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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
NEWSPAPER MEN DINING
 IN JAPANESE CAPITAL

until the dinner is over. when he packs whatever part of the dinner he has not eaten in the box and carries the box home After the little girl has explained with much shaking of her head that we must not eat the sweets, she brought us a tiny lacquer table that stood about six inches from the floor, a blue and white bottle filled with saki (which tastes like warm sherry), a saucer of salt and mustard, saki cup, bowl In which to rinse the saki cup herore we offer 1t to any one with whom we wish to drink a toast, and a pair of chopsticks. Soup followed on a lacquered bowl, then hot fish, and, on a gridlron Of glass rods, raw fish. The soup and the hot fish was as deliciously cooked as at the oldest and best of Paris restaurants, but the raw fish was novelty which even the brav- est military attache and the politest cor respondent dared not attempt.
 No Longer In Courses.
 After that the dishes no longer came in courses, but were placed at the same time in rich profusion about the tiny tables. Many with which we were fa- miliar were so served that we failed to recognize them, and other dishes we thought were those we knew at home we ate in blissful ignorance that they were not. Some kidneys l especially well comed ''Ah!' exclaimed one of the po- lite hosts. "I see you like very much our devil fish" l had seen devil fish in the aquarium at Naples. but I never before had hungered for one. Of course, the chopstic<s were baffling, and of how many other breaches or etiquette we were guilty one bushes 70 guess. The next night l dined after the European fashion, and when l saw how adrlotly the Japanese officers at the dinner fol- lowed it, l was amazed at our temerity of the night previous. For the first time I became conscious that the customs Of our table were full of pitfalls. As some one has said The Romans were able to conquer the world because they did not have to stay at home and learn their own language.
 But no one of the Japanese members Of parliament made any sign that we were not eating with perfect propriety. though we must surely have shocked them. Many of the Americans and English could not understand that the little girls who knelt in front of them were not to be admired and compimenteo, but were there simply as waitresses. And when the Japanese heard their guests address them as "Maimie" and "Maude," they must in their artless Japanese way have congratulated themselves that when they determined to copy us they knew where to stop. Of course 1t IS very hard for the visitor to take the little nesans as seriously as they take themselves. The whole situation is unfamiliar We do not often sit legged, while quaintly dressed handmaids knee1 and bow before
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
M|LL|ONA|RES ARE GUARDED BY WOMAN Miss Harrison Holds Secrets of
 Standard Oil IS A REMARKABLE WOMAN The Secretary of H. H. Rogers Re. ceives s1o,ooc Year and Is as Hard to See as Rockefeller
 Himself.

From the New York World
 Katherine l. Harrison, private secreta- ry to H. II. Rogers, is harder to reach than J. P Morgan, James Stillman, John W. Gates or any other of the kings of the street. She is the one woman of the world that knows everything that goes on in Standard oil. For doing what she is required to do-and not the least of her duties is keeping her mouth seal ed-she receives s10,000 a year. You might count on your fingers the women In the United States who receive this salary.
 As a living refutation that a woman cannot keep a secret, Miss Harrison shines out unequalled. Safe with her are the secrets of the Rockefellers and Mr. Rogers, those secrets as to how they are piling up their millions until today they are the most powerful men finan- cially, in the world.
 RockesolIers Seldom Appear.
 Of the two Rockefellers John D. hard ly comes to the building at No. 26 Broad way once a month. His brother Will liam is e@en less regular frequenter of the Standard Oil headquarters MT. H. H. Rogers is the office man for this great triumvirate of oil magnates. Miss Harris on Is his secretary and chief aide Clerks, secretaries, stenographers, mes- sengers, attendants, all are denied her presence Of forty persons who visit the Rogers suite on the eleventh floor, room 1102, perhaps one gets access to MT. Rog CTS. Perhaps five may gain admittance to Miss Harrison. Of these four will be quickly and positively dismissed. The one who gains admittance by the im- portance of his errand gets the same businesslike treatment. Miss Harrison has no time to waste words, even upon the one millionaire whom MT. Rogers is willing to see.
 No card can go direct to Mir. Rogers That is an imperative rule. Even Mir Morgan must obey. He must pass within the cherry door and there face three im- rortant personages These are the guard ians of the guardian of the guardian, for three lines of vigilant sentinels guard Mir Rogers. and two lines guard Miss Harrison. One of these outer pickets takes the card. He passes within the secretary to the secretary sits in solemn state. If he sees fit the card Is passed wthin--to the presence of Miss Harrison herself.
 Knows Importance of Visits.
 One glance is enough Tor ner She knows unerringly whether Mir. Rogers cares to see the visitor or not. If not,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
Little Queer, Too.
-om the New York Times.

From the New York Times
 Morgan Robertson. who writes sea sto- ries because he knows the sea from an acquaintance of fifteen years, returned last summer to the town in which he spent his boyhood. He was something of lion. and he was amused to notice that certain persons who had ignorged him res a youth and young man were quite anxious to remember and be remember ed.
 ''One young woman came up simpt.r- ing" said MT. Robertson, in telling of his visit. and asked me If I remember cd her. AS had been a worsnIper at her shrine and lad been frostbitten by her coldness in years gone by. 1 remembered her and said so.
 .' Do you know she went on It seems so strange that you should be a successful writer. But you can't tell where genius will be found. I believe I could write if I would only try. l have always felt that l could write things suppose you felt the same way? We'll i feel just as you did am sure could write. And then I always thought that 1 was a little queer too.
 ''The way she added the too was de- licious.
 We make the pest L .,s in town. Aga Herald Engraving Company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
Harbor Eagles.
From Scribner's Magazine.

From Scribner's Magazine.
 Above the pier-close to it and togeth- CT. as if for comfort-huddled a cluster of tugs: those curious, powerful persist ent little steam craft that ply back and forth and up and down. saucly and bus fly important, their rows of lenders trail ing in the water. their black smoke ban nering out behind. Often I had watched them nosing in and out among the heav- fer craft nudging a great ocean liner in to mid-stream or singly and together pushing or pulling some huge helpless bulk, as an ant or as two ants might seize and trundle a great dead bumble- bee Their power and their impudence had filled me with wonder. Viewing them now in repose, was impressed by the fact, hitherto unconsdered that upon almost every pilot house was a golder eagle with extended wings-a symbol of power and swiftness-and it was borne fin upon me that the tug in truth Is the harbor eagle, with all the other craft for it's prey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08

dismiss. A few words suffice for each. Keer and incisive in speech, no one mis- takes what she means. Those who leave her presence instantly realize that she is master of the situation. There Is no appeal to MT Rogers over her head.
 She writes most of Mir. Rogers letters He sees scarcely one in hundred that come addressed to him. MT. Rogers Is never committed to anything. All rou- tine letters are invariably answered by Miss Harrison. She is not stenogra- pher She has a corps of them under her. MT. Rogers never dictates. He leaves that petty detail to Miss Harrison Her letters are models of brevity, com pactness and clearness.
 Handling Presumptuous Callers.
 As a sample of how Miss Harrison handles men, young clerk from an np town bank tells a story. He had been accustomed to being treated with some deference because he was the right-hand man of his president, a well-known f. nancier and once a member of the Pres idents cabinet at Washington. He was allowed within. He approached Miss Harrlson's presence with ease and confi- dence born of assurance.
 Who Is this gentleman" demanded Miss Harrison, when she heard the name of the bank president.
 The clerk replied. explaining with fast ebbing confidence that his employer was a very important person in banking cir cles
 Sorry" rejoined Miss Harrison. curt 1y, The cannot see Mir Rogers today. to- morrow or next day. We will have a let ter written making an appointment. Good day.
 The astonished clerk found himself out side before he had been able to get In a word.
 Chiefest of all the bogies of a Rocke- feller or a Rogers is that of publicity Miss Harrison, like the Rockefellers and the Rogerses, deplores newspaper men, tion It Is her boast that never once has a newspaper man reached her, much less got to Mir. Rogers.
 Miss Harrison is well-to-do She has worked sixteen years for Mir. Rogers In that time she has had many presents and several well-deserved opportunities to increase her finances.
 Next to Mrs. Hetty Green. she ranks to- day as probably the most important bus mess woman in all New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08

strangers in Washington by our own members of congress.
 We went to the dinner in jinriklshas' each with an accordion plaited paper lan- tern bobbing Enthusiastically in the night like giant firefly, and stopped at house that glowed among the surround ing trees, not from any windows, as lt had no windows, but through its walls. It glowed most brilliantly through a square low doorway in which stood many tlittie girls in gray kmonos with glisten- ing black hair, worn a la Pompadour, and who bowed and rubbed their knees with their open palms. continually shift ing from one stockened foot to the other, and lowing and lowing again. They took away our shoes and gave us big Woolen slippers, and then led us down corrldors and along outer galleries into a room which ran the length of the tea house. It was covered with mafs. Not with what we call mats, but what Is more like A mattress with a piece Of fine mat ting sewn on Its top. These mattresses were sunk between broad grooves or beautifully polished wood' and with the wooden beams formed the floor on whlch we walked, the floor on which we sat the f,oor from which we ate. When strangers fo Japan object to removing their shoes, and walk with boots upon Japanese mattress, they shock their host Just as . thoroughly as 1t would shock an Amer astcan hostess to see her visitor stamp wlth ], his boots upon the lid of her plano or on her damask tablecloth.
 Fl n9sss Bare of All Furniture.
 sa. The room of the tea house was bare . of all furniture and even of ornaments. save the decorated screens that formed the walls and the decorated beams that supported the decorated ceiling The room was its own ornament. The panels
 th lc of fnat al PIT beauty, and on some in bas-reief were carved flowers. dragons and landscapes. It was like feasting in an enlarged glove box From time to time of the .nesans-nas they called the little girls who , served the dinner. woulS push back a
 paper screen with its squares of gs-
 tenng black lacquer, ana We could see outside swinging from the balcony cherry-red lanterns. and beyond them the - chill spring moonlight and the black pines of Shiba park. We sat on flat cush- i. ions of crimson silk. each with his back
 to the wall in a long row that stretched
 around the room.
 When we had last seen our hosts, when the Mikado addressed them in their house of parliament, they Were in our evening dress Now they wore their national cos tune; the skirts of cloth. silk or brocade, and folded over the chest like an abbre- yiated bath robe, the lSimono. There was 4 no brilliant color In any of the costumes. I They all were gray, brown. black The room was heated by braziers of brass set in wooden boxes and filled with hot ashes, over which the Japanese passed their hands continually, as though performing an incantation.
 4 Japanese dinner begins at the end with the sweets and then starts over Z aeain with soup. A nesan placed in front of each guest a box filled with cakes, candy and sugared friut. The guest is not supposed to eat this pu( to save 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08

Wheat, dry blood, meat meal and crushed bone. best feed for young chickens and laying hens. Call for circu- lar on poultry. Just re ceived a large shipment of International Stock an d Poultry Food. Hay, Grain and all kinds of feed. Both phones 2OL H. Chairsell.
 22l0 Morris Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
Disease Cured by Light.
the New York World.

From the New York World.
 There has recently been published Tn Copenhagen a summary of the results of six years experiment by Prof. Nils Finsen in the cure of lupus by light rays
 Lupus is a form of tuberculosis iocai- ized in the skin, particularly on the race
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08

Standard oil building almost to the min ute every day. Unless MT. hogers is de- layed and needs her services, she is sure to come out betweet 4:4O and 45o p. m. Before p. m. she Is on the Bergen street car, which takes her home, No. 1854 Dean street, Bi ooklyn, by 5:3O.
 Sometimes. however, she crosses the bridge to Brooklyn In an automobile. This is when she Is needed up town at MT. Rogers home. Then the big electric coupe which stands every day outside the Standard oil building takes her up town with her employer The work done there she goes home in Mir Rogers pri- vate conveyance, run by a blue-liveried chauffeur
 Over in the Dean street home Miss Harrison rules supreme. With her live her mother and two sisters She Is the oldest and provides the chiefest amount toward the family living. The house is handsome one and in a fine section. -s is built In Queen Anne style, with a gar den adjoining, and is three story brick, with gabled roof and porcned entrance. It looks more the home or a prosperous business man than the dwelling of a wo- man whose title is simply that of pri- vate secretary.
 What Makes Katherin I. Harrison so valuable to H. H. Rogers and his part ners in the Standard oil?
 What Makes Her So Valuable.
 A hundred answers could be given to this question. Other women are as bright and other women are possessed of equal executive ability. But the best answer of them all may be summed up in two words:
 Absolute trustworthiness."
 Miss Harrison can keep a secret. She can hold information inviolate that would make a poor man a millionaire. There are men who would pay a kings ransom to know a tithe of what she knows.
 She knows whether Coppers dividend is to be passed or not. She knows wheth- CT oil Is to be cut in price or if a new railroad is to be added to the Standards s holdings.
 Writes Rogers Checks.
 Again, she relieves her employer of a mass of. detail. She even writes his checks. Not one matter in a hundred of pure routine ever reaches Mir Rogers. Miss Harrison Is trusted implicitly. If she sees fit to attend to any matter herself, 1t is just so much gain in time and la bor for MT. Rogers Heads of depart ments must submit their propositions to her before they can reach MT. Rogers. Very ofter she is able to dispose of them at once. It was a s10.000 check that she wrote which brought out her name in the Boston litigation.
 If dozen cards are before her at once she knows whom to receive and whom to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
REERIGERATORS.

Outside case is made of selected ash lumber, golden oak finish, lined with galvanized iron; insulated with min eral wool and non-conducting sheath in. Trimmed with genuine brass locks and hinges-Roman gold finish.
 All provision chamber door hinges used on Refrigerators are our cele- brated extension spring hinge-closing doors automatically.
 All regular shelves are riveted to- gether instead of soldered, and each refrigerator has one of our new drawer shelves.
 Ice chambers are our new sectional removable kind.
 Be sure and examine these refrigera- tors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
REFRIGERATOR NO. 217.

Large enough for grocer; stands five feet and two inches high. The 'Moni- tor" and it's name fits the box. Regu- lar price, $3o.oo. Cut Going 19 on Out Price,. =. ........... io'oV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
BEDROOM SUIT.

Rich Golden Oak, roll on foot-board, low base; Dresser, mirror in Dresser 36x4S Wash stand mas mirror. Regu- lar price, $65.00. Cut % 1S Prlce... ... ...........
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08

The Age-HeraId Engraving Depart ment makes cood cuts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
MISSION SUIT.
DAVEN PORT.

Mission style, Antwerp finish, cush- toned in Spanish leather, very hand- some piece of furniture and the kind that wears. Regular price, R1 10 $70.00. Cut Price. cI'Io
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
REFRIGERATOR NO. 4oa.

Width, 22-inch; depth, 15-inch; height, 27 inch; weight, 90 pounds. The Mascot" Regular price, \ on $10.0O. Cut uoing Out Price. o'oV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
REFRIGERATOR, NO. 4o7.

Width, 34 inch; depth, 21 inch; height, 47 inch; weight, 200 pounds; ice capacity, 100 pounds. Regu- I 9 on lar price, $20.O0. Cut Price. Io.OO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08

We make the pest IS in town. Aga Herald Engraving Company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
REFRIGERATOR, NO. 4o5.

Width, Ss inch; depth. IS inch; height, 43 inch; weight, 155 pounds; ice capacity, 60 pounds. Regu- Q on lar price, $16.00 Cut Price. o'CO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
Knows Importance of Visits.

One glance is enough Tor ner She knows unerringly whether Mir. Rogers cares to see the visitor or not. If not,
The news & observer., 1904-09-11
The GastOnia Cotton Manufacturing
Company.
Gastonia, N. c., July 1, 1901.

Gastonia, N. c., July l, 1901.
About two yars ago I was confined
to my bed with inflammatory rheuma-
tism for seeral weeks and no treat
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was affected in my arms, legs, neck
and different parts of my body. L
was not able to walk at all, and when
would get out of bed the pain was
indescribable. After finding the doc
tors treatment did me no good, l con-
cluded to try Mrs. Joe Persons Rene
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was able to walk without crutches. |
continued the Remedy until l used s
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and I have been well ever since. I
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medicine.
r. w. GRAY.
recent letter from Mr.. Gray says
his cure was permanent. :.
MRS. JOE PERSON,
Charlotte, N. G.
The news & observer., 1904-09-11
Asthma Can Be Cured

The statement of Mr. J. F. Homan, 20
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and | have gotten entirely over the Asth-
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The news & observer., 1904-09-11

Some men make opportunities for
others to take advantage Of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-07
PROGRESS OF IRRIGATION.

The latest statistics of irrigation
work being done show the employment
of 700 men on the Salt river reservoir
An Arizona, with 1000 to be employed
when the blasting now in profess has
been completed. To the Snake river
valley in Idaho the sum of s. 500 600 has
been allotted and the area to be irriga-
ted exceeds 10000 acres. The dam
across the valley will form a reservoir
IS miles in length.
The Milk river irrigation scheme in
Montana involves the expenditure of
$5.0Oo,o00, and 25O,0O0 acres will be ir-
rfgated- Work is to be resumed and
pushed on the Gunnison tunnel in the
Uncompahgree valley, Colorado. with
a capacity for irrigating 135, 900 acres
Secretary Hitchcock has approved the
plans and specifications for the dam
across Payette river in Idaho forming
o. reservoir with an irrigating capacity
of 100, 600 acres. The north side canal
along Payette river, will have an irri-
eating capacity of 10000 acres, and
the cost OF the entire work is estima-
ted at $4,000. oo0
In addition to the work now in pro-
gress in Idaho, Arizona, Colorado and
Montana Secretary Hitchcock has or
dered a survey of the Sun river valley
in Montana. The scheme involves the
reclamation of the enormous body of
land lying between the Teton and Sun
rivers, while contracts have been let
for the construction of the dam for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-07
OFFICIAL FUNERAL.
Services Over the Body of III. G. Payne
at Washington.

Washington, Oct. Although an Of
fetal funeral, the services in st. John S
church today over the body of the late
Henry c. PAYNE, postmaster general
were marked by impressive simplicity.
Official Washington filled the nave Of
the church and brilliant as were the
uniforms of the large representatives
OF the army, navy and marine corps,
the Solemnlty OF the scene was en-
HANGED by the sharp contrast of color
with the deep mourning of the family
and personal friends of the dead cabi-
net officer.
Side by side with Mrs. Payne sat
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, both in
deep mourning. The body was started
this afternoon on a special train for
Milwaukee.
The entire right side of the church
was occupied by the officials of the
postoffice department headed by Rob-
ert J. Wynne, the acting postmaster
general Diplomatic corps. the chiefs
OF the bureaus of the navy department,
the commandment of the marine corps,
members of the supreme court, sena-
tors and congressman and other Off
Gals filed the remaining space. The
president and Mrs. Roosevelt arrived
at the south door and accompanying
them We're the presidents aides, Col.
Charles S. Bromwell superintendent of
public buildings and grounds and Com
mander Cameron MGR. Winslow, of the
navy, Secretary Loeb
Mrs. Payne entered the church sup
ported by Charles S. Jones, and his
sister, Miss Louise, the nephew and
niece of Mrs. Payne, and followed by
few personal friends. The service was
read by Rev. MIR. Smith and his assist
ant, Rev. Mr. Dunlap, the only altera-
ton in the regular order of the regular
service being the offering of a special
prayer for Mrs. Payne. The hymns
sung during the service were Lead
Kindly Light" and Jesus, Lover of
My Soul" For the occasional the
vested choir sang "Hark, Hank, My
Soul" The selections were made by
Mrs. Payne, and are her favorite
hymns.
After the funeral party had left the
church the congregation remained
standing until the president and Mrs
Roosevelt had entered their carriage.
Mrs. Payne and the relatives of the
postmaster general were driven to the
Arlington hotel, where they remained
until train time.
The body was placed on the special
car provided for it and guarded by the
postal carriers.