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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

Secretary of the Navy Newberry is chiefly remarkable for the wealth he inherited. He is in politics for the glory there is in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

John Temple Graves cannot reason ably hope to write editorials as inter- esting as the Hearst letters were.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

Hot Springs, Va, is becoming over crowded with statesmen, or at any rate with close limitations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

Postmaster Morgan will no doubt keep tLat bullet where he found it-in his vest pocket-as a souvenir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

All Chinese celebrities look alike, and some newspapers use pictures of them indiscriminately
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

Castlo's plan of campaign is to keep out of range of the Dutch guns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

The Kaiser has been told to shut up, but there Is as yet no guarantee that he will stay in that condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

Wilbur Wright accepts all tests and makes them with ease and dispatch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

The infant industries are crying out one after another for more pap. This is what an Aldrich revision means.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

Hot Springs, Va, has got Oyster Bay beaten as headliner at least four city blocks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

4 union of 10,O00,0OO farmers would be a union indeed of the bone and sinew of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

WHAT HE SAID. 'T ran across old Scissorsby yester- day"
 Indeed. What did he have to say?" ''He got up brushed off his clothes and said, ''Durn vel"
 A WE'LL KNOWN FACT. When rising in the morning To earn our daily bread, It helps on-sid-er-a-bly not To have an aching head
 A SIGNAL HONOR. Another guide was accidentally killed few days ago. Poor fellow" But he was shot by a viscount.' Well, well! His family ought to be proud of that
 A BORN PHILOSOPHER. He wrestled with his lowly lot And smiled through each reverse, Though the only ride he ever got Was one day in a hearse!
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

Wall street is getting, ready to shear the biggest crop of silly lambs in all it's varied history
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

Prosecutor Heney wasotoo stubborn to die to please the San Francisco crooks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

The squirrels, muskrats and possums are being vindicated by the weather clerk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

And Senator Elkins is selling rail- roads. Dukes of the Abruzzi must come high.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

THE MONKEY DICTIONARY.
 I Professor Garner, who has been eves- dropping in Africa, where most of the monkeys are, has complied a monkey dic- tionary. As yet, the work is not exten-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE.

SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE. An optimist is one who thinks
 Twill be all right some day, No matter what reverses come,
 Or what we have to pay Unyelding fate who shuffles men
 With quite a reckless air, And if she frets or pleases them Forsooth, she doesn't care. An optimist sees rainbow gleams,
 No matter how the clouds May darkle OCT a trembling world
 Where trouble ever crowds, Because there's sunshine in his heart And meath misfortune's blight. He just unlocks his heart and fills The world around with light. An optimist is not displeased
 When others win success, Nor, should brother lie forspent, Adds he to his distress. He simply plods along through life And does the best he can With cheerful mien-you'd find it hard To name a better planl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

William ths Silent may yet make good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18
Whv. whats the matter.

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm, and eloudi. ness7
 Much Ado About Nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18
PRETBNsE.

He always wore a smiling face, manner debonair, That none might read within his heart The secret written there.
 .. This life is often make-believe- A farce-a mockery. Where those who seem the happiest Are praying to be free. Who bends with merry quip and jest Above a thanl1less task, May stand revealed weary thrall Who hides behind a mask.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18
UP-To-DATE.

'1s he one of those fellows who would rather be right than President?"
 No; he is one of those fellows who would rather be rich than right"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

SQUELCHED. When starting out to tell yarn It always make me sore To hear some know-it-all remark, I've heard that tale before." Confound the luck, his presence damps A fellows ardor so, There's nothing left for him to do But take his hat and go!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18
THE NEXT REST.

THE NEXT BEST. T have bright idea Why not illuminate the world with it?"
 "Oh, it isn't bright enough for that. 'Then, you should use it to light up a dark corner of the world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18
WHAT'S THE USE?

WHAT'S THE USE? In this old world, when fame is won And golden fortune, too, The blush has faded from the rose, The skys no longer blue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

A PERFECT JONAH. If I should ask old Santa Claus To bring me happiness, 'Twould be my luck to have him leave Her at the wrong address!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

sive. There are only seven words. and it is no trouble at all to look up the mean ing of a monkey word. Here is the list. taken from the New York World; uhui . . . .. .. .. Want. our'h.. .. :. :. .. O.. .. .. Where are you? eu-nh.. e. .. Here.
 khi-iu .... .. e. .. .. Look outl khi-iu-hou . .. .. .. ... Retreat a-ou-hou . . .. .. .. Stampede! chu-h.. :. .. .. Q. .. .. Hark What?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

HE KNOWS.
 Mss Lizzie Hermanpeck, the athletic beauty of a Pennsylvania town, recently had fight with her fance, MT. Charles Tell. People who want to know exactly what President Roosevelt's '1icked to frazzle' means, should write at once to MT. Charles Tell, Latrobe. Pa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18

MUST MEAN NAT. Did he marry early?" NO, but he married often.'
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31
GENERAL NEWS.

The New York subway is doing 80
per cent more business than last year
and the elevated per cent.
Tho meeting of the Pan-American
Scientific Congress was opened at
Santiago, Chilli, December 25th.
The first snow of the season coveSed
England and Wales to the depth of
several inches on December 27th.
Congressman Robert c. Davey of
Louisiana, died at New Orleans Dec.
26th after an illness of several months
An athletic team from South AT
rica is expected to compete in meets
at New York, Boston, Chicago and
Canada.
1t is announced in New York that
dividend and interest disbursements
for January, 1909, will exceed s21O..
100000.
The Alabama insurance department
has decided to ask for a law giving it
control over all classes of fraternal in.
surance.
The failure of Henry w. Poor, a
well-known banker and broker OF Wall
street, and for years the publisher of
Poor's Manual of Railroads, was an.
nounced Saturday. It is believed that
his liabilities will reach s5,000,000.
The Hottentots In German South
west Africa are again on the warpath.
They recently raided some cattle posts
near the Bechuanaland border and
murdered two Europeans. Seven Ger
man soldiers sent in pursuit OF the
raiders were all shot down by the Hot
tentots.
The Pope has fully recovered from
his recent illness. He received Arch
bishop Ireland of st. Paul In private
audience a few days since.
The automobile capital of the nation
is $1S7 100000 and the automobile in
dustry gives employment directly to
100000 people. and. through related
trades, to 100000 more.
Walter Scott, otherwise known as
death Valley Scotty," entered the
United States recruiting office at Chi
cago Monday and declared his tnten-
tion of enlisting in the marine service.
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31
WESTERN NEWS.

Every saloon in Ottumwa Iowa, was
closed December 22nd as the result of
religious revival.
Alderman Bath House" John Cough
lin of Chicago, accused of assault and
battery on Lyman Atwell, a newspa-
per photographer, was found not guilty.
Two slight earthquake shocks last
ing less than three seconds, were felt
at San Francisco and in the cities
about the bay December 22d. No dam
age was done.
President Frank Trumbull of the
Colorado & Southern railway has con-
firmed the report of the sale of that
road to the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy, which makes 1t a part of the
Hill system.
Practically the entire business Sec
ton of Ravia. Oklahoma, town of
1,zO0 inhabitants in Johnston county,
Oklahoma, was wiped out by fire
Christmas Day, the loss aggregating
about $4,000.
The dates for the National Encamp-
ment G. A. R., at Salt Lake, will be Au-
gust 9th to 18th. This announcement
was made at Milwaukee by Phil Cheek,
Wisconsin's member of the executive
council of the G. A. R.
The Northern Pacific and Great
Northern roads, through the Burling-
ton, will establish through service
from Chicago to Seattle, Tacoma and
Portland before the opening of the
Alaska-Yukon Pacific exposition.
Qnicksand which has been discov-
cred underlying the site of the new
$4,000 900 depot of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad on the West
Side in Chicako will add about half a
million dollars to the cost of the struc-
ture.
William H. Bartlett, a millionaire
Chicago broker and owner of the ia
nous Bartlett ranch in Vermijo Park.
New Mexico, was badly injured there
on December 23rd by the falling of
his horse. His left arm and shoulder
were broken.
Peter Claudianes, the Greek charged
with dynamiting the home in Oakland,
Cal. of former Supervisor James l..
Gallagher, the star witness for the
prosecution in the San Francisco brib-
cry graft cases, has been found guilty
and sentenced to life Imprisonment.
The Nebraska Anti-saloon League,
which held it's state meeting at Lincoln
and practically recognized, is to take
the initiative in movement which its
trustees believe will become national,
looking to the closing of the mails to
liquor advertisements by act of Con-
greSS.
Robert Emmett Fisk, for thirty-five
years editor of the Helena, Montana.
Herald. and confidential friend of Pres
ident Garfield and James G. Blaine,
died December 2Sth, at Berkeley, Cali
fornia, aged seventy-one. He served
in the Civil War, attaining the rank
of major, and established the Helena
Herald in 1867
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

President-elect Taft has stated that
he probably will remain on the Isthmus
of Panama about a week.
Aeronautics, 1t is predicted in naval
circles. will eventually form part of
the studies of the midshipmen at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
The death rate for Chicago during
-, past year has been only 14.1 per
thousand, which places 1t among the
healthiest cities in the world
Gen. Edgar NJ. Marble, former COM
missioner of patents. a well known
figure in army and business circles of
Washington and New York, died at
WashiLgto December Gath from pa
ralysis.
After eight months the United
States has resumed friendly relations
with Venezuela and William /. Bu-
chanan has left on the cruiser North
Carolina to visit that country, look
into the situation and make report.
His report to the State Department
will decide whether the United States
will accord formal recognition to the
government.
Pres.-elect William ii. Taft has de.
cided to visit Texas at some convent
ent time after his Inauguration, prefer.
ably at the end of the special session
Of Congress which he is to call to
revise the tariff.
The Geological Survey is planning
establishment of coal mine rescue sta.
tions, at which mine rescue work and
methods for safe working OF mines will
be taught by experts. For Colorado,
Utah, Wyoming. Montana and New
Mexico. station will be located at
Ration. New Mexico, with substatlon
at Salt Lake.
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31

Government Help In Fighting FIre.
The methods of preventing forest
fires employed by the service are SIM
pie and depend for their efficacy main.
ly upon eternal vigilance. The areas
included in the boundaries of the re.
serves are constantly patrolled by
force Of rangers and guards. During
the past summer the men thus en-
iployed numbered about thirteen hun
dred. The average area that each was
required to protect was more than a
hundred and twenty thousand acres,
says the Craftsman. The forester rea-
Lies that this is too much ground for
one man to cover properly, but con-
gress has not made the funds available
for the employment of larger force.
Roads and trails are constructed in
order to facilitate rapid travel from
one part Of the reserve to another and
to expedite the massing of large num-
bers, as well as to furnish vantage
points from which to conduct the fight
against the flames. Telephone lines
connect rangers stations with head
quarters in order that fires may be
quickly reported and prompt measures
adopted to eXtinguish them. During
the last fiscal year 160 miles OF road,
33 miles of trail and $500 miles of tel
ephone line were constructed in the
national forests. The officers of the
service now receive the most ready as
sistance from persons living in the
vicinity of the reserves, and especially
from stockmen and others who use the
forests under permits. The latter are
required by the terms of the agree
ment for grazing or numbering to ex-
tend all possible assistance in case of
fire; the former are beginning to ap-
preciate the fact that the forests are
the property Of the people and that
any damage inflicted upon them must
entail loss to the people at large and
most directly to the local residents.
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31
Doctors
Medical
Men Belong to a
Privileged Glass
By RUDYARD KIPLING.

HERE ytwoc Of mankind the world-doctors
and patients have had deicacy in cnfessng to the
ent class told that all patients
xRXyNy phenomenal liars where their symptoms concerned But
E&&v speaking patient should that the average patient
3 Hv looks doctor much
looks the troops fighting his behalf and thinks that the
~g" trained that between him and the enemy the
- better.
The world decided long that doctors have working
hours that anybody bound Nothing bodily
illness will him in the worlds for refusing help mankind
hour of the day night In his bed BATH his hody
of the children have pain urhe will be ummoned and
little vitality he has accumulated leisure hours will be dragged
of him again At all timesin flood fire. famine, plague battle
port 90 stay duty
the longer period
The belongs privileged Glass; the privileges
these:
Doctors and kings about the only people whose explanation
policeman will if they the legal limit
On presentation the doctors visiting will him through
bulen and riotous crowds unmoested.
he fly yellow flag dense center of population will turn
it into desert.
If he fly Red Cross flag desert it will turn into
population Men will crawl to it their hands and knees know
He forbid ship enter port and if he think the exgenc
of operation demaE he 20000on liner with he mails
in mid-ocean.
At his ORDERS houses Streets whole quarters will pulled
down or burned
And he call upon the armed cooperation of the
to see that his prescriptions efficiently carried
To do patients justice they often dispute their doctors
the only class dare tell the world that
of machine than into it. and that if fathers have
eaten forbidden fruit the drens teeth likely be affected
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31

Six professors of the State College
of Agriculture are making tour
through the farming regions of Penn.
sylvania on a special educational
train" furnished by big railroad
company. The trip combines instruc-
ton through lectures and object les
sons in the shape of all sorts of up-to-
date equipment for farm work, carried
on the train. One of various objects
in view is encouraging the cultivation
of alfalfa, the hardy grass which is Pc
culiarly valued as hay producer.
There are also suggestions for increas-
Ing the output of dairy products, the
care of live stock and other matters Of
practical moment AS the people flock
to the train, view the exhibits f-nd lis
ten with deep interest to the textures
1t is apparent that they are quite will
ing to pick up hints that may be valu.
able in their business.
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31

The wife Of Gerhart Hauptmann-
Margaret Marshalk-before her mar.
time a popular member of the Lobe
theater at Breslau. She has now gone
on the stage for the second time, but
not as an actress. At recent con.
cert given by the Verein der Musk.
freunde at Hirschberg Frau Haupt
mann played a Grieg composition
showing that she is an accomplished
violinist.
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31

A decision of the board of general
appraisers in custom case Is that a
typewriter signature is legal. 1t will
be long time, probably, before type
written signatures on checks are ac
cepted by the banks, but the habit OF
Afiixing an illegal signature, written
with pen, to an ordinary typewriter
letter, not involving contract of an.
kind, might happily fall into general
disuse.
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31
Dous as Suicides,

According to M. Camille F1am-
marion, the eminent astronomer and
psychologist, it is possible for dogs to
commit suicide. We ourselves have
heard of such things and take more or
less stock in them, but M. Flammarion
believes that dogs suffer from grief
and despair ard kill themselves like
human beings. His remarks were oc-
casioned by the alleged suicide of
Saint Bernard dog who threw himself
under a motor bus in the Place Saint
Sulpice recently, an hour after the
death of his mistress. He argues that
the dog may be assumed to have
known as well as a human being that
a motor bus would crush him to death,
and when he got in front of its wheels
he probably did so as the quickest
way to end his grief at his mistress
demise. M. Flammarion cites other in.
stances which have come under his
notice of dogs committing suicide, and
concludes that the stories are not so
incredible as they seem at first sight,
and adds that dogs may have even bor-
rowed the instinct from man. But hav.
ing given dogs credit for memory and
intense affection. says the Boston Her
aid, Why doubt their capacity for men,
tai suffering? Maeterlinck, another OBJ
server of dogs, has given them souls,
as well as memory and affections.
Many dog has died of grief even II
he did not commit suicide.
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31
New Smelling Company Busy.

Denver-It Is reported that repre-
sentatives of the new s5O,0OO.O00 in
corporation known as the Interna-
tional Smelling and Refining Com
pany, have been in Colorado several
days spying out the land here and
gathering data which may determine
after they make their report, whether
plants will be built in this state to
compete against the Guggenheim es-
Establishments. Several men connected
with the American Smelling and Re-
filming Company have been approached
and several well known minin. men
have been interviewed by strangers
who claim to be from New York City.
Franklin X. Carpenter, mining and
metalurglcal engineer, was one OF the
Denver men called upon. II is said. but
he declined to enter into negotiations
with the callers. The new corporation
is backed by the Amalgamated Copper
Company, Of which John ID. Ryan OF
New York is n prominent leader.
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31
Rabies
Are
Pre-
Ventable
By DR.. LYMAN W. CHILDS.

driver
break horse harness. and there nothing cruel about either practice
dog will the presence muzze until he becomes
to ii, precisely the horse the bit in his mouth.
To eradicate rabies will suggest laws embracing following
FrstIhe proper licensing dogs and the determination of those
that licensed
SecondThe proper muzng of all dogs when they public
places public highways.
hdTo hold responsible for the damage aceabe their
dogs.
The value of the Paeur treatment preventing the development Of
rabies where persons have been bitten by abd animals beyond
dispute In April rad dog wandered about
land o. and bit These bites all seemed Fifteen
of these people took the Peur and hyrophoa doped
One of the 16 neglected the treatment and he died of hyroho
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31
Human
Race
Needs
Improving
By PROF. CHARLES ZUEBLIN.

children 1t should be chief occupations ahead of
any of
the children We little children fine conception
relationships fulfill
their obligations the greatest Therefore they be
ship, the girls Is well as the boys.
We have had the contrast between the beau
full free life of the country and the rc mandd life of the city, Most
would the isolation the
pie afraid Of the o'ecowdng of the city, There ought
other The consider the positive
life
be the possession of the city people, and the the schools
libraries churches music halls and all the other oppouni-
of city life the become convinced that they
of the country people The whole problem begins with
thing-good transportation.
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31

Rev. James Mailley has resigned the
pastorate Of the First Christian church
at Colorado Springs to go on the lee
ture stage. Doctor Mailley was struck
by lightning and badly stunned on
Cameton's Cone. near Manitou, about
eighteen months ago. but speedily re-
covered the full use of his faculties.
A military board will meet at Fort
Logan Jan. 18th. at o n. m. for the
mental and physical examination OF
candidates for admission to the United
States military academy at West Point.
N. Y.
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31

At the close of the nineteenth century
came the rise Of evolutionary science, but
we are not witnessing any marked improve
ment in the human race as compared with
four or ten thousand years ago. With our
scientific knowledge of to-day we ought to
see an improvement which is beyond what
we see among favored people, increased
stature, in vigor, in mental endowments,
because of their peculiarly favored circum-
stances. We do not know enough to per-
feet the human race, but we know enough
to begin.
Our chief Obligation in this life is the
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31

The disease known as rabies, or hydro
phobia, is strictly preventable disease.
Its communication from subject to subject
depends upon actual incubation. Failure
to adopt reasonable preventive measures
rests largely upon subjecting dogs to prop
er restraint and misconception of the fire.
quency with which rabies occurs.
When it is suggested that all dogs
should wear muzzles a great cry is raised
against the cruelty of the practice and yet
no one claims it is cruel to place bit in a
horses mouth or fasten him to wagon or
pillow and to allow him to go only where the
Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31

What would the French courts d.
without American helresses7
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-01-17
Costly Powder. That

Three of that crowd of aliens who
we're celebrating their Julian Christ
mas by the explosion of heavy charge =
of giant powder on the suberbs of
town, we're arrested last Thursday on.
complaint of the management of the
BunkersHill mine. who charged them
with having stolen 45 sticks of the
explosive from the mine. They
acknowledged the theft and Judge
Rose, in imposing a fine, classified
the degrees of their crime as guilty,
more guilty, most guilty, agreeable
to the extenuating circumstances con
nected with each case, and hning
them respectively, $40, $50, and $40.
They put up the fine. Expensive
powder, that. -Amador Record.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-01-17
Married at County Jail.

Last evening betWee seven and
eight, at the county Jail, Miss Albina
Bargala became the bride of John j.
Reyes, Judge Goldner officiating.
The bride is only fifteen years of
age, so that her father had to give his
consent to the marriage. The groom
is young man of Plymouth, twenty
eight years of age. He has been in
Jail for about the past three months
awaiting trial on the charge of
abduction of the girl now his wife.
The father finally decided to drop
the case IL the two we're married.
Immediately after the ceremony they
both left for Plymouth, where they
have lived most of their lives.