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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20
Electric FIatirons Loaned.

Ten thousand flatirons are to be
lent to reliable customers of the Chi
cage Edison Company for period OF
six months. The object of this is to
nopularize the use of electricity in the
household and lead to the introduction
of other electric utensils. While these
irons are lent for six months only, 1t
fs intimated that if the plan proves
success they may be permitted to re-
main in the hands of the consumers
for an indefinite length OF time.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20
Ostrich SNAPS Girls Nose.

Long Beach, Cal-Miss Bertha
Proctor, secretary of the Long Beach
lated nose, the result of an encounter
with one of the old birds at the farm.
She was viewing the creatures and
one of them attempted to take a nail
she was holding in her fingers. Being
repulsed, it attacked her, snapped her
nose and held on to it for two or
three minutes. The marks of the in
jury will remain some time, but the at
tending physician does not think they
will be permanent
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20
Many PASSENGER. Are Injured.

Coffeyville, Kan, Jan. ia south
bound passenger train on the Missouri
Pacific railroad from Kansas City col
lided head-on with north-bound
freight train two miles west of this
city yesterday morning. Twenty-four
passengers were hurt, but only two,
Mr.. and Mrs. P. S. Howell OF Nowata,
Okla. are in serious condition.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20
ami perails trolley car.

West Chester, Pa.-On account of
the dense fog, trolley car over the
Kenneth division of the West Chester
street railway struck and killed val
liable bull belonging to William
Thatcher, near Unionville Junction, as
the animal was crossing the tracks.
The trolley car was derailed and traffic
was tied up for two hours. though no
one was injured.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20
: And They jumped Of.

Four men from the country who
had never before ridden on train
leaped from one travelling 30 miles an
hour near Baton Rouge, La. Asked
Why they jumped, they said because
the porter called out: All off for Baton
Rouge!" They were not seriously In
jured.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20
To SIGNAL Between stations,

An electrician in the Union Pacific
shops at Omaha has equipped loco
motive with a wireless device, which
railroad men assert will enable train
dispatchers and station agents to sig
nsI engineers between stations.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20

matters he believes it to be true. and
tina, he is ready to pay. and hereby
offers to pay, to the County Treasur-
er of Villas County, for said Alexand-
er Stewart Lumber Company, such a
sum as it would have been neces-
sary to pay to redeem the lands above
described, from the tax sale of 1908
if such lands had not been taxed ex-
cessively
WALTER ALEXANDER
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of November, 1908.
My commission expires June 25.
1911.
(seaD A. A. HOPPER.
Notary Public Wisconsin.
Allowed
State of Wisconsin County of
Marathon, SIS.
Walter Alexander, being first duly
sworn, on oath says that he has been
a resident of Marathon County for
more than Is years last past, and is
now such resident; that he is well
acquainted with the following land
the S. E. Il of the S. w. u of Sec
ton number 81. town AZ, range 9,
East. And of his personal knowledge
the merchantable timber on said land
was cut and removed therefrom on
or before the winter of and logging
season of 1906-1907.
WALTER ALEXANDER
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 10Th day of November 1908.
(seaD A. A. HOPPER
Notary Public. Marathon County
Wisconsin.
My Commission expires June %,
1911.
On motion the above Petition was
granted
W. A. BRADFORD,
County Clerk
There being no further business be-
fore the board, on motion the County
Board of Supervisors Of Villas Coun-
ty, Wis. took a recess to call of the
Clerk
Dated this 9Th day of Jan. 1909
W. A. BRADFORD, County Clerk
The following resolution was of
fered by Supervisor Francis Breest
and duly adopted by the County
Board of Villas County, Wisconsin.
Being vitality interested in the bet
ern Wisconsin, and especially deer
and knowing from years OF actual OBJ
serYation that deer in Northern Wis
consin are rapidly decreasing in nuDl-
Der, and realizing the necessity for
the enactment of laws absolutely pro-
hibiting the killing of does and fawns
at all seasons of the year, and be-
lieving that a law limiting the num-
Der of deer to be killed in open sea-
son to one for each license hunter
and that such deer be a buck with
vizible antlers will not only best pro-
tect the deer family but also tend to
decrease the number of accidents to
hunters in open season.
We, therefore, earnestly recommend
that a law be enacted at the coming
session of the legislature of the State
of Wisconsin to this effect and taht
the open season for killing deer be
limited to ten days, namely from No
vember 9Th to November 18th inclu-
Sivo
Adopted
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20
steamer Wrecked; fe Lost.

Cuxhaven, Jan. 18.-The British
steamer Fidra has been wrecked on
Amrum and is total loss. The F1dra
carried a crew of Is and it is believed
that most of them persisted while try
ing to make the shore
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20
Will Electrifx Tracks,

All the tracks of the Illinois Central
within the city of Chicago will be
electricified and the use Of steam To-
comotives abandoned.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20
Wise Woman.

He-Will you share my lot?
She-Yes, when you have house
on il that is paid for.-Judge.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28

friend Of pure foodstuffs, and his re-
cent battle over the use of benzoate
of soda mas brought to his support the
general public. He takes the position
that a preserved food should not be
chemically preserved. A wholesome,
healthy catsup, for example, can be
made and kept without using any
chemical at all, provided firm, sound
fruit be used, but if odds and ends are
used then a preservatiye becomes use
full to the packer. DR.. Wiley is trying
against heavy interests to weed out all
unsound foodstuffs chemically pre-
served. A tomato catsup made from
good, firm fruit needs no benzoate of
soda, and the American citizen who
buys a eatsup that contains benzoate
of soda has no one to blame but him
self, for the use of the chemical must
be stated on the label
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Jones Valleys Great Problem

In discussions of Birmingham s
water problem there is agreement on
one point only, namely, that the city
needs more and cheaper water for
manufacturing purposes. Where to get
an additional supply and how to get it
and when to get it are all unsolyed
questions.
But the interest in the subject Is
increasing. It may. in fact. said 10 be
general and perYasive. and this is
promising. for when 100000 people be-
gin to study q problem We may be
sure that a solution q be found
Birmingham IS W located IN a
well-watered section section foil OF
rivers and lesser streams. But Biz
mingham is located so far above the
sea level that It IS considered by some
a retreat from the heats OF the low
lands. Our height above the sea is
all that renders the water problem diff
fcult. There is plenty of water on
every hand, but it flows at lower
levels, and that is where trouble, ex-
pense and engineering begin.
Let us keep at 1t until the solution
is found. Let US sternly refuse to con-
slider the problem beyond reasonable
solution, for it is not The people of
Jones valley will find a solution if
they will give the problem proper at
tention, and this is what they seem
inclined to do.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT PROPOSED
| EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE

concerns has had the effect of. in a
measure, demorallzing affairs in the iron
and steel industry. Such things, how
ever. come about occasionally.
While the stock market has been err
ratio and off by virtue of those things
mentioned above. look now for gen
eral improvement in all lines of bust
ness. Under the circumstances I am of the
opinion that unless Governor Conner spe-
cifcally calls the legislature together
for the purpose of remedying clerical
errors of the last session, it will be a
mistake to have an extra session. We
have already had too much legislation in
Alabama. There has been too much po-
ltical enthusiasm in this state, as well
as in many other southern states. There
has been a period something like that
which occurred several years ago when
the populstic element was organized first
under the name of the Farmers Alliance
and then under the name of the populist
party
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Water Versus Rail Transportation

It will trouble Mr.. Mccormack, IA
miliar and skillful as he is with figures
and transportation matters, to explain
why the producers of this district can
not float articles on water cheaply
when Pittsburg does that very thing.
Mr.. Mccormack says it costs Pittsburg
but SO cents ton to float coal or iron
or steel to New Orleans. If Pittsburg
can float coal iron and steel 1000 miles
at 80 cents a ton should not Birming-
ham be able to float it's, products 500
miles for one-quarter that sum? To be
liberal, let US make the Birmingham
rate 40 cent IS a ton instead of % cents.
In other words, we must meet water
with water, not with iron rails, if we
are to secure the gulf markets that
the table of distances allots US. There
is no other way. And The Age-Herald
is glad to see that the limited rivers
and harbors bill now pending before
Congress contains an item providing
for the survey of the Mulberry and
Locust forks of the Warrior river, up
the Mulberry fork to its junction with
the Sipsey fork, and up Locust fork to
the mouth of F1ve-Mile creek. The
Secretary of War is to survey these
streams and to report the advisability
of their improvement and the cost Of
it to Congress. The pending bill also
provides for surveys of Mississippi
sound and Lake Borgne. The Warrior
should be speedily opened and the
producers of this district should then
get together to give Pittsburg the bat
tie of its life, while at the same time
they ship their coal to Colon to fill the
bunkers of all ships that use the Pan
anna canal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Some Southern Cities.

Every city in the south has grown
in size and has accumulated wealth with
in the past 25 years. said Fl. ]. Wat
kins of Philadelphia.
In what we call the far south, when I
first remember, New Orleans and Atlanta
were the only cities regarded as ranking
high; the former because of its size, his
toric character and enormous cotton bus
mess; the latter by reason of it's pluck
and hustle. Today Birmingham is reck-
oned with everywhere as one Of the great
cities of the south and as the city with
the greatest future.
Richmond has long been a solid and
wealthy town. 1t used to be regarded as
very conservative in its development, but
now it is growing rapidly, and is per-
haps the best built city south of the Po-
tomac.
Norfolk, in the old days sleepy and
slow, has been pushing ahead at great
rate within the past 10 years. The pop
ulation in and around Norfolk, including
Newport News. Hampton and Old Point,
is estimated at fully 100000. Norfolk peo-
pie say that by the census of 1920 their
city will appear larger than Richmond;
but do not agree with them. Richmond's
ratio of growth is fast increasing"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Former Cabinets.

while Mr.. Tafts cabinet will include
several men of known ability it will not
contain as many men of national repu-
tation as the cabinets of some of his
predecessors since the war; said an old
citizen.
In my day several of the Presidents
have had exceptionally strong cabinets,
notably Grover Cleveland. In his first
administration Mr. Cleveland had for his
Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard
of Delaware; for his Secretary of the
Treasury Daniel Manning for his Score
tary of War William c. Endicott of
Massachusetts, for his Secretary OF the
Interior l.. Q. C. Lamar of Mississippi;
for his Secretary of the Navy William
c. Whitney of New York; for his Post
master General William T. Villas of Wis
cousin and later Don M. Dickinson of
Michigan, and for his Attorney General
A H. Garland of Arkansas. Two in
this list were distinguished Confederates
and were regarded as among the best
equipped lawyers and statesmen in the
country. Clevelands second cabinet In
cluded Gresham of Illinois, Olney of
Massachusetts; John G. Carlisle of Ken
lucky, Daniel S. Lamont of New York,
Hoke Smith of Georgia, Hilary A. Her
bert of Alabama, William L. Wilson of
West Virginia, and Judson Harmon of
Ohio.
President Mckinley had in his cabi-
net, among others, John Sherman, John
Hay, Elihu Root, John d. Long, Joseph
McKenna and Philander c. knox, who
is to become Mr.. Tafts Secretary of
State
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
pure Food Laws

There should be no compromise
when foods for folks are under consid-
GRAFTON. Pure foods should be the war
cry, and there should be no deviation
from it. No shadow of a compromise
should be permitted. Any attempt to
give public consent to the use of poi
sons in small quantities. in articles of
food is an exceedingly dangerous prop
osition, for there could be no guar
anty that larger quantities would not
be used. No preservative or colorng
matter or adulteration should be per-
mitted that detracts from the purity
Of food.
And the states should assist the fed
eral government in this matter. We
have no state food laws in Alabama,
and articles made in this state to be
consumed In this state could be cram
med with harmful substances. This
should mot be. The state should have
pure food lawss that measure up to
the federal law.
DR.. Harvey Wiley has been the firm
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
AFRICAN SECRET SOCIETY.

From the National Magazine.
The Sese islanders have attained a pc
culiar notoriety in Uganda because of a
secret society called Bachiehi, which is
not a burial society, although its mem
bers take a deep and intelligent interest
in all deaths and burals in their midst.
In the more retired villages, although
greatly discouraged by the British au-
thorties, it is said TO be still the custom
for the sorrowing relatives to bear the
body of the deceased wrapped in bark,
on a rough bier, to some forest thicket,
desolate ravine or other unfrequented
spot, where it is left unburied by the
bearers, who never revisit the place
again. The Bachichi who are denizens
of a neighboring village and distant rel
atives of the deceased, avoid the neces-
sity of burial or cremation, and show
their respect for the deceased by simply
eating them
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Taft'S Cabinet Complete

The cabinet of the new President
that will go into Office on Thursday
next stands as follows:
Secretary of State, Philander Chase
Knox of Pennsylvania, age 56, lawyer.
Secretary of Treasury, Franklin Mac
veagh of Illinois, e., merchant.
Secretary of War, Jacob McGavock
Dickinson of Tennessee, 5S, lawyer.
Attorney General, George w. Wicker
sham of New York, IS, lawyer.
Postmaster General, Frank H. Hitch
cock of Massachusetts, A. chairman re-
publican national committee
Secretary of Navy, George Won Len
gerke Meyer of Massachusetts, 81, banker.
Secretary of Interior. Richard A. Bal
linger of Washington, 3d. lawyer.
Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson
of Iowa, "A, farmer
Secretary of Commerce and Labor,
Charles Nagel of Missouri, 60, lawyer
Five of the nine members of the
new cabinet are lawyers, and every
one of the five is reputed to be acute
and resourceful-Knox, Dickinson,
Wickersham, Ballinger and Nagel.
When so many successful lawyers are
brought into a cabinet, instead of pub
lie men or business men, it must mean
that the President-elect expects to
encounter from the octopus or the
banking and currency problem or the
public lands case or the ever-present
railroad regulation issue, all or vari-
Gus. cases that will call for the best
legal talent. The President-elect is
himself a good lawyer, but perhaps be
is not so acute a one as Mr.. Root OF
perhaps Mr.. Wickersham.
At any rate the new cabinet is to be
strong in lawyers, and if difficult legal
questions come up it will stand ready
to solve them. Mr.. Bonaparte has not
been signally successful in his under
tallings. and Mr.. Taft proposes per
haps to do better when knotty legal
policies are to be devised or main
tanned. The devising and the enforce
ment of laws is after all the chief
work of the executive, and he seems
to have selected cabinet to fit diff
fcult period.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
A Checkered Career,

I'VE have read of men who were once
wealthy ending their lives in the poor
house." said a man who was formerly
connected with the press, "but one Of
the saddest cases of penury is that of
Olive Logan, now SO years of age, who
is now in a pauper asylum in England.
Mrs Logan was born in Elmira, n. 7.
She was a woman of brilliant mind and
was well educated. She was among the
first of the women lecturers and was in
demand in all the cultured centers of the
east. She was a charming newspaper
writer and achieved considerable fame
as a dramatic critic and author. Her
comedy called Surf was produced with
great success by Augustine DAILY in the
'7os She had also written several books
and for many years her name was
household word.
when very young Olive Logan mar
red Henry A. De Lille, a magazine
writer. She divorced him and married
gentleman of the United States consular
service, who died in London more than
20 years ago. While doing literary work
in England she employed an office boy,
James Oneill who became her secretary
and afterwards her husband. He took
her name. Two or three years ago she
had him arrested in New York for nom
support and the arrest revealed the fact
that she was in dire poverty. Lady Cook
rescued her from a poor tenement and
established her in fashionable apart
ment, but soon thereafter Mrs. Logan
returned to London"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Cited as an Example.

In an expansive discussion of the iron
trade and the Birmingham district, the
Baltimore Manufacturers Record cites tho
Sloss-S Sheffield Company as a notable ex-
ample of what good business management
combined with ample raw material will
accomplish. Among other things 1t says:
"Since the Sloss-Sheffleld company was
formed 1t has not received a dollar from
the sale of bonds or stock issued since
its organization. 1t has since then opened
a number of mines. repaired its furnaces
and done its entire development work
out of earnings. 1t has paid regular div
idends on the preferred stock since the
date of issue, and dividend on the COM
mon stock for four and a half years past,
and even during the panic year. 1t has
no floating debt, 1t has doubled its work.
ing capital and accumulated a surplus
of over s3.000,0O0. If this brief record is
not a good illustration OF what a we'll
managed iron enterprise In Alabama can
accomplish, the Manufacturers Record
would like to have a story Of any other
company that, with the same capital and
same volume of business, has surpassed
It, whether it be located in America or
in Europe
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
CENTER OF POPULATION
Going West, But Always lowering
Near Thirty-third Parallel.

From the Geographical Journal.
The center of population in 1900 was in
the state of Indiana. In 1870 the center
state of Maryland, or virtually on the At
lantic shore line. Its migration has been
slow and remarkably uniform both in
rate and in direction. 1t has lowered for
ITO years along the s9th parallel of lati-
tude, and its total variation in latitude
has been less than one-third of a degree
The westward movement has averaged
less than a degree IN a decade, notwith-
standing the Incredibly swift occupation
of vacant continent by a movement of
population westward. The easterly posi-
ton of the center of population is in part
due to the fact that the Eastern part of
the continent was first settled and was
settled from the east. The easterly posi-
ton of the center of population is also
due to the more evenly distributed and
more abundant resources OF the eastern
half of the United States.
1t should not be forgotten that the ge-
ographical center of the United States
lies some hundreds of miles west of the
Mississippi river The eastern half Of the
country therefore, embraces the Atlantic
lowlands the prairies, and Great Lake
plains, the gulf lowlands and the forests
and minerals of the Appalachian noun
tains and Appalachian plateaux. Over
against these is the arid and mountain
Gus areas of the west.
Certain areas will be reclaimed to in
credible productiveness and the mineral
wealth is vast, but the center of popula-
ton may be expected to remain perma-
nently to the eastward of the geograph-
fcal center of the land.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
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BIG MEMS SUGGESTIONS.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
A man more absolutely governed by
pure reason than Lord Macaulay could
not well be found. But in his diary he
refers to an after dinner talk about the
feeling which Johnson had-of thinking
ones self bound to touch a particular
rail or post and to tread in the middle
of a paving stone. And he adds: 81
certainly have this very strongly" In
one of his HILBERT lectures Max Muller
said to the students: MANY of you, I
suspect, carry ha'penny with hole in
it for luck. I am not ashamed to own
that 1 have done so myself for many
years"
Charles Dickens refused to lie down
unless his bed were placed due north
and south. He gave notice of the rule
before arriving at a friends house, or q
hotel, but a compass was always handy
in his baggage to make sure. Miss JUS
tin Mccarthy has told how Parnell
gravely checked her stirring coffee the
wrong way" and insisted that she should
take another cup. A gentleman of Port
rush sent Lord Roberts an old horse
shoe when things looked i'll in South
Africa Gratefully acknowledging it, the
general added that he would keep this
horseshoe in company with one picked
up the day I entered the Orange Free
State and another 1 found at Paardburg
the day before General COME surren-
dered."