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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20
SAFE TREATMENT OF BAD COLDS Cold Cures Said to Con- tain AcetaniIid THIS DEPRESSES HEART Many Cases of Heart Failure Trace able to Use of AoetaniIld-How to Avoid lt and Treat Cold
 Safely
THIS DEPRESSES HEAR

Ever since the introduction of coal tar products as analgesics and antipyretics into the practice of medicine 25 years ago, the treatment of an ordinary bad cold has been attended by danger Ace tanilid, for example, proved itself so ser viceable as reducer of temperature that many physicians were tempted to use it in every case, to check the fever incident to the catarrhal Inflammation and conges- tion of a cold. Some of them apparently lost sight of the intensely depressing ac- ton of Acetanilid on the heart, and the fact that this effect varied so widely with the different individual that it was impos- sible to say in a given case whether or not normal dose of acetanilid would have a normal effect.
 As a result of this free use of Acetanilid, together with it's presence in cold cures sold to the public, we have had many distressing fatalities, a great number of which are not ascribed to their true cause. but simply put down as "heart failure" Fortunately, this condition of affairs Is now teasing to exist. Aloquin and other harmless diaphoretics are rapidly sup- planting the depressant coal tar products.
 The quickest way to cure a cold is also the simplest. On going to bed bathe the feet fin very warm water and drink a large glass of hot lemonade, to which a little whisky may be added. In case of ] sore throat, gargle with salt water-one teaspoonful of common table salt to a cup of water For inflamed and running nostrlls snuff the salt water as we'll If the chest is tight, and a cough present, rub the chest with camphorated oil or apply mustard plaster as a counter-ir- ritant. Support this treatment by taking two grains of Aloquin on going to bed, and follow up the next day with one grain of Aloquin every hour. This will open the pores, start active secretion and aid na- ture in eliminating the infection.
 The distressing symptoms of cold oppression. headache, cough and stuffed nostrils are not the worst features. The thing to be feared Is that the congestion may get deep into the lungs and result in pneumonia Prompt treatment with Aloquin is indicated in every cold. It should be obtainable in original packages of soluble one-grain tablets from any pharmacist here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20

screeching up the coast to pile breakers against her and crowd her even higher upon the beach.
 It is not easy to say which of all the dangerous opportunities of the wrecker is most dangerous, but seldom does any exceed that which in addition to other dangers needs a storm to make 1t suc-
 cessful-the particular method Of wreck ing known as walking ship to her cables"
 When a big vessel like an ocean liner
 loses it's bearings and the giant nose turns shoreward and into the sands, the
 monstrous hull, backed by the enormous impact of 5000 or 12,000 tons, moving at a speed of from 10 to 20 knots an hour, gouges into the yielding bottom like 2 gigantic blow that digs furrow l5 or IJ feet deep it does not come to rest unti- the steamer is all but high and dry, sur rounded by water hardly deep enough to
 float brick schooner. The wrecker' s method for dragging an unfortunate of this sort back to deep water is what is
 known as walking the ship to her ca bles
 To walk a ship to her cables, what the wrecker wants is a storm. Not a cheap. little 30 or 40-knot zephyr, but real storm. A baby hurricane, the wilder the better, for literally ne lntenuS to ndrneSS the storm with giant hawsers, whereafter he stakes his life and the fate of the vessel that the sea will pull the wreck back to safety
 To harness one of these storms he takes from four to six 2000O-pound an- chors, attaches hawser 14 inches around to each one drops each anchor into the sea at a distance from 250 to 300 fathoms astern of the wreck and brings the ends of the hawsers aboard the stranded ves- sell There they are set up tight as fid- dle strings by means of the ships wind lasses Then unless the storm breaks at once, he takes cargo and everything that is movable out of the ship to tighten her and awaits the blow"
 As the fury of the storm increases and the seas become higher up goes the stern, momentarily af1oat on the house. high breakers and down she comes with
 a thud and a crash that threatens to
 snap out her masts, while men in sou westers and yellow olskins are obliged to hold fast not to be knocked off their
 feet Every time she is lifted and mo-
 mentariy af1oat on breaker. she is
 being dragged seaward-an inch, two inches--a foot at a time
 For although each time she rises the surf tends to cast her higher up on the
 beach, there are, four or six of the
 mightiest cables N is possible for humans to make, each of these cables having an elasticity of something like 25 or 30 feet, and the combined elacticities, or pulling power, of all the hawsers is even might Ter than the sea. Therefore, instead of the wreck heinz battered high up the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20

No. 3-$3.5O per gallon, express prepaid No. 7-S2.50 per gallon, express prepaid No. 2-$3.0O per gallon, express prepaid White Corn No. 1-$2.5O per gallon, ex-
 press prepaid White Corn No. 2-S2.4O per gallon,
 press prepaid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20

firm one or more years. These gifts range from $20O to $2oo0, and tn ere are many bequests to relatives also.
 The estate comes to something more than $1,000.000. This is not an enor- nous fortune. as fortunes go nowadays, but the percentage set aside for the public and private gifts is unusual and is proof of the mans exceptional in terest in and sympathy for the world about him. The remainder is placed in trust for his widow and is to be appor- tioned after her death among relatives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20
A MILLIoNAIRE's MODEL WILL.
From the chicago Record Herald.

From the Chicago Record-He
 There has been much talk of late concerning the stewardship of wealth it's enormous responsibilities and the difficulties in the way of giving wisely to the public or to those in need. But both the life and the will of Caleb Chase of Boston would indicate that rational giving is within the possibil- tiles and that it is all the easier if there is no thought of lasting monu- ments and personal glory.
 MT. Chase, says a Boston paper, was noted in his life for his numerous philanthropies, and his wealth Is wi0ely distributed by his will. He left $fo0, : 900 in bequests to public and charitable institutions, churches schools and towns. These gifts ranged from 5000 to S15, 1000. Among the beneficiaries are the Salvation Army various homes for aged people, the Boston Floating hos pital, a school for crippled and de- formed children, the Massachusetts So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The gifts to towns are for the support of the poor. and various religious organizations in addition to the Salvation Army were remembered. evidently with view to the practical good that they were doing. The prin- ciple that actuated the testator was clearly that of helping worthy enter prises in spirit of the broadest phi lanthropy If he had considered his own fame primarily one large gift would, of course, have served his pur- pose far better than the many small ones.
 This, however, does not indicate the full extent of his benefactions. His will provides that $55,000 shall be dis tributed among the travelling sales men of the firm, to which he belonged that of Chase & Sanborn. $20, ,000 among the widows of deceased salesmen and other sums among employees in various departments of the business. I. is stated that the only condition attached to the gifts to employees is that the beneficiary shall have worked for thi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20
Charles Dana Gibson Wears Shawl.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
 Charles Dana Gibson. creator of the "Gibson Girl" and Norman Hapood, ed- itor of Golfers Weekly, paid Minneapolis a flying visit Wednesday morning coming over by auto from St. Paul and remaining Just long enough to whiz out past Lowry hill make a whirl through the university and to permit MT. Gibson to purchase shawl with which to protect his ears against the cold wind.
 My gracious, Norman!' exclaimed MT. Gibson. I'm froze. Don't you want shawl. too?''
 But MT. Hapgood said no. he had to ls- ten because he was learning to be tional weekly editor.
 It's all right for you. Dana he said. ito tie up your ears until you look like q mummy All you have to do is to see; with me it's different
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20
The Champion Retriever.
,m Railey's Magazine

Flapper, the property of MT. Maurice Portal, a Northumberland shooting man,
 beat all the fiatcoated retrievers at the Kennel Club trials last season. He was the only retriever which, when set the task of hunting up a strong runner which had dropped on the opposite side of the River Bure not only swan that river as if he liked the task. but getting his nose On the ground at the fall hunted every inch of the toil of the runner and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20

strand, it is pulled seaward, and mere- ly the occasional setting up of the haws- CTS is necessary to tauten this harness thrown over the storm.
 But however he works, whether it be in dragging a vessel from a sandy beach, raising her from deep water or blowing her up with dynamite for the benefit of navigation, the wrecker's life is in dan ger W nat he has done the public some times reads, how he does it, seldom or never
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20

Of what type of men do these wreck ing crews consist? Of several distinct types; in general of the sort born to live by brawn and muscle, of unafraid men who seem to defy the unconquerable ele- ments, men who sometimes for months live together aboard wreckinC schooner without setting foot on shore, men who would not close an eye in accent bed for want of the feel of a pitching, plung- ing board bunk beneath them.
 What it means to salve wreck" con- tinues the Appleton article, Ifs something that few outside of practical seamen can properly appreciate. The wreck is a ponderous, unwedy mountain of steel and oak, weighing between 5000 and 12, 900 tons, often dangerous for any vessel to approach and this must be lifted bodily and floated from the decks of pitching unstable scows and barges. The wreck may be submerged beneath 15 or 30 feet of water and so stove in that divers must go down and effect temporary re- pairs before it can be raised It may be a wreck so shattered that 1t is not worth raising, so that the wreckers' work con- ssts merely in blowing up the hulk and removing it as a menace to navigation Or, the vessel may be fairly intact, but sunk too deep to make an attemptt at raising advisable. the wreckers wS K lts Often the wreck is one not submerged at all. ship may have run on to a reef where it lies, nose on a crag and stern afloat, rising and falling on the ocean swell, pounding and pounding and pound- ing, until the very ocean bottom drones and she is gradually broken to pieces" . It was thus that the Yankee lay, with her bow fast on a rock. Into her stern was poured 1000 barrels of cement in the hope that it's weight might lift the for ward part of the vessel clear of the rock on which it was impaled. The fact that 1t did not do so made only more difficult this now famous piece of wrecking, since all the cement had to be removed in or der to raise the vessel by compressed air, the wreckers working all the time on a dangerous lee shore.
 There are other ways in which a shin gets into trouble which demands the ship doctors presence. The wreck may be that of a steamer which has pointed It's nose shoreward in a fog, finding a beach. blowing a furrow through the yielding sand and never coming to halt until it is stuck fast all but high and dry. a help less victim to the next storm that comes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20

it alive and unharmed the judges closed their books and awarded him the f50 which was offered as the first prize.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20
SPECIAL RATES
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WINTER TOURIST RATES

To Florida, the Gulf Coast and points in Southern Texas. Tickets are on sale daily until April 30, with final return limit May 31, at very low rates.
 SPECIAL HOMESEEKERs' RATES To the west and northwest. Tickets on sale Dec. 15, good to return until twenty-five days from date of sale. CHRISTMASS HOLIDAY RATES-To all points in the Southeastern Pas senger Association. Tickets will be sold Dec. IS, 1s, 2s, 24. 25. 30. S1 and Jan. 1. Limited. to Jan. 6, at very low rates.
 For any information, please call on or write to P. Sid Jones, D. F. A. Both phones orr, Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20
THRILLING LIVES
 OF SHIPWRECKERS .RObbing Davy Jones' Locker Is Dangerous Occupation THE PAY IS NOT LARGE But the Element of Risk Attracts It's Followers-Raisine the Yankee"
 Walking a Ship to
 Her Cables.
THE PAY IS NOT LARGE

New York, December 19.-Robbing Davy Jones' locker-that is the usiness of the "wrecker,' whose profession is at once the most romantic the most thrilling and the most dangerous of all which are piled on the seven seas. His part is to rescue ships which have been wrecked, sunken or beached by the storms which they encounter, and to bring to profitable service once more the vessels at which the ocean has grasped. His it is to grap- pie with and thwart Father Neptune
 Hundreds of thousands of persons throughout the country have read, for instance, of the recent wreck of the United States cruiser Yankee" on the Hen and Chickens reef on the Cape Cod shore To pull her from the rocks on which she was impaled, the government has spent over $2oO,oOO only to see the yes sel once saved turn turtle and sink, thus necessitating raising her again. So much the public knows. But of the men who snatched this vessel and who an- nually snatch thousands of vessels from the devouring maw of the ocean, and of their profession, not one person in 10000 knows
 Along every mile of the thousands on the coast line of this country, Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific, the wrecker is plying his romantic profession-the most dan gerous, as it is the least known, of all marine trades. For the shipwrecker has a profession which he carries out on the wrecking ship where he lives. Whae ms career is, it's dangers and work, are ue- scribed by A. W. Rolker, in Appleton's Magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20


 .sThe career of the shipwrecker,' says MT. Rolker, "conslsts of series Of hardships and adventures and accidents and narrow escapes from the first day he enlists with big wrecking com pany up to the time he Is brought ashore from the grim ship he calls nome, crlp- pied or fatally injured. Of all the pro fessions that demand heavy toll of hu- man life, none, not even mining or pow der making, is as dangerous as the one of these wreckers. Every year these daring men who brave storm and wave and tempest to save the stranded liner, to raise the sunken ocean greyhound, to rescue the ship impa1ed upon rocks and. if nothing else to salye what Valu- able cargo may be removed from help- less wrecks meet death by the score. Many of them, exposed often for days and nights to the icy blasts of winter seas, to driveing blizzards and to drench- ing storms that bite to the marrow, suc- cumb to pneumonia. Others, at work on pitching tossing barges, have legs or arms shattered during the risky opera tions of removing masts or of singing wrecking pumps or other castings that weigh tons. Others have hands or feet so dreadfully frozen that they must be ann putated And still others are wiped out of existence after suffering hours of un- told agony and exposure before the eyes of their helpless comrades"
 How human creatures may be induced to accept such life of hardship and to take the risks of working in a profession where it Is almost nothing but mere auestion of time before the.- look mutila- tion or a narrowing death in the face seems no less than a psychological prob lem. Still despite the fact that the wages of the average wrecker are not more than he can earn as sailor be- fore the mast, none of the big wrecking companies even runs short of good men. The very danger and the very excitement of juggling with death lures strong men into the wrecking crews, just as it lures thousands to enlist in regiments during time of war, just as it lures men to risk burial alive within the shield of an un- der-river tunnel Like these tunnelers, the wrecker has long since ceased to think of the chances he is taking He has risked so often and has come out of tight places so successfully that he begins to regard the danger of his work as a mere everyday affair, and when once in a while he is jolted to the soul by seeing his comrades perish miseraby be- fore his eyes, even then to his unimagi- native brain there seems no extraordina- ny chance of danger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-01-05
Station Robbed

On Thursday night the station at
Clatskanie Junction was broken into and
three trunks were broken open. The
burglary was committed after the sta
tion agent had closed the office for the
night and was not discovered until the
agent came to open the station on Fri
day morning. He lives quite distance
and did not hear any undue noises in
dicating that a crime was being COM
mitted. The following is list OF the
missing property: One pearl and dia-
mond crescent with large diamond in
center and pearls in two rows on each
side about q inches long; one solid geld
cross, very heavy, about 2a inches long
with name Leila Ann Cook on side;
one round gold locket with initials L.
A. G. on back with fowered design on
face studded with diamonds; one solid
gold bracelet with design OF lion head
and diamond in mouth and eyes; one jade
bracelet, gold links with jade and balloon
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-01-05

The county court met in adjourned
session yesterday and transacted large
amount of business, full board being
present. 1t was ordered by the court
that the salary OF the physician ap'
pointed by the county Judge, as mem
ber of the county board OF health, be
placed at 500 per year and be paid
quarterly,
The clerk was authorized to draw
warrants for salaries, the same being
fixed by law, on the first of each month
or quarter, as the case may be, and also
| for allowances made by the court, but
not for bills.
After consultation with county
officers it was decided that hereafter no
allowance will be made for overtime
work, but when additional clerks or as
sistants are required, upon proper APP
plication to the court, the same will be
allowed il deemed necessary. In regard
to the improvement OF road No. 81, the
parties interested having appeared ana
shown that some immediate repairs are
necessary to make it passable. the sum
of 500 was appropriated, out OF the
general fund. to do the work and work
shall be paid for when accepted by CON-
missioner Frye.
II was decided to ask for bids ior
repairing Young's Bay bridge,
The clerk was instructed to write 10
Aug Jurbs, relating to the rebuilding
Of spikanon bridge, that lumber shal'
he ordered from the D. L. Kelly Lum-
ber Co., by Jurbs, for the repair OF the
hr;dce and ask him for an answer as
"a how soon the lumber can be delivered
The nroposition of John Mattson' 10
furnish and drive piles for the bridge
was accepted. Il, -
The roadmaster was instructed TO
write to the supervisor of road district
No II, to order lumber necessary 10
rebuild two bridges, and proceed TO con,
struct same at once, and to send IN all
bills 80. KID" by himself.
communication, with applications
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-01-05

pearl setting alternately; one old
fashioned gold bracelet wide; one solid
gold necklace with four jade pendants
of different shapes; one large cameo pin
with gold frame and two faces carved
on ivory; one solid gold nugget pin in
shape of leaf or fan; one old-fashioned
pin with gold bangles; one solid gold
watch, plain case, medium sized one,
necklace of gold beads; half dozen silver
salad forks, Paul Revere patterns with
initial in script letter "C."; one-halt
dozen silver coffee spoons, Paul Revere
patterns with initial inscript letter
&c" 1t is reuested by the A. & c. r.
R. Co. that if any OF the property Is
located notification be sent to their
office.
You Don't Need to Send to Poruaaa
c. Il. Orkwitz, 1877 Tenth street, cAs
cover your umbrellas just as good q
they can any place on the northwest
coast.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-01-05

for lumber, from road district No. II
was laid over
G. S. Dow was unanimously reap
pointed fruit inspector for Clatsop
county, for the year 1908.
The following bids were received for
puncheon for road No. 90; Aug. Nor
ward, $l.50 per rod; j. 0. johnson.
Sl.3O per rod. No action was taken on
the bids.
The bounties we're fixed for scalps OF
wild animals. as follows Bob cats, so
cents; wild cats, so cents; cougars or
panthers, $3.50. and bears, ST.
DR.. Nellie Vernon was appointed by
County Judge Trenchard as n member
of the county board of health.
Geo. Stevens, j. +. Bartoldus and VIM.
Chance were appointed viewers to lay
out the road along the Necanicum river,
as pettioned ior by Jas. Irwin and
others.
The viewers on the road petitioned
for by w. J. Heckard and others report
ed to the court and the road was de-
clared public highway.
The tax levy was made, and it was
set at 27 mills. The levy made last year
was 300 mills. The levy made yester-
day was proportioned as follows: coun'
ty, state and county library, l59 mills;
county school, 81 mills; completing and
furnishing new court house and fixing
up grounds, Q mills making the total OF
27 mills or IL mills less than last year
The estimated expenses for the coming
year are $4,000; state taxes, $4,000
for roads and bridges, and $4l3.2O fol
county library purposes and the pei
capita school tax. There are 4l3z
school children in the county and The
law requires that 81 per capita shall b
raised for school purposes. Last veal
1t was SO per capita.
The total tax for county, state, coun
ty School, city and city schools will b.
81 mills while last year 1t was SO. Th'
county levy is IL mills less than last
year while the city levy is 7 mills high
er and the city school levy a mills
greater. Summarized the levies are al
follows: County and state, q millsi
city, ls mills, and city school( IL mills
total Of 81 mills.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-01-05
Palace Restaurant.

A successful year has just closed for
the Palace Restaurant and new year
opens. This year will no doubt. be as
successful for this popular restaurant as
the past II not more so. The manner Of
treating the guests pursued there can
not but tend to hold the trade and bring
those who have never heard Of the
Palace.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-01-05

street commissioner says if orders are
given him from the Council he will at.
tend to it. | am in block AZ, Adairs,
north OF Harrison between Thirty.
fourth and Thirty-Hfth streets. Re.
spectfully submitted.
,"GUSTAF ANDERSON