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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12

ern and Toole both figured in their char acteristic manner.
 Incident in Chop House.
 "A friend of mine and myself" said Toole, had engaged to meet Sothern on a little matter of business at a chop house in the city. one of those odd old places that always interest me. and which I wanted to show Sothern. Sothern was late We were only going to have chop or steak and a glass of wine, so we did not order anything, but thought we would walt until Sothern came. Both my friends and myself were attracted by a cantank- erous old gentleman in dress coat, with a high collar and pair of tortoise shell eye glasses, who was not eating chop, but devouring it, going at 1t as If 1t had done him an injury. It was not the thing at all know, but on the impulse of the moment, prompted by his odd ap- pearance, I stepped up to him at crit teal moment of his luncheon, slapped him familiarly on the shoulder, and said: '' Hello, George my dear fellow, how are you?
 "The old gentleman leaped from his seat very indignantly, dropped his knife and fork and asked me what l meant; how I dared to salute him In that way. l apologiZed in the most gracelul man ner possible, said he reminded me of ar old friend. hoped he would not think anything of 1t, quite mistake. and In due time I overcame his evident desire to strangle me.
 I've adjourned to another part of the room, and by and by Sothern came in nudged my friend, feeling that my op- portunity of revenge had arrived.
 'Odd-looking fellow said to him. the old gentleman who has just com menced upon a second chop. I've a good mind to step over, slap him on the shoulder, call him George and say it's years since I've seen him. He's such an odd-looking fish
 "Tll do It. said Sothern.
 f' No replied. perhaps he would know you
 ' Not at all he'd never know me- an- swered Sothern.
 What a strange looking old chap he Is! don't think you had better do it. I said.
 But nothing would restrain Sothern when once an idea had taken possession of him. Just as the old gentleman was conveying a dainty morse to his capra- cious mouth he was saluted by Sothern with a hearty smack on the back, and an exclamation of;
 TIullo, George! Why it must be years since I've seen you.
 "The stranger could scarcely speak for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12
The Female Form.

From the Boston Daily Advertiser.
 famous German scientist who has made a life study of the beauty of wo- men of all nations considers that he found the most perfect and harmonious devel- opment of form among the Japanese. His ideal proportions differ slightly from inc standards of beauty left us by the Creeks. and he gives the following as his
 normal proportions of the perfect figure from averaging the measurements of many:
 "The height should be seven and half times the length of the head ten times the length of the face. and the legs four times the length of the head. The shoulders should be two heads wide, and when standing erect perfectly developed legs should touch at the knees, the calves and the ankles
 Here, however. are some other meas urements which artists generally recog- nize as standard for beauty: The stretch of the thumb and middle finger should just measure the length of the face; the thumbs and second fingers should exactly circle the neck, while the thumbs and middle fingers should exactly circle the level with the shoulders; the perfect woman should measure exactly her height from the tip of one middle finger to the other, while the arm hang ing down should reach exactly half way down the side
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ADJUSTMENTS.
East Lake Casino.

The vaudeville bill for the Casino this week promises to be one of the best ever seen in this section of the country. Man ager West has left nothing undone to bring about a collection of acts that will be entertaining and attractive High class, refined and entertaining are the principles followed in preparing the bill and it is confidently believed that the efforts have not been in vain.
 Early and Late will be the top-liners. They will present the extremely interest ing comedy sketch, ''The Woeful Woer," introducing the little baby. This in an act that is devoid of harshness. It is clever and very humorous. It is inter- spersed with songs and as Early and Late are good singers, and have some of the latest songs in their repertoire this portion of their act will be very accept able.
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latent and does not develop until such time as 1t shall profit them to be afraid. until they are able to fly and thus escape the dangers they are afraid of.
 White footed mice in all probability de- stroy young birds occasionally, since they are fond of animal food. Personally, have never seen gray squirrel injure a birds nest, but I think there is enough good evidence forthcoming to convict him of at least occasionally eating both eggs and nestlings. Red squirrels and chip hunks have been caught in the act so often that they may be regarded as habit ual criminals.
 In proportion to their numbers how eVer 1t is doubtful if squirrels do any where near the damage that is wrought by the domestic cat. The latter is larger and requires much more food, and 1t is also more apt to kill merely for sport. The cat problem is a serious one with bird lovers, the more so because of the strong hold pussy has on thousands of good people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12
Ferrets and Young Ducks.

From Country Life,
 A fortnight ago a fowl dealers of Diss threw two cracked duck eggs to his ferret which has four young ones. He was very much surprised two days later at seeing two dncklings waddling about the cage and seeming quite at home with the fer rets
 Tho old ferret had completed the hatch ing and is mothering the ducks. This is the most extraordinary case in nature, as the ferret is the most deadly enemy to fowls. It is a very amusing sight to see the mother trying 10 keep her foster children in the nest with her own young.
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Wife Was the Boss

fellow. and was so tremendously pressing that I gave way and went home with him; it was some distance in the suburbs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12

fellow. and was so tremendously pressing that I gave way and went home with him; it was some distance in the suburbs.
 Wife Was the Boss
 At home he was different man en- tirely. The wife was the boss. She was a learned woman also; had quite knowl- edge of literature and poetry. She ferd questions at me with regard to Thackeray and Dickens and other celebrities. There were several children.
 After a time they gave me a cup of tea-this was in the afternoon-instead of lunch or dinner.
 'I went to the theatre, acted and went home with him that night. After a little more questioning from his wife. without any signs fo refresh ment, she asked me if, before going to bed, I would have a cup of tea or a glass of water. Whereupon he, in a very humble way, said We never take alco- hol in this house.
 "On saying good night the wife informed me that they breakfasted at halft past [, at which time 1t was clear I was ex- pected to be up. So just as I was thor oughly exhausted and could have slept a little I was aroused and had to turn out.
 uuQ DiCdhldSl anu tHNtA iopcd lO go to a hotel and get little rest, But the wife said: Now, So-and-So, take MT. Toole out and show him all the public buildings of - And he did take me out Once or twice I tried to slip away from him in private rooms and corners and get a wink of sleep; but he was the most persistent host ever had. At last in the midst of our tour of the public buildings I gave him the slip and fairly ran away"
 Another time Toole and Brough were at photographers being pictured in the costume of two old tramplike creatures in the play "Dearer Than Life.'
 ''The work of developing the negative said Toole in his "Reminiscences" was a longer business that 1t is now; so in our rags-Jit was a warm day in June-walked out into Grosvenor Square and called at the house of a certain would-be swell who prlded himself on his money and was a great snob, so everybody said The door was opened by gorgeous footman.
 Master in? we asked.
 No; he is not said the flunkey, with a disdainful stare at our rags, and thoughts. no doubt, of the policeman 'round the corner
 Not inl Tell him his two brothers from the workhouse called to see him.
 That flunkey l expect, would look down on his master ever afterward.
 Here is a practical joke fin which South
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12
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passion.
 How dare you, you rufhans he ex- claimed.
 "Whereupon sothern. in his pleasantest manner. began to make his excuses.
 Don't tell me, sir; you did It on pur- pose! know it. I have had my chop here for twenty years, and such a thing never occurred before. Landlord what is the meaning of 1t? I will not put up with 1t. This is the second time I have been assaulted and called George" in this very room within ten minutes
 'I made an opportunity to find out that old gentlemen on a subsequent occasion. and over a glass of a particular vintage of port wine, which he always favored at the house in question, made my peaca with him, and laid the foundation of an agreeable acquaintanceship."
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EAST LAKE CASTN 0 ALL THIS WEEK.
MATrNEEs WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY

 all fu The The 4 s,newm mo RESERVED
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12
Incident in Chop House.

ern and Toole both figured in their char acteristie manner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12
Frightened Off.
'om Harper's Bazar

From Harpers Bazar.
 The wolf was at the door.
 "Be sure you wipe your feet before you. come in." commanded a peremptory voice. Hastily tucking his tail between his legs, the animal turned and fled.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04
FIUsHED AGAIN.

We'll, we are getting what we thought we wanted, and we are getting good measure. Our streets have been flush ed again, and they do look clean. So has the summer business been flushed again-not made flush, but flushed Overwhelmed with water). What next? According to the good old signs, which have worked well lately, more flushing will come soon. According to those signs, it must rain until the 25th of this month. All signs fail in dry time, but there is no old saying that they fail in wet time. So perhaps we can expect that they wont fail this wet time.
 Well, let us persevere. Some of us got through the Winter without freez- ing to death. We survived the Spring pneumonia and other Spring things. We have got thus far into the Summer without being drowned. Let us press on, wade on, or swlm on to the delights and the dangers of Autumn. There's nothing but food to eat, nowhere to go but out, and nowhere to come but back. But life is sweet, and let us hang on to 1t till the water reaches our perch and then strike out for new and safer perch.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04
4 WOMAN WHO DID.

Connecticut women know beans, and they also know how to manage men, who are often easier to know than beans. Mrs. Samuel Johnson (good old name) of Bantam has just taught her husband a lesson in way that ought to make the instruction perma- nent. And she did it without noise or fuss. She had grown tired of MT. John sons continued indifference to the con- dition of the wood-box, which she liked to see have wood in it. So day before yesterday she set the dinner table as usual, but all the food was uncooked. A big piece of raw meat, raw potatoes and unbaked bread were on the table when the man of the house with his hired man came in to dinner, Mir John- son found note saying that Mrs. Johnson had done her part now they must do theirs. When she came home at evening from a days visit to a friend the wood-box was full of wood.
 It is highly probable that the John son wood-box will hereafter be filled. If it isn't Mir. Johnson and his hired man wont be filled with the good grub which Mrs. Johnson knows so well how to prepare and cook, She's got 'em right where they live, and she knows 1t.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04
COTTON TREES FOUND IN INDIA.
Product Said To Be Superior in Qualit,
 That Grown Here.

Product Said To Be Superior in Quality
 That Grown Here.
 A variety of cotton tree has been dis covered in India which is said to be indigenous to that country and which is regarded as capable of revolutioniz- ing the cotton industry of that land. The discoverer of this new commercial factor is J. R. Spence, an Englishman The tree is now growing in various parts of the Bombay and Madras presi- dencies and produces 8 cotton which is declared to be infinitely superior both in classification and staple to Ameri- can cotton, and in classification alone 1t cannot be equalled in Egypt. The on- ly uses to which the cotton the tree produces has so far been put are the manufacture of wicks for lamps in Hindu temples and the stuffing of beds and pillows. MT. Spence sent samples of the cotton to Bombay and Liverpool, where experts in the former city classi- fled it as fine" white in color, staple 1A to 15a inches long, and said 1t would spin up to eos. In Liverpool it was classed "superfine," color white, staple, 3-16 to 1A in length. and valu- ed at from fl to 16 cents pound. This is above the price of middling, Ameri- can.
 There are now more than 100000 of these trees on the Wellas cotton planta- --tion, at Deese, India, growing to a height of from four to five and a half feet, full of buds and bolls, and bear ing cotton daily after being planted on- ly six moths. The quality of the new crop, 1906 cotton, Is superior. both in classification and staple, to that of the parent tree. The yield for the first year has been estimated by experts at minimum amount of two to four ounces to a tree, and as there will be more than $500 trees to an acre this gives a total yield of 400 to 800 pounds to an acre, which is above the average of Egypt and no less than from eight to sixteen times greater than the aver age yield of all India.
 The second years crop will probably be double that of the first year, and the third year double that of the second. Each succeeding crop will, no doubt, in- crease still further, as 1t is known that trees of this variety, after the third year, have yielded from five to ten ponds of clean cotton a tree annually during a life of twenty years and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04
SUNDAY QUESTION IN ENGLAND

SUNDAY QUESTION IN ENGLAND.
 The Sunday question is up in Eng land, too. The joint committee of the British Lords and Commons on Sun. day trading have prepared a report which strongly asserts the importance of maintaining Sunday as a day of rest. not only on religious and moral grounds but for the general well-being of the community. They recommend that every shop assistant be assured of one days rest In seven, and that penalties be exacted from every employer refus- ing to grant it. With regard to the small shopkeeper they find that the case is somewhat different. There was much evidence to show that the total prohibition of Sunday trading on the part of the costermongers, street hawk CTS, and small shopkeepers not employ ing assistants of any kind would inflict inconvenience and hardship on consid- erable masses of the poorer classes. They consider, therefore, that in any new legislation on this subject some exemptions would be necessary.
 While approving the general principle of the Sunday trading act, they hold that the penalties imposed by it are inadequate for securing the end in view. At the same time they maintain that the exigencies of modern life make it necessary to permit in particular dis tricts the sale of certain articles for a part or the whole of Sunday, and rec ommend that the special regulations necessary should be framed by local authorities, under proper control For offenders they recommend a system of fines reaching $25 for the third, and all subsequent offences. Special exemptions are recommended in the case of mineral waters, sweets, tobacco, and daily pro visions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04
CARRIED BY GERMANY.

Made in Germany" is already pretty generally known, and perhaps "Car- ried by Germany" soon will be. Ger man commerce is growing rapidly in the Mediterranean, The German merchant disc handled at Marseilles six years ago was less than 107OOO tons, but last year 1t was 216,7OS, or more than double the amount in 1900. British merchandise fell off in the same period, though not proportionately, and there was an ad- vance in French shipments and in the tonnage of French ships calling at or leaving this port.
 The invasion of the Mediterranean by Germany is of recent date. Indeed, she has made Marseilles a port of call for her steamers only within year or SO, but she now announces a regular ser- vice between that city and the Persian Gulf, and steamers that formerly made no halt between New York and Genoa or Naples have now French landing en route.
 Of course Germany can't do all the business of the world, but she is mak- ing a strong effort in that direction-so strong an effort that some other busi- ness nations will have to move to keep up with her.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04
HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AUGUST 1906

Knicker-"so Jones has invented a new bowling gamer"
 Booker -"Yes; the balls represent autos and the pins are the people, - Brooklyn Life.
 Her Husband-"T statue isn't true to nature" His Wife-"What's wrong with it?" Her Husband-"Why, it rep- resents a woman sitting still. saying nothing. Columbus Dispatch.
 She was supple and tall,
 But, alas and alack,
 She never could button
 He waist up the back.
 Milwaukee Sentinel. Wig" Jim1ny's uncle has just died and left him a couple of millions. He always said his ship would come in some day" Wag- "Yes, but he didn't expect an heirship "-Princeton Tiger. Towne-"The weather seems to be clearing up I'm sorry now that I took this umbrella to-day Browne-''Yes, the sin is all the greater when you steal something you don't really need."- Press.
 What reason have you for thinking that the thief who entered your house was locksnith by trader" asked the detective. Why, I saw him make a bolt for the door" said the victim of the robbery.-Judge.
 But" protested the pert young housewife, you ought to take off some thing for the holes in these doughnuts. , Very well, madam" replied the wise baker; I'll allow you one cent each Tor the holes when you return them."-- Chicago Daily News.
 "Gayman has so many girls now he has had to buy a typewriter to keep up his correspondence. T suppose he can write half dozen letters now in the time it took him to write one be- fore?. Yes; he writes one letter and manifolds 1t. philadelphia Press.
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Speak Gently.
Speak gently to the office boy

Speak gently to the office boy Do not rebuke his pride, Fen though it sometimes seems ms JoS Your failings to deride. Fen though he looks with qulet scoFh On your old fashioned ways, And pities you as one not porn To fit these modern days. He tries to like you more or less' His pity it awakes To see how, in your business, You make such sad mistakes Persuasion vainly you employ And useless is your froWn; Speak gently to the office boy Or he will call you down a
 Washington Star.
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with him. Next he tried Germany, and was so indiscreet as to send an open telegram, which, passing through the French office at Saigon, was read, and he was ordered to be arrester for treason. He, however, avoided arrest and after some years spent in Europe ended his adventurous life as above re- coreded. With more success he might have been a second Rajah Brooke, whose portrait still comes to us on the stamps of Sarawak.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04

A picturesque figure will vanish from Paris, owing to the decision of the mu- nietpal council to abolish the office of ''organizer of funeral ponp" at funer- als. Ills only duty was to walk in front, resplendent in a three-cornered hat, dress coat and waistcoat, knee brooches and pumps, decorated with a scarf of colors of the city, and carrying a long ebony cane.
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longer. It will thus be seen that if one- third the cotton area of India were planted with this tree the result of the second year would be a crop far in ex- cess of that of India and America put together. The quality is So excellent that it opens an entirely new field for indian manufactures, the importance of which can scarcely be overestimated.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, Issued Thursdays, One Dollar YenF'
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each insertion. Five Cents Word for full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch. one insertion. s1.2O; each subsequent inser- tion. 70 cents; one week. Ss.2o; one ynontb s1O. one year $40.
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The leader of the savage Hottentots who have been giving the Germans of southwestern Africa much trouble of late has been variously described by European correspondents. Colonel von Deimling spoke of him some time ago in the Reichstag as a thrifty Jew" Maximilian Harden verifies Won Deim- ling's statement in Die Zukunft. He says: The report that the Hottentot chief is a Jew has been examined and found correct by an English agent, Leh- man Cohn. The Hottentot Jew in ques- tion Is alleged to be Abraham Morris, who was born in London, and whose father had previously been a rabbi in the Province of Posen. At the age of twenty-four Morris ran away from home, went to sea, and three years later turned up in South Africa. Then he served in several British regiments with honor, and was promoted color sergeant in 1900. In the course of his service in the Boer war he won additional promo tions under General Baden Powell. He is said to have made much money. which he afterward lost in reckless gambling. His friends lost track of him, and he had been given up for dead until he reappeared as the Hottentot chief.
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Minister E. V. Morgan thinks there must be nearly $12o,oO0,OOO of American money invested in Cuba now, and about $10o,o0O,OOO of English money-$9O OOO, 900 of 1t in railroads.
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CLE4RING.

Jack-"Old Toper's spirits are very low tonight" Tom-"Have You seen him?" Jack-"No, but I've seen the jug he keeps them in.'-The Bohe- milan.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04

Marriage, says Cardinal Gibbons, Is sacrament that lies at the foundation of Christian life and national prosperi- ty' Marriage" says Prof, zueblin Of the University of Chicago, lis nothing but a machine for the perpetuation of the species" And some will think that event these two definitions don't fully define marriage.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04

It is not always the United States ex- porter who does foolish things. The British consul at Malaga testifies that his own countrymen are sometimes just as dense. "Of three travellers repre- senting British firms who called at this consulate in the past twelve months" he says, mot one had any acquaint- ance with the language, while one young man, who was quite English, sought my advice as to how he should bring his wares before local buyers, He had apparently attempted some kind of dumb show without effect The most surprising thing is that the party in question represented firm of some importance"