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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-03-04

The steamship Paraiso sailed to-
day from the Slade mill for San
Francisco.
The steamer Coronado sailed yes.
terday from the Bay City mill for
San Pedro.
The steamer Helene sailed from
the American mill Saturday for San
Francisco.
The steamer Daisy Mitchell sailed
this morning from the Slade mill for
San Francisco.
The schooner Lizzie Vance sailed
yesterday from the Slade mill for
San Francisco.
The steamer Grays Harbor sailed
this morning from the American mill
for San Francisco.
The steamer Chehalis arrived in
port Sunday to load at the American
mill for San Pedro.
The schooner Eric arrived in port
Sunday, and went to the Lindstrom
shipyard for repairs.
The schooner John A. Campbell
sailed from the A. J. West mill yes
terday for San Pedro
The schooner Wowona sailed to-
day from the Aberdeen Lumber e.
Single mills for San Diego.
The steamer Svea arrived in port
Sunday, and is loading at the Will
son mill for San Francisco.
The steamer Carmel sailed Satur-
day from the Aberdeen Lumber &
Single mills for San Francisco.
The schooner NJ. Turner arrived in
port Saturday, and is at the Lind
strom shipyards, undergoing repairs.
The schooner Azalea sailed from
the Aberdeen Lumber e Single
mill this morning for San Francisco.
The steamer G. G. Lindauer arriv-
ed in port Saturday. and sailed yes
terday from the Wilson mill for San
Francisco.
The steamer Daisy Freeman arriv.
ed in port Saturday, and sailed yes
terday from the Slade mill for San
Francisco.
The steamer Temple E. Dorr ar
rived in port Friday and sailed this
morning from the Donovan mill for
San Francisco.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-03-04

The schooner Lizzie Vance sailed
yesterday from the Slade mill for
San Francisco.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-03-04
ALONG THE WATERFRONT
Arrivals and Departures Of Vessels
and Those Loading at the Aber.
deem Saw Mills

The steamship Paraiso sailed to-
day from the Slade mill for San
Francisco.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-03-04

The steamer Coronado sailed yes
terday from the Bay City mill for
San Pedro.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14

up grass. How the emperor, at his adj
vanced age. can accomplish this 4 gun
slUng over his shoulder, with the danger
of it becoming entangled in the thick
underground. passes the understanding of
those unacquainted with the monarch,
healthy as a man of thirty. After reach
ing the stand he waits for hours, still.
amid the wonderful calm OF the noun
tains, his hunters costume of leather
knee breaches and gray coat faced
with green not showing up against the
aged to persuade the emperor to take din
ner at 3. and go forth on his hunting
expeditions after the heat of the day had
passed.
The emperor is never alone at Ischl
Members of the imperial family come
and go throughout the summer; but the
children OF the Archduchess Valerie are
the monarch's favortes. They take up
their residence at the same time as his
majesty in the lschl villa. and through
out the summer the prim gardens and
forest walks, which extend upward from
the villa grounds are enltvened by the
voices of the children and their friends.
The archduchess has nine children. of
whom the eldest daughter. who fell in
love with her brothers tutor at Ischl
last summer. is prime favorite with the
emperor She very wisely told her grand
father that she could not live without her
handsome soldier lover during one of her
walks with the aged monarch among the
moss-grown Ischl woods. He, acting as
usual without consulting any one. sum
moned the lover to an audience. made
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FRANZ JOSEF OF AUSTRIA MONARCH WHO MOVES LIKE cLocKWoRK

the necessary inquiries. and only issued
his commands in the matter 10 the some
what scandalized archducaI papa after he
had practically disposed OF his grand
child's hand without even asking the
formal consent of her parents. for IL Is
monial questions in the imperial family.
The emperor has rugged mp a stage for
his grandchildren, who always spend
part of the summer in rehearsing for an
amateur performance for his birthday.
August Is and in order that the villa may
not be reduced TO confusion by the ef-
forts OF these amateur actors. the per-
Torrance is given in a small house call
ed the Cottage. at the end of the grounds.
where they can make much noise rs
they choose without the danger OF dis
turbing the monarch or his ministers. who
are making frequent voyages TO lschl TINS
summer on important affairs or state
The children OF the imperial tanily learn
to do things properly.
They train almost like regular members
OF the Imperial ballet for the birthday
performance. As a rule their mother or
another lady Of the imperial family. with
histrionic ability. writes i short play.
suitable for children, Some twenty
small archduckes and archduchesses take
part and attired as elves. pages or in
old Vienna costumes. perform pretty fig
hres, with short declarations. Tie first
ballet master from Vienna is in charge
of the troupe OF dancers. and the emperor
has the qualification of seeing a really
pretty spectacle got up entirely for his
benefit.
Copyright. 1915. BY Curtis Bruwn'
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the fact that there are remaining more
than 100000 900 acres, or more than
1.U93,UOO square miles. The entire Ger
man empire in Europe is only 20s. $50
square miles. In other words the estate
for which Commissioner Tallman is act
ing as real estate agent is more than five
times the total area of Germany
1T can't be all worthless" remarks
the commissioner significantly.
But the trouble is that Uncle Sam
does not know very much about what
1t is all good for. While the geologi-
cal survey has made astonishing prog
ress in classifying the coal. oil, water
mower. rights of way and phosphate
lands in the last few years there is
extant comparatively little real knowl-
edge about the actual resources of the
vast unsuryeyed and unappropriated
area.
has known very clearly much about the
value of his landed property. somehow.
the public has always been led to believe
thar that which was not taken was worth
less.
lands is THE Public Domain. by
Thomas Donaldson, published in 1888. In
that book Mr.. Donaldson said
THE quantity of land taken in the
arabic region in the year ending June
80. 1880, was about 100000 acres At
the same rate of absorption the arabic
lands so situated in the United States
will all be taken within five years. or
That was the prevailing idea then;
brought down to date, it is the prevailing
idea now.
Mr.. Donaldson classed as honorable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14

IRON little basement room i'll the
west wing of the Department OF
Agriculture building came won
der tale the other day--the tale of the
tanning Of the wild or trailing arbutus-
Ii set forth, in a wealth of botany,
chemistry. statistics and Latin, the story
surgent, hold-out. militant and a
rebel, had been cultivated at last and
made to shed its subtle fragrance over
the rim of flower pot. When this tale
is told to a botanist he forgets that pay
day is still many days away. He sim
ply listens.
The story opens with the victorious
not victorious at the time, however
botanist staring into an electric fan In
his little room in the department build
ing. He is seen laying deep plans against
the insurgency OF the arbutus plant. but
before the actual story. first hear about
the victor and the vanauished
This Wellington of the botantists is
Frederick v. Coville. He is described in
the Congressional Directory as 'botanist
in charge Of taxonomic and range inves-
legations" which is something Of a hand
leap, but one that he eventually over
came For years he had planned to cap
t;yate the little flower that blooms in
the springtime. but. like scores of other
botanists. he merely planned. The story
tells how he did 1t. AS for the arbutus
itself-see an encyclopedia. Among the
things 1t might say about the arbutus Is
the flowers extreme prejudice against
growing anywhere but out in the woods.
For sheer intractability. the arbutus out
mustanged the wild mustang or the
Andes or any other intractable thing You
may think Of.
1t travelled under aliases 1t was
known as the Mayfiower in England, and
in this country it bloomed under the
the wild arbutus and others the trailing
arbutus. while the botantsts called 1t
never mind! The task of tanning this
willy woodland plant has been bota-
nist's nightmare since botanists began.
The arbutus antedated Patrick Henry,
Mrs. Pankhurst and Victor Murdoch.
There Is every reason to believe that
death" from the arbutus, judging by
the flowers habits. The arbutus' pre-
ferred to die any old day than live in
a flower pot 1t not only preferred, but
it died showing the courage OF it's con-
victions 1t showed Mrs. Pankhurst up
for an amateur when 1T came to strikes
in captivity. 1t could be picked on a
warm spring day, carried fifteen miles
in a trolley car in glass Of water. and
long as possible without nouriShment
But try to plant it! The little flower
with the pink petals would smile back
q smile of Spartan defiance and die
With great cheerfulness Victor Murdoch
was only highway insurgent when it
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Austria-Hungary.

the record Of the year before that
the fiscal year of 1yil-was l2.00o.0o0
acres In all the general land office is
sues about 10000 individual patents
year.
The general land Office was cstab-
lished to dispose of lands in the public
domain under the laws of Congress. IL
might naturally be expected that, after
selling lands for more than 100 years.
its work would be less now than 1t was
when 1t had more lands to dispose OF.
The contrary is true. Instead OF the
work being reduced. ii is increasing.
This is because Congress has made the
laws more complicated. because Uncle
Sam has grown more careful in the
manner of disposing of his lands, and
because the demand is greater. The
general land office is a bigger i9stitu-
ton than ever. 1t has more to do.
To do what IL has to do with maxi
mum Of efficiency and speed, to pre-
vent fraud. and to secure the develop
ment of the national lands and re-
sources for their highest purposes. in
accordance with the law, these consti-
tute Commissioner Tallman's ideal OF
his office. AS1MCN BROWN.
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Cancelled. as the only sure means OF
keeping him at home.
The emperor-king does not take many
holidays, for he works harder than any
man in his kingdom. in spite of his ad-
vanced age. He is now spending a well
earned outing at Ischl, and spends part
of his time rambling the mountains. in
that delightful part of the Saizkammer-
gut, quite alone, except when he permits
a gamekeeper to accompany him, or a
forester to take him to the best point for
shooting one of the large herd of deer
that roam the forest. The forester, like
the other attendants on his majesty, is
over the hunting of the young archduke
many years ago. and the first person
who comes to the imperial villa, hidden
away among the trees with their luxur-
liant foliage, by command" is the for
ester. He is generally seen awaiting
the arrival of the train from Vienna.
< :.
The emperor after his official welcome is
over. inquiries what prospects there are In
the hunting world and his subjects are
somewhat startled every summer to hear
that the monarch has risen at $50 am.
an hour earlier than usual, for he al
ways rises at $50, and rides toward the
top of a mountain which forms part of
the imperial domain. doing the last few
hundred yards on foot to the dense part
of the forest, where stays may be shot
by the skilled stalker.
When the monarch Is not in residence.
it is possible to view the shelter whence
he takes his aim, and even a good noun
taineer has considerable difficulty in
climbing the ground. slippery with burnt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14

own ki;cnen, and there is the most re-
markable difference between the pace
taken by the court carriages when con-
veying the emperor alone and when a
foreign potentate is seated within.
In every capital of Europe it will be
noticed that court carriages and auto
mobiles always drive at a certain pace
when carrying strange monarchS. The
pace is not the result Of chance. 1t has
been carefully calculated by the police
as that most likely to confuse any i'll
fntentioned malefactors. In Vienna or
Ischl, the streets appear quiet enough
Just before the passing of royal visitors.
In Ischl where the roads are narrow.
numbers of peasants. in Syrian cos
tune, stand in the first line. They look
innocent enough. but any attempt to
slip by one OF the peasants will be
met with rough treatment The pic
turesque mountaineers are really Vienna
detectives, stationed in a close file. to
watch over the safety of the illustrious
stranger. and to keep an eye on any
member of the crowd who shows any un-
due wish to push to the front. The en-
peror himself. however never drives
quickly. To the great distress of both
police and doctors he insists on pro-
ceeding through the streets at foot pace,
and receiving the ovations of the crowd.
* :.
The emperor is always ready TO EN-
brace any innovation. He may be re-
garded as the most progressive Of all
the court and nobility, while he is al
ways a good decade in front of the man
in the street in his appreciation of new
inventions or contrivances for saving
time. He did not, however, take to the
idea of an automobile. The Automobile
Club presented him with two cars on
the occasion of his jubilee. They were
used by members of the imperial family,
but it was only on the last visit of the
late King Edward of England to Ischl
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acreage than 1G0-this means settlement
on FOB. 200 acres of virgin land of the
public domain in the first six months oil
the year in that one state alone.
The entire state of Delaware could be
put in this area with enough room left
about the edges to permit Delaware to
rattle.
SO Mr.. Donaldson's fear expressed
thirty years ago, that the arabic land
in the public domain was all to be
taken up by 1885 very plainly was un-
founded In fact ever since he uttered
his dire prediction Uncle Sam has been
patenting land at just as great a rate
as he was when Mr. Donaldson was
panic stricken.
For the year ending June 80, 1913,
Uncle Sam parted with title, by patent
ing it to claimants. to more than
100000 acres; the record of the
previous year was 100000 acres, and
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all the then remaining land in Arizona,
California. Colorado, Idaho. Montana.
Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma. Utah
and Wyoming. with much in Kansas and
Nebraska. The honorable land" of
that day is highly developed agrcultur-
ally now.
Lack of knowledge then existed; to a
lesser extent. lack Of knowledge exists
today. Hence Mr.. Tallman is strongly in
favor of speedy survey, examination and
portion of the lands will be found po-
tentially rich for agricultural purposes.
The commissioner holds that the whole
principle of conservation is the use Of the
natural resources for their highest pur-
pose for the greatest benefit to the peo-
Pile This principle cannot be applied in
diligently until 1t is known what the
highest uses Of a particular tract may be.
At present the homesteader on western
lands takes more or less Of gamblers
chance. He locates on land that he
thinks is good for agriculture. 1t may be
better for something else and not at all
fitted for general farming. The principle
of the homestead law has thus been de-
scribed In the west:
Uncle Sam bets the homesteader 16O
acres that the homesteader can't make a
living off the place for five years. II the
man survives he wins; If he doesn't,
Uncle Sam gets the land back"
But classification should cure this de-
feet, in the opinion of the commissioner.
The general land office with force
of 700 surveyors in the field each sum-
mer is trying to keep up with the de-
mands of states and settlers for the sur.
vey OF the lands, but is not succeeding,
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for the demand is great. The geo
logical survey is doing vast amount OF
work in classification. but 1t, too, is be-
hind the demands.
The homesteader is the man Commits
sioner Tallman has his eye on to serve.
He believes the homesteader to be of
large economic value to the nation. The
homesteader produces, and he buys and
he pays taxes. Idle lands do none of
these things.
The notion is abroad in the land that
the homesteader Is no longer seeking
land in the west; that he has migrated
to Canada. attracted by cheap lands and
liberal land laws That may have been
true some years ago. but Commissioner
Tallman says it is not true today.
On his desk he has advices from west
ern states that 4 back from Canada"
movement is on. The border state of
Montana. for example, is leading all pub
lie land states today in homesteading.
Statistics the commissioner has taken
from his records show that between Jan
uary 1 last and July ! last, 1855 home
steaders filed on lands in Montana. At
a minimum of 100 acres each-homestead
entries on desert land entail a larger
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14

He Was the Tidiest
OF Royal Children and
Has Grown Tidier Ever
Since. Until at Eighty
Three Only Servants
Who Have Grown Old
With Him Are Able to
Cope With Him-He
Is the Despair of Doc
tors and Detectives, and
the Only Sure Way of
Keeping Him From
Going to Functions
That Would Not Be
Good for Him Is to
Cancel the Functions.
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that the emperor was persuaded to trust
to the new kind of conveyance Since
that date the doctors have been most
anxious to persuade the aged emperor
10 adopt the automobile as his ordinary
means of conveyance. An automobile can
be heated. and, unlike the open carriage,
which the emperor prefers. does not ex-
pose him to the wind and dust Of the
city of Vienna.
The emperor has only one physician In
ordinary, who. like the other persOnages
about him. is a friend of his youth.
DR. kerzl is over seventy, and Is an old
campaigner who does not believe in any
kind of pampering. He has accompa-
MED the emperor on the battlefield and to
countless maneuvers. and both old sol
ders sleep in an iron camp bed. The
emperor has no faith in doctors or medi-
cine, and it would appear that kerzl
shares his belief. The emperor's rela-
tives have often tried to persuade him to
allow a younger doctor to attend him.
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TRAINING THE lNSURGENT ARBUTUS

one day i'll the springtime and went out
to the woods. He sat down beside an
arbutus plant and tried to talk TO II, bur
the plant only smiled back in an IN
scrutable way and sent its heavenly per :
fume into Coville's nostr!ls and refused
to speak for publication.
That was quite too much for any botan-
list. SO in retaliation he uprooted the plant
and brought II home in his pocket Then
he got out his flower pots and his sandy
moist soil and good stock OF patience
He did everything known u science and
IA few things not known, and then sat
back to watch his arbutus grow-or die.
OF course, it died. Coyille suspected II
would die. The arbutus curled up its
petals and it's leaves In a sad-eyed way.
made an arbutus grimace and died. Then
came more arbutus and more hover pots
and more insurgency and more deaths
Nothing that Coville could do seemed to
have the slightest effect on the Hover S
mortuary habits. Arbutus was gathered,
brought home and died with monotonous
regularity. 1t was very trying.
So Coville went down To the department
and sat i'm his room and stared into the
electric fan for whole minutes. Then one
day he jumped up suddenly and every
body around guessed that the arbutus
would get what was coming To ii. Coville
rushed down TO laboratory with some
arbutus earth He fiddled with test tubes.
performed weird rites with Bunsen burn
ers, took the arbutus earth all TO pieces
and looked down its throat so tn speak.
When ne finally blew out his burners
and picked up his pad, all scrawled with
little chemical figures, any one with half
an eye could have seen that the liberty
of the arbutus wasn't worth the price OF
ten-acre huckleberry patch. Coyille
hustled around with a mess of chemicals
made a queer looking mixture of earth
and, without waiting for anything elses
started out on the arbutus trail.
If one wanted to tell this story GER
tain way, one might say that he went
out and sneaked up on the arbutus and
sprinkled some chemicals on the arbutus'
tail. but that's yarn they tell little bows
and girls. At any rate. Coville accom-
plished the equivalent. He got some fresh
arbutus. He got out his flower pots and
his sandy soil and his-ah. that's the
point, his chemical mixture-and he
grabbed the arburus ana pushed IL into
the soil, none too gently. And the ar.
butus didn't even whlmper.
Did that plant die. too?
II did not. Ii grew and grew and grew.
and the more ii grew the more satisfied
was Coville. 1t was his revenge on the
prime insurgent of the plant kingdom.
Then Coyille went back to his ONCE
and wrote about 200 words for strictly
And the botanists who read 1t forgot
as they read that payday was still many
days away: that they had wives or chill
dren or debts or jobs. They all knew
that the arbutus had been tanned. and
that Frederick V. CoviIle. "botanist in
charge of taxonomic and range inyesti-
cations" had been the man who did il
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They are afraid that kerZs views COIN
eide too exactly with those of the mon
arch
The berth. however is no easy one
The emperor. forgetting the need for pre-
cautions at his advanced age orders his
carriage without consulting the doctor.
The latter is sometimes only Informed
of the monarch's intention Of paying
visits on raw spring day, in an open
carriage. after the vehicle is already a.
the door and the emperor has sailed
forth, clad in nothing but his uniform.
as he dislikes the military cloak. and
will not allow his attendants to wrap
him in carriage rugs like an elderly per-
son who has lost his vigor.
During the past three years the grand
nlaneuvers We're put off and court ball
postponed indefinitely merely because it
transpired that the emperor intended to
assist at both, and the doctors were too
anxious for his health. knowing that
remonstrance was vain, they simply had
the court function and the military event