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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

when it seemed as II Emerson were a
younger brother to Shakespeare. . /.
In addition to the scholarly discussion
loose something within me which made
me in my own eyes as good as anyone
else"
When Mr.. Chapman was at college, at
Harvard Emerson was still living. And
I have seen him wandering about the
streets of Cambridge in that stage which
Is called dotage and which often borders
on the sublime even in ordinary peo-
ple"
"Out of gossip and observation 1 put
together a picture of Emerson and his
times, without the least intention of
writing about him, without indeed, know
ing what L was doing and aferward,
when the Atlantic Monthly asked me to
write about Emerson, 1 said to myself,
Very well, why not?Be bold, be bold,
be not too bold"
I was intoxicated with Emerson He let
of Emerson, Mr.. Chapman has incor-
porated in his book of essays studies
of Walt Whitman, A study OF Romeo,
Michael Angeles Sonnets, the Fourth
Canto of the Inferno, Robert Browning
and Robert Louis Stevenson.
A very Interesting, valuable book Ia
this one sent forth by Mr.. Chapman.
1.-The Ladies' Pageant" by e. V. Lucas.
macmillan Coz
If you read a book, heartily recon-
mended by this department sometime
since, from Mr.. Lucas PEN entitled.
lover Bemertons; An Easy Going
Chronicle" you need no further sugges-
ton to hunt for, buy or borrow to read
anything you can locate from that au-
thor. The book just referred to Is run
ming in instalments in The outlook now.
In 1.-THE Ladies' Pageant" Mr.. Lucas
as an editor collected the good, wise,
witty and sometimes wicked things said
about women In years gone by. The book
has sub-heads "a The Buds, ~ virginia.,
go The Poets and the Ideal, az A States
mans Ideal. 90 A West Country Bevy,
go Daughters of Erin, % The Tender
North, S) Waysde Flowers, 90 The He
roines, Q0) Shakespeare's Women, dD
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01

Ten per cent discount on all goods
for Market Day only, at Nathe's. A
When looking for place to spend a
pleasant evening, try the Family The
atre. a
Hold Fast Pumps for ladies, in the
latest New York fads, made in bronze:
calf or kid. The Boston. A.
Impure blood runs you down. makes
you an easy victim for organic di-
SeaSes. Burdock Blood Bitters puri-
ties the blood-cures the cause-builds
you up. ~
Fifteen per cent discount on every
suit bought on Market Day only. at
Nathe'S. a
McCracken & Burgess have just put
in a new counter in their grocery
store. 1t has hard maple top which
is both handsome and durable, as well
as being very convenient. They say
that since the new counter has been
arranged they do not get slivers in
their fingers while reaching for money
laid down by customers.
Ten per cent off on hats. shoes and
all furnishings for Market Day at
Nathe's. a
Between one and two O'Clock Satur-
day afternoon the fire bell called the
department to the rear of Bucher's
meat market where barrel of gaso-
line had caught fire. The barrel was
quickly rolled out into the street and
stream from the chemical engine
soon had the blaze subdued. The rear
end of the building was. .charred lit
tie and part of the gasoline was burn
ed up. Otherwise there was no dam
age.
Sample line of handkerchiefs. at less
than manufacturers prices, on Market
Day, at Blied's. "A
The old fashioned way of dosing
weak stomach or stimulating the
Heart or Kidneys is all wrong. DR..
Shoop first pointed out this error.
This is why his prescription DR..
Shops Restorative-is directed en-
tirely to the cause of these; ailments
the weak inside or controlling nerves.
1T isn't SO difficult, says DIR. Shoop, to
strengthen weak Stomach, Heart or
Kidneys. If one goes at it correctly.
Each inside organ has its controlling
or inside nerve. When these nerves
1all then those organs must surely fall
Ter. These vital truths are leading
druggists everywhere to dispense and
recommend DIR. Shops Restorative.
lest 1t few days, and see! Improve
ment will promptly and surely follow.
Sold by Hanson & Emerson. 44-4t
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01
ADDITIONAL LOCALS

Special sale of white goods next Fri
day and Saturday at Blied's. "A
WANTED.-A competent girl for
general housework. Mrs. A. Hatch.
The public schools of Sauk Centre
closed last Friday for a weeks vaca-
tion.
Manitowoc mammoth packet seeds,
3 for 10 cts, at l.. s. Bishop Co. ~
1t will be of great value to you to
read the article about good goods at
right prices on page 8. A
New Easter hats in our Millinery
Dept. Saturday. Fair Store "A
Last Saturday the annual election
of members of the Board of Educa-
tion was held, w. S. Dean and Geo.
c. Ingram being chosen to succeed
themselves for three year term.
Just received, car load Of Gold
Medal Flour, bran, shorts. Albert
DahIsn, grocery department.
When in Minneapolis stop at the
Beaufort Hotel. 1t has pleased thous-
ands of others. 1t will please you.
112 Sd Street South. Opposite the
Postoftice. A.
Toilet and Andrew jacobson Of Al
exandria-both well known here
have recently purchased the Nelson
State Bank of that town. Toilet is
president and he and Andrew are both
directors.
Ten per cent off on hats, shoes and
all furnishings for Market Day at
Nathe'S. a.
w. +. Keller has recently purchased
a Velie automobile. This is a new
machine manufactured by the Deere
Webber Company, but it lines up well
alongside any make of auto. Mr..
Keller expects the machine will arrive
here soon. He now has three autos.
the Ford runabout, the Stanley steam
er and the Velie.
Good time to but Gold Medal Flour,
carload Just in. Albert Dahiem, sro-
Gerry dspartment.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01
Words to Freeze the Soul

Your son has Consumption. His
case is hopeless" These appalling
words were spoken to Geo. E. Blevens,
a leading merchant of Springfield, N.
G. by two expert doctors-one a lung
specialist. Then was shown the Won
derful power of DIR. Kings New Dis
covery. After three weeks use
writes Mr.. Blevens, she was as well as
ever. ! would not take all the money
in the world for what it did for my
boy" Infallible for Coughs and
Colds, its the safest, surest cure of
desperate Lung diseases on earth.
SOC and .Sl.O0. Hanson & Emerson.
Guarantee satisfaction. Trial bottle
free. 44-4t
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01
April 1-I5l
Citation for Hearing on Petition for
Administration

Estate Of lsadora Sherwood, Deceased,
State of Minnesota.
County of Stearns
In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Isadora Sher-
wood Decedent.
The state Of Minnesota to all persons inter-
ested in the granting of administration of the
estate of said decedent. The petition of Walk
er Sherwood having been filed in this court, re-.
presenting that Isadora Sherwood. then a re-
sident of the County of Stearns State of Minne-
sofa, died intestate on the 18th day of February
1903: and praying thatletters of administration
OF her estate be granted to Richard Yates:
and the court. having fixed the time
and place for hearing said petition; There
fore, YOU. and each of YOU, are hereby
cited and required to show cause if any you
nave. before this court at the Probate Court
Rooms i'm the Court House, in the City of St
Cloud in the County of Stearns. State ofMinne-
sofa. on the 23rd day of April 1909, at
O'Clock A. NJ. why said petition should not be
granted.
Witness the Judge of said Court, and Seal of
said Court this 3Gth day of March 1909.
COURT A. III. KLASEN
SEAL Probate Judge.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01
NO WONDER SHE'S CROSS

The woman who has thousand
petty dares and annoyances while she
suffers. with headache or sideache
must not be blamed if she cannot al
ways be angelically amiable. What
she needs is thoughtfulness from her
family and such simple and natural
remedy as Lanes Family Medicine,
the herb tea that makes weak women
strong and WELL. Sold by druggists
and dealers. 25c. 44
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01
"i'd Rather Die, Doctor,

than have my feet cut of, !" said NJ. l..
Bingham, OF Princeville, H., ..but
you'll die from gangrene (which had
eaten away eight toes) if you don't, ("
said all doctors. Instead he used
Bucklen's Arnica Salve till wholly
cured. Its cures of Eczema, Fever
Sores, Boils, Burns and Piles astound
the world. 25c at Hanson & Emer-
son. 44-4t
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01
Program

For Friday and Saturday at the Fam
lily Theatre:
"Blue Bird" hand painted.
Especial Views on Post Cards
Are You On, Elk?" (comic).
Illustrated song, "Kilty Karney."
These are all beautiful films and you
will miss something if you do not see
them. "A
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01

Dainty sheer white fabrics, 81 in.
Egyptian muslins, 4S in. Adria cloths
real French lawns, batiste, swisses,
Persian lawns and all white goods at
special discounts, Friday and Satur-
day. April and 3, at Blied's. A
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01

At recent meeting of the Board
of Education the present corps Of
teachers was reelected. The schools
are equipped with fine lot of teach
ers and they will probably all remain
another year. 3.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01

The Minnesota g. international
road is said to be considering the ad-
of running its trains
through to Little Falls and making
that city the terminus. The present
terminus is Brainerd.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-01

Ten per cent discount on all goods
for Market Day only, at Nathe's., a
Evening star., 1909-05-09
Uncle Sam as Sherlock Holmes in Detecting Land Fraud Cases

majority of Its activities-consist in hon
orable transactions with honest citizens.
Some of the leading statesmen of the
country have administered it's affairs in
every decade, and it's present chief is
Fred bennett of North Dakota. who is
under the Secretary of the Interior.
One Of the most common and success
ful methods of securing title to enormous
tracts of prairie and timber lands, by iS-
noriing the plain provisions of the sew
eral generous features of the federal land
laws. has been by the extensive use of
the dummy entry man.
Briefly, the dummy entryman is a
pawn in the chess game the citizen of
political and financial power plays to
gain control of vast areas of public lands.
The dummy is a most convenient citizen.
He does not seek the land for himself.
though he vociferouSly declares that he
does and most gravely perjures himself
to that effect He enters upon the claim
with due regularity, often with wife and
family, far from any town or settlement,
away in the forests depths where he
constructs a rude shack and clears a few
acres for tubers and parsnps There he
sleeps and eats part of the time, and
claims TO have no other home.
This lone entryman outwardly appears
to be most sacrificing patriot. But he
is not alone in his sacrifice; the forest is
full of a horde of the same sort of pa
triots. A mile or less apart they may be
found in their shambling shacks, Sc
cluded in the deep, dank woods for
leagues and leagues around. It requires
a horde of them. Few could not compass
the projected steal Of such extended tim
ber tracts as would satiate the greed of
certain types of lumber kings.
They are all brave men. They brave
the forest wilds and the possible wrath
of posterity. They are brave enough to
swear that they are good citizens who
want to settle upon land for actual
homes, and ''hope to die II they do not
intend to live upon these very acres for
evermore-Providence permitting.
In due course of time (made briefer by
the provision of the kindly law that per-
mits the squatter to shorten the period
of squatting by adding some payments
in CASH the patent is secured and the
dummy does at once what he had been
hired to do from the first-sells his pat
ent to the man who had sent him on the
land, who kept him while there and who
supplied him the funds to prove up his
claim so promptly. Exit dummy; exeunt
all the dummies. The titles are passed.
and, behold the lord of the land, no longer
Uncle Sam, but the ambitious lumber
king, is posting the warning notices: mo
Evening star., 1909-05-09

The park is in the rear of
the fund, paying, really, what they p ease.
Though small, it Is all smart, coquettish
and absolutely modern, great proportion
of the expense being put upon the in
terror fittings.
Never in France, have | seen such
electrical and heating appliances. The
operating room has something no Paris
hospital possesses-a smooth. copper heat
ing wall on two sides of the room, with
out radiators or crannies for the accu-
mutation of germs.
1t can, thus, be washed down like the
two other walls of marble. and the floor
is composed of a special aseptic sub
stance.
The aseptic smoothness of all doors
has been obtained by lining them with
sheet iron. 1t obyiates all corners and
edges, besides being soundproof and fire
proof. Every square inch of every
wal-in free wards and private rooms
alike-can he washed down with anti
septics like the operating room itself.
The roof garden, with it's elevators, is
arranged so that every patient can be
wheeled to it in his o. her own bed.
wheeled in the ambulance rolling-cotS to
The rooms assigned item. on no matter
what floor.
Here are novelties for the French
hospital doctors. Every American i'm
provement, from special typhoid sheets
Evening star., 1909-05-09

money. have been moved from hotel to
hotel, to bring up in hospitals of the Paris
poor. and wealthy tourists have been
lucky to rent fiat to be sick in. Then
comes the landlord with a blackmailing
bill for damages
| have Just seen DIR. Edmond GrOS of
the board of governors OF our colonys
new refuge for tourists.
*
Paris with It's 10000 free beds, has no
place for Americans" says DR.. Gros. Net
that they refuse us. but their diiapidated
old buildings, insanitary and germ-flled.
have an amazing death rate. This does
not reflect on French doctors. who often
make improvements out of their own
pockets. The material needs of the crowd
ing poor are great; the Assistance Pub
lique' is not all-wise in It's distributions.
and it is not the habit to make beuuests
TO hospitals. Recently we We're all
shocked by the death of promising
young American architect.
The young American. taken suddenly
with pneumonia. was unable to send word
TO friends. by weakness confusion, apa thy
or pride. who knowS?' continued DR.
Gros. The local French doctor without
warning anybody, had him moved to the
nearest French hospital. where. surround
ed by people who could not understand
him. the boy died mserably. before friends
or family knew he was sick"
The French doctor found him alone?"
/ asked
$50 deirous. unknown American was
recently found alone in the Latin quarter
and he really seemed to have no
friends" replied the fashionable physician
of the colony. Two weeks gone in
typhoid ii was impossible to nurse him in
that attic? Yet what do? Generous
Americans came forward a small fiat
was rented and summarily furnished and
two excellent American trained nurses
volunteered their services. The patient
turned out to be of a weli-to-do American
manipulating Latin quarter Bohemian
Evening star., 1909-05-09

Hospital. where the rich and poor are ad-
mirably cared for.
'Once it got started. the American Hos
pital was soon under Way?" | said.
1T is built and equipped for SoJ0.000
creditable beginning, he replied. though
donations continue to be received. And
the names of very rich men on the boar d
of governors should not discourage any
one from contributing, because While the
American Hospital now exists. ii has got
to be maintained"
Mr.. John H. Harjes is president and j.
Pierpont Morgan, his partner. is on the
board of governors. The secretary is Hen
ry Cachard. and the vice president is
John j. Hoff 1t is his wife. Mrs. Whit
ney Hof-daughter of the late Detroit
millionafre-who founded and pays all the
its beautiful little hospital, restricted to
girl students. Trinity Lodge. with its
similar jewel box hospital for girls only.
is the work of the Rev. DR.. Morgan, the
cousin of j. Pierpont Morgan. who quit
banking for the Episccpalian priesthood.
The board of governors is a list of hon
ored Americans of the colony, w. S. Dali
liba, Col. Dodge, the military historian of
magnate: J. w. Sharon of California and
A. Van Bergen of one of the Oldest resi-
dent American families of Paris.
The three prominent American physi
clans on the board of governors-Dr., Ed
mond l.. Gros, DIR. A. J. Magnin and Dir.
Crosby Whitman-were among the mo t
active organizers of the hospital. Their
reward is to have less sudden fiat renting
and furnishing to do for rich and poor.
Shall you send fashionable colonists to
the American Hospital?" / asked DR.
Gros.
Il shall recommend it, as in typhoid
was his answer. NO private apartment,
however luxurious, has the advantages of
a resident physician the staff of nurses
and hundred specialties making for re-
cOvery. AS for wealthy tourists, it will
be their salvation simply.
And tourists of moderate means?
1T will be their salvation doubly.
And hard-up Americanso" l asked. tim
idly.
'Hard-up Americans?" he repeated en-
Enthusiastically. why, it will be their sal
yation-absolutely."
l have seen the American Hospital go
up, story by story. in the Park Of Neuil-
Iy suburb ! myself inha bit, a land gra b.
bing operation by which the late King
Louis-Philippe was robbed of his cha
teau and forest grounds while Neuilly be-
came the richest municipality of France.
The sick Americans will sun themselves
in late kings park. beneath his an
cient trees. The American Hospital, built
up flush from the street. is long and
narrow. so that sunlight can flood in al
all hours. On it's park side-not visible
from the street.-the sun shines in on
every floor.
There are two free wards-one for men.
for women. At present they con-
tain twenty-five beds.
The remaining accommodations are in
private rooms for those who can afford
to pay for them. l understand that the
prices will not be high. In this sense.
Evening star., 1909-05-09

most daring steals defeated recently.
The case had to do with school lands
in the states of California and oregon.
and with lands upon the national forest
reserves. The facts in evidence made
public some very interesting metnoos not
heretofore met with. A recent law pro-
vides that citizens holding these schoot
lands may exchange them for timber
lands or forest lands held by the national
government
The scheme of these particular con-
spirators was shown to be to secure bogus
titles to large tracts of these school lands
and exchange them for valuable forest
lands with rock-bottom government pat
ent titles. and then sell for cash before
the fraud might be detected.
* X
A bogus title must look just like gem
uine one of course. How do they get it?
They agree upon the land. search the
records and describe 1t carefully, and Sc
cure the signatures required of citizens.
who declare their knowledge that their
documents are the real things. These
signatures while perjured, are often done
by citizens paid for signing what they
know nothing about, or know to be false.
And not infrequently they outright
forgeres.
The documents must next be certified by
a notary public. One willing to serve his
friends being found, with fees hun
dredfold. and possibly drink or two the
official notary becomes sort of psychic;
he rises to the occasion, develops clair
voyant powers and behods citizens who
are not present. citizens whom he never
beheld before or since-occasionaly some
who never did exist anywhere. Then he
seizes his pen, his official pen. and certi-
fies upon the bogus titles that there per
sonally appeared before him." then and
there the persons whose signatures he
beholdS before him-most of them for
geries or false witnesses.
Thus armed with completed titles to
school lands the conspirators offer them
in exchange for forest lands Of the ma
tional government. The exchanges are
agreed to. the title being accepted. But
lest some In the land Office might
become curious enough to go back and
make pertinent inquiries, the conspira-
tors sometimes attempt to fix things"
also in the general land Office where. for
consideration they sometimes secure
the assurances of friend" that their
selections shall not only be passed on.
but that they shall be advanced out of
order. and the records hastily completed.
In the case in point, damaging evidence
Of this sort of conduct led to the dis
missal of four officials, prominent in land
office service
These particular conspirators became so
Evening star., 1909-05-09

successful circumvention of the plain in
tent of the several homestead acts, the
invariable purpose of which was to fur
nish small holdings to actual settlers to
establish independent homes.
When fraud Is suspected the govern
ment inquiries into conditions existing.
Sometimes the chief of the land office
quietly proceeds to change or dismiss
some of his assistants, without whose
connivance or guilty knowledge the
thieves could not court upon winning at
their game.
The whole business of guarding and
OF handling the trust o. the public lands
today has become vastly more complex
than it was a few decades ago. The in
genuity of the land grabber is slight
thing. The government depends largely
upon its employees as agents to detect
Irregularities but the experience of some
years has made II urgent that spec al
work be done-detectiye work. Ordinary
caseS are not hard to run down once Sus-
pected. but when millions are backing a
projected steal and money is freely spent
to purchase perjurerS to fill the needed
papers and to cover up crookedness the
task is not so easy.
Upon every national forest reserve are
employed crews of men known as forest
rangers.
Detectives often have become members
OF these ranger troopers and secured the
forests for months. no one suspecting
their real mission. Again they have be n
members of surveyors crews. where with
wise tongue and alert ears they abb
sorbed the gossip of the locality and
then became sick Later. they report
at headquarters in Washington. A govern
ment agent may appear as an industrious
solicitor selling stock for some mining
or timber company, careless of sales,
while he collects the evidence he is after.
His chief concern is possibly wholly un-
suspected until later NE appears in court
as government witness.
very important case illustrating the
success of the general land office in its
work In this line was disposed of less
than one year ago. The case involved
some 2J0GDO acres of land and millions
of dollars in property. 1t was among the
Evening star., 1909-05-09

the building the right.
from Chicago to an aseptic Ice ma
chine from New Orleans. is being ac-
cepted as in kind of superior Amer
lean hospital exposition.
(Which of the American physicians
of Paris will he resident?'' I asked DIR.
Cros.
The resident doctors will have to ba
brought from America. said DIR. Gros.
The chief of the nurses is already APP
pointed She is most competent wom-
an. for many years head nurse OF the
Mount Sinai Hospital. New York
We stood in the long. narrow mems
ward, among the plasterers and e.ectfi.
cians and the afternoon sun flooding the
whole floor, as the morning sun floods
it from the park side. And | thought
of a distracted American father actually
reduced to bluffing for his sons life in
the smartest hotel of. Lucerne two years
ago. What would he not have given for
the security of one of these little rooms
with Smooth pink walls?
The little son had scarlatina. And he
must be removed.
The doctor says 1t means death. the
father missed. You try to move him. L
buttonhoie your guests from the street.
I'll tell them you have knowingly kept
scarlatina in your hotel a week already. :
Mixed morality? Yes. But the Amer~
lean Hospital of Paris obviates 1T.
STERLING HELLO. /,