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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
MOODS IF MY
 LADY GASOLINE
She Is a Pickle But Fascinating
 Mistress
HAS LONG PEDIGREE
Descended From an Invaluable Remedy for chapped Noses-Her Aliases, Her Many Uses and Her
 Varying Humors.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 My Lady Gasoline bears no resem- blance to My Lady Nicotine. The latter is faithful the former is hckle.
 My Lady Nicotine Is always the same; My Lady Gasoline is frequently different Which is the more entitled to be person. flied as My Lady depends upon the point of view. He who thus personifles his gasoline is certainly frank almost to the point of being ungallant. Yet there are those who boldly say that gasoline is un- mistakably feminine.
 Half a century ago the up to date fam fly medicine closet contained a small flat phial in which was a substance highly recommended as a substitute for goose oil in relieving that feeling of tightness that comes with a bronchial cold and also as an infallible remedy for chapped noses and lips Its common name was rock oil but pharmacists had Latinized it as petroleum.
 Tn those days the usual illuminant, except in the larger cities, was the homemade tallow dip or the more sym metrical moulded candle. with here and there a lamp that burned whale oil or some other similarly heavy substance. Tn a few reckless households fluid lamps were used. They burned a more volatile substance and to have one in the house was regarded as little short of suicidal.
 After a while petroleum began to come into use as an Illuminating oil. It was at first thought to be very dangerous stuff to use, but experienced showed that it didn't blow up very often if the lamp was carefully managed.
 A refiner of petroleum put his product on the market under the name of kero- sene oil, which designation somebody had contrived for him by modifying a Greek word so that it was supposed to mean waxlike or derived from wax. Later this proprietary designation ran out and kerosene oil became the common name for the product.
 In the early days of oil refinery the volatile by-product was thrown away. There seemed to be but one use for the accumulations of it; workmen in the small refineries before the days of MT. Rockefeller's activity used to wash their soiled clothing in it, and 1t had the ad- vantage of quickly returning the cleansed articles to them for use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15

by the blue hot shower of sparks from a i,,mn snark firing plug If the mixture of gasoline and air is far from the right proportions.
 In starting and regulating gasoline motor it sometimes Is a considerable Jop for an expert at 1t to secure. even with the best carbureter, a mixture that VIII explode. On the other hand, in acci- dental ways the proper mixture IS oo- tained when least expected and the re- suits are serious.
 The owner of a gasoline boat thought that the fluid in his tank had been nearly used up So he anchored his craft and went ashore in his rowboat for more gas- oline.
 While he was away his companion in the launch took off the cap of the inter to the gasoline tank and tried to look In and see how much of the fluid remained. It was dark down there and he scratched a match and attempted to look down by the light of it. On the way back to the launch the owner saw her blow up, and the headless body of his companion was found in the water few days later.
 Two men who were going awav away on a short cruise filled their gasoline tank and set an uncorked five gallon can of the fluid in the cabin of the boat They ran to d punt III thc oPPCi &Is~J Ridge anchored the boat, locked the cabin and went away to return late In the following evening and begin their cruise.
 The intervening day was warm and the sun shone hot on the cabin top. The men were seen to row out to the boat at about Il o'clock in the evening. shortly after they had boarded 1t there was pop that was heard all over South 41o xxyoe burned bodies of the two men were afterward found in the bay, badly mangled. It was supposed that the heat of the sun on the cabin top during the day had evap- orated just enough of the gasolene from the uncorked can into the cabin to pro- duce an explosive mixture and that when one of the men opened the door and scratched 8 match to light the capin lamp the mixture let eu. Gasoline can now be bought almost everywhere and at various prices. The statement was made not long ago that gasoline production was bevomng the big end of the petroleum refining busi- ness because of the great demand for II for automobile motors, for marine mo | tors, for stationary engines and, In pros | pect. for aerial motors.
 l The phial of invaluable remedy foi | chapped noses of half century ago has made 1t possible for Count von Zeppelin l to cruise for nearly. thousand miles ] over Europe in his mammoth airship and l for Bleriott to fly from France to Eng | land with mechanical wings. There is nc power but the gasoline motor and nc | pcrceptible promise of any other moto
 that could bo used with hope of success | in air navigation.
 Gasoline can be bought at q drug stor for 3480 q gallon, in small phials at
 cents a phial. A barrel of 1t can D
 bought for less than that sum elsewhere
 At most gasoline stations alongshore fl
 this part of the country the stun is sol in quantities from one gallon Up for us
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
gown is, and at a little touch of the dar

gown is, and at little touch of the dar- ing unique it's affection will overflow.
 However, there were other details. It was at times difficult to see madame. The modiste waited while her client drove with a prince, or while she dressed for dinner, or until she returned from little evening. There were excursions also to the Louvre and to the theatres for the study of ideas in dress historic and his trionie. And while little love is beau tiful and kisses are sweet and it Is dear to be called Marie. these things cannot pay for time. trouble and trips.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15

On the surface, most ready roof ings look the same.
 But the weather finds the hidden weakness.
 The weather finds the vegetable ibers in the fabric and rots them.
 The weather finds the volatile oils which are concealed below the surface. The sun draws these oils, in globules, to the top of the roof ing, where they eyaporate in the air.
 Where there was a globule of air. there remains a hole. And behind each hole is a tiny channel which lets the weather and water into the very heart of the roofing.
 When the sun and the wind and weather have sought out the hidden weaknesses, the roofing is porous, instead of solid; watersoaked, in- stead of waterproof.
 You cant tell by looks, which roofing will last twenty years, and which will go to pieces in a single summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
HOLMEs' ANNIVERSARY.
EssayIst, Novelist, Poet, and Pioneer
 in Medical Research.

From the New York Times.
 The centennial, bicentennial. and tr1- centennial commemorations of the year 1909 give he magazine writers an em- harrassnnt of riches. calvin, Tennyson. and the great Photographer naturally
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15

in marine motors for 12 cents gallon. At some of the stations where they have an automobile trade the same stun costs the devil wagons 25 cents gallon. The boats buy launch "naphtha" and the
 nillionaires on wheels buy automobile out of the same tanks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
MASONIC LECTURE.

Second of the series. "The Purpose of Free Masonry Tuesday, August r, 8 p. m. King Solomon Lodge invites all Masons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15

It was the first good motor using a product of rock oil for producing power It obtained power in much the same way as power Is generated in a steam engine by the expansion of liquid by heat. In the naphtha motor naphtha was expand ed instead of water.
 It was a trustworthy motor and fair ly safe is properly handled. It is a good motor yet, so far as it goes, but it has been almost superseded by naphtha engine of an entirely different principle Explosion takes the place of expansion by heat
 Explosion motors using gasoline were first known as electric vapor engines, be- cause the gasoline vapor was fired by an electric spark The same principle is employed in all the gasoline motors of today, but there have been great im- provements in utilizing 1t. To speak of them would require a volume on the va rious methods of mixing, compression. ignition and so forth.
 Gasoline will not explode, but it Is far from reluctant as a combustible. If you owned a lake of gasolene somewhere off in a desert an easy and safe way to drain 1t would be to stroll down to the wind ward shore, scratch a match and apply 1t to the wavelets
 It would not be of any use to touch the lighted end of your cigar to it, for the only result would be to put out and spoil the cigar. A gasoline soaked butt is even less fragrant after it is dried out than a cent Coney Island Immaduro. If however, the cigar had assumed some what the shape of broom in the pro- cess of smoking it, as cigars sometimes do. and if In puffing up the cigar to get a better light one of the loose folds of the wrapper should develop a flame the flame would ignite the gasoline. Also if you happened to have such thing about you as a point of incandescent metal or a battery that would make a six-volt spark that would answer the purpose of setting fire to the lake.
 After 1t had been fired the lake would burn briskly with yellow flame, giving of clouds of heavy black smoke until Il was drained. While gasoline is not explosive a. mix ture of gasoline and air In the right pro portions produces a vapor that Is lik dynamite in explosive energy. But tn proportions must be about right. A va | DOT produced within the cylinder of gasoline motor cannot be exploded ever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15

She can be as dull as the heavy yellow flame of fat pine knot, as vivacious as the steel blue seintillations between the fingers of her handmaid the electric jump current, and-if abused-as dynamic as a gypsy woman scorned. When treated just right she is a delight and so faithful that one is apt to take her fidelity as a matter of course and to neglect her.
 Then in the making up she is tantaliz- Ing, now almost promising to be nice and good again, now giving but spiteful re- sponses to all overtures, and at times maintaining sullen silence and inert ness. No wonder there are those who in- sist that she is enthusiastically feminine
 Nearly generation ago the chief pro- ducer of kerosene paid a man fair sal- ary to experiment in the direction of uti- izing the worthless by-product for pro- ducing power He was a sltillful inventor and machinist and he devised the naph- tha engine.
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11
Tho "SiIlinuern Stakak.

It only takes Il few hours to get from any part of England to Doncas ter. see the race for the St. Leger and return home. Yet in the coaching times d journey from London to Don caster occupied Il couple of days.
 Taking it's hume from famous Don caster sportsman. Colonel St. Leger- properly pronounced "Sillinger the race k Ihe second oldest horse racing event in the country. It was founded iI l7IG and always arouSes the great est enthusiasm in the north of Eng land. Iu fact, in the prerailway days lab0rers living fifty miles away woulo save up their shilingS for weeks walk to Doncastcr. see the race, have a bet and walk home again.
 John Scott, who in his day was wis itcd by peers. lawyers, poets and au thors of all degrees. trained sixteen St Lcger winners. There have beer many memorable finishes 10 the race ard on one occasion a horse named Theodore. against whom the odds were quoted at 1000 10 a walking stick ~oHicially 1000 to 5-won hand snmely.
 The largest field was thirty, in lS2o rnd he smallest four, in 17S3 and 11So .. horse named Nincty.three won 1T I,;J L"udUn Saturday Review.
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11
A Refined Woman

A refined woman oan.gain an entrance into any grade of respectable society re- gArdlcss of lack of good looks or fine clothes or the possession of wealth.
 Refined manners in a women include a general knowledge of how to conduct herself properly at all times and on all occasions in gentle and dignified way.
 The loud-voiced, rough hammered wo- man, who openly disregards the pro- prieties of feminine conduct on any oc- casicn or who dresses ill gaudy colors and conspicuous mode of attire, can never be characterized as refined repre- sentative of her sex, or command per sonal respect.
 A low voice and gentle manner, re- fined attire and tender consideration of others feelings are qualities that invariably dignify woman and render her a general fayorIte.
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11
PEARr TO GET $1.20 A WORD
Contract $ Sgnsd for the Story of His
 Ninth Polar Trip.

Contract Sgnsd for the Story of His
 Ninth Polar Trip.
 Announcement has been made regard. ing the publication of Commander Rob. o:t E. Peary $ story of the discovery ot the North Pole, which will be published in book form Icy the Frederick X. Stokes Company, and which will appear scrially in Hampton's Magazine. It is said that the explorer will receive $l goa word for the serial rights to his story, or 20 per cent. moro than the reported price paid for Theodore Roosevelt's story of his ad. ventures in the African jungle.
 The Stokes Company has been pub fishing Peary's books for years, but was unable to get his signature to a contract for the publication of his latest book until he had presented his scientific data to the National Geographical Society and had received its recognition after strict examination of his material by a committee of scientists.
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11

blanks like bullet, with the police man behind him on an elephantine charge. and caught the boat just as it w&s beginning to move from the slip.
 Now, who should be on the boat but Nr. Ray himself, just going home aft TT d hurried visit to police headquar- tcrS. B0b's desperate spring for the deck had made him an object of gen err! attention. and his cry Of That mans d kidnapcr." diverted it to the man with the baby in his arms.
 Seeing himself detected, the man, Eti" holding the child, sprang from the rear of tke boat into the water Bob unhesitatingly sprang after him. On the deck everything was in cOnfu sion on the instant. and Mir. Rays voice in tones of Str0ng emotion, dom- mating the babel. had such an effect tat the wheels were stopped, the baby and Bob rescued and the kid naper haulCd on board the police boat, which appeared among q crowt: of others. Bob is now one of MT Rays most trusted and best paid salesmen, and the whole family have aE indefinite prospect of turkey din nors on every Thanksgiving day c. Inquirer.
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11
CLOCK HAS NO HANDS

Time Indicated.b Electric Flashes of
 thet Hours, Minutes and Seconds.
 One of the largest electric clocks in existence has just been, exhibited. 1t is n marvel,of beauty and workmanship. Tho pendulum weighs.more than three thou sandEpounds... The:clock contains 5,4s9 multicolored electric..bulbs, for which II ,000 connectionsi were necessary and more.than a..milessssof swire. In making the connections 40 pounds of special screws were required. The dial, al- though it indicates hours, minutes and seconds, has no hands, the Chicago Tri- bune says.
 The time.in minutes. is indicated by GO series ofElights, each. series containing 32 globe covered bulbs, radiaing from an ornamentaal centerpiece to the outer edge of the dial.
 Shorter lows,of differentcolored lights indicate the hour, and these change their position twelve times during each sixty minutes, or once every five minutes. The seconds are shown by sixty lights placed at equal distances around the eX- treme outer edge of tho face.
 The hour figures re.thrce feet high, outlined ill colored lights. Each second tue illumination n.the outer circle of the dial moves forward one bulb, and when the dial has been entirely ciroled the lights indicating the. minutes also ad. vance, and the hour hand, formed by lights, makes its slow journey at five minute intervals, Despite the huge proportions of the clock it has been found that it keeps absolutely correct time, even to the second.
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11

 BASKET

~OB placed the big basket be- N tween his feet on the floor and
 E looked out of the window of
 the train.
 In Bob's basket was a big Thanks giving turkey. a surprise for the folks at home. There was no turkey in the basket which a man who sat next to Bob placed on the floor between his feet. What was in it Bob discovered when he undertook to surprise the folks at home. He surprised them all right enough, but he surprised himself also. for he found that he and the man had somehow changed baskets and that instead of a turkey he had brought home a bottle attached to a fine boy baby.
 Dire was Bob's disappointment, for the turkey his mother in his absence had provided was far inferior to the one he had unwittingly exchanged for the baby.
 Bob's mother took the baby to her arms and her heart, and, to her credit
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 sion. Grave determination shone from his eyes
 'I must be off at once," he said to his wife ito look for another job" 'On holiday" she exclaimed.
 The sooner the better" said he and he scarcely more than skinned his newspaper except the columns of Help Wanted-Males."
 "Nothing thcre," he observed, with a sigh. Never mind, mother; there's something somewhere, and I'll find it." Scarcely had he gone when Bob pick cd up the paper and in a moment more gave shout
 '"Therp! You've walked the new baby" said his mother. hurrying to the rescue,
 Listen to this! It's the very baby. I do believe"
 It was a short dispatch from May vile. sent out late the previous night. to the effect that Mir. Rays son and heir was missing with his nurse. ard great fears were entertained that the child had been stolen and was being held for ransom.
 Then came a knock on the hall door which checked Bob in a war dance. He opened it and was almost brushed down by the man of the railway cars, who was standing there with a big basket on his arm and who dashed into the room like a wild man.
 Heres your wretched turkeyr' he cried. "Oh, you're the boy who chang ed baskets with me, are you? Lucky your address was on that basket. And here's the infant, the beloved baby. If you've not treated it well I'll prose- cute you for kidnapingr'
 q say" cried Bob, at last finding his wits, 'Teave that basket and the baby too. I know all about you. It's you that's the kidnaper. Help! Po- lice! Po-ol-a-ugh-gr-rr
 He hardly got out one yell before the man was upon him with furious
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11
DEATH RATE IN CONNECTICUT
No Other New England State Can
 Show So Good a Record.

No Other New England State Can
 Show 50 Good a Record.
 A recent census bureau bulletin on mortality statistics for 1908 shows that there are fewer deaths reported from Connecticut, approximately, than from m my other states, although mortality registration is more thorough in Connec- t;cut than in most states. The number of deaths from all causes in Connecticut last year was l5,4 per 1000 of popula- tion, or lower than the rate in any other New England state. Among the largo cities New Haven held her own, with Il death rate of 16.9 per 1000, as compared with 1S.6 per ,O00 in 1907.
 The deaths registered in Connecticut last year numbered 15,09l, according to the census balh tin. Of these 4,2Sl oc- cured under the age Of 3 years. New Haven repoitel the largest number ot deaths of infants among Connecticut cities, li9; in Hartford there were 3IG, in Bridgeport 349, and in Waterbury 39S.
 The death rate per 100000 population in Connecticut was 1,540.3, which was made up in.part,as follows: Tuberculosis of the lungs, l34.5; diseases of the circu- latory system, 199; of nervous system, 158; Bright's disease, l06; cancer, 70; typhoid feyer, 1S5; accident, 97; of di. gcstive system, 70; pneumonia. 97. No d ,aths from smallpox were recorded.
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11
A TURKEY DRUNK"

An cid Time Thanksgiving Cust:n7
 Which Is He2PiIy Now Obsolete.
 'l remember when l was d boy that one of the grcN features of Thanks giviHg time was what we called the turkey drunk says native of west crn New Ycrk. Folks didn't seem to kill their Thanksgiving turkey in those days until the forenoon of the day it was to be eaten. and it was the GUS tom to get the bird most gloriously drunk and kill it while it was in that condition. They used to say that it made the turkeys last moments on earth happy and made its approach ing death matter of uuc0ncen to the bird. More than that, it was be- licvcG that the brandy they filled the turkey up with gave the meat flavor that no bird that died sober could ever have. l don't know whether that was so, but I do know that can't get any turkey nowadays that has the pecul- iarly delicious flavor those brandy soaked birds of my beloved boyhood had. The turkey drunk was a great occasion. It was witnessed by the whole family and all the invited guests, if there were any. Two hours before killing the turkey the head of the family would fill q teaCup or a tin cup or sometimes Il small gourd with brandy. This he would take out to the poultry yard where the turkey s1I, ing dinner would be cooped up by it. self ill one corner and place 1t on tA" ground in front Cf the turkey. Those fowls appeared 10 be fond or brand. and the doomed bird would gobblc uY the intoxicating liGC0G' with the relish If confirmed old topcr. SomHilucs a particularly large and fat turkey would drink the entire contents of the cup.
 AS soon as the bird was through drinking it would be let out of it's cCOp, and in less than three minutes it would be staggering about the yard with as elegant a jag on as any round ar ever enjoyed. If the victim was a gobbler his efforts to maintain his dig nity under the influence of his load were as funny as a circus clowns. Steadying himself by an effort, he would throw his head up, thrust his chest out, lower his wings till they dragged on the ground and then try to strut among his hens with the domi- neering pOmpoSity of his sober days His strut invariably ended in his fall ing ignOminiously on his nose, and his struggles to regain his equilibrium were equal to the drunken gymnastics of ToOdles.
 The exhibition the intoxicated gob- bier made of himself created unmiS- takable surprise, if not disgust, in his narem, and the hens would draw apart i'll groups and watch the antics of their lord in shocked silence The turkey never failed to get drunker and drunk and give up to the influence of the liquor. Then was the time to kill the bird, and its head was cut of while the turkey was ill its stupOr. That custom is fortunately obsolete now. don't think it would be very inspir- ing sight for one to witness nowadays. but in the old times the stiffest tecto- talcr didn't seem to sec anything wrong iu making the Thanksgiving turkey drunk. l suppose that would come under the head of cruelty to ami ,Ials now At any rate, it should"
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11

be it said, she did so before she ascertained that the cloth ing and orna- ments of the lit tie stranger in dicated that it was a baby of distinction.
 "One of the Four Hundred, she said to her husband.
 "No doubt the four hundred and first" he laughed, in spite of having just lost his job.
 Next morning, h o w e V 0 r. Tn k S giving morning 2 - his f1p0 wore 1 diff
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11
Saturdays Special

100 Dozen Boys and Girls Ribbed Hose, extra quality yarn.. Sale price 9c. Our regular 121c quality.
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11
One on the Teacher

Teacher (to dull boy in mathematical: You should be ashamed of yourself. Why, at your ago George Washington was n surveyor.
 Yes, sir; and at your age he was Pres. idcnt of the United Stotes.-Boston Transcript.
Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11
The Reason

"Why did you tip that boy so hand. somely for handing you your coat?" Did you scc the coat he gave mo?"
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