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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19
THE KANSAS HARVEST.
Great In Its Crops, AS in Its Storms
and Reforms, Is the sunflower State.
n the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
At this season of the year every male
person between the ages of 10 and 70 en-
ters the state of Kansas at great peril
Last summer the Kansas farmers are
said to have seized a railroad train and
compelled the male passengers to go
with them and reap wheat No such in
cident has yet been reported this sea-
son, but car load of harvest hands
consigned to. farmers in the western part
Of the state were locked in until they
reached their destination lest they Should
be talren.off the train in the eastern part
of the state. Il se - @f
The police magistrates in Kansas City
are doing what they can to relieve the
situation in the wheat fields of the adj
Joining state by imposing upon all vag-
rants the alternative sentence of $25 fine
or six weeks in Kansas, with the warm
ing that If caught again without evi-
dence that they had done their time they
would be sent to the worlkhouse for a
year OF course, a man who had 80
would cheerfullv give it up rather than
go to Kansas for six weeks in midsum-
rner but Migrants do not carry fortunes
around on their persons, and large part
of the tramps of southwestern Missouri
are likely to be comparatively useful res
idents Of the sunhower state for few
weeks
A kindly moon is shining upon those
million acres of ripe wheat which are
due, as they always are at this season
to produce the biggest crop of wheat
ever harvested in the state, and field
laborers, in twelve hour reliefs Keep the
harvesting machinery running night and
day Not to be outdone by the celestial
bodies, religion suspends It's rules in the
emergency and the churches close that
not even an hour and a half Of Sunday
morning shall be lost when the wheat
is ready to be cut and every hours delay
involves the gravest risks in the state
of cyclones, siroeeos and cloudbursts.
Kansf ms have plenty Of time in winter
to make up for any deficiencies in their
religious education during the summer.
When the biggest wheat crop on earth is
to be gathered the preachers cannot ex-
pect congregations and may regard
themselves as lucky If they be not COM
PEELED to mount a harvesting machine.
Kansas is state of great storms, great
crops. great enthusiasms and great ener-
gy, whether in gathering an unparal-
leled wheat crop or reforming the econ
omic system of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19
Student Life In New York and Paris.

Eleanor Franklin in LesIie's Weekly.
Or course, all students in Paris do not
live as most American students do.
When an American youth thinks he IS
able 10 so abroad Tor study he is usually
in a financial position TO avail himself
OF unusually comfortable quarters, al
though there are many with limited
means VINO soon drop into the ways Of
the regular Partisan student. My menu
cries OF a pension in the student quarter
of Paris are pleasanter than my menu
cries of New York boarding houses, but
may have been most fortunate. 1t was
in the regulation French apartment
house. with the inevitable great stone-
foered corridor and court and the wind
ing stairs leading to the roof. 1t had
the massive Iron doors opening on the
street. which were closed promptly at 10
o'clock every night by the concierge, at
which hour that functionary also put all
the lights out. II one went to the opera
or to theater one came homo and stood
outside the door ringing a bell Which
connected with the concierges apart
ment until that person, who corresponds
to the New York janitor, and is no bet
ter, woke up and pulled the lever that
made the door swing back. Then you
must close 1t and 1t goes to with a bang
whose hollow echoes follow you mock
ingly all the way up the dark winding
stairs and are still vibrating in the court
below when you close your window and
turn up the light. The only way to stop
them is to let your Venetian blind down
with a slappety-slap that will wake up
everybody in the building Nobody ever
closed the outside door of a Paris apart
ment house without having this expert
ence. The same noise IN New York
would call out the fire departmnt.
The first thing about o Partisan PEN
sion to place 1t in strong contrast to a
New York boarding house Is the absolute
cleanliness which regns supreme in ev-
cry corner. Everything looks clean and
everything smells clean from the court
yard to the dining rooms. Petit deJeun-
err, consisting of bread. butter and eof-
fee Is served every morning in the rooms
and then one has a long morning for
work or play. At 1915 regular dejeuner
Is served in the dining room and madam,
who in every Paris pension acts like the
sour matron of a girls boarding school,
expects everybody to come promptly
when the wheezy little femme de chambre
raps on the doors one after the other
and says with most varying accents, On
Sc met a table, mademoisele." After
one gets acquainted one hurries away In
happy obedience to this CALL because 10
is the first meal of the day and one Is
hungry; besides, It Is rather nice conn.,
pany on the whole and dejeuner Is the
event of the day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19
FOR RENT,

Hoods sarsaparilla creates an appetite
and aids In proper assimilation of food.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19

agent to the vatican, and several of the
smaller powers keep up two distinct Legal
lions. 1t is naturally neither possible nor
intended that these diplomatists should
never meet on friendly terms, though
they are strictly interdicted from issuing
official invitations to each other Their
point Of contact is another gray square
on the chessboard.
During the early years which followed
the change. the attitude of society in
Rome was that of protest and indignation
on the one hand. Of enthusiasm and
rather Brutality expressed triumph on the
other. The line was very clearly drawn.
for the adherence was of the nature of
personal loyalty on both sides. Eight
years and half later the personal feel
Ing disappeared with the almost stimuli
taneons death of Plus TX and Victor
Emmanuel II From that time the great
strife degenerated by degrees into a diff
ference of opinion. 1t may perhaps be
said also that both parties became aware
of their common enemy, the social demo-
crat, soon after the disappearance of the
popular king whose great individual in
fluence was of more value to the cause
of a united monarchy than all the po-
litical clubs and organizations in Italy
put together. He was a strong man.
He only once, I think, yielded to the
pressure of popular excitement, name
ly, in the matter of selling Rome when
the French troops were withdrawn. there
by violating a ratified treaty But his
position was hard one. He regretted
the apparent necessity. and to the day of
his death he never would sleep under the
roof of Plus ks palace In the Quirinal,
but had his private apartments in an
adjoining building. He was brave and
generous. Such faults as he had were
no burden to the nation and concerned
himself alone. The same praise may be
worthly bestowed upon his successor.
but the personal influence is no longer
the same any more than that of Leo
XIII. can be compared with that of Plus
*. though all the world is aware of the
present pope's intellectual superiority
and lofty moral principle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19

hoard of health to make the doctor change
his eolors, but he insists that red is now
all the fashion, and that whether 1t Is or
not. ne has the right to do what he likes
with his own.
Cen John B. Gordon's account of the
battle Of Gettysburg, given in a magazine
this month. does not meet the entire ap-
prevail of Gen Daniel T. sfckes, who IS
one of the few surviving northern COM
manders in that historic conflict. General
Gordon expresses the opinion that the
fatal mistake of the Confederates was to
be found in the failure to take advantage
of the assault of his brigade upon the
Union right at the close of the first days
light General sielSles declares that this
Is all 'moonshine" and that General Cor
don's superiors made no mistake. for the
Union forces were sufficiently strong to
repel any attack that might have been
made But this does not settle the ques-
ton. Gordon has the floor or rather the
pen for reply.
Half century or so ago General Siclxies
was young Tammany chief. becoming an
attache of legation In London, where
President Buchanan was minister. In
money matters "Old Buck was very
close. I heard General Sickles tell this
story, illustrative of the parsimony of his
then chief. Mr.. Buchanan and he drove
to some place near London one day In a
hired conveyance and walked from the
village inn to the residence of the gentle
man they were visiting Buchanan told
sicKles to give their driver money to get
his dinner and other refreshments. Sickles
thought that. considering Mr.. Buchanan's
official position, he could not offer the
jehu less than a sovereign and gave 1t to
him. When Buchanan saw the charge in
the account he reproved SielSes and said
one quarter the sum would have been
more than extravagant. 4 admit said
Sielxles, in telling the tale, that the SOW
ereign was pretty steep, but then | wanted
Buchanan. who. could afford It, to support
the dignity of the republic" General
Sickles, in his salad days was free
spender. and probably the first Of the law
ish American "tipsters"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19

Croker and Bourke Cochran quarrelled
and the latter was taken up by Society"
Leader Charles +. Murphy has, however,
found successor to Cochran in the per-
son of Charles 7. Towne, formerly of Min
nesota. but now of this CITY, where he is
getting rich among the Wall street bulls
and bears. Towne's speech in the Wig
wan ON the Fourth captured the braves
and won him the prize. lie will probably
return TO congress from Manhattan one
of these days
The metropolis is racehorse mad this
summer. and the crowds that visit the
tracks nearly every day are enormous. A
gathering of twenty thousand men and
women. for the women are just as humer-
ous as the opposite sex, attracts very little
attention. Double that number frequently
jostle one another on the course when a
big event is on. Nothing like 1t has ever
before been seen IN this city, nor has there
ever been better horses lined up before
the starters The vast multtudes are very
far from being New Workers. exclusively.
They come from all parts of the country.
Can a man paint his house to suit his
own taste, or must he defer to that of his
neighbor? is a question just raised in the
BROOKLYN section of this city. IN a street
there named Pacific, a physician has
aroused the anger of those who live near
him to the lynehing point by giving his
residence coat of the reddest paint that
ever touched a brush. An unfortunate
man who lives opposite to him declares
that the sanguinary hue he Is compelled TO
look a is driving him blind and has given
his wife nervous prostration. Appeal is
made to the building department and the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19

The fortunate possessors of yachts. of
whom this year there seems to be an
unusually large number, have been glad
to avail themselves of the cool breezes
down the bay and on the sound. Nothing
is more refreshing than a trip down the
bay In the late afternoon with dinner
served on deck.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19
Don't All speak at once.

From the Boston Herald.
VIII all those who haven't got degree.
a diploma or something, please hold up
their hands and holler? Any omissions
must have been purely an inadvertence.
There are few more left.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19
HARD NOVEL WRITING.
Beatrice Harraden's Slow and Pains
old Girl Graduates.

From the Boston Transcript.
If the likenesses of girl graduates
which now make an attractive feature
of many newspapers are true to the life,
and undoubtedly they are in most cases.
doesn't it seem that those leaving the
high schools have a remarkably mature
locke In some instances they look to be
quite % years of age and as knowing and
as wise as girls who really have seen
that number of years are usually found
to be in this sophisticated age. 1t seems
rather curious. too, that such young
girls should look so Finished" but 1t is
probably just an evening up of things In
their respective families, as their moth
ers and grandmothers are undoubtedly
engaged in taking ty-and-youth-re-
newing cures with years from five to
twenty-five taken from their ages. We
will record 1t as the result of an effort
of nature to square accounts.
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Hoods Sarsaparila creates an appetite
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19
The Ice Had Vanished.
om the Now york Trlbnne.

From the New York Tribune.
Can you imagine having a burning fe-
yer and no ice within n hundred miles7''
began the man from Mexico at a dinner
the other night.
Did 1t give you foretaste OF hades7''
asked one
mo foretaste,' he declared; ut was
hades itself. | was stricken In new
mining camp in the dryest part Of the
Mexican mountains There was no ice:
the drinking water was lukewarm and
worse.
There is Ice to be had at the coast >
said one, and the coast was only hun
bred miles away. l offered a fortune for
single piece, and a relay Of Indian run
ners was arranged. They were to get as
big a piece as they could carry and run
it into the camp with all possible speed .
"I'll wage you enjoyed It," said the
hostess.
"Oh, yes; I enjoyed 1t. That ice when
II reached me was nothing but a steam
ing hot rag"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19

Offices In Title Guarantee
Loan and Trust Co. Office
building. Soc Il. J. SINGER,
president, rooms lO7-1O8, in
building.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19

All kinds of cuts. Age-Herald I'm
craving Department /
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19

Get lost in the puzzle maze
at East Lake.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-09-02
QUEER SUGGESTIONS.

The following are some curious SUI
perstitions that are still extant among
English speaking people:
If you kill frogs your cows will go
dry"
Tickling a baby will cause the child
TO stutter
To thank person for combing your
hair will bring bad luck.
To Kill ghost 1t must be shot with
q bullet made of silver coin.
To dream of unbroken eggs signifies
trouble TO come; II the eggs are broken
the trouble is past.
If you boast Of your good health
strike wood Immediately with your fist
or you Will become III.
To dream of live snake means
enemies at large, Of dead snake
enemies dead or powerless.
10 allow child to look into "A mir
ror before 1t is month old will cause
it to have trouble in teething.
A child will have nature and dis
position similar to those Of the person
who first takes 1t out of doors.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-09-02

For sale or exchange -Along Bruins
wick turnpike, about four miles from
Lambertyille, Farm of 1870 acres, brick
dwelling, / rooms, outbuildings, 1900
apple trees, running stream, springs
and we'll.
Nos. G5 and 81 York street Lot =
it. front by 1870 #. deep, with black
smith and wheelwfight shops and
frame barn.
Grover, n. Frame house. 3 rooms, barn
and lot, about he acres. fruit and excellent
spring, on road leading from Sergeantsyille 10
Ringoes.
Nos II and Ii Coryell St, double brick
dwelling house with barn and large lot.
choice building lots ON n. Union st, 30 II.
front each.
No. 25i N Union ST., frame dwelling. rooms
on first floor, bedrooms, cellar and attic with
lot 10 II. front Terms reasonable
No 10 South Main street, 3-story brick
dwelling, cheap.
No 50 York street large 3-story brick dwell
ing with large lot-hot water heat Terms
easy.
Nos 47-i9 South Franklin street. Frame
dwelling houses. Easy terms
No. ~ South Main street, three-story brick
dwelling; rooms and cellar.
No. 81 South Main street, brick dwelling
three stories, rooms
Nos p 30 b Wilson street three frame
houses, easy terms,
Franklin street, lot near Swan street.
No II Douglas street, Cottage Hill, frame
house and barn with large lot; house has IL
rooms.
No. 90 Douglas street, Cottage Hill, brick
house q rooIns) with large lot
No " Franklin street, frame house with
large lot Hot water heating system.
Some of the above properties are offered on
the installment plan aud can be purchased by
monthly payments.
Aug H. 1907
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-09-02

who wrote "a Defense of the Sincere
and True Translations of the Hole
Scriptures Into the English Tong" did
not admit "neophyte,' homicide"
scandal" destruction" "tunic," "des-
picable," rational" Another book
published in 1868 puts the stamp Of
censure on "obllque" radiant" "adop-
ton" "caress," "amphibious," "hori-
zontal," "concede," "articulate," "desti-
nation" Compensate" ''complicated'
and "adventitious.'
1t is hard to trace the history of a
fashion in words. Seldom do we have
the precise record that Chesterfield fur
nishes us In letter In which he says
that he was present at the birth of the
word filtration" ON the lips of beau
tiful woman Even with that record
we cannot tell why filtration" remain
ed In the language and was not drop
ped like hundreds of other new coin
0ReS
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-09-02

Leave Lamhortyilc Tor Manuuka Chunk aud
stroud burg S,ab Ia IA m, l,ai, 2H2 SATURDAYS
only, 4.aa and So m. SUNDAY at1 N, NJ
pm. For rhillipshurg aud Elston only, 6e' + IN.
week days.
Leave frcnchtawngoS tot6 am, o0l, Is and
Shi y M, weekdays, 9t9 m, Sat y N sunday s.
Arrive At rhnlipshurg 9n aud iIi7 am. "a.
BOG (Satnrdays only, 8 L. - aud 80 = ~,
SUNDAY, l126 IN, "a pm
Leave phtlipshurg 7.2h, . 10 aud ll'22 M, r.
$40 Saturdays oniyl, sat and 10 M. sunday
10 % II m. H,,n m,
GA, 80 pm SUNDAY, II Of III, . ~ Pun,
Arrive Manunka Chunk az loss aud II 81 a
m. &,2a. 80 SATURDAYS only, 63s aud l04i +
IN. Sunday, IT Los a m, ia,Ui = IA.
Arrive Streudshurg N l.. NW RRl II t0am,
II Is, $50, AZ saturdays onlSl f.oa and loss
m, sundays, II &' m aud 10 IN
Freight or mixed trans leaving Manunka
Chunk at 600 M. RolYidere Glt n m, Martins
Greek 6.SI M, arriving lehirh Junction Gas IN.
will carry passengers aud make stops At nag sta
tions north of PhiipShnrr
Passengers for BROAD Street Station, rhiladel
phta, nv trains icav ing StroHdshnG GO m aud
ats p N daily and sho a IN weekdays,
90 through without change Al Trenton, through
var ior Siroudshmg IS attached 10 trains
leaving Broad Street station ut a.NA M 1900
noon, oS Saturdays only, and = ~ Pun week
days and sue a N. sundays. by all ether trains
passengers to OF from Broad street change cars
1T Trenton.
Connection rs made at Sroudshurg with
Delaware, Laektw2nna n Western Railroad; le-
high function with Lehigh Valley, Lchigh \ Sus-
quehanna Morris ESSEX aud New lFrsey Cen
trail Railroads. At lamhcrtvillc with Fleming
ton Railroad. At Trenton with trains TO and from
New YORK Camden, Nc.
For further information, see tine tables which
can be obtained At the ticket Offices.
rStops only on signal or notice 10 Agent or
Conductor to receive or DISCHARGE paSSengcrs
d Regular stop to discharge passengers.
{ RegnlAr stop To receive passengers.
j. Il. WoOn.
Passenger Traffic Manager
W. W. ATrEEEURI,
General Manager
GEO W BOYD
General Passenger Agent,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-09-02
A NOSE FOR NEWS.
The Genuine Newspaper Reporter Is
Horn Not Made.

The Genuine Newspaper Reporter Is
born, Not Made.
Poets are born. not made" said the
retired newspaper man to the New Or
leans Times Democrat, land l might
add that reporters come into this world
in much the same way. For Instance,
the born reporter will get story If
there is one in sight, while he who only
has what | would call Il mechanical
sort of training will skim over the
same ground without ever discovering
that anything out of the ordinary has
happened Not many years ago l was
holding an important position ON one
of the principal journals of Chicago. L
was one day put on the city editors
desk, and, wanting TO test the ability OF
two new men on the staff, l assigned
both of them TO the same story. or
course neither knew the other was In
the neighborhood, and you ought to
have seen their respective reports. One
OF them had two column story that
created n sensation from one end OF
the city TO the other, while the other
turned In about two sticks of the
driest stuff l ever remember TO have
read. l am satisfied that both the men
covered the story TO the best of their
respective abilities. One of them simply
had a nose for news and the other
didn't. AS l said, reporters are born,
not made by studying Journalism in
the abstract. The natural born report
er is at home in a newspaper office, he
can live on ink and can sleep soundly
on the imposing stone. He sees little
news in a dog biting man, but he Is
quick to grasp the Importance of an
item telling about a man biting dog"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-09-02
BIT OF FRENCH HISTORY.
An Empire Lost For Want of the
Right Sort of Riding Habit.

An old legend which makes no pre-
tense to truth tells how a kingdom was
lost for want of horseshoe nail. But
d volume OF sober historical and bio
graphical purpose, written by Count
dHerrison, makes 1t appear that the
Empress Eugene, after the battle of
Sedan, lost the chance to preserve tho
empire of her husband by not possess
ing exactly the right sort of riding
habit 1t was the evening of Sept. 8,
1870
The news of the surrender of the
French army and of the Emperor M
poleon Mt Sedan had spread about Par
| Is. The city was excited, and there
| was talk of a revolution and the ban
| ishment of the imperial family. AT
| this juncture Emile de Girardin, man
| who was trusted by the empress and
| who had had no little experience dur
| ing the previous changes of govern
mcnt, arrived at the palace of the TUT
lerlcs. "lf your majesty were to appear
on horseback in the midst of the PEG
pie" Girardin said, land announce the
abdlcation of the emperor In favor of
the prince imperial, your own assump
ton OF the title of empress regent and
the appointment of Theirs as prime
minister, the empire might be saved
Something must be done to turn the
tide"
The empress accepted the advice. But
when this leader of the worlds fashion
sought for proper costume for hel
performance II could not be found
The only riding habit in the Tuilerief
was fantastic one of green, embroid
cred with gold and silver, made for {
festal hunting occasion, and the ha
was not less fantastic three corneret
affair of the epoch of Louis Quinze
The empress felt that It would not d,
to appear in this Sarb on such an oeca
sion. Her appearance in 1t might have
the opposite effect upon the peopl'
from that which she intended. Thu
plan had to be given up, the empress
and the prince imperial We're baEishet
and the Napoleonie empire was Mt al
| anH