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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27

to; to construct hire, purchase, operate,
and maintain conveyances for the trans
portation in cold storage, or otherwise,
by land or by water of any and all
products, goods or manufactured articles,
and to issue certificates. negotiable or
otherwise, to persons doing business with
the company; to buy, hold, sell, hire,
rent, and maintain steamers and sailing
vessels and barges, and to operate the
same for the purpose of transportation Of
passengers or freight, and for the pur-
pose of towing upon the high seas, or
from port or ports in the state to a for
eign port or ports, or to port or ports
in other states, and to do any or all
things to enhance the value of the bus
mess to be carried on by this corpora
ton not inconsistent with the laws of
Massachusetts.
The capital stock is 100000 OF which
each of the incorporators holds one share
for services rendered, and $4,000 has
been, or soon will be, issued.
1T estimate that not more than $4,000
will be required to fit out the expedition
and bring the treasure home,' said Cap
tain Brown. This sum will soon be in
hand, and we shall probably start within
a few months. We have already OBJ
tanned an option on the steamer Ethel
void of the United Fruit company's fleet.
a stanch vessel fully capable of doing
all that we shall require of her, and on
the tramp steamship Awahol"
Captain Brown is a native of Califor-
mia, is grizzled, and weighs about $50
pounds. He looks hale and kindly, and
is the last one the observer would be-
lieve has passed through such stirring
adventures
He denies a story, widely published,
that he took part in piratical venture
that resulted in the capture of two treas
ure-laden British ships, and Indignantly
sent to the Boston papers few days ago
an emphatic correction. why, they
would embroil me with the British gov
ernment," he said, land I do not care
to say or do anything which will put OBJ
stacles in our path shall not even
say who If any nation owns the island,
which is a mere speck on the South
Seas" E
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haps it is larger, but the reef that en-
circles 1t is very dangerous, and I do not
believe there has been landing effected
there for the past 90 years
Mixed Poison With Their Food.
There was a small coral cave high
and dry up from the shore, and this we
deepened, widened, and extended back
until it was large enough to completely
conceal the treasure, some of which was
in boxes and some in ancient vases COW
cred with queer characters, but well
glazed by an art that is probably lost
today. The men knew what the boxes
and vases contained and Captain Smith,
after purposely wrecking our vessel,
mixed poison with their food and about
eight or nine of them persisted in a few
days, and were buried in the treasure
cave and covered with the coral we had
dug out.
mo, I cannot tell the exact location of
the island. 1t is one of the many scat
tered through the South Seas, and
know 1t is still in existence. I saw 1t
there less than six years ago, sailing
within three miles of 1t, and have
watched all the marine news ever since
to see If any volcanic eruption had
blotted any of the group out. There has
been no such cataclysm.
'I have a chart which tells the exact
! LOCATION, DuL COu1Q go TO the Spot Win
my eyes shut, and do not need a chart.
'I know the treasure must be worth
more than S60000,0O0 approximately, be-
cause of the valuation put upon that
part of it which I carried to Australia.
Captain Smith told me that much of
the loot was taken by pirates from the
Spaniards and buried at Cocos, and that
he himself believed that his father had
turned pirate and taken 1t from weaker
brethren after they had despoiled the
Peruvians and the Mexicans, who had
vast stores concealed in Peru and in the
old Aztec capital"
With Captain Brown, who is president
of the treasure-hunting expedition, are
associated Henry A. Harrington of Bos-
ton, who is vice president; William HI.
Harrington of Providence treasurer, and
George M. Faulkner of Boston, secretary
and clark" as Captain Brown calls
him. These four men have taken out the
following charter in the state of Massa-
chusetts:
The Treasure Seekers Charter.
1.-THE Commonwealth of Massachusetts,:
BE it known that whereas, James
Brown, Henry A. Harrington, George NJ
Faulkner, and William M. Harrington
have associated themselves, with the In
tenton of forming a corporation under
the name of South Sea Islands Trading
company for the purpose of the follow
ing: To carry on the business of pearl
| fishing and all business in addition there
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
PECULIAR FASCINATION
FOUND IN GAMBLING

body was. Some were reading and others
We're playing cards. but we were all IT.
ritable and restless. l proposed playing
whist for a nickel a corner, and got
soundly squelched for suggesting such a
thing. Then presently a young fellow
who had been playing solitaire began to
teach the game to one of the women.
and incidentally mentioned that 1t was
game that used to be used out west for
gambling purposes. You paid s25 for
pack and got a dollar for each card you
succeeded in playing, I believe.
The woman had been sort of slow n
understanding the game till then, but ar
that she picked up interest right away
and began to play it and figure up how
much she would have won or lost each
time.
Pretty soon one of the others began to
watch her, and when she found out 1t
was a gambling game she, too, wanted
to learn 1t. One by one the whole dozen
fell for it. like a bunch of tumbling bugs,
until in a couple of hours every indiyidu-
al there was busy playing the new game
and figuring up the results on the gam
bling basis.
LAS a matter of fact, it was stupid
game; most solitaire games are. And l
doubt IL they ever gambled with 1t out
west But the fact that it was sup
posed to be a chance to risk money made
it absolutely absorbing to these people
VINO had grown Indignant at the idea of
really playing whist for small stakes.
by supper time most of the crowd
were SO excited with their imaginary
winnings or 1osings that they could
hardly stop to eat. ana all the evening
the game went on. The next morning
was pleasant, and. honestly, some of them
looked disappointed at the idea of having
no further excuse for playing the new
solitaire for imaginary money
TT merely shows how alluring the idea
of gambling is to the very people who
condemn it the loudest. I'll bet a lot of
the people whove been cheering for
Hughes in his anti-gambling crusade are
the ones who would be attracted to a
game of solitaire If they thought 1t was
one of the kind that was used for gam
bling.
IF 1 wanted to Introduce new soil
taire or any other kind of game among
the righteous portion of the population
I'd certainly announce it as one that
used to be a favorite of Canfeld's.'
Then I'd be sure that the people who are
hardest down on real gambling would
take the liveliest interest In it."
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Parents of Wayne, a suburb of Phil
adelphia. are required to report promptly
any case of contagious disease, in COM
pliance with the regulations of the local
board of health.
In accordance with this order Health
Officer Leary received this postcard re-
Gently:
Dear Slr-This is to notify you that
my boy Ephraim is down bad with the
measles as reuired by the new law"
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PROM the Phlladelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
.One of the surprising things about gam
bling" observed the man who rarely
pIunges heavier than to match for car
Lares or play bridge for a very mild STAKE,
rs the wonderful fascination it has for
people who don't gamble. Talk about the
betting feveri I've seen 1t oftenes Ia
feople who would hold up their hands in
horror at the mere thought of playing
bridge for a quarter of cent a point
than I have seen in men who would play
the ponies or stake the price of admis-
sion on every ball game they go to see.
Il know one nice old lady, for instance,
who would be absolutely petritied with
horror if anybody suggested that she
plays cards for stakes. But she plays
solitaire a good deal, being an invalid,
and always for imaginary money.
L watched her one afternoon. Every
time she began a game she imagined she
paid $50 for the pack. For every card
she got out she imagined the house was
paying her s..
"She kept a careful record of it, and
was tickled as a sophomore over his first
poker winnings when she figured It up at
the end that she would have won, If
she'd been playing for real instead of
imaginary money. [ asked her how she
happened to be playing the game that
way.
Oh, it's a game they used to gamble
with at Canfelds, she exclaimed, and
those are the odds. A nephew of mine
told me about it one time. 1t makes the
game ever SO much more interesting to
keep track of it like that!'
And I've seen several others who play
solitaire the same way. You know there
are various solitaire games that are pop
ularly supposed to be played in gambling
houses, where you buy a pack for a
certain sum and get a certain sum back
for every card you get out Personally
I never happened to see solitaire played
IN a gambling place. but solitaire played
because I never bucked the tiger my
self.
still. I presume professional gambling
does take that form sometimes, and I've
noticed that people who play solitaire
are peculiarly subject to the fascination
of it, even when it's only imaginary ex-
element that they enjoy. 1 saw a
funny case of it up in the mountains last
summer. A group of a dozen or SO of us
were cooped up in a little country tavern
during a bowling storm that lasted a
couple of days. and made it impossible to
do anything but stay near the fire.
You can imagine how cheerful every
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Telephone Talks l|| as ||
HE rules and methods we
have adopted for handling
accounts aoaincf our sub
No. IS.

f~1HE rules and methods we
1 have adopted for handling
kM accounts against our SUBJ
scribers are based upon sound
business reasoning. They have
been worked out after years of
experience and are designed not
to work hardship upon either
the telephone subscriber or the
telephone company. We handle
thousands of accounts every
month and there is never differ
ence which we are not glad to
adjust in a courteous manner.
The public has access to every
official of the company and our
desire is that our dealings with
the public shall be harmonious,
pleasant and satisfactory.
In handling such large num-
Der of accounts errors are likely
to occur and do occur. These we
willingly correct when our at
tention is called to them. We
insist upon prompt settlements,
for a purely business reason. We
deal with SO many people in so
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-04-25
SUGAR For Wounds.

Powdered sugar has long figured
among the means employed for dress
ing small superficial wounds, but a
German surgeon has employed 1t ad-
vantageously on recent wounds and In
particular on surgical wounds. For
this purpose he uses granulated sugar
which has been first sterilized at 40
degrees G. and to which 2 per cent OF
salicylic acid has been added.
Sprinkled abundantly with this mix
ture, the wounds are quickly covered
with granulatiOns Of an excellent APP
pearance and are not long In closing.
When it is a question of deep or jag
ged wounds, which require draining,
the German surgeon introduces into
the gutta percha drains cylindrical
sticks sawed out Of a sugar loaf and
then filed round, which have been
soaked for several months in absolute
alcohol salicylated at per cent.
Sugar dressing is counter indicated
in presence of FOUL suppuratine
wounds or those with a tendency to
hemorrhage. 1t must also be employed
only with precaution when there ex
lists q denuded osseOus surface, the
strong drying effect of the powder be
ing capable in these cases of producing
necrosis. >
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-04-25
General Repair
Shop and Railway

We. the undersigned have opened up gener-
al repair shop and railway at WAChA-
PRAGUE. VA. and we are now IN posllioh
to do all kinds Of repairing 10 Guns, SSS
Automobiles Carts. Carriages. &c: Boat Dulld-
ing installing and repairing gasoline engines d
sDecialty We can also furnish, unoer shoI !
notice Tobin bronze shaftlng any size anu
length copper yellow metal ana Muntze metal
in sheets and bars. propeller wheels any size.
We also furnish the Hartman propeller lhe hlOsl
speedy wheel on the market and none genuine
unless stamped Hartman" GALVANIZED steer
Gasoline tanks (the BEST CarbWeterS, NapO-
Sr;zers Magnetoes Oil and Grease Cups. Gasoline
pine and Fittings. Insulated Wire switches
batteries, Coils, Edison's Wet Gems, Cynnuer
oil. &c, &c. We are also agents Tor the Harris
Fay and Bowens and Toquet Special MOtoIs'
The Toouet Special Single Cylinder Motors nave
more good points than any cheap motor on lht
market and we will compare them with the pes!
Of the two cycle type They are eulT t wet9i1
and very speedy. All the joints are either scrapeo
or ground mo packing about them TO olow OUT ;
tanered bored fly wheel which Is easily remover
connecting rod, crank smart anu Oe@.ins so d,
larger than most of the engines OF the SAINT
horse power.
We can furnish motors and equipments at thu
tolIoying prices: h. D. $4,000. 81 h. p. sl0oOO
TX h. p. $500. The equipment consists Oh INT
follOwing 80 nj, H.. ,,o1-o\
Set batteries with wire switch and coil
Strainer and water connections intakes anC
overflow
i piece rubber hose. e...
10 IT. seamless brass gasoline plpewlth ntthgs
5to7f #. Tobin bronze shaft. Longer lengths
Bronze propeller wheel. for either speed o.
towing. .,,
Catalogue and prices and any other lnforma
ton you desire is yours Tor the asking
We also have a list of secondhand engines WI
chaaD.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-04-25
TRAVELLERS ABROAD.
a Document That Should Be Carried
In Ones Pocketbook.

a Document That Should Be Carried
In Ones Pocketbook.
Replying to an inquiry about the dis
position of the body Of an American
dying in London, our consul general
offers some advice to citizens Of this
country travelling abroad. He says;
IF a citizen Of the United States be
travelling abroad unaccompanied II
would be well for him to carry in his
satchel or pocketbook written instruc-
lions as to what he desires should be
done in the event of anything happen
ing to him. The envelope containing
such instructions should be headed,
instructions In the event Of my DEATH
Inclosed he should give his home ad-
dress or the address of a friend In the
United States. so that communication
could be made, or the address OF any
friend or business connection on this
side could be mentioned with the same
object and for the purpose of obtain
ing necessary funds. l have been in
formed on credible authority that a
person has no legal right to control the
disposition Of his remains although L
have no doubt relatives or friends
would respect the wishes Of the de-
ceased. In the event of the death In
this country Of a person domiciled in
the United States at any Of the hotels
an undertaken Is at once called In and
the remains removed therefrom, pro-
yided always the deceased has had
proper medical attendance and that the
doctor attending gives certificate OF
death. If the death Is sudden, the cor
oner Of the district Is at once notiheo
and an inquest is held, the body In the
meantime being removed to public
mortuary pending result of the In
quest. If the verdict of death from
natural causes be rendered, the coro
ner signs an order and gives 1t to the
representative Of the deceased, who IN
structs the undertaken what to 90
The transportation Of the remains II
in the hands of the friends or the rep
resentative Of the deceased and Is no
controlled by any local or government
authority" .~-----.----.--.-.
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EXPLOSIVES.
Dangerous Substances That Are IN
Almost Constant Use.

DANGEROUS Substances That Are In
Almost Constant Use.
Among the many things in almost
constant use are some that are more or
less dangerous from their explosive
properties, properties often entirely
unknown TO their users.
For examples, chloride of potash
lozenges If accidentally brought In
contact with an unlighted PHOSPHORUS
match are dangerous. Bicarbonate OF
potash If mixed with subnitrate of bis
muth. the latter a remedy for indiges'
ton, will explode.
Iodide of nitrogen is highly explo-
sive and is often combined with other
drugs. Its use by those ignorant of its
danger is q menace.
Sal volatile and choral hydrate are,
under certain conditions, as dangerous
as dynamite.
Tincture of iron and dilute aqua regia
when mixed, as they often are In med
icine, throw off a highly explosive gas,
which has frequently shattered the bot
tie In which the mixture was kept.
One often finds bottles Of medicine IN
which the cork has not been tightly
pushed minus the latter or has had q
cork DOB out of q bottle while held II
ones hands without any attempt to re
move it on the part Of the holder This
always shows that gas Is forcing the
cork out
Danger in combs.
Every now and then one reads OF Gel
luloid articles, from fancy hair couture
combs down, catching fire and serious
burns or accidents resulting.
1t would seem that every one shouiC
by this time know that celluloid con
tains in its composition gun cotton ant
also camphor, both highly infammable
No woman wearing celluloid combs o.
hair ornaments should place her heat
near an uncovered gas Jet or other I'm
protected light, as celluloid catches tr'
so quickly and burns so rapidly that !
would hardly be possible to avoid seri
GUS burns.-St. Louis Republic.
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NEW BREECHES BUOY.
The Device Can Be Used as Well at
Night az In Day.

After having been in use for over
century without improvement OF
change, the breeches buoy used by Or
ganized life saving crews has just
been improved by a device that mas
been adopted by the United States life
saving service. The main difficulty
with the breeches buoy as heretofore
constructed has been that at night
when 1t left the shore no one knew
definitely where it was, whether 1t had
reached the wrecked ship or not or
whether any one had got in unless the
mariners had lights on the vessel.
John w. Dalton of Gloucester,
known to mariners all along the Mas
sachusetts coast, is the inventor OF the
device The improvement in question
COMPRISES. speaking in general terms, a
small case mounted on an inflated rub
her cushion and surrounded by four
small hollow posts which are affixed 10
the rubber cushion buoy and on top 10
square steel spreader.
In the case is a storage battery that
operates a set of lamps One light, a
green one, shows toward the ship
wreck when the device Is started ou'
TO the vessel. The other light, white
one shows down through the rubber
cushion into the breeches, enabling the
shipwrecked people to see how to get
into the apparatus. Another white hgh'
shows toward the shore until the
hreeches buoy Is occupied, when 1t auto
matically turns to a bright red, gong
back to white again when the pas
senger is landed.
Under the old system when the
breeches buoy was sent out to wrecB
# was often hauled back to the shorS
bv the life savers before 1t had reached
its destination. Now the position OF
the breeches buoy will always pe
known to those on shore and on thu
wreck. The green light moving towarC
the vessel mutely tells the shipwrecK
ed passengers that help Is at hand ant
encourages them to hold on until thu
buoy reaches them. AS soon as one O
the imperiled mariners gets into I'M
breeches the red light signals to thos'
on land to haul the passenger ashore.
The rubber cushion prevents the oc
cupant below from being injured b!
the block striking him while beini
dragged through the surf. Number
of persons have been severely injured
while being saved from wreck by IN
big iron traveller block as the vesse
lurched back and forth. - Scientln
American.
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all cash at option OF buyer.
No. l. 4Oa., 80 in cultivation, 10
in timber. New dwelling, barn and
outbuildings. Young orchard and
shade trees. Situated on new stone
macadam road II miles east OF POGO
moke. County road on two sides OF
farm. S3,200.00.
No. 2. Situated J mile east OF No.
/. so a., 80 in cultivation, 10 timber.
Good buildings. 100000.
lENo. 3. 9Oa., As in cultivation, q
timber, 20 in pine thicket % years Old.
New dwelling. young orchard, fine
truck land 81 miles of r. K. Station
2,25O.
No. 4. ia a., so in cultivation, bal,
ance in timber, good orchard, good
buildings-20 a. has been trucked on
10 wears, timber reserved, % miles oil
r. R. station, price $3.50.
No. 5. 100 a., 40 in cultivation, al
truck land no ditch on the farm, 6C
timber, drained by two arms of mills
pond. Small dwelling 3 rooms, good
outbuildings, fruit, 4 miles OF II. H.
Station, timber reserved, $1,000.
Francis M. Wilson & Co,
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He DIDN'T GO HUNGRY.
Neither Did His Partner After Thor
Scheme Succeeded.

SCncmC OhOSCCASN'
The man who once was down ana
mt but is so no longer, was telhng
,be other day of one Of his poverty
time devices.
He was travelling with another chap
inst as much down and out as he, ana
both were hungry Their capital was
insignificant, and they didn't intend TO
spend any of it, But they had a re-
volver. which suggested to the hrst
man a scheme. 1t worked out some
thing like this:
81 went into pretty good looking
restaurant" said the prosperous one,
taking a long draw at his cigar, ana
ms my clothes looked pretty good
wasn't an object of suspicion. l had
an overcoat which belonged to my
partner.
"As the overcoat and the revolver
were chief characters in the ensuing
drama, they have to be mentioned
prominently. ! got q seat right near
the door and hung up my coat so that
1t was only step away from the door,
"Then sat down and ordered a
square one, a meal that 1t would DC
imnossible to describe it was so good.
II was favored with the sauce of abstl-
nence-frOm food.
81 ate and ate and ate. and by and
bv my partner came along. Without
his overcoat-and it was cold day
he didn't look good. He hung around
the door for long while, looking ike
q hobo getting up his nerve to come In
and beg
lust about the time he made sig
nal to me that showed he was about tC
enter l got up to go to the cigar coun
ter TO pick out nice after dinner
smoke In came my partner and slunB
up to the desk to ask for bit of food
Nothing doing Hs was turned
down cold. Then to make the thing
work better he came up to me anC
asked: Say, boss, won't you give me
lift? I'm down and out l repulseC
him sternly. and after looking arounC
he started out.
Il said to the proprietor in yirtu
Gus way. 4 don't believe in helpinI
those BUNS, to which he answered
with a SNUG shake of the head, whel
INV partner grabbed the overcoat.
knew what he was doing, but pre-
tended to be very much interested II
the cigar until the proprietor yelle'
out, Hey, he's stealing your coat!
81 held on to the cigar, wheeled
around and started for my partner
He was half out of the door l yelled
Drop that and for answer he drew
the revolver and fourished it.
THE proprietor dropped behind tn
counter. and the walters fled to tn
kitchen. From his place the proprieto
called out: Look out! He'll shoot you
And. taking my cue, let him run ou
Then when the excitement cleare
off | raised an awful row about losin
the coat, and the proprietor final
came up with the money for a ne'
one. say about $50. Well, did tbs
meal pay me? What?'