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The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-11-10

Railroad men of this district are
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-11-10
Of Rail
and Shop at
East Ely

Engine so has been taken into
the shop for a general overhauling.
Machinist c. e. Handwright is off
on a few days sick leave.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-11-10

H. A. Davidson, of the store de-
partment, says if this rainy weather
continues for a few nor days, he is
going to don his gum boots and can
vas coat and go out and kill all the
ducks. Other sportsmen, beware!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03

for her owner when he had the fish,
ing fever. That's nothing, I've got
some Rhode Island reds that poisoned
fish to death because the fish stole
worms from EN-.
How did they do that?" demanded
an incredulous listener.
Il have a deep spring in an open
lot" replied Ez. THE fish I kept in
1t got so wise that they dug their
own worms. The earth at the edge of
the spring had lots of worms, and
whenever a fish saw one crawling out
of the ground he would jump out of
the water and grab it. My Rhode
Island reds, in SCRATCHING about the
spring, saw what the fish were doing.
NOW what do you suppose those
murderous hens did? They went to my
potato patch, where I'd put paris green.
They got their bills full of poison, went
back to the spring and washed their
bills free of the paris green. I tried
hard to get the poison out of the
spring. but I was too late. 1t dis
solved. Next morning all the fish were
dead.
NOW the hens have the worms, and
we don't dare drink from the spring.
And some people say hens haven't any
brains"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
Central of GEORGIA Prosperous

The "confscation' of the Central
of Georgia railroad is progressing
backward according to it's own official
reports. President Hanson's report,
covering the last IL months, shows
that the net earnings of the road have
been increased $427,ooo. The net earn
ings of the year were s2,692,0O0, a
sum in excess of the net earnings of
any previous year In the history of
the road.
If this is the way confiscation works
all other railroads should endeavor to
get on the confiscation wagon. The
passenger rate of the road from Bir-
mi1gham to the sea and up the At
lsnta stub line Is PA cents a mile, and
freight rates are on a low basis in
both Georgia and Alabama.
It is but fair to state that gross
earnings were less in the past IL
months than they were in the pre-
vious IL months by the sum of $215,
900, but decrease of $650,0O0 in
operating expenses left the road an
unprecedented sum of net earnings in
single year. Other roads in the
south are expected to make an equally
favorable showing.
Current earnings will be apt to rem
der the increase in freight rates from
Ohio and Mississippi river points diff
ficuit to maintain. The issue is com
ing up in Georgia at the instance Of
IA Macon grain company, and the in
terstate commissioners are expected
ito decide 1t soon. The net earnings
of the Central of Georgia do not up
hold the contention of the railroads
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
THE EASTERN SEA.

From the Pilgrimage Kamakura, the
Valley Press.)
BY Yone Noguchi
I say my farewell to the western cities;
: will return to the eastern sea-
To my isle-kssed first ever by the sun
/ will now go to my sweetest home,
And lay there my griefs on a mountains
breast
And give all my songs to the birds, and
sleep long
A wind may stir the forests I may
awake,
will whistle my joy of Life up to a
cloud:
The life of the cloud will be my life
there.
How tall my lover now would bel
She was two inches shorter than I long
ago.
When mid the wistarias the moon-lan-
tern is lit.
l. and she will steal to measure our
heights
By their dropping fowers-drooping,
calmlilke peace.
Shall she win, will pay her my kisses
seven;
I will take her seven kisses if win:
So all the same the kisses shall be
mine.
Then we will walk by the idols-the
saints and the poets,
And assure them that Life is but Love:
With Love and Chrysanthemum 1 will
remain forever.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
Immune from typhoid

An official test at Fort Omaha DEM
onstrates that the typhoid serum does
render persons who subject themselves
to it immune from the most direful
fever of this country. Three soldiers
consented to become typhoid tests. On
June II these men were vaccinated
with typhoid serum. Inside of seven
days they developed the fever in a
very mild form. When fully recovered
they were again vaccinated, but no
typhoid symptoms appeared. Ten days
ago the last and the most severe test
was applied, and since then physicians
of the post have been anxiously await
ing developments. The last was the
drinking test Ordinary water was
left for three days in an open dish.
Then in a gallon more than a mil
lion typhoid germs were placed. This
mixture was allowed to stand four
hours longer after which the three
soldiers drank of it freely. One who
was not immune would have been
stricken by the fever from three to
five days ago, say the physicians who
have been watching the tests. Now
that this time has passed and no
symptoms have shown signs of de-
veloping, the medical men feel salts
fed that the subjects would be un-
able to contract the disease.
These tests at Fort Omaha and sim
ilar tests throughout the country DEM
onstrate that the dread fever has been
conquered at last. In the army the
serum will be freely used, and there
is no reason why it should not be out
of the army The waste of energy and
of life from typhoid in this country
should be stopped, and the thought
full person will yet decide that the
serum and its slight fever is far bet
ter than the wasting fever of weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
Full Of TriCkerY and Short-LiVed

While the consumer gets nothing
from the Aldrich-Cannon tariff scheme,
yet the period of business waiting and
uncertainty will be ended when the
bill passes the Senate and is signed.
Business will then go on In practically
the old Dingley grooves.
But the tariff planned by and for
New England will not last long. No
tariff does. The Dingley tariff lasted
II years, and it is the record The
Morrill, tariff, signed by President
Buchanan, was changed during the
civil war. Rates were frequently al
tered between 1855 and 1883. Tho
tariff law Of 1888 was repealed by the
Mckinley act of 1890, and the latter
was replaced by the Wilson bill In
1894, and the Dingley law was passed
in 1897. The last named has stood
IL years, not because of any good in
1t, but because the republican party re-
manned In power.
The new Aldrich bill nearly met de
feat when the conference report or
1t was brought before the House. The
vote to recommit it was 1873 yeas ant
1913 nays. Twenty republicans, chief
ly from the middle west, voted against
1t, and the republican party is party
of discord over It, 1t will not last
long. 1t will be repudiated when 9
new congress is elected next year.
1t Is full of jobs at the expense oil
the consumer, but the worst joker In
it is, no doubt, the maximum and min
imum section. Under this section all
duties on goods are automatically in
| creased on March 81 next 25 per cent
II a country can show that it in nc
way discriminates against American
goods the President may grant it the
rates named in the bill as 1t was re
ported from the conference committee
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
DROPPING THE NEGRO.
Ie New York World.

TOM Tue RSW WOllu
Responding to the Presidents ap-
peal for party reorganization in the
south the republicans of Virginia have
been in convention this week at Rich l.
mond. The one distinguishing feature
of the gathering and the proceedings
has been the absence of negroes and
the evident purpose to exclude them
from the organization.
This appears to be in harmony with
Mr.. Tafts plans. Speaking at New
York in December last he approved the
laws which deny the ballot to the
great mass II the blacks At Howard
university In May last he deprecated
too much education for colored men.
Soon after he assumed the presidency
he announced that no negroes would
be appointed to office against the
wishes of the whites. For five months
past colored men have found little
political encouragement at the White
House. Even the interstate commerce
commission has ruled that they are not
Disseminated against unduly on the
railway trains of the south.
The Presidents experiment would be
interesting in any case; it is particular
ly so because of it's daring and its
novelty, proceeding from a republican.
The first response 1t has received Is
the announcement that the colored
voters of Virginia will organize party
of their own. If their brethren at the
north follow their example, republic
canism in its strongholds will find plen-
ty to do without troubling itself about
the solid south.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03

of the Riff movement. Spain does not
covet the costly struggle. The peo-
ple reject it, and Spain is today I'M
der martial law. No doubt the home
trouble will be overcome much more
readily than the Riff movement will be.
Spain policies the entire coast of
Morocco under the Algeciras treaty
from the Strait of Gibraltar to the
Algerian boundary line. War has come
at the Spanish city of Melilla, which
is just about 30 miles from the Al
gerian frontier The trouble arose
over the efforts of Spanish companies
to operate mines at Benz Bruifrur,
dozen miles from Melilla, and to con-
struct railroad from that city thither.
A concession was obtained from the
old Sultan, but the new Sultan To-
pudiates it, and the tribesmen have
risen to prevent the working Of the
mines, and the building of the railroad.
They really hope to drive the Span
iards out of Morocco bag and baggage.
The tribesmen in question are
Kabyles Other of their tribes gave
the French much trouble in Algeria.
Their country is rugged, even noun
famous, and also barren and arid. 1t
is a forbidding region, and little is
known concerning 1t. There are no
roads. Fifty thousand fanatical war
riors are in the field. and Spain can
not put them down unless she sends
at least an equal number of troops to
Melilla. There is little glory to be
gained in the war The mines are
not of great value, but SPANS prestige
on the African coast would be i'm
periled if she refused to hold the
ground and vindicate her treaty rights
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
GRATING WITH BIG SHOWS

sons, all cracking peanut shells, talka-
tive and gay
1t looked like a big day. Big Steve
had money in all his pockets and his af-
liability was such that the natives fell
into his net almost too easily for an
artist who liked, by surrounding diff
ficulties, to prove his capability.
Whitby was standing by a glded ticket
wagon counting the sales with his expert
eye, when a razorback pulled his arm
Say, Guv'nor, they're brtngin' a police
officer" said the man, AN it looks like
Steve's in Dutch"
Whtby uttered an exclamation of an
noyance
1.-The guy was hollerin an Steve bawls
him out" explained the courier, IAN his
wife runs fur the bull Here they come
nowr'
Whitby broke through the eager ticket
buyers and brought up beside Big Steve
just as a lanky citizen, flushed and pant
ing, shouted:
Officer, arrest him. I give him a
$50 bill |, done got from Huntah Breck'n-
ridge ovah to Fincastle, an Mist
Brock nridge'll swan hits true, an this
some small bills, sub, an a silvah dollah
TO- twenty. Then run TO you"
"Herel WHAT'S goin on here?' de-
manded Whitby, jumping to Steve's side.
I'm sure l amt got the gent'mun
money" said the latter sadly HE must
be dreamin'."
Jackson Antrim, he don new lie," said
voice. "Ah know he's tellin truth II
he says so'
suh," said the victim, addressing Whitby,
IAN I looked in nah hand an 1t was
silvah dollah"
Right where I'm standin?'' repeated
Whitby sternly. 'You-hold oni Look-it,
by my footl''
All stared into the sawdust and mud
beneath Whitby's wide shoes. A CLEAN
of gold was visible. whitby stopped and
/ held up double eagle. The crowd gasped
!, 1.-THE gentmun musta dropped IT, said
Steve artlessly. Well, I declare. I hope
he won't think of apologizin' to me. I'll
forgive him freely
Jackson Antrim done dropped his
$2o-dollah piece!'' the audience cried.
Whitby gave the coin to Antrim.
Let this here be a lesson, mister"
said Whitby See what could have come
from accusn' an innocent man. Why, I
know this boys folk
The crowd left. after Antrim had stam-
mered his regrets and thanks.
Gimme that twenty back" said Whit
by to Steve. cts lucky had one handy"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prosnerltv in Vlrnlnla.

Frank S. Foster, an assistant cashier
OF the First National bank, returned yes
terday from three weeks vacation spent
IN Staunton, Va, his old home.
"Staunton looks wonderfully thrifty"
said Mr.. Foster. 'It has grown material
ly since I was there a few years ago.
Buildings have gone up In every direc-
ton and the best of 1t is every house
is occupied
"A local option election was held the
day before I reached staunton and it
went dry by majority of 20. Two years
ago 1t went wet by a majority of "a
Thus 1t is seen that the vets and the
drys are about evenly balanced. The
vets had been confident that they had
a very decisive majority this time and,
feeling that way, about % anti-prohibi-
tionists who were off on their vacations
did not come home to vote, which it is
said they would have done if they had
thought their votes were needed. In other
words, confidence on the part of the
wet forces was, T was told, responsible
for the result of the election.
Great interest is being taken in the
gubernatorlal primary, which comes off
August 8. Judge Mann, the statewide
prohibition candidate, has behind him the
machinery of the democratic party, but
1t is thought by many Virginians whose
judgment is usually unerring in political
contests, that Harry st. George Tucker,
the local option candidate, will win by
a small majority.
while I did not travel around through
the state, I learned that business condi-
ton In Richmond and all the other cities
in the Old Dominion were improving
steadily The valley of Virginia is I'M
doubtedly prosperous"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
Facing the Boil Weeyll

State Entomologist Kinds says the
boil weevil will reach the Alabama
line in November, 1910. The insect
will devastate the cotton fields of
western Alabama in the summer OF
1911; the fields of central Alabama
in the summer of 1912, and the fields
CT eastern Alabama in the summer of
1913. DR.. Kinds says these dates are
just about as certain and inevitable
as the rising of the sun tomorrow
morning. The weeyil, too, will come
to stay in all these sections of this
state.
"If we shall meet this grave prob
lem" says Dr. Kinds, '1n a manner
to result in a minimum of loss to all
branches of commercial and profess
sional as we'll as of agricultural life,
it is essential that we improve to the
utmost the few years which may inter
vene in direct and united preparation
for the great changes in agricultural
practice and in economic conditions
generally which the presence of this
pest has invariably caused wherever II
has gone We may well be willing tc
profit by the experience for which oul
sister states of Texas, Louisiana and
Mississippi particularly have paid sc
large price. We should by all means
begin Immediately to put into active
operation some of the fundamental i'm
provements in agricultural practice
which have been worked out during
the past few years as a direct result
of the fight against the weevil. II
these practices are advisable and
profitable anywhere with the boil
weevil present, they may be made even
more so here and now before the wee
vii arrives. The great opportunity for
gaining experience and determining
the immediate applicability of any OF
these practices to our local conditions
is evidently the period before the wee
vii comes and while we do not have
to suffer the losses which it Is very
certain to inflict wherever it exists.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
RASH DECLARATION,

From the Mobile Item.
From Admission, the capital of Calhoun
county, where Gov. B. B. Conner was
dined the past week by former mayor
of that city is obtained the startling in
formation that the chief executive has
gotten on his mettle because of adverse
criticism of his administration 1t was at
a dinner that Governor Conner is accred-
tied with saying that If the people of
Alabama did not want him In the execu-
tive chair they should not have elected
him to the governorshlp.
This remark, 1t is stated, came forth
when he referred to the criticisms heaped
upon him because of his prosecution of
the railroads. 1t is charged of the gov
ernor that on this occasion he went on
record as declaring that he would see
that the railroad laws of Alabama are
enforced II it takes every dollar In the
stats treasury and more besides.
Governor Conner evidently lost sight Of
the fact that there is but little money in
the treasury. He evidently forgot that
the poor and deserving Confederate vet
Grams, their widows and children provided
for in measure by the grand old COM
last pay day were handed out their
stipend, minus In some instances nearly
80 per cent. He forgot that the revenue
OF the state has been sadly depleted that
the pubic school system of Alabama has
been impaired by recent legislation at his
dictation There are, perhaps, other
things the wise, good and just COVER
nor of alabama has forgotten which will
be wildly brought nome to him when he
makes his campaign against Capt. John
II. Bankheed for the United States SEN
atorshlp,
Yes. there is one thing that Governor
Conner will not forget. For he will be re-
minded Of It when the proper time comes
He will be told of the pledges made by
him during his campaign for the COVER
/ norship. He will be informed that not
| once. but often, he declared himself In
| favor of local option, and Immediately
after becoming firmly seated in the guber-
material chair at Montgomery he forgot.
| There are some men In Alabama who
have the happy faculty of forgetting. And
Governor Conner Is one of these.
But the Gay will come when Governor
Conner will Rave his memory freshened
! up a Bit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
Africa Strikes Back

A victory on the part of the Riff
tribes would be felt by France, Ger
many and England, for all these coun-
tries have provinces in the Moslem
section Of Africa. The Riff tribes are
fanatical, but above all else they hate
white men, They desire, first of all,
to drive all whites out of Africa. The
wild. fierce fighters in Morocco are
not unlike the men that Gordon met
at Khartum, that Italy met in Abyssinia,
that Germany had to contend with far
Their south. If Spain should be too
hard pressed on the Riff coast 1t may
be that France and England, one or
both, would come to her aid, FOR all
are deeply interested in \the outcome
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
RoLIVIA,s ISOLATION.
War Would Involve Practically All OF
South America.

From the New York Sun.
Military operations which offer even
faint hope of successful outcome require
ample supply of provisions and munitions
of war. How can Bolivia get its sup
plies? The southeastern route through
Argentina would, of course, be closed
The northern entrance via the Amazon
and the Benz rivers is, of course, impos-
sible for military purposes. The western
entrance, via Peru, would in every proba-
bility be unavailable by reason of Peru
Wan unfriendliness with Bolivia's oppo-
nent The route through Chile, by rail
from Antofagasta, might possibly be
open, but Chile's consent to the use of
it would probably strain, If not break,
relations between Chile and Argentina.
Bolivia would be practically isolated, so
far as the worlds markets are con-
cerned. 1t is approaohable only by cross
ing the territory of other nations-Ar-
gentina, Brazil, Peru or Chile. A CEN
fury ago the Buenos Ayreans essayed
control of Bolivia and failed disastrous
ly, but the conditions Of that time were
widely different from those of today.
War between Argentina and Bolivia
would almost certainly involve all the
nations of South America, with the pos
sible exception of Ecuador, Colombia and
Venezuela, and result in an entire change
in the national boundary lines. Brazil
and Chile would be arrayed against Peru
and Argentina, with Bolivia, Uruguay
and Paraguay striving to avoid absorp-
ton by the victors. The possible and,
in fact. probable consequences of war
between Bolivia and Argentina offer
very unpleasant subject for considera-
ton. 1t is inconceivable that Argentina
should have been preparing for. or that
1T is about to begin a campaign of such
magnitude, a campaign that would in
volve continent and seriously disturb
the entire world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
HAZING IN FRANCE,

From the London Express
"Hazing'' has become so prevalent in
the French art schools of Paris that the
ministry of fine arts is applying for law
to make 1t criminal offense.
A few nights ago in the Little Art
school one of the monitors named marriott
was awakened by five students in masks
They tried at first to chloroform him
but he resisted, and they then maltreat-
ed him with ''life-preservers
An inquiry led to the discovery that a
band known as la Bande Noir'' ("The
Black Band'D had for many years past
terrorized all the art schools of France.
Branches of the BLACK Band" exist In
every school and newcomers, If they do
not submit to "hazing' or monitors II
they attempt to prevent 1t, are literally
tortured.
Some of the forms of torture which
have come to light are worthy of the
Middle Ages. In one school eight new
Corners were tied to the foot of the bed
with their feet extended and members
of the BLACK Band" masked and cloak
ed stamped up and down, heavily shod
on their bare feet until the victims
tainted.
On another occasion a number of new
corners were forced to drink a mixture OF
soup, tallow, machine oil, kippersd her
rings and powdered coal.
Owing to the natural dislike of the
young men to tell tales out of school,
only vsgue rumors of the state of affairs
were heard until recently, but the inquiry
resulting from the attack on the mont
to at Lille has disclosed condition
of things so serious that every effort
will be made to discover and expel all
the members of the BLACK Band" and
possibly to follow up their expulsion with
criminal action.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
The Cheap Rates.

"I'he passenger business, like every
thing else, is improving said Capt.
Jack w. Johnson, district passenger
agent of the Seaboard Air Line.
I'VE are selling many through tickets
to New York every day and every train
from the east brings in many passen-
gers.
There Is already an immense demand
for the cheap round-trip tickets to be
placed on sale August H-one day only.
These tickets will be good to return
until August 81. The rate for the date
named is about the lowest ever made
SIS to Washington and return and SIS
to Richmond or Norfolk and return"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New YORK Press.
There's hardly any visit so enjoyable
as when you know you'll have to do it
again.
Women are much more particular about
references for their servants than for
their friends.
It's so natural for a girl to fiift that
when she's doing 1t she acts just as II
she were saying her catechism.
An ambition is what a man thinks he
cauld do to benef1t the world; a mission
ia what he tries to do to support his
family.
A girl wearing ball slippers could get
lost In blizzard with beau and never
think of catching cold, but be afraid OF
dying from consumption If she had to
cross the street in rubber boots with
her father In light drtzxle.