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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
CR0MWELL'S HORSES.
An Accident That Bef<iI the Protector
In HYDE Park

An Accident That Bef<lI the Protector
In Hyde Park.
"As Cromwell rose in power and rank
his love Of horses began to be more
conspicuous" says Il writer In Black
woods. when he started from Lon-
don in 1910 to reconquer Ireland he
went forth in that state and eQuipage
as the like hath hardly been seen, him.
self In coach with six gallant Flan-
ders mares, reddish gray" In 1856,
when the Spanish ambassador took his
leave of the lord protector, Cromwell
sent him Ibis own coach Of six white
horses" to convey him to and from
Whitehall. Certain it is" adds the
narrator, that none Of the English
kings had ever any SUCH"
The protector was not much Of o.
whip, however. In 1864 the Count Of
Oldenburg sent Cromwell a present Of
six horses, and the protectors anxiety
to make trial of their quality led to his
we'll known adventure in Hyde park.
On Friday, Sept. 90, he went with Sec
rotary Thurloe and some Of his gentle
men to take air in the park, ordered
the six horses to be harnessed to bis
coach, put Thurloe inside Of 1t and un-
dertOOk to drive himself. Ills high
ness" said a letter from the Dutch
ambassador, "drove pretty handsomely
for some time, but at last, provoking
those horses too much with the whip.
they grew unruly, whereby his high
ness was flung out Of the coach box
upon the ground. His foot getting
hold in the tackling, he was carried
away good while in that posture, but
at last he got his foot clear and so
came to escape. He was presently
brought home and let blood and after
some rest taken is now we'll again. The
secretary, being hurt ON his ankle with
leaping out of the coach, hath been
forced to keep his chamber hitherto
and been unfit for any business"
The royalist Scroggs. afterward chief
justice writing of this incident. hoped
that the next fall would be from a cart
limiting Mt the gallows. AS to Crom-
wells views on the burning question
Of horse racing 1t is difficult to arrive
ut a positive conclusion. His constant
aim was to possess as many good
horses as he could afford. Whether he
entered his horses for races or had
the satisfaction Of owning a winner
history does not say.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
THE OBSTINATE AUTO.

Now, Jasper Jones an auto bought
Twas colored pink and green;
Twas rugged with patents fore and AFT
And smelled of gasoline.
The villain agent roundly swore
The power was twenty horse.
And Jones did see with glee how he
The countryside might course.
He proudly donned his cap and coat
And gloves and goggles black
And hung a number. tooty-two,
Upon his leathern back.
His family did gather round
To gaze with awesome eyes
And press his hand and wish godspeed
And weepingly advise.
While "Aisy!' babe a buttoned form.
Bold Officer OQuinn.
For If you bate thray mile an hour
Begobs. ORR run you in!'
Up climbed him Jones. down safe him
Jones
And twisted. jerked and drug.
The people looking gave snig;
The auto gave a "chug!"
Behind his goggles Jones grew red:
Beneath his cap he swot,
But, though he toiled with might and
main.
He stayed on that one spot
"Oh. crickety," did Jones appeal.
"Why won't this auto go?"
Advanced wight and scratched his head
And scanned aloft allow,
And said: ALIAS. exposed you have
Yourself to ridicule.
This amt no twenty boss machine,
My friend: it's twenty mule!'
The people pushed, the people hauled.
The people gaped and talked,
But this machine with all the will
OF twenty mules had baked!
Two draft steeds tugged-and four-and
eight!
An army teamster cussed.
A huge road roller puffed and strained
Until Its boiler bust!
All gentle means at mans command
Employed they DER and DER,
|. But naught could move this mind OF
mules
A concentrated score
They spoke of dynamite--O'Q Quinn
Received 1t with a frown.
'Twould make the thing get up" they
plead
Said he, "An' 'twud come down.!
Then Jones he sighed, "Just let it stay"
Cried folk. "Aye, let her set"
And II It still declines to stir
You'll find it right there yeti
Edwin L. Sabin In Womans Home
Companion.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
LADYLIKE GEOMETRY.

Figures Of the same shape don't al
ways have the same style.
Figures Of the same size never con-
slider themselves equivalent.
A straight line Is the shortest dis
lance between two millinery openings.
A plain figure is one all points 0.
which have been neglected by the
dressmaker.
A mixed line is line composing the
reception committee Of clubs presi-
Dental candidate.
a broken line Ii series of succes.
sive straight lines described by wom-
an alighting from street car.
A straight line determined by two
bargain tables Is considered as prolong-
ed both ways until the store closes.
Women equal to the same thing are
not always equal to each other.-Neliie
Parker Jones in Chicago Record-Her-
aid
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
A Pointed Prayer.

Aunt Dlnah had come to see her old
mistress. who had just recovered from
IN illness.
Eyes. Miss Lila, sho'ly done prayed
fer yer to git well all de time. and now
yer see how 1t done turned out"
''Then you believe that your prayers
are always answered, Dinah"
"Sho'ly, sho'ly" Then. with sly
glance: Yer see, l neber tempts de
Lord. case don't pray fer nothin' dat
l don't know III git. DR.. John, he
done tol' me he tort yer was on de re-
covery road" After pause she went
on:
Say, Miss Lila. yer know what
prayed fer last night?"
mo"
"Why. just p'intedly begged de
Lord ter put it into yer heart ter give
me dat brown silk dress yer done out
growed." Eagle.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
MARRIAGE CUSTOMS.
The Change From the Era When
Wives Were Taken by Forces.


Marriage customs have changed ev.
erywhere with the advance Of civili.a-
ton. Anglo-Saxons in ancient times II
Is said, used to capture their wives by
force from their fathers or their hus-
bands, 1t did not matter which.
This was before Augustine came to
preach Christianity. Then purchase was
more common than capture, although
the latter seems to have been frequent
enough to the reign Of Ethelbert to
need regulation by law. BY this law
man might run away with Il woman
provided he afterward paid her pre-
vious owner, be he father or husband.
so shllllngs. If 1t was husband who
had thus been deprived Of his wife, tho
woman's captor had not only to pay
him the fine, but also to buy him an
other wife. In any case the stolen wo-
man belonged to her captor.
If man had purchased his bride In
the days Of Ethelbert and afterward
concluded lie had paid too much for
her. 1t was lawful for him to return her
to her former owner and claim again
the purchase price, provided that he
had not previously expressed satisfac-
ton by making the bride present OH
the morning after the wedding.
The next step was the foster lien."
when the bride price was paid Oh the
day Of espOusal and was supposed to
compensate the parent for the cost Of
bringing up his daughter. 1t seems.
however, that this soon fell into disre-
pute, as there was no law against the
father engaging his daughter to nu-
merous suitors, taking from each the
'foster lien" and. of course, cheating
all but one on the wedding day. which
at that time was only the day Of be-
trothal. when the sutton gave WED"
or pledge for the future performance Of
his contract. If the sutton did not claim
his bride within two years after the
wedding day. he forfeited all right to
her and to whatever money or goods he
had paid for her. If the woman and her
father broke their promises, the father
had to give the sutton four times as
much as the suitor had already paid
him.
AS civilization advanced the bride
price was given to the woman herself
and became her dowry. while nova
days the tables are frequently turned,
and the bride settles the money on her
husband
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
In the Matter Of Tips.

The man who tips the highest gets the
best service and the most ostentatious
Difference. "Give this to the cook" said
a st. Louis parvenu, handing dollar
to the waiter with his order, and tell
him to cook it my way" 'Give this to
the cook" said a scribe at the next ia
Bile. handing two dollar bill to the
waiter with his order, land tell him to
cook 1t his own way, for he is better
cook than l am" We will not be out
shone. We will not shrink in any mans
shadow At the same time the pace Is
too hot and fast for most of us.-St
Louis Giobe-Democrat.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Pa-If ever anything happens to me,
Gladwys. promise re that you will
never think Of going on the stage.
Kept u Diary.

Henry Arthur Jones, the English
playwright, was glvin- the students of
Yale an address Oh the drama.
"Your American vernac,.ar is pic
turesque." he said. land it should help
your playwrights TO build strong, racy
plays, but neither vernacular nor any.
is lacking.
mo playwright can succeed who is
like man | know. said to this man
one New Years day:
"'Do you keep diary, Philip?
ayes he answered; I've kept one
for the first two weeks in January TO.
the last seven years "-Washington
Star,
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Localized Him.

A stranger wishing to play golf at
North Berwick saw some one in au-
thority upon the matter.
"What name? asked the dignifled
official in charge.
"De Neufeldt," the stranger replied.
"Mon," said the official in q tone Of
disgust, I'VE Gamma fash oorsels WI
names like that at North Berwick.
Yell START in the morn at ten fifteen
to the name Of Fairgusson."-Black-
woods Magazine.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Antiquity of Proverbs.

Proverbs existed long before books.
In the earliest times they served as
the unwritten language Of morality
and have been passed down through
the generations. In Africa there are
numerous quaint proverbs. Among
them are: "He who dives on dry land
will scarify his face" 1.-TWO people
cannot sit down upon the point of the
same thorn at the same time" In the
Transvaal the proverb. Beware Of a
silent man: he has a brass band in his
mouth" Is often heard.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Holmes On Shelley.

Shelley vaporized everything in his
glowing crucible. but there was gold at
the bottom Of it. When l look at him
spreading the starry wings of his fancy
over his chaotic philosophy he seems
like seraph lowering over the I'M
fathomable chasm. whose blackness Is
the abode Of demons.-"Autocrat Of the
Breakfast Table"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Iona and Short Of II.

Junior Partner Did you see that
short man who was inquirng for you:
Senior Partner-No. What kind OF a
looking chap was he?
Junior Partner-Oh. he was rather
tall and
Senior Partner-But you just said he
was short.
Junior PartNer-Well, guess h was.
a dollar until he could see you.-De-
trOit Tribune.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Cheap Generosity.

A great smoker handed his cigar
case to his right hand neighbor.
"Thank you, but l don't smoke" said
the man.
He therefore handed it to the man on
the left, who made the same reply.
whereupon his wife nudged him and
said, "Why don't you hand 1t to the
captain?"
mo, thank you; he smokes."-Nos
Loisirs.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Senior Partner-But you just said HI
The Truth,

Miss Cutting-Awfully rude and in
quisitive, isn't he?
Miss Passay-EXcesslvely He was
trying to find out my age the other
day. Just told him was forty-eight
That settled him.
Miss Cutting-Yes. I guess it Is best
to be perfectly candid with that sort
Of fellow.-Catholic Standard and
Times.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Proaressinq.

Miss Weston-And have you played
much golf. Mr. Jones? Mr.. Jones-Well.
no: can't say I've played much. but
I've walked round the links several
times in golf clothes, and I'm begin
ming to understand the language.-u-
Illustrated Bits.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Crushed.

"lf I could only die and leave you
we'll off," he said after they had had
their first quarrel. Il would be glad
to go.v
"IIow," she cruelty asked could you
die end leave me otherwise than we'll
f"-Chicago Record-HerG1A.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Her Reasoning.

Wife lat the costumer's)-Which
shall I have-this coat Mt 40 marks or
that one at 70? Husband-I have only
40 marks with me. Wife-Oh. well,
then, we'll buy the seventy mark coat
on credit, and then you can buy me Il
hat with the 40 marks.-Lustige Blat-
ter
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Kicked the Wrono Suitor,

Miss Bear-Won't you come in, Mr.
Rabbit?
Mr.. Rabbit-No, thank you, Miss
Bear. Your father kicked me out once
That's enough. I'm no pig.
Miss Bear-Oh. there's no danger to.
day. The Porcupine called last night
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
A Homemade Prescription.

The following prescription was hand
ed to a New York druggist. 1t was
evidently homemade: --
\ pint Of Mulchum Cod liver OIL
\ pint OF the best RE whiske
OF Of Wintergreen Essences
2 OF Of Gliserine
mix thorley and take a dersert spoonful
twise day.
Judge,
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Gladys Van
with
Murray & Mack

letter, Salt Rheum and Eczema.
These are diseases for which Cham
berlain's Salvr is especially valuable. NJ
quickly allayS the i'ching and sma'tinG
and soon tff..,ts crrp. Pr,ce % cents
For sale by Evans Drug Co.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07

The best part Of beauty Is that which
no picture can express.-Bacon.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-03-07
Tide Tables
-10O7-
Compiled by the U. S. Government for
GRAYS HARBOR
AND VICINITY

NOrE-These Tide Tables are compiled by the
U. S. Government for Astoria Oregon as the
standard port for reference. To find out the
exact time tides occur use following table:
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Do You
Know Who
Reads the Herald?

II the merchant who is uncertain
about the iIrrald's circulation wants
toKlow who besides himself reads
it. he can EASILY find out by inquir'
ny More than half the families In
Aberdeen who read papers read the
Herald. It's paper with an Aber'
deem and Chenalis County circula'
tior,
And the advertising in it pays 'he
advertiser, because from me small
est news item to the smallest aov.
it is readily all the family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-10

tend. The tower on Spectacle
Reef in Lake Huron must
withstand the crushing force
of the ice packs. Its founda-
ton lies far beneath the
water, and many a time the
sturdy pile has been ground
with ice masses that have
heaped themselves thirty or
forty feet about it's daring
walls.
Our own coasts are well
supplied with warning lights,
but the winter seas continue
to take dreadful toll of our
seamen and scatter our ship
ping in pitiful fragments on
rock bound coasts. And be-
cause of this, everywhere are
found fishermen and life saw
ing heroes ready at an in
stant's notice to battle with
the tempest in their stout
boats, or lower themselves
down the face of terrible
cliffs, gale swept and spume
drenched, to pluck from
Deaths jaws poor drowning
creatures struggling in the
surf below. One such man
up at Cape Race has rescued
over a hundred persons and
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requisites and useful medi-
cines at'the life saving station;
and of course all the crew
understand the treatment of
half drowned persons.
AS to the details of the
cases with which these hardy
Vikings of the coast have to
deal, it would require the pen
of Stevenson adequately to
describe them. There was
the oil ship Lodiana, Liver
pool to New York, which
without a moments warning
sent forth in the night a col
umn of flame two hundred
feet high, until the skies
glowed like a furnace door.
She was not far from land,
and the fascinated life savers
watched her crew massed for
ward, as the oil ship waved
this way and that, a roaring
furnace of flames. Nothing
could be done, for the end
of the tragedy was at hand.
Thewatchers beheldthe flames
rushing bowward, bursting
from all sections of the fore
peak, and licking out along
the bowsprit. The swiftness
with which destruction came
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-10

travelling life buoy that
now forms part of the
rocket apparatus has
saved thousands of lives.
The most successful
method of life saving now
practised on Our coasts
may be thus briefly de-
scribed: A compound
rocket with a stick ten
feet long is fired, and
carries a line over the
doomed ship. The crew
haul on this rocket line,
which bringsth an end
less rope pulled through a
block, with a tail attached
to it. This they make
fast to the mast or some
other portion of the
wreck high out of the rag
ing waters. The life saw
ing crew next haul off tn
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the ship hawser attached to the endless rope and
following this comes the breeches buoy. One of the
sh1pwrecked persons gets into this and is hauled
back. This process is repeated until all have been
saved. The rocket apparatus is now used by all
civilized nations, especially by the naval coast
guards of Great Britain, who number between four
and five thousand, and instrumental in saving
either directly indirectly about twenty-one hun
dred and hfty lives regularly every year.
The British coast guards have a list of no less
than twenty-seven duties including the enforce
ment OF fishery laws, acting as naval recruiters
stopping Illicit d1St1llatIon of spirits preventing
the introduction of arms dynamite, protecting
the shore ends of marine telegraphs, acting as
and seeing that they are decently inferred. The
amazing thing is that after this formidable list of
tasks one learns that their pay ranges from thirty
two to hfty-four cents day. The whole army of
forty-hve hundred of them cost the country only
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars year,
linked chain of trained men who patrol by day and
night wild coast line of four thousand miles.
How the Apparatus Works
THE life saving rocket apparatus used by the
i worlds coast guards is practically identical in
pattern The all important rocket line itself is of
one-1nch manila hemp, and the two hundred and
hfty-fathom length weighs about ffty-six pounds
he mortar from which the rocket is fired is
brass one, with five and half-inch bore, firing
charge OF half a pound of gunpowder for practice
work, and a whole pound for wreck service The
portfre used for setting off the rocket burns for
about seven minutes, and is ignited by decorating
primers. The rocket stick is nine and half feet
long. The rockets of the compound kind SO
arranged that when the first has expended its
force second rocket is ignited giving additional
impulse to the projectile and it's long wake of life
saving rope There are also signal rockets throwing
white and red stars of intense brilliance
BESIDES all TINS apparatus you will find first ale"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-10

buried nearly two hundred and fifty of the ship
wrecked dead. And remember to obtain the bodies,
this man had to scale cliffs at whose basat base
roaring weller of giant waves beat ceaselessly!
The otsan and jetsam that fall to the lot of these
men may include champagne by the thousand cases,
pianos and agricultural implements, costly silver
and napery, with hundred other utterly neon
BILE homes of our life saving crews on the coast But
these men deserve all that the pitileSs sea sends
them, and much 1 have watched the dis
tressful rockets streakng the night with radiance
above the lip of rampant cliff that fell sheer six
hundred feet into boiling surf The life savers had
to bring Spars and ropes from their boats and lower
one another down the cliff S face; and then as body
Heated by, dead alive, determined fellow at the
ropes end would grab at it and signal to be hoisted
with his dripping inanmate burden.
First Use of the Rocket
THESE men do marvellous work with the rocket
i apparatus we'll known by name to the gen.
era public yet little understood As early as 1901
officer in the British royal artillery devised plan
for throwing rope on shore by means of Shell
fired from mortar on board the vessel in distress
distinguished scientist of the Royal Society of
Great Britain, however, Captain G. w. Manly, wit
ing in 1907, and forthwith designed crude rocket
apparatus with which he saved seven lives during
the following year by throwing his line right over
the wreck.
three hundred stations where the rocket apparatus
is used; and is glad to learn that Captain Manly
received ten thousand dollars from his grateful Cow
ernment Other inventors proposed kite for car
ryng the cable to the distressed vessel but there is
nothing like the rocket generally used Some
varieties of these throw lurd light over the wreck
as they pass; and there is most ingenious arrange
ment by which the projectie is first carried to its
full elevation, and then, by second compartment
OF the rocket, given additional impetus. The
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Marvels of the Lantern

THE lantern of stately pharos like this may be
twelve or sixteen feet in diameter, and cost seven
thousand dollars. It's marvellous prisns and lenses
and mirrors, making up it's hyper-radial lights, can
not be had for less than fifteen thousand dollars
Every known device of science is made to the
seaman and in some cases the great group flashing
light revolves in bath of mercury weighing eight
hundred and sixteen pounds. One solitary eight
wick burner drinks up twenty gallons of mineral oil
in the long winters night; and when the Storm
King is revealed in all his might and majesty the
men within cannot hear their own voices, so
terrific is the thunder Of the against the gran
lite walls furious wave has been known to tower
one hundred feet up lighthouse side and sweep
away great bell weighing quarter of a ton And
not with seas only do our stately lights have to con-
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force of small shot thinking only of what they may do
The dread scene is Cape Race, Newfoundlands
most terrhc promontory, with the maze OF sinister
currents that make its terror to every
ship great small, that passes within fifty miles.
SIGNAL men on the cane and in the last four decades
nearly hundred great vessels have been destroyed
under its beetling involving loss of over two
ships and cargoes. A wild, fog yelled region, in
whose chaotic swirl currents whose vagaries
known to mani
coastwise lights, which cost twenty million dollars
year. And what landsrnan knows the true mean
ing of those pillars of fire that have guided the
since Ptolemy built his white marble pharos, three
hundred years before Christ was born? The light
house is powerless in the dense storm, too
Fifteen miles southeast of Boston is Minots Ledge
awash in the swell Above it towers light
house that cost three hundred thousand dollars And
yet in little than twenty years a vast armada
of forty-eight ships have been dashed to pieces at
its base
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A TWO MASTED
~ schooner in
dire straits,
L - her tattered

flag flown up
side down, showing she is
unmanageable! Her fore
sail has been carried
away, and she is wallow-
ing in the trough of mighty
seas, piled up by the
northeast gale. The crew
can be seen clinging to
the rigging, watching with
the grim faces of van
pushed sailormen their
craft being slowly beaten
inshore. Up on the cliffs
the stalwart life saving
crews are peering through
the driving scud and
torrential rain, which cuts
the face with the singing