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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-08
A Delicious Luncheon Salad.

This is the time of year when lunch cons are the joy of the high-school girl. There are no lessons to be conned during the afternoon and evening, and the day is given up to rest, recreation and light reading, preparatory for the coming of the next school term, when the girls of the land want to be rested for the nine months work before them. To prepare dainty viands for the 2 o'clock luncheon is about the brainiest labor of the 15-year- old miss during July and August. And as salads are the fayorite dish during the hot weather, the recipe for a delicious vegetable salad is given here. Chop very fine stalk of celery (must be crisp and young). a mellow apple, one cucumber, one large sized onion, the heart of a crisp cab bage and green pepper. Mix together thoroughly, pour over all your favorite salad dressing and serve ice-cod on large lettuce leaves, with a small yellow tomato (peeled) on top of each portion.
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tested Maybelle, flor you won't be saying anything at all about it."
 And so the seed of deception was sown and took root in Gracies mind, and by the time her mother came home she had fully determined not to say word about the accident to the library rug. So the evening wore away and supper was over, and still Oracle kept the burden on her mind. Then o'clock arrived and her mamma took her to her little room to put her to bed Oracle, in nightie, knelt at her mammals knee to say her good night prayer but after the first few words a lump grew in her throat and her guilty conscience was too much for her to bear
 'Oh mamma, have been so very wicked today" she burst out with. 'I cannot say my prayer till I have confessed to you
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GRACIE's CONFESSION. gz Es!sa. p.zs=

guilty, and was about to remove the stool from over the stain when the front doorbell rang. Running into the hall, she saw through the glass door one of her mammals friends. ''Oh, it is Mrs. Bright" she said to the inquiring Maybelle. Run, take the towel and basin of water out of the library and I'll answer the door, for Nancy is busy in the kitchen making preserves, and mamma told me to answer the door during her absence"
 Then Oracle opened the door to Mrs. Bright, who, on learning of the absence of Gracie's mamma, said she would not come in. Oracle took her card, bowed very prettiIy to her she said good-by, and returned to the sitting-room to May belle. Say, Oracle, why do you tell your mamma anything about upsetting the ink?" Maybelle asked. Shell never see the spot-under the stool.'
 At first Oracle resented Maybelle's wick ed suggestion, declaring she could not think of lying to her mamma about any thing. But that won't be lying" pro
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dark and foreign looking and seemed much impressed with the young singers voice. Marvellous he said to his com panions. 'Wonderful He'll become great singer in time. His voice will be- come very rich tenor"
 Then, Adolpho being through the song, the crowd applauded, and the woman again took up several small contributions. And when she presented her hand to the gentlemen in the automobile for some proffered quarters she felt sure that her fortune was made. "Ah," she whispered to the man who managed the piano, we'll lay up money off thls boy
 But at the same moment the dark gen tleman in the automobile was motioning to Adolpho to come to him. What is your name, boyY' he asked, speaking with a decided accent And do you be- long to those hurdy y-gurdy people?
 My name is Adolpho, sir" replied Adolpho. And live with my widowed mother down in Baxter street. l do not know these hurdy-gurdy people at all. sir. I just happened along here little while ago, and they asked me to sing to the music of the hurdy-gurdy. They said they would give me a share of the money" T.
 But just at this point the Italian wo- man grasped Adolpho by the arm, drag ging him away from the automobile, say ing in Italian: ''Ah, come on with us, boy, we must be going down the street. We'll get lots of money tonight Come on. We'll give you your share at o'clock, and then you can go home. Come, do not talk to strangers
 To the woman's surprise, also to Adolpho's, the dark gentleman in the au' tomobile seemed to have overheard the hurried words of the Italian woman, and to have understood them, for he spoke in good Italian, addressing Adolpho; Come here, boy. Do not go about the street with those beggars. Come to me; I have something important to say to you.'
 In vain did the Italian woman and man interfere, trying to force Adolpho to go with them, declaring in heated Italian that he was engaged to thems that he
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before their poor mothers had recovered from the shock attending their cubs last terrible fight these unruly youngsters were again at their mischief It was a gloomy, rainy day, and they were out of bed for the first time since their maiming of each other. Bun made it point to stroll in the direction of his neighbours cave, while Bill, out to get fresh air, was on the outlook for Bun, hoping he might give him another thrashng. As Bun neared the spot where Bill stood beneath n big tree fe snarled and glared at him, showing that his ugly temper had not abated one whit since the last conflict Bill returned the snarl and glare, and came halfway 10 meet Ban. Then, with Il quick thrust of the paw. he struck his neighbor in the face. The blow was a severe one and almost sent him off his feet. But he gathered himself together and made lunge at his enemy. Soon the two were in deadly combat, biting scratching hugging. And as Bills mother was from home that morning (she was ont cave hunting. for she had decided to move from the close neighborhood of her dear friend. all on account of their un- goyernable sons) there was none to in- terfere with the combatants.
 While Bun and Bill were thus engaged a fine old gentleman bear, who lived in
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share your good fortune, my boy"

share your good fortune, my boy"
 Yes, certainly said the opera singer, his own eyes misty at the beautiful show of affection between Adolpho and his work-worn little mother. And tomor- row you shall both go to better place to live and Adolpho shall have a piano, plano instructor and a French and Italian teacher. He shall waste no time"
 And there was great rejoicing in that tenement room that night after the fine visitors had departed, for on the morrow the life of the poor widow and her gifted boy would change and want would be theirs no longer.
 What pleases me most, mamma" said Adolpho. sitting beside his mother at the supper table, Ifs that there'll be no more sweat-shop work for you to do. You shall have an easy life from now on, and soon shall be able to repay this good and great man for all he is doing for me, for as soon as I begin making money I shall insist on paying him every dollar he has spent on me. But the great debt of gratitude we owe him can never be paid except in love-
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Adolpho, The Boy Tenor.
BY WILLIAM WALLACE, JR.

some work to the factory, he went as usual, to the grocery and meat market to get something for the next days break fast and dinner. As he turned a corner he saw an Italian man and woman playing a 'hurdy -gurdy" at the edge of the crowd ed pavement. The music which came forth from the street-piano was an old familiar air which Adolpho had heard his mother sing since he was q baby, and which he loved to sing softly to himself many hours every day while he worked about the one room where he and his mother lived at the top of a five-story tenement. So when the strains of the music came to him, Adolpho sang in soft accompaniment to them knowing the words of the Italian song. And as he neared the ''hurdy-gurdy'' players they heard his fine voice singing to the music of their instrument, and the woman spoke few low words to her companion. He seemed to agree to what she said, and immediately she beckoned to Adolpho to come to her. The boy obeyed, and the woman said to him in Italian: You speak ItalianT' To which Adolpho replied that he did His mother had taught him to speak her tongue very we'll indeed. An said the woman, maybe we can strike a bargain. You sing with our piano and we'll give you part of our money. What say you?' She conversed in Italian, not being able to make herself understood in English.
 At first Adolpho was uncertain what answer to make. Then, the man adding his persuading voice, Adolpho went closer to the 'hurdy-gurdy,' which was still playing, and asked how long he would have to sing each evening. "Oh, come with us at o'clock and go home at s." replied the man. Every we'll I'll begin right now said Adolpho. My mother will not be uneasy about me if l am away for an hour. She will think I am playing with the children in the street. And when I go home with some
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extra money she will be pleased, for we are in such need"
 So Adolpho began to sing in accom- paniment to the street plano, his clear voice ringing out like a silver bell. Peo- pie who ordinarily got out of sound of the ''hurdy-gurdy' as quickly as possible. fingered to hear the boy tenor's song. Soon great crowd had assembled. and the Italian woman passed about among them taking up q collection of small coins She seemed much pleased with the amount she got which was twice the usual sum made during an entire even ing. In Adolpho she had found a gold mine, so she thought.
 As Adolpho sang a third Italian song an automobile drew up beside the pave ment Inside 1t sat two gentlemen and lady. One of the gentlemen was very
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Destroyed Money.

TT is estimated that over one-half mill
 lion dollars in paper money is de- 2 stroyed in the country in one year. Many complaints come to the Treasury Department concerning destroyed money from persons who are of the opinion that the country should stand their losses. One woman wrote a few days ago that chopper and that it had been ground to pieces. A large, quantity of greenbacks is eaten up each year by rats, who find its hiding places. One peculiar case is reported of a robin flying through a win dow and then flying out again with a S100 bill in its mouth. Enough of this greenback was found in the robins nest to warrant it's redemption.
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the village, happened that way and be- held the awful sight of the two young sters in battle. He had heard about these same figthing cubs before and had real ized the trouble they were to their wid- owed mothers. An he unused, "I be- lieve I'll take hand in the fight myself and give these cubs all they want" So saying, he ran sprightly to the spot where Bill and Bun were tumblng about, gnaw- ing at each others ears. and fell to pounding them both with his mighty paws.
 As soon as the third party entered the field of battle the two cubs fell apart and endeavored to get away, but the old bear, who was a giant fellow in strength. held them fast with his hind legs while he dealt them blow after blow with his front paws.
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' OWPuZZle Corner $
ZIGZAG PUZZLE.

All the words contain the same num- Der of letters. If the words are cor rectly guessed and written one below an- other in their rightful order, their zigzag letters, beginning with the upper left hand letter and ending with the lower left-hand letter, will spell the name of one of the presidents of the United States. The crosswords are: 1. That which Is extracted from fruit. 2. A very necessary part of the human anatomy. 3. Rude craft used for shipping lumber on large rivers. 4. A kind of candy. 5. A style of literature 6. The condition of dogs hide. '. Things one always sees going ahead of people in a crowd. 8. Something possessed by cattle. 0. To ba wholly undressed
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something Maybelle and I did this after noon while you were downtown shop ping Then Oracle poured out the whole truth, her head in her mothers lap.
 After she had finished, her mother took her in her arms, kissing her and saying: Dear child, see how hard 1t is to keep a load of deception on the heart And you see how a second wrong does not cure a first wrong, but enlarges it, adding to the burden of the conscience. It was naughty of you to go into the library after 1 had told you not to do so, but it would have been doubly wicked for you to have withheld the truth about the ink stain on the rug from me. But now l know you have repented of your wrongdoing, and by confessing the truth to me you have wiped out the sin. And tomorrow we must talk seriously to May belle, showing her the error of her part in helping along the deception. And now is your mind easy enough to go on with your prayers-and to ask God to forgive you2 for I have done so. my child"
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And ever since we were young lady bears we have been inseparable. Oh, it is very hard to have such incorrigible sons; it is. indeed"
 "Yes. it Is heart breaking to have all the bears of the village point at our cubs with the paws of shame and condemna- tion," said the mother of Bun. q feel so humiliated on my own account. and so worried on Buns account. If he should grow up to be very wicked bear committing sins against other bears, 1t would break my heart" And the grieYed mother wiped a tear from her eye.
 Just then vail came from Buns bed room, which was inside a warm, snug cave ''Oh, l must go to my boy" ex- claimed the mother of Bun. And she bade adieu to her friend, the mother of Bill, who took her leave, going home to her own very naughty son, who had to have some attention.
 few days passed by before Bun and Bill were able to leave their beds; but
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M~ F was commonly known as Dolph,
 aA though his Italian mother had called 6V him Adolpho. He was born In the
 city of New York, his father
 German and his mother an Italian. His fathers name being Adolphus, the wife and mother desired the son to bear the fathers name, but pronounced 1t as nearly Italian as she could, for ever dear to her was her childhood home in South ern Italy.
 When Adolpho was nine years of age, his father died. The family were very poor, and Adolpho and his mother found themselves without a dollar after the funeral expenses of the dear departed one were paid. The griefstricken widow was very delicate, and found that the sweat shop work she procured was hard for her to bear, but she could not bring herself to put her dear child at work selling papers or blacldng shoes on the street. So she did as much of the work as she possibly could, managing to keep starva- ton from the door, though she and her boy cften suffered the bangs of hunger and cold.
 And so the years went by, weary, happy years for the poor Italian widow and her gentle, naif-timid child, who so unlike other children of the tenement quarters All day during the school term Adolpho would attend the ward school and spend his evenings studying, while the poor, overworked mother would sew, sew, forever sew, on the "sweat-shop" gar ments for a factory some blocks distant from her humble lodgings. And during the summer months Adolpho would assist his mother with her work, going to the factory for the garments and carrying them to her, and after they had been made up'' he would deliver them to the factory, hand the "boss" his mothers bill, collect the pittance for the work and go to the grocery and buy the next days provisions.
 One evening nfter Adolnho had delivered
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LETTER ENIGMA.

My first is in smile, but not in cry: My second is in question, but not in re-
 ply: My third is in burn but not in bake: My fourth is in having, but not in rake: My fifth is in flour, but not in dough: My sixth you have had in my i've, also: My seventh is in swine, but not in pig: My eighth is in little, but not in big:
 My whole of eight letters
 A small animal does spell;
 And nearly all children
 Know it very well
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ZWAY up in the mountainous coun-
 try lived a great many bears. Two
 of the bear families lived as close y neighbors, the mother bears being
 very great friends. But these same mother bears had each son, and the ons-haf-grown fellows-gaye their poor mothers much trouble indeed, for they were quarrelsome and ill-natured, making home-life very disagreeabie nt times. On occasions these eubs-by name Bill and Bun-would become engaged In the most terrific fights, tearing each others ears and tails almost off. In vain did the poor mothers remonstrate with them they kept on in their unrnly be- havior.
 ''I fear we'll have to live further apart, my dear friend" said the mother of Bun to the mother of Bill one day as those two sat discussing a most ferocious fight their sons had engaged in that morning, and from which each cub had returned to his mother much the worse for fight ing Bun was in bed with a blinded eye and Bill was in bed with a maimed paw and shoulder. ''I do not see any other way, my dear, except to move far apart. And the mother of Bun sighed, for it was q great sacrifice on her part to live a great distance from her dearest friend.
 "Yes. l do fear that we shall have to be parted" replied the mother of Bill.
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ANSWERS TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLES.

LETTER ENIGMA--Africd
 ZIGZAG PUZZLE - Girafe. Cross ioords are: l. Girl. 2. File. 8. Burn. 4. An'sa. B. Loft. G. Altar. z. Earl.
 BEHEADINGS-1. Story-tory. 2. Elm press press. 8. SpdSn-pain.
 CURTAILINGS = CD Jotnt-jotn (2) Md0ician- -magfo (3) Shooer-sho4o.
 Illustrated Primal Acrostic-Bears.
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BEHEADINGs.

CD Behead to let liquid fall from a pitcher and leave kind of medicine. (2) Behead that which falls upon plant and causes Its destruction, and leave ray of sunshine. (3) Triply behead a preacher of the gospel and leave boy.
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CURTAHINGs.

d) Curtail that which children like to eat on bread and leave burial place. @ Triply curtail part of the hand and leave part of a fish (3) Doubly curtail a bed covering and leave that which ap- pears on an unmarred piece of white DaDpr
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RIDDLES AND ANSWERS.

What is that which never asks q ques- tion, yet requires many answers7
 4 door-ben.
 A duck before two ducks; duck be- hind two ducks; duck between two ducks. How many ducks in all2
 Three ducks
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AK up III a tree l Is little Redbreast, Happy and free
 In his snug little nest. The children do love
 To hear his sweet song, For he ne'er is weary,
 And sings all day long. At night in his nest
 He snuggles to sleep; But when the dawn comes
 From the nest he does peep. And seeing the dawn
 He comes forth to sing His good-morning anthem,
 Which makes the woods ring. Far Up in a tree
 Is little Redbreast; Happy and free
 In his snug little nest.
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' RACIE'S mamma had gone shop [ ping, and Oracle was entertaining VI her little friend, Maybelle, in the $ sitting room. Outside 1t was rain
 ing and Gracie's mamma had for
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-01
Cotton On Hand.

Mr.. w. w. Harvey, reporter of
ginned cotton for Tishomingo
county, has furnished us with the
following statement of all cotton
! in the United States on hand on
February 2Sth, 1909.
Total amt. on hand, 5,252,662.
In the hands of manufacturers,
1,544, ,992; Producers, 326, 1877; in
dependent warehouses, including
congresses. 2,306, 1856; Transpor-
tation companies, 518,4 ,479; Other
holders, 255, $3.50. Total amount
raised, IA, $40, $40. Amount ex-
ported, $500, ,571. On the 1st day
of last September there was on
hand | ,236O5S bales. !
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-01
Jno. Woodall On Trial for Murder.

Mr.. w. T. Akers handed us
some newspaper clippings Satur-
day containing a long account of
the trial of John Woodall, former
ly of Iuka, at Dallas, Texas, where
he is charged with the murder of a
man named Warrington. The
killing occurred in Terrell, Tex.
where Woodall was town marshal
and arose from resistance of War
hington to arrest. The clippings
did not show the result of the tri-
al, but from the evidence introdu-
ced it is evident that Woodall will
be acquitted.
Latel-Since the above was put
in type we learn Woodall was ac-
quilted.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-01
T. c. T. A. Meeting.

The Tishomingo County Teach
er's Association met in the Public
School building last Friday eve-
ming at 8 p. m. The president be-
ing absent DR.. Carmack called
the meeting to orderand the sec
retary also being absent another
was appointed. The program as
printed was carried out. Mr..
Pyle delivered the address of well
come in his usual, happy style
which was responded to by Mr..
Chester Seago, one of our coming
young men. Mr.. Bennett having
been a successful teacher knows
how to talk to teachers and said
many things which will be treas
ured by tie teachers. Some of
the young ladies of the town rem
dered good assistance in furnish
ing music. Miss. Conan and
Mrs. Matthews classes sang some
pretty songs. A description of
the char lot race of Ben Hur was
delivered by Mrs. O'Reily of Cher
okeee, Alabama. 1t was one of
the best things we ever heard.
Mrs. O'Reily can entertain any
audience. Happy it would be for
any community to hear that re-
cital. She has certainly done
some faithful work which has we'll
repaid her and all audiences be-
fore whom she appears.
The Association convened again
Saturday morning and continued
to discuss the questions on the pro-
gram. The greatest discussion
was worked upon the subject
Should we have a State Normal
School in which to otrain our teach
ers for their work. This is a
subject which like Banquo's ghost
will not down There are only
two states in the U. S. which do
not have Normal Schools and Mis-
sissippi is one of them. If the
two are right the others are wrong.
If the others are right the two are
wrong. Which is it? We are
glad to know that there will be ian
Educational campaign in July or
August to last one week. We
want the whole county to hear
these discussions. The adherents
of Normal Schools and of County
Agricultural High Schools will
have able representatives upon the
hustings to discuss those two live,
burning, questions. Shall we
progress or stand stillf Who will
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-01

MARRIED-Att the court house
in Iuka, Sunday evening March
18th, Mr.. ]. R. Holman to Miss
Frankie G. Case, Rev.O. L. Saw
age officiating. The bride and
groom are both citizens of Weakly
County, Tenn. The lady was Wis
iting relatives at Leighton, Ala,
where Mr.. H. found her and
brought her to the wedding at
Iuka.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-01
A Knocker

is man who can't see good in any
persen or thing. It's habit caus-
ed by disordered liver. If you
find that you are beginning to
see things through blue spectacles
treat your liver to a good cleaning.
out process with Bal1ard's Her
bine. A sure cure for constipa-
ton, dyspepsia, indigestion, sick
headache, biliousness, all liver,
stomach and bowel troubles. Sold
by ] c Jourdan.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-01

The Commercial Appeal said
editorially last Sunday that there
was no prohibition in Birmingham
except on the lawbooks. The
Sheriff of Jefferson county, in
which Birmingham is located, says
that prohibition has lessened crime
and helped business in that city.
We leave for our readers to de-
eide which of the two has the bet
ter opportunity of knowing the
facts.