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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-11
BUSCH'S FINE GIFT.
Brewer Contributes $5o,O00 to the
 Great German Museum.

Berlin, August 10-At today's session here of the International Historical con gress David Jayne Hill, the American ambassador to Germany, made the an- nouncement that Adolphus Busch of St. Louis was ready to give S50.000 toward the Germanic Museum building at Har- yard university.
 The delegates applauded Ambassador Hil who said:
 "The museum will constitute new evil dence of the influence of the past times of other lands as exercised upon new development of civilization, which might be of interest to the congress.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-11
TRAINS FATAL PLUNGE.
Three Men Are Dead as Result of Bad
 Washout.

Goldfield, New, August 10.-As the result of a washout on the Tonopah and Tide water near Shoshone, Cal, last night, passenger train plunged into a chasm and three were killed. The dead:
 Engineer Hamilton.
 Fireman Broadwell.
 w. E. Moore, passenger, supposed to be from Georgia.
 Shortly before the train arrived at Shoshone a cloudburst washed out hun dred feet of track. The train dashed into the cut, the locomotive turning over ana the baggage and other cars rolled on their sides. but the sleeping car remained on the track
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-11
All members of Birmingham

All members of Birmingham Temple Lodge, No. 636, A. E. & A. M., are requested to meet at the Masonic Temple this af- ternoon at 2::30 o'clock to at tend the funeral of Brother Jo- seph T. Collins. All duly qual- flied brethren are requested to meet with us. E. A. Hewitt, Worshipful Master. Walter K. McAdory. Secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-11
WASHINGTON, D. c.
UNIVERSITY of VIRGINIA

Comprises the following: The College
 The Department of Graduate Studies.
 The Department of Law. The Department of Medicine. The Department of Engineering. The Department of Agriculture. Located in Piedmont section of Vir- ginia Next session begins September 12th Send for catalogue. HOWARD WINSTON, Registrar.
 7-7-1 2f -fll-thu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-11
AMERICANS WILL
 RAGE IN ENGLAND

London, August 10.-Sporting Life announces that everything has been ar ranged except the signing of an agree ment for James R. Keene and August Belmont jointly to take Laton Lodge at New Market as training quarters for their horses.
 The paper thinks that if the crisis in American turf affairs brings about any serious invasion of the English turf by Americans it would be advisable for the invaders to make New Market their home. because there is no other place in the world with equal facilities for the horsemen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-11
HAMILTON COLLEGE.

Lexington Ky 10th Year. Famous old school of the Blue Grass Region. 26 in- structors, of best university training. Splendid buildings, newly refurnished. Exclusive patronage. Home care Muslc, Art and Elocution. Certificate admits t0 Eastern Colleges. For Year Book, ad-
 dress Mrs. LueIIa W. st. Clair, President. N 6-16-2 -26t-tu- tn sat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-11

Ads illustrated with good cuts arc trade winners-The GawK makes good cut1
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
BIG EARNINGS
OF STEEL TRUST
Are Nearly S7,OOO,OOO Above
Previous Quarter.

New York. Oct. 2S.-Directors of tn,
United States Steel corporation de
clared quarterly dividend of one-bai
OF l per cent on the common stock anf
l& per cent on the preferred stock
These are unchanged from the last
previous quarter
The report for the quarter en1ej
Sept 80 shows total earnings of s27.
O16,274, a decrease of S16.69S.O11 as
compared to the corresponding period
of last year; net earnings of S21.310.-
All, a decrease Of S14.3S4.6SS; surplus
for the quarter, S5,152.O2S. a decreas,
of $l4,759,6SS. Untitled orders. 3.421..
977 tons. a decrease of S.OOS.OS1 tons.
As compared with the earnings of
the quarter ended June 80 last those
Of the quarter just ended show in
creases Of $6,S4O.55S in total earnings.
Of $4,956,427 in net earnings; of 81.
356, 42S in the surplus for the quarter
and of 10S,1 101 tons in untitled orders.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
FARMING COMMISSION
READY FOR ITS TOUR
The President to Enlarge Body
to Seven Members.

New York. Oct. 2S.-Chairman Lib
erty H. Bailey announced the itinerary
OF the farmers uplift commission, ap-
PQtnted by President Roosevelt to in
Yesttgate conditions surrouLt.ng farm
life in the United States.
Chairman Bailey announced that
President Roosevelt will appoint two
more members to the commission.
making a total Of seven, and that the
party on its trip will have a manager
stenographer and several experts.
On Nov. 6 the commission will hold
It's first hearing at the Agricultural
college of Maryland. The party will
then go south for the next ten days.
The commission will be in Washing
ton on Nov 16 and IT, and there meet
the masters of the state oranges and
farmers institute workers Of the
United States on Nov IS.
On Nov. II the party will leave for
the southwest, going through Tennes- !
see and Texas swinging up through |
Arizona and into California The |
northern and southern states of the
Rocky mountain group will be visited. |
The party viii return for a final hear
ing in Washington on Dec. IS.
Messrs. Boardman and McAlpine. Of
the International Y. NJ c. A.. will be
with the party on part of the trip.
and ministers and various professional
men will be picked up on the journey.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
REV. E. Jay COOKE STRICKEN
Political Excitement Caused Attack of
Heart Disease


Schenectady ~ Y Oct 2S.-Rev
E Jay Cooke. rector OF st. Stephen S
Episcopal church at Schuylerville. n
Y, dropped. dying Of heart disease. in
front of the waitingroom of the Sche-
nectady Railway company. Dr. Cooke
fell to the pavement and was carried
into the waitingroom. A physician was
summoned. as was Rev Father Dowd
who administered the last rites of the
church. it being assumed from DR..
Cookies garb that he was a Roman
Catholic. Dr. Cooke died a few mo
ments later.
Dr. Cooke was a nephew of Jay
Cooke, the great Philadelphia fnancier
of Civil War times. ait whom Le
was named
It Is supposed that Dr. Cooke came
to this city to hear Judge Taft an1
was on his way home when stricken
Judge Taft's automobile passed the |
station just before Rev Cooke fell |
and the accompanying demonstration
and attendant excitement is thought
to have affected the weak heart Of the
clergyman.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
Delaware Corn Show.

The second annual State corn show anG
convention will be held by the Delaware
Corn Growers Association at Dover on
Monday and Tuesday, December 2nd and
Srd. The premiums offered are many
and substantial, and should stimulate
keen competition in the various classes.
Besides the general classes open to the
corn growers of the entire State. there
will be, as last year, a class open to the
growers in each county. 1t will be posi-
BILE to enter as many as three classes. A
new class has been added this year for
Grange exhibits. This has been done
with a view to encourage Oranges to take
up the study of corn selection and i'm.
provement. A Grange exhibit shall con-
sist OF six ten-ear samples, any color, ex-
hibited by six different growers of the
same Grange. Entries must be made in
the name Of the Grange accompanied bv
the names of the six exhibitors. It is
hoped that several Oranges will exhibit.
Now, while husking, is the time to pre-
pare for the corn exhibition, Throw ont
eeveral hundred of the best ears, and
place them in a safe, dry place. From
his lot choose the ears from which to
make up the sample. In THE wav the t
hoice ears of the crop may be secured. I
For premium list and program, or other
Information concerning the exhibition. i
address the secretary Of the association. a
!. +. Grantham, Newark, Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
10000 Sheep Perlshed In snowstorr,

10000 Sheep Perishsd In snowstorm.
Twenty-thousand sheep grazing on
the Cumbers mountain range, in Rio
Arriba county, N. NJ, 14O miles north
OF Santa Fe. are reported to have per.
lshed in the blizzard which has ragged
there the last three days. The storm
Is the worst in years and snow is from
nVe TO ten feet deep. Besides the grea;
loss OF sheep. six herders are missing
and it is believed they were also
frozen to death.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
EIeven.Year.oId alrI Miatr.at.a

Oil City Pa. Oct. 2S.-Flora shira
aged eleven years. while passing
through a woods near this city. was
mistreated, after which her assailant
attempted to murder her with a shot.
gun. The girl was seriously injured
Fred Campbell, q married man. aged
twenty-six years, was arrested and
recognized by his alleged victim. who
picked him out from a crowd of men
He says he is innocent.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
Bank Cashiers Account Short $500 os4

Bank Cashiers Account Short S54e. 1884
Norfolk, Va, Oct. 2S.-The report OF
Receiver Griffin. of the Peoples bank.
OF Portsmouth. shows a shortage in
the accounts Of Cashier Alexander B.
Butt Of $549SS4. Butt is now serving a
sentence Of three years in the peniten-
tiary upon a plea Of guilty Of misap-
plying the banks funds Common
wsalth's Attorney Stewart has been
petitioned by the depositors Of the
bank to have Butt returned upon the
expiration of his term and prosecuted
upon nineteen remaining indictments.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
LADY CURzON
BECAME POOR
Ruling In India Was Costly and
VICeTOy Was PennIIeSS.
COULDN'T OPEN TOWN HOUSE

Joe Letter Dropped ss,ooo,o0 In His
Famous Plunge In the Wheat Pit a
Few Years Ago and Has to Pay In
terest On s2,oOo,Oo After His
Father Assumed 100000 of the
5urdsn-Now Receives s45oo a
Month From the Estate.
Chicago, Oct Authorizations show
ing the poverty Of Lord and Lady
Curzon. who was Mary Letter. after
| their return from India, where thel
had ruled over millions of subjects in
regal splendor, and the disclosure that
Joe Letter dropped 100000 in his
famous plunge in the wheat pit. were
made public in the suit of Hugh
Crabbe against the Zeigler Coal com
pany for S416
Because Of Letters unfortunate
speculations. as was shown, his allow
ance is now only $4,000 a year. while |
both his sisters are receiving more
than twice as much.
Lady Curzon's poverty followed her
to her grave When she and Lord Cur
zon returned to England they could
not open their magnificent London
house. but were forced to live inev
pensively in a hotel while waiting for
funds from America. In few months
Lady Curzon died.
The financial difficulties Of the Cur
IONS we're caused by the immense
drains made upon Lady Curzon's purse
by their establishment and entertain
ment in India. Lord Curzon was with
out private means and his salary as
VicerOy was comparatively small.
Now Lord Curzon has sufficion'
money for his and his children's
needs. They get $6S,OOO a year from {
he Levi 2. Letter estate. besides the
ncome from $1,7OO,OOO placed in trust q
Joseph Letter receives $4,000 /
month from the estate. When he drop i
'ed the $9000.000 his father assumed
z 100000 o. the burden. When he +
led. however. he charged each one of ;
he children up with the money they u
ad received from him before his G.
cath. Therefore Joe Letter has to pay
lterest on S2.OOOOOO that he dropped T
! the wheat pit u
Lady Suffolk, who was Miss Daisv IT
eiter. receives an income of S125 OO0 ol
year. as also does her sister. Mrs
olin Campbell. formerly Miss Nancy
eiter di
Lady Curzon told Of her fnancia
rats in a letter to Hugh Crabbe in @
ebruary. 1907 A short time afte, de
is she died, and Lord Curzon re Id
lived a settlement in part of the
liter estate. It appears that he was 81
i'd too much money and was inform me
that his income would be forwarded cla
him. less $4,000 acl
His lordship expressed his horror
this in letter to Crabbe. who was cal
IN employed by the estate. ga'
An attemrt to get these letters be err
e the jury failed. Fri
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
SCOTS
EMULSION

Send this advertisement, together with name
OF paper In which It appears, your address and
Tour cents to cover postage, and we will send
you a Complete Handy Atlas Of the World
SCOTT & BOVINE. 4O9 Pearl St. New York
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
HOME MADE SHIRTWAlSTS.
MADE TO FIT AND TO SUIT.

The ladies of Milford and vicinity who s,n,.r,,.
the opportunity Of seeing and possessing these 6ne
9rtlcles are invited to call the residence of Mrs
Ihomas Draper North Front Street Milford, on
nday and Saturday, October S0th and 3lstto meet
Mrs. Anderson, who will then have on exhibition
an exclusive line Of homemade shirtNvaists. The
inspection Will interest you, while it costs you tn
ps' and this invitation is cordial to ALL oct.2S-2t.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
olrl Ten Years Old Attseked sv ,l,.,.

eirI Ten Years Old Attacked BY Uncle
Attacked by her uncle, James John
son. aged thirty-nve. little ten-year-old
Maggie Gradweu, OF PottsviIle. Pa
may die. johnson was arraigned and
committed to prison without bail. He
had a narrow escape from Iynching by
angry citizens.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
EmbezzIer eeta Tsn Year..

Sac City, Ia. Oct. zs.-Wnl H. Pet
us. former county treasurer pleaded
guilty in the district court to embez,
zling $4,000 Of the funds of the
county. He was sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
How To
Gain Flesh

Persons have been known to
gain a poundd day by takingan
ounce of Scott S Emulsion. II
ssHange, but it often happens.
Somehow the ounce produces
the pound; it seems to start
the digestive machinery going
properly, so that the patient is
able to digest and absorb his
ordinary food which he could
not do before, and that is the
way the gain is made.
A certain amount of flesh is
necessary for health; if you
have not got it you can get it
by taking
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-11
mo MEN, NO DINNER" RULE
STIRS SELF-RELIANT WOMEN
Fail to Appreciate Logic Of Mere Man in Barring Them From Hote
Meals Sans E~SCort--One Of the Sex Gives Her Reasons.
BY ADA LYNN.

TNHAT mo men, 10 dinner idea of the New York hotel proprhtors is
causing no end of a rumpus among the members of the weaker 90 sex,
= and certainly it does seem more than slightly ridiculous, in this age of
of any place as long as she acts as a sef-respectng woman should!
legend I'VE reserve the right to eject Objectionable parties" or words to that
entrances of their dining rooms? 1 am quite sre that the suggestion is at
least wortha trial.
The American woman If today is Independent, and her independence is
of the right sort There are few professions bin which she has o. gained a
foothold, and her admission to them has added to their glory. Imagine, then,
.ehvied by her male coworkers, being turned away from the door of a large
Or take the case of the woman set Element worker, who spends most Of
humanity in a thousand and me ways Men play but a small part in her
with her work But should the lack of men friends prevent her from enjoying
Ter desirable?
There are a dozen other cases HIGH / could cite, all g % 10 ROY
that the mo men, n dinner rule is as foolish a dictum a has been
Woman is certainly having her trials these days. She is scored if
made the subject of remark if she ar short nes But then, there never
was a time when her clothes were OF criticised, SO We'll pass IN to the
very latest agitation; whether or not she shall be allowed to smoke in
public
I say no. The woman who would smoke in a restaurant or other pubhcplaee
ia one of those who would ONE IN or the head o. "objechonable parles
whom the proprietor may eject if he likes She is undesirable decidedly. to
tho majority of those round her. an the proprietor who has his W inter
ess at heart will not tolerate her for two minutes If she cares to smoke
in the privacy Of her boudof it is her own business, for there is to ID
jet but herself But personally, you and do not like her. 10 we?
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-11
A MOVE TO SAVE II voTANo MA

AS a means of switching off the attempt in the last Legislature to abolish
the voting machine there as got through the Senate last March a resolution
for a committee to investigate he met hos of voting, to report to this years
Legislature. OF course. the irrepressible wakelee, the introducer of the orig
ini voting machine bill, got himself IN this committee rs N unprojudiced in
together with a bill.
If this comnhttee ever made moret than a cursory investigation nobody
has any knowledge of the fact. But as the conclusions we're Predetermined
non was necessary. The report as might be expected, favors the continued
use Of III voting machines with "the party levers abolished" The Rochester
contractor sticks right u in the recommendation that 'te municipalities
using machines should be entirely equipped" In perfect harmony with these
suggestions the report declares the paper ballot now in uea as most unsafe"
and recommends for districts not equipped with voting machines a nw form
Of paper ballot. with separate ballot boxes for State and municipal candi-
dates. Finally the committee acknowledges that it wa "aby assisted by the
assistant to Secretary of state Samuel D. Dickinson, who not long ago issued
a long prospectus of the voting machine contractors Is an official report
The trick Of killing a desired reform by indirection is a familiar m The
voting machine nuisance was saved from abolition last year by the commit
teeu trick, and it is proposed 10 save it again this er by the trick of enmesh
ing the job in a new act which will help to mark time until adjournment
Governor Fort will lot b. cheated by this willy owe, nor will any intelligent
legislator who doesn't want t be-
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-11
PICTURES OF THE MADONNA.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Will you please give me a list of the
most famous pictures of the Madonna
and Child?' READER.
lin the space available but few of
the pictures can be mentioned or the
names of the myriad of artists who
since early Christian times have chosen
the mother and child as a subject.
Raphael represents the Madonna as
the Queen of Heaven. Murillo portrays
her as the Woman of Revelations. Be-
tween the thirteenth and sixteenth CEN
turtles pictures were made by Guido,
of Siena, Cimabue and Duccio, Fra
Angelica Filippo Lippi, Ghirlandajo,
Giovannio Balinni, Perugina and a host
of others followed in the fifteenth CEN
tury. Other artists who have painted
celebrated pictures of the Madonna are
Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea
Del Sarto. Mantegna, C~orreggio, San
Giobbe, Giorgione, Titan, Jan Van
Eyck. Stephen Lochner, Schongauer,
Durer. Rubins, Van Dyke. Overlook,
Bodenhaussen, Defreggar, B~ouguereau,
Dognan-Bouveret. Besides these sew
eral modern artists have chosen the
Madonna as a subject.-Ed.l
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-11
LOCAL PULPIT CRUSADE
AGAINST WHIST, MAYBE
Society Leaders Inspired to Interest Pastors Here by Sermon
of the Rev. Dr.. Boynton, Brooklyn Clergyman.
BY GRETTA DONLEY.

- ocIETY matrons and debutantes are degrading themselves at the bridge
tables according to the Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, pastor of the Clinton
- Avenue Congregational Church. Brooklyn, in a sermon in which he dis
cussed the present crusade to wipe o if HI statute books the rae track
gambling and the Percy-Gray law. Dr. Boynton said:
1.-The chief issueb before the people today has to d. with me of the m
deep rootedh n a large part Of humanity. 1t is true that the newsboys and
lbootblacks shoot craps II match pennies, that young college women nave
been caught gambling in the classrooms, and that society. matrons and gqe-
butantes ire degrading themselves at the bridge table.
Gambling has by law n the StNeo Of New York been raised ITO the plane
of legitimate business. This is a mistake. Citizens arise IN correct your
|bunder" ~
Would that more Of r clergy could have, the courage to stand before
their fashionable congregations I'M POINT ot their vices o them. II more
had the courage Of DIR. Boynton there would b. fewer wrecked ZONES han we
know of today as the result of gambing-not alone the gambling of men,. out
the gambling of women.
But, someone argues, the fashionable women who play bridge do r play
to gamble.
They do play to gamble, and they do lot hesitate to boast Of hir gairs
at the bridge table.
The trouble is that the women wo gamble are nt always aie TO pay
their gambling debts. Many in smart society are accepted within thu hal
lowed circle because of their family names alone To keep their coye1ed
places they must be able to compete with their more fortunate sisters whose
fathers allow them the luxury of bridge. What is to become o. the nation
when its women soop to such low practses? Are we to have a progeny Of
lgamblers?s ...s. +4t
DIR. Boynton says a reform is sure to come: that the American people are
bound to foresee the result of this evil Several Newark women ar talking
of interesting Newark cergymen in a pulpit crusade to arouse puohc sMur
mnt against the evil here. -
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-11
WILLING TO

I1r. Leopold Jaches, of Cornelfs Med
ical School, recently returned from a
study of the use of the Roentgen rays
abroad. DR.. Jaches says: Abroad, as
here at home, the %public's knowledge OF
the rays continues rather vague. Thus
1 heard in Berlin of a man who wrote
to Il specialist; 4 have had q bullet In
my thoraX for eleven years. am too
busy to come to Berlin, but hope you
will come down here with your rays, as
my case should be worth you while. lf
you cannot come, send a packet of rays,
with instructions as to use, and l VIII
see if / cannot manage to work them
myself The specialist replied: 1 am
sorry that my engagements prevent my
coming to see you, and that | am out of
rays just now. If you cannot come TO
Berlin yourself, send me your thorax
by express and | will do the best | can
with it, "-Chicagp News.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-11
pRUSSIAN BLUE.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Why is a certain shade of blue called
"Prussian'' blue? S. C. X.
when the allied sovereigns visited
England in 1876, after their routing OF
Napoleon l. at Waterloo, the dress Ct
none oil the foreign soldiers seems to
have appealed to the Londoners SO
much as that of Blucher's troops. whose
uniform was of the blue shade of ferro-
cyanide of iron. An entcrprising Lon
don dyer Immediately produced the
color and styled 1t "Prussian Blue
and the designation has survived to
this day.-Ed.1
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-11
SIXTIETH CONGRESS.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Why is the present Congress known
as the sixtieth? From what year does
the reckoning begin? A. r. p.
1.-THE first Federal Congress convened
March 4, 1889, at the corner of Wall and
Broad streets, in New York. Allottins
to each Congress its two-year term
brings the tale to the sixtieth Congress
now in session. The last Continental
Congress expired November !, 17SS, ared
for six months there was technically
no national government. OF the Cont
mental Congresses seven were of the
Revolution. The eighth Contineta'
Congress, the first of the Confedera-
ton, convened at Philadelphia Marcel
., 1881. The last Continental Congress
was the fourteenth.-Ed.1