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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20

the liquor stores every Sunday, is 10000. No matter what the law is, these men will drink and through the connivance of the police the saloons will keep side doors open to accommodate them The law cannot be enforced and the effort to restrain the great bibuous army turned them against Low. Well, what are the reformers going to do about 1t? Simply make the city wide-open on Sunday and they intend to ask the legislature to do SO. The puritan legislators up the state will not, of course, do anything of the kind. This opens the way for the incoming ad- ministration to give the city what is called a liberal interpretation of the law. which will hold the GOO right close to them in all future political contests The reformers will be debarred from attack ing Tammany on this ground. They have put themselves on record in favor of the very policy which Tammany will pursue
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 The discussion. by the way, has brought out the shocking fact shocking to the truly good, that the Rev pr. Parkhurst. the implacable foe of the tiger, Is not strict temperance man himself In fact he has had the moral courage to admit 1t. What is his favorite tipple? The town Is dying to find out. but the good doctor will not let anyone into the secret. T wish l knew his brand of Kentucky" said a Tammany chief the other night. "I would certainly send him barrel and encourage him to keep up his supply for a year at least" Then. there is District Attorney Jerome That he frequently looks upon the wine when it Is red, he has never denied, because he could not The evidence Is too strong against him. Among the ultra-reform element there is very great curiosity to get at the daily guage of his thirst. With this end in view a brace of "sleuths' have been put on his track by some one. Their re- port has not yet been turned in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
In the Cloak, Suit and Fur Depm't

There's much to please you. The most prominent of the popular styles are shown i'll abundance. We want you to pay this part of the store a good long visit Those in at tendance will take pleasure in showing you the goods whether you are quite ready to buy or not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
A Tart Response.
Louisville Herald.

From the Louisville Herald
 A popular commercial traveller attended a large social gathering one evening and after the supper was over was prome- nading with one of the guests, a young lady, to whom he had just been intro duced In the course of the conversa- tion the subject of bushes came up, and she said:
 By the way. MT Scott, may ask what your occupation is2"
 Certainly" he answered. 'I am a com mercial traveller"
 How very interestingi Do you know MT. Scott, that in the part of the country where l reside commercial travellers are not received in good society?
 Quick as a flash he reioned;
 They are not here, either, madam
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
ATTENTION!

All members of Local 353, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of N. A.. will meet in a body at 2nd Ave. and 2Oth Street, at 11.3O o'clock this morning, to attend funeral of Brother Adolph Huller.
 0. D. Baer. Pres.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20

We have from time to time told you in a brief manner of this display of novelty goods Today for the benefit of those who have not begun their shopping tour, we wish to make mention that will serve to give you an idea of this displays greatness. All the new and unique designs and creations in little Nic-Nac in China, Bronze and Plaster as well as Indian Heads, Busts Vases, Plaques, Jewel Boxes, Pin Trays, Plates, Japanese Goods.
 Itsa showing of holiday novelties that required great deal of thought and study in gathering together. We want you to see it. It affords you whole lot of room, and a great many suggestions in the way of gift giving at little prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
WINTER TOURIST RATES
To Principal Points In Florida, Nassau
 and Cuba.

Southern railway will have on sale daily until April 90. round trip winter excursion tickets 10 principal resorts in Florida. Nassau and Cuba. at greatly reduced rates. Final limit May S1 1904. Through Pullman sleeping car Birmingham to Jacksonville. Write for booklet entitled winter Homes in Summer Lands" For reservation. detailed information. etc, apply passenger office Morris hotel building Telephone 617.
 J. c. LUSK, 11-2s-tf District Passenger Agent Better Lunches at Stones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20

Every steamerd leaving for the Mediter- ranean ports just now is crowded with Italians and their families on their way to their old homes to spend the holidays and escape the indictment weather in this climate They all live in the crowded east side of the city, so that it will be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20

nrUuDrDDV & Sons sell Books UEWQEnnf cheaper than others.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03
ANTS AS KlDNAPPERS.
Raids on Villages Fascinating Study
in Animal Life.

DR.. H. c. McCook tells of species
of kidnapping ants which make or
ganized attacks on other ant villages
for the purpose of capturing slaves.
Here is an account of the attack:
"At last the muster is complete.
Mysteriously but effectively the sig
nal 'ForwardH is given, and the col
umn moves from the hill. There is
no regular alignment, but show OF
solidarity, a holding of the ranks
within close compass and touch-a
'rout step, in fact There is no gen.
eral; but such is the sympathetic
unity that they seem to move in re-
spouse to one will and command.
If every warrior is law unto HIM
self, the law so binds and animates
and compels all alike that the ends
of an organized cohort are served.
Assault, battle and pillage follow
quickly upon the sortie. The objec-
tive point of the march is not far
away. A hundred yards distant is a
Tuscan village. The route thereto
lies across the edge of a grove, over
whose shelter and shaded by tufts OF
grass is the devoted commune. It is
feeble in numbers. and there is bare
show of defense as the freebOoters
hurl themselves upon the hill and
plunge into the open gates. The vii
layers fee at the first onset through
unassailed or secret passages. Some
run the gantlet through the assault
ing ranks. All who can carry part
of the family treasures-eggs, larvae
and pupae. Like their brobdingna-
gian brothers of the human race,
when disaster befalls them, their first
care is for their offspring. The flu
gitives mount into nearby clumps Of
low wood plants, whence they look
down upon the devastation of their
homes-with what feelings? For one
must suppose that the midgets do
feel, though sometimes he would fain
hope otherwise.
Meanwhile the invaders issue from
the gates, bearing in their jaws the
Tuscan young, and occasionally an
adult. They take the home trail, but
not in ordered ranks. 1t is go-as-you-
please now. They are welcomed back
by their black confederates, who re-
ceive the captives and take them
their very own sisters perhaps-into
the domestic quarters. The soldiers
hurry back to the scene of action, for
their work is not yet finished. "-Har-
per's Magazine.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03

scrape together enough sous to make
living. The king of this class is,
of course, the ragpicker. He starts
out before the dawn armed with a
lantern and long hooked piece OF
iron, and explores the rubbish boxes
placed outside every door in the cap
ital before the municipal carts come
to carry off their contents. Then
there is the man who goes around
with the spiked stick picking up the
cigar and cigarette stumps which lie
round the Paris cafes. There are
men, too, who search the streets for
fallen money, and who generally find
enough to keep them from starva-
ton.
One of the most characteristic OF
these strange tradesmen is the dog
barber The favorite dog of the Pa
risian is the French poodle. or "mou-
tom as he is popularity called. 1t is
chiefly for his benefit that the dog
barber exists. His headquarters are
the banks of the Seine. Here the
Illdln DOQy Cdu US lOulAQ dI OH ~
though in the summer some go about
the city carrying on their occupation
from house to house. In the hot days
one continually hears the long drawn
out cry, "To-o-deur de chiens!" and
meets the familiar figure of the dog
barber, with his box of instruments
slung over his shoulder. Many OF
them have their regular customers.
whose houses they visit at stated In
tervals to make the toilet OF these
privileged poodles-for the Paris
mouton is the "spoilt child" among
dogs. He is clipped, brushed, combed.
perfumed and generally has his top
knot" fastened with a pink or blue
ribbon. Some even wear gold or Sill
yer bracelets around one paw.
The result has been the develop
ment of the dog barber as an artist.
He clips and shaves his customers
dogs in the most elaborate fashion.
Some are left with shaggy names,
with a tuft at the end of their tail, to
initiate a lion. Others, again, are
clipped in strips, making them look
like black zebras, and others nave
their faces clipped, and nothing but
a pair of fierce mustache left, WIN
fluffy bracelets of hair round each
foot. At any time of the day, as long
as daylight lasts, the dog barber Will
be found at work on the Seine en-
bankment. Seated on campstool,
and generally surrounded by an adj
miring crowd, he clips and shaves g
cording to the directions given IN
by the owner. The banks OF II
Seine have been selected for his op-
erations because the river Is handy
to battle the animal after he has been
clipped and combed.-Golden Penny.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03
NOVEL AIRSHlPS.l
Invented and Tested for the Coming
Contest at st. Louis.

Three more airships have been in
vented, and will be entered IN the
Worlds Fair aerial tournament to
compete for the grand prize OF
100000.
w. M. Norris, Monte Vista, COL,
mining engineer, is one of the con-
tsetants. His machine will be 30 feet
in diameter and $50 feet long when
fully rugged Aluminium will be the
material used in its construction, but
no gas bag will used as in other flying
machines.
E. A. Kinder, a Denver, Col, man,
has completed a model for an airshlp
and conducted a satisfactory test. He
will enter it in the contest for the
500 900 prize at the fair Safety ap-
pliances are a feature of the alrshlp
Canvas flaps three feet wide extend
entirely around the balloon as on
Stevens airship. These are limp ex-
cept in sudden descent, when they
omen out like umbrellas or para
chutes, and are large enough to check
descent to a gentleness devoid OF
danger should the gas bags fail COM
pletely Motive power is 1urnlshea
by a storage battery.
The frame work, which is made OF
aluminium and light steel tubing, with
the motor. battery and propeller,
which is six feet from tip to tip and
has four blades, will weigh about 300
pounds. A test was made recently
of the model. The machine is said
to have described a circle about 80
feet in diameter, rising, dipping and
finally descending to its moorlngs
without hitch in its mechanism.
Streator, H., will be represented in
the aerial tournament by an airship
planned by Mr.. Reiferscheid of that
town. Reiferschied's machine con-
sists of a balloon pointed at both ends
and lying in a horizontal position.
Around this balloon strips Of alumni
mum strong enough to make a sub
stantial framework. At each end are
propellers, six in all, to be used in
raising and lowering the machine and
to assist in guiding it. A six horse
power gasolene motor will provide
the motive power, and the balloon
will be filled with hydrogen gas and
Theoretically sealed. Large fans will
provide a safety device, which will
permit the ship to slowly descend in
case the balloon collapses.-Scientiic
American
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03
THE GERM OF LOVE
Since II Has Been Caught, What Is
Going to Happen.

They discover wonderful things
across the Atlantic, says the Lady's
Pictorial, but they have done nothing
more remarkable than to find the
germ of love. Our transatlantic
friends are nothing if not practical,
and yet, strange to say, this practi-
cality Is very strongly tinged with
sentiment and superstition, and,
while they will weave the widest rO-
nance from the story of a very ordi-
nary young couple who make a run
away match or otherwise defy pa
rental authority, they will, at the
same time. be quite content that the
sacred passion of love should be anal
yzed, dissected, diagnosed as if it
were a patent food a strange veg
etable or a disease. In point Of fact
the scientists who have been thus
reducing Cupid to the level of path
illogical specimen, trying him down
in crucibles and subjecting him to
the most powerful microscopic in
vestigation, have now arrived at the
conclusion that the little god of the
poets Imagination, the mysterious
fame which has illuminated the
hearts and sanctified the lives of the
great and lowly alike since the world
began; which has made the weak
strong and the strong weak, is moth
ing more or less than a bacillus.
There can be not the slightest doubt
tht this germ infects the susceptible
Just as that of scarlet fever or in
fiuenza or the mUmps. and other very
unromantic Affections alights with
deadly effect upon persons who are
prone to catch infectious diseases.
The doctor who has made this impOr-
tant discovery further tells us that
it is the brain of the patient which
is Immediately affected by the bacil-
lus. and not the heart, as poets and
lovers and other inaccurate folk have
always led us to believe. According
to the rapidity with which the bacil-
lus develops, and the treatment which
the ease" receives so does the dis
ease range from mere Stiffness to abb
SOiute MADNESS. DuL the WOiSI VI IL
is the doctor has not yet caught
Lccillrs of love. which, by the way,
sounds like some new species of but
terfy; when he has done so, and this
mysterious thing can be displayed in
tubes or on sheets of gelatine, then,
we are assured. and we can well be-
lieve it, the whole social system of
the world can be revolutionized, for
then 1t will be possible to put mar
rage on sound, practical basis, to
defy "detrimentals," to catch ELI
gibles" like flies on gummy paper: to
cure lovesick maidens by aid of the
pharmacopeia and vaccinate too sus-
ceptible young peers at the hobble-
dehoy stage of their existence, so that
they may be safely let loose in those
dangerous areas of infection where
pretty dancers and comic opera maid
ems abound But it is to be hoped
whenever this bacillus is found It
will be dealt with gently,
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03

Tricks That Defy Detection and Mys-
tify All Who Behold Them.

The following story of Indian
magic was told me by the person TO
whom 1t was told by the late Lord
Lytton. / give it in my own woros'
FOR the excellent though Illuminating
reason that have mislaid the manu-
script. When In India, Lord Lytton
often sought out conturors, but never
saw any but the usual feats, sucn as
the mango tree trick and the basket
trick The method in each case Is
known, or at all events plausible ex-
plantations have been given by MT.
Maskelyn and other experts. On one
occasion Lord Lytton liked some
thing in the looks of the conluror
who was performing in an open space
before his house After the ordinary
exhibition his lordship asked the ma
gician if he could not do something
more out of the common way. me
man said he would try, and askeu
for a ring, which Lord Lytton gaVe
him. He then requested an ofheer to
take in either hand a handful Oh
name of the other sort my informant
did not know. Holding these seeds
and having the ring between MS
finger and thumb the officer was to
go to a well in the corner of the COM
pound. He was to dispose or the
seeds in a certain way-I think on the
low wall round the well, into the
depths of which he was to throw the
ring. All this was done, and then the
mage asked Lord Lytton where ne
would like the ring to reappear. he
answered "in his dispatch box. OF
which the key was attached to MS
watch chain, or at all events he had
it with him on the spot. The DIS
patch box was brought out, Lord Lyt-
ton opened it and there was the ring
This trick would be easy If the
British officer was a confederate or
the jugglers and if he possessed a
duplicate key to the dispatch box
In that case he would not throw the
ring into the well, but would take 1t
into the house, open the box and in
involves enormous improbabilities..
while it is unlikely. again. that the
conjuror managed to insert dupli-
cate ring into the dispatch box be-
forehand. Lord Lytton then asked
the juggler if he could repeat the
trick. He answered in the affirmative
and a lady lent another ring. An
other officer took it, with the seeds,
as before, and dropped the ring into
the well The countenance of the
juggler altered in the pause that fol-
lowed Something, he said, had gone
wrong, and he seemed agitated. Turn
ing to the second officer, he said: Did
you arrange the seeds as | babe your
NO" said the officer. II thought
that was all nonsense, and | threw
them away" The juggler seemed
Mortified. do you think l do this by
myself" he said, and packing up, he
departed.
The we'll was carefully dragged and
at last the lady's ring was brought
to the surface. That ring at least
had certainly been in the water. But
had the first ring been as faithfully
consigned to the depths? Experts
will be of various opinions as to that.
yet the hypothesis of confederacy and
of q duplicate key to the dispatch
box is acknowledgements Magazine.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03
HOUSES OF CONCRETE.
New Idea in CONSTRUCTION Gives
Promise of Success:

Dwelling houses and factory build
ings with concrete walls, in which
the concrete has been nodded in place
in large masses, have become com
paratively common; but in recent
years a species of hollow concrete
block construction has been intro.
duced which, in some respects, ap.
pears to promise even greater advan.
tages. Such hollow concrete block
houses ere, in a measure, highly de-
veloped examples of the remarkably
durable adobe houses of Mexico and
the Southwest of the United States,
which, though built simply of large
sun dried blocks of clay, appear as
though hewn out of one solid mass,
and have been found to successfully
resist both great heat and heavy
tropical rains.
Walls built of hollow concrete
blocks, with their Enclosed air spaces,
tend to keep houses warm in winter
and cool in summer, and the only
problem of satisfactorily building
them mas Deen lHdL OF COSl. MS,
however, We are told, has now been
solved by a machine which turns
them out quickly and cheaply and in
all desired sizes. The molds are
made with removable sides, and af-
ter the block of concrete has been
formed, these sides are swung out of
the way and the block can be lifted
out and left to thoroughly set.
Grooves and tongues can easily be
formed in the blocks, enabling them
to be rigidly tied together in building
up a wall, and openings can also be
provided in them to receive the ends
of floor beams, the joints being sub
sequently filled with cement, If de-
slider, to insure greater security.
Many houses have of late been
built with such blocks, and their pop
ularity seems to be on the increase.
In appearance such concrete block
walls resemble masonry; in fact, the
blocks can be fashioned after almost
any desired pattern.-Cassier's Mag
aZine.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03
Milk in Manufactures.

Napkin rings, hair combs, walking
stick knobs. brush backs and handles,
cigarette cases and holders and a va
riety of other small objects are now
being made of milk, according to a
Paris correspondent. 1t appears that
much of the cheap imitation ivory
now in the trade comes from the cow.
There are even alleged pearls worn
in earrings, or in other kinds of So
called fancy jeweiry, which are lit
orally drops of condensed milk. A
nobleman owning immense estates
and large farms in the Loiret Depart
ment has set up factory for carry
ing on this new industry. His cows
produce some two hundred gallons of
milk a day, two-tnirds of which is
sent to Paris in the season. But in
the summer the demand falls off, while
the cows continue to yield the usual
quantity. Hence the ingenious noble
mans new departure The casein OBJ
tanned from the milk. is converted,
under great pressure, into ductile SUBJ
stance called Tactic" the possible
uses of which seem to be unlimited.
1t is this sub-product of milk which
is replacing celluloid in the market
as an imitation ivory
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03
THE uNPossEssEn

MY Hearts Desire hath led me
Through barren lands and vain.
AND bitter bread she fed me,
And babe me drink of pain.
Ah, me, | climbed a weary way
To nights of her disdain.
Yet would | give the years l live
To walk the path again.
The Hearts Possessed beside me
Leads me a level way;
There may no Ill betide me,
No thirst or famine stay.
She hath no wish but wish of mine,
No JOY save to obey.
And at my side her form must bide
Until my dying day.
My Hearts Possessed hath stiIled me
From all unrest malign;
Yea, ceased the hope that thrilled
me
With too keen pain and fine.
Yet, o my Heart, my Hearts Desire,
My ungained dream divine,
That never turned the while | yearn-
ed
Nor closed her hands in mine.
Helen Scott, in the Smart Set.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03
Fair-Haired Race in Ancient Egypt

Karl Blind. the anthropologist, has
long believed that the aboriginal in
habitants of Egypt were fair-haired
people. allied by blood to the Trojans,
who were driven out by the incom-
ing of the latter black-haired, pyramid
building race.
The recent uneartning. he says, OF
the ancient burial place of light
haired people at Fayum, and still
later. of a reddish-haired corpse (not
a mummy, supposed to be 5000 years
old. furnishes striking evidence in
support of this theory. This race was
related by blood, speech and customs
to the Teutonic and scandinavian
stock. therefore also WITH English
men and their descendants in Amer
ica."
The corpse above referred to now
lies in the mummy room of the Brit
ish Museum. 1t was dug up on the
western bank of the Nile, in upper
Egypt. Some tufts of reddish hair
are still sticking to the S,00O-year-old
skull. The hands and feet are small,
the head long and narrow. The stat
ure of this warrior must have been
about feet inches.