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title of Minister Resident and Consul
General to the Emir of Abyssinia. is prob
ably the most isolated of all American
railroad in the heart of a truly savage
and barbaric territory where head
hunters and cannibals exist by the thou
sand in the thinly settled sections, Hofr
man Philip represents the United States.
He must make caravan journey mounted
on the humps of the African camels for
over two weeks through trackless des-
ert in order TO reach his post of duty.
Mr.. Philip only received his appointment
ON July 20 last, and It took him nearly
two months to reach his destined post.
William f. Doty consul at Tabriz, col
lects $4,000 per annum from the United
States government for representing the
nation at another isolated and dangerous
post for Tabriz is in a section of Persia
where Europeans and Americans are cor
daily hated and where no friendly rail-
way train can offer n quick escape from
the Persian fanatics, who constantly run
amuck Mr. Doty Is New Yorker, who
entered the Consular Service seven years
ago by way of New Jersey.
He went to Tabriz from Tahiti, in the
Society Islands, where the real society
consists of a few foreigners and many
thousand dark-skinned savages. at one
time the most notorious cannibals in all
the known world.
Pierre Paul Demers, despite the ro-
mantle form of his patronymic, is none
the less a stawart American and he up
holds the flag and American coffee inter
ests in Bahia, Brazil He is a French
Canadian, and at Bahia he is surrounded
by coffee-colored Brazilian savages, who
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years. vet the coal dust danger and its
prevention awaited American originality
for it's solution. The experiment station
last July, yet it has arrived at this and
other vital conclusions ins,this short time.
There is need of ingenuity and action
on the part of the Americans, for so
reckless are they of human life that the
coal mines are killing three times as
many men per thousand employed as are
those of most of the European countries.
In the last Is years $4,000 men have
given up their lives in the mines Of this
country. The number is constantly on
the increase, and the rapidity of that
increase may be shown by the appalling
statement that twice as many men are
annually so killed now as in 1896.
In all European coal-producing countries
the output has increased greatly during
the past ten years, but the number of
deaths per 1000 miners has decreased.
This decrease has been largely due to the
effect of mining legislation In those coun-
tries for the safeguarding and protection
of the lives of the workmen, and has
been made possible by governmental ac
ton In establishing testing stations for
the studying of problems relative to safe
ty in mining. including the use of ex-
plosives. The United States has been very
slow in taking any action, and the death
roll has multiplied accordingly.
Belgium maintains the most thoroughly
equipped testing station In the world, and
for number of years has carried out ex-
tensive experiments to devise means to
prevent accident and to increase the safe
ty Of the workers in the mines. The sue
cess of these experiments will be better
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realized when 1t Is stated that at the be-
ginning of the investigations the number
of men killed each year for each 1000 en-
ployed was 80, or very nearly as now
shown for the United States, while at
present it is less than one-third of that
number, The same opportunity now lies
before the United States, and similar ac-
tion should result In the saving of two
out of three of the men now being killed.
Considered in regard to the number of
deaths per 1000 men employed, the
United States occupies less favorable
position than any other of the coal-pro-
as great per cent. being killed as in some
European countries that are much less
favored by natural conditions. In regard to
deaths per million tons of coal mined,
the United States not only occupies a po-
sitfon worse than that OF most European
countries. but is also showing an increase
in the rate, whereas every other country
is showing a decrease
But now that she is threatening to get
started, the United States has the origi-
nality and ingenuity to beat them all.
The tendency of the government to put
its house in order in that respect shows
greater strength every day. and the fact
that the disasters occur in the winter
time, when Congress is in session, is a
spur to action, and for that reason, at
any rate, should be praised for timeliness.
In the meantime. little jet of steam
turned into the air current may help to
bring about tropical conditions In the
mines, even when Jack Frost is abroad
above ground.
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pick coffee berries all day long, attired In
one large. and not oyerly-elean pocket
handkerchief, which Is draped around
the waist He has been there only year.
This IS significant in the case of Bahia,
as two men out of every ten die inside
year form the fever which makes the
place practical death-trap for eau
casans of the full blood.
Percival Helntzleman, of Pennsylvania,
has his consular post in the far interior
of China, on he. Great Yellow River
which has a greater volume of water
than the Mississippi, even in flood time.
This Chinese town sends millions of ex-
ports to the United States and the post
Is One of Importance. Nevertheless, Mr.
Ieintzleman seldom sees an American
for the journey into the interior of China
to his post Is one of months and the tray-
cling conditions are most primitive.
Then. there is Pernambuco and Barran-
quilla and Tamatave, which last is in
Madagascar, and dozens of other isolated
and barbaric posts, whose names sound
like the titles of comic operas. There are
true and loyal Americans in all these out
landish places and each plays his part
manfully, when the savage population
turns out TO burn and say, or some
strange disease creeps in and attacks the
lonely American far from decent nursing
or scientific doctoring.
1t takes a man, and a good man at that,
to be an effective consul for the United
States, and since Theodore Roosevelt and
the late John Hay followed the footsteps
of william Mckinley and routed out the
politicians from the choosing of our con
euls the service has taken the very first
rank, as compared with the similar organ
izations of the other great powers.
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lean citizens DESTROYS of journeying Into
the state of matrimony. lie buries and
sees shipped back home such unfortunate
American citizens as die In his respective
bailwck, and he is also empowered TO
put such as need the service through
bankruptcy and deliver them clear of
troublesome creditors
In fact he Is generally called on to
lend stranded Americans money furnish
them with some sort of clothing, suecor
the sick, feed the hungry and be a gem
eral and generous all-wise providence to
his fellow-Americans in trouble in any
one of the hundreds of isolated cities
where the government maintains a con-
sulate and an American consul or vice
consul
Then, too, the consul, aside from his
business duties, has certain diplomatic
functions. He has the right to shelter
American citizens In his consulate, and
where the American flag waves no police
or soldiers or warrant for arrest has any
right to penetrate. OF course, the consul
is expected to use great discretion in
taking the grave responsibility of hold
ing at bay whole foreign government.
but he has that right, and more than
once only the dread of the United States
and some brave young American consul
dragged from the consul's office or home
and crucified or else burned at the stake.
few years back one youthful Ameri-
can consul caused an American fleet to
hastily dash to the shores of Africa with
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lican president. Consuls get from $1,000
year all the way to Robert j. Wynne,
former postal official, who receives $4,000
year as consul general at London.
Twelve thousand per annum is not a
bad salary during these hard times. and
many patriots would no doubt gladly
take the job. Yet it is absolutely true
that the State Department is hard put to
it to find mot men, and even well-educated
men, TO accept these posts, but to find
men with the business acumen and the
diplomatic intuition who can be depended
on to take care of the tremendous Amer
lean commercial interests in such vast
capitals as London, Paris, Pekin, Berlin,
etc.
Some DesoIate Consulships.
For GOODNESS and bleakness, Lester May
nard, born in smiling California, has
post at Yladivostoc, Siberia, that con-
tends in severity with the far Southern
post of Puente Arenos, where John e.
Rowen, of Connecticut, represents the
United States, in almost sole exile, so far
as his fellow countrymen are concerned
Hoffman Philip, Mt Ads Ababa, Abyss
sinia, where he enjoys the resounding
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The Bloodhound Us.
The Criminal.
y HE value of having bloodhounds with
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~ HE value of having bloodhounds with
n which to follow escaped criminals
~ has for centuries been a mooted
point. The escaping criminal versus the
peculiar ability of the bloodhound have
figured largely In fiction and in supposed
ly true stories.
But in Europe, where the most recent
experiments have been made, it has been
decided that In large cities the blood
hound is of practically no use. He can,
indeed, given an uncrossed scent not
more than II hours old. follow the Grim
inal with an endurance and accuracy that
is little short of miraculous.
But In big cities 1t has proved usually
impossible to get the dogs to the place
of the crime early enough to let them
have an uncrossed scent. So many per-
sons have crossed and recrossed over the
trail of the flying murderer or other Grim
inal that the dogs have been utterly mt
fault and have picked up the wrong scent
and hunted down persons SO clearly In
nocent as to bring ridicule on the hounds.
But In slightly settled sections the
bloodhounds are the very best police pro-
lection. In a rural section a criminal can
almost always be traced. Work of this
kind done In England and on the Cont
nent recently has lead the chief of police
of Paris to declare that the bloodhounds
could always catch a criminal In rural
district who does not get more than II
hours start or make his way before the
dogs can reach him into some large city
or get on the ocean.
However, in Paris the night police are
now accompanied by huge dogs crossed
between bloodhounds and the Great Dane
or Russian wofhounds. This was done
because many officers had been attacked
and badly injured by street hoodlums, or
Apaches, who for time almost terror
lied the slums Of the French capital
The use of the great dogs as police aids
In one week put an end to the danger
Gus situation and 1t has never REQUIRED.
The dogs were crossed with Great Dane
or Russian wolfhounds because the blood
hound is too peaceable a dog to serve as
a protection from daring criminals. Al
though the popular idea is that a blood
hound is a terribly savage creature, yet,
as a matter of fact, while they can scent
the blood of any individual with mar
velous persistency and accuracy, still.
even when the pure blooded bloodhound
tracks his victims down, he never attacks
the man unless the latter attacks him.
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~ I'D the fact ever impress itself upon
"a you that the great mine disasters
nearly always occur in the winter
"a ~ time? Peculiar thing, but it is
true. There must be some explana-
ton for it, some cause of 1t, possibly
through knowledge of the cause, a cure.
This Is the train of thought that the gov
eminent investigators have been follow
ing for the past few months, and the
conclusions that they have reached read
like romance and loom big as mile
stones toward the accomplishment of the
object for which the inquiry Is made
the saving annually of thousands of hui
man lives.
They went into the mines and exam
ined the conditions found to exist. They
examined all the atmospheres and gases
and dusts that they found In the mines.
They captured them and took them out
OF the mine where they could be ana
lyzed. They even went so far as to re-
produce them in quantities and expert
ment with them in all manner of con-
ditions.
Finally the great explosives chamber
was built. 1t was meant to represent
mine and in 1t were to be brought
about all the conditions that had been
found to exist In the mines, and the acts
that had precipitated the disasters were
TO be tried out In the explosives cham
Der. given gas found In given mine
was placed In the chamber and dynamite
was set off inside of it and the gas was
exploded. The same thing was done with
the coal dust. This was matter of i'm
portance, for old operators had main
tanned that coal dust did not explode
and In many mines no precaution was
taken against 1t.
Yet In the explosives chamber the coal
dust nearly blew the vents off of it. 1t
exploded readily and easily, and upon
all occasions. 1t was definitely estab-
lished as a dangerous explosive and the
conclusion, was drawn that 1t was the
mysterious cause of great numbers of
unexplained disasters.
= There had been some operators who
had all along laid the danger to coal
dust, and these had attempted to keep
this dust down by sprinkling their mines.
The government experts tried the same
scheme by introducing coal dust into their
explosives station, sprinkling it as did
the operators, and again testing 1t for
explosiveness. 1t still exploded as mer-
sily as before. The sprlnkling had not
accomplished the trick
Then was the humidifer installed. A fan
constantly sent current of air through
THE explosives chamber in the same
kway 1t is sent through the mine. Into
his current was introduced steam, and
khe air drank up the steam and became
oist- 1t filed the chamber. The. dyna-
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The representatives of the United
States in the consular service
must now speak two languages,
pass examinations in International
law, in commercial law and in po-
IiticaI economy, physical and COM
merciaI geography and dozen
other difficult studies. In addition,
many of our consuls face death
either from disease or fanaticaI
populations.
TT was in the year 1906 that Theodore
Roosevelt, then president of the
United States, tore the consular
service from the clutching hands of
the shrieking politicians at the east
ern terminus of Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington, d. C. This made it posi-
BILE for any earnest-minded American citl-
zen to obtain a berth in the consular
service without regard to his ability to
get out and hustle on election day or to
deliver some city ward by so many votes.
Thus the consular service of this land,
for many years a jest to foreign govern
ments and an absolute business loss to
our great exporting interests fell into
the guiding hands. of the late John Hay,
then the cabinet premier. and into the
hands of the Civil Service examiners,
whose business it is to poke consular
candidates In the ribs, examine their hair
and teeth and ask them inyouted ques-
tions in foreign languages and conYoluted
problems in international politics.
In fact, passing into the consular serv-
i've nowadays is a pretty good educa-
tional guarantee. Our new consus are
either university graduates or men who
could easily pass muster for such in any
assembly of well-educated men. Again,
in many cases the duties of the Ameri-.
can consul especially the youthful aspiI-
ants for higher honors, must perforce ac-
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-04
Tales Of ihp Town TerSe|y Told.

Lowney's candies at Evans Drug
Sos If
Attorney Frank Beam returned Fri
day evening from the Seattle fair.
Police Judge Phillips dispensed
Justice to IA delinquents, this morn
ms.
Light or heavy hauling. Quick
service. A. A. Star Transfer Co. Tel
IA.
Miss Grace Young went to Seattle
Saturday, to resume her studies in
the state university.
Carl Johnson. who was arrested
for indecent conduct on Friday for
feited his bail of SIS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank G. Jones en-
tertained party of friends at din
ner Thursday evening.
For Sale-Lot on Second street,
near Michigan avenue, 50X130 feet
Inquire at Herald office. If
Mrs. G. b. Reid entertained at
luncheon Saturday afternoon at her
home. 219 North II street.
Fred Bolio, of Ocosta, went to
Montesano this morning to transact
business with the county commits
sioners.
Toilet soaps, toilet waters, per-
fumes, in fact everything necessary to
a. ladies or gents mako up. Evans
Drug Co. tt
Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Scher and Mr..
and Mrs. b. II. Fowler entertained
at cards Friday evening, in honor of
Mr.. and Mrs Mcintyre, of Boston.
Frank Smith, a drunk, who became
disorderly, had to be hauled to the
station on Saturday night in an eX
press wagon. The police think a
"Black Maria" could be used with
profit to the city.
Robert Birmingham and family, re-
turned from weeks visit at the fair,
last night. Mr.. Birmingham is loud
in his praise of the exhibits in gen.
eral but of the stock and poultry
show in particular.
John Silla, George Garlia and Geo.
Panton each forfeited SIS bail this
morning. and Carl Wickland, Oscar
Helberg and Peter Wickerson each
SO. They had the coin and paid
their dues in advance.
Judge +. w. Loomis and V. T.
Evans, foreman of the Herald COM
posing rooms, each received 500
certificate from the Lucore Piano Co.
for the solution of a rebus in one of
the company's advertisements
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Brush up bit, we have brushes
Co. If
Miss Elizabeth Macarthur. of Port
land, is visiting Aberdeen relatives.
Mrs. John X. Evans entertained at
tea Thursday afternoon at her home
401 West Second street
J. b. Benson, of the Office Supply
Co.. returned from a business trip to
the Sound cities Saturday evening.
Mrs. Charles Garrettson, of Cosmo-
polls, after a short visit here, left for
Tacoma where she will visit friends
Mrs Fred Davidson entertained a
party of young friends Friday even
ing at her home, on East Second
street.
The Friends in Council club Will
meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs
Arthur Wilson, 500 East Second
street.
Mrs. A. F. Dunlop left for Seattle,
will go from there to Port Ludlow on
the lower Sound to visit her daughter,
Mrs w Morse Jr..
Harry Pernoll, pitcher for the
Black Cats, was in the city Friday,
on his way to his home, at Grants
Pass, Oregon, Pernoll goes to the
Detroit club next year.
Warren Egerer will leave tomor-
row for Saginaw, Mich, to visit rela-
tives. From there he will go to Bay
City, Mich, where an estimable
young lady awaits him, and we'd
ding will occur. Mr.. and Mrs. Egg
erer will arrive in Aberdeen about
December l.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-05
THREE WHITE SOx ARE
TRADED FOR A PITCHER
Aitrock, Donahue and Cravath Go to
Washington in Return for
SouthpaW Burns.

Pitcher William Burns of the
Washington club has been added to
the White Sox pitching staff by
trade which gives the Senators Nick
Altrock, Jiggs Donahue and Gavvy
Cravath in exchange for the stalwart
SOU paw.
Comiskey began dickering for
Burns last fall soon after the trouble
which the big pitcher had with Capt
Ganley during the absence of. Mana
ger Cantillon on scouting trip. Wash
ington would listen to no money trans
action and every other offer the mas
ter of the Sox made was not accept
able while CantilIon demanded in re-
turn players with whom Comiskey
would not part. The deal should bene-
fit both teams
Burns was drafted By CantiIlon from
the Los Angeles team of the Pacific
Coast league in the fall of 1907, and
was much thought of out there He
won six and lost eleven games with a
second division team in Washington
last year. He is big and strong and
ought TO hold his own even in as good
a staff as the Sox have
Altrock came to the White Sox dur
ing the season of 1908, being let out at
that time by Manager Jimmy Collins
of Boston He made himself solid
with Comiskey and the White Sox
fans that fall by his work IN the IA
game post-season series with the
| Cubs. and was an element of strength
to the team up to and including the
| season 1906, which he wound up by
winning one game from Miner Brown
and losing another TO the same OPP
ponent in the worlds series of that
year Since then Atrock has been
| of little help. although retained in the
] belief he would regain his form
| Donahue came TO Chicago from Mil
waukee.in the spring of 1904. and dis
| Placed Isbell from first base Like AL
trock Jiggs reached his topnotch form
in the season of 1906, and his work
during the worlds series that fall
gained him national reputation as a
sensational fielder He maintained
that gait until last year, when an in
| jury in Washington knocked him out
| and compelled Manager Jones to put
| Isbell back on first
Cravath was grabbed by Comiskey
out of the waiver mill last winter
when the Boston Red Sox attempted
to dispose of him by that process. He
hit like a house afire on the training
| trip and for few games at the star
of the season, then fell away as sud
denly and Unexpectedly
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-05
LEADING PITCHERS IN
THE MAJOR LEAGUES
MuIiin and Cicotte Fighting for Honors
in American-Fivew with Clean
Records in National.

George Nullin, the Detroit slab ar
list, remains in the lead as the I'M
beaten pitcher of the American
league, although Eddie" Cicotte, the
clever Bostonian, is giving him
merry tussle for the honors-
Mullin has won six straight games
while Cicotte has annexed four with
out defeat There are IA pitchers
in all with clean mark for the sea-
SON
Vedder Sitton is the only Cleveland
youth in this high-class company, and
he has worked in only one game.
CHANGING at the figures. the pitchers
appear to be more effective than ever
this season. although there were a
few heavy-hitting contests in the past
week From now on, however, there
should be a decided improvement in
| the smuggling department.
Liebhardt'S first victory of the sea-
SON came in the game with Chicago
after relieving Dusty" Rhoades-
Liebhardt saved the game that day
by his effective work. and was given
the honor of trimming the White Sox-
There have been IA shut-out games
during the season. with Doc" White
the chief winner. the southpaw using
| the kalsomine brush no less than three
times. Lake and Brockett of the
| Yankees, and Coombs of the Athletics
have each won two.
| Frank Smith. who started on to set
the world on fire by his pitching, has
met with a few reverses lately, and
has now won only one more game
than he has lost, but having the adj
vantage of working in nine games he
leads the league with strikeouts, hav-
| ing famed no less than So batters, an
average of four per game Eddie CT
cote is the free-gift man with 16.
Camnitz of the pirates is dividing
honors with Moren of the Quakers
for being the most effective pitcher
in the National league, the former
winning six games without a defeat
while the Philadelphia man. who re
ceived 5000 for each victory from his
daddy" has annexed 81 900 so far
That is a pretty good sum for so early
in the season.
Only five pitchers in the National
league have a clean record. Pfeister
and Higgins of the Cubs. and Phil
lippi of the Phillies. being the others
Two of Camnitz' victories have beer
shut-out games. while Raymond oil
New York Is the only other pitcher
who has done as we'll.