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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

WANTED-Position in the Birmingham district by man with the following ex-
 perience: Extended experience as traf-
 flee manager; extended experience as purchasing agent; bookkeeper, cashier, and cost systemetizer; draughtsman,
 and can operate typewriter; salary, modest. P. O. Box 4S6 Bessemer. 10-3-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

COUPLE or young men to occupy elegant front room with board in South High land home. Call at 1O04 South 18th. Bell phone 2SO2. 1O-4-3t BUY s4.50 ticket, good for H meals, and eat for one-half of cost downtown. Apply No. 6O9 North Fist street. Bell phone 3069.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

LARGE south room (with bath adioin- ing) and board with refined private family, on South Highlands. Convenient to two car lines. References exchanged. Bell phone 2249.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

$500 CASH, balance easy; good five-room cottage, on lot 50x165, Osceola station, South Ensley car line; a nice home, with city water. electric lights and gas; price $500. Jemison Real Estate and Insurance Co.,, 2024 Sd avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

FOR SALES s3650-6-room house; one-haif block of 20th street and Cullom flats: a bargain; terms. w. B. Leedy 6 Co.
 9-30-we-sat -stl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04
TALK WITH ALAN JEMIsoN.

FOR SALE-s200, splendid lot, close to car line. s25o0, new home, never oc- cupied, Woodlawn. $2OO0. simply splen- did truck farm; hours drive; fine To-
 cation; good house; fine water. Berry 6. Co.,, 2161s Fist street. Peoples Al, Bell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

WANTED-Position in city by young lady stenographer; good in spelling and punctuation; two years experience; would expect reasonable salary; good references. V. VIA, care Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

FOR SALE-Photograph outfit; now located in manufacturing town of 1900; good farming country to draw from. Write quick. Address Photo. care Age- Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

FOR sALE-Large lot near Five Points and Highland avenue, east of 20th st.
 Very desirable, s10,000. Minge, 521-22 First National Bank building. 1O-3-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

WANTED-Architect draugh tsman. Apply between 2 and D. m., Room
 454 Hood Bldg. 10-4-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

WANTED-Position as coke foreman; 8 years experience in Birmingham dis trict Coke care Age-Herald- 1o-4-2t WANTED-Position as collector; can give gilt edge references. Address. Collector, care Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04


 F OR SALE-Three special bargains: $42000, a 2-story frame, Broom house; 4 bed rooms, halls, bath rooms, 3 cabinet mantles, etc.; light, city water; lot 133x140; high and dry, on Fist avenue, north Birmingham; l block from car line; investment that will increase in value; terms to suit the buyer s6500, a 2-story, frame, 8-room, modern resi- dence (almost new), on lot 60x120. oppo- site Glen Iris; blocks from car line; this Is beautiful modern built home in a high class neighborhood and gilt edge investment Come in and let ma show you this fine property. $2700, on 1st avenue in the very best part of Woodlawn; churches and schoolhouse within two and three blocks; a 7-room frame cottage; bed rooms, halls, Sx1O feet; bath room: gas, electricity; sanitary; newly painted papered and new roof; lot 60x140 to alley. Now, lis- ten. This is bargain and can be pur- chased on very easy terms at the above price for few days only. Then do not delay, but come in and let me show you this bargain. See w. A. Halstead, with S. Bethea X Co.,, 2027 3d avenue.
 465 ACRES-Wild land in central Ala bama, miles railroad town and touch ing a large river and fine for game preserve, summer resort fruit, poul- tary or stock raising; only $355 per acre. Mineral reserved but not located in mineral belt. w. Barnes, Avondale. Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Cheap, the best paying busi- ness for amount invested in Birming
 ham; wholesale and retail; owner wishes to take rest. Write to F. A. M. care Age-Herald. 10-4-2t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

COUPLE want room and board on South Highlands. References exchanged. D. 105 Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04
SITUATIONS WANTED.

A YOUNG lady, college graduate. hold ing third grade Alabama certificate, wants position as assistant or primary music teacher. Address Box IS, R. F.
 D. No 1, Minter, Ala 10-1-4t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04
HELP WANTED.

HELP WANTED. 50 month, $60 expense allowance at start, to put out merchandise ana grocery catalogs. Mail order house American Home Supply Co.,, Desk 6, Chicago, H.
 n5O0-A choice lot, 50x1s0, With good b room cottage, block of car line, near b2nd street. Convenient to the school, Woodlawn. B. F. Eborn, Suite 3l6, Brown Marx.
 WANTED-Short order cook at once; woman stenographer; laborers for saw mills. coal mines contractors and other works; experienced walters; other open fngs 45S Hood bldg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

$5O0o-An elegant, recently built, 2-story, Broom residence overlooking the city, on car line, excellent neighborhood, Highlands. Terms easy. B. F. Eborn, Suite 316, Brown-Marx.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

$500 cash. balance easy. Good flve-room cottage, on lot 5Ox165, Osceola station, South Ensley car line. nice home, wirh city water, electric lights, and gas. Price $500. Jemison Real Estate and Insurance Co.,, 2024 Third avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

TALK WITH ALAN JEMIsoN.
 FOR SALE-Two business lots, Fairview, facing entrance to Fair grounds. Price on application. Minge, 521-22 First Ma tional Bank building. 1O-3-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

GOOD corner lot, 12th avenue and 18th
 street, north. Worth s15O0. but owner must sell and will take 800 cash. Can be improved so as to make an unusual
 ly good investment. Jemison Real Es- tate and Insurance Co.,, 2O24 Third ave
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

FOR SALE-Two of the best sawmili and timber propositions in Alabama
 Oliver Carter, 2104 1st avenue. 1O-2-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

s15co-Farm, 75 acres. miles of Wetump- ka, Ala, go acres under blow: houses, barns. etc. B. F. Eborn. Suite s16-17-1S, Brown-Marx. s175-Two-c barber shop; fine Ioca- tion; cheap rents; brick store; splen- did living rooms in rear. Berry, 216h Fist street. Bell GOO.
 $250 on monthly payments for good lot, located four blocks from car line West End. G. F. Cramton BIO 2ist street.
 AN Investment unparalleled: 25,000 to a,- 900 acres cut over timber land 40 miles of coast; well watered, well drained; don't overflow: rich land; will grow most anything grown in the south: will sell for $S to $10 per acre; in a short time two railroads and another sur- veyed. None of this land is over 8 miles from railroad. For quick sale to settle an estate. It must go at s3 per acre. W. Barnes Avondale. Ala. s350o-Rental s45 per month, new Broom houses. B. F. Eborn, Suite 31s Brown Marx.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

A NICE six-room cottage at Central park, with sidewalks, electric lights, sanitary sewer connection, nice bath room. $25O0, $1O0 cash, balance on rental basis. Jem- isoni Real Estate and Insurance Co.,, 2024 Third avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

A COUPLE or two young men can get
 nice large front room With board in pri- vate family at 1909 9th avenue Peo- pies phone 1412. 10-3-2t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

RESPONSIBLE man, this territory, to take commissions on coming election; hotel clerks, cigar dealers, or those who can get in touch with the bet ting public, preferred; big money for the right man. References given and required. Collins 6 Co.,, Sandwich, Ont Canada
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

s29OO--A new Groom cottage, hall and bath, modern in every detail, only h block from the East Lake car line in the heart of Woodlawn. Papered throughout; all modern conveniences. One of the prettiest homes in the dis trict, Terms. Gibson Realty Com pany, Insurance, PIG North 21st street.
 10-4-2t-sIl-tll-wd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

WANTED-Room and board, or rooms
 convenient to good table board, by couple on South Highlands. Address Permanent, care Age-Herald. 9-13-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

Shipping clerk, $50. Hotel night clerk, $75. Stenographer and bookkeeper, sSo City salesman, $90 Assistant Bookkeeper, $50. Travelling salesman paper, twine, $50. Mercantile Assurance Agency, 1O3O Wood
 ward bldg. 10-4-2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

s2O0o-A neat, recently built 4-room cor ner cottage. near 51st street. North of East Lake car line, Woodlawn. B. F. Eborn, Suite 36-18, Brown-Marx.
 POSTOFFICE and other civIl service examinations will soon be held. Full information and questions used by the commission free. Columbian Cor responding College, Washington. D. c. 9-20-4t-su
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-11-29

No false pretense has marked the career of Ely's Cream Balm. Being ble like the catarrh snuffs and pow ders, for minds shattered by cocaine. The great virtue of Ely's Cream Balm is that it speedily and completely overcomes nasal catarrh and hay fever Back of this statement is the testimony of thousands and a reputa- tion of many years success. All drug gusts, soc, or mailed by Ely Bros, 56 Warren Street, New York.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-11-29
PERSIANS AND
 BRoADTAILS

before it is ten days old. The broad 1 tail is a prematurely born baby lamb The lambing season is from Janu- ary to May, the most births taking
 place in March and April. Wet weather during December and Jan uary causes sickness among the sheep and in consequence many ewes give
 birth prematurely to their young These prematurely born baby lambs are frail and weak, and would die within a few hours of their birth and become worthless if they were not
 killed. The hide of an animal canrot
 be used for furrier's purposes if the
 animal has not lived and drawn
 breath in the open air. Also, the
 animal must die a violent death; that
 is, life must cease suddenly, if the skin is to be healthy and useful, as decomposition sets in the instant the animal has died a natural death. and the pelt then has no resistance or wearing qualities.
 It's seems strange that newspapers so consistently spread wrong and bar ba.ous stories about mother sheep be- ing slaughtered so the unborn off, spring can be taken from them. There is no such thing as killing the moth CT to procure the baby lamb. Only a few of the skins of prenlaturely born lambs have high Commercial value. The larger proportions are so imperfectly developed that they are of little use.
 How nonsensical the story of kill ing the mother sheep is, the fact proves. that full-grown sheep is worth rubel 90, while baby lamb skins sell for rubel 10.
 The name Persian skins would i'm ply that the article comes from Per sia; but only inferior qualities are found there, and the best are from nesr the cities of Bokhara and Char juj. In the olden times. when travel was difficult Or impossible in the Asiatic countries, merchants brought the belts Of these sheep to the Nishny fair: and in order to keep the source of their supplies secret they gave the lamb skins a misleading name.
 The proper geographical name for Persian lambs ought to be Bokharens, because the best come from the State of Bokhara. The Country east of Persia and north cf Afghanistan is arge tract of sterile land only fit for
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-11-29

When Il story receives the impetus that is given it by publication in one of the popular magazines or large daily newspapers of national reputa- tion there is little possibility of check ing it in it's wild career through the land. Whether true or false, it is accepted as a statement of truth pure and undehled, for the very simple reason that people usually believe what they read unless they have some good cause for disbeliey or some especial knowledge bearing on the subject that arouses in their minds a feeling of antagoism to the alleged facts sufficiently active to lead them to investigate.
 Every few weeks the Baby-I.amb story, in all it's unpleasant details. appears in some magazine or news paper. It is told how the eve is kill ed and the lamb unborn is deprived of life before it has come into the
  women, whose thought is only for her personal appearance. All this is set forth with the touching pathos that only comes through the writer's firm conviction of the truth of his story.
 Nevertheless, it is absolutely un- true. It is a lie unmitigated by even a shadow of possibility. Every furrier knows that it is unutterably false. Not only is it false. but it Is also extremely harmful to the fur trade. In order to settle the question definite ly and in an authoritative manner. We requested the firm of Theodor Thorer, of Leipzig, to furnish us with full details. MT. Praetorius, of that firm, sent us the following letter in answer to our request:
 Editor of The Fur Trade Review. New
 York.
 My Dear Sir--I have received your request for descriptive article on Persian lambs and broadtails. well come this opportunity to acQuaint the fur and dry goods trades, in particu- lar, and the public in general, of the correct facts of procuring these two very important articles.
 The broadtail and the Persian lamb are one and the same animal, only in different stages of development. The broadtail is the younger, the Per- sian the older animal. if one can speak of age where the oldest is killed
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-11-29

sheep raising. Around the cities of
 Kark, Meyo, Pendin and khiva large
 numbers M sheep are raised, and their value for the fur market stands in ] the same rotation as the cities are named Persians from the neighbor- hood of Sanarkand are the poorest. Across the mountains into Persia one finds the Shiras or half-Persian, and towards the south ill Afghanistan the Afghan Persian-a large, coarse heavy -pelted skin of little value. The climate in Bokhara is cold in winter the temperature sometimes dropping to zero. Iii the summer it is very hot, with little rain. Winter starts November and lasts until Jan uary; from then until March is the wet season. The sheep are in open all the year around.
 The demand for Persian lambs is SO great and universal that long ago the limit of production was reached in l5okbaI,2. About one and one quarter million lambs are born an- nually. The average proportion of prematurely born lambs is about per cent. It is less ill a very favor able winter and more during a bad season.
 The normally born Persian lamb is left to live until it's teeth con- mence to shoW-that is, before it gets to be eight or ten days old As soon as the little animal eats grass the beautifully tight and glossy curl, which makes it so valuable, opens, and the lamb begins to change into q wolly sheep.
 The meat of Persian lambs can be eaten. and equals our spring lamb; while the meat of the baby lamb or broadtail is not fit to eat. None of the thoroughbred Persian lambs are ever killed for mutton, being too val uable for breeding purposes. The common sheep are also raised in sec tions of Bokhara. where the Persian lamb does not thrive.
 Last winter read an article in the Ladies Home Journal" which de- scribed the procuring of the baby lambs, and even had the picture of a man kneeling on a mother sheep with a long knife in his uplifted hand, about to deal the death-blow to the poor animal.
 False, cruel stories about Persian lambs and broadtails, particularly when they are revolting to refined tastes. must hurt the sales of these articles.
 I did nothing at the time to cor rect the statement in the Home Journal. and only write this arti- cle now at your request. If fashion and sentiment should favor broadtails and Persian lambs still more than
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-11-29
What a Mans Beard Teiis.

You can tell some of q mans habits Rnd read snn1c of his traits of chara, ter from n4s heaE,!,' sad tLe olI bar Der. If a man spends his days at {; desk beside window his hair and beard will grow faster on the side to ward the Windov, Plants and bear,is both flourish under the influence of sunlight. Why. one of my customers found the effects of the side light SC pronounced that he changed his office desk to face the window Another in teresting fact is that. when q man is up late or works long hours, he needs shave oftener than if he took the usual amount of sleep. That's because In being awake he keeps the vital proc esses of his body in greater activity than when asleep. The growth of tho hair depends largely on the circulation of the blood, and the heart slows down when we sleep. ."-Kansas City Star
 Why Scotland. Soil l. Thin.
 An English golfer on Scottish liLA, lit the turf ten times for every oln~ that he struck the ball. His caddk ventured on a sarcastic remonstrance
 'Ha' peety on auld Scotland. sir" said he. "She's suffered over ene,,ct at the haunds O yer countrymen i, the past that ye sud treat her sac sa;i the day. Hit the ba'. man. an let tt. srun' alane."
 "Confound Scotland."' shouted H.. sxasperated golfer. finging down his club in rage. Its just what Dr Johnson described it-'stone. wat- md little earth"
 "Sae the docther said that. did he
 quired the caddie.
 'He did. and he was very wis,
 tan, let me tell you" snapped tn~ nglishman.
 Il believe ye," retorted the cad,.,, Nae doot the docther was a verls wise man. for there is muckle O staa- an' waiter in Scotland-oor mouata;I.. an !ochs that ye come sac far tae Sc an It's sair truth that the soil is r vera deep. Ne see, there's sic a hs. tie O English bodies comes tae Sccs land tae play gawf.'-Glasgow Time.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-11-29

heretofore, we would not know where to take them from.
 Yours truly, c. PRAETORIUS. Leipzig, Sept. 2S, 1908.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-04

The British navy has in service oil- using torpedo boats with a capacity of S4 knots. One of the drawbacks at the present time to the extensive use of oil fuel at sea is the high cost and the difficulty in many instances of securing it. The cost of oil in Great Britain has no doubt seriously interfered with its adoption for steamships and for a variety of in- dustrial purposes. With a reduction in price the field for its employment would be greatly enlarged. The ad- vantages of oil fuel briefly summariz- ed are economy of space, absence of soot and cinders, elimination of the loss of time consumed in burning down and cleaning fires when coal is used, the ease with which oil can be bunkered, and the quickness with which a full head of steam can be generated. lt is claimed also that through the use of oil the number Of men now required to do the stoking and trimimng would be reduced by two-thirds, as the moving and stok- ing of the oil is automatically accom- plished by steam pumps and pipes. instead of by stokers and trimmers as in the case of coal. While it is difi- cult with coal fires at full speed to maintain sufficient steam. it has been demonstrated that with oil fuel this difficulty would be overcome. and that when the speed is reduced the boilers are under such perfect con- trol that the safety valves do not lift
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-04
DE CHAULNEs DIED IN PRAYER.
Dukes Arm Was Around His Wife
 When He Fell.

Theodore p. Shonts, returning Tuesday with his daughter Miss Mar guerite Shonts. told for the first time the dramatic story of the death of the Duke de ChauInes, husband of his eldest daughter. Theodora.
 The duke died on his knees at prayer" said MT Shonts. The duke and duchess had been out r!dng on that day. They returned home and dined. The duke had been particular ly happy all day. After their arrival in Paris my daughter told me. it was their custom to retire at 9 o'clock.
 They always said their prayers to- getner. The duke was kneeling. with one arm around the duchess should CTS He fell and slipped away upon the floor. The duke was a big man, and the duchess is a slight girl, but she raised him upon the bed, scream ing for help. As he was lifted upon the bed a gurgling sound came from the throat and the duke was dead.
 The idea that there was any in- duCing cause of death from drugs is absurd and cruel. His memory has been malignsd infamously. and his traducers would not let the boy alone even when dead
 The walls Of his heart were 60 thin that in one place they had burst through. It was perfect rupture of the heart because there was scarcely a drop of blood in it-"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-04
MIR MACDONALD's AUTO.
State Highway Commissioner Has
 New Pope.Hartford.

State Highway Commissioner
 James H. Macdonald this week re' ceived a new Pope-Hartford automo' bile for use in his work in connection with the state highway department. Commissioner Macdonald S automo, bile is one of the handsomest ana most highly finished and thoroughly eouipped automobiles ever manufac- tured in Connecticut. It will be re- membered that the last legislature ap- propriated s6,000 for the purchase or an automobile, and for operating ex- penses, for the commissioner. This action was taken by the same fegls- slature which paid such notable triD- ute to the integrity of the commits sioner by appropriating the vast sum of S4,50O.000 for highway improve ments, the money to be expended uh- der his direction.
 This car is a model NJ touring car, four cylinder. It is mahogany brown in color with black enamel trim mings and is highly finished. The special equipments are of a kind new CT placed on a car in the state before. There will be special trunk or rack for holding a typewriting machine, and a stenographer will accompany the commissioner on his tours over Connecticut roads, and will take die tion right in the car, while bowling along at as many miles an hour as the occasion and work in hand will per init. The advantage of having the typewriter will be that typewriting for the commissioner can be done at such stops as will be made along the tours of the highways. It will there fore be no uncommon sight in future to see the genial commissioner on the country roads, dictating to MT Mich ols. his stenographer, such observa- tions as he may make.
 The car Is also equipped with gradeometer. an instrument which in- dicates the grades of the highways passed over. A complete system of electric lighting has also been added, and every light. at front. sides and rear. can be operated independently by press buttons. A pleasing feature is the state seal on the doors of the car, in artistic handiwork.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-04
CARDINAL SEES ROCKEFELLER
Church Prince and Oil King Pleased With Each Other.

Tarrytown. \. r.. June 4.-Cardinal Logue, primate of Ireland. and John D. Rockefeller. met here at the home of James Butler, and after spending several minutes chatting on genera subjects they posed for picture with Bishop Brown of Ireland. The meet ing was arranged by Father Lennon whose church adjoins the Rockefeller estate and who plays golf with Mir Rockefeller.
 Cardinal Logue expressed to Mfr Rockefeller his warm appreciation of the United States. and Mir. Rockefel Ter replied that he was very much pleased because he was proud of his native land and wanted all people to think we'll of 1t and the people.
 Mir Rockefeller expressed desire to met the cardinal again, but this could not be arranged owing to the fact that Cardinal Logue starts for Ireland on Saturday. The prelate and MT. Rocke. feller parted with expressions of mu' tual esteem. Afterward, through Fla. ther Lennon. Mfr. Rockefeller said he had enjoyed the meeting and had been greatly impressed by the cardinal.