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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16

Mir. E. Love and family leave today for Jamestown and Richmond for a va cation of ten days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16

See Lovett, Hotel Hillman.
 Turn your dimes into dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16

Mrs. W. D. Sims of Nashville, with her two children, William and Edith Virginia, are visiting Mrs. J. L. Sims at 22lj Twelfth avenue, North.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16

few days for Norfolk and New York
 Mir. E. Love and family leave today for Jamestown and Richmond for a va cation of ten days.
 Mrs. w. D. Sims of Nashville. with her two children William and Edith Virginia, are visiting Mrs. J. L. Sims at 22lj Twelfth avenue North.
 Miss Ruby Bishop has returned after attending Miss Mabel Pratt's house pa-tv this week Miss Pratt, Miss Addie Me Collster of Piedmont and Miss Annie Farley of Anniston.
 Little Elizabeth Crumley, daughter of Dr. and Mrs l.. A. Crumley. Is i'll with fever at the home of her parents. TIT South Fourteenth street
 Miss Mellaney Bloch of Anniston is vis- iting Mrs. Marcus Well and Mrs. Ben Well.
 Mrs. Marcus Well and Mrs. Ben Well left yesterday for Waukesha.
 A party of Birmingham people. com posed of Mir. and Mrs. R. A. Louis and family, MT and Mrs R. Stopert Mir c. C. Harris. Mir. and Mrs. Tom Stopert, Miss Jamie Harris. Miss Dorsey Harris, MT Clarence Stopert and Mir. James Gill lespy, are spending a few weeks in Gulf port. Miss.
 Mir. Walter K. Howard and Mrs. How ard returned from Bangor yesterday. bringing with them their son. John L. Howard who Is suffering from severe attack of malarial fever. They expect to return to Ranger about the end of this week or early next week
 See Lovett, Hotel Hillman.
 Turn your dimes into dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16

Little Elizabeth Crumley, daughter of Dr. and Mrs l.. A. Crumley. Is i'll with fever at the home of her parents 1117 South Fourteenth street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-16

Miss Mellaney Bloch of Anniston is vis- iting Mrs. Marcus Well and Mrs. Ben Well.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07
&ea

The following, taken from page IS
Of the Chicago Health Den"rtment
annual report for 1906, issued in 1907,
speaks for Itself;
I'm addition 10 this the inspectors
at the Union Stock Yards have de-
stroyed G37,37s pounds OF cut meats.
Most OF this was returned from the
various branch houses or was confined
In the sausage rooms Of the large
packing houses, where II was being
made into sausage. The principal
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07

cause for condemnation was decom.
position. Most OF this meat Is either
sour or Shiny or In some cases even
putrd."
And In the face Of these facts, city
inspectors have been Withdraw from
the large packing houses"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07
The Union Stock Yards Company, OF

The Union Stock Yards Company, Of
Omaha, Limlted) Is corporation
owned in Chicago. 1t Is capitalized for
S7,5OO,0O0 ana our esteemed fellow
citizen, Samuel McRoberts Is ole of
the directors. Mr.. McIloberts would
probably be only too glad to tell the
Board of Review what Chicagoans own
this stock, as he is the secretary and
treasurer Of the company. The taxa
ton of this stock In Chicago would
add 100000 per annum to the revenue
Of the people. 4 total Of S525,OOO for
five years. Call Mr.. McItoberts by all
means, gentlemen Of the Board of Re-
view.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07

Why do we accept tainted money
from Trusts for schools and hospitals
as compliment when the money Is
legally due us from them and great
deal more at that? And why do we
organize societies 20 solicit charity
from these delinquent trusts, when So
cetles should be organized to see that
their taxes are paid ara then the peo.
pie would not have to be under obi.
cations to Trusts for charity.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07
In lhc .NssocIated Prcss.l

Lansing, Mich, Nov. 2O.-rhc Ar
mour Beef Company Of Chicago to-day
secured In the Circuit Court here a
temporary injunction restraining the
Michigan state Food Department from
thrraicnin: 10 arrest the company's
agents or other dealers for selling the
Armour sausagcs. The company al
lc.cs that by reason Of this threat IL
has suffered loss of 100000 in ten
months. The company recently sc-
cured temporary injunction In Bcr-
rien County restraining the Food De
partmcnt from publishing the statement
that the Armour sausagcs We're adul-
terated. but the Injunction was dis
solved. The company says the United
States pure food bureau recognizes
water and cereals as proper ingredients
of SausagDS
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07

The Health Department reports for
years back have been interesting read
ing for people who give thought TO thl
matter of pure food:
Tie following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of OctO.
her %. 1905, speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors Mt the Union
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS,
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
or TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT,
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
"rhey also condemned and dcs.royed
3,003 pounds of cut meats shiIr-- =
St Louis aud Kansas CITY, having
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07

Think Of the hundreds x little
babies that will suffer on account Of
the greed Of the men behind the MIX
Trust
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07
deaths. How Is that for the work Of
the Beef Trust!

The following appeared in the last
edition Of the Chicago Daily News,
November -, 1907. II speaks for IL
self
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07

The Beef trust will find It hard
70 get a resting place when the peo-
pie OF this country rise against It
as they surely will. The people Of the
whole world are crying for its exter-
minatiOn.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07

The Beef Trust will be campaign
issue next year. The Government has
four-fushed on this food trust, which
is the worst trust Of all. PeoQle Do
not eat coal oil, but they do eat meat
Coal oil Is cheap and meat IL dear. Il
the Beef Trust too powerful to prose
cute, or Il 1t to be forever lmmunsI
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11
TIE RIeHT Spirit.

II Mayor Thompson isn't careful he'll
be read out of the American" party.
Saturday at the celebration in com
memoration Of the completion of the
Big Cottonwood conduit Mayor Thomp-
son was so thoughtless as to give for
mer Mayor Morris and his Democratic
administration credit for formulating
the plans and beginning the work. The
mayor evidently does not read the
morning organ OF his party. or he
would have known that absolutely no
credit whatever attaches to the Morris
administration on account of the con-
duit
Day after day the mouthpiece OF the
American" administration has en-
deavored to convince the public it
reaches that if it had not been for the
American" party there would have
been no conduit. Or. If there had been
conduit there would have been no
water 10 put i'm IT, Clearly Mayor
Thompson, in conceding anything to his
Democratic predecessor. has put him
self entirely outside the party breast
works. If the Democrats are to have
any credit for the conduit-and good
ness knows they are entitled to 1.-THE
only campaign cry for tho Americans
this fall i'm the city campaign will be
silenced. And they will need a cam
paign cry badly. for there is a long row
of counts I'm the public Indictment
against them.
Nevertheless. the general public will
believe that Mayor Thompson did a
graceful thing when he acknowledged
the citys Indebtedness to the Demo-
cratic administration. And the conces-
sion seems the more admirable because.
i'm the light Of the utterances of other
Americans" and their organ it was en-
tirely unexpected. Mayor Thompson
manifested the right spirit There is
glory enough in the Cottonwood conduit
TO go around. in spite of the fact thar
some of the glory acquired by the
American" administration is somewhat
furnished by egregious blunders.
Now is it too much to hope that
Patriot" Tom Homer. who was so sure
that the conduit would never result in
The slightest benefit TO the city. wis
was sure that il it was finished il would
be bad job. and that even so there
would be no water for it. will come for
ward and frankly acknowledge his err
ror? The patriot" was not a bit back.
ward about instituting court proceed
ings with a view to hampering the Nor.
ris administration in the undertaking
and ne overworked his talking machin
cry i'm opposition TO it II ne wants :,
a public apology to former Mayor Nor
ris
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11
FIRE AND POLICE BILL.

To The Salt Lake Herald:
notice in The Herald that a Diii mas
been introduced in the legislature giving
the governor the right TO appoint the IRE
and police board at Salt lake CITY. HaN-
ing lived in Denver while such law was
I'm force there. / can say 10 more ddngtI-
ous hill to the interests OF salt Lake CITY
could be thought OF than the one spoken
of A governor might be elected from a
distant part OF the state who owned no
Dropertv in Salt Lake City and therefore
had no personal interest in the city s well
fare In such a case If the governor was
am uuscruDulous man he could have MS
country cousins move into Salt Lake city,
Establish n residence and receive appoint
ments as firemen. policemen and detec-
tives. thus putting Salt Lake CITY prac-
tically under foreign government.
The city would then have fremeu VINO
knew nothing about their work ana po-
Ucemen and detectives who had no IDEA
of the way to detect crime II is well
known and demonstrated fact that II the
governor appointed the fire and ponce
board he could dictate 70 great extent
the men whom they would appoint
IL seems to me that no member OF the
legislature from Salt Lake City who has
the interest of his constituents at heart
would dare 70 vote for such measures
and any outside member who wants 10 De
fair would not vote to take the appoint
ment of Salt Lake officers out or the
hands of the people of Salt Lake City and
give il into the hands of foreign power
Yours respectfulIy. +. +. BROWN.
Provo. Utah February Q.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11
North American Review


One day in the midwinter of 1856 or
1851 think it was 1861 was coming
along the main street Of Keokuk in the
middle of the forenoon. 1t was bitter
weather-so bitter that the street was
deserted, almost. A light dry snow was
blowing here and there on the ground
end on the pavement, swirling this way
and that and making all sorts of beau
tiful figures. but very chilly TO look at.
The wind blew a piece Of paper past
me and it lodged against a wall of a
house. Something about the look of it
attracted my attention and / gathered
1t in. 1t was fifty-dollar bill, the only
one that i had ever seen, and the larg-
est aSsemblage of money / had ever en-
countered in one spot. / advertised it
in the papers and suffered more than a
thousand dollars worth of solicitude
and fear and distress during the next
few days lest the owner should see the
advertisement and come and take my
fortune away. AS many as four days
went by without an applicant; then I
could endure this kind of misery no
longer 1 felt sure that another four
could not go by i'm this safe and secure
way. felt that i must take that
money out of danger. SO / bought a
ticket for Cincinnati and went to that
city / worked there several months in
the printing Office of Wrightson & Co.
I had been reading Lieutenant Hern-
don's account of his explorations OF the
Amazon and had been nightly at
iracted by what he said OF coca.
made up my mind that I would go to
the headwaters Of The Amazon and col
lect coca and trade in il and make a
fortune. left for New Orleans on
the steamer Paul Jones with this great
idea filling my mind. One Of the pilots
of that boat was Horace Bixby. Little
by little / got acquainted with him and
pretty soon l was doing a lot of steer
| ing for him in his daylight watches.
When I got to New Orleans inquired
about ships leaving for Para and dis
covered that there weren't any and
/ learned that there probably wouldn't
be any during that century. It had not
occurred TO me to inquire about these
particulars before leaving Cincinnati
so there ! was. I couldn't get to the
Amazon + had no friends in New Or
Leans and no money TO speak of.
went to Horace Bixby and asked him
TO make a pilot out OF me. He said he
would do it for a hundred dollars cash
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11
BULLS AND BLUNDERs.
Detroit TribuneD


Josh Billings supplies a definition of
the difference between Il blunder and
a mistake When a man sets down
a poor umbrella and takes up a good
one. he makes a mistake. but when he
sets down a good umbrella and takes
up poor ore he makes 4 blunder."
Some of the most amusing blunders
are to be found in advertisements.
chiefly through their writer's careless
ress In the use of the English lam
guase.
Here are some specimens:
Just received. a lot of fine rabbits.
Persons purchasing same will be
skinned and cleaned while they wait.
When the baby is done drinking. it
must be unscrewed and lead in cool
place under tap ii the oaby does
not thrive on fresh milk it should be
boiled (The reference was TO the adj
ve1 Users patent feeding bottle.)
Wanted. furnished room for a sim
gle gentleman looking both ways and
we'll ventilated.
Wanted. AN organist and a hoy to
blow the same.
Among the things that had better
been left unsaid, or otherwise OK
pressed. these are some choice exam
pies:
First stranger-Slow, isn't it?
Second Stranger-Yes. very.
First Stranger-Let's go home.
Second Stranger can't. Tn the
host.
Nor is the usually grave and sedate
profession free from the charge that
| it's members have added 20 the gayety
of nations.
There is but one thing" said the
physician. that we know about death
lit is always fatal "
! DOctor-And now as to the swelling
on the back OF your head, there is
nothing serious about it at present, but
you must keep your eye on ii.
A -
The fervor of the reformer. in almost
every walk of life. has led him into the
expression OF the most ludicrOuSly
mixed metaphors.
! Comrades. let us be up and doing
Let us take our axes on our shoulders
and plough the waste places till the
good ship Temperance sails gayly over
the land
Gentlemen, the apple of discord has
been thrown into our midst: and if II
be not nipped in the bud. it will burst
into a conflagration which will delugC
the world.
This bell said well-meanins sex
ton. when showing the belfry of an in
tere sting village church to a party o.
visitors, sis only rung in case Of a visi
from the bishop of the diocese, a fire
a flood, or any other such calamity
Mr. and Mrs. G.: wish to express
thanks TO their friends and neighbour
who so kindly assisted at the burnin;
OF their residence last night.
- g
When a gentleman and lady are walk
ing in the street the lady should wall
inside OF the gentleman.
! A man WIS arrested ehis mornin
stealing a string of fish very much un
: der the influence OF liquor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11
THE THAw CASE.

The interrupted hearing of the Thaw
case will be resumed today. with the
wife OF the defendant again on the
stand undergoing direct examination.
Beginning tomorrow. and continuing
for an indefinite period thereafter the
newspapers viii print the testimony as
fully as their space warrants. There
e. talk OF excluding from the Canadian
mails newspapers that go too fully into
the testimony. and this viii doubtless
be a great blow to Canadian newspaper
readers.
For. mOralize as YOU viii. the public
IS more interested in the Thaw case
than in any matter being considered in
the United States today. IF Thaw hid
been poor man. If Stanford White.
his victim. had been a man OF little
means and no social prominence. thcre
IS hardly a newspaper in the country
that would devote moro than 200 words
a day to the trial. On account OF the
wealth and the social prominence OF the
parties the trial is interesting. and tes-
timony is being read by millions that
would not even be listened TO by every
body I'm the court room In an ordinary
proceeding.
No matter what the termination of
the case may be. 1t has already result
ed in harm enough. in all conscience.
A dead mans reputation is being black
ened. the life OF young man has been
ruined. and the dishonor of his wife
has been paraded before the gaze CT
the whole. wide world. 1t really seems
pity that the case could not 1avc been
privately heard and judged on its rner-
its. with only the publication the re-
suit st the end OF It.
But think how unsatisfactory such a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11
COMFORT IN A PIPE.
(Milwaukee sentinei)

milwaukee Sentinel
AS older and older / grow
And waning I find my sight
L am gradually coming 10 know
That its best to slack up in the fight
And l find as the years keep a-creeping
And my age is what many call ripe.
That i care more for doing and sleeping
And the pleasure ] get from my pipe.
/ care not for dreaming romantic,
For that passed away with my youth:
have naught of the manner pedantic,
My tongue I keep silent forsooth.
Let youngsters just turned out of college
Bear the palm. / was once Of their type
But now 1 don't pirate of my knowledge.
L cogitate here with my pipe.
There isn't much left when a fellow
Is whitening fast Ger the brow,
And he gets easy going and mellow
difference 'twixt Then and the Now.
l pine not, nor am / regretful.
For lost hoDes-Im not of that stripe,
And when 1 get restless and fretful
It's me TO my chummy old pipe.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11
THE sTINoIEsT MAN.
Kansas CITY STAR

Talking about stingy. close-fisted peo-
pie. / found one this morning that was
the limit" Dennis Handrahan clerk of
the police department in the west side,
said this morning. II was walking along
Minnesota avenue last night and saw a
little tobacco sack lying on the sidewalk
with something in It. ] thought some far
mer had lost his pOcketbook and picked IL
up There was only piece of chewing
tobacco in the sack and a note. which
read:
"'If / happen TO lose this tobacco the
finder will please return to my office in
the Hustled building and receive reward.
"At first ! thought somebody was try
ing TO play a joke. but I decided to take
that piece of tobacco to the mans office
and see what il meant. When ! handed
II to him he seemed pleased. He showed
il in his pocket saying. that tobacco costs
money these days. and that a fellow has
TO be very close in order TO save money.
reminded him that he had offered a re-
ward for the return Of the tobacco. and
what do you think he said He took that
piece of tobacco out OF the sack and asked
me 10 have chew.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11
MAUDE ADAMS CAR.
The Actress Tour Will Be Made in
the Tinker Bell.
brooklyn Eagle.)

brooklyn Eagie-)
The latter part of next month a spe-
cial theatre car for Miss Maude Adams
will be finished. 1t will be the only We
hicle of its kind in existence Its in
ventiOn viii. to great extent, relieve
transcontinental travelling and one
night stands of much OF their tradition
al horror. The car is to be a combina-
ton of living apartments and COM
pletely equipped theatre for the re-
hearsaI of scenes and One-act pieces. 1t
will be known as the Tinker Bell and 1t
viii cost from $4,000 to $4,000 when
fully furnished.
The need of such a car has arisen
from the desire on the part of Miss
Adams for absolutely private rehear-
sails of q number of One-act pieces
which she has long had under consid-
GRAFTON. When en- tour il is always
difficult to obtain on short notice a
private rehearsal. A part of the car
viii be devoted to a suite of apart
ments for Miss Adams living pur-
poses. bur its largest space viii be de-
voted TO a theatre, equipped with
everything, constructed on exact rela-
tive proportion To the fittings OF an
ordinary theatre. The finishings of the
living quarters will be of mahogany,
those OF the theatre walnut. The lat
ter portion of the car will be forty feet
in depth. 1t will be entirely without
windows. The usual window space viii
be taken up by grooves for scenery,
which will be admitted into the car by
sliding doors at the rear wall of the
stage. Whenever daylight is desired 1t
will be had through ceiling openings,
bur the lighting equipment viii be al
most entirely electrical. Everything
upon the stage viii be exactly the
equipment of any firSt-class theatre,
except that each fixture Is to be built
i'm minie ture
There will be the usual border lights
above the stage. and below a set OF
footlights fastened inside a coverable
gutter. along the edge of the stage The
calcium and sDot lights will be man
aged from the front end of the theatre,
where there will also be a set of lock-
ers for costumes. There viii be two
| extra sets Of lockers at the rear of the
stage for the property and carpentry
| department. Steps will lead from the
stage to the floor of the theatre, which
viii be without stationary chairs.
The living portion of the car vii
consist OF the conventional private car
! arrangements. except that it's equip
ment VIII be sufficient to relieve Mis-:
Adams entirely from the necessity Of
using hotels. il viii be a suite of three
rooms-dining room. private room. viii
stationary bed and bath, servants
| room. kitchen and dining room. II VII
be lighted by electricity and will be th'
only portion of the car fitted with OBJ
servation windows.
The theatre car is entirely Of Mis-
Adams own design and will be he
personal property when delivered IRON
the Pullman yards.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11

The spring weather of recent days
has brought the automobiles out. and
with the automobiles has come the in
evitable percentage of scorchers. Any
body walking along Brigham street
yesterday might have seen automoril-
lists tearing up and down that thor
oughfare as swiftly as if they were on
a deserted country road. 1t is To be
hoped that il next Sunday is a fine day
the chief of police will station men
along Brigham street and give 9 salu-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11
MIL T-.~,. CIT Found Ffty-Dolar Bill
AsAoA n w GAIA - 0A0kl and Went to Cincinnati

in advance. So I steered for him up to
St Louis. borrowed the money from
my brother-in-law and closed the bar
gain. / had acquired iris brother-in-
law several years before. This was
William A. Moffett. a merchant, Vir-
ginfan-a fine man in every way. He
had married my sister Pamela, and the
Samuel f. Moffett of whom 1 have been
speaking was their son. Within eight
cen months l became competent pilot
and / served that office until the Mis-
sissippi river traffic was brought to. a
standstill by the breaking out OF the
civil war
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11
MODERN NEW YORK.

philadelphia Ledger
The rattle, the bang, the clatter, the
clang
The Jar and the clamor near over;
The horse cars of Gotham-of course, we
ali know them
WIN stop. and the horses eat clover.
Those time-battered boxes hauled over
the r0ckses
Have caused to humanity pain.
But soon they shall vanish, If statute can
Danish.
To never alarm as again.
SO Gotham is gay and she yearns for
the day
To pull off antiquits's token.
Thus TO win a high place and 10 set a
swift pace
To equal that of Hoboken-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-11

Senator Foraker Of Ohio is certainly
warm friend 10 the colored brother
And he shows it by defending the muir
derous mutineers of the Twenty-fiflh
infantry and then turning right arouud
and kicking himself into n spasm be-
cause Roosevelt appointed negro as
collector Of customs at Cincinnati.