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Woman,s Telephone Graft.

We've got to have our phone TAX.
en- out or else move" said a little
woman mournfully, the other day. IT'S
too expensive where we are now. Yes,
the phone is the cause of 1t all.
There's a woman in the suite back of
ours who hasn't any phone and once
/ told her she could use ours. Since
then she has put in about a dozen
long distance calls at different times.
After she's had a long distance con-
versation of about ten minutes she'll
say. o, that'll be charged to you,
won't it? Well I'll hand you whatever
It comes to In the morning. But she
never does. never have the nerve to
refuse her when she wants to tele-
phone-she's always so nice about IL.
But she's making things mighty hard
for US"
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New York-When a man ike
Henry II. Rogers drops out of the ac'
tive business world wherein he made
so striking a figure, his friends are
prone to become anecdotic about him.
Hence stories that take on romantic
tinge in bank parlors and directors
rooms, and in the chatty corners OF
the exchange, not to speak of the
shipping Offices near the water front.
II Mr.. Rogers feels like resuming the
ways of Bowling Green in a few
months or so he will find recon
structed Rogers looking at him from
every corner, and whom he may have
some little difficulty in recognizing.
The tall, erect figure of a we'll
dressed man with whitening hair and
white moustache, who somehow re-
flected in his ripe age of 81 the graces
that he cultivated quarter of GEN.
fury back, is, however. the figure that
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hand able to support your head, and
maybe your head will learn in time to
support your hand 1t was worth
whole volume of maxims TO me. 1
never forgot it, and for the IL years
following l worked with my hands.
No doubt was born with a mechani-
cal bent, but when, in 1868, entered
the oil refining business in Brooklyn
| had an equipment of mechanical
knowledge and experience that gave
me a special value, and may say
that / exacted a money return for It,.
My mechanical knowledge and apti-
tude were of great advantage to me
with my young competitors In the
business, and, indeed, with many, If
not most, of the older ones.
Great Opportunities To-day.
what, am asked. is the young
high school boys chance now as COM
pared with so years ago? The cry is
general that it is much less than II
was then. Is that so? 1t is emphati'
cally not so. The chances for the
high school boy now are many times
greater than they were then. People
count too much by the conditions they
find in their immediate surroundings
They don't look at it in broad
enough way. Remember that In 1856
l seemed to find closed to me trade
that has since grown with the coun
try's growth, in proportion faI
greater than the increase in popula
ton. Think of the number of ma
chine shops in the country now com
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Taft in Japan.

Secretary of War Taft has sailed
from Japan for Manila. Mr. Taft ex-
pressed himself as being greatly
pleased with his visit to Japan, especi-
ally with the press comments in this
country on his speech at the Toxic
banquet
1t develops that Mr.. Taft, when he
was received by the Japanese emperor
at the capital and was afterwards en-
tertained at luncheon by his majesty
and the empress, was the personal
guest Of the emperor, rare occur
renee, invitations TO such functions be-
ing usually sent through the embassy
OF the person to be honored, but in
this case the invitation YVES sent di-
rect to Mr. Taft.
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be bright and brainy both. OF win
ter evening when he lives in town he
may spend a few hours at one OF his
clubs-the Metropolitan, say. There
he would be apt to gather a group of
bright people and smoke single
cigar while good things went around.
l heard him once tell of meeting
whaling captain whom he had known
as a lad 40 years before. He took his
old comrade about the town and the
countryside, identifying old land
marks together. The captain had
been away six years from home and
was to sail on new voyage the next
day. I'm going aboard now, Hen,"
he remarked. "And won't you go
home first and tell your wife good
by?" / asked "Blazes, no." replied
the whaler, I'm only to be gone two
years" That seemed, he said, the
most extraordinary utterance he had
ever heard. He saw the humor of it,
but to home-lover it seemed sacri-
lege.
When the new high school was
about to be opened l spent an after
noon with him, and our talk turned
quite naturally on education. What
he said then is about as good a key
to the man and his opinions as any
thing / can think of, and this is the
drift of it:
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so that draughts from the pierian
spring might supplement satisfaction
of the ordinary thirst of the villagers
Commissioner Of Highways.
He built grammar school and a
Unitarian church, with parish house
and parsonage, altogether one of the
most complete and handsome edifices
in Massachusetts,. He became, at uni
versal request, commissioner of high
ways, and thereafter never we're
streets so looked after. He turned
low land into park, beautified the
highways and byways, furnished a
stone approach to the bridge over the
Acushnet river and, lest the traveller
might think III of Fairhaven's hostel
ries, erected the handsome Tabitha
Inn-name suggestive Of New Eng
land neatness and quaintness.
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his friends will recognize. His photo
graphs have done him the doubtful
service of giving him a proud, rather
naughty, air, as of one who marshals
hosts of facts and figures and who is
always bent on hard achievement 1t
is the familiar trick of the camera to
pick out in the self-conscious moment
that one stands before it the traits
that are at the root of character rather
than those that are familiar to every
body.
The Habit of Victory.
Take all great men of business"
said a banker, III. II. loved affairs
better than anything else. 1t was not
the struggle for the sake of the fight,
but for the end in view. AS soon as
he won he passed on without a halt
to try another tilt, and he had what
is important, the grit for a long
clinch and what, believe me, is most
important, the habit of victory"
Men like the heads Of the Stand
ard Oil company are no accidents"
said a sharp observer. "They were
tried out in a hundred ways before
they came to control. 1t was the many.
sidedness of H. II. Rogers that made
his uprise a necessity in that remark
able group headed by John ID. Rookie
Teller. / don't know any of the quail
ties they possess that is not common
in the business world of America.
They are no better and no worse than
the thousands of men engaged in the
conduct of the higher business of the
country, but each one has had some
quality notably in excess of the aver
age. Their combination has been ir
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Van Buren, county feels that It has
been stung proper. 1t has developed
that it will be impossible to collect
certain sums of money paid Sheriff
John II. Britton, his deputy and pre-
decessor, ex-Sheriff w. ]. Thomas, as
fees, which a January session OF the
supervisors declared illegal. Britton
paid back s1,100. but the others stood
pat and refused TO shell out" Judge
Des Voignes holds that as the bills
were carefully itemized and allowed
by full vote of the board there was
no fraud shown. Britton will try to
get his 81 900 back now.
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It was in 1856 that Henry Rogers
was graduated from the high school
at Fairhaven. and it appeared to him
that there was still something else TO
build as the fiftieth anniversary of
that event approached. SO he called
for his merry men all, and commits
stoned them TO build and equip the
finest high school ever, and as 1t
went up he watched 1t and nursed 1t
as a mother might growing child.
And now, with its wonderful fittings,
its gymnasium, its class rooms, its Of
fees, IL is at once the most luxurious
and practical building of the kind in
the world.
What is at the bottom of all this
home love and passion for local adorn-
ment?" friend of his was asked.
1T is his Americanism," was the
answer. "He loves his people and
would see them second to none in the
world"
Taking Life Easy.
Mr.. Rogers is taking life easy now,
and obeys the behests of his doctor
with a smiling acquiescence that con
ceals whatever impotence he may
feel at unwonted restraint. You no
ticed the other day that he had Mark
Twain with him on short yacht
cruise. Well, that was not the first
time they had foregathered in the
cabin after a day of steaming in the
open. Men like Mr.. Clemens and the
late Tom Reed are the type he most
prizes for companions-they should
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A TASTY Salad.

AS attractive and tasty salad as
has been seen for many a day was
served at a luncheon recently. Green
cages cut into halves and bananas in
cubes had been covered with oil and
powdered sugar and allowed to stand
on the ice for couple Of hours. Whip
ped cream topped the salad when 1t
was sent to the table.
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Fifty-one Deaths.

Fifty-one verified cases of bubonic
plague have developed in San Fran
cisco to date, according to the report
being kept in the Office of DR.. Blue,
of the marine hospital, in charge Of
the work of eradication. There have
been 80 deaths. About 30 suspects are
under observation.
One of the 81 verified cases, Miss
Keeling, a trained nurse at City and
County hospital, has recovered and
been discharged
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Broughton, Mrs. w. r. Coe, and Mrs
w. e. Benjamin, have already pro-
vided him with nine grandchildren.
And he is proud of them in way
usual to grandparents, and one may
find their pictures making cheerful
his roomy Office at 26 Broadway.
From this lovable domestic side
one travels easily to his general So
cial outlook. That can best be de-
scribed as frankly American. He is
too sensible of the value of his posi-
ton as a man of wealth to underes-
innate it's possibilities. He mixes
easily in society, entertains on a gen
erous scale, with an eye to the ele-
gancies so easily within his reach, but
he enjoys most the company of the
gifted, the genial and the witty, for he
rather leans to saying good things
himself and is never happier than
when he applauds smart saying or
good story. A quiet game of cards
for the love of the game in congenial
company is his occasional pastime.
He has never developed the fondness
for field games that pleased him in
his youth He has taken easily to the
automobile, but, like all good sons OF
the saltwater, his liking for the sea
has grown with the years.
At Home on His Yacht.
Nowhere is he perhaps more genial
" at home than on his yacht, No
hurry that sends men to express
trains is allowed to interfere with his
yachting runs to Fairhaven. Hence
the Kanawha is about as well known
as Mr.. Morgan's Corsair around the
waters of New York. But it is in
Fairhaven itself that he fairly revels
in life as he thinks he would like to
live it. There he was born and
reared, and his affection for the town
and the bay and the country road is
extravagant in it's manifestations
There, in his frequent visitings, 1t is
his delight to move about and chat
with all and sundry old cronies Of half
a century gone, who call him Hen;
sons and daughters of old friends who
are middle-aged men and women
salute him as Mr. Rogers, and third
generation little ones, who regard him
open-eyed as the local representative
of a magnificent providence. Said g
newspaper man recently: II couldn't
find anybody there who would say
| anything but kindness of II. II. Rog
ers."
Generous to Fairhaven.
He surely has been good to Fair
haven, which picturesque village look!
across Buzzard's Bay to New Bedford
ancient home of whalers and all the
romance and business that came o
! their seafaring. There he built ;
great mansion for himself amid beau
tiful grounds, and there he loves mos
to live when away from work. Blu
he alone was not to be the only Fair
havenite who was finely housed. HI
built and presented to the citizens
handsome town hall and a Masonic
hall.
On the death of Millicent, a be
loved daughter, he built beautiful
public library as memorial. 1t 1
called the Millicent library, and ha
| the highest record in the country TO
books taken out and read in proper
ton to the contents of it's shelves
The village wanted water works an
H. II. Rogers provided them. Tha
they might be doubly useful to Fail
haven, he decided the income fror
them to the Millicent library forever
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AMUsEMENTs IN DETROIT
Week Ending October 18th, 1907.

TEMPLE THKArER AND WONDERLAND
Afternoons 2l5. 10c to 2jc: Evenings s:Ik
1Oc. to bOc. Benjamin Chapin's Serious
study OF Abraham Lincoln, Empire City
Quartet Etc.
WHITNEY OPERA HOUSE Matinees daily
except Wednesday. loo, Zoe, soc. Parted
On Her Wedding Tour
LYcEUM THEATER-Every Night. Mats.
SUM-, We'd, sat i5c, 26c, SOC. Rose MelvIlIs
In Sis Hopkins"
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Poke holes should always be frown-
ID upon. They are unsightly. un-
healthy and undeniably destroyers OF
the disposition as places warranted
20 hold what you want most in a
hurry. Cultivate the habit of destroy
ng everything not absolutely needed
and of putting everything that is care
fully in its appointed place.
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STEAMERS LEAVING DETROIT

ID. a G. for Cleveland daily AT 1880 d. m.
Week End Excursions every Saturday
night 800 round trip.
ID. a b. for Buffslo. week days at 500 d. m.
Sundays at 400 p. IN. Week End Excur-
sions to Buffalo every Saturday. t1a
round trip.
WHITE STAR LTNE.-For PORT HURON vay
ports daily, $50 q. m, 23J and 800 d. m.
Sundays q. m. and E3) D. IN. TOLEDO
daily y. M, Sundays - IN. and u. m.
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Grain. Etc.

Detroit.-Wheat-Ca No. 2 red. 81:
December opened sc up to 81 OF.
gained another &c, lost 1ac and adj
vanced to 81 0S May opened at 81 OS.
touched 81 0S& declined to 81 0SH and
advanced to 81 90; No. 3 red wheat,
97c; No. white wheat ST.
Corn-Cash No. 8, csc; No. yellow.
cars at csc, later offered at 67c: No. 4
yellow. car at Gee; sample. car at
63c
Oats-Cash No. 8 white. 4 cars at
sage; No. white, cars at 52hc, 5
at 81 nc
Rye-Cash No. 2, 90c.
Beans-Cash and October. 50 20; No
vember, 81 10: December, 81 05.
Cloverseed-Prime spot 10 bags at
$40 so: October, $40 so: December.
50 10: March. 80 so; sample bags az
$40 25. Is at SO 25: prime alsike. 50 rs ::
sample alsike, bags at SO rs, at IS.
8 at 81 So
Timothy seed-Prime spot, 80 bags a,
SO 10.
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THE MARKETS.

Detroit.-Cattle-E dry-fed steers
and heifers, $5d5 so; steers and heif-
ers, 1000 to 1900, 81 1905; steers and
heifers, 500 to 1000, $4Q4 IS; grass
steers and heifers that are fat 500 to
1000, $4@4 IS; grass steers and heifers
that are fat, 500 TO 700, 5000 IS; choice
gag M d sSSs S. s. Ss as SS%
81 5O62: choice heavy bulls. SO so; fair
to good bolognas. bulls, 1903 IS; stock
bulls, 81 50@2 IS; choice feeding steers.
steers, 500 to 1000. SO 2563 so: choice
stockers, 500 to 700, $303 %; fair
stockers. 500 to 700, 81 5OQ2 IS; milk
ers, large, young, medium age, $40@
A.; common mixers. $20030.
Veal calves-Market active and ESQ
higher: best grades, sS@S so; others.
SO 50@7 90; mich cows and springers,
Sheep and lambs-Market steady, last
weeks prices; best lambs 1907 25; fair
mon lambs, 81 5O@5 so; yeaTiings, 81 so
as; fair to good butcher sheep. 81 500
IS; culls and common. 81 5000 so.
prices Range Of prices: Light to good
butchers, Sc 25@6 45: pigs, So TO- light
workers., Sc 40Q6 so; roughs, IS rs;
stays, 1-3 off.
East Buffalo.-Cattle-M steady:
export steers, $6.10m6.50; best 1900 to
1,3OO-lb shipping steers, s5.1OD5.S5; best
butchers steers weighing from 1000
to 1,O5O-ib, s4250456; best fat cows.
$3.50@440: fair TO good. s2.75@3;
medium. So ass trimmers. $1.50@2:
best fat heifers. $4256A5O; medium.
81. 25 a $50: common. $2.50@3; best feed
ers, $4d4.25; common stock steers. S275
as: export bulls, S3.7564; bologna
bulls. $SdS.75; stock bulls. s2.75@S.
Hogs-Strong; mixed and medium.
$7@715; heavy $6.7507; workers. $40
7.15; pigs. S6.6066.75; roughs, S59O@6.
Sheep and lambs-Market active: best
lambs, S7.9O6S: culls S5.50D6: year
lings $5.75d6: wethers $55Om575:
ewes, S4.5OM5.25; calves. S4bOm9bO.
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Had Mechanical Bent.

CAS- for myself, was very eager to
go to work after graduating, and in
fact did go to work in less than a
week from the day left school as a
graduate. My father and i were
agreed that I should take up the trade
of machinist, but there was no chance.
Apprenticeship were limited even at
that time as much as they are now.
The machine shops within reach were
full, so l had to look in another direc-
ton. / wanted to be at work and I
found work. l was proud to get three
dollars a week to begin.
My father said to me, Make your
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High School Best Outfit.

For the boy starting out in life
who is anxious to succeed in business
l believe that the ordinary high school
education is the best outfit.
"He is master of the ordinary i'm
plements of business life, whether it
be mechanical or commercial-that is,
he can read, write, spell and figure.
He has at least foundation of gen.
eral knowledge. Our American high
schools, too, cultivate a sense of the
greatness of the country which in
spires him with confidence in her flu
ture and hence in his own. ] speak
now more particularly of what may be
called the country schools, which /
know best. The high school boy has
had set for him a standard of good
conduct, and that give-and-take, which
is the necessity of all civilized social
conflict.
His great advantage over the col
lege bred man is that he gets his
start in life at 16 or II years of age.
as against the 81 or % years of the
college graduate. The high school
graduate is proud enough in his way
of what he has accomplished in get
ting his class standing, but he does
not bring his pride with him when he
is going to work or looking for a job.
On the other hand, the college man
who is not entering one of the profes.
sions is apt to have more pride than
the situation warrants, and that is a
hampering thing. He is expecting the
world to come to him rather than he
should set out with eager heart To
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
IS GIVEN FRANCHISE.
CoIumbiana May Have an Electric
 Lighting Plant.

Columbiana, May Especial. Jon April 29 the city council held call meeting and granted the exclusive franchise for twenty years to l. Gordon of this city for the purpose of erecting. constructing and operating an electric light plant and water works system, within the incorporate limits of the city of Columbiana.
 The plant mentioned above Is to cost 5000, In which MT. Gordon has other foreign capitalists associated with him.
 MT Gordon has been in America since 1887, landing at New York, where he resided about year. From New York he drifted southward to New Or leans, where he established pants manufactory. Prospering, he conducted this business until an epidemic of vel low fever prevailed, after which he moved to Birmingham. He there estab- lished tailoring business. occuping a storeroom now known as the Hillman cafe. In August, 1904, MT. Gordon, meeting with business reverses during the strike, moved to Columbiana, at which place he established tailoring business. in which he has met with remarkable success. associating with the prominent families both In busi- ness and socially.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
News of Union Springs.

Union Springs, May 4.-(Special.)- The remains of Eugene Williams reached here this morning from Mis- sissippi, where he died several days ago. Mr. Williams formerly lived here, being a son of the late lamented George Williams. His mother and sis ter, from Greenville, Tex, and Mrs. Law of Montgomery, also sister, ac- companied the remains here. The in- terment was in Oak Hill cemetery. The funeral was at the grave, con ducted by the Rev F. H. Watkins.
 J. P. Flewellen attended the district conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Florala this week
 Monday afternoon there will be a game of ball played by two teams com posed of the young ladies of Union Springs. The game will be played for the benefit of the Ladies' lyceum. The lineup is good, and an unique game is expected by the large crowd that will attend.
 Miss May Burke is visiting at her former home in Lafayette, Ala.
 The Rev R. l.. Bell is in Tuskegee today
 Mrs. Lee Alexander and son, Cathey, have returned from a visit to relatives in Gadsden, Jacksonville and Chatta- Eooga.
 Mrs. Espey of Albertville will spend today and tomorrow here with her mother, Mrs. Thompson. Mrs. Espey is en route to the U. D. c. convention in Tuscumbia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05

be exhibited in the Paris salon in the next exhibition. The picture Is a por- traite of a young girl of Georgia whn lived in Gadsden for some time and the artist who has reached the goal toward which all artists strive is an Alabamian, Miss Anne Goldthwsdte of Montgomery. She Is a daughter of the late Mir ard Mrs Richard Goldthwate, and sister of Mrs Owen Nelson of Montgomery. Miss Goldthwalte went to New York eight years ago to devote herself to painting and last June she went oKParis to con- tinue her work. The poq .rait by Miss Goldthwalte that has been accepted to be exhibited at the salon is that of Miss Coulter. formerly of Georgia. who spent some time in Gadsden as art teacher The portrait has been painted since Miss Goldthwaite went to Paris. where Miss Coulter is also pursuing her work in paint ing
 The success of an artist in having a picture accepted 10 be exhibited at the Paris salon means much more that at first hearing it seems to the nnintiated- There were twenty thousand pictures en- tered and only two thousand accepted. Miss Goldthwaite's is one of them, and this fact gives her the privilege of send Ing q picture to the salon each year as long as she lives. The space on tho walls of the salon is hers for life. It is the goal toward which all artists strive and this southern girl has reached II. Miss Goldthwalte writes friend that she will spend this summer In village in France. and devote her entire time to painting. Paris is one of the five art centers of the world and from the list Rome, Dresden. Venice and Munich, the young southerner has selected it for her place of work and In it she has achieved this great degree of success. Her sister. Miss Lpcile Goldthwaite. who went also fo Npw' York tO make her home. Is librarian at one of the New York public libraries. They. with a number of other southern girls, lived delightfully."- for sev- eral years in bachelor girls quarters In the great city. making their way in their chosen lines of endeavor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
MRS. BLEDsoE DIES.
She Was the Wife of Promient Bap'
 tist Minister.

LaFayette, May i.-(Special.) )-This little odty was thrown into deep gloom yester- day morning about 10 o'clock when the death of Mrs w. C. Bledsoe was an nounced. She was the wife of the Rev. W. c. Bledsoe of this city, one of the most prominent Baptist ministers of East Alabama, and had been identified with every interest of the Baptist denomna- tioa in this locality for about thirty-five years.
 She was married to MT. Bledsoe about thirty-fve years ago in her fathers home in Missouri, and coming with him to this. his native home. They have spent all these years together, closely identified with every interest of this locality. Her only daughter. the wife of Prof. l.. w. Payne, who holds the chair of English in the University oI Texas, has been at her bedside during the last few weeks of her illness. The funeral will be from the Baptist church this afternoon at 2:30 O clock
 The Rev. Eldred M. Stewart, who was recently elected pastor of the Baptist church in this city, has arrived from Montgomery. his former home. and he and his family are now at home in the Baptist pastorium here. MT. Stewart will preach his first sermon to his new congrega- ton since entering this pastorate tomor- row.