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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-02-18
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

Following letters remain uncalled
or in the Aberdeen postoffice for the
week ending Feb. 16, 1909:
Andrews, Nels
Barton & Co.
Bush, Joseph d.
Carlson, Grant
Chapman, Frank
Chapman, j. E.
Craney, E.
Daniels, c. A.
Darrocher, J.
Donaldson, Joseph
Donaldson, l. S.
Drake, Alice
Father, Mrs. John
Either, J. A. CD
Elvin, John
English, Harry
Evans, Lorraine
Fradenberg, J.
Gardner, J. H.
Gillis, Fred CD
Goddard, Chas. A.
Hall, Miss Irene CD
Helm, j. w.
Hendricks, H.
Heinder, Geo. Jr.
Johnson, Mrs. Albert
johnson, Miss Ellen
Johnson, Mrs. Mary r.
Justin, j. w.
Knudsen, Siguard CD
Knudsen Bros.
Knudsen, Mrs. Oline
Larson, James
I.issner, Joseph
Long, Melt
Madsak, o.
Mattsson, Alfred.
Maxwell, c. A.
MaXen. Mrs j.
May, A. J.
Miekeljohn, Harry
Miller, Paul
Morrison, Arthur
McEntee, Thomas
Nelson Mrs. r.
Nesman, Charles
Osterling e Cchacht I'D
Olsen, Charles S.
O'Brien, f. NJ.
Paananen, Kalle
RAIDER, Gus
Randall, Miss Gertrude
Raully, Frank
Reed. Mrs. Faye
Richardson, Miss Vesta
Rowe, Mrs. r. p.
Roderick, A. B.
Smith, Mrs. Nellie r.
Smith, Frank
Stewart, Mrs. Effie
FOURTH CLASS.
Finch, E. H.
Payton, Ethel
When calling for the above please
ay advertised"
W. q. CRAMMATTE.
Postmaster.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-02-18

Charles Neeson went to Seattle on
a short visit this morning.
Rev. J. A. Levin made a business
visit to Seattle this week.
Mrs. Ira Brumbaugh went to Elma
Tuesday, to visit relatives.
X. T. Dabney is over from Portland
looking after his Aberdeen interests.
w. e. Hershaw, of Rochester, N.
", is in the city, with a view of To-
eating.
d. ]. A. Mapes has returned from
Nevada, where he is interested in
some mining property.
Martin Gerrish, of Tonopah, New
ada, who has been visiting w. o. Nc
Cav, left yesterday for Vancouver,
b. c.
Mrs. A. M. Wheeler left for Port
land this morning to look up the new
millinery styles and to replenish her
spring stock.
Geo. Woods, a bartender charged
with permitting women to loiter in
saloon, was acquitted in the police
court Tuesday.
Mrs. J. r. Evans and her sister,
Miss Nellie Craig, went to Monte
sano this morning, to spend a week
with relatives.
Mrs. Chas Dahl, nee Davidson,
of Seattle, after a short visit with
her parents in this city, left for her
home this morning.
The second annual ball of the Abb
erdeen Athletic Association will be
given in the club gymnasium next
Monday night, Washington's Birth
day.
"Jekyl and Hyde" is the topic of
the morning discourse in the Congre-
gational church next Sunday morn
ing. Vesper service from to 6
p. m.
The Christian EndeavOr of the
Presbyterian church will give So
cial tomorrow evening at the home of
Miss Hazel Magill 20S East First
street.
Ray Burpee and Martin Wood have
purchased the Layport homestead, on
the Wishkah river about three miles
above Aberdeen, consisting of 113
acres, for $4,000.
The Talitha Lumi club met Tues
day afternoon in A. o. U. w. hall. A
number of visiting members from
Hoquiam and Cosmopolis were enter
tanned at the session.
Richard F'lyte late of this city,now
of Satsop, has an invention for con-
trolling steam governors on engines.
The apparatus stops the engine If
the governor loses control.
The north side of Heron street as
far as X street is now filled, and
worhmen are removing the plank
from the south to the north side so
that teams can use that side of the
street.
Mrs. George Jacobs of Seattle, who
has been the guest of Mrs. Robert
Ewart. left for her home this morn
ing. Judge and Mrs. Jacobs are
among the oldest residents of Seat
tie, tne Judge having been ON me
bench for 25 years in that district.
Despite the heavy rain on Monday
evening the valentine social given by
the young people of the Congrega-
tional church was well attended. The
new social hall proved to be an ideal
place for such purposes, and old ana
young enjoyed the occasion. Follow
ing the literary program and games
were refreshments and at II O'Clock
all declared the clock must be fast.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
Longevity Among Jews.

GtctGliC anu 0dGCLlSs
 Superficial scrutiny of the vital sta- tistlcs yields the Jew a prominent po- sition in the sanitary world. if longev- Ity serves as an index of hygienic liv- ing. With the average length of life for all Christian people placed as 36 years II months GS00) the Jew may hope to reach 4S years Q months.
 NeufYille (1Ss5). inQuiring into the comparative duration of life and causes of death of Jews and Christians in Frankfort, learned that one-fourth of the Jewish population was living be. yond T years. while only one fourth Of their neighbors were living beyond the age of 59 years 10 months. Abbott claims that they u. e.. Jews). are much less frequently the subjects of tuber. cuiosis and acute epidemic diseases than any other race of mankind"
 Why should this seeming vital supN- rIority exist According to Richardson, "tha causes are simply summed up In the term 'soberness of life.' The Jew drinks less than his even Christian: he takes. as a rule. better food: he marries earlier; he rears the children he has brought into the world with greater personal care; he tends the aged more thouRhtfully: he takes bet, ter care of his poor and he takes bet ter care of himself" To this might have been added that through religious GUS toms hyRienic tendencies became an In. herttanee
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
TAFT IS DECEIVED
soUTHERNERs FOR PRINCIPLE. NOT
 PREFERMENT
Self Respect sf The Dixie Democrats. Section Prospered After IL Had
 Thrown on Yoke of Re- @ Rubiicanism
A Washington special says:

A Washington special sayst
 That Judge Taft has mistaken the sentiment of the people of the South and that he could not expect politica' preferment there, because the giving of such preferment Is against the prfn- cipies of the people of that section. is the statement made by Represent1IiVe James Hay, of Virginia. ..- 1es ss,. s,=.x
 MT. Hay declares that he assures the Republicans that 1t Is as impossible to change the principles as 1t Is to change the spots of the leopard.
 "The attitude of Mir. Taft toward the people of the South Is . matter of surprise and disappointment to all sele- respecting Southern men," said 1r. Hay. "The people of the South, as well as the people elsewhere, have principles to which they adhere beca ase they be. iieye them to be right. bpt MT. Taft seems to think that by the promise or political preferment he can persuade our people to desert principles in which they believe.
 'Is Mir. Taft a Republican because he has been able to get something by he- ing one? What policy does Mir. Taft advocate which will make for the ma. terial prosperity of the South? The South began to prosper when 1t threw of Republican rule over twenty@flve years ago. It has prospered ever since under Democratic State governments and could not have prospered without them and could not prosper with Re. publican State governments s< .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
Why 1909 GlrI. are stupid.

New I OrK FreSS
 "The fashionable girl is very dull in winter. for she has quite reversed the rule of hygiene that bids us, if We would be healthy and bright. to keep our heads cool and our feet warm. Look at that beauty in the front row"
 The clubmen together directed their butante in brown velvet. She sat with her. knees crossed. an attitude which showed that the high-heeled shoes on her small feet were of the thinnest patent leather. while her black silk stockings were SO -gossamerlike in tex ture as to seem almost a pale brown hat tn at came down over her forehead and ears like a drum majors bearskin twas huge hive-shaped affair of able, suitable for an arctic eXpedi- tion.
 'Warm heads and cold feet agreed the clubmen. No wonder the girls this winter are so stupid" !"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
----a-a-s----@rs----- ----n-=-'~s--H----e--- LEFTCH-FORD.
WeddinR of Popular Persons st Akro
 ---E.ivimwna0n News

Wedding of Popular Persons ct Akron
 --Ltvingnton News.
 Livingston, Jan. 7.-(Special.) )-Mr. Horace Leiteh. formerly of this place. married at Akron today.
 Mir. Leitch holds fne position In Birmingham and his bride Is an ac- compiished young woman. She at- tended school at the Alabama Normal College here last year and the year be- fore.
 Misses Hattie and Emma Leitch at- tended the wedding.
 Cotton seed Is selling here for 27 cents per bushei.
 Judge Jarman visited Grsensboro this week. ....a
 george Morris of Epes has made an assignment of his goods to the Sumter Bank and Trust Company. Mfr. Morris has been merchant at Epes for years.
 Mrs. Britton, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. J. O. Phillips. has re- turned to her home in Hattiesburg. Miss.
 Scott Nelson. negro. was shot in the back Friday by a negro, James Frank, tho entire load of birdshot pen- etrated the abdominal cavity and death followed at once The shooting oc- cured at York.
 The well boring at York is pro- gressIng nicely. About 3sO feet has been bored.
 Justice of the Peace A. J. McElroy, an early trucker, had radis'hes for his dinner on New Years day. Mr, Me- Elroy is one of Cuba's best farmers.
 The oficials of the Southern Bell Telephone Company were in Cuba this week and made arrangements to in- stall three separate rural lines out of Cuba. One toward Butler, In Choctaw W County, another north and another west.
 The railroad company has opened a night office at Epes and has put on two new operators. Messrs Waters and Earl Sullivan.
 Alto Hopkins has returned to school at Marion.
 W. T. Wallace visited Chattanooga this week.
 F. F. Harper. of York, was a visi- tor here this week.
 There is talk of rebuilding the old race track one mile west of town.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
LAW AND GALLANTRY.

Sometimes strict regard for the nat ural gallantry which man should in all cases exhibit towards women leads to complications Even a policeman is not always proof against the de- mands of gallantry, especially if he is an Irishmap. This was recently ex- emplified in New York where the pO- lice were required to prevent the fir ing of pistols on New Years eve Of course the officers were expected to obey the law. but The St. Louis Post Dispatch tells of case of lodging.
 Collins Le Master" says our con temporary. allowed a young lady
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
FRIDAY, JANUARY g, 1909.
ABOUT surcrpEs.

If anything in connection Witn nu- nanity is more unacceptable and un- !. reasonable than suicide we know not what 1t is. Sometimes we read that some one has committed suicide be- cause of dementia which may proceed from disease or from some temporary mental alteration, but in many cases we can find or assign no better cause than that the victim was apparently unable or unwilling to face disgrace or trouble To end the struggle by ones own hand rather than fight the battle to the end is not the manner of strong men and women in their proper minds.
 The recent suicide of Professor and Mrs. P. Gordy. of the New York University. who jointly ended their lives because of the untimely death of daughter, is case in point. No one who has not experienced it can realize the grief and pain and sorrow following such loss as this, but that
 
 committing such a rash act. so far as others can judge. Professor Gordy, as we understand, was a strong and : generally well-balanced man in the prime of life, for he was yet a few years under sixty, who had attained fine reputation, and of whom 1t may be said that his life work was yet before him, and so far as we have heard his wife was a woman of sound and healthy mind and body. So far as is or has been made known about would have thus deliberately taken their own lives.
 And yet this strong and well-bal- anced pair. because of an affiiction which comes to most parents. ended life by their own hands. No one" remarks The Washington Herald. "wiIiingly speaks harsh words about the dead. But surely it is not un- kind to take lesson from this tragic occurrence. It is not unfair. surely to point out that one of the highest duties of a man Is to live up to his opportunities. Ii is not true that any one of us may live or die wholly to ourselves There is an obligation be- tween a man and the God who made him, for God alone may know how severely a man is tried; but there is an obligation. also. between man and his fellow -man, and upon us all lies the duty of fulfilling our obligation. For the poor uneducated man. the man who cannot by virtue of birth breeding. or education, understand the meaning of noblesse oblige, we can have nothing but pity, if. in the fell clutch of circumstance.' he so mistakes 2 the purposes of God a to take the ques- ton of life or death into his own hands. But what can we say about :. tre man who has won un to the place Of teacher of the people, the man who itas won his spurs; the man who. armed with the strength of his fell low-men's love and respect weakens ! at the hour of trial, fails to keep the faith. and refuses to face with manly courage and high deterninatior the fate that Is in store?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
MORNING THOUGHT
sr '. nAnviS NICHOLS.

The Nestlinws. No man can do a greater work than to redeem the street waits that wander of them have been blown from the nest In a great storm. They sleep in boxes. In barrels. in dirty baseme-,s .,anywhere but the cradle from which them Is to polish a jewel that will shine some day. Who knows: They are all diamonds In the rough. To neglect them means to congest our across whose threshold no goodIy shadow eyer falls. I never see shiv. ering newsboy without thinking of the great and good Philips Brooks. whom he cared. It was he who wept alone in the death chamber of tho kooa bishop. It was he who went forth from the wretchedness of the once. t was he he who 9StsseS' became known Dt m as The Bishops Shadow" Talk about your Social redemption schemes. Heres the place to begin--for these nestlings are too tender not to suffer in the raging storm.
 Holmes compares the free agent who abuses his right, and the one who properly uses 1t. to two raindrops fall as side ss sy sds Iunnnx Gn the nsr,bmsa sn ward the polar region. and the other toward the sunny south.
 So from the heights of will
 Life's parting stream descends. And, as a moment turns its slender
 Each widening torrent bends. Prom the same cradles side.
 From the same mothers knee, One to lone darkness and the frozen
 one to the peaceful sea.
 If some Hebrew dreamers had not been taken captive into Babylon, the very name of that magnificent empire had long since passed from the minds of men. Somebody must suffer if a nation is ever great. Lightning is never so bright as when drawn across the bosom of dark cloud. A nations history is mighty only when seen against the background of her mar tyrs and her heroes.
 If you do not expect much nobody else will. ''-.,
 It is never . mark of greatness to avenge ones self.
 If you effectualiy hide yourself keep silent
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
Too auch Reform

Galveston News
 The News hopes that during ttN coming year fewer rough sticks may be thrust into the mass of working bees to disturb and destroy them. It trusts that professional lawmakers. militant reformers. propaganda -pushers and agitators generally may have mercy upon the man who feeds them and all who must have employment or become Q criminal. or starve to death. The linen who do things" do not always exhibit results" of the best sort The most dreadful of all the panics and the most direful of all the revolutions--revolu- tions that have gone backward-were results of their efforts. Civilization moves slowly and it requires time and care and caution for the highly import ant experiments which we as a free people are now. making. Let us have peace during 1909.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
TO INCREASE sALARIrs.
committee Fixes, That of the PresiaeRt
 at 9JOO,OOo.

Washington, Jan. By an amends ment to the legislative, executive and Judicial appropriation bill which today was reported to the Senate from the Committee on Finance, the salary of the President of the United States Is increased from $50.0Oo to s100.0oo. the increase to include the &25.00O now an. nually appropriated for the Presidents travelling expenses.
 Amendments also were reported from the Finance Committee increasing the salaries of the Vice-Pres!dent and the Speaker of the House from $12,O00 to $20000 a year. . The amendments were referred by the Senate to the Committee on Appro- priatlons which. If it. approves. will in- corporate them In the appropriation bill which Is now under considera ton and report them back to the Senate for action.
 There was full attendance of the Committee when the proposed in- creases of salary were taken up. It was first suggested that the increase of the salary of the President should be to $75,000 a year. which Is the amount he now receives including the S25,000 paid for travelling expenses.
 Senator Bailey opposed any increase being made but the amendments were acted upon favorably without a roll call.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08

their eggs strictly according to then age and in such . manner that even Mrs. Newlywed can tell exactly what she is buying. n proposes to have all eggs offessd yQf sale branded as 'stors age" fresh lsfd, -recentiy iaid." and doubtful" The suggestion has been poultryman to furnish every hen with a rubber stamp with which she could date her eggs as soon as they are laid. This would certainly be good Idea if however, raise question as to the con- stitutionality of the law, which would mean an appeal to the UnHed States Supreme Court and would Involve vea- atious delay. Until 1t has been den- niteiy determined that the hen comes within the Jurisdiction of Congress. is will probably be better for that body to confine It's attention exclusively to the poultfy dealer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08

whom he was escorting to Ire his re- voiver and a policeman appeared from behind telegraph pole. To arrest the lady under the cold dicta of the code was the poiiceman.s duty. but he lacked the Spartan heart. He ar- rested the escort and prosecuted him in police court, as compromfse be- tween harsh interpretation and sym pathetic indulgence. A gallant po- iieeman. he recognized. that a manly escort would rather suffer imprison- ment and obioquy than permit harm to befail the fair one entrusted to his protection. Most men will applaud the policeman's act and see no reason against it. All women will applaud Judge Kleiber. who discharged the sailant swain from custody. not car- ing for the reason back of the courts action. Yet 1t Is well to note that reason. which is that no person may be punished for the act of another. The law will not accept the young man as a sacrifice. He may not plead that the honor of sentismin con- psis him to endure the laws penalty as proxy for the offender. Stern jus tice does not recognize any orense in him. It has no concern with gaiiantry but. marking an error against its guardian. sets the young man free There Is moral attached to this tale which ladies should do well to heed: {: attractions of law bear penalties for the ofrenders.s
 Was not that genuine and beauti- fui case of mixed pickiss. If it is . fair question to put to the reader I've will ask what would you do in such case? The young man had really committed no offense. but the police man was too gallant to arrest . young and pretty woman. so he coliared the young man. whose chivairy caused him to assume all the responsibility for the gifrs act. and to endure the punishment if any was to, be inflicted. Perhaps the. policeman did what he thought the proper thing to do under the circumstances and should not be blamed. The 1udge who released the young man did the right thing under the law, for he knew it was not right to punish the man for what. the wo. man did. If the young man had been so mean and cowardly as to%let the woman be arrested and punished he would have been an object of. con- tempt and if the judge had punished the man for the act of the woman he would have deserved severe cen- sure. Altogether it was an interest ing and tangled case
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
LONDON VIEW OF HIM
British OpiHiOn of the President and -A Recent Messages.

British OpiHien of the President and Recent Messages. Zondon (Eng.) Globe
 MT, Roosevelt IS so great man in greater. The ofiice which he stiIl holds Is one of the highest to which any hu- nous power for good which 1t confers has, upon the whole been worthily ex- srclsed by it's present occupant. It is. therefore. with feelings of regret and repulsion that We see the President of the United States descending into the gutters of controversy and endeavoring to outyie- the very Bowery of New York in the Violenee and coarseness
 najeste. andSft is fnnn4teiy more e dsnl- aging to the dignity of a great ruler than any foolish gibes from the out of flying" "blackmaiI.' "scurrilous libels," declares. that his parliament is deeply coneerned over the fact that secret service agents are investigating Ommends the criminal prosecution of d newspaper which has dared to attack his government.
 Mir Roosevelt had far better recom- the heinous Offense of degrading the Presidential office by mingling in sor- did and disgusting disputes The gin 2put into Mir. Taft's election campaign nas evidently entered his own system. ,and the result Is very melancholy spectacle. It was a betrayal alike of the traditions of the great office and of the simplest canons of good taste even to throw himself into the cam paign at all. But, having done so, and spend the last few months of his occu- lpancy of the White House in an at. mosphere of personal dignity. To pre- serve to the end the manners and the language of an angry fish wife is not the way to win the respect of his own country or of any other.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
Our RcIatIons With China

Boston Advertiser.
 The United States has been and still Is very fortunate in her relations with China. We have some advantage oyer other nations in that we manifested showed such marked signs of her "a Awakening and promise of rapid mod ernlzation- Thus our national friend ship is not tainted with glaring self interest. This good will of the Chi hese nation is worth retaining and for tifying.f The Boxer uprising and the boycott were hysterical incidents, and Are past. They never represented the Nationality of China. In taking the lead in prompt recognition of China's forward effort as. the forecast of a ma terial greatness. the United States might achieve a sentimental foundation for a very practical foothold in China.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08

New York Evening Post.
 In the Americsnlzation of English politics. American political terms are more and more coming into use. The word "platform." for example. Is rapid ly being ,domesticated in England. Furists. of course. cry out upon It. They call it one of those disgusting "Amerlcanisms," which all lovers of the undecided wells of good old Eng fish should avoid. But The Westmin- ster Gazette makes some inconvenient citations. to prove that this raw Amer. ican word is. in reality excellent Eng fish, of see years ago. Thus Queen Elizabeth answered the "supplicatlon" of the Puritans. in 15S6. by saying that she had examined their platform" :" and her successor. James I. spoke of "another fll-fangled platform to make that stubborn kick (the Church of Scotland) stoop more to the English platform" Finally, there was a coup let put by an old lan1poon into the mouth of the Pretender in the early years of the house of Hanover: What is the Platform we're to build -e on next?
 Or what Schemes left, we've not al-
 ready tried?
 That certainly sounds intensely mod ern. One might almost think 1t an ex- tract from an address of Mir. Bryan to his Followers.