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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-13

The first winter costumes. If they are made up In the autumn, have by this tune had considerable wear, and there are very few fastidlous women who do not think II absolutely essential to have at least one new street gown, not necessarily an elaOo- rate or expensive one. but something new and fresh. so thac this is just the time to see the smartest of street gowns, and be It understood that many of the smartest are turned ont now, when tailors and dress- makers have more leisure to devote to thelr manufacture than at the rush season.
 The short skirt is now all-importaht, Ill spite of the fact that a long skirt Is more becoming to most women, and that any short skirt has the sad quality of making the wearer look stout or short-most un- fashionable attributes. The short skirt Is so comfortable and so practical that Us powers of attraction have proved all-con- vincing, and now every woman, be she short or tall, slender or stout. includes al least one In her wardrobe. The most popular, and according to the leading tailors, the most fashionable-to-be skirt for spring and summer is the plain nine gored. made with more flare than roll, and short enough to entirely clear the ground. even all around, with no sag at the sides or back, and with sufficient fitness over the hips to enable the wearer to walk easily and gracefully. Pleated skirts in box pleats and side pleats are still popular, but they must be well made 10 look smart, for the country has been flooded with pleated skirts all too tight across the top of the skirt to enable woman 10 walk with any comfort and quite impossible for her to sit down in wide. Hopping flare at the foot of the skirt never yet made a skirt look wide or large enough when the material was too economically used across the hips and back.
 Next in favor to the plain nine-gored skirt Is an attractive style with inverted pleats
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-13

Correct" assented Mir Higgins. glancing over the calendar that his wife handed to him.
 And If we buy ton week for seventeen weeks, and pay dollar ton more each week, we shall have paid from New Years Day to May Day $340.
 Great Caesars ghost!" cried the desper- ate householder adding up Mrs. Higgins figures in frantic hope of finding mistake. Our usual bill for the whole year isn't over hundred
 If you cant afford coal you must use a substitute. That's sensible. isn't it?'
 sensible, if possible" replied MT. Hig- gins sententiously.
 Perfectly possible Listen. Our house Is well built Is in the middle of block and is protected from the north wind by that big apartment house at the back Now, sug- gest that we cut the Gordian knot, plunge in medals res"-
 Really, Maria, must insist on your not using such language. little slang occa- sionally don't mind. but what would Dea- con Piper think if he heard you say such words as those? Where do you pick them up. anyway"
 "Bosh, Alonzo," returned Alonzo's loving wife, with elegant conciseness "Our house is good warm house. You are away all day. You have thick new overeoat. We can perfectly we'll let the furnace fire go out entirely. We can cook with those kerosene soaked bricks that the newspapers .ell about,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-13
"PuIIed" Bread.

Pulled bread Is likely to become one of our chief table delights. It is much nicer than mere bread. Pulled bread is made in the following simple manner and Is possible in any household or fiat, no matter how limited it's room or utensils. Take an or dinary loaf of bread, cut off all of the crust, then shred or ''pull' the bread lightly apart with silver fork with dull tines. Toast it in the lower oven on all sides, or else rebake it in the regular oven in a brisk heat. The bread must be cooked this second time just when needed for eating, and then, either hot or cooled, 1t is delicious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-13
Coal Man MiniSte

Ole Hansen, a farmer, was recently elected minister of agriculture in Denmark and his friends thought that, having at tained this high position, he would at once change his extremely simple mode of living for one in harmony with his new rank.
 They were mistaken, however, for Ole leave his official duties goes back to work on his small farm, and the other day his neighbors were surprised to see him driv- ing home from Ringstedt, the nearest town, in common coal cart.
 He was dressed on this occasion as com mon day laborer, and it is very doubtful if any of his colleagues ln the Cabinet would have recognized him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-13
A Dai3ty (u3ebeo3.

of baking powder: add the stiff whites of two eggs; drop by spoonfuls into hot butter and brown.
 Olive and Cheese Sandwiches the bread cut thin and in fancy shapes chop one dozen stuffed olives and two or three sprays of watereress fine; add one cream cheese and a large tablespoonful of butter. with salt enough to season; cream and heat these together very thoroughly and spread thiekly on bread.
 Orange Ambrosia.-Peel large seedless oranges, taking great care to remove the white skin; with large knife slice them thin and put in glass bowl, making q layer of the oranges, then powdered sugar and shredded coeoanut until the dish Is filled. 1t must be very cold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-13
To Keep Out 6be Gold.

attacks of croup or heavy colds are apt to be the result unless some such protection is provided.
 In one large bow window, noticed lately, there were about dozen thick pads over tapping each other around the lower part of the window and reaching down to the floor, where they were fastened by small Jacks and strips of carpet binding, while another pad on the floor was fitted up snugly to the win dow like a mat in Japanese room.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-13
Washes Her Money.

A woman who has q perfect horror or handling dirty money asserts that she not only has all her silver washed, but her bills as we'll They are put in basin of luke warm soapsuds, rubbed gently and dried by pressing with warm iron. In this way she is always supplied with bright silver and crisp new bills that she can carry in her pocket with no danger of contracting disease In their handling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-13
Lobster la Newburg. Egg Salad. Corn Fritters. Olive and Cheese Sandwiches.
Orange Ambrosia' Fancy Cakes.

Lobster Ia Newburg Cut the meat in one twoponnd can of lobster into small pieces. Put two ounces of butter In pan chatng dish is hetter), and when hot adu TWO tablespoonfuls of flour and mix smooth' then cup of good cream and the lobster Rub the Nolks of three hard-boilcd eggs to paste with little cream. and stir into the lobster. Season to taste with salt, pa prika, little grated nutmeg and four or five tablespoonfuls of sherry or Madeira wine Serve at once on a hot platter. Toast points and watereress make q pretty garnish.
 Egg Salad.-Boil one dozen eggs hard, dnG when cold separate the yolks and whites; cream the yolks; chop the whites fine; have salad bowl surrounded by crisp lettuce; make ring of the chopped whites just inside the border of lettuce and heap the yoks fin the center; cover the yolks with thin muyonnaise.
 Corn Fritters.-Ope can corn, one halfcup milk, salt and sugar to taste. Flour enough to make n thick batter and one teaspoonful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-13

1T. Higgins groaned aloud as he read the evening paper. He did ii every day, so Mrs. Higgins was not alarmed She merely held her needle closer to the lamp that she might thread it more easily, and said,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-13

Higgins was not alarmed. She merely held her needle closer to the lamp that she might thread it more easily, and said:
 "Coal?"
 "Yes"
 How much?'
 "Twelye dollars"
 "Dreadful! And we've only ton left!'' "A half ton, my dear And with this weather 1t won't last us more than four days"
 Mrs. Higgins sewed more and more slowly, until at last she put down her work and took q pencil and pad from the drawer. While she covered the paper with figures Mir. Hig gins relapsed into gloom.
 "Alonzo," said Mrs. Higgins solemnly, looking up from her task.
 Yes. ange," answered her husband, per functorily.
 Eve solved the problem, Alonzo.'
 You're smarter than am, then. Let's Lear it." and Mfr, Higgins laid down his paper with no apparent anticipation of any thing being done to the question-solution, dissolution or resolution.
 You say that coal has gone up about a dollar week during the last month";
 "um." Mir. Higgins nodded assent.
 Now, we usually keep the furnace going until May l. From January 1 to May Is precisely seventeen weeks. I've counted it up on the calendar"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26

work. In a depressed period, more
over, broad minded producers will
naturally make lower rates for this
use of steel than for any others, if
general movement for the purpose can
be inaugurated, knowing that such a
movement would do more than any
thing else possibly to revive industry
hope and prosperity. In view of these
considerations, therefore, we may
safely take the bottom prices of the
last depression, say SIS per ton, as
the government rate for road metal,
especially as it was understood that
that price still paid a profit to those
concerns which were best equipped
and managed, and as ince then the en-
penses of mining, transportation and
manufacture have been further re-
duced. The cost of the metal and the
railroad freight are all that need be
counted as cash required to build
country steel roads; the hauling and
laying of the plates and the founda-
ton of field stones, gravel or burned
clay are all matters of common labor
ton of labor or a labor tax.
Instead of the direct aid to road
building now strongly advocated in
congress and elsewhere the United
States could give more efficient aid in
directly, and give it through such
means as would moreover, Sc
cure most important benefits to the
whole country in addition to good roads.
Two thousand dollars a mile is cheap
enough for a perfect road, good for
generation without repair, and if the
money could be borrowed, for ill
stance, at the lowest rate which is
paid by the United States government
2 per cent. per annum-the yearly
interest charge would only be $40, or
just what it costs to keep up the
earth roads of New York state, count
ing labor at $3.50 per day. But to get
the money in vast amounts at that
rate is the problem. and there is where
one of the special features of metal
roads construction comes in. In stone
roads there is nothing worth remov-
ing, nothing that can be pledged as
security for loan, but steel rails and
their attachments will afford a sub
stantial and available pledge; adding
this pledge to the credit of a county
should make the country road bonds
peculiarly safe investment. No coun-
ty would ever permit it's roads to be
stripped of their metal by default in
its interest. Moreover, improved
roads of any kind increase property
values many times their cost, and road
bonds may thus be said always to null
tiply their own security.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26

the United States are being robbed of
their landed estate, which Lord Ma
caulay said, is the only thing which
lands between the people of this
country and the time when will come
the real test of republican institutions
During the past winter quiet but
effective work has been done by those
who are aware of the pernicious use
to which the present land laws are
being put, and, as public sentiment
has been aroused to the real situation,
the demand for a change of method is
becoming more general. The situa-
ton is such today that it would be
practically impossible to get any bill
through congress which violated the
now well-established principle of the
conservation of the public land for
homeseekers so clearly set forth by
President Roosevelt in his two mes
sages to congress.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26

formed a part, but the country as a
whole by increasing the aggregate
wealth. That this principle has
ceased to govern the land Office in it's
disposal of the public land, EXCEPT
purely in theory, is a notorious fact
proved by figures cta-tling and com
polling.
OF all the thousands of desert land
entries, for instance, which have been
filed in the past ten years, the land
Office only investigated four hundred
and seventy two, and out of these two
hunderd and ninety-seven were found
fraudulent and eventually cancelled.
The highest number of fraudulent
claims investigated were upon the one
point of speculative intent on the part
of the settler, and in this respect Wy
oming holds an unenviable position at
the head of the list. OF twenty-threa
cases investigated in wyoming nine
teen of them were found fraudulent, or
about eighty-five per cent. OF the
filings. When it is realized that no
land filings are investigated except
tLose in regard to which special con-
test or information is filed, and that
in most cases there is no one so inter
ested or so adventurous as to contest
his neighbours claim, the percentage
of fraud in the cases actually inves-
tigated becomes of startling signiti-
canoe.
In 1900 the government OF the
United States decided away over thir-
teen and a half million acres of land;
in 1901 these disposals reached a total
of sixteen million acres, figure
which startled the country in its
enormous proportions. In 1902, how
ever. there was a gain of over four
million acres, and the disposals made
by the government reached the enor
nous aggregate of nearly twenty mil
lion acres At the rate which has pre-
vailed during the first six months OF
the fiscal year of 1908, the disposais
will probably amount to at least
twenty-five million acres, or fully as
much as was alienated at any time
during the great rush of emigration
to the west.
Al. this simply means that under
the homestead law as it stands TODAY.
the desert land act, measure born in
solfishness and chicanery and under
the timber end stone act, the people OF
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26

sum about equal to the annual cost OF
the British navy, and but little short
of the total revenues of Spain. The
aggregate net income of all the Nor
gan corporations is probably nearly or
quite equal to the public revenues OF
any of the great powers of Europe,
and the taxes on those companies pay
the entire cost of maintaining the
executive departments of New Jersey
But Mr.. Morgan does not depend
on the dividends of his stocks for the
bulk of his income. His chief bust
ness, at present, is promoting on
gigantic scale When he organized
the underwriting syndicate that
launched the United States Steel cor
poration the subscribers were pledged.
if called upon, to pay in 100000, 900.
They actually advanced only s25,000,-
900, and that was returned in the final
settlement. Their profit on this in,
vestment was s56,O00,O0O, or over 200
per cent. The share of ]. P. Morgan
& Co. was about s11,000,000. Every
company Mr.. Morgan fioats-and the
number is large-yields profits pro-
portiOnally.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26
WESTERN ACRES.
Vast Tracts Given Away Under Land
Law That Robs the People.

After a struggle only equalled in the
history of land legislation by the great
fight which resulted in the enactment
of the homestead law in 1862, writes j.
d. Whelpley in Golfers Weekly, con-
gress passed the national reclamation
act of a year ago and created a re-
volving fund which will shortly amount
to about twenty million dollars to re-
claim the fertile but arid territory of
the western states.
President Roosevelt in his first an
nual message laid down the principle
that Successful home-making is but
another name for the upbuildlng of
nation" In his message of last De-
cember he again called attention TO
the notorious and outrageous use Of
the present land laws. Great however
is the political power of the landed
interests of the sparsely settled west
ern states.
The land grabbers found it easy to
accomplish their purpose under the
present land laws and the methods of
administration which prevail in the
land once. In the HfSt place, the
government requires only that the
legal forms involved in securing land
shall be letter perfect, and the re
ceivers and registers of land offices
in the various western districts look
no further into the practical applica-
ton of the law than might be included
in view from their office windows.
Under the present system they are
machines for filing out blanks and
not conservators or guardians OF the
peoples interests.
The principle underlying all land
legislation of the United States from
the beginning has been that each citi-
zen should be given farm in return
for which he was to live upon the land
or so improve it as to benefit not only
the new community of which he thus
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26
The Worlds Shipbuiidinq.

The total output of the world DUR
ing 1902 exclusive of warshfps) is
about 2,503, 900 tons (2126,OO0 steam,
1000 said. Lloyds's Register Re
turns show that the tonnage of all
nationalities totally lost, broken up,
etc, in the course of twelve months
amounts to about 100000 tons 1862,
900 steam, $4,000 said. 1t will thus
be seen that the total net increase of
the worlds mercantile tonnage during
1902 is about 1,763,0O0 tons. Sailing
tonnage has been slightly reduced,
while steam tonnage has increased by
1,764,0OO tons. OF the tonnage launch
ed during 1902 England has acquired
over 46 per cent. and of the new
steam tonnage over 50 per cent.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26
Keep Your Skin Soft

Now that the rough and bleak days
and nights are here. faces need extra
care to keep the skin soft and tender.
A little cream rubbed into the skin
with fuller's earth protects it from
rough winds.
Before this is done the face should
be gently washed in lukewarm water
and bran and then rinsed with water
in which few drops of eau de CO
logne have been placed. If a little
cold cream is rubbed in it keeps the
tissues in splendid condition.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26
MORGAN INTERESTS CONTROL.
Manipulate Capital Three Times
Greater Than Debt OF U. S.

New York-In September, 1902, the
Morgan interests controlled 55,555
miles of American railways, or more
than the mileage of Germany, Great
Britain, and Ireland combined. This
is how Success computes it. These
lines have a capitalization of $3,OO2,-
949,571, which is more than three
times the total interest bearing debt
of the United States. In addition, the
Morgan influence is powerful in al
most all the other important railroad
systems of the country. The direct
Morgan interests include eigh>e Il
railroad systems, one monster steam
ship company, thirteen industrial COM
binations, seven banks, three tele-
graph and cable companies, seven
great insurance companies, and in
Vulnerable smaller corporations of dl-
vers kinds. The total capitalization
of these various combinations is So
44S. 500 000-an amount greater than
the national debt of any country in
the world, and twice the debt OF Great
Britain. The capital of single one
of the Morgan comprehensive United
States Steel corporation-is equal to
about twice the cost of the boer war,
and its net profits for the current
wear are estimated al s140,000,000, a
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26
Logical.

He-"Do you believe the missing
link will ever be found?"
She-"Of course not
He-'Why
She-"Because if found it will not
be the missing link"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26
Gewei Hints.

Gold chains, earrings, ETC., should
be well washed with good suds and
dried for brilliancy.
Cases of gold watches should be
kept tightly closed to exclude all dust
and foreign matter A watch should
be wound each day at about the same
hour.
Set rings, earrings, etc., should be
cleaned with alcohol and dried in
boxwood sawdust; afterward cleaned
gently with fine brush.
Jewels should be kept in their
separate cases as much as possible
when not in use so as not to loosen
settings.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26

10 clean rings and anything with
high settings take a toothbrush, rub
some soap on it and tap lido not
brush) on the space beneath the set
ting.
When clean rinse in clear water and
dry with linen cloth. Your ring will
now be clean and also the setting.
In regard to jewels, the first is car
rying them or concealing them
made a chamois bag the size and
shape of an envelope. This was lined
with softest blue silk. l then bound
it with satin ribbon an inch wide,
which allowed of five rows of ma
chine stitching. The flap was made
large enough to come to the bottom
OF the bag and was secured with but
ton and buttonhole. At each top
corner a ribbon is secured to come
around the neck, or some other ar
rangement to fasten inside the waist
or underclothing, as each person has
their own way of concealing their
jewelry.
| clean all stones with the softest
tissue paper, passing it back and
forth under the stone until it is brill
liant. Do not have the paper too wide.
Torn in strips about one-half inch
wide is best and the end twisted to
pass through easily. Nearly all other
jewelry except filigree can be cleaned
by rubbing briskly with chamois For
busy woman it is far better and
wiser to have some skilled jeweler
clean her jewels than to attempt it
herself if it becomes very dirty Have
special box for putting away your
jewelry. Even though there is a bad
ded bottom to the box put in a layer
of good absorbent cotton mot medi
cated) cut to fit the box Now put in
the heaviest pieces, each separated by
small piece of cotton. Put over this
a layer of the cotton and put in the
next heavier pieces and continue in
the above fashion until they are all in
the box. Have all the cotton cut to
fit the box and if the person is very
neat they will bind the edges loosely.
Jewelry that is much worn needs con-
slant attention, especially rings. They
should be carefully examined to see
that the prongs do not wear down or
the stones loosen and fall out If
prong is worn it needs immediate at
tention.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-26
STEEL RURAL ROADS
EXPENSIVE BUT SAID TO BE
VERY ADVANTAGEOUS.
COSTING $4,000 PER MILE

Tests and Feafnsss of the New Meth
cd of Roadmaking-Desirability of
Such a ighway-Maintenanc at
Minimum and Interest Rates
Low.
The Washington times., 1903-10-30
RECORDER ]. 0. BROWN
POISONED, SAYS JURY
Coroner Announces Result of Inquest
But Accuses No One
of Crime.

PITTsBURG. Oct 3O-who killed J.
O. Brown, recorder of the city OF Pitts
burg, on March Is last? is the question
raised by the verdict returned last
evening by the cOToners jury which
has been investigating the death of the
recorder.
The inquest. which has been dragging
over several months. was brought to a
close yesterday. The jury was out
about three hours and then brought in
verdict TO the effect that Mr.. Brown
came to his death suddenly from poi
son. said poison having been admins
tered by some unknown person OF per-
sons"
After the verdict was announced ]. r.
p. Brown. brother Of the recorder. said
that he did not intend to return to his
ranch home in the West for some time,
and that he would remain in Pittsburg
This is taken to mean that he intends to
find out who administered the fatal
dose.
Opinions differ as to whether the dis
trict attorney will have to take some
action on the verdict. The jury made no
specific recommendation that the mat
ter be inquired into by the county
courts