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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Lonuest PatroIman's Beat.

The January American magazine con- tains most remarkable article on our national forests by Stewart Edward White. It is an extraordinary defense of the government forest service, and shows how the rapacious ones are seeking rlotousy to invade wealth which, If they succeed, may later have to be replaced at cost of sSOOO, 900. 900. The nforma- ton which Mir. White presents is very valuable. Every man, woman and boy ought to have 1t. For example:
 Everybody of my generation and be- fore remembers the old-time forest fires Now, even in the heavily wooded coun- tries, such fires are exceedingly unusual and when they do occur are almost al ways on private land. For instance, last year only B of 1 per cent of the national forests was burned over, and only 3-10l of l per cent actually destroyed In all, HOO seperate fires were extinguished by the forest rangers. Any one of these, if let to burn itself out, as has been the national habit, would probably havs developed into an old-fashioned conflagra- ton such as we remember. And the total cost of prevention was 5000.
 If the men of the forest service had done nothing else than this, their existence on the public pay rolls would have been more than justified. Last summer the administrative and protective force of the forests numbered 1200. This means that each field man has charge, on the aver age, of 206 square miles of mountainous wilderness-that is to say, an area great, CT than nine Manhattan Islands He has to patrol his district build his trails and keen them in order, police his territory issue his permits, attend to the business Interests and fight his fires; not to speak of cooking for himself, attending to his animals and living as a man must live in the wilderness. An incidental and minor objection of the rapacious ones is that the forest service is an asylum for dudes and loungers.' l should like to take one of these gentlemen on a single days round behind one, any one, of our forest rangers. l should like to have him fgh, fire with them, as l have done, 50 hours out of 52. Then l should like to hear his opinion of just what kind of a snar 1t Is to take care of 206 square miles. Ii is interesting to reflect that for this area of POS square miles Prussia maintains a force of 120 men-and finds 1t pays"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
MEXICAN CARRIES HIS MONEY.
He Dislkes Checks and Doesn't Under
 stand Bank Books.
From the Mexican Herald.

From the Mexican Herald.
 Almost any Mexican in professional or business life carries on his person anywhere between $20O and $500. E zen the poor Indian in his blank ct can more than likely produce more than many foreigners.
 The ordinary Mexican professional man will be found to carry sums of money on his person that would sur prise the ordinary traveller and even cause him worry were he forced to carry 1t with him, yet the Mexican never even thinks of it.
 It was but few days ago that an instance of this kind was brought to at tention One Mexican of the middle class asked another in casual way if he could change a thousand dollar bill. The other pulled out wallet from his inside pocket and counted out nearly $2OO0. Time after time this has happened and it seems no uncom- mon thing for Mexican of the mid dle class to carry between 1000 and 200O pesos on his person.
 The check idea seems to have taken but small hold as yet upon the citi- zens Nf Mexico, especially when small amounts of less than 5000 are con cerned. They consider 1t much easier to pay spot cash than to give check for amounts of $50 and S10O, and they claim with some amount of reason that a business deal can be put through with better advantage when the cash Is in sight.
 Even the Indian in the street car ries amounts of cash that would never be supposed to be in his possession. They carry their money in a leather belt, fastened around their bodies in side their trousers These belts are hollow and are open at one end Into the open end the Indian slips his pesos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Force of Habit.
m the Boston Herald

m the Boston Herald.
 Boston psychologist was recently. re-
 nded of the story of the Russian jailer sho, changing his occupation, found the thief interest of his leisure moments In catching birds. putting them in cages and selling them to the highest bidder.
 The scientist having to attend series of lectures in a large public hall struck up acquaintance with the ianitor of the building, and soon noted in him a sug- gestive bent of mind. The man seemed fond of counting the people, and would occasionally report the exact number present. We have 115 here tonight" he would say, or Just 201 all told;" or, when the hall was crowded, "I make it 370." There was a problem in all this, but it took some time for the psychologist to solve it.
 A bit of friendly, familiar talk, contin,i- ally renewed, did the business. for it brought out the fact that the janitor had spent many of the previous years of his life as warden in an eastern prison. With rifle on shoulder. from some enclosing wall the man had counted his convicts until the habit became ingrained. In the recesses of his brain the lecture hall took the shape of a jail yard and the audiences were his prisoners. He counted because he wished to know If all were there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
JUDAH ANNOUNCES
 END OF STRUGGLE
THEATRES IN KANSAS CITY WILL NOT OPERATE TODAY-lNDlCT ED ACTORS scATTER-WAL- LACE WINS OUT.

Kansas City, December 2s.-It is expect ed that all the theatres in Kansas City will be closed tomorrow. A Judah, pro- prietor of the grand opera house. who has been the leader in the organized re- sistence to the Sunday closing campaign of Judge William H. Wallace of the criminal court gave up the fight tonight and announced that the Grand will be closed tomorrow.
 During the past two months several hundfed indictments for violations of the Sunday law have been returned against theatrical performers. employees and man agers, who have been released on bail bonds aggregating nearly sS0O,00o. The bonds were furnished by local bankers and capitalists. The actors indicted have scattered to all quarters of the United States, and it would be a physical impos- sibility to gather them all back for trial.
 No test case of the validity of the Sun day closing law has been perfected. The Missouri Sunday law was passed 70 years ago and no effort to enforce 1t as regards theatres was ever made until three months ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
5o,ooo Homeless In New York.

charity bed in the city occupied, lodging houses overcrowded, Bowery saloons turned into barracks and an array of wanderers on the streets, the charity or ganizations in New York today are help lessly facing a situation which will reach it's climax during the cold wave. After the informal conference of the various charity organizations yesterday it be- came known that more than 50,00O strang- CTS were homeless in this city, and that at least half that number spend nights on benches and floors wherever shelter Is afforded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
A Present Day Utopia.

Hugo Parton, writing in The Outing Magazine for January, says that the happiest and most beautiful spot on earth today is the Island of Moorea, one of the Sandwich Islands, in the South seas. As a contrast to strenuous American meth ods this description sounds aluring:
 "Whenever you are thirsty a word will send 1.-the, brown body scrambling up a tall palm tree trunk and in two min utes a green cocoanut is ready for you to quaff-the nectar os the Polynesian gods. It Is worth the trip down here to eat the native 'vittals.' for you get at every meal things you never tasted be- fore, and each seems better than it's predecessor To see your dinner of fresh water shrimps. sharks fins and roasted sea urchns. The bananas you eat-there are II varieties-baked raw fried, dried grow a few rods back in the valley ditto the breadfruit, the pineapples and about everything else on the board. It's nice to have your morning coffee grown In the back yard. Guavas grow in such pro- fusion they are used pig food; grated cocoanut is fed to hens, while sensitive plant Is considered excellent fodder for cattle.
 For perfection of the human body the Tahitian Is unexcelled. if Indeed he Is anywhere equaled. They are a large race, both men and women being notice ably taller and more fully developed than jAnglo-Saxons. Every man looks like a picked athlete with soping shoulders and fbared chests. A crowd of them together ,reminds one of the scene in a locker Building toward the end of the fall when the varsity squad Is narrowed down and the afternoons practice is just over. I doubt if any Society Islander ever went through a whole day in his life without having a wreath of flowers on his head or a blossom behind his ear. The love of flowers Is innate with man, woman and child. They can't pass through a patch of woods without emerging with garland Every gay mood calls for flowers on their hats, in their hair, behind their ears-and their life is an almost unbroken sequence of gay moods Scarce- ly native on the Island of Moorea can speak sentence of English but every one you meet greets you with a cour- teous smile and the welcoming words, Ia-ora-na (Yorana)."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29

Montague had never equalled in an ex- press train. Vehicles coming the other way would leap into sight, charging straight at them, it seemed, and shoot ing past hand's-breadth away Mon tague had just about made up his mind that one such ride would last him for a lifetime, when he noticed that they were stacking up. You can let go of the cord said Oliver to the mechanic. Hell never catch us now
 [" What is the cord? asked his brother.
 It's tied to the tag with our num- Der Oh, in back. It swings it up so it can't be seen.
 ''They were turning off into coun- try road and Montague sank back and laughed till the tears ran down his cheeks. Is that a common trick?' he asked.
 Quite, said the other. Mrs. Robbie has trough of mud in their garage, and her driver sprink1es the tag every time before she goes out. You have to do something, you know, or you'd be taken up all the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
To Link the Lakes With the Gulf.

Chicago is to become a sea port! The greatest inland city of our continent is to be made an active competitor for the world trade that is transported in ships, and to receive directly at its own wharves the argosies of the old world and of the southern seas. so writes H. G. Hunting in the Technical World Magazine for Jan uary.
 And it Is to be compassed by bringing the coast to Chicago and not by moving the city to the sea. For a loop is to be taken in the coast line, as it were, and it Is to be drawn up from the Gulf of Mexico and through the valley of the Mississippi and the Illinois and hooked over good stout mooring at the gate way of Lake Michigan forever uniting salt and fresh water seas. The Misss- sippi Is to carry something else, in mill lions of tons besides sediment, and 22 great prosperous states of our middle west are to come into their own
 For years gradually swelling cry has been going up from the valley of the great river. strangely like a magically supplied echo of prophetic words spoken centuries ago. Give us our river-our highway to the sea-" is the burden of the plaint that has the very sound of Marquettes inspired foretelling, when he first drifted down, the mighty stream~With ! Joliet in 1873 There has been a strange hiatus in the echo. it true. for 1t has not beeh plainly heard till now. but Its vibrations have found sensitive sound ing board in dire need at last, and are waking the nation.
 ThA scheme for connecting the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico, by means of a deep waterway. is attracting national attention just now and with this intro duction the author opens a timely article, worth perusal by every business man. It is illustrated with photographs of the fine scenery along the historic route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Caught With the Goods.

Oakland. December 2S-At the Emery vile race track this afternoon one of the bookmakers, with F. Crosby as cash fer, took in $l04O on the first race. While the race was being run, 1t is alleged, Crosby placed all of the money in a bag and was leaving the grounds. Detec- lives arrested him near the gate, where an automobile was awaiting him. F.. J. Grover, his partner. was also taken into custody.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Ink From Banana Tree.

From the Philadelpha Bulletin
 "The banana furnishes us with ink. with handkerchiefs, with wax, with blacking with excelsior, with oil, with flour, with window cord, with brushes"
 The speaker, a banana planter of Ja. maica, paused and smiled.
 You don't believe me, do your" he said. 'Yet truly the banana tree Is a wonderful thing. Every part of it serves some good use. Thus the long leaves make a fine excelsior. The juice, being rich in tannin. furnishes a good indelible ink and a good shoe polish. The stems yield fine quality of hemp, and from this hemp there are made lace handker. chiefs, cords and ropes of all kinds, mats and brushes. The oil is used in gliding Of banana -four. the flour ground from you are too familiar with it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Tigers Refuge In Tree.

From the Bombay GaZette.
 News of a tiger being brought in from village about three miles from the cap- ital, the chief of state went out with a party. The guns were placed in trees and the tiger being driven out, the Ma haraja wounded him in the jaw.
 The tiger thereupon sprang into a chila tree and, graspng the trunk with his fore paws and resting his hind legs on a branch, remained hidden in the foliage for five minutes. Then the dogs were let loose after the tiger. But he stuck to his seat and would not come down till the dogs, getting a scent of him, jumped up to catch his tail, which was just dang ling over their heads.
 Down sprang the tiger on one of the faithful dogs, breaking his spinal cord and wounding another at the glands. But his onslaught brought on his own ruin through a deadly bullet of his highness new rifle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29

or bills until he has the whole full. The belt then is either taken off and hidden away or the bills are changed for larger denominations and still car ried around the body. But the Indian Is a stickler for pesos duros" and pre- fers the to any other class of motey except gold.
 TO the Indian money is money and a bank book stands for nothing in his way of reckoning. A check he will not accept under any circumstances, be- cause he does not understand it. A coin or paper currency Is what he is after, and that Is what he keeps his hands on when he gets 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Sentence Sermons.
m the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 There Is no salvation so long as there is self satisfaction.
 No man Is so great that he can af- ford to oppress even the least man.
 It is doubtful if ever any one was blessed who was not most anxious to be a blessing.
 It is no use talking of how much you love God If folks cannot stand 1t to live with you.
 He only Is true liberal who is more anxious that others should be free than that he should be without re- StrAint. ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
The Door of Doom.

From the Reader.
 Many old houses in Holland have a special door which is never opened save on special occasions-when there is a marriage or a death in the family.
 The bride and bridegroom enter by this door, and it is then nailed or barred up until death occurs, when 1t is opened and the body Is removed by this exit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Sparks Still Undecided.

Reno, Nevada, December 2S.-Govern- or Sparks said tonight that hV had not decided to call special session of the legislature to decide the question of keeping the troops in Goldfeld. The governor has replied by telegraph to President Roosevelt's inquiry about the Nevada camp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
An Unexpected Shock.

From the Chicago News.
 "A lady has just dropped dead at the bargain counter" gasped the 1oorwaker of department store.
 What was the trouble:" asked the proprietor.
 'She found her exact size in something she wanted, believe" answered the | W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Did You Overlook Some Present?

Then, why not make 1t New Years remembrance?
 Come to see us about it now. A FEW LOTS OF ELEGANT STA TIONERY IN HANDSOME GIFT BOXES TO SELL OUT THIS WEEK AT "AFTER XMAS" PRICES.
 We also mention
 Genuine Leather Wallets, Bill Books, Pocket Books for Gentlemen, Card Cases, Pass Cases, etc., etc.
 L. E. Wsterman's genuine Ideal" Fountain Pens, for ladies and gentle men, young and old. An appreciated and timely gift always.
 Largest stock of best Office Station cry and Office equipment and supplies in the South.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
But He Ought to Feel it.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Howell-"Roweli Is not . very ob serving fellow"
 Powell-"Right you are. He could be dead a long time and not know that there was a fire"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Roberts G Son

1.-THE BIG ALABAMA HOUSE." Store and Plant,
 1912 THIRD AVENUE, Between Eighteenth and Nineteenth
 Sts. Phones 228.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-01-10
WWs OF THE WORLD.
WASHINGTON.

Postmaster General Cortelyou is
asked to issue fraud order against
the New York Cotton Exchange.
The question Of the constitutions
atty OF the employers liability law
be taken to the federal supreme
court.
The public debt decreased $685.
$50 during December; government
resesnes increased leaving $s,275,000
surplus.
Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock says the efficiency of the
mail service is in danger and adyo-
Gates an increase in salaries.
Commissioner Garfield, investigat-
ing water lines. discovered that
steamship companies are controlled
by or are subservient to railroads.
The Philippine commission reports
that the islands are about to embark
on an era Of prosperity and demands
lower tariff with the United States.
The New Years reception at the
white house was attended by $500
persons and thousands waited in line
for hours to grasp the hand Of the
president
National Petroleum association filed
complaint with the interstate COM
merce commission charging that
Standard Oil Company benefits by
freight rate favors.
The interstate commerce commits
sion. while asserting that there is a
combination Of coal dealers in North
Dakota. says that the real cause Of
the fuel famine is the shortage Of
cars.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-01-10

New York. jan 6.-It costs sz06
year to turn bad boy into a good
citizen At least this is the Iates.
figure reported by the New YORK
Juvenile Asylum whisn. .er more
than half century. has beez engaged
In the work of Transforming street
urchins Of the metropolis into self
respecting men,
The price of reformation like the
price OF almost everything else is
going up. A few years ago when the
young yagrant or petty thief or all
round rogue was sent to the Asylum
cost $3.50 annually for clothing. food,
lodging and the education by which
he was polished up mentally anu
morally. But times have changed
Reform was cheaper then because
methods were different and less EN-
cient. Not many years ago juvenile
delinquents were huddled together
like troops in barracks Tlat was
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-01-10
OBITUARY.

Baroness Burdett-Co the rich
est woman In England and the worlds
greatest philanthropist, died in Lon
don, aged go years.
| Professor Otto Benndorf, the ar
chaeologist, is dead at Vienna. He
was noted for his discoveries Of an
tiquities in Ephesus
Volney Atwood, one of the earliest
Iof Wisconsin settlers and the Oldest
member of the Odd Fellows order in
the state. died at Janesvfle, as the
result of the infirmities of old age
He was IS years of ege.
District Attorney v. Dreutzer OF
Sturgeon Bay, Wis, died in Chicago
where he had come for medical treat
ment. Last summer he underwent
an operation. Mr.. Dreutzer was for
eighteen years district attorney for
Door county.
Frederick J. Hayden, retired CAPT
tafist, aged IL, died at Fort wayne.
Ind, of Bright's disease He was a
director in the First National bank
and prominent democrat Ten years
ago he was member OF the In
diana legislature.
| Major Edward r. Strickland died
in Springfield, ILL.,. aged SO years. He
was captain and labor major in the
One Hundred and Fourteenth ll..nois
infantry during the civil war aud vas
a prisoner at Macon, Ca. and Charles
ton and Columbia, s. c., escaping
from Columbia.
Judge George B. Young, former
meber OF the Minnesota supreme
court and prominently Identified in
the Northern Securities merger cases
as attorney for the merger, died in
st. Paul. He was 81 years Of age.
He was at one time associated in the
law business with Stanford Newell,
ex-United States minister to The
Hague.
| Ernest H. Crosby died in Baltimore
He was 50 years old and a native of
New York city, and was formerly a
member of the legislature. He was
Judge Of the court of first instance at
Alexandria, Egypt in 1889 and was
president of the New York Antiimper-
lalist league for five years until 1905.
He was the author of Captain links,
Hero and Other books.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-01-10
cRADE-cRcssINc ACCIDENTS I'M.
POSSIBLE.

Chicago is having 1000 miles OF
steam railway tracks elevated with
out cost to herself, says Rutledge
Rutherford in Technical World Maya
zine.
How did Chicago do the work with
out paying any of the expense of con-
struction? How did the city force
public service corporations to get
their conduits. mains, pipes, street cal
tracks, and other distractions out q.
the way. without paying any dam
ages2 How did it avoid paying
enormous sums for impairment OF
private property?
All such questions elicit the reply
that 1t Is done merely by the general
police power delegated to the city by
the state. Under this police power,
Chicago can force every railroad op-
Grating in the city to take every one
OF its tracks off the city's streets. IL
such should be found necessary for
the city's improvement, without pay
Ing the railroads any compensation.
This is likewise true of Philadelphia,
though that city is paying many mil
lion dollars to have some of the rail-
roads elevate their tracks. 1t is true
OF St Louis. which is now contemplate
Ing track elevation And it is tue
Of every other city worthy of the
name OF city in america BY similar
law. other cities, like Chicago. can
compel the removal of any conduits
Or other distinctions without paving
any damages, provided suc1 be neces.
sary for the cities Improvement.
An arbitrary law is this police
power, and its extent has been morA
forcibly emphasized during the pro
sress OF track elevation in Chicago.
For there were many corporations
Wfo were angered and felt outraged
at being disturbed and at being forced
TO undergo great expense for the
benefit OF the city, and they mad re-
course to the courts. But the CITY
won IN every instance; and in no case
mas any single public service corpor-
alton been able to collect one dollar
damages resulting from track eleva-
ton About half of the work is now
completed.