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Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-24
LOST AND FOUND.

L0sT-Dec. 18th, a brown squirrel muff. Finder please return it to 331 Washington St. and receive reward.
 dec24d
 PUPPY LOsT-Black cocker spaniel spayed, lame in left hind leg. Finder leave at Mrs. Norton Vergason's. Yer
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-24
WANTED.

WANTED-Ten or twelve woodchop- pers, at once, Apply 28 Tanner St., Norwich Town. dec22d
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-24

ALL KINDS OF RAW FURs bought and sold and tanned. Taxidermist work done Mitchell Laramie. 719 Main St. Willimantic. decSd
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-24

WANTED-Raw furs Will pay Boston and New York prices. At H. A Heebner's Harness Store every Thurs day. Arthur C. Bennett. nov9d
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
Mobile to Invite President.

Mobile has named something like 25 citizens on the committee to go to Wash ington invite President Tatt to visit our city," said Republican National Commit teeman P. D. Barker of the Gulf City last night, and no less than 15 of them will be present to extend a hearty in- vitation. We believe the President will pay us a visit on his southern trip and we will do all we can to induce him to honor us with his presence.
 By the way, you may not realize it, but the action of Birmingham last fall in asking the President to postpone his visit to Birmingham was regarded in Mobile as a very unusual thing. In Mo bile We will take a President any time, any hour and for any length of time he can be with us. If the President were to notify us tonight that he would be with US tomorrow. we would be happy and would receive him with open arms. think you will never hear of Mobile asking a President to postpone a visit proposed by him to some future date, especially when a large committee of leading citizens had beforehand gone to him and urged him to come when he could :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
The Memphis Reunion.

Already there is much enthusiastic in terest being taken in the United Confed- crate Veterans reunion to be held in Memphis June 8-10' said a son of vet eran.
 "The three camps of veterans and four camps of sons, together with the military, will make a good showing for Jefferson county. There is a plan on foot to take the Boys Industrial School band and let them camp in tents.
 Speaking of veterans, I wish to relate an incident of recent occurrence. An old man rather poorly dressed and unpleas- ing to look at came to my office and at first impressed me as mendicant, or one in search of drink. questioned him and suddenly I spied peeping out from under his coat his bronze badge. It turned out that he had come to Birmingham to accept a position from his old captain in the Confederate army, and had lost his way. Well, he was given car fare and properly directed I mention this to show the sometimes practical value of the Con- federate Veterans badge. This is but one of two instances that I have recently known of the value of this sesame"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
A ROYAL TlPPLER.

From the Washington Post
 There is recorded in the Bodleian library of Oxford an innkeepers bill for break fast eaten by Peter the Great Czar of Russia, and his suite of 20 persons. They ate half sheep, quarter of lamb, 10 bullets, 12 chickens and seven dozen eggs, and washed it down with three quarts of brandy and six quarts of mulled wine. How much bread they disposed of is not stated. It is also recorded that Peter was hard thinker and began the day with a pint of brandy and a bottle of sherry After dinner he drank eight bottles of sack, but his favorite tipple was hot pep per in brandy.
 It Is a monstrous pity that this tre- mendous barbarian, who civilized mighty people, sojourned in England in the time of Squire Western instead of the period of Daniel Quilp. A drinking bout between the colossus of the north and Dickens immortal miscreant would have been worth a long journey to see in a London coffee house.
 Climate has much to do with the quan- tity of alcohol people consumes. Spain, Italy and Turkey are the most temperate nations of Europe, whereas the Russians and Poles drink copiously of spirits, and there was time when the Scandinavians were great consumers of alcohol.
 The English drink more than the French. and the Scotch more than either, and yet vital statistics show that lon gevity in Scotland is the greatest in Chris tendon, and population considered, no people in history have produced more in- tellectual men than the Land O Cakes. In cold and humid climate the in- habitants can, and do, consume with im- punity, perhaps with advantage. quanti- ties of alcohol that would destroy human life in warm and dry climate.
 Richard of England was hard drinker, whereas Saladin the Saracen refreshed himself with the most inslpid spiced sherbet.
 Climate has much to do with the con- sumption of foods and drinks. In Morocco one can live on fruits; in Finland he must have pork. Yet the worlds four greatest onquesors-Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and Napoleon-were of the south, that drank wine rather than spirits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
BOYHOOD OF THE WRIGHTS

they developed propellers for their ma chine on information which they had discovered for themselves. Further than this, and more important. they had to work out new tables showing the pressure of the air against various surfaces at various angles.
 On December IT, 1903, after the boys had made hundreds and hundreds of ex- perimental flights In tn cir gliding ma chine (nearly 1000 in September and October alone), tn cir first machine to carry gasoline engine made a suc- cessful flight. This was at Kill Devil Hill, in the presence of five persons, and it was the first time in the history of the world that a power-driven heavier-than-afr flying machine, with man aboard, ever left this planet in successful flight. The first flight lasted only 12 seconds, but later the same day the machine flew for 59 seconds. covering distance of 825 feet against a 20mile- our wind.
 The time to celebrate had arrived! l! So the boys went to telegraph office and wired the news home with a dollar which the good bishop had given them to spend for that purpose if they met with success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
Thrown Off Train and Killed.

Sioux City. la, May 23.-While Northwestern passenger train No. II, en route to Sioux City from Council Bluffs, wasA running at speed of 50 miles an hour, three men who were beating their way on the tender engaged in a combat, and one, whose name could not be learned, was pushed over the end of the tender and was crushed to death. One of the two men remaining rushed over to the cab and charged the other with the crime. The train was slowed down and the man jumped off. He was cap tured by the engineer and fireman and both men turned over to the officers at Missouri Valley. They gave names of Jack Pyatt and Ben Sloan. The lat ter has been held for murder. The crime occurred at Crescent, Ia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
LOST CITY OF THE lNcAs.

From the Boston Advertiser.
 Dr. Hiram Bingham, lecturer on Latin- American history at Yale. has returned from an exploration of Choqquequirau, believed to be the lost city of the Incas, in Peru. It is the first recorded explora- ton of the ancient city; 1t is claimed that until he went there no one had vis- ited the place for the last 400 years At any rate, 1t seems to be an interesting place. To get there reauired weeks hard travel from Cuzco, the ancient oapi- tai of the Incan empire. Choqquequirau lies at an elevation of about 13OO0 feet. Dr. Bingham believes that the place was a fort built by the Incas to protect them- selves against attacks of the Amazon In- dians. He found traces of fortifications and many relics. The buildings are made, not of the finely wrought stone of the palaces in Cuzco, but of roughly hewn stone cemented together, and the interiors in some places Fare plastered The old water works remain, and several reser- voirs are in good condition, The archaeo- logical possibilities of South America give rich promise for the daring and de- termined explorer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
No SUNDAY CLOTHES"

From the New York Times
 ESQ far as clothes are concerned, New York doesn't have to wait for the sweet by and by for every day to be Sunday" remarked a recently acclimated New Yorker. "Reekoned from a sartorial standpoint all the days are Sunday here right now. New York Deople-7those of them, that is, who have been here long enough to get the hang of things-fght shy of even the suggestion of Sunday clothes. To cling to Sabbatical finery argues one provincial. If you have any, thing nice to wear in this town just put it on and wear 1t on Sunday and Monday and Tuesday and every other day in the week.
 Tt took several broad hints from inter- ested friends to teach me that lesson in metropolitan manners. I had fairly good clothes when I came to New York, but 1t never occurred to me to wear them in the middle of the week. I wanted to keep them for Sunday. When, upon the advice of my roommate, I finally con- cluded to fly in the face of @ lifelong tradition my heartstrings nearly snapped. From my childhood I had been used to Sunday clothes. I had had Sunday shoes that squeaked, Sunday hair ribbons guilt less of crease or stain, and Sunday frock straight from Spotless Town. l was very uncomfortable, I dare say, in all those immaculate fxings. but 1t was the custom to trig ourselves out so and we never thought of outraging custom.
 But now, all that Is changed. I have shed provincial habits. I am a full fiedged New Yorker. consequently I have no Sunday clothes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
Mortality In Fly Time

The evidence against the house fly is rapidly accommodating. The infant death rate is attributed to it's dirty feet. Says pr. John B. Huber in the New York State Journal of Medicine:
 "It is certain that flies help greatly 10 swell the infant death rate. The infant mortality is greatest in fly time. There are few more congenial culture media for bacteria than milk, especially amidst the uncleanliness which obtains in the houses of many very poor people This fluid easily becomes contaminated with the excreta of flies and with the noxous mat ter clinging to their feet, Tuberculosis is thus in very appreciable manner con- tracted by children. as also dysenteries and dlarrheas. This is especially so since We are now convinced that all kinds of diarrheas, except the comparatively few cases which are induced by mechanical causes, are due to specific germs.
 Dr. Henry D. Holton of the Vermont state board of health presents a case within his knowledge. He says:
 For several years one or more persons living on a large farm, which received it's , water supply from mountain springs, had typhoid fever in the autumn-new farm hands generally being the sufferers. No pollution of the water supply was discov- cred, but investigation showed that the farm privy was unscreened and swarming with flies, which had free access to the house and its food supplies After the old closet was abandoned for more modern ar engagements, and the house supplied with screens, no cases of typhoid occurred in the neighborhood"
 It is scarcely necessary to add more evidence. The case against the fly Is considered by all intelligent physicians established beyond controversy, and it follows, therefore, that all who desire to preserve the health of their respec- tive families will use screens until no fly can reach the food consumed in the household. Some day in the great and glorious future the housefy and the mosquito will be exterminated. Until they are use screens. The unscreened house is the house of danger. That's the case as it stands at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
Bov's Dead Body Found.

Warsaw, Ind, May 23-(SpeciaL)- The body of boy was found on the eastbound Pennsylvania railroad tracks at Wooster, five miles east of Warsaw, at 5:30 this morning by the crew of a freight train which was stopped to avoid passing over it. The body was lying with the feet between the rails. It was well dressed with knicker- lockers and white waist. There was nothing to indicate identity. The only explanation offered was that the boy fell or was knocked off the platform of passenger train during the night No report has been received of any boy having been missed from a train. The body is being held
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
China A9ain Controls MalGhnria

The firm stand taken by American Consul Fisher against the claims of the Russians in Harbin and throughout the remainder of Northern Manchuria has resulted in treaty that fully recognizes the sovereignty of China and affirms the principle of the open door. This victory was in part due to the joint action of the United States, Germany and Great Britain. These nations came to the aid of China, and their efforts. have at length restored Northern Manchuria to China. Russia will keep no troops except a limited number of railroad guards. Harbin becomes, for the first time, a Chinese city open to all the world.
 Japan will naturally and logically follow suit in Mukden and the rest of Southern Manchuria When this Is ac- compished all of Manchuria will be opened to the world and China alone will possess the rights of sovereignty This is a great gain to China, and it presents and emphasizes some of the results of the war between Russia and Japan. Chinese entity isl to be pre- served and Russian power minimized in the Far East.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
Body Is Identified.

Paducah, Ky, May 23.-Western Kentucky towns for two days have been wondering whether body brought back from Kansas City re- gently by J. W. Wite of Paducah was Hite's son or the remains of Higger- son Riley, a telegraph operator of Hen derson, Ky. When the elder Riley reached Paducah today he identified the body as that of his son, who was killed in the Missouri city. Hite had brought it home for that of his son, killed in Nebraska, and the mistake was found by signs on the clothing of Riley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
A Visitor Impressed.

This Is my first visit to Birmingham, V said T. j. Fagin, a member of the St Louis bar. q find a large, handsome, thriving city. The business district sug- gests to me young Chicago, but owing to the iron and steel industries and the wonderful advantages which this section has as a manufacturing center Birming- ham is very properly known by the soubriquet, the Pittsburg of the south
 "As solidly built as the mercantile dis trict is, the great glory of Birmingham is found in its residence sections. I was prepared to find a well built city, but in riding along Highland avenue and taking a view from Red mountain, in company with MT. Sterling A. Wood, I marveled at the beauty of Birmingham and the evil dent wealth of it's citizens"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
improvement Continues
prosperous

Each successive week since the mid dle of April has witnessed marked i'm preyement in the industrial world, and at the rate at which the iron and steel trade is reviving it will not be many months before business condi- tions throughout the country will be almost, if not quite, normal again. Orders for steel rails still lag but this tagging cannot continue much longer. Idle cars are steadily diminishing in number and with the railroads fairly busy once more betterments on sub stantial scale will be started.
 The recuperative power of this coun- trys material interests was never so well in evidence as now. The panic of 1907 was violent and the depression which immediately followed was sorely felt; but in less than year there were many signs of returning conf dence and today an era of unparalleled prosperity is coming in sight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24

invite the oppressed that have s10 a head.
 The bill before the Senate finance committee should be voted down by all who believe America should con tinue to be the asylum of all who de- sire to find new homes. The bill dis criminates between men. all of whom are needed to develop our resources and to add to the national wealth. The man or woman who can pay but a small head tax would prove perhaps a valuable an addition and asset as the man who could pay s10 head tax. The discrimination lacks business sense, is un-American and is wholly uncalled for by the general situation. It probably came from the narrow brain of some Henry Cabot Lodge in the crowded New England environ ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
Liberia and Liberlan Problems

Liberia, the independent negro re- public, is just about the size of Ala bama It extends from Sierra Leone, belonging to England, to the Ivory coast, belonging to France, and it's coast line is about 500 miles long, while it's hinterland is about 200 miles deep. Lying almost under the equator it holds about 2,00O,O0O native negroes. who are either pagans or Moham- medans, and 60,000 civilized negroes. English is the official language.
 Liberia was planned in 1916 as a home for freed American negroes. and in 1847 it became an independent re- public. Its people export coffee, rub Der, palm oil, cocoa and raffia fibre, and it is said to contain seams of coal and some gold.
 It's finances are in disorganized condition and it's revenue, about $350.- 000 Is derived almost wholly from i'm ports. The United States has dis patched to it three commissioners, and their recent arrival at Monrova, the capital, was the occasion of warm demonstrations of welcome.
 It is difficult to see what the com mission can accomplish for the Lii berians. It was sent to study condi- tions, but what the Liberians need is a protectorate and plenty of good ad vice. The other nations would not ob- ject to either, but this country is far from being ready to guarantee the in- dependence of Liberia or to guide it's affairs. It's resources are undeveloped. It's people are poor. It needs an up- lift. This country is not prepared to join the occupants of Africa in the great game of territory grabbing, and Congress will decline to assume any responsibility for Liberian acts, no matter how strong our sentimental links with that distant land may be. There would have to be wide depar- ture from time-honored American policies of this country if we are to become entangled in any way in the affairs of the Black Republic No one threatens Liberia-it simply is not prosperous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
To Keep Out Immigrants

The congested districts of New Eng land and the states that lie about New York city are endeavoring to restrict immigration, simply because they have enough workers at present. They do not consider the needs of the far west or of the south. They regard them selves alone, and from their selfish ness and localism has arisen a bill to raise the head tax on immigrants to $10. It now stands at $2.
 This means that the poor immigrant would be shut out. We have in the past invited the poor and oppressed of all nations to come here, but under the bill now before the Senate finance committee this invitation would be re- stricted to those who can pay $10 head tax. This would cut out the poor at any rate. and we would hereafter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
WHEN BASEBALL WAS YOUNG

Will Irwin, in Golfers.
 It was a crude game, but merry In theory the pitcher was there only to give the boys a chance to soak the ball." First bound" was still out The unfor- tunate catcher. handling a heavy lively ball without mask glove or protector, stood up near the bat when men were on bases if he had the skill and courage; the early guides recommended him ito do so when he could" Had not the pitcher been restricted to an artificial throw, scarce a catcher would have lived to tell the tale. Many catchers took everything lon first bounce" and managed at that to prevent much base stealing-base running also was in its infancy. Smith" says the Spirit of the Times. '.'caught a re- markabe game. having but five passed balls scored against him" Here and there we get a glimpse which shows how cruda 1t all was--what a matter of hit-and- miss natural force In the '60s Dicky Pearce shone without a peer as an infielder: he used to stop grounders with his hand and foot!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
Wirz Monument Condemned.

Columbus, O., May 23.-Wells Post. c. A R., has adopted resolutions con demning the erection of the monument to Capt. Henry Wirz, former con- mander of Andersonville prison. The national authorities are urged to take cognizance of the monument in order that such steps as may be necessary, lawful and proper, be taken to wipe out this stain on American justice, to the end that our national government may not hereafter be held guilty of deliberate judicial murder in the case of Captain Wirz."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
Escaped Convict Cauqht.

Columbus, O., May 23.-At 12:15 a. m. it was reported at the main office of the Ohio penitentiary that Harvey Johnson, the negro desperado who dis appeared Wednesday night, and who had been hiding out since then in the shops sewers, had been surrounded by guards when caught eating a guards lunch. When three shots rang out from the inner yard 15 guards were rushed to the scene in the expectation that Johnson would make fight to avoid capture
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-24
PURSUIT OF RICHES
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 ~ GENERATION or so ago the mil P li9naire' whose life in low estate
 began was an idol even in the Sunday school books. Oliver Optics he roes would be content to marry such mans daughter after "rescuing her from a watery grave" Frugal, pious, generous. the "millionaire' was honored, held up as a model for aspiring and hungry youth, became at death the subject of eulogy. Clergymen praised him. There was no "taints to his money. Frank Philistines, the Americans did not con- ceal their admiration of prosperity. Young, healthy, simple, unliterary, the country honored the self-made man. Even Solomon Gunnybags, as MT. G. w. Cur tis used to call the loud and parvenu type, escaped indignation. The muck raker was not. The millionaire lived respected and died happy.
 Wealth. never earned by altruistic and gentle methods, is in these days a de- fendant. Almost everybody from the late President of the United States to the feeblest magazinist has his "whack" at it. Millionaire" has given way to "bfl- lionaire." A rich man who courts pop ularity goes in for" socialism or some thing of this kind. The self-made bil- lionaire is regarded as an enemy of man kind, yet as money begets money scores of more or less worthy persons make a comfortable living by writing him Tdown. Politicians and platforms spout at him. He is the villain of portentous and superheated novels. Clergymen de- nounee him from the pulpit. The Good Example of the old day is become the Devileof the new.
 Is there genius for humbug among Americans? Are they greater hypocrites than other folks? Or by this ferocious hue and cry against the rich do they satirize themselves and their own un-