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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-06-12
ATTRACT FARMERS TRADE.
Way to Do II Is to Have a Good Road
From His Farm to Town.

When it's rainy. stormy weather bust
ness IL slack The farmers cannot
come to town because of muddy roads,
rain before the roads are passable.
But during this rainy weather mel
Their can the farmer work in the field
II there was good road from the
farmers place to town 1t Is certain
that the farmer would come to town
plow or cultivate.
That's just one of hundred reasons
why you should work for good roads
Just us water follows the natural
course. 80 will the farmer travel ten
miles of good roads to your town
bad roads to a closer town.
Rock roads cost about $4,000 a mile
The road district extends three miles.
making benefit district Of 900 acres
on each side. or a total Of 1920 acres
to the mile In some states the town
ship pays one-fourth. leaving $1,000 to
be paid for by the farmers
This mems an assessment of only
81 SO per acre Divided into ten year
payments this figures IL cents per acre
per year for ten years. During the ten
years the farmers In the road district
are exempt from all road taxes That
amounts to reduction Of cents on
every 500 Of valuation.
In other words, rock road can be
built for not to exceed - cents per
acre for ten years AS the average
farm contains 100 acres. 1t meaus
$500 per year for ten years for each
farmer 1t Is evident to any one that
land ON rock road ia worth So to $50
per acre more.
The drag Is successful when persist
antly used Commercial clubs In n
great many towns give the farmers
free drags and offer substantial cash
prizes for the best half mile stretch OF
dragged rold
Good roads are a necessity to your
business and an economical necessity
to the farmer You can afford to give
valuable time aud effort 70 promoting
good roads
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-06-12

lished a testimonial or used letter
without the written consent of the
writer, and never has the Company
allowed these confidential letters to
get ont of their possession, as the
hundreds of thousands of them in
their files viii attest.
Out of the va st volume of experience
which Ms. Iinkham has to draw
from, it is more than possible that she
has gained the very knowledge needle
in your case. She asks nothing in re-
turn except your good will, and her
advice has helped thousands. Surely
any woman, rich or poor, should be
glad to take advantage of this gener-
Gus offer of assistance. Address Mrs.
PiAkham, care Of LYDIA Z. Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass.
Every woman ought to have
Lydia f. pinl1han's S0-page
Text Book. 1t is not a book for
general distribution, as it is too
expensive. It is free and only
Obtainable by mail. Write for
it today.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-06-12

man can freely talk
of her private ILL
ness to a woman ;
thus has been es-
tablished this con-
fidence between
Mrs. Pinkham and
the WO men OF
America which has
never been broken.
Never has she puh.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-06-12
Success and tho Rural VILLAGE.

New times demand new measures
and new men," says Lowell The drift,
to the cities has made the municipal
problem the acute problem of the age
But the very rnpidity OF the growth of
the city problem has enhanced the
Importance OF the rural village prob
lem. for without agriculture the city
will not live. and the rural village is
to be the handspring OF a succ-ssfu
and contented agricultural population
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-06-12
TREES PROVE OF GREAT
Benefit TO PUBLIC ROADS
Wake Them Look Ornamental and Pro.
tect Travellers From Sun.

II has been pointed out that fruit
rees are grown along the highways
# European countries and are not
,nly an ornament and comfort. but
source of revenue AT the same time
Cherry trees. the fruit trees most used
IN Germany. grow quite large. about
thirty feet high. with Il crown spread
If equal dimension. and remain SOUND
many years after having reached full
growth. Apple and pear trees. like
the cherry. grow to great height and
spread and would therefore be suit
able for avenue planting But II is
desirable to use trees with persistent
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-06-12
NOVEL GOOD ROADS SCHEME.
Tennessee Has Sent Out Call For $4,000
Volunteers to Work on Highways.


Tennessee has the fever for better
roads The project at present OF
greatest interest IL the movement fOi
Il highway across the state FROM
Memphis to Bristol. II distance OF
over I,N miles
The commission has set out to 80
rure not less than 50,0tN volunteers to
work on the road for NV" days /"
this ehd blanks have been sent out
to subcoinuiSSiOnprs and committees
in counties through which the high
way will pass II Is stated that replies
nave been received from about one
18TH "f those to whom blnnks were
sent and hat the commission now ha-
enrolled ninut IS.WM volunteers Man
II those not only volunteer 10 Wn'.
"" drvS hut n considerable proper
lnn rvnr 'ss heir willingness 10 |; n
"" ",-,s ninefy days or anti tine
enterprise Is ."umpleftd
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-06-12
Window Box Flowers.

City people leave their own homes so
early In the season nowadays tina,
they have not long to enjoy window
boxes. but with the country people
who need not leave their homes for
want Of fresh air. the chance Of pnnt
Ing AOwr' should be grasp-d eagerly
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-06-12
WANTED

Man to represent the advantages Of
the Horticultural Estates Develop.
ment Association. Enquire Scott
Stevens, 210 South F street, Aberdeen
Wash.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-06-12

ADVICE
TO WOMEN

Women suffering from any form of
Illness are invited to promptly COM
municate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass. All letters are received, opened,
read and answered by women. A wO-
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-06-12

An epitome Of all the news ~ Gray
Harbor may always be found III the
ueraId
Evening star., 1911-08-24
PARDON BEING SOUGHT
FOR NOTED MURDERER
Leon PeItzer, One of Two
Brothers Sentenced for
Death of Antwerp Lawyer.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.

BRUSSELS, August 9, 1911.
Strong pressure is being exercised. with
great probabilities Of success, on NJ. Car
ton de Wharf. minister of justice. to OBJ
tain the pardon and liberation Of Leon
Peitzer, the survivor Of the two broth
ers sentenced in 1882 for the murder of
the Antwerp barrister. Guillaume Ber-
nays.
The present generation could obtain
some rough idea OF that extraordinary
drama by perusal Of the remarkable
novel, Andre Cornelis'' which Paul
Bourget drew from it twenty-five years
ago The Peltzer brothers were Of Belgo-
German stock. closely connected by
family ties with members Of the Prus-
sian house Of lords. and with former
mand. the elder OF the brothers. was an
engineer and lecturer Of splendid capac-
tiles. Guillaume Bernays. a barrister of
high standing. who was regarded as an
authority on maritime law. and also an
historian, was the son-tn-law of NJ.
Arthur Pecker, one OF the merchant
princes Of Antwerp, enjoying great polit-
ical power as leader OF the Antwerp
liberal party.
The motive OF the crime, according to
the version accepted by the jury, was the
infatuation of Armand PeltZer for the
wife of Barnays. The latter had given
offense to his wife, who lived apart from
him under the same roof. but who. not
withstanding her sympathy for Armand
Peltzer, was too pure q woman to re-
quite another mans love as long as she
had q husband. Hence Armand's idea
Of doing away with Bernays. Tho trial
revealed brotheray affection and graft
Evening star., 1911-08-24

sons, even In this inhospitable waste or
waters were struggling in the face OF a
thousand disbursements to 1ntroduce
new forest trees and new agricultural
products and to ameliorate in some de-
gree the condition of life of the naked.
miserable inhabitants.
'.How should / have felt il In traV-
ersing the deserts and swamps which
today represent what was before the
Arab conquest the richest and most
famous tract of the world I had
thought that was g. scion of q race In
whose hands God had placed, for nun.
dreds of years. the destinies OF this great
country, and that my countrymen couio
give no better account of their steward
ship than the exhibition Of two mighty
rivers flowing between deserts to waste
themselves in the sea for nine months
in the year and desolating everything IN
''No effort that Turkey can make can
be too great to roll away the reproacn
of these parched and weary lands. whose
cry ascends to heaven"
Sir William mentioned some or the oil-
ficulties of the work These were Pc
cuIiar to the country, such as the ab-
sence Of water in the interior. the large
marshes which form close up to the river
in fioodtirne, greatly impeding the move
ments of the baggage animals. and tne
intertribal troubles, which in few places
prevented the work from being carried
out With respect to the difficulties en-
countered owing to the absence of wa
ter, 1t may be stated that the Egyptian
army "fantasses." or metal water cans,
were found invaluable.
Soil Possibilities.
With regard to the agricultural pos
sibilities Of Mesopotamia. Sir William
thinks that the climatic conditions OF the
country lead one to the conclusion tnat
with q kind soil and an efficient system
OF irrigation practically all those crops
which flourish under a subtropical sun
might be successfully grown. During the
winter or cold weather season. extending
from November to May, the ordinary
cereal crops Of wheat and barley should
succeed admirably; in fact. they are ex-
tensiveIy cultivated at present, as also
is rice.
The conditions seem to be quite suit
able also for the numerous pulse crops
SO well cultivated in India and other
eastern countries. Beans. maise.; cotton,
etc.. would grow admirably under EN-
cient irrigation. Winter forage would
present no difficulty. From tho point
Of view OF quality. Mesopotamie would
yield the best cotton.
Evening star., 1911-08-24
Liable to Sudden Floods.

All the Mesopotamian rivers are liable
to very heavy and sudden floods, capable
Of inundating the country, and in Sir vii
liam's irrigation schemes account is taken
of this factor and provision made against
it. He decided that the natural way is
to follow the practice Of the ancient
Egyptian and Babylonian engineers, and
to conf1ne attention to one bank Of each
river and insure that bank against mum
dation. The floods will be allowed to
waste their energies on the other bank
As years 60 on and the outlets for the
rivers are improved and the banks solidi-
fed, 1t will be possible to begin work on
the other bank Of each river, but 1t is not
so today.
The schemes for the so-called Hindia
barrage, the one that received much
practical attention from Alexander the
Great, the schemes to guard against the
extensive floods Of the Euphrates and the
Tigris. the plans for the proposed FeluJa
barrage on the Euphrates and for the
right Tigris canal the works of drain
age. forests and navigation. the details
Of the irrigation works at Basra. ETC.,
have all been worked out with the great
est precision by Sir William. The finan-
cial aspects OF the scheme are clear and
concise, and so simple that the Turks
will hnd no difficulty In following them.
That the works will be exceedingly re-
munerative Sir William has no doubt
whatever. All that is needed Is the good
will OF the Ottoman government. His
parting word was an appeal to the new
spirit which animates Young Turkey.
desperate and Forbidding Region" !"
Pathetic are the following words of
Sir William: THE last voyage made
before coming to Turkey was up the
Nile. from Khartum to the great Equa-
toral lakes. In this most desperate and
forbidding region. described by travel.
ers as damp hell was filed with pride
to think that belonged to q race whose
Evening star., 1911-08-24
GEsTS ROUGH ON BRIDEGROOM
Because He Has No Cigars He Is
Thrown Downstairs.

WASHINGTON. Ind, August 24.-Be-
cause Andrew Edwards last night de-
parted from the special custom which de-
mands that "A bridegroom treat" when
he steps into the state of matrimony, tha {
benedict today is suffering from badly
wrenched shoulder cash on the head
and a blackened eye.
Edwards had no cigars for q crowd OF
men and boys who charivaried the couple
last night, and they forced an entrance
to his house and throw the bridegroom
out Of the door Gown o flight OF steps.
guests.
Evening star., 1911-08-24
'een written by volmoller, is based or

been written by Vollmoller, is based on
legend of old Rhneland, the scene OF
which is cast for the most part in a
cloister. and in which the Maria cult :
or alteration of the Virgin, is the leading
motive. The charac cters are chiefly chill
dren. and visions and miracles are also
presented, while celestial choirs play an
important role in the general scheme.
These factors will determine the general
character Of the music, which will be OF
an ecclesiastical might almost say re-
ligiouS-nature.
MY Instrumentation will be thoroughly
modern, and l shall make use of every
device known to the present-day music
world. A great part OF the burden will
be borne by the organ. The great mod
ern concert organ is an instrument whose
artistic possibilities have never yet been
exhaustively utilized"
Evening star., 1911-08-24
WATER BATTLES FIREMEN.
Could Fight Flames, But Sprinkler
system Bested Them.

PHILADELPHIA, August 24-while
firemen stood by powerless to prevent the
damage. a building at Sd and Market
streets in this city was flooded by thou
sands of gallons OF water that had been
released by automatic sprinklers.
The building is occupied by a number
OF business concerns and the loss Is esti-
mated at $1,000. An overheated bearing
in a machine on an upper floor started a
fire, which in turn started the sprinkling
system.
The fire was quickly extiguished by the
firemen, one of the chiefs remarking
when ii was all over. I'VE can fight fire
all right, but not water"
Evening star., 1911-08-24
Stretches of Sailed Land.

Today the traveller contemplates diff
ferent landscape. On the upper Eu-
pirates and as one approaches Babylon
there are great stretches Of salted land,
interspersed with bare plains and low
sand drifts. There are also alternate
stretches of level country, covered with a
thorny, leguminous plant which dies down
i'm winter, and the same bare plains which
are met in the north. All this land is
capable of easy leveling and reclamation.
The presence of ID per cent of lime In the
soil renders reclamation very easy, COM
pared with similar work in the dense
clays of Egypt. One is never far away
from the giant banks of old canals and
the ruins of ancient towns. AS one goes
south the salted land increases in area,
and then the marshes begin with their
stretches of rice.
The Tigris-Euphrates delta may be
classed as an arid region OF some 5000,
coo hectares (about i2JOO,OUv acres).
A part of this area is the delta of the
Dayla. This latter Is well irrigated by
the khalis, Khorassan and Beled RuZ
canals, and needs only good regulating
heads, bridges and drains to be an area
of first-class irrigated land. Another area
of well irrigated land is the lower Eu-
pirates A fair amount of irrigation is
performed by 'chareds," worked by
mules and oxen along the whole length
of the Euphrates and in scattered places
on the Tigris. All these areas together
form but small fraction of the delta
which 10 in need of irrigation on broad
lines. il anything is ever to be made of it.
Evening star., 1911-08-24
Differs From Past Works.

Tho problem Is to provide musical
illustration for q pantomime work which
differs entirely in its essentials from any
previous productions in which the use OF
the human voice has been eliminated.
Up to the present such productions have
been mostly bsllets. in which dance music
has played the most important part or
pantonime reviews. in which again the
dance Is one of the chief considerations.
1T is true that legendary themes have
before now been set to music, but in
this case the theme is absolutely differ
ent in Its nature from anything that has
gone before, and its musical environment
will consequently have to be built up on
quite q different structure. and attained
BY quite different means to those gen.
orally used.
"The text to b illustrated. which has
Evening star., 1911-08-24
Created a Murderer.

tude, Leon Peltzer having como all the
way from America to commit the mur-
der, out Of devotion to his elder brother.
Created a Murderer.
But the most wonderful thing OF all
was the genius displayed in the prepara-
ton of the deed. The two brothers had.
beforehand, given tangible existence to
''nothingness" by creating being who.
under the name Of Henry Vaughan, and
as wealthy Anglo-American steamship
nays dead. during a consultation. and
afterward to attract suspicious on him.
self before vanishing.
The so-called Henry Vaughan was none
other than Leon Peltzer. who, disguised,
went to Paris London. Manchester, Brus-
sells and German towns, on the apparent
business of company promoting. and man
aged to entrap Bernays, and to shoot
him In lonely house In Brussels, where
the corpse remained undiscovered for
days. until a letter addressed from Ger
many ito the coroner by the alleged
Henry Vaughan, accidental murderer OF
Bernays" disclosed its whereabouts, and
sent the police of Europe on the track
OF the alleged Anglo american hnancier'
Leon Peltzer having thrown OF his dis
guise and calmly begun preparations for
returning to. America.
Such an astonishing plot was only
miraculously. as it were. laid bare by
pure accident through the misreading OF
a ciphered telegram from Leon to Ar
mand. and the sudden clue II afforded to
a friend Of the latter. Dr.. Lavise. who.
indeed. struggled hard against himself
before consenting to the duty OF ac-
quainting the police with his discovery.
Penalty Later Reduced.
Before the court Leon took on himself
the responsibility for the crime. which,
he maintained. had been unprecedented.
but the Jury found that Armand had been
1.-The brains and Leon the arm In the
awful business, and both were sentenced
to death. a penalty afterward reduced to
perpetual solitary confinement at the
Prison of Louvain, where Armand died
less than three years after.
Leon who has now been In prison
twenty-nine years. Is said to have read
and pondered immensely In his cell. and
to have become a great philosophical
mind, capable of adding to the intellectual
wealth Of the world.
Evening star., 1911-08-24
TWO THOUSAND VOICES
IN MUSICAL SPECTACLE
Prof. EngeIbert Humperdinck
Gives an Outline of His
Forthcoming Work.
Foreign Correspondence OF The Star.

BERLIN. August Ii. 1911.
Prof. Engelbert Humperdinck. the
composer. has given an outline OF his
work for the coming spectacular pro-
duction which will be seen at Olympia
In London in the autumn. and In which
moro than 1900 performers will take
part.
TT is only fourteen days." said Profess
sor Humperdinck. ''since the final nego-
lions were concluded between a commit
tee Of London gentlemen on the one side
and Herr Reinhardt and myself on the
other side, and consequently have hard
ly got over the preliminaries Of my work.
The task with which / am confronted is
quite a new one. and requires quite new
and original treatment
Evening star., 1911-08-24

tude, Leon Peltzer having como all the
way from America to commit the MUIR
der, out of devotion to his elder brother.
Evening star., 1911-08-24
Irrigation Periods.

The crops OF the winter season, con-
sisting principally of wheat, barley. beans
and roots, need irrigation from Novem-
ber to May; the summer crops Of millets,
lubia beans. sesame. melons and inferior
rice need irrigation from April to the mid
die of July. Superior rice needs irriga-
tion from April to September. During
September and October water would be
needed for gardens and possibly for cot
ton of superior grades. when this crop as
sumes higher place in the agriculture
Of the country than 1t holds today.
OF lands with requirements such as
these, remarked Sir William Willcocks.
President Roosevelt has well said that it
is water, not land. which measures pro-
duction. The discharges Of water of the
Euphrates and Tigris are enormous, and
should meet. II properly directed. all the
requirements of perfect irrigation.
The whole Of the area of 5,OOO,OOO hec-
tares I'm the delta is not capable of being
irrigated at the same time. Sir William
submitted an excellent scheme for the
utilization Of available water to the best
advantage Never in the history of Meso-
potamia has the whole Of the country
been under irrigation at one and the same
time. To meet the requirements of irri-
cation the Tigris and Euphrates are hap
pity placed In respect Of their relative
levels,
Evening star., 1911-08-24

Mrs. Alice Jane Bil<le. sixty-seven
years old. wife of Christian F. Bike, died
Tuesday at Hagerstown, Nd. OF Bright's
disease.
Evening star., 1911-08-24
Six Projects Recommended to
Turkish Government.
IRRIGATION OF ARID AREAS
Reports Made by Sir William Will
cocks Regarding Mesopotamia.
HISTORIC BASINS OF EGYPT
improvements Estimated to Cost
$40, 900, ,ooo-Possibilities Of
Agriculture in Dry Months.
orcign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
| CONSTANTINOPLE., August 10, 1911.
Sir William Willcocks, who has just re-
signed his position as adviser to the
Turkish ministry Of public works for the
irrigation of Mesopotamia. on account OF
poor health, summarizes his work In
Mesopotamia in these words:
Il submitted to the Ottoman govern
ment reports and plans for six projects,
estimated to cost $75OOO,OoO for irriga-
tion works, and S65,OOO,OC0 for agricul-
tural works. The land to be irrigated IN
cludes 1900, 900 acres. l recommended Tor
immediate execution the Feluja project
on the Euphrates, which will cost
SO 100000 for irrigation work. and the
same amount for agricultural work
] F'eluja includes one and quarter mlillon
acres of the best land in Mesopotamia.
Sir William states that to him the ro-
nance of Mesopotamia has passed away
and that he confined himself to projects
whicil'were real and practicable.
Difference in Conditions.
No irrigation engineer who has Travelled
through Mesopotamia can fail to have
been struck by the great difference be-
tween the delta of the Nile and the joint
4
Nile is in flood from August to OCTOBER,
and the turbid waters can be retained in
| the historic basins of Egypt and DIS
charged back into the falling river IN
| November This permits of the winter
cultivation, without further irrigation, OF
rich fields of wheat, barley, beans and
clover.
Such a system of irrigation is impossi-
Bile in Mesopotamia. The rivers are in
flood in March. April and May. while the
floods are followed by the burning and
rainless months of June, July ana Au-
gust, in which irrigation must be prac-
ticed, if any crop is to be brought to
maturity. Thus, while Egypt has been
for thousands of years the home OF basin
irrigation, Mesopotamia was the home OF
perennial irrigation
According to Herodotus the whole
country Of Mesopotamia was studded with
"a vast number Of great cities" and grain
commonly returned two hnudredfold to the
sower Cultivation depended on irriga-
ton, which was supplied by large num-
Der of canals. Pliny and Berosus are ell
ouuent on the subject Of the agricultural
wealth of the country. And Ammianus
Marcellinus states that from the point
reached by Julian's army to the shores
of the Persian gulf the country was one
continuous forest Of verdure.
Evening star., 1911-08-24

II you want work read the want ool.
umn0 OF The Star.
Evening star., 1911-08-24
Again TOMORROW!
Bix'. B;s:f ,$z.l8 safs saSs

Today's big $1.IS Sale of
Women's Low Shoes seems to
be so attractive that we shall
add many remnants of $500
and $3.50 lines-and continue
the sale tomorrow.
With other phenomenal val
ues special for tomorrow-this
ought to be the busiest Friday
of the entire summer.