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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
THE BuTTERMILk BOOM.
New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks,
calm as a clam and Irresistible as gravi-
tation has made Indiana his own and is
now moving majestically in all directions
from his farm in Piatt county Illinois
He radiates from that centre Every day
he reduces the democratic vote by his
automobile and increases the Fairbanks
vote by his relentless consumption OF
buttermilk. Meanwhile, the Hon. Steve
Sumner is pushing the Buttermilk boom
in Chicago. He convened meeting of
500 members of the milk drivers union.
He opened keg of beer and a can
of buttermilk He let the drivers decide
for themselves which was the more bene-
ficent drink. Particulars from the Chi
cago Tribune. which is not a Fairbanks
organ:
Sumner drew a glass of beer and Of
fered 1t to a driver, who drank 1t thirst
lily.
- How do you feel?" Sumner asked the
man.
- Pretty good was the reply He was
given another glass.
% Now how do you feel? Sumner asked.
'' Like having another was the re-
Spouse, amid applause.
q" That's just it, announced the union
temperance demonstration. You drink one
glass of beer and want more. Now. we
will try the buttermilk.
: driver consumed two glasses OF but
termilk and acknowledged that he had
enough. Another was persuaded to drink
three glasses, but that was the most that
any teamster in the hall cared to imbdbe.
Sumner gave the following figures to
show that 1t costs less to drink butter
milk than beer
Average amount of liquid consumed
per man daily. ...........3 quarts
cost of +hrse o,ua,-ts of hear IN cants
-. -, -. = A..
eosa oi 'nfee au'i's Vi out'e'
f ihiik''...... 80. '...,. ..''...,.'',zf cents
- In year, said Sumner, each team
ster can save sol 90 at this rate
All hut eighteen members signed the
.,,as -. ,,,,..ar,,,,,,- 49, ra,uha,,,s
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
Young Vandiver.

Assistant District Attorney Vandiver of
New York is in Alabama with Mr..
Jerome. Mr.. Vandiver is the son of the
well known and brilliant ex-Mayor of
Talladega. The New York prosecuting at
torney once was connected with news
papers in Birmingham. From Birmingham
he went to New York. and there became
intimate with Mr.. Jerome. When Van
diver was admitted to the bar, Jerome
made him a clerk to the grand jury. From
that post he was made the district at
torney's assistant.
Mr. Vandiver has many friends in Ala
bama, especially in Talladega, the town
of his birth, and in Birmingham where
he lived for sometime. He is a young
man in whom Alabamans take much
pride
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
AIabamians in Texas.

Among the prominent Alabamians in
the state of Texas to whom an invita-
ton to visit Birmingham during ''home
coming week will be sent are r. r.
Gaines formerly of Choctaw county, and
George Clarke, formerly OF Eutaw. The
family of Ex-Governor Hogg, too, will
receive invitations, the late chief execu-
tive of the Lone Star state having been
born and reared in Bibb county
Mr.. Gaines is chief justice of the SUI
preme court of Texas. He was an adjutant
general in the civil war, and served In
the Third Alabama. At present, he is
writing history of that regiment at
the request of Thomas NJ Owen of Mont
gomery, keeper of the state archives. His
wife is the sister OF Col. w. w. Short
ridge, candidate for the legislature.
George Clarke is one of the most dis
tinguished lawyers of Texas, and was
formerly attorney general of the state.
In 1892, he made the race for governor
of Texas his successful opponent being
another Alabamian, Ex-Governor Hogg.
In speaking of the prominent native
Alabamians in the state of Texas, Col
Onel onoftlluSe last evening toiu th tiiiluS-
ing incident concerning Ex-Governor Hogg
while hunting in Bibb county sometime
ago." said Colonel Shortrdge, Il came
upon the name of the former governor
of Texas carved on a tree. This was
near the log cabin where the family orig
inally lived. The name 'Hogg' was spell
ed with a single g and / suppose was
carved when the ex-governor was lit
tie chap. l was tempted to write the in
cident for Dallas paper, but did not do
so -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
SAD ENDING.

From Harper's Weekly.
A young clerk grown up In the en-
ploy of a prosperous German grocer was
by reason of his ability and knowledge
of all the details virtually intrusted with
the management of the business, and al
though given frequent advances of sal
airy, began to feel that his services were
absolutely Indispensable and not proper
ly appreciated from money point OF
view He laid the matter before his en-
ployer placing particular stress on what
a difficult matter 1t would be to oper-
ate the business without him. This claim
was admitted by the employer, who In
quired further:
But, Chon, vat if you should dep
"oh, then you would have to get along
without me-" remarked John.
After a few minutes deep thought the
employer looked up at John and said;
well, Chon, chust consider yourself
dealt
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Popular Candidate.

Nathan L. Miller, candidate for the
nomination of state senator from JEFF
ferson county has the advantage of a
wide personal acquaintance and he IS as
popular as he Is well known
It is safe to say" remarked a court
house official yesterday. that Nat Miller
is known personally to as many people
in Jefferson county as any man living in
Jones valley This wide acquaintance Is
great advantage to a candidate, for
when he makes handshakng canvass
he does not have to introduce himself
and tell who he is. Miller is known to
every voter of the county as a straight
forward, fearless man as well as a man
Of large mental capacity. He will be
elected and in the senate he will give
good account of himself"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
East Lake Orphanaqe.

This afternoon at 2 O'Clock at the
orphanage near East Lake will be cele-
brated the third anniversary of that
excellent institution. 1t is one of the
good works of Father O'Reilly. 1t lives
after him. keeping his memory green
and pointing to the wisdom and practi-
cality of his devoted services in this
valley.
The orphanage has been reftted, and
today 1t holds one hundred orphans
who are cared for and trained by the
sisters of charity, who give their lives
to these little ones. Not only are they
nicely provided for and educated, but
homes are found for them and employ
ment. and they are not wholly lost
sight of while they live.
The sisters of charity would be glad
today or any other day to show Wis
itors the institution and the methods
employed in It, The entire orphanage
is open to inspection. All visitors are
welcomed, and there are few places
more interesting In this entire valley,
remarkable as it Is in several respects.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
Africa's New Industry.

"A little more than fifty years ago the
cacao tree had never been seen in Africa
says a writer in the New York Sun. 1T
was first cultivated on the island of ST.
Thomas about 1850 The islands of ST.
Thomas and Principe are now producing
about 50,OOO,OoO pounds of cacao year,
and they sell the crude product for about
100000 to the manufacturers of choco-
late and cocoa. A great new industry
has arisen in Africa. The Portuguese are
very proud of the brilliant history Of
their industry, and call it the greatest
material success yet attained in West
Africa.
1.-THE explorer Chevalier. who has re-
turned from the French colonies, where
he studied economic conditions last year
for his government. says that not a
white man owns or controls single
cacao grove on the Gold Coast. Every
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
From United States Consular Report

Il AOAA 1AAgla 1NaACs %<OiiculdI REPORT
II HID London Commercial Intelli-
w eence prints a letter from ]. R.
Spence written at wellas Cot
ton plantation. Deese. who claims to
have discovered = variety of cotton tree.
indigenous TO India, capable of revolu-
tionizing the cotton industry of that coun-
try. He says:
have had the good fortune to discover
that there exists a tree, practically indi-
genous, at present growing in various
parts of the Bombay and Madras presi-
denotes, which produces a cotton infinite
ly superior both in classification and
staple to American cotton and in classifi-
cation alone cannot be equaled in Egypt
II Is an astonishing fact that the value
of this trees product has not up to this
time been discovered by any one in the
cotton trade, Notwithstanding the fact
that the tree has been known to exist
since the time of the mutiny and prob
ably for hundreds of years previously.
The only uses to which the cotton it pro-
duces has SO far been put are the man
ufacture of wicks for lamps in Hindu
temples and the stuffing of beds and pill
lows. After carefully examining it l un-
hesitatingly expressed the opinion that
it possibly would ultimately revolutionize
the cotton cultivation of India.
1 sent samples to Bombay and Liver
pool, where experts In the former city
classed it as fine" white in color, staple
IA to ~ inches long and said it would
spin up to COS; in the latter city 1t was
classed "superfine,p color white. staple
3-16 to IA inches in length, and valued
at I'd to Sd "a to Is cents), per pound
above the price of 'middling
l then decided to undertake the cultiva-
ton of the tree on a large scale, bought
up the available seed, and made arrange
ments to procure all grown in the neigh
borhood in the future.
There are now considerably over a
lakh 100000 of trees on this plantation
in a most fiourishing condition, growing
to a height of from to 51k feet full of
buds and bolls and bearing cotton daily
after being planted only six months. The
quality of the new crop" 1906, cotton is
superior both in classification and staple
to that of the parent tree. The yield the
first year has been estimated by experts
at a minimum amount of to ounces
per tree. and as there will be over 5000
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
LITTLE lTALY's NEEDLEWoMAN.
School of Embroideries Started In
New York.

From the New York Evening Post.
An enterprise parallellng in small way
the school of embroideries at Athens was
started In New York last fall. and is
achieving remarkable success This lace
and embroidery school for Italian girls
and women is in the Italian quarter
where once was Greenwish village.
You do not need to read the sign, Rich
mond Hill House, at No. Is, to know
that you have reached the italian quarter
settlement Here the school of Italian
Industry" has temporary quarters, using
during the daytime the whole of the sec
ond floor. 1t was started last October, but
the class already numbers two dozen
girls and young women, and is growing
rapidly
The business side of the school has
been managed with much energy and in
telligence The effort to make local
market for its work has been successful
and an opening has been made in Cincin-
natl. where an exhibition and sale are
now being held. At Saratoga this summer
a large variety of articles made by the
young women will be kept on sale Inc
work done is exceedingly varied, me
lace work is mainly in Renaissance pat
terms. copied from old designs. A NUMBER
of the girls are now at work embroiderlng
white silk parasols, with flowers In the
prevailing mode, which are to be put on
sale in Saratoga
The school furnishes all the materials
and sells the finished products, paying the
girls for what they do 1t aims only 10
be self-supporting and to extend It's WORK
The managers are much pleased with the
refining and developing effect which 1t mas
upon the young women. FACTORY work,
said Miss Colgate. the business manager
of the school, seems to deaden the artis-
tic capacities of these Italian women.
The young women have just enjoyed
their one week of holiday, when they Went
to Mount Ivy, n. J., as the guests OF the
Rivington street settlement. Otherwise,
the school will keep them at work stead
" all the year round.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
BE MY SWEETHEART.

By Eugene Field.
Sweetheart. be my sweetheart,
When birds are on the wing
When bee and bud and babbling flood
Bespeak the birth of spring;
Come. sweetheart, be my sweetheart
And wear this posey ring.
Sweetheart. be my sweetheart,
In the golden summer glow
OF the earth aflush with the gracious
blush
Which the ripening fields foreshow;
Dear sweetheart, be my sweetheart,
As into the noon we go.
Sweetheart. be my sweetheart,
When falls the bounteous year.
When the fruit and wine of tree and vine
Give us their harvest cheer;
o. sweetheart, be my sweetheart,
For winter It draweth near.
Sweetheart, be my sweetheart.
When the year is white and old.
When the fire of youth is spent for
sooth,
And the hand of age is cold;
Yet. sweetheart. be my sweetheart
TIL the year Of our love be told.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New Yorw Press.
When girl has poor figure it's a
sign she is too modest to talk about such
things.
A man is a good deal prouder of sneak
ing out of his taxes than he is over hav-
ing pew in church.
The time the devil feels he can knock
off work and go fishing Is when every
body's family is away at summer hotels.
If there was no fun in the world it
would be much easier to go to heaven
and people wouldn't mind so much be-
ginning the trip.
A woman is afraid she isn't a good
mother unless she worries her husband
in the middle of theatrical performance
about what might have happened to the
children since they left home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

plantation. large OF small, is owned by the
natives; and although in 1885 not tree
was to be found on the Gold Coast, the
African blacks there are now producing
about 100000 pounds of cacao a year,
worth over 100000 The part which
Europeans have thus far taken in the in
dustry has been wholly advisory and
commercial They share in the profits
because they buy and ship the raw
product"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
WELL KNOWN WRITER ON
RULES FOR A LONG LIFE

parts of his BRAIN In the insane these
other parts have become too weak longer
to regulate such impulses.
All diseases are but the various mani
festations of unbalance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Governor Magoon Of Panama is said
to be slated for the cabinet when Taft
resigns at the dictates Of his presi-
Dental bee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Harry Thaw is between the electric
chair and an insane asylum, and he
would be much happier If both were
removed out of sight and sound.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Alfred Belt, the South African 1nau-
cier, was treading, hen he died, in
the footsteps of John D., but he was
not on his heels by any means.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Secretary Taft is emphatically on
the firing line, and there he proposes
to stay until November, 1908. Good
bve. Mr.. Fairbanks. You are too frlgid
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

The Taft junket to the Philippines
was better than marriage bureau. 1t
was on that excursion that Bourke
Cochran met Miss Ide.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

The opinion of the water buffalo on
the Dewey drydock has not been pub
lished.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

New York has school roof gardens.
They are of course devoted to higher
education.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Dowie is willing away millions he
has not got, and that never belonged
to him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

The recording angel feels over
worked by the Thaw case in New York
and the Hartje case in Pittsburg.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

The Adlai e. Stevenson boom has
been taken off the shelf, and busted
and will no doubt be launched again
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Mrs. Leslie Carter wept when she
was married once more. She does not
seem to be able to get accustomed to
the experience.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Total e. -. -. -. 1926, $4,000 4,5lS,2 goo
Vast sums of money must be used
In order to move over four billion
bushels of grain, to say nothing about
fruits or the cotton crop. The crop
movement lasts in great volume until
November is well-nigh exhausted. If,
however, no great damage come to the
leading crops, it will be strange indeed
If prices do not go up towards the
holidays in Wall street. In general
business there was never perhaps
greater activity, and in the industries
there are few or no signs of weakness.
After all, the stock market trouble
seems to be due, not to anything in
the general situation, but to wait of
elasticity In the circulating medium.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Mr.. Bryan has been welcomed in
thirty lands New York on August
20 will be No. 81, and it will Guido EN-
all
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Harry Thaw's discharged lawyers
are now convinced that he is maniac
from the headwaters of the creek.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Walter Wellman Is on the spot of
departure. and he may yet conclude 20
sail away next month.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

There is more water in Alabama
than in Wall street, and that is saying
a good deal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Mr.. Taft is going to the Philippines
in the hope that absence will promote
his boom.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

The Mutual Life has been purged of
Rogers and Rockefeller, but not of
their tools and lieutenants.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Pittsburg divorce cases are, compar-
atively speaking, vindication of New
Works 400.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

The trusts are calsomining and
otherwise covering up their oppressive
work. This is their defensive period.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
SNAKE STUCK TO BOOT HEEL.

SHAME . YIN ~ OWL ElEGh-'
Allentown PENN Cor. Philadelphia
Record.
While John Kohler of Drylands, yes
terday was moving meadow with a
scythe he felt something slashing around
his legs, and found that a big copper
head snake had fastened its fangs in the
heel Of his boot with such force that it
could not release itself.
Kohler nearly tainted from the sight
for the copperhead, equally as venomous
as the rattlesnake, is much more dam
gerous as 1t never gives notice before
it strikes, and never strikes except from
the rear, and invariably aims for the
foot or the heel. Kohler finally cut It
in two with his seythe.
SO poisonous is copperhead that when
killed and hung across the limb of a
tree the leaves will wither and drop off
inside week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

It is hot in New York, and cool in
Jones valley, the country's true sum-
mer resort.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Convicted Convict Dix has laid aside
the paint brush and has gone on va
cation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Cabrera of Guatemala is as perverse
and pestiferous as Castro of Vene-
zuela.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

The blame for hojestvensky's sur
render should be put where it belongs
on Togo.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
Money and Business.

Railroad earnings in June were
larger by 1874 per cent than they were
in June of last year, and bank clear
ings were larger both in and out Of
New York city. Still the prices Of
securities are stagnant or sagging. The
trouble in the stock market relates no
doubt to the money supply. Money
will soon be in sharp demand for NOV
ing great crops, and when money Is
needed for crop-moving purposes 1t
must be forthcoming even If every
stock gambler goes to the wall from
lack of margins.
The crops are, it is plain to be heavy.
A recent Chicago expert has compiled
the following comparative table of the
grain crops:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Harry Thaw is keeping regular
house-the first time he has ever tried
~
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

The more warrants are issued at
home the more John d. likes Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Mrs. Longworth is known in France
as the Princess Alice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Col. A. M. Shook wants no modern
insurance tea in his'n.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

The Pittsburg Dispatch says the
solid south must break itself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

Yesterday at West End park was
Mud Horse day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

The Taft boom is showing great
speed in the first quarter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19

She will be Mrs Leslie Carter" on
the stage.
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No communication will be published
without its authors NAME Rejected man
uscript will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
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J. F. Kelley, W F. Jordan and w. d.
Lanier are the only authorized travelling
representatives of The Age-Herald in Its
circulation department.
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, post
office as second-elass matter under act
Of Congress March 8 1879.
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