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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30


 That it pays to write your name in hurry sometimes is illustrated in the case of Third Assistant Postmaster General Lawshe He entered the government service years ago. and went in the Gf- fee of the auditor for the postoffice de- partment. He was able to sign his name with such speed and legibilty that he managed to have his stuff off before any of the others of his associates. Fms spelled promotion for him, and later he found himself going to the Philippines in the capacity of auditor. So well did he do his work that when the administration concluded that Edwin C. Madden had be parted from bis job as third assistant, Lawshe was the man they chose to take his place. And it was his ability to sign his name in a hurry that got him the promotions leading to his present posi- ton. He is today about the most rapid signature writer of all those higher up in the government strvice.
 Signing ones name onee or dozen times does not mean much. But writing it many hundred times a day becomes a burden and government officials try to shorten it as much as possible, since they cannot delegate the task to another with a per to it, neither can they use a rubber stamp. When President Roosevelt came into the White House he
  Theodore Roosevelt. But the job gradu- ally grew irksome evens. to him, and now. except In most important docu- ments he puts it down T. Roosevelt
 When a telegram fr%l the President and cablegram from Secretary Taft put a stop to the Grant Memorial com missions plan of cutting down the ia nous Crittenden Peace Oak in Washing ton, there was no happier man in the city than William R. Smith, superin- tendent of the botanic gardens There are few trees as dear to the ardent Scotchman's heart as this one, and he admired few men as he did John J. Crittenden. tho Kentucky senator who gave him the tree. From time to time favored ones have received young plants raised from the acorns of this tree, and all throughout the country there are bits of shade that owe their origin to his forethought or to his wish for per petuatins everywhere the memory of hls friend.
 When the first trees were being dis tributed a certain southern congressman whom Smith cordially disliked, insisted on having some trees and even after they had grown up he was constantly bornbarding the botanic gardens with queries as to their care and cultva ton. When they bore the first acorns Smith was asked by the irrepressible congressman: Are the acorns good for pigs to eatY' And my patience was so exhauseed says Smith in telling the story. that it was all could do to keep from answering, Yes eat 'em! Eat 'em,'
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30

Headaches and Neuralgia from Colds LAXATIVE PROMO Quinine, the world wide Cold and Grip remedy, removes cause. Call for full name. Look for signature F. w. Grove 25c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30
Work for Council.

The Bessemer City Council did not meet this evening" as 1t was reported that it would. The council meets every first and third Tuesday in the month and this being the fourth Tuesday in the month there will be no meeting held before next Tuesday evening. At that time there will be several matters of importance to come before the board and it is thought that the meeting will be a very lively one
 Chief among the business to come be- fore the board will be the application of the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic railroad for a franchise on Second ave- nue for the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company. nhis will no doubt be the cause of a great deal of argu- ment. as a franchise to run along this avenue has already been granted the Tidewater Development company, and it is thought that a great many of the property owners will object to the run n4ng of two lines down the same ave nue.
 When the Atlanta, Birmingham and At lantc acquired control of the property now utilized as q depot and warehouse by the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company, it is understood that they agreed to furnish the power com p2ny with suitable depot and ware house without any cost to them.
 Now the Tidewater has a chance to go along Second avenue, and the power company will have to do down the same avenue in order to make connexions on Nineteenth street.
 This will be strictly up to the council to decide, and as they claim to be the finest council that the city has ever had, it is thought that they will get real busy and hand town an opinion that will hold for ever and a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30
NEW GAS COMPANY
 MAKING HEADWAY
Mains Are Being Laid With
 Great Rapidity
WORK FOR CITY COUNCIL
Application for Franchise By Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Road Will Bring About a Great
 Deal of Argument

Bessemer, October 29.-(Special 1.-The Bessemer Gas company is making great headway with regard to the laying of mains and it will only be a matter of a ] short time ere the housekeepers of this city will have the opportunity of either using gas for cooking and heating pur- poses or else staying by the old ranges and cooking the real and only good stuff that people eat. over d broiling fire
 The mains are now being laid all along l Eighteenth street, and the work is be- ing pushed along with great rapidty. When the gas company opens for busi- ness about the first of the year, it will no doubt Drove to be one of the greatest labor savers and at the same time one of the most convenient industries in the city, as at the present time with serv- ants so hard to procure and so uncertain, the housekeepers are at the mercy of any old cook that comes along
 The servant problem in this city is a very grave one at the present time. The servants can never be counted on They are always looking for pay day and Sun day, and one can never tell when they are going to show up
 When the gas company does finally en- ter the field it is thought that the servant problem will be solved to d certain ex- tent, as they will be made to understand at that time that their services can be dispensed with unless they attend to their duties regularly.
 MT Harrison, the manager of the gas company, stated few days ago that the work would be rushed forward to completion early as possible, and he was quite sure that the people would have the pleasure of putting in gas stoves l by January l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30

Funeral designs and cut flowers. Amzi Golden Seed Co., 2012 1st ave. 10-22-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30
Banks Take Action.

and was fined $1OO and his license re-
 Voked!
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TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, and WEDNESDAY MATINEE, Oct. 2930. SAM s. AND LEE SHUBERT Qnc.)
 PRESENT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30
Street Fair Opens.

The carnival and street fair given by the Royal Amusement company un- der the direction and management of w. ]. Tibbs. opened this afternoon on the vacant space in front of the city hall. The attractions are clean and p-to-date. and judging from the as sembled crowds this afternoon and to- night much business was done. To add to the interest a number of local men acted as spoilers and acquitted them selves like veterans. The fair will continue during the week. and judging from the present indications will prove highly successful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30

Ads illustrated with good cuts are trade winners-The Gawk makes good cuts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30
E. T. Shaw X Son. undertakers.

Green Undertaking Co.. Wallace C. Johns, Manager
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30
Police Court News.

At the police court this morning small docket faced Mayor Sugg, not withstanding the fact that no court was held yesterday. owing to the cleo tion negro saloonist was found guilty of selling liquor on election day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30

One of the most interesting personalities in the government service today is Dr. Harvey w. Wiley. chief chemist of the department of agriculture. He is man with a purpose, and that purpose is to see that the folks of America can get good things to eat, or at least that what they get through interstate commerce shall be wholesome. His crusade for pure food and pure drugs has given him the hearty enmity of those who do not approve Of such crusade. Ordinarily. Dr. Wiley does not seem to lose any sleep over what his opponents say, but occasionally he sees things in his dreams as a result of their railing at him. He confessed as much to a party of friends a few days ago when he gave the following account of a dream he had had the night before
 q dreamed, said he. that my head began to hurt me. and that I went to rub It. In so doing l rubbed up a piece Of skin, and then another and another. after the fashion of an onion. until l got right down to the brain. Then l pulled the last layer off, and To, there was a cavity without bit of brain substance in it. nothing but literal aching void. And then | begansto feel that what my enc mics have been saying about me was true I lawoke and felt that some power had indeed given me the gift to see my self us some others see me.
 To land in a strange city in ones stock ing feet at early dawn is not nearly so funny as it sounds, especially if you hap pen to be the shoeless person. as Miss Will Allen Dromgoole. the Tennessee
 author can testify. For that is just what Miss Dromgoole did. She was on her way to southern town while on one If her reading tours and when she stopped over in West Tennessee city to change cars the loss of her footwear was dis covered. The story leaked ollt through club woman who was hastily called
 from her breakfast to the telephone to hear sweet, faint little voice asking ''ls that Mrs x? Oh. Mrs. X. this fs
 win Allen Dromgoole, l want"-but the club member here interrupted with "l didn't know you were in town, When did you come? Cant you come over and see me?' No. l cant come anywhere, came the rorlorn answer. ''1 am in trou- ble and want your help. Why, cer- tainly, my dear. what is it?' was the ready response. Then please send me a pair of shoes was the startling an- swer shoes. shoes," parroted the club
 member, and then Miss Dromgoole ex- plained that her shoes had been spirited away the night before when the sleepy headed porter had taken them into the rear car to clean, and had been switched off somewhere up in Kentucky
 The laughing club member immediately called her carriage and drove post haste to the depot taking shoes to the disconso- late little writer. not the club member s own shoes. however, but a pair belonging to her little 1o-year-old daughter. fot Miss Dromsoole's foot is one that Gin derella herself might envy. The depot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30

Before Columbus Came.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-14

that. And the small saving he Is able
to make by large purchases is more
than offset by his larger expenses.
These expenses must come out of the
purchaser SO the mail order man Is
compelled to make larger profit than
the local dealer. 1t costs him more to
market his goods He must maintain
large and expensive office force and
he must advertise. AS an example
of what the mail order man expects
to make out of his customers, letter
written by a prominent mall order
man might be quoted. Writing to a
magazine he said: advertising in
your publication cost us IT cents an
inquiry and we made sales at cos,
of only Sc cents each for advertising.
This Is about half of our regular cost"
This man was selling "a complete out.
fit of clothes for 1896" He was will.
ing to pay a dollar for each sale the
advertising brought him. Ask your
local dealer how long he could keep
the sheriff away from his doors If he
took a dollar out of every ten dollar
sale.
You can't buy the same class OF
goods any cheaper from the catalogue
houses than from the local dealer,
though one may think he can after
reading the catalogues. The differ.
ence comes in the quality of the goods.
There Is a particular class of goods
known as mail order goods" This
trade term is applied to cheap but
snowy goods and novelties which can
be sold at a large profit. 1t means
much the same thing as street fakir
goods" and, as is the case with street
fakir goods. mail order goods are not
handled by the regular jobbers and
wholesalers. They cannot afford to
handle them because their customers
want better merchandise. The street
fakir duplicates, in appearance, the
jewelry carried by a first class jew.
elry house and makes large profits.
The catalogue merchant does the
same thing but does 1t on a larger
scale and much more cleverly.
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the fact that they are making their
community poorer, reducing the per
capita of wealth, and dwarAng local
business, only to enrich concern al
ready rich enough to buy several
counties. An extra thousand dollars
in any community will mean. during
the year, many thousands of dollars in
business transacted and increased In
come for practically every one in the
community. Often the amount sent
to the mail order houses is more than
enough to turn the balance the other
way and business depression exists
where prosperity would prevail under
normal conditions. Even II the coun-
try purchaser was able to save a snug
sum by ordering his supplies from a
mail order house, the loss to the com
munity would be greater than the gain
for himself. 1t is needless to point
out that as the amount of the mail OF.
der business from any community in.
creases the amount of loss to the com.
munity also increases. until it is only
n question of time until the individual
loss caused by the general depression
of business will exceed the individual
saving.
In fact II everyone in the commun.
ity bought from the mail order houses,
local markets would disappear and
the farmer would be compelled to sell
as well as buy from the catalogue
concerns. The rural districts would
be devoid of business activity while
the wealth of the country would be
centered in one or two points. Buy.
ing by mail may be attractive. but the
most pronounced mail order fiend
must look with apprehension on any
condition whereby he would be com.
PEELED to depned on the mail order
man for market for his products.
But the idea of saving on individual
purchases is, to great extent, a
fallacy. In spite of his boasted ability
to buy in large quantities. he is not
able to buy for much less than the
country merchant. Competition in all
manufactured products is too keen for
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-14

fairs fail wholly to divest himself CT
his aspirations while inside the jail he
has an even more dreary prospect
ahead when he gets out.
To die the death of a martyr to the
cause of revolution may. in specific in
stances, appeal strongly to sashed.
bucklered and belted knight-pro-
vided the spectacular surroundings
necessary for correct and approved
death in that manner be also provided.
But just to ''mysteriously disappear
that is not alluring, attractive or cal
Quilted to inspire.
On the whole, it looks as If the
Mexican idea has stood the test of
time. The great man at the head of
the Mexican government Is not alone
great himself, but is surrounded by a
splendid corps of advisers. Never has
Mexico been allowed to lag or reccdo
as other nations marched forward SO
long as Diaz has been in command.
The bane of other Latin-American
governments-the revolutionist-has
been reduced to naught in Mexico.
There are few revolutions therc-
opera bouffe or otherwise. Preside ent
Diaz has made good riddance of prac.
tically al such bad rubbish.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-14
BUYING A WAGON
HoD Mr.. Brown Got the
Worst of 7Wo Bar
gains.
TRIED MAIL-ORDER METHODS
Thought He Was Saving Money, But
VIII Not Try the Same Thing a
Second Time-Buying at
Home Pays.

(copyrighted. 1906. by Alfred c. Clark
Mr.. Brown. a farmer living in
Boone county. Mo-, decided to buy a
spring wagon. The next time he was
In town he went to the local dealer
TO see what he had in stock. One
wagon that suited him was offered to
him at SIS. He thought he would
take It, but before ordering he looked
over mail order vehicle catalogue.
Here he saw described a wagon which.
as far as description went, was the
same as the one he saw in the deal.
er's store room. In fact, the descrip-
tion was written in such a convinc-
ing manner and all of the good points
OF the mail order vehicle were brought
out SO thoroughly that 1t appeared to
be superior to the other one. And the
price was only $67.45. Mr.. Brown
thought of the saving of s7.55 which
represented several days of hard work.
The more he thought about it the
more he wanted to save that amount
and in the end the Chicago mail or
der concern got his check.
When the wagon finally arrived
with a freight bill OF $780, he rode to
town with his son and spent half a
day putting it together. He had to
buy screw driver and some oil and
sand paper and few bolts to replace
some that had been lost in shipment
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All of these cost him rs cents. He
was not experienced at putting spring
wagons together and he didn't do a
very good job of it, for one of the
seats refused to sit in the right place
and he had to get local blacksmith
to help him fix it, This cost him
another half dollar and delayed him
SO much that he and the boy had to
go 10 the hotel for their dinners; an
additional expense of 10 cents. So
before he got his team hitched to the
wagon it cost him $3.50, allowing him
saving of $1.10, which was very
stingy pay for the time he had lost.
OF the amount he spent for the wagon,
only s1.95 remained in Boone county.
The railroads and the mail order
house got the rest of it.
In the meantime his neighbor, Mr..
Jones, bought the $75 wagon from the
local dealer, who made profit of
SIG on the sale. AS the vehicle was
already assembled and there were no
extra parts or tools to buy, the amount
paid for the wagon represented all of
the cost to Mr.. Jones' The dealer
his building; the sign PAINTER hired
carpenter to repair the roof on his
house: the carpenter paid his bill at
the butchers and. the butcher bought
a hog from Mr.. Jones. And so the
SIG kept going In the county until a
farmer with the mail order habit got
hold of it. He sent 1t to Chicago and
It never came back.
But this wasn't the last of the two
purchases. A few weeks after the
two wagons were bought, Mr.. Browns
boy and Mr. Jones' boy. driving the
new vehicles, met on the country road.
They drove too close to each other
and smash-up resulted. The weak
est part of each wagon gave way; an
axle on the mail order product was
broken and doubletree on the other
was smashed. Both breaks were plain
ly because of defective construction.
Mr. Jones took his broken doubietree
to town the next day and the dealer
gave him new one. Mr.. Brown at
tempted to explain to the Chicago firm
that the axle would not have broken
If 1t had not been defective and
coupled this explanation with re-
quest for new part. but after several
weeks of correspondence with the
piece as far away as at the begin
ming, he gave it up and bought the
axle himself. This experience told
Mr.. Brown why he should trade with
home merchants instead of patroniz-
ing the mail order houses.
In Boone county and in every other
county there are many who send thou
sands of dollars out OF the county
every year, without ever considering
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-14
HOW TO STOP REVOLUTIONS.
Mexico Has Way OF Causing Disturb
ers to Disappear.

Mexico, of all nations wherein Span.
ish blood predominates, alone seems
to understand the shortest and most
satisfactory way to dispose of revolu-
tionists. Central and South American
countries hardly have breathing spells
between revolutions. Cuba has been
indulging in one continuous "revolu-
ton" for many years. Santo Domingo
and Hayti are ever at it. But Mexico
has reduced the revolutionist to a
cipher. If he exists at all in that
country he is scarcely ever heard Of.
except in a way that shows Mexico's
complete control of him.
The truth of the matter seems to be
that the South American revolutionist
is a business man at his trade. He
''revolutes' as professional matter.
In Mexico as soon as man shows any
symptoms of the revolutionary disease
he is unceremoniously bundled off to
Jail and allowed to think it over be-
hind the bars. If he is at last released
from durance vile and then behaves
himself all may go well with him.
But the government keeps an eye
on him and in case of a relapse he is
quietly taken out to some secluded
spot and cheerfully shot. Then the
report of the mysterious disappear
ance' is given out.
Obviously it is rather a depressing
business to conduct. aid or abet rev.
olution from behind steel bars.
In fact, there is absolutely nothing
inside of Jail calculated to keep the
flame of revolutionary desire brightly
burning. However, should the would
be reorganizer of governmental af-
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Morsan's Fine Art Gallery.


Meanwhile Morgan. Sr., is spending
his days in his beautiful library and
art gallery on East Thirty-sixth street
that is connected with his brownstone
residence at the corner of Madison
avenue. AS has been said, his con-
Germs nowadays are more with his
esthetic treasures than with the ma
terial things of Wall street. Here his
partners come from time to time to
consult with him, but in the main he
is left to spend his days as he pleases.
possibly laying plans for the future
presentation to the city of his new liz
brary and the turning of 1t into such
gallery as the Tate in London
There are years of this work ahead
of him, for his varied collections are
so large that it is only with these
leisurely days that he can really be
said to have an opportunity to become
thoroughly acquainted with them.
Morgan has been called a close man
and anecdotes have been told of his
having given a gold piece TO news
ing a policeman back to recover the
yellow coin. But there is no doubt
that Morgan has given great sums to
charity and that all his gifts have not
been heralded abroad as have those of
other millionaires. As for art, his
hobby for picking up masterpieces in
every quarter of the world is too well
known to need repeating. The library
building itself is proof of his prodi-
gality. Two years were required to
build the library. Its cost was placed
at 100000. In it are gathered many
of the choicest art objects and books
on which the finacier has spent at
least $10,000,000 during the last 20
years.
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To pomestlcate a Cat.

1t is said that an unfalling remedy
for cat that will not accustom itself
to a new home is to grease its feet
thoroughly with butter and put 1t
down the cellar. When it has licked
it's feet clean it will be thoroughly
domiciled and will cause no further
trouble by running away.
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Marrlaae DAYS In ItaIY.

In Italy Sunday Is usually selected
for the marriage OF those persons who
have never been married before.
Widows. however. In accordance with
an old custom, usually choose Satur-
day.
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clubs here are the Union. Metropoli-
tan, University. Racquet, Century.
Harvard and New York Yacht, while
in London he belongs to Whites. st.
James, Devonshire and Bath. In 1S9O
he was married to Jane Norton Grew,
of Boston
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