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Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

pine trees. which had been imbed led
in the peat for ages.
The limbs had rotted away and the
bark and sapwood had gone. but the
dry heart of the trees was as sound as
in life. Kindling a fire about log of
this wood Bowden found that ii gave
out very brilliant hues of indigo and
green.
No sooner had he made this discov-
cry than he stopped digging muck and
went to mining rainbow wood. He
loaded a schooner with cut wood and
sent it to his Boston patrons. who
paid him S22 a cord for the cargo
asked for more.
Since then Bowden has hired all the
men who are willing to work and is
digging out the trunks in his buried
forest and selling them at fancy fig
ures. The deposit of pine trees lies
between the clay subsoil and the over
growth of peat and is fully six feet in
depth.
AS the muck bed is more than a
mile in area Bowden believes he can
sell a half million cords of wood
New York Sun.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

time and again in such events IS
hammer-throwing. shotputting. hurd-
ling and sprinting, because these are
specialties demanding careful and in
telligent training for first-class
achievement Therefore the young
Briton thinks they are not worth
learning to do very well. because the
work is not worth the cost. and there
is no fun in it. OF football it is espe-
cially true that the Englishman would
see no sport in a style of game in
which winning form is to be gained
only by prodigious eXertion and very
martyrdom of training. In the ordeal
CT American football are bred splen-
did qualities for manhood. and dis
cipline which none will decry. That
six feet of mighty youth should sob
his heart out after defeat is nor TO
his discredit and he will fight life's
battles the better for it. He takes his
sport. as he does his business, far
more seriously than the Briton. and,
with a fair field, he eXcels him in both.
Yet he can learn from his cousin
across the water that play should not
be all work and that snort can flour
ish unmarried by eligibility squabbles.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Walde-'ar Jochelson, the Russian
scientist, who has recently returned to
the United States from Siberia, where
he spent two years as head of the
Jesup expedition, tells many interest
ing things of the maritime Koryaks,
living in scattered villages along the
shores south of the Behring and Okh-
DISK seas. A striking and characteris-
tice phase of Koryak life, according
to MIR. Jochelson, is their peculiar
hourglass-like houses. These are re-
markable subterranean habitations,
having fetid atmosphere almost un-
bearable to the white traveller. From
a distance one of the houses has the
appearance of some huge invert-
ed funnel arising out of a snow
bank. The craterlike top, besides
forming roof. is used as a
general storing place for food and
all sorts of articles. 1t slopes down.
ward to an aperture in the center,
which serves as smoke hole, venti-
lator and passageway below. A num-
ber of logs arranged in circuit sup
port the framework of the roof, the
lower end of which rests on second
AIRY pile of timbers, forming the slant
ing walls of the interior.
For nearly nine months the whole
house is banked and covered up al
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18
OVER ABoDEs or sAvAcEs

most to the protecting roof with tors
of snow, chinked in with frozen earth
and debris. This brings the inmates
at all times about ten feet below the
surface. Undoubtedly the most as
tonishing and spectacular feature of
The Koryak house is the means of en-
trance. The roof is attained by seal
ing narrow split log, extending down
from the top. having holes cut in it
for the feet and hands. The interior
is reached by descending another per-
pendicular hewn stairway covered
with slippery coating of grease and
SCOT, which none but native can sue
cessfully accomplish. The inclosure
has a ground floor and is barren of
anything in the shape of furniture.
Large copper vessels for cooking
seal and blubber and kettle used
for melting snow are the chief house
hold utensils. The diet is limited al
most exclusively to fish, half-cooked
seal and whale flesh, with Russian
brick tea as an occasional luxury
Some thirty to forty of both sexes
usually relations. inhabit one dwelling.
Small skin sleeping booths, some six
feet high by five in width. heated by
a lamp in the center. are arranged
around the walls. Invariably thick
fumes of smoke and SCOT fill the ROOM
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

was not going to risk the edge of his
chopper and he fetched plank of
wood upon which to have the opera
ton performed.
Then the eXecutioner came down
with a mighty whack upon the poor
complaining cock and its career was
ended. And so with the next one.
Then the headless bodies began a
ghastly dance upon the place of their
execution until the muscles stiffened
and they became stark. The Chinese
will not eat a fowl which has been
used for the purposes of this oath, but
a grinning Indian watchman took pos
session of the bodies-heads and all
and no doubt reveled in unwonted
abundance Of curried fowl that night.
'It was rather interesting to notice
the haste with which the parties who
had taken the oath cleared off after
ward. If. as the Chinese believe, the
gods are very touchy upon the sa-
credness of the ceremonial and quick
TO punish its infractors. the men
seemed determined not TO run any
chance of summary visitation on the
spot"
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18
DID A WORLD OF GOOD
Dr.. Williams Pink Pills Cure Heart
Pains, Dizzy Spells and
Weakness.

Easy to get, hard to get rid Of; that is
what most sufferers think Of dyspepsia.
They are astonished when their stomach
begins to trouble them seriously.
They had been eating hurriedly and
irregularly for a long time, to be sure,
but they supposed their stomachs quite
used to that.
Some people know that the strength
which the weak stomach needs, and for
the lack of which the whole body is suf-
fering, can be found surely and quickly
ill DR.. Williams Pink Pills. In hun
dreds of instances these pills have sue
ceeded where other remedies failed.
"My indigestion. said Mr.. J. r. Mil
Ter, of Dayton, Va, "came i'll the first
worked great deal at night, and ate
at any odd hour whenever the chance
came, and always very hurriedly. One
day found myself victim of terrible
dyspepsia. 1t kept me miserable all the
time for several years.
60 always had n great deal Of distress
after eating, and when got up from my
sleep my stomach would be so weak that
it would hardly take any food. had
very uncomfortable feelings about my
heart, and was dizzy and, whenever
stopped over and then Strengthened up,
my eyes would be badly blurred.
&c read the statements of several per-
sons who had got rid of obstinate stom-
ach troubles by using DIR. Williams
Pink Pills. 1 bought some and they
did me world of good. They acted
promptly and did just what was claimed
for them. | have no more distress af-
ter meals; the bad feeling has gone from
the region of my heart; the alarming
dizzy spells have disappeared, and I am
strong again."
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists and by the DIR. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Every housekeeper should know that
If they will buy Defiance Cold Water
Starch for laundry use they will save
not only time, because 1t never sticks
to the iron, but because each package
contains 16 Ozone full pound-while
all other Cold Water Starches are put
up in A-pound packages, and the price
is the same. 10 cents. Then again
because Defiance Starch is free from
all injurious chemicals. If your grocer
tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it
is because he has stock on hand
which he wishes to dispose of before
he puts in Defiance, He knows that
Defiance Starch has printed on every
package in large letters and figures
''16 ozs." Demand Defiance and save
much time and money and the annoy
ance of the iron sticking. Defiance
never sticks.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18
FOUR YEARS OF AGONY.
Whole Foot Nothing But Proud Flesh
Had to Use Crutches-"Cuticura
Remedies the Best on Earth"

-rdO TO Use STutCNCS- SuliSusd q
Remedies the Best on Earth"
"In the year 1899 the side Of my
right foot was cut off from the little
toe down to the heel. and the physi-
clan who had charge Of me was try
ing to sew up the side of my foot, but
with no success. AT last my whole
foot and way up above my calf was
nothing but proud flesh. | suffered un-
told agonies for four years, and tried
different physicians and all kinds of
ointments. | could walk only with
crutches. In two weeks afterwards
saw change in my limb. Then l be-
gan using Cuticura Soap and Ointment
often during the day, and kept 1t up
for seven months, when my limb was
healed up just the same as If l never
had trouble. 1t is eight months now
since l stopped using Cuticufa Rene
dies, the best on Gods earth. | am
working at the present day after five
years of suffering. The cost of Cuti-
cura Ointment and Soap was only Sc,
but the doctors bills were more like
5000. John M. Lloyd.7 .7lS S. Arch Ave.
Alliance, Ohio, June 81, 1906
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18
ELEGy or CITY BACKYARD

(with no apologies to anybody. except
the cat)
The curfew tolls the midnight from the
tower.
The air stlrs softly from its breath
ing sleep.
rhen sinks again to rest; the mystic
OF silence hath the world within its
keep.
Save that. from yonder whitcwashed
picket fence,
The Tomcat doth unto the moon COM
Pouring his whole wild soul in one i'm
unearthly and reposc destroying strain.
sleep. gentle sleep! tired natures sweet
Ooh, heavenD-
How shnl 1 WOO thee. charm thee to
mine eyes?
Is that a cat? think there must be
Or eight. with lungs of most unusual
size!
Sleep. gentle (blank and plazcsD-
where's my gun?
NY pantaloons? Wte-" dill lay my
cocks?
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

1898 | was suffering
so with sharp pains
in the small of the
back and had such
frequent dizzy spells
that | could scarce
ly get about the
house. The urinary
passages were also
quite irregular.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18
Insist on GETTING Il.

Some grocers say they don't keep De-
fance Starch. This is because they
have a stock on hand of other brands
containing only - OF. in package.
which they won't be able to sell first.
because Defiance contains 16 OF. for the
same money.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Monthly periods were so distressing I
dreaded their approach. This was my
condition for four years. Doan's Kid
ney Pills helped me right away when
began with them and three boxes
cured me permanently"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
Loose habits are liable to get man
into tight place.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Lewis Single Binder - the famous
straight &c cigar, always best quality
Your dealer or Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Is a problem that has puzzled the
profoundest minds, for many years.
The best thing for the human race to
do is to eat Pillsbury's Vitos for
breakfast.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18
Worth Knowing

that AllcoclS's are the original and only
genuine porous plasters; all other so-called
porous plasters are limitations.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

1t is impossible for some men to as
sociate with their interiors.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

B-lud; b-lud shall greet the rising moon
And phantom walls alright the crow
ing cocks.
Peace, base dlsturber. wouldst thou rest
In peace?
Horrors .-,crescendo doth my prayer
evoke,
Now look you, Thomas If you do not
cease
I'll send you straishtway to the sau-
sage folk
Be steady, arm! be true. my trusty!-
The serenadc hath eensed, the frac-
tured air
Rekni,s Its sutures; peace again doth
hang
Her laurels on the fence and pin them
there
EPTTAPH
Here rests his head upon the backyard
pave
A Cat. to all the neishbors known too
well.
Good was he-but he sang. No power
may save
His speeded spirit from the pits Of
the place where singing cats and
ether nocturnal musicians 20 when
they get shot.
-Robertus Love In Los Angeles Times
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

TO CURE a COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinlne Tablets. Drug
gtsts refund money IL It falls to cure. L. W.
GROVES signature is on each box. 2jc.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

The fellow who cuts off his nose to
spite his face can't very well blow
about it.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

A promise isn't all IT is cracked up
to be when II is broken
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Mrs. windows Soorning Syrup.
For children teethng, softens the gums, reduces d
nammation. asys pain, cures wind collie 25c bottle
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken Of a.
a cough cure.-J. w. o'BRIEN. ses Third Ave.
N, Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 8, 1900.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Why tell your troubles to a lawyer?
That is the way he makes his living
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Be sure of the foundation before at
tempting to put up a bluff.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

When hattery is applied to friend
ship it's "A case of make or break
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

At least once in every mans caree
he is ambitious to patent some fresl
invention.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

1t takes Il deaf mute to sing thos,
songs without words.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES.
Itching, Blind Bleeding, Protruding Piles. Drug.
Hists are authorized to refund money II PAZO
OINTMENT fails TO cure in to II days. soc.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Etc permanently cured No fits after
first day of Dr. kne's Kestor-
Send for FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise.
DR. X Il KLINE. Ltd. e3l Arch Street, Phade phia Pa
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Flattery should always be diluted
with tact.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Even the football player must be
headstrong if he would butt in.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

You never hear any one complain
about Defiance Starch" There is none
to equal 1t in quality and quantity, 1s
ounces. 10 cents. Try 1t now and save
your money.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18
Tho Race Question

1t Is an art to paint a work of art
and it is still more of an art to sell it.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Many man who smiles and says
nothing is a liar.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

A rose by any other name would
have its thorn.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Do you want 16 OF. instead of IL OF.
for same money? Then buy Defiance
Starch. Requires no cooking.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

1t is generally the smallest men who
have the most colossal nerve.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Love of popularity has put many a
man out of the running.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18
AN EVERYDAY STRUGGLE.
Too Many Women Garry the Heavy
Load of Kidney Sickness.

Mrs. E. w. Wright of 172 Main
street, Haverhill, Mass, says: In
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

Smokers appreciate the quality value of
Lewis Single Binder cigar. Your dealer
or Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

A womans face may be a druggists
fortune.
Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18

that Contain Mercury,
Is mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell
and completely derange the whole system when
entering It through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on prescrip.
Will do ia ten fold to the good you possibly
rive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, nisnufactur red
by +. -. Cheney Co., Toledo, o. contains no mer-
curry, and 10 taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In
genuine % ne II 4: taken internally and made in Toledo.
Sold by Druggists. Price. 75c. per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
DELEGATES NAMED
FOR STATE REUNION
CAMP HARDEE ADOPTS RESOLU-
TON CONCERNING SUGGESTION
THAT THE CUSTOM OF HAVING
SPONSORS BE DISPENSED WITH.

Final arrangements were made for at
tending the state reunion at Mobile by
Camp Hardee, United Confederate Vet
Grams at the regular meeting yesterday
afternoon.
The following resolution introduced by
DIR. J. c. Alternately was adopted,
Resolved, by Camp Hardee in regular
meeting, that we disapprove a resolution
adopted by the general convention Of the
Daughters of the Confederacy at Gulf
port, Miss, suggesting the elimination of
sponsors and maids of honor to the var-
Gus camps, state and general reunions.
Nothing affords the Confederate veterans
more pleasure, especially in our reunions
than to have them with us to infuse new
life and spirit reminding us of the days
of our youth and the terrible ordeal
through which we passed. Deprive us of
their most pleasant association and
Dixie and THE Girl We Left Behind
Us" will be void OF the soul-stirring
strains which once charmed us, so for
once hereby oppose this action of the
Daughters of the Confederacy and insist
upon their reconsideration of such action.
The following were elected delegates to
the state reunion to be held at Mobile
next week: r. II. Hagood, John G.
Smith, j. b. Francis, DR.. B. E. McGehee.
w. ]. Miner, W. b. Leedy, DIR. j. c.
Alternately, B. F. Roden. Frank p.
OBrien. A. c. Oxford, Dr. E. w. Jones,
L. p. Arnold s. Q. Hale, L. w. McAdory,
j. L. Darby.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
was selected as the official route. The
delegates will leave Birmingham next
Tuesday morning at $3.50 o'clock
w. ]. Miner and Capt. Frank p. OBren
were present and made addresses recount
ing events of the early history of the
Birmingham district. They gave interest
ing facts of the making of the first iron
and coke at Oxmoor in 1S74-5
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
REV. M. MCCORMICK TO
SPEAK AT THE Y. M. G. A.
BY BURR BLACKBURN.

Young men are looking forward with
pleasure to the third of the series of adj
dresses by the Rev. Hugh Pendleton Nc
Cormick on Facing Freedom which will
be delivered in the rooms of the Young
Mems Christian association this afternoon
at O'Clock. In a few Sunday afternoons
to have followed a man of wide experience
through the trials and pleasures of an
eventful missionary life among foreign
people might have been enough to have
brought the increasing crowds, but when
one is given to see the actions and con-
ditions of those people through the eye
of man who seems to get such a uni
versal view of history that it opens up
the future of a nation and shows the
forces working toward its rise or its fall.
there can be no wonder that such a
large and attentive audience gathers ev-
cry Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Mccormick spent six months of last
year in Spain acting as a missionary. He
had perfect knowledge of Spanish, and
soon became thoroughly acquainted with
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
PEOPLE GUESSING
ON BANK DEPOSITS
NOVEL IDEA ANNOUNCED BY THE
AGE-HERALD AROUSES INTER-
EST IN BUSINESS GROWTH OF
THE BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT.

Much interest is being taken in the Of
fer announced by The Age-Herald in
which prizes amounting to $500 in the ag-
gregate are to be given to the persons
guessing nearest to the amount of total
deposits in the First National bank Of
Birmingham at the next call of the comp
troller of the currency.
In making a guess one has not only to
consider the ratio of increases made in
the past, but must also take into account
the increasing prosperity of the Blrming-
ham district. This opens an interesting
field for mathematical speculation and is
provoking considerable study of the busi-
ness and financial conditions of Birmng
ham.
The matter is OF an educational ma
ture and is giving the people a rare OPP
portunity to study the growth of this
section. The calls for reports by the comp
troller is never announced in advance
and not even the bank officials know
when the call is to be made.
The $500 offered by The Age-Herald is
divided into four prizes. The first is $500
in gold, the second $50 in gold, the third
$50 in gold and the fourth $40 in gold.
The guesses are already coming in brisk
ly. Subscribers can obtain estimate blanks
by calling at The Age Herald office, or
by writing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
RECORD OF THE COURTS.

In the first division of the city court
yesterday the jury in the case of Annie
Jones, pro ami, VS.. Birmingham Railway.
Light and Power company. returned n
verdict for the plaintiff for $1,000.
The case had been on trial three DAYS
and was in the hands of the jury twenty
four hours. The plaintiff was. at the
time of the accident a child and was
playing on the car line opposite its ma
rents house when the car came along and
struck the child. crushing its skull. The
defendant pleaded that the child was
hidden down between the crossties. and
was discovered by the motorman too lat
to stop his car.
In the circuit court yesterday before
Judge Coleman, the case of the Besse-
mer Water Works company VS.. the citv
of Bessemer came up for argument.
The case involves the question of the
rights of the city of Bessemer to fix
water rates different from the water
works company's contract.
In the first division of the criminal
court, Richard Wray filed a motion to be
allowed to make bail Wray is confined
az eiAS SSbiilJ jan vi IL CIldTBe OIL muir
der in connection with the killing OF
George Freeman in a house on South
Nineteenth street in the early part of
the year.
The motion reads:
Now comes the defendant and makes
application to the court to be allowed
bail and moves the court to fix bail
for him In said case, and in support of
said application and motion says:
First. That he has been indicted by
the grand jury of said county for the
offense of murder in the first degree and
has been, said since indictment. and be-
fore, confined in the county Jail of JEFF
ferson county and denied bail.
Second. That the state, after the find
Ing of the Indictment, has continued the
case twice without the consent of said
defendant for the testimony of absent
witnesses.
Wherefore. the defendant prays that
this court, as a matter of right fix bail
for him in said case In such amount as
the court may deem reasonable"
The motion was signed by Messrs. B.
M. Allen, Robert N. Bell, Zell CASTOR,
and E. C. Winston, as attorneys for the
petitioner, and was set down for hear
ing on November 81
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Local Weather Data.
PEPsI-coLA soTTLlNe co.
Papers of Incorporation Filed Yester
day-A Large Enterprise.

INCORPORATION papers were filed yester-
day by the Birmingham Pesi-Cola Bot
Ting company, with authorized capital
stock of $4,000.
The following officers, all of whichh are
very successful business men, Will nave
charge of the business:
J. NJ Tull. president; O. l.. Stepheh-
son, vice president; John Tull, secretary
and treasurer.
The object of this company is TO manu-
facture, bottle and sell Pepsi-Cola, ne
lightful drink for all seasons, and one
which mas reached the zenith of popular
ttv In all cities where 1t has been intro
duced.
This company will also wholesale Pepsi
Cola in syrup form, to be carbonated ana
dispensed at all soda founts. Pepsi-Coia
contains no harmful ingredients and IS
commonly known as the "Pepsin Drink
as 1t contains a sufficient quantity OF pure
essence of pepsln which makes it health
full and very refreshing 10 young and Old.
A most complete plant will soon oe m
stalled on Avenue A, between Nineteenth
and Twentieth streets, and the product
will be ready for sale about February /,
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the political and religious conditions in
that nation. Tomorrow he will tell of the
movement there toward enlarged religious
freedom. and the underlying causes which
will, he says, bring a great revolution
on the heels of the movement in France.
He believes that the people are determined
to secure enlarged civil and educational
rights, and that the Introduction of the
Bible has given them an Independent
spirit. and is rapidly developing char
acter.
No small factor in the interest of the.
lectures Is the fine sense of humor and
the amusing as well as pathetic anecdotes
which are woven into many of his most
forceful argument. Men seem to have be-
come fascinated by the speaker and his
delivery, and If the crowds continue to In
crease the meeting will have to be moved
into the gymnasium building. A cordial
invitation is extended to every one
whether member or not, and a friendly
social evening is promised TO all those
who attend.