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The Washington times., 1907-08-07

wANTED-Good cook. man or woman. and
three colored mattresses. Address BOX l9S'
Times office. auo-ol
The Washington times., 1907-08-07
For SaIe-MiscellaneOus.
CT a PIANO FREE

n you apply 20 US at once we viii let you
have the use OF a good square Piano abs0-
lutely free for six months. All you have %
do is 10 pay the cost Of moving the plano
10 your home. a splendid chance for chill
dren 70 take up music without expense 20
The Washington times., 1907-08-07

ANACOSTIA.
SURY'S PHARMACY. corner Monroe and
Jefferson SITS.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-04-24
Notice Of Application for Leave to
Sell Land.

iN@Ni~E ~ fAFkttNANfNtA 80 A~SeN~ ~
Sell Land.
Application will be made to the
judge of the superior court of the
Brunswick cir uit at Chambers at
Blackshear. Ca, on May 6, next for
authority to sell at private sale the
interest Of Minnie c., aud Daisy
Carter, minors, in that tract Of marsh
land lying northwest OF the city Of
Brunswick, fronting west 1000 feet,
or Turtle river and running back
rlneastwardly betw en- parallel lines
10 high land, and bounded on the
north by I'd Of the Southern rail
way Company, and being the same
land desy ribbed in a deed from the
Brunswick Company, to the Bruins
wick Terminal Company, dated July
1889 and recorded in bo0A E e,
page 40l. The said interestV being
Two seventy seconds. u 1922 inter
est in said land, TO be sold for the
purpose OF reinvestment and for
reason that the said interest
to be sold Yields no income.
This April 8, 1907
s. B. Wright,
Guardian
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-04-24

BEFORE 30 buy aryth ng +
- Spring or Summer come in
here am hat we have. Ten to
one we can give you better quality
at the same price, or the sane
quality at better price.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-04-24
Serving Nerv-o-soI.

Dfofce Of ladies' are now in the
drug store of Ed. C. Bruce serving
Nerv-o-Sol, the new headache and
neuralgia remedy, which is said to
be a sure cure cure or both com
pla4nfs.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-04-24

THIS WEEK WE OFFER AS A SPECIAL SOME UNUSUALLY
TRAcTlVE SPRING SUITS AT $t5,-THEsE SPLENDID
MENTs, AND MADE UP IN PRECISELY THE SAME SMART
AS OUR FINEST HAND TAILORED sCHLosS CLOTHES.
OF COURSE THE FABRICS ARNT JUlTE AS GOOD THEY
ARE FAR BETTER THAN SUITS COULD
PICK UP ANYWHERE FOR SIS, REALLY coca ENOUGH
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-04-24
BATCH OF ITEMS
AROUND THE CITY
A False Alarm.

A False Alarm.
The fire department was called out
early this morning by false tele-
phone alarm, which was sent in from
down on lower Bay street.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-04-24

offerings
$50 SIS yourself
price getting money
thing
wearing
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-04-24
WaltIna on the Wea.her.

Waiting on the Weather.
The trip to the blal kfish \
which was arranged some "a
and postponed on account
Weather. VIII be given Wit
next lew weeks. Il Is Pr
a large crowd will go.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-04-24
Eagle Attracts Attent

was presented to the local aerie sons
time ago. is ngy being displayed in
its large caGef in front of the Ri
nemens az ", where the Eagles
tair is ~ held, and it it attract
ing u attention Of all Of tne pass
ers by. The bird is pretty one
and the aerie is proud Of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
Near Approach of the Legislature

On Tuesday next the legislature VIII reassemble at the capital, where It VIII stay probably all summer It will need fortv.three days in which to clear It's calendars and do the work demanded by public sentiment. Governor Come' said at Mobile last week to a reporter of the Mobile Register: q am under nledge to the members of the legisla- ture that should they need more time than the fifty days allowed under the constitution to carry out the Work necessary for the session, to provide the additional time, and I stand ready to keep my promise" It Is therefore reasonable to assume that the session will last about forty days, even If the governor be compelled to incorporate the calendars of the two houses In ms proclamation conyening an extra ses- sion.
 The situation should induce mem- hers to see the wisdom of a referen- dunn in relation to biennial sessions. Alabama is growing rapidly, and the uuadrennial session plan will prove year by year greater clog on the d y velopment of the state. No other state has adopted the quadrennial plan, and no other state will be apt to adopt a plan that is considered unwise in the one state that has accepted it. Before the revolution the railroads could not have too few legislatures, but the rail roads are not the whole thing in this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
CHASED THE WRONG HAT.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 A Midvale avenue car was the scene of an amusing exchange of hats the other evening when the wind was high. A Frankford man and his wife were in the rear of the open car. Whom a strong gust of wind blew suddenly, off went the Frankford mans hat, scooting down the street on its edge. "Oh, let it goi" he exclaimed. 'It's last years, any way" But just at that moment another gust came along, blowing off the hat of a man in one of the front seats. It flew back, and the Frankford man caught it and put it on his head. The other man looked back and saw the first mans hat flying down the street. Stop the car!' he yelled. "I want to get my hat" The obliging conductor rang the bell, while the second man chased after the Frank forder's lid. He ran back, puffing and perspiring, and was on the car again be- fore he discovered that he had run after the wrong hat. ''Why, this isn't my hat" he exclaimed. looking around at the crowd in the car, which was laughing at him. Just then the Frankford man leaned forward and politely said: Here's your hat, sir Let me have mine, please" And while the crowd gave a haw-haw, the hat chaser scratched his head and won dered how 1t happened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
WORKS OF AUDUBON SOLD.
Seven Volumes of Ills Drawings of "Birds of America" Brought $476.

From the New York American.
 The private library and print collection formed by the late John P. Pepson of Brooklyn sold in the rooms of the An derson Auction company Monday after noon, brought one of the highest prices at book sales during the last month. Four hundred and seventy-six dollars was paid for seven volumes of John James Audubon's drawings of "The Birds of America" made In the United States and territories. Sixty dollars was paid for the same authors "Ornithological Biog raphy or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of Amer ica." accompanied by descriptions of the objects represented in the works entitled "The Birds of America,' the authors signed presentation copy to J. Prescott Hall On the flyleaf Is the following in- teresting notation, signed by MT. Hall: MT. Audubon told me in the year 1S4- that he did not sell more than forty of his great work in England, Ireland, Scot land and France, of which Louis Philippe took ten.
 "The following received their copies, Duchess of Clarence Marquis of London derry, Princess of Hess Homburg, Roth schild paid for his copy, but with great reluctance
 'He further said that he sold seventy five copies in America; twentysix in Ne-l York and twenty-four In Boston; that the work cost him s135,00j, and that he lost $125,000 by it."
 Another of Audubons works, The Quadrupeds of America" done in CO., operation with J. Bachman, brought S72.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07

real need iB one of sufficient hospital accommodations. This valley needs more room alike for pay and for char ity patients. Let LIS all pull together to get 1t. The Hillman hospital should be enlarged the east wing at St. Vim cents should be built, and every pos sibie effort should be made to secure the location here of the proposed Methodist hospital. Before and after the building of the last named hos pital, if fortunately we get 1t, the city and the county should be generous to 1t in the appropriation of public mon- eys. We cannot have too many hos pitals in this populous industrial val ley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
ABOUT SUMMER READING

a consequence, what we call, profession ally or technically, "good writing" Is that sort which presents a significant and interesting subject in a clear and vivid way; and very often 1t has happened that the person who can write in this way has never elaborated his style or studied his method at all, but just writes straight on, plainly and vigorously, in obedience to an instinctive common sense. Of course 1t Is necessary that he shall know his grammar, and be wise In avoid ing solecisms; that he shall, either in- stiactively or as c result of training, realize the difference between hitting a nall squarely on the head and humping the surrounding lumber. But such knowl- edge Is easily attained if one has strong sense to begin with. Therefore the time ma be said to have come when a man may write well by main strength. even though 1t may never have been possible to play the fiddle on the game principle.
 Looking over the "summer books" that are now on the market, we perceive an unusual number that are not merely light, trif1ing, hammocl1y and frontporchy, but are just "easy to read" according to this formula. They are plain, clever, bright bo oks, with something in them. They are goo to read any time, but perhaps shade better when people are a trifile languid, and when their minds refuse to follow rocky roads. We do not insist upon the subject, but we do insist on simplicity and directress of language. A good summer book should be lightly clad and athletic as to It's style.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
Hostile Double Taxation

The life insurance companies supply over 75 per cent of the funds available in this state for longtime loans se- cured by real estate mortgages. They have in the past sent money freely to Alabama for that purpose, paying three taxes for the privilege. And when on top of the thfee taxes is piled another tax, contrary to the terms es- tablished when existing loans were made, the managers of these insurance companies very naturally construe the additional tax as not only an act of bad faith, but also as evidence of a hostile spirit toward large corpora tlons. The one remedy open to them Is withdrawal from this state, and this Is what confronts us.
 A. R. Dearborn, a business man of extensive experience in the handling of real estate loans, describes the opera ton of the obnoxious law in doubling the taxation of borrowers. He says: "A loan upon vacant realty under ne- gotiation with a foreign corporation for the sum of $1O0,0O0 for a period of ten years-5h per cent net to the bor- rower-was held up for a legal opin- ion on the new tax. Upon its being given, the rate of interest was changed from 51a per cent to per cent-a mere difference of $500 exacted annu- ally from the borrower Only $200 of this Is payable to the state. Three hun dred dollars is collected additional for future contingencles-a penalty for un- wise legislation. The money, when se- cured, Is to be utilized for the purpose of erecting a building, which when completed will be literally taxed by the state, county and municipality. If this Is not a perfect type of double tax ation, I should like to know under at head it properly comes."
 The people, however, understand the issue. Public sentiment demands re- peal of the law that Governor Conner pushed by main force through the leg islature. The people ask with all proper respect that the legislature will meet and carry out their will rather than the will of an autocratic governor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
SPECTACLES MODERN.
the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Did Nero wear spectacles? Pliny relates that the Emperor Nero used a precious stone through which he gazed on the glad itorial combats. Dr. Magnus, the latest authority to examine the passage critical ly holds that this means that the Elm peror was in the habit of gazing upon an emerald which he used to carry with him for the purpose of resting his eyes when they became tired of loowing at the shows. This view is corroborated by Lhe belief of antiquity that green has a rest ful effect upon the eyes. Contrivances for bringing the rays of the sun to a focus Tn order to produce combustion have been employed almost from time immemorial. Burning glasses were used to kindle fires and these must have been of considera ble size even in a country like Greece, where the sun shines hot most of the year. More over, we are told they were kept in chem ists' shops for the purpose. Though the art of making glass or certain kinds IS old, spectacles had to await the discov- cry or invention of some method that would produce it perfectly transparent Specimens of glass have been found in the Egyptian tombs nlore than 4000 years old, and glass bottles are represented on tonlbs at least 1500 years earlier. In Mo sopotamia the art of making glass has been traced for at least 2000 years B. .. But all of the glass of antiquity was of lu- ferior quality and was almost useless for purposes where the rays of light were to be transmitted unbrolSen and with un- diminished energy. Mirrors also were made in Egypt thousands of years before the Christian era.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
Greater BIrminQham

No one doubts the greatness of the Birmingham district, and the Birmlng- ham district as it is known In other rtates and in other countries embraces the entire mineral section of Alabama, which will soon have million of pop ulation. In view, then, of the district idea-here as in Pittsburg-the mere question of census figures, all import ant in the case of most cities because they indicate growth and prosperity, are not particularly essential in Bir- mingham.
 But the city's limits are at present singularly small They do not even include certain tall chimneys that doom up almost Tn the heart of the city. And for sanitary reasons, if for no others. the boundary lines should be extended All desire, therefore, from health point of view, to see 'ureater Birmingham" crystalize into law and fact. The communities In one common Jones Valley are closely knit together ands the Age-Herald hopes and believes the day will come when they will all be parts of one noble municipality.
 But the road to this desired result Is somewhat difficult There may be ob stacles legal, popular, corporate and otherwise, and 1t may not be possible to overcome them in a session thirteen days long. Tn a session forty-three days long, by the grace of Governor Conner, the subject might be threshed over to some conclusion. The two pending measures are the Smyer bill, which provides for separate referen- dums and for non-taxing districts. and the King bill, which is arbitrary and which proposes to spread taxation evenly. Some say that both bills should he passed, tn ls giving the peo- ple of Jones Valley free choice in the methods to be employed. The two bills do not conflict.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
ANGRY BEAR TIES UP ROAD.

Ogden Utah) Cor. New York Herald
 A mother bear in quest of her young yesterday tied up the Konmerer division of the Union Pacific railroad system.
 A newly arrived telegrapher at Bryan. Wyo.. invested in two cubs-the offspring of the mother who for days had hunted high and low for her young. As last hope she peeped into the bunkhouse of the operators, who. fortunately, had seen her coming and barred the door which Med into the station. The mother bear seemed content to walt, evidently not thinking that great railroad might need the assistance of the operators in push ing transcontinental trains through.
 A freight train crew, not seeing the semaphore in place, started to investi gate They found the operators waiting to be rescued. With the assistance of 300 Greeks who were in the work cars up the road a short distance, the mother bear was driven off, after having disarranged the schedule for hundreds of miles east and west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
From the New York Mail.

From the New York Mail.
 C UMMER reading should be easy 0O reading. By that token, it ought 0 to be hard to write 1t, since, &C., cording to the adage, easy writing Is con- kennedy hard reading. But is it hard to write 1t? We should not judge so from the specimens of 1t that are coming to our hand. Nor do we know that 1t is after all, any the worse for being easily written. There was time when the old adage was true It was the time when people wanted "art in what they read Most people did not read at all in the good old days. The few who did read coveted a fine array of well-sounding words The front page of every popular newspaper was full of sequipedalian let ters from "Senex,." or "Semper Paratus," or Acre Perennlsi' on abstract topics, or verp pedantic essays copied from other journals, all written in a vapid but care fully elaborated style.
 No paper-not even the Literary World" or the 'Homiletic Review'-would publish such stuff now. What the present generation must have is the concrete special, significant thing Even poetry must have a direct appeal. It must pos- sess sgnihcance-it must contain entrails. It's matter become of quite equal im- portance with its form. It Is easier to get a hearing now for poet who has appeal without form than for one who has the perfection of form, but no appeal.
 The same Is true in an even higher de- gree of everything written in prose. As
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07

ite organ of the administration, does say that while Governor Conner is op- posed to some provisions of the Gum nells bill, he does think Q c.uuty supor. intendent should "be a man well post C on teaching and the science there of"
 This position Is too indefinite to be of value to the rural schools. The rural schools are entitled to as effi- cient supervision as the city, schools, and they should demand superinten- dents who are actual teachers holding a f1rst-grade certificate, selected by the county board of education. The ex- perience of the various states demands all this, and Alabama is educationally ambitious.
 Let the friends of the rural schools see the situation. They must fight a ring of fossil superintendents, and they will get precious little aid from the governor of the state. The Gunnells bill should be considered on It's merits regardless of what Governor Conner de- sires or does not desire.
 At Daphne Governor Conner advo- cated compulsory education. It would be the height of folly to adopt compul- sory education in this state before the rural schools are provided with capa- ble and efficient county superintend- ents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
SONG.

By Thomas Carew.
 Ask me no more where love bestows. When June Is past the fading rose; For in your beauties, orient deep, These flowers, as in their causes, sleep. Ask me no more whither to stray The golden atoms of the day;
 For, in pure love, heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair Ask me no more whither dost haste The nightingale when May is past; For in your sweet, dividing throat She winters and keeps warm her note. Ask me no more where those stars ligh The downward fall in dead of night; For in your eyes they sit, and there Fixed become, as in their sphere. Ask me no more if east or west The phoenix builds her spicy nest; For unto you at last she flies,
 And in your fragrant bosom dla
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
oUT-oF-DATE LONDON THEATRES
Prices Too High and No Effort to
 Reach Middle Classes.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald
 London.-Mr Marc Klaw, who left Fri day for Paris, accompanied by MT. Ted D. Marks, thinks the London theatrical season very dull and uninteresting from an artistic standpoint.
 "The theatres are suffering for two causes" said MT. Klaw. "One is that no effort is made to get at the so-called middle cless, which is really richer here than in America. The other is the high prices charged for seats.
 'I cannot see any reason in the world why a man should have to pay los Cd (S2.62) for an orchestra stall when the man behinds him pays only 2s Cd (62 cents). The former pays the extra eight shlllings ($2) for class distinction. This last kills anything theatrical, unless 1t be grand opera.
 Tn my opinion the London theatrical manager that would abolish the pit and fight it out, giving half of his lower floor for Ss (S2) and the other for four &D and then put the pit crowd in the back part of the balcony at two and six (62 cents) would eventually make lot of money
 "Of course the pioneer would have trou- ble at the start and great opposition. For that reason London should have an asso- citation of managers, such as we have in New York, who would get behind any man who should be willing to try out the experiment for year.
 Another thing which initiates against the patronage of the general public is the question of dress. Men come home tired from business or the races. as they do In America. If they and their wives have to dress for a play they patronize the theatre as seldom as possible The man is likely to don dinner jacket, put a cigar in his mouth and stroll off to music hall.
 T believe a smaller proportionate num- Der of people in London go to the theatre than in any other city in the world. There Is absolutely no reason why more should be charged for seats here than in New York. where expenses are just as heavy, rents being greater and salaries certain ly higher.
 "They are catering for the drama to a little smart set which is wortb - little to any trade or profession"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
Our Charitable Institutions

Dr. Mccormick, who breaches to a large congregation on one side of our railroads, and Dr. Dickinson, who breaches to another large congrega. tion on the other side, find In one pro- fession or another, in one class or an. other, of this community a great deal of altruistic effort-perhaps in honor of Dr. Dickinson we should say of vica- rious work. They recite these acts in order to minimize the labors of the sisters of charity at the East Lake orphanage and at St. Vincents hos pital. But it will embarass either or both of these earnest preachers to find any one who has taken a hobo af- fiicted with smallpox, nursed him, lodged him, fed him, supplied him with dressings and medical attendance un- til he could be sent tramping again strong and well. The sister who did this work went to an early and direct grave, but neither Dr. Dickinson nor Dr. Mccormick have taken cognizance of this instance, and 1t is but one of a thousand charity cases. Nor have they assimilated the fact that the East Lake orphanage and St. Vincent's are each doing charity work well worth to this community 5000 month, for which each receives but $10o month. The city pays St. vincent's one hundred dollars a month, and the county pays tue orphanage like amount.
 Today St. vincent's holds as many charity patients as does the Hillman. The entire west wing of the former is filled with charity patients, although every inch of the space in 1t is de- manded by pay patients. St. Vincent's Is, in other words, doing charity work for $10o month that costs the county about $2000 a month at the Hillman The economic side of Dr. McCor- micks contention Is in fact as weak as Dr. Dickinson admits the legal side is.
 Stripped of all technicalities the