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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-26
Distribution of Currency.

Senator Flint engaged in controversy with the Oklahoma Senator on the sub jeet of the distribution of emergency cur rency aniong several states and against the proposition for an unlimited amount of such currency. MT. Owen replied that the rate of interest would bring the cur rency back to the treasury as soon as the emergency was passed and there was no danger of undue currency imitation.
 MT. Aldrich entered into an exchange of words with MT. Owen as to reasons why the bill under consideration did not permit the use of government bonds a basis for emergency currency, and said that such bonds are used for national bank circulation. He added that only 67 per cent of such possible circulation is now taken out, leaving a considerable amount that may be had by the banks. Upon conclusion of MT. Alrichs state ment, MT. Owen replied:
 ..'rhe exclamation is sufficient !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-26
The explanation is sufficient"
Senator owen's Speech.

Declaring that he was in favor of a bond secured emergency currency under an interest charge high enough to compel automatic contraction of such issues, Sen ator Robert l.. Owen, of Oklahoma, pro- ceeded to criticise many features of the Aldrich currency bill in the Senate today
 MT. Owen desired more complete rem edy than that proposed in the commit tee bill.
 T confess he said. ''I feel deeply dis appointed in the bill reported to the Sen ate.''
 He did not believe in confining the bene- fits of the issuance of emergency currency to national banks. The provisions for us- ing railroad bonds for the basis of these emergency notes he condemned strongly, but said he would feel compelled to vote for the measure, except its railroad bond feature, if his proposed amendments should not be adopted. The only princi- pie of the committee bill. which he re- garded as of value was that relating to the emergency notes, secured by bonds under a penalty higher than the normal rate of interest,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-26
Plank Voted Out.

MT. Owen declared he had endeavored to write that principle into the democratic platform at Chicago in 1896 as a remedy against protection, the committee on reso- lutions voting it into the platform, but then voted 1t out "because 1t was a novel proposition and untred." He had long been of the opinion that 1t is a perfectly easy matter to prevent panics in this country. He quoted MT. Aldrich to show that on December Is, he said panics could not be prevented and again on February 10, made a statement which he interpreted meaning that panfcs could be pre- vented.
 rI call his attention he said. referring to MT. Aldrich, Ito the fact that he has adopted the essential principle in the bill reported by his committee which was con tained in an amendment which 1 had the honor to draft and which was introduced in the United States Senate on February 6, 1900, by Hon. James K. Jones. and which was proposed as an amendment to the financial bill now In charge of the senator from Rhode Island, then, as now. chairman of the finance committee.
 Sending to the table letter from For mer Senator Jones he asked that It be read to verify his statement.
 If that amendment had been adopted" Former Senator Jones stated in his let ter. 'at that time, and it had been writ ten in the law, 1t would in my opinion have prevented the late panic. 1 am glad to see that at last the principle of an emergency currency properly secured Is recognized and that the committee on finance of the Senate indorses it. That amendment" said MT. Owen, continuing, contained every essential feature of the pending currency bill. When that amend ment was proposed in 1900' he said, the chairman of the committee on finance was in position to have written into the statutes of the United States the very safeguards which he now declares essen tial." i,
 Causes of Panic.
 Mir. Gwen reviewed the causes of panics. the primary cause of which he said. "is the fear of the people of the insolvency of the banks,'' the cause of this fear be- ing bear rumors about tight money, im- neudino Iauics etc The run1ors ha va
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-26

Expressing every confidence in his con- firmation by the Senate, Judge Oscar Hundley of the Northern District of Ala bama, left over the Southern railroad this afternoon for Huntsville. He ex- poets to be in Birmingham Friday.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-26
Causes of Panic.

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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-10-10

The largest stock Of dry goods
and gents FURNISHING goods for
the winter you can hnd a. The
Growing Department Store,
Also just received q straight oaf
of Canned Fruits and Vegetables,
Pfeferred stock canned and glass
goods have Che natura iiayof of
newly picked fruit and yese-
taDlea They afe paeteo r.eii
whore the dlheren fare4ea
elQW each "a ~ best Unequal
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-10-10

We carry the best to be had in
shoes-the Stills )n-Kellogg. O.
g. Lapp Co., Ltd.
John Ginchman, Charley Sven
son and James Larson are out
side on business.
Walter Thomas, Of Spokane,
who has been q miner in the
Buster mine, was hurt by being
struck in the bacl- by a piece Of
tagging while going down ID the
skip Thursday night Of last week.
ID was a severe shock and Mr.,
Thomas has been confined 10 his
bed AL week Mas. Thomas ar
rived Sunday
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-10-10

The Mining News 81 q year.
O. r. l.aagstaif returned from
Sites last Friday
Mrs. d. T. Romero returned
Sunday from a visit OF four
weeks in Spokane.
All voters must register The
registration books are open and
are la che bands Of Mrs. A, N,
llgrap
Dan Wells has sold DIS new
residence property ~ tlk clly 10
james Larsen, and Ar and Mrs.,
Wells VIII move " Spokane,
George q, Glat2 and Wm A.
Dunleyy 0f the Frisco Nlnos
company left "Wednesday for
thelr homes ip Aeg Jersey ~
vote,
Nr and NIe q, A. ~. Easkeu
apd daughter Jesale dove ~
slifee Monday and lQm Ulore
tley vent NJ fpo.'epe n alleHo
ile faIr
A. AZ fpoNQ b having M
pQroi n f4ni ~ lho lflk hole
ofieDaod Along lle flell ~ tll
noN aod.aon NJ an boo bullI
laH sNWmef
1lf laYa4y leya pflg a yisll
~ sey~a months ~ Eli ii5
and n ilf Ipi ylnsa lefl Mon
day 49, illelf home peW lfauiai
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-10-10
Personal
and
Otherwise
Loc0L Mention

Mrs. John Jack Of Grangeyille,
sister to Ed Schnell Of Elk City,
died last week.
Steve Winchester, Of Grange
vile, arrived in the district We'd
nesday evening.
r.. Greckwell has just finished
building a kitchen on his resi-
dence on Main street.
just received a ear Of wire and
nails. No lack Of sizes. Grey
ing's Department Store.
Mrs. M, A. Parr has bad a
sidewalk built ID front Of Der lQt
adjoining the postoiice property.
a, W. Davis has resigned as
constable and night watch, and
Fred Franklin Is nov wearing
Che star
MIS- ~, n, foypeef left sun
day FOR her home b Pomeroy,
Washington, after p visit 0f four
weeks Wlth friends ~ tls cry,
am nov prepared ~ supply
my old ouslomeig ana all others,
With bread and anything NJ tlf
pasuy llNe WAl4HR NpRphf
l.osT SPRAYED oR fqolef
NWl' fQ18 mHe NeiRli slD
white faee ugee White feei
branded on lefl 100 40, WI.
pay fW return NJ hQfse ~ ~
Information ilai Flll leao NJ 81
eoYely ~ tlf same ~ A. COZ
hWN
NF md Mw AN An l,akW ~
Saturday 80 tpqsaDe NJ atoms
ilf faf ~ lHfef hnf agiel
NmppIe INTENDED NJ e0iY AN.
drilling loatfsi Lal ~ Nllpp.'
$685. iateD eIek vli|l ~ Nf ~
Qui iee ala Nani M ~ Al heH
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-10-10
II. A.. Growing Ct Company.
Oro3rance, Idaho.

We will carry a full stock
Of General Merchandise and
Miners Supplies, which we
will sell at the lowest prices.
We have pack horses Of our
own, and will deliver goods
to all camps and mines in
Orogrande Mining District
and Buffalo Hump, or New
Gold Fields On Ten Mile
Greek. Call on US for
prices.
J. M. WISDOM, Mgr.
Orogrande Idaho
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-10-10
A. S. HARDY,


A. S. HARDY,
Attorney at Law
Office over FRS National Bank.
Practice IN al courts. Min
ing and Corporation Law
and general practice.
Grangeyille, Idaho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-13
Interest In Us Abroad.

From the New York Times
 An interesting report of the foreign viewpoint of financial conditions here is brought back by Jacques S. Halle of Halle x Stieglitz, who has just returned from four-months automobile trip through England and the continent. Mr. Halle reports that he found the commer- cial depression much more acute on the continent than in England. He says that interest is general abroad in the rapid recovery made in this country, and adds
 ''I found foreigners generally much sur- prised a the rapid recovery of prices from the extreme low levels of last fall Undoubtedly they bought great many securities at bargain prices, but failing to appreciate our recuperative powers apparently sold too soon.
 Europeans eagerly inquire whether business is better In the states This is a sure sign of the extent to which we havo become a power among the nations of the world. I tried to impress upon the people whom 1 met that 1t was only a question of a short time when the tide of immi- grafton would again set in and prosperity be with us to a greater extent than ever befprp v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-13
Queer customs of courtship and
 marriage among savage tribes.

H EFORE I leave the heart of the N Black Continent, to start south 1 for the white mans Africa, that land of gold and diamonds below the Zambesi, want to write a letter about the queer customs of our African sisters. They are an important halt ol this dark S-complexioned world, and every nation and tribe has its own ways or treating them. I have already written of the Mohammedan maidens along the coast of the Mediterranean; they go about clad all in white or black. each having only a single eye-hole in her garments to find her way along the streets I have written of the fair- skinned Jewesses of Tunis. They dress in Jackets and trousers, and pair or th cir embroidered brooches often costs as much as $20o. I have told you now they are fattened for marriage by special feeding and how popular belle often weighs 300 pounds, or about as much as our own dear Secretary Taft. I have described the women of Tripoli and Egypt, where the girls cover their faces with long veils when they go out of doors, also the dancing maidens of the Sahara, called the Ouled Uails, who have brazen, bare faces and paint their eyelids black with kohl and stain their finger nails and toe nails red with henna.
 Farther down the continent I learned much about the women or the British possessions, where John Bull Is now regulating the marriages, fixing the price of brides. old and young lean and fat good-lookng and the reverse, at s3 apiece; and still farther south about the women now ruled by the Germans, who are allowed to marry as they please, according to custom. l have also notes before me gathered during my travels in Portuguese East Africa. Mashonaland. Matabeeand, and here on the edge of the KonEo Free State. Indeed, the material is such that hard ly know where to begin, and I shall dip into my notes jumping from one place to another, as the subject de- mands.
 My Adventure With a Usukuma Bride.
 Let me start with the description of a wedding procession which I saw in Ger man East Africa, on the lower edge of Victoria Nyanza. The people there are known as Basukumas. There are 500,- GOO of them, and they are considered a strong race. They are Bantu negroes who dress in cowskins and cottons and who have sheep, cattle and goats. When a young man there wants wife he pays her father 50 sheep for her or agrees 10 work for the old man number of years All marriage arrangements are made by go-betweens, and the matchmaker brlvgs the bride to the groom. In the meanwhile the chief bridesmaid has arranged the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-13

iron hoes, 20 goats and COW, and that these articles can be paid on installments. In Uganda the government price is s3 per girl, but more is usually given for the daughter of a chief.
 Among the Nandi tribes the richest men have from 10 to 40 wives, and the price for a good maiden of 14 is six cows. Girls are often betrothed as early as ', and they are married at Il. The cows are often paid on installments, and if no uhilG Is born within year after the marriage the husband may stop payment. Ii is among these Nandi, as with the Nasal, who are found around the slopes of Mount Kilmanjaro and also on the highlands of British East Africa, that the unmarried girls dwell with the young unmarried men in the bachelor quarters. and until they are old enough to get married. A Nasal man is not supposed to marry until he is 30 Among the Bu- vumas the price of a wife is two cows and five goats. Of these the father of the bride keeps one of the cows and goat, the other four goats being given to the relatives.
 A Tax on Wives.
 Down in Rhodesia the usual price for a strong, good-looking girl is four cows, and if she is the daughter of a chief she may bring as much as five or six. The gov ernment taxes every native S5 a year for his hut and family, and this includes q tax for one wife. If he has more than one he is charged 10 shillings for each extra wife. The Kaffir girls are married at as early as IS, and girl is often en- gagged at or years of age. Such en- agreements are made by the parents and several cattle form a part of the dowry. It Is a custom among the Kaffrs not to allow younger brother to marry until each of his older brothers has at least one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-13

groom's hut for the occasion and a new bed is made, consisting of framework of wood with mattress of OK skins. The bridesmaid is paid sheep for this work. After this she goes with the matchmaker, who might be called another bridesmaid, to the house of the bride and brings her home in great style.
 It was such procession that stopped one morning on it's way to the groom It consisted of a score more of women dressed in garments of COW skins and cot ton, yelling and singing as they danced along about queer looking figure which laboriously moved in the center At first could not make out what 1t was. It looked like a woman with a gigantic hump, wrapped around with bright fg- ured Indian cotton. As the party came closer this figure turned sidewise. The hump then took the shape of a human form, and I could see that the woman was evidently carrying a sister or brother under her calico gown. I handed my camera to my son Jack, who was with me, and accosted the lady. She laughed and I attempted to make out what kind of a creature she carried. I could see two little black ''tootse wootsies" stick ing out at the front and by the out line of the stretched cotton could see that it covered a lustry girl who was holding on her. Her hands were clasped together over the bridesmaids breast, and the bridesmaid was also supporting her by holding her ankles which stuck out on each side of the body. I put my hand on the womans back and the bride squirmed, but when attempted to touch her bare feet the bridesmaid objected. All this took but few moments, and as. stepped back the procession went on. The second bridesmaid stood behind the bride-carrier and held an umbrella over her.
 As the party neared the hut of the groom a score of other women, the rea- lives of the groom, rushed out and scat tered rice over the bride and the escort ing party. I peeped into the hut just se, fore they arrived, and thus got look at the bridal chamber It was dark closet shut in by bark-cloth, and the bed was of cowskin. I was told that the groom was not yet present and that he would come in and take possession after the bridesmaids had arranged everything and fitted the hut for the pair. He had all ready given 60 sheep to his father-in-law and ore sheep to the brides sister.
 What Wives Cost.
 Sixty sheep seemed to me big price for a wife, and I asked the Germans whether many girls were not sold at re- duced rates. The reply was In the affirm etive, but it was added that 8 good lusty woman was worth something as work CT and that the women were the slaves Of the family. They take care of the stock, cultivate the crops and also keep house. The men do little but loaf Be- sides it costs almost nothing to keep an extra wife there, es the women are not allowed to cat chickens or eggs. even the nscks and gizzards being forbidden to them. In the Kavirondo country at the northeast of the lake, was informed that the usual price for wife is 40
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-13

wife and the father often helps pay for the brides.
 -,Gout Lake Shire girls are often be- trothed in their infancy and they are sometimes actually engaged before they are born. In such cases the prospective groom or his parents are expected to clothe the girl until she is old enough to be married, but as the only clothing in her early life is a waist cloth and often not more than string the expense is not heavy. The people there have from one to 20 wives according to their wealth, and in times past the chiefs had harems of as many as 100 women each. As a rule the number of wives is decreasing all over South Africa, and with the demand for foreign goods which is gradually growing, making the sspport of women more expensive, there is likely to be still further decrease.
 Bridal Costumes.
 The question of dress is not a serious one in most parts of central Africa. It is different north of the Sahara, where pair of bridal trousers may, as 1 have stated, cost $200 and upward, and where brooches Of cloth of gold are not uncom- mon. The llghtest wedding costume l have seen in my travels is that whicn the women wear at the end of the Ugan- da railroad. The men go absolutely naked and the married women have on nothing but l sort of fly brush tail about F in- ches long. which they fasten to a string around the waist. The tail thus hangs down behind on a line with the vertebrae and flaps up and down as one walks. 1t is indelicate for any man to touch this oaudal badge of matrimony, and even the husband Is warned to let 1t alone.
 In this same country. the women wear no clothes whatever until married. when
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-13

extend a full foot above the crown of the head and down in Natal a briGe- groom goes out to court his sweetheart with pair of real cowhorns tied up- right upon his head. so that they look as if they grew there,
 Along the eastern coast of Africa there are many natives who braid the hair in little windrows over the scalp and far ther back there are many tribes in which the women shave the head close. This is so with the Baganda and the Nasal. Many of the native women of Omdur- man, in the Sudan. shave not only the head but every part of the body. and 1t is a common custom among many tribes for both men and women to have them- selves shaved from head to foot before marriage Among some peoples the hair Is pulled out. This Is also the custom among our Moros of the Philippines and certain tribes of the Amazon.
 The Batoro a tribe which inhabits the country between Lakes Albert and AL bert Edward, shave and oil their brides begors the wedding. The girls head is scraped off by the village barber, and her own sister uses the razor over the rest of the body. After this she Is smeared from crown to toe nail with butter and castor oll the stuff being well rubbed into the skin.
 The Seshse islanders pull out their eye lashes. and babies have their heads shaved shortly after birth. The old Zulu men and women pull out the gray halls as they begin to appear, thinking that gray hair makes old age. The younger women there rub red clay and oil in their hair, and they often plait 1t into string like strands. When they trim their hair in Pondoland the hair dresser puts a strap around the forehead. and cuts the hair level with this by means of knife, stopping at the strap. which protects the skin After they are married they often train their hair into a cone-shaped mass. stiffening it with red clay and oil for the purpose.
 In all African countries the native men are almost as particular as the women as to the dressing of their hair. In Zulu land the married men wear rings around their heads. twinihg the hair over them and then smearlng it with charcoal and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-13
A Bird That Bestows a Curse.

From the Country Life.
 The stonecbat is one of the few soft billed birds that remain with us all the year. 1t Is so called from the similarity of It's alarm note and the striking to- gether of two pebbles. In some parts of Scotland it is supposed to contain d drop of the devil's blood, and it's nest is never taken. because of the curse IL ia always promising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-13
By Frank C. Carpenter
SsNNSspxy,,,--~ -.,,uzLz1

oil so that 1t can be polished. It is a great insult to attempt to pull off a man S ring In many places the men shave their heads, and up here in Rhodesia there is one tribe which puts the hair up so that great spear shoots out right above the crown. This spear of hair Is some times so long that the man cannot stand upright in his hut without disarranglng It.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-07
THE TROUBLES OF PRINCES.

Most people who get enough to eat
and can keep a roof over their heads
are already so firmly convinced that
they would not care to be a Russian
ear or grand duke that they hardly
need the testimony of the Grand Duke
Michael ACKNOWLEDGMENT says, in a
book to be published in England under
the title, "Never Saw Die'':
Belonging, as | do, to the imperial
blood, and being member of one of
the reigning houses, l should like to
prove to the world how wrong it is in
thinking-as the majority of mankind
are apt to do-that we are the happiest
beings on this earth. There is no doubt
that financially we are well situated,
but is wealth the only happiness in this
world? Take also into consideration
the many official duties belonging to our
position, and how much more we are ex-
posed to public opinion than simpler
mortals. Which is the greatest happi-
ness in this worlds Surely love for a
woman-the choice of our future wife
and family life. And even in this we
have not the facilities of private indi-
viduals We have less choice, and there
is often the question of religion"
The old college song needs new
stanza-evidently a grand duke is no
better off than a pope.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-07
WU TING FANG SPEAKS.

Minister Wu Ting Fang was a guest
of the Lotos club of New York the
other evening; the club had him as a
guest in his nrevious embassadorship,
and welcomed him as an old friend. On
the afternoon of the same day Mr.. WI
addressed his countrymen at the Chin
csc theater in Doyers street, for the
benefit of the temple fund of the Con-
fucius society, and wore his most splen-
did garments. He urged the necessity
of following the precepts of K 'ung-fu-
tse and of observing the duties of the
five relationships-thos of prince and
subject, parent and child, brother and
brother, husband and wife, and friend
and friend "A good man. he said
"obeys his wife, and wife sometimes
gives good counsel to her husband, par
ticularly when she advises him not to
gamble and not to use opium. You can
not be a good man if you quarrel in
your family This, and also the adj
vice not to drink whisky, are the points
noted by the reporters in Mr.. Wu's ad-
dress