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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-14

luxury of a swim. It was a little hard for him to learn to swim, and one day, to his great relief, an itinerant grayely informed him that the only infallible remedy was earthworm oil. This, if rubbed on the body, would enable boys to keep afioat an indefinite period of time. he was told. Of course, the boy Riley dug earthworms assiduously, and placed them in wide mouthed bottle. This was put in the hot sun, as the tinerant had said that they would turn into oil in a few days. They did, and the resultant oil was 50 odorous when the bottle was un- corked that all the rest of the boys fled in dismay But Riley wanted to swim, and so he aninted himself religiously. Alas. the charm did not work, nor did the water of the Brandywine wash away the effluyia. The result was that when RAey went home he was scrubbed and 4----ed and licked and scrubbed, all with such small effect that for the family peace he was obliged to sleep in an out house. until the odor had worn off. This is one of the episodes that MT. Riley probably will leave out when he writes his autobiography.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-14
MICROBES AND KISSES

rodlte's idea of kissing was held in high esteem, and she said:
 Give me a kiss, and to that kiss score; Then to that twenty add an hundred
 more;
 thousand to that hundred; so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million;
 Treble that million, and when that is
 done,
 Let's kiss afresh, as when we first be-
 gun.
 And all of this time, bear in mind when kisses were piling up into millions, only to begin all over again, not a germ not a microbe, not a single lurking bacill hove in sight, or in any wise gave pause to the felicities of the performance.
 Doubtless, nevertheless, from a hygien- ic standpoint this was reckless, and over and beyond the bounds of such reason as may be attributed in general to volun- tary osculation. It is far cry from Es- culapius to the iodoform-scented life pre- server of this hour and time, and the mere fact that the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction will not of itself warrant an abandoned return to the merry ways and cheerful days of Es- culapius, and the free and unlimited coin age of kisses, without the consent of any other nation, man, woman, or child on earth, save and except those personally concerned.
 A modern scientist has said that tears are model gerrnicdes. Therefore let's have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-14
From the Washington Herald.

From the Washington Herald
 N ETWEEN the learned physician D1 who advised, Avoid all kissing Er as you would the plague" and the other who declared that there is no danger at all in kissing" there should be, it will occur to the ordinary layman some happy middle ground upon which mankind may stand and face the ancient and hon. orable kiss with entire composure, un- ruff1ed, undsmayed, and unafraid.
 The recent conveption of physicians at Atlantic City brought out. much informa- ton of undoubted benefit to the people. Theories were advanced along patholog- ical and physiological lines that will not weigh lightly in the future progress of materia medica. It is to be regretted that so important a subject as sanitary and safe ulation-mani it would have been absurd to seek to regulate or even define the sane variety-was left in so unsatisfactory a state.
 Isculaplus-a gentleman of mythological ancestry, and perhaps, for this reason alone admitted by all physicians to have been the father of the cult-disturbed not the sweet serenity of his days with thoughts of germs, bacilli, or other micro scopic varmints of hostile and malicious persuasion. He imprinted chaste salutes upon the lips of Mrs. Esculapius whene' CT the spirit moved him, and eke upon the lips of the lesser Esculapiuses, Esculapii, or Esculapiusets. whatever 1t was the fa shion to ca1I them in those Olden times To Esculapus, whom Homer most justly called "the blameess physician" kiss was what it should be. In his time, Aph-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-14

Marrying widow is said to bring good luck. That doesn't hold good when a man fails to get the right widow.
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Peter Stolypin is only talking about resigning He has not brought him. self up to the act.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-14

Steve Adams is billed as a worst bad man than Orchard, but the billing may be exaggerated.
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MT. and Mrs. Howard Gould seem to have subsided into dicker over the size of the allowance or alimony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-14

The 10000 Americans living in Paris must register and explain why they are living there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-14

Dollar wheat once made $4 flour, but it seems it now makes $6 flour only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-14

The corn in Illindis is said to be two inches high. It might be less.
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The atmosphere will remain odorous until the Gould divorce case is taken off the docket
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-14

The closing of bucketshops in the south is deeply lamented in New York.
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The President has lost his interest in animals, and no more bulldogs will be received.
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Those who push their own lawn mowers think the hay crop is unduly large.
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The Presidents strongest swear words are By George!"
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Tears for tomorrow, But kisses today"

Let the germs accumulated in our youth be destroyed by the tears of after years The one we may have; the other we must and will have.
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Checkers Is held in Ohio to be a mollycoddling game.
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PRESS POINTS

Newark Star: Laureate Austin threat ems to write a novel. Police-e-e
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postof1ce as second-class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1879.
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Daily and Sunday ge-Heraid. $500 Daily and Sunday, per month. 70 Sunday Age-Hepald, per annum. 2.OQ Weekly Age-Herald, per annum. .oo
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Knoxville Sentinel: War department hot air will probably float the new army baloon
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New Orleans Item; MT. Singer and Miss Nightingale just married at Kansas City, have begun life in "A fiat" getting along i nperfect harmony
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Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 1421 2 street, N. W.
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Chattanooga Star: Whatever else Or chaFd may be, he is. certainly a true son of Adam. He lays the blame of his whole career on a daughter of Eve.
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We are not faking when we say that the robertcat, or bobcat, is muclr fiercer than the thomascat, or domestic, or tom eat
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day while fishing. He was probably a poet and therefore will never be missed.
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". D. Lanier. c. l.. Stricl1lin and W. M. Sutherlin are the only author ized travelling representatives of The Age Herald in its circulation depart ment.
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If those twelve college girls of Des Moines, who jointly adopted baby. in tend to bring him up on a diet of pickles and fudge, we can see his finish.
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l DOA . anu dpNs Ab 10 haA SssSSA@S~~-N W believe that man of his calibre could think for minute that his critics are telling the truth.
 The Reading railroad has been yio- lating the antitrust law, but no prose cution will follow because. President Bear stands ready to plead Divine right
 Gen. Sherman Bell of Colorado says Orchard is the biggest liar that ever saw Pike's Peak" This Is the top notch of mendacity.
 Favorite sons of Pennsylvania are easily bowled out on the second or third ballot Philander can read his fate in history.
 Harry Orchard takes the bad-man championship of the world unless Rus sia supplies contestant. Cabrera is distanced.
 A Connecticut man has sailed away to tour Europe with eight young lady school teachers. Maybe he won't have a time
 Marrying a widow is said to bring good luck. That doesn't hold good when man fails to get the right widow.
 The Longworths have been relegated to one-stick paragraphs at the bottom of the page, and they do well to get that!
  Next to christening a battleship and getting married, a woman creates most talk by having her jewels stolen. Now that the yawn Is reported to be healthful, some new way for dismiss ing bores will have to be devised. A plate of cold soup came between a Denver couple, but the judge couldn't see how that justified divorce.
 
 The Central American states are in no condition to take an active part ill The Hague conference.
 .s.--
 Hartman is definant and Long is aggressive, and between the two the President is lying low.
 Steve Adams is billed as a worst bad man than Orchard, but the billing may be exaggerated.
 
 Peter Stolypin is only talking about resigning. He has not brought him. self up to the act.
 
 The 10000 Americans living in Paris must register and explain why they are living there.
 The atmosphere will remain odorous until the Gould divorce case is taken off the docket.
 The President has lost his interest in animals, and no more bulldogs will be received.
 Those who push their own lawn mowers think the hay crop is unduly large.
 The closing of bucketshops in the south is deeply lamented in New York. Dollar wheat once made $4 flour, but it seems it now makes $6 flour only.
 --------ar------------ The corn in Illinds is said to be two inches high. It might be less. The Presidents strongest swear words are By Georgel"
 Checkers Is held in Ohio to be a mollycoddling game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-14

While Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington will be neighbors at Oys- ter Bay it is hardly probable that Booker will borrow" any chickens from the President.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1907-09-05
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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-07-27
FishhaWk Gave Up Prey.

Aleck Canova brought three
pound trout to the Record office this
morning and gave a very interesting
description of the manner in which it
was caught.
His son, Frank, observed a big fish.
hawk swoop down on the fish near
Bar Creek, about a mile and half
north of town, and noted that the fish
was of very respectable size. He
watched the big bird until it lowered
almost overhead but within close
range, and he picked up a stone and
with splendid accuracy hurled the
missile at the hawk, striking it.
The bird dropped the trout and
Frank ran forward and took charge
of it. The head was torn open, but
the body was uninjured except for the
punctures made by the talons of the
hawk-St. Augustine Record.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-07-27
THE DAIRY HERD AND y. >= :.
THE WELL-BRED SIRE
Vital Relation the Two Sustain Each otherBy Prof
WILDER j.. Fraser, Chief Dairy HuSbaudry,
University Of Illinois.

Raising the heifer calves of good,
high-producing sows, as shown in a
previous letter, is a great fundamental
requisite for the best and easiest i'm
provement Of a dairy herd. But those
calves will take their qualities from
both parents, and it is equally import
ant that each calf should have good
parentage on the male side. But an
inspection of Illinois dairy herds will
show that comparatively little atten-
ton is paid to the quality of the sire.
In a single trip to the dairy region of
northern Illinois the writer noted six
herds in which the heifer calves were
raised for future cows, but in which
the mulls used were miserable little
scrubs, veritable runts and weaklings,
obtained by simply saving grade calf
from the herd. And of many other
sires, fairly good as individuals, moth
ing is known of the actual milk pro-
duction of their female ancestors.
There are two principal reasons for
this. One is, that under the custom of
selling the heifer calves for veal it
makes no difference about their breed
ing. But as this custom is to be
changed by successful dairymen and
the best heifers raised for cows, it be-
comes necessary, imperative, to pro-
vide good sires. But another great
reason is that the pure-bred sire costs
more money. Underlying both of
these is the fundamental reason that
many dairymen do not yet realize the
wonderful improvement that can be
wrought by good head of the herd.
Everyone is familiar with the say
ing that the sire is half the herd. This
is literally true. That is, of the quail
ties bequeathed to the calves the male
parent furnishes half The cow inf1u-
ences the character of but one calf a
year; the bull passes on his personal
ity to many calves, to all the calves of
a herd of ordinary size. When he is
chosen, half the character of all the
calves is determined. In a herd of 40
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-07-27
"A LAKE OF FIRE.
But the Fire 10 Only Phosphorescent
Water-It's in the Bahamas.

The Lake of Waterloo is a p11os-
phorescent sheet Of water a thousand
feet. long, near Nassau in the BAHIA
mas. At night it is like a sheet of
living fire if any wind is stirring to
ruffle it's surface.
If the night be calm, says the
Rosary Magazine, the water lies dark
and still until some object sets it in
motion. Little colored boys are
ready to swim out into the lake, where
they seem to be clothed in garments
of flame, leaving long trail of molten
splendor behind them.
The oars when rowing are as when
dipped in fire, and if one holds up a
handful of the water and let's it fall it
looks like beads of gold, and the fish
that dart here and there, startled by
the visitors, leave flashes of mystic,
glowing splendor behind them.
The clumsy turtles that move about
look like balls of fire, and when it
rains the lake is like mass of jew
els. This marvellous display Of phos-
phorescence has never been accounted
for, as the lake is of artificial forma-
ton, having been made for the breed
ing of turtles by a Nassau resident.
The bed of the lake is cut out of
solid limestone and it is filled from
the sea, in which there is little of the
phosphorescent quality.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-07-27
BLACK, ITCHING SPOTS ON FACE.
Physician Called 1t Eczema in Worst
Form-Patient Despaired Of Cure
Cuticura Remedies Cured Her.

about four years ago was af1ict-
ed with black splotches all over my
face and few covering my body,
which produced a severe itching irri-
tation, and which caused me a great
deal of suffering, to such an extent
that was forced to call in two Of the
leading physicians of -. After a
thorough examination of the dreaded
complaint they announced it to be
skin eczema in the worst form. Their
treatment did me no good. Finally I
became respondent and decided to dis
continue their services. My husband
purchased single set Of the Cuticura
Remedies, which entirely stopped the
breaking out. I continued the use of
the Cuticura Remedies for six months,
and after that every splotch was en-
tirely gone. I have not felt symptom
of the eczema since, which was three
years ago. Mrs. Lizzie E. Sledge, $40
Jones Ave-, Selma, Ala, Oct. %, 1906"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-07-27

COWS his influence is as much as that
of the whole number of COWS taken to-
gether
If he is of stronger prepotency than
most of the COWS, that is, able to trans
nit his qualities more surely and
strongly TO the progeny, which is usu-
ally the case with we'll bred sire,
then the bull represents more than
half the herd. In that case more than
half the characteristics of the calf, or
the stronger and predominating half,
come from the sire.
Now if the sire, as an indf vidual,
and in his pedigree, is superior to the
cows-and this will be true where a
pure bred sire is used on grade herd
the characteristics he transmits to
the calf will be of more value (of
higher quality or greater quantity
than those that come from the moth
er, and in this sense also, the bull
will be more than half the herd.
If the sire is kept with the same
COWS several years each year he starts
out a generation Of calves; more than
half of whose qualities and strength
were transmitted by the sire. This
single step is a great improvement.
But his successor, of similar type and
breeding, mated to those improved
heifers, carries the Improvement for.
ward another step, fixing the qualities
and the power to transmit them more
surely and strongly, carrying them to
higher degree, and eliminating de-
fects that have come from the moth.
er's side.. From generation to genera
ton the succession of we'll selected
sire goes on increasing and intensity
ing the Improvement of the herd. In
this way the sire becomes three
fourths, seven-eighths, fifteen-sixteens,
etc., of the herd. In fact in a few
years the sire is practically 1.-THE whole
thing"
So the sire may be much more than
half the herd, whether judged by the
strength, Quality, or accumulated ct
feet, of the characteristics he trans.
mits 1t is literally true that the sire
may thus, within a few years, at
slight expense, completely transform
a dairy herd and more than double its
profit
One can obtain fine dairy. sire for
$3.50, and 40 grade COWS for $45 each
or $1,000. Then a good bull costs only
1-13 of the Investment, or in other
words, 1-13 Of the Investment is SO
placed as to exert more influence in
the Improvement Of the future, herd
than the other 1918 of the investment
Isn't that good business proposition:
Won't the. extra 800 put into a good
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-07-27

sire be better spent than any other
500 invested in the herd? Forty-one
animals are purchased. The purchase
of one animal will influence the sue
ceeding herd more than the purchase
of the other 40 animals. Isn't it
worth while then to give some extra
time and study to the selection of that
one, the sire?
In breeding for Improvement, the
milk record of the sire's female an
cestry is of just as much Importance
as that of the ancestry of the cow
with which he is mated-is of more
Importance if the sire's ancestry has a
better milk record. And the good
dairy sire, pure bred, is almost GER
tain to have a line of dams with a SUI
perior milk record; they have been
bred for that very thing. Whether or
not these dams have been tested, so
the actual figures can be given, they
are far more likely to have been high
producing COWS than are the dams of
the grade SOW. One Of the very great
est things to secure for the heifer calf
is the inheritance Of a large capacity
for milk production, and this comes
from the mothers in both lines Of an
cestry. The calf will be much more
certain of getting a high degree Of
this quality through an improved sire
than from a grade mother. A high
milk record in the sire's ancestry af-
fects all his female progeny, all the
next generation in a common-sized
herd. But such a record in the cows
ancestry can affect but one calf a
year land not that many unless they
are all heifers.)
An in general, as to all the good
qualities that it is desired to transmit,
il should be clearly recognized that
these may be secured far more surely
from the pure bred sire than from the
general run of grade COWS. Nothing
is more certain than this. But all that
is here urged for the great value of
proper breeding is no excuse for a
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-07-27

Curing Forging in Colts.-Forging,
especially in colts, is a most difficult
trouble to overcome, says the Horse
Breeder, and can only be obviated by
careful experimenting. Have his feet
made perfectly level. Let the toes
on the forward feet grow out little.
Fit them to a pair Of quarter boots,
and on each side have pocket made,
in which place some sheet lead. Keep
adding to it until you have balanced
the, colt. This will of course increase
his stride and knee action. The hind
feet must be kept reasonably short
The object of weighing. the forward
feet by quarter boots instead of add
ing to the weight of the shoes, is to
save his legs. After the colt has &C.
quired his proper gait, the cause being
removed, the effect will cease, and
you can then omit the extra weight,
but still let him wear the quarter
boots until the habit has ceased.