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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
SOME QUEER LOCATIONS

skill is almost hereditary and wages are very high.
 The making of a billiard ball re- quires qualities of eye and hand which are not to be acquired entirely by training. One of the best billiard ball turner's who ever lived began in wine merchants office.
 Mention has been made of the peach grower who turned, greatly to his profit, tobacco buyer.
 The wine taster, likewise. owes his more than comfortable position to a very delicate sense of taste and smell. A thousand year is no out e. way remuneration for the wine taster who is employed by a great firm of importers.
 There are some persons whom mos quitoes will never bite. Why, no one knows but the fact is undoubted. Such might venture with perfect safety into the fever-stricken regions where the dread insect murders the average man or woman with its subtly injected ma larial poison.
 And salaries are large in those dan gerous parts of the tropical British empire.
 Others are immune from bee stinge. There is always a good opening for these as bee farmers to start upon Wnlch pursuit requires only small capital.
 Hprse-breaking is a natural gift. Some mh seem able to do anything they please with horse; and seeing the number of badly broken. half-trained animals which are In use all over the country the really clever horse-breaker should never lack for good living.
 Another man has an equally wonderful way with dogs. Here again something better than a bare living is in sight. Sporting dogs, such as settlers and re- trievers, need very careful breaking and an ordinary gamekeeper charges from e5 to f10 to break a puppy to field work. A breaker with reputation vii Task and obtain double the money There is a man. in London who can harm rats. He uses nothing but a lamp, sort of wand and cage His secret seems to lie in the magic of his voice. for no sooner does he begin to call than rats scamper toward him from every di- rection. He cleared 5000 rats out of Mime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
SIeepleSS Stores
 Sunday Morning Talk

Busy men say they can get a "smoke" quicker here than anywhere in town. It's just a step from the street to our cigar counter and the service behind it Is quick, sure-like the snappy, faultless fielding of a pennant-winning ball team. And we sell everything that's fit to smoke.
 Our News Department matches the smokery. Up-to- date-that's the outright phrase-with the papers and magazines so arranged and displayed as to allow you to pick out what you want with out 8 moments delay-or to stimulate your mental appetite in case you are in doubt as to what you'd like to read.
 We wouldn't like to say how many boxes of cream choeo- late Maraschino Cherries we sold last week. That's a se- cret between us and Dan Gu pid, who says this exquisite con lection is his best ally. And it's only. 50 cents the box.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

From Answers.
 At least seven men out of ten are round pegs in square holds. They have been pitchforked into some calling which is not that for which they are best fitted. They could make more money easily at some other kind or work.
 The writer once met a man who owned eight acres of land in Geor-
 sia and on it grew peaches. He had
 been at the work for eight years and his average profits up to date were not more than f60 year.
 Quite by chance the man discovered that he had a perfect nose for to- bacco. He obtained a position with great wholesale tobacco firm In South Carolina and within three years was a buyer at salary of f6OO and ex-
 penses. There are plenty of open ings as good as this Tor men shteu
 with this talent.
 There are some trades and profess
 sions at which a man may toll all
 his life, yet never become an expert. however hard he works. A diamond cutter, for instance, is, they say, not made, but born; and @ first class cutter makes an income which many professional men might envy. e. The same with glove cutters. So difficult is the art of cutting gloves that most of the principal cutters are known to the trade by name and the peculiar knives which they use in the business are so highly prized that they are handed down from one gem | aration to another as heirlooms. The art of cutting furs seems to be another inborn talent. Furs such as seal and sea otter and silver fox are | so enormously costly that not square | inch of them must be wasted and they are only intrusted to the very tip-top men.
 A first t-class fur cutter will earn a pound a day, and even woman fur sewer who can safely be intrusted with seal makes better money than many a skilled male clerk. Speaking of women, few hand work CTS do better than corset makers. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
Kings Frugal Luncheon.

From M. A. r.
 The King of Italy has very frugal hab- its, and on one occasion when out hunt ing his love of simplicity led to an anus ing incident. The King was quite alone and after walking about for some time without obtaining any sport, he was at last lucky enough to shoot fine channels
 A peasant boy who had seen the animal fall into chasm offered to fetch it's car cass for King Victor, although he had no idea of the identity of the sportsman "very we'll" said his Majesty, "I will wait here" "But what will you give me, sgnor?" asked the lad. What do you want?' said the King, smiling. "Oh, a franc and half your luncheon," replied the lad The bargain was struck and the boy went off down the mountain side, and soon returned with the body of the chamois.
 The King gave him franc, and then proceeded to divide his lunch into two equal portions; but the peasant, when he saw what King Victor had to eat turned away contemptuously, for the lunch con- tained a small loaf of black bread and a large raw onion NO, thanks, none of that for me-" exclaimed the lad, 'I thought you were a gentleman, but see you are only poor fellow like myself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
"cUNJER BOX" THAT PAID.
The Magic Things Alice James Did
 With Little Tin Bucket.
From the Kansas City Star.


 It was just tiny tin bucket. No one would have suspected it's magic powers from it's appearance as it sat unostenta- tiously on Judge Richardson's desk in the Police court this morning. Yet two ne- gro women looked at 1t with awe. One of them, old and wrnkled was heard to whisper:
 Just let me away from that thing; yes, sir, just let me get right clean away from it. It may be bucket and again 1t mayn't. Just let me stand right around there on the other side
 Huh Whats the matter with your" tall young negro woman retorted That ain't a cunjer box; it's just a bucket"
 It might have been only a bucket, at that. But as a coin producer it probably holds the worlds tin pail championship Three women told Judge Richardson how Alice James, its owner, usedAit as a pay ing investment.
 She came to my house with that bucket" Mrs. Ida Hastings said, and offered to tell me great secret. She bor- rowed $3.50 in silver coins, bottle, and my left shoe. She rubbed the bottom of the shoe with the coins, tapped the bottle on the pail, knelt in front of the thing and prayed. Then she told me I was not living with my husband. That was true. I have been a widow eight years. Then she ran out with the shoe, the bucket and the money and never came back"
 "She came to my house and said there was $500 in gold buried in my yard" Mrs. Anna July said. "She told me the bucket would find it. She borrowed s225 in sil- yer, buried it in hole and put the buck ct over it. She walked around the buck ct three times and prayed. She told me to dig, and walked away with her bucket. When l dug l couldn't even find the $2.25."
 At my house she said it was a cunjer box and l gave her s5 before she took 1t away" Mrs. Kate Franklin declared. D. V. Howell Assistant City Attorney, opened the mysterious bucket. In it were some Jumps of alum, several pins, small piece of leather, a lock of hair and a small bone.
 "Looks like a real cunjer box to me, v Judge Richardson said. Anybody who would carry it ought to be fined. Twenty five dollars"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
Dogs Dignity Put to Flight.
Forest and Stream.

TIOil EOIeSl dilu OlItdils
 Dogs often catch the young mocking birds while learning to use their wings, so come in for just amount of enmty from the adult birds. 1 well remember the suffering of Boston terrier. Bobs, from such attacks. They seemed to know that the stub of his docked tail was the most sensitive point they could assail. He was dog of much dignity of bearing. and it was amusing to see the mocker dart upon him from an adjacent bush, tweak the hairs upon that stub tail, then flash away. Bobs would give a yelp of pain whirl around look foolish, and start off again with an injured alr, only to re- ceive another attack from the rear, until he took to ignominious flight.
 He would often try reprisal, lying on the gallery, apparently asleep, but with one eye on the scolding mocker, who, after time would drop from his perch to the lawn in search of luscious worm or venturesome grasshopper, whereupon Bobs would make a valiant rush, and chase the mocker, who apparently en- joyed the game, flying low and just fast enough to keep out of bis reach until his favorite bush was near. There perch ing he would begin his scoding, "Chert chert," until Bobs back was turned. Then the chase was reversed, and Bobs was glad to seek the house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

Pattis Welsh castle, and took 800 in one warehouse in London in three nights. At Cardiff he earned G2s in 10 days dur ing a plague scare.
 Some people who, to save their lives can't write, can yet tell story. There is an opening for such nowadays. An English girl makes a good income by telling fairy stories at children's parties. The finest story teller in all Japan is an Englishman, who, in Tokio, Is more pop ular than any of the native professionals
 A man may have no special qualifica- tions beyond good looks, cheery man her and a pleasant voice.. The writer knew one such who got e30 month and all found by acting as entertainer in q big summer hotel. He simply met new corners, introduced suitable people, got up dances and picnics and other amuse- ments A pleasant way of making good income
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
His Reason.

From Harper's Bazar
 The Pied Piper had just charmed all the children into the mountain.
 "So the fathers of the families can have good time in the country" he ex- plained. ~
 Herewith therewere some who suspect ed a put.up job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
WASH GOODS.

Genuine Amaskeog Apron Cling hams, for Monday only 5zc yd. White Madras Waistings, pretty patterns, 25c value, at 19c yd. 500 pieces Bordered and Figured Flannelettes, 15c value, at 1Oc per yard.
 New line Galatea Suiting, 200 value, at 15c yd. All wool Red and Blue Flannel, 25c value, at 2Oc yd. All wool White Flannel, 36 inches wide, regular price 65c, at 45c yd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
SPECIAL RATES
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Special one way Colonist rates to the west and nothwest. Tickets on sale daily until October 31 at very low rates.
 Special homeseekers' rates to the west. Tickets on sale first and third Tuesdays of each month, limited to 25 days for return.
 For full information call on or write to P. Sid Jones, D. P. A. Both phones 977. Birmingham Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
Nashables, Linens, Staples Of Every Kind
 Grand Mid Season Underprice Event.
DOMESTIC AND LINEN

Genuine Fruit and Lonsdale Bleached Domestic. at S1zc yd. Genuine 10-4 Bleached Pepperell Sheeting, 271sc value, ct 24c per yard.
 Genuine 9-4 Brown Pepperell Sheeting, 25c value, at 2Ic yd. 5S-inch Bleach ed Table Linen, pretty patterns, at 23c yd. 70-inch Bleached Table Linen, new designs, special at 4Sc yd. Hotel and Restaurant Napkins. full bleached and ready for use, only 4Sc per dog.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
TOWELS, SHEETS AND PILLO'
 CASE SPECIALS.

CASE STEtIAbss 72x90, Ready Made Sheets, good Muslin, at 33c. S1x9o, Ready Made Sheets, extra heavy quality, at 4Sc. 42x36 Pillow Cases, 3-inch hem, special at 0c. 34x14 Fringed Cotton Towels, regular price, 75c doz., at 50c per dozen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

FOR RENT Office space with display window. 2119 First avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

Model of Style and Smart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
DRENNEN co.
The Home of the Choicest

sfIIlinery-every Hat a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

planned on Department
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ERects-and every price
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-10
THE CHEEKY DISPOSITION.

The value of a CHEEKY disposition
cannot be overestimated or dwelt
upon too often. There is a certain
inactive disposition that passes for
amlability, the individual not having
energy enough to become indignant
or to be fretful. There is also
positive cheerfulness that is deter
mined to look on the bright side of
life through whatever discourage
ments present themselves. It is
fortunate for the house mother and
for her husband and for her chill
dren when she is possessed of an
actively cheerful disposition It is a
sign of kind heart and firm de-
termination to make others happy as
we'll as to be happy herself. The
cheerful woman will fill dozen
causes for congratulation in events
which to others have sinister look.
A week of rain keeps her at home
from a long anticipated visit, but
she will tell you, she undoubtedly
makes herself believe it, that is is
fortunate,' for the season of
quiet has given her chance to finish
a quantity of sewing or to do some
special preserving she was anxious
to have done.-Good Housekeeping.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-10
PACE SIXTEEN.
BRYAN WANTS THE COIN.

telegraphic dispatch from Fair
view last week stated that Bryan
needed five hundred thousand dol
lars to personally conduct his cam
paien and instead of taking some of
his government bonds and cashing
them he appealed to the beloved peo-
pie to help him out.
We need five hundred thousand
plunks,
We need them in our biz
We want to buy the earth in chunks
And make the jackass sizz!
We want these plunks in lots of one
And two and five and ten
Gadzooks-but don't you need the
When you go to buying men!
Of course we're pure-as pure as
stone,
Well make the trusts retreat
By putting up one of our own
Down there on easy street.
Then come across, you sucker brave,
You dreamer and you chump,
Shell out your coin, then dig my
grave
And I will in it jump.
Of course, like one who lived before,
Ny bones shall rise again,
And then, sure Mike, I'll run some
more,
And bleed you without pain
Elk
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-10

1t is suggested that the highly sue
cessful fnanciers Of Count Zeppelin IS
relief fund might take a flyer in aid
of Mr.. Bryan. He needs it.-Buffalo
IN. w. Evening News.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-10

In answer to the Knoxville Senti-
nel's inquiry, "Who is Hisgen?"
Why, Mr.. John Temple Graves run
ming mate, Of course.-Greensboro
Herald-Journal Georgia..
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-10

Mr.. Bryan is about to exhibit his
possession of one qualification for the
Presidency, an unfagging lung power.
Pioneer Times (South
Dakota).
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-10
Say. Mr.. Farmer!

scientific farming received more at
tention than it is receiving at the
present time. It behooves every man
selecting farming as an occupation to
avail himself of every opportunity to
keep abreast of the time. 1t is also
necessary for his wife to know the
Tins and outs" of her departm
home-in order that both may work
Systematically. 1t is every mans
duty to post himself in all the differ
ent features of farm life and to do SO
he must have the right kind of litera-
ture. His wife must also have some
thing for her department, and to
these ends the Texas Farmer, a week
ly farm journal, stands without a peer.
This journal should go into every far
mers home every week. For the pur-
pose OF putting it there we are going
to make an unheard of offer, an offer
that will not hold good after October
because the price and what We offer is
too ridiculously low for us to continue
it and make good.
We will send the Texas farmer and
the National Home Journal, both, one
year for 95 cents; the publishers price
being $3.50. AS an inducement for you
to hurry in your subscription we will
give to each of the first 1000 sub
scribers one share in a we'll we are
going to bore for oil in an oil district
on on 1000 acre lease. If we get oil,
both the least and the we'll will belong
absolutely to these 1000 subscribers
and will mean at least one or two
thousand dollars to each Of them.
If the oil is found to exist in paying
quantities a company will then be or
gained by us and each subscriber is
to pay in $11 more. One of which is
to go to us for our part in carrying
the proposition through to a success
full issue, and the other ten is to go
into the treasury of the new COM
pany for developing purposes; in other
words, to bore more wells on the lease
and conduct the business of the com
pany in general. The we'll does not
WV VAIN
depositing with the First State Bank
of Dallas, to the credit of a trustee, 35
cents out of the amount received from
every subscriber for the purpose of
boring the we'll. If we get oil, and
we are going to bore in an oil district,
each subscribers share will be worth
one or two thousand dollars and he
will not then mind paying in the
other 81 which will develop it and
make it worth much more to him.
REMEMBER, WE ARE AFTER
THESE 1000 SUBSCRIBERS AND
WANT THEM WITHIN THE NEXT
SIXTY DAYS and will send these
papers at this price until October 1 in
effort to get them by that time if
possible. Don't lost any time study
ing over the matter, as the we'll does
not cost you one cent unless we get
oil, and if we do strike it just 81 is
all it will cost you afterward. Only
one share is allowed to one person,
which makes it Square DEAF for all
alike. Hurry in your subscription to-
day and both the papers will be sent
you for one year and also certificate
for your share in the we'll. Send
money by any safe means, but no pri-
Vate checks will be accented unless
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-01
FIRE AT FORT DODGE.
Muroney Manufacturing Plant Burns
with S125.oOO Loss.

Ft. Dodge.-Fire destroyed the Null
roney Manufacturing company's plant
here with loss estimated at over
$125,000 The cause of the blaze is
unknown, but it is thought to have
occurred from defective wiring. 1t
was thought for some time that a
part of the business district was
threatened. The building was a three
story brick and contained stock valu-
ed at over $4,000 The company
manufactured shirts. overals and
other mems goods. The building and
contents are completely ruined. The
loss on the building is $4,000 and on
the machinery $4,000 The total loss
above the insurance is estimated to be
between 100000 and $4,000
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-01
AGAINST UNIFORM SYSTEM.
City Officials at Ottumwa Convention
Oppose Uniform Accounts.

Ottumwa.- Municipal officers in an.
nual convention here unanimously de.
cided that the law providing for uni
form municipal accounting in Iowa
passed by the Thirty-first general as
sembly was as a whole impracticable
in view of the fact that no one set
of books can be used to record all
transactions when the transactions
in each city differ SO widely.
Discussion on this subject was
brought about when State Examiner
A. d. Sheet of Des Moines read 6
lengthy report on the working of the
new law.
John Macyiyar of Des Moines de
livered a very interesting talk De
fore the convention boosting the Des
MONIES plan of city government.
The city clerks and auditors pres
ent at the convention held separ
ate meeting and set on foot a move
for the organization of an auxiliary
body to the league to be comprised
of accounting officers only.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-01
Candidates for Evans Vacancy.
Iowa Falls.-Hon. F. H. Williams

Iowa Falls.-Hon. F. II. Williams of
this city has authorized the announce
ment of his candidacy for district
judge to fill the vacancy that will be
created on the bench in this district
by the resignation of Judge w d
Evans of Hampton. Mr.. Williams has
been a practicing attorney in this
county for the past twenty wears and
is we'll known at the bar In this part
Of the state. Attorney Boeye of
Hamilton county and Attorney Peter
son OF Wright county are mentioned
as probable candidates at this time,
AT any time when yonr stomach is
not in good condition, you should take
kodol, because Kodol digests all the
food you eat, and it supplies health anC
strength for the stomach in that way
You take kodol just for little while
when you have Slight attacks of Ind
gestion, and you take it just little lon
ger in order TO get relief from severe
attacks of Indigestion or Nervous Dys
pspsia. Try Kodol today. Sold by Mich
Dotiing.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-01
TALE OF ITALIAN WITCH.
Twentieth Century sorceress Who
Has Surprised Civilized Humanity.

Is it possible that witches still eX-
list and find credulous victims to CO
zen and fleece? 1t is true the voodoo
woman may be found in the south
and the medicine man is not yet ex-
tnct among the Indian tribes, yet
they are believed to be survivals only
possibly among the uncivilized of the
negro and Indian people, says the
Springfield Republican Yet the real
witch with the caldron in which she
brews her magic philters, with her
spells and curses, are things so who'll
ly of the past that it is a shock to
read of a sorceress having been ar
rested in fair Peruga. Perhaps the
account is the invention of news
paper reporter bound to produce a
sensation for the benefit of his jour.
nal. However that may be, the story
is a good one.
1t sets forth, with due care for
details, the maze of alleys a a suburb
of the city, where a house whose
doors are closed to all but women who
seek powerful love potions to bring
back the affections of lost lovers, oil
fatal drafts that shall properly pre-
serve faithless husbands-shelt
famous sorceress.
Rumors having got about concern
ing the unholy rites and ceremonies
practiced in that house, the police
so the story goes, gain admittance
through a DreteXt seize the WITCH
and search the premises and find it!
walls hung with mysterious symbols
human skulls and bones, heads o
various animals, strange weapons
many books of evil import, full of in
carnations and spells and other aids
such as witches are supposed to use
The woman, who was old and sup
posed to be fabulously wealthy, wa.
seized and all her paraphernalia col
lected and conveyed away for tria
and all Perugia, and presumabl,
Italy is supposed to be in a state o
suspense until the worst is known.
Surprising this tale true, what would
be an adequate punishment for
! witch? In the good old times, so mucl
/ lamented, there would have been blu
one. end possible. The witch would
| have been burned at the stake. Blu
| in 1908 term of imprisonment il
| probably the worst that could happen
| and that would be flat ending o
| the story But the days of what il
! called romance are over.