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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
$1850, WoodlaWn,

History 7-room house on lot 50x190, one block from car, $50 cash and $2O month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
SPECIAL NOTICE.

Our new seven-page list of farms city and suburban property may be had on application. If you or your friends are interested to purchase, sell or exchange real estate of any kind send in your name and address, stating your wants and we will cheerfully endeavor to meet your requirements.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06

New, modern, honestly constructed cot tage, Beverly Place. Solid concrete foun- city water, bath, cement walks; large lot Price s225o. Easy terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
Claude |. Norris
 Real Estate 4OS Title Guarantee Bldg. Bell Phone 2324

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 Bell Phone 2324
 THERE'S JUST SIMPLY no use talking, Birmingham dirt is the thing to invest your money in, enhance ment Is positively assured.
 SEE my list of beautiful homes and good in- vestments, SIXTEENTH AVENUE, SOUTH.
 Handsome 2-story Broom residence equipped with every modern improve ment: hardwood floors, finished in quarter-sawe oak downstairs. Price, s7O00; terms; don't wait this won't keep. SOUTH HIGHLANDS HOME.
 Will be completed by Oct. 1: has eight rooms every modern improve ment; lot 60x120. Price $7500; terms; located on one of the best avenues, and not over two blocks from 2Oth street. A l
 Has reception hall, parlor, dining room and kitchen on first floor; three bedrooms and one small room up- stairs; furnace heated; hardwood floors. Price, s5OOo, s25O cash, balance easy. BEST YET FOR THE PRICE.
 On the South Highlands, front east al vi x1yill or three blocks east of 20th street. Price s60 per foot COTTAGE HOME. On Northside, has six rooms modern in every way; on Norwood car line. Price $3500; terms. NORTHSIDE. TWO-STORY. Has seven rooms lot 50x190; modern nothing like it for the price of $5500, on terms. I ONLY ADVERTISE A FEW.
 See my list. of homes. lots and in vestments before you buy INVESTMENTS INVESTMENTS
 Near 3d avenue and 20th street, three-story building. Price, s12O,O0O, one-fourth cash. RENTS FOR $3600.
 Price $26,00O s6000 cash, balance $3500 per year; fine brick building; it's good. THREE-STORY BRICK STORE. Well located, on. 3d avenue; size BOX 140 leased for five years Price, $30,- OO0 RENTS FOR $15 TO WHITE TENANTS. Price s15oO, $500 cash; lot 5Ox14O.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
NIoTdy Corn,

Not few farmers are Of the opin-
ion that the mold lives in the soil or
in the rubbish of the field, especially
If the moldy ears are thrown down
when found or are left in the field, and
thus is carried over from year to year,
says writer in the Bloomington Pan
tagraph. Perhaps the mold is not so
apparent this season as usual, because
of lack of just the kind of weather
to propagate it.
One of the best corn experts in the
state Oh. A. Winter of Wenena) said
last year that he believed this dry rot
may have been the cause of so much
poor seed corn. 1t frequently happens
that an otherwise good-looking ear has
trace Of mold around the tips Of the
grains just next the cob, perhaps only
on one side or one end and so is over
looked when the seed selection is made.
1t seems as If 1t would be a good
time to stamp out the mold when there
is small amount of 1t, by destroying
every ear that can be found
From what is known of this disease
it certainly would be a safe and practi-
cal thing to make special pains to pre-
vent any of the moldy ears from re-
naming in the field or the corn crib
to contaminate sound corn.
Instead of dropping moldy ear to
ground, or letting 1t remain in the husk
on the stalk, when discovered, every
such ear should be snapped and thrown
into a box attached to the side of the
wagon.
When unloading at the crib, every
ear at all affected with the mold
should be separated from the other
corn, throwing it into a box or barrel
provided for the purpose. There is
very little feeding value, even for pigs
and chickens, in corn so damaged, and
it would better be destroyed by burn
inc
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
old Time FIoESinrs.

An act of the time of Queen Eliza
beth ordained that Migrants were to be
stripped from the middle upward and
whipped till the body is bloody" Four
pence each was the recognized charge
made by the "whipman" for every
male and female vagrant who passed
through his hands, but on special occa-
siOns this sum was exceeded Saws the
constable's account of Great Staughton.
Huntingionshire May. 1691-Paid in
charges taking up distracted woman.
watching her and whipping her next
day. S sh.lings pence" After whip
ping people according TO the statute
the authorities sometimes gave them a
letter recommending eonstables and
others ito be as charitable as the law
permits"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

ed, and we secured a position for her
at the City Hall. She was so cheered
that she promised to give up all
thought Of suicide.
Domestic infelicity is the cause of
many heartburnings and sorrows. One
day woman came here-a woman
splendidly dressed. showing every indi-
cation of culture and refinement. She
Is the wife of a prominent Philadelphia
physician She told us pathetic story
Of how a servant had usurped her
place In the affections of her husband.
While on a vacation for several months
during the summer. the girl, Il foreign
err. had won the affections OF the hus-
band. When the wife returned. she
was a stranger in her home; the other
woman was no longer a servant, but a
rival. Heartbroken, the Wife told no
one: she was ashamed TO breathe the
secret. SO she came to us. What were
we . do? She contemplated suicide,
for she loved the man. We sent for
the servant. talked to her. and finally
succeeded in righting matters.
Most of the cases. however, are Of
men who are down and out. who have
no work and are unable 10 work be-
cause of drink. Whenever we can do
so. we send these men TO one of the two
Industrial homes. There We employ 30
TO a. men. They bale paper and rags.
repair shoes and furniture, and earn
anywhere from 90 cents to So Or So a
week. We give them good board. They
have no access to intoxicants. and. as
they are required to so TO bed early,
they soon recover from the effects of
alcohol and can go out and take po-
sition They leave the home strong
physically. We try TO find them posi-
tions. and keep iu touch with employ
ers in town with whom we place the
men.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10


On the ordinary farm the animal Is
still of greater service than any me-
chanical force. The steam pillow IS
good on the large area, but the man OF
small means and having under his con-
troll small farm viii depend on the
horse or the OK, the mule or the COW.
Which kind he shall Use must be gov
erned by the conditions under which
he works. 1t may be surprising 70
those living on the nrairies of the West
to learn that even oxen are still used
for the work Of blowing. But OH billy,
stony land the OK Is still valuable Cor
a pillow animal The fact that he is
slow makes him the more valuable,
for when the plow is moving among
stones and roots it is better that 1t
move slowly than rapidly. But on the
lands of the West says the Farmers
Review, fast-mov!ng animal is need
ed, and the OK is outclassed. The same
variations apply to the use of plows
drawn by electric motors and to
greater plows driven by steam, Some
experiments have recently been made
in Germany TO determine at just what
point the steam pillow is more valuable
than the pillow drawn by horses or
oxen. The conclusion is reached that
it is impossible to make an estimate.
In the report the cost Of power ma
chinery for blowing and cultivatins
small farms Is said to be prohibitive,
but where farmers owning large areas
can cooperate and buy a steam pillow
this is declared to be matter OF econ
omy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
The Enrm House Walk.

Muddy walks. will make a nagging
wife sooner than any other single fea-
ture in farm life, unless it be poor
wood. Many who have tie front yard
In good condition wade through mud
and slush from barn to kitchen many
times in a week, every time tracking
mud into the house.
A few loose boards are the primitive
remedy. These are easily misplaced
and look bad. Gravel Is in many To-
calities neat and clean remedy. the
great objection being that it is hard on
the shoes.
Coal ashes also offer cheap walk,
but with the same objection, though to
a less extent. Yet as they suggest util-
ity for product usually in the way
they find favor in many instances.
At very small cash outlay the farm
err may as easily have cement walk
as his city brother. He would perhaps
have only the cement to buy, sand as a
rule being easily obtained near home.
The work is easily done and the pleas
ure Of attaining neatness and perma-
-nency is worth a little trouble.
Aside from the saving OF labor In
keeping the kitchen clean the economy
on floor covering is worth considering.
for dust and dirt wear out carpet and
oil cloth quickly. The saving Of foot
gear will in a year or two pay for the
first cost Of the walk.
Try it In the back yard first and It
Will soon be extended to the front.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

duced by the heavy Tapping of the So
called wings is very singular The
fiocks like quiet places, where there
are large araucarian pine trees. with
an underwood of scrub and creepers.
The foxes hang in great numbers from
horizontal branches of the pine trees.
When there is clear space among
the trees an enormous number of the
animals may be seen. and their noise
can be heard. for directly they see any
thing unusual they utter a short bark,
something like the sound made by
young rocks. Often every branch is
crowded. and the young foxes are seen
either Tapping their wings and holding
on with their hind feet and with their
heads downward, or snarling and fight
ing for places.
suddenly the whole take to flight
and flap their furry. winglike sides and
wheel around like heavy birds Many
fly with their young holding on to
them.
The creature is not q true fox, and
there is fold of skin which reaches
from the fore to the hind legs. This is
called the wing. and it enables the
pteropus, as the animal is called. to
float and turn in the air.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

ting back home. Well, we sen. him
home. and some time later received q
check from him covering the amount
we had given him.
A woman. whose husband had de-
serted her. visited us. Many women
who come to us wish TO die because
men have broken their hearts. For
merly a school teacher, a woman of
intellect, this one was left penniless
she was unable to obtain a position,
sick, with her rent due, she was In de-
spair. All night she wandered the
streets, trying to get up courage to kill
herself. Fully determined to do so. she
visited a friend to bid her farewell.
Seeing that she was in a desperate
mood. her friend told her to visit the
Salvation Army bureau. She came.
We prayed with her. and promised to
assist her to find position. So she
frightened. A week later she return
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
Bees In Winter.

1t Is not necessary to go to the ex-
pense of buying the finest grades of
white Sranulated sugar, for straw
colored sugar will answer just as well
provided 1t is crystalllzed. Molasses
sugar should, however, be avoided, be-
cause 1t contains burnt or caramel
sugar which IL Injurious to bees. In
feeding. the writer prefers to use the
feed lukewarm IL possible and late I'm
the day so that the bees will gather the
feed mainly by night This helps
against robbing. The entrance to each
hive should be small during feeding
operations as further precaution
against robbng practices. In winter
ing out of doors there is nothing bet
ter than a double-walled hive packed
with chaff, straw or paper.
Roofing paper fabrics afford excel
lent protection to exposed hives, says
the Farmers Voice Some protect
hives by placing them in a row and
covering them as they would cabbages.
OthersJbut them in clamps. The main
idea, Of course, is to protect against
long continued cold weather. Bees can
not stand cold. Mt least not lower than
20 degrees. But the best plan OF win
tering bees In most of our Northern
States is by means of a dry cellar I'm
which a temperature of so degrees
Fahrenheit can be steadily maintained.
In addition, it should be dark, noiseless
and well ventilated. Where there is q
door to the cellar inside a building Il
is best because this door to the stair
way can be left open and yet no light
can get in. IL In addition to this
there Is no disturbance Of the bees
during their long sleep. 1t is likely
they will come through their lmprison-
ment with little loss. besides requiring
very little food-not more than ten
pounds perhaps.
A good many bees die during the
winter, so many as to be quite alarm
ing to beginner They are the old
veterans, and in any case would do
of old age and hard work, so do not
be alarmed Some beekeepers provide
n space beneath the frames for the
dead bees to fall into and the same
space affords an excellent opportunity
for the bees to cluster together some
thing like half a sphere. They are
warmer than II kept separated by the
combs. They leave the cluster occa-
sionally to go after feed. but soon re-
49, -. .h.fr oc.,,,r.5om IN fha ay,......
They murmnr contentedIy as II all they
had to contend with was one long. 81
lent night.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
NO STRIKERS THERE.
Capital and Labor at Peace in Phil
adelphia for Twenty Years.

An almost Utcpian condition of co.
operation has been reached in the shoe
industry of Philadelphia, and strikes
and lockOuts are no more Since Nov.
u, 1877, every labor trouble between
the manufacturers and tl.4ir employees
has been satisfactorily adjusted by a
unique board of arbitration of seven
men elected by the factory owners and
seven men elected by the workmen.
Although 60 per cent of the decisions
of this board have been in favor of
the workmen, not one has been pro-
tested by the employers. Neither have
the workmen complained against the
decisions adverse to them, but they
have in every instance silently acqui-
esced and have remained steadily at
work
Other manufacturers of the city
have watched with close interest the
operation of the arrangement between
the Shoe Manufacturers Association
and its employees. AS a result, at the
IdSl lleeliIlS VI tue dSSOCldllOu lulI
firms, including seven Camden firms adj
mitted by an amendment to the by
laws, Joined the association. 1t new
embraces all but one or two of the lead
ing firms in the manufacture Of shoes
in that city and Camden, and some
1000 work-people will come under the
beneticent operation of the associations
agreement with its employees.
1t was after long and bitter strug-
gle with the Knights of Labor in 1887
that the manufacturers met to devise
some scheme whereby the strikes, that
were occurring almost weekly, might be
stopped, and they invited their en-
ployes to join them in such an effort.
The workmen agreed, and as result
a set of rules were drawn up, pro-
viding for arbitration, and these rules
remain to-day without it having been
necessary to alter one syllable.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

basr, a discarded German torpedo boat,
proved it's practicabi,ity, the vessels
are of oscillation in a rough sea being
speedily reduced from 30 degrees to
degree. 1t is the Hamburg conpany's
intention to equip its North Sea and
channel boats with the apparatus. If
effective there the time will be brought
near when the sea will be robbed of one
of it's terrors.
The idea of the gyroscope is the IA
miliar principle of tie. spinning top
which rotates in the same plane and
tends constantly to remain upright AS
mechanically elaborated the device con-
sists of a heavy fy-wheel propelled on
vertical axis at high velocity by a
turbine mechanism. AS the vessel rolls
the gyroscope exerts a contrary pull
toward the center. with the effect of
keeping the equilibrium fairly stable.
In the Seebaer experiments the rolling
diminished after a few oscillations to
point where the deck remained vir-
tually horizontal when vessls Of larger
dimensions rolled helplessly in the seas
trough.
The gyroscope is an old astronomers
top A writer in McClure's recalls that
1t was used half a century ago to give
steadiness to ships compasses A cen
fury before that it was the subject of
experiments in England. DIR. Otto
Schlick in 1904 described the theory of
its use to prevent ships from rolling. 1t
has been applied by Louis Brennan to
railway cars travelling on a single rail
at high speed. 1t is the basis of the
dirigible torpedo, for the invention Of
which Brennan received $550,0OO from
| the British government.
| Tie gyrOscope is perhaps a greater
wonder than the turbine marine engine
only 4 few years ago an inventors
| dream, and now the propelling power
of the greatest ocean liners and the
fastest torpedo boat destroyers. Its use
| fulness on the sea seems assured. A yet
greater future awaits it on land if it's
possibilities Of revolutionzing railway
| transit are realized. Is 2O0-mile-an-
| hour railway train running on single
rail, It's center Of gravity maintained
| by a system of fivwheels or trunnions
more chimerical notion than was
wireless communication across oceans :?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

given reason Is lack of employment.
Unfortunate love affairs. disgrace and
degradation. drink and drugs, are often
the assigned reasons why unfortunates
wish to kill themselves aud end all
their troubles In the silence and obliv-
ion of the grave.
Most of those who come to us, says
one of the officers in charge. are in the
last stage Of desperation. Although we
do not promise financial assistance. we
have helped many.
Most of the people who come here
are driven to thoughts of suicide be
cause Of lack of employment. l recall
the case Of young man, an artist and
the son of clergyman, who met re-
verses and. after providing for his
wife and child. left his home In New
York with the purpose OF beginning life
anew. Soon he was pennllesS and
starving. While contemplating suicide
he thought of the anti-suicide bureau
and came here. Now he Is at work
and is doing well.
Many persons are driven TO despair
through drink and not all OF these
belong to the underworld. A short
time ago a man came to the bureau
pretty mach the worse for drink.
While intoxicated he had left his wife
and home at Kansas City, and when
he came to himself We was in Buffalo.
He continued to drink. pursuing his
way to Philadelphia. He had pawned
his $50 overcoat, his suitcase, even his
gold cum buttons and studs He came
TO us with 10 cents In his pocket
enough. he said. to buy poison with
which to end his life. He was in such
a condition that. If he had had Job
he could not have worked. We talked
the matter over and decided 10 send
the man back to Kansas City. We
later heard from him; he had given
up drink. and life was hopeful TO him
One day a tall. powerful. well-dress
ed man walked into the Office. He said
he had determined to commit suicide
but wanted to talk things over with
us. He was heartbroken, he said, and
showed lis the picture OF beautiful
woman lying In casket-his wife
who had died shortly before. Crazed
with grief. he had left his home in De
troit and landed in Philadelphia broke
Well, We prayed with him. and he was
comforted His only hope lay in get
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

Perhaps the most novel business in
the world Is that conducted by the
anti-suicide bureau of the Salvation
army-that of saving people from TAX
ing their own lives. Just year ago
the army established bureau in Phila-
delphia. patterned after a similar one
in London and the first of its kind in
the United States. The success of the
bureaus has led TO the establishment of
others, and the work Of saving would
be suicides is now conducted by bu-
reaus in Boston, Portland, Me-; New
York, Cleveland, Buffalo, Cincinnati,
Pittsbure. Chicago. San Francisco and
several other cities. The work in
Philadelphia has proved highly salts
factory and during the year of its ex-
istence the bureau has saved nearly
800 persons from self-inficted death.
Many are the reasons assigned by
would-be suicides for their contem-
plated action. One very frequently
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
CHINA TO BE THE GREATEST.
Oriental Editor Says the Flowery
Kingdom Has a Future.

Oriental Editor Says the Flowery
Kingdom Has Future.
Rev. Ng. Pom Chew. editor of the
Chinese World, in an address at San
Francisco, said:
my country is raising an army of
100000 men to drive Europeans from
tie empire. China is just awakening
from her slumber and she is getting
ready to go to arms. When she does
she will send Germany, France, En-
galnd, Russia and other robbing and
thieving nations home in a hurry. If
Russia ever tries again to grab any
Chinese territory we will fill her full
of CORY holes-just as Japan did. China
is destined to be the greatest nation in
earth. America stands best with us
because she has been honest and has
always lived up to her pledges. She is
the only nation who has dealt with us
honorably and Cinnamon can never for
get her disinterested friendship"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
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with twenty-three varieties of barley
showed that Guy Maybe, dark-kernel-
ed hull-less variety, gave the largest
yield. New Zealand, a two-rowed high
grade brewing barley, stood second.
The iull-less varieties produced the
largest quantity of feed. The two
rowed varieties gave much larger yields
than the slx-rowed varieties, and in
the slx-rowed sorts large yields of grain
were associated with large yields OF
straw. The average results show a
yield of 125 pounds of straw for each
pound of grain In the two-rowed varie-
ties, 1.3i pounds Of straw to each
pound of grain in the six-rowed varie-
ties and one pound of straw to each
pound of grain in the hull-less barley,
Early maturing varieties gave in gen.
eral light yields.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
DIETS HOUSE NOW A SCHOOL.

Dam Defender Sure of state and
Federal. Protection.
John Dietz, the famous defender Of
Cameron dam. has turned the tables on
his enemies. BY the formation of what is
technically a ''school district" with his
home as the school house, Dietz is safe
from attack Jay Gates of Rice Lake,
the instructor, has the power of the State
and federal government at his back. His
pupils are the Dietz children, yet if an
armed attack were made on the now
famous homestead Mr. Gates has per-
feet right to sally forth with his rifle and
defend his school.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
SWALLOWED PENCIL rs REMOVED
Point Unbroken. Though 1T "SIipped
Down Christmas Day.

Point Unbrol<en. Though 1T "Slipped
Down Christmas Day.
August Peterson of Rhinelander is the
victim of peculiar accident and was OPP
Grated upon at st. Mary's hospital in
Oshkosh for the removal of a lead pencil
~ inches long. which he swallowed
Christmas. He was playing cards and
keeping score when the pencil slipped
down his throat. 1t passed through the
stomach into the intestineS and into the
colon, where the surgeons removed it.
While the pencil caused him much pain.
he was able to attend to his work, but
last week made up his mind to have it re-
moved. The pencil contained the brass
tipped rubber eraser and not even the
point was broken, although some OF the
paint was gone.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
ESTES HEADS TOBACCO GROWERS

State Association Elects Stoughton
Man-W. w. Powell Wins Prize.
Wisconsin Tobacco Growers and Deal
ers' Association elected John VI. Estes Of
Stoughton, president: S. B. Heddles of
GAINESVILLE. vice president A. L. Fisher
of GAINESVILLE. secretary. and +. W. Coon
of Edgerton, treasurer. Prize awards for
the best exhibits of tobacco leaf were !:
w. w. Powell, town of Victory, SO: G.
Roen of Arfordville. So A. c. Ellick-
son of Arlington. $40, and George Wee
of Stoughtonfi So