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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06
ISLANDS.
"Thousand Islands" on St. Lawrence
 River Number Only 300.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 Jerome Hart writes: T never heard any particular bother made over the number of the Scandinavian islands. I had often heard of the fiords, never of the islands. Therefore, was surprised when we sail ed through endless isles of granite piercing through steel colored swirls of sea For the islands around the coasts of Denmark, Sweden and Norway and thence across the Gulf of Bothnit and the Gulf of Finlan1 are literally endless and they are all of primitive granite. There are great islands, small islands, little islands, islets, rocks, pinnacles and needles. Thousands of them are nameless although all seem to be charted. Coming from the North Cape down the coast of Norway through the Skager rack, the Kattegat, past Copenhagen and up into the strait between Gotland and Sweden, I believe the s..p must pass through scores of thousands of islands. In one group alone lying off Stockholm the Alands islands there are over three hun dred on the chart.
 "One of the most beautiful groups of islands Is that through which the vessel passes from the open Baltic sea to the harbor of Stockholm" continued MT Hart. "I cannot even guess how many there are ill the group. For couple Of hours you steam through lHeSc waterways, island after island-to star board, to port, ahead and astern- is- lands moving rhythmically around you as far as eye can see-in apparent par allelograms then lengthening into rhombs, then diamondwise, like the trees In a vast California orchard The com parison is not forced one, for each is- land is wooded so that 1t looks like a large bunchy tree. Masses of granite as the islands are. the birches and frs find footing on ..em in little patches of soil in the rocky crevices These is lands are so rocky that the people have constructed steps of wood or iron in every direction over them, as the foot hold is insecure on the smooth and slip pery rock"
 Contrasting these many islands with famous groups nearer home, MT. Hart writes: "I had often heard of the St. Lawrence's Thousand islands, yet when I first sailed on the St. Lawrence I was disappointed in the number of islands, numerous as they are. When I mention ed this to a Canadian acquaintance the rerroachful reply came from the Canuck Well. anyway, there are nearly three hundred of them ''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06
Hints for Homemakers.
the Philadelphia Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 Use not only what you can comfortably afford in good quality and ample quan- tity.
 Let your home appear bright and sum- ny. It is not easy to be unpleasant in a cheerful room.
 A certain tormality Is necessary to save everyday life from triviality and freedom from looseness.
 Know how to talk and how to listen, how to entertain and amuse.
 Have many interests.
 Do not forget your home should not only be a well-conducted dormitory and boarding place, but truly home. the center of focus for all interest pleasure and happiness for everybody concerned with it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06

voluntarily to do the same, when, to ms astonishment. he found his beard had grown a foot longi
 TTe had now entered the outskirts of
 the village. A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting at him and
 point-ing at his gray beard. The dogs'
 too, not one of which he recognized TOT
 an old acquaintance, parked at nlm as ne
 rassed. The very village was altered
 it was larger and more populous. Ihere
 were rows os houses which he had never
 seem before, and those which had been
 his familiar haunts had disappeared.
 Strange names were over the doors
 strange faces at the windows-everything
 was strange. His mind now misgave him;
 he began 10 doubt whether both he ana the world around him were not pe- witched, surely this was his native vil- lage. which he had left but the day De- fore. There stood the Katskill noun tains; there ran the silver Hudson al d | distance; there was every hlli anu uaie @ | nrecisely as 1t had always been. Rip was | sorelv perplexed That fagon last night" thought he, "has added my poor | head sadly!'
 If was with some difficulty that he | found the way to his own house, whlch 1 he approached with silent awe, expecting | every moment to hear the shrill voice ol Dame Van Wrinkle He found the house cone to decay the roof fallen in, the win dows shattered, and the doors ofr the hinges. A half starved dog that looked
 like Wolf was skulking about. Rip called him hv name but the cur snarled, | shaved his teeth and passed on. This was | an unkind cut indeed My very dog, | sighed poor Rip, "has forgotten mel! He entered the house-which to tell | the truth, Dame Van Wrinkle had al ways kept n neat order. It was empty 1 forlorn and apparently abandoned. The | dasolatenesa oyercame all his eonnubial | fears. He called louly for his wifi and | children. The lonely chambers rang Tor | q moment with his voice and then all | again was silence.
 He now hurried forth and hastened to 1 his old resort, the village inn, but 1t,
 too, was gone A large, rickety wooden | building stood in its place, with great | gaping windows, some of them broken | and mended with old hats and petticoats and over the door was painted: 'The l Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle.' h. | stead of the great tree that used to
 shelter the quiet little Dutch inn or | we're, there was now reared a tall naked | rcle with something on the top that look 1 cd like a red night cap and rom IL
 was futterlng a flag, on which was
 a singular assembage of stars ana | strines All this was strange and h. | comprehensible. He recognized on the
 sign, however, the ruby face of King | George, under which he had smoked so
 many a peaceful pipe; but even this was
 singularly metamorphosed. The red coat
 was changed for one of blue and bun
 sword was held in the hand instead oi | A scepter, the head was decorated Witf ! a cooked hat, and underneath was paint cd in large characters General Wash | ington."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06
]; RIP VAN WINkLES' RETURN
ls9s2s..s9S2s99 s.s2
BY WASHINGTON IRVING.

companion had ascended the preceding, but to his astonishment mountain stream was now foaming down it, leap ing from rock to rock, and filling the glen with babbling murmers. He, however, made shift 10 scramble up it's sides. working his toilsome way through thick cts of birch, sassafras and witch hazel, and some times tripped up or entangled by the wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree and spread a kind of network In his path.
 At length he reached to where the ra- vine had opened through the cliff to the amphitheater; but no traces of such opening remained. The rocks presented a high lmpenStrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in sheet of feathery foam and fell into broad deep basin, black with the shadows of the sur rounding forest Here, then, poor Rip was brought to stand. He again called and whstled after his dog. He was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows sporting high in the air about q dry tree that overhung the precipice; and who secure in their elevation seem ed to look down and scoff tt the poor mans perplexities. What was to be done? The morning was passing away and Rip felt famished for his breakfast. He grieved to give up. his dog and his gun; he dreaded to meet his wife; but 1t would not do to starve among the mountains He shook his head, should cred the rusty firelock and with heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward.
 As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none of them he knew, which somewhat surprised him for he had thought himself acquainted with everyone in the country round. Their dress, teo., was of different fashion from that to which he had been accus- toned They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, ,|a and whenever they cast their eyes upon him invariably
 stroked their chins. The constant re- currence of this gesture induced Rip in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06
No Hunting h Palestine.

From the Nashville Banner.
 The late Bishop Beckwith of Georgia. was fond of his gun, and spent much of his time hunting, says representative from that State. One day the Bishop was out with dog and gun. and met a member of his parish whom he reproved for inattentlon to his religious duties.
 You should attend church and read your bible" said the Bishop.
 T do read my bible, Bishop" was the answer, and I don't find any mention of the apostles going a-shooting.
 'sNo." replied the Bishop, "the shoot ing was very bad in Palestine. so they went fishing instead"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06

On waking he found himself on the
 green knoll whence he had first seen the
 old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes 1t was a bright sunny morning. The
 birds were hopping and twittering
 among the bushes, and the eagle was
 was wheeling aloft, and the breasting or
 the pure mountain breeze Surely
 thought Rip, "I have not slept here all
 night" He recalled the occurrences be-
 fore he fell asleep; the strange man with
 keg of llquor-the mountain ravine-
 the wild retreat among the rocks-the
 woe-begone party at ninepins-the fiagon
 Oh! that fagon-that wicked fagon"
 thought Rip; what excuse shall make to Dame Van WinkleY
 He loked around for his gun, but in place of the clean, well-oiled lowing
 piece he found an old firelock lying be- side him the barrel ncrusted with rust
 the lock falling off, and the stock worm eaten. He now suspected that the grave roisters of the mountain had put a trick upon him and, having dosed him with liauor had robbed him of his gun Wolf. too, had disappeared; but he might have strayed after a squirrel or part ridge. He whisteled after him and | shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout put I no dog was to be seen.
 | He determined to revisit the scene Of last evenings gambol, and If he met with | any of the party to demand his dog and 1 pun As he rose to walk he found him.
 self stiff in the joints and wanting in his
 usual activity. ''These mountain beds do not agree with me" thought Rip, and | if this frolic should lay me up with fit
 of the rheumatism l shall have a blessed time with Dame Van Winkle. Wltn some difficulty he got down into the glen He found the gully up which he ana ms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06
OUT OF TIE ORDINARY

ot the game spend large sums yearly in | nsuy weapons of offense against the inof- fansive golf ball that are simply experi- naantaI and the story is told of one golf a.a,,lg who claimed to have expended o.,ar xsoo before he had assembled an o,,+e+ of nlaving clubs that thoroughly suited him. Golf balls are yet another item that brings up the expense Of the game-the loss in single day on some of the largest links being estimated in the neighborhood of $25. And railway fares to and from the links are another large and unexpected item in the total evnensea-an item that is increased ma teria1Iv hv those enthusiasts who travel lonp distances and even cross oceans to be present at the important tournaments
 Hardly any profession seems more peaceful than that of authorship-so much so. in fact, that 1t hardly seems possible that the printed book, or even the intention of publishing printed hook. could ever have been fatal to writ CT pr publishers. The lists of books, however, that have actually been fatal to their writers Is surprisingly long one and 1t is undoubtedly one of the highest tributes to our modern ciyiliza- ton that 1t Is now finally ended. The | when an American pamphleteer was promptly shot for writing a book that at lacked the good faith of a member of the ministry. The work had bee published at nine in the morning; it was ordered sup pressed at ten; at ten thirty the author was being tried before a drum head court martial; and at noon he was exe- euted. He received his punishment, in other words, much more promptly than the average modern writer gets his check. The great Napoleon was equally prompt In dsposing of authors whose writings went contrary to his own wish es and the Bourbons who succeeded him are said to have had the troublesome authors expeditiously removed" by hir- ed assassins.
 Religious controversy and political ty- ranny were equally responsible for sent ences against authors, the cruelty of which almost passes belief. Daniel De- foe, the author of Robinson Crusoe, barely escaped the comparatively mild penalty of losing his ears for having written his famous "Short Way With Dissenters" Savonarola, for one small volume of sermons, was burned at the stake In the sixteenth century an lta- Han author was "hung, strangled and burnt" for attacking the Inquisltion. And in Denmark, during the Thirty Years War" a writer whose pen had at tackled the Conquering Sweeds was sent eneed either to lose his head or to eat his own volume, first boiled and reduced to pulp for that purpose. He ate the volume, thus being the only case on re- cord In which man literally swallowed his own words.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06

his mistress had gone out, as she could not find her i'll the house.
 John. after medltating moment. re- piled:
 ''Yes, mum, she his h'out" "Outp' exclaimed the sister; ''why, thought you said she was at home?' .'Yes, num-" came tho solemn reply. "but she tor me that she was always at taraa to vnup'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06
Measuring Her.

From the Houston Post. This thing of telepathic communica- tion is a great thing. Do you think the
 time will ever come when we will cease
 to talk?"
 Not you. my dear"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06
He Obeyed His Orders.

From Lippincotts.
 John was the new English butler in the employ of a Philadelphia family. When John first came he was told by the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06
QUAINT AMANA.
Prosperous Religious Community That
 Lives the Simple Life.

From the Housekeeper.
 Amana, in Iowa, is purely religious in its foundation, and is the outgrowth of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06

Woud you imagine that something like $50. 100000 could be spent yearly on the game of gof?
 The subject is one on which there are no statistics that give it's exact expenses, big and little, the world over, but an en- thusiast has recently made what seems to be a fairly plausible computation, based on the known facts, and reaching this surprising grand total. To begin with there are S79 golf clubs in England, 769 in the United States 632 in canny Scot land. 134 in Ireland, 43 in Wales and 63 In different parts of the continent. Prac- tically every country in the world has It's golf clubs Japan being one of the latest to invest in caddie and a golf dialect, and there are. all told, probably not less than 5000 organizations devoted to golf play ing.
 These clubs, counting their grounds. buildings and preliminary expenses, rep- resent d permanent investment of $40 00O0- 0O0 or S50, 1000, and comparatively few of them, for there are undoubtedly host of organizations not yet included in the official census, can be run at a yearly ex- pense of less than $5O00 The average membership is about 200 and the average yearly subscriptions of these 6O0'0OO golf players amounts to nearly $20,000,OOO. Each of the players is equipped with an outfit that cost on an average about $20, and the yearly purchase of golf clubs, all over the world. amounts therefore to sev- eral million dollars Many enthusiasts
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-09
CLOTHES OF STATESMEN.
salisbury and Gladstone Cared Little
Tor Appenrnnces-othcr British
Notnbies Dress Better.

The late Lord Salisbury shared with
Mr.. Gladstone a disregard for clothes
and several times his attire was referred
to with regret by sartorial writer's. So
long as his. coat hung fairly well from
the shoulder, says London Men and
Women. the dec; ase6 pre- mier cared lit
tie, but he never went The length of Mr..
Gladstone, whose clothes were often so
shabby that only an eminent person
would wear them. Lord Salisbury's
hats wsre enormous affairs, quite equal
Ing Mr.. Gladstone's in size. and much
more respectable. Indeed, Mir. Glad
stones headgear was generally in the
shocking bad hat" category. While in
attendance in the commons MIR. Glad
stone dressed fairly well, but outside
the house he paid little attention to his
garments. The successors in office of
the great departed are, on the other
hand, careful dressers, especially Lord
Rosebery, who designed a collar for
himself with the turnover peaks round
ed for great Comfort and durability.
Mr.. Balfour's appearance is usually very
smart on social occasions, although he
seemingly does not endeavor to attain
the well-groomed condition of Mr..
Chamberlain.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-09

cred bed was empty, but alongside 1t,
wrapped in a dirty and ragged blanket,
lay the form of a woman
A. Gordon. who occupies the second
story OF the tenement, and s. Candeot-
to, who cobbled shoes In the front
room Of the ramshackle structure. re-
sponded to Mrs. Campodonico's call,
but the dog denied them entrance to
his home until one of the men was
forced to kick him out Of the way.
Then the beasts snarl changed to a
pitiful whine and he retreated to the
side of his dead mistress and fondly
licked one of her cold hands.
When Deputy Coroner Brown was
removing the body the dog could
scarcely tie restrained from flying at
him. When the corpse was driven
away in the morgue wagon the faith
full animal lay down and howled in
distress. All day he stayed there, and
the humble folk in the neighborhood
supplied him with food. which, how
ever, he refused to touch, although il
was evident that he had not eaten
since his mistress fed him.
Mrs. Periera was a widow. about
20 years age, and lived in abject pow
erty
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-09
SATURDAY, -. JANUARY Q, 1904
GEORGE ON DIETING.

NJ breakfast ma she says to me
I That breads the staff Of life and when
u take lump Of sugar she
Just makes me put it back again;
Il cant have CouSEnuts neither. cause
Pa says mustn't eat such truck
= wish boys didn't have no pas
4 Or mas to watch them, b.ame the luck.
Fs takes mo,assSs on his cakes
And sugar in his coffee too
fhou ought 10 hear the row lie makes
Whfn L want SYeetS,-I never knew
Ihe time when he let doughnuts go
because they might be rich. you bei.
u wish the dCctor'd fix il so
s He only eat The things | ct
Al dinner when K cones to pie
ia says / mustn't thave bite.
lpecauSe L might set sick and die
OF nave the nightmare in the night,
and then he takes two pieces. cause
He gets the one l ought of had
~ boys would never have no pas
guess they ali be pretty glad
When grow up to be a man
/ I'm go'n' to be a doctor then.
Because I've thought about a plan
FOR boys to even up with men
~ hx 1t 80 their pas cant eat
1 n thing unless the boys can too
u guess that then the things that's sweet
! won't be so bad TO take, don't you?
~ makes my pa and ma feel bad
TO have me asst for sweets or pie:
YOU'D think one little doughnut had
Enough bad stun to make me die
But If they couldn't eat them till
1ney'd not - heavy on my chest,
= guess they'd let me have my fill,
And just keep hopin for the best
- 4. kiser. In Chicago Hecord-Herald
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-09
An Intermission
By
CORDIA GREER PETRIE

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cCopyrtsht. 1900. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
4 r SANK YEARLY into the recesses
of the big chair and silently called
down blessings on the head of the con-
raderate soul who had the forethought
20 arrange this seQuestered nook,
where, in the shadows of the balcony,
a man could enjoy a brief respite from
social frivolities and smoke his Havana
I'm blessed quietude. II was such a bore.
fhis thing of Stimulating interest for en-
nui, bat then one of the disadvantages
IN possessing an acknowledged queen
nor q wife is in being dragged from one
junction to another. But there are ad-
vantages-their name is legion-and he
'unconsciousiy thrilled with pride as he
xhought how the other fellows envied
'hsm. Even now, he marveled
That he had won her
The music floating out from the ball
room suddenly ceased, and presently a
man and woman stopped in their prom
enade and established themselves amid
The bower of palms and rubber plants
Just inside the adjacent window.
Its astonishing" he heard the wom-
IN say. how quickly one tires, with adj
Nanclng years IL is one of the first
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-09

with bullet hole through the sDo.a-
oer. Yes, 1t disabled me then. ana va.
a good deal in my way for some wears
The wound was a severe one but b,re
am as active in business as my old com
rades who were not wounded"
SO am l, said an Eignty-sixts ai,-
nois man. Il didn't run to bullet
wounds, but | had bruises until 7
couldn't rest, and in the army bruise
was bruise, as l learned by long and
painful experience. L got my first
brulse before | had been in the service
oV days That vas at Perryville. Octo-
Der 8. 1862. We were lying down behind
a rail fence when the bullet from the
rlhe OF a confederate sharpshooter
struck rail right above my head. fiat
tened out like paRcaEe, glanced off in
my direction, struck me on the Shout
der, leaving black and blue spot as
big as my hand. That bullet hurt me
worse than if it had gone through me
and yet l was reported bruised, not
wounded
Again at Jays sawmill at Chicka-
manga a tlattened ball or a piece of a
ShOh SAdHeu me SO clOSe as to DruiSe
and blister the skin, arH again got no
sympathy and was laughed at for not
tallylng hit. At Buzzard's Roost in
May, 1864, We fought in corn field from
early morning before daylight until
eight O'Clock at night. Along in the aft
ernoon, tUckered out with the hot fight
ing and the hot weather. squared my
self behind tree for a rest
Il told the boys was going to take a
nap. This was meant to be joke, but.
sitting against the tree, went to sleep.
my head wabbled to one side, exposing
my cam0 kettle hat, and a Johnnie put a
bullet through the hat so close to my
head as to cut the hair. / awoke with
start, to be laughed at by the BOYS.
L got another scratch at Kenesaw and a
blister or bruise at Peach Tree creek.
and another at Jonesboro, but l got no
furlough on any of them. can't truth
fully say that l was wounded. and vet
that bruise on my shoulder troubles me
to this day."
L had worse luck than that" said the
sergeant ION the night our division
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-09
THEY BEcAME ACQUAINTED

she passed a chapel and stopped mo-
ment to listen to the singing. She
was attracted to enter the place and
did so. taking a seat at the back of the
hall
young divinity student was preach
Ing. She was attracted at first by his
words and then by the man himself.
Being in stage where emotions could
change her intentions easily. she de-
cided that a way out was offered to
her. She remained and Joined the
church.
The young preacher and the girl be-
came acquainted. She changed her
stage singing for church singing and
secured two positions, one for morning
services and one for the evening. They
fell in love with each other and have
been married. Her salary as church
singer is their main support, while her
young husband is completing his divin-
ity course.