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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Three of the Ute chiefs are to go to Washington to present their starvation troubles to the Great Father.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner is ready to state that untitled husbands are no better than the other kind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Elihu Root will of course claim to himself that he did it with his tongue at pentup Utica.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Cuba will do a little business in the limeight now that home politics has ceased to modest and obscure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

John L. Sullivans visit to Birming- ham will not be brilliant socially, but will nevertheless awaken interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

It Is to be hoped that Jefferson county will now have peace and settle down to business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

The canal could not be brought to the President, so he is to go to the canal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

The negro troops-regulars- not like the idea of being scalped by the Utes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
PRESS POINTS

Atlanta Journal: MT. Bryan probably wonders how man who talks as littls as Secretary Cortelyou can go so far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

dents daughter was ever by his side, true blue and brick-begging her pardon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Jackson Clarion-Ledger: It is only nat ural that 2 Milwaukee scientist should declare beer as good as milk and better than water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Instead of paving the streets in Ven ice, the city authorities dredge them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Houston Post: whalebone has gone up to $15,0O0 q ton. The whalebone trust seems determined to squeeze the girls tighter than ever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Mr. Moran says he will continue to run for governor until he is elected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
SAWDUST.

Where does the wind go? Where ali the political speeches go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

The football teams fear the Carlisle Injuns more than they do the Utes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Louisville courier-Journal: Just because Casey, Ill., girded up it's loins and took a fall out of the colored brother, the northern press has branded it a South ern town
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Dallas News: One thing is evident the Panama Canal must be yanked out of politics. or 1t is going to cost the Republican party the presidency and ten thousand postoffces besides. Hence it is to be duly yanked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

It is a great pity that Boni can't be given a coat of tar and feathers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, post office as second class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Honesty will triumph" says an ex. change, but fails to say when.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Secretary Metcalfe is going to school with the little Japs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

There are no innocent by-standers in the Ute war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Colonel Higdon carried Toadvine, but he lost out in Jugtown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Richard Croker will now lapse into his British obscurity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

The fail crop of books is one of the greatest ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

The Utes rebelled where the navy could not go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

William Randolph Hearst again has that snowed-under feeling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

W D. Lanier and A. J. Eaton, Jr., are the only authorized travelling repre- sentatives of The Age-Herald in it's circulation department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

me 1allurG or Peary 10 feach the north pole bodes no success for less experienced explorers, unless they try the airship route.
  John L. Sullivans visit to Birming ham will not be brilliant socially, but will nevertheless awaken interest.
  Cuba will do a little business in the limelight, now that home politics has ceased to molest and obscure.
  Three of the Ute chiefs are to go to Washington to present their starvation troubles to the Great Father.
  Pennsylvania is rotten and content. She is tied to Penrose, and she de- serves to be plucked.
  Mrs Yerkes-Mizner is ready to state that untitled husbands are no better than the other kind.
  There is no wild demand in Montana or elsewhere that W. A. Clark should keep on senatoring.
 --.s'----- Indiana should look to her literary laurels when Atlanta gets it's five mag azines we'll started. It Is to be hoped that Jefferson county will now have peace and settle down to business. Elihu Root will of course claim to himself that he did it with his tongue at pent-up Utica.
  The canal could not be brought to the President, so he is to go to the canal
 The negro trOops-regulars--d not like the idea of being scalped by the Utes.
  Instead of paving the streets in Ven ice, the city authorities dredge them. MT. Moran says he will continue to run for governor until he is elected.
  The football teams fear the Carlisle Injuns more than they do the Utes.
  It is a great pity that Boni can't be given a coat of tar and feathers.
  Honesty will triumph" says an ex. change, but fails to say when.
  Colonel Higdon carried Toadvine, but he lost out in Jugtown.
  William Randolph Hearst again has that snowedunder feeling.
  Richard Crolxer will now lapse into his British obscurity.
  Secretary Metcalfe is going to school with the little Japs.
  There are no innocent by-standerS in the Ute war.
  The fail crop of books is one of the greatest ever.
  The Utes rebelled where the navy could not go.
  DeodOrized auto cars are due.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
Whiskers won in New York.

Deodorized auto cars are due.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07
QUICKER THAN LIGHTNING.

GAS quick as lightning" is a
pharse colloquially used to express
the maximum of rapidity, but, ac-
cording to a we'll known scientist,
electricity itself is outstripped by that
old fashioned machine, the human
body, by which it appears powers
can. so to speak, be generated in the
brain, transmitted through the
nerves and developed in the muscles
.i..--..- :..e.A;tAs;.sao1A fraction of a
second.
1t is stated that pianist in play
ing a presto of Mendelssohn played
s,5o5 notes in four minutes and three
seconds. The striking of each OF
these, it has been estimated, invol.
we'd two movements of the finger and
possibly more.
Again, the movements of the
wrists, elbows and arms can scarcely
be less than one movement for each
note. AS twentyfour notes were
PLAYED each second and each involves
three movements we should have
seventy-two voluntary movements
per second.
Again, the place, the force, the
time and the duration of each OF
these movements were controlled.
All these motor reactions were con-
ditioned upon a knowledge of the
position of each finger of each hand
before it was moved, while moving
it, as we'll as of the auditory effect to
force and pitch, all of which involves
equally rapid sensory transmissions.
If we add to this the work of the
memory in placing the notes in their
proper position as we'll as the fact
that the performer at the same time
participates in the emotion the selec-
ton describes and feels the strength
and weaknesses of the performance,
we arrive at truly bewildering net
work of impulses coursing along at
inconceivably rapid rates.
Such estimates show, too, that we
are capable of doing many things at
once. The mind is not unit, but
is composed of higher and lower GEN.
tiers, the available fund of attention
being distributed among them
PearSon's Weekly.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07
RECKONING TIME.

Time is a perenn;ally interesting
subject. Before the chronometer in
the jewelers. window procession is
constantly passing. The banker
pulls out his 500 repeater, compares
it with the chronometer and moves
on. The Office boy with just as
much dignity consults the dollar
timepiece that bulges his little waist
coat. Both are equally under the
spell of time.
As most persons know, England
supplies the world with that valuable
but impalpable commodity, that
purely arbitrary thing which we call
time. The meridian of the Royal
observatory at Greenwich is the
point from which the day of the CIV
ilized world is reckoned, but in
America the United States Naval OBJ
servatory in Washington determines
Greenwich time and distributes it by
telegraph.
In the end the watch of the man
in the street is set by the stars. Out
of the vast number in the heavens
there are some GOO, visible either to
the eye or the camera, which are
known to be practically invariable.
The astronomer selects one of them.
Through the transit instruments
telescope pointed at the meridian
he watches, telegraphic key in hand.
On the lens of the telescope are
eleven hair lines. The center one
marks the meridian. AS the star
crosses each of these lines the opera
tor presses his key, the wires OF
which connect with an automatic
recording clock called a chrono-
gragh.
This shows at what time the star
crossed the meridian. Astronomical
tables determine the time at which it
should have crossed. Comparison of
the standard clock with these tables
shows whether or not the clock is
right.
The time is distributed at noon.
Three minutes before IL O'Clock
thousands of telegraph operators sit
in silence waiting for the click of the
key which shall tell them that the
'master clock" in Washington has
begun to speak. At one minute be-
fore IL it begins, beating every sec
ond until the fifty-ffth. Then, after
the pause, comes a single beat,
which marks exact noon, and for
another day the world knows that it
has the correct time to the fraction OF
a second. - YOUTHS Companion.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07
KEPT HIS PROMISE.

There lives in Washington ply
sician who has ten year old boy OF
great spirit, but with no over-abund-
ance of strength, says the Ame'zean
Spectator. Last summer the boy Sc
cured his fathers permission TO join
a camping party organized by boys
in the neighborhood; but in the
parting instructions there was one
restriction.
"Now, my boy" said the father,
81 don't wish you to go out in your
cousin Bob's canoe. He and those
other lads are quite used to the
water, but you are not and you
haven't as yet learned to sit still any
where. You'll be with them but a
short time, and with the other
amusements you'll have. you can af-
ford to let the canoe alone this visit,
so that your mother will not be
worrying all the while you're away. !"
The boy promptly gave the desired
promise. On his return he was most
enthusiastic with regard to the pleas
ures he had enjoyed.
Didn't mind not canoeing bit,
father" said he. "The only time
they used the canoe, anyway, was
the last day, to go over to the other
shore. But remembered my prom
ise. and 1 wasn't going to break it at
the last minute. So I swan
across"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07
WIT IN CONGRESS.

One of the most famous of Reeds
retorts was made at the expense of
Springer of Illinois. The "Maine
giant had just read one of Spring
er's own speeches in refutation of the
latter's argument just concluded.
The Illinoisan launched into philoso-
ply upon the privilege of progressive
thinkers to change their opinions.
81 honor them for it, )" he contin-
ued. can honest man is the noblest
work of God. As for me, Mr.. Chair
man, in the words of an eminent
American statesman, 1 would rather
be right than be president. ;"
''The gentleman from Illinois
needn't worry, Mr.. Chairman, f"
drawled Reed. Hell never be
either p
During the fight against Reed
rules" the house was thrown into
convulsions by General Spinola, who,
pointing to the painting of the "Siege
of Yorktown hanging in the hall,
gravely accused Speaker Reed of
counting the Hessians in the back
ground of the picture in order to make
up quorum.
The general always wore tremen-
dously high collar, so high, in fact,
that Representative Tim Campbell
tapped It one day with the ferule of
his cane and inquired, to the amuse-
ment of the house, SIS General Spin
ola within 2"
During the famous deadlock fight
in the house over the civil rights bill
General Ben Butler favored a Sunday
session.
"Bad as I am, I have some respect
for Gods day." replied Sam Randall
of Pennsylvania.
Don't the Bible say that it is law
full to pull your OK or ass out cf pit
on the Sabbath" asked Butler.
"You have thirty-seven. asses on
your side of the house, and want to
get them out of this ditch tomorrow.
think am engaged in holy work. F"
"Dcn't do it," replied Randall.
"I expect some day to see you in a
better world"
You'll be there, as you are here,
a member of the lower house" fash
ed back the general, with telling eff
fect.-AmeYlcan Magazine.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07
MAKING CLOTHEsPrNs.

Few persons ever wonder where
clothespins come from ). few ever
heard of Bryant's Pond, Me-, and
yet a man there has been quietly
turning trees into clothespins for
years and supplying the world with
them, amassing in the process as
comfortable fortune as many man
makes in more pretentious business
IN some money centers. His name
is Lewis Mann, and he began with a
capital of $500, with which he pur-
chased an old disused mill and began
the manufacture of clothespins. To-
day he is the largest individual max
er of this very necessary article in the
world.
How large the clothespin industry
really is may be gathered from the
fact that no less than 1880, 900 five
gross boxes are manufactured every
year in the United States alone,
Much of the best machinery now
nsed by Mr.. Mann is the result of his
owninventive genius and that of his
son Edwin. Mr.. Mann's machines
turn put 10000, 900 pail handles,
whileof high grade clothespins they
produce more than $4,000 five gross
boxes, pr $4,000, 900 year.
In The winter great piles of birch
logs areaccumulated about the mills
to feed the great saws which snip
them intO one half foot lengths as
easily as though they were match
es. These lengths are rapidly split
by another saw into thin slabs,
which are in turn converted into
long, thin square strips by gang
saws. Def hands toss these strips
on a revolving drum, which bears
them against still other saws and
turns them out in the form of oblong
blocks.
Falling on to moving belt, the
blocks are whirled away to number
of lathes. If the blocks are to be-
come pail handles, they are bored
and turned in most ingenious fashion
at high rate of speed; if they are
destined for clothespins, the boaring
is, of course, dispensed with, and
they are simply turned into the de-
sired shape.
From the lathes a belt conveys the
clothespins to a "slotter," which
rapidly cuts the slot. The pins
emerge with two symmetrical legs
and are swiftly borne by still third
belt to the upper floor, where they
and the pail handles are dried in vast
heaps at high temperature in the
dry room, bleached with sulphur and
finally polished with wax in huge
revolving drum. Thence they de-
scend again to the packers, where
they receive final inspection, and
all the pins that are not rejected are
packed in boxes labeled "a" or
"B," according to quality.
The rate of production is amazing,
yet few are injured in the making,
nearly every pin and handle emerg-
ing after its tortuous journey in per-
feet polished rorm.-NeaO 1v,S- zRs-ss-ss
6nne.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07
WHY MORNING AIR is HEALrHFUL.

Most people at some time i'll their
lives probably have risen early
enough to experience the bracing et-
feet given by filling the lungs while
the dew is still on the grass. So far
as analysis goes, the composition of
early morning air is not different
from the air at any other time. 1t
is we'll to remember, however, that
during the passing of the night to
day and OF day to night several ply
sical changes take place.
There is fall of temperature at
sunset and rise again at dawn, and,
consequently, moisture is alternately
being thrown out and taken up
again, and it is we'll known that
change of state is accompanied by
electrical phenomena and certain
chemical manifestations also. The
formation of dew has prabably,.
therefore, far more profound effects
than merely the moistening of objects
with water.
Dew is vitalizing, not entirely be-
cause it is water, but because it
possesses an invigorating action, due,
partly at any rate, to the fact that it
is saturated with oxygen, and it has
been stated that during its formation
peroxide and hydrogen and some
ozone are developed. 1t is not i'm
probable that the peculiarly attrac-
tive and refreshing quantity which
marks the early morning air has its
origin in this way.
Certain is it that the bracing prop
perty of the early morning air wears
off as the day advances, and. it is
easy to conceive this loss of freshness
is due to the oxygen, ozone, peroxide
of hydrogen-whichever it may be
being used up.
The difficulty of inducing grass to
flourish under a tree in full leaf is
we'll known and is generally explain
ed by saying that the tree absorbs
the fourishing constituents of the
soil or that it keeps the sunlights
away from the grass and protects it
from the rain. 1t is doubtful wheth-
er any of these explanations are
true, the real reason most probably
being that the vitalizing dew cannot
form upon the grass under tree,
whereas as a rule both rain and light
can reach it. Dew is probably es-
sential to the we'll being, of both
plants and animals to greater ex-
tent than is known.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07
THE REAL VALUE.

Young people must every now and
then hear it said or see it written
that all the real value in literature
can be put upon small shelf-that
is to say, the really important part Of
all that is written is contained in a
very few good books, all the rest be-
ing either unimportant or different
ways of saying the same things that
have been said before. The state
ment, of course, is not true if it be
taken literally. There are certainly
many hundreds, perhaps thousands,
of books that contain original
thoughts or experiences that are
truly valuable; but, generally speak
ing, the best part of all that has besnt
written IS 10 De Tound IN rev voI-
umes. To understand how this is pos
sible we must remember that nearly
all rules are the same as other and
simpler rules. In arithmetic, for ex-
ample, the whole science consists of
only four simple ways of treating
numbers. We can add, subtract,
multiply and divide, and that is all
we can do to numbers. The rest of
the book is only the working out of
these four rules; thus all of the
arithmetic could easily be put into
little page that one could carry in the
vest pocket.
Ali behavior, ali right living, is
also set forth in few simple laws.
These illustrations will show what is
meant by saying that all literature is
contained in few great books. The
Bible and the works of a few famous
poets and essayists contain all human
wisdom, and these are within the
reach of every purse.-S. Nicholas.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07
AN EASTERN LEGEND.

An aged man came late to Abraham's tent.
The sky was dark and all the plain was bare
He asked for bread; his strength was well-niRn
His haggsrd look implored the tenderest care;
The food was brought. He sat with thankful
But spake no grace. nor bowed he toward the
East,
Safe sheltered here from dark and angry skies,
The bounteous table seemed royal feast.
But ere his hand had touched the tempting rare
The Patriarch rose, and leaning on his rod,
Stranger" he said. "dost thou not bow In
Dost thou not fear, dost thou not worship
God?"
He answered May" The Patriarch sadly said !:
"Thou hast my pity. Go eat not my bread" )"
Another came that wild and fearful night.
The fierce winds ragged and darker grew the
But ali The tent was filed with wondrous light,
And Abraham knew the Lord his God was nigh.
"Where is that aged man o. the Presence said,
sThat asked for shelter from the driving blast
Who made thee master of thy Masters bread?
What right hadst thou the wanderer forth to
Forgive me. Lord" the Patriarch answer made,
With downcastl look, with bowed and trembling
knee.
"Ah me the stranger might with me have
stayed,
But. o my God, he would not worship Thee"
"I've borne him long" God saids "and still l
Could st thou not lodge him one night in thy
gate?"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07
A LETTER FROM HOME.

Dear Jim The crops is doin' well,
The calf is big enough to sell;
I've traded on the brindle COW.
And we amt got but one just now;
The hOsses all is fat and sleek,
Except that Bob is rather weak,
But that amt nothin' very queer;
We've had him nigh on twenty year.
/ think I'll put the bottom field
In corn and oats /; 1t oughter yield
A heavy crop the land is rich.
And just the thing for oats and sich.
There amt no news to speak of. jim;
Miss Susie Jones is Just as trim
As when you saw her in the fall.
The folks is well; I guess that's all
But stop! most forgot bout dad.
/ 'spect the uews'll make you sad.
You know that dad was gettin' old;
Just sixty years had DER him rolled,
And so, / much regret to say,
We ohloroformed poor dad today
And that is all the news until
write again.
Your brother, BILL.
-Mdrvldnd Medical Journal
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07

A COUNTY resident was driving
home one dark night last week
when, the way seeming long, he be-
came uncertain whether or not he
was on the right road. He stopped
his team at a cross-road, clambered
out of the cart, crawled upon the
fence, and struck a match to read
the sign-board; which he could dim
ly see outlined.
At the peril of his neck, he deci-
phered the sign by the glare of the
birthstone, and nearly toppled off the
fence when he saw these words:
"When in doubt, use Smiths Cod
Liver OIL"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07

TEAcHER-Name one important
thing that did not exist hundred
years ago.
Johnny Thickneck promptly D
Me.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07

W1FE-You were talking in your
sleep again last night, dear. Why
do YOU persist in doing it? Hus-
band-Good gracious, Maria, man
ought to be allowed to talk some
times, oughtn't hef
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-07
BE A BUSINESS MAN.

No matter what your vocation may
be, YOU must be business man
first or you will always be placed at
a great disadvantage in the practical
affairs of life. We cannot entirely
ignore the money side of existence
any more than we can the food side,
and the very foundation of practi-
cal, successful life is the ability to
know how to manage the money side
effectively.
It is infinitely harder to save mon.
ev and to invest it wisely than to
make it, and if even the most practi-
cal men, men who have had long
training in scientific business meth.
DDS, find it difficult thing to hold
on to money after they make it,
what is likely to happen to people
who have had practically no training
in business methods?
If every child in America had a
thorough business training tens OF
thousands of promoters, long headed,
cunning schemers, who have thrived
on the peoples ignorance, would be
out of an occupation.
believe that the business colleges
are among the greatest blessings in
American civilization today, because
they have saved thousands of homes
from being wrecked and have made
happy and comfortable tens of thou
sands of people who might other
wise be living in poverty and wretch
edness. .SncceSs magazine.