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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-11-14
HONEY and NUTS
Direct to the Home
SPECIAL PRICE LIST.
We Pay the Freight
To Your Railroad Station


Always give number in ordering
assortments.
SPECIAL Ass0RTMENTs.
We Pay Freight.
Dried Fruit all packed in cartons,
Number ].
IL lbs. Prunes, large size.
~ lbs. Peaches.
10 lbs. Apricots.
lbs. Loose MuscatUl Raisins.
lbs. Seeded Muscatsl Raisins.
I lbs Seedless Sultana Raisins.
so lbs. Price $500
Number z.
"a lbs. Prunes, large.
IA lbs. Peaches.
IL lbs. Apricots.
so lbs. Price $3.50
Number 8.
lbs. Seeded Muscatel Raisins.
10 lbs. Seedless Sultana Raisins.
~ lbs. Loose Muscatel Ralsins.
lbs. Prunes, large size.
: lbs. Peaches.
lbs. Apricots.
SO lbs. Price $500
CANNED FRUIT ASSORTMENT.
War-da-gro Brand. Fancy fruit
In syrup.
cans Apricots.
cans Yellow Peaches.
3 cans Bartlett Pears.
3 cans Muscat Grapes.
cans Plums.
-
"a cans. Price $4.76.
COMBINATION OFFER.
Dried Fruit Assortment No. or
No. 3, and Canned Fruit Assortment
No, 4. the two-$10.50.
DISCOUNT FOR LARGE ORDERS.
Three Beautiful Souvenir Post
Cards and Price List FREE.
Reference
First National Bank, Cotton.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-11-14
Sales Agents Wanted.

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catalogue free. We want one
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,or soods and furnish the capital. II
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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-11-14
Cooked Food Sale

Cooked Food Sale.
The ladies of the Junior Aid so.
ciety OF the Presbyterian church will
hold their annual cooked food sale
November IS, the day before
thanksgiving. HEAT
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ey? TX you are interested. read the
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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-11-14

The best service in the city at the
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
COFFEE, LlouEuRs AND CIGARS.

Il rum Tic 4scW Oih w Oilu
Coffee, liqueur and cigar after din
ner have been denounced as superfluous
adjuncts to the meal, useless, even in
furious objects of self-indulgence. But
now comes the Londan Lancet, court of
last resort in matters medical physiolog-
zeal and hygienic, with kind and reassur-
ing words for the bons viyants who love
these post-prandial accessories.
They are superfiuous, says the Lancet,
from a physiological point OF view, but
valuable from psychological. They are
the indispensable corollary to a good din
ner, because the dishes that have formed
the meal have set up craving for just
these things.
The Lancet says the liqueur is a carmin-
alive composed of essential oils which
soothe and at the same time increase the
activity of the gastric circulation. Cof-
fee, although sometimes acting unfavor-
ably by delaying digestion, is an antidote
to alcohol and serves to keep the mental
faculties clear. Finally, tobacco is held
by many authorities to increase the secre-
tons of the alimentary canal and to favor
the functions of the kidneys.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
Steady Improvement.

Solid Improvement in business is re-
ported from every quarter and the fol-
lowing excerpts from Matthew Addy &
Co.'S Cincinnati circular are in line with
the general situation:
"There was a time a few months back
when consumer did not care how long
shipments were postponed-the longer the
better. But that is all changed now and
many foundries that were running on
one-third or one-half time have gone back
to full time At the beginning of the
buying movement the furnaces were will
ing to sell for delivery through the entire
first half of 1909, but since such a volume
of iron has been sold deliveries are being
limited to only the first quarter of next
year and in many cases furnaces prefer
not to quote at ALL
1--WE believe it is fact that the inl-
provement in the business started with
pig iron, but it has now spread to the
finished lines The whole trade is on
a much better foundation than was the
case a month ago
1.-THE price of southern No. 2 is firm
at $13, Birmingham, and in the north
the general asking price is s16. These
quotations mark a substantial advance
over those that ruled in September and
October and in themselves reflect the
improved conditions"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
Lumber Prices and DutieS

Just when the question of duties or
lumber comes up the consumer is met
with a huge lumber combine, behind
which stands Frederick Weyerhauser
the lumber king of the continent. r
B. Walker, the white pine king. and
no doubt yellow pine king or two,
for the new combination covers the
entire field of supply, and Chicago is
its sole selling headquarters. Edward
Hines is its president.
The lumber producers do not seem
to be anxious about duties. They know
that lumber is disappearing quantity.
and that time will enhance values
with or without the aid of a tariff.
The prices of lumber have been stead
lily advanced in recent years, and they
will be increased in future years re-
CARELESS Of duties. The admission of
Mexican and Canadian lumber free of
duty might retard the upward ten
dency, but it would not give us again
cheap lumber.
Frame houses will after a while
cease to be built in this country. In
the Old World none are built, for the
simple reason that lumber is there an
expensive building material. The brick
or cement house will soon begin to
supplant the structure of wood. We
will simply follow in the Old Worlds
footsteps, and the question of duty will
not have much to do with the newt
able change.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
What stronger breastplate than a heart
untalnted? q King Henry VI.
Mr.. Hitchcock and 1912

To the victor belong the spoils. This
maxim has been handed down in Ameri-
can politics, and the appointment of
Frank II. Hitchcock to be Postmaster
General In the Taft cabinet. and the
announcement of the appointment at
this early day, are pointers that the
old maxim is to do service during the
coming administration. No one knows
the political or rather personal obliga-
tons of the new administration SO well
as Mr.. Hitchcock does. for it was he
who first gathered in Taft delegates
and then it was he who looked for
votes in the campaign that followed
the nominating convention. He knows
to dot TO whom the President-elect
is indebted, and his appointment to the
portfolio that handles more appoint
ments than any other means that DO
itical debts are to be paid.
The appointment of Mr. Hitchcock
undoubtedly means, too, that a second
term is to be secured, always provided
the people do not rebel over an Aid
rich-Dalzell tariff revision or some
other burning issue of the next four
years. Barring forbidding and con-
trolling revolution in public sentiment
the appointment of Frank H. Hitch
cock to the position of Postmaster
General means that William Howard
Taft is to be the nominee of his party
in 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29

record of crime in past years has been
"a bad Birmingham.
Having been prosperous Birmingham,
bad element has entered it to reap from
the industrious part of the profits ac-
quired by those who would work.
Thus has been brought about part of
the lawlessness.
But the great mass of 1awlessness has
been without the city proper-within the
mining camp districts; or, when within
the city, in district sought by those who
wish to indulge themselves.
In the populistic wave which has bill
lowed high upon the beach of this state
there has been pretty picture for the
artist who would wax warm in words, and
awake the people with his wealth of elo-
quence.
But there has been nothing to it.
The wave is reeeding, and those who
look calmly upon the beach see the re-
suit.
I refer to the wave of rantankerous re-
form which has not reformed. When
ever legislation goes to extremes it
means that the law will not be enforced.
There is a moderation and conservatism
in all things which, when put into law,
the public itself will enforce.
One who looks back oyer history will
see that the last legislature of Alabama
went to extremes In almost everything.
Its laws have been most excellent ana
most printable to those who hold Offices
under the fee system.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
Trade Schools Should Be Public

Trade schools can become widely
helpful by being made a part of the
public school system. It is a mistake
to start them on any other basis As
a separate system they are destined to
lose efficiency and finally to become
useless. Conducted as a part of the
public school system, no special inter-
est will be favored, and no favoritism
will be shown. New York city has de-
oided TO adopt this plan. and in the
nigh school in Birmingham a number
of useful trades are regularly taught.
The movement should be extended
on every hand until every child can
obtain in The public schools not only
fairly good education in the three RS,
but also the rudiments of a trade by
which he or she can earn a livelihood.
This would carry the public school
system a step beyond its former scope
of usefulness and it would immeasur-
ably add to the efficiency in helping
those who need help. The more the
trade schools are developed the
stronger will be the grip of the public
schools on public approval.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
WORST KIND OF SICKNESS.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
The moral sickness of Peter Van Wis
singer has made a wreck of him in the
prime of life. He is infinitely worse Off
than he would have been if he had suf-
fered grievously from some bodily dis
ease Men have achieved remarkable sue
cess in business, in literature, in politics.
in spite of i'll health that has continued
through as many years as Van Vlssin-
gems forgeries. They have won the adj
miration of their fellows and felt that
life was worth living, notwithstanding
their sufferings. Even if death came as
a release they have left the best of in
heritance to their children in an honored
name
Obviously Van Vissingen's disease is of
a far more serious nature. If it brought
on no twinges of conscience it must have
kept the man haunted by fears. and now
shame is piled on shame and his future
is hopeless. His crimes admit of no SYM
pathy whatever, but arouse loathing and
hatred and the desire for vengeance. He
has betrayed his friends and he has CRU
ely deprived people of their sole support
by robbing them and dissipating their saw
ings. The cell and the stripes may make
him realize his disgrace, but his severest
punishment is in the hostile opinion of the
public that can never be altered. If he
were set free tomorrow he would be an
outcast If some friend of a generous
nature were to find him employment peo-
pie would avoid him as they would an I'M
clean thing He is branded for life, and
while he has ruined himself he has in
ficted the greatest possible injury on his
family.
There has been case after case of the
kind, all teaching the same lesson, and
the time to apply it is when the first
temptation is felt or when there is the
first impulse to go wrong. Nor should 1t
require a very noble moral sense to ap-
preciate its meaning The man who is
without high ideas of honor and who
thinks exclusively of No. / should give
heed to it as well as the man of finer
sensibilities. Otherwise he is likely to be-
come involved in tangled net like Van
Vlissingen and to pass from one false
move to another until he is overwhelmed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
Mrs. Osborn Received Same Pay 40
President of the United States.

From the New York Press.
Mrs. Josefa Osborn had claim to public
notice aside from the fact that she was
America ever has known. Although she
got a good deal of publicity through her
legal entanglements, her estate troubles
and her disputes with Mrs. Leslie Carter
and Miss Norma Munro no one, so far
as is known, called attention to the fact
that she was the highest salaried woman
in the world.
Columns and columns of stuff have been
written about Kate Harrison, private sec
rotary of II. II. Rogers, but Miss Har-
rison, getting $4,000 a year, was a hired
hand compared with Mrs. Osborn, who
received $50,000-the same pay as the
President of the United States In addi-
ton to the $4,000 Mrs. Osborn got what
the French call '1agniappe" in the way
of a trip abroad each year, all the clothes
she cared for and the services of a maid.
Not only that but the hotel expenses OF
herself and maid were paid.
Mrs. Osborn worked for several con-
Germs. From the Mrs. Osborn company
she got salary of $4,000 year. Mrs.
Osborne was large stakeholder in the
Mrs. Osborn company, but the largest
block of stock is owned by New York
lawyer. From a publishing house she re-
ceived $4,000 year for certain fashion
articles she was under contract to supply
and from various other sources she re-
ceived nearly $4,000 year, bringing her
income up to a little more than $4,000
q year
an equal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
Proposed Tax on Coffee

Although coffee has been on the free
list 35 years, some propose to place a
tax of 5 cents pound on it, because
such a tax would swell the govern.
ment's income to the extent of $780,
100000, at least until Porto Rico. Ha.
wall and the Philippines had become
able to furnish the mainland with a
supply. This they could not do at once,
but 1t Is claimed that heavy tax
would promote the industry SO that
our islands could produce 1000, 900
pounds year, which is just about the
present consumption of the mainland.
A tax of cents is, however, more
probable than tax of 5, for it would
not be popular to tax the breakfast
table heavily.
The average import price of coffee is
cents. 1t comes chiefly from Brazil.
But after the sacks have been landed
and redistributed the berries take on
unaccustomed names and habitats.
Some are assigned nativity in Arabia,
while even more are credited with q
Javanese origin. As matter of fact,
all were grown and harvested in the
western world, chiefly in Brazil. All
belong to the big Rio family, and they
masquerade under other names in or
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
Illegal Traffic In Cocaine

Chief of Police Bodeker estimates
the number of cocaine "fends" in this
city at 1000, and, the general belief is
that his estimate is under rather than
over the correct number This habit
is as common among women as among
men, among the young as among the
middle aged. The victims of the habit
soon become incapable of labor. They
cannot, in fact, be wholly deprived of
the drug without endangering their
lives. They soon lose all sense of
shame, all self-respect, all manhood or
womanhood.
The determination of Chief Bodeker
to make a special effort to stop the ille-
gal sale of the drug comes none too
soon for the general good. His effort
should command the support of all
good citizens. There is but one remedy,
and that remedy consists in the stop
page of all illegal sales of the drug.
The drug store that sells cocaine un-
lawfully; the physician who writes
without reason a prescription calling
for it, and the negro woman who ped
dies it, are the ones who are to be
prosecuted. The illicit trade in the
drug is to be ferreted out, and Chief
Bodeker certainly has set for himself
difficult task. But he is the man TO
accomplish it, and if he can have the
support of good citizens in all parts of
the city he will succeed, and the mis-
cry of the streets will be sensibly less
ened
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
High-CIass Music.

The Treble Cleb club concert at the
jefferson theatre next Tuesday night will
be one of the most attractive musical and
social events of the season. In addition
to the numbers which the club will sing
there will be several solos by Madame
Frieda Langendorff, distinguished Ger
man soprano who has had important
roles in the dramas at Bayreuth.
AS the Treble Clef club is doing large
part in the development Of musical Gull
ture in Birmingham it is hoped the pub
lie will show its appreciation by liberal
box office patronage. 1t gives three grand
concerts every season. The second Will
take place February with Charles C.
Washburn as soloist and the third and
last concert of the season Is announced
for April 3. with Madame Nordica as the
star attraction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Regarding Total Abstinence.


with the advent of the Anti-saloon
league and the prohibition movement the
old-time total abstinence societies seem
| to have taken back seats" said vet
eran who voted for prohibition last year.
early in life I Joined the Good Tenn
plars and took an active part in the prop
agation of that excellent total abstinence
order. In the early seventies the Good
| Templars increased rapidly and planted
lodges in nearly every. town in the land.
The order has quite strong footing in
Great Britain, and is still in existence
in the United States, but it no longer
conducts the vigorous total abstinence
! campaigns that made its influence felt in
the years gone by. 1t had forceful ora
| tors. J. Hickman, George Balm, both
of Kentucky. and a number of others
and in their day these men were nstru-
mental in reforming many a drunkard.
when I voted for prohibition I did it
with full knowledge of its failure in
the states that had long tried 1t, but
thought it might accomplish some good
in Alabama. Anti-saloon laws are easily
enforced in rural towns where a large
majority of the voters want liquor kept
out, but in large cities there will always
be more or less violation of prohibition
laws
THE Catholic church maintains we'll
disciplined total abstinence society, but
outside of that organization the other
temperance bodies seem to be content to
take. rest. | feel certain that if the
Sons of Temperance. the Templars of
Honor and Temperance and the Good
Templars were to join hands now and
start up total abstinence revival the
movement would be popular Moral sua-
sion was the method those orders en-
ployed. They kept. out of politics and
were everywhere encouraged. Let them
make another effort. for it is the volun-
tary individual pledge, after all, that is
most effective in bringing substantial re-
suits.
Men who insist on drinking will always
be able to find liquor. Prohibition may
minimize the consumption of whisky here
and there in spots, but the annual re-
eeipts of the United States government
from the liquor tax increase in spite of
prohibition. There was a falling off in
the tax whisky for the year ending
June 30 1908, but an increase in the num-
Der of saloon licenses issued and an in
crease in the tax collected on beer. The
falling off in whisky tax was accounted
for by business depression, just as was
the case in 1903. In the year 1906-1907,
with the anti-saloon movement progress
ing, the increase in government revenue
from the liquor traffic was enormous-it
was a reeord-breaker by something like
ST., 900 900, as compared with the previous
highest record year, 19O5-19O6 And the sec
ond quarter of the current fiscal year is
making a new high record. The People,
Pennsylvania prohibition organ, well al
ludes to the internal revenue report rs a
rude awakening I believe if We will go
back to the total abstinence appeals, more
good for temperance will be accomplished
than by statewide prohibition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
MENU SERVED IN CRETE.
After Dinner the Guests Enjoyed a
Siesta In the Dining Room.

From the Travel Magazine for December.
The dinner was beyond description.
From Cretan standpoint it was doubt
less a feast for the gods. We, being
ravenous with hunger, asked not the
names of the strange dishes. but enjoyed
everything that was set before us as only
hungry men can. The meal began with
ripe olives and spiced meat chopped up
with wheat grains and wrapped in null
berry leaves; 1t passed on through some
thing that resembled fried eggplant but
wasn't; through duck stuffed with rice
and olives and cooked in oil, and a pud-
ding that must have been favored with
eau de colonge, concluding with small
native melons, which are unsurpassed for
flavor, and, of course, coffee and ci-
garettes.
The meal lasted something over two
hours, and then, sitting cross legged on
the divan which ran entirely around the
room, the entire party dropped one by
one to sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Boyce on Reforms.

To the Editor of The Age Herald
The article in Sundays paper by Mr..
Barrett on prohibition suggests. to my
mind, some things that the British am
bassador. Mr.. Bryce, recently said In
his New York speech before the Cham
Der of Commerce.
Under the heading of Patience and
Prosperity" a New York paper gives
us his views.
Mr.. Bryce's observations go to the
very root of the agitation for economic
and moral reforms in the United States:
He called attention to the eagerness
with which the people seek to cure
evils all at once, and he urged the need
of greater patience in the solving or
Difficult problems. He pointed out the
fact that man is harder to study than
nature is, and that the habits and
characters of men change slowly, so
that reforms to cure evils. developing
out of the habits and characters of
men, must necessarily proceed with
moderation. This is a thought that the
people of this country should take to
heart. We display too great an i'm
patience. We think that We can do
everything all at once, and our haste
causes us to stumble and thus really
to retard the progress of reformation.
The progress may seem slow but when
we compare one period with another so
years before, the advance which has
been made appears clear and definite"
BELTON -GILREATH
Rirnnin cha m Novamher 81 1903
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-29
SOME SHOOTING.
Champion Marksman Twice Cuts a
String and Frees Dove.

From the Boston Post.
The champion marksman of the north
shore has been found.
lie is Arthur Douglas. hitherto un-
known Gloucester man, who has leaped
into prominence through an exhibition of
shooting that had for its object a hui
name act.
Douglas has always been skillfnl with
the rifle He hunted moose way down in
the provinces and followed the deer and
weary bear through southern Canada; but
he is a modest, retiring man, and few
knew of his skill until a few mornings
ago.
A white dove that had freed itself from
snare became entangled in a telephone
wire through a piece of string that was
hanging to one of its legs.
The bird vainly fiuttered for freedom.
There were no ladders to be found, and
since there seemed to be no other way
to reach it the men who had gathered in
the street made preparations to shoot the
bird and free it thus of its misery.
When the gun was produced, however,
las came down the village street.
He took careful aim, and, without re-
movino his pipe from his mouth, fired.
The dove shook it's wings, free once
more, for Douglas hit the white string
which held the doves leg to the tee-
phone wire.
Then something happened that changed
the joy of the onlookers to sorrow, for the
dove lowering on the wire became en-
tangled a second time.
Without a word to any one, Douglas
slowly raised the rifle, squinted along the
barrel, and fired.
Great was the wonder of all who
watched to see him repeat the first shot,
for once more he succeeded in freeing
the dove
And Douglas has been crowned Glouces-
ters champion marksman.