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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
WOMAN 4 HEROINE
 OF MEXICAN WAR Mrs. MiIIet Took Part in the Stirring Texas Events SHE, IS NINETY YEARS OLD She Is Supposed to Be the Oldest White Woman in Texas, Being
 Among First of the
 Pioneers.
SHE, IS NINETY YEARS OLD

Fort Worth, Tex.-Mrs. Clementna Millet of this city. is as truly a survivor of the Mexican war as the heroes who fought in the ranks. She is ninety years of age and retains clear memory of the times when Texas was achieving her indepen- dence.
 Mrs. Millet, who is probably the oldest white woman in Texas, is also one of the oldest residents of the state, having come here in one of the original colonies brought to the southwest by Stephen Austin.
 She was born in Knoxville, Tenn, but moved 10 Illinois with her parents With her father and mother and a party of forty pioneers, Mrs. Millet made the trip from Illinois to Texas, arriving here in 1892
 Her father, Jesse Bartlett, had achieved fame for military exploits in the Seminole lndain war, being given the rank of major by General Jackson, for bravery in action. In 1883 she married Samuel Mill let, who came to Texas from Maine upon graduation from Bowdoin college With her husband she moved to Grimes county where she lived during the Mexican war except for brief time during which the families were sent ahead by the troops while the fate of Texas lay In the bal ance.
 Just prior to the flight Major Bartlett. while out scouting with several men came across the survivors of Goliad wander ing without clothing and half famished in the brush. Dividing their clothing with the men who had been left stripped for dying they brought them to the Bartlett home, where Mrs Mllet with other mem bers of the family spent the succeeding day tearing up sheets and all sorts of clothing to provide clothing for the men. With the retreat of the family an effort was made to keep the weakened survivors with the women and children concealed by friendly Indians short distance from San Jacinto, where Houston elected to fight. The men, however. declared a firm determination to have a fling at their captors who had left them for dead and the women and children were left with a few wounded men
 We took a position on a pine log ex- tending over the bank of the river" said Mrs, Millet in describing the event "fullv determined that if the Mexicans were vic torious we would end all by plunging into the stream. Soon, however, we heard the glorious news of victory"
 Concerning the battle of San Jacinto Mrs. Millet gives some interesting infor- nation. The survivors of Goliad, she de- cares, burning under the outrage suffered by their comrades, shot and left stripped on the plains, were first to discover Santa Ana, and were with difficulty restrained from wreaking their vengeance on the leader, whose safety was later so instru- mental in effecting the final independ- ence of Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
A Woman's shrewdness.

An interesting and characteristic story of the late Miss Rebecca Bracken, the woman train dispatcher of Niles, Mich. was told the other day by Nilesian.
 Miss Bracken was the only woman train dispatcher in the world" he said, "and she was worthy of that honor She had an initiative and a resolution greater than the average mans
 "A coal dealer learned this to his cost.
 "'rhis dealer came to our neighborhood back in the sos, and by underhand tricks tried to get the better of his rivals.
 One of his ruses was to send cart of coal to a house where it hadn't been ordered, dump the coal into the cellar, and then pretend that a mistake had been made, and beseech the housekeeper to keep the stuff. Nine times out of ten, by gum, the housekeeper would do 1t, too.
 But Miss Bracken soon saw through the shifty fellows trickery, and she taught him lesson.
 "One day he dumped sudden, unex- pected load of coal into an orphanage that she helped to manage, and the next morning. in his usual manner, he came and regretted the mistake, and hoped the fuel could be found place for.
 Miss Bracken was on hand.
 No she said resolutely, i've didn't order 1t, and we don't need it."
 The merchant signed. men ne was sorry. He would have to remove all that coal. A nasty job
 "A nasty job, indeed said Miss Brack- en. if you should carry 1t upstairs, and through our clean halls and over our white marble steps. But you won't do that If you want your coal back, you'll remove 1t the way you brought 1t in through the grid
 "The result of our good train dispatch CTS firm stand was that the orphanage got a ton of free coal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
He Erred.

Ex-Amba ssador Choate was discussing an awkard error that had been committed by senator.
 ''The man reminded me-" he said, "of a Sunapee farm hand at a Christmas feast.
 ''The leading farmer at Sunapee gave a grand Christmas dinner to his forty helpers
 There was roast turky. roast goose, cranberries, pumpkin and mince pies. hot doughnuts, with hot maple sugar. plum puddng--a feast
 And before certain tall and strong farm hand a platter containing two ducks was set for carving.
 The farm hand looked at the ducks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
HUMAN PINCUSHiON,
Who Is Completely Immune to All
 Sense of Pain.

From the St. Paul Dispatch.
 Well, 1t tickles when I talk he said.
 The man who dropped into" the Dis patch office yesterday was speaking of a point near the end of his tongue. He complained also that the point interfered with the comfortable smoking of his cigarette.
 The point was in the way. It was sharp as well. After feeling it carelessly, the Dispatch exclaimed, "Ouch!' because it was the point of sturdy brass pin. And when the pin was pulled, with difficulty, from the tongue, through which it was sticking, the owner of the tongue smiled politely and said:
 Thanks! It doesn't tickle now"
 But the tongue didn't bleed, and the man showed no real interest in pin that would have annoyed most mems tongues.
 He'd always been peculiar that way When he was a baby, thirtytwo years ago in Maryland, his nurse stuck him with pin. She thought he would cry, so mother would have to take him and nurse would get an hour off. But he only cooed. And nursie confessed.
 Leo Blackburn is a short but sturdy man now-something of an athlete and boxer. He's never been sick in his life. He's just like other men in all respects, except that he is absolutely proof against pain from any sort of injury. His sense of touch is normal. The nerves of his skin are not at all numb. He located at once last evening the exact point on his back where a Dispatch finger touched him lightly. But when friend held the burning end of Turkish cigarette against Leos bare wrist, Leo didn't look around. He said:
 'I never liked the smell of those Ori- ental nails Why don't you roll yours yourself?"
 red, round hole in Leo's wrist.
 He admitted it was all something queer' It was so queer, in fact, that although he has travelled about exhibiting himself to physicians and the curious since he was boy, nobody has been able to explain him to himself. At Bellevue hospital. New York, careless medical students, with lighted cigars. burned hve holes-still scarred-in his right arm. When he found it out he charged the students extra For he had only agreed that they could stick hat pins through his lungs And when in Aberdeen. S. D.. a falling timber broke and disfigured the bones above his left eye he merely felt a little dazed." but, "Oh, no! It didn t hurtr'
 One of the queerest things about Black burn is his timidity. He's afraid to let you. run d hat pin through his heart or his jugular vein.
 It might make him sick" as he pre- tends. But elsewhere in his anatomy he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
A Difficult Role.

"City house with steam heating are all very we'll said Charles Felton Pid- gin, the statistician of Boston, but when it comes to Christmas games they are a little lacking.
 "A friend of mine heard loud, rasp- ing noise in his parlor last Christmas eve very late.
 Tn great alarm he got up and hastened down to the delicate and pale parlor with it's coloring of white and pink and gold, to find there. all black with soot smears, his little white-robed son, whom he had thought fast asleep in bed.
 Why, why, he cried, what does this mean, Willie"
 "The little fellow, lifting a cake of soot out of his fair hair, pointed ruefully to the ornamental fire place. wherein there was, room for about three logs the size of lead pencils.
 "Tm a-playin' Santa Claus. he said, and IT can't get up the chimney"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
Man and Wife.

The snow was falling. The day was still and gray and cold Dr. Parkhurst. shaking the white flakes from his shoul- ders, said:
 'I have just witnessed an instructive happening-a happening that might teach us why some marriages do not succeed.
 "A man and his wife were walking down back street. The man had his hands in his pockets. The woman carried a basket filled with cabbage and beets.
 "A group of boys danced like imps on a corner. They had snowballs in their hands. AS soon as the married couple had passed them, they let drive.
 But only the woman was struck She got two heavy blows about the head and face. Every snowball, somehow. missed the man.
 He looked at his wife as she brushed the snow out of her ears and hair, and then he shook his fist at the boys and shouted
 It's a good thing for you. you young rascals, that you didn't hit me D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
From Tit-Bits.

fTOm lll-bilS.
 It was the anniversary of my losing an eye 36 years ago, and when this comes around l generally get a drop too much, V was the explanation vouchsafed by an el- derly man when charged a few months since at. the Mansion House, with being drunk and incapable. The magistrate s sense of the ridiculous was obviously tickled. for he discharged the prisoner. advising for the future to celebrate the anniversary of his ocular deprivation in a somewhat less Bacchic manner.
 Brought to direst straits by the col lapse of company in which she had in vested all her money, poor woman, as q last resource, applied for help to a wealthy relative, from whose house in tho West End she was, without his knowl- edge. turned away by an unfeeling ser want She soon afterward died, literally from starvation, and this coming to the ears of her relation, together with d knowledge of her abortive appeal-conVey ed to him in d letter discovered in her garret-he was so stricken with remorse that until the day of his death, some four years since he never failed, on the anniversary of the poor woman's sad end, to dress himself in raps and, from sun rise to sunset beg his bread.
 From tragedy to comedy. One wet morn- ing, 20 years back, a young fellow hur- riedly crossing the Kings road, Brighton, slipped and fell in the mud, A gentleman who chanced to be on the spot ran to his assistance. A hearty exchange Of sym pathy and thanks led to better acquaint- anee which resulted in the young man ultimately marrying the others daughter, since which suspicious event the happy husband, to mark a sense of his good fortune, has always, on the anniversary of his fortunate fall, given dinner to a dozen bachelor friends, who are only allowed to table if habted in clothes be- daubed with mud
 A Parisian gentleman, when on visit to this country some years back, would have been drowned while bathing but for the prompt action of young city clerk, who happened to be at hand and effected bis rescue. Gratitude prompted the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
Like a Scot.

Senator Foraker at q banquet touched upon Niagara.
 There are thousands of old stories about Niagara he said. "Thousands of people, being disappointed when they first see the falls, vent the queerest remarks in their depressed mood.
 There was Scot who visited Niagara in the autumn He had come thousands of miles to worship. and l suppose he expected to see too much.
 At any rate, Niagara disappointed him. He stood and looked at it in silence.
 But his companion was pleased.
 "'Ah,' he exclaimed. how grand, how majestic, how divinely beautiful 1t is' "The Scot only grunted.
 'Hoot, mon," said he, we nun try hoo it mixes wi whusky.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
MAN CELEBRATES THE DAY
 ON WHICH HE LOST AN EYE

Frenchman to take the young man into his business, where he rapidly rose until he is now in post of trust and import ance. Every year, however, on the anni- versary of the day and hour of his mas ter's narrow escape he has to accompany that gentleman to the Seine where the couple re-enact the episode of the rescue, after which they adjourn to one of the leading restaurants and spend the re- mainder of the day in convivial friend ship.
 A police court is a strange place where in to keep the anniversary of a golden wedding, yet it was chosen a week so since by an elderly Irishwoman named Mann, who. on the anniversary of her fftieth wedding day, summoned her hus- band to appear at the Belfast police court on a charge of assault. The prisoner. whose 50 years record of married life had up till then been blameless, was bound over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
In the Shooting Season.

For every deer that is shot in the shooting season." said John w. Gates, at a dinner in New York, two other living things are peppered two cows, two horses. two men, or something of the kind.
 "A young man returned hurriedly and unexpectedly from shooting trip in the west the other day. He had been shoot ing over the preserves of a banker who has an estate that is conducted in the English fashion
 ".What? l said to the young man. Back already? Did you get big bag?
 ''Yes,' he answered, I did. The head keeper, the prize COW, my hosts cap, and his sons favorite hound. I'm going to Florida tonight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
A Washlnuton Eeature

Thomas Nelson Page was pointing out the salient characteristics of Washington.
 ''One characteristics is" he said, the formal dress that all men wear. You don't see the men, in Washington, clad in rough sack suits tan-colored shoes, and lounge hats. Like Londoners, they wear the black and ceremonious frock coat, with its various rich concomitants.
 That fact drew from a little boy 1 know a quaint remark.
 Mamma he said, during his first drive through Washington's streets, there must have been a sale.
 A sale? said she. What of?
 High hats said the little boy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31

said January Jones, the millionaire miner of Goldfields, apropos of Christmas.
 'I was in bric-a-brac shop last Jan uary, and something that took place there showed me that with too many of us the Christmas spirit is not the proper one.
 q was talking to the proprietor. One of the clerks stepped up excitedly, his eyes beaming with the hope of big sale.
 Say, boss he whispered. give me the key to the safe. There's lady wants solitaire just like the one she has on. She thinks 1t will be fun to have two rings alike.
 "The proprietor did not bring forth the key. He only shook his head and said sadly:
 Don't waste any time on her. The ring she has on is Christmas present. and she only wants to find out what it cost"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
Cheek of a stowaway.

Young Captain Sealby. of the Mediter- ranean liner Cretic, was talking about stowaways.
 Most of those fellows" he said, in his deep, resonant voice, have an excessive quantity of cheek, of brass. Once we dis covered stowaway a few days out from New York, and put him to work in the galley.
 "A lady, on tour of inspection, passed by the stowaway as he sat peeling pota- toes.
 |" How soon do you think we'll reach Naples? she said to him.
 Well, madam" he replied, T am doing all can to get her in by Tuesday, "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
SOME SHORT STORIES
He Understood Christmas.

From the Washington Post
 The Rev. Beverly Warner, of New Or leans, was making an address before a Sunday school
 Christmas is approaching" he said, and am sure you are all glad of that. May you all be able to appreciate the beautiful meaning of Christmas as well as little fellow of New York that know
 This boy attended Christmas service last year In an old fashioned church, in one of those churches where the pews are square, like a room, and the seats face four ways.
 "The boy sat down with his back to the pulpit, whereupon the mother said:
 Don't sit with your back to the pul. pit, Jim. It isn't nce
 Looking at her innocently, the boy made a reply that showed a great dea of Christmas knowledge.
 What is the difference, mother? ?'' he said. Isn't God everywhere?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
Rather Awkward.

viscount de Belmont, of Brazil, was dining in a New York restaurant Sud- denly he put down his knife and fork, and uttered an exclamation of approval.
 By jove. beautiful woman,' he said, in the demonstrative southern way.
 'She is my wife, the viscount's com panion murmured modestly.
 At this the young man laughed.
 How fortunate I was" he said ito praise the lady. Yes, I was far more fortunate than an Oxford friend of mine.
 My friend. on the boat coming over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
over-Rated Their Capacity.

Mrs. M w. Swift, the president of the National Council of American Women was making a brief address on the sub. ject of Christmas gifts.
 Don't give presents" she said, 'that demand on the recipients part certain special kind of knowledge. Don't, for in- stance, give a Japanese toy dog to a woman who scarcely understands fox ter riers. Don't give white Persian monkey to a woman who can't keep a cat. Don't give an aquarium of Ceylonese gold fish to-
 Mrs. Smith bit her lip to hide a smile.
 "A friend of mine in Santa Barbara got from her husband last Christmas a su- perb aquarium of gold fish, she said. "The fish did well till my friend changed her parlor maid Then they began to thin and to weaken.
 "One morning, finding two of the fish afioat on their backs at the surface of the aquarium, my friend called the new maid to her.
 " 'Harriett,' she said, have you given the fish any fresh water lately?
 No ma am, Harriett answered. They haven't finished the water l gave them last month yet."'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
The Newsy's Scheme.

Assistant Commissioner Edward B.. Moore, of the patent office, like many other department officials has to run the news boys gauntlet when half-past o'clock in the afternoon comes around.
 But, unlike others. Mir. Moore is the same hearty person even under such dis turbing circumstances, for the Paper. mister?" of ninety and nine or so voices Is apparently music to his ears.
 Paper, mister?" pleaded the dozenth urchin yesterday before the assistant commissioner had barely reached the street Want yer paper?'
 How much is it?" seriously inquired the official
 "One cent" quickly answered the boy.
 ''Too much" said Mir. Moore.
 "Aw, quit yer kiddin'," retorted the ''newsy."
 Give me seven for nickle," bargained Mir. Moore, "and it's a go."
 LAW, say yer don't wanter put me In de hands of de receivers, do yer?"
 "Oh. mo-" assured the assistant com missioner. 'I wouldn't do 1t for worlds.
 'If I was a millionaire" responsibility went on the lad, II wouldn't act like that
 You wouldnt?'
 Nope, I'd buy up all the papers for dime apiece. have couple of extra edl- tionS run off, buy em up, too, lneH
 sThen sell them back for quarter or dollar a copy" suggested MT. Moore.
 "Aw, quit-lemme go on. Then I'd give each one back with half dollar to boot, and if some one needed the cash real bad I'd give a dollar bill"
 "You're very generous-sprited laa' complimented the assistant commissioner, digging deep down in his pocket for coin.
 And so are you" cried the young financier minute later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31

stood in conversation with elderly man on the promenade deck. Nearby a woman sat in a deck chair. My friend pointing to her, said with a sheer:
 T wonder if that ugly old woman is actually trying to flirt with mel
 "I don't know" the elderly gentleman answered mildly, but I can easily find out for you. She's my wife. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
A Standing Order.

Newlin Haines. of the Atlantic City Hotel Mems association, was talking about the odd rules that prevails in many of the cheaper restaurants and cafes.
 For instance" he said "I go in and order oysters, salad. and dessert. and get a napkin; but the man next to me, be- cause he has only ordered pie and milk, can't have a napkin on any account.
 "A guest here last summer gave me the best example of these absurd rulings and differentiations that l have heard yet.
 s.The man said that he entered lunch cafe in London, and ornate place with a counter where some of the patrons stood and with number of little tables where others sat-
 The man gave small order, and took A seat at one of the tables.
 "Thereupon a waiter hurried to him.
 '''Beg pardon, sir he said but buns can't sit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31

Then he took one up on folk, and ex- tended 1t to the man next to him.
 Here he said, you take this. Ones all 1 can manage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31

Not the Christmas Spirit. Tt isn't the presents-it's the spirit" "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31

Fort Worth, Tex-Mrs. Clementina Millet of this city is as truly survivor of the Mexican war the heroes who fought in the ranks. She is ninety years of age and retains a clear memory of the times when Texas was achieving her indepen-
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-11-22
IN TIME OF PEACE.

In the first months Of the Russia
pan war we had striking example OF
the necessity for preparation ana the
early advantage of those who. 10 to
speak. have shingsd their roofs In dry
weather" The virtue Of preparation
has made history and given to W our
greatest mon. The individual ~ well
as the nation should be prepared for any
emergency. Are you prepared to sue
cessfully combat the iirst cold you takss
A cold can be cured much more quickly
when treated a. soon a. It has been
contracted and before It has become
settled In the system. Chamberlain
Cough Remedy is famous for its cures
OF colds and It should be kept ct hand
ready for instant use. For sale By the
nasls Drug an1 Jswslry c..
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-11-22
SON LOST MOTHER.

Consumption runs in our family, and
through It l lost my mother" writes e.
B. Reid. of Harmony. Me. ''Eor the
past five years. however. on the slight
est sign of q Cough or Cod. have TAX
en- DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption. which has saveo me from se-
rious trouble" His mothers death was
q sad loss for Mr.. Reid. but he learned
that lung trouble must not b neglected
and how to cure It. Quickest relief ana
cure for coughs and colds. Price SOC
and 800; guaranteed at the Eagle Drug
q Jewelry Co.'s drug store. Trial bot
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-11-22
SELLS MORE OF CHAMBERLAIN 8
COUGH REMEDY THAN OF ALL
OTHERS PUT TOGETHER.

The following letter from a locality
where Chambsra,ns Cough Remedy is
well known shows by me unprecedented
demand for it that the medicine sells on
its own merit. MIR. Thos. George, a
merchant at Mt. EIg.n. Ontario. says:
Il have had the local agency for Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy ever since it
was introduced into Canada. and / sell
as much: Of 1t az I do OF all other lines
! have on my shelves put together. OF
the many dozens sold under guarantee.
l have not had one bottle returned.
can personally recommend this medicine
AZ have used 1t myself and gwen it
to my children and always with the best
results" For sale by the Eagle Drug
and Jewelry Co.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-11-22
VERY SICK

J G. Bowman operator
for the Silver State, has been
feeling unwell for several
days and last evening he
gave up and went home and
to bed. he is threatened with
pneumonia. It will be some
time before Mr.. Bowman will
be able to resume his duties
in the Silver State Office.
We have wired to Reno
for an operator a if he shows
up in the morning there will
be q paper tomorrow.