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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

thin names beginnin' with 'O' or Mac. Oursilves an tn Germans hold our grip on tn distribution iv moisture, but if Father Kelly wants to buy shirt he has to go to me frind Jake FeIsenthal fir it. Tn Irish are tn greater potes, but they have shade tn best iv us at mental arithmetic. We inthrajooce arithmetic into pothry an they inthrajooce pothry into arith- metic. Their names are seen on tn iditoryal pages iv nanny newspa- -apers an on tn more allurin' adyertisin pages iv all They ain't quite as good hands at pollyticks as we are, but fir foreigners they're not so bad an a combination iv us an thim can bate tn wurruld. So ye can bet tn boord iv iddycation, afther addin' up tn Epis copalyan vote, listened to what the: had to say.
 "Howiver Jake Felsenthal was in here today an he says there's nawthin' in it. He's fine man, me frind Jake Felsenthal. He was at one time cap tain iv Company c in the Hibernyan Rifles; he was tn fastest hundherd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15
Mr. D0o1ey's Philosophy

ain't amy worse feelin' thin not get tin somethin' firm somebody that we've given nawthin' to. In wan case ye feel like sucker an in tn other like an embezzler I've often thought 'twud be a good idee fir people to get together a week or two befur Chris mas an say: If yell promise not to give me tn necktie that l see in yeer eye I will promise not to give ye tn penwiper I intind to give ye in silf- definse.' But both tn spirit iv Chris mas an J. Felsenthal tell me this Is wrong They both say, 'Unbelt, an they're right.
 Well, 'tis a grand peeryod, amy how. I begin to see tn effects iv 1t already. Tn amount iv amyable grin min has already increased about fifty per cent. Tn stores are brightenin up. I see me frinds goin home with bundles undher their oyercoat Tn Salvation Army Sandy Claus on tn corner with tn false whiskers is jing- lin his tambourine. Even old Grogan give me a pleasant bow this mornin'. He has sint wurrud to his deposytors that they can dhraw out their money If they'll promise to spind it on pris- ints an not on household ixpinses or other base luxuries. An as fir tn childher. Christmas has been comin' f'r about two months fir thim, an comin' stronger an shinin' in their cheerful, hopeful, avaricious little faces. No matther what kind iv Chris mas this Is fir anybody ilse, it'll be good wan fir tn kids. There
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15
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telegraphic station farther south. More over, I understand that South Africa has run it's telegraph lines almost to Lake Tanganyika, and that 1t will be only a short time before those lines will be con neeted with the Uganda system. Khartnn has telephones and there are also tele- phonie connections between that city and Omdurman.
 Port Sudan.
 The railroad terminus on the Red sea Is known as Port Sudan The original intention was to end the railway at sua- kin, but the British surveyors found a much better port little farther north and located the terminus of the railway there This is Port Sudan. It lies about half way down the west coast of the Red and just opposite Jeddah about 800 miles south of Suez. The harbor there is the mouth of A creek shaped like leaf, with the point inland. The water is 200 feet deep in places. and there Is deep wa ter close to the shore Just outside is a coral reef which protects the harhor The British are now dredging the edge of the harbor, and they will have it so that the biggest ocean steamers can come right up to the quays. They are building a quay wall of granite blocks nearly e mile long. with electric traction cranes running upon 1t. The railroad tracks will come out
  loaded and unloaded by the cranes Into the ships and the cars. The harbor will be lighted by electricity and the best of coaling arrangements supplied. The gov- ernmcnt has already planned an expendi- ture of s4,000000. and most of the im- provements are well under way.
 A city a grand scale has been sur veyed about the harbor. park Is being planned and the streets are begged out. The post and telegraph buildings are now going up, school houses and government offices arc being erected and a backyard is building. The government owns all the land about the port. and I see that lots are advertised for lease and sale So far but few private buildings have been con- structed. but the ships are already land- ing freight for the Sudan. Six or seven lines of steamers now make regular call ings there. and the prospect is that Port Sudan will be the chief port of the Red sea and the principal place of import and export for lower Nuba, and large part of Central Africa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

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yards man we had in the Gaellc-Ath- letic assocyation, though, nacherally' not so good at tossin' tn cabar or put tin tn shot, an he has often boxed at our weekly concerts undher tn name iv O'Halloran. He's fine, pious man, too. an often have I seen him go lnto his church with his stove-pipe hat on his head. He give me tn laugh Wh1n I told him me gloomy suspicious that his people were startin to abolish Christmas Don't ye believe It., says he. We'll niver do anything to injure a fistival that makes people look so cheerful. We're a happy race our slves an we're glad iv wan day that dhrives tn gloom off tn faces iv tn rest iv ye. Why says he, with wink, if annything iv tn kind was attimpted my people wud rally around Christmas to protict it again it's inimies. But fr that splendid wave iv Heblew sinti- mint that sweeps acrost tn Christyan wurruld wanst year an makes ye buy things f'r other people fir fear they're goin' to buy somethin' akelly vallyable fir ye, what wud become iv tn depart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

isi probably true of Abysslnia. It Is also a possibility of the far future that the railroads of the French Congo and those of the Sudan may be joined"
 The Cape To Cairo Line.
 How about the Cape to Cairo road?"
 'I doubt whether there will be an all- continuous rail route from Cairo to the Cape We shall probably have a steam route, and that at no distant time. The navigation of the White Nile can be so improved that, by the aid of short lines, of railroads around one or two places, we could send steamers from here to the great lakes of Central Africa. We are now sending them as far as Gondokoro, on the borders of the Belgian Congo. We have monthly service to that place and 1t is over HOO miles from Khartum. The trip there takes. about two weeks; and 1t is made in comfortable steamers. We have also steamers going up the Blue Nile and are gradually exploring the sey- eral branches of the White Nile. Our steamers on the main stream of the White Nile are now carrying tourists, and we have boats which leave on the 10th of January and 18th of February especially adapted to tourist travel. They are fitted throughout with electric lights, have hot and cold baths and some good double berth cabins. They carry a sufficient number of stewards and servants to sup ply comfortable accommodations"
 Central Afrlca's Long Telegraph Route
 The sirdar tells me that telegraphc communication is being rapidly opened up along the Sudan part of the Cape to Cairo steam route. Khartum has direct connection with Egypt and through her with all the rest of the world. The wires have been strung from Khartum almost 10 the Belgian Congo, and by the time this letter is published this place will probably be in direct communication with Entebbe on Lake Victoria, near the source of the Nile. There are now more than 4O00 miles of telegraph working wires In the Sudan; and last year more than 230,Oo0 private telegrams were sent over them. There is one line which goes to Tewflkieh. at the junction of the Sobat with tho White Nile; and there are wires going some distance up the Blue Nile. Above Tewflxieh there is a great swamp through which telegrams are carried weekly on small oil launches to another
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

ment stores? No, sir; I'll stand firm an fight to save this fistival that IS so dear to ye again all tn attacks iv tn anti-Semites. As fir tn Christmas carols, didn't I use to sing thim mesilf whin I wah little kid, an Schwartz meister, Hogan an mesilf used to at tind tn Unitaryan Sunday School tn Sunday they had tn Chrisma tree? They niver hurt me. No song iyer hurt annywan if it was set to music. C..eer up, me boy. Come over to tn store. I've got set iy tn Lives iv tn Saints that I can let ye have cheap. 'Twud make a suitable Chris mas pris- int
 '1v coorse he's right. No wan can have amy rale dislike iv Chris mas. It's a kind iv a gin'ral holiday that ivry wan seems to get part iv. Be hivins, believe that if old Mahamet himsilf was alive he'd hang up his stockin on tn mantelpiece an go broke givin' prisints to his wives. In little less thin two weeks time all tn wur- ruld will be up arly, singin' songs, ex. changin' gifts, slappin' each other on tn back, cryin' out 'Cris'mas box
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

Another thing we have to contend with" continued the railway manager. lis the extraordinary dryness of the air, This shrinks everything connected with the road. Our rolling stock has to be tight ened up aeain and again. One of our passenger cars will shrink as much as IS inches in one wall alone. and we have to put in extra boards to fill up. This is so IS to all sorts of woodwork.
 The Destructive Ant.
 eAnother trouble is the white ant" Captain Midwnter continued. That little termite eats anything wooden. It chews ID the insides of our cars and even at taeks tho furniture. Where there is the ast moisture the ants will go for the railroad ties, and they will also chew out the insides of the wooden telegra ph poles They always work In the dark. leaving a thin shell of wood outside. The result is. that tie or pole may look sound, but all at once 1t crumbles to pieces. We have to inspect the road very carefully at reg ular intervals and watch out for weak points We are now using steel shells as ties. They do not make so smooth "a road as the wooden ties. but the ants cannot eat them We are also using steel telegraph poles.'
 American vs. British Locomotives.
 sI understand that you have some American locomotives. How do they compare with those from Great Britain?"
 Not we'll" replied the railroad direc tor We have some of your engines which we bought seven years ago. We are still using them but most of them have been repaired and made over. You people make locomotives. expecting to run them to their full capacity for four or five years and then throw them on the scrap heap. This is not advisable ont here in the desert, where freight costs so much and the trouble of getting our rolling stock is so great We want machinery that will stand all sorts of trials, including the climate We want it rustproof and rot proof and heavily made all round. We have here not only the dry air and the sand to contend with, but in the neighbor- hood of the Red sea also the salt air and the allSaH water. The latter ruin our boilers and more so, in some respects, than the sand Take look at this En- glish locomotive which has just been sent in for repairs. It's boiler Is full of holes. That comes from the alkal water
 q suppose the lack of water is one or your chief difficulties. is it not?'
 "Yes. This railroad is over 300 miles long and the track Is laid through the sand For about one-third of the distance inland from the Red sea the country IS mountainous, but the rest is fiat. There are no streams and we have to rely on ar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

W ELL sa ,,' ,ss t, @' s:s's s;;'. s.S s York have about made up their minds not to let tn childher sing Chris s'mas carols amy more."
 "Why not?" asked MT. Hennessy.
 "Well," said MT. Dooley, "ts this way. I see be tn pa-apers: Certain riprisintatives iv a splendid race that has been crooly persecuted an crushed fir nanny cinchries, but are still far firm broke, wint to this here cultl- vated body iv retired grocerymen an demanded that all references to tn past be chopped out iv tn Chris mas songs. They were willin' tn childher shud sing thim if no mintion was made iv tn origin iv Christmas. An ye can bet tn boord iv iddycation listened to thim.. F'r race that has been throd undher foot so long our fellow -dimmy- crats firm few miles east iv Ireland are far firm weak in the great centers iy our financial disturbances.
 "Names endin' in 'heimer' are far more frequent on tn windows iv banks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15
All about the new railway across Nubian Desert from Atbara to the Red Sea
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 Atbara.
 HAVE come to Atbara to describe
 the new railroad which the Brit 4 fish have built from here to the Red sea. The road begins 200 miles north of Khartum, in the heart of the Nubfan desert, and goes over the sand and rock, up hill and down, for a dis tance of 332 miles to Port Sudan. If crosses one of the bleakest deserts on earth. There is no vegetation at all between here and the Red sea, until within about nine miles of the coast, where there is a scanty growth of thorn bush and scrub, which feeds small flocks of camels and sheep The only inhabitants of the desert are some Nubian tribes who go about from place to place, living in tents Of mating, seeking pasture for their fiocks and camping down by the occa- siona1 wells.
 The Red Sea road was opened little more than a year ago; it began doing business as soon as 1t was finished and 1t now has more freight than cars. All the trade of the Sudan will proba-
  of the tourist travel as we'll. Already the Mohammedan pilgrims, from cen tral Africa and the whole Upper Nile valley are taking this railroad on their way to and from Mecca; some of the tourists who go up the Nile are return ing by the Red sea and ships are now sailing regularly from rort Sudan to Suez.
 A Great Freight Route.
 This road is bound to make a great change in the freight rates to the Sudan. All the goods of the past have been landed at Alexandria and carried by rail or boat up the Nile to Shellal, a distance almost at great as from New York to Chicago. There it has been taken on steamers to Wady Halfa, and thence on trains to Khar- tum. The railroad freight had to be transferred on it's way to Shellal, be- ing taken from the broad gauge cars at Luxor and placed on the narrow gauge from Luxor to Assouan. All of these transfers were costly, and the freight rates were high and the traffic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

tesian wells for our water supply. We have bored number, but we find that the water in many places is salt. We struck one which had per cent of salt In it, and another in which the water was 1 per cent salt. Of course such water is useless for our locomotives.
 I've are having trouble also in getting a good water supply at Port Sudan. We sank one well to depth of 800 feet and struck good flow of fresh water We had hardly completed it. however, before the salt water from the Red sea began to seep in, and we are now drilling again. There are some stretches along the route where there is no water whatever. In such places we have to carry our supply with us. For this we have tanks of gail vanized iron, each of which will hold about 1900 gallons
 Travel On Red Sea Railroad.
 with all this, Captain Midwinter, can you make your road pay?"
 1T think so. It is the short cut to Su- dan and Central Africa, and it will have the most of the carrying trade of that region The country is vast, and it is just now on the edge of it's development. Goods will be brought over the Red sea road to Khartum connecting the Nile with all parts of the country, and both the rivers and the road will be feeders for this line of ours.''
 The Sidar On Railroad Building.
 Speaking of the railroads of the Sudan, during a conversation with Sir Reginald Wingate, the governor general of Khar- tum, I asked him several questions as to their possible future. He said:
 .'The development of the country de- pends largely upon railroad building. The road from the Nile to the Red sea Is al- ready increasing our trade. and 1t will do more as soon as we can bring the cars right into Khartum and Omdurman. We are building bridge across the Blue Nile, which will carry the road into Khartum, and in the near future, l hope. we shall have a bridge across the White Nile, which will take it down to Omdurman. The road will probably be soon extended into Gezireh. the plain which lies De- tween the White and Blue Niles, and we shall have another extension running of into Kordofan.
 How about railroads from the Sudan to Abyssinia?'
 .sThey will come some time. but whether their building will start from the Sudan or from Abyssinia remains to be seen. There Is talk now of extending the ra1l- road which runs from Djibout to near Harar clear across Abyssinia and on into the Sudan to Khartum. There are no natural difficulties in the Sudan to pre- l vent such a construction and the same
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

slow Now ships go right through the Suez canal to Port Sudan, on the Red sea. and there land their goods for the Sudan. There are excellent shipping facilities, and the freight is trans ferred almost direct to the cars, which by one continuous 500-mile haul land them in Khartum. In the past wheat could be sent from Chicago 10 Llver- pool al a lower freight than that which formerly prevailed between khartum and Wady Halfa. Tie cause for this was the high price of ceal, as it all had to be brought up the Nile from Alex andria and onward by ship and road. The coal is now coming in from the Red sea and the English are erecting shipping facilities to accommodate the traffic.
 The AIbara River.
 But first let me give you some idea of tfe station which forms the terminus of tE, Red Sea railroad. Atbara is right ln the heart of the Libyan desert It is about 200 miles north of Khartum at the junction of the Atbara river and the Nile It is also at the junction of the Red Sea road with the great trunk line which is to go from Cairo to the Cape The north ern section of the latter starts at Alex andria and runs northward through here 
 to Khartum, where the Blue and White Niles come together and form the main stream.
 The Atbara river, which can be plainly seen from this station, is the last branch that the Nile has between this point and the sea- The Atbara rises in the Abys- sinian mountains and 1t carries down to the Nile every year millions of tons or the rich Abyssinian mud which makes so fertile the Lower Nile valley During a part of the year this river has volume which compares with that of the greatest rivers of the world and at other times much of it is as dry as q bone. From March until June you can walk across 1t in most places without wetting your feet ans there is only water here and there collected in the depressons and pools These contain hippopotami, erocodnes trutles and fish. This is the case for about 150 miles above Atbara.
 The great floods begin in July and last until October Then the waters are about 30 feet deep and they roll down In T great river from a quarter to a halt mile wide. They are of reddish color
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15
Patted the Kings Head.

King Haakon of Norway has been tell ing an amusing story about himself H. illustrative of the democratic way they have of regarding royalty in his king dom.
 Not very long ago his majesty attended the National theatre at Christiana, the play for that evening being from the pen of the famous dramatist Bjornson. So delighted was the King with his even- ings entertainment that when the cur tain fell he summoned the venerable au- thor to his box.
 "A very beautiful play, my dear Bjorn- son." said the hlng.
 The old man stepped up to King Haa- kon and patted him kindly on the head
 Do not say "majet tvery) your maj esty. Here we pronounce 1t 'meget' A man in your position must be careful in these matters, you know"
 For a moment King Haakon did not know whether or not he should resent the dramatists familiarity, but the old mans benevolent expression won tho day, and the King promised not to mis- pronounce the world in future.
 That's rightr' said BJornson. You will find my advice sound"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

ls, probably true of Abysslnia. It s also a possibility of the far future that the railroads of the French Congo and those of the Sudan may be joined.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15
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niyer was bad wan fir thim.'
 .'I cud enjye Chris mas more if was younger" said MT. Hennessy.
 Not to mintion a millyon or two other things, includin' me-" said MT. Dooley. Run out now, befure they're all gone an buy that match box. have in tn dhrawer a necktie that I'd defy ye to wear 10 a ball iv tn Socyal Ordher iv tn Sons iv Ham,"
The Washington herald., 1907-10-02
ST0RAGE.

PEOPLES STORAGE & EXPRESS 60. STORE
their goods in clean, dry, locked rooms. Moving
packing. shipping a speciality. Phone North 5s4m
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The Washington herald., 1907-10-02
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AS P, m.-GEsr!ottesTille Wauenton aud vsJ
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Through trains from the South arrive Washington
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Frequent trains TO and from Buemont
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