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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-01-26
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A. II. Wilder, of Montesano, has
rented the Mas blacksmith shop on
Young street.
G. G. Combes went to Aberdeen Fri.
day afternoon expecting to be gone q
couple Of days.
H. G. Emley went to Oakville Wed.
nesday to assist j. E. Murrey on his
mammoth square tmbers.
j. Henderson, OF Centralia, was in the
city the first of the week looking for a
place to locate ladies' and children g
furnishing stoie.
The Ladies' Aid society of the M. E.
church are preparing fine program to
be gwen in the opera house, Saturday
evening, Jan. 2S.
The contract has been let for telephone
poles for line between Porter and Oak.
vile. This is but link In the contem.
plated line to Centraiia.
J. E. Murrey is getting out at Oakville
three square timbers, 37x37 inches and
20 feet long. They are among the largest
ever gotten out on the coast.
DR.. Blair reports the following births !:
To Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Crane, of Vance's
Mill, a daughter who arrived Monday
night. On Thursday morning, to Mr..
and Mrs. Hugh Armstrong of this city,
a nine pound girl.
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attitude of over 800 feet above the Hudson,
is merely a mountain spring, less than half
mile in length. 1t has no inlet. but it
empties itself in never failing brook,
which canters down the mountain side
in a series of waterfalls. Lying in deep
depression, its western shore rises almost
precipit ously to form one of the highest
points in the Highlands. The view from
there. with the little sheet of water in the
central foreground, has radius of nearly
fifty miles.
THE place is hard to reach, even on horse
back, Therein consists one of it's greatest
charms. There is excellent fishing, with
good grouse shooting in the fall.
ITO the climber there are two nearby
ascents besides this cliff which are worth
making. Rascal Mountain affords view
of five States, three of which, New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania meet at a
common point near Port Jervis. Con-
necticut is not far eastward, and far in the
northwest Massachusetts, shows in the
tip of Mount Everett. From the Hacken-
sack Meadows, southwark, to the Catskills
on the northern horizon is single stretch
of New YORK territory of an even hundred
miles.
1.-The other viewpoint referred to consists
of series of ascending rocks forming
almost the final crest of the Highland range.
The climber here looks down on nearly
the entire stretch Of hills which border
the Hudson.
The outlook is remarkable for the lake
views afforded and for the fact that scarcely
anything but forest land can be seen within
the whole sweep of the vision. which is a
wide one.
Everywhere rise hlltops on hilltops.
The view from this point gives the best
conception of the broad extent Of New
York's wild playground.
"A few miles eastward by trail from
Sutherland lies Bog Meadow Pond, which
is not a bog meadow bat a fine lake, whose
extent is realized only when one has 'ex-
plored its coves in one Of the two old boats
that float about at will and belong to no
body in particular. One may drive to this
lake by a rough but passable road through
the woods from the south.
yellow perch and pckerel are caught
in it's waters. A twenty minute climb up
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great double house at 1880 South Elev-
enth street They furnished 1t handsomely
+ Into this temple, in the fall Of 1858, Sister
Merada entered With weird ceremonies
she was enshrined az a deity. naming
herself Jehovah EliInar Mira Mitta-"Mira
Militia. the daughter Of God"
Seated in a shrine encrusted with jewels
on her head a crown studded with dia-
monds, her waist encircled by girdle
blazing with gems and clad only in loose
silkep robe, the Swiss seamtress. become
a goddess, received the worship of her
followers. Mrs. Lang was installed as high
piestess and Rapp as high priest.
At once Mira Militia gave out her COM
mandments. There we're to be no mar
riages Those who were married must
separate.
There was no such thing as death. Into
the temple would always come the fol-
lowers Of the Daughter of the Holy Ghost
The world would consider them dead.
Indeed, their bodies might be buried but
they would not be dead, Every Sunday
those who we're left and those who were
resting would meet together in the temple
and each would see and know each other
Her followers we're enjoined to fast and
pray from midnight to midnight on Sun
day. They were forbidden to eat the flesh
OF animals fowls and fish and all sweet
meats, and OF fruits they were permitted
to eat only oranges.
For years. unsupported by the outside
world the worship Of the woman went on
in the temple. Steadily her riches grew,
yet it is not on record that she ever sold a
jewel or used for herself one cent Of the
wealth her worshipers heaped up former
Then one day the Goddess Jehovah
Elimar Mira Militia died. At least the world
would have called her dead, but not so her
followers.
mira Militia could not die" mumbles
the high priestess concerning this event.
1She was but resting. Neither our body
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said.
-'Behold L. the Daughter of the Holy
Ghost, come down again to you that you
may know now and forever that yours shall
he the life everlasting. In me you shall
find all comfort which heaven bestows to
mortals. All those who believe in me shall
have peace on earth forever and ever"
After this. says the high priestess, the
goddess came each Sunday night to her
temple. With her were the bodies and
the souls of all who had gone ito rest"
Years crept on. One by one the believers
passed away and were taken to the plot In
West Laurel Hill Cemetery where Mira
Militia lies.
Night after night the dwindling band
OF those left behind crept out to the graves,
and talked as they believed, to the tenements
of clay within the collins. Night after night
they saw to it that the dead mouths had air
to breathe. Week after week the Temple,
to their eyes, was filled with the actual
bodies Of those who lay beneath the mold.
And week after week, her body shining
with that blush light, the Goddess Mira
Militia appeared in her shrine and counseled
and comforted both the quick and the
dead.
Then came the time when Of all that
band only three we're left.
There was the high priestess. Mrs Lang
the high priest Rapp, and Mrs. Julia Rud-
man, who had been one Of the first to kneel
at the feet of Mira Militia. The high priest
did not live in the house. Only the two wo-
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the hillside to the east gives sweeping
view of the Hudson Valley.
road from Fort Montgomery station, lies
under the shadow of Bare Rock Mountain
and the Torn. Here the camper may find
all the seclusion he desires. He will have
to bring his boat with him.
THE most beautiful, as it is the largest,
lake in the Highlands is Popalo, seven OF
eight miles Lack of Highland Falls on the
Hudson, or about five miles over the noun
tain from Central Valley on the Erie Rail-
road This is becoming very popular as a
camping spot, being retired yet easily
reached by good road.
THE bass fishing is excellent. The shores
are highly picturesque, consisting of high,
rough hills Of unusual dignity. Points and
islands serve to break up it's two miles Of
length, affording fine camp sites. A num-
tain sides, one of them entering the lake
under natural bridge of rock about forty
feet wide.
From North Mountain. at the head Of
the lake, one may see seven lakes and
Wood Lake.
Forest of Dean Lake lies just below
Popalo, in the little Glove where the. old
abandoned iron mines 500 feet deep,
1.-THE fun of the thing, however, is not
in the being told Of all these spots, but in
the finding them out by personal explora-
ton. Until recently there was no accurate
map Of this region, but the United States
Geological Survey now has a Topographic
cal map, from which one may not only fol-
low all the roads and some Of the trails,
but even see the very shape of the hills
and valleys. With this map one may get
lost in the woods with perfect safety.
which Thoreau might have had in mind
when he wrote Of the unknown local wilder
nesses we leave behind in our eager desire
to explore far westward. Even he. how
ever, had no specific knowledge Of this
occasion when he EFT Concord for his
daring expedition into the recesses of
Staten Island"
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are carried on into the small hours. Some
times he takes his guests to the opera or
the theater, but the business anoe at the
apartment is likely to be all the later forthis
dissipation.
Office hours out Of Office hours, like drink
between drinks. are killing a good many
business men. The plan Of maintaining bis
family for most of the year in the country
and having an apartment for the midweak
is one that saves the business man a good
deal Of social wear and tear but the family
physician il apt to frown upon it as tending
to make day in which office hours never
end.
Now and then q sick man defles his ply.
SLOAN and attends to business in the siol.
room. A busy downtown businessman brolD
his leg not long ago. The accident nneanA
weeks at homo In bed. but he found a means
Of minimizing The Inconvenience.
He had telephone line run into his bod
room and the telephone placed where b
could reach It without wrenohing the broksn
leg. clerk came from the downtown
ohioe, and the sick man kept in touch with
his associates throughout the business day.
Many New York lawyers Of large practise
work very late at their offices, and some
Of them 60 to the Bar Association library
at night. 1t is these late Office hourS quite
as much as the peculiar demands of fashion,
able life that make lawyers and business
men dine late.
Even bank officers have long day.
stretching far beyond the hour when the
bank doors are closed. Many banks are
not actually deserted until after O'Clock,
and most bank employees report for duty
soon after half past in the morning.
The luncheon hour for bank officers IL
also notably short, and in some banks the
whole body Of employees, from president
down. take luncheon on. the premises. The
chief officers are apt to take the oppor-
tunity Of this gathering to discuss details
| Of business, for the heads and the sub
ordinates take luncheon in different parts
| OF the building.
Some Of the busiest men in town prao-
| tioahy have no Office hours. They are
| to be seen by special appointment, and
such appointment are to be made only by
| persons who come. properly accredited.
| 1t II said that we'll known banker was
induced to take out large policy of life
insurance by clever agent who buied
his way into the great mans presence,
ooolly asked him the value of his time per
minute and offered him some hundreds
OF dollars which he actually handed out
| for the privilege Of ten minute interview.
| Even the privilege Of a word by telephone
| with some business men is q thing that only
favored few are sure Of obtaining.
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In spite of the fact that New York is
favored more than most cities in the ext
tent of wild country nearby" said Il man
who spends much of his leisure time in
exploring the city's wild suburbs 1.-The
Hudson Highlands region still remains
practically undiscovered by the average
city man who goes camping.
Among the two score lakes clustered
within a radius of ten miles just back of
West Point are some quite remote enou gh
to satisfy the lover of North Woods scenery
who cannot spare the time or money to
reach the Adironda cks. yet whose summer
would not be complete until he had sme!od
the birch log burning before his tent in a
bit of real wilderness.
THE tract included in the triangle whose
apexes are at Sufrern, near the Jersey State
line and Cornwall and Jones Point, on
the Hudson, is practically as unsettled as
it was a century ago. Yet even, the re-
moter mountain pom DIS have been the
favorte resorts for years Of a few lovers
of nature. n. p. Willis was the first Of
these enthusiasts.
DR.. Henry van Dyke, one Of those who
have a present day knowledge of these
Highland lakes, has laid the scenes Of
several OF his stories about their shores.
The main characteristic of the region ia
revealed in the opening sentence of one of
the Van Dyke tales. which begins with the
statement that it must have been some
where near Sutherland Pond, that the
writer, rambling through the forest, had
lost his way.
There is not much doubt that that is
Just where it was, for there are few places
in the Highlands. where it would be more
excusable for one to grow confused over
points of the compass or the right way to
get out of the woods than about the shores
Of Sutherlan Pond.
'In addition to being Of the widest charao-
ter, the hills along this mountain lakelet,
which Is the highest OF the chain OF ponds
unusual pictu rcsqueness.
Sutherland Pond itself lying at an
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ward.
I don't know you, said the clerk
Well, sonny, send for the cashier who
took my account said the planter.
THE cashier came but he failed to recog-
nize my friend He was not, however. the
man who had taken the account.
The officials began to be suspicious,
but after an effort he succeeded in de-
scribing the person with whom he had
deposited his money: So graphic were his
words that the cashier and teller both ex-
claimed, 'Bilings'
THE Hawaiian was relieved.
Then trot out MIR. Billings he said.
ITO his horror he was told that Billings
had left on vacation
THAT ended his attempt to cash the
check. and be started to 60 to his hotel
He had found the bank by the address on
his check book, but he had no way Of identi-
flying his hotel. 80.
.As the only places he knew were the bank
and spent the night on one of the benches.
The following morning. was given up to
vain search for the hotel and expostulations
at the bank, where he was finally elected
forcefully by porter.
and tried to get a wire through to his agents
in Frisco. Unluokily his clothes had been
torn and soiled during the affair atths bank,
and the telegraph official would not send the
message collect. By noon he was without
q CeLJ. -.
@The remainder Of the time until he
! met me was spent In visiting hotels, tele-
graph offices and lawyers. The latter to
| q man, would have nothing to do with him.
His clothes were traded for Others Of
! cheap sort and few cents to boot Each
day lessened his chances Of pulling out Of
the hole he was in.
T"There was nothing Of the gutter in his
makeup, however, and he determined to
get work. That wasn't an easy job in
summer month but on the morning when
! met him he had mana ged to get place
tending a switch on one of the street car
lines.
/ 1T took me twenty-five minutes to get
some one to identify him and ten minutes.
to find the hotel, which WAS In part Of
the city he had left untouched in his wan
derinys.4 don't think he went a block
|. away from Broadway during the whole
time.
4The way he finished the thing up was
ftting climax. He chartered coach and
pair with footman and coachman, and
decked himself out in jeweiry as only a
South Sea man can do, and then he paid
personal visits to each Of the places that
turned him down.
II was one of the most artistic things
ever listened to- and some of the people
were scared enough to throw up their
positions. After he had given. the suo-
cessor to his job MS swift Oh tender $50 he
chartered a speoitl to Denver, and don't
believe he would cross the Rockies again
II they made him Senator from Oahu
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ring of the coffin OF Becker and the break
ing of the lid the filling OF the grave and
the making of the air shaft down to the lips
of the corpse.
Then the believers made their way back
to the temple, there to pray increasingly tor
their goddess
It was on the next night that the high
rriestess stole out to her goddess grave
She had not been satisfied with the mes
sage Of the night before.
Rain was falling and she was all alone. but
she heard Mira Militia calling. She says:
Il knelt upon the grave, and then with
nv bare hands and a spade dug until the
coffin lay Lefore me. 1t was sunrise be-
fore had pried open the lid Of the casket.
THE 7ddess lay asleep. I.spoke to her
and she opened her eyes and reproached
me for not having faith.' She rose from
the coffin and took me by the hand. She
told me to go back to the temple and to have
faith. that she would rejoin US the next
night"
Mrs. Lang was caught beside the open
grave and was arrested. Influence was
brou rht to bear, the case was quashed
and beyond the mere fact of the arrest it
never became public.
The next night all the worshipers gath
cred in the temple.
We had been praying" says Mrs. Lang.
-and suddenly the spirit of Mira Militia
appeared" . ,
-She wore pale blue gown, interjected
High Priest Rapp, his voice quivering and
his head trembling. Her profile was
perfectly visible to every one. Her whole
body had a blush tint as though some divine
light burned within her. She was divine
standing there before US. sweet and
radiant" broke in the high priestess, she
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nor our soul could die. But wicked I'm
dertaker came and he poured poison in
her veins.
This killed her body. because the bodily
presence was not strong enough to resist
the poison. But her soul dwells on high
and it was all powerful.
$50 powerful is the goddess's soul that it
resurrected her body.
I'VE prayed night and day. Before
her shrine we prayed And then five days
after her burial we went to her grave,
to the bed where her body was resting
They intended to dig up the body, this
company of worshipers. They went out
to West Laurel Hill Cemetery at night and
without light CROPPED their way to the plot
they had bought for the resting place of
Mira Militia 1t is gathered that they
prayed upon the grave for hours and then
started to dig.
=. Then" says the high priestess. Mira
Militia sent US a message to be comforted.
that the poison had been too much for her
body and to leave 1t to rest
Philip Becker. one Of the first OF the
worshipers and an exceedingly wealthy
German merchant had died shortly before
the goddess In response to what they
thought was command of aira Militia
they turned to his grave.
He had not been poisoned by any UNI
dertaker and his body was alive said the
high priestess. I'VE took a pick and
shovel and loosened the earth from his
coffin. Then we opened place in the lid
and left a little hole up to the top of the
grave so the body could breathe. We
talked to him all the time and he told us
he would be with us on the next meeting
night at the temple"
There could hardly be stranger sight
than this must have been-the little group
Of worshipers they could not all go for
fear of exciting suspicion), the great. dark
cemetery with the lonely little group Of
graves, the praying figures. the disinter-
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men occupied the temple. '

men occupied the temple.
Regularly every Sunday an old man would
ascend the steps. ring thrice at the door
1t was the high priest. and all day they
spent upon their knees before the shrine.
But the shrine was empty. 1t was four
years since the goddess had shown herself.
1t was empty. too Of the jewels that had
encrusted it when Mira Militia sat within.
Three years ago, some eighteen years after
the passing of the goddess, one Of her fol-
lowers, woman, had stripped it Of all it's
gems. had stripped the house OF all the
costly ornaments Of gold and silver that
she could take with her and had fed to the
West, where she is living now. Those left
took counsel and decided that the woman
should not be pursued.
Mira Militia will punish her and she will
be denied eternal life, they said.
Eut before this shrine. stripped and de-
serted, the three still knet. They had
tasted for years. for years neither meat
nor fish had passed their lips. Grown
old. wan and pathetically shrunken with
the fasting and penance. they prayed to the
goddess to show herself again in her shrine.
Then there came a day when there were
but two worshipers before the shrine.
The outside world did not know this then,
any more than it knew that there was q
shrine there, but the absence Of Mrs. Rud-
man from the windows made the neighbors
curious.
"She is sleeping, replied Mrs. Lang to
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Varied Meanings Of Office Hours.
New York Business Men Who Have Half Dozen Offices Work
Day and Night. .-- r

Office hours for any but subordinates
are apt to be irregular and elastic in New
York
There are New York business men whose
day is passed in half dozen different
places. Such men perhaps begin work
at home with private secretary at hand
and the telephone within easy reach.
The man who has been intensely occupied
at home for the two hours after breakfast
perhaps stops for another hour on his way
downtown at some one of the four or five
offices whore he is consulted by business
associates, and does not reach his private
Office in the financial district till toward
noon.
One well known man Of business whose
nominal place Of residence is moro than
eighty miles away purposely keeps his
family at that distance in order that he may
escape social demands in New York. He Is
a. homo two or three days week.
Here in town he maintains an Office with q
busy force of stenographers and assistants
Of various grades. The office manager
and the stenographers are at their desks
at the usual hour Of opening business down.
town, but the head Of the concern may not
show himself until afternoon.
After that he may work steadily until
7 o'clock in the evening. and he has hard
and fast agreement with his stenographers
and clerks that they shall stay as late as
he may need them. Not one of them can
be certain OF keeping an evening social
engagement.
Meanwhile the head Of the concern pro-
longs his business day far beyond the hour
when he leaves his Office. He has an apart
ment uptown. to which he invites men Of
business to dinner, and there negotiations