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The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1906-04-12

Several railroad Senators seem
to have alighted into to Roosevelt
rate bandwgaon since our last is
sue. 1t looks like a case of the
senatorial rats leaving the sinking
railway ship.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1906-04-12

We have always thought that
Jasper was an anti-saloon town,
but last weeks election has set
tied the question beyond the
shadow of doubt.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1906-04-12

WANTED; 10 men 10 each state to
travel, post signs, advertise and leave
sample of our goods. Salary $500 per
month. $500 per day Tor expenses.
ROYAL SUPPLY co. Dept, W.
Atlas Block, Chicago, Ill. 16-3m
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1906-04-12
Subscription Rates.

This is the month of April
showers, spring flowers, cyclones
and spring poetry.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1906-04-12

Best grade Of sugar corn cans for II
GEMS cans for 20 cents. Boucher & Sor
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1906-04-12

z FOR SALE. Forty acres of lard
within " of mile of town. Will see
in 10, 20 30 acre tracts Or the whole
40. just the thing for poultry or small
fruit farm. Inquire at this Office.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1906-04-12
Missouri Pacific Time Table.
SOUTH BOUND.

SOUTH BOUND.
No 2O9-Joplin&S w Kans Mail S:05 am
No 2O7-K 9, & Joplin Mail. -. .3:35 pm
No 2O5-K @, & Joplin Exp. l:l5 am
No 293-Local Freight. ..... 1O:45 am
No 252-Red Ball Stock. ....... DAB am
NORTH BOUND.
No 2o6-K G & st Louis Exp. -. .2:6l am
No coast T. & X G Mail. $3.50. 10:45 am
No 2lO-St l., X G & Joplin Mail7:63 pm
No oo4-T,ocai Freight $3.50 pm
No 952-K q Stock :. 4:03 pm
All trains have through chair cars.
Close connection in union depots
Tickets sold and baggage checked
through to all principle points in the
country. A. ii. BAkEfS, Agent
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1906-04-12
Office Over Wolfe Hdw. Store
Phone 81
5(l()() TfIEdRAPHERs
OVVV NEEDED

Annually, to fill the new positions Gre
ated By, railroad and Telegraph Tom
panies. Ne want YOUNG MEN and
LADIES of good habits "a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21
Fever in Iberia Parish.

One case of yellow fever has been
located at New Iberia, town on a
bayou that empties into the sea. 1t Is
in the cane growing district, perhaps a
hundred miles from the sea, and 125
miles west of New Orleans It is
nearly abreast OF Baton Rouge, but it
is fifty miles from the Mississippi
river. The bayou on which it is To-
Gated empties, not into the river, but
into the gulf
The fever-stricken patient in New
Iberia is a mulatto boy IL years old.
How did he get to New Iberia loaded
with the germs of yellow fever? Did
he acquire them in New Iberia as
part of the seasons development in
that low-lying quarter, or did he wan
der in there from some infected port
in Mexico or Central America bearing
Ill HIS Syol6Il lllG S6GdS Vi bIlC AioS1oS.
The history of the case is still lack
ing, but it is to be traced. The sus-
picion arises that the mulatto boy is
not the only victim of the diease in
New iberia. President Iron of the
Louisiana state board of health is fully
awalxe tn tha situation and he does
not propose to let New Iberia prove a
focus of infection.
September is near at hand, and 1t is
scarcely possible that any serious
harm to the south will grow out of the
New Iberia case President Irion is
on the spot. He has taken personal
charge of the case, and no unnecessary
risks to the health of Louisiana will
be permitted to grow out of 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21
llninn Pacific's dividend.

The new rate law, says a railroad
lawyer. made possible the declaration
of a 10 per cent dividend on Union
Pacific stock and a per cent diyi-
dend on Southern Pacific common. Mr..
Hartman saw that when all rebates
and determinations are abolished by
command of the government no re-
serve is necessary, and all the earn
ings can be divided among the stock
holders. Between the railroads and
the government the rate bill certainly
can be enforced and fully applied, and
1t may we'll happen that the railroads
will become its stanchest supporters.
Mr.. Hartman has built up a rail-
road-so great that it will hereafter
earn for it's stockholders $19,602,790 a
year. Over one-third of this sum will
come from outside sources, and the re-
mainder will be the net earnings of the
Union Pacific lines proper.
The change to 10 per cent basis is
all the more remarkable because the
road was ten years ago in bankruptcy,
and when 1t was recognized much
water was worked into its stock. AS
late as 1904 its common stock stood at
$10S, 100000; 1t is now nearly $780,
100000, earning apparently 10 per cent
a year. Verify this is a great and pros
porous country! Mr.. Hartman has
sprung a great surprise on Wall street,
and some think he has started a boom
in stocks that may run to dangerous
proportions. This is, however, a mat
ter of the future, and it is always best
to postpone the counting of chickens
until they are Matched.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21
Rrandon,s wit.

I have recently heard a story about
General Brandon which aptly illustrates
his quick-wittedness while on the stump, .
remarked a politician yesterday
This Is the way the story was told to
me. Brandon was speaking In the interest
of his candidacy for the state authorship
to fair-sized crowd of farmers In a
country district, but had not been able
to arouse much enthusiasm and was con-
siderably puzzled at the humor of his au-
dience. The mystery was solved, however,
when burly rustic arose In his seat and
shouted at the speakers
Wall, we knows what you thinks err
bout that race for auditor. but what we
wants ter know is. is yer for B. B. Conner
fur gunner or is yer fur Dr. Cunning
ham@ The crowd burst forth in uncon-
trollable enthusiasm at this thrust of their
eompatriot, but the general was not wor-
ried bit. Waiting quietly until the out
burst subsidized he shook his finger at his
questioner and exclaimed with emphasis.
Ny friend have you ever heard either of
those men say whom they were for for
auditors? This brought down the house
again, and after that the general had
everything his own way"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21
FLIP BUG ROULETTE
Is Great Gambling Game, But Is Tough
On Insect.

Yuma (Ariz) Cor. New York Sun.
up over the evil effects of the flip bug
craze. Not since Bill Baker ran off to
Sonora with Bonesy Swans wife and
Bonesy's four children has Yuma had
such shakedown of its best social set.
1t Is all due to Mrs. Isaac Steppacher's
mother, Sonora Chiquita Salvadores y
Casabianca of Magdalene, state of Som
ora, Mexico, and the common flip bug of
the Mojave desert.
Sonora Casabianca is a Mexican of the
old Castilian lineage. The flip bug is a
species of beetle. Sonora Casabianca' s
chief characteristic is a love for rare
forms of gambling. The flip bugs only in
teresting feature is his peculiar ability
20 jump about two feet in the air when
prodded with a toothpick.
About two months ago Sonora Casabian-
ca came up from Magdalena to pay visit
to her daughter and her son-in-law, Ike
Steppacher, who is the ''well-known and
popular night clerk in the Golden Gate
hotel near the railroad station. About a
week after Sonora Casabianca arrived
Mrs Steppacher sent out cards to the
society folk inviting them to a little aft
ernoon affair On the bottom of the cards,
which were the best specimens of the
Weekly Scorpions fine engraving work.
were the words, Flip Bug In old Eng
fish tpye.
On the day of the reception the guests
came early. Mrs. Steppacher did not keep
them in suspense. After passing around
the trapped mescal she introduced the
ladies' to her mother and then led them
into the library. In the middle of the
room stood roulette layout without the
wheel. There we're chairs around for the
the bankers place.
The wondering guests were each asked
to buy in, blue chips costing four bits
and the reds and the whites in proportion.
Most of the women had come we'll heeled;
the others wrote l. o. US. Then they
sat down and Mrs. Steppacher's mother
produced flip bug.
The bug. which is a beetle about as
big as a three-months-old cockroach, is
very peculiar insect. When caught In the
fingers 1t VIII play possum and draw all
Of its six muscular legs up close to its
abdomen. When placed on fiat surface
the bug remains apparently dead until
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21
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NOTES FROM ABROAD.
> New York World.

From the New York World.
The bust of Socrates in the Capitoline
Museum at Rome looks like the late Hen
ry George.
| On continental railways and the Rhine
steamers there is no miscellaneous scram-
bling for meals. Instead steward goes
through the train or boat and lists the
people who want to eat Each gets \
number. and this insures seat without
crowding or delay. 1t is an idea that
might be adopted on this side of the sea.
In a thousand miles of Europe this OBJ
server saw but one rubbish heap-some old
metal cans at Carlsruhe. Everywhere else
was complete absence of all waste or
! carelessness and. above all. of deface-
ment and roadside uncleanliness. The foul
vacant lots and dirty dumps that abound
in and about American towns are not To
be found anywhere.
| The soldiers in South Germany are not
so impressive as those of the north. But
one thing is apparent: despite the drain
of money and the loss from withdrawing
so many men from industry. the enforced
military service has a valuable side. 1t
takes the op-shouldered, hollow-c chest
ed, fiat-faced, stupid-looking peasant from
the fields and kicks him until he looks
| like a man. He ceases to be a dumb dull
brother of the and knows what the
world is like. In word, 1t is university
training, this barrack grind of Germany.
| The Herr Lentenants In Darmstadt,
where our revolutionary Hessians came
| from. are nice young fellows. For strut
and insolence one must go to Prussia.
| When the steamers reach Naples they
are surrounded by boatloads of beggars-
plain beggars, singing beggars, diving
beggars-and flower-sellers. The bou-
quets are fixed to the end of a long rod
and pushed up to the customer on ship
board Then the vender essays to catch
the price in a net. The agony of one who
missed a quarter was pitiable TO behold.
| In vain he howled demands for the return
| of his flowers. The purchaser was man
| from Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21

matter to borrow money for use in farm
ing. manufacturing and merchandising.
the organization Of banks IN large and
the banking resources to sueh an extent
as to really transform the whole none
tary character of the community.
g. Farming had changed from a credit
business to a cash business with a sur
plus of cash deposited by the farmer In
the banks. Instead of his formerly pur-
chasing supplies on time from the mer-
chant at price from 20 to 100 per cent
higher, he now bought for cash and the
merchants competed actively for his
trade.
a. The Insurance exposures of the last
year or more have resulted IN the or
ganizatlon of a large number of local in
surance companies which were doing a
very active business on the general prln-
ciple Of encouraging home enterprises at
the expense of foreign companies whose
headquarters were outside of the state"
This list of changes In the south is
not a bit oyerdrawn. Possibly In some
counties all four of the changes are not
prominently conspicuous, but 1t may
fairly be said that the south as a
whole has been revolutionized in all
four particulars named 1t is indeed
a marvellous revolution, and it Is large
ly the work of the last ten years. In
very truth we have here at present
New South that will soon be equipped
to stand in its own shoes and to handle
all its enterprises even to the building
of It's own railroads.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21
NATHAN MILLER.
Birmingham Ledger.

From the Birmingham Ledger
The selection of a state senator is a
serious matter because a senator has a
| positive veto power over all legislation.
A member of the legislature Is but one of
seven-the senator is different. He has
almost absolute power over legislation by
negation. He can prevent the passage Of
any bill and has great power in passing
bills, as the senate IS a smaller body.
The broad and impartial card OF Mr..
Miller's platform is statesmanlike and at
traotive. Mr.. Miller is a self-made man.
| has grown up here in our midst and has
made a success of his life. Not one charge
or insinuation was ever made against him
until he became candidate for the SEN
ate. Then only untrue and unfounded
charges were made. Not one man in the
county believes any of the nonsense urged
against Mr.. Miller. He has no entangling
alliances-never did have. He has been
lawyer for eight or ten years and his prae-
tice has been general, confined to no class
or kind. He has been successful and wide
ly known and popular. He has had to
study the interests of the county, and he
knows them knows them as one of us In
every sense. because he Is interested in
the growth and prosperity of the county.
We want a senator bound to no inter-
ests or faction, but man like Mr. Miller,
a broad-minded, careful citizen, intent
on building his own fortunes by the gen.
eral Improvement In the condition of all
men. A careful, yet most active and en-
terprising man. Jefferson has so many In
terests that the senator should be a man
to whom all interests could go. when leg
islation is wanted. Such a man is Nathan
L. Miller. The Ledger feels that it can
commend him to its readers as man who
will make a strong useful and watchful
senator.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21

From the New York Sun.
IT HIS summer that is quickly pass
Wy ing away has been pretty com
Portable on the whole for those
who have stayed in the city. There have
been hot spells, to be sure, that have
tried mems patience and led to intem-
perate language. but the thermometer has
kept we'll within bounds and there have
been plenty of places in town and In the
near neighborhood where the heat could
be tempered.
The coolest element has been the dress
of the women Whatever color fashion
may have decreed, the women disregard
ed it and have stuck to white. White from
their pretty necks, which most of them
disencs-.bered of the hideous stocks, to
the tips of their toes. White dresses, white
skirts, white gloves when they wore
them, white shoes and white stockings
as the frequent rain showers indiscreetly
revealed. Not starched, stiff garments,
but soft, fluffy, clinging textures, cool,
clean and restful to the eye. The gen
eral abandonment Of headgear did away
with the possible intrusion of discordant
color
White has ruled universally and has
shown itself to be even more democratic
than mans dress suit. The girls and
children from the tenements have been
as attractive and elegant In it as their
richer sisters, and it would need close
inspection to detect the difference in the
quality of the materials. White is as be-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21
Piu Iron Market.

I'm the matter of sales of pig iron the
past week was classed as record high in
the east, west and south. Consumption
of iron and steel throughout North Amer
lea is on larger scale than ever before
says the New York Sun.
Among the hundreds of plants which
began midsummer work with facilities
increased over the corresponding time of
year ago, there is more than enough
business to Keep all works going at full
blast. The belief Is held by most of the
important pig iron producers and con-
sumers that under present conditions con-
sumption is running even with production.
The total visible supply of foundry iron
Is, in the main, a record of a few tons
of off" iron. The week ended as it
began with heavy sales of pig Iron for
the first and second quarters of 1907.
Most of the larger consumers are out of
this years iron market, having closed
for as much iron as can be had upsto the
last of December"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21
CANAL PLANS. DISCUSSED

In the washing out Of such a vast chas!n
at the side of the locks, how many years
would It take to rebuild the structure,
much of whose natural foundations had
been torn away7 OF course. any kind Of a
lock is liable to be wrecked In the same
way; but the peril is particularly great
where a series of locks is arranged in
flight. In a single lock the fail of water
Is limited. and. the loss of water is due
merely to the stretch of level between
taat lock and the one above It; in the
Panama canal the fall would be enormous
and the whole summit level would be
drained dry.
That the earnest protest of Mr.. Hunter,
chief engineer of the Manchester canal and
a member of the advisory board. against
the Gatun flight of locks was based upon
we'll considered reasons, will be UNDER
stood when we state that druing the few
years that the Manchester ship canal
has been in operation, lock gates have
been carried away - csi1iding vessels on
no less than four occasions; and, mark
you, these vessels were ships of very
moderate tonnage, and not the great
ocean freighters of from 10000 to 10000
tons displacement, which in the future
years will be passing through the Panama
canal. The latest carrying away OF locks
on the Manchester canal occurred as re-
Gently as June 81 of this year. It seems
that the steamer Cassia, carrying a car
go of 1883 tons of sulphur ore through
some error, made for another lock than
tha one Of two adjoining locks which was
prepared to receive her. She collided with
the lock gates, and although she had
very little way on her carried away the
gates, with the result that the reach of
canal above was drained of its water. and
the whole traffic of the canal stopped un-
til new gates could be put in.
The risk of collision is due to the ever
present danger of misunderstanding of
signals from the bridge to the engine
room, a striking illustration of which was
the recent collision of the Deutchsland
with a pier at Dover. This is a menace
which will be present on every ship that
uses the canal; and although the minority
plan calls for the construction of safety
or fender gates so feet from the main
gates, it is easily conceivable that a 10000
or 40,000-ton ship would crash through both
gates before her momentum even at slow
speed was expended. In view of the ac-
eidents in the Manchester ship canal we
think that every alternative plan which
would enable the locks TO he separated
and placed as far as possible in single
steps would receive most careful study
before the final plans of the canal are
definitely determined upon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21
Mr.. Bryan's KEYNOTE.

Mr.. Bryans forthcoming speech at
his New York reception is widely dis
counted as the opening Of the CAM
paign of 1908. He stands today the
acknowledged head of the democratic
party. Even those who have opposed
him heretofore now accept him, and no
one seriously disputes his leadership.
He will indeed have an opportunity to
sound the democratic keynote when
he makes his first speech after his re-
turn home from a tour around the
world.
The republicans will attempt to re-
tain power by pointing to President
Roosevelts acts and to the record Of
Congress. The democrats have been
the Presidents warmest supporters.
They voted for all reform measures.
They made possible the passage of the
rate bill, the meat inspection bill, and
the pure food bill.
But neither Congress nor the Presi-
dent has assailed the Dingley tariff,
which is by far the greatest single Gre
ator of private monopoly in this coun-
try. This should be the chief issue in
1908. and the hope is that Mr.. Bryan
will sound in New York the keynote
of tariff reform-that he will demand
that the government shall cease to be
the creator and promoter of private
monopolies. So long as we retain the
Dingley tariff it is useless to cry
down with private monopoly" for 1t
will not down so long as 1t can find
shelter behind our Chinese tariff wall.
The republican party is divided on
this issue. There are standpatters,
chiefly connected in some manner with
the beneficiaries of Dingleyism, and
there are revisionists in the republi-
can party. Let us have an aggressive
campaign Oh ldllll ISlOl III iAhSo, III"
Mr.. Bryan is the man who can to best
advantage sound keynote of that ma
ture. He may do it. for he has de-
clared that the first duty of all patri-
otto men is to put down private mo-
nopoly. and the tariff breeds that evil
far beyond any other law on the ma
tional statute books.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21
Valparaiso mad quakes by the score
"DocToRED" BAsEBALLs.
SILK o'LoushIin Says Rochester Man
Makes Them.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
well, well" remarked Silk O'Lough-
lin, as he read the stories about the
row in the Southern league because
Atlanta charges New Orleans with
ringing in "phony" ball in a recent
game.
THAT is like old times the umpire
said, "and reminds me Of the seasons
| spent as the arbitrator in minor
leagues. Among the minors some years
ago 1t was not such an uncommon
thing as you might suppose to try to
put over a ball that had too much rub
Der in it, and the umps had to be on
the lookout for that little game all the
time. We not only looked out for 1t,
but occasionally were pretty sure that
we had caught them with the goods
and made them keep pitching out new
balls until we got one that bounced
right. | rejected twenty balls in sue
| cession in one game | umpired, and
they finally got good and gave me what
the rules called for.
cit is not generally known that the
making of Illegal balls, which even the
jolkiest of joke hitters can bang into
the middle of next week and when they
hit the ground bounce over the
Chinese wall, is a regular and thriv-
ing business.
1.-THE enterprising individual who has
the largest and bounciest stock Is an
old stager at 1t whose headquarters
are in Rochester. Give him the quiet
! tip that you want an assortment or
along in advance, and he'll send you
back bunch that tiny tot can knock
so far that Larry Lajoie's longest
drives would look like beanbag toss.
This enthusiastic supporter of the
win at any price theory also makes
legitimate baseballs, so unless you
know him and give him the sign to
show that you belong to the same
/ lOuS6 VI DdoCDdii CioohO hV II ouip
you the usual line of goods, which
necessitates heap of hard work to
keep your average up around 300.
Nowadays, in the big leagues they
don't work the old lively ball gag
often, If at all, but the various man
ayers know all about 1t, and when
they see a ball travelling far, far afeld
after being slapped by some pitcher
who hasn't put one out of the dia-
mond for a couple of months they be-
gin to do heap of thinking and sug-
gest that the umpire take peep and
bounce it a few times as a test. II
it goes too high 1t goes out of the
game.
keeping an eye on the ball Is one
of the big duties of the umpire. He
doesn't have to look out for phonies
SO much as he does for those with
loose covers or that have been cut,
accidentally or by design, and he Or
ders them out as soon as detected"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-21
Southern Pacific.

IF e. II. Hartman" said New York
trader. has made all the money he is
said to have made on the rise in South
ern Pacific he should distribute ss,0O0.oO0
or s4,0o0,0OO at least among the members
of the roads accounting department. The
services of a staff which can so success
fully conceal the earning capacity of a
road In one year and not only reveal 1t
but dazzle with it a year later are in
valuable to a stock operating president of
the first magnitude"