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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
Syrian Colony,

An interesting part said Charles M. Houppert yesterday, "of Birmingham s cosmopolitan population is Syrian col ony about 150 strong Many of them are merchants, generally in small way, and some of them are men of polish and cul- tivation Several of their number are learned men, and when the Syrians give a dinner next Sunday, as they have planned to do, good speeches will be heard. The object of the banquet is to bring the Syrlans into line-to American ize the entire number and to induce all the men to secure naturalization papers. None of them propose to return to Asia Minor They desire to be asslmilated, and they speedily will become permanent res- idents of this district.
 "The colony" said MT. Houppert, "is increasing steadily They are all Cath olics, most of them attending St. Paul s church. Some of them have joined the Knights of Columbus, an American Cath ollie fraternal order. At present they bring here once a year a priest who speaks the Syriac tongue, but this expense will soon become unnecessary. for most of them already speak and understand English, and all soon will. They promise to become good citizens, and good Amer icans"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
---7-179777- WHITE IN ST. LOUIS.
n the New York Post.

From the New York Post.
 William Allen White, disguised as "a man with a four-cylinder, forty-horse power, air-cooled thirst" tried to raise the Hid" that Governor Folk has fitted to St. Louis on a recent Sunday. His report of the experiment is eloquent; Here is sight that has been seen by few men who lived to tell the tale o Ger man beer garden, owned by a German brewer, with half a score of German walters scurrying around serving pony bottles of fuzzy ginger ale to thousand German-Americans on Sunday after noon!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
Attractive Advertisements.

q was greatly impressed with the ad- vertisements in this Sundays Age-Her- ald," said a lawyer last night.
 q do not recall any paper in which persons or firms with goods to sell pre- sented their business in more attractive form. I usually glance over such ads as especially interest me, but l spent at least an hour reading those in this issue. and here are some of the results:
 'T needed the services of a chiropodist and I found one whose claims struck me favorably; I decided to buy dozen bot ties of beer to send as a present to a poor neighbor; l picked out several pieces of office furniture at prices that seemed ex- ceedingly reasonable, and I made a note of some real estate bargains. Later in he day my wife read the advertisements and made a shopping list a yard long,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

N0A OLDFIELD, NEW, September g. kS The automobile is conquerlns
 - the desert, The distance from the original Nevada gold camp of Tonopah, where an hundred mil Hons are blocked out underground, to Go1dfield, the newer settlement, Is about twenty-seven miles, and from Goldfeld to Bullfrog, the latest of the great min- Ing districts that Nevada Is now offer- Ing to the world, 1t is sixty-fve miles. There Is nothing but desolate desert be- tween the points There are old-fashionsd stages of the Deadwood style. made fam ous by Buffalo Bill" that traverse these desert distances, but the twentieth cen tury way of travelling is by auto, over roads that have been especially con structed for the traffic.
 From Tonopah to Goldheld, the fare is s6, and 1t takes you only little more than an hour to taverse the distance. Each auto carries from four to seven passengers, and the man who drives the machine over the desert gets s6, or the amount of a single fare, for each trip that he makes. From Golddeld to Bull frog the fare is s25.
 Most of the Goldfield-Bullfrog trips are made by night, and they take anywhere from six to dozen hours, according to the ability of the chauffeur and the sta- bility of his machine.
 The nights in the desert are usually cold, just the days are generally hot, and breakdown for any length of time means discomfort. But these auto men have some marvellous expedients for ob- taining relief. Bullfrog and Goldfeld have been connected by telephone line ever since the Bullfrog district was discovered, about year ago. Sometimes the auto comes to a sudden stop, and you are told that it may be several hours before it Is in working order again. The chauffeur reaches under his seat and pulls out a little box, with which he disappears across the desert wastes He is headed for the telephone line, which Is near the auto road, and with his tiny field instrument he climbs a pole and in the shortest possible time he has made his wire connections and is in communication with the home office. There is the lonliness of death all around you, but in that instant you can
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
Japan's New Navy.

Japan has already raised five battle ships at Port Arthur and perhaps twice as many cruisers there and at Che mulpo, and no doubt she will go on un- til every vessel sunk in shallow water is fioated and repaired and added to the Japanese navy. It goes without saying that the man behind the gun on the rescued and captured ships will shoot straight and early and often when trouble comes. The ships sunk in the Sea of Japan cannot be recov-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
The Money Market.

Henry Clews in his Wall street letter of Saturdays date says
 .@rhe money situation remains the po- tent factor in the stock market. It is upon the future conditions, and not the present. that professional Wall street op- crates in connection with the money sup ply as with all other important influences While interest rates have already shown indications of hardening, the large ship nents of currency to the interior in con- nection with an already strained con- dition of bank reserves must naturally
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
THE MAN FOR THE JOB.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 q wish I was back on earth again" sighed Methuselah, just starting in to live my life"
 Pooh, what could you do?" sneered Baron Munchausen. Among the hust- ing moderns you'd be clean out of the running"
 "No. I wouldn't" retorted Methuselah confidently "As soon as they found out who I was they'd want me to boss that Panama canal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
VISTA.

By John Greenleaf Whittier. Christ of God whose life and death
 Our own have reconciled. Most quietly, most tenderly
 Take home thy star-named child, Thy grace is in her patient eyes,
 Thy words are on her tongue; The very silence round her seems
 As if the angels sung Her smile is as a listening child's
 Who hears it's mothers call: The lilies of Thy perfect peace
 About her pillow fall. She leans from out our clinging arms To rest herself in Thine: Alone to Thee. dear Lord, can we
 Our well-beloved resign. O. less for her than for ourselves
 We bow our heads and pray: Her setting star, like Bethlehem'a
 To Thee shall point the way!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
m the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Getting rich is not what it is advertised to be in the prospectuses.
 The more poetry there is in the court ship the more prose there Is in the mar ried life.
 The way to make girl think she is pretty is to tell her all the other ones are not
 There is something about square meal that makes the man who is eating 1t think he is a mighty good fellow.
 Family life would be more beautiful than it is in the story books if it's history were not written on the shop bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
plauue at Panama.

Yellow fever is dreaded, and so is cholera, but the dread of both when put together in one person does not equal the dread of the average man when bubonic plague becomes threat ening. Yellow fever was imported either from the isthmus or from Cen tral America, probably from Honduras, and now it is officially announced that deaths have occurred in the canal zone from the plague.
 T. is difficult to stamp out the plague. The British authorities are not able to control the disease in In- dia, and what they can not do in India we may find 1t difficult to do at the isthmus, especially when thousands of laborers are imported to dig the canal. | ne task must, however, be accom- plished, no matter at what cost, for the canal cannot be dug amid an cpl demic of the plague. The plague would prove greater obstacle to the comple- u, of the canal than the backbone rocks at Culebra.
 The plague is not filth disease. It was long considered a disease that could thrive in filth only, but science has demonstrated that filth never cre- ates it. About eleven years ago the bacillus of the plague was discovered, and the disease can be propagated wherever the bacillus is carried. It can be carried in filth or in all cleanli- ness. Wherever the germ goes the disease goes. It is a germ disease, as perhaps all diseases are. The plague germ is, however, well known to all physicians, and it is well described In tho medical journals and books.
 The dangers of plague, if it becomes prevalent at the isthmus, will be felt at the gulf ports, but all have been warned of the deaths and cases in the canal zone, and the utmost care will DC exercised in preventing the incom- ing of an infected person or of infected goods, for no doubt the germs of | | s.- fe, ted clothing or other goods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
M oltke Arrives,

New York, September 10.-The Ham, burg-American line steamer Moltke ar- rived today from Hamburg, with 49S cabin passengers. No steerage passengers were brought A case of cholera broke out among Russian emigrants at Hamburg and all of the steerage passengers of the MoItke were disembarked and held for observetion. There was no illness on board during Nhe passage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
New Skxscraner.

Said professional man thoroughly fa- miliar with every detail of the business leading up to the present status of the proposed ifteen-story building at the cor ner of First avenue and Twentieth street: From the inception of this large enter prise all the negotiations were conducted by Mr. E. L. Brown on the part of Brown Bros. & Co.,, and by MT. Otto Marx, and when this magnificent structure is erect ed these two gentlemen will deserve the credit for bringing the negotiations to a successful close.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
ALABAMA PRESS

Dadeville Spot Cash: The man who succeeds does not wait for opportunity to knock at his door; he rings it up and makes a date.
 Alexander City Outlook Alabama has a big surplus-more than our governor wants to keep in the treasury Surely our state Is fortunate in an administra- tion free from graft, while other states, to say nothing of national scandals. are wrangling over the spells.
 Cheroke Harmonizer: All the work that has been done at Panama does not seem to have advanced the canal very much But it has reconciled lot of people to living in the United States as soon as they could get back here.
 Talladega Reporter: The Japanese are acting like baseballists, who lay it all on the umpire.
 Dothan Eagle: You can go to Atlanta direct from the yellow fever districts, and see her famous mayor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
THE MINISTER ENvlEp.

From the Washington d<an.) Register.
 You can't tell from the way man acts in the pulpit how foxy he really is. Rev. Mir. Hageman kisses the bride, the maid of honor, the bridesmaids, the serv- ing girls and everybody else feminine at the weddings. If we had our life to live over we would be minister.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
SEEMS so.

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
 Colonel Watterson insists that capable man cannot afford to go to Congress on a salary of s500o year." Maybe not but are there not some trimmings for "capable" men?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
KING SOLOMON'S MINES
 IN CHARGE OF SPIRITS

well aware that they will not give any information about commercial and finan- cial matters. They profess that their in terest in these things ceased with their human existence, and they absolutely de- cline to be drawn into any expression of opinion about them.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

It is said the Subway tavern was run at loss of s170O0, and this ac- counts for it's transformation into plain money-making saloon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

The sultan at Fez lacked confidence in the Kaiser's support when France got ready for war. He simply backed down by meeting all of France's re- quirements.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

A room on the top floor of New York's forty-nine-story hotel would lose it's attractiveness if the elevator should refuse to slip up and down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

The President does not propose to raise doves of peace as a steady bus mess. He has got Congress and the standpatters to raise next winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Stoessel and Kuropatkin consider Linevitch the lucl1iest Russian of them all. The latter should ever recall with gratitude Portsmouth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Castro has written to Henry Clews demanding to know what he means when he says the last great war has been fought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

The Indian Territory people desire to be admitted as the state of Sequo- yah, and yet they furnish no key to the pronunciation of the proposed name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Philadelphia's 50,0OO phantom voters will be felt next November when Boss Penrose asks vindication.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Roosevelt beat Parker in electoral votes, but Parker now beats his an tagonist of last year in salary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Our President is now called Theo- dorus Pacificator Maximus. This is certainly tougn luck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

The Russians should catch several ferocious Tartars. and put them where the dogs cannot bite them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

The ten-story line is to be crossed in l. , Linn skyscraper. Once this town has crossed the line it will never re- turn to it when it has skyscraper to build.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Portsmouth is now practicing the Simple Life unheralded and unknown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

The kicker represents discontent, and discomfort means progress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

The base ball hero will soon be dis placed by the matinee idol.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11
AT THE RACES.

From the New York Herald.
 Win and your wife wins with you Lose and you lose alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Count Tolstoi may be elected to the first Russian parliament, and if he gets there he will certainly keep things stirred up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Russia has more peace, but less fuel, and the latter will soon be very essen tial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Mir. Shonts' press agent stands at the head of his profession in the respect of salary, He is almost in the life insur- ance class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Not even a snowdrift, says the Chi cago News, will drive in some straw hats.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

The Frisco and the Illinois Central will soon be well established in Jones' valley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

China will be politely requested by Japan not to lease to Russia any more ice-free harbors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

A pork packer has purchased the house at stratford-on-Avon in which the mother of John Harvard lived, and this may lead to a revival of the Bacon Shakespeare controversy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

No country will go to war with Ger many while the latter has cholera in her midst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

China proposes to transform herself into a big Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

From the London Financial Chronicle.
 . HERE has recently arrived in (d London an American gentleman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala. post office as second-class matter under act of Congress March B 1879
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-11

Washington Bureau Age-Herald, I421 c street. N. W.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-09-26
Wine. of the Ancients.

''The tombs of Benz Hassam," said
an antiquary Of Chicago, are interest
ing on account OF their realistic paint
ings. In these tombs, which are 5000
years old, there are many pictures Of
drunkards. Drunken men, waving wine
cups in both hands, are being carried
home by sneerIng slaves. Drunken
women lurch through the streets. fol
lowed by little mocking children. All
this, mind you, 5000 years ago.
Alexander the Great used to hold
drinking contests. He who could drink
and carry Off the most wine won.
Promachus. the skilled Promachus.
won a gold cup from Alexander by
drinking fourteen quarts Of wine.
Fourteen quarts!
The Romans used to serve at their
banquets wines eighty and a hundred
years old They would mix with these
wines turpentine, resin and sea water.
Thus, they thought, fine favor was
got.
II once tasted a wine 200 years old.
It was so thick we had to dig 1t out
with a spoon Its flavor was so hor-
rible that turpentine, resiri and sea wa
ter would no doubt have improved it."
Chicago Chronicle.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-09-26
Inc SHdItSS foWu fTec fEcss
Offers Opportunity 10 obtain Businc Edl-
cation Free Of Cost.

We are making an effort to add large
number Of names to our subscription list.
and to do this we make the following
proposition
To the person handing in the largest
number of new subscribers to THE FIRE.
Press before November Ist. 1905, ithe
number to be not less than Isl. we will
give scholarship in the International
Correspondence Schools OF Scranton.
Pa.--the course to be selected by the
successful contestant. Those competing
and not winning the scholarship will be
paid rs cents for each yearly subscriber
listed. The subscription price will be
reduced to $500 to new subscribers only.
Sample copies of The FREE Pass will
be furnished to all contestants. Anyone
Contemplating entering the contest should
call at this Office for instructions. The
FREE PRESS. Charles Town, w. Va,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-09-26

N7E do Galvanized Roofing, double seam
w it just as well as with tin Not nailed
thr ough ike the V Crimped kind which will
burst around the nail heads and then blow off,
Come aud zee Us.
yesterday 2 co.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-09-26

surdly like her. he told himself, and
yet when the first act was finished.
be sought the drowsy individual who
served as usher and drew card from
his case.
Take this to Miss-er'-he consult
ed his programme-"Miss Lee" he
said.
The usher demurred. Orders is not
to let any one behind the scenes" he
declared
Oyerton produced dollar BILL Bet
ter try" he said. smuggling it into the
usher's hand.
The man departed. but a moment
later he returned and beckoned Over
ton to follow him. They went to the
rear of the building. entered a low
doorway and passed down narrow
hall with little doors opening on to 1t
from either side. Before one of these
they stopped and the usher knocked.
The door was opened, and Rosalind
stood before them.
Phil. Philr' she cried, and the word
was almost sob.
Dazed, embarrassed, he entered the
dressing room and sat down on a
trunk
I'm heavens name he began.
'Don't-please don't ask me about
II" she pleaded.
Overton rose, his face very grave.
mabel" he said, 'once asked you to
marry me and you refused. Now l de-
mand it. and shan't take refusal"
"You-you don't want me now" she
said.
Il do want you." he said stoutly.
II told you once that / should live
for my art" She waved her hand
scornfully about the little room, lit
tered with dingy costumes and make
up boxes. This is my art. oh, how
have come to hate It," she ended bit
terly.
Mabel, you will leave 1t all-you
will come with me?' he said very
gently.
She hid her face In her arms. "Please
please go away" she begged. IF
you stay, shan't have the strength to
refuse you"
Il don't intend to lose you again."
said Overton, settling himself stubborn
~ on the trunk.
That night at IL o'clock the one
clergyman In Sandstone was routed
from his sleep to read the marriage
service, and the fee he received is still
his record breaker.
AS for the leadisg lady of "the all
star combination" her release from
her contract was purchased by her
husband, but, with fine discrimination,
he has never let her know that the
price was $50, nor has he ever men
toned the managers evident satisfac-
ton at the bargain.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-09-26

The Jefferson County Sunday School
Convention will meet with the Presbyte-
ran Church at Shenandoah Junction,
September 20 and 80. Mr.W. &. Shafer.
General Secretary for West Virginia. will
be one of the speakers. and Miss NJ. "
Graham. who has charge of the Primary
Work in this State. will be present.
Both are Sunday School workers of ma
tional reputation The Convention is in
terdenominational. Each Sunday School
in Jefferson county is entitled to two del
egates, beside pastor and superintendent,
who are ex-officio members Of the Con-
vention.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-09-26
CHARLES RISSLER,
Undertaker& En- balmer
CHARLES TOWN, w. Va.

Will furnish all kinds OF Caskets and Collins
and do EmbalIning according 10 the latest
and most approved modes. Ladies' aud gen.
tlcmen's burial robes on hand
Offices in Maxwell build ny. formerly oc-
cuped By Hon. w, H.Travers), where he uIay
be found al all hours, either day or night.
Feb 2-Y
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-09-26
Iron and Wood Work.

The undersigned has taken the shop Of Mr.
D. A. Phillips. near the B. & o. Depot in
Charles Town, and will do all kinds of
BLACK SMITHING AND
GENERAL REPAIR WORK
both ia wood and iron. Horseshoeing q spe-
calty. Buggies, Wagons, etc.. repaired and
made as good as new. II Won have ANYTHING
in wood or iron ont of keller. or buggy or
carriage top that needs doctoring. bring it to
one and see what can do for you.
Feb 26-y. JAMES T. LITTLETON.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-09-26
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
SPECIAL Low FARES.
SUMMER SEASON. 1905

: ATLANTIC CRY, CAPE MAY. OCEAN CRY
and SEA ISLE CRY, N. j., OCEAN CITY. MD,
and REHoBoTH BEACH, DEL.-Special Ex-
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August 3, II and 81. Tickets good sixteen
days.
PORTLAND. ORE.-Lewis & Clark Centen-
NAL Exposition. June /, October is.
Special announcements from time to time.
For detailed information call on or address
Ticket Agents Balto.& Ohio Railroad. tM31.