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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

dale an Eskimo boy and girl were killed
and devoured; at Main the dogs dragged
a missionarys baby out of its cradle and
reduced it to bones before the distracted
mother found out what had become of it.
At Domino they devoured a middle-aged
woman before help could reach her; at
Bardana they did the same with a 15-
year-old girl going to a well tor water,
and at Chateau they destroyed three lit
tie people-two boys and a girl-whose
father and mother were absent from
home.
A curious fact, however is that all
though every man, woman and child in
Labrador has been bitten once or more
by these dogs, there has never been a
case of hydrophobia known there Accord
ing to DR.. Grenfell and his medical assoc
cates, during the existence Of the mis-
sion.
They are worst in summer, as then the
owners cannot use them for draught pur-
poses, and leave them to forage for them
selves, so that they are usually starry
ing, while in winter they are fed fairly
well, as they have to haul heavy burdens
and work early and late. The settlers
use them in visiting from harbor to har-
Dor, in hauling wood from the forests,
in hunting expeditions inland and in con-
veying peltries to the trading posts and
bringing back the goods obtained The
dogs, wolf-like, hunt in packs and de-
YOUR the weaker among themselves. Any
dog made a house pet is certain to be
killed by them.
Until now they have been Indispensable
on the coast as beasts of burden in wins
ter, and they possess great strength ems
durance and intelligence. But their de-
structiveness Is such that DR.. Grenfell
has now taken the first step to their
eventual eXtinction-the introduction of
the Laplander reindeer. He brought
herd across from Norway last winter, 800
in ALL and will domestieate them.
The dogs bitterly resent their presence
on the coast and attack them on sight.
they killed some young ones and badly
wounded several of the grown deer thai
are worked in harness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
REGARDING Musical Composition.

1.-THE fact that Lehar, the composer OF
The Merry Widow is already mil
liouaire in crowns, and will doubtless be
a millionaire in dollars before that charm
ing yiennese operetta ceases to entrance
the public, has induced c. A. Bratter Of
the Berlin Tageblatt to compare the prof
its of composers of our Gays with those
of their predecessors" said press agent
Herr Bratter recalls the familiar facts
that Mozart, Schubert and Lortzing prac-
tically persisted because Of insufficient re-
turn for their exhaustive tolls.
Mozart got onlq 225 forms for his
Don Juan score, and 100 ducats for his
Figaro Schubert often had to write an
immortal song and sell it for 20 cents
before he could order his dinner. His
clothes were often patched. Weber got
only so Friedrichsdor for his 'Freischutz,
one of the most successful operas ever
written. After it had had so perform
ances in Berlin, which yielded 10000 thai
ers. the manager generously offered him
an extra 100 thalers. Weber Indignantly
refused this. Being German he said,
bitterly, what can I expect?' Lortzing,
whose popularity III 1efludLly Was BiOdl
while he lived, and is great still, got an
average of ~ louisdor for each opera, and
was overjoyed to get 20 1ouisdor in Ham
burg for his 'Undine.' which made a rich
man Of the manager who bought it.
"As we approach more recent times We
find the composers on the whole much
better rewarded. Brahms, though he
never stopped to conquer, died worth
500. 900. Beethoven was toleraby well off
in the later years of his career and If
Mendelssohn had not begun rich, his
works would have made him so. Meyer
beer earned piles of money, and so did
Offenbach, Strauss (the waltz king), and
many others, including, in our country,
Victor Herbert and Philip Sousa. Among
the composers of serious operas in our
time who have become wealthy are Hum
perdinck, Richard Strauss, D'Albert, Mas
cagni, Puccini, Thomas, Gounod, Mas
senet Wagners operas have yielded
many millions of dollars, mostly, it is
true. since his death. Verdis yielded
millions which he lived. and some of
them are as profitable as ever. Does
music pay?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
The Stock Market.

Henry C1ews, in his Wall street re-
view, says in part:
1.-The recent reaction of the market
was not entirely unexpected. Prices
had undergone prolonged and too
violent an advance. In the leading
shares practically all the panic losses
had been wiped out, and in many in
stances prices were not only the high
est since May, 1907, but the highest on
record, and had risen fully 20 to 25
points and over in the first eight
months of 1908. The time, therefore,
was ripe for reaction, and only waited
upon the turn of events. The big hold
ers had been quietly realizing, and
while only partially successful in dis
posing of their surplus holdings, ap-
parently recognized that the advance
had been pushed as far as possible for
the time being. This change in at
titude of the speculative leaders was,
in fact, quite marked. Unnecessary
stress was laid upon the political sit
uation, and though there was nothing
disturbing in this respect still 1t suited
some Of the leaders to take pessimistic
political views, probably because a
bearish demonstration against stocks
would check political apathy and be a
good market maneuver at the same
time
but quite apart from these motives
the market was unquestionably too
high; the advance had been too rapid
and had overdiscounted the return of
prosperity, especially as the latter had
not by any means equalled expectations.
In one very important respect hopes
have not been fully realized, and this
is in regard to crops the early esti-
mates of cotton, corn and wheat having
all been materially reduced by crop de-
terioration. At one time the promise
was for a corn crop of 2,726,000, 900
bushels and 730000,000 bushels of
wheat The last government reports,
however, indicated yield of 2,596,00O,-
900 bushels of corn and only 666,OOO,OOO
bushels of wheat. Both crops are likely
to exceed last year, yet reduction
of 13OOO000O bushels in estimates of
corn and so 100000 in VIII eat must exert
some effect upon values in general"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

by giving the commercial traveller
every accommodation they can grant
while protecting their own interests.
A conference between the railroads
and the travelling men would certainly
devise a plan that would be satisfac-
tory to both The present plan is sat
isfactory to the railroads only. 1t is
wholly unsatisfactory to the travelling
man, and the railroads can i'll afford
to annoy and inconvenience without
reason the latter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
CONDEMNS RAW FRUIT.
from the Kansas City Journal.

FTOm the ka1lsas CITY JUurI1dI.
Since one of the important specialists
on what to eat in hot weather has cau-
toned every one against the use of raw
fruit there has been quite change in
the daily menu. 1t is hard lines on those
who welcome the summer because of it's
chance hourly to eat fruit of all kinds.
1t has usually been considered healthy
diet, and the majority spoke with pride
of making three meals a day off fresh
peaches, blaclSberries, caniaioupes and
other toothsoma fruit Now the doctors
are agreed that this Kind of eating must
be cut out. All fruit mus. be cooked in
some way or 1t starts up strange dis
orders in the blood. 1t is agreed that it
is the cause OF almost all summer Ills
the intolerance OF heat. the lsck OF sleep
and Indigestion. You can't cook water
melon ana cantaio1pe, so those fruits will
have to be eliminated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

into regular bump e-bumps" through
the work of inconsiderate editors, re-
porters and caricaturists.
This makes sad reading at moment
when political and Industrial situations
call alike for cheerful thoughts. DEM
ocratic though We be in our ideals, we
do not like to think of duke in despair.
1t is particularly deplorable that even the
fiimsiest basis should seem to exist for
the charge that titled misery can lay it's
woe to the deeds of an agency commits
stoned to uplift humanity The shock to
nobility is of no ordinary kind. Con-
tingently the respondent duke stands
within the shadow of throne. Offend
ing him, the testers of the press have
offended constructively against 1.-The d.
vinity that doth hedge a king"
Perhaps some genius with a gift OF
consolation will be able to exprass senti-
ments fit for an Abruzz hour of gloom.
Oversensitv eness is a matter Of persons,
not of nativities. The dukes of England
and the counts and princes of France
have never seemed to mind what the
newspapers said of their American court
ing,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
Progress OF The AerOpIane

Progress OF The AerOplan0
September 8 will no doubt become
marked day in the calendar. for on
that day the principle of human flight
was demonstrated to the point of feast
bility When on that day it became
established that man could fly without
the aid of a gasbag the era of improve
ment and expansion was at once in
augurated. No doubt the full conquest
of the air is yet to come, but when
Orville Wright remained in the air in
a dirigible machine an hour the sub
jsct was then relegated to engineers
and inventors, who will speedily meet
the outcome, now that fight has been
| actually demonstrated The Wright
brothers are more given to action than
words, and they will no doubt continue
to plan and toll in their shop at Day
ton, o. until aerial navigation is
commercial success. They have al
ready brought glory and honor to the
American people, and their future
work promises to be practical and eff
fcient.
The development of the aeroplane
falls to the United States and France,
with Germany and Great Britain look
ing on with eager eyes. Germany has
wasted much time and money in gas
bag efforts, and England is simply a
laggard. The rest of the world is
| awaiting American and French results.
The rivalry between the Wright
| brothers and the French aeronauts re-
lates chiefly to the motor, the hind
planes or tail which the French use
and the starting apparatus. To en-
gineers can be left the building of
motors for air navigation. They will
be greatly improved no doubt. The
French use hind planes because they
desire to have ordinary unframed peo-
pie use aeroplanes. The unframed
cannot to this day sail the seas, and
there is no reason why the unframed
should fly through the air.
The starting apparatus is the chief
feature in dispute. The French use
wheels and the Wright brothers use
instead skids. A French aviator pro-
"Instead of the rails. little car and
catapult, wheels should be used for start
ing and when the machine is in the air
the wheels should be drawn up like the
feet and legs of bird, so that when it
descends it would touch the ground on
its skids 1t is incontestable that the
szids on which the Wright aeroplane is
mounted enable it to descend on rough
ground, which would wreck the wheels
| and framework of French machine.
But, on the other hand. if the French ae-
| roplane found moderately smooth ground
| to alight on it could take fight from it
unaided, whereas to reascend into the
air the Wright machine would require
the rail, the little car and the catapult,
which would have to be brought to it,
or to which it would have to be con-
veyed."
This sufficiently explains the differ
ences between the two schools of avia-
tors. When, however, human fight be-
comes mere matter of starting, it is
plain the problem is nearly solved
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
HE WAS DEAF.

From Life.
Long ago in Barnet. a small town
in northern Vermont, when it was the
custom to entertain wayfarers at the
comfortable farmhouses along the road.
a long legged, cadaverous individual in a
suit of rusty black stopped at the home
of Deacon John l.. Woods for dinner.
His melancholy manner just exhaled
piety.
Stranger, will you say grace?" asked
Deacon John, as they drew up to table.
Say what?" said the stranger.
Twill you ask the Lords blessing on
this food?" urged Deacon John.
Turning his sad, uncomprehending eyes
on his host, the pious guest said drear-
lily:
IF you want to talk to me you'll have
to boiler like hill I'm deaf as a id old
adder"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
After woman musician comes near
est to being a man.
One good thing about a strong will is
when you aren't married to it.
The average man is prouder of how
much he weighs than of anything he
could ever do in the world.
The man who is ashamed of the way
his father made his money is never
ashamed of the way he himself
spends 1t.
girl will let her mother go on bring
ing her her breakfast in bed up to the
time when she has to do il for her daugh-
ter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
NO PERSONAL DAMAGE.

From the Chicago Tribune
Ibid you have a pleasant trip they
asked him.
eyes," said the returned aeronaut. ''un-
til we landed. We came down in farm
er's pasture, where there was big red
bull. We got away safely. hut the-er-
balloon is there yet
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
Office BUILDINGS.

There is one big office building in
course of construction in Chicago and
that is ALL" said real estate agent.
Birmingham is doing better It has
one mammoth building going up, and
three additional office buildings-prob-
bly, four-are to be in course of cree
ton before the end of the year. Two
of the buildings referred to are the
Empire and the Chamber of Commerce.
Ground will be broken for each next
month.
'And it is a noteworthy fact that
all these office building undertakings
We're planned and financed during the
days of financial and business depres-
sion in the spring or early summer"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
CUPID, DUKE AND A FREE PRESS.

From the New YORK World.
We notes with pain renewal of the
plaint that the gibes of a free, cruel
and irreverent press stand between His
Grace of Abruzzi and the contamination
in America of his hearts desire. All the
world knows, proverbially, that the course
Of true love never runs smooth. 1t ap-
pears that in the case of the hapless
duke this course has been transformed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
Slams Are Good.

while there was general improve
ment in industrial and commercial
centers in the early suonmer, in most
cities everything seems now to be
waiting on the presidential election"
said Robert P. Tillston of st. Louis.
except in the case of Birmingham and
one or two cities of the west.
IT find that business conditions here
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
THE GIvER POINT.
Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Man with the Bullying Brow-I haven't
seen you since the day of the primary
election. How did your precinct go?
Man with the Bulbous Nose-Quiet in
the morning, but in the afternoon as
nearly as / can remember. it went with
a whirl that made me dizzy, and leaned
against lamp post and watched it go by.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

Beecher' became her most widely known
citizen.
OF course, John Jasper's fame, really
began with his famous sermon to prove
dat de sun do move" Joshua's miracle
of the sun standing still and the shadow
on Hezekiahs sundial stirred up ell the
fiery faith in the old man. and he threw
1t out with wonderful eloquence. This
specimen from one of his sermons is
characteristic:
II amt acquainted wild dem sun diuls
dat de Lord toll Hezeker bout, but en-
neybody dat hes got grain NV sense
knows dat dey wus de clocks NV dem old
times, an dey marked de travels NV de
sun by dem diuls When, darfo', Cord toll
de king dat He wud mex de shadder go
backward, it mus hev bin jes' lax putt
tin de hans NV de clock back But,
mark yer, Izaer 'spressly say dat de sun
returned 10 degrees. Thar We are! Aint
dat de movement NV de sun? Bless my
soul! Hezekier's case beat Joshuer JOSH
uer stop de sun, but heer de Lord mex
de sun walk back 10 dergrees-an yet
dey say dat de sun stan stone still ans
"oNui move CT peg. wonder III emmy or
dem furlosofers is round here dis arter-
noon? I'd like ter take spuar' look at
one NV dem an ak him ter 'splafn dis
mattur. He carn't do it, my bruvren! He
knows heap bout books, maps, figgers,
an long distances, but I defy him ter
take up Hezekiers case an 'splain il
orr"
Unique as he was, this uncouth figure
or an old negro preacher, with a soul on
hre and voice attuned to Apollo's
strings his genius was of that ephemeraI
kino winch belongs to orators and sing
ers and actors. 1t would have perished
with him had not DIR. Hatcher preserved
IT In little book of genuine literature.
rough hewn and of the soil, 1t is true.
but sincere, and filled with all the pas
sionate faith that burned in the heart OF
an old slave.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

are remarkably satisfactory. and that
business men are. as a rule. buoyant.
When I was here last spring business
was fiat but 1 have seen no such
signs of prosperity in the east as are
evidenced in Birmingham. To look at
Birmingham no one would imagine that
it had recently been through a miners,
strike. The fact is that the city has
all the appearance of being on the eve
of unprecedented PROSPERITY"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

Vermont, Maine and Arkansas all
voted without becoming straws to
show which way the wind is blowing,
and Georgia will probably do likewise
next month.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

That Caribbean hurricane is too leis-
urely to suit the arid belt, which in.
cludes at present pretty much all of
the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

Everybody and his kinfolk is com
ing to the Alabama State Fair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

Mr.. Taft does not relish, 1t is said, a
Me-Too role in politics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

Oyster Bay will soon go to join ESQ
pus and other lost spots of this fleeing
political world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

The average man may talk tariff re-
vision, but at heart he desires a revi-
sion of the beefsteak schedule much
more.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

The Nashville fans are now free to
give more attention to business or
even politics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

Guarantee of bank deposits need not
greatly worry those who have no de-
poSits.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

The poor, misused, neglected bosse!
in New York gain little sympathy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

Every state is dry in the absence of
rains and the presence of hot SUBS.
The earth has literally gone dry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

The long drouth is depressing ant
dulling the umbrella trade.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

keep Sunny Jim Sherman in the back
ground.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

The Methodists of the north are try
ing to put Brother Cannon on the
superannuated list.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

No election prophet can read the
minds of 100000 voters.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

John Temple Graves will retain his
salary of $4,000 whether he gains or
loses the vice presidency.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

The solemn editorials on the election
In Maine really belong to those expla-
nations that do not explain.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

The panic of 1907 hurt all, but the
political panic of 1908 affects the re-
publicans only.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

Thaw has been invited to write
book entitled "Jails Have Inhabited"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

To please President Roosevelt New
York city produces new baby every
three minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

Hope no longer springs eternal in
the breast of the Chicago baseball fan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21

Every good citizen should so to the
nolIc to-day
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-06

Washington, Oct 3-To say that
republican politicians are aghast over
the revelation made by Congressman
Nicholas Longworth in a speech at
Rock Island, H., last night that'he ex-
poets President Roosevelt to run again
for the chief magistracy in 1916 is to
put it mildly.
AS campaign side shows the Fora
ker and Haskell incidents now so way
back into the respectable background,
and should President Roosevelt recover
sufficiently from his last encounter
with William Jennings Bryan to again
enter the arena of debate he will have
to devote his bulletins and pronuncia-
mentoes" to explaining whether or not
there is secret deal between him and
Candidate Taft whereby the latter is
merely to keep the presidential chair
warm until the former feels like re-
turning to it. If he denies that there
is any such understanding, then he will
be expected to explain what on earth
Son-in-Law Longworth did meal by
making such declaration.
"That the incident will cost Taft
dearly there is no doubt among poll
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-06
MADE 1873 CALLS
DURING THE MONTH
September Was a Busy Season for
Visiting Nurse. According to
Figures or Report.

The Visiting Nurse association held
its monthly meeting last evening with
DR.. Emily Wright at her home, Coo
Twenty-third street During tn 2
month the nurse, Miss Margaret Giles,
made 138 calls on 10 patients, OF
which number II are former patients
and five new ones, II recovered and
she still has under her care eight
She worked under the direction OF
Drs. J. c. Souders, J. p. Comegys. w
d. Snively. E. Bradford. C. T. Foster
C. Bernhard. Jr., Lachner, G l.
Eyster and Emma Morgan. She col
lected in fees $3.50 during the nonth
Donations OF clothing, fruit. vegeta
bies, etc. were received from the fol
lowing: Mrs. l.. Simon, Mrs. A. Mosen
fielder, Mrs. w. II. whistler, Mrs z
F. Godfrey, Mrs. S. Taylor, Mrs Allan
Welch, Ramser jewelry store, Miss
Dina Ramser, Miss Denkmann, Mrs
H. D. Mack, Mrs. Henry Tremann
Mrs. Sol Levi and the Associated
Charities donated 81 worth of mill
tickets.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-06
100000 PATENTS In
THE UNITED STATES
Stairway, Signed in Full by
Patent Commissioner.

Washington, Oct 6.-The. nine hun
dred thousandth patent from the Unit
ed States patent Office has just been
issued. It is an Improvement on trav-
cling stairs, such as are used in hotels
and other large buildings. While
Patent Commissioner Moore ordinarily
attaches only his last name with mis-
initials. he signalized the attainment
of such large number OF patents by
using his full name, Edward Bruce
Moore.
In the early history of the nation
the law required that patents should
be signed by the president, and, as
the first one was issued during the
first presidential administration, it
was signed by President Washington
It covered a device for making pearl
ashes, and the document itself is said
to be how owned by a Chicago col
lectOr.
Mr.. Moore estimates that the one
millionth patent will be reached in the
year 1911. ;5's
The issuance of all foreign patents
I'D to the date of last reports was
1,135,O00. or only 235.0OO in excess OF
the total for this country.