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The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-07-05
Gifts for Cooper College Library.

Sterling, Kan. - Cooper cell
lege library Friday received gift of
$4,000 from Mr.. William Hamilton of
Hanover, Ind. At the same time came
another donation of $1,000 from John
Hamilton, a brother. Within the past
week the college library received a
further gift Of half section Of land
valued at $4,000 and a note for $10,-
900. Friends Of the institution are
assisting to raise 100000 fund to Sc
cure a $4,000 fund from Andrew Car.
negie.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-07-05
What Congress Has Spent.

The following is given as practically
an accurate statement Of the disburse-
ments authorized from the public
treasury:
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-07-05

Among the acts affecting the mill
tary establishment were those in.
creasing the efficiency of the ordnance
department OF the army and increas-
Ing the appropriation for the militia
from 100000 to s2.OoO,0OO annually.
Congress took o new tack in the
naval appropriation bill. Instead Of
authorizing the construction Of the
biggest battleship ahoat. as first pro-
yided BY the house. the bin as finally
passed authorizes the preparation Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30

! great emergency and give not men and
money, but cats.
The animals were wanted in whole bat
talions, and for good, strong, energetic
cats the government offered from Is 10 Is
per tail.
At the foot of the poster it was inti-
mated that a government official would
attend at the Ballymena Fair Hill to pur-
chase all suitable animals which might
be presented.
Farmers, egg merchants and dealers
thought this an easy way of realizing u
handsome sum, and they abandoned their
ordinary work and began to buy up all
the cats within miles. The response to
the appeal was very generous, and at the
appointed hour poulterers carts were to
be seen vending their way to THE Hill,
laden, not with poultry, but fine feline
specimens. The farmers were as numer-
Gus as usual, but their weekly load had
given place to one of cats
There was a eeaseess lookout for the
gorgeously uniformed individual antict-
pated, but when noon had slipped away
and l o'clock approached even the most
obtuse and hopeful began to recognize
that a gigantic hoax had been perpetrat-
ed upon them, and one that would set
the country roaring with laughter.
The countrymen at length whipped up
their horses and started homeward in
frantic haste. anxious to get rid of the
screaming cargo so laboriously collected.
There are a lot of poulterers in that
district now who have in stock a number
of cats which they are willing to part
with at an absurdly low figure.
The perpetrator of the hoax has not
yet been traced, but quite a number of
men in County Antrim are anxious TO
have a few words with him at the ear
Hest opportunity
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
DIR. ADELAIDE WALLERSTEIN.
Woman Whose Tenement Clinic Is
Right Sort of AItruism.

From the January Broadway.
In city as full of charity and bene-
ficent work as is this city of New York.
1t Is no rare thing to find a true altru-
rian. New York periodicals are con-
stanty recording the names of them.
Sometimes 1t is a man of wealth like j.
G.. Phelps-Stokes: sometimes it Is a
young, poor girl, like Elizabeth Flynn
and sometimes 1t happens to be a woman
Of wealth and social prominence like DIR.
Adelaide Wallerstein
After all, 1t is this class OF tenement
workers and helpers of the submerged
three-fourths whose work really counts.
, The man or woman who sits in plush
bottomed chair and signs away checks
to an organized charity may be doing
some good, but this is cold mechanical
process compared with the labors of the
one who gets Fight In among his people,
rubs elbows with them, and makes them
feel that they are not simply a distant
visionary object, but that association
with them is actually, worth while and a
pleasure.
The case of DR.. Wallerstein Is an in
stance. Although woman surrounded
by ease and money, she deliberately took
up the study of mediclne-a study which
requires brains and pains and at least
six years of time before 1t places the
stuueHl IN any position OF authority
pursued 1t thoroughly, graduated from
the New York Medical College and Hos
pital for Women, and. after receiving her
certificate from the state board at AL
bany, settled down to make her dream
come true. That dream was clinic for
the women and children of the poor, and
1t Is now located at No. 246 East Eighty
third street. in New York City, with DR..
Wallerstein in charge. Here tenement
folk are nursed, inexpensively and char
itably in quiet way This is the sort
or hrst-hand humanitarianism that comes
from the heart out" as james Whit
comb Riley says, and It Is the sort i'm
which comfort as DR.. Wallersten her
self
She still maintains, however, her social
interest in affairs; she is president OF the
huolhsteln cihbi she is an expert In legal
matters; all accomplished translator of
FRENCH German and Spanish; and n
prominent member of score of clubs
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
MEAN JOKER STARTED RIOT
Dublin Cor. Plttsburg Gazette.

Dublin Cor Plttsburg Gazette
I" o ESTABLISH a corner in cats was
The subject of one of the most
L amusing Hallows Eve jokes which
has just come to light as having been
perpetrated at Ballymena early in the
month.
During the week previous to Hallows
Eve arge and attractive posters were
put up all over the countryside around
Ballynena, County Antrim. These al
legged government placards set forth that
the British army in foreign parts were
having a particularly bad time of it in
some of the military stations, by reason
of the wholesale depredatlons of rats
Life was, in fact, it was added being
made miserable for Tommy Atkins. as
the rats INDUCED in Balaclava charges
over his recumbent form while he tried
to snatch a few hours of broken slumber.
They chewed up his ratons and reduced
his khaki uniform to tatters. 1t was
pointed out in the poster that this state
of affairs had occasioned the most seri-
Gus concern to the government, and Mr..
Haldane was represented as mere
shaoow, worn out by Intellectual efforts
to protect the national defense from the
invasions of the hungry and insatiable
horoes of rats
Tie subject, the posters said, had en-
gagsd the attention of the cabinet, an l
as result it had been decided to export
arge number of cats. The country
was called upon to rouse itself in this
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
NEW SPANKING MACHINE.

From the Chicago News.
n ow, Willie, this is going to pain me
N far more than you"
you bet it will, ma. I fixed the
wires so that you'll get an awful shock
when you start the dynamo" spanking
joke insulated.
The elusive Juice" which Benjamin
Franklin tanned with a kite and his night
key and which since has illuminated the
world, conquered all nature and deprived
the cable rope of it's job in the streets of
Chicago, is now debased to the humble
purpose of preserving the sole OF mothers
slipper. The management of the electrical!
show to be held at the Coliseum in jan
uary allowed to ooze forth today the
information that an electrical spanking
machine, newly perpetrated, will be exhib-
ited along with the electrical pile drivers
and chatting dishes.
This news has dreadful significance for
Chicago's sumptuous collection of bad
boys. A recent gathering of school prin-
cipals, probation officers and other grim
creatures whereased and be-it-resolved
to the effect that physical chastisement
was the only answer to the problem of
Juvenile wickedness. The public schools
have been equipped with electrical cook
stoves, electrical tardy bells and like de-
vices, and there would be no trouble that
"a capable mechanic could not overcome
In rigging up an "autospanker' in each
school building.
Bad boys may grin naughtily and COM
placently, however. when they hear that
the board of education is short of funds
maybe they've heard of it beforehand
Nithat the dynamo terror will not threaten
unless its inventor is phlanthropist. At
the parental school today officials de-
lclared they wouldn't have one around the
place and that they didn't believe in
spanking, which also helps some.
The principal demand for the "auto-
Spanker" is expected to come from those
rural districts where gruff tyrants of lit
tile schoolhouses still spoil rods in the
interest of education
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
CAT BROUGHT A FORTUNE.

was so full O. gold 1t stuck out all over,
an 1t made their eyes stick out, too, until
you could knocked them off with a
stick. Stumpy had been all along the line,
but he'd never seen ore like 1t in all his
life, and he was pearty near paralyzed.
They found path runnin' up the arroyo,
and they follered it until they come to a
hole in the ground, an down in the hole
they found a tunnel leadn' in % or 80
feet. where it struck the vein the stran-
ger'd been workin' on. 1t was as rich as
cream, an when them two jays showed
up in Phoenix few months later they
had story to tell that started every
body on the run for the Hassoyamp There
hadn't been so much excitement since
the first boom at Tombstone, and the
yaller cat was pretty near as popular
as the golden calf they used to tell us
about at Sunday school. That's the story
o the golden cat O. the Hassoyamp an
that's one way they account for the first
f1ndin' O. gold on that crick heard half
dozen stories to account for the BOOM
and l guess ones about as true as an
other. Sos said at the start, you can
believe as much of it as you please"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30

1t is predicted that Chicago mail order
houses soon will incorporate cuts of
spanking machines in their catalogues,
with accompanying price lists. The ap-
pearance of the mechanical punisher per-
haps will cause a revision of civil service
rules in those school districts where an
applicant for a teachers position at
present must expand his bieeps as well
as show his ability in spelling "jawbreak-
ersn and computing the area of Asia
Minor.
Juvenile reprimanding is not the only
reason for the spanking machines prom
ised commercial success. 1t will be an in
valuable comfort and satisfaction TO every
citizen who desires to kick himself but
can't without losing his balance. With
the aid of the spanking machine he can
do much toward erasing the memory of
life's blunders.
The "autospanker" was invented by a
local electrical firm and the plans and
specifications are now in the hands of a
craftsman. The model will soon be COM
peted. The contrivance is in the form
of a large Wheel which bristles with six
large wooden paddles The power IS
furnished by a quater horse power motor
and an average of 60 swats and as many
bowls a minute can be maintained The
motor is connected with the grewsome
! device by a belt. This affords an oppor-
tunity for Willie; he can hide the belt.
One unique feature of the whole work
is the collapsihle propensity of the six
Stats. which fall loose after striking the
bows and come up rigid on the other side,
ready for another rap. Heavy-soled
slippers may be used in the place of
paddles if old-time associations of children
are desired.
Besides causing cobwebs to cluster
around the switch in the woodshed the
electrical show people propose to doom
the nocturnal pe1estriansm abhorred by
every fathef of lusty infant. An cleo
trcally rocked cradle will be shown which
will make pajama promenades myth.
When baby whines, whimpers or whoops
after midnight, papa merely turns on a
switch near the alarm clock and the era
die starts a continuous yet gentle roll
from side to side until the future presi-
dent returns to slumber with his finger in
his mouth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
FACTS ABOUT HARTMAN

knowledge. hard won experience, con-
slant work and judgment.
That was the genius of Hartman He
had had thirty years life in Wall street,
fifteen years experience as railroad coun-
selor, four years training as railroad
executive, when he bacome chairman of
directors and virtual master of the Union
Pacific.
The Union Pacific line had been built
thirty years before. 1t had the roadbed
the track grades, the curvatures to meet
tho standards of that day. But not of
this later time. To meet twentieth CEN
try competition both of rates and SER
vice, competitors modern roadbed and
equipments had to be equalled.
Much money and good men were re-
quired. Both were secured. How much
OF the first would be difficult to esti-
mate-hundreds of millions, they say.
How this vast sum was obtained gives
the second trait in Harriman's business
character-his ability to gain mems con-
fidence. Hartman was able to convince
banking houses and investors that his
wager on coming prosperity and the de-
velopment of the west was safe; he had
to convince them that he could create
enough new traffic in his territory and
secure enough from connecting roads to
pay interest on the original capitalization
as well as these additional hundred mill
lions; he had to convince them that he
was the organizer and executive to whom
could be entrusted this money and the
conduct of the lines 1t was to strength
en-.
Hartman got the money.
And 1t went into efficiency work. 1t
cut DOWN mountains-a grade Of forty
three feet othe mile was established
and adhered to even when it meant
chopping off 247 feet from an elevation.
making a 100000 yard fill a cut eighty feet
deep and a thousand long, or a half-mile
tunnel through solid rock. 1t went into
new roadbed and tracks; for all this ma
chinery never before used was invented
and methods newly discovered were APP
Piled. 1t went into the elimination Of
1900 degrees of curvature in one state.
Il went into twenty-three mile treste
straight across Salt Lake, as If the lake
We're not.
The man and the methods accomplished
the end IN sight-decision. persistence,
thoroughness, on the one hand-effi-
cheney. economy, organization on the
other.
Behind these. as the source of money,
the motive power, was the confidence the
man inspired. And behind all was will.
And behind will no one need go in
seeking the cause of greatness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30

| bound to Weber & Fields for another
| year after the current one and he said
he would be ready for me at the expira-
| ton of my contract.
IT suppose quite eighteen months
passed before I saw Mr.. Belasco again.
| l had only his word and he mine; there
was no written contract to bind either
| of us.
1T had meanwhile received offers from
| others to star. but refused them. When
my contract with Weber & Fields ex-
pired I had made no other arrangements.
| and Mr.. Belasco was not even In the
country.
But it was not long before I read an
announcement of his return from Europe.
and next thing I saw was an outline of
his plans for the coming season. which
| included David Warfed in a new play.
"Since our first interview he had been
carefully dgesting his plan of presenting
me- He had had men at work writing a
play for me, and when 1 saw him again
every detail was settled in short order
The play was The Auctioneer, and the
public knows the rest.
Domestic In Habits.
81 have always been Inclined to be do
nestle in my habits, and even while
was at the Casino I was in the habit of
keeping fairly regular hours, and going
home after the performance. 1t gave me
the reputation Of being something of
student yet in fact was not.
"In analyzing a character for presen-
tation do not sit down and study 1t, In
The accepted sense. If | am affected by
first reading of a part / know 1t will car
ry across the footlights.
IT don't study how to accentuate this
or that whether to do this here and that
there l must see the man ] am to play
In perspective-as q composite whole, in
oil lie Iar L
his moods sway and move me as my own
mood under similar impulses. In other
words | avoid showing my technique and
making my character mechanical.
THAT comprises the whole range of my
studiousness, But / love to read. II
stimulates my imagination and eniarges
my scope of characterization.
at Is better than carousing around. The
saloon Is fatal to the actor. just as late
suppers are fatal to the actress. And
then, too, / think professional people
should withdraw from the general In
spection of the public as much as POSI-
BILE.
ST don't mean that they should be iso
lated. but avoid exhibiting themselves in
too public manner after their perform
ances That's what Joseph Jefferson
meant when he said in his epgrammatic
way: Beware of the second round of APP
plauser Actors seen too much, destroy
tho mysticism of the world behind the
scenes.
"When I was handing out programmes
and turning down seats in San Francisco
I often saw John Owens play and | used
to speculate even then whether the SIM
plicity of his method was real art or not.
/ did not know at the time. being so
voune. but as / grew older his quiet.
effective characterization remained with
me, while recollections of the more bois-
ferrous style of other actors who were
much admired I'm their day, grew DINNER
and DINNER and at last faded from my
memory.
81 remembered their reputation but not
their work I decided that the quiet sug-
eestive method. was the one enduring and
began to love it
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
She Wanted the Change.

From Harper's Weekly.
prominent London tradesman tells o.
small girl who entered groeers shop
In Whitechapel and said:
please sir, / wants arr pound OF
butter and a penn'orth OF cheese. and
muvver says she will send shilling in
when favver comes home"
"All right" replied the man.
But" continued the child, 'muvver
wants the change, cos she as got TO put
a penny In the gas meter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
ANNOUNCEMENT

We will open a branch store
at Minis B. Stones place, 1904
End Ave, on or about January
LIST, 1907. With a full line of
fine Bakery Goods. We will
make a special delivery every
evening for the home going
crowds, everything right fresh
and hot from the ovens mouth,
just right for the evening meal.
Come help us make this stand a
success.
HIGHLAND BAKERY.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
Those Imported CIGARETTES.

From the Chicago News.
Catch this puff of smoke. old chap, and
tell me what you think of my favorite
brand of cigarettes
.sWhewl Why, that is enough to kill
cat.'
XIII a cat? Why, you don't know what
kind of filler this is
Maybe not, but it smells to me like a
cemetery filler"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
[XT HO Is Hartman? Probably no
wv other American SO prominent in

H ona is 1 Mnsrimans 50 a nroD4ey no
the public eye, and so power
full in business life, is so little known
about. In December System. I. j. Zim-
the Hartman life and the Hartman
| traits. The Hartman career has been
an unusual one.
Eight years ago a Wall street broker,
come up from clerk in a brokerage Of
| flee: fifty years old, then; director in
half a dozen railroads; railroad man
on the "stocks and bonds" side.
Past virtues are discovered in a man
only when he has performed a great
achievement. Now people recall how this
broker had the confidence of the Wander
bits, Rockefeller, the Fishs and the great
bankers that his Judgment on matters
of railroad financing and inter-railroad
strategy was listened to; that his rela-
lions were close with Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,
greatest of promotion bankers, fiscal
agents OF vast railway systems, under
writer's of hundred-million stock and bond
issues
Deeission-the first Hartman success
quality-came out In the very purchase of
the Union Pacific. The country had not
yet recovered from its industrial depres-
sion; men were sttll timid in 1898, taking
each step cautiously, stunning new ven
lures, boarding their cash. Pessimsm,
not optimism-retrenchm not expan-
sion-conservatism, not originality-was
the spirit of the day.
There was little promise of change-of
ebtter and larger business, of industrial
expansion, of lavish money-spending, of
nation development, of prosperity.
But they have all come-in overlooking
measure. And Hartman saw them COM
ing. Here was an opportunity to secure
a property cheap in time of depression;
the advent of the good~times he foresaw
would make 1t valuable and profitable.
He had the courage back of his judg-
ment-he bought.
That is decision.
But 1t is mistake to think that Har-
riman, an inexperienced Wall street
broker, put his hand out in 1898 and by
force of Unborn genius created a great
railroad system. In business. things do
; Of work that way. Commercial genius
is simply a combination of acquired
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
Good Match.
rom the Chlcago News.

From the Chicago News
Gentlemen" shouted the defeated can
ddate. II may have lost this time. but I
have a white conscience"
Then you should be glad, piped a
tough citizen In the first row
Glad of what%'
THAT you have liver to match youv
conscience"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
Ideal Wife for a Poor Man.

From the Philadelphia Press.
He-Marry me and you shall want for
nothing.
she-But l don't want TO want for moth
ing. l want to want for something !
want.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
Good Friends.

Translated for Transatlantic Tales from
Meggendorfer Batter.
Gretchen Ito best friend)-You were
wrong you see. when you said Mr.. Smith
did not care for me- Yesterday he asked
me TO marry him and declared he could
eat me up,
Louisa-f congratulate You had al
ways heard that his favorite dish was
goosa
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
Welded to Art.

From the Houston Post
There goes a man who lis welded 70
art"
why he doesn't look like an artist
He isn't; but he married Miss Make
up'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30

Next he had three years at the Casino,
and then three years with Weber &
Fields. About that time came what he
calls 'the most important change, in an
artistic sense" of his life thus far
~ had been with Weber & Fields n
year and a half when one day received
a letter from Mr.. Belasco asking If I
would call on him. ] did not let the grass
grow under my feet before | went to see
him.
HE was then in a little office in Car
negie Hall, where | found him among an
assortment of boxes and bundles, pack
ing up his effects to get out. Our intro
duction was brief.
after few words he asked me if I
would like to become star under his
management. and | answered quickly
enough in the affirmative. 1t was all
very brief and to the point. and l was
soon down on the street again.
Nothing had passed between US but
our word. had told him that was