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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-15
In this Brilliant
 Delightful Program

l. Overture. I'll m k h r ," delssohn-String Quintette with piano.
 9. Aria, "Cielo Mar" from La Gisconda" da"-Ponchielli, Sig. Ed Castellano.
 ]. Harp Solo, (a) "Gavotte," Bach; (b) Am Springbrunnen," Zabel-Miss Ada Sassoll. 1. "Caro Nome" from Rig oIette," Verdi-Miss Abbott.
 INTERMISSION.
 ,. Chansons Sans Paroles" Tschaikowsky-String quintette. 6. Aria, "Ung Furtiva La srima," from LElisir d Amore." Donizetti-Sig. Ed Cas- tellano.
 T. Harp Solo, (a) "L'Aurora," Bizet: (b) "Valse de Concert" uasselmans-Miss Ada Sassoli.
 s. Mad Scene from Lucia" DoniZetti-Miss Bessie Abbott, with flute obligato by MT. l.. P. Fritze.
 9. (a) "Passe Pied" Gillet; (b) "Minuette," Boecherini-- String quintette.
 10. Grand Duet from Rigo- lette, Nerdi--Miss Bessie Abbott and Sig. Ed Castellano, assisted by string quintette and piano.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-15
HaQan's Magnolia R

Ahqud preparation for face ment Not sticky It's refreshing night Winter, SamplePREE e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-15
Miss Ada SaSSOli

Without a doubt the most su- perb harpist on earth today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-15
SIG. ED 

The whirlwind tenor, with a voice so beautiful and heart gripping that two generations have not heard it's equal.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19

ual preferences on the part of con.
sumers naturally regulate the supply
and demand, which, of course, in
fluence prices.
Larger areas are annually being de
voted to fruit. As the demand for
fruit increases it is apparent that
new fields are opening in those sec
tions not adar-ed for special farming
or stock raising. Stony hillsides that
are now Improbable ca nbe made to
blossom with each returning spring.
The grape will grow on soils that
refuse nourishment to cereal crops
and the blackberry is successfully
grown on the llghtest sands. With
all the boast of favored sections there
net profit per acre that is possible
with small fruits. Lands that Will noc
grow blade of grass pay the grower
in pears, blackberries and raspber-
ries, and the better qualities OF soil
produce the best of strawberries. #
there is failure in growing fruit il
is sometimes due to carelessness OF
the grower. Trees and vines, like
anything else, must receive the care
and attention of the grower, must
be properly cultivated and pruned
and the fruit judiciously prepared for
market. The curculio must be fought,
the borer killed and the miller and
caterpillar destroyed If the work s
well done, and the grower is patient,
h &c, ,,-;l1
is an excellent opportunity for enter
prising fruit growers to increase their
profits by producing fruit of the best
quality. Low prices occur at times
because the market is oversupplied
with inferior fruit, but there is al,
ways a good demand for that which
is choice, and at good prices.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19

Among the applications of power at
long distance from its source is the
lighting of the interior passages and
chambers of the Great Pyramids by
electric currents generated at the
cataract of Assouan, several hun
dred miles away. The same power is
intended to operate pumping stations
and cotton mills along the Nile. In
San Francisco it is proposed to OBJ
tain 10000 horse power, for use in
that city, from the water now run
ming to waste on the slopes of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains, 11O miles
distant.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19

where one of the men was cutting
a long stout pole,
When he had smoothed the end Of
this he fastened to 1t with bit of
string a villainous looking gang of
three huge hooks, which we're az
tached in place of fly to his leader.
Cautiously the man pushed down the
hooks directly under the finest or the
waiting fish. There was q fierce
snatch upward, which pulled his
hooks into the belly of the salmon
and at the same time pulled them
clear Of the smootser, slippery end
of the pole, and the owner was sig
nailed to come and play the fish.
He had long stern fight with this
fish, which he declares gave him the
best sport he had ever had. When
it was gated, at the lower end of the
pole, the men deftly removed the
poaching outfit from the leader and
tied on the fly again.
The angler made only one comment,
but it set grin a-going on the faces
of the two unsophisticated children of
the woods:
Curious, that! The fly you were
fishing with has changed from a Jack
Scott to a Silver Doctor during the
fight
For the guide had removed the
wrong hook from his old felt hat in
his haste to substitute. a fly for the
triple drag hooks.
When the handle of the gaff is
firmly grasped up near the end and
the guide wades out toward the in
coming fish, one has ascertained that
the salmon's course is about rum and
that it is the time for tn eadministra.
tion of the death clutch. When
killer it is the guides who know the
cool spots where it will be safe to
dig temporary grave in the cold
ground for the fish to lie buried for
a few days until it can be placed on
ice.
How he does it one cannot say, but
so it is that when it is time to go
down to civilization again the fish
killed days before is sure to be forth
coming, and if the guides instruc.
tions are closely followed and catched
salmon are taken home to be washed
they will always be found to be per.
fectly preserved and as sweet as
though just taken from their native
element.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19
TRICKS OF SALMON
JiesefSrs and Listerlng Effective,
Though Regarded as unsrortsman-
liNe-Efforts Of Guide to Please
Employers-How the Fish are Pre-
served for Days Without Ice.

No salmon fisherman of experience
will deny that he has owed consider
able portion of his pleasure and Of
his success to his guide. To young
fellow who was triumphantly dis
playing a grand catch of several large
salmon, the question was put by an
expert friend How many of those
did you hook yourself?" To which
the reply was, We'll, played them
all, but every one was really hooked
by nay guide.
There was nothing unusual about
the statement, except perhaps its
frankness, for on most of the large
rivers it is the guide who does a good
deal of the casting. For one thing,
it is no easy task to keep up dill
gent whipping of the pools for hours
at time. Salmon rods, with their
huge reels, are of necessity heavy. Z
1t is well known that no respectable
flsh will think of rising if he has
caught sight of the angler, so that
as rule the fly has to be cast with a
long line from point above, and out
of sight of the salmon lying at the
bottom of the pool.
The back cast must be carefully
and somewhat laboriously made, and
the fly kept in constant movement
when once it has touched the surface.
There are not many city men whose
unaccustomed muscles can keep up
this kind of thing for very long.
Sometimes the lazy salmon are con-
tent to lie with their great fins and
tails waving in the ripping stream,
without responding bit to the in
ducements of the fly fishers. Then,
while the employer is not watching, or
sometimes, alas, when he is the insti-
gator, the fly is allowed to sink, and
by careful and adroit manipulation
is brought directly underneath the
unsuspecting fish. A quick jerk, and
the hook is sent home into the under
part, and the fight is on in good
earnest. Many and many good fish
is caught foul that way.
Perhaps 1T is no more than might
be expected to find that the guides
are such intense sportsmen that they
are most unwilling to be beaten by
salmon. A lessee of one expensive
river was lying back, his hat over his
eyes, while his guides tried to wake
up the sleepy big fellows in the pool,
the buss directed his attention to
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19
ICE A NON-CONDUCTOR.
Simple Plan for Dispensing With
Ordinary Insulation,

Ice is an almost perfect non-con-
ductor of electricity. In this connec-
ton a prominent engineer has sug-
gested the use of a pipe of metal for
an electrical conductor. 1t would be
immersed in a subway kept filled
with water and through it cold brine
from a freezing machine would be
allowed to circulate. This would
freeze the water in contact with the
pipe, thereby insulating it. The brine
could be used in supplying artificial
cold to refrigerators in stores, mar
kets, or even in private houses.
The simplicity of the project and
the complete dispensing with ord1-
nary insulation are very striking
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19

their enthusiastic admirers. Even the
huckleberry (whether blueberry or
whortleberry), as it is called, will
soon be among the cultivated fruits,
a place it should have had long ago.
In some sections where the peach had
been cultivated but disappeared it
now thrives again. Apples are shipped
to Europe, yet ready market exists
near all farms for his king of fruits,
1t is claimed by those who have
made comparisons that the fruits of
the temperate zone are superior in
every respect to the best that are
produced in the tropics, but individ-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19
MARKETS FOR FRUIT
New and Superior Varieties Are An
nuaIIy ntroduced--Markets are Sell
dom Fully Supplied With Choice
Frult-Finest Qualities Said to be


dom Fully Supplied With Choice
Frult-Finest Qualities Said to be
Raised in Temperate Zone.
Fruit growing is one of the leading
industries, and in addition to the new
leading horticulturists fruits hereto
fore unknown have been brought to
this country from abroad to assist in
increasing the varieties. We import
large quantities of fruit, as consumers
desire some kinds that we cannot
get within our own limits, but really
because we do not supply the demand
for our own native fruits. In no year
within the past quarter of century
have we been supplied with a suf-
ficiency of apples. During certain
periods of the year they bring larger
prices than do oranges; the bulk OF
the peach crop is annually sold when
the trees are in blossom, and the
demand for pears has been very mucn
increased of late years, owing to the
great Improvement that has been
made with this fruit When the buy
ers can procure choice fruit of any
kind prices seem to be no objection,
as fruit of good quality always sells
readily. The curculio has almost OBJ
liberated the plum, but of late the
pest has been fought successfully
and with steady improvement be-
To-, do hN 1rtiTI M
doubt IN few years resume ana
hold it's place by the side of our most
favored delicacies. Methods of cult
vation may have much to do with
disease of pear trees, but probably
forcing the trees to a very rapid
growth is the cause more than any
thing else of pear blight which
spreads from one tree to others. Our
orchards of improved pears have not
been treated in natural manner,
for the pear tree is somewhat slow
in growth and does not seem to like
much forcing, but growers have COM
PEELED the improved varieties to as
sumo conditions not suitable for
health and vigor, which render the
trees subject to the blight and other
diseases incidental to pears.
Great improvement has been made
in the several varieties of fruits dur
ing the nineteenth century. Straw
berries are now rivaling plums in
size, gooseberries are as large us
| cherries, raspberries are larger and
of better quality and the blackberry,
| once a nuisance on some farms, is
now cultivated as a profitable fruit.
The demand, instead of decreasing
from it's cultivation, has increased
and new markets are opened every
season. 1t is useless to further spe,
city the kinds, for the raspberry, cur,
rant, grape, cherry and ounce have
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19
The SUMS Heat.

An official of the Naval Observa-
tory at Washington ventures the
somewhat startling suggestion that
the sun is still getting hotter. The
process, however, is too slow to have
any but a scientific interest for the
present inhabitants of the earth.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19
How Columbus Was Paid.

columbus" said a Chicago an
tiquary, got salary of $500 year
less than 81 a day. His captains
got $50 year each. His crew got
$2.25 a month. To equip the expe-
dition that discovered America cost
,$2,S00. The total cost of discover
ing America was $1,000.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19
Telling Time in China.

The Chinese know how to tell the
time of day by. the appearance of a
cats eyes. The pupils of a cats eyes
becomes gradually narrower up to
IL o'clock noon, when they are
scarcely perceptible lines, drawn
perpendicular1y across the eye. At
ter that the dilation recommences.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19
Norwegian Honesty,

AS an example of Norwegian hon
esty Lord Edward Spencer-C Churchill,
In lecture, told story of how he
and his friends left silver spoon in
one of the little station houses be-
mistake. Two years afterward, when
they passed by the house again, the
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19
Improving the ATTENDANCE,

In some parts of England the
practice prevails of displaying a flag
from a schoolhouse roof when every
pupil is present. The children take
a great pride IN this and the rivalry
between schools is found to improve
the attendance.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19
EARLY Airshins.

Airships, a few of which have been
comparatively successful, are called
a new invention; but in 1879 a
pamphlet was written by Francesca
Lana expounding the theory of ships
which would navigate the air as well
as the sea.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-02-19
Cultivating Home Delicacies.

Some American ladies of Oaxaca,
Mexico, are said to have introduced
the cultivation of celery and straw
berry plants as a means of furnish
irg their tables with these delicacies
and for the enjoyment derived from
the incident exercise and satisfaction
of amateur" gardening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Five men We're killed and at least a
dozen overcome are in serious condi-
ton by the explosion of an ammonia
tank in one of Armour & Cos, ware
houses at Chicago Thursday.
Robert D. Evans, president of the
United Mining Co, Thursday was elect
ed trustee of the Boston Museum NJ
Fine Arts to I'LL vacancy in that body
MIR. Evans was born in st. john. \. X
Az the result of the killing &C Clar-
ehce Z. Gist. prominent white citi-
zen of Carlisle, S. c., by Arthur Da-
Wis, negro, serious race trouble is
threatened in that town. A posse Is
hunting for Davis and militia and
bloodhounds have been ordered to the
scene.
Governor Hughes sent to the New yor.,
Legislature Thursday a special messap %
urging the passage Of the so-called New
York recount bill. which provides judicial
procedure for the recounting Of the hal
lots cast in the McClellan-Hear MAYOR.
atty election in New York City in 1915
The governor recommends that the Leg
islature postpone adjournment until after
the bill shall have become law.
Judge ". ]. Gayner of New York
addressed the Knife and Fork Club
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-24
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features Of the Days Dealing in All
the Leading Stocks.

New York, May 23.-The stock market
today relapsed into the condition Of leth-
arRy from which the spell of liquidation
this week briefly awakened 1t. 1ester-
days brisk recovery was due TO the re-
tiren,ent Of a large short interest ana
the usual effect was seen today In the
reduction of the buying necessities winch
short interest involves. There was no
such liquidation induced by the decline
ir prices as was disclosed in the bear
ranks of Tuesday. Traders met with dis
couraging factors in whatever direction
they atteUp pied to move prices. me at
tempts were practically abandoned at
times and the trading was In a condltlon
of semi agnation, with barely percep-
tble diff of prices. The downward ten
dency was renewed at the last. Some
stea lying effect was due to the reaction
in the wheat market and to various re-
ports of improved conditions OF the wheat
conclusive in the news to overcome the
hesitation about buying stocks Tor lons
account or for investment. Money condl-
tions are hardening in London ana y 90
0c0 gold was shipped from there to Paris
Labor difficulties in the South African
gold mines threaten some interruption 70
I.ondon's gold supply. London also has
| lost control of the American exchange
and is una BILE to shift the Paris demand
for gold upon New York. The money
market mere Was easy on the surface. The
passage of the two-cent fare bill at Al
hany was a factor in the weak closing OF
the market.
Ponds were irregular Total sales. par
valno H,2l000b. United States new As de-
clined q per cent. on call.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-24
NO GENERAL STRIKE.
Portland Labor Men Say Such Thing
Is Not Contemplated.

Portland. Me-, May PA meeting
under the direction of the local Struc-
tural Building Trades Alliance was held
in CITY hall this evening. The meeting
was held for the purpose of giving a
public announcement of the desire or
the iourneymen to meet the contractors
and form an alliance to cooperate
along various lines for the mutual ben
eft of all concerned.
Attempts have been made to secure
private audiences but without success,
il is claimed, so it was hoped that the
contractors would appear and give their
reasons for not cooperating. Only q
few contractors appeared and these
would say but very little, claiming they
did not understand the subject.
The question Of a local trouble in
which several men left their work be
cause non union men We're employed
was also discussed to some extent, but
the speakers denied the report that
they contemplated a general strike be-
cause Of these troubles.
Addresses were made by Frank B.
Nnlliken, Rev. NJ. ]. Twomey, who gave
the men good advice while Rev. j. r
Lair, formerly carpenter, advised the
men To remain firm in their position
and force their demands for co-opcra
ton With the contractors as to hours
wages, etc. Several union men spoke
and the meeting adjourned at a late
hour
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-24
BOOM FOR SMALL POINT.
Hinted That New York Capitalists May
Take Hold Of That Place.

There is something in the wind at Small
| Point which may mean that New Yorl,
capitalists are taking an interest in the
place and intend to make it one of the
biggest and most popular summer resorts
on the Maine coast, q position which il
could well maintain. The tug Ben Hur
Of Portland was at the Point yesterday
with party of New York real estate
men aboard. The visitors went over the
Point pretty thoroughly. Although they
made no talk of their plans for the place
it is understood that they will do some
thing which will astonish the natives.
1t is understood that Mr.. Kemp, who
was one of tie party yesterday, will have
charge of the Hotel Alliquippa this sum-
mer and that the men who visited the
place yesterday are planning to build up
a summer resort which will be the equal
of anything along the Atlantic coast.
Men are at work repairing the water
sy stem, installing new engine house and
making other improvements. Rumors
are current of many large cottages to be
added to the resort, among these being
one for Nine. Emma Eames, the former
Bath girl who is now world famous
prnta donna.-Bath Times
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-24
ON SUSPICION.
Henry Becker Charged with Murder Of
Girl at EImhurst, L. |.

New York, May 23.-Henry Becker
q years old, of Manhattan was tonight
arrested on suspicion that he was the
man who yesterday ravished and muir
dered Amelia, the 15-year-old daughter
OF William Staffeldt, a farmer of Elm
hurst, Long Island.
Becker, according to the police, ad-
mitted having been the the neighbor-
hood at the hour the crime was COM
mitted and having washed his hands
at pnmp in the nearby yard Of Mrs.
Emily Simonson.
The arrest was made on the Shell
road, near the Staffeldt home. Becker
said that he spent yesterday in chop
ping wood for a farmer of Elmhurst.
The police say that he was thus en-
gagged in the forenoon. but not later
in the day. They are looking for q
man said to have been in Becker's
company yesterday.
The police say that Becker had be-
fore been arrested for assault. Photo
graphs of the prisoner was made to-
night and hastily developed for distri-
button in the neighborhood. In this
way it is hoped to learn more of Beck
er's whereabouts yesterday and the
identity of his companion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-24

Thursday evening at its monthly din
ner, Judge Gayner speaking of freight
rate abuses. said that while the actual
payment Of rebates is now seldom
done, faNoritism is still practiced in
| many ways. Other speakers were
Charles H. Treat, treasurer of the
! United States and Colonel J. f. Brady.
Chicago, formerly of the United States
signal corps.
Passengers on the steamer Teutonic,
which arrived Thursday at New York
from Europe were given a bad scare
while the steamer was off the banks Of
Newfoundland last Tuesday by a fire
which started in one of the state cabins
The room was unoccupied. Nearly three
quarters OF an hour of hard work was re-
Quired before the flames were eXtinguish-
ed There was nothing approaching a
panic on the ship. The damage in the
three rooms of the state cabin to which
the fire was confined is estimated at ser.
eral thousand dollars.
The traditional ceremony confernng
the Cross of Pelayo upon the prince Of
the Asturias, the newly born heir TO
the throne of Spain, took place in the
dl llul Sdtiy III lllS pACs-
ence of the members of the royal fam
lily and a gathering of government Of
ficials. The baby was invested with the
cross by his father, the King. After this
ceremony a delegation from the prin-
cipality of the Asturias was received
at the palace and delivered gift for
the royal baby consisting of 1000 gold
en- doubloons, equal to $4,000 in value.
A long bill for the revision OF the Sun
day laws was reported in the Massachu-
sets House Thursday by the committee
on legal affairs. The bill permits lectures
and concerts of sacred, patriotic and clas-
steal music and free open-air concerts,
allows certain work to be done on Sun
day, recognizes those who observe Satur-
day as the Sabbath by permitting certain
stores to be opened until 10 O'Clock on
Sunday morning and lastly sanctions out
door recreations and pastiines after
o'clock in the afternoon under certain re-
strictions. The designation of the day Is
changed from the Lords day" to Sun
day.
The President has received from
little girl named Mary Wagner, letter
pleading for the pardon of her step
father, John Allison. who was arrested
and convicted in Michigan number OF
years ago of bank robbery and had
served six years of a long sentence in
a penitentiary, from which he escaped,
since which time he is said to have
been living an exemplary life. The
letter to the President was referred
to the department of justice, and the
department has mailed to the little girl
an application blank for pardon and
notifying her of the conditions neces-
saary in order to have the application
considered.