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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13

Miss Lucia Reynolds, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. s. AL len, in Graymont, has gone to Monte vallo for a. visit before returning to her home in Centreville.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
The Indian and the Telephone.

The Indians are great on using the
telephone. They have but little or no
use for the local boards, their calls be-
ing over the long distance. They do
not put in call for the individual.
They do not ask for White Eagle at
Canton or Flying Cloud at Darlington.
The call is for ANY Cheyenne" The
same is true as to the Araphahoes;
any member Of the tribe serves.
An Indian puts in a call for any
member OF his tribe at Canton, Oar
lington, Colony, Lawton or any point.
1t is up to the manager to go out
on the street and pick up an Indian.
Any one will do, so he is of the tribe
asked for. He is put up to the phone
and the talk proceeds. The talk being
in Indian, no one knows what it is
about.
If an Indian, say in Clinton, wants
to reach one Of his people, say forty
miles from Canton, or any other given
point, he calls for one of his tribes.
men, tells him the message he desires
delivered, and it is his business to de.
night trip and a storm.
A little Indian baby died near Clin-
ton last year and its mother desired
that her relatives attend the funeral
services. They lived out on the
prairie northwest from Canton. The
telephone was used and a member of
the tribe directed to deliver the mes.
sage to the mothers relatives. 1t was
delivered by a courier across the
prairie and canons, and the relatives
came in over the Orient next day.
Last summer a call came to Clinton
for Kiowa that was a poser for the
manager. However, he found upon
inquiry among the Cheyennes that
there was one who had lived among
TIE k!owas and spoke the dialect. He
was put up to the phone and received
the talk
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
She Had Vocabulary, too.

At a London dinner recently the
conversation turned to the various
methods OF working employed by liter
ary geniuses. Among the examples
cited was that of a well-known pbet.
who, it was said, was wont to arouse
his wife about four o'clock in the
morning and exclaim, Maria get up:
I've thought of good word" Where.
upon the poets obedient helpmate
would crawl out of bed and make a
note OF the thought-of-word.
About an hour later, like as not, n
new inspiration would seize the bard
whereupon he would again arouse his
wife, saying, Maria. Maria, get up!
I've thought of better world"
The company in general listened 10
the story with admiration, but a mer.
ry-eyed American girl remarked: ::
We'll, If he'd been my husband |
should have replied, 'Alpheus, get up
yourself; I've thought of bad
wordn"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
oDcRs MOVE SLOWLY.
Incredible Time Required to Travel
Short Distances.

Ii has been ascertained as the re-
sult of experiments conducted by Prof.
Ioleny of the University of Minneso-
Ia that the diffusion of odors through
the atmosphere is much slower than
% commonly supposed. The profess
sor has investigated this phenomenon
eSperimentlly, and he finds that 1t
takes the odor of ammonia at least
en- hour and half to make its way
about five feet long. With the idea of
throwing some light on the character
of odors--that, whether or not they
actually consist of tangible physical
particles of sub-atomic size, the ex-
pertinent was tried of allowing the
odors to ascend and descend glass
tubes and noting the time of their
diffusion.
One curious phenomenon noticed in
this connection is that the odor of cam.
phor ascended twice as fast as II
descended, while ammonia dlffused
equally in either direction. It is
through the penetrating hydrogen sui
bAihtC OuOi Ndllitu ny SiOWIy dSCtuI-
Ing currents of air that the vulure
class of birds that feed on carron
are able to locate their food. These
birds are often seen sailing around
and around all day long, until finally.
sometimes after the lapse of two or
three days, they have been able to
trace the smell of their food from
great attitudes downward to its loca.
t.on on the ground.
As Prof. Moore declares, the dis.
lance from which they come, often
100 miles and sometimes from an al.
titude of 10000 feet, gives some idea
Of the gentle slope of these so-called
ascending currents. which are twist
el and contorted into every imagin-
able shape by the wind.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
AMAZED DEATH IN A GRAVE.
JGrarcse Ycuth's Attempt to Bury
Himself and Die Afterward.

youth of Kobe. Japan, who sought
to commit suicide By burying himself
alive and paid an accomplice 25 cents
to spade the earth upon his coffin
achieved some degree of notoriety
even In Japan, where new things are
happening every day. He failed OF
his original purpose. however.
A policeman was strolling along the
bank of the Minatogawa River outside
of Kobe one day last month when he
happened to spy joint of bamboo
pipe sticking a few inches above
mound of fresh earth. Being a Japan.
ese and also a policeman. his curios.
ity was especially keen. He looked
down the bamboo pipe, but could see
nothing.
Then he began to dig around the
pipe. He had a considerable wrench
put on his nerves when a voice came
out of the end of the pipe right at his
ear:
'Honorably condescend to 20 away
and permit me to die peacefully"
But the policeman did not go. He
dug some more and finally unesrthed
pine box, the length of a mans
body and about three feet wide. The
bamboo pipe led through an opening
into the box. The policemen pried OH
the cover of the box, securely nailed
down, and dumped the sef.appointed
corpse out.
Yamada Katsutaro, the man who
would thus have died. told the prefect
of police that he had wanted to die in
seemly fashion because he was out
of work. The lack of food had sug.
gested to him the practicability OF
starving himself to death, but in order
to be sure that he should accomplish
this purpose he had determined to
bury himself in a securely nailed cof.
fin and await the ravages of hunger.
He didn't want to suffocate first,
hence the bamboo pipe.
The day before the policeman dis
covered him, Yamada said. he PRO.
cured the box and the services of a
coolie. Then he dug the hole out on
Egeyama and after giving the coolie
his obi and fifty sen, his last bit Of
money, he was nailed up in his coffin.
lowered into the grave and covered
under six feet of soil.
famada promised never to try bury.
ing himself alive again and the DO.
lice let him go.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
FOUR FISH ON ONE CAST.
Two Perch and Two Trout, According
TO This AnaIer's Story.

II is something after all to be the
hero of a record, even If 1t does not
mean much, and perhaps the success.
full landing of four fish on one cast Is
not unworthy of being rescued from
oblivion.
Il happened with me on the Shan.
non in ireland some few years ago in
the last or very nearly the last of NV
seasons with the wet ny. and is the
more remarkable as | have not fisAel
with four flies on my cast half
dozen times in my life. | was fishing
from a boat anchored at the tail of the
strong broken water of the weir, and
rose and hooked what saw was a
trout of about half a pound.
Presently as ! was playing him his
motions seemed to become most or.
ratio; he would pull heavily down ard
thcn instantly there would be slac.
or a movement down stream would
become a movement up with q SUD.
denness quite bewildering, and for 4.
few minutes could make neither
head nor tail of the action that was
going on below. At last on the line
coming closer | saw there was good
sized perch on the highest droppei.
and presently | saw second perch
on the lower, while a moment later
was astonished to see that my trou,
was also still on the point with a
smaller trout on the dropper next
him.
None of the fish was large O.
course, though the perch next me wa
quite pound; but | caw there was
scarcely possible chance to get all
four iato the boat safely. so hauling
up the stone and rope which held me
| quietly started padding for the
shore a hundred yards off with alter
native strokes of the oars. Strange
to say, | reached the low shelving
shore without a single fish escaping
and slipping out of the boat drew the
whole string ashore In triumph The
four fish were about two pounds in
weight; and had an applauding gal.
lery of several young fellows on the
bank whom it took me all my time to
restrain from rushing into the shal.
low water to scoop out the struggling
fish when they saw the extraordinary
catch | was trying to drag ashore
From London ield.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
Breaks.

To write a social letter to a man
and ask him to reply. Doors are not
in society.
To ride ones hobby.horse around
the dining table. to the confusion of
ones hostess.
To toast youth" where women of
uncertain age predominate.
To ignore ones humble friends for
ones smart acquaintances. Fortune
plays madcap pranks.
To boast of our own. Human nature
repeats itself and family prejudice is
never convincing.
TO be inquisitive. No one cares for
human interrogation point, and he
VINO asks all shall know nothing.
TO be too anxious to shine, glitter
and glare, conversationally, is not the
highest proof of clever polish.
To seek favor. Merit is self-eyi.
dent. Mediocrity seldom achieves, SO.
cially or otherwise.
To pretend. Age has given the
world wisdom and a keen eve for
shams
To gush. The being who faces
about on all necks has strangling DOS.
sibilities.
To protest too much. The obvious
refutes doubt, and goodness needs NO
placard.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
INDIAN RUNS DOWN WOLVES.
On overtakins His Tired Quarry Uses
Club to XIII Him.

Superior, Wis.-At Solon Springs,
near here, lives Charley Taylor, a
half-breed Indian, who might be a
good man to enter in some of the big
Marathon races.
Taylor is in the wolf hunting bust.
ness for the bounty there is in it and
catches tne wolves by running them
down. He hit the hot trail of one of
the timber beasts recently, and over
took the exhausted animal three days
later. He killed it with a stout club
which he carries when hunting"
Taylor says that there is nothing re-
narkable about hunting wolves in this
manner. With snow shoes a man can
run down wolf, whose pace is SLOW
er in snow, in from one and a half to
two days. but Taylor was without
snowshoes. All one needs is endur-
ance, patience and the ability to fol-
low the trail Of the wolf after dark.
The Indians usually hunt in pairs.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
Reporters and Orators.

There have been errors in reporting.
of course. There always will be such
errors. But inaccuracies of this kind
are usually insignificant, and they are
more than balanced by the dressing Up
and revision which good reporters de-
vote to careless, illogical and some.
times ungrammatical speeches. If it
We're not for the maligned reporter,
nine speeches in ten that are not de.
livered from manuscript would read
like combination of bad grammar
and delirium tremens," as Mark Twain
put it. 1t is the saving grace of re-
portorial revision that has made many
an oratorical reputation in this coun.
try. The public speaker who does
not recognize his obligations to the
men who report him is an migrate. A
just punishment for him would be to
print his speeches exactly as he de-
livers them. After two or three expert
ences of that regimen he would have
nothing to say of Inaccurate report
ers."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
sWALLOWEO HIS SAVINGS.
Geld Coin Found in Grave When Body
Was Moved.

Paris, Frarce.-"Gold from the
grave might be the caption over a
curious incident that has happened ut
Thaon, near Epinal. Twelve years
ago a workman died there, and his
relatives could find none of his saw.
ings, although he was known to have
accumulated a small sum in gold.
Recently his body was moved by
the parish authorities to another
grave, his son being present at the
transference. When the remains were
exposed he was astonished to see a
little pile of gold coins lying among
the bones. They We're the dead mans
savings, amounting to $l85, which he
had swallowed to prevent his family.
with whom he was on bad terms. get.
ting hold OF them.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
Cromwell's Death Mask.

English writer's home in Chelsea and
was given by him to his friend and
correspondent Prof. Charles Eliot Nor.
ton of Cambridge. The cast had been
presented to Carlyle by the sculptor
Thomas Woolner, the present posses
sor of the original death mask, and
Is one Of the few casts. ever taken
from the original mask. When Car
lyle's bequest came to Harvard, Prof
Norton presented the cast to the Har-
ward College library, and the Harvard
library thus became possessed of the
fourth cast taken from the original
mask, the other three being respec-
lively at the Universities OF Oxford
and Cambridge and in the British Mu-
cum. Carlyle considered it undoubted-
ly the truest existing image of Crom-
wells face, far to be preferred to the
common casts in which all the finer
roints of likeness had become oblit-
Grated.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
Wonderful Imitation in Animals.

Some animals have wonderful pow.
ers of imitation. Dogs brought up in
the company of cats have been known
TO acquire the trick of licking the
paws and then washing the face.
When a cat has been taught to sit
up for her food her kittens have been
known to initiate her action. Darwin
tells OF cat that was in the habit of
putting her paw into the mouth of a
narrow milk pitcher every time she
got the chance and then licking the
cream off her paw. Her kitten soon
learned the same trick
A lady tells of a rabbit that she
keeps in a cage with a monkey, and
says that Bunnie has caught many of
the monkeys ways.-Detroit News.
Tribune.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
Unravels Mystery Of "ohost" Smokers

Bangor, Me.-The mystery of the
tobacco-consuming ghost at Benton
has been unravelled. Old Silas Tooth.
acher every night smokes his pipe in
the kitchen and then carefully places
1t In tin box nailed to the chimney
behind the stove. Although he often
left the pipe half full of tobacco there
never was anything but ashes in it
the next morning
Toothacher decided to stay awake
and watch for the ghost" He put
the pipe in the box as usual. Through
hole in the chimney strong cur.
rent of air blew; the pipes mouth
piece was within half an inch of this
hole; the draught was strong enough
to keep the tobacco burning until en-.
tirely consumed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
A Survival Of Type.

When Lucy Ellen Morse was born
II was announced that she was "all
Morse" fact which her young moth.
er, greatly awed and honored by her
connection with the Morse family,
hailed with Joy. Thereafter no criti-
cism on the baby could be allowed.
II think Lucy Ellen is a very hard
baby to get to sleep, from my one
experience with her." said a youthful
and courageous aunt who had been
left in charge of Lucy Ellen for
day.
The family was aghast at such here
sy.
"Fretful" repeated the Morses, one
and ALL and then they turned to the
mother of Lucy Ellen as the one to
whom the complete refutation of this
monstrous statement should be left
Il don't know what you would ex-
pect of a ten months old baby" said
Mrs. Morse. withering the unwise aunt
with side glance.
She sleeps in the old cradle in
which her father and grandfather
were rocked, and all she requires ever
is to have it tilted gently back and
forth for half an hour, steadily, and
she falls into the sweetest sleep. 7
presume you may have jounced it, be-
ing only used to modern babies, who
don't have ancestors cradles. dear"
added Mrs. Morse, lenient to her err.
ing relative at the thought OF Lucy
Ellen's unusual heritage.
Perhaps | did" said the young
aunt, meekly "My feet went to sleep
before Lucy Ellen did"
Your feet" cried Mrs. Morse, re
proachfully. Lucy Ellen is rocked By
hand, just as her father was. We sit
on tAe floor of course, to do it. Poor
little lamb" she cried to the house
hold idol. "No wonder she didn't go
to sleep. We forgot the aunty didn't
know. But it sha'n't ever happen
again"
NO, 1t certainly sha'n't," said the
visiting aunt. with peculiar CLINT in
her eye.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06

movement, the recall election and all
the other great facts and occurrences
of recent years were matters of which
he was ignorant.
This hiatus in the life of Courtney
arises from the fact that in the last
fifteen years he has been lost to the
world on the desert of Nevada and
Arizona. He was recluse and did
not see a book or newspaper during
the entire period.
And 'ow is the Queen?" was one
of his first questions.
Roosevelt? ROOSEVELT" he said
to query. Never card the name
before. And who is 'e?"
Courtney is seventy years of age
and is well preserved physically and
mentally.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
Some Peculiar Names O, Women

Flower names have always been in
favor, but at present the names of
precious stones run them a good sec.
ond. Lord Edward Churchill's daugh.
ters are Ruby and Beryl; there is
Miss Pearl Finch, daughter of Mr..
George Finch, of Burley-on-the-Hlll; /;
Miss Frances Wilseley. only child and
heiress Of Lord Wolseley. has also the
name OF Garnet; and the new Lady
Hardinge, whose husband has recent.
ly been appointed Ambassador at st.
Petersburg, owns d beautiful baby
called DIamondsnFrom M. A. p.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
NEVER HEARD OF ROOSEVELT
Startling Ignorance Displayed by Al.
bert Courtney, Who Comes In
from American Deserts

Los Angeles. Cal.-Albert Courtney
mining prospector and British sub.
ject, heard a few days ago for the
first time that Queen Victoria had
died. He refused to believe the re.
port and is looking for an English
paper to confirm the news.
The name of Theodore Roosevelt
was strange one to him. Vague
rumors came to him along in 1898
and 1899 that Spain and the United
States were at war. Not an echo OF
the Boer war reached him.
Naturally ping pong. diabolo. the
plays of George Bernard Shaw. the de-
feat of Bill" Squires, the suffragist
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
In Different Sets,

1t is but seldom. one imagines, that
sood joke is made about an oyster,
Edmund Yates, however, in his Rec.
objections and Experiences" relates
one. Il was walking with Thackeray
one evening from the club" writes
Yates. "and passing fish shop in
New street, he noticed two different
tubs OF oysters, one marked "s. a DOT
en- and the other is. Sd. a Dozen
How they must hate each other
said Thackeray."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
Not All Loss.

Quotations cleverly malapropos OF
neatly distorted furnish half the wit
OF the professional numorist Never.
the less, when such verbal misstep
Is spontaneous, there is often real fun
in it.
A young man had been out sailing
with his sister and a friend of hers
He did not know particularly we'll the
nne points of the art, and on trying
TO make the landing against a head
wind. he exclaimed, after several vain
attempts:
We'll. II is better to have luifed and
lost taan never to have luifed at ALL"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06

Watersprouts one-Fourth Mile High.
San Diego, CaL--Eollowing Sc
we're hail and rain storm here two
gigantic watersprouts were sighted off
Point Iona. travelling northward at
rapid rate. Wireless operators state
that the spouts were three miles on
aR0ss and one-fourth Of q mile high. o.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
Fresh Water Beside the Ocean.

Along the coast of the Island OF
Cebu, in the Philippines, most of the
fresh water wells and springs are sit
uated within a few feet of the ocean,
but. strange to say, the salty taste of
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
A Death Mask Of Cromwell

Cromwells death mask. which so
appropriately rounds out the Crom-
well part OF the Harvard Carlyle coll
lection. hung for many years in the
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
The Bamboo Water Vessels.

the sea cannot be detected. The wo-
men of Cebu take the water to their
homes in long bamboo vessels, and in
It's picture are shown some Visayan
%omen getting their days supply.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
Queer Chinese Customs,

They drink wine hot.
Old men fly kites.
White is worn as mourning.
Their babies seldom cry.
Soldiers wear petticoats.
Their compass points to the south.
The family name commences first.
Carriages are moved by sails.
Seat of honor at the left.
Visiting cards four feet long.
School children sit with backs to
the teacher.
Fireworks are always set OF In day.
time.
II you offend Chinaman he NAV
XIII himself on your doorstep to spite
you.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-06
They Live.

The good things that some men did
~ sou Valkias around an tsa faat
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-21
WHALtR BRINGS NEWS
OF WRECK IN NORTH

san Francisco. Sept. so.-The whal-
ing brig Jeanette. Captain Foley.
which arrived here today. 81 days
from Point Barrow Alaska, reports
that the two-masted schooner Ivy was
wrecked In the Ice off that point on
July g.
Captain kiintenberg. his family and
the crew We're saved. The Jeanette
herself had Il narrow escape. having
been fast in the ice pack for II days
She was towed out of her perilous
position ON August 3, by the United
States revenue cutter Thetis. which
10 days later again passed her line
and towed her into Point Barrow
harhor. There she found the gasoline
whaier Olga, which reached there on
August s, after having been given up
as lost.
The whaling steamers Herman and
karluk also We're at Point Barrow.
They had taken no whales this sea-
son. The Jeanette brought down
so.oaa pounds OF whale bone. 500 mar
tin skins, three white seal skins and
Is lynx skins.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-21
BOOSTING.

When YOU enlist I'm the ranks of the
boosters do not think that the mere
wearing of a brtton constitutes all
your duty. There il n whole lot more
than this involved in the boosting
plan. All of your personal and bust
ness acts shoald be regulated by tueir
relation to the effect that they viii
have upon the cits's welfare. If you
buy something. buy II AT home. Your
home merchant carries = good stock.
home merchant carries a good stock:
he hires local people for his clerks:
all of his interests are local. lie helps
bear the burden of public expense. NJ
Is the one whose signature You seek
III you are circulating a subscription
paper for the aid of some local enter
prise. The money that you pay MIN
finds its way almost Immediately into
local circulation. some of ii comes
back 10 you. The reverse l. true OF
the mail-orier house which seeks YOUR
patronage through a cheaply printed
catalogue. II YOU send your money
out of town you might as well throw
IL into the river as far as any further
benefit Is concerned. That Is why the
ome-indnstry proposition Is the basis
OF real boosting.