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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
rom the New York Pres.

From the New York Press.
 There are lots of ways for a man to make love to woman, and she invented every one of them.
 A man can know darn little and yet make his wife believe he is a wonder at fixing the plumbing.
 When girls skirt gets caught above her boot tops it is always some other girl that snickers the loudest
 A girl hardly ever gets mad at some body she likes without being nice to some body else she doesn't like.
 It's awful nice the way woman car convince you that you ought to do a ting she says you ought not to.
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"cHAIRMANp coRTELYou,

From the Florida Times-Union.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald is cruel enough to think that Secretary Cortelyou will be mere figure-head as chairman of the republican national committee. He will, at all events. have enough to figure with
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THE VERY IDEAL

From the Boston HeraId.
 And here comes Miss Laura Egan tell ing the press parliament at St. Louis that the woman's columns in the newspa- pers is nothing but plaudits. platitudes, piecrust and pudding. This Is even more peevishly alliterative than Colonel Wat terson's pelting of the pert paragraph. No flowers.
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"WATERi SON."

From the Baltimore Herald. A Kentucky colonel Saw this in the Journer: "The people are calling for Hearst" "Its lie infolonelr' Said the irate colonel. And he cearst till he nearly bearst.
 Ralph A. Lyon.
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undeserving of Loyalty.

From the Butte Inter- Mountain.
 Mrs. Kentuck,-zebediah the latest war dispatches say the Russians will dispute the right of the Japs to take possession of the Yaloo.
 Col Kentuck-I Cad, madam with draw my moral suppoht from the .Roosh- ians this instant; when they began fight ing ovah watah. madam, it's time to quit 'em.
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HER REASON.

From the Chicago Post.
 q never thought she loved him" '.She didn't"
 "Then why did she marry him ?" "She had a grudge against him.
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SETTLES Ir.

From the Greenville Advocate.
 The Rev. Sam Small reappears on the scene as a Hearst Birmingham Age-Herald
 If the Hearst boom has not already received its knockout blow this will set- tle it
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ABOUT THE SUMMER.

From the Eufaula Times
 The Age-Herald thinks that with the assistance of baseball watermelons and Georgia peaches, we will be able to hedge through the summer
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1 around by Chicago or else take a steamer from Boston. Society is greatly interested in waiting to see hew Reggie will solve the problem
 The revelations of tortures indulEsd in by the sunworshipping devotees of Chi- cago Is enough to give US pause. How people surrounded with all the advan- tages of an enlightened civilization and people who have prohted by those advan- tages can 80 forget common sense ks to revert back to the( barbarites of the 1 Dark Ages is hard for a person of nor- maj mind to understand. The unfortu- nate victims of mysticism in Chicago of- fer interesting psychological problems and impress the fact that the dervish spirit is not confined to the religious fanatics of the east.
 The Dothan Daily siftlngs, an Alabama newspaper, has hit upon novel scheme for preventing papers delivered to sub scribers by carrier boys from being blown away or chewed up by the goats before the subscribers have an opportunity to i peruse their contents In an editorial the siftings advises readers of the paper that hey will be furnished paper hook free of charge if they will affx 1t some where convenient to the front door and l the carrier. so that the boy can hang paper on 1t every day. There viii then be no danger of the paper being lost through any one of those hundred and one different ways in which newspapers have a habit of disappearing While the plan will hardly be endorsed very | enthusiastically by the newsboys, from the fact that 1t makes more work Tor them, 1t should be hailed with acclaim | by the subscribers.
 Just now Joe Folk of Missouri is much in the public eye, demonstrating conclu- sively that it pays to chase boodiers. AS a result of his vigorous campaign against corruption in the city of St. Louis MT Folk appears to have the governorship of his state within his grasp and is now being mentioned for the Presidency. While his rise has been rapid enough to make most people dizzy Attorney Folk seems to be accepting his honors easily and ia really one of the strongest fig ures in public life today.
 
 Nancy Hanks" a name dear to lovers of the race track and synonymous with every term expressing the poetry or motion. has just been sold for sSsoo at an auction sale to the mayor of Calais, Me The famous mare will race no more but her name will never be forgotten and in I these days of new Queens of the turf the prestige of Nancy Hanks has not suffered Although her record of 2:o4 for trotting mile has since been lower ed perhaps no racehorse ever bred achiev- ed more widespread fame than did Nan cy Hanks.
 The humble, ubiquitous cookie. burr has again become theme for country edi- tors. The cookie burr figured in humor- ous tales from time immemorial and IS consequently an object of respect in all rural communities where its worth is rec ognized City folk have no appreciation for cookie burrs. Perhaps in their case Ignorance is bliss, but in the country the cookie burr is supreme and contrives to make life miserable for man and beast.
 P. c.
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The republic of Panama is unique among South American republics-it has been started on gold basis. Uncle Sam furnishes the gold.
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Between the Far East war and the Far West presidential campaign the coming summer and fall promise to be full of interest. No mention is made of our baseball team.
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The grand dukes are now safe in St. Petersburg, and the war can pro. ceed again.
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The new two-cent Louisiana pur- chase stamp is almost as large as Tom Jeffersons idea of the original pur- chase itself. All he wanted was the mouth of the Mississippi river.
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It cost Secretary of State John Hay S777 to spend week at the St. Louis fair. Each trip down the Pike cost him $51.
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Missouri goes into the campaign equipped with two republican parties, each of which hates the other worse than it does the democrats.
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The republican national convention holds 914 Roosevelt and Hit dele gates out of 9SS. Ballotting will be brief in that convention. The bosses have rendered any such nonsense un- necessary.
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TALKING MACHINES.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 A fire at Camden. N. J., the other day destroyed s5oO.OOo worth of talking ma chimes.
 But the average married man will nev- CT miss 'em.
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PROBABLY MISSING.

From the Augusta Herald.
 Two men in Kentucky fell in vat of corn juice and were drowned. Oh, death, where is thy sting.
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CAUSE FOR JOY.

From the Mobile Register.
 Birmingham is rejoicing in the possess sion of five candidates for the office of mayor in that city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-26

Cats distribute germs, but if cats are boiled they should not be served up as rabbits.
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Ohio does net'regard MT, Hit as A bit of a favGite son. He left Ohio when he was very young and never went back
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All psychological movements are to be stricken out of the programme of the St. Louis convention.
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The stand-pat republican party has smothered or muzzled all reform ideas, including the Iowa idea.
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Professor Starr of the University of Chicago advises American mothers to keep their babies strapped to board Indian fashion, if they desire them to be healthy. happy and good looking. What the modern college professor does not know is not worth knowing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-26

We might lend Russia our board of strategy, and our generals promoted beyond their just expectations.
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The St. Louis convention is not to be David Bennett Hill cut-and-dried affair.
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Judge Parker has never acquired the tail-end-of-a-car habit.
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Wilkinson Steam Turbine.

James Wilkinson of this city is an in- ventor of a steam turbine and has al- ready, obtained number of valuable pat ents in America and Europe. MT. Wilkin- son is president of company which now holds about twenty patents in the United States and Canada, England, France and Belgium.
 "The water wheel known as the turbine is pretty well understood as to it's con struction," said MT Wilkinson yesterday 'In the water impact turbine the power of flowing water Is applied to the wheel baskets usually at right angles to the axis or shaft giving the shaft regular speed and power in proportion to the volume and control of the water. In the steam turbine the energy of the steam is applied to buckets or vanes mounted on wheels. This application of power is similar to that in water wheel practice except the steam Is usually applied to the buckets from the side after 1t has ex- banded and transformed it's energy of pressure into velocity. the power of the machine being dependent upon the weight and control of the steam. It is, therefore clear that the steam turbine will impart great speed and power to shaft which may In turn do it's work for any machine with which it may be con- nected either directly or indirectly Such engines have no dead points and are capable of abstracting a greater amount of work out of a given quantity of steam than other engines
 "A high speed also lends high power for small weight and greater adaptability for all electrical work. Unquestionablv the steam turbine will supercede the reel procating engines not only in large plants and steamships, which is even now a con ceded fact, but also for smaller work. and 1t is freely predicted that the several hundred engine builders of America are going to be in need of steam turbine rights within few years"
 About Persons. Priestly Toulmin of Lehigh Is at the Hillman.
 Gerald Ware of St. Louis is stopping at the Colonial.
  T. L, Long Of Jasper is at the Morris
 
 c. c. Rose of New York is registered at the St. Nicholas. F. l.. Smith and Fred II. Jones of Liv- fngston are at the Hillman. | @. Oakley, city passenger agent for the 1 Southern railway at Rome, Ga. is at the Morris.
 M. L. Ritter or Cordova is at the Morris. l H. N. Binford of Athens is registered at | the St. Nicholas
 l Gaston Scott, the well-known real estate man of Montgomery, is at the Hillman. F. B. Burney of Washington is in the city.
 | Judge Harper Hamilton and D. H. Ham, uton of Rome, Ga, are at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-26

Colonel Younghusband proposes t' stand pat on the roof of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-26

Judge Parker knows no flaw can be picked in the utterances of silent man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-26

The licking of the world's-fair stamps is no light task
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-26

Mayor Mcclellan is considered In- diana's assistant favorite son by adop- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-26

The Japanese have no intention of making Harbin summer resort this year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-26

The sweet girl graduate holds the stage at present.
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Facts should be taken raw, and not stewed or fried.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-26

Frank V Evans and R. |. o'Nsal' Jr'' are. the only authorized travelling repre- sentatives of the Age Herald in It's CIT euiation department
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
PilQrimS Were the First

years after the Pilgrims left England
and eight years after they planted the
Scrooby church at Plymouth that the
Puritans left England. The Puritans
landed at Salem, and there the first
Puritan church in America was estab
lished. in 1923.
This church was at first an Epis'
copal church, but, under the influence
of Surgeon Fuller of Plymouth who
was sent to Salem TO assist during
the prevalence of what is called In
the records a plague the Congrega-
tional system was adopted. This was
accomplished under the lead of Gov.
Endicott, in 1929 The Pilgrims,
therefore, were the pioneers in the
settlement of this country, and to
them, rather than to the Puritans. do
we owe what Is best in our national
life, and | might add, most of those
principles and practices which differ.
entiate us from the other nations Of
the earth, Let us remember, also,
that the Pilgrims, and not the Puri-
tsns, were the founders of Congrega-
tionalism In Europe and in America.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27

Just as horses depreciate SO do
Jockeys. The outlaw tracks and
bushes are full of Jockeys who were
once stars on the race courses. Jock
eys who made fortunes few seasons
ago are now hustling for mounts and
when they secure one It is usually
sonic outsider that cannot win.
Willie Sims, the jockey who won
fame and fortune for the Dryer broth
ers, boy who once held the privilege
OF selecting his own engagements. is
amongst the number who are now
hustling for mounts. Even his old
time employer, Mike Dryer, puts
stable boy up in preference to the once
famous Sims. Sims claims he can
ride as well as ever but no boy on
earth could ride a winner on the
horses he has been forced to ride.
Fred Taral is another living exam
pie of the man who has gone back
ward. Five years ago Taral was
Americas greatest jockey. Every
prominent stable la the country was
after him. A year later the class of
his mounts began to depreciate. He
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
Have But Brief Day

saw that he was losing his grip. A
new style of riding was coming into
vogue. Taral discovered 1t and packed
his trunk and left for Australia.
Soup" Perkins, who piloted the
great Henry of Navarro. when the
thoroughbred was Americas greatest
3-year-old, has been eking out an ex.
istence at the Newport track. "Tiny"
Moore, who was once the jockey of
the Lorillards, secures an occasional
mount at Newport. This lad is capa-
BILE of riding at a reasonable weight,
but last season, when he made his APP
pearance in the east, he was not given
q decent mount.
At Chicago Tiny" Williams lands
mount occasionally. Sometimes he
wins, but his victories are few and far
between. Stoval, another worthy lad.
died poor at St. Louis. At the time
of his death he could not secure q
mount. And so on down the list in.
definitely. The jockeys have their
brief period of success and then fade
out of the public mind and are forgot.
ten, left too often without any means
to live upon.
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
Sense Of Smell In the Aged.

Old people have an atrophied sense
of smell, and they do not seem to be-
conscious of this infirmity. Even when
they can scarcely distinguish one
familiar odor in ten. and when they
take strong smelling liquids for pure
water. they assert that they enjoy the
perfume Of flowers. Their visual inn
ages. for they recognize the perfume
of flowers when they are able to see
them. The olfactive image thus has
an independent intellectual existence.
siuce it is capable of functional re-
viva
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27

'Forefathers' Day" was observed at
the First Unitarian church in Oak
land, Cal, on the evening Of Dec. 20.
Col. John p. Irish presided, and re-
lated in brief the causes which led
the Pilgrims to forsake their native
land and cast their lot in a new and
strange country.
The acting pastor of the Berkeley
Unitarian church, the Rev. George w.
Stone, who was formerly the Histo-
rian OF the Massachusetts, Society of
Mayhower Descendants, delivered the
address of the day. which took the
form of a study of the Pilgrim era
He defined at length the difference
between the Puritans and the Pill
grims. In part he said:
Bear in mind that the 'Scrooby'
congregation was the last organiza-
ton of Separatlsts that existed in
England at that time; that 1t fed to
Holland in 1907, and after thirteen
years residence there II came In the
Mayflower to America and founded
the Pilgrim Republic at Plymouth In
1920. Notice that 1t was thirteen
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
A Dentists Advice.

Toledo. Ohio. Jan. 25th.-Mr Harry
l.. Lewis, Dentist, GOT Sumit street,
this city, says: 81 certainly advise
anyone, no matter how severe they
may have Kidney Trouble to take
Dodd's Kidney Pills.
IL was troubled with Kidney Dis
ease for several years and Dodd's Kid
ney Pills cured me. had used
many so-called remedies without any
benefit. Four months ago. was fiat
on my back with this painful trouble
and must say that | almost gave up
hopes of ever getting any better.
Through a friends advice purchased
six boxes Of Dodd's Kidney Pills.
AT first l could see but little bene-
At, but after two weeks, could see
an improvement. had beer getting
UP several times at night AID pains
in my back were very severe. When
I had taken six boxes felt better
than had for years. The pain had
all gone and didn't have to get up
during the night at all. continued
the treatment until had used several
more boxes, and now I am glad to
say that / am completely cured"
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
10000 Plants for i6o.

This is a remarkable offer the John
"A. Salzer Seed Co, La Crosse, Wis.
snakes. They will send you their big
plant and seed catalog, together with
enough seed to grow
1000 fine, solid Cabbages.
1000 delicious Carrots.
1000 blanchlng, nutty Celery.
1000 rich, buttery Lettuce.
1000 splendid onions.
1000 rare luscious Radishes.
1000 gloriously brilliant Flowers.
This great offer is made in order to
induce you to try their warranted seeds
for when you once plant them you
will grow no others, and
ALL ron BUT 16c POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice,
and II you will send them zoe in post
age, they will add to the above pack
age of the famous Berllner Caulifower.
NV. N. VI
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
Or. FED HIMSELF.
Found the Food that Snved His Life.

A good old family physician with a
iifetime experience in saving people
nnally found himself sick unto death.
Medicines failed and - but let
MIN tell his own story. "For the first
time in my life of sixty-one
years am impelled to pub
licly testify to the value OF largely
advertised article and certainly
would not pen these lines except that.
what seems to me a direct act of
Providence, saved my life and | am
Impressed that 1t is bounden duty
To make It known.
For 8 years / kept failing with
stomach and liver disorders until |
was reduced 20 lbs. from my nor
NAL weight. When ! got too low to
treat myself, of my associate physi-
clans advised me to put my house in
order for would be quickly going the
way OF all mankind. Just about that
time | was put on a diet Of Grape
Nuts predigested food. Curlously
enough II quickly began to build me
up, appetite returned and in Is days
1 gained 6 lbs That started my re-
turn to health and reilly saved my
life.
"a physician is naturally preJudiced
against writing such a letter. but In
this case am willing to declare II
from the housetops that the multi
piled thousands who arc now suffering
as l did can find relief and health as
easily and promptly by Grape-Nuts. Il
they only knew what to do. Sincerely
and Fraternally yours" Name of this
prominent physician furnished by Pos
tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Look IN each package for a copy 0
the famous little book, "The Road Il
MELVILLE"
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
She Took Them at Their Word.

Keuka Lake is one of the most at
tractive Of the great chain of lakes
in the interior of New York state.
Bluff Point at its head is a bold
promontory, which rises grandly and
impressively. It was upon the banks
of this lake that the famous "Jemims
Wilkinson" founded colony nearly
three generations ago and announced
that she could walk upon the water
OF the lake. A large crowd gathered
to see her undertake the experiment.
Turning to her followers she asked:
''Have you all faith that ! can walk
upon the water?" I'VE have, we
have!" her followers replied. Then
there is no use in my undertaking to
do So" she replied. IF We have faith
We shall be saved without my walking
upon the water"
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
Mongolia.

Although Mongolia, in which Russia
is now intrenched. has been a part OF
the Chinese empire for the greater
part of the last two centuries, China
has not exercised much authority over
1t, and the Mongol has been largely at
liberty to follow his own desires in
method of government and conduct.
The only tribute which has heretofore
been required from the country has
been a certain number of men to
serve in the Chinese army.
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
The U. $, p,rt. Of ArrIculture

Gives to Salzer's Oats its heartlest
endorsement. Salzer's New National
Oats yielded in 1903 from $50 to 800
blu. per acre in 30 differen. States, and
you, Mr.. Farmer can beat this in 1904.
II you will. Salzer's seeds are pedigree
seeds, bred up through careful seleo-
ton to big yields.
Per Acre.
Salzer's Beardless Barley
yielded ........... ........ 121 blu.
Salzer's Home Builder Corn. 300 bu.
Speltz and Macaroni Wheat. so bu.
Salzer's Victoria Rape..... 10000 lbs.
Salzer's Teosinte, the quick
growing fodder wonder. 100, 900 lbs.
Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass. so 900 lbs.
Salzer's Pedigree Potatoes. 1000 bu.
Now such yields pay and you can
have them. Mr.. Farmer. in 1904.
SEND loo IN STAMPS
and this notice TO the John A. Salzer
Seed CO., La Crosse, Wis, and you will
get their big catalog and lots of farm
seed samples free. CIV. N. W
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
HOW BRET HARrE LOOKED.
Winning Personality Of the Great Call.
fornia Author.

Mr.. Towels gives us some charming
"reminiscences of Bret Harte In the
Easy Chair Of Harper's, relating to a
weeks visit Harte paid him when the
latter came East from California. MIR.
Howells thus describes the author OF
THE Luck of Roaring Camp" He
was then, as always, a child OF ex'
treme fashion as to his clothes and
the cut of his beard. which he wore
in a mustache and the dropping side
whiskers of the day, and his jovlal
physiognomy was as winning as his
voice. with its straight nose and fas-
cinating forward thrust of the under
lip, its fine eyes, and good forehead.
tEen thickly crowned with black hair
which grew early white, while his
stache remained dark. He
was. as one could not help seeing,
thickly pitted but after the first glance
one forgot this. Pittsburg Press.
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NEVER WITHOUT A cHAPERoN.
Dutch Girls Always Attended by Their
Elders.

The Dutch girl does not enjoy any
thing like the amount of freedom
granted to her English or American
sister. She is very carefully chaper-
oned young person and when she goes
to the theater 1t is with her elders. not
merely with a friend or two of her
own age. At the dances she attends,
songs, recltations and music for the
entertainment of the elders form q
part OF the regular program and the
chaperons sit at tables socially enjoy.
ing their coffee or other refreshments.
while the young folk glide over the
wsxed floor to the strains of the latest
waltz. Dutch maidens have to make
the best OF their opportunities OF
amusement. for when 1t pleases their
parents to seek the quiet OF home
they must meekly accompany them.
In their country the idea of girl be-
ing unchaperoned at a dance is not to
be thought of-at any rate. not yeti