Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-09-26

with steel and heavily Loaded with Dig
guns. But a battleship, like all other
ships, is hollow, and, with all its
weight, it is lighter than the bulk of
the water it displaces. Every boat
sinks just far enough in the water to
displace weight of water exactly
equal to its own weight-St. Louis Re
public.
A CannibaI Feast.
DR.. John Gibson Patton, the mission
airy. told in his autobiography how de-
pressed he was when he first arrived
in the New Hebrides in 1853 The ma
tives we're in their war paint and ma
kedness. \ fight was going on, and
five or six men had been killed. His
native servant, who went out to pro-
cure water for tea, came back without
it. The savages had cooked and eaten
the dead bodies at the only available
spring, had washed the blood into the
water and had bathed in 1t. The mis-
sionary drank cOcoanut water for a
good while after that.
The Long Polar Night.
Generally speaking we figure Europe
as being wholly within the temperate
zone, but when we come to investigate
matters we find that North cape, the
most nOrtherly point of Norway, Is In
the shadow of the north pole. At that
point you can see the 'midnlght sun"
in all it's ghastliness, that great lumi-
nary being constantly above the hori-
zon from May to Aug. 6, or just one
day over three months. But the long
wintry night makes up for this 100
days of constant sunshine. 1t begins
on Sept. % and constantly increases
In length until Nov. 6, when the polar
night commences in earnest. the sun
never appearing above the horizon
from the last mentioned date until
Feb. 5, one day less than three months.
Why We Study.
while it is, Of course, a platitude to
say that wise teacher learns by in
structing Others" recently observed an
instructor in a preparatory school In
Brooklyn, ''it is permissible to remark
that he frequently picks up some GU
rious information in tits way. { once
asked boy to explain, if he could, the
difference between animal instinct and
human intelligence. 1t was pretty
hard question, but the lad was equal
to it.
"If we had instinct he said, we
should know everything we needed to
know without learning it. But we've
got reason, and so we have to study
ourselves most blind or be fool -
Harpers Weekly.
A Thrifty LandIady.
There is boarding house keeper In
Jersey City who gave Il rare exhibition
of thrift recently. One Of her bOarders
had committed suicide by gas, and the
dead mans executor in settling his es.
tate discovered a bill from the landlady
for 80 cents worth of gas. On making
inquiries the executor was informed by
the woman that it was her custom to
read her gas meter each day, to keep
tabs on the amount of gas consumed
by the boarders, and that on the day
of the suicide the meter showed that
so cents worth Of gas more than usual
had passed through 1t. This she charg-
ed, the dead man had used in killing
himself and she saw no reason why
she should pay for it, The executor
paid the bill.-New York Tribune.
Accidents.
The wind whirled mans hat high
in air, and in his frantic leap for it he
butted into another man, and the two
together banged into a fine plate glass
window, cracking it from top to bot
tom. The plate glass insurance COM
pany, after making good the damage,
demanded payment of the two men
who had broken the window. But
these two men consulted lawyer and
learned that, since the mishap had been
an accident pure and simple. they
were not liable in any way.
people often pay for such acct
DENTS" the lawyer said, but they are
very foolish to do so. There Is no law
in the world to make them pay.a cent"
st. Louis Globe Remocrat.
Prisons and Clothes.
II never saw man whose old
clothes fitted him when he got out Of
prison." said n jailer. "He may come
into my custody wearing suit that is
a model Of the tailor's art, but when
he goes out those clothes hang all
askew. Sometimes the prisoner grows
fat, sometimes he grows lean. but If
he neither takes on nor loses flesh he
seems to undergo so many physical
changes during confinement that the
clothes he wore are decided misfit,
1t Is the same way with hospital pa
tients. Not all persons leave hos
pital In a state Of cancellation by any
means, yet they and their clothes seem
to sever friendship during illness, and
the old suit never fits we'll again.
New York Sun.
The elder duck Is so tame while
Matching that it quite often may be
lifted by hand while the nest is robbed
Of down and eggs.