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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
SILENCE OF THE UPPER AIR.
Voyage in Racing Balloon Three Miles
 Above the Earth.

The recent balloon voyage of two Eng
 lishmen in the "Vivenne H." when
 they won a race in the air from Iiege,
 Belgium, was one of the highest on
 record. the altitude maintained being
 three miles,
 Tt was dry when we started' said
 one or the aeronauts, Stanley Spencer to
 a London Express interviewer, but when
 we had reached height of 5000 feet
 rain began to fall heavily, sounding like
 the rattle of bullets on the case of the
 balloon. At 5000 feet, however we got
 above the clouds and out of the rain.
 Here the velocity of the wind was much
 greater and we found that the higher we
 ascended the greater was the wind force,
 until at our highest point-three miles.
 which was reached after the sacrifice of
 a great deal of ballast-it was blowing
 nearly fifty miles an hour
 The effect of the clouds below us as
 we ascended in the brilliant sunshine. was marvellous. They stretched away as far as the eye could see, striking pan orama Of snow-white pillows. Far above us, again, was another stratum of clouds. of soft, fleeey appearance The coldest part of the ascent was when they were passing through the , masses of clouds. but as they got higher into the direct rays of the bright sun shine 1t became much warmer, so that they were again able to throw off their fur coats.
 As the balloon passed from one fierce ly blowing current of wind into the oppo- site, the shock was such that the bal loon swayed Violently, and it seemed as though the car must be overturned AS we were rushing along, the silence was intense," continued MT. Spencer, but as we passed over the iron works dis tricts of Belgium and Germany we could distinctly hear the peculiar roar of the blast furnaces, and the changing of the steam hammers, although we were three | miles above them
 For the first time in the history of ballooning. we were able to enjoy hot food and drinks on this trip. We took up
 with us tins of prepared coffee soups and
 meats. which by a chemical preparation in tins. can be heated simply by admit ting the air through the holes made in an outer case"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
Five Points

of one of our cars; the people on the sta- ton platforms saw him, and grinned and pointed him out to one another. It was strange that the conductor did not notice this.
 practical cattleman comes and in- structs about work and life on his ranch. This life is not all romance. As to the work they have simple system. All the men work every day, including Sunday, and there are no vacations. But what" we ask, do the men do when they can't stand that any longer? Why, they quit the job'
 A simple plan all around, derived dl- rectly from .he scheme of life itself Either tho reaction from such an indus trial programme or the vastness, the simplicity, the originality of the land. scape, makes of many of these far vest ern men the preachers of some one plain, social. political, financial or religious dogma. The Mormon. the silver man. the populst, the single-tax man, you may meet all together in the smoking compartment.
 Strange to say-or Is 1t natural enough, since they are all so calm and convinced? they dispute and clash, when they come together so, much less than Eastern theorists would. Seated together on op- posite sides of the compartment, they expectorate rhythmically. and divide their time as if by a clock, or as equitably as so many Indians at a pow-wow.
 It seems clear enough that in the main the drift of the western social and eco- homie talk is a little revolutionary. It was a coincidence that while I was hear ing. in the smoking compartment, soma of the theories, we saw painted on a big white rock that whizZed past the window the sign. in black letters Limit Wealthi' Some theorist must have taken good deal of pains to put that mission- ary sign there. Yet not one of the men ] saw on the train appeared to be trying to limit his own wealth; all seemed to be doing fairly we'll toward extending theirs.
 Note made on the morning after the big talk in the smoking compartment: No settlements visible now except those of prairie dogs. But there are stations once in a long while-solitary little structures mo houses near them. I suppose the trains must stop sometimes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
J. E. c. in the New York Mail.

J. E. c. in the New York Mail.
 X/OU cannot ride any longer, consci-
 ously, than all your walking hours
 in a Pullman car, any more than you could in a prairie schooner; and as you can ride all way in an express train straight into the west, and get only part way into state, your sense of accom- plishment of distance must be just about what the early emigrants and Argonauts felt when they looked out on the rolling plains from their ox-drawn wagons.
 You lie down at night with the same sense of the hopeless vastness of the plain that they must have had. Never theless you wake in the morning in a new spot, which they did not. During the light you watch the country along the trail; sitting in the smoking compart- ment by and by, you combine eye study of it with conversation of an instructive nature with men who know the way
 You have found. wherever you have travelled, that the essential thing about every place to you is something that nobody has ever told you. Here the thing is that the plains are neither fiat nor monotonous. The rapidity with which the scene changes-with ridges forming, rising, sinking. disappearing, flashing out again. and continually taking new shapes and standing al new angels-astonishes you.
 A man sits by you In the compart- ment who knows all this infinity-what township you are in, and what every acre Is good for, if it is good for anything.
 Before you left tho farming section of Kansas you noticed some land of rich appearance that was not farmed. Why not? He tells you It was too dry. Only the valleys there are farmable. As to the cattle, you find that 1t takes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
Success.

Success Magazine for November devotes some space to a historical and analytical study of graft In Just Plain Craft Hosmer Whitfield goes back to the times of the Pharaohs to find the earliest re- corued symptoms of what has today be- come malignant cancer in political and business life. and shows that graft has been the cause of all our wars, and has killed more men than ever died from for eign bullets. No part of our public or private life. says MT Whitfield. is free from this curse, which extends into the homes in the shape of trust-made adul- terated foods, and even penetrates churches and charitable institutions. As to whether this disease Is curable. the indications seem to show that there is little prospect of relief until the happy period of the millennium, when the strong will cease to prey upon the waai-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
BookloVers,

David Belasco has given his views on sThe Art of Acting to the world in the November issue of Appleton's Booklovers Magazine. It comes somewhat as shock to hear that master of subtle emo Isions and delicate shades of feeling decry
 temperament in favor of such externals as voice. gesture and presence. MT. Be- Iiasco quotes Hamlet's instructions 10 the players as his authority, and makes It clear that ever since the initial play was performed playwrights and managers have met the same difficulties in secur- nng the interpretation of their thought lThe player must feel, says MT Belasco' as otherwise 1t would be impossible Tor
 alm to express, but to the audience he
 must be a. picture of the emotion ne IS
 expressing, rather than an individual eX- pressing the emotion in hls indlVioual
 way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
WITH THE MAGAZINES:


uaughter has just been the guest of the Empress Dowager and Emperor. Timely. too. Is Ralph D. Paines discussion of
 The Spirit of School and College Sport, comparing English and American foot ball.
 There is editorial discussion of Mary Mapes Dodge's noble work for the chill dren' on Peace and World Opinion" and forthcoming new biography of Lincoln.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
ROMANCE OF TRAVEL ON
 THE WESTERN PLAINS

twelve acres of ground, now that you are in the real grazing section, to sup port one steer; and you oo not wonder that apparently you do not see one steer to five hundred acres, because each steer will by no means take his twelve acres and be content with that. but whole hundred are on some others twelve acres, miles away.
 You see a stream, and express a won der If it will not some time be used to irrigate this land; and then you learn something new again, when you are told that. lanu cannot be irrigated unless It is level-not too level, it must have a slant to it-and none of this land IS quite level. It might indeed be watered, but to accomplish this you must so crook and lead about the ditches that their ridges would take up too much of the land for the rest to give profit.
 Men drift in and out of the smoking compartment, and bring the gossip of the train as well as news of such great things of world we have been dis cussing. Forward in the day coach there is interest in a grown boy, railroad tramp who is hidden between the backs of two seats that are turned together. A passenger to talk the better to two &C., quaintances, had turned the seats to- gether and put his bag between the backs: the tramp, slSulking through at a stop. had nestled in between the bag and the side of the car. twisting and curling himself into the narrow space. The pas sengers quickly found him, and of course kept his presence a secret.
 But the boy present fell asleep, and, unconsciously strengthening himself, thrust one of his legs out into the aisle The brakeman came along, saw the leg touched it with his foot, and said, Come get your feet out of the aisle." and went on.
 Railroad men see these tramps, If they are alone and are boys with some diff culty. We had one of them the roof
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
Reader.

The cover design of the Reader for Mo- vember in four colors, by Christy. is ap- propriate to the Thanksgiving season. A reproduction in tint of a drawing by Will Vawter, illustrating a bit of verse from James Whitcomb Riley's new book of poems, Songs O Cheer" make a feauti- ful frontispiece. The introductory article, "A Question of Organization" tells Of the long-drawn-out struggle in San Fran cisco between trades unionism and the citizens alliance, styling the battle "a fight for life" An article under the title "The Seeing Eye and the Unhearng Ear" by Sarah Harvey Porter, throws light on numerous phases, unknown or misunderstood by the general public of the lives of those who dwell in the Eternal Silence-the deaf-mutes.
 Of fiction the November Reader has an attractive list. 'rhe Master" by Edward s. Holloway; "The End of the Journey" by Emerson G. Taylor; "The Buckskin Doll" by Jean Cowgill "A Case of Ata-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
The Century.

The November Century begins the seN- enty-frst volume of the magazine Wi'n the first chapters of new novel by Mrs' Humphrey Ward. entitled "Fenwlck 8 Career'--and a new novel by Mrs Waro' that strong and accomplished writer, IS always an event in the book and maga- zine world John Fenwick is young nainter. who. leaving wife and baby be- hind in the Westmoreland country, goes nm 10 London to make his fortune Al bert Sterner is the Illustrator: and the frontispiece of the number, In tint. shoWs the artist and his pretty wlfe-the two characters of chief interest in the open ing chapters. A.
 lack London. too, has story Tn the tssue-a nicturesoue tale of mining life, "All Gold Canon" There are other snort stories from Olivia Howard Dunbar, Car roll Watson Rankin, Eleanor H. Porter and Arthur Ruhl.
 William Barclay Parsons, member or the isthmian canal commission of l904- 1905 and member of the board of consult- ing engineers. gives readers of the No- vember Century a wealth of authorita- live information about the construction of this wonderful waterway. whose ac- complishment will mean much to all the nations but most to America, For lovers of Whitman there are several pages or memories of Walt Whitman's last days fn Camden-extracts from letters and from Horace Traubels record of the poets conversations in his later years.
 The recent discoverey and exploration of the tomb of the parents of Iii, in the Valley of the Kings, make narrative of fascinating interest. It is told, Illus trated with man reproductions from photographs by Henry Copley Greene. The second installment of papers on "Historic Palaces of Paris" by Camille Gronkowsli. describes the Hotel du Prince Eugene the German embassy), a finished example of the empire style; and there are new chapters and pictures re- counting Katharine A. Carl's experiences with the Empress Dowager," of spe- cial timeuaess when the Presidents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
Advance.

The Thanksgiving number of Advance Is. typographically, an improvement on The october number. The cover desigh Is quite attractive and the printing or the magazine is better. The contents or this number include "As by Fire d Thanksgiving story by Henry Morton Payne. Adventures ofHerlock Sholmes
 by Grey J. Huffman continuation or Annie Reese Locke; bright reflections by ''rhe Flower of Old Fort Louis' py sion of the lemon. by Frank Willis Bar nett and the usual miscellaneous matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
House keeper.

yeritable store house of good things is the November Housekeeper from the beautifully drawn front cover, depicting an ideal head, to the last page of the regular departments. Within it's pages are stories. Illustrated articles, and many suggestions for the fall and winter In fashions, cookery, fancy work, eher- tainment. Thanksgiving menus, hyslehes etc. Of striking interest IS the nitn Ui inc series of articles by Marian Bonsall, inc associate editor on "The Tragedy or she Mormon Woman" This month Ms Bonsau tells of 'rhe Lot of the PluraI Wife" These articles are the result ol personal investigation in both the cl'y and rural districts of Utah. lhleINle"S with plural wives who have never heloiv told their sad story are gwen anu VIII he found to be wonderful revelations.
 There are two feature articles in which every one will be interested. "A Rus' sian Sewing Bee by Margaret 5. Burke describes the life of the women or the Russian embassy at Washington who worked through the long war between Russia and Japan to supply a regiment with clothing. What they did ana hU" they did it is most interestingly told rrhe other article is "Women Who Set Toll 10 Melody" and is illustrated by orig final photographs taken by the author Francis Trevelyan Miller, in a trip through the little known tropical islands of the Atlantic. ~ .a
 An abundance of entertaining fiction is also found. Quaker Roses" by Fran res Brewster; "'rhe Fickleness of Nane
 Mrs. Marquis Eaton, and "rhe Terrible Fate of Scientific Ann" Edna Woods sutton. being amongst the number. lda n Bennett writes of Fall Work in the Garden" ''Recipes for the ThanksslV- ing Reunion" is the feature cookery aru- cle and is by Elizabeth w Morrison. All the many helpful and interesting de- partments will be found to be as prac- ticable and necessary as usual. Publish ed by the Housekeeper Corporation Mill neapolis. Minn. Sixty cents year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
The Early Boom.
n the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
 When l was boy" said the rathe" vain person, everybody said l was going to be President of the United States"
 Yes" answered the seasoned politician. Your case simply illustrates my argu- ment that it isn't safe to start a boom too far ahead of election"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29

Great Divide,n by Alice Winter, form quinete of short stories of striking origi' nality and interest; while the instalment of Meredith Nicholson's story. 'The House of a Thousand Candles" which will reach its conclusion in the Decem- Der number-is interesting as the narra- tive approaches it's final climax. Other articles are Being Alone in the House, by Helen A. Saxon and an essay, Arnold and Joubert," by Richard Rice. Verse is contributed by James Whitcomb Riley John Vance Cheney, Meredith Nicholson. vism," by L. M Montgomery, and 'The w. J. Hampton, Bliss Carman and others.
 Harper's.
 In literary distinction, art work, and general variety of interest, the Novem- Der number of Harper's is a striking ex ample of what can be done nowadays in making a magazine. There are fifty six illustrations, of which eleven are in color and tint. Besides MT. Nevinson's further revelations of the iniquities of the African slave-trade, there are the concluding article of Dr. Charcots ant arctice eXpedition; an article by Mir Howels upon Bath as 1t now Is and it was in Trackeray's time and earlier; very suggestive paper upon animal im- mortality by well-known naturalist writing under the pseudony moi Peter Rabbit" Ernest Rhys' concluding criti- cal comment on Shakespeare's King Henry VI.," with MT. Abbey's illustra- tions; an article on a music school set clement in New York, by Philip Verril Mighels; and Dr. H. c. McCook's account of the cow-keeping ants under title "In- sect Herds and Herders" Both Parking tons novel, The Conquest of Canaan draws towards it's conclusion, and sus- tains the impression that 1t is the strong est work Mir Tarklngton has ever done There is group of unusually fine short stories, among them a story by Amelie Rives, written in her best style, and which will doubtless attract critical at. tention as a product of American liter ature. The Editors Study and Easy Chair are replete with individual inter- est. and the Drawer bright and amusing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
HOW TO SLEEP.

"lt is great pity" said a noted special ist in nerve diseases, "that women will not learn and practice one of the most important lessons in maintaining health-how to sleep.
 ''Not one person in dozen." continued the doctor. "Isnows the benefit to be derived from good, wholesome rest, because they have not yet mastered the art of letting go.'"
 When you lie down to sleep, try to relax all the muscles of your body and lie perfectly supple and loose. Do not clinch your hands or assume a constrained position or expression. Perfect rest can only come after perfect relaxation.
 very common result of wrong sleeping, in over-worked and unrested women, Is fall- ing of the womb, which is due to the muscles and tissues of that part of the body being ooo weak to do the work for which they were intended-that is, of holding up and support ing the womb.
 Once the womb has fallen, sleep alone will not pull 1t up. Cardui is needed.
 Now it may seem very small matter for one little organ, the womb, for instance, to hang little lower than it should, but, if you think so, you were never more mistaken in your life.
 In point of fact, the womb is the seat of woman's most important functions and is connected, by very sensitive network Of nerves, with all the vital organs of her body.
 When your womb is out of place, bent, Inverted or twisted, you suffer from headache, backache, dragging sensations, inability to work or walk, melancholy, irritability, pains, rhills, fever, and general feeling of sickness and distress; and this is because womb dis order affects all the other organs of the body, sympathetically.
 The only safe thing for you to do, when your system is disordered in this way, is to take Wine of Cardui. It will brace you up, brace your womb up, and make you we'll
 Cardui, you know, is a gentle, medicinal tonic, of special benefit to women because it's ingredients act in a curative way on the fe male organs and functions.
 It is pure, pleasant, plant essence. It
 
 has no dangerous or deletenous ingredi- snts. It can be taken with bene- it by women of all ages.
 If you are sick, Cardui and sleep - will make you well.
 Cardui will stop your pains, headache, backache, dragging-down sensations, pull up your falling M womb, regulate disordered menstru- aton, and strengthen your weak constitution.
 It is the old reliable remedy for female complaint, about which you have heard so much, and will be sure to do you good, as it has million others.
 Sold at your druggists in f1 .00 bottles, with full directions for use.
 Try it.
 For special advice on your case sent free of all charge, in plain, sealed envelope-write fuh partic- ulars to Ladies' Advisory Dept, The Chattanooga Medicine Co., ChatfanooGa> IAnn----..---
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-29
Everybodv's.

Americans will find a cure for the evils that now beset and hamper them, is the kneynote to the remarkable new series of articles, Soldiers of the Com mon Good" by Charles Russell-articles descriptive of the wisest experiments that are being tried, the world over with the ideal democracy in view. Read MT. Rus sells stirring "Foreword," in the No yember Everybodys, with its prophecy that the issue of all great sociological experiments will be the rise of the com mon people, and you will conclude that his sincere, sympathetic. unhackneyed story of the struggles of present-day hu- manity promises to be something vital to every American. The new series seems particularly to the point in connection with such a story as MT. Lawson tells in this months installment of "Frenzed Finance
 The variety of its subject matter makes this number of Everybody's one of in terest Vance Thompson. in an Illus trated leading article, tells the history of "rhe Rothschids of France;" Ernest Poole gives a miserable young Russian students heartbreaking story in "The Night That Made Me q Revolutionist;' Edmund Russell brings the Orient pow erfully before the reader in his illustrat- ed description of 'rhe Sacred Animals of India" and in her continuation of the history of "Ella Rawls Reader, Finan- cier," Juliet Wibor Tompkins tells or the adventures in Peru of this real-life heroine. In distinctly humorous vein IS Eugene Woods ridiculously informal es- say, "Chickens.'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-23
OAKVlLLE HAPPENINGS

\ son Was born yesterday to NJ, and Mrs Lonis Lafagc of HazeIwood
 Inc Christian Endeavor society ot 'le Congregational church contem. piate a sleigh ride to Morris to-mor. row. to spend the evening III tba nome of the Rev F. w. Fletcher tbn, former pastOr
 Mir and Mrs l.. W. Dubois of Rocky crest entertained over Sunday Nelson smith of Marveldale, Joseph White. head of Washington, Ct. and Miss HVa smith of Waterbury.
 Miss Clara Place of Newton Heights, wh0 wa. confined To the house by illness for about d week, has recovered and resumed her duties at the office of the Oakvllle Co.
 Ice cutting on Slade's reservoir will be commenced this week by the concern which formerly went bv the name of the C. l.. Missell Co. Of Iatr years this inc harvest of lee has been left unrpaped. James Norton of lhomaSton has taken charge of the job.
 Mr and Mrs Norman Dains of Falls avenue spent Sunday with friends m Torrington.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-23
Deserts Pretty Child Wife.

Los Angeles. Cal.-Pretty Mary Mill Ter, wife at i6. deserted by husband she tearfully calls a brute has asked the police to search for the recreant spouse and force him to provide for her. She is destitute and during the past few days would have gone hungry had ii no, been for the generosity of Miss Flora Stallings. who lives at the Manitou house. No. 330 East Second street. Miss Stallings has only her daily wages. yet since Samuel Miller left his girl-wife. she has been providing for her and will continue 10 do so until aid can be se- cured from some other source. Mary Miller's story is pathetic. The girl is a wee little thing. scarce larger than a child of 12. She has pretty brown hair and large expressive eyes.