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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
"1UGS" HAS HIS SAY.

From the New York Evening World.
 Several of the New York players were discussing the Chinatown murder case in general and the advisability of trying to convert Chinamen in particular.
 'I don't believe in trying to change .anybody's religion" said George Schlei. "because 1t never does any real good"
 Well" observed Fred Penney. T un- derstand that Billy Sunday, the ball play CT who afterward became an evangelist. did considerable proselyting in his day"
 What the tell you talking aboutT' in- terrupted the ever present Bugs Ray mond, in a rather indignant tone Why. that guy was so nice he wouldn't even spit on his hands whom goang to bat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Matters Before Board of Rev,

Matters Before Board of Revenue.
 Our funds for the fiscal year are all appropriated" said a member of the Board of Revenue.
 The fiscal year with the business of Jefferson county begins October 1. would be willing to present to the people the matter of bond issue for constructing all the roads needed. All sections of the county are clamoring for the Improvement of roads. Nothing would to my mind so make for continuous prosperity as good roads to every part of Jefferson county
 The city turned down our proposition as to burying paupers and the care of patients afflicted with contagious dis eases. The board will now refuse to care for the city's paupers and smallpox patients until suitable terms are agreed on"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
A Shower BIessinu.

The rainfall yesterday and the fall of the thermometer brought comfort and happi- ness to thousands.
 Business men detained at their offices experienced great benefit and comfort Many persons thronged the streets in the evening. The amusement places felt the good effects as good crowds attended.
 A physician said that there was no es- timating the great good to the sick, and especially small children, that would fol- low the cooling rain followed by pleas ant night.
 The change in temperature will help shopping, and 1t Is safe to say that busi- ness will be better than for some time on Friday and Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
New consuIs at School.

''The United States consular service. re- organized by Elihu Root while he was Secretary of State, Is being raised to a high plane of efficiency" said former department clerk Until MT. Root worked out a system and framed bill which Congress passed putting consuls in the civil service class. the appointees were merely politicians or the friends of poli- ticians. and had no training or special equipment for consular work It is differ ent now.
 "The consular jobs are no longer polit- ical plums, but every man who gets on the eligible list hes passed very rigid examination as to his qualifications. And before new consul starts for his post he must spend a month at school, so to speak, in the state department at Washington. Frank Deedmeyer, who has been appe.nted consul to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. had to report at the state department July 1 at a. m.; and every week day this month he, along with a number of others. Is kept busy attending lectures by consular and diplo- matic authorities. The new men receive a good schooling in everything regard ing consular regulations and in interna- tional law so far as it pertains to con- sular work. This is certainly great i'm provement over the old slip-shod way in which Americans were sent out to take charge of consular business. The reform and such 1t may be called-came about largely from pressure brought to bear or the department of state and the execu- tive by chambers of commerce in the important cities of the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
WIFELY PRIDE.

From the London M. A. P.
 There Is no telling what quaint turns wifely pride and devotion may take. Sir Melville Beachcroft, while waiting in a tenement house for the occupant of the nrst floor to admit him. chanced to ovsr- hear two women conversing on the stairs.
 one remarked that her husband always wore clean shirt every Sunday morning.
 Well, now," responded the other. "I never cares about Sundays, but allays do see that e 'as clean shirt Satur- day afternoone. eos that's the time e is generally drinking, and when e does take is coat off to fight do like to know e looks nice and clean.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
ANNIVERSARY OF WATERLOO.

From the London Chronicle.
 If nothing else perpetuates the mem- ory Of Waterloo 1t will be the little ceremony which on every anniversary Of the great battle has to take place at Windsor. That is to say. the Duke of Wellington for the time Is bound as the condition of his tenure of strath- heldsaye, to present to the sovereign of these realms a little French fiag-a tri- color-whsch is then hung up over the Iron Dukes bust in the guard room. over against that of the Duke of Marl- borough, whose living representative must perform corresponding feudal ser vice with French royalist flag on Au- gust 13, the anniversary of Blenheim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
The Iron Market,

The pig iron market continues very steady. The tonnage sold this week has not been especially large but the Quotations are on basis of $12.50 for No. g. Rogers, Brown & Co.'S Cincin nati circular, just issued, says:
 "The second half of the year opens well. The iron trade Is optimistic, as result of recent developments along this and allied lines. Active buying of iron has resulted in stiffening of price, advances in some quarters and hesi- tancy on the part of some furpaces to further consider business just now. There has been a general advance in prices, but they are yet somewhat IT, regular although on a higher plane. During the latter part of June there was quite a demand for low grade iron, and pipe works and other manu- lecturers bought heavily.
 Some blast furnaces have with drawn from the market, refusing to make quotations until they can better figure out their situation. regarding deliveries for considerable period ahead.
 Some lines, such as wire and rails, are undergoing remarkable develop ment, the former at rate almost nor nal and directly due to the crop out look and agricultural conditions with which they have so much to do. It was only after the first quarter of the year that the squirt in steel started and since then 1t has been going at a record rate.
 "It Is stated that rail contracts placed during the first three months were less than 275,000 tons. this quantity being increased to 100000 tons by the first of July, the second quarter business ex- ceeding soo.ooo tons.
 Coke Is steady with fair sales of both furnace and foundry and some manufacturers out of the market for any more contract business, claimin g to have sold up their estimated output to such an extent as to make other policy unwise. With the present trend of the iron market, 1t is only right to suppose that coke will follow as it has been at low point for so long"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

victs, some of them in for life, are earn Ing money and depositing it in savings banks here One young white convict already has quite snug sum drawing interest. He is a model prisoner and very industrious. He is looking forward to release some of these days and intends to have something to live on when a free man and advanced in years.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

The meanest trick a woman plays on her husband is to increase his stock of family connections.
 Enjoying life Is about as reasonable as thinking you enjoy running up hill with a load on your back.
 A mans chief idea of home is where his clothes can be on the right hooks and the buttons always sewed on.
 A women is 50 naturally capricious that if sAe has . good temper shs can SometimeA pretend she is rsd-hsadsdx
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

Bristol. Va, has gone wet. The fore casts indicated that the result would be close and it was close. But when 1t is remembered that the drys had a majority of over 200 two years ago, a wet majority of 38 yesterday may be regarded as pronounced enough for all practical purposes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The Political Equality Union of Chi cago, made up of marr1ageable wo- men, has adopted the slogan, "No vote, no husband" Each member should be required to give a bond that she will stand up to the slogan, regardless of temptation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

Johndee is in Cleveland, where he will be in good position to arbitrate the differences between his Cleveland pastor and his New York pastor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

General Bingham's offense consisted in persistent effort to serve the people instead of the politicians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The Austrian doctors are about to put the X-rays on E. H. Hartman, and they may discover plans and secrets that are saleable in Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The trade papers say living is cheap because timed vegetables and dried fruits are cheap. A diet of benzoate of soda is not, however, cheap living in the long run. It invites the physi- elan and the undertaken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
Thrifty Convicts.

q was agreeably surprised few days ago when I saw in the lobby of small hotel a well dressed negro who was in- formed was just out from serving term at Flat Top mines and was awaiting the escort who was taking him home to a north Alabama county" said a travelling man.
 This negro had gained in flesh and had saved up some money. He said that he had been sent to the mines for assault with intent to murder for term of two years He was allowed 25 cents per ton for digging coal after all his task was performed.
 T am informed that several white con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

Count Zeppelin may decide to bring the North Pole to Germany when he swings around it. He could lash it to his long, cigar-shaped gasbag.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The stork smiles on Chicago, for a new ordinance opens all flats to fami- lies with children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

Harvesters in Kansas get $3 day and keep. The latter is the larger of the two.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
EXPENSIVE.

"Bilkins fell in love with his wife while teaching her how to swim"
 "so he did. and he's been on the verge of bankruptcy ever since trying to keep her in the swim"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

Crazy Snake and Abdul Hamid are about to join Admirals Dewey and Schley in the vale of obscurity. This world is made up of good forgetters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The merger business will not be complete until the doctors and under takers join hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

Harvard has just had an output of $50 degrees all told. This leaves the thermometer in the shade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

Texans are drowned almost every day in bathtubs. Let them, however, persevere in the use of them. They will yet learn how
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

Beverly Mass, has become distend- ed, and 1t Is now prepared to hold the President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The Czar, the baseball umpire and Marse Aldrich are off one autocratic piece, and nobody loves them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The statement that nobody is in town in midsummer is hot-air talk. The real workers and doers are still in our midst
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The freshmen who enter college next fall will join the class of IS and they will face the hoodoo from the start.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The India scare Is Spelling" the German airship hoodoo in English minds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The modern man has to contend in the streets with the joy rider, the scorching motorcycle and the falling aeroplane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
FOR vARIETYs SAKE

So many times the office boy
 Has lost his dear grandmother, I really think, just for a change,
 He ought to lose his brother, Or little sister, or his aunt
 The result would be the same; The only funeral he'd attend
 Would be baseball game
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
THE sEAsHoRE GIRL.

A summer queen. the bathing girl is
 sporting on the beach And everyone who sees her there declares
 she Is a peach; Although 'tis quite beyond me to describe
 her bathing suit, The general effect of 1t is altogether
 'cute.' She doesn't like the water much--we don't
 blame her a bit; Iris while she's posing on the sand she
 makes her greatest hit The cameras are clicking and I'm sure
 it's not a joke To say that every time she smiles some-
 body's heart Is broke. She figures in the supplements, she fig-
 ures in the news, Iris not surprising that chap Is tempted
 to enthuse And seek the shore himself to learn just
 how she figures there, Since "igurativeiy speaking, she must
 be surpasslng fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

No vote, DO wife," is what the wild and wooly west Is about to encounter. Cupid has not yet taken sides.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

"She tries to hum a careless tune, And strikes a careless pose and catchy, While through her hose the skeeters
 bore
 And get her ankles feeling scratchy; Talk not to me of Spartan lad, Who smiled the while the wolf was
 gnawing, The girl has got him skinned mile Who sits and smiles instead of claw
 ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The Young Turk is overmatched in his effort to rid Constantinople of dogs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
ONE WAY.

to Suicide"
 "Does he recommend rocking the boat?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
A RAINY DAY.

A RAINY DAY. The rain comes down on the dusty town, The clouds are drifting low And the bough of the trees in wandering
 breeze
 Are waving to and fro. A tattoo beats on the window pane, The rain drops drum on the roof, The skies are drear with many tear And the sun god holds aloof. The flowers droop and the lawn is astir With the voice of gushing streams, The roses petals strew the ground, On every grass blade gleams A silver drop, while the birds are hushed- Each fathered songsters strain And all we hear. with a dreamful ear, Is the monotone of the rain.
 THE PENALTY OF GREATNESS. Pa, what Is fame?'
 Fame, my son, is being walked up at o'clock in the morning to make a speech from the rear end of train"
 A NUISANCE. The world is full of shouters, Who make a dreadful fuss, VI ihOShliiB lOOlS ana nOuleTS And chaps who like to cuss Whatever is, declaring
 We're going to the bad; Their spleen Is so unsparing, They make blithe people sad We need some crticizers
 To show us where we're wrong And thoughtfully apprise us The while we plod along, But darn the sort of critter Who finds his only joy In observations bitter
 That vex us and annoy
 TRl4.SG TO KEEP COOL. Anything coming off tonight?' Everything" answered the corpulent person, T won't even wear pajamas."
 FOR vARIETYS SAKE. So many times the office boy Has lost his dear grandmother, l really think, just for a change, He ought to lose his brother, Or little sister, or his aunt The result would be the same; The only funeral he'd attend Would be baseball game.
 IN SPITE OF LEON LING. "A Topeka girl married Chinaman last week."
 "Well?"
 That girl either has strong will or she doesn't read the newspapers" Just now in the season of soft summer nights verandas resound to what Philan- der Johnson calls mosquito artillery" Oftentimes maid finds 1t convenient to interrupt a mans flow of conversation by slapping at mosquito which always seems to alight on the hand which he is desirous of holding. However, when mosquitoes betake themselves ankleward 1t is another matter. Judd Mortimer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The rain comes down on the dusty town, The clouds are drifting low And the bough of the trees in wandering
 breeze
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
THE PENALTY OF GREATNESS.

Fame, my son, is being walked up at o'clock in the morning to make a speech from the rear end of train"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE SroIC.

Lewis has summed up the situation in a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
IN SPITE OF LEON LING.

IN SPIIE OF' I4EON LING. "A Topeka girl married Chinaman last week."
 "Well?"
 That girl either has a strong will or she doesn't read the newspapers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
STILL ON HIS WAY.

They haven't caught that rascal yet You know of whom I sing, The missionary ladies' pet.
 The slant-eyed Leon Ling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
A NUISANCE.

Anything coming off tonight?''
 'Everything," answered the corpulent person, T won't even wear pajamas.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
Are waving to and fro.

A tattoo beats on the window pane,
 The rain drops drum on the roof, The skies are drear with many tear And the sun god holds aloof.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

A silver drop, while the birds are hushed- Each fathered songster's strain; And all we hear, with a dreamful ear,
 Is the monotone of the rain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

REPLIES. Are the happiest women widows?" asks a contemporary. They certainly do create that impression while fixing up to get married again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

The flowers droop and the lawn is astir With the voice of gushing streams, The roses petals strew the ground,
 On every grass blade gleams
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09

"A discreetly and sanely popess Fourth makes lockjawless Fifth, says the Washington Herald. Not when the Fourth Is celebrated on the fifth, as it was this wear
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-11-10
POSSIBLE COMING or THE POSTAL
TELEGRAPH co.

The efforts Of the Montpelier board
Of trade to get the Postal Telegraph
company's line into its city bring ur
again the general belief that the West
ern Union company would serve its
Barre patrons in much better manner
II it should divorce it's business from
that Of The Central Vermont railroad
and have an Office on Main street in
the center Of the business district. The
business Of the local office has been
growing steadily, particularly in the
transmission Of money, and the volume
Of patronage seems to warrant an Office
strictly for Western Union business. In
case the Postal company should extend
its lines from Burlington to Montpelier,
there would undoubtedly be an extension
further @ Barre; in which case, THE
Postal world have an Office in the busi-
ness district of The city and secure mueh
Of tile business which might be retained
by the Western Union with a more ac-
cessible Office and an Office which WINS not
subject to the distractions Of railroad
service II may come to point that
the possible introduction Of the Postal
system will force the Western Union to
have a street location,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-11-10
AN ALLY TO LIQUOR LAW EN-
FORCEAfFNT

Although it il not apparent Why one
Rutland druggist should have been de-
prived Of his pharmacist license, while
the other two in similar action were
placed on probation, it is evident that
this entire turn Of events will serve to
tighten whatever loose rein the state
administration may have been holding
over ffth-elass liquor licensees in YER
mont Rarely has the state board Of
pharmacy exercised its judicial preroga
tive Of sitting IN Judgment on the acts
Of members who have been granted GER
tiicates by the state board and who are,
therefore, amenable to the power which
gave them the right; in fact, the law
given prerogative has been regarded as
more or less Of stuffed club to wave
in the faces of pharmacists and thus
exercise warning influence over them.
It gives the board the power to revoke
certificates OF registration on the convic-
ton Of druggists Of unlawful sale Of
liquor or for any other sufficient reason
The three druggists in question stand
convicted In Rutland county court Of
Illegal sale Of liquor, and were conse-
quently snswerable for their acts to the
state pharmacy board, il the latter
should be disposed to summon them to
show cause why the certificates should
not be revoked. Probably the board will
explain satisfactorily in it's report Just
why It rescued the decision as above
outlined. IN aay event, it becomes Ger.
tain thst the prosecuting officers Of the
state may have valuable ally in the
state board Of pharmacy in casss Of law
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-11-10
SMALL RATE
OF MORTALITY
Continued from first page.


discussion in regard TO the city's rights
in this building, and the city clerk finally
dug out the old records and agreements.
under which the building was erected by
The town Of Barre and Nathan II. Morse
and stilman Wood, in 1860. BY the
agreement Morse and Wood built the
foundation and lower part Of the build
ing and the town the upper part except
the outside wallis, and the upper story
was To be used BIZ The town as town
hall and the roof and hall were Co be-
furnished and kept III repair BY the
town II was stipulated that Morse and
Wood, or their heirs or assigns, should
always keep the lower part In good re-
pair in case the building burned, it
was agreed that the owners should sell
the site at reasonable price, or give
the town the right to erect another build
ing under the same conditions as the
first.
The mayor said that the city's part
Of the building was all rented at present
and the city was getting about $500 q
year rent out of It'll AT one time. the
clerk stated. the city offered to sell its
part for $4,000 Il was the opinion or
the council that the city could afford
10 hang onto It little longer
The oftadiourned meeting OF the
council for the purpose OF hearing the
Central Vermont officials, and Vice Presi.
dent Fitzhrgh in particular, was sched-
uled for last evening; but, like 50 many
of the previous ones, there was nothing
doing, and another adjournment was
made until Dec. G.
The clerk stated that last Wednesday
Mr.. Fitzhugh and several Of the officials
of the road made a trip down the main
line in their special train, and that they
teleeraphed to Mr. Rowland that they
would be in this city on the afternoon
Of that day Mr. Rowland telegaphed
back that he was sick IN bed and would
not be able 70 meet them, but to come
inst the same, as the city council and
the rest OF the abntters' committee would
he able to meet them. The officials
however telegaphed again that they
would then call It of until some other
time, and that was the last that has
been heard from them.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-11-10
East ORANGE

F. A. Burroughs was in Barre Thurs
day
Mrs Nathan Burroughs is at Orange
visiting
Ed Minard Of West Newbury Is visit
ing AZ Grin Prescott's.
Mrs, r. II. Blake is at her sisters.
Mrs Will Rogers in Orange.
Mr.. and Mrs +. A. Burroughs and
son, Arthur we're ii Chelsea Tuesday.
Charles Dow il busy with his gaso-
line engine, threshing in this and adj
joining towns
Miss Alice Pike Of Orange has started
a millinery parlor at Mrs. Kate Hun
toons for a Time
Joseph Eastman Of West Fairlee visit
ed at O. A, Preseott's and called on
friends last week
There was a surprise party at Waldo
Prescott's last Tuesday night, 1t being
to celebrate his birthday.
Clyde Blake 81 Fairlee, who was at
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. I'LL Blake's,
through the deer season, returned to his
work in Fairlee Tuesday Of last week.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-11-10
JINGLEs AND JEsTs
Fair Warning.

Fair Warning.
Bigga, fresha 'Merican,
Dat'sa you.
Mehbe 50 a iightin' man
You are, too
Mebbe so da boss for NASH
Granda styla, playnta cash
Theenkin all da girls he know
Wanta keess heem. Mebbe so
Datsa you.
Justa leetla "Dagoman,S
Looka, see
Boss for dees peanutta-stan'.
Dat'sa me
Mebbe 50 / wat you call
Notta mocha good at all
Justa leetla mouse dat no
Care for fghta. Mebbe 80
Dat'sa me.
Gooda -lookin' fatta cheek,
Dat'sa yours.
Leetla feest SO small, so weak,
Datsa mine
Leetla girl so good, so sweet.
Passs by you on da street
Ali you know herl She's Carlot',
Don'ta touch herr Better not!
Dat'sa mine.
Catholic Standard and Times.