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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
Better Than Grandfather's.

From the Chicago Tribune.
what remarkable old clock!'' ex-
claimed the caller.
Yes" said Mrs. Long-Bowe. I'VE
think a good deal of that timepiece 1t
has been in the family fifty years Some
times we forget to wind 1t Monday morn
ing, but 1t doesn't make any difference
Il goes right along for another week, just
frcm force of habit"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
The Indicator.
From Puck

From Puck.
They had reached that stage of the en-
gagement when there is usually more or
less speculation as to the future on the
part of the brdetO-be.
at doesn't seem. Tom, dear. that We
could ever speak cross word to each
other, does It, dearest?" she murmured
from his coat lapel.
Never. sweet heart" declared Tom
stoutly
But, dear, she persisted. 'if-mind
say tiff some morning the steak should
be burned and the coffee cold, and you
were tempted to be just bit-just Il
teeney wee bit cross, what would you
do?'
she looked up into his face anxiously,
and he felt that his reply must be one
that would fully reassure her. After a
moments thought he exclaimed triumph
antly; I'D go downtown and get my
IhyeakNast."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
The Untold Jest.

From the Boston Transcript.
Il say. D'Orsay, have you ever heard
that joke about the guide in Rome who
showed some travellers two skulls of
st. Paul. one as a boy and the other
as a man.
CAV. deah boY-no-aM let me heah it.,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
A Rare Complaint.

FrOIH TUCK.
isn't it strange" asks the first man,
that so many men, after years of ruth
less commercial practices, piracies. one
might almost say, after they have
climbed to the very pinnacle of success.
should have softening of the brain?"
1T would be stranger yet Infinitely
stranger replies the man with the cor
rugated brow, If any of them ever had
softening of the heart"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
COSTS MONEY TO BLOW
BIG ST. LOUIS. WHISTLE

r. Asst ST. LOUIS now has the biggest
r steam whistle in the world. 1t Is
- a remarkable triple machine with
three voices-a three-chime whistler,
whose capacity for the humiliation of
peace Is extraordinary. This whistle
blows a ten-mile blast at half steam,
and with favorable wind has disturb
ing power of twenty miles. 1t costs 81
every time 1t is blown, says the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
But this great whistle is not all noise.
1t is an idea in economy, a whistle trust
a noise combine. Almost all the little
noises, yelps, toots and whines of smaller
mechanical threats in East St Louis are
now dumb. The giant whistle trust Wills
ties for them. The independent whistles
have to whistle off time to be heard.
Within the range of this whistle are
said to be 100000 people who tell the tine
by 1t.
This remarkable whistle has been ir-
stalled by the East st. Louis and Sub
urban Electric Railway company, at the
Belt power house, State and Twentieth
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
A Suggestion.

Mother-Yes, children, Sanity comes
down the chimney quietly that you
never hear him.
Tommy-Why doesn't pa try coming
home late that way?
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
HOLLANDALE AND VICINITY

F.om the Review,
Grip is very prevalent at present,
Holland & Compton shipped carload
OF horses, nineteen head, from this
station Saturday
John Mediation and wife are rejoicing
OYER the arrival Of baby girl, born
Tuesday, the 23rd.
Mrs. W. A. Skinner has been under
tie doctor care part of the past week,
but at present writing is able to be
about again
VIII Doran left Wednesday for The
Northwest to look after some property
interests.
If you have beeupaying the subscrip-
ton of friend kindly notifyus whether
YOU expect to renew it,
The Houaudaie Band Wii, give con-
crt In the Muodmau Hail. Naldwitk,
Saturday night, Feb. 3.
1t is versatile man who knows all
alouteyeything religion, politics, law,
music, medicine, agriculture, and SIGH"
and can give everybody pointers as TO
the proper way in which he or she should
conduct business.
All the varieties OF weather common
{ this latitude have prevailed during
the past week Saturday It was warm
enough to cause flood that put the
river out IF it's banks Monday more
snow came As we 80 ~ pres. the day
!, bright and beautiful.
Ihe celebrated EeEaHa Ia Cigar
has never lniied Go satisfy tho most
Z fa-ttdIuue ,mukgI.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
Tho John Ross Nine

In this city, now being stocked, prom
Uses to be one of the best paying mines
in this locality.
Some of the best and most expert
enced miners in this city have inspected
this mine and the verdict Of them all is
that it will be big dividend payer
We would like to have any parties
who are thinking of buying stock look
the mine over for themselves and be
convinced.
Parties wishing any information call
on or address
w. H. TOAY,
GEO. S. HUXTABLE,
Mineral Point. Wis.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01

Twenty-Five head of Cattle consist
ing of Is mich cows, 3 heifers and one
stock bull. | will also sell Six Horses,
as follows Span of geldings coming
three years Old 3 brood mares, and one
colt coming one year old.
Sale to commence at ! O'Clock sharp.
Terms: One years time on bankable
paper bearing per cent interest.
WILLIAM HEWITT.
Col. +. +. Davisson, Auctioneer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
Mining Machinery.

Automatic Dumping and Tram
ming Machine, dumps and trans to
either side of straight or inclined
shaft Friction HOSTS, Tram Cars
with side end or bottom dump.
Pumps aud Pumping Jacks, single or
double. All work guaranteed. Adj
dress or call on n. 9. MILLER,
soft Dodgeville, Wis.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
LOW RATES WEST AND NORTHWEST
Daily February Is to April Z.

Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul Rail
way will make greatly reduced rates to
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland,
Tacoma, Seattle and many other points
West and Northwest. Half rates for
children of half-fare age. Liberal stop
overs allowed on all tickets, Tickets
are good in Tourists sleepers. For
further information regarding rates,
routes and train service see nearest
ticket agent or write f. A. Miller, Gen
eral Passenger Agent, Chicago. 4w3
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
MINERHL POINT TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY /, 1906.
LINDEN
from the Southwest.

from the Southwest
Nomination papers for Judge Glenn
entson to succeed himself are out.
There is likely to be considerable
blilding in Linden this coming summer.
Miss Jacobs and Miss Parmley, first
and second assistants, respectively of
the Linden High School, spent last Sat
friday and Sunday at their homes in
Mineral Point
Mr.. S. S. Heathcock and Geo. Cook
have ordered new drill machine for
surface drilling.
Monday morning "A dispatch came to
Mrs. G.. Hicks that her mother Mrs.
Wicks, wife of Capt. John Wicks, of Iron
Mountain, Michigan was dead. 1t was
sad and unexpected news, although Mrs.
Wicks was in the neighborhood of So
J ears Of age
Agent Lathrop, formerly of Edmund
has been promoted to agency at Fenni-
more of c. & N. w. r. r. Mr.. Lath-
rop is very capable railroad agent,
and, indeed in general way is very
capable man in an intellectual way. AT
present Mr.. Sengpiel formerly of
Highland as boy, is holding down the
place at Edmund.
Mr.. Silverthorn has sold his stock of
goods to Mr., NJ BriXman late Of Bee
town. The stock was Jumped off,
Silverthorn sold because his health is
Affected by confinement.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
Serious Diseases,

Physicians who have gained a national
reputation as analysists of cause of var
icus diseases claim that if catching cold
could be avoided long list of dangerous
ailments would never be heard Of Every
oueknows that pneumonia and consump-
ton originate from cold, and chronic
catarrh, bronchitis, and all the throat
and lung trouble are aggravated ard
rendered more serious by each fresh
attack Do not risk your life or take
chances when you have a cold, Cham
berlain' Cough Remedy win cure it be-
fore these diseases develop. This rem
edy contains no opium, morphine or other
harmful drug and has thirty years of
reputation back of it, gained 10y its cures
under every condition, For sale at
Iyey's Pharmacy
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
Fer,s BY }. D. Reynolds Real Estate
Agency.

A neat new cottage north Of City
Park. Home contains - rooms, clos
els. and PANTRY. A good barn on
p: emssas,a wall, and "a good sized
lot. AS owner Intends to go on farm
will sell rig t, For price and terms
cali %, J. y. Reynolds.
Also Other desira bic city and farm
property for sale.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01

Thursday, Feb. 8, 1906,
the following property:
Five Horses Span Of matched driv-
ers, and years old, driver years
old, mare 3 years old, brood mare.
Twenty-Five Cattle 10 milk cows,
some fresh, balance to calve early from
a Short Horn bull. These are a selec-
ted lot of mixers in good condition. 2
three-year-old heifers, Z yearlings, %
steers and 2 heifers) 5 calves, and a
yearling Short Horn bull.
Farm Machinery Mccormick grain
binder Mccormick corn binder, Clean
Sweep hay loader, disc, 2 riding corn
plows, breaking plow, 6-roll corn shred
der feed grinder, horse cultiyator, farm
wagon, truck wagon, milk wagon, sin
gle top buggy, road wagon, cater, 2
sets work harness, single buggy har-
ness, 20-gallon kettle, stack of straw
and several other things.
Terms of Sale Sums under SO cash;
that amount or over, one years time on
bankable paper bearing per cent.
CHAS. DUNN.
f. f. DAWSON Auctioneer
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
DUNN'S SALE.

Having rented my farm, | will sell at
auction on the place, 9 miles east of
Mineral Point, on
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
William Hewiff's .Safe.

Having decided to quit the dairy bus
mess, | will sell at auction, on my
premises, three miles east of Mineral
Point m
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
Advertised Letters.

Below is a list of letters remaining
uncalled for at the Mineral Point
post-otilce:
John Kelly.
Those calling for the above please
say advertised" and give the date
Jan 30, 1906, n. Il. MARTIN. 7. NJ.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
WATERS SHORT-HORN SALE.

f. f.. Davisson, Auctioneer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-02-01
A public sale of Short Horns from
he Badgerdale herd will be held on
Friday, Feb. 8, 1906.

FTuay, Fep. y, I9Uo.
There viii be 40 head catalogued, IA
young bulls and 26 females; practically
Scotch offering, and show stuff in the
lot. The sale will be held under cover
at the farm, miles east of Mineral
Point, commencing at one O'Clock.
Lunch at noon. Catalogs now ready.
JAMES WATERS & SONS.
Coils. Carey M. Jones, +. +. Davis
son, JAS, A. Tormey, Auctioneers.
Phil Allen. Clerk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-13
Cotton Conditions.

The crop of the last cotton year in Alabama is put by Secretary Hester at 1,389,00O bales, and President Seymour of the Alabama division of the South ern Cotton assoclation thinks the state crop of this cotton year will not ex- ceed million bales. Commissioner of Agriculture Poole accepts the Sey- mour estimate. This if true would give Alabama the poorest cotton crop she has known in the past century.
 Is the Seymour-Poole estimate cor rect? The report of the agricultural department showing the condition of cotton on August 25 does not support MT. Seymour's estimate, for the con dition of the Alabama crop is put by the department at 76, as against 70 one year before. The condition is re- ported by the government as three points higher than Alabama's ten-year average. The condition of the crop in Alabama Is very nearly as good as the condition of the entire crop. If the condition reported by the department of agriculture be approximately correct Alabama will make more than 1889 000 bales this year-how much more must be left to wind and weather to deter mine.
 In the entire cotton belt the condi- tion of the crop is put at 773, as against 72.1 one year ago, and the ten year average of 732 Last years crop of 11,346,000 bales was grown on a con dition of 72.1 on August 25, and the experts therefore say the present crop on a condition of 77.3 up to August 25 will exceed twelve million bales. So it may. But it is really idle to esti mate crop that a half dozen rains may materially injure. The cotton crop is one that is never secure against harm until the bales are rolled out of a ginnery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-13
Above the TumuIt.

T have often read of the effect of bal loon ascensions, but any person can feel the same effect from the roof of the Brown-M Marx building said a man who just came down.
 T merely went into the building to see the offices friend has rented and being on the eighth floor l proceeded to walk up to the top. Before l got there I lost all count of what floor I was on. but l knew I could not. like Tennyson's book, go on forever. so up l went, higher and higher. until the stairs took a sharp trun into small room, from which a ladder led to the roof.
 "The day was not favorable for sight seeing. owing to the dark, heavy clouds which hung over the greater part of the city, but immediately around all was bright and clear enough.
 "The most noticeable thing I experience ed was the silence. Looking down l could see ears running over the crossings horses and wagons speeding along the street; men gesteulating as they talked i; but not a discordant sound reached me. I heard the bells from the locomotives, but they seemed to be miles away. If I had occasion to rent an office In that building l would take No. 1500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-13
Export Rates on Cotton.

Steamship rates on cotton may be changed a dozen times day, and every change made by them affects the export rates from interior points to foreign ports. One section of the new rate law provides that a rate cannot be changed without giving thirty days notice, but another section of the law authorizes the commission to waive the thirty days notice in their discre- tion.
 The cotton-carrying roads in the south have raised the problem of ex- port rates, and It may be the first large question solved under the new bill.
 The problem is not free from diff culties, and the most trying one is pre- scented thus: Does it make any differ ence to domestic dealers in commodi- ties whether lower rates are made on commodities from the interior to the seaboard, where such commodities are intended for export. than are made upon like commodities shipped from the interior to such seaboard points for domestic consumption? A mere statement of this difficulty shows how complicated the entire problem is. Tramp steamers are ready to snap up cargoes at cut rates, and while this is the case export rates at interior points become uncertain and changeful.
 There seems to be but one solution, and that consists in permitting the ootton-carrying railroads to make ex- port rates without the usual thirty days notice. An early decision by the interstate commission of this problem is expected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-13
MUST LAGNIAPPE Go?
One of the Cherished Institutions of
 New Orleans Threatened.
From Collier,s Weekly.

From Golfers Weekly.
 Lagniappe is doomed. Anti-graft senu- ment, triumphantly marching, has reach- ed the home of this quaint and curious custom, and New Orleans Is to know it no more. The small grocers. butchers, and vendors of life's everyday necessities. who were the dispensers and local god lings of the cult. have decreed it's end. By it's unwyitten law the old nanny" marketing for the household of her em- ployer, got her commission, not, indeed, on any crass and glarng system of per eentage but from hand to hand, a modest, and friendly appreciation of the value of her patronage. Lagniappe is thirteenth of the bakers dozen, the delicate sweet ener to the plain fare of daily trade-a handful of rice, or a pinch of tea, or, perhaps. soupcon of gum drops for Aunt Chloes sweet tooth. The word it. self has a savor in the mouth. There is the suggested smack of the lips in 1t. It bears the charm of mystery, too, in it's obscure origin. French enough it sounds, yet it is not of that language. Probably 1t takes it's rise from that strange French -Engllsh-Afric patois which the clans of the levee speak among them selves, and which no Frenchman or Amer ican fully masters. Now the local trades men harshly translates the esoteric word graft" It eats up his profits, says he. And so passes one more ancient and gen tie custom into the limbo of outworn systems.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-13
Mr. BrYan,s Visit.

Birmingham will have to do without MT. Bryan's presence in the Home Coming Week, for he is a very busy man, and he cannot return to Alabama In October, after speaking here on September 21. He is needed in every contested congressional district. and his September tour through the south will be all the time he can give to the uncontested states before election day in November.
 MT. Bryan was not Alabama-born, although he holds Alabama principles, and has to some extent the Alabama spirit. We should summon as speak CTS in the Homecoming Week Ala bama-born men like Senator Culberson of Texas, or Malcom R. Patterson, who is to be Tennessee's next gov ernor. There are plenty of them and they will come when the old state calls. The old horn should be blown, and then they will come. They could not stay away no matter what held them back
 Let us give Mir. Bryan a warm well come on September 21, and then let us get ready for a great Home Coming Week of greetings and renewals of old ties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-13
Love and Crime.

We have it on no less an authority than Chief Watts of the Boston police that being in love is worse than being in debt,' said a young man yesterday, and I fully agree with the learned conserva- tor of the peace. When you are in debt you can let the other fellow worry and walk the floor, but when you are in love it's up to you.
 This wise policeman says he never heard of any one stealing to pay his debts, and as for murders and suicides, he recalls few instances in which a per son was driven to either by debt.
 'On the other hand, the chief says, it's innocent girls that cause crime. He doesn't blame the girls, as he intmates. that they cant help being loved, but sticks to the fact that love affairs are the 9ause of most of the crimes with which the police are called upon to deal
 Tt was Emerson. I believe, who wrote: !" Wilt thou seal up the avenues of i'll? " Pay every debt as if God wrote the
 bill!
 Thus it will be seen that these two Bostonians differ"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-13
LAZY PEOPLE FEEL HEAT.

From the Pittsburg Times.
 According to Prof Morrison, of the University of Chicago. summer is not the logical season for taking vacations. As shown by the action of certain anil mals in hibernating winter is the natural time for resting and recuperating from ones labors. "The summer heat Is most enervating to the idlers, the loafers, those who have nothing to keep their minds and bodies busy. As proof of this, do we not all feel the heat more acutely on Sunday than on any other day? A 75-degree temperature on Sunday causes more suffering than one of 50 degrees or Monday. The man or woman who keeps busy on hot day would never notice the heat, nine times out of ten, were is not for the remarks of others who have nothing to do but think and talk about the weather
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-13
Wrong Ideas.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people obtain their knowledge of persons and places from what they see on the stage" said a playgoer, "and although we don t expect to hear sermons or witness religious ceremonies. still the theatre could give some good lessons in morals and man. ners
 Shakespeare said the players held the mirror up to nature. but that presupposed that the players had a play which truly portrayed nature. The pon-player 'frets and struts through his part; he merely caters to the appetites of his audience If it doesn't want nature, but rather the unnatural, he's hardly to blame, but it IS a sad departure from the grand purpose of playing. which really is portraying.
 ''I am led to make these remarks through having witnessed in a play Q week or two ago a scene that was meant to represent court of law. The express
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-13
The Drinking Habit.

"The San Francisco newspapers tell us that the earthquake came pretty nearly putting the saloons of that town out Of night as he ordered another Scotch high ball, "but my experience in San Fran cisco makes me doubt the assertion.
 ''The newspapers say that for three months after the earthquake the saloons were closed, and when they were opened thousands of men who had been in the habit of dropping into those places sev- eral times a day, to see what time 1t was, and came out wiping their mouths, no longer patronized the man with the bland smile and the white apron.
 This may be true in some towns, but know Frisco. I'll admit that drinking Is largely matter of habit, and not of appetite. l have been drinking more or less, often more, for many years, yet 1 don't like the taste of whisky. It's large ly the sociability attending the drinking habit that leads men into it and keeps them at it.
 Man is a gregarious animal and doesnt like to flock by himself. Even if he be married, he doesn't want to stay at home all the time, and his wife would get tired of him if he did. So, if he can't afford to belong to a club, what is he going to do? He cant go to a public library and have any privileges; he can't smoke and he can't talk. If he stands on the street corner some policeman will der him to move on,' and if he doesn't keep walking he is likely to get ride in the patrol wagon. So what does he do? He drops into saloon.
 If the public libraries would maintain smoking rooms, where men could congre- gate, as they do In the Hobbies of hotels, fewer of them would have any desire to frequent the saloons.
 But if the earthquake stopped the prevalent habit of drinking in Frisco, it was a bigger stir-up than l thought it was An earthquake couldn't do the trick in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-13
HONEST POVERTY.

By Robert Burns. Is there, for honest poverty,
 That hangs his head, an a thatf The coward slave, we pass him by; We dare be poor for a that, For a that, an a that;
 Our toirs obscure, an a that; The rank is but the gunea's stamp The mans the gowd for a that! What tho on namely fare we dine, Wear hodden-gray, an a that; Gie fools their silks. and knaves their
 wine
 A mans a man for a that. For a that. an a that,
 Their tinsel show, an that; M The honest man. tho ger sac poor; Is king O men for a that. Ye see you birkie cad a lord.
 Wha struts. an stares, an a that Tho hundreds worship at his word, He's but coof for a that; For a that, an a that
 His riband star, an a that; The man O independent mind.
 He looks an laughs at a that A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke. an a that: But an honest mans aboon his might Guid faith. he mauna ia that! For a that, an a that.
 Their dignities an a that, The pith O sense, an pride O worth, Are higher rank than a that Then let us pray that come It may, As come it will for a that, That sense an worth, OCT a the earth. Shall bear the gree. an a that, For a that. an a that,
 It's comin' yet. for a that, That man to man. the warld OCT, Shall brothers be for a. that.