Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-01-13

YOU hear, but you can repeat it, you
know.
bachelor is a man who thinks every
girl who looks at him intends to marry
him.
As to candidates for the mayorship, at
Seattle's next election, it recalls the old
phrase: "The more. the merfier."
Most any one can conduct newspaper
better than its editor and proprietor. At
least many folk think so.
little Aberdeen girl, watching her
mother fixing hatpns through her hat.
asked her mother when che would be old
enough to have holes made in her head
to keep her hat on.
l have noticed girl seldom marries
her ideal. Some other fellow generally
comes along with lot of money.
Clearing house certificates in Seattle
are pledged for repayment OF or before
April l, 1908. The certificates have be-
come really unnecessary, and the hanks
Will withdraw them as occasion offers.
o
The "Coming Through the Rye"
theatrical company were in q railroad
wreck near Temple, Georgia, the other
day. There is an old saying, "NVhen in
Rome, do as the Romans do" So, per-
haps the company, knowing they were
in Georgia, did as Georgians do, "cot-
toned to It,"
A correspondent of the New York
World asked what would alleviate
"writer's cramp." His question was
answered by writer, telling him that
he could find relief by occasionally eus-
pending himself by the hands from a
horizontal bar. l know another way in
which "writer's cramps" may be relieved
in a rapid manner. Let the writer be
given few silver coins and placed in the
care Of the head waiter in a restaurant.
1t doesn't need to be "cafe" either.
! The whales seen in the Tacoma harbor
last summer, after the vast amount of
advertising showered upon them by the
Tacoma News, consolidated themselves,
it would seem, into one vast monster, so
feet in length, and allowed it to be placed
on the beach at Luna Park, West Seattle.
Thus Seattle gets the benefit OF Tacoma's
free advertising, after all.
observed heading in the P..I. the
other day which read: "Why Lost My
job" Having lost so many myself, 1
was sort of anxious to learn how the
writer failed to keep his. After reading
nearly half column l learned he lost
it because he did not dose himself with
certain brand OF dyspepsia tablets,
VIII ich the P..I. is advertising. Ugh!
To read the name, James Hamilton
Lewis, and of bis associations amongst
leading and worldwide known politi.
clans and learned men of the nation, in
the big eastern newspapers, is like wav-
ing red cloth in front of an angry bull,
to some followers of the political game
in his state. His career in Illinois is
watched by some rag-tog, two-for.fve,
I.am.in-politics.too residents of Wash.
ington in the same style and manner as
a half.starved cat watches mouse.
James Hamilton Lewis, in the political
arena, is as far above all such green.eyed,
millet-seed Drained, peanut politicians
in the Evergreen" state, who deride
and ridicule him every chance they get,
as is the brilliant and dazzling sun above
this old planet-and then some.
Telegraph companies should be com.
peled to issue receipts for every paid
message they accept from patrons, same
as the government gives you when pur-
chasing postal money order. A mother,
of my acquaintance, sent her daughter a
message and the telegraph company
failed to deliver it, though the message
was paid for and accepted by the COM
pany. To be exact, the daughter never
has received the message, as yet. An.
other case is that Of my wife sending me
message from Salem, Oregon, request
ing me to meet her at the train in Seattle.
l signed the message the next morning
after my wife arrived home. On making
inquiry was told by officials of the teie-
graph company that if my wife had sent
me message l would have received it.
Now, don't you see, il telegraph COM
panies were compelled to give a receipt
for message when paid ''r at their rate
and the party the message is intended
for fails to receive .he same, you would
not be told "You did not send message
or it would be delivered" II some hu.
name senator would introduce bill to
| this effect next legislature, am sure his
name would go laundering down the
canyons of Time. "Are ye wild me, or
against me?"