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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-11

Caught by the Rummage-six cents knocked off the price. It is excel lent EiderdoWn and worth even more than we formerly asked Grey, tan and red. Reduced from 35c to 29c yard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-11

Out with em." Well, will S1.S0 sell 'em qucky?' 'Yes-but 98c will sell them quicker" "That being true
 follows naturally and very logically that 9c will sell them quickest The arguments most profound and true and therefore o $7S0 Hats marked 49c for Monday
 Gracious what B-A-R-GA--NS- Attractive, aunty pretty little affairs-brmmng with the air and tone that always attaches to the Marx millinery Not many--ust $ in this Rummage It unnecessary to say that delay dangerous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-11
Doubling all Former Records m White Goods andLaCeS

The crowds at the White Goods counters never dminsh--on the contrary, they INCREASE. Saying that doing the biggest business in our history is to use commonplace patitude in which every whip persnapper advertiser ndulges. We not only doing the bggest-but we are actually doubling last years sales The more you shop around the certain you are to buy at Marks. Comparisons EMPHASIZE our supremacy In volume variety and values the stock is not matched in all Alabama. Specimens Plain Nansool inches 2oc a $2o wde quality that AT exceptional quality. worth S5c Special at 75c
 
 
 this sale at 5oc Well worth 6Oc Special at ooc Nainsook worth 15c Special in this sale at 12Iac val Laces. Madras, Edgfngs and insertions 34 to wide dainty patterns, at to SIX Suits for Spring
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-11
SIX Suits for Spring

Pads-handsome pads-big Jumbo" affairs at teme-at other tiny checks Between the two you pick from scores patterns and that isn't pretty picture. The materials Taetas and Louisnes We selling on an average daynown February S25 to $50
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-11

Rare exotcs from abroad. One-of-a-kind patterns picked up by agents in the Rue de la PaX Paris and Bond street London. An enhanced beauty and value belongs to them because there is only of each kind in Birmngham-an it is at Marxs The wearer of such suit will not be chagrned by meeting its. duplicate at soiree or on the streets Crepes Chiffon Voles, lis sues Eolennes and Taeta VoieS. They belong to the tribe of "cingng fabrics that drape in graceful and vouminous folds. Wool to the core-while a few are pretted with silk mixtures Masterpieces of the looms RuthIessly Rummaged and Reduced.
 Formerly $15 to $20 pattern, at $5
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-11

will be too busy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-11
SAT1NOLA and EGYPTIAN CREAM, Both 75c

Satinoa what the word mpe-it gives the richness and softness of satin the skin. Regular price 3e
 Egyptian is curaive-he arch of pimples and of black heads Regular price 39c special offer of both for 75e.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-25
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR NOVEMBER IS. 1900

happened that no came in after they went out
until | was off duty at six
The detective turned to the physician again.
Then she couldn't have been dead since early last
night, he said.
She has been dead for several hours-at least
twelve possibly longer" said the physician firmly.
There is possible argument about that.
The detective stared at him scornfully for an
instant, then looked at the manager of the house.
What was said when Mr.. and Mrs. MOrey entered
your office last nght?" he asked. Were YOU
there?"
Il was there, yes was the reply Mr.. Morey
explained that they had been called away unex-
pectedly for few days, and left the keys of the
apartment with me. That all that was said L
the elevator boy take the suit cases out for them
as they went to the cab.
How did it come, then. if you knew they were
away, that some one entered here this morning and
so found the body?"
IL discovered the body myself" replied the man
ager. There was some electric wiring to be done
in here and thought their absence would be good
time for it. | came up to see about it, and saw
that.
He glanced at the covered body with little
shiver and grimace. Detective Mallory deeply
thoughtful for several minutes.
OF the three employees of the apartment house
New-York tribune., 1906-11-25

only the elevator boy duty by day had not spoken.
Now he spoke because the detective glared at him
hercely. u didn't either Mr.. or Mrs. Morey
come in this morning, he explained hastily.
Nobody had come in at all except the pOstman and
some delivery wagon drivers up to the time the
body found"
Again Detective Mallory turned on the manager.
Does any window of this apartment open on a
fire escape?" he demanded
"Yes-this way"
They passed through the short hallway TO the
back. Both the windows locked on the inside;
50 instantly it appeared that even if the woman mad
been brought into the room that way the windows
would not have been fastened unless her murderer
Went out of the house the front way. When Detect
i've Mallory reached this stage of the investigation he
sat down and stared from to the other of the
silent little party if he considered the entire
matter some affair which they had perpetrated 10
annoy him.
Hutchinson Hatch went to the telephone With
in a few minutes The Thinking Machine stepped
out OF a cab in front and paused in the lower hall
long enough tc listen to statement of the facts
known. There perfect network of wrinkles in
the dome like brow when the reporter concluded
II IS merely a transfer of the final development
OF the affair from England to this country" he said
enlgmatically. Please telephone for DR.. Prescott
come here immediately
He Went 10 the Morey apartments. With only
curt nod for Detective Mallory, the only one OF the
small party who knew him, he proceeded to the body
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05

mayor pledged to immediate mu-
nicipal ownership"
This was in the face of the certainty
that corrupt politics and the spoils
system would be made worse by put
ting into politics the hundred thousand
street car employees. a certain means
for machine control.
The street car service never was
good during Yerkes' reign, but has
constantly grown worse in most Sec
lions Of the city by the deterioration
Of cars while litigation on every hand
absorbed the big companies. The
hopes of the public were raised by the
purchase last year of two-thirds con-
troll of the $18,O00,000 of the Chicago
City railway stock at 5000 share by
the Embellishments syndicate.
But the decision of the supreme court
has depressed City railway securities
nearly $1O,000,000 and thrown the
Morgan-Field syndicate into a panic
of CONSERVATION for the City Railway
company's franchises are about to ex-
pire and the 99-year hope has been
blighted.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05
BY CLYDE ALISON MANN.

Chicago.-Like a house Of cards
the towering structure Of Chicago trac-
ton securities came tumbling about
the ears of the financial generals of
Chicago, Philadelphia and New York
at the word of the United States SUI
preme court.
It has cost Morgan, Armour, the
Marshall Field estate, and the Elkins.
Widener street car syndicate and 9th
ers over $75,000,000 to realize what
Charles T. Yerkes probably knew
years before he sold his Chicago street
car securities, that certain legisla-
tive act of the state of Illinois way
back in 1865, did not, as supposed, eX-
tend the franchises for use of Chi
cago streets for a period of SO years.
At the supreme courts decision
values of Union Traction stocks fell ia
heap, and Chicago City railway
stocks dropped 25 per cent. The &C
companying table shows the losses.
The holders of Union Traction COM
pany stocks looked, after it was all
over, like boys holding the sticks of
balloons with only shriveled bit of
rubber at the end of each stick as re-
minders of the buoyant beauty they
had bought from the circus day bal
loon man.
In this case, the shriveled bit of rub
Der had cost millions, and the boys
were multi-millionaires. Those who
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05

for the equities in the North and West
side companies from which he already
had made $10,000,000.
This worked so well he could quick
ly carry out his further plan. By
paying dividend on the first dividend
day, he SO encouraged the new stock
holders that when he got together his
miscellaneous electric companies he
sold the lot, under the name of the
Consolidated Traction company, to the
same Union Traction company, and
took bonds in payment. Bonds looked
good to the public and to Blair & Co.,
Of New York, and Yerkes put away
for a cold day $5,OO0.0O0 more in cash
and securities.
He also sold his interests in the
Lake Street elevated railway and the
Northwestern elevated and the ele-
waited downtown loop for another
$5,O00,00O
1t had taken Yerkes 10 years to
work out his well-defined plan, all
based on the problematical value of an
act of the Illinois legislature which
was construed publicly by Yerkes to
be a 99-year franchise, but which he
probably knew-for he sold all his
holdings!-to be the mere extension
of the charter of the company to which
was granted the franchise.
Carefully he haA inflated the bal
loon marked North Chicago Street
Railway" until he sold his stock at
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05

the idea is too new and original for
the courts to have many presidents
providing for aerial navigation as a
method of transit, says Paris repost.
However, the subject of ancient
lights and ancient rights of air, ETC.,
promises to some before the courts of
France in hundreds of different ways
in the not far distant future. The first
balloon case of the kind has just been
before the court for adjustment
The suit grows out of a balloon acct
dent of last year. An aeronaut named
Bacon was passing in his balloon over
Paris when he Unexpectedly came to
within few yards of the roofs. Final
ly he knocked down chimney pot.
Thinking him in danger some people
promptly seized the dragging guide
rope and in spite of the aeronaut's pro-
test hauled him down into the street.
He therefore had no choice except to
order them to shut their windows
| while he Debated his gas bag. The gas
entered a house through window
carelessly left open and caused an ex-
plosion in which a man named Gou-
zeau was killed. The question at is
sue was as to whether the aeronaut
having been an unwilling sufferer HIM
self was responsible for the situation
created. The courts finally decided
against the aeronaut and sentenced
him to pay damages to the amount OF
$1,000 to the widow of Gouzeau, the
man who was killed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05

Ere long we shall be asked to the
weddings that always spring up just
as Lent comes to a close, and it is
well to have ready the wedding gar
ment." For noon wedding, cloth
costume of some light color is appro-
pirate, Nand we would suggest a bis
cult color trimmed with braid of the
same shade. Braid trimming is to be
extensively employed this season,
both on strictly tailored gowns and
on those more elaborate. With the
costume suggested, the hat should
harmonic, the veil may contrast, the
latter novelty it appears we are to
take to.
Speaking of weddings, it may be
in place to present a charmingly
gowned group whose costumes were
designed across the water; Sin flow
cred silk, blurred blossoms, with
dainty trimmings of lace and ruches
Of ribbon" There are exquisite flow
cred silks and silk muslins to be had,
and either material would be effeec.
tive.
The ''coatee" is much to the fore, a
loose little wrap worn very largely for
it's decorative value. The sleeves are
quite short and disclose below innum-
cradle frills of lace, and of course a
frilly blouse shows at the open front
of the coatee. The coatee is made OF
embroidered cloth, of tinted lace, OF
wide variety Of materials. With a
gown of gray chiffon on broadcloth
there was worn coatee of pale mauve
lace lined with gray chiffon, gray chit
fon frills billowing from the short
sleeves.
1t is still somewhat early to make
assertions about hats, but enough are
on display to allow of little forecast
ing. While the polo turban is moi
with us, we find hats as whole rath.
er small. Of course, for elaborate &C.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05

are exercised, no matter the wind and
weather, this outfit is practical ne
cessity. Less frills and furbelows
now, more sensible clothes the rule.
Everything is tubbable, the child not
hampered by garments that must be
kept clean at all hazards.
The linen pique coats are charming,
whether perfectly plain or tandem
broidered. Those fastening on the
shoulder and diagonally across are
especially good, and there are both
short and long ones to choose from.
The REFER jacket will continue in pop
ularity, this a sensible little wrap for
warm days.
For girls well on in their teens the
princess and corselet dresses are worn,
and very graceful they look on the
slender figure. Cashmere is a suitable
material for these, and Powered muslin
a good choice for the blouse-or rather
gimp; for there is not much of waist
showing with the corselet skirt, and
with the princess only chemisette and
undersleeves.
ELLEN OSMONDE.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05
AS TO FERTILITY.
The Asset Of the Farmer Which
Should Be Most Carefully
Preserved.

1t has been said that the farmer is
the most wasteful man, and this is
about true. for it would be hard for
merchants to stand If they were 10
manage their business as the average
farmer does. The Amer. can farmer
needs a few lessons in economy on
the fertility question.
We have the fertility in our soil and
we should take care that it is not lost
Save what you have and add more to
your farm when you can. Remember
that for every load OF hay or feed you
bring on your farm and feed you are
sure that that much profit will be
added to the farm in the form of fer
tility. We still find a few who say
manure is not worth the hauling, but
there are less of this kind each year.
A ton of liquid manure Is worth much
more than q ton of solid manure.
Knowing this, we should put forth
every effort to save it all. The most
practical way for the average farmer
to save this Is to keep the cattle shed
well bedded, then the whole will be
mixed together and the liquid absorbed
by the bedding, and all will be saved.
When you haul out in the spring you
will have the best of manure.
One farmer feeds all his crops and
saves and applies all the manure pro-
duced, and his farm is getting more
productive each year, and consequent
ly there is more manure to haul out
each year. Another farmer just across
the road, crops In the same old way.
probably sells the grain and will prob
ably let the other man haul off his
manure If he will take it out Of his
way. In a few years he has a farm
that he can hardly make living on.
These are two kinds of farmers we
have, and many in the middle. Which
kind are you? The Farmers Review
declares that we waste fertility by
letting it remain in pile, and the rain
will wash out the best part probably
on the other mans farm, if the land
lies that way. We waste it by letting
1t go through the plank floors and by
not using bedding. In everything we
do we should have the thought Of MAX
ing the farm better. We should not
want it all now. but should work for
the future as well. Leave the farm to
your boys better farm than You
found it. If You want to make
dollar or more easily just 60 to town
and haul home load of manure ana
spread on your farm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05

casions the big picture hats will be al
fected by the faithful few, and OF
these there are charming models; a
big black chip with broad brim and
low crown, its trimming four black
plumes that fall forward aud back
from large knot of turquoise blue
velvet; a large straw-colored satin.
very soft and lustrous, and a little to
the left of the front two pinky cream
roses. Chiffon draping and the sort
scarf promise to be favorites for trim
ming, and the rose the favorite flow
er. Moss-g green is attractive in early
spring millinery, and not a little Is
now seen The maiden-hair fern ap-
pears with different blossoms, and is
very pretty. Ruchings Of tulle show
under the brim at back and side, and
are to have almost as much under
trimming as last year. One pretty
1argish, all-black hat was made OF
double ruches of narrow lace, the only
trimming a rich, glossy plume.
full tulle ruche f1uffed underneath, the
shape was the all-round sailor, which
is to be so popular and which Is SO
generally becoming.
There are made hats Of taffeta that
are very smart. The lingerie hats will
outnumber those of last year; as
some one says, they are going to be
the rage instead of merely the vogue
And it is no wonder, for they have SO
many good points in addition to their
becomingnness-are light and com
Portable, can be easily freshened, need
not cost fortune.
The shops are showing hats ride
ulously flower laden, roses of size
piled one on another. A little toque
Of small moss-rosebuds is much more
to our taste. Ribbon will be used ex
tensively, both on outing hats and
for dressier wear. Plumes, too, will
be employed, but probably not as dur.
ing the past season.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05

The pyramid of fictitious values in
detail is a confusing tangle of bond
and stock issues of many companies,
but its general structure is simply
this:
With $1.500.O00 Yerkes in 1886
bought the North and the West side
street car lines, then horse car lines,
and made a contract with himself to
reconstruct them, with great profit IN
the reconstruction. Many new lines
were built by Yerkes through many
new companies. Each company was
stocked apd bonded for double or more
its yalre.
Finally Yerkes had the North Chi
cago and the West Chicago and a
tangle of outlying electric lines. The
North Chicago was stocked heavily
and bonded literally. During the
growth Of each company Yerkes had
sold part of his stock for many times
the amount of his first investment.
Then the Union Traction company
was organized with S20,000,000 of COM
mon stock and $4,000, 900 of preferred
stock, and it leased the North Chi
cago and West Chicago companies.
Its stock was offered to the public and
sold to the Elkins- Widener syndicate,
of Philadelphia, now called the street
car trust" Charles Tyson Yerkes
porkotsa $4,000. 900 of nice hard cash
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A BEGINNERS EXPERIENCE.
Why Brood Frames and Comb Honey
Sections Are Not Advisable in
the Same Body.

l inclose a sketch of a hive for rails
ing comb honey, writes G. M. Church, of
Arnold, Pa. / am only beginner IN
bee culture; and as | experienced a
great deal of trouble in getting my bees
into the super concluded to change the
construction of the hive so as to let them
fill sections by placing sections in the
body of the hive. While this scheme
was new to me have since found that 1t
is an old idea, invented by Mr.. Lang
stroth in 1852, and used in a little diff
ferent way. | am also informed that
more honey can be obtained per colony
in this way. but at a greater expense in
labor
My idea was to build large II or 10
frame hive deep enough TO take in two
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05
Salt Water for Streets.

Many European cities on the sea
coast use salt water for watering the
public thoroughfares, calling it waste
to make use of fresh water for this
purpose. They are the more satisfied
because certain properties of sea wa
ter eliminate the necessity of frequen.
applications. On the other hand, salt
water exerts a very destructive infiu-
ence on the paint and varnish of We
hicles, and merchants affirm that the
salt is found everywhere and that its
deliquescence is attended with harmful
results. And, again, salt water is de
structive to the pipes and metallic fit.
tings and the leakage of the pipes kills
vegetation in streets, parks and gar
dens.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05

$256 per share. 1t was quoted on the
stock exchange the other day at $32 a
share.
He filled the balloon labeled West
Chicago Street Railway Co.. until he
was paid on a basis of $127 per share.
The stock is now selling at about $50
share.
Then came the miscellaneous collec-
ton marked Consolidated Traction
and the sale of the well-watered
stocks of a score of underlying COM
panies, payment in bonds which he
sold at so cents on the dollar In
each case he sold no real value, and
took In payment something substan-
tial.
When the balloons all were sold,
Yerkes cared not at all how soon the
public discovered that the talk about
the 99-year franchise was but four
flush bluff which he had expected
would be called some day.
The bluff got past Judge Grosscup on
the federal court circuit bench, but
the United States supreme court
called" it, and did it in plain terms.
The 99-year franchise was the wind
which had filed all the balloons; the
sand on which had been builded the
house of cards marked with Yerkes'
fanciful millions.
The day when Union Traction was
fioated was a great day in Chicago.
The event was much heralded from La
-
stitutions of the city. who had various
interests in the success of Yerkes'
great scheme and combination. The
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BROOD FRAMES AND COMB HONEY


4x5 sections standing up, and four side
wise, making eight sections to the
frame (see sketch of frame). Then
put i'll as many frames as de-
sired for the brood-nest; say four to
six, with a queen-excluder each side OF
the brood-nest; then fill up the rest.
each side of the brood-nest, outside the
queen-excluder, with frames containing
AXIS plain sections, with fences be-
tween them / would also have three
separate openings to the hive-one to
the brood nest and one to each set of
five frames, then the bees would not
have to pass through the queen-exclud-
ers at all.
] expect to be able to breed up in the
spring in this hive, to get the best re-
suits, and also overcome the desire to
swarm to great extent, by giving the
queen plenty of room to do her best and
not be crowded.
The plan you describe was used many
years ago, but discarded, comments the
editor of Gleamings in Bee Culture.
There are two objections to it. First, 1t
makes an awkward odd-sized hive; sec
ond, comb honey stored next to brood
frames will be discolored by reason OF
the bees using wax from the brood
combs in building combs in sections.
No, I do not think more honey can be
produced by this plan-at least there
are NO data to show it, There is another
incidental disadvantage; and that is, the
outside frame, containing eight sec
lions, would present a large surface to
the side of the hive, and this would re-
suit in the surface of those combs be-
ing neglected or poorly filled. The same
objection applies to the ordinary comb
honey super containing one tier of sec
tions but in this case only half the
surface is presented to the wood; and
even this objection is largely overcome
by the use of slotted dividers, or fences,
put mex. to the outside Of the hive
If you would consult bee-keepers or
large experience you would probably
save a good deal of money, and in the
end abandon all idea of hive like the
one shown in the diagram above. The
whole field has been thrashed over and
over by others, only to be abandoned;
and as history is pretty apt to repeat it
self, you will be almost sure to be loser
by the operation.