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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-10

in the faint glow of the coming moon
light, he springs off his horse and
utters an exclamation of delight
AS he pulls himself sailor fashion
into the saddle, he has a branch
of crimson flowers in his hand
He is not certain even now that
they indicate Marina; though they
have fallen from no overhang
ing bough, only beech and Larriccic
frs being near him, he knows cycla,
men flowers are very common in the
island, and the little barefooted boys
and girls sometimes carry them in
their hands.
In the group of hamlets on the hill
sides called Morosaglia, Anstruthez
does not pause.
But as he reaches the confines ol
the village, the young husband starta
and his eyes, which fatigue had dulled
glisten with hope. Here are two paths
trail leading to the north, the other
and broader one pointing east toward
the Tuscan sea. Along the latter, eye.
lamen branches have been dropped
several times In short hundred yards
Their number is significant, they
have been strewn quite continuously
from the forks OF the road. my dar.
ling's message to me-" murmurs An.
struther, and rides as hastily as his
tired though wiry little horse will take
him.
The branches of the sweet:smelline
posies he still encounters on the trail
hurry him up hill and down hill, over
running mountain streams. through
wooded wales. Yet at least Nature
must have its meed-despite all efforts
OF the rider, his head droops and his
figure becomes lax in the saddle.
His steed with a whinny Of Joy al.
most runs down into little valley and
drawing suddenly up before q high
campanile stone building, Anstruther
falls Oft his horse into the arms of q
good Monk. Of the Convent of Piedi.
croce, who mutters; Thank the
Saints, you got here alive in time to
drink the water of Orezza." For An.
struther's appearance between fear.
full fatigue and racking anxiety is now
that of man nigh onto death.
The hospitable friars put the invalid
to bed and at high noon the next day
the invalid, after another glass or two
OF the famous youth-giving Orezza wa
ter, which here springs bubbling from
the earth, eats the MONDAY meal the
good friars set before him, rises. gives
them the blessing of strong man and
hurries on. ~.
(To BE CoNT1NUED.) t-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-10
Cut the Gordian Knot,

The jury had been out IS hours.
AS yet it had not arrived at yer.
dict. The verdict seemed as far away
as the Balkan war cloud.
A happy thought struck the fore.
man. That is why it was happy.
"Has any of you a dime?" he said.
"Just the thing chorused the 9th.
ers. "You want to flip it to decide
upon a verdict, don't you?''
The foreman glared at them.
mot much" he muttered. ~ want
to send out for q pail of liquid re.
freshment."
Upon which the foreman was voted
wiser than Solomon, and the jury set
tied down contentedly to make IN.
other night Of II.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-10
Letter Lona Afoat.

A correspondent writes: While sail.
ing on Felixstowe on August bank
holiday last year l addressed a post.
card to myself, stamped it and placed
it in a bottle which I threw in the
sea. I had quite forgotten about it,
but the other morning I received the
card through the post, bearing the
Tromsoe Norway postmark and the
sender's name and address. The bot
tie had been floating about nearly
eight months.-London Chronicle.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-10
SYNOPSIS.

Burton H. Barnes, wealthy American
touring Corsica, rescues the young Eng
Sh Lieu AN Edward Gerard Anstr9th-
daughter of the Paolis, from the muir
derous vendetta, understanding that his
reward is to be the hand of the girl he
loves Enid Anstruther, sister of the Eng
fish lieutenant: The four fly from Ajac-
clio to Marseilles on board the French
steamer Constantine. The vendetta pur-
board the train for London at Marseilles.
Marina is handed mysterious note
when causes her to collapse and necessi-
iates postponement of the journey.
after their wedding Barnes bride dis
appears: Barnes discovers she has
been kidnapped and taken to Corsica.
is about to start in pursuit Of his brides
c';aptors when he hears a scream from
the villa VII, and rushes back to hear that
Anstrqther's wife, Marina. is also miss
Corsica without delay, and so he leaves
the search for Marina to her husband
while D., ne g goes to hunt for Enid. Just be-
shore Marina is discovered hiding in a
corner of the vessel She explains her
action by saying she has come to help
cans. When Barnes and Marina arrive
in Corsica he is given note written by
ENID Informing him that the kidnapping
IS f4r the Purpose Of entrapRns
and Marina have unusual adventures in
their search for Enid. They come in
sight of her and her captors in the Corsi-
can mountain Wilds just as the night APP
proaches. In seeking shelter from a
storm the couple enter a hermitage and
there to their Amusement they discover
Tomasso, the foster father Of Marina,
who was supposed to have been killed by
De Belloc's soldiers, and for whose death
Barnes had been vendettaed. Tomasso
learns that Marina's husband did not
Kill her brother. Many wrongs are right
ed. Barnes is surprised in the hermitage
by Rochini and Romano, the two detest-
ed bandits, who had been searching for
him to murder him for his money. The
bandits attempt to take away Marina.
Barnes darts out the door. The bandits
door both are laid low by Barnes revolt
Yer. Members of the Bellacoscia enter
and Barnes is honored for his great serv-
ice to the community in killing the hated
Rochini and Romano. The release of
Enid is promised. Barnes is conveyed in
triumph to BocOgnanO. Marina acquaints
the BellacOScia with Salceti's plot
against her husband and the people are
instructed to vote against him at the
mansion of the Paols to meet Enid.
Marina receives a telegram. She starts
for BaStia to meet her husband. Enter
ing the room to greet his wife Barnes is
bewildered to find the adventures La
Belle Blackwood, but not Enid She had
been substituted for the Americans bride
by a shrewd plot. Lieut.. Anstruther ar
rives to find Marina and learns that she
has been lured away by the telegram
which had been sent by another without
his knowledge. The two start in search Of
Marina.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-10
Why PITY Him?

Why pity the man who is letting Z
woman make fool Of him? He's
happy.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-10

Work OF Bees.
One million blossoms are drained
to make one pound Of honey.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28
BIRMINGHAM.

From the Walker County News.
Ned Brace" in Sundays Age-Herald
writes down the following goodly SUCCESS
ton to the scrapping element of Birming-
ham which ought to make good impress
sion there:
"Would you not rather wish each other
well and aspire to build up and grow
simply kick the trash out of the way as
you pass by; not stop to fight with
mongrel dog that banks at you through
high protected fence; but go along in
your happiness and your contentment in
spired always to do good work in your
desire to bring to those about you that
which makes a spirit of give and take
thorough fellowship-the humanity of ex-
istence and of real Christian spirit"
With all of Birmingham's cleverness
and clever wide awake people, the COM
munity is proverbially fussy one. Natur-
ally so, perhaps when we come to think
of its rapid growth, its cosmopolitan pop
ulation, its wondrous flight upward, it's
ambitious citizenship. That knock down,
drag-out idea may build big cities, but
1t does not purify communities. If Biz
a season it would hardly be recognized
as Birmingham. 1t has factions and coun-
terfactions Its ambition produces ami
mosities. It's rascals in are ever targets
for the fury and scorn of rascals out.
It's inconsistents seem PROMPTED by self
ishness. It's bellicose elements never do
battle unless they have personal ends to
accomplish. It's pendulums of wrath never
swing in the cause of righteousness where
they are apt to suffer pecuniary loss. It's
pots are prone to call its kettles black.
And, yet, withal Birmingham is great
and growing greater every year. The
strength of the city's natural position, the
glory of her brave men and women, the
even temper of her non-combative element
its energies, its hopes, its aspirations;
her schools and churches, and homes and
an incubation of the idea suggested by
Ned Brace in the paragraph quoted,
all mean that at lest tina city shall over
come and out-grow the damnable effects
of even the appearance of evil in matters
governmental and the whine of hate, envy
and hypocricy which is so much in evil
dence in public prints, and the indigna-
ton meetings which from week to week
poster the social business interests of Bir-
mingham.
When Birmingham shall have passed
through this travail, let US hope the good
will be separated from the bad; and that
the real people shall know the real truth,
and the causes of continual connections.
The disclosure will yet be made; and then
Ia hot Ion
be overcome by selfish hypocricy.
The whole state of Alabama is deeply
interested in Birmingham. She is the
states real great city--her social, political
and industrial center, therefore the state
has a right to speak out in her behalf
and to save her from the quarrels of
her own household.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28

tary condition of slaughter houses and
packing plants and of maintaining con-
fidence in the wholesomeness of the
products.
No less than 5S.996,511 animals were
inspected before slaughter. OF this
number nearly 100000 were hogs
and about 100000 we're cattle. About
800, 600 were condemned, chiefly on ae-
count of tuberculosis. A good many
pounds originally healthy were con-
demned because they had become
tainted after slaughter.
But the bureau has no power over
products prepared and consumed with
in the limits of a state, and one-half of
the meat supply of the country is of a
state nature. The nature of preserva-
tiyes used in state establishments de-
serves attention. State laws and city
laws must therefore come to the aid of
the federal laws If the meats of the
country are to be fully supervised.
The bureau is contending at present
with the foot-and-mouth disease wher-
ever there is an interstate movement
of cattle. The appearance of the dis
ease in New York and Pennsylvania is
but a repetition of the outbreak in New
England in 1902-03. The infection has
been fought so strenuously it is be
lieyed it will speedily be stamped out
in both New York and Pennsylvania.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28
DYING IN BALTIMORE
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
7 USED to think of Baltimore as the
abode of terrapin and the Johns
Hopkins university, but 1 noticed
on a visit this week that she has de-
veloped a queer industry, and one which
1 believe is without its like in the
entire American Union. 1 mean the
strenuous competition in the business
of conducting funerals which prevails
on the banks of the Patapsco.
Take up any one of the leading news
papers of Baltimore any morning and
you will find in close proximity to the
column of marriage and death notices
the hambuoyant advertisements of rival
undertakers. Their advertisements are
not formulated in the simple language
employed in the advertising notices of
undertakers' establishments in this
neighborhood-not at all. They appeal
to mourners in far different fashion.
The public is warned not to be misled
into going elsewhere. Fixed prices for
funerals are specified. "Baltimores
best undertaken" charges "the one price
for a high-class funeral of SIS. This
funeral is asserted to be actually
worth $780," and the advertiser adds:
Grave free, If desired"
A competing funeral corporation Of
fers even more attractive prices. Fifty
dollars will procure funeral that is
elegant, refined, complete in every way
and better than has ever been offered
before or is offered now for half as
much again." Here is what goes with
this $50 funeral:
A beautiful drop side couch casket,
covered with gray, white or black, or
any casket you wish to select listed
elsewhere at $50 to SIS, together with
five carriages, splendid hearse, outside
case, grave, embalming, washing. Dress
ing, shaving, advertising, candles,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28
History of SedItIOl Laws

Our first sedition law was passed in
1898 at the instance of President John
Adams, and it remained on the federal
statute books until the spring of 1901,
when it was repealed. 1t was passed
by the federalists, and their party
soon went to pieces.
The bill provided that any person
printing or publishing any false, scan
dalous and malicious writing against
the government of the United States,
or either house of Congress, or the
President, with intent to defame them
or to bring them into contempt or dis
repute, or to excite against them the
hatred of the good people of the United
States, should be punished (on convic-
tom by a fine not exceeding $4,000 and
an Imprisonment not exceeding two
years.
Mr.. Jefferson became President on
March 4, 1901, and he caused the sedi-
ton law to be repealed. He described
it "as palpably in the teeth of the con-
stitution" and as "a libel on legisla-
ton" He wrote to Mr.. John Adams:
I discharged every person under pun
ishment or prosecution under the sedition
law because 1 considered-and now con-
sider-that law to be a nullity, as abso-
Lutte and as palpable as If Congress had
ordered us to fall down and worship a
golden image; and that it was as much
stage as it would have been to have res
eued (sic) from the fiery furnace those
who should have been cast into it for re-
fusing to worship the image. 1t was ac-
cordingly done in every instance, without
asking what the offender had done, or
against whom they had offended. but
whether the pains they were suffering
were inflicted under the pretended sedi-
ton law.
From 1901 down to President Roose-
velt's special message concerning Edi-
tors Smith and Pulitzer not word or
suggestion of another sedition law
and Attorney General Bonaparte will
not find anything in the United States
statutes that he can by construction
turn into a sedition law That branch
of business was abolished over 107
years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28
He hath songs for man or woman of
all sizes. Winters Tale.
Our Ambassador In London

The chief duties of Ambassador
Whitelaw Reid at the court of St
James seem to consist in the display in
society of his wealth or his wife's
wealth, or both. The ostentatious ex.
travagance of Mr.. Reid has set a prece-
dent that few indeed could or would
or should follow Our ambassadors in
London have included many who were
not even well-to-do. In this list are
the names of Washington Irving, Ed
ward Everett, James Russell Lowell
and Thomas F. Bayard. None of these
men would or could have attempted
the Reid scale of expenditures.
AS things are going no one can be
sent as an ambassador to the court of
st. James unless he be a multi-mil-
lionaire. Mr.. Reid has set the pace
and only the extremely wealthy will
be apt to seek the post, and the high
character of our ambassadors at Lon
don may be sensibly impaired.
1t is said that President Roosevelt
does not like the manner in which Mr..
Reid has sought social distinction in
London, and it is believed the Presi-
dent-elect holds that view of the case.
Mr.. Reid will probably come home
covered with social honors, but he will
probably soon be a statesman out of a
job. He has sought too ostentatiously
and extravagantly a place in high So
ciety. He has outshone the nobility in
their own country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28

gloves, toll and other items not Of
fered lsewhere-everything in fact.
that properly belongs to a thoroughly
complete, refined funeral.
other funerals are furnished by this
concern at lower figures, as 1 infer
from the statment. shipping funerals,
$780," although precisely what this may
mean fail to comprehend.
Another individual undertaken gives
his complete funerals" for 500, all
though he has others for SIS. and some
even as low as S49-being, as the adj
vertiser points out, 81 less than the
price charged for the same funeral by
what he calls "the Yelled Combina-
ton" I fear this term implies the ex-
istence of a funeral trust in Baltimore
1t is not alone through the agency
of the newspapers that this Baltimore
competition in funerals is pressed upon
the attention of the public. A little
printed circular, entitled the Trolley
News, issued by the United Railways
and Electric company, is distributed
among the passengers upon it's line. 1t
appeals to travellers always to use the
front exit from the cars, and contains
other valuable admonitions and sug-
gestions. On opening this document the
inquiring reader finds two pages taken
up with a picture and description of the
funeral car Dolores, with seating for 80
persons. 1t produces painful impress
sion on rainy day. and makes one
want to get out of Baltimore just as
soon as he possibly can.
Competition may be the life of trade,
even in the funeral business; but the
indifference to good taste which char
acterizes such competition in Baltimore
and the extent to which 1t obtrudes it
self upon the attention of the public
is really a reproach to that beautiful
city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28
Realty Market Quiet.

Real estate has been very quiet so
far during the holidays" said a dealer
yesterday, because few people go to the
extent Of giving houses and lots as Christ
mas presents. We expect things to pick
up speedily, however, upon the opening
of the new year. and there is no appar-
ent reason why 1909 should not be one
of the best years in the city's history.
do not expect the new year activity to
be confined to any particular class of
realty. There will continue to be large
development in the downtown district and
residence property seems to be always in
demand in Birmingham when there is
anything like good times. Suburban prop
erty is coming to be a more and more sub
stantial form of investment. and is ac-
cordingly growing in popularity. With
a community the size of Birmingham as
a center there viii always be demand for
suburban homes, and Birmingham's SUBJ
stantial basis is naturally reflected in all
the surrounding territory"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28
WHEN THE WOOD is GONE.

Roland Phillips, in Success Magazine.
DO you begin to see the picture? Can
YOU imagine what it will be In thirty
years?
The lumber business now the fourth
largest in America, will be the first to
fail. Thirty three thousand establishments
will Immediately close their doors. AT
the same moment, more than half mil
lion employees will be thrown out of work;
they Will be joined by million in the
allied trades; coopers, 3oiners, carpenters,
planners. wallpaper makers; then an
other million from the trades indirectly
affected 1t will be such an army of UNI
employed as was never dreamed of in the
worlds history.
The mines will fail. There will be no
coal no iron, no steel for the sky-scrap-
ers. no steel for rails. The railroads will
go out of business Without transporta-
ton facilities the farmers will be unable
to market their crops. already diminished
by uncontrolled drought and flood. AS
our national prosperity depends upon the
railroads and the crops, there will be no
prosperity In it's place, poverty--the
poverty of China, Greece, Syria, Dalma-
tia.
This, or something very like it, is the
picture of this great land of ours when
the forests fail. And it will be more
than mere picture. Unless you decide
to act. it will become grim reality.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28
ALL THAT-IS LEFT TO MR.. RYAN

From the New York World.
Thomas f. Ryan pathetically announces
his retirement from active business He
has sent in "a designations as director of
various corporations. He says that by
his doctors advice II am unloading bust
ness responsibilities as rapidly as 1 can
in Justice to the interests involved
All that Mr. Ryan retains is control of
the Equitable Life Assurance society,
with half a billion dollars of assets; con-
troll of the Morton Trust company, which
has the underlying railway securities of
Manhattan and the Bronx; control of the
National Bank of Commerce. which is
next to the biggest bank in the United
States, and control of the American To-
bacco company, which supplies the CT
CARS, cigarettes. smoking and chewing
tobacco to a great part of the world.
These small interests aggregate only a
little over 81 900 100000. That is not much
more than the funded debt of the United
States. These trifes, with a race-horse
breeding farm added, Mr.. Ryan will re-
tain for pIaythings and as diversions to
keep himself from being bored and the
wolf from the door.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28
Christians and MOslems Pulling Together

Pan-Islam is dead, and the proselyt-
ing sword is probably sheathed for
ever. The Young Turks are now in
control, and they have opened parlia-
ment, and will open the army, to Jews.
Catholics, Greeks, Armenians, and
Protestants of all sorts. All official
positions are hereafter to be open to
all persons in the Turkish empire. Re-
ligious belief is to have nothing to do
with the public service, and a we'll
informed clergyman of Beirut, Syria,
says already there are voices proclaim
ing New Islam and asserting that
neither the sword, nor polygamy, nor
divorce, nor the seclusion Of women is
essential to the orthodox Moslems. In
deed, there is demand among them for
something better than the best they
have had, and there is pathos in the
attitude of many Moslems who wish to
die as they have lived, but intend to
have their children trained to ideas
and habits of Christian morality"
The change is certainly a great one.
There is but one great Moslem power
and it has been spreading Islam for
more than - centuries. When Abdul
Hamid dies the harem will pass into
history. There will not be another
The press will be free and the Turkey
of old will be as dead as Hector. The
new Turkey will keep step with mod
ern Europe. Who then can say the
world does not move forward?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28
Prohibition In Mobile.

There is no doubt said Ed Kerch. a
well-known newspaper man of Mobile,
who was in Birmingham during the holt
days, but that Mobile will enforce the
prohibition laws-that is, will enforca
them as we'll as Birmingham is doing, or
as we'll as Montgomery will do.
1T is true that in the beginning it was
the intention of the saloon proprietors of
Mobile positively to refuse to close their
doors 1t was their intention to run wide
open, trusting public sentiment to uphold
and defend them. However, it is now gen.
orally believed that no saloon will be run
wide open in Mobile. 1t is my under
standing that they are all preparing to do
what Birmingham's liquor dispensers have
already done-move upstairs.
II do not mean that the laws will be
enforced in Mobile. But they will be en-
forced as well as they are in Birming-
ham, During the few hours in which 1
have been in Birmingham, no fewer than
a dozen friends have asked me to have a
drink with them. / do not presume they
would have made this request If they had
not been prepared to serve me without
great danger either to them or me-"