jackknives Of
the period dear to every boy of the
time. Washington carried that knife
steadily for fiftysix years.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
CHINA'S AWAKENING.

The sleepy old empire of China is a.
Weakening very rapidly and adopting
modern ideas with remarkable facility.
Recent events forcibly illustrate how
rapidly the people are throwing off their
old ways and adopting the features Of
modern civilization. Each Of the new
universities and academies that have
been established to educate candidates
for office in modern sciences and for
eign affairs has physical culture de-
partment, gymnasium and other ia
cilities for outdoor exercise, under the
direction Of American teachers or ma
tives who have studied at American or
English schools. They have introduced
football, baseball and other American
games, and track athletics, with great
success. Not only the students, but
their parents and friends and the public
generally have become enthusiastic on
the subject, and at the first track meet
ever held in the Chinese empire more
than 1000 students and pupils of the
public schools were present, with sew
eral thousand other spectators.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
FOOTBALL REFORM.
Washington STAR

A movement for the reform Of foot
ball has gained sufficient Roadway to
warrant the belief that by next.season's
opening there will be material amend
ment of the rules. The heads of several
of the larger institutions have expressed
the belief that something. must be done
to relieve the situation, which has
grown intolerable. President Butler,
of Columbia, the dean.of the University
of Pennsylvania, Chancellor Day OF Sy-
racuse and some others have spoken
vigorously in favor of radical amend
ment of the rules and some have averred
their conviction tina. reform is impossi-
BILE and that the remedy for the abuses
that have grown into being in late years
lies in absolute prohibition.
The real remedy for the evil is to be
found in a radical departure from the
rules that have governed the game IN
this country. Notifications will not an
swer. AS long as the game is played
in observance of the mass and shock
principles, so long will it be dangerous
and so long will it breed the brute spirit
that animates so many players. Those
who are in control of the athletic sports
of the university will make serious
mistake if they seek to compromise with
the evil If they are sincerely anxious
to put stop to the deaths and injuries
for which this game is responsible they
must bring about an absolute revolu-
ton. The lineup" with its sugges-
tive impact of man against man and
final pileing up of players, is the main
cause of all the trouble. To eliminate
rough work the lineup must be pro-
hibited. The game must be completely
recast to give the game its "go" with
out recourse to this service.
Football is not today what its name
implies. 1t is literally "shock ball"
that is played on the modern American
gridiron. The ball is worked up and
down the field by means Of passes and
pushes, rather than runs. Probably 70
per cent. of the time the players are en-
gagged in struggling man for man to
gain ground or to resist gains. 1t is
argued that the game as played on
these lines has developed strategic de-
vices which are admirable for their
clevemess, and has been brought to the
plane of good generalship rather than
mere physical skill. While that may be
true, the fact causes the sport to re-
semble even more strikingly than before
the game of warfare, which yields not
much greater return in killed and in
jured in proportion to the participants
than does the modern pastime of the
American youth.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
THE KAIseR's GAME PRESERVES.

The game preserves of the kaiser dot
Germany East, West, South and North.
In the East are the great domains, kept
wild as forests primeval by cunning
forestry, where the true elk still live in
herds, a far more royal game than our
American wapiti. In still other forests
are the great deer known as Edelhirsch.
1t is from these herds that the wonder
full antlers come, for among these ami
mails are deer mightier than any that
the hunters of free Asia, Africa or
America ever may hope to see.
There are boar preserves and pleas
antries. Quail and grouse are bred by
the thousands every year. In the South
of the empire are chamois reserves,
hanging to the sides of the white noun
tains. In Louisiana there are even
remnants of the wonderful prehistoric
bison of Europe, the wisent, half again
as big as our American bison.
Everybody knows that the emperor's
left arm is withered. Few who see him
swing his gun on game and shoot stead
lily all day long would suspect it. So
well does he shoot that his score since
1872 amounts to 60, 1913 pieces of game.
This includes all sorts of animals, from
wisents and bear to rabbits and foxes,
and all sorts of birds, from quail to
ptarmigans and cranes.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
ITS MAIN DEMAND.
Baltimore Herald.)

1t appears from the addres of Presi-
dent Samuel Gompers, before the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, that the raj
lying cry of labor is to be an eight-hour
day. This has been achieved in many
cases, and labor is going to stand out
for its universal acceptance.
1t is significant to note that Mr.. Com
pers intimates that when employers
shall not consent to the granting of an
eight-hour day labor will unite to en-
force the demand, which is warning to
the effect that strikes will be actively
resorted to. Labor's ideal of an eight
hour day is good one. But an eight
hour day with ten-hourswage becomes
the point at controversy when the at
tempt is made to secure shorter hours.
Times are prosperous and labor gener-
ally is we'll compensated, and provided
it does not become extravaganza in its
demands for compensations public SEN
timent will support the eight-hour agi-
tation.
But there are things as important to
labor as the securing of an abbreviated
day. 1t should cultivate spirit of ar
bitration so that the settlement of labor
difficulties mightlbe made without dis
astrous resort to the holding up of en-
terprise and theistopping of wages. La
boris most profitable line Of develop
ment is that marked out by the arbitra-
ton of questions at issue.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
SHRlNKAGE OF MEN.
brooklyn Eagle.)

This is terrible news, indeedl We
have it from the lips of clergywoman,
however, so that there is no gainsaying
it, although she rather basely foists the
proof of it on that old monster, "sta-
tistics," which all of us are glad to
doubt on general principles. Here is
the news: In twenty-five years women
have increased in stature two and one
half inches and men have decreased
that amount. Now, then, figure out
where we shall all be, if any of Jus is left
to be anywhere, in few years from
this, supposing the same rate OF retro
gression on the part of the male and
humble sex to be accompanied by the
same progress in the better-half of the
species. We are fading away at the
rate of an inch every ten years, which
will reduce the six-footer OF now to just
one inch in the year of 2615, while in
the same year, woman, who vii. wear
him on her watch chain, or exhibit him
to her club under glass case, or per-
nit him to caper over her shoulder, tied
to her brooch with silk thread, will
loom into the atmosphere at height of
eleven feet, supposing her to be a shade
over five feet at present.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
LETTERS WE'RE A HooDoo
Sign with a Bad Record Which Tel
egraphers Were Reluc-
tant to Use.

Telegraph operators always have
personal signs which they place on all
messages they send and receive. Usu-
ally they use two or three initials or
take two letters from their names. For
instance, James Black will probably
use LIB" as his sign. In many cases,
however, they choose their signs in a
peculiar way, says the Kansas City
Times.
I'VE once had a man working here
who signed 'KE' because he had taken
the Kelley cure" said Kansas City
chief operator recently. HE after
ward went back to drinking and then
used b. deriving it from booze ,
Another fellow signed PSI because he
used to say he received a poor salary.
"a woman operator we had here used
to sign nix, her initials, until one
day her beau Tilted her and married
another girl. After that she signed
'BH,' which, we understood, meant
broken heart
"In an eastern Office where once
worked there was a hoodoo sign. 1t
was 'KQ. The man who used it
was killed by train; the next one
went crazy, and the third died Of ty-
phoid fever. After that nobody in the
Office dared use that hoodoo sign.
"The story about its being Jonah
Travelled over the country, and to-day
you'll find very few operators signing
'KQ.'
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
THE FIRST STACE-CoAcH:
Line Started Between New Bruins
wick and Trenton, N. j.,
in 1744.

AS public conveyances or the stage
coach had been in vogue in England
since 1910, the establishment of a sim
liar conveyance was demanded in
America many years before the war for
independence, says the Metropolitan
Magazine. AS early as 1744, therefore,
a stage line started to run between
New Brunswick and Trenton, N. j.,
and by 1855 this route had been ex-
tended over from New York to Phila-
delphia. Moreover, as in England, so
in America-the advent of the stage
coach necessitated marked improve
ments in the highways, while the build
ing of better roads and turnpikes nat
urally created a greater demand fol-
more coaches, and, what was more TO
the purpose, lighter vehicles. In III
there were but SO conveyances Of ev-
cry description in the city of Phila.
delphia, but by 1894 their number had
increased to 827-more than two-thirds
of which were comparatively light We
hIcles-a condition which led one OF
the local papers to publish most dep
recatory article concerning the use OF
conveyances in which it was stated
that "even farmers wanted carriages
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
EAST AFRICAN MONARCH.
August Sovereign Of Eight Years
Sits on Throne of
Scarlet.

The king of Uganda, in British East
Africa, rejoices or grieves in the some
what picklish and chow-chowy name OF
Daudi Chue. This august sovereign
may his tribe increase!-is now going
on" eight says Everybody's Magazine.
To befit colored scepter bearer he has
a highly colored court. He sits on
throne of scarlet, and probably the court
carpenters have made it world too
long for his chubby little legs. Under
the British protectorate folks have to
be economical in Uganda, and king
must grow up to his throne, and can't
have a custom made one every time he
has growing pains. We can remember
when king of Uganda was every inch
a king, no matter how few his inches.
So sacred, no supra purple was he that
the remains of his food had to be buried
lest its sacredness strike dead some I'M
happy subject. The British have
changed all that Daudi-we wish We
had photograph of him-Daudi sits on
his scarlet throne, leopard skin under
his bare feet, toy gun in his little
hands. Probably not bit more absurd
and many times more sympathetic" in
the eyes of the heavenly powers than
many a wide ruling car or kaiser that
has been, is, or shall be-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07

1t seems that the schemes and hopes
of the Democrats to get up conflict
between President Roosevelt and Re-
publican Senators and Congressman
over the railroad rate bill are to be dis
appointed. The news comes from
Washington that the Interstate Com
merce Commission, assisted by Senators
Cullom, Deliver and others, has for
mulated a rate bill that meets with the
approval of the Administration and will
receive the united support of the Re-
publican Senators. The Democrats are
likely to be as much disappointed IN
their effort to make breach in the Re-
publican party by tariff reform.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
COLLEGE ATHLETICS.
IN. Y. Sum-

We hate the ferocious eagerness of
American colleges to win, the tedious
artificial processes of warming up col
lege patriotism " the securing Of the
preparatory schools and the rest of the
country for recruits, the yielding to
professionalism, the salience of essential
"muckerism" in football. We hate
that peculiar American college way of
taking exercise which consists in taking
it by proxy, in supporting" the eleven
or the nine by watching it or yelling for
it. A few hulking athletes, some of
them of mature age, varied experience
and crooked record" a crowd of PIN
ple-faced undeveloped, unathletic boys
roofing" for them-that is college
athletics" The notion that college is
the place to study in is too ancient to be
reasserted in this enlightened age.
Still, though boys are not to be schol-
ars, might they not be gentlemen in
their sports?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH
Trick with a Postum Playing Adder
That Was Too Much for
the Natives.

There is a pug-nosed belligerent littls
reptile known as the hog-nosed adder
that has trick of playing possum when
attacked. If it once gets started on the
role the snake can be tied into knots
and handled Unfortunately for an
hour or more.
While snake hunting in the south a
year or two ago, relates the New York
Sun, Mr.. Ditmars plotted to win the ad-
miration of his guide and the popula-
ton by announcing that he had marvel
Gus powers. He was endowed with the
gift of destroying life by a sign.
The natives had never heard Of this
possum stunt of their dreader adder,
and when the performer formed them
in a circle around a specimen found in
the fields they quaked in their boots;
Ylch as had boots.
The magician advanced rapidly as If
to attack the inclosed snake, pointed
his finger to the sky, muttered to him
self, and the adder obediently turned
on its back. 1t was timidly passed
from hand to hand.
The performer beamed with salts
faction. He would go one better. II
the audience would form larger cir
Gle he would restore life to the dead
reptile.
The audience obeyed. The snake
found all surroundings peaceable after
a few minutes, and turned over, to
slide away to parts unknown.
Mr.. Ditmars faced around to accept
the admiration of his guides, but the
landscape was all still life. To the last
ragged urchin his assistant shakers
were gone, never to exhibit their faces
in camp again.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
RULE OF THE Jap IN KOREA,
Boston Transcript

Of the benefit that will accrue to Ko-
rea from japanese protectorate there
can be no two opinions. Korea has
been called the land of the morning
calm, but it would fully as well be des-
ignated the land of the afternoon SUM
Der. It's government has been despot-
ism, accentuated by occasional massa-
cres. The Japanese administration will
direct itself to developing the resources
of the land. 1t will set the Koreans to
work, but it will see that they are paid
wages, and it will introduce modern, en-
lightened ideas af justice and the rights
of the citizen. Existence will not be so
soothingly stagnant to the Koreans as
heretofore, but they will be safe from
the caprices of a gloomy despotism for
tilted at Seoul. Their native misgov-
eminent will be succeeded by an i'm
ported government, energetic, tireless,
but humane.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
HOW JAP STUDENTS CHEAT
Pay for One Tuition Only and Learn
Enough at Least for
Two,

While Minister Takahira was at
Portsmouth, he one morning CHANGED
to overhear a remark made by Rock
ingham guest, who ventured the opin-
ion that lazy and slothful nations dis
liked the earnest, progressive little
Japs-disliked them because they
dreaded them. Half smiling the diplo-
mat from the Land of the Rising Sun
turned, relates the New York Times,
and, with an apology for taking part
in the conversation, said: Excuse me,
gentlemen, but l heard only the other
day something which bears most close
ly upon what you say.
"It was in Washington, and two Ia
dies whom l have the honor of know
ing were talking. Said one: The Jap
anese should be excluded from Ameri-
ca. No sooner do their young men
come over here and matriculate in
our schools and colleges but they be-
gin a systematic course of cheating
You don't say SOL exclaimed the
other; why, how is that?
Quite simple returned the first
speaker. They only pay for one tut
ton, and they always learn at least
enough for two
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
"ShoddV.v

It is old wool redressed by scientific
and clean methods. 1t is component
of most of the wooden garments Of to-
day. The world does not grow enough
wool to enable us to have constant sup
ply of new wooden garments, except with
the aid of shoddy. 1t is shoddy that has
enabled the workingman to buy new
suit of clothes at the price of a weeks
wage. In the olden days an all-woolen
garment was so expensive that it had to
last its owner many years, unless he
were a wealthy man. 1t is better hy-
giene for a man to buy two new shoddy
suits year than to buy an all-wool gar
ment which must last him two years.
Most of the clothes we wear, in fact,
contain an element Of shoddy, and so far
from being the worse for it, are the bet
ter.-Magazine of Commerce.