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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07

We'll weli Dora and l were sitting on the sofa, by and by, quiet enough, and Jip was lying in her lap winking peaceful ly at me. 1t was off my mind. l was In a state of perfect rapture. Dora and were engaged.
 When we had been engaged some half year or so Dora delighted me by asking me to give her that cookery book l had once spoken of, and to show her how to keep accounts, as l had once promised | would. l brought the volume with me on my next visit q got it prettily bound first, to make 1t look less dry and more in- viting) and showed her an old house. keeping book of my aunts, and gave her a set of tablets, and a pretty little pencil case, and box or leads, 10 practice mousse keeping with.
 But the cookery book made Doras head ache, and the figures made her cry. They wouldn't add up, she said. So she rubbed them out and drew little nosegays, and likenesses of me and Jip, all over the tablets.
 Time went on, and at last, here in this hand of mine, held the wedding license. There were two names in the sweet old visionary connection-David Copperheld and Dora Spenlow and there in the cor ner was the parental institution, the stamp office, looking down upon our union: and there, in the printed form of words was the Archbishop of Canter- bury, invoking blessing on us, and doing 1t as eheaply as could possibly be eX- pected.
 I doubt whether two young birds could have known less about keeping house than and my pretty Dora did We had a servant, of course. She kept house for us. -. V"My dearest life" l said one day to Dora, do you think that Mary Anne has any idea of time?"
 why Doady?'
 My love. because it's D. ana we were to have dined at 4"
 My wife came and sat upon my knee, to coax me to be quiet and drew line wlln her pencil down the middle of my nose; but couldn't dine off that, though 1t was very agreeable.
 oDon't you think. my dear 1t would be better for you to remonstrate with Mary Anne?"
 70. no. please. l couldn't. Doady!
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first knew him twenty years ago, when he was in the verdant springtime of his glory He was the recognized leader in the mountain section of north Alabama in which he lived.
 He was the most artistic steer driver in the beat and could cut more cross ties in a day than any man in the county envy among his neighbors that he never failed to flip a dime from a clod at ten steps with the cracker of his OK whip. Another enviabe feat of his was to crack Dixie" without missing d note with the same cowhide whip.
 He was picturesquely unlearned in lit erature and contemptuously despised all books except the Bibe the four-note song book and the almanac. He had learned to spell out words laboriously and for this accomplishment was counted the best in- formed man in the community.
 He was a leader in the all-day singings that were common in the mountain sec tion in those days. He was the recog- nized authority on all subjects and his highest authority was the Bible and the almanac.
 The rising of the sun. moon and stars and the setting of the same with their astronomical influence on plant and ani- nal life was the limit of his scientific and educational research.
 Bob Jones was true type of the orig inal rnountaineer, who was king of his bailiwick before the advent of the east state immigrant with his advanced ideas and his boiled shirt
 He was happy only in the narrow world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
SOME SUNDAY MORNING GOSSIP

one who can produce or enjoy them. The crank is born, not made, and is the real benefactor of the human race in every sphere of usefulness
 He discovers the inhabitants on Mars and writes treaties on the sociology or their government. He discovers germs in the milk of human kindness and pre- scribes cucumbers and garlic as dietic substitute He makes the horrifying dis cvoery that the earth has assumed the shape of brittle crust and will one day collapse into the burning lake within. He savers the information, however with tha exact calculation, that the collapse will be delayed for two million three thousand seven hundred and thirty-tbr~e years. There may be few days 1e yiation, but the discrepancy may be 9 ,ounted for In the miscarriage of a frT Jtion in the call culation.
 While the crank is refreshing, he is useful, and the only man who really de- serves the consideration of the public. He is found in every walk of life and in every profession. While he labors by fits and jumps, he accomplshes more in fit than the average plodder in a lifetime and the impetuous daring of his accomplishment gives it a quality that draws instant a. tention and makes it stick.
 The crazy man is the man of the hour. He is the masterpiece of mental creation and though We often smile at his brain contortions we follow him irresistably for the crumbs that fall from the storeroom of his craneum.
 The man with "bugs"i the monarch of the age, and should have full credit from all mandkind.
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him and scolded at first, but sometimes came back to their nests before the work was finished. Nature worked daily miracles through these young birds. One day they were egg-shaped pouches or parchment stuffed by their parents With Jumps of dead fish, and in few hours, by process so rapid as to be almost visi- ble, they had converted the offensive mass into living flesh and feathers, and in few days evolved form and beauty from a chaos of corruption. When the camera man wanted young birds that had gradu- ated from their nests, they had to be chased through the swamp and followed up the trees, an dour hunter-bay went up the latter like squirrel and sloSned through mud and water like an otter, sometimes for a long distance, but he al- ways brought back his bird, even if he
 had to cross deep sloughs to get them.
 He taught the birds he caught to pose by betting them and putting them on
 the branches chosen by the camera man, and when they scrambled away. by catch
 ing them again, scolding them, strok.ng
 them.
 ''The system never failed at the time
 but when afterwards we padded among
 the nests, certain vociferous young birds
 scrambled in haste from their homes to
 the tops of the tallest trees, and curlew
 matrons croaked from their netst, Johnny
 can't pose today he isn't feeling we'll Birds too young to get away were very friendly, and from many nests our ap- proach was hailed with cries of welcome, and mouths opened wide for the fish and frogs that often went with us. Mother birds, too, grew unfearful, and as we fed their babies. looked on with com placency if not gratitude. One snake-piro, or water-turkey, which on our first call dropped from her nest into the water m the clumsy fashion of her species, on our later visits merely stepped aside and viewed with approval our performance ot her duty. Her two youngsters used to stand on the extreme edge Of the nest with wide-opened bills extended Tor tie delicies we brought them, until one ol them fell into the water, and when we tried to rescue him, gave a full-grown exhibition of the aquatic skill which was his inheritance That night he disar
 peared, and we thought we knew the
 hawk that got him. but couldn't afford tn
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to have seats for 6OOOO. Looking at it's galleries this seems probably true. The building has a ground floor of five six acres, and, with the galleries. it could have accommodated an enormous number of people. I have seen as many as 25,000 men at one of our great national con- ventions. Fully that many were seated at Chicago when Garfield was nominated, and the seating capacity of El-Djem was almost three times as large. The circun- ference of the amphitheatre here is noly 200 feet les sthan that of the Colosseum, and it's width and breadth each measure 200 feet less than that of the Colosseum, as it exists today, is a little higher than El-Djem but with the story which was torn away added they would be of about the same height.
 The Romans had an old saying which read:
 While stands the Colosseum Rome shall
 stand
 When falls the Colosseum, Rome shall
 fall
 And when Rome falls, with it shall fall
 the world"
 Site of Old Thysdrus.
 I doubt not the citizens of northern Africa thought the same of El-Djem. But who can now tell us anything of the peo- pie who sat in this mighty playhouse? We know only that there was a great town here in the time of imperial Rome It was called Thysdrus. and it must have been of enormous size to have required a the atre like this. During the third century 1t was one of :he richest cities of north ern Africa, and the capital of a thickly populated country There were other great cities nearby; about eight miles away was one which had also theatre
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"Why not my love-
 70. because I am such a little goose, and she knows l ann!
 I thought this sentiment so incompau- ble with the establishment of any system of check on Mary Anne that I frowned q little.
 My precious wife, we must be serious sometimes. Come sit down on this chair, close beside me- Give me the pencil. There! Now let us talk sensibly. You know, dear"-what little hand 1t was to hold, and what tiny wedding ring It was to see-"you know, my love. 1t is not exactly comfortable to have to go out without ones dinner. Now is it?"
 "N-n-no!" replied Dora, faintly.
 My love- how you trembe!'
 "Because I know you're going to scold me"
 My sweet, I am only going to reason" 70. but reasoning is worse than scold- ing, 1 didn't marry to be reasoned with! If you meant to reason with such poor little thing as I am you ought to nave told me so. you cruel boy!
 Dora, my darling" 'No, I am not your darling, because you must be sorry that you married me or else you wouldn't reason with me. I felt so injured by the inconsequential nature of this charge that it gave me courage to be grave. NOW, my own DOrd, yOu oiS and are talking nonsense. You must re- member, am sure, that I was obliged to go out yesterday when dinner was half i over; and that the day before was made quite unwell by being obliged to eat un- ! derdone veal in a hurry: today don | dine at all, and I am afraid to say now | long we waited for breakfast, and then ! the water didn't boil. I don't mean to re- proach you, my dear, but this is not com i fortable."
 70, you cruel, cruel boy, to say that l am a disagreeabe wife"' Now, my dear. you must know that l ! never said that" You said I wasn't comfortable q said the housekeeping was not com | fortable.'
 | 'Its exactly the same thing Ana l wonder. I do. at your making such un- grateful speeches: when you know that the other day. when you said you would like a little bit of fish. l went out myself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07

A IL this time had gone on loving A Dora harder than ever. If may so 4 4 express it I was steeped in Dora' was not merely over head and ears in love with her, l was saturated through and through l took night walks to Norwooo' where she lived, and peramulated round and round the house and garden for hours together, looking through crevices in the palings using violent exertions to get my chin above the rusty nails on the top, blowing kisses at the lights In the Win dows. and romantically calling on the night to shield my Dora-I don't exactly know from what-I suppose from fire, per haps from mice, to WHICH she hau d s'O"t objection.
 Dora had a discreet friend, comparative lv stricken in years, almost of the ripe age of 20 I should say, whose name was Miss Mills. Dora called her Julia She was the bosom friend of Dora. Happy Miss Mills!
 One day Miss Mills said: Dora is coming to stay with me. She is coming inc day after tomorrow. If you would like to call l am sure papa would be happy to see you.
 I passed three days in a luxury or wretchedness. At last, arrayed for the purpose, at vast expense, went to MISS Mills fraught with d declaration. MT. Mills was not at home. I didn't expect he would be- Nobody wanted him. Miss Mills was at home. Miss Mills would do.
 was shown into room upstairs. where Miss Mills and Dora were Dora's little dog Jip was there. Miss Mills was copy ing music, and Dora was painting flow CTS. What were my feelings when l rec ognized flowers which had given her!
 Miss Mills was very glad to see me. and very sorry her papa was not at home, though thought we all bfre that with fortitude. Miss Mills was { 7yersatonA
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whose silver anklets flash in the sun, and whose enormous earrings stand out against their rich copper faces
 Now we are passing a cemetery. It is filled with Arabs in white gowns; there is evidently a funeral going on. They rise from the tombs and gaze at us as We fly by The tombstones arc mere boxes of clay. Each has a stone at the head and one at the foot. upon which the guardian angels of the deceased are supposed to sit watching their dead
 Notice the roadl It Is as smooth as the Beach drive in Rock Creek Park just outside Washington city, and harder and better From our seats on the top of the automobile we can see 1t stretching on and on for miles through the desert, nar- rowing down to a pin point in the dis tance Tunisia and Algeria have thou sands of miles of well-kept highways, and one could travel from Morocco al- most to Tripoli in an automobile. Our journey of eighty miles Is everywhere equally good, and, as dusk comes on. and we fly along with the yellow devils eyes blazing forth their acetylene flames, we have no fears of bursting tires nor of ruts winch may cause breakdown. It is pitch dark as we make our way into sfax, and pull up in front of a French hotel where we stay for the night.
 Amphtheatre of EI-Djem.
 I wonder if you have ever heard of FL Djem It is one of the most wonderful of all Roman ruins, and Is surpassed only in size by the Colosseum at Rome. l mean the great amphtheater which is situated on this road about twenty miles from the sea. l saw it on my way from Sousse to Sfax. It stands on a plain rising high above it's surroundings. The Colosseum at Rome is dwarfed by other buildings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
Justice for Husbands.

The poor frau-beaten husband is to have justice at last.
 At least he is to be given chance.
 Men have made brilliant successes in every age of the world, in all the ave- nues of human accomplishment, except as husbands. As husband man is an ab- solute failure in the eyes of the world, so far as history goes.
 When a man enters the matrimonial state he sinks into irredeemabe obscuri- ty and is absolutely dominated by the other half of the state" Of course he Is essential to every successful wedding, but plays third or fourth fiddle. He IS not near so important as the bride $ trouseau or the maid of honor.
 Occasionally the society editress takes pity on him and mentions him along with the other attendants, but this is an al most unpardonable condescenson and IS considered bad form He usually accom- panies the bridal tour over Europe ana Is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
Informed.
From the Boston Post.

From the Boston Post
 Sam, a negro servant of a HarrisbtSe family, is very ambitious to appear well informed on all subjects. His master had installed electric lights throughout tho house, and was explaining the workings of the fluid to Sam as follows:
 "You see, the whole thing comes from the dynamo and goes into the wires, and then into the lights Now, do you un- derstand?"
 'sYes, sah.' said Sam T understand all bout dem dynamos and other things, but what 1 wants to know is how do the kerosene squirt throo dem wickS?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07

SfaX, Eastern Tunisia.
 A CROSS Africa in an automobile! "A Riding at Breakneek speed 4 \ through the deserts of eastern Tunisial
 Dashing along on the back of q yellow devil' through crowds of superstitious Mohammedan Arabs!
 Soaring the people, routing the donkeys and cames. and turning the caravans into flying hordes of men and beasts
 These are among the features of my Journey from Sousse to SfaX in an auto mobile. The distance is eighty miles, and our speed was about fifteen miles an hour.
 We came by train from Tunis to Sousso. The journey takes about six hours, and the whole way is along the Mediterranean sea. Sousse lies on the Mediterranean sea. Sousse lies on the Mediterranean. away off here on the edge of North Africa. 1t is an old city of 25,0O0 Mohammedans, made up of snow-white, f1at-roofed build ings, crowded together along streets so narrow that wheeled vehicles cannot pass through them, and surrounded by walls thirty feet high. It is entered only by great gates in the walls, and the scenes within are those of the Arabian Nights. The men are dark-skinned. wearing tur- bans and gowns; and the woman, clad all in black. are so closely yelled that not even their eyes can be seen.
 town of but few foreigners, Sousse has all theaspects of the days of Haroua Alraschid. It's streets resound with the tales of storytellers, with the high, thin voices of Arab schooboys as they sing out the Koran they are trying to learn, and with the shrill cries of the Imans from the minarets of the mosques as they call the people to prayers.
 It is indeed the last place on earth where one would expect to find an auto mobile. It is one of the oldest cities of the world It was founded by the Phoen- clans 2SOO years ago, and was in existence even before Carthage itself It was an imperial Roman city in the days of the Emperor Trajan, and, under the Arabs, it was for a long time the stronghold of pirates and corsairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
Making Friends With the Wild Birds

In Harpers for July, A. w. Dimook writes of a recent visit to one of the islands of the Everglades, where he went to study the many kinds of wild birds liv- ing there. No guns were fired, and the birds seeing that no harm was intended soon became tame.
 ''Day after day we padded our canoe in the little sloughs around and through the rookery, and each day the birds grew tanner. The camera-man waded and climbed trees, cut poles and made long legs for his camera, until he got the views he wanted of eggs and young birds, while the mother birds fussed around
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
BY WALTER HARPER.

turesque, but was absolutely honest. He believed in the final universal, uncondi- tonal salvation of the elect, and yet was scrupulously honest because he believed it was right to be honest
 With all his shortcomings in lack of in- dustry and indoent studied ignorance and narrowness of view, Bob was happy, and who knows but that he got as much from life as the man who assumes broad CT responsibilities and reasts himself glut- tonously at the banquet table of knowl- edge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
The Man With Bugs.

Here is to the crank-the man who has wheels in his head-who is "daffy'' on some subject or other-who is able to have brain-storms on the least provoca- tion. All honor to the man who is crazy.
 He is the only creature in the world who gets the full benefit of his brains and makes the earth revolve.
 He does things and does them furiously while the rest of the world sleeps, as it were, permitting the water on their brains to sour and stagnate from sheer inactivity.
 The man who discovered that kissing is fatal should have a monument placed over his grave and as early as possible. The man who advocates the asphixiation of those men who are growing old in useful deeds should himself die early from nat uraI causes, while he is yet in the prime of his glory.
 Brainstorms are healthy and useful and should be cultivated. But it is not every
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hibts was very strict and the judges were instructed to make thorough eXamina- tlons and make impartial decisions. If there was any attempt at bribery it was not discovered. It is said that the hus- bands acted beautifully and though the experience was entirely new and novel to them, showed but little stage fright.
 It is said that Mrs. McCullough's idea will be extended to other cities and com munities and the husbands of America are delighted with a prospect of an early recognition of their existence.
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destroy with a gun the confidence of our feathered cronies, even to avenge one of them.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
ROSS Africa in an automobile!

Copyright, 1907, by Frank G. Carpenter)
 Sfax, Eastern Tunsia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07

Farther on we reach the edge of the desert We pass Arab encampments. The low black tents become alive as we ap- proach. Bedouin women. clad in turkey red gowns, crawl out from under the tent curtains, and gaily claid children loaded with jewelry stand and stare at our automobile There are Bedouin girls,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07

"A Riding at Breakneek speed \ through the deserts of eastern
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-04-18

Work was commenced yesterday OF
the foundations Of the Dabney- MACK
block on Heron street between II and I
The block will be l0Oxl30 feet, thre,
stories high, with walls heavy enough te
carry additional floors when required.
The First Church ofsChrist, Scientist
holds services in its church, on Firs,
street near Broadway, every Wednesday
evening at 8, and everv Sunday mornin.
at IL. All are cordially invited to attend
Subject for next Sunday. "Probation al.
ter Death"
The contractors on the Aberdeen Mou.
tesano road are making a fine showing.
The piles are all driven and sriDgers set
waiting for the arrival OF the decking.
q. ID. Snyder Il Co. have about ECO feet
OF grading to do, and Young & Anderson
have their contract nearly ready for &C.
ceptance.
Attorney +. w. LOOMS received his
law library this week, which has been
on Il 9 road from Michigan for three
months. While waiting for his library,
Mr.. Loomis and J. NJ. Bowes Organized
the Grays Harbor Realty Co., which has
been doing nice business.
The ball at the pavilion Tuesday night
was we'll attended, not withstandins Il Q
Indictment weather, and was one Of the
most enjoyable social functions Of the
season. The music, under the direction
OF Prof. Gus Ma,znach, was grand, the
floor in fine condition, and com pany ee-
lect and all enjoyed it to the limit. About
400 tickets at 81 each were sold.
John FORMER was arrested yesterday
for cruelty to his team. and was tined ~
and costs in the police court this mo, n.
ing. FORMER was hauling wood IN the
vicinity OF the High school. and one Il
the horses reused tu haul, and FORMER
proceeded to help the horse by beating
him with sat. The testimony showed
that the horse was not injured, hence
the lightness Of the fine. ,
James Hill, a brother Of T. II. Hill Al.
rived last Sunday from Plymouth, Iowa,
with view Of locating in Aberdeen. He
was accompanied by VIM. Miller and j..
Chlodek, and n. J. Ehlers arrived Tues.
day from the same place, and all are
pleased with the city. The coming Of
these gentlemen to Aberdeen is the re.
suit of the boosting done by Mr.. and
Mrs. I. H. Hill, when back In Iowa last
summer. s. 49,