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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-20
Easy Enough.

Insurance Superintendent suspicious
iy)-How did your husband happen to
die so soon after getting insured for
a large amount? Widow-He worked
himself to death trying to pay the pre-
NUNS
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-20

"Jinx had to put up at the hotel last
night. He had quarreled with his
COOK
'Why, the idea! What was Mrs
Jinx doing, to stand for thing like
that?''
Record.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-20
Quick Relief for Asthma sufferers

Foley's Honey and Tar affords imme-
diate relief to asthma sufferers in the
worst stages and if taken in time will
effect cure.-H. j. Stapgl.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-20
A Certain Cure for Aching Feet

Aliens Foot Ease, powder; cures
| ired, Aching, Sweating, Swollen feet.
Sample sent Free, also Sample of FooT-
EASE SANITARY CoRN-PAD, new inven-
ton. Address, Allen s. Olmsted Leroy
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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-20
The Guides Measure.

'"rhings have come to pretty pass"
remarked the guide as he led Algernon
and Percy into the Yosemite valley
Lampoon
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-20

During the summer kidne. irregulari-
ties are often caused ny excessive drink
ing or being overheated. Attend TO the
kidneys at once by using Foley s Kidney
Cure.-H. j. Stangl
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-20
They Come In FIocks.

One way to gain lots of relatives is
TO die rich and leave no will.-Balti-
more Sun.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-20

Banter is a word whose origin no
scholar can trace.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-20

No mans abilities are so remarkably
shining as not to stand in need Of &
proper opportunity, patron and even
the praises of a friend to recommend
him to the notice Of the world-Pliny
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-20
Startled the Doctor.

An Aberdeenshire doctor who recent
ly attended a woman was somewhat
staggered at receipt Of the following
epistle from her: please come and
vaccinate the child you gave birth to
last week" -Caledonian Medical Jour-
nal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
WITHOUT MEANS TO STAY
 PROGRESS OF THE FLAMES.

The most lamentable feature of the eonfagraton is the utter absence of means to stay the flames progress There g is not a sound water main east of Van ness avenue and west of that street the supply has been made scanty by nu- merous breaks in the continuity of the pipes due to the earthaualSe. Yet at Van- ness avenue the tiremen. though ex- hausted from overworll and lack of food, determined to make a desperate stand. Should the fire cross Vanness avenue and the wind continue its earlier diree- ton toward the west, the destruction of San Francisco will practically be com plete West of Vanness and north of MeAllister constitute the finest part of the metropolis. Here are located all of the finer homes of the well-to-do and wealth. fer classes. and if 1t should fall before the eonhagration there would be little left of the city except few scattering suburbs. It Is to these latter places and especially to the ones nearer the ocean beach that the bulk of the homeless are seeking safety
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
KILL MALEFAcToRs
 WITHouT WARNING.

General Funston Is cooperating with Mayor Sehmitz. whose orders to all off cers is to kill without warning all male- factors.
 When men have been needed to carry out the plans of rescue they have been pressed into service. In only a few in stances was It necessary to resort to the cooked revolver and drawn sword.
 The Presidio reservation, the vast Rich den Gate park and the surrounding hills resemble one vast picnic ground. Tents and improvised coverings have been erect ed everywhere, fire places built in the streets, beds and mattresses thrown down all over the section. The people thus situated are philosophical.
 There Is only one danger and that is that the food supply will run out Every grocery in San Francisco has been taken charge of by the authorities and each family is being sold only one article at a time. In many places the police and mili- tary prohibit overcharging.
 General Funston announced this morn Ing that rations would soon reach the city, and then the people will be supplied from the Presldio. Bakeries have already been built within the preservation and the bread supply therefore has not fail- ed completely. The government also has begun to aid the progress of the people in their flight to Oakland. Berlley and Alameda. Tug boats and steamers are be- ing pressed into service for this purpose and there is vast army on the way to the ferries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
MORAL COURAGE OF THE HEN.
Does Her Own Work In Her Own Way
 Without Assistance.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
 Reams of paper have been consumed by her admirers in efforts to do scant jus tIce to the almost innumerable praise worthy characteristics of the American hen.
 Essayists and poets have vied with one another in paying tribute to her patience, her modesty her industry. Some of the best thinkers in our land, and our think CTS are perhaps among the best to be found in any part of the world, have dwelt with pleasure upon her unselfish- ness, her utter disregard of personal com pliment, her studied avoidance Of atten- ton for strangers, her abhorrence Of pub licity, her untlring devotion to duty, her unswervng fidelity to a sacred trust.
 No man who can be content to sit quiet ly on & fence, as many of our ablest stu- dents of natural history have done, whil- ing away the time by whiting a stick, or relieving the tedum with cob pipe-no man, we say. who observes the American hen at a respectful distance. as she pur- sues her chosen vocation, apparently un- conscious of everything around her, bent as she ever is upon her useful task, will hesitate to testify cheerfully to the fact that she possesses and to very large de- gree, the one trait in which the human race Is sadly and conspicuously deficient. She does her own scratching and attends to her own business.
 Jndividualism has been developed in the henyard almost to the point of absolute perfection. No self-respectng American hen would employ an assistant in the car rying on of her work. She stands for free competition in the broadest sense of the term. Now and then. of course, it hap pens that two American hens see the same bug at the same time and start for 1t simultaneously. but the unsuccessful competitor never thinks of taking the captured bug out of the successful com petitor's mouth. Each American hen is on the alert constantly Each goes for her own grasshopper as rule. If one succeeds in uprooting worm, the others may observe the fact casually, but there is never any time wasted upon discussing the advisability of a division.
 The American hen is no socialist. She is out of sympathy with the eight-hour movement She forms no. sororls She wears no union label She rises with the sun and retires with the going down thereof, and during her hours of activity beyond giving utterance to an occasional cackle or naturally exulting for a few moments when she has laid an egg. she indulges in no frvolities.
 All these things. or things to tho same general effect have been said of her be- fore but she Is continually surprising q us with new claims 10 our admiration An American hen passed through great fire in Biddeford. Me, last week. without desertng her pest. The flames roarcd above her. The smoke w-ll-ngi stinod her The water almost drowned her. But she reDnained at her post of duty, And
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20

earlier in the day had their simple pos sessions bundled for departure On the farther western side the flames cut a wide path to Vanness avenue, but here. owing to the width of That thoroughfare and to the additional fact that there was a weak water supply from the mains. it was hoped to check the ruin at this line.
 There is still much confusion concern ing the loss of life. This forenoon there were twenty-seven cOrpses lying in Ports mouth square, gathered from various sec tions. 1t is said that elsewhere bodies are lying in the streets, there being no means available to remove them. In his travels down Market street the Associated Press representative saw three bodies lying in the debris. some rude covering having been thrown over theme=@
 At 10:S0 o'clock the flames were sweep ing up Russian hill, famed by brisk wind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
 SHOT EAGLES FROM A TRAIN.
Train Was Moving and Feat Was
 Done With Rifle.

From the Stafford Kan, Republican.
 When the Missouri Pacific passenger train was speeding on its way westward last Friday forenoon, Tom Kinney, bag gageman. saw an eagle perched on the cross arm of a telegraph pole some dis tance east of Kingston and made the re- mark to himself: "Il get that fellow this evening"" He informed the train crew of the prospect ahead, and the engineer and fireman agreed to be on the lookout on the return trip in the evening, and if 1t should prove that the MT. Eagle in ques- ton was still there a little of the air pres sure would be applied and the train brought down to about fifteen miles an hour, so as to give Tom a tip of the bird s presence as we'll as fairly good chance to see what he could do with rifle.
 When the train arrived near the place mentioned in the evening, not only the eagle of the morning was in sight but 1t s mate had taken up a position at the other end of the telegraph pole cross bar Tom was given the tip by the steam being ap- piled and he made ready for action The boys say that when Tom fired the two shots it sounded almost like one so quick did they follow in succession, and the re- suit was that both birds descended to mother earth, each pierced with bullet. They were taken on board the train and Tom was the hero of the hour. And a feat of shooting of this kind is certainly worth mentioning. The writer saw the two vic- tims of Toms deadly aim in the baggage car the next day and they were fine speci- mems of the species known as the gold en' and the largest measured ten feet from tip to tip of the wings Tom is going to have them mounted and keep them as souvenirs of his prowess.
 Attractive ads. are illustrated. Let the Gawk make your illustrations. Age-Herald Building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
MISS plLL's TRIPLE LAuRELs.
Won College and Athletic Honors, Be-
 sides Law Scholarship.

From the Washington Post
 Miss Emma Dill, who has just been graduated at the head of the woman 8 class in law at New York university, is a rather remarkable young woman
 In the first place. she is about the most democratic rich girl to be found any where. As the daughter of successful lawyer, James B. Dill, she and her sister might have been expected to be satisfied with being merely society butterflies. 9th CT girls in their position would. have let it go at that
 But the Dill girls, as they are known to their friends, were different Both ot them went to college. Emma Dill was graduated at Smith in 1904 with the de- gree of A. B. Her sister was a 1905 girl. Inside of two years the elder sister has added the honor of winning this law scholarship.
 But that isn't all "Dillie'-to use the nickname which Emma Dill's college friends gave her-was the most remark able girl in athletics that has ever gone to Smith. She was the pride, and at the same time the despair of the physical director, Miss Berensen-the pride, be- cause she did everything so wonderfully well that she was joy to the souls of those who trained her; the despair, be- cause she did so much better than any
 
 other girls look lke-weil, like three tenths of a dollar.
 A photographer, with a big camera and some large, expensive plates, came up to the gymnasium one time to take pictures of the different drills at work These drills gre by the selected gymnasium workers from the various classes. The photo grapher took lot of pictures in which Miss Dill as head of her drill, appeared in the most conspicuous corner of the front rank. il
 But alasl she was so good that she ae- tually spoiled the pictures ParadoXical but true. If it was backward bend. for instance Emma Dill unconsciously bent further than the rest could manage to go, and the harmony of the lines of the group was destroyed.
 They still tell up at Smith how Mir Dill wanted to send an auto up there for his daughters to keep on hand, to use whenever they felt like it, and how they would have none of it, saying that keeping private autos was not indulged in by the other girls, and, therefore, would not be by them.
 Any one who has heard of Miss Dill's athletic record. of her democratic spirit and now of her capturing law honors will be likely to imagine tall, command ing young woman. a cross between Juno and Minerva. Not a good guess at all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
BIRMINGHAM MEN
 SEE PRESIDENT ], M, Davidson Talks of Rspub- Iican Party in Alabama IS AFTER THOMPSOWS JOB Underwood and Livingston Want At tentlon Of Foreigners at Rio Called
 to the Resources of the
 South.
IS AFTER THOMPSOWS JOB

Washington, April Special l.)-The President told Senator Scott of West vir- glnia today that his man Elliott North colt would either have to surrender the district attorneyship or the chairmanship of the campaign committed The Presi- dent said he intended to enforce this rule everywhere which Is taken to mean that J. o. Thompson twill soon have to give up the chairmanship of the republican executive committee of Alabama. Coin cidentaly with this announcement, j. W. Davidson of Birmingham, was among the Presidents visitors this morning It is un- derstood that he will shortly announce his candidacy for Thompsons place.
 We are going to build up a strong clean republican party in Alabama said MT. Davidson "and to do so we are seek ing the support and encouragement of the republican leaders here, and can safe ly say that they will be with us.
 'The state convention has not been called yet, but when 1t is called there may be a fight in connection with It's future organization. Under the new con stitution of the state, the undesirable ele- ment of voters have been disfranchised In our fight to build up clean party we believe that representation in the convention should be based upon the vote cast by each county in the Presidential election, but there is a faction in the party which, it is alleged, desires to base the representation upon the population. which would give many of the counties {~ tl.5. II its male citizens over 21 years of age dis franchise, much larger delegation to state conventions than counties which cast larger vote. The national leaders will support us if this matter comes to a fight in the approaching convention"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
GOV. PARDEE WIRES
 FOLK OF CONDITIONS,

Sacramento, Cal, April Ex-Governor Pardee today sent the following dispatch to Governor Folk of Missouri, In reply to an offer of aid for San Francisco:
 Thanks for your offer to help. There are thousands of homeless people in San Francisco and other towns, and food and shelter must be furnished At the same time people of theN east should under stand that the area affected by the earth quake is only about one-fifteenth of the whole state. The great Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys and all the northern and southern portions of the state es- capped the disaster. In San Francisco most of the ruin was wrought by fire and not earthquake.
 GEORGE c. PARDEE."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
ALL AVAILABLE SUPPLIES
 ARE TO BE FORWARDED.

Washington, April 19.-The following telegram has been sent General Bell. chief of staff to General Funston, by dl- rection of the Secretary of War:
 Secretary of War directs to inform you that the quartermaster general has been directed to forward to San Fran cisco all available canvas in the possession of the army. The commissary general has been directed to ship 2O0,00O ratons from. nearest shipping points. Admiral McCalla at Mare Island will be instructed to confer with you and to furnish all food supplies that can be spared from tho stores at Mare Island, also to furnish any available canvas suitable for making improvised shelter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20

Slight, fair, with fluffy blond hair, Miss Diss is an undeniable temptation to in diligence in that oyerworked adjective, dainty" In her basketball suit she looks like a little girl, That Is, she has that appearance to the unprepared spectator Her, opponents in the game say that to them she doesn't look in the least like a little girl. They say that to them she bears a very distinct resemblance to a flash of forked lightning.
 1t is said that Miss Dill has no inten- tion of practiclng law. Like Helen Gould and other women who have, or expect to have, property to manage, she has taken up the study of her own pleasure and profit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20

high explosives, in Technical World Mag azlne for May
 These projectiles, charged with high explosive, were fired into sand-banS about hundred yards distant, the line of fire being parelled with the line of rail- road about thousand feet away Several of these projectllcs had been fred and the gun was again loaded, when the whis- tie of a passing train was heard. The gun was fired. and the aerial torpedo instead of lodging in the bank and exploding as the previous ones had done, entered tho bank glanced out, mounted high in the air and went clear over the passing train into the swamp beyond. We were a little anxious when we saw the torpedo sailing to ward that train.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20

when the excitement was all over she continued to sit amid the debris. It was warm and helped her with her task. and all Biddeford was amazed to see her issue from the ruins on Sunday last followed by her brood.
 Nobody who knows the American hen will claim that she is not physically trifie too timid She lacks animal courage. But that she is possessed of a high degree of moral courage has long been conceded. It was moral courage that enabled the Biddeford hen 10 remain on her nest, fire or no fire, smoke or no smoke. water or no water until she had matched out her chicks. Surely among the many things we have to be proud of as a nation, we should not. in naming them to foreigners, overlook the American hen, who sees her duty and does it. regardless of conflagra- tions or cold-storage plants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20

police station in Sacramento street. Here the council composed of the financial lead CTS of the city decided to resort to the most heroic measures yet undertaken since the city has been in the path of devasta- tion.
 This decision was to dynamite the entire section of the city lying along Vanness avenue from Golden Gate avenue to Pa cific avenue. sixteen blocks in all, con taining the homes of many millionaires and apartment houses.
 The military was notified of this action and barrels Of gunpowder. the only re- maining explosive in the city, were taken from the Presid. Mcdowell. Aleatraz and other nearby points. Hundreds of police, regiments of soldiers and squads of volunteers were sent in the doomed district to warn the people to flee. They responded readily to the demand of the law and went bravely on their way, trudg- ing painfully over the pavement with the little they could get together. Every available wagon was taken by the mili- tary to carry the powder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
FIRE IS HEADING FOR
 RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT.

New York. April ls.-Wililam II. Baker. vice president and general manager of the Postal Telegraph company. at 1O:9O to- night received the following from the deputy chief of the San Francisco fire departments:
 Fire heading for residential district. Efforts to fight flames futile. Three hun dred thousand will be homeless tonight By Saturday San Francisco will be an ash heap"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
Underwood sees President.

Representatives Underwood. Richard son of Alabama and Livingston of Geor- gia spent several minutes with the Pres ident this morning and earnestly request ed him to instruct the commissioners who attend the Rio Janeiro conference of American republics to use every effort to bring to the attention of the com missioners from foreign countries the coal, iron and agricultural resources of the south.
 Two of the commissioners come from the south and the delegation is anxious that men be appointed who are fully conversant with the condition which ex- ist in that section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
TEN KILLED BY
 SHOCK IN SAN JOSE.

San Jose, Cal, April 19.-The latest re- ports here today show that ten people weer killed in the earthquake. The hall of records is destroyed as well as the hall of justice. All the main buildings were badly damaged.
 R. II. Tucker, in charge of the Lick ob- servatory says:
 No damage was done to the instru- ments or the buildings of the observatory by the earthquake"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-20
THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS
 ARE FLEEING FROM THE CITY

Thousands upon thousands of people are fleeing from the fire today They are flockng to the ferries, to the parks, to the military reservations and to the su- burbs. Residents of the hillsides in the central portion of the city seemingly were safe from the roaring furnace that was consuming the business section. They watched the towering mounds of flames and speculated as to what extent that vicinity was doomed. Suddenly there was whispered alarm up and down the long line of watchers and they hurried away to drag clothing, cooking utensins and provisions through the streets. From Grant avenue the procession moved westward, men and women dragged trucks, packed huge bundles of blankets, boxes of provisions. everything. Wagons could not the hired except by paying the most extortionate rates.
 But there was no panic. The people are calm, stunned. They seem not to realize the extent of the calamity They hear that the city is destroyed in so far as business plants are concerned; they tell each other in the most natural tone that their residences are destroyed by flames but there is no hysteria, no out cry. criticism.
 Mayor Schmitz and Chief of Police Din- an have been forced from place to place by the onrushng flames.