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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
From the New York Herald.

FROM the New York Herald.
AM HILE he admits that his finan-
WIZ cial arrangements have not
" vet been satisfactorily con-
,,,aaa e,o,,,,,orda. poh.rt II paarv ex-
neots - st,r+ sor tho no,ar reg;ons before
MI, II
az - tr,o that tho paar, Arotioa c,,,h
hoe Mt GOT oht.inad al, tbe fn,ds aesirod
fo, tho axred,tiop ), s.id the commander
Of tho Grand Union hotel Lass owning.
..Ntoney has been furnisbed for a fine shin
.nd for ,,art % tho eo,,inment hut am
..,, .h,,.. 80 +ho ,,,u .,oo,nt naedad Tn
or7a. 70 have .hs CONTINENT az II should
ha mod hatu,oe, san ooo and sao.oo more.
ho,a ,,s+ sor,e other generous nersons
Ill, -. ...;,a, +,+aras+ 4, tha sx-
,aa,.,o,, 80 ,ssi,. tho o,,h which has
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III. 10 ,a,,,1,iaa,, odriad ueat1 shin his
Quite ard +ea and for the shin. besides
.h,..o eo,,r CANNED ooods and various ar
,;,,as 40 not heliave In an exaggerated
,,ar,ety of foods know that men can
IT, a., oood ,aa,+h On only fresh meat.
,,,.a,,,ts ,na TOO We will have no trou-
- -. .at &c mo oan oet musk
.-,.,.,, -, w.,rus and severai
I'LL. 80 saa,
az shall have a COMPANY of less than
tno,,tv on .be shin On the main sledge
io,,r,,ay shall nerhans take only one
...s,.o 49,, a,,th mo know a little tribe
~ tsst,nos on Whale Sound. have
h,ntaa and eshed with them off and on
g.. ,,ra,,a yoars and know every man,
woman and child In the tribe, and can
demand upon them to the extent of their
resources shall pick the flower of the
trihe for nv work.
..Eaoh sledpe when loaded. and with
sing,e Messenger. should weigh about five
h,,narad nounds-reouiring six or eight
Es,.imo dogs This is the most effective
sledQe unit
Commander Peary's new ship, the
Roosevelt after lying over night in the
North river. was towed to dry dock in
Hoboken yesterday afternoon Captain
Taught. who is in temporary charge,
said that a reversing lever was stuck and
he preferred getting tugs to using the
steamers own power with the posi-
bilty of a collision In the crowded river.
The Roosevelt will make test trip
down the bay under the auspices OF the
peary club Thursday, and will then be put
in order for her trip to Greenland as
quickly as possible She Is expected to
maintain a speed of twelve knots an hour.
.4This will be purely pleasure trip for
me-" said Mrs. Peary in the cabin of the
roosevelt yesterday afternoon. II do not
intend to go as far north as I have been
IN the past. and my only special interest
is IN NV husbands account. as may be
separated from him for a long time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
man has to be too smart to live to
keep UP to his own opinion of himself.
woman can believe anything nice a
man saws to her, especially II she knows
1t isn't so.
A woman has the faith In ner own love
to have faith in somebody elses that sne
knows is faithless.
1t takes girl to rub her cneeks 70
take paleness out OF them ana ho,o ne'
when a man has to read an old iove
letter he wrote he feels cheaper than Wnen
his hat blows on In windstorm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
Vatican and QuirinaI.

The srong commonsense of Pope
Plus X is beginning to be felt, even in
the political affairs of Italy. He sees
that he Is not "the prisonerof the Vat
ican." He sees that the Vatican and
the Quirinal can in fact become good
working partners, and his clear, prac-
tical version is leading him, it is
thought, to take steps in that direc-
ton. He sees no doubt that all hope
of reacquiring the states of the Church
is lost. Those states were seized by
Victor Emanuel thirty-four years ago,
and that seizure was afterwards con-
frmed in a plebiscite that evidently
expressed the will of the governed.
There is really no appeal from that
seizure and that plebiscite, and the
present Pope doubtless feels that the
states in question can never be re-
stored to the church.
1t is believed that the Pope sees 1t
would be better for the Catholics Of
Italy-really for all concerned-if a
working plan between the pope and
the kingdom of Italy could be arranged
on mutually satisfactory terms. The
King of Italy desires recognition by
:. head of the church, and the pope
desires more freedom, and he desires,
too, it is said, an adequate appropria-
ton by the Italian government. In
1871 that government voted to the
pope an annual allowance of $644,O00.
Not a cent of the money has been ac-
cepted, and the arrears are now about
twenty-five million dollars, sum that
would finely endow the papal see and
be In a financial sense an adequate
Offset to the loss of the states Of the
church.
The money has each year been GOV.
cred into the italian treasury and ex-
pended for other purposes. but If a
mutually satisfactory arrangement can
DO concluded no doubt Italy could and
would borrow the money, thereby put
ting an end to state of things that
l. not satisfactory to anybody BY re-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
SOUTHERN IRON MERGER,

From the New York World.
1t is believed in Wall street that new
financial interests have gone into some of
the southern steel properties, with view
of working out an elaborate plan for the
merging of these plants.
There has been some recent heavy buy
ing of Republic Steel shares, with the re-
suit that the prices of both common and
preferred have advanced sharply. 1t is in
timated that the controlling powers Of the
sloss-sheffield and the Tennessee Coal and
Iron company are interested in this COM
bination
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
IN HOTEL IoBBIES
Mr.. w. H. Woodward Here.

w. II. Woodward, the man OF amplest
influence" in the development OF BWh-
ingham in all upbuilding ways, is in the
city on one of his midsummer visits
here from his summer home in Maine
Mr.. woodward is looking uncommonly
well and he Is delighting his many
friends here by his buoyant mood. He
furnishes by his energy, industry and
discriminating interest in general affairs
a convincing refltation of DIR. Oslers
theory that men over forty years VI
age are past their prime. Mr.. woodward
will return to Maine in a few days
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
LACK OF $4,000 KEEPS
COMMANDER PEARY BACK

north l have had somebody with me to
mind my children. She is with me now for
that purpose When 1 leave the Roosevelt,
she will certainly do the same"
Miss Babb is a school teacher from
Harpswell. Me-, and is % years old. slen-
der, blond. and wears eyeglasses. She
was graduated at Gorham college and has
since taught school. Her pupils gave her
an American flag to plant as far north
as possible. She expects to be back be-
fore the school reopens. Mr. and Mrs.
Peary have known her family for years
Mrs. Peary, wife of the steward of the
Roosevelt. will also go as far as the
Greenland coast in the ship.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
Off for a Vacation.

Col and Mrs. Llewlyn W. Jones will
leave Birmingham Saturday for a va
cation of two or three weeks to Buffalo,
Toronto, Washington. Atlantic City and
Asbury Park They will go first to Buff
falo where they will attend the annual
convention of Elks and thence to To
ronto. Returning to Washington a week
from Saturday they will be joined by
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hillhouse, who will
accompany them to Atlantic City and AS
bury Park for fortnight
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
Peonage.

From the Union Springs Breeze.
Convictions for peonage seems to be a
common occurrence these days. TO hold
another in a condition of involuntary SER
vitude is wrong and it looks like Judge
Jones is doing his best to put stop to
ii. The first case in which one white
man bad been arraigned before the courts
for holding another white man in peonage
in south Alabama, was that of ]. C.
Bowdoin of Coffee county. He was sem
fenced by Judge Jones to one years
Imprisonment for holding Raymond
Rhoda in peonage.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
PERHAPS NOT.

From the Washington Star.
Nobody has explained why Chauncey
M. Depew got $4,000 a year out OF the
Equitable while David B. Hill got only
5000. 1t will scarcely be contended trat
Mr.. Depew is four times as much OF
lawyer as Mr.. Hill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
"THE BLUE AND THE GRAY"

From the Baltimore Herald
Judge Francis Miles Finch. the author
Of Memorial days greatest poem, The
Blue and the Gray is now living quietly
at his home In Ithaca patriarch OF 70
years. Judge Finch's library, In which he
has 1000 and more volumes which he as
carefully selected in a lifetime, is the
same library In which, almost forty years
ago. he penned the famous poem.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
THE GAY OLD cHAPERoN.

From the Atchison Globe.
chaperon is an oldish girl who ac-
companies young things to picnics and
who is supposed to wiring her hands when
pair stroll of by themselves, but VINO
in reality firts with any man she can
get to fiirt with.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Japan has boycotted the tobacco
trust, and will hereafter buy in the
Virginia markets all the tobacco her
people need 1t is the smartest coun-
try on earth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The state dispensary system in South
Carolina Is full of graft, and this rem
ders it unpopular.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The Kniaz Potempkine has stopped
to coal and provision herself. Her men
seem to understand navigation, and
when they shoot for themselves they
will be apt to shoot straight
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

1t isn't Russia that has collapsed,
but 1t is the bureaucrats and the rest
of the autocracy 1t is the principle
of autocracy that has gone to smash.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The Norwegian soldiers are march
ing towards Sweden, and the Swedish
fleet is sailing towards Norway, but
the two forces will not meet
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Some think the battle OF the Sea Of
Japan stands explained in the Kniaz
Potempkine, but after all it will be
seen that Togo had something to do
with it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Lock 10 in the Warrior has been
duly opened, and the opening of the
entire river to the heart of this district
will not be long delayed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Penrose and Durham have left Penn
sylvania, and the wish is freely ex-
pressed in that state that they will
never come back
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The strengthening of teams in the
Southern league is becoming epidemic,
and the Coal Barons should catch the
complaint.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The Hon. H. Durham resigned be-
cause his foundation of graft had slip
ped from under him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Norway and Sweden have too much
commonsense to begin shooting. King
Oscar Is level-headed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Russia has the yellow peril and also
the red one. She is doubly afflicted,
or rather the autocracy is.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06
ALABAMA PRESS
Alabama. Too.

From the Russell Register.
The Montgomery Journal says that
Georgia is having some strenuous poll
tics. The indications are that Alabama
is likely to have some politics of the same
brand before the campaign is over.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Chicago university got very little
tainted money at it's recent commence
ment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Commissioner Garfield was not up
held by the federal grand jury-on the
contrary, quite the reverse.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The Cars army is about to join the
strike. All that restraints the army is
the peace conference in August.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Baron Rosen, a plenipotentiary, has
arrived in this country, and the rest
of them will drop in speedily.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The Balkan war cloud is eclipsed by
the Kniaz Potempkine, that bold buc-
cancer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The Kniaz Potemplzine may slip in
the night through the Dardanelles, To
reappear at Cronstadt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Chicago CLANS now>to have the mas
ter builders of big canals. First 1t was
Wallace. now 1t Is Stevens.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The Kniaz Potempl1ine should be
staged before opera bouffe goes out of
fashion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The Gar fears the red peril more
at present than he does his famous
and justly esteemed yellow peril.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

1t is hoped that Engineer Stevens
will serve until cool weather comes
again at the isthmus.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The beef trust lawyers will now try
to undo the findings of federal grand
jury. They will get fat fees but that
Is all
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

It begins to look as il the beef mag
mates will get what is coming to them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

The observance of the national holi-
day is yearly increasing in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Russia is becoming highly naval,
especially in the Black sea.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

liz. Durham is fallen star in the
universe of graft.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Russia should ask Japan to send
Togo to the Black sea.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-06

Enetered at the Birmingham, Ala, post
of1iee IS second-class matter under act
OF Congress, March 8. 1879.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-08-12
The Bad Boy and His Dad Arrive in
Cairo--At the Hotel They Meet
Some Egyptian Princesses : Dad
Rides a Camel to the Pyramids and
Meets with Difficulties.

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
(Ex Governor OF Wisconsin, Former Editor
OF Peck's Sun, Author OF "Peek's
Had Ioy." etC)
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-08-12
FADs IN SIZES OF CIGARS.
Queer Notions Crop Out Among the
Smokers Who Think They
Know It All.

Two smokers stood In one OF the
cigar shops in the vicinity of the
stock exchange. during the rest hour,
says the New York Sun.
you have all sizes of cigars" said
one of the smokers as he surveyed
the stock. Then these questions and
answers followed:
I'm length" replied the shopkeeper,
''the average cigar is from four to FIVE
inches"
Has the size of a cigar anything to
| do with the pricc?"
Sometimes. Not always. The sto-
gle Is longer than tho average length
and everybody knows what stogie
costs. They are seven inches long.
II have another cigar the same
length as a stogie, which sells three
for dollar. The cigar that sells
three for half is about five and a
half inches long, but it Is thicker than
the cigar of the same length that sells
for ten cents straight or Is cents
straight"
What is the weight of an average
cigar?"
"All depends on the tobacco. One
cigar that sells for ten cents weighs
about one fourth of an ounce. An
other, the same size, weighs an eighth
of an ounce, and still another of the
same size, that sells at the same price,
weighs half an ounce. The brand that
sells three for a. dollar Is the same
weight"
81 suppose there are fads in sizes of
cigars just as there are fads in fash
ion?"
"Well, you're on. Just at present
the fad seems to be long cigars Of the
panatela shape. They are all prices,
too. from Ave cents up"
Isn't 1t fact that the average
smoker don't mean men who run
to fancy prices and buy by the box
buys the fiye cent cigar?"
more five cent cigars arc now sold
than formerly" the shopkeeper re-
piled. THE five-cent panatela shape,
for instance, we sold for ten cents
straight when we paid duty--I am re-
ferring to the Porto Rico cigars.
II have one customer who used to
buy them by the box, at Ave dollars.
When the duty was taken off gave
him one of the brand one day and told
him 1t was a new five-cent cigar that
had just put on the market. He
smoked about half OF It and said It
was enough, and he wanted his old
smoke. Then told him 1t was the
same. less the duty"
Then what happened?"
What usually happens? You smok-
ers think you know more about cigars
than we who make them. That man
wouldn't have 1t. He insisted on
smoking ten-cent straight. and I
gave 1t to him. Price is what gov
erned him. Just as 1t governs most
men when they buy. The Average
man is not ruch OF bargain hunter"
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-08-12

and pulled his feet up on top and sat
there like frog on pond lily leaf.
My jackass only stepped his feet in the
edge, and dad wanted me to swim my
jackass out to the camel, and let him
fall on onto the jack, but knew dad
would sink my jack IN a minute, and
wouldn't go In the river. Well, the
camels drank about an hour. with dad
sitting there meditating. and then the
OF for the pyramids. which were In
plain sight like the pictures you have
seen, with palm trees along the Nile, and
Arabs camping on the bank, and 1t
looked as though everything was going
to be all right. when suddenly dads
camel stopped dead still and wouldn't
move foot, and all the rest of the cam
els stopped, closed their eyes and went
to sleep, and the Arabs went to sleep,
and dad and the jackass and were aD-
parently the only animals in Egypt that
were awake.
Dad kicked his camel in the ribs, but 1t
wouldn't bulge. He asked me IL
couldn't think up some way to start the
procession. and stopped my jackass
and thought a minute, and told dad
had 1t. | had bought some giant fire
crackers and roman candles ut Cairo,
with which | was going to fire salute
on top of the biggest pyramid, to cele-
brate for old America, and l told dad
what l had got, and thought II got
on my jackass and fired salute there
In the desert 1t would wake them up.
Dad said1'all right, let er go, but do 1t
sort OF easy, at first, so not TO overdo II"
and got my artillery ready. Say, you
can't fire of fireworks easy, you got to
touch match to 'em. and dodge, and
take your chances. Well, scratched
a match and lit the giant fire cracker,
and put it under the hind legs of dads
camel, and when 1t got to fizzing lit my
roman candle, and as the fire cracker ex-
ploded like 16-inch gun. my roman
candle began to spout balls of fire. and
aimed one at each camel, and the
whole push started on stampede for
the pyramids, the camels groanIng. the
Arabs praying to Allah, dad yelling to
stop 'er, and my jackass led the bunch,
and was left in the desert to pick up
the hats.
| guess will have to tell you the rest
OF the tragedy in my next letter
Yours with plenty. of sand,
HENNERY.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-08-12

stain is thoroughly dry as hours should
be given) fill with the best golden oak or
antique colored filler, after which two
coats of wax, as directed above.
Flemish oak, weathered oak and ether
colors are produced In the same man
ner-by first staining the wood. then
filling and lastly applying two coats of
wax.
The whole process is so simple. and
the results so satisfactory. that no one,
after using the wax, will think of re-
turning to varnish.
The use of wax is equally successful
on any of the hard woods. When
marred or in any way injured, the wax
finish is easily renewed by rubbing on
a little fresh wax and repolishing as
before.
For soft woods, particularly white
pine, shellac is better than wax, giving
hard surface the wood does not pos
sess.
Note.-After coating with wax do not
let 1t dry too long before rubbing OF
and polishing. or 1t will work very
hard. Eight, ten, or at most Is minutes
are sufficient, the time depending on the
warmth OF the room.
Planning Ends.
When preparing the shelf piece for
either OF the magazine racks illustrated
in Figs. sc and 6S, great care must be
taken to have the ends square, not only
with the front edge, but also square
with the upper side of the shelf. other
wise the sides or the rack will not ft.
nor will they stand when fastened on.
at right angles to the shelf. However
carefully the ends are sawed of. even
II apparently close to the dimension
lines, they will be found, when tested
by the try square. to be more or less out
OF true. This truing, or jointing of the
ends OF all such pieces can be easily
accomplished by following out the in
structions given under Fig. 4S. for
using the bench hook and shoot board.
Carefully read and reread these direc-
tions, as they will be found to cover all
difficulties involved in such work.