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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
KEEPS THE sToRk BUSY.
Single Square in Nlcetown Where the Presidents Theories Are Upheld.
om the Philadelphia American.

From the Philadelphia American.
 There are no crusty bachelors or crab- bed old maids in Archer street, Nice- town. The tiny square has been pre- empted by an anti-race suicide commun- ity, and President Roosevelts theories are stoutly upheld.
 The thoroughfare teens with children from months to 13 years old. There are gurgling, glggling babies in preambu- lators, fat toddlers clnging to their mothers skirts, small boys and girls old enough to make such a commotion as to drive the Anti-Noise society to distrac- ton, and so many youngsters of the school age that the street looks like an annex to public playground after school hours.
 The storlx is a welcome and frequent visitor to Archer street. It is the one place in Philadelphia where it is con- sidered fashionable to have yearly ad- diton to the family, and residents who can't claim this distinction are looked upon askance by their neighbors.
 When the good bird does appear in Archer street he frequently brings null tiplied blessings. and twins and triplets are a well known quantity in many homes.
 Residents of the little thoroughfare are proud of its reputation and boast that there are more children in the block than in any other square of the same size in Philadelphia
 Here are some Archer street statistics:
 Length of street. one block.
 Number of families, 31.
 Number of children, 102.
 Largest family has nine children.
 Number of families with five or more children, eight.
 You never found a proud mother who wouldn't talk indefinitely and without full stop of her offspring, and the Archer street mothers are no exception to this rule.
 They beam all over when any one asks how many Johnnie and Tommies and Sallies there are, and if the interviewer gets off without a detailed account of every case of chickenpox and humps, 1t must be because he is churlish or a bachelor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
BRYAN ASSURED
 OF NOMINATION

Lincoln, Neb., June 13.-(Special.)- Ut is all over at Denver but the shouting. William J. Bryan is absolutely assured of the democratic nomination. This IS the statement of the Nebraskan's pub llcity bureau, maintained by the friends of Bryan in his home state. Conventions have been held in all of the states and territories, but there. Bryan's bureau lroclaims that 630 delegates are already l.lstructed for the Nebraskan and that 67 others in states not bound by the unit rule have declared their personal pref erence for him and will give Bryan their votes. This gives Bryan 697 votes g more than will be required to nominate on the first ballot. The states with Porto Rico in addition, which have yet to hold their conventions. Tennessee, North Caro- lima, Vermont Georgia, Maine, Misss- sippi, Montana and Colorado.
 The Bryan bureau maintains that the Nebraskan will get large majority of the 146 votes of these three states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14

Wash ington, June 13.-(SpeciaL)- The Missouri Pacific Railroad company, of the Gould system, is charged in d complaint filed today with the inter- state commerce commission with hay ing given rebates direct and indirect during the past six years to the T. H. Bunch company of Little Rock, Ark, aggregating in value more than 50,000. The complaint is made by the Brook Rauch Mill and Elevator company of Little Rock, a rival concern to the Bunch company. The commission is ed to determine the actual amount of rebates paid in order that the gov ernment may recover three times the amount of such rebates from the rail- way company, that special facilities granted the Bunch company be discon- tinued and that all unjust ~s<rimina- tions be ended
 It is charged by the Brook -Rauch company that the discriminatory treat ment in favor of the Bunch company has been practiced since 1887.
 The Bunch company deals in grain and provisions, buying and selling
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14

the low pressure turbine, with it's wide blades and large nozzles, will handle a great volume of steam in rapid motion and utilize all the energy.
 The Curtis low-pressure turbine is made in sizes from 700 to 10000 horsepower designed to take steam at one pound gauge pressure and efficiently utilize its energy. It can be advantageously applied in any case where reciprocating engines are now used and will increase the sta tion output without increase of boiler plant or using more fuel
 The possibilities of the low pressure tur- bine will be more readily understood If the available work in different ranges of steam pressure are shown. If saturated steam operates from pressure of lb0 pounds gauge to a pressure of l pound above the atmosphere, the available en- ergy is about 132 .0O0 foot pounds per pound of steam; and if saturated steam operates from a pressure of 1 pound above the atmosphere to vacuum of 2S% inches below the atmosphere the available energy is 146.000 foot pounds per pound In the mixture of steam and water issuing from an ordinary steam engine exhausting at pressure or l pound above the atmosphere the above available energy is reduced to about 12.- 900 foot pounds per pound of steam. Un- ger these ordinary conditions there is as much work available at low pressure as high. In a turbine properly proportioned for this work the efficiency in these low pressure ranges is better than the high pressure part.
 The low-pressure turbine is very simple in construction, consisting of nothing more than four wheels, each with sin gle row of wide buckets, enclosed in a shell and direct connected with genera tor.
 The Philadelphia Rapid Transit com pany installed two lowpressure turbines with the result that their coal consump- ton per kilowatt hour has dropped from AS pounds to 408 pounds, showing saw ing of four pounds of coal per kill owatt hour. As the total out put of the station for six months was 20, ,346,890 kilowatt hours this shows a saving of 4069 tons of coal or S13S tons for the year which, at s a ton, amounts to $24, Al, saved every year. One of the steam engines. which gives 1900 kilowatts, is connected with a low-pressure turbine which gives 800 kilowatts additional en- ergy from the steam formerly wasted Tn the exhaust.
 It is conceded by all engineers that the steam turbine is the best form of engine to utilize steam energy under the very highest pi assures and it has lately been proven that it is just as valuable when working at low pressures
 It is a revelation to know how much power is being wasted from the exhaust of the common steam engine and it is source of pleasure to every person in terested in manufacture to know that American brains and American industry have developed a new engine to utilize this power.
 The plants equipped with reciprocating engines, which are now struggling to produce enough electrical current to SUD- ply the ,mand, can install low-pressure turbines to take the exhaust or wasted steam and the output will be increased fully 40 per cent, with no added cost for boilers or coal and only the initial ex- rense of installing the new equipment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
CINCINNATI MAY
 HAVE CAR STRIKE

Cincinnati, June 13.-Unruly crowds, in dicating the beginning of the long, threat ened conductors and motormen strike, are gathering on Fountain Square and riot alarms were turned in by the police It is claimed that the officers of the street hallway employees union were notifying the men as they passed on their cars Ihe police charged the crowd and made several arrests.
 One hundred men were discharged re- gently for being. members of the union and the organizers of the union declare mat unless the men are reinstated that 5ll the men will strike. They claim that HOO of the 100 employees are members of inc union.
 Another meeting of the employees whcn will be held early tomorrow morning. Will decide what action will be taken.
 At late hour tonight the car service had not been interrupted to any degree
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
RAILROAD IS CHARGED
 WITH GIVING REBATES

throughout the south west. The rail- way company, it is alleged, furnfs ! the Bunch company a warehouse in Little Rock and a warehouse, mill and elevator are rented to Bunch company for $1 per annum, which constitutes a discriminating rbate in favor of the Bunch company against all competitors.
 The value of the property rented at $1 per annum is said to be fully $2e5,- 900 and it's annual rental should be $20,000
 The failure to collect such a rental from the Bunch company, it is charged. amounts to the granting of rebate of this sum.
 The Brook -Rauch company claim that it has been denied storage and sheltering facilities in the Argentl warehouse and elevator, although of- fering to pay lawful rates.
 A further discrimination is charged in that the Missouri Pacific has paid the Bunch company damages sustained through delay in transit, while refus- ing like payments to other shippers and millers.
 It is alleged that such damage pay ments were rebates charged to the damage account to conceal the charac ter of the transactions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14

1adega and Birmingham, which Is under construction and which President Atlkln- son expects to have In operation not later than September 1,
 The opening of the Atlanta, Birming- ham and Atlantic railroad Is noteworthy for two reasons; First, because 1t Is the first new system entering Atlanta in 15 years: that ls It Is the first railroad actually built into the railroad eentef of the south In that length of time, and second, it marks the practical completion of the largest new system in the south during the present generation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
ONE DEATH AS RESULT OF THE PARDON 0F POWERS AND HOWARD

Cattletsburg, Ky, June 13.-One ne- gro is dead, and another negro and a white man mortally wounded. The of Col. Warfield Lee, an ex-Conseder- ate.
 The dead negro is Harry Scott, shot through the heart. The other negro, James Shockey. Is shot through the shoulder, and the white man, John Galloway. through the lower part of the abdomen. Lee and Galloway wer } discussing the pardon of Powers and Howard when Scott interposed some remarks and the quarrel started.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
The Jackass and Debs.
From Success Magazine

' TOTI SuCCeSS MaSaZlne.
 Eugene V. Debs, the socialist leader tells the following story on himself:
 "I was to address public meeting and t'lere was intense prejudice against me, so the young man who had to introduce ne thought he would try to disarm it.
 'Debs Is hated by some people, ne said, because he has been in strikes This is not right. It is the law of nature to defend yourself. Why, even a dog will erowl if you try to deprive him of the Tone he is gnawing, q goat will butt If you get in his way and you all know what a jacliass will do if you monkey with him. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Debs, who will now address you. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
What He Took.

From the Washington Herald.
 "A tall, lean man from the country went into a Minneapolis (Minn.) music store recently, and stepping up to clerk asked to be shown some bass horns,'' began George J. Fisxe of Minneapolis. at the Cochran last night. He spent ,6 minutes looking at three horns. Then, pointing to big one, he asked it's price.
 Seventy dollars replied the clerk.
 And that one? he asked pointing to another.
 Sixty
 How about the other?
 That's a fifty-dollar horn
 Wall drawled the countryman, gimme g good 10-cent jewsharp.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
had built several boats of great ton

had built several boats of great ton mage.
 At Birmingham a number of those interested in the road have organized the Birmingham Coal and Iron com pany and are actively engaged in the mining of Pratt coal and the produc- tion of pig iron in great quantities The railroad has fine facilities in Bir- mingham, owning valuable tracts of land in the heart of the city which will be used for right-of-way and terminal purposes. In Atlanta the company owns desirable property centrally To- cated and has passenger and freight facilities equal to those of any railroad in the south.
 MT. Atkinson's Work.
 Mir. Atkinson, the man to whom is due very largely the credit for the success 0f these enterprises has lived in Atlanta for approximately 25 years. He was born Tn Boston, Mass, and was a student a. Harvard. He Is 43 years of age, and nas been engaged in the organiza ton anl operation of public utility corporations for about IS years. During that time ne iias caused to be invested in the south by northern and eastern capitalists sums Nariously estimated at from S60 GOO, GOO to SI5,000,o00 His expenditures during the last two years have exceeded $1000 GOO q month. He has constructed several hand some and commodious office buildings organized lumber companies. is president CT the Tampa Northern railway, chair man of the board of directors of the Georgia Railway and Electric company, which supplies the street railway, cleo tric lighting and was service to Atlanta and her suburbs; organized the street railway electric light, gas and water Iower company of Birmingham; organ ized the Brunswick Steamship company, organized the Birmingham Coal and Iron company, and has a large number of smaller interests. He is regarded as the giant of southern financers, and one of the best posted men of affairs in the United States
 That the Atlanta, Birmingham and At i9ntic railroad begins business with tho good will of the public whom 1t serv as and of the people in the territory through which it operates, is demonstrated by the celebration in it's honor planned by the chamber of commerce.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

still air and echoed and re-echoed
among the hills.
"Wilberforce's gun |" cried the father,
deadly pale, for 1t had been decided
that no gun should be fired unless some
trace Of Polly were found.
They hurried on, the father, with a
terrible sinking Of the heart, falling
step or two behind, and where rlvulet
moistened the sand, as it joined the
river, small footprint was plainly to
be seen. II. was Polly's beyond doubt.
Miles and miles from home, in a wilder
ness where no one lived, whose could
II be but hers? Had there been a
doubt, smaller track than Polly's foot
ever made-two of them very close to
her own-wOuld have dispelled 1t. Yes,
Spot was with her!
When her brother left her the preced-
Ing morning Polly sat in happy fear
lessness watching the slain bear. Sud-
denly Spot sprung up, barking f1ercely.
She heard q rustic In the bushes, a
dark form bounded forward and with
savage snarlings fastened itself upon
the bears body.
Polly's own thought was to get away,
she fed at first like frightened fawn.
After a while, seeing that she was not
pursued, she tried to find her way
home, only to be convinced at last that
she was lost. She was more perplexed
than frightened. She knew that Will
berforce would hunt for her, and had
she only remained In one place he
would have found her before very long.
But she ''went to meet him" and so
strayed farther away. When night fell
she nestled against fallen tree, where
the leaves were drifted thick and dry,
and Spot lay down at her feet She
remembered the lessons in woodcraft
taught her all her life and knew If she
| travelled with the water that she would
come to where people lived after a
while.
She had been hungry and had peeled
birch bark with her little tomahawk.
| Spot never forsook her. Sometimes he
would dash into the woods and bark
| furiously, but he always returned to
| her SIDE
When Wilberforce, seeing her foot
print, fired the signal shot, she knew
the ring of the rifle and remarked
gravely to Spot:
1--WE will wait a little"
She stood quite still, waiting" while
Spot barked deliriously, and Wilber-
force, throwing aside his rife, bounded
forward. II a minute later she was
folded close IN her brothers arms
Chicago News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

the forest. he made the entire circuit
of the spring, but 1t availed nothing.
His reason convinced him that the wis.,
est thing to do was to return and sum-
mon others to aid In the search, and
homeward he rode In the bright morn
ing sunshine, secret hope In his heart
that Polly had found her way thither
before him.
The hope was vain, for the first ques-
ton asked him was where is Polly?"
and when, In hoarSe tones, he told all
he could tell, his mother grew deathly
white and staggered to a seat, while
his father snatched his gun and gave
rapid orders to hfs younger sons. They
were to summon the nearest neighbors
and from each house a runner was to
be sent to the house beyond, so that the
news would spread quickly.
The neighbors responded to the call
with hearty good will. Active young
men and experienced old ones, who
could tell by the manner In which the
prey was killed or carried OF, whether
bear or wolf or panther had done the
deed, gathered at the dick" where VIII
berforce had killed the bear, and
search the woods In steadily widening
circles, but searched In vain.
AS nightfall approached they drew
together to kindle their camp fires and
take counsel for the ensuing day.
Children that get lost" said the old
est man, looking at the high peak that
the fading sun still Redeemed, mostly
climb; don't know what they do 1t
for, but they do"
The hills before them were spurs Of
the Alleghanies, high and steep.
eff her little feet" he went on
thoughtfully, have taken her to one of
those hills, she could see fires burning
here"
The suggestion was eagerly acted up
on and many fires were lighted and fed
all night by watchers who longed to see
the light of day. And the mother in
her deserted home kept lonely vigil.
They had sent back to her a message
which they hoped would comfort her d
little:
They had not found her yet, but
they had found nothing to make them
think that she was dead; they believed
she was alive"
WiIberforce had privately instructed
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
SIMPLE OR COMPLEX LIFE.

Each Has It's Disadvantages Accord
ing to Sarcastic Writer.
Life is now SO complex. 1t is this
complexity Of life that makes it what
it is. We live for to-day, tomorrow
and next day; sometimes for other
days; many seem to live only for sal
airy day. We look forward to 1t and
backward at it, and we have SO little
equilibrium, also hard cash. The world
has grown worldly. 1t asks money, al
ways money usually, more money than
anything is worth, and we must pay.
multimillionaires- betrays us into
lapses from that peace of mind which
should characterize the simple life.
We have broken with simplicity. No
longer will we sleep in cold bed cham
bers as our fathers did, and peel off the
frost and rhine from our whiskers as we
leap out upon the bare floor with the
thermometer at below zero. In those
simple days they had no thermometers,
nor felt the need of them. They knew
it was geementally cold without To-
cent apparatus to tell them SO. The
thermometer has helped to make the
simple life complex.
In those days that we have drifted
away from in our worfdliness the whole
family roasted around one fire in the
great roaring fireplace. AS you sat bJ
the quiet fireside lamp perusing your
studious researches the children played
leap frog on the floor, the innocent baIb~
squalled fitfully in its cradle, the dot
thumped his rear elbow intermittent
ly on the floor In fruitless but noisy
disturbance of his infinitesimal compan-
ions, the cat strobe about the table
purring and from time to time caressing
your eyebrow with wave of her vel
vety tail, the father OF the flock dis
puted long and earnestly sometimes In
loud, disturbing asperity with his help
meet on the price she mad paid for yarn,
the younger son came in stamping
throwing armfuls of snow-incrusteG
wood upon the floor thunderOusly be-
side the chimney, the maid beat the
batter for the morning cakes effusively
and diffusively, meanwhile singing a
right proper hymn with vehemence
through her nose.
This was the simple life. Now 1t IL
complex. We have room to our
selves, q steam radiator for heat, cleo
trio light, and may dwell upon our
book In silence and solitude. All, it La
grievous. In the language Of the Gallo
apostle who has recently been among
us, LET US save and cause to last as
long as possible all which still exists
OF the patriarchal, no matter under
what FORM" 1t US go back TO the
roaring fireplace and its noisy domestic
simplicity, where the whole evening Is
spent in the distracting and trivial up
roar Of the customary family circle OF
1S4S.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
WzHN DE wATERMELYUN's RIPE
q. dar's glory in de 'possum

o, dar's glory in de 'possum
An de sweet potato too;
Oar am sweetness in de chicken
An De steaming rabbit stew,
But de time we been expectin'
An ouah moufs we gin to wipe,
Am de middle OBJ de summah
When de watermilyun's ripe.
Den de 'possum's out o. season
An we pass de chicken by
Doan make a bit o diffunce
81 he roos' a little high,
Cause he amt such mighty eatin'
An he amt wuth while to swips
In de middle OBJ de summah
When de watermiIyun's ripe.
Tell 70 how to SCUM a milyun,
II 70 shuah would want know,
KNOCK it Wild you middle fngah
jest a coaxin' little blow.
IF de SCUM dat comes up from It
Am a sort o. hollow like,
70 mus get 20 razah ready,
Knze dat watermilyun's ripe.
~ 70 likes de matermilyun,
An 20 eats into de rine,
Cholry mo'bus shO' to take you
Take you way befO' yo' time.
Den dey'n print yo' 'bituaRy
In de colest kin' o. type,
Kaxe vol fin dat YOU be missin'
When de watermilyun's ripe.
What to Eat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

to. the bearer of this message a separ-
ate one.
"Tel mother" he said. 81 will never
come home alive without Polly"
Every one felt sympathy for the I'M
happy youth, whose distress was i'll
concealed beneath a show of firmness.
All day he had prosecuted the search
with utter disregard of his own powers
Of endurance, and not until night fell
did he pause to take an interval of
rest.
He could not bear the light and
warmth of the fire, for he felt that
wherever Polly was she had neither,
and lying apart in the shadow he heard
two old hunters conversing together in
low tones.
my idea is" said the first, that a
bear has carried her off. / have seen
them walk off with a shoat under each
fore paw-and she was little"
But the dog that was with herr"
questioned the other
Eyes, the dog; well, if 1t followed
her, there was the panther, you see,
and they generally hunt in pairs"
At earliest dawn the search was re-
newed. The leaders OF the band took
counsel together and divided their
number into three parties. One was
to proceed toward the mountains, the
others In opposite directions, and they
were not to journey farther than it was
likely child Of tender years would
travel. Hardly waiting to hear the
signals agreed upon, Wherefore hur-
ried away. He looked so haggard. so
unlike his usual self, that his father
changed his mind In regard to the route
he would take, and, bespeaking the
company OF a few old friends, conclud-
Ell to follow his son.
"For," said the father, simply, "if he
should find her torn by beasts he might
do himself hurt, and it would be poor
comfort to me to lose two children in
stead OF one"
An idea had formed itself In the
brothers mind, and as he pushed on
toward the river, which 1t was impos-
sible a little girl could cross, he repeat
ed again and again to himself: "If
Spot is alive he Is with Polly" For
he knew both the intelligence and the
fidelity OF the little creature-and he
could not believe that his sister was
dead. Urged on by his excited feelings,
he outstripped his father and the men
that were with him. and though it was
easy TO follow him, where he had dash
ed through the bushes, when they
reached the river he was still out of
sight
Youth is governed more by impulse,
maturer age by reason, and as Polly's
father walked onward with bent head
he listened with a heavy heart to the
speech OF his companions.
'1t is net likely, David, your little
child ever walked so far as this Now,
when little Jake was taken
A rifle rang out through the bright,