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The Jasper news., 1905-11-23
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A BRIGHr FNBRGgTlC WoMAN--wO
mEns work. Permanent position. Old
established busiueSl house OF solid tinan
cial standing. Salary Si2 Ia SIS weekly
with expenses, paid 'cpch Monday dir
ect from headquarters. Expenses ad
vRucod. We furnish everything. Al
dress, Secretary, go Moron Block,
Chicago, III.
The Jasper news., 1905-11-23

MEN AND WOMEN in this county
and adjoining territories 70 represent
aud advertise au oid established house
Of solid financial standing. Salary to
m~u s2l weekly, TO womou sl2 to slS
weekly with EXPENSES advanced each
Monday by check direct from head
quarters Horse and buggy furnished
when necessary: position permanent.
Address, Blew Bros. x Co., Dept. .,
Monon Bldg. Chicago, I'll.
The Jasper news., 1905-11-23
For OTiin Re1t.

Two good farms for rent. Call on or
address VIM. Kaderly, Jasper, Mo.
FOR RENT Nice upstairs office
rooms. Inquire Of W. II. Hagar.
The Jasper news., 1905-11-23

WANTED 81 CHICAGO MANU-
FEATURING House, person Of trust
worthiness and sumpw bat familiar with
locNi territory as branch office. Salary
SIS paid weekly. Permanent position.
No Investment required. Business es
tabHshcd. Previous experience not es-
sential 20 engaging. Address, Manager
Branches, 323 Dcarb7rl ST., Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Fiuhtinu for Panama Trade.

The Pittsburg Post states that the Pitssburg Coal company is preparing to transfer to eastern capitalists the control of the River Coal company. The River Coal company owns 100 steamers and over 4O00 coal barges, and it is building additional steel barges.
 The eastern men, says the Post, will not interfere with the trade of either the Pittsburg Coal company or of the Monongahela River Coal and Coke company, but it intends to develop a general freight business along the rivers of the Mississippi valley, and to build uo trade along the gulf coast in the Panama canal. It is look ing ahead, in other words. to the com pletion of the Panama canal and to an immense coal trade in both the Allan tic and the Pacific oceans.
 This may be said to be the first step
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Cases of Longevity.

The attention of Prof. Osler is invited to the Garcia family member of which, Manuel Garcia, celebrated his one hun dredth birthday. in England, on St. Pat rick's day" said a well known authority on matters in general" He was born in Madrid, but his father went to Paris in 1908. He is said to be in good health, and his mind remains vigorous.
 "one of Garcia's sisters, Marie, born in Paris in 1908, married a gentleman re.ident in New York, and is best known as Madame Malibran She was the great est singer of her day, but in consequence of imprudent exposure died in 1886, at the early age of twenty-eight years. Pauline another sister, married MT. yiordot, and was musical celebrity. She is still living in Paris, but is much younger than Man uel, having been born in 1921.
 Manuel Garcia made his debut as a singer eighty years ago, but for sixty years has devoted himself mainly to teaching, as professor in the London Con servatory Before he left Paris he taught Jenny Lind He is likewise the inventor of the laryngoscope, to which he devoted much time and study. On the occasion of his hundredth birthday he received deco rat.ons from three monarchs, the German Emperor, King Edward and King Alfonso of Spain,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
LlEE In THE ozARKs.
No carklne Cares CT Corrodlne Anhl-
 tIons to Mar Its Simplicity.

 Special Correspondence of the Washing
 ton Post
 Lincoln. Neb.-.If you want to see the human race in it's simple. primal ele- ments, go down to the Oarks." said citizen who has just returned from Mis- souri, where he invested in several fruit farms '"rhe mountaineers are the sim plest. kindest race of men one would desire to meet, but they don't amount to anything. They have no desire to own property of become rich. When a family moves from one place to another, all they do is to put out the fire on the hearth, call the dogs, and the job Is done.
 "The native doesn't want to work, and he never does until necessity spurs him to labor Why, most of them are so lazy that they have holes bored through their teeth so that they will not have to open their jaws when they want to spit. Most of them make moonshine whisky but they don't call that work. The finest applejack that ever tricxled down the throat of thirsty man can be secured there at prices which make wholesale figures here look like rank robbery.
 Revenue agents are plentiful in the mountains, but they rarely run down man. The old spirit of being agin the government, and any interference with human rights. principal among which is to make all the whisky one can, pre- vents peaching. There is little shooting of the officers because that has proved danRerOug to f he Iiherties of the moun- taineers. They have discovered that a much cheaper way is to fool the agents and they do this to perfection. Every now and then the revenue men are all lowed to capture 8 still, show that they can make a showing to the collector. The operator is seldom caught
 When man wants a gallon of whis- ky or apple jack he trots out his jug, sets 1t on a rock, leaves $i and dis appears. He is under surveillance all the time he is in the mountains, and 1t useless for him to hang around in the hope of seeing anybody. If he goes back in an hour he will find his money gone and the jug filled to the brim.
 "A man who goes about his business finds it easy and safe to live in the Ozarks. But he has to stifie curiosity or he may fall down with a bullet in his vitals.
 'The country is the greatest in the world for peaches and apples, and straw berries. The natives could all have been rich years ago, by attending to their fruit farms for a decade, but they won't"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Lieut.. Gov. Cunnlnqham.

While all are rejoicing in the return of Governor Jelks to the duties of his high office, the fact should not be overlooked that Dr. Cunningham, as acting governor in the last eleven months, has met every call upon the executive, rendering the state valu- able service. He Lad taken steps in that time to refund the debt of the state, to improve the capitol, and to collect unpaid corporate taxes. The duties that came along daily were met by Dr. Cunningham in an acceptable and satisfactory manner, and he will have comfortable place in the states political history even if he does not come back to the gubernatorial office in 1907.
 The lieutenant governor, however, considers himeslf a logical candidate. He intimates liking for the duties of the governors office, for Montgom- cry as place of residence, and for the good people of his native state. Altogether he may be considered as very lively and likely aspirant, and the man who defeats him in the pri- mary will have no trouble at all the rest of the way. Perhaps that man has not yet been born.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
France in Venezuela.

The high-handed and irresponsible Castro, president of Venezuela, threat ems to seize the French Cable com pany's property, thus turning the French investors out in the cold un- less France herself comes to their re- lief.
 If France should stand by her own citizens President Roosevelt may be- come fussy and even threatening. but if France refrains from any form of acquisition of territory, there will be no need of action on the part of this country. The doctrine of James Mon- roe calls for no action on our part in such a case if there is no attempt to hold territory either temporarily or permanently.
 The original Monroe doctrine has become unduly magnified. It did not at the start cover misdeeds of the states to the south of us. Even Presi- dent Roosevelt said in his first mes sage to Congress: We do not guar antee any state against punishment if it nisconducts itself, provided that punishment does not take the form of acquisition of territory by any non American power" If MT. Rooseevlt stands by his own words, no action on the part of the United States need be anticipated in Venezuela. Let France go ahead and protect her own people, taking good care of course not to seize as indemnity any territory. If she does this, We are not called upon to intervene, and the President cannot interfere with France in such a case unless he stands ready to flourish the Big Stick on all occasions, and to eat his own words.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Private John Allen.

Former Congressman John M. Allen Of Iupelo, Miss, who arrived in Birming- ham yesterday has been kept busy every hour he has been here by hosts of friends greeting him and wishing him the best possible luck in the best of all possible worlds. MT. Allen. all his friends here say, is an AlabamIan though he doesn live here. Everyone in Birmingham looks upon him as a southern institution whose fame is not 10 be hemmed by state lines. Wit, reconteur, epieure, statesman-a politician who never seeks office but whom an office is always seeking and never happy till 1t finds him, he Is at home Tn Birmingham, as indeed he is wherever he may be- All his friends here hope he will be given increased strength to serve and honor his country, and incidentally to remind his fellow men that it won't do for them to take themselves too seriously
 MT. Allen is stopping at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
PRIZE GIANT OF REGENT
 CENTURIES A RUSSIAN

shows when he could get one, but of late had been employed by patent med icine maker. his suit of elastic tights blown up big to represent a fragrant case or obesity; then it was let down a peg or two, showing the result of two weeks treatment" an so on, reducing it's bulk by degrees till he reached a normal level or dimensions. Such revelation as this not only shakes public faith in the anti fat remedies so advertised, but 1t also dis credits the pretensions of the fat man of the shows, making of him merely a pneumatic fantasy and halucination It does not seem as if 1t would be easy in any such manner to impose false giants upon the public, and there is no reason to suspect that the new Russian arrival has had his stature doctored for the purpose of heightening the popular desire to look upon him. One prefers to believe that he is really as long as they say he is, and the blue-ribbon giant of all the recent centuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
GREATER THAN CAESARS.
Bath of Senator Clark's Young Wife
 Most Luxurious in World.

From the New York Press
 When that massive pile of uginess in Fifth avenue Is finished and Senator Clark takes up his residence there, his young wife will have the most luxurious bath room in the world. It will excel in its appointments the most sumptuous baths of the early Romans, and beside it the bath of the modern oriental which is a good deal more of fable than a fact-will pale into insignifcance. Onyx, alabaster, and the finest marble ever quarried enter into it's construction. There are showers and needles and plunges. and the water will be filtered and will be as pure and clear as crystal. But the one novelty Mrs. Clark will pos sess, which even Caezar did not enjoy, will be an ingenious arrangement of tiny faucets, from which rare perfumes may be drawn and the water impregnated with their strenuous odors. She may bathe in softened water which exhales the scent of the geranium or the violet. or altar of roses. The idea Is a new one and is the invention of a Pittsburg gen. jus who got carte blanche to design the most luxurious and artistic bathroom in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
-@7=ssH--@--@-=--------- THE soUTH'S OLD GUARD.

From the New York Mail.
 In writing of the late Senator Bate of Tennessee the Atlanta Constitution men tions the names of the surviving Confed- crate veterans in Congress. They are, in the Senate, Morgan and Pettus of Alabama, Berry of Arkansas, Mallory and Taliaferro of Florida, Bacon of Georgia, Blackburn and McCreary of Kentucky, McEnery of Louisiana, Money and McLaurin of Mississippi, and Daniel of Virginia and in the House. Taylor, Bankhead and Richardson of Alabama. Lester, Livingston and Maddox of Geor- gia, Meyer of Louisiana, Spight of Mis- slssippi, Richardson and Pierce of Ten- nessee. Field and Pinckney of Texas, Lamb and Slemp of Virginia.
 An honorable list this. It will be noted that the worst hotheads and trouble-hunters of Congress do not ap- pear in it. Tillman. Carmack, Bailey, Hefin, slayden, and one or two others who might be named. are all post-Appo- mattox.
 It may at least be said of the Con federate veterans now remaining in the Senate that the whole country will regret their disappearance from public life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
is grumbling again.
YAWNlNe FOR HEALTH.

From the Chicago Journal.
 A German expert on gymnastics an- nounces that one need not go to a we'll equipped gymnasium in search of a course in giving exercises. Deep yawning praeticed as a regular exercise is the cheapest and surest road to per feet health. We are still familiar with the theory that systematic deep breath ing is an excellent thing for the lung, and it is on similar grounds that yawn- ing is recommended. The expansion of the breast bones and the stretching of the arms which accompany a whole hearted yawn, together with the filling of the lungs, form a splendid daily ex- ercse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
SENATOR PETTUs.
From the Baltimore Herald.

From the Baltimore Herald.
 Senator Pettus of Alabama, who was born in 1921, is the oldest man in either house of congress and the only man in public life who fought In the Mexican and civil wars. He entered the civil war on the Confederate side major and was brigadier general at its close. He has been a lawyer the greater part of his life, and believes in the efficacy of old methods. A year or two ago after a speech by one of the younger senators. Mir. Pettus remarked that what the speaker said might pass muster in a young mems debating society," but would not serve as an argument in the United States Senate,
 Mir. Pettus keeps track closely of legis- lation, lives regularly, has good health, and there is no evidence that he will need chloroform at any time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21

that Pittsburg has taken with refer. ence to the Panama canal, and it must be conceded that it is beginning the work like the early bird.
 But it will be strange indeed if coal mined two thousand miles away from the gulf can drive out coal mined not much more than two hundred miles away. It will be strange indeed if it can do this after the Warrior is opened, and two more Congresses will almost surely open the Warrior all the year round to barge navigation up to the very heart of the coal measures of this district.
 Congress is expending money on the Ohio and the Mississippi, but it is be- yond the power of Congress to keep those rivers open the year round. The Ice King forbids any such achieve ment. At the best the government can not give Pittsburg more than seven months navigation in the year. At present it's navigation is confined to three months each year, and is very uncertain. It is estimated that it costs about 80 cents a ton to float Pittsburg coal to New Orleans, and in an Open Warrior the coal of this district can be carried to the sea for about 30 cents ion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
SENATOR MORGAN.

From the Baltimore Herald.
 Senator Morgan IS very much fighter about anything that interests him. His long and laborious struggle in behalf of the Nicaragua canal is history. He never gave up until he was knocked out In the silver contest from before 1896 until Bryan was defeated the second time, he was at the front all the time. He was born in 1924, was Confederate brigadler during the civil war, and has been a fighter all his life.
 It was characteristic of him to make a vigorous speech on the Santo Domingo matter when something was disclosed he didn't like. The old senators are pass Ing rapidly away But none is more viz orous today than MT. Morgan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
From the New York Times.

frOnn the NeW ork Times.
 N YOUNG Russian nine feet eight
 PV inches in length. according to
 the report of him, has lately walked into public life, communicating thrill to the show business which it has rarely experienced. It is so far from his basis to the seat of his perceptions that it may be doubted if he knows when his feet are cold. The Biblical declaration that ''there were giants in those days thus receives occasional support in these. represent tribal groups and families of men; like an ancient Anakim. their pre- tensions are rather shadowy. Every cen- tury brings to the front one or two; any point of stature bey ond an octave of feet admits to the giant circle. with all It's honors and immunities, and it IS a bereft generation that is without an occasional figure of this height to give it entertain ment They are of no country and of all countries Sometimes they come from the antipodes. wearing Mandarins' capes and pigtails; sometimes they advance colossal down the Pike out of Turkish vallyyets and beehive tents of Scythian encampments by Oxus and Jaxartes, to further Sieslan; Ireland sends forth one now and then. cascading brogue from his lofty summit like a tower gargoyle in the rain. Highly extenuated Scotchmen have been known, too, in various periods well worth the showman's fee to look upon. There Is hardly any division of the f-~ t.l, Gxo Ios-f contributed some male or female colossus to this interesting procession, but none of them have equalled in stature the un- expected Brobdingnagian Muscovite now discovered, who can look down on all his gigantesque predecessors like camel- opard on a meadowful of goats. A stat ure closely approximating ten feet. if not too much of 1t is shako and boot heel. Is surely something to pause and wonder at and to make men and women every where suspend their wonted vacations to look upon it.
 It used to be the case that the fat man of the show divided popular attention with the giant on the same platform with him, but confidence in the former has been rudely shaken by the discovery that the customary fat man of the public stage in these times is merely blown up to his advertised dimensions. There is a core of reality in his ''big assemblance." but 1t is of ordinary size. the apparent bulk being merely the imitation of an india rubber costume. clothed in which any girth desired may be obtained. This device is not only used for show pur- poses, but advertising doctors having anti-obesity mixtures to sell also em- ploy it.
 One of these cases turned up in . French court the other day, when very lean suspect was interrogated by the magistrate as to his means or livelihood. He replied that he was a professional fat man out of job He took q place in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Russian Railroads.

to Russian commerce these days" said traffic man. During the first five weeks of the year the loss in frieght carried was 300,OO0 tons, according to the latest official returns. These figures speak elo- quently of the extraordinary disorganiza- tion of the roads, owing to the wars demands. In the middle of February 1903, the accumulated freight was 10000 tons and on the same date In 1904 It was 119,- coo tons, while on February 15 1905, it was 1,5sS'96O tons. Grain, in large quanti- ties. stored along the lines of railway, has felt the thaw and is rendered useless by sIrouting."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
FREEZES OUT THE FIRE.

Mountain Lake (Minn.) Cor. St. Louis
 Post-Dispatch.
 A fire which broke out here during the extreme cold weather proved beyond question the efficacy of cold in freezing out fire. With the thermometer 25 de- grees below zero and a terrific blizzard raging the village was alarmed by fire call from the north end
 Chief Worden and his fire 1addies rushed to the scene.
 The chief had long been experimenting on freezing mixtures, and at this fire his scientific knowledge. coolness and foresight prevented a disastrous confia- grafton
 One hose was put to playing the mix ture upon the building and another water The mixture and outside temper ature easily reduced the temperature of the water against the building to a point 50 or GO degrees below zero. This immedi- ately froze against the building. soon con verting it into an air-tight palace and the flames were left to suffocate as any fire will do when the air Is wanting.
 The house was broken into today. and, as expected the fire was found wholly extinguished. The chief is receiving off, fers for the patent right of the mixture, and it is learned that an offer of $50,O00 has been refused.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
VIII Be Laroe Convention.

The Woodmen of the World of Jurisdic- tion I, embracing South Carolina Georgia Alabama and Florida, had over two hun dred delegates at the biennial meeting in Savannah last week, and even larger number will come to Birmingham two years hence. Including visiting Wood men and ladies fully 400 persons will as- semble here in 1907.
 L. N. Archer of Birmingham, head con sul of this Jurisdiction, presided over the Savannah session.
 ''The Woodmen of the World constitute a vigorous and progressive organization,' said MT. Archer last night. "The delegates that attend the conventions are thorough ly representative men, and Birmingham is fortunate in securing the next meet ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Total :. ......4, 4Os,O2s s,S

The only rival in this district in foundry iron is Pennsylvania, and the gap between the two cannot be read fly closed even when strike operates to cut down the output in this dis tict.
 The total production of foundry and high silicon iron in the country last year was 3,S27, ,229 tons, and this dis trict produced about 30 per cent of the national product. Pennsylvania far outruns this district in other grades of iron, but in foundry iron we are at the top.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
PIANOS CATCH COLD.
Ie New York World.

From the New York World.
 ''In this wontry weather" said tho tuner, .'keep your piano in warm. dry room and sec besides. that it's cover is a good, thick, comfortable one. Other wire it will take cold It's tone Will be- come hoarse and squeaky.
 "Seriously," the tuner continued. "a piano's voice is affected by cod weather and dampness as much as is the human voice, It gets altogether out of tune Con- siderable treatment is required to put it in good shape again.
 ,Hence the piano should be kept in a room of equable temperature. It should be placed against an inside wall away from draughts. If should be kept closed when not in use Its cover, IT the winter. should be of felt. thick. soft and warm"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21

The Iron Trade Review calls atten- ton to the fact that nothing-not pan ics, depression, labor troubles nor short crops, can stay the onward march of open-hearth steel. Such troubles interfere with the production of pig iron and Bessemer steel, but nothing can stop the growth of the basic open-hearth steel industry. In the last three years the production of Bessemer steel has been decreased. It was less in 1904 than in 1903; less in 1904 than in 1902, while the open hearth steel output was increased in each of these years.
 Not only is open-hearth steel holding its own In plates. structural shapes, steel castings and forgings, but it is invading the Bessemer field by enter ing into the composition of rails, sheets, tinplates and wire products. Bessemer steel has no longer any field it can call it's own.
 Non-Bessemer ores are gaining ground and the indications are that the output of open-hearth steel will soon head the list. The market de- mand for open-hearth material is widening every year. In some lines it holds a monopoly, and in all it is &C., oanfahla