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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
MRS. J. G. p. STOKES AT HOME.
Eastside Six-room Flat In Which She
Keeps House.

When j. c. Phelps Stokes and Rose
Pastor we're married 1t was said Mr.
Stokes had retired from business, and
that they would live at the University
Settlement and devote their lives to char
ity.
The facts, as stated by a writer in
Harper's Bazaar, are that Mr.. Stokes can
not afford to retire from business. He Is
many figures removed from the reproach
of being a millionaire, his present in
come probably not exceeding $500 a year.
He goes to his business like any other
man of his calling. and when the day is
done returns to his home, which Is one the
top floor of well built seveu-story apart
ment house at Grand and Norfolk streets
just nine blocks east of the Bowery, and
in one OF the most thickly populated
districts, indeed, of New York city. Here
Mrs Stokes is at home and keeps house
literally, having no servants, her only
help being the janitress, who is called
upon on sweeping days.
"A German woman in a blue calico
gown ran the elevator that took mo to
the Stokes apartment" says the inter
viewer THE halls were dark and mar
row. but the floors were white tiled.
Mrs. Stokes greeted me with warm.
firm handclasp that meant as much as
the smile with which she babe me well
come. How stranger was my first
thought, for she was so unlike the pic
lures and descriptions that had flooded
the daily papers.
"She might have been the model for
Rossettis Beatrice. or for a quiet and
dreamy maiden of Burne-Jones drawing.
1t was plain that the change from maid
to wife, from poverty to comparative ease.
had had no effect upon her from the
worldly point Of view.
THE Stokes fiat is quite small with
six rooms and bath, and rents for s3s
a month The rooms are light and cheer
full. but simply furnished.
well selected and finely bound books
line two sides Of the srsall library. which
is connected with the general living room
by an alcove. Mr.. Stokes has his desk
In the library and Mrs. Stokes has hers a
few feet distant. in the living room. Still
q y d room is divided By curtains and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
MYSTERIES OF DEATH VALLEY.
Fascination for Those Who Brave Its
Dangers-Legends Of Finds.

From the Phyolte Herald.
While gold seems to be the under
lying cause of the great interest taken
in Death Valley, yet a mysterious fas-
cination takes possession of all who
once brave its dangers. Numberless
legends have been handed down from
generation to generation of strange
happenings almost beyond human ex-
PLANTATION, yet at the bottom of all runs
the streak of gold, for which men daily
sell their lives and oftentimes their
very souls.
Old Indian trails and signs still point
the way from spring to spring telling
whether the water Is good or bad, the
distance from one to the other, the
passable and impossible canons, the
location of old Indian villages, etc. In
order to read the signs correctly, one
must be familiar with their ways and
customs. and even then 1t has become
difficult on account of changes that are
constantly taking place through nat
ural and human agencies.
The trails are of different periods,
some being much later than others.
Al intervals, besides the trails are
monuments of stone, with a pointed
rock showing the direction to take.
Two rocks pointing in opposite direc-
lions indicate that 1t is impossible.
The location of metal stones are also
significant. A metal stone is a fiat
stone, followed in the center, used for
grinding acorns for -four and will be
found not more than a half days travel
from water Many springs known to
the Indians are not down on the maps
Endeavoring to find pass through
the mountains on recent trip party
followed the Indian trail and signs and
were led a course which passed three
springs and some old breastworks
which Indians had used to hide behind
when lying in wait for mountain sheep.
One of the first gold excitements was
back in the SOS, when Breyfogle found
fine free gold, but was unable to re
turn to the exact spot. He was after
ward hit with stone hurled by an
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
DID EUR 1PE ON $35.
Student Sees London and Paris and
Makes Record for Economy.

From the Chicago Evening Post.
A six weeks trip to Europe for s35
is an accomplished fact. Sydney
Walker of Chicago Lawn, student Of
the University of Chicago, has proved
its possibility. Recently he returned
to Chicago, tired and dusty, but with
visions of London and Paris dancing
through his brain.
Walker also proudly carries the
knowledge that he has made good"
on the boast made on departing July
10 that $35 would carry him through.
Walker is now familiar with the
habits of live stock tourists. His jour
ney from Chicago to Boston was made
on a cattle train. He departed from
Boston harbor on cattle boat. Last
week he arrived in Boston harbor on
another cattle boat.
Life on a cattle boat isn't as bad as
one would suppose" he said. 'T wasn't
overworked and 1 was sick only one
day-on the return journey. The food
was awful, though. 1t consisted most
ly of salt 'orse' and 1t tasted worse
than 1t sounds.
Il grasped London in ten days.
spent couple of days at the home Of
English friends, but the rest of the
time paid my board. Paris I did in
a week. Living is cheap there, and 1t
didn't make much of hole In my
thirty-five. Then I went back to Lon
DON l stood the channel trip well
each time. left England again on a
cattle boat, on which l was destined
to experience that rocky feeling.
"The only drawback to the trip. aside
from the food, was the lack of COM
panionship. You may imagine l was
pretty lonely in those great cities of
London and Paris. Next year | intend
to go to India on similar financial
basis, but l go with a companion the
next time"
The publicity attending Mr.. Walkers
proposed trip last July brought offers
from magazines, requesting articles on
his bargain" journey Mr.. Walker
used his camera with good effect in
supplying the editors with material.
Although the compensation he will
obtain for his magazine articles may
make his journey one of profit rather
than expense, Mr.. Walker had no IN
tention of earning cent when he first
laid his plans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
Special Fabrics for Suits, skirts
and children's school wear.

is used as dining room In one corner
OF this Mrs. Stokes has her piano and in
another her typewriter
1t was with the captivating ioy and
pride OF a child that Mrs. Stokes led
me from room to room of her tiny apart-
ment and pointed out her methods of sim
plifying the many trying problems of the
average housekeeper She explained that
she uses no table linen, but substitutes
white Japanese napkins that are DESTROYED
after each meal.
But her most radical economy of time
and labor is In the culinary department.
She fully understands how thousands Of
good women up their lives In the
kitchen and she has so systematlzed her
housekeeping that meal getting takes the
minimum of time
She uses but little meat substituting
eggs cooked in innumerable ways She
uses many uncooked foods. plenty OF
milk, good bread and butter fruit but
neither coffee nor tea
IA heart Mr.. and Mrs. Stokes are So
cialists, but they take no part In socio-
political movements, for the reason that
such action would foment class hatred.
In spite of the difference in the re-
ligious training of Mr.. and Mrs Stokes.
they are absolutely harmonious and as
one In the matter of their belief The
only difference between them is a matter
of ancestry.
she believes that Judaism is an in
spred religion, and so does her husband.
They believe. however that Jesus added
to its teachings many additional truths
They observe. that Jesus and Paul
were Jews, and that Jesus came not to
destroy the law of the prophets. but to
fulfil" Both accept the teachings OF
Jesus unqualigedly. regarding Him as q
divine teacher and guide.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
From the New York Mail.


n INCE nature lives for no other rea-
son than that there shall be sum-
mer-since the seed-ripenlng of au-
tumn, the dreamess rest of winter and
the bourgeoning of spring are but three
forms of preparation for the one brief
season OF JOY, OF fullness, OF creation and
attainment-we can but regard Septem-
Der as the month when the farewell is
spoken. But what a sweet sorrow nature
makes of the partingl 1t is as If, like our
modern decadents in the realms of art,
she found the moment of the realization
of decay the most precious of all moments,
as If she became fully aware of the
gloriousness and delights of organized life
on earth only when the hour of decline
had come How shall we feel the glory
of life when 1t is in the maximum of its
unconscious strength? How realize its
gifts when they are still merely automat-
ically enjoyed in animal unconcern?
September typifies the time in wo-
mans life when she becomes most keenly
conscious of her charms through the in
timation that their decline is at hand. She
is still beautiful, still radiant, still keenly
alive; but the strands of silver in her
locks have admonished her that fruition
trembles upon its verge. How keenly
conscious Is she nowi How ripe Is her
erudition In things of love Cleopatra Is
worth a hundred maidens, for youth is but
a blunderer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09

Indian, which is supposed to have In
jured his brain.
Beatty has expressed the opinion
that the Breyfogle find was between
Willow Springs and the Original Bull
frog. Charlie Nyman thinks it is be-
tween Keane Springs, Willow Springs
and Death Valley, while one of Brey-
fogle's party described Hole-in-Rock.
The wind breaks supposed to have
been used by Breyfogle are located
about eighteen miles south of Rhyolite.
Another legend Is of an Indian who
went into Cerro Gordo with rock full
of free gold, which he sold for SO. The
white men tried to get him to tell
where he found 1t, but the Indian was
wise and kept the location to himself.
He was accidentally killed short
time after while hunting sheep, and
the secret died with him. Some think
this find was the same as Breyfogle's.
The valley itself is about all that 1t
has been painted. At times man or
beast would mire out of sight, and at
other times the shifting sands would
almost bury him alive. Yet men live
there year after year without feeling
that they are mourning any unusual
amount of danger. They know where
they may and may not go, and how to
prepare for emergencies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
CLEOPATRA OF THE MONTHS

Every flower that blooms in this month
of the divine decandence bespeaks the trl-
umphant mood of mature and wisest con-
seriousness Now is the time when nature,
as If aware that the need of 1t had come,
puts on her richest jewelry. 1t is now
that the goldenrod attains it's perfectest
color; nor Is It's golden sheen deemed suf-
ficient-it must be tricked out with the
royal purple of the aster. The following
grass of the meadow is started with that
flower Of the most ravishing tint that ma
ture has produced, the fringed gentian,
whose purple-blue Is beyond all counter
feiting of art. The gentian, too, In per-
fectly decadent mood, declines to open
her heart wide, like the shallow flowers of
spring, but introspectively bows her head
and closes her hands upon her breast, the
type of self-consclous beauty.
Now, too, every leaf and every fruit
becomes a jewel to decorate natures ripe
body and cover over all the little signs
of her decline. Though flowers do not
faiI-though the bleakest waysdes are
rich with the bloom of aster and milk
weed and thoroughwort and pye-weed-
the flowers are scarcely needed In nature $
decorative scheme of farewell, so rich has
this jewelry of leaf and berry become. The
punches of the wild grape are more CRATE
full to the eye than many cluster OF
April bloom and the red apples ripening
in the orchard are ample compensation for
the scattered snow of the same tree S
blossoming.
"Star-eyed Egyptian" among the
months, September lights the way to the
years fields of rest with a smile whose
radiance no other season can initiate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
Unique Accident.

From the Boyle County Herald.
John Price and p M. Hugh were driv-
ing through Junction City the other aft
ernoon when the wheels of the vehicle
struck big hog comfortably Willing
away the time In mudhole in the pike.
The animal gave quick jump, raised the
vehicle in the air, and threw the horse
heavily to the ground, entangling the out
fit in a complicated manner. The gentle
men were sure that their horse had been
killed. but. after unraveling the entang-
lement, II was found that he had es-
capped with few slight bruises.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09

bid against each other, but the premiums
instead of gonig into the pockets -af the
town site promoters, go into a public
improvement fund.
A town site sale often takes on thu
character and color of Fourth of July
celebration. People come from miles
around, and there are picnic parties and
ball games in the wheat stubble or on
the virgin prairie. In some cases the
premium on lots makes a total of several
thousand dollars and the town comes into
being with the knowledge that 1t has on
hand a very respectable fund for public
improvements
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
Ins and Outs.
!, tho New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Bronzed by foreign suns, he entered the
office of his colleague. But the cashiers
chair was vacant.
rs Mr. Smith out?" he asked anxiously.
81 am an old friend of his"
NO sir" returned the clerk. Mr..
Smith is not out. He won't be out for
sixteen years"
Here the clerk smiled grimly.
THE firm is out. though he went on,
lone hundred thousand just"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
American ShrImps.

From the Home Magazine.
The best shrimp in America are pro-
cured in southern waters. and not only
boiled ones are found away from the
shore. Like the othed crustacea, theysare,
in season from May to October on the
coast. and are prepared for use by re-,
moving the she'll and Intestinal vein-s
Shrimp are very attractive when served
In scallop shells. !
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
WANTED.

Ten salesladies in ladies
ready to wear department;
good position for bright, cap
able salespeople. Apply to
Manager, SECOND floor, Louis
Saks.
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FOR RENT.

The second and third floor
over Clarke Bros, Goth st. and
3rd ave., consisting of twenty
large, fine, well ventilated
rooms. Well arranged for
hotel. Appl yto r. H. Pearson.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
WANTED.

Four experienced wrapping
boys; age from IA to Is years.
Apply today to Manager first
floor. Louis Saks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09
DRENNEE'S
DRENNENS
ILLIN E x Y-Ready-tO-Wear.

300 misses good quality Felt Sailors
They are very nobby and stylish-They
come in grey, blues, reds, green's, garnets,
t "a so cast0 ts. and sa.o 9.0w I Wort
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-09

ares n all checks,
fontsOO On
be the prices So $3.50 |OOO
Suits considered stylish. They
solids checks and pads Prices $3.50 $780, % 0O
$zoOO - -. . .CO'NO
this fall
Specials SILK Pettcoats with silk rufle; OK
only ...OsOO
Skirts; 40
$3.50 EACH .......1.fO
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$50 Ladies' Fine Soft Felt Walking Hats,
in browns, blues, black, greens, casters,
greys reds and solid whites 90
Worth $3.50, Special ..............lIJu
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DRENNEWS
DRENNENS

Ten dozen Ladies' and Misses Fine Soft
Felt Harvard and Speedway Hats, in all
the new fall shades. Worth $500. En-
Special, only ......=....... :. .lIJU
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FOR RENT-In the Steiner
building, a few connecting of !
fees. Apply at Bank
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seIf-Advertisinq Venture.

ociT-NuNSTHSii9 NcueaiSs
A new town is great self-advertising
institution, however. Weeks before the
date of sale the little village of squatters,
which may have been established miles
from the site ultimately to be chosen, gets
wind of what is going on The business
houses have been hastily placed on wheels
or skids, forty horse teams or big
threshing machine engines have been
fastened to them and the procession
across the prairie has begun. At such
times one may set a completely equipped
bank going along the prairie in tow of a
"thresher" and when the visitor arrives
at a possible rival of Minneapolis or Win
nipeg he is likely to see stakes bearing
such legends as: John Smith VIII Open
a General Store on This Lot" or Jones
& Brown viii Soon Be Selling Harness
Here" or This Is Where the Farmers
Bank Will Soon Be Doing Business
A few weeks ago North Dakota man
who had made his money from his farm
came to Minneapolis and ordered equip
ments for eight banks-vaults. safes. coun-
tiers, desks. etc. A local newspaper sought
to learn where the banks would be start
ed. The banker wouldn't tell. The fact is.
as he explained later, he didn't know He
had learned that certain road proposed
to build an extension in northwesterly
direction from a certain North Dakota
town. Northwest of that town there was
no railroad or village of any size for more
than eighty miles. But 1t was a prosper
ing farming country and the extension
was certain to build up eight or ten towns.
The banker wanted to have his banks
ready for business when the elevator and
lumber yard were laid out.
Know Prices of Lots.
Under the new methods every one
knows just what the lots in each partlcu-
lar part of the town are worth, for the
advertising matter issued by the rail-
roads town site department carreis plat
with the selling price of each lot plainly
marked on 1t.
In the case Of towns recently started in
North Dakota the lots around the plaza,
the center of the business section, are
quoted at $500 each. Lots near those are
generally sold at $500, and as the locations
get further and further away from the
center, or the railroad, the pri res are re-
duced to as low as 500 or $50
There is something of the old style
auction system about the manner in
which the business block sites are sold,
however, and 1T serves as another Illus
tration of how the railroad town site
system looks after welfare of the new
towns.
The town site survey has purposely
made the central plaza smaller than a
park would be, In the hope that the
property will be cared for and made a
beauty spot. Those desiring to purchase
lots for business blocks are allowed to
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-02
RUN OVER BY AUTOMOBILE.
walla WaIla Woman Asks for $4,000
Damages.

Because she is unable to sleep on
account of a deranged nervous system
and cannot walk without great pain
through being run over by an auto
mobile last August, Gertrude Hilbert,
bookkeeper in the office of the Eve
ming Bulletin, is suing Chris j. Bowers,
the owner of the auto, for $4,000
damages and the expenses of her
medical treatment, says the Walla
Walla Statesman.
In the complaint filed in the su-
perior court this morning, Miss Hill
bert alleges that August 2S, she was
strong and able-bodied woman.
That on that day she was riding along
Alder street on her bicycle when
Bowers, who was driving an auto at
dangerously high rate of speed
carelessly and negligently ran into her
knocking her down and dragging her
| about 20 feet.
She was bruised and lacerated and
besides received internal injuries tc
her chest and abdomen, which have
caused her great bodily pain and
| greatly shocked and deranged hei
nervous system and caused heart trou
BILE. Plaintiff alleges she is unable tc
sleep on account of bruises received II
the accident and is unable to wall
except at the cost of extreme pain.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-02

During the recent district fair much
interest was taken in the non-register-
ed stock that was placed on exhibition,
which fact showed the wisdom OF the
commissions action in offering pre-
miums Tor such stock.
In the exhibit of non-registered
grade draft horses F. f. Sherman Sc
cured two first prizes and one second
prizes. One first and one second was
taken by Thomas Thompson, while
John Crow also secured second.
In the n-standard bred trotting
horse class a first premium was taken
by r. NJ. Case, first by r. NJ.
OBrien, first by ], B. Perry, for his
colt; a first by w. R. Graham for his
stallien, Victor; first by Nels Mag
! ruser, and first and second by
Frank Frazier.
This was one of the most interesting
features of the stock exhibit and the
fair management will provide well
for this class of stock hereafter. This
being the first year all the various
features of the stock exhibit could not
be worked out we'll and therefore the
entries of uon-standard bred stock
were very light, whereas hereafter, the
fair commission will make a specially
of this in order to bring out every an
imal OF merit in the county whether
registered or standard bred or not
Ample premiums and classification
will be provided for this class of stocl
ir next years catalogue and premium
list
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-02
NEW PIANO HOUSE.
j. F. Hale Will Be Manager for Sher-
man Clay and Company.

j. f. Hale, manager for the piano
house which Sherman Clay & Co. is
to establish here, is now busily en-
gagged in having store room fitted
UP In the north room of the Dusen-
berry building, formerly occupied by
the Golden Rule store.
Already the walls of the room have
been repapered and the rear of the
room has been partitioned off as liv-
ing rooms for Mr.. and Mrs. Hale, who
will now reside here permanently.
Some of our goods are now here"
said Mr.. Hale this afternoon, "and as
soon as we can get our room in shape
we will formally open for business.
We will handle the Steinway, Knabe.
A. B. Chase, Hardman. Everett and
many other kinds of pianos. Later
on We will Install q line of small
goods, including Victor talking ma
chimes, sheet music and other things
usually carried in such stock"
Sherman Clay & Co. is large con-
cern with headquarters IN San Fran
cisco, and with financial backing OF
SO, ,O0O,0 900. Mr.. Hale is optimistic re-
garding the branch house for this
place and says he is highly pleased
with what he has seen of Pendleton.