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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-20
SOUTH AFRICAN fIMPLEs.
sreat Areas Enclosed BY soiidly Built

sreat Areas Enclosed by Soiidly Built
| Ssafae Walls.
The temple risins at Rhodesia are
ouzzlers. The erldite folks used TO
Say tifas,F Mere aT1ts but Dr. Ran IN
| iall II N; lcisers, that ii testS explore
SAYS they were built Ia the Middle lel
Ages. N He says u Ire great llipticaif
4 .empies was the s4ai led resid shce OF
1.-The great che or M nonlo apa,
whose sway extended over an enor-
4 NOUS area and an extensive popullas =.
4 ton. ri isss 7s 535 H ,s5s
TO understand how architectural
Ifeats like the finer Rhodesian build
Itngs can have been achieved by the
4 precursors of the modern South Afri-
san natives it is necessary to assume
1 hat III those days there was organl z
Ition Of a far high er Oh aracter than
4 has OBTAINED in recent years, organll-
4 cation rnaer great chiefs whose pow
er and intelligence We're of a relative
i (which order. From the Portuguese
ana their records this would appear
/ to have been tie case in the days SO OF
the Nononortapa empire Of the: Mid
i die AGES down to the c,ase Of the
sixteenth century. ~ ;..l III \.
The organizat ton of labor implied
EEby the elaborate :ss,sd decorated stone M
A architecture i ) remarkable. Even
j moro ran,a rSahle than the fortified
castles are the terrace walls. These
! stone built walls form irregular co
centric rings arcuad the hills upon
4 which the Villas were situated, and,
! although stru etHr;.,lg simple, cover II an
enormous area, 40 ing in close tor
1 nation over d .Sf upward OF fif.
Z ty square miles.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-20
Not ia ae Eoruotter.

- iSOt 10 Dc TsUTgUIkSIss -
Minister'S Wife Ito husband D VIII
you help me to put the drawing room
carpet down to-day, dear? The room
is beautifully clean. sss5 III 81 u.
Minister tvexatiously All. we'll, I
supposed will have to. I. X 5s
Wife-And don't forget. John, dear,
while ION are doing it that you ara
a minister of the gospel. ri Il.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-20
Cotton Er-ss 81 $50 Years 400.

: 90 OuttUH 3uI1. tcU1|f1SdFS 1tgUs ~
Miss Susie Watson of Bunker Hill
has a cotton dress which is $50 years
old and in a clean and neat condi-
ton. vi 4 5ES1 Il II. ls5 sS XII u
The cloth was spun by hand by
MISS Margaret Wilson, who married
Ben Benson, father If early Benson,
deceased. The cotton was hand
picked The dress was used by Miss
Wilson as a wedding dress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
Matching By Electricity.

From the Technical World Magazine.
 After several years of experimental work, electrical incubation has been dem- onstrated to be practicable and econon- ical For attractive displays the "Elec- trehen," q unique and artistic oval glass electric incubator has been invented. It is operated by the heat of electric in candescent lamp, controlled by dehcate and sensitive thermostat which holds the temperature at 103 degrees Fahrenheit. without the variation of more than frac- ton of degree.
 The "Electrehen' is a novel glass elec- trc incubator. having metal base, with nickel-plated oxidzed copper or gun metal finish. forming the hover or brooder Tor the newly matched chicks. drawer Is provided, which Is partly drawn from the base and the electric chicks run about m the fenced enclosure. about three or four feet square, making d most interesting eN- hibit or nature study in schools and kin dergartens.
 This device is easily connected to any electric lighting circuit. either alternat- ing or direct current. of 110 volts, by the usual flexible cord and plug. It is only necessary to turn the button and sui ficient heat is provided for matching and brooding the chicks. while there Is nothing in the way of odors or escaping gases 10 prevent it's introduction into the hand- somely furnished parlor or library of the electrically equipped home or the office of the most fastidious professional or business man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
SLEEPING IN THE BACK YARD. Topeka Spends the Hot Nights IT
 Tents and Hammocks.
he Topeka Daily Capital.

From the Topeka Daily Capital
 Probably more tents are in daily use in Topeka this summer than ever before. Many have learned that a good way to escape the discomfort of a hot sleeping room at the close of hot day is to sleep in a tent spread on the grass in the back yard.
 In many instances, a hammock swung on te front or back porch or between two trees in the yard is utilized by sim gle member of the family who believes in lots of fresh air and who is able to sleep in comfort after accustoming him. self to the change from bed to ham mock. while the other members of the family toss wakefully indoors.
 Many who do not have hammocks or tents slNep on "shakedowns' on their front back porehes, retiring after it gets dark and making dash for the privacy of indoors when the sun rips in the morning and wakes them. A tour of the streets of this city about sunup will reveal many instances of this practice. Ii is not fashionable habit, but there is a great deal of genuine comfort in it.
 Some of the boys in Topeka have already built houses in the branches of trees in which they sleep during warm weather.
 Nc less than three tents have been pitched at the Country club. At the To- peka club q number of the members take advantage of flat roof on the south side of the porch and place their cots there on warm nights behind a canvas curtain that is intended to shut out the view of the common herd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
 Harvard's Social Museum.

David Camp Rogers in .he september
 Charities and The Commons
 "A model slump "Paupers under glass? An exhibition of living neuro- pathic patients?''-su were the inqui- ries suggested q few years ago by the phrase social museum. The Harvard Social Museum is one of the institutions which during this period has been show ing what the meaning of such phrase can be. While worlds fairs, industrial and anti ti-tuberculosis exhibitions. and the beginnings of permanent museum co1lec- tions in New York, Chicago and a num- Der of European cities, have been present. ing social conditions and movements to the general public through pictorial and graphical exhibits, the collections of the Harvard museum are designed especially for the use of students.
 The collecting of material was begun In 1903, but in it's essential aims the museum lis development from work In which Harvard students have been engaged for a much longer period. Since 1882 course of study has been given In the University by Professor Francis G. Peabody. on the ethics of the social questions. For years Professor Peabody has required of each student in this course the preparation of one or more papers in original research, the topics being assigned to encourage personal observation of conditions of so- cial need and of actual work in social betterment. The following titles may serve to illustrate the specific and con- crete character of the subjects investi- gated:
 Conditions among the poor of lower South Boston,: funerals of the poor; prep aration for family responsibilities in pres ent educational methods: the federation of Jewish charities in Boston, Mass: the new social work of the Massachusetts general hospital: tenement house laws and inspection In Boston; housing condi- tions in Cambridge; the educational work of the Boston Y. M. c. A.; the playground system of Boston; causes of unemploy- ment in Massachusetts: the Massachu- setts state free employment offices the employment of our adult blind; the police system of Boston. the parole system of Canada; the newsboys in Utica. N. Y.. and Boston. Mass; conditions of employ ment in candy manufactures: the united barber's union; the teamsters' strike Tn Boston; welfare provisions of the Plant Shoe Company; product sharing of the Gloucester Fislerman: legal restrictions on the sale of liquor In Massachusetts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE. $2250-- Pretty Norwood lot. S7000- -Norwood home, F. front. $11O0- Good lot 23 St.. Il and 12 Ayes s75OO-2-story res, 25 St, near 12 Ave. $S7OO-Good home N. Higlds. near Rush Ave.
 sS250-Large N side cor, rents $iSO. S11 ,OO0-2-story cor, res. near depot. S12, ,b00-50x140 Ave, near 26 St. s15, OOO-50xl40 Ave. p and 2S Sts. s45, O0-Handsomc bus. block, pays p. c. s7500-3 Ave. cor. improved. S22, ,500-Good bus. property, pays S2lOO. s7o00-2-story new s. Highlds. res. s25O-Nice ' R. s. 18th St., res. ss150-Handsome s. Higlds. lot 70x2o0 s450O-Modern 2-story s. Higlds. res ss65O-Handsome new 2-story W'lawn res. Soo50-5 choice West End lots.
 FOR RENT. 10 F. S. Higlds. res, 1213 St. Charles st New handsome brick store.
 R. MCCONNELL AGO. Phones S10. 2l07 Sd Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
A Presidents Life,

From the Petersburg, Va, 1ndeX-Appeal.
 The editor of the Charleston News and Courier. mentioned in connection with senatorial honors, and very generally rec ognized as timber of excellent senatorial quality, in letter to the New York World quotes Washingtons farewell ad- dress against the talk of third term for Mr. Roosevelt. That address warns the country against the absolute power of an individual, and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction. more able or more fortunate than his com petitors. turns this disposition to the pur- poses of his own elevation or the ruins of public liberty
 The quotation fits the cas- very we'll. A third term per SC is dangerous only in the precedent it sets. In his contempt for tradition, precedent and authority MT Roosevelt is regarded very dangerous man, and there is no doubt that he .dE decided penchant fer innovation ] no { revolution. We do not SrlieVe ths tn e election of MT. Roosevelt for thlf q term would materially altN the natu re of our political institutions. Mt wou id be long step in the direction of Mex icanizing the country with resIect to the custom of presidential terms. Once tn is
 Is done. and it is easy to el ct a Pres.i- dent for life, as seems to be the case with Diaz. To be sure he $ elected con secutivesy and only at stated periods. but none the less surely for life, and there is but one step from that to a life-term a one election From an cleo tion of President for life the way is made easy for the on-horseback and a herditary monarchy The safety of the country, therefore, depends much upon adherence to the fundamentals as laid down by the founders in their precepts and examples.
 In justice to Mr. Roosevelt. we do not believe that he wishes to violate those precepts and examples, and all this talk of third term is without warrant or encouragement at his hands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
FROM POVERTY UP
 ID M|LL|ONA|RES Four Out of Five Rise from
 LowIy State SOME AMERICAN EXAMPLES Charles M. Schwab, Steel King, Was the Son of Poor Factory Opera
 tive-Worked for $2
 Week.

4. It is curious and instructive fact that, of the worlds multi-milionaires, at least
 four out of five have been cradled in cot
 tages or poverty-stricken farm houses, and have commenced their strenuous
 climb of the ladder of riches from it's lowest rung.
 It was d very modest farm house in
 Wellington county, Ontario. that Mir. James J. Hill, who today is the most pow
 erful railway magnate in the world, first
 saw the light nearly 70 years ago. At b
 he was toing early and late in the fields
 to support his widowed mother, and he
 thought his fortune was made when he
 found employment behind the counter of
 a small country store. A few years later
 he was glad to earn g a day a dock
 laborer at St. Paul, where, after a TO-
 mantle woolng, he married pretty Mary
 Mahegan, maidof-all- ll-work at little
 hotel near the wharf. Today Mrs. Hill
 looks down from her S700,000 mansion on
 the scene of her early humble labors.
 Mr. Charles M. Schwab, Americas
 Steel King" had for father struggling
 factory operative, and earned his first
 money by working on neighboring farms
 and driving the mail cart between Cres-
 son and Loretto. From blow and cart he migrated to a small grocery store, where he sold tea and sugar over the counter
 for g d week; and he first set his foot on the ladder of fortune when he was en- gagged to drive stakes at s1 a day for the Carnegie company. Within 20 years from this humble start he was drawing a sal ary of G1600o0 a year, and owned more millions than he had even dreamed of possessing
 Less than sixty years ago Mir. Wana- : maker, the millionaire "Store King.
 was a barefooted lad in the streets of Philadelphia. thankful to pick up a crust or q cent by any kind of mental work. The son and grandson or poor i riclxlayers, it seemed as hopeless Tor him to win wealth as to capture rain
 bow: and it was a proud day when he carried home $150. his first week s
 earnings as errand boy to a DOCK seller.
 John D. Rockefeller. who is credited ] with a fortune of f100,OO0,0O0. began his sensational career by handiing a hoe and driving a blow on farms In Tioga county, until ne was promoted to an office stool in Cleveland O.; and he regarded his fortune as good as made when he purchased raft of hoop 1 holes. steered it down the Ohio river and sold it to miller for a profit of $50. MT. W. A. Clark, who Is said to have made f1O,000,000 out of copper, was a farm laborer for many year spending nine months on the farm and three in school-until he set his face | toward the west in quest of fortune. For two years he was a school teacher | in Missouri and it was only after hea rt breaking spell as quartz miner
 that he got on nodding terms with For
 tune in Montana
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

Neighbors and friends, the people of Birmingham and the farmers of Jefferson will stand together in a great victory for the preservation of the present splendid prospects of further development. Vote against pro- hibition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
So 1t Seems.

From the Baltimore American.
 "Alasr' sighed the beautiful sewing machine girl. as her young millionaire lover took her for u spin in his new auto. this is where you see the seamy side Of motoring.
 .'How, dearest?" asked the young man. as he inadvertently knocked down pedestrinating citizen or two.
 .'When," she replied, you fell man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

the Red man is lamentable, but his go- ing will be but one more chapter in the operation fo the law of evolution, and when he is no more, a filter people will make his fat lands produce wealth of which the aborigine never dreamed-in d measure not to be calculated even in the magic medium of omptschua- omptschua.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
FOR SALE

s16DO-Gets 5-room house, 5ox14O; good place Avenue D. Sl500-S-room house; 50X200; car line; pay ment Si5o-5ox200 best part Graymont. SS50-10 acres and small residence, with fine vineyard; Southern railroad. s575-1O0x15O good pickup; store and resi- dence combined cheap; good cash trade with good future
 Try us for anything you want in real estate. insurance or rents.
 Both phones 1923
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

It is the "Town Builders against the "Town Killers '- the laboring man against the loafer and tramp. Vote against prohibition
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
Anglin Realty X Ins. Co. Phones 1923 21f7 First Ave
ALTERATION WOMEN.

Loy eman, Joseph 6 Loeb work in alteration room on coats and skirts. Good sala- want at once fifteen women to ries. Apply to manager Suit Section, second floor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

$125,OOO income from well regulated saloons as against $7.5O street tax and large in crease license tax to each mer- chant and business man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

Speaking of politics, P. G. Bowman talked (?) for prohi- bition at the Hippodrome last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

It is the "Town Builders against the "Town Killers - the laboring man against the loafer and tramp. Vote against prohibition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
Pratt City will join Birming- ham in large majority against Prohibition.

Want to be right and vote with the winner? Vote against blind tigers!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

Jaffe, the Jeweler, not new in Birmingham, but at a new place. Wholesale and Retail. 1925 2d ave. Peoples 2375.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

Victory, the handmaid of the Goddess of Liberty, is with the anti-pr0hibitionists
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

Bessemer stands side by side with Birmingsam against Pro- hibition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

Like all Indians, the Neg Perce are great gamblers Even the squaWs gam ble with a zest and earnestness that would eclipse the ardor of the most in- Yeterate bridge whist matron. They have been known to sit all night in the rain playing one of their native games, the stakes being anything from a tinsel ttrin- ket to hundreds of dollars in gold. The bucks have wagered ponies, farms and women. Even now, saddles and blankets are mere transitory possessions. Indian money has always fattened the tinhorns and the traders Only omytschua-ompt- schua Is too good to risk on the turn of luck.
 Bucks and squaws alike are particularly fond of horse racing, and when one bucks a cayuse, the wager is only measured by his resources. A peculiar custom at their races is for all to cast their money indescriminately into a common blanket. where it remains until the decisions are rendered, whereupon the winners count out their shares. There are never mis- takes and no case is known where an Indian has appropriated more than his just share-an example it would be dif- fcult to parallel, 1t may be supposed, were the same methods employed by the whites. It is a commentary on the paler sportsmen, too, that the Indians will allow no white man to participate In tnelr races excepting WHere lhuidiiS serve as jockics. Evidently experience has taught them some things that n very large portion of the whites them selves are slow to learn.
 With all their gambling and drinking, the Indians are true to a trust. Coffin relates an incident Illustrating this fact He required large sums of money to cash government vouchers for the Neg Perces. and frequently found it necessary to send to Lewiston for sl0,O00 in gold the Indians were aid of paper money. There was great risk in transmitting large sums. A trader had been held up and Killed. and d white man might be ambushed anywhere in the twelve miles between Lewiston and Lapwai. Indians
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

Still the sales multiplied, leaving him without a string long before he could re- ceive another shipment. In the meantime Jim Reubens came to the store, and after bestowng a few trivial presents, Coffin asked him why it was that the Indians prized wampum so highly. Because" diamonds are with yours My people would not part with 1t for any price. IL is handed down from generation to gen eration."
 Coffin raised the price to sD string on the next shipment and the Wampum trade, instead of abating, increased re- markedly. Now he kept the strings in private locker, as If they possessed great value, and assumed a mysterious and con- fidential air about them. Occasionally he would be called on to loan money on them, and he cheerfully gave $20 a string, the borrower never failing to redeem the pledge.
 One morning a Squaw came to his office and bought i've strings, paying $l00 in gold After the purchase was made she wanted some groceries and said she had spent all her money. Coffin repurchased one of the strings. saying he was short of wampum and that other squaws want ed to buy it, but that he would not sell it until the following day if she wo>- return for it. She was back the next morning, having ridden fifteen miles be fore breakfast to redeem her wampum. The Neg Perce word for wampum is omptschua- -omptschua, meaning money or treasure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
SOME CURIOUS CUSTOMS
 OF NEE PERCES INDIANS
BY RUFUS Ro HRAeAcHER.

all enjoyed the advertisement as much as the woman bargain hunter does a Mon day special at a department store.
 In the days of the big tent and the merry-go-round it was a daily occurrence for Coffin to paint his face and bedeck himself as an Indian. He would ride through the streets of Lewiston on great white mule, and a procession of Indians would follow him to his tenn porary place of business He soon had enough of the Indian money to build q permanent store at Lapwai, and when it was completed he moved his stock. No one knows just how much money he made. It may have been a quarter of a million, or 1t may have been more. Coffin modestly admits cleaning up hundred and ten thousand dollars. It Is undoubtedly a conservative estimate, and while it is not Rockafellian in any sense, it is doing very well for quick turn on $5OoO invested.
 An example of the profits realized in the Indian trading business is related by Coffin concerning wampum. Perhaps the best friends Hiawatha and the other storied Indian folk have today do not know just what wampum really is But the Indians know. It is easier to win wife with paste diamond than 1t is to fool an Indian on wampum. The genuine wampum that the Indians value is made by eannibals in the South Sea Islands. It is made of white and black shells. If the lead were removed from an ordinary pencil and the wood were cut into sec tions a sixteenth of an inch thick, that aggregation of sections, If threaded on q string and transformed by some miracle into just the right kind of shells, would be wampum. The white Wampum is the only kind to which any value is attached and no imitation has yet succeeded in winning more popularity than attaches to artificial gems among the whites.
 When Coffin began trading with the Neg Uerces he bought wampum from a merchant In San Francisco. After cast ing out the black shells and stringing the white ones, he found the cost to be $l.25 a string. To make a fair profit he charged $2.50 a string. It went with sur prising rapidity and presently he found himself entirely out and with an inces- sant demand. He rushed q large order to San Francisco and raised the price to 50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

Then he advertised. His scheme was a success. It was merry-go-round. Every time a souaw bought shawl or a buck a blanket, he gave the purchaser . free ride on the merry -go-round. School children could not have received keener delight from the exhilirating whirl than these c, pper-colored children of. nature. Youth d age, buck, squaw and pappoose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

Among the persons who went to Lewis ton for the purpose of getting Indian money by legitimate means, was Lester Coffin. He Is a picturesque character, typically western and a man Of singular charm. He was born west of the Rockies and was reared among the Indians. His father had traded with the tribes of Oregon, and the son inherited the oc- cupation of frontier trader. He Is a great, powerful man, weighing 250 pounds. all bone and buscle, and so well propor- toned that only in the company of other men is his bulk accentuated. His voice is deep and soft, and his speech remarkably well chosen, especially In narrative
 Lester Coffin was in hurry. He had about $5O0O worth of goods. but he had no place to put them. Every available building in the little city of Lewiston was rented So he bought a circus tent, pitched it in the open, hired clerks who were familier with the Neg Perce Ian guage, and started business. His stock comprised vari-colored blankets, shawls, cheap jewelry, provisions, wagons. saddles and whatever experience told him ap- healed to the Indian taste.
 Then he advertised. His scheme was a success It was merry -go-round.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1907-08-15

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