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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23
MT. Tafts Posiponement ProQrmmeS

MT. Bryan called MT. Taft the great postponer" because his pro- gramme as defined by himself before he sailed away to the Philippines is as follows:
 Postpone statehood for Oklahoma Postpone Philippine independence. Postpone Cuban independence. Postpone the attack on swollen for. mnes."
 Postpone tariff revision.
 This programme is bad, very bad,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

In the New York city directory the Sullivans outnumber the Browns and Joneses, and they stand just below the Smiths.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

The baseball pennant becomes tame as soon as 1t is awarded. It Is the getting of it that stirs the blood and depletes the pocketbook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

Those forty cocktails continually rise up to perplex and alright the trembling Fairbanks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

If MT. Roosevelt possesses a presi- dential boom it must be one of the subconscious sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

England is encouraging home indus tries by building five additional Dreadnoughts, but she Is not encour- aging The Hague.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

The country rejoices to hear that MT. Cleveland's health Is improving, for it wants four more years of Gro Vpr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

Walter Wellman's brief flight to a glacier will not fill his pocket when he lectures on the Chautauqua circuit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

President Roosevelt cannot decently refuse to let 100000 good people be the basis of the forty-sixth star on the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

Turbine engines produce no vibra- tions in big ships, and this keeps them comparatively free from seasiclAness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

Birmingham was about as wet a city yesterday as any anti-prohibitionist could wish for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

A collision between President Roos- evelt and Governor Hughes appears to he inevitable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

Andre, the polar balloonst, sailed away ten years ago, and so far as is known he found no glacier to alight on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

A s29 ,240,000 fine cannot intimidate a concern that earned $490,000 ,000 in eight years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

The judges of the Connecticut su- preme court are about to put on gowns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

These summer days are opening cotton bolls and ripening corn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

Oklahoma has no money on hand with which to fight the blind tiger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

It is now time to greet Oklahoma and to ask her how her constitution is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

As an Arctic explorer Walter Well man has plainly passed his zenith.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

Toads are blasted out of rocks but no prehistoric savages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

Washington Bureau AgeHerald. 1421 G street, N. w.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

The trusts not only want peace but the whole thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

Those forty cocktails continually rise up to perplex and alright the trembling Fairbanks.
  The man with the hoe is harvesting crops that will tickle his soul and pad his bank account If MT. Roosevelt possesses a presi- dential boom it must be one of the subconscious sort.
  Birmingham was about as wet a city yesterday as any anti-prohibitionist could wish for.
 ---.s.--- A collision between President Roos- evelt and Governor Hughes appears to he inevitable.
  A s29,240, ,000 fine cannot intimidate a concern that earned $490,0oO, 900 in eight years.
 ---s----- The judges of the Connecticut su- preme court are about to put on gowns.
 It is now time to greet Oklahoma and to ask her how her constitution is As an Arctic explorer Walter We'll man has plainly passed his zenith. Oklahoma has no money on hand with which to fight the blind tiger. These summer days are opening cotton bolls and ripening corn. Toads are blasted out of rocks but no prehistoric savages.
 
 The trusts not only want peace but the whole thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala. postoffice as second class matter under act of Congress March 5. 1879.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
FONTS on Oysters.

When oysters are removed from
more saline water to that which is
less salt, says DR.. William X. Brooks
Professor OF Zoology in the johns
Hopkins University who has ,.ade
the oyster a life study. the, absorb
water quickly, and become Hump,
or fiat" but the fairness is nothing
but water The "fattening IS usl-
ally carried on in the mouths Of
rivers. which are always near towns
and polluted by sewage.
Every "fattened" oyster is too
suspicious to be eaten raw and the
outbreaks of typhoid fever which
have been traced to OYSTERS most
clearly have been traced to Fat
tened" oysters. All the fresi1watsr
that a .'fattened" oyster has absorb
ed is at once extra cted by cooking 50
that the 'tfatteningN 0f ofsters lat
are to be cooked is ROT only an an
necessary expense. but a fraud on the
consumer, who is SOLD filthy water
from the harbors of cities at the
price of oysters
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
GRIM OLD CROMWELL.
The Protector Made Christmas a
Gloomy and Serious Day.

The Protector Made Christmas a
Gloomy and Serious Day.
christmas was illegal in Cromwells
time" said an antiquary. Those grim
old Puritans were so gloomy that they
would not have any gayety even on
Christmas day.
Cromwell said that holly and mistle
toe were heathenish things. He said
that they had no real Christian signifi-
cance; they were a part Of some pagan
festival of the Druids. Accordingly he
made law that if you decorated your
house with mistletoe at Christmas you
got thirty days in Jail
''rhe terrible old fellow forbade
Christmas celebrations-no dancing, no
singing, no playgoing, no feasting ON
Christmas day; penalty, thirty days.
you see, it was his idea that Christ
mas was a religious, q serious time, a
time for churchgoing and prayer and
reverence and for nothing else. The
innocent family that in Cromwell's day
sat down to turkey and plum pudding
and wound up with Christmas games
got a month all round.
sOnly for time, though. The people
rebelled. Willing as the people had
been to put on the gloom of those
dreadful old Puritans. they insisted on
having a little joy on Christmas day,
and Cromwell after year or two had
TO give in to them. New Orleans
Times Democrat.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
Machinery and Labor.

A generation or two ago men and
women worked very long hours, and
children had to work, too, in order to
produce enough to support the work
lngman's family. The growth of capt.
tai and the employment of machinery
have added so much to the efficiency
of labor that long hours for adults are
no longer necessary, and the industrial
employment of children under fourteen
can be entirely dispensed with.-Amer-
lean Review of Reviews.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
..The woman In white.o

In a letter to Charles Dickens, Wilkie
Collins intimated the fact that the
great work upon which he had devoted
so much time was finished, but that
the finding of suitable title had occa-
stoned him much trouble. Eventually,
feeling somewhat run down in health,
he left London for Broadstairs, a re-
sort which was a favorite with both
Dickens and Collins. While lying on
the cliff in q meditative mood one
bright morning his eyes suddenly riv-
eted themselves on the white light
mouse which stood boldly out in the
foreground under the dazzling rays of
the midday sun. AS he gazed Collins
in a semiconscious manner addressed
himself in q whisper to the light
house. ''You are as stiff and as state
II as my white woman" said he.
white woman! White wo-the wOm
an il white Eureka! l have got it!'
And so the book was given this Curl
0usly inspired title.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
re Cheapened Pens.

Sir Josiah Mason was, according to
his biography, walking in Bull street,
Birmingham, in the year 1923 when he
saw some steel pens, price 3s. Cd. each.
Josiah was hard up maker of split
rings. No sooner had he seen the pens
than he went home, made some better
than those in the shop, sent them up to
London and got large order by re-
turn. At thirty years of age Mason's
capital was 80 shillings. At sixty he
lad given away 100000.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
The C.inchona Tree.

The cultivation of the cinchona tree
is one of the principal industries Of
Java, and the chemical process adopt
ed by the Dutch for the preparation of
the drug is said to produce the best
sulphate of quinine procurable. This
is carried out in Holland, whittier the
bark as stripped from the trees and
dried is exported. Cinchona planta-
lions are frequent on the lower hills
throughout Java, and the trees are OF
all sizes, from the mere sapling up TO
thirty feet high.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
sToNING A TIGER.
The Punishment of Man Eater That
Killed a Tihetan.

Killed Tihetan.
Fifty years ago tigers were very COM
mon even in the high hills Of western
Tibet, writes C. A. Sherring N his ac-
count of that country. At the present
time, however owing to the increase
Of population and the general spread Of
cultivation, they have become rare,
and the appearance of man eater
who carried off poor old woman on
the slope of Chipla created consterna-
ton.
On the following day there were
gathered. together hundred grim men
armed only with axes and stones, for
they had not a gun among them.
Fortune favored the brave, for the
tiger was found asleep under a rock
At once each man dropped silently into
.he cover Of the brushwood and piled
heap of stones near to his hand,
while one of the most trusted Of the
party was commissioned to stalk to
the top of the rock and drop huge
stone on the sleeping brute
So we'll was the work done that the
stone fell true on the tigers back, and
Immediately, With roar, the wounded
beast sprang up and, seeing his enc
mics, who leaped from their cover,
charged the line.
But hundred men, desperate as to
consequences, throwing stones with
might and main, are not to be awed or
turned from their purpose lightly. The
stones broke the tigers teeth and went
into his mouth, and his body soon be-
came mass of wounds.
Turning, he tried to escape and took
bis pursuers up hill for mile, but
wherever ne paused and whatever he
did he could not escape the pitiless
rain Of missiles. The blow on his back,
first given, effectively checked his
speed, and finally, worn out, he came
to bay under a great cliff.
The rest was easy. He was immedf
ately hemmed in, and the stones were
| showered on him thicker than ever and
hurled with redoubled energy. AS he
sapk down the villagers rushed in and
dispatched him with their axes. -
Youths Companion.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
TIE STRANGLlNG Fi5.
a Curious Tropical Tree That Lives
Upon other Trees.

upon OtneT IreeSs
Visitors to Mexico and other tropical
countries often have their attention
called to 1.-THE strangling fg"-a tree
that commences it's growth as an cpl
phyte-that is, one form of plant life
that grows perched on another-far up
on the trunk or among the branches of
another tree, usually on palmetto OF
some of the kinds of palms. The roots
of the strangling tree extend down
ward around the host tree to the
ground, gradually joining together,
making tubelike mass of roots some
times as much as six feet or more il
diameter
When the attacked tree is a palm
death to it is caused not so much by tho
binding around the trunk as by shad
inc out its branches by the attacking
tree.
When the attacked tree is an eXogen
that is, one with wood and bark-the
attacking roots bind so tightly as to
cause a stoppage of the flow Of the sap.
As the sap of tree is really it's food
Changed by the leaves so that it can
be used and the flow Of the food is
thus stopped, the attacked tree is real
~ starved" to death. SO death to the
attacked tree is caused either by
smothering or by starvation or by both.
The peculiar manner in which the
f1attened roots extend down and around
the tree give them the appearance Of
some thick, slow flowing material run
ming down the tree.-St. Nicholas.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
The Ostrich.

In it's habits, methods of life and
preiudices the ostrich is one of the
most curious creatures Of the animal
kingdom. 1t cannot be tanned, though
It is easily trained to harness. When
taught to race it seems to delight in a
brush on the track or road with
horse. The gait Of the ostrich is
numbering sort of jog trot, which be
comes delightfully."- easy when the bird
Is travelling fast. Unhampered with
a rider and travelling with the wind
this muscular creature can outstrlp
anv horse
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
Low and Arrow Fishing.

In tie south seas and in various
groups of islands in the Indian ocean
the aborigines shoot fish with the how
and arrow. TIE art is extremely Gifi-
cult. as in taking. aim at an object I'M
der water the archer has to allow for
refraction If he were to all directly
at the fish as lie sees it, he would, of
course. miss. long practice has, how.
eve-, made the natives expert to a
wonderful degree in this sport.-Lon-
don Saturday Review.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
The French Idea.

The Frenchman of the middle class
sacrifices everything in order to obtain
for his children some official position
sure one. leading after thirty years of
penury to a pension verging on desti-
tuition. This is one aspect Of the decay
of the French race. 1t is easy to I'M
derstand that two races are not evenly
armed for the struggle for life if one
be made up of aspirants to Official Pc.
sition and the other of individuals pos
seSsing Initiative. daring and energy.
For this reason do Latin races decline,
while Anglo-SaXon races grow and
multiDly.-Paris Steele.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
Did Her Worst.

Hicks-She threatened all sorts of
things, and finally he got desperate and
exclaimed, ''Do your worst!' Wicks-
And what did she do? Hicks-Very
coolly she began to play the piano.
Wicks-I see. She took him at his
word
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
1t was Tough.

The waiter girl knew thing or two
about table etiquette. so she shifted
scornfuIIy rs she said. ITS not our
custom to serve Il knife with pie"
Mop remarked the patron in surprise.
''Then bring me an AK" Christian
Reg Stop
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
A ataI Error.

Borrowes-Nellie, hand me my um-
brella. will you? 1t has commenced to
rain. Mrs. B.-I lent your umbrella TO
Mr.. Sweetfern last night. Borrowes-
What in thunder did you do that for?
Didn't you know it was his?-Spare
Moments
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
Quite a Difference.

"Say, paw, what does it mean to live
to ripe old age?
when a rich man gets to be eighty,
my son, he is at ripe old age. A
poor man is merely old and decrepit."
milwaukee, Sentinel.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
Ee writes FOR Money.

Lady Clearinghouse your son is a
real author: How distractngly inter
esting, Ard does he write for money?
Practical Dad-Yes; get his appIica-
lions about once Il week.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
William S. Elliott.

A farmer in comfortable cream
stances, living near KOkomo, Ind.
has persistly refused to accept $16.-
500 of back pension money due him
from disability contracted while
Union soldier during the Civil War
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16

''Did he propose to her on his knees?"
s''No. but she accepted hina on them"
--Houst IN Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
Did Some Hard Thinking.

Eyes, he was nailin' board on his
front steps, and he hit his thumb an
awful swipe. And what do you think!
He didn't say a word"
"He didn't"
"Nope. He's deaf and dumb
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Holbrook argus., 1907-11-12

of a painful nervous disorder, includ- ing oraphObia-which may be de. scribed, roughly, as a dread of open and exposed places.
 The specialist who tells the story ir the Lancet says that the man was seized with panic when in a wide street, and could cross a bridge only in an omnibus, with bis eyes shut. But, after some months, he entered the specialists consultlng-room appar- ently changed man. He said he had a dreadful shock; a terrible trou- ble. His daughter had run away from home, and joined lover Still. he did not look shocked. On the contrary. he appeared cOmplacent and content ed. Then the story c;Ime out.
 What I have con for is not to consult you about u! health, but to tell you that this s,tot F has complete ly cured me. I hara not the slightest difficulty in going anywhere I like. I can go through vice streets, over the bridges, across TrG falgar square. and even into the parxs The recovery came to me sudderty, immediately af- ter I had the dreadful shock"
Holbrook argus., 1907-11-12
HAS MANIA FOR EATING METAL
Young Man Swallows Chain Over One
 Foot Long.

Middletown, N. Y-A most remark able case of appendicitis, and one which will be written of and comment ed on in all the surgical and medical journals of the country, is reported from the Middletown state hospital for the insane.
 A few days ago young man named Edward Green was committed to the hospital from Monroe. The young man appeared to be i'll and on being examined by the physicians a pain was discovered on the right side in the region of the veriform appendix An operation was decided on. The appendix was greatly distendeG around an iron bolt which was fully five inches in length. The bolt had apparently been in the appendix for some time It had caused serious suppuration and inflammation which had spread to the adjacent parts oi the inIestines.
 The young man had a mania fol swallowing pieces of metal, among them being a plated chain over a foot long, which he took from a bath tub This he succeeded in getting rid Of.
 Green is in a serious condition.
Holbrook argus., 1907-11-12
MANY CIGARETTES IMPORTED
Made by Greeks of Greek Tobacco,
 They Are Called Egyptian

WaShington.-A controversy which has been going on in Europe. and es, Decially in England as to the rival merits of Turkish and Egyptian cigar cites seems likely to be settled by a report of Q disinterested but observ- ant American consul.
 Though the United States is the great cigarette-producing nation of the world, there are imported into this country every year more than $3.000,- coo worth of foreign-made cigarettes. some Turkish and some Egyptian.
 Turkey is large tohacco-producing country, yielding 50. 900 tons of tobac co every year, and the Turks, it is well known, are a nation of smokers The amount of tobacco raised in Egypt is inconsi3erable, and yet Egyptian cigarettes are imported into this country in considerable amounts every year.
 The explanation of the matter, as offered by the American consul in Athens, is simple. It seems that the Greek tobacco crop last year was the largest Greece eve. harvested-about 20O,000,000 pounds. A brand of Greek tobacco is dsed for Egyptian cigarettes.
 Why, it is asked, Egyptian? The answer is that Egyptian cigarettes are made by Gree&s because cigar cite paper is too exp ;nsive in Greece, where it is a government monopoly Thus the business has gene over to Egypt The most famous cigareUte makers of Egypt are Greeks.
 A very large business in cigarette making has been established in Alex andria, and it is in the hands of Greeks, who import their tobacco from their own country aud ill turn ship it to foreign countries, England and the United States being the chief market for the Egyptian cigal cites, which are, in fact, Greek cigarettes, those bear ing the title Turkish being imported from Turkey direct.
Holbrook argus., 1907-11-12
Why Scotch Whisky Is Smoky.

Everyone who has drunk Scotch whisky has noticed it's smoky flavor. A whisky salesman from Glasgow, Scotland, was asked what caused this smoky taste.
 After the germination of the malt is complete" he answered, "the malt is dried by being spread upon a per forated tile or wire floor over an open fire fed by peat and anthracite coal or coke. The peat is specially prepared and is kept dry for year before us ing. The emanations from the smol- dering peat are absorbed by the malt, subsequently, dissolved into mash and pass over into the distillate, imparting to it the much prized smoky flavor so well known in all Scotch whiskies."
Holbrook argus., 1907-11-12
FORM AN ANTI-t=L DYING CLUB.
Young Women in Church Circle Prom.
 ise Not to Wed Secretly.

Pittsburg, Pa-"VVe the undersigned members of the Young Ladies' Mis- sion circle of the First English Luth- promise that We wjh NUt be parties to any eloDements, S;'cd as have already become too common In our society,""
 This is part 0: the pledge signed by a number of young women of Braddock at a meeting of the society. The remainder of the pledge is to re- linquish the claim of a linen shower should the pledge be broken.
 The society has lost 12 members within the last few months by TO- mantle marriages and elopements It was law of the society that each member who married should be hon ored with a linen shower.
 Feat in Brick;3yinJ.
 In the erection of Lne house Of rep. resentatives o1Hce building, adjacent 5o the United States capitol at Wash. ington, an interesting fact has devel oped in connection with the brick ma. sorry work. The first brick was laid dI lle SlIe On CuS eh HULL OI July ,, 1905, and on July 3, 1906, there had been laid in the walls 100000 brick. This is believed to be the greatest number of brick laid on any building in one year in the United States, and probably in the world. One Of the causes conducting to this record break ing feat was the remarkably 'open" winter of 1905-O6. In those winter months the work continued almost without interruption from either snow or cold, and not more than 12 Or Is days were lost during the entire win ter by reason of weather conditions.- Scientific American.
Holbrook argus., 1907-11-12

If, for example, there should be a great scarcity of wheat, and the price rose either through the manipulation of spectators or by means of a crop fail ure to the point where the poor could not buy it, he can at once remove all duty upon wheat shipped into Mexico, and as result the American producer sends hundreds of carloadc into the country, obtaining good prices for it and effectually stopping what might have been a successful corner.
Holbrook argus., 1907-11-12
Romance of Bull Ring.

At Cartagena, Rafael Gonzales. known professionally as Machaquito. the most brilliant swordsman of the Spanish bullrings, captured the re- gard of an Anglo-Spanish girl, Senorita Angeles Clementson, who flung him her fan into the arena. He responded with a chivalrous and picturesque salute, and dedicated to the lady the death of his second bull. His stroke. which was successful. proved also the
Holbrook argus., 1907-11-12
Hand-Dipped Candles in Favor.

Hand-dipped candles have reached the dimensions of a fad, for who in a day when old-time styles and ways are copied to the letter, can counten- ance a molded candle in a colonial stick?
 The latest fancy of this kind is the hand-dipped tallow candle, favored with spearmint, which is said to give out a minty fragrance as it burns. The candle has the interesting irregularity of handmade things and is greenish- white in colpr.
Holbrook argus., 1907-11-12
Progressing Finely.

Lovett-I suppose a fellow ought to have a good deal of money saved up before he thinks of marrying?
 Marryat-Nonsense! I didn't have a cent when I married and I'm getting along fine now.
 Lovett-That so? Installment plan?
 Marryat-Yes, and we've only been married and keeping house for year and I've got the engagement ring all paid for now.