The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-09

veal and chicken flyers, he says. played
 & very important part in the concoction
 of this expensive dish, but the muskrat
 today is supposed to contribute the real
 substance Although many squeamish
 persons are made uncomfortable at the
 thought of it he declares that the musk
 rat is, as a matter of fact. the very
 cleanest and daintiest feeder in the whole
 kingdom It eats only shellfish. succulent
 roots and things of that kind, washing
 its food with the utmost care.
 Substitutes for food is nothing new in
 other cities A made-over partridge caus-
 ed a sensation in a prominent restaurant
 in London recently. An indignant diner
 who was carving discovered that the birds
 had evidently been served to previous
 customers and ingeniously reconstructed
 by the chef who had supplied the miss
 ing parts with chicken meat Every
 week. thousands of boxes of imported
 camembert cheese boxes and other boxes
 bearing the names of other French
 cheeses arrive in New York from France.
 They reach here quite empty and are forwarded to the upper part of New York state and Connecticut to be filled with real camembert or brie as the i'm ported labels on the imported boxes in dicate.
 The artificial mutton chop is another triumph. A patron in Chicago hotel
  thick English mutton chop discovered that 1t was a chop that had been built i up again with odds and ends of mutton pressed into shape and skewered to hold them together.
 Another apostle of ;frenzied finance has fallen. Charles w.. Morse, the one time controller of almost numberless
 banks and steamship companies, is in hiding and his creditors have attached everything that he owns. In many re- 1 spects the career of Charles w. Morse has been more spectacular than that of ! any financier who ever came to New York city and made and lost millions here.
 Morse is a product of Bath, Me The first money he earned was as @ candy butcher" or peddler on Maine steam
 boat, though his father was well-to-do. His grandfather was the first man to establish a towing business in the Ken | nebec river His father inherited and enlarged the business and planned to hand it down to his son Charles. As soon as the boy finished in the grammar schools his father put him In the office l of the towboat company and gave him | $1,50O year to keep the books
 Young Morse was determined to get 1 @ college education and exhibited at that 1 time the astuteness which subsequently made him a high financier. He hired a | young man to keep the books of his 1 fathers concern for $500 year and with the $1,00O left over went to Bowdoin col ! lege. He was always a money getter, | though there was no need for 1t. He I utilized his vacation by peddling candy l on steamboats patronized by summer ex- | cursionists and tourists.
 l After making millions with his ice trust | in New York he began to acquire banks | He needed money to carry on his gigantic | speculations and the money put in vari- | ous banks by the deposltors suited his | purpose. He bought stock in one bank, | hypothecated 1t with other banks, bought
 the stock of second, hypothecated that | with the first bank. and thus his chain 1 of hanks was started. He always haC