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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-29
HELP WANTED-MALE.

 WANTED -First-class accountant; good salary to right man. Address &, care Age-Herald 11-28-2t WANETD-For U. S. army. able bodied unmarried men between the ages of 21 and 35; ,itizens of the United States of good cha.e cter and temperate habits. Apply 10 recruiting officer. 7Ka North 2Oth street, Birmingham. 10-1-Sm WANTED A good distiller to make white corn whisky. Address Kohlman & Co.,, Mobile, Ala. 1-29-7t WANTED-Six news agents to run on passenger trains out of Selma; can make good money; must have $10 secur- ity and uniform Address, Union News company, Selma Ala. 11-29-4t WANTED-Sixty laborers Tuesday Morn ing at Birmingham Employment Office, 2O2S1a First avenue rooms and G. One first class jewelry engraver.
 WANTED-A man with some newspaper experienced as reporter and writing to do industrial work. No has-beens or booz fighters need apply Address A. G., care Age-Herald.
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 WANTED-City salesman. Apply today. Jefferson Milling company, 22l5 Morris avenue
 WANTED-Two stenographers; two la dies for office work; lady cashier; two ladies to travel; two collectors; three furniture clerks. Mutual Employment Bureau, 402 Chalifoux building.
 EXPERIENCED furniture collector and salesman wanted. Good salary to the right man. Apply at once to City Fur niture company, Bessemer. 11-27-3t.
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HELP WANrEp-FEMALE.

trimmer to accept position in small town 50 miles from Birming- ham; prefer one that can alter and change ladies suits and skirts as well as trim hats; state age and experience; good salary to right person; state salary wanted. Address P, care Hillman Hotel.
 11-o7-2t
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Hoods Sarsaparilla keeps the blood pure and the whole system in perfect order. Take only Hoods.
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 Miss Howell, who has been the guest of Mrs. John c. Henley, has returned to Nashville.
 Mir. George K. Armes returned yester- day to Lineville.
 Mrs. A. B. Elford, Miss Hannon and other members of the Pollock Stephens faculty. have returned from St. Louis. The Misses Ware have returned from St. Louis.
 Mrs. Charles Stillman will entertain the Young Matrons' club Wednesday morning at 10:sO o'clock.
 Mir. and Mrs. Mabry oI Tennessee are the guests of MT. and Mrs. William Ma rby.
 Mrs. William D. Nesbitt left last night for Frecnh Lick Springs and will be joined en route by MT. Nesbitt. who has been spending several days at the expo sition.
 The ladies of the Church of the Advent gave tea yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. W. V. M. Robertson. on South Nineteenth street
 MT. and Mrs William Bibb Leedy, Jr., will entertain at cards this evening in compliment to Miss Coxe and Miss Shlr- ley.
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MONEY TO LEND.
PALMISTRY.

MADAM DEL REY. scientific palmist.
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Should you wish to deal directly with the man that actually makes the
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FOR SALE -sSO00; an attractive corner on Second ave; 5Ox1O0; improved. w. B. Leedy & Go. 11-23-7t FOR SALE-271kx1S21z dn First avenue,
 between 20th and Fist streets, at a bar gain if taken at once. ". B. Leedy
 & Co. 11-27-7t
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When it prints good. 1t is a good cut. The Gawk Engraving Co.
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FOR SALE. $5000-Nice home; rooms; 24th st. cor. S5000-Good home or investment; N. 25th st. house; modern; pays S600. S1000-Norwood Place lot; fronts east. s10, 00O-50x140; Sd ave. bet. 17tn and 18th. s4OOO-5Ox1OO; improved; 2Oth, bet and F. $21. O00-Store; 20th st., bet. and ayes. $32, ,50O-Business block; Sd ave-; pays $Sl5O. $125O0-Two Morris ave. stores; pays SS5. $10500-N. Fist st. cor; pays $lCJO. $4500-60x1O0; S. 18th cor; pays s512. S2O00-Neat Groom cottage; s. 17th st. $2O0O-S. 18th. near F: 45x10O; pays $2S. S3500-Cor 17th and F; improved. $32OO-Cor. Ave. G and 23d; improved. $15OO-Lovely Hickory st. lot; faces circle. We have for rent some nice houses and good stores.
 MCCONNELL & cA7TRiGHT. Phones 4e 220 N. 21st St.
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SITUATIONS WANTED.

----~--~--~---~-------~- WANTED-Position by young lady stem ographer; experienced. Address c. ]. C., care Age-Herald. I-26-4t WANTED-By young lady, sixteen home in nice family. No wages. Can assist in housekeeping or sewing. References exchanged. Young Lady," care Age Herald
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FOR SALE.

 FOR SALE-Cheap. beautiful lots on Bessemer car line; high dry and well shaded; location convenient to Birming- ham. Bes semer. Ensley and Brighton: only $100: s5.0O cash. balance $50O per month; no interest; we only have few at this price; 1t will pay you to investi- gate at once. Call for Mir Howard at Jemison Real Estate and Insurance Co., 22S-4-5-6 FiTst National Bank building 10-27-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-29

FOR SALE-A 9O-acre farm on macada- mixed road ten miles from Birmingham; twenty acres of high, rolling lana with creek running through one corner near East Lake car line; suitable for truck farm or subdivision. Jemison Real Es- tate & Insurance Co.. 223-4-5-6 First Nat. Bank Bldg. u-z9-tl FOR 7SALE-Good business corner on 2d ave, paying 71k per cent. W. B. -edy & Co. l-25-ft FOR SALE-One Lane x Bodley 26x4S- inch 60 R. P M. girder frame, left hand, Corliss engine. single essentric, geared governor; fly wheel IS feet diameter. 3 feet 61k inches face. One Lane & Bodley 1sx42-inch 80 R. P. M. girder frame. right hand Corliss engine. single ec- centric. geared governor, fly wheel IA feet diameter. feet inches face. These engines can be seen at the power house. Powell avenue and 18th street. Birming- ham Railway. Light and Power Co. 1l-10-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-29

Miss Howell, who has been the guest of Mrs. John c. Henley, has returned to Nashville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-29

WANTED-First-cla accountants; good
 salary to right man. Address S., care Age-Herald 11-2S-2t
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10

fleets in The future. There will be
scarcely and such thing as the lin
gering agony, long drawn out. of the
old days of sea fighting. For one
thing, modern iror clads and cruisers
going into action will choose the less.
er of two evils confronting them. Be
cause of the deadly peril of splinters
and of fire, everything Of wood in
their fittings, even to the boats, will
be cast away at the beginning of
the fight.
Then, when the battle is Joined, the
seaman must needs have a heart of
brass incased in triple steel, a mind
that refuses to mediate upon the inn
mediate possibility of one of those
terrible twelve-inch projectiles plung-
ing down upon his vessels deck, and
out, amid the disintegration of all
her ganglions of energy, through the
bottom, rendering her an easy target
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
9a9pecIal Correspondence.l

Few as are the people who can
imagine a battlefield on shore, they
are vastly fewer who can picture with
any certainty the scene of naval
conflict.
Terrible, too, as are all scenes of
warfare, there seems something akin
to sacrilege, to dissertation of Gods
own realm, In man daring to carry
bloodthirsty, destructive animosities
out upon the stainless blue OF the
pure sea. Yet here, no matter how
errific the slaughter, how widespread
the destruction wrought by man upon
lis fellow-mau, the merciful sea, i'm
pollutable, reticent, Immediately eff
aces all trace thereof-hides mans
misdoings from the gaze of high heav-
en-, nor allows the poor remains to
lie and fill the air with pestilence.
And this, of course. more so now
than ever 1t has been before. In the
days when Britain became the sover-
eign power at sea and her wooden
walls were handled and fought
through whole days In closest prox-
tAAAbJ WIN NAiNAA 0lGluACDs II plIGu Df-
fell that ships hulled through and
through with shot drifted for many
days, while the handful of unwounded
survivors accomplished tasks such as
make the mind reel to think of.
They fought for life as fercely as
they had faced their human enemies;
hacked and hewed at the wreckage
around them so that the sea might
take it away with its deadly danger
to them; doggedly stuck to the pumps,
cleansed the shambles of their ship
for the avoidance of pestilence, and
held at bay that sense of utter weari-
ness and hopelessness which was the
deadliest foe of all. And the wide,
clean sea around them waited i'm.
partially for whatever end was de-
creed them, ready to cover up all
traces Of them if they failed to live,
or bear them bravely on its bosom
into port and safety.
In the days of sail and wood there
was something romantic, in spite of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
at it. IT'S a pity il can't make one

at it. It's a pity if can't make one
more"
Ten minutes later Rob, enveloped in
a great kitchen apron, was busily at
work stirring up another cake.
TITS lucky we have plenty Of eggs.
How many cakes did you make, any
way" he asked, as he noticed the great
pile of egg-shells.
"Four!" Margaret looked foolish as
she answered. You didn't know what
a silly wife you had married, did you,
poor boy?" She tried to speak lightly,
but Rob caught the note of usefulness
in her voice. Margaret was very sensf
tive about her deficiencies in the culin.
airy line.
Rob took the sweet face between
two very floury hands and FASTENED
to assure her, for the twentieth time,
that he did not care the least bit in
the world whether she could bake a
cake or not.
That evening at the sociable Mrs
Wiley hustled up to Margaret, exclaim-
ing, your angel food cake was simply
delicious, Mrs Archer | believe it
was even better than the one you
brought before, and that is saying a
good deal. | am coming over some day
to have you show me how to do it."
Margaret and Rob exchanged laugh
ing glances. Margaret could afford to
laugh then, but she registered VOW
that before the next sociable she
would be able to make an angel food
cake equal to that one.
And she kept her word. They al
most lived on angel food cake for the
next two weeks, and it seemed to Mar
garet that she never would want to
see one again; but at the end of that
time even her mother could not make
better one.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10

be very near will there be any possi-
BILE chance of saving the handful of
stalwart swimmers whose superhu-
man struggles have wrenched them
clear of the devouring, down-dragging
eddies. More than a mere handful
there could not be in any case, since
another tremendous difference be-
tween past and present sea fighting is
that the steel-clad monsters go into
battle with hardly man visible, al
most all of them hidden behind mas
sive walls, shut in from the devastat-
ing Impact of large projectiles, as
well as the horrible hail of Hotchkiss
and Maxim bullets.
The pomp and pageantry of sea war
fare in Nelson's day, with its stripped
crowds of men swarming about the
incumbered decks, and streaming
flags from every mast, have gone with
the towering ranges of sails and MIN
BILE sailors who leapt about aloft han
ding them during the height of bat
tie. The new man-of-war goes into
the fight grim, unadorned, and appar-
emily proceeding by her own volition,
like some unthinkable marine mon
ster begotten of the elder slime.
To a landsman, and even to a mer.
chant seaman, there Is something De
culiarly terrifying in the notion of a
sea fight In fog. It is a time of
terror even in peaceful navigation,
since the great sea breadths seem to
have contracted, and ones faculties
are kept at their utmost tension in
case of running across another ship.
Fog is the only elemental condition
that succeeds in making the great.
wide sea look a little place, where not
merely navies have no room to float,
but it seems impossible to avoid col
liding with the only other ship that
was in sight before those fleecy walls
of mystery closed in upon the seafar-
ers. Yet the modern sea warrior
among us is trained to welcome that
condition of things, to dash at utmost
speed through the thickness, and
burst upon his enemy with the sud
den unexpectedness of the lightning
stroke.
And to add to all these terrible con-
ditlons of modern sea warfare, we
have now the submarine. Not content
with the mighty arena of. conflict af-
forded by the open surface of the sea,
In gale, or fog, or calm, the sea fight
er must now descend into darkness
and silence, the realm of the utterly
unknown, in order that he may haply
hurl, at one fell blow as from burst
ing volcano, into blazing, boiling ruin
and death 800 lives and the revenue
OF principality. For man has even
extended the battle-ground Of the sea.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
Burnt to a black cinder!

She tied on her sun-bonnet and hast.
ened out to the barn.
Fifteen minutes later she came back
with her apron full of eggs, and was
met at the door by a strong smell OF
something burning. She rushed to the
stove, threw open the oven door, and
was nearly choked by the smoke that
rushed out. Her cake was burnt to a
black cinder!
She jerked it out of the oven, and
carrying it to the door, she scraped it
out into pail Then she looked rue.
fully at the empty tin. 81 must have
had too hot fire." she concluded. "Tll
have to make another"
The oven had time to cool down be-
fore she had the next cake mixed up,
and she took care not to have very
much fire. She was very anxious this
time, and determined that this cake
should not scorch. Every few minutes
she opened the oven door and looked
at it. 1t raised nicely and seemed to
be in no danger of burning. At the end
of the three-quarters of an hour it
was almost as white and doughy-look-
ing as when she put it in. She decided
that something must be done. There
was not fire enough this time; that
was sure. She would put little wood
in the stove. She fastened out and
brought in a handful and put it on the
dying fire. Ten minutes later she care
fully opened the oven door to look at
her cake. 1t was about half an inch
in thickness!
Margarets lips set in a determined
line. The spirit of her fighting ances.
tors was aroused. She would not be
conquered by mere cakei
She was hot, and oh, so tiredl But
she went heroically to work again.
A little after o'clock Rob came up
the walk, whistling. The threshing at
Smiths was finished, and he was home
early.
AT the door he stopped in surprise
Margaret, who was always ready to
receive him, in the dantiest of after.
noon dresses, when he returned, sat by
the kitchen table in soiled morning
wrapper. Her hair was disheveled
and sprinSled with flour; one hand ~as
done up in a white cloth, and two fin
gers of the other hand showed great
burns. Her head rested on her arms,
and she was crying bitterly.
Rob was startled. 1t was several
minutes before he could understand
what was the trouble. At last. how
ever, with her tear-stained face hid
den against his coat Margaret sobbed
out history of the days disasters.
Rob laughed; but it was a comfort.
ing laugh. rs that all?" he exclaimed,
cheerily. Don't worry about that,
little wife. wasn't my mothers hired
girl all one year for nothing. That's
the very cake she always used to have
me make. I got to be quite an expert
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
shakespeare lmnrnunB.

AT a bar examination a few years
ago the question, Write critical
analysis of any one of Shakespeare's
plays" brought for the following es-
say:
AS to Shakespeare's plays, think
the most beautiful is The Seven Ages ;
In this play is represented and brought
clearly to view the lowness and little
ness of man. In it is delineated every
step from the cradle to the grave
In it is shown the pride which man
exhibits in middle life, the happy an
ticipations of youth, and. lastly, the
sorrowful reflections of old age.
In it is taught one of the many
beautiful lessons which man shopld
benefit by if he would only heed them.
In fact, all through it is beautifully in.
terwoven with that golden thread, Re
member, man, that thou art dust"
Unfortunate in His Old Age.
James Warden, who died in the
Baltimore home for the aged the other
day at the age of 102 years, had been
Methodist preacher for three-uuar.
tiers of century. He had been sent
to the county almshouse, but so lond
was the protest from members of tbe
church against such treatment of a
veteran laborer in the vineyard that
the officers of the conference had him
removed to the institution for the aged
maintained by the denomination.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
Fastening to Aid.

to an uninjured foe, and her sinking
matter of minutes.
And when she sinks, stonelike-
pumping being, if possible to a yet
unchanged engine, manifest absurd
ity in that rent fabric of steel-with
her must go all her crew. 1t may
sound cruel and hard-hearted to speak
of their end being mercifully swift,
but, in view of the horrors of the
old wooden ships floating on, verita-
BILE charnel houses, when the battle
was over, there was hardly any other
term applicable.
The modern man-of-war will not, at
any rate, prolong the agonies of her
crew when she is scuttled She will
go down quick into the pit in a halo
of steam, whirling vortex of waves,
and in five minutes from the com
mencement of her downward plunge
there will be no sign that she has
ever been, and only if other vessels
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
Mrs. Archer's AngelFood Cake
by ELEANOR WEST.
Copyrighted 1908 By The authors Publishing oompanv

You'll be sure to come, won't you,
Mrs. Archer? It'll be the first So
ciable we've had at Mrs. Hanes' and
everybody'll be there. It'll be SPLEEN
did chance for you to get acquainted.
And-oh, yes! the committee wanted
me to ask you to furnish an angel-food
cake. Everybody said that the one
you took to the last sociable was the
best they ever tasted. You don't know
how many compliments | heard for it..
We'll, | must hurry along; I've a lot
more places on my list yet We got
the sociable up in such hurry, it isn't
giving us much time. Well, I'll tell
EN- they can depend on your angel
food then, Mrs. Archer Be sure and
come early" Voluble Mrs. Wiley bus
tied away, still talking.
| Margaret Archer came back from
the door, her pretty face wearing a
troubled look. She went directly to
the cupboard, and taking out the cook
book, neryously began turning it's
leaves. Finding the page for which
she was searching, she bent above it,
studying it's directions intently. at
seems as if | ought to be able to do
it, she assured herself. 81 simply
must, she went on emphatically
And won't say anything to Rob
about it; l don't want him to know
what little goose l am" Then she
closed the cookbook and began to get
supper.
1t was less than a month since Rob
Archer brought his bride to the old
homestead; but she was already well
enough acquainted with their thrifty
neighbors to know with what scorn
the acknowledgment that she could
not cook would be received. The fact
that she had spent all her time clerk
ing in a store since she left school,
would seem no excuse to them.
There had been one other sociable
since she came to the neighborhood,
hut fortunately her mother was visit
ing her that week and it was she who
made the angelfood cake that had
created such favorable comment. Mar
garet could cook vegetables very cred
itably; so with the pies and cakes that
her mother had left baked up when
she went home, she had gotten along
very well so far. But what was she
to do now? She must manage in some
way to live up to the reputation that
that angel-food cake had given her
Her cheeks grew hot as she saw, in
imagination, the critical looks that
were bestowed upon each cake as it
was cut. She never could face those
excellent housekeepers again if her
cake failed to bear the test; and she
must take one, for they were depend
ing upon her.
rhe next morning, as soon as Rob
vas out of sight, she got the cook
book down again. 1t opened readily
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
Nectar in His

He was nothing but tramp-a mod
est, retiring tramp, one of the natures
noblemen kind-and when in answer
to his timid knock a young matron
opened the door he asked:
Might beg for cup of hot water
from the breakfast tablet"
you might" she began frigidly,
when he interrupted:
Would it be possible to sriI a few
drops of coffee into it,"
ut would be, but"
"And spoonful of milk"
Il never in my life"
Zone moment please. don't ASK
for sugar, but if you will kindly look
into the cup it will be turned into nee
tar-nectar, madam, the food of the
gods"
He got it, and two large pieces of
toast besides.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
ROBERT lNeERsoLL's KIND ACT.
Great Agnostic Well Rewarded for
Help in Time of Need.

Help in Time of Need.
Robert Ingersoll was once asked by
an acquaintance to furnish transporta-
ton to the destitute mother of sol
der, who was dying in western Penn
sylvania.
at would be a Christian act, Mr..
Ingersoll," said the petitioner.
But I'm not credited with any
thing Christian" was the response.
A pass was sent, however, and so
promptly that before sunset the
woman was on her way west.
The next mornings mail carried to
Col. Ingersoll an envelope enclosing
these lines:
THE God who knows our deepest needs
Cares little how man counts his beads
For piety is not in creeds
Or solemn faces;
But rather lies in kindly deeds
And Christian graces."
The name of the woman who asked
the courtesy and she to whom it was
extended were signed.
The Colonel read the paper twice,
folded it, placed it on the envelope.
closed his hand over it, then turned
to a friend.
'Such an experience draws the
sting from thousand criticisms" he
said simply.-New York Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10

it's horror, in the maneuvering of
those winged fleets upon the open
sea. Something solemn in the sight
of two hostile fleets eager to destroy
one another, held in the bonds of
unwilling peace by the failing of the
wind. The vast shining surface of the
sea lying in placid beauty beneath the
bright, blue sky, and the two motion
less groups of vessels, with idle sails
downhanging. just gently moving to
the tender heaving of the swell. Peace,
as at the beginning over nature
above; but in the recesses of the
ships, what seething passions, ambi-
tons, fears!
In contrast most striking, think OF
two hostile fleets endeavoring to get
at each other in gale. The awe
inspiring war of the elements seem
ing to brook no interference with their
high controversy, and man, actuated
by the most desperate and primitive
of all instincts. daring to disregard
the cosmic quarrel of wind and wave,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
Little Fairy EIyaway.

Little Fairy Flyaway tore her gauzy
wing;
She fell into bramble bush from out
her cobweb swing;
The fairies always knew she was a care
less little thing!
Sorry little Flyaway, sobbing in despair,
Heard sudden humming through the
summer air
Looked to find a Dragon-hy close beside
her there.
Don't you know me, Flyaway?" loud
and long buzzed he
'I'm the fairies darning needle-if 1t
weren't for me-
What a very ragged set you thoughtless
elves would be!''
Busy buzzing Dragon-fly darned the tear
with speed.
Made, the pretty fllmy wing beautiful in
Even fairies find it good to have a friend
in need
Hannah C. Fernald, in January St
Nicholas