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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-01

falling it seems MI. Greenwood
had become d little fabbergasted,
and had jumped into the creek,
and now found it impossible to
withdraw his No. IL feet from the
loving embrace Of the mud. With
the aid of rope and a strong pull
I soon delivered him from his I'M
pleasant situation, and we both
went home.
The next day ''Ebe" sent me to
fetch the boat, and I examined the
tree. At the butt end the cavity
was about three feet in diameter.
I crawled into the tunnel little
way and soon became convinced
from the peculiar smell that met
my olfactory nerve, that the tree
contained honey. I ran home and
told "Ebe" I had discovered bee
tree, and offered him one-third Of
the honey, on condition that he
help to get the honey and find a
purchaser for the same. He read
lily agreed.
The amount of honey stored in
the cavity of that tree was enor-
nous. For years, perhaps, the
bees had been industriously filling
this great storehouse. In an evil
hour (for the bees) their stored-up
riches were discovered by us, and,
of course, we seized the savings Of
that industrious colony. But,
what of it? Is not the same thing
done every day, not only by man
to bees, but by man to his fellow
men? Are not thousands working
for the bare necessities Of life that
a few may become enormously
rich? But these are merely after
thoughts; we did not stop to NOR
alize, but took as much honey
from the tree as was accessible
and in marketable condition
about 5.675 pounds-which we
sold in Memphis to Mr.. Aaron
Eisenstein, commission merchant,
at 81 cents a pound. Mr.. Eisen-
stein is still among the living, and
will gladly testify to the correct
ness of the figures given above.
AS Mr.. Ebenezer Greenwood was
not the most agreeable man in the
world, I thought it best to sever
my connection with him. It is
not pleasant to work with man
who threatens to "do you up and
is both willing and able to fulfill
his threat. II. S., JR.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-01
The Grand Duchy Of
Luxembourg.

Paper Read Before the ChIutduQud Circle.
Luxembourg is free and indie
pendent little country. The. pres
ident and all other members of the
house are elected every six years
by. popular vote. The population
Of the Grand Duchy is $4,000,
all Catholic with the exception of
few hundred Jews. No other
country in Europe is SO much
feared as Luxembourg, because of
its enormous standing army. The
army consists of 325 mon and some
sixty police officers. Their navy
is not SO great, but nevertheless it
has some boats to paddle across
the Alzette.
There are a good many wooden
and cotton factories, and also great
tanneries in Luxembourg. 1t also
is noted for it's iron and copper
mines. In one district alone there
are twelve smelters, burning the
whole year around, and it is in
these mines and smelters where
the most of the natives find their
employment. The companies will
not hire any outsiders if they can
help it. The wages are from 60
cents to five dollars day. lam
sure there are some among you
who think that man cannot save
any money at IS cents day, but
I have known men on that salary
who put money in the bank every
month. All the great companies
have canteen, or boarding house,
in their yards, and also a lodging
house. Every Monday morning a
ticket agent comes along who will
supply you with all the tickets
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-01

Ak 90 % BOAT, 10 say HOCtliuS
< - & of the dog" who was
1kaaaagn on shore, barking at
turtles, snakes. and
such small deer. We were fishing.
That is to say, we went through
all the motions that an3 lers usual
ly go through, but we didn't catch
any fish. The creek was only
about 25 feet wide, the water was
about 5 feet deep, and the depth
of the mud has never been accur-
ately measured. On the right
shore, as you look down stream,
stood mighty oak, regular giant
of the forest. Six feet from the
ground it's circumference was 20
feet and seven inches, and it looked
so solid and sound that it re-
minded me of that class of men
who are known as pillars OF soci-
ety." 1t was about 2 o'clock in
the afternoon when we heard the
distant rumbling of an approach
ing thunderstorm. Reader, have
you ever seen, heard or felt full
grown lower Mississippi thunder
storm in operation? If you have
not you can form no conception of
what real excitement means. A
thunderstorm on the lower Mis-
sissippi defies description. Take
months vacation this summer
and r1ake a trip down the river;
pitch your tent in the woods any
where below Cairo, ILL.,, and long
before the expiration of your vaca-
ton you will have ample oppor-
.tunity to Judge for yourself what
a lively, fun-loving storm is cap
able of doing. Don't forget to
come back; you are valuable
man, and this institution can't
possibly get along without you.)
When the storm had been play
ing around us for some time, and
when the clouds were about to
open their sluices and pour down
buckets of tears distilled in
natures laboratory" [ spoke to
any companion about a scheme
that had for some minutes been
maturing in my capacious dome of
thought, and was now plucking-
ripe.
"Ebenezer," said I, ''let us pull
the boat on shore and crawl under
it."
You go to blazes,'' said he.
Don't you see I've got bite?"
He spoke the truth: something
was nibbling at his bait I in
wardly wished that something or
somebody would bite his head off.
HE weighed 22O lbs. and was "all
there while I am but a puny,
weakly thing.) | put on my sweet
est smile and asked him if it was
his intention to keep on fishing in
the rain. "You bet yer boots tits;
I'll catch that fish if the sky blows
down." he grumbled. It's no use
arguing with an obstinate man,
and it is right down foolishness to
argue with man big enough to
eat you up. So, remembering it
is the wise man who yields, took
refuge in my superior wisdom, and
tho in this instance it proved a
mighty poor refuge against the
rain, [ tried to look cheerful,
nevertheless, and felt a sneaking
satisfaction when I considered that
much more rain would fall on his
bulky frame than on my own COM
lparatively dwarfish one. Well, the
fish, or whatever it was, kept on
nibbling at Ebenezer's bait, and
the lightning flashed necessarily,
and the thunder reared, and the
wind howled, and the rain fell in
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-01

watching his foater, and I pre-
tending to be pleased with the
situation. Every now and then he
would look in my direction, but [
invariably "saw him coming, and
looked the other way. 1t is i'm
possible to form a guess how long
we would have remained on the
spot if something hadn't hap!
pened.
Any one who has ever wandered
through a virgin forest must have
noticed the great number Of trees
that yearly fall victims to the des-
troying hand of time. Some the
wind has snapped as if they had
been but pipe stems; others have
been torn out of the ground, roots
and all, by the same powerful
agent. Some have been struck by
lightning, and their slivered rem
nants lie scattered on the ground,
while the barren stumps remain
standing, perhaps for decades, ST.
lently, yet eloquently testifying to
the power of the lightning's stroke.
Still others die on the root, a
natural death, perhaps. AS disin-
tegration lessons the cohesion Of
the components that form the
mass of the tree, first the branches
drop one by one, and at last, over
come by the force Of gravity, the
trunk itself falls to the ground, to
moulder, to decay, to return to the
dust from whence it sprung. The
trunks of SO many Wondering
trees tell us in a language that
cannot be misunderstood that
death is the common lot of all
created things or beings. The
voice of Nature everywhere is pro-
claiming eternal truths. Nature
is the only infallible teacher and
man is successful as teacher only
in proportion as he is able to cor
rectly interpret the voice of Nature.
But this is not a sermon, but a
plain, truthful tale, told in a sim
pie, homely way.
The storm was at its height, the
wind blowing at the rate of at
least eighty miles an hour, and the
way old Zeus made the fire fly
would make one believe he mad an
inexhaustible supply stored away
somewhere. [ had for some min
utes been thinking if it would not
be wiser to jump into the creek,
wade to the shore and take short
cut for home than to stay in the
boat and be drowned by the rain,
when my thoughts were interrupt
ed by a crash, followed by dull,
sickening thud" according to Bill
Nye which made the earth trem-
BILE. That giant oak, the king Of
the forest, that had withstood the
tempests of perhaps thousand
years had fallen a victim to the
force of that days storm | was
silently contemplating its vast pro-
! portions, and had noticed that it
was hollow, that the outward show
of solidity and strength served
only to cover a decayed heart, and
had begun to compare its state and
condition with that of man, and
wondered how many of those who
pass for pillars of the church, cor
nerstones of society, ETC., are in
variably as empty, as rotten as
this PROSTATE tree, when my wan
dering thoughts were recalled by
the voice of Mr.. Ebenezer Green
wood, who addressed me in the
following very respectful manner:
Eyer good fer nothing Yankee
scalawag, yer gol-darned idiot,
don't yer see I'm stuck in the
mud? Yer pizen-mean Ohio sneak,
why don't yer help me? Consarn
yer hide, fur two cents and half
i I'd break every bone in yer bodyp
When the tree was in the act of
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-01
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-01
,ssa3aaae GG@eeeee

n A SULTRY sum-
mer day, in the year
1884, and on a little
creek that flows into
the Hatchie river, we
were two men in a
boat, "to say nothing
of the dog" who was
on shore, barking at
turtles. snakes. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
MExIco's FINANCES EXPLAINED. Minister Limantour Has Much Infor-
 nation in His Annual Budget.

Mexico City, December 14-In sending his budget of income and expenses to congress, Finance Minister Limantour makes a full explanation of the state of trade and revenue as affected by the fall in the price of silver. He estimates the total revenue for the ensuing fiscal year at ss7, ,s5s 900 and disbursements $67,597,O97, showing an excess of nearly sS620Oo. Last years actual surplus was over SOoo,0O0 but the minister is always most conser- vative in his estimates. The actual &C., cumulated surplus on hand at the begin ming of the fiscal year on July last. was S26 900 in silver and over S3,oo0,OO0 in gold, and it is the possession of this sur plus that gives strength to the govern ment's financial position.
 In his comments on the budget the minister says:
 "It may, perhaps, appear that the ex- ecutive has yielded to optimistic tenden- cies in estimating the revenue of the com ing year by the figures given above at a time when considerable depression has occurred In the value of the white metal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
Richmond, Virginia.
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
Week Closed Cheerful But Underwent
 Some Hard Knocks.

London, December Awhile the week on the stock exchange closed with some attempt at creerfulness under the infiu- cree of the recovery in Americans and the hope that the New York bank state ment would show an appreciable contrac- ton in loans, there is little expectation of a real improvement in business prior tc the new year.
 The position of New York dominates more or less the whole situation here, and operators follow closely the course of events in Wall street. Considerable monetary uncertainty still exists in Lon don, but 1t Is considered probable that any advance in the bank rate the present year will be avoided. Considerable confl- dence is expressed that with the flow of money back to New York from the in terior after the new year. and with in- -creasing recognition that the fiscal situa- tiun in Europe is not dangerous. affairs are shaping themselves for a distinct in- crease in activity early in 1905.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15

withdrawn and especially so when we have undoubted testimony to the fact that one experimenter is in the habit of plunging dogs for thirty second into boil ing water; that another fastens dog to the dissecting table, and, discarding the use of anaesthetics, stands above 1t with a large empty stone bottle with which he strikes with all his strength dozen violent blows on the head; while the same experimenter says he oislocates both the shoulders, doing it with diff ficulty. Another experimenter claims that he has 'consecrated' more than eighty large animals mostly horses and mules, to the extremest tortures possible not as he expressly tells us. to solve any prob lem in medical theory, but simply to see what degree Of pain can be inflicted through irritation of the spinal cord An other still says that he has invented a new machine which he calls his Tor mentor and in this fisndish device, which had first been quilted with long thin nails, animals are lugged about, racked with torment. torn and twisted, crushed and comes as a tardy release. That experi- menter says:
 '' I can take an ear, paw or bit of skin of the animal and by turning the handle squeeze 1t beneath the teeth of the pin- cers, can lift the animal by che suffer ing part; I can tear it or crush it in all sorts of ways and he adds that these ex- pertinent are repated day after day with much delight and extreme patience for the space of year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15

As was predicted, this weeks guessing contest is without doubt the most difficult yet presented.
 The guess editor only last night discov- cred who the gentlemen shown above are and the position they occupy in the group and he will give just enough of the secret away to say that each and every one of them are well-known charac- ters in the mercantile world.
 The winner in this contest will receive ten dollars. Send in your address. calling each man whom you think the cut repre- sents by his number. For instance. No 1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15

The letter follows:
 "A few days ago while in upper Ala bama I ran across your paper of the 10th with the attached clipping. I used to live in Birmingham and remember very kindly your Col. Rufus Rhodes and if the cut ting is not his then I am badly mistaken. In fact will bet $40 to 40 cents that it is Rhodes. No one else could have such shoulders and such a democratic "Cleve- land head.
 q have not seen Colonel Rhodes for nine years. Please present him my com rliments Yours very truly,
 w. J. BASS"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15

which will assuredly exert adverse in- fiuences upon the yield of various taxes and particularly on the yield of import duties. It is true that the economical situation of the country has been sudden ly confronted by danger which threat ems to check for some time its growing prosperity, but seeing that we cannot forecast the present seems to be to con- tent ourselves with leaving a wider mar gin than usual between future disburse- ments and revenue without being in- fiuenced by an exaggerated spirit of de- spondency in estimating collections"
 The minister's communication to con- gress gives great satisfaction, as it is generally regarded as sound and temper ate without any yielding to extreme views.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
will Leave 1t to the Public.

'If sir, to attempt to prevent such bar barous practices brings me under your condemnation, I am willing to have the case submitted to the judgment Of the American people.
 Are you sure, sir, that you saved the life of Mdshipman Aiken? Are not blood clots frequently absorbed by the processes of nature, and is it not fact that In many such experiments death has re- suited because of the operation? Your claim that you located the blood clot be- ,. eXpeIiments upon animals may or may not be true, as we have the high
 st possible authority for believing that such experiments are oftentimes mls- leading and absolutely without value. Professor Terrier has asserted the great est disagreements imaginable exist among experimental physioligists on that point.
 "On the general question of the value of vivisection which I have never under taken to interfere with when humanely practiced, am fortified in my opposition by the opinion of many of the leading scientists of the world. including such well-known names as that of the late Lawson Tait, the greatest ovariotomist of the last century, and by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, the distinguished Eng fish physician, surgeon and scientists au- thor of a 'crnS~iyqble hook cu .Biological Experimentation" who acknowledged himself to be a vivisector but who gives warning to the profession that modern experimentation tends to unfit the physi- clan for the discharge of his duties, sum- ming up his opinion in these words. Were I again to deliver a course of physiological lectures to qualified hearers should make the experiment demonstra- tions on living animals as few and far between as was compatible with duty. They would be exceptional and painless from beginning to end.'
 What l have advocated is in precisely that line and in support of the contention that even if everything you claim in the Aiken case is true. students should be taught the fact that your claims have been established precisely as they are taught-through the theory of the circu- lation of blood, and not through unneces- sary torture of dumb animals
 'I have the honor to be, very respect fully yours. "W. H. GALLINGER.
 Prof w. w. Keen, Philadelphia, Pa"
 It is what Hoods Sarsaparilla does that tells the story of it's merit IJoods o,,...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15

is MT. So And So, No. 2 is MT Blank. and so on.
 Address all guesses to the Guess Editor. care of The Age-Herald. All guesses must be enclosed in a plain sealed envelope.
 The winner of last weeks contest was Mr James Edgar Bowron, 14O1 South Twentieth street, and the subject was MT Simon Klotz.
 A belated letter was received by the guess editor yesterday from W. J. Bass of Chattanooga, secretary of the Chat tanooga Wagon Works and former resi- dent of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
Jockey Club Announces Stakes.

Louisville December 1.-The New Louisville Jockey club tomorrow will an- nounce it's stakes for the coming spring meeting beginning May ?, and continuing for fifteen racing days. The club has recently been reorganized with Mayor Grainger as president and Charles F. Price as secretary and manager.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
BEST EVIDENCE

The best evidence of the acceptabinry uf any brand of an article of common use is the quantity sold 'GooD LUCK" Baking Powder has, from the start. steadily increased in favor with the House-keepers until it now supplies largely more than half of the entire amount of Baking Powder consumed in the entire South. GOOD LUCK" is frequently sold in train-load lots, the last of which consisted of One Hundred and Sixty-nine Solid carloads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
Notice.

We beg to notify all our patrons that the 'Maloney 1903 City Directory" will be out this week; we notify our patrons to this effect, as there may be an opposi- ton book out a few days a head of ours.
 THOMAS J. MALONEY. manager. 12-15-4t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
VMAc TOIluKo Ten per cent off. hWAO IHUNNO Magic City Trunk AND BAGS. T%sntietn TaStofy, ass Street.. S.
Christmas Is Coming.

And everybody wants the best the market affords for the holiday festivities. Clifton flour makes the lightest and whitest bread, cake and pastry. Ask your grocer for 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE. S425-s0 acres in timber; splendid land at Rocky Ridge church, miles south of city; fine school and church at the edge of the line; good road to the premisesi bargain; nothing like it on the mar ket. ss5O-Lot on car line in Blyton; 52 feet front; prettiest lot in EIyton. s600-Splendid lot, 46x200. on West 14th, street, between 11th and 18th avenues. north. s75O-Lot 45x1oo; 27th street. near Ave- nue B. Three and half acres, close to city. $600-Three-room cottage near car iine, renting for s7 per month; terms easys lot 50sl120; good well, etc.
 FOR RENT. broom cottage; corner Hiilman street. and Cotton street; S12.50 No. 11a Sd ave-. 10 rooms, near the new car barns; fine location for boarding house. No. 17061s 9th ave, 5-rooms, with all thee modern conveniences.
 L. G. PETTYJOHN, Phone z66 1s26h Third Avenue 1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
CHALLENGER MAKES
 REPLY ID KEENE
New Hampshire Senator is Still
 Opposed to ViviSection
MAKES STRONG ARGUMENT I
He Does Not Object to Experiments on Animals at Times, But Insists That They Should be Given
 An Anaesthetic.

Washington, December 14. - Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire, who is also a member of the medical profession, to- night gave out the following letter in re- ply to the published letter of Dr. w. Keen of Philadelphia, sent him week ago:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
4ELP WANTEp-MALE.

wANTED-Sign painter. Hermitage a1e North 10th. 10-23-h WANTBD-Two travelling salesmen in each state; permanent position; $60 and expenses. Central Tobacco Works Co.,, Penicks, Va. 12-14-3t WANTED FOR U. S. ARMY-Able bod jed unmarried men between ages of H and 85; citizens of United States of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read and write English. For information apply to Recruiting Officer N. 2oth st., Birmingham, Ala
 10-1-to-12- 1-wed-fri-mon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
ONE GENT A WORD.

RATEs-1c. a word day; 10 ag taken for less than 25c for first in. sertion. Cash must accompany every order.