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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-09-17
MANY RNLROAD
TELEGRAPHERS
MAY STRIKE
THo9E EMPLOYED ON TIE
QUEEN AND CRESCENT HAVE
ALREADY HANDED lN THEIR
uLTlMATUM.

Chattanooga Tenn, Sept, "a
special from Somerset, Ky, says.
Unless the demants OF the telegraph
operators of The Chattanooga division
Of the Queen and Crescent railroad
is complied with bg September q,
tAe operators on Jhat diyision. nearly
all members of the q. r.. IT. viii 90
IN a. strike, a4sordiug no VI. Il.
Hines. OF this city, assistant local
chairman Of Division No. g.. o. r. 4.
queen and Crescent operator at this
place. and st. b. Wilson. O & G.,
operator at Science HILL E5.
The operators demand that tela
9h re which has been cut into
graph collge at Lexington wiUs
in ha last few days. ana which they
al3AQ IS connected with The main
line @ q G.. be disconnected.
Ia this b not done. the men say
every ope# ter ON the division viii
W. E HJes. with several other
operators of the @ y c. went to Lex
ngton to attend q funeral and while
,here visited the business college and
found mat a wire hom the @ & o.
had been cut into lie school The
operators claim the O g c. is helping
to train men to take their places at
lower vaaos than t1ar win wort,
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-09-17
WOMEN CAN'T WORK ar NIGHT

Berlin Sept. I6-fhe imperial gov
eminent has sent % 5he federal coun-
cil a bill revising the trade ordinance.
iie c4ief feature 81 which is to pro-
libil the employment Of women 70
work at night The bin viii .ake il
shlawfal to require women and girs
in factories and shops to work later
taan $50 ccsccE u night, or % al n
wcrk earlier than 70 am.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-09-17
|RADE PACT WITH HOLLAND.
Duties on American Meats
Will Be Reduced.

knport Duties on American Meats
4 Will Be Reduced,
I The Hague, Sept 16.-The govern
Zen, OF The Netherlands and the
United States have come to an I'M
derstanding in the matter OF a tariff
agreement This agreement viii
shortly be submitted to parliament
for ratification.
1t provides for the reduction in the
American duties on brandy and 9th
or sprituous liquors imported from
Holland in return for which Holland
binds herself 10 impose lower duties
ou certain imported meats, but cher
wise to maintain the existing tariff
arrangements. On timed meats
from America the impor, duty win be
reduced by % cents per 100 kiIo-
grams.
Holland further binds herself to in
noWise differentiate uufayorably
against American goods during the
continuance of this agreement. The
United States consents 10 apply to
Holland the new American regula-
lions regarding The market value OF
goods having no sale in the country
or origin.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
Cate.

A IA Of cats declares II Is the worst
OF luck for q pet black cat to forsake
your home. 4 oma Of cats asserts
It Is the best of luck. In the middle
ages Satan's favorite form was n black
cat. Witches always have a cat as
their familiar-a stray black pussy In
preference. If a white cat races across
your yard q child Is going to die. If a
stray cat Of any color takes up with
you, making your house Its home, you
will have good luck. Napoleon Bona
parte showed a morbid horror Of cats.
The night before the battle Of Water
loo a black cat passed near him, and
at the sight the great warrior was com
pletely unnerved. He saw an omen
of defeat. Henry III. of France swOon-
cd whenever he saw a cat, and one Of
the Ferdinands of Germany would
tremble in his boots If q harmless tabby
got In the line Of his vision. Among
the Romans cat was a symbol of lib
erty. The Egyptians held the animal
In veneration under the name Of Aelu-
rus, a deity with q human body and a
cats head. Whoever killed a cat. even
by accident. was put to death. Diana
assumed the form Of a cat and excited
the fury of the giants.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
The Eternal Wilderness.

We still have our "unmanstifed"
places. And there shall come to us a
wilderness here and another there
where now there is none. for every
thing moves In circles, which Is not at
all a new discovery, and the man who
today laments a dearth Of the wilder
ness may live long enough to find him.
self one day welding an ak as dull as
the pen he now bewails with-and for
ty miles from a grindstone. We shall
not demonstrate with the writer's who
are picturing u going to eternal smash
for want Of tall timber. Their work Is
not without Its good effect in staying
the denudation Of u nearby recrea-
ton grounds, and we are content to
watch the willy old wilderness creeping
up In the rear Of the advancing army
Of invasion, reaching out with sure, ST.
lent fingers and retaining her own,
building anew her RACED stockades and
unfurllng to the winds her defiant ban.
nerets.-Recreation.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
FfshinR.

There are no between rounds" no
breathing spells, with the yellowtail.
lie Is fighting for his life desperately,
no quarter given nor asked. with ar
amazing staying power akin to that
marvellous faculty Of the leaping tuna.
The angler is far more likely to be
the first one exhausted; the inches of
line gradually granted to the pump
Ing" rod are earned by the sweat Of his
brow and the semiparalysis Of the BIZ
ceps.
"Have ! got n fish or a devili" ex-
claimed a weary Englishman after a
half hours work, with Sir Yello Vtail
still gamboling at the end of 200 feet
Of line. And many have shared his
establishment while Catching" these
animated gulvanic batteries.
That man has lived and lived In.
tensely to whose bending rod a half
dozen lusty yellowtail have capitulated
In a bright afternoon. May his re-
naming history be Eel SO humdrum
or prosaic, that crisp encounter wiz
illuminate the dullest moments.-F. L.
Harding in Field and Stream.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
The British TOastmaster,

The British banquet differs from the
American only in that the chairman
presldes, but does not keep order or
announce the toasts. That Is attended
to by a professional POSTMASTER, who Is
q large person with a volcanic voice.
While the guests are assembling he
stands at the doorway and announces
the names Of the arrivals. who are
then greeted by the chairman and
passed into the push. When the guests
are seated he takes up his station be-
hind the chair Of the presiding officer
and commands order In these terms:
"My lords and gentlemen, I pray you
silence. We will now listen to the toast
to his imperial majesty the German
emperor, responded to by his excel
lency the lord chancellor" For the
rest the speeches drawl and drag, as
in New York, with now and then a
sparkle Of wit or a fash Of mental en-
ergy, usually from some unexpected
quarter. The turtle soup Is no better
than ours. The POSTMASTER gets $40
for a nights work.-New York World.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
War From q Thamh Dits.

Perhaps the most portentous II In.
nocent incident in the proceedings
leading up to England's war with
King Theodore Of Abyssinia was-a
thumb bite. The British consul was
practically a prisoner at his court
when Mr.. Stern, a British missionary,
called upon the king Of kings" The
first mistake of the Englishman was
to seek an audience Immediately after
the king had dined too literally with
his court. The second was his choosing
as interpreters two utterly incompetent
men. The i~neficiency Of this pair so
angered the dusky monarch that then
and there he ordered them to be beat
en-. Mr.. Stern, unable to bear the
sight, turned around and bit his
thumb" Now, he was not aware of
1t, but to bite the thumb Is In Abys-
sinia a defiance and a threat Of venge-
ance. The quick eye Of the king
caught the innocent menace, and he
had the missionary also beaten. From
that sprang the war, the defeat Of the
forces Of the king and his death by his
W hand In his ruined city Of Mag
dala.-LondOn Standard.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
Eskimo Throwing Sticks.

A throwing stick" throwing
board" or spear thrower." as it Is
sometimes called, Is a contrivance for
casting a ~javelin OF harpoon. which Is
employed by various savage races.
such as the Australians, some South
American tribes and especially by the
Eskimos. among whom its use Is al
most universal. Roughly speaking. II
Is a narrow grooved board a foot or SO
long, with one end cut into a handle
and the other provided with a stud or
spur for the butt Of the spear to rest
against. 1t Is used thus: Grasping the
handle as he would a sword, the man
fits the shaft of the spear into the
groove, with the butt resting against
the stud, steadying the spear with the
finger. Then, extending his arm and
bending back his hand till the spear
lies horizontal. he aims at the mark
and propels the weapon by a quick
forward jerk of the stick. In this way
l have e Eskimo boys casting their
forked javelins at wounded waterfowl.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
Vu1garity No Irish Trait.

Inere are certain nations that have
the quality Of vulgarity strongly in the
blood, and indeed it seems to testify
10 a strong and full blooded vitality, a
desire for self assertion, and thus we
may expect to find vulgarity logging
ike a shadow the footsteps of strong,
capable and pushing nationalities. But
there are certain nations that have
been accused Of many faults that vet
nave never been accused Of being yul-
gar. The Irish are a case In point.
They have been accused Of leyity, of
undue ~conviviality, Of frivolity, of a
tendency to romance. of untrustworthi-
ness. of responsibility, but they have
never been accused of vulgarity. There
lies deep In the Celtic temperament a
rich vein of emotion, a strong relish for
the melancholy side of life. 1t Is on this
hat their Incompatible sense Of humor
Is based, and 1t may be said that no
one who feels at home with melancholy,
who luxuriates in the strange contrast
between the possibilities and the per.
formances Of humanity, Is In any dan
ger of vulgarity, for one of the essen
tial ~components Of vulgarity Is a COM
placent self satisfaction, and if a man
Is apt to dwell regretfully on what
might have been rather than cheerfully
upon what Is there is but little room for
complacency.-A. c. Benson In Atlantic.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
Protection For Swimmers.

"Cotton in the ears" said a physi-
clan, should be used by all those who
swim out beyond their depth. You
know how often good swimmers Of
that type drown, don't you? Their
drowning IS imputed to cramp, but
you will never find one of the drown
ed with his ears stuffed with cotton.
Why? I'll tell you why. Because ii
isn't cramp that cause these drown
ings. 1t is a perforation Of the ear,
drum, followed by unconsciOusncss,
due to the pressure Of the water,
Cramp isn't, after al, the deadly thing
1t is made out to be. If you get q
cramp in your leg while swimming il
Is easy enough to roll owe on your
back and float. The cramp won't kill
you. But a p]erforation Of the ear,
drum IS different. 1t takes away
your senses, and down you go like q
log. So always, If you are going tC
do much swimming, stuff cotton In
your ears."-New York Press.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
Fixed cts.

1t is said that during the siege Of
Ladysmith In the Boer war the assault
column Of British, advancing In thick
darkness, climbed up an almost pre-
cipitous wall. Once or twice they were
family challenged. At last q Boer rec
ognIzed them and shouted to the sentry
to fire on the "yerdomde roolIcks!" AS
the crest was gained the fire broke out.
A few Of the attackers began to reply.
but they were stopped, and the voice
of the commanding officer was heard
to give the order, Fix b~ayonets"
That there were no bayonets did not
matter. The men, taking up the cry,
rushed on the Boer gunners, who fed
at the thought of the cold steel.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
A Funny Incident.

When Senator Wolcott first went to
Colorado he and his brother opened a
law office at Idaho Springs under the
firm name Of ED Wolcott & Bro"
Later the partnership was dissolved.
The future senator packed his few as
sets, including the sign that had hung
outside Of his Office, upon a burro and
started for Georgetown, a mining town
farthur up in the hills. Upon his ar
rival he was greeted by a crowd Of
miners who critically surveyed him
and his outfit. One Of them looking
first at the sign that hung over the
pack, then at Wolcott and finally at
the donkey ventured, "Say, stranger,
which Of you is Edf"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
Diamond Mine Prisons.

Each Of the great South African dia-
mond mines has its several compounds,
where the Kaffirs are imprisoned. These
are Enclosures with walls sufficiently
high to prevent escape, and around the
walls Is a stretch Of roofing sufficient
to prevent the inmates from tossing
diamonds to the outside to be picked
up by confederates. In the early days
the Kafirs used to throw diamonds
over the walls in tin cans, so that their
wives or friends might come and pick
them up. When the Kaffirs go to Kim
berley from their tribes they agree to
submit to Imprisonment. The shortest
period Is three months, but there are
many who have never been out Of the
compounds for two or three years.
Worlds Work.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
The Ears of Insects,

Simply because a bee has no ears on
the sides Of its head 1t Is no sign what
ever that 1t Is wholly without some
sort Of an auditory nerve This is
proved by the fact that grasshoppers,
crickets, locusts and flies all have their
ears situated In queer places-under
the wings, on the middle Of the body
and even on the sides Of their legs.
The common house fly does its hear
Ing by means Of some little rows of
c%orpuscles which are situated on the
knobbed threads which occupy the
place which are taken up by the hind
wings of other species Of insects. The
garden slug or shelless snail has Its
organs of hearing situated on each
side Of its neck, and the common
g~rasshopper has them on each of It's
broad, fiat thighs. In some Of the
smaller insects they are at the bases
Of the wings and in others on the bot.
tom of the feet.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
as Nurses.

Monkeys make poor nurses said Il
zoo keeper. when they live near a
stream Of water and one of the colony
falls sick they invariably toss him
overheard. They don't want him
around. His signs and groans annoy
them so. 'psst. Off the dock!
Here in captivity | have to remove
at once a sick monkey from his com
rades' reach. Otherwise they would
soon kill him. When they can, well
monkeys take a strange JOY in tor
menting an invalid. They bite the end
Of his tail, they drag him about, and
they pinch him. Finally, when he
dies, as many as can find room sit on
his body, close together, very solemn,
as though engaged in some religious
rite"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14

Velvet Is manufactured by placing in
the loom rows of very short threads Of
the material designed to be employed,
whether cotton or silk. These are then
caught up by the cross threads In the
weaving and fastened in such a way
that the feecy ends present themselves
all on one side of the fabric. The man
~ufacture of velvet Is so slow that for a
hand weaver a yard Is considered a
good days work. The machine made
velvet Is Of course turned out much
more rapidly.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
knew Fro. Experfe.ee.

II say" said a friend the other day.
'.you are an old hand at II. have
only just got married. and don't under.
stand much about the business, but has
q married man any rights left when
he once assume the hymeneal respon-
sibilities?"
"Rights? Yes. lots! He's a right
10 pay all the bills, to-
"Stop. | mean this. Let me give
you an instance. Every box and
drawer and portmanteau and, in fact,
every available receptacle Of every
description is stuffed full Of my wife's
property and when want to put away
4 few cuffs and collars
Hold hard! l know what you mean.
Listen, young a II your bedroom
were 200 yards long and lined
from the floor to the ceiling with
drawers and you wanted a place to
stow away a couple OF collars, you
couldn't find a nook that wasn't full Of
hairpins, tufts Of ~friZzes, pads, scent
boxes, old gloves, powder puffs, rings
and things. So just acce IT the inevita-
bic. Wrap your persona property in
an old newspaper or some brown paper
and hide the parcel under the bed"
The inquirer smiled loudly and front,
cally and passed on a wiser II not .
better man.,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
Way of One Man.

He was romantic, but bashful for hi,
age. At twenty-five 1t is eXpectcd
nowadays that a mar should be matter
of fact. She was his equal in romance
but a trife older, old enough indeed &c
be a widow. The conversation had
turned on the ever important subject
Of methers-ln-law. There was a lull III
the argument. Gazing far, she sighed
and said:
"Ah, me! shall never have another
mother-in-law."
He looked at her with interest for 4
moment and then suddenly blurted out
"My mother died when | was very
young!"
1t was an inadvcrtcnce, but lie couIc
not draw back. She threw herself into
his arms, and they have lived happily
up to now.-New York Press.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
DrnZil's ~.JunRles.

The jungles of Central America and
Brazil are masses of vegetation so
dense that 1t Is practically impossible
to penetrate them. Swain and his par
~ when crossing the isthmus Of Da-
rien labOrel hard with their hatchets
and machetes the whole Of one day and
achieved but half II mile. In many
parts Of Central America the under
growth rencws itself SO rapidly that 1t
Is almost impossible to keep a road
open through ii. In n instance in
Honduras a road sixteen feet wide was
made by engineers and laborerS
through a jungle, the underbrush and
vines being cut away even with the
ground. Two weeks later, returning to
complete the work by laying stones on
the rOadbCd, they could not find the
road, the vines having completely filed
the vacant space.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14

Sense Of danger you have of course
none, for you are SO aghast at the dan
gers run by your dear ones below from
motors and bicycles and trains and
gas works and all the other things ter
r~estrlal that all concern for your own
safety goes. And the shocking air
they breathe and the horrid little
wormliko trains that burrOw In and
out of dark looking holes-how un-
healthy the whole earthly existence
seems 10 you as you glide motionless
through the air, with white clouds be-
low you stretched out as a sort Of sill
yer carpet at your feet and above you
nothing but a limltlcss eXpanse Of
deep blue sky!-Bystander.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
When Buchanan Was King,

George Buchanan was a scholar, his
torian, co~ntroverSialist and the best
Latin poet Of his age. Buchanan was
tutor TO Mary, queen Of Scots, and to
her son James, afterward James l.. of
England. One day he caused himself
to be made king of Scotland, and this
was the way Of it: Having observed in
James a tendency to too ready acqui-
eSCcnCc, he drew up n paper for the
royal pupil TO sign. James did so at
once without having read ii. The doe
ument happened to be a transfer Of the
royal authority TO Buchanan for fifteen
days, and no sOone had the poet got it
into his possession than he began to
play the monarch, even before the king
himself. James thought the man a lu-
matte until the instrument was pro
duced by which he had signed away
his sovereignty. This incident vas
used by the worthy preccptor to Illus,
trate the days lesson on the RESPONSE
bilitics of mOnarchS.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
The First Astronomy.

The beginnings Of astronomy were
on the tops Of towers Of Babylon and
the pyramids Of Egypt. 1t Is believed
by many writers that both classes OF
structure were erected for astronomical
purposes. AS early as the time Of Job,
nearly 1000 years before Christ. mos,
Of the stars had been divided into con.
stellations. The writer Of Job men.
lions Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades as
being familiar. The modern science
dates from the labors of Copernicus,
Tycho Brahe and Newton.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
The Streets of Peru.

The streets Of Peru, especially on
gala days or when they wear the spe-
cial dress Of some celebration, are said
to be among the most picturesque In
the world. In their narrow proportions
they resemble somewhat the streets OF
China, and the variety and contrast Of
the colors used In decoration may be
compared with the Chinese. There Is,
however, a distinct Latin character to
the decoration, which lends them an
atmosphere entirely their own.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-14
Rising From His Grave

A prominent manufacturer, w. NJ.
Fertwell, OF Lucama, N. c., relates a
most remarkable experience. He says:
after taking less than three bottles
OF Electric Bitters, l feel like one rising
from the grave. My trouble is brights
disease, in the Diabetes stage. / fully
believe Electric Bitters will cure me
permanently, for it has already stopped
the liver and bladder complications
which have troubled me for years."
Guaranteed by G. ID. Kendall.