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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

tograph taken with a great tatooed an- chor standing out on her bare arm.
 The brains of English hostesses have been sorey tried during the past season. owing to the vagaries of the weather All entertaining has had to be arranged from an indoor standpoint. so that the field has been very limited.
 Some novelties. however, have been forthcoming. and at least one amusement is likely to be revived next season. This is the Gardening Tea to specialize it under certain name, for the game is Il most elastic one and has figured in the pro 3ramne at all hours
 By means of a few flowers and leaves guests are made to entertain themselves by their own ignorance. The drawing room is decorated with seasonabe flow CTS and leaves, each different species be- ing numbered. Each guest is provided with card. on which, without consuta- tion. must be inscribed the name of each specimen.
 The writer of the card containing the greatest number of correct answers is awarded the prize. The fun is got out of the lack of botanical knowledge on the part of the guests, for beyond a few ob- vious flowers. such as the rose and car
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

close at the princes heels at a recent shooting party.
 "Oh, how many?" asked the prince.
 Eighteen, sir" promptly replied tEe baronet
 "Curious, was the princess sarcastic comment, T have only fired ten shots. :"
 There is much weeping, wailng and gnashlng of teeth over MT. Anthony DrcXel's achievement In becoming per soma grata with the King of England His success has been as sudden it was unexpected. and is another demonstration of his majesty's affection for Americans.
 MT. Drexel was one of the most favor ed or the kings guests at Marienbad, and was bidden to many of the royal en- tertainments, an honor shared by Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt and Mrs McCreery
 In return MT. Drexel gave a big dinner party at the Rubezahl which was graced by King Edward, who complimented his host upon his taste and hospitality. Jeal- ousy Is making all kinds of malicious guesses to account for MT. Drexers pop ularty, but the subject of all this con cern has left Marienbad with unruffed calm and together with Mir. Van Voor- his has gone on a motor trip to Italy
 Even the old nobility are somewhat t perturbed at the Iingly exhibition of American preference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Big WreStlerS Plan
 To Meet in Birmingham

Birmingham will see much wrestling this winter if plans now determined upon are realized. As soon as the weather gets colder the men of the mat will make their bows before local audiences.
 Wrestling promoters in Birmingham will present Parr. Olsen, Burns and Beall this Parr and Olsen. -he strongest of this the second rank of wrestling-Gotch hold ing the first, of course-are Beall Burns, Par rand Olsen. The strongest of this uuartette would be hard to indicate It is probable that the decision will be reached this winter after the four have appeared here.
 The first match will probably be be- tween Parr and Olsen. In three-fall affair in Nashville this month Olsen de- feated Parr. The English champion has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

Athens, September I.-(Speeial.)-Fonr miles from Athens. Ala. on the Browns Ferry road is a haunted locality if as the fancy of the supersttious suggests. the spirit of departed criminals revisit the scene of their crimes at the mystic hour of midnight under the spell of the weird moonlight. The locality referred to is of this unholy kind, for here foul mur- der was done in earlier days, and with persistent and consistent fidelity, the peo- pie of the neighborhood have marked the fateful spot that the minds of the sue ceeding generations shall hold as freshly as if it had been an occurrence of yes terday, the horrible exchange of hu- man life for a grdle of gold belt the murderers never secured.
 Nature, even, seems to have designed the spot for such a fate. Just beyond the four-mile post the rocky road sharply descends into dark bottom where stag nant water accumulates. The forest growth on the hill is mainly underbrush and dwarfed, gnarled postoaks, a ban seeming to have arrested natures free development One tree Is conspicuous where trees are scarce, and it is of a striking shape it is bent as 0 sapling might be with a weight tied to it's top: but there it has stood for three-quarters of a century, lowing it's head toward the ground, bent under the shame and weight of only the story of a tragic deed-a fo crime the remembrance of which the good people of thereabout will not let pass from the minds of their children, having constantly marked a spot near the bent tree by stake which Is never allowed to rot away. To the bent tree, dwarfed by a blighting usage, drenched with thoughts of blood rather than water cd with rain from the heavens, the horse of q murdered man was tied when the tree was very young, and no mans hand united the riderless steed for hours It is the fancy of the neighbors to always say the sapllng so used never regained it's upright position.
 If you are stranger to the locality you pass that spot and your com panion is not he will certainly point out the old bent tree. and the stake, either old CT new, near it. and say, That's where the Thornton's killed White" His air, his tone of voice, the unusual incident, the general aspect of the scene
 Say as plain as whisper in the ear
 Tfe place is haunted"
 This was away back in the days of George S. Houstons young manhood. He was at the time prosecuting attorney for the circuit to which this locality be- longed
 White, the victim of the murder, was on his way from his home in South Carolina to Tennessee, to be married The murderers, two Thornton's, were Ken tuckians who had come south with a drove of hogs, and their employers hay ing sold the hogs, these poor men were returning to Kentucky.
 White and the Thorntons crossed the Tennessee river one morning in the same ferry boat In those days the ferry did big business. Few railroads. everything and everybody depended on dirt roads and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Piano Sale
Is Drawing Patrona

That's intended it should do
 directed selling began last Monday tried make ads talk plainly and ecv the pont-he selling pontas though right in and asking tor information concerning hs eat company-its products and this sale in particular
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
The Second Hand Pianos Are Going Rapidly, toe

The entire list advertised Monday and Tuesday are gone with but one or two exceptions. We especially ask that you call and look this new list over. They are interesting.
 good rebuilt piano is often n satisfactory purchase than n cheap new one, and while this big piano sale doesn't concern secondhand instru- ments to any nppreciative degree, still we are constantly accepting used pi- mos In exchange part payment on the new ones of maI<e--These we put In our repair shop and thoroughly overhaul before offering them for sale. Here are some that you will pro- nounce all right.
 l Behr Bros. ebony case. splendid piano for pracNce teaching purposes; this sale ...........'' ,SI<@'Vo Bush X Gerts walnut case, thorough Iy overhnuIed and good for ten years hard usnge--Only ............ $12S.OO Steinway square grand, piano worth double what we ask-. .....#... S7S.OO Knabe square grand, mahogany
 case @Oo'VV 1 Lyon X Healy upright, Il bar
 gain ..........,. ..#....... S'ooo stanley upright, good condition S600O Vosc X Son; you'll admit its NHiuc 'fs',VoV ChIckering square grand sale
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
PAY ROLLS" WIN
 FROM THE "STARS'

Last night at the Athletic club the sixth series of games of the bowling tourna- ment were played, which resulted in the Pay Rolls wining two of the three Pay Rolls winning two of the three close scores. No spectacular scores were made, though Captain Horst of the Pay Rolls made high score and also high average, with Dr. Perkins of the Stars a close second Following is the score and also the league standing to date:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
"IOd' Sloan Welded
 IO J1lIiQ SQ11dersOn

New York. September 21.-Tod Sloan, former jockey and at one time cassed as the best rider in the world, was mar ried this evening to Miss Julia Sander son, the pretty little actress playing at the Criterion.
 The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Henry Marsh Warren in Mir Sioans apartments in West Forty-fourth street The only persons present were Miss Mabelle B. Gibson, who acted as brides
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

maid; William Sherer, who served as hes, man, and Frank Lee. secretary to the Rev. MT. Warren.
 Immediately following the ceremony Mrs. Sloan rushed to her dressing room at the theatre across the street to be ready for the evening performance.
 Few of her friends knew of the mar rldge. It was generally expected the we'd ding would take place at the Little Church Around the Corner" in the after noon,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

nation, the Englishman Is woefully :S- norant
 Another form of the same amusement is to confine the flowers to roses and to ex- pecs your guests to be able to identify the different varieties. Leaf Tea has also been popular although Identification has proven more difficult.
 There is a promise of a ''limerick sea son in the autumn, when drawing room poets will be placed upon their mettle and genuine brains will be overwrougnt in the struggle for last lines.
 According to reports of those who have arrived from Marienbad. the most popu- lar American women taking the waters were Miss Amy Townsend, Mrs. Glas- gow, who did the cure very seriously. and that handsome artist, Miss Leslie Cotton, who obtained several commits sions to paint portraits. Mrs. Cotton is now engaged on picture of Mrs Hall Walker, a beautiful blonde who is one of the kings newest friends.
 Bucks Ranges at cost at PrOWell Hardware Go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

declined to transmit part of the message when it reached London.
 As a matter of fact, the particular song was called "rhe Abbot and the Countess" and it was the gesture more than the son. which caused the king, who had several ladies with him. to quit his box.
 The friends of the Earl of Granard, who has been made Master of the Horse, are chafing this popular young peer about his matrimonial prospects and trying to persuade him that his only chance lies in visit to New York.
 The earl Is as poor as the proverbial church mouse. but he belongs to an an- cient Scotch family which settled in Ire land three centuries ago. and he has good record in every possible way.
 The Earl of Sefton. the last Master of the Horse who is rich man, has, unbe- known to the general public, presented Lord Granard with his uniform. which is now being altered to suit the new mas ter 1t is the most costly and most gor- geous of all court uniforms, being smoth- cred in the richest gold lace laid flat on the cloth in a beautiful design.
 Lord Granard will get a salary of ten thousand dollars per annum. The post was recently jeered at by radical mem- Der of parliament. who wanted to abolish the office As a matter of fact, it is the most worrying and anxious job at court. The master of the horse has to arrange every detail of the processions and be re- sponsble for all the many departures and arrivals of royalty.
 The fashion of tatooing, inaugurated in society many years ago by Mrs. Corn wallis West, then Lady 7 Randolph Churchill has insidiously been making progress in the ranks of society until nowadays the West End of London is able to maintain it's own special tatooist
 At one time professors of this uestiou- able art were confined to the unsavory purlieus of Poplar and Ratclifl- Highway, and their customers were drawn from the floating seafaring population who wished to carry an indelible record of the visit to London.
 Today things are altered. In South ampton Row a man named South has opened tatooing "studio," and society drawn from the West End of London. but Vienna, Budapest, Berlin Paris and many other most important continental cities.
 His recent productions have included three-colored representation of the cruci- fxion: wild, writhing dragons; a last will and testament of four hundred words ln1 an exhaustive series of masculine names. for strange to say. most of his customers have been ladies. Most of them who are embellished in this strange decoration" are extremely proud of the disfigurement.
 The Princess Waldemar of Denmark has has zone so far as to have her pho-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
LEAGUE STANDING.
OTHER GAMES

West End defeated Fairview yesterday to g. The feature of the game was the excellent work of Catcher Kellogg. Batteries: Lee and Kellogg: Puckett and Puckett.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

written friends in Birmingham. however, that he is the better man, and will demon. strate that fact when next the two meet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

Lord Dalmeny. tn } popular son and heir
 of the Earl of Roseberry. has been the subject of much gossip of late. He has
 been secretly married" according to the gosslps, to musical comedy actress. There is, however, absolutely no truth in the rumor which arose from the fact that he has been seen constantly in the company of a bewitching lady of the cho- rus. His father is credited with having
 severely lectured his son on the follies of the theatrical craze
 Lord Roseberry Is most anxious that his son should shine in politics, and Lord Dalmeny has faithfully promised to give up playing in the big cricket matches next season and to go in sternly for the business of the nation.
 Lord Dalmeny is liked by all classes He bears a strong resemblance to his Jewish mother, who was a Rothsehild
 He had his last cricket fling at Scarbor- ough, where he was the social lion of the "cricket week."
 It will be some time before the gossip concerning tine kings adventure in the ater at Marienbad sinners down. Three of the kings oldest friends in
 London were so curious to know what it
 actually was that they shocked his ma
 jesty and caused him to leave the theater in disgust that they caused private tel
 egrams to be sent to Marienbad request
 Ing full details and the words of the par
 ticuiar song which emptied the house. The amusing part of the secret corre-
 sponderce was that the British postoffica
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-05-01
THE BUSINESS MANAGER OF THE
RANCH HAS AN ARGUMENT.
Mr.. p. [. AXLlNG SAYS NO
But the Business Manager Is Game
Offers to Pay for Two Full Adver-
tising Pages If ne Is Wrong
Mr.. Axfing is Agreed
The Fight is On.

Mr.. p. L. Axling and the business
manager of The Ranch have had an
argument Mr.. Axling declared that
the northwest is new country and
that there are very few discarded
things" that are worth anything. He
said that man might go from one end
of the four states to the other and not
buy anything worth buying. He said
that western people use things that
they have and then throw them away.
He said that we are different from
eastern people; that we are more ex-
travagant because we make more money
and make it more easily. The business
manager disagreed with him.
The business manager said that the
northwest has been growing rapidly;
that a man no sooner gets one thing
than he wants something bigger
Breeders, incubating machines, churns
pieces of furniture and every conceiv-
able thing that a farmer uses or wants
to use. The business manager de-
clared that If the subscribers of The
Ranch could be brought into contact
with each other it would be found that
each had something that the other
wanted. He said that If they could
be got all of them into one great
amphitheatre and If the twenty thou
sand men and women, so gathered to-
gether, could hear each one talk of what
he had for sale and what he wanted
to buy, that the needs Of each would
be supplied then and there.
Mr.. Axling said: "Pouf."
The result is a wager.
The business manager said:
IT know what I am talking about
and I will prove 1t"
Mr.. AXling said: 'HowW
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-05-01
The Intrinsic Value Of an Irrigated
Acre

The real value of an acre of land is
fixed by the annual net profit 1t can
be made to yield. In Colorado a prop
erty owner is not satisfied with less
than 10 per cent annual interest upon
his investment. It is upon this basis
that we have always calculated esti-
mates in figuring on the earning capa-
city Of irrigated land. Suppose that
16O-acre we'll established farm contains
in one year fifty acres Of potatoes ff-
teen acres of beets, sixty acres of wheat
and thirty of alfalfa. The average
WELD of potatoes is 100 sacks or 1900
rounds to the acre; the average mar
ket price is not less than SO cents per
cwt. or sos an acre; the expense of
cultivation is $40 an acre. This leaves
a net profit of $35 an acre or $1,750 for
the entire crop of fifty acres.
The average yield of beets is fifteen
tons and at the market price, SIS ton
the gross return is SIS. The expense of
cultivation is $40, which leaves net
profit of $35 or 1925 for the crop of
fifteen acres The average yield of
wheat is thirty-five bushels or 2,100
pounds the acre, which at the average
market price of 81 per cwt. returns $21.
The expense of cultivation is IS, leaving
a net profit Of SIG or $3.50 for the crop
of sixty acres when the season is all
right. The average yield of alfalfa is
four tons from a good stand, which at
the market price of 81 ton gives SIG
an acre; the expense is SO, leaving
net profit of $13 or $500 for the crop
of thirty acres. While the cash profit
on alfalfa is comparatively small the
crop is invaluable as a fertilizer.
BY adding these profits we find that
such a farm would net above all ex-
penses a grand total of $3,625. This
sum divided by 100 gives $22.65 as the
net acre profit. This profit then be-
comes the interest upon its real value.
Placing that interest at 10 per cent
ger annum and multiplying by ten. 1t
becomes evident that such farm is
worth to its owner $226.50 an acre.
These estimates are extremely conserva-
tive and are realized every year by any
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-05-01

The business manager said: at will
offer to give each subscriber to The
Ranch a want ad free. That is the
nearest thing to getting them into one
vast market place. I will tell each
one who is bona fide subscriber, and
that means a paid up subscriber, that
he may have one want ad free. I will
write each one of these want ads. I
will classify them. I will take care
of them to see that they are well writ
ten and we will print them. We will
put the date far enough in advance
that each subscriber may know and
read about it. And when I have had
enough want ads, which I will run free,
to prove my point I will not take any
more to run free. We will close the
contest and run the two full pages Of
want advertisements one time free"
eff I am right" continued the bust
ness manager, you will have to pay
the bill to the management of The
Ranch. If am wrong I will pay the
bill out of my salary"
Mr.. Axling said: Let me under
stand this. We are to run these want
advertisements from our subscribers
absolutely free; they are not to be
asked to pay one cent. If what you
say in this argument is right; If it is
proved that there are things, useful
and good things that our subscribers
may trade to each other, or buy from
each other, or sell to each other, then
I am to pay the advertising bill at two
cents word to the management Of
The Ranch from my own salary. But
if it is proved that there are no such
things to be bought from, nor sold to-,
nor traded among our subscribers, then
you are to pay the advertising bill, at
two cents a word, from your own sal
airy, to the management of The Ranch"
The business manager said that that
was the agreement.
Mr.. Axling said he was agreed.
And so the fight is on.
On the want ad page there Is des-
cription of the terms of the contest.
Let each subscriber to The Ranch
send in a want ad.
1t will be printed free.
And If he is benefited by 1t he can
tell us so.
And if he is not benefited by it he
can tell us So
In either case it will cost him moth
ing.
Either Mr. Axling or the business
manager will foot the bill.
Get into the game.
You can't lose.
The business manager says Mr.. AK
ling is stuck"
Mr.. Axling says the business man
ager is stuck
And there you are.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-07-30
DIED..

ATCHIsON-SuddealJ at Providence HisDital. on
Sunday. july 3 1857. JENNIE AGATHA
younseS. and beloved daughter Of J. I and Jean
urtfs Atclison-
Funeral from residence. fss2 Rhode Island avenue
rogthEest. thence 70 St Matthews Church.
where requiem VIII he said st 10 a. n.
Tuesday. IntsTment az GieaTr9d Cemetery.
Friends and relatives respectfully invited 20 attend
philadelphia Pa and Norfolk Va papers
please cop5-l
BALLARD Suddenly at Shirznan. Va. on Sat
urJiay. july 2. 1907 W o. BALLARD. beloved
husband q Lulu {. Ballard. IL his thirty-s1tA
year
Funeral from his late residence. COS e street
northeast on Tuesday. July So az 80 p. N.
alexandra and Charlottesville papers please
eoqyl
BARBER-0n Sunday July . 1857. at 40 p. n.
after lengeriag Illness. EMMA A. widow OF
Theodore Barber
Funeral from the residence Of her sister Ms
Sarah = Wise. e5s G street southwest. on
"Wednesday. JulT s.. at $50 a. n. Requiem mass
a; ST. Dominie's Church at 9 a. n Relatives
and friends invited 10 attend.
RATES-At Atlantic CITY y. J.. Sunday July IS
1877, at $50 p m. TITLE BANKS, widow CT
George Bates
Notice Of funeral hereafter.
BURR-on Sunday. July .. 1871. at a. n. at
Providence Hospital. ALICE A. beloved VIE Of
Samuel r. BUR-.
HOBBs-On Sunday morning. july q. 1877. SUSAN
EMERY. wife Of Thomas J. Hobbs.
3 lis>yl' services at her late residence ls2 Il
street, Tuesday. July %. at 3 % p n Iuierment
private.
HoILANDER-On Monday. july p 1917. at 80
a. m. az her residence los North Capitol street.
IDA H0LLANDER.
Notice Of funeral Hereafter. Baltimore papers
please oopyl
- c----- ~ o. IN
MARGARET T. the beloved daughter Of Dennis
and Honora Horigsn,
Funeral Tuesday. July 90 at $50 a m. from
parents residence, I79 X street northwest;
thence 70 ST. Matthews Church Friends and
relatives invited
JACOBI-Suddenly on Monday. July g. 1871, At
the residence Of her niece, Ks Prospect avenue.
ELIZABETH c. JACOBL
Notice Of funeral hereafter.
SCANLON-On Sunday. July 3 1871. At go p. N.
JOSEPHINE CECILIA SCANLON. youngest
child Of Edward and Bridget ScaHl0n. aged sew
enteen months
Funeral from her late residence 1904 Third street
northeast, Tuesday. July %. at 10 a n. Rela-
tiTes and frispds invited 20 attend.
sCHULTZ-On Sunday July 8 1907. at p. n.
JAMES RUSSELL. the beloved and only son OF
Paul II. and Mary Schultz tnee Boylsul.
Funeral from his parents residence, 25sj I street
northwest Tuesday July 80, at p m
q ALTON-SuddeniI. carry SUNDAY morning. july
g 1907 at bis home, Lsnsion D. c.. ROBERT
C WALTON. in the fifty fifth year Of his age.
Funeral from bis late residence. corner Twenty
second and Franklin streets. Intement at Glen
wood.
WHITEdAN-suddeuly. on SUNDAY July S. 1907.
at 4I5 a. m. MRS SARAH T, WHITMAN,
mother Of Mrs. ?. l. Dill and Miss Lille White
man
Funeral tpriTate) from her late residence. 1913 U
street northwest Tuesday. July %. al 70 A. m.
Please emit flowers.