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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01
4th OF July
Fireworks at Weidenhorner's.

The greatest string of flyers, yet
assembled have been entered for the
race meet here July 20, p, &22.
Do not fail to attend.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01

Harvey Hall. of Chicago, arrived
Monday for a visit with friends in
this city and his parents, Dan'l Hall
and wife. north of town.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01

Mrs b. H. Douglas, of Cavour,
arrived IN the city Tuesday for a
visit with friends and relatives.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01

Mrs w. (. Rossman ana children
went to Highmore Tuesday for a
few days visit with relatives.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01

James Kenalley and wife, of Chi
cagO, are the guests this week of
Dan'l Walsh and wife.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01

Mrs LeViness, of Highmore, was
the guest Of her son, Fred Everts
and wife, over Sunday.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01

While painting his house last
week, S. Brandts had the misfortune
to have the scaffold fall. No serious
damage was done except a sprained
ankle
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01

Ed Thomson, Of Hurley, S. d., is
visiting his brother, Chas. Thorn
son, in the city this week.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01

Henry Morrow and wief. of Dix
on, S. D., are in the city this week
visiting relatives.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01

Editor Guy Stout, of the High
more Bulletin, spent Monday in The
city. From here he goes to Seattle
to attend the exposition.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01

Dance all day the Fourth celebra
ton in St. Lawrence. st. Paul
music.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01
Fireworks
AT Weidenborner's.

Clyde Bowler has resigned his posi-
ton in the European restaurant and
gone to Huron
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01
THE MILLER PRESS
THURSDAY, JULY !. 1905.
ID
-LOCH BRIEFS

B. +. TOrrey went to Woonsocket
Friday on business,
Attorney John Pussy transacted
business in Highmore Friday.
Chas Corcoran left Sunday to at
tend the race meet at Madison.
M. c. Burke, Of Highmore was a
business visitor in town Monday.
Jack Woodward visited over Sun
day with friends in WoOnsocket.
Miss Floy Parke left Monday for
a visit with friends in Minneapolis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05

held positions as firemen in the Allan ta joint terminal yards, and who were reduced to the position of extras, their places being filled by negroes, be~re- stored to their old places.
 Second. That when white man works his way up to the position of fireman on a good run, literally one which gives him a large number of working days. he be allowed to remain there The white firemen contend that at present the policy of the Georgia road is to let white men work as fire men until they are competent to be- come engineers, and then to shunt them into the list of extras and put on the regular runs negroes. The white men are kept as extras until they are needed as engineers, the negroes not being allowed to handle the throttle"
 Between this greed of the railroad and the prejudiees of the encompass ing community a serious problem pre- sents itself. involving as it does the relations throughout the entire south of white and negro labor No harder problem has been presented in con- crete form in the south. A generation ago this problem would not have been complicated by the appearance on the scene of labor unions. The unions are utilizing the race question, and the two have thus far prevented more than mere truce which may be broken at any time. The color line may be said to have been unionized on the Georgia railroad. No arbitrators have been appointed. nor is there a distinct agree ment that any shall be appointed. A flag of truce is all that has crystal lized out of the problem as it stands on the Georgia railroad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
Leaoue of Press Clubs.

The International League of Press clubs. which convened in Birmingham fin October 1907, has just held the most suc- cessful and most largely attended meeting in it's history in Bermuda. commencing May 20 and adjourning May 30. On the high seas on Saturday, May 29, on deck of the steamer Bermudian the final meet ing was held and the election of officers for the ensuing year took place, resulting as follows:
 Thomas J. Keenan of Pittsburg presi- dent; J. A Rountree of Birmingham, re- elected first vice president; Lewis c, Early of Reading. Pa. reelected secre- tary; Robert B. Mcintyre of Brooklyn reelected treasurer; Daniel Hart of Wilkes-B Pa, elected chairman board of governors.
 The league decided to meet in Cuba next winter. President Keenan is mil lionaire newspaper man and owns a win ter home in the Isle of Pines and it is quite likely that the league will be his guest on this oceasioni.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
HIS ONLY HOPE,
2 New York World.

From the New fork World.
 The young man in New Jersey who in order to gain a wife was compelled to sign an agreement to do or not to do various things which were agreeable or dsagreeable to the bride may have a rem edy at law. He appears to have acted under duress He signed away some in alienable rights, which possibly was against public policy. The antitrust law seems to cover the case of bride who seeks a monopoly of all the advantages of matrimony No doubt the authors of the Hepburn law intended to prevent wives from acquiring all the commod- ities produced by their husbands. On the supposition that the young man earns his living In New York, the interstate com merce law might applx.. Tn any case he has an appeal under the constitutional guarantee against cruel and unusual pun ishments.
 If he could manage to get himself into the hands of a receiver and then secure an injunction against his wife from a federal court he might, In the event of insubordination on her part, secure the intervention of United States troops in his behalf. There seems to be no hope for him/in the divorce laws, for the judg- ment in the Dartmouth college case is still operative against people who make foolish contracts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05

The total is 594.S67 miles, excluding street and other light railways. In 1908 the total readily crossed the 6OO,- 000-mile line, headed toward an even million of miles of steam railroads. And all this vast trackage is yet to be electricized.
 It will not escape the attention of the reader that nearly one-half of the worlds mileage is in North America In this country alone are 225,000 miles, The extension of mileage in Asia and Africa is also matter of interest. The world is growing smaller. or rather more accessible, as the railroad mile age is increased. The total investment in railroads is put at fifty billion dol lars, or about $32 per capita. The United States has put nearly $200 per capita in graded steam transportation lines, in railroads, in other words.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
Improvement Rapid.

'The rapid improvement in business conditions is very cheering said l.. M. Rossiter of Indianapolis. T was in Chi cago a few days ago and found every thing there is on a mighty rush. Pros perity has returned before most of us expected it. One hears prosperity talk not only in Chicago, Cleveland. Pitts burg. Cincinnati and Indianapolis, but in all the smaller towns of the middle west.
 ''The bullsh stock market is one of the best indications that the business of the country is sound and that the railroads are about to be crowded with traffic once more. But visit to any of the big northern cities will be sufficient to show how trade has improved. I doubt if there was a greater degree of pros- perity in 1906 than we are facing now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
Revising H0uSe Meat Duties Upward

The price of beef has recently been marked up from two to four cents a pound This is one of many instances of increases in the necessaries of life, and unless wages are increased the standard of living in this country will soon be that of the wage earners of Europe Meat is a luxury rarely in- dulged in across the sea, and so it promises to be in this country. The production of foodstuffs has not kept pace with the growth of population, to say nothing of the flood of gold from the mines of the world. We have per mitted monopolies to become estab- lished that heartlessly exploit the peo- pie.
 On top of all this Congress proposes to increase the tariff upon the neces- saries of life, thus affording the mo- nopolies larger margins for profits. The present duties on fresh meats are two cents a pound on beef veal, nut ton, pork and lard. Senator Aldrich proposes to retain these duties, and he will make his fight after the com mittee of the whole has completed the consideration of the bill and reported it to the Senate. These duties, if adopted, will inure to the meat trust, and it will continue to shove up prices to the limit. No considerable quanti- ties of meats ever have been or ever will be imported from Canada, Argen- tina or Cuba Tn fact, the meat trust our meat trust-has invaded all those countries The sole object of the pro- posed A1drich duties is to protect the meat trust Tt will require" says the Washington Times, some effort to find a monopoly which is so widely felt or so entirely hated as is the meat trust. It has no possible claim, in morals or in equity, for protection. Nobody is so foolish as to suspect for an instant that protection on meat will mean a farthing to the farmer. It is the veriest rot And yet the Senate committee seriously tried to sustain the old meat duties after the House had pared them down a comfortable way. That is the sort of politics which is going to make the next House demo- ocratic, if it contiues."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
GREATER THAN MEREDITH.

From the Denver Post.
 It is noteworthy that, while many crit ics presented their obituary compliments to the late George Meredith as the great est novelist of the later Victorian era" none of them in their comparisons hap pened upon the work of the, also, late George Gissing, Yet, by all the canons of art in fiction, the novels of Gissing are as far above the novels of Meredith as the drama of Isben are above the dramas of Sardou. Gissing lived poor and died poor; he was temperamentally unable to make money by writing for the popular market; he lacked the sweep ing vision of Meredith that enveloped the commonplace in the splendors of romance but he has left us pictures of modern life that will be enduring historical documents and that are today joy to the unspoiled reader. But Gissing failed of the wider market because, instead of painting men as they think they would like to be, or think they are he painted thim in truth, and truth of that kind of disconcerting If you are incline dto investigate. get the Charlatan, and enjoy the fine humor with which the character and adventures of Dyce Lashmari are developed. Then follow that with the Emancipated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
WONDERS OF MODERN SURGERY

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
 days about the wonders of modern sur gerry ana descriptions are printed from time To time of the most daring and diff ficult operations, such operations as the practitioner of 25 years ago would not have dreamed of attempting. It is true that the subject is not infrequenty so in- considerate as to impair the brlliancy of the feat accomplished by a premature decease, but that is only a regrettable detail 1t does not at all detract from the skill and daring of the gentlemen to whose ministrations he had submitted What, though the patient die? That does not prevent the operation which immedi- ately preceded his departure being ac- counted a great success
 There is just one little respect, how ever. in which it does seem to the mere layman that the surgery of the day might be slightly improved. It does seem that the artist who does the cutting and the sewing might sufficiently charge his memory with what may be called the mnutiae of the transaction as not to leave sponges and things in the inner recesses of the anatomy which he has just ex- plored and amended. As a general thing he is reasonably and effectively careful about this, but the rule is one which should admit of no exceptions, and the public gets to hear of exceptions to an extent which is distinctly disquieting.
 rt,, aefi mable young woman, the daughter of a Prominent Philadelphian, succumbed to a lingering and mysterious sickness which was ultimately traced to forgotten sponge, and within the past few days another young woman was killed by a forgotten gauge pad, which she had been unable to assimilate, whose presence in a place where it. was not needed and dis tinctly did not belong produced fatal case of gangrene. It is with this acci- dent as 1t is with the possible accident, whose apprehension haunts some people all their lives, of premature burial; 1t may occur more frequently than gets to 1 be known or than Is permitted to trans pire
 To have to undergo a major operation is bad enough. One ought to be able to feel quite sure that no scissors or knives or sponges or gauge pads are going to be left in the cavity after the outer integu- ment has been readjusted. Of course, when this occurs it is not necessarily the operator who is primarily to blame. He has assistants whose duty it is to look after the minor details and elaborate pre- cautions are supposed to be taken against | this very thing. Evidently the precau- tions too often fail of their purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
THE WHEAT KING
Career of Patten on Chicago Board of
 Trade.

From the Van Norden Magazine.
 The career of Patten on the Board of Trade of Chicago has been eventful. He has lost and won several fortunes, and always it was by methods pronounced daring even in that establishment of bold speculation. One day in the summer of 1907 a telegraphic dispatch from Patten resulted in general movement of wheat of SIS cents on the September option and 8 cents on the December. It was at the height of strong bull campaign then being conducted by him.
 Patten at that time had slipped away to the wheat fields to find out for himself what the situation was. He had wired his brother, George, telegram, the sub stance of which was that all the wheat he had sen was in a very poor condition. The telegram was posted on the bulletin board of the office of Bartlett & Frazer The market knew the man was telling the truth and the upward rise followed.
 Patten was credited with cleaning up s2.00o. 900 on an oats deal in 1902 but he paid over one-quarter of it late that fall when he tried to catch the Armours on the wrong side of the market. He went after the famous family again in Janu- ary, 1908, and this time he found himself wrong to the extent of $1,0O0,0O0. But in April of that same year he caught them in corn and that s1.oOo,00o came back with a substantial surplus. In this campaign he was credited with taking $s00,00O from one Wall Street opponent in one day. Patten never asked for quarter, and 1t may be said he never gives any.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
Excess of Moisture This Year

The normal annual rainfall of Jones valley is 4S.49 inches, and last year only 3952 inches fell in it. The def ciency of moisture was 9.97 inches. This deficiency has been made good in the first five months of the present year, for Observer Lehman reports an excess of 1115 inches above normal precipitation. Already 2923 inches of rain has fallen in this valley, and no doubt the years precipitation will make good last years deficiency. The average of years is remarkably even.
 There need be no apprehension that the rains of the period will ruin the crops. Crops are never destroyed by early rains. Crops need moisture, and the soil retains for long time some of the benefits Of excessive rainfalls. A few acres may be flooded, but the gen. eral effect is invariably beneficial The floods will reeede and the grass can be eradicaJed, and in the end bomtiful crops are pretty sure to come. The land that has not been planted to cot ton can be planted to corn, and the state as well as the individual farmer will lose nothing because of a change in crons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
From the New York Evening Post.

From the New York Evening Post.
 @ HE King of Siam lighted the 9 funeral pyre of Edward Henry
 Strobel, the former Harvard pro lessor of international law, and five years general adviser of the government of Siam, the ceremony of cremation taking place in February last A private let ter from Siam contains this description of the Kings interest and of the scene:
 'The representatives who were appointed to arrange the details of the ceremony were considering the question of the char acter of the religious services to be ob- served when his majesty entered. As soon as he learned the nature of the 1 question under consideration he re- | marked:
 Gentlemen, there will be Christian services at the cremation of MT. Strobel Siam is tolerant, and whatever faith a man who serves this government may hold, whether he be a Mohammeden, a Buddhist or a Christian, when we come to express our appreciation of his serv- ices in the last sad rites shown him. his faith shall be respected. Mir Strobel's great company of friends throughout the | world of Christians, and it will be to them a pleasure to learn that at the last sad honors paid to him by our government l his faith was respected
 with high appreciation of this cour- | tesy, services brief, simple and appropri- ate were prepared for the occasion, and 1 later we were informed that the Amer ican minister should conduct the serv | ices.
 l up to the hour of the ceremony 1t l was not known whether his majesty
 would be present at the reading. As the appointed hour approached the under secretary of state for foreign affairs said ] to me:
 "'TIis majesty will be present at the services today. I have just received a message from the palace in which his
 majesty says "Tell MT. King I may
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
The Iron Market.

The pig iron market is in a satisfactory condition. The sales in May made up a considerable total and the tonnage con- tracted for in June will be even larger. Furnace interests are stiffer in their prices. Some are quoting SIP for the second half and are firm at that figure.
 Matthew Addy & Co.'s Cincinnati re- port says:
 -"There is no question but that the gen. eral feeling in trade this week shows a distinct improvement We find among all branches of consumers a decidedly more hopeful feeling, and this comes not from any mere sentimental reason, but from the fact that they are actually buster. They are having more and more work to do; they are getting more and more actual orders. and of course they look forward with more confidence than was the case two or three months ago.
 ''As far as pig iron sales are concerned the week has not been productive of anything particularly noticeable. But this does not mean that nothing has been do- ing. There have been some very good purchases of basic. Some malleable con- cerns have bought, and foundry iron has been mainly in small. scattered lots for prompt shipment. There Is pretty steady inquiry, however, and a first rate business day by day, so that isl the long run the tonnage is of fine vol ume. April, of course, was a 'corking' good month. and May turned out very much better than was expected. June and July ordinarily are dull months-usually the very quietest 5f the year-but 1t will not be surprising if June turns out to be a pleasant surprise.
 Coke continues to be in fine demand with an increasing volume of business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
9eter,s Pence Tomorrow.

Bishop Allen of Mobile has issued cir cular letter to his priests reminding them that Trinity Sunday domorrow) is the day for collection for the sovereign pom tiff. He urges the faithful to contribute as literally as their means will permit as the needs Of the holy see are pressing.
 Collections for the Pope will be taken at all the masses in Alabama Sunday in re- sponse to the bishops appeal. The money thus collected is known as Peters s Pence" Bishop Allen states that in the diocese of Mobile Peters pence last year amounted to s1ooO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
White Bremen of the Georgla Railroad

Trains are running on the Georgia railroad, and the traveller over that road might think the entire trouble had disappeared in so-called settle ment." As a matter of fact nothing in srelation to it has been settled. An ar. nhistice keeps off government troops that's all The labor leaders and the railroad officials are as far apart as they ever have been, and the govern ment officials are powerless in the face of a problem that touches and inter- ests every county in the south.
 The exact demands of the white fire men are thus stated by the Atlanta Constitution:
 sTirst. That the 10 white men who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
Register Next Week, Young Man

The board of registrars will meet in Bessemer on June and 10 and in Bir- mingham on June II and 12 to register young men who have recently become q years old. These opportunities will be the only ones open to young men in Jefferson county before the important primary of June 19 is held. At that primary a member of the legislature in the place of Dr. Lovelady is to be elected, and at the same time and at the same places the qualified electors will approve or reject the bond propo- sition presented by the Board of Rev enue.
 A full vote is needed in order that public sentiment may be fully ascer- tained Young men who have just reached the voting age do not have to pay a poll tax. In order to vote they must, however, be registered, and the board will meet for that purpose. as before stated. The electorate of this big county is disgracefully small. It should be fully 40,000, when in fact 1t Is less than 12,000. Every young man should do his duty in this respect. He .- should become qualified elector by ayailing himself of one of the oppor- tunities to register next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
The Confederate Rennlon.

"A few of the advance guard of the United Confederate Veterans of this sec ton will leave for Memphis Sunday after noon, but the crowd will go Monday" said member of Camp Hardee.
 There will be a very good turnout from Camp Hardee and the sons and the daughters and the Birmingham public in general should be sufficient to fill sev- eral trains. The cheap fare and the at- tractiyeness of Memphis should make this years reunion one of the largest held in recent years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Alabama Goal Trade

The Alabama coal trade. which has been dull for a year past. is at last show ing some signs of improvement" said Q well-known selling agent yesterday.
 As the general business of the south improves. the coal business will become more brisk. and I am expecting a very satisfactory fall trade. It seems to be the prevailing opinion that the industrial sit uation in the Birmingham district will be normal before the summer is ended It will be so, if the crops are anything like an average"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
HIS WIPES TACT.

FTOm JuuBe.
 I'll give my wife credit for not causing me to be swamped by big hat bills of hers" declared the husband boastfully, in the presence of his wife's lady guests. "All the hat bills I get are small ones, which, however come in very, very often, although I haven't observed a new bonnet on her since Easter"
 I'm so glad you're pleased" re- joined his wife. coming unexpectedly into the room. 'The fact is, you're still paying for that last Easter bonnet, the bill for which the milliner Is sending to you in installments.'