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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10

Now the doctor told Old Leather Nose that the only way to cure him to plant him in the ground in deep hole up to the chin under great pne-tree up on a great high mountain, and keep him there, with only one pipe to smoke, till the in the morning.
 And so the doctor took ten men. and they car ried Old Leather Nose from the Norwegian coal mine up on a high mountain somewhere in Florida, where there are great many ferocious waruses, and they planted him up to the beard, and gave him pipe to smoke Yes, and when they began to plant him he took off his leather and laid it carefully down chip by the side of =" And did it cure him all well Dmples7 Did it. Dimples"
 "Pudgey dear the walruses came down in the night and ate his head off smooth with the ground And that's all"
 "Oh, how dreadfu1 My sakes alive But he tumd to life again! he tumd to life againi-dd nit he?
 "Yes little Fudge, but that is another story. And don't go to sleep just yet. It's your turn Only little one dear, and then papa will put Fudge in her little trundle bed"
 Once upon time in a-in a." And the little fists dug and doubled about the great, dreamy eyes, and tried to push away the of curs that cur tained them and with much effort the sleepy little girl got through with this little fragment of story: "Once upon time dey mice an mice an mice Oh, my, such mice in a fur-furin tuntry An man he goed fousand hundred miles to brn' fousand hundred tats for to latch 'em. An he do an he dit wadon an dey brin' him tats An dey brin' him a fousand hundred tats An he put em in wadon and he start for to do for to latch 'em mice An he tame by house, an de dog bark, an de tats back up de wadon look like load o'hay An-an-oh, my I is so sleepy! An-an he tame by tamp-meetn'. An de tamp-meetn' sin CT hymn; an den tats sin song, too An den tamp- -meetn' have to stop-an den-an den-er-"
 And the little round face bowed down and bur jed itself in the folded the tabe. The silent father came forward from his now very dark corner and taking the little sleeper from her sister, placed her in the trundle-bed In few minutes one moro beside her, and two in the little bunk over the trundlc- bed The father and I were soon in bed in the adjoining roon with the door open between
 And when he thought l slept, he rose up softly into the other room. drew out the trundle-bed noiselessly, and kissed his four little motherless girls with only God to see him Then he stepped to the door, drew great bolt it, and taking his rife from the rack set it in reach at his bedside ready to defend his babes. And then slept.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10

chubby hands the rosy mouth with its rows of pearl just in tirne and with just little frown the story-teller went
 Guess I've got you said the bear.
 Spec you have, said the lamb. But you better not eat me
 And why had 1 better not eat you? Humph Come, get ready to be eaten. I'm hungry
 Oh, please Mir. Bear said the little lamb, if you won't eat l will take you to where there is a big Popwopsus. And if you have n't got enough after you eat the big Popwopsus you can eat me -
 And oh, Dot, what Is -? Just i'll time Fudge got her two hands her mouth, the story did not qatc have to be told over from the first.
 Now this very ignorant bear and did not know what Popowpsus was.
 No do you, anybody else, ichucked Dimples aside to herself
 But, like very ignorant people. it lpretended to know great dea and said 1t a bargain; and the lamb gladly led the way up the hill to great pine-trec, the bear muttered to himself that he could them both and not half try.
 "rhere you are. sir, said the, lamb, pointing to- a great high heap of gum that had oozed from the) tree Help yourself
 Now this bear thought this must be delicious food indeed; so, pretending to know all about it he grufhy bowed his thanks to the lamb and reach- ing up, he opened his great red mouth. threw his arms about the fat Popwopsus, and hugging it tight greedily bit of its sticky headl
 Well you should have seen that bears mouth! And jawsl And feet! Gum Gum Nothing but gum
 And you should have seen that little lamb laughl He just stuck his little fists in his little sides and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10
BY JOAQUIN MILLER.

he held tight on to his head with both his big hands Then he did mt hear any rumbin' any more, and all still; and he went to sleep Aheml But by and by such another rumbn-oh, such a rumblin that it made the mountain shakel And he held So tight on to his head that he almost screamed oui for pain And then he listened. And then he began laugh And he let go of his head and he laughe3 and he laughed and he laughed. For what do you think it was that rumbled so? Why, it n't his head at all. It only the Erie Railroad. Yes ahem-yes and he laughed and he rolled and he rolled and he laughed till he rolled right that precpice, and he fell-ahem-and fell a hundred thousand feet, and he landed with his neck in tic fork of a tree, and-and- ahem-died Yes And if you go foreign countries and find the Erie Railroad and find that precipice, and stop the trai and get off and measure how high that tree IS, you tell just how tall that giant for for-ahen flor if his foot could have touched the ground Re could have stood up and it would nit have killed
 "Ohl oh, Pussw "Oh, Pussy" cried Dot and Dimpes
 "Is glad he's dead anyhow, for don't like giants" said little Fudge she nestled closer to Dot; and the father again came forward out of the dark and poked up the fire.
 And now Dot it's your turn' said Dimpes, as she reached over and buried hand in the cloud of yellow hair that nestled Puss's shoulder.
 "Yes; and I'll make 1t short, for Fudge has yawned twice. And remember, now, this is a story that has to be all told again from the first if any one asks a single question So don't one of you speak I'll never get through tonight
 Once upon time in a far-oH country there was flock of sheep feeding on slopng hillside above the sea. On the great black mountain back of them there forest of pines and in this forest there were hundred thousand bears"
 "Oh my! So many?
 "Once upon time in far-off country there was a flock of sheep feeding -"
 aPlease. please, sisser Dot, I won't speak any more," pleaded Fudge.
 Well, then, don't Fudge, because, you see every time anybody speaks I have to go right back to the beginning and tell it all from the first This is one of that kind of stories you know. But can go ahead this once We'll, the flock of sheep went sliding their along the ground very fast and a little lamb got very tired and lay down by the side of rock-a gray rock, think. Yes, it went to sleep there, while its mother went on with the flock with her nose the ground nbbling grass After while the lamb felt cold moving up and down on the back of its neck and thinking. it was its kind good mother who had come back with the flock on the way home, it lazily opened its eyes and looked up, And what do you think it saw? great black bear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10

mine man with a leather nose. Now this a Norwegian, and he had a name that So long that 1t took man day and half to pronounce it, and ="
 Now, Dimples! Oh, Dmplesl"
 Well, Dot l II pronounce it if you like. It may not take day and haf but 1t will take some time"
 Skip the name, then, and hurry up. for Fudge is very sleepy.
 Well, then, they called him Old Leather Nose. And whenever anybody called him Old Leather Nose there fight; for he was very, very sensi- tive on that point. Now this was in California.
 After while he got sick; and the doctor who afraid of him and wanted to get him out of the way, told him he had certain kind of disease And it Latin disease that was harder to pro nouncc and longer than his name; so will skip the Latin disease, although know it and can pro nounce it very well, sister Dot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10
THE PORT OF BOTTLES.
g,Dr. EUGENE MURRAY.AARON

It is a common thing for officers or sailors going vessels and especially for passengers, whose time often hangs heavily their hands to write some message paper, inclose it in a bot tle cork tight and throw 1t overheard Usually the paper contains memorandum of the time the date the name of the captain and of the writer with perhaps humorous message to the hnder-the whim of idle hour. But possibly the writing may convey serious message, stating that the ship has sprung a leak and is about to founder compelling its passengers and crew to take to the small boats. Very rarely has such bottle been picked up by passing vessel in time to rescue the survivors.
 If the bottle has been securely corked it may float a long time quiet seas. and may be carried many hundreds of miles ocean current Such waif, dropped into the Gulf Stream off the coast ot the United States, has been picked up many months afterward the shore of Ireland, Scotland, or Norway. When ocean storms the angry waves dash the frail bottles floating spars projecting rocks, and the greater number doubtless broken in this way There are few "dead spots' in the ocean, however, to which these tiny glass vessels may be carried and where they may float in security for an indefinite time
 An officer on a Brazilian ship describes such spot in the Caribbean Sea, which he says ought to be called the Port of Bottles It lies nearly midway between the cities of Cartagena, Colombia, and Gracias Dios.
 s'It is out of the steamer tracks" he says, land the action of the great currents going way and another has left space of stagnant water without any real movement at all Anything that gets into the dead spots is apt to stay there unless driven out by some big storm, and will simply drift round and round. gathering sea-grass and barnacles.' He picked up there three bottles floating together amid the drift, empty the others with papers inside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10

One of these had been dropped in the sea three years before from yacht in the Grand Cayman. He adds:
 q noticed a lot of other driftwood in the same spot, and I confident that no end ot bottles cnnld be culled from the place Hundreds are dropped overheard every year, but very few escape being knocked to pieces unless they happen to find their way to some such still place as nave descrbed'
 There are few other similar dead spots in the ocean, and it is possible that bottles might be picked up in them which had been floating securely for many long years.
 What messages of merrment what tales of dis tress and doom these frail glass voyagers might contain who may guess?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10
A LITTLE GENTLEMAN.

know we-bred little boy who never says T can't He never says Don't want to- "Youve got to- or You sha'n't' He never says "I'll tell mama! or calls his play mates mean" lad more careful of his speech I'm sure was never He's never ungrammatca- he never mentions "aint"; single word of slang from him would make his mother faint And now I'll tell you why it is dest this should seem absurd): He's now exactly six months old and cannot speak
 -Honnah C. Ferndld
 CotvTght 6y M< Centa,y co~.tany
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10

danced up and down for delight
 And the bear paving at his teeth! And gnawing at his pawsl Oh my! And he rolled over, and the leaves stuck fast and he began to look as big elephant And the lamb pitied him and said:
 "'Come, I II take you back to where found you And he went back down the hill, and the poor bear hobbled and rolled after.
 But pretty they met the sheep. Then big with great bent horns bowed to the bear And the bear thought it all right. But l tell you whenever a ram bows to you, look outl Well, the rams all bowed to that bear, and then they began to come Jumpl Bump Thumpl And over that bear went heels over head till he rolled into the sea and turned into great big island that was all surrounded by water"
 Oh my! Who ever heard lamb talk! Now don't b'leve that tother story, tool' said Fudge
 "Pudgey, Pudgeyl But now Dmpes and then little Fudge"
 "Once upon time in foreign country avery,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10

very foreign country and here little Dimples stopped, ,roed Up her dimped hands in her coarse apron as they had been in silk, and began
 it all over, again She did this two or three times
 in her great embarrassment and at last after assur-
 ing us over and again that it was in very, very foreign country, and was very nearly crying with fright, she meekly held her head to one side and managed to go on. "Once upon time, in very foreign country, there lived in great coal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10
A MODEL SPELLER
CHARLES BAYFIELD, LOOMS.

A teacher whose spelling's unique Thus wrote down the Days of the Wique'
 The first he spelt "Sonday'
 The second day, "Munday"- And now a new teacher they sique
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-10

WAY up on the middle fork of the one big and beautiful river of Oregon, wedged down deep between two great
 black mountains topped with trees and clouds and snow. a little log house
 nestled close by the bank of the foamY
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-13
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the public school system contributes so largely, shall be in the direction of peace instead of war. But soldiers ard officers are necessary within safe and reasonable limits and there should certainly be an institution that will supply the training which is rot fur nished by the public schools. WI He there may be a difference of opinion as to whether Mrs. Sage might not accomplish more good than by making this gift to the government, which is rich and amply able to establish all the school it may need, yet Mrs. Sages money is her own and it is en- tirely to her credit if she devotes it to a purpose in carrying out which the necessary funds, wherever secured will be we'll spent.-Kansas City Journal.
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REPUBLICANS
 TALK CAMPAIGN
Effort Being Made to Heal Breach in West Virginia Ranks-HitchcOck Gets Warning Factions Together Hitchcock and Taft Confer.

Hot Springs, Va, Aug. 12.-Repub- ,ican National Chairman Hitchcock, accompanied by his secretary, J. T. Williams Jr., arrived here early today and will leave tonight for Chicago During the day MT. Hitchcock put Mir. Taft in possession of political in- formation gained through numerous conferences he has been holding in va rious parts of the country.
 Perhaps the most important busi- ness today was the discussion of the
 personnel of the financial advisory com- mittee of nine, the appointment of which MT. Hitchcock says he vii an- nounce after he has consul ed tfoa lead CTS of the party represenlms the Vest.
 John Hays Hammond reached hcre today and will remain several days. | ring that time he expects to taii: lNer number of things political with MT. Taft, among them the welfare and plans of the National League Of Re publican Clubs.
 Arthur I. Vorys of Ohio, who ,ume
 here yesterday, participated ;r tie
 conference between MT. Taft and Chairman Hitchcock
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-13
MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE
 ENCOURAGES STRIKE

New York, Aug. 12.-Mrs. Rose Stokes, wife of Millionaire J. G. Phelps Stokes, yesterday addressed the 5O( striking girls of the Lewis cigar fac tory in New ark, N. J.
 Are you going to stay out, girls?' asked Mrs. Stokes. We are,' cried the girls and their answer could be heard block away
 Mrs. Stokes encouraged the strikers and told them that if they demanded that their employer take tbem back as an organization, their work in the fu- ture would be a pleasure.
 of I were here and in this strike, she said, "I'd stay out if I deprived myself and family or bread and but ter"
 Mrs. Stokes then bade the strikers goodbye and all rose and gave hel three hearty cheers and renewed their pledge to stand together
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-13
WRIGHT WILL IRE
 G(10D.o

Aim to be good, seek not to be great, Cabinet officers nOblest sta tion is retreat, is now the maxim of Secretary of War. Tackled by news paper men as he was departing for Oyster Bay, Secretary Wright posi- lively declined to do any further talking about the hazing cases. He would not say whether the cadets would Or wouldn't, should or shouldn't, be dismissed. He would not say "yes" or no to any ques- tion put by inquisitiye space fighters. Gen. Wright's silence was Impressive and expressive. It was eloquent. What doth it profit a man to open his mouth if he lose his own reputation for veracity?
 The late Theodore Hallam, of the Kentucky bar, once observed after having been fined twice for contempt, "the advantage in repartee Is with the court and sat down rebuked. mulct and silenced Evidently the Secretary of War recognizes the fact that the advantage in debate lies with the President, who nominates candidates for the Ananias Club with as great ease as he nominates can- didate for President, and elects him by exclamation, none but himself and Mr. Loeb being qualified to vote.
 Secretary Wright is quite right, He was not appointed to do the talking for the Administration. That func- tion is discharged by one higher in authority, guiltless of negligence. The Secretary of War must be on the job az job, but not as a topic of conver- sation His not to talk of why, his but to do or die.
 The Secretary of War may acquire merit by sitting tightly upon the lid, but he must be careful of his nouns snd his adjectives and chary of his verbs to the end that he may avoid seeing in print the statement that he lies there.-Courier Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-13
POUCH OF PAY
 CHECKS STOLEN
Theft Occurred in Front of Building in Washington Occupied by Depart. ment of Commerce and LabOr-Be. gin to Make Their Appearance in the South.

Washington, Aug. 12.-A messen- gers pouch, containing United States government pay checks for nearly $2,- 000 was stolen early last week in front of the building occupied by the Department of Commerce and Labor, according to Chief Wilkie of the Se- cret Service. The pouch was found with the pay checks gone, between this city and Alexandria. Va. The other mail the pouch contained was intact. The identity of the robber is not known. The first intimation that Chief Wilkie received of the theft was on last Saturday, when one of the checks for $73.33, payable to R. F. Troxler of the Public Health and Ma rine Hospital Service, came through the Riggs National Bank of this city to the Treasury Department, after hav- ing been cashed by the Lowry Nation al Bank of Atlanta. Ga. Today check, | payable to J. w. Kerr for $26S3, of
 the same service, was received through
 the American National Bank here
 which had been cashed lby the Fourth
 National Bank, Montgomery, Ala. Pay
 ment on the checks was ordered stopped.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-13
GOURDAIN'S
 CONSPIRACY
Crazy Banker From America COnceiyes Bizarre Scheme in London for the Overthrow of the Republican Form of Government in America.

London, Aug. PA conspiracy
 which has for it's object the overthrow of republican form of government in America, and the establishment of monarchy has been established in London, with ramifcations in Berlin, Madrid, Paris and St. Petersburg. The consiprators make no secret of their plans, and have accorded many inter- views to the London press, in which they have announced full details of the heinous plot.
 Louis A. Gourdain, who claims New
 York as his home, is apparently the onspirator-in -in-chief. For some time he has been stopping at a leading Lon don hotel, where he has received the journalists and told them of his plans. Mir. Gourdain admits that the reyolu- tion he Is seeking to ferment cannot be accomplished without war and bloodshed, but he believes that the end to be accomplished is worth the cost
 At present the conspirators are oc- cupied with seeking to gain the back ling of foreign powers. The Southern Confederacy failed, according to Mir Gourdain. because it lacked the recog- milton of the nations of Europe. The plotters do not intend to make this mistake, so they have come to Eu- rope to enlist King Edward, Emperor William, King Alphonso and Czar Nicholas in their scheme. So far as known, those monarchs have not yet held any secret sessions with the American monarchists.
 Mr. Gourdain solemnly declares that the American royalist party has branches in every State of the Union, and that is in readiness to strike the blow for the queen-God bless her when the European monarchs have given their consent and promised their influence
 Mir. Gourdain refuses to tell who is to be the first royal ruler of America but he admits that that parsonage will be a queen rather than a king. The arch-consiprator asserts that his plan to overthrow the republic is really to be a blow for freedom, de- claring that there is less real liberty in the United States than in England, Germany, Russia Or Italy.
 A meeting of the royalists is to be held in St. Petersburg in a few days, when the various agents now gum shoeing about the capitals of Europe will report to their chief.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-13
Heart to Heart
 Talks.
 By EDWIN A. WYE.
THE GREATEST OF THESE.
By EDWIN A. WYE.
Copyright. 1868, by Edwin A. N-:.

1
 What. in your opinion. is the great est force in human life? 1 What is it. more than all else, makes some men succeed and others fail? | Three answers, at least have been given:
 First,-You are what yeu are because of your parentage. You are the sum of your ancestors. If you have failed, it is because some of your forbears stumbled. You inherit wrong tend i encies.'
 An eminent Dutch scientist, with the help of more than 5000 physicians. has been making study of heredity. His 1 report, just published. shows that while some mental and physical quail ties are nherited-generally from the | father-there is little, if any, transmits sion of nervous and other troubles and moral tendencies are not communi, ! cated at all.
 Another answer aside from heredity, is this:
 Second. You are what you are be- cause of the place in which you are born. the people with whom you lived. You have been nodded and fashioned by your early environment. There is lot of truth in the power of environment to make or mar men, but it is not the whole truth. There is another great force. It is- Thrd.-Personal endeavor. That is to say, there is within you a mysteri- ous. dominant force that is able to overcome both heredity and environ ment. You can be what you want to be and do what you want to do de spite them. It is therefore the great est power of all, this force that over comes.
 To excuse oneself by saying one is completely handicapped by heredity or by circumstances is self delusion.
 Long before scientists talked learned ly about ''heredity," as if it were a sort of ukase issned by nature which one could neither understand or with stand. William Shakespeare looked into the soul of man and said:
 ''In the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail.''
 And the keynote of the New Testa- ment is this word "Overcome!''
 You are master of your soul-cap- tain on the deck of yolr destiny. Every man is able to control his own thoughts his own purposes. his own ideals. If so. he can control his own conduct. And conduct makes charac- ter. And character makes destiny Nine-tenths of mems failures-note the fact-are MORAL failures. It costs effort to make character It is easy to go to the devil. If you go down the toboggan slide l don't ssy your ancestors CT circum- stances greased the way And now abideth Heredity. Environ ment, Personal Endeavor. these three but THE GREATEST OF THESE IS PERSONAL ENDEAVOR.