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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

is associated with a kindred romance of history. In calling the unmatched roll of Scotch writers it is usually forgot ten that Byron was half Scotch, and 1t is easy to guess whether he most resem- bled the fiery Scotch heiress who was his mother or the mediocre Englishman with whom she made a runaway mar rlage. Within recent years the British Isles in general have been ransacked for dialect opportunities, and lately sort of duel between two writers of unusual ability has ragged in the County of De- von, with Dartmoor as the center. All who have followed this novel tourney must be struck by the possibilities of dialect fiction in the historical as well as the personal sense. The chronicle of events is so interwoven with the speech and traits of the people that the thought ful reader feels that he is occupied with the real rather than the fancied. If he visited the localities he would know them at sight the speech and mental attitude of the inhabitants would be easily recoe- nizable. e5,
 The roll of American dialect writers is
 
 his Indians, but there is at least a groundwork of truth in the creation. Uncle Remus is but one of several deserv- edly famous workers in the dialect of the southern negro, and the southern, h, morists. goodly roll, have looked well to the language they employed. There is dialect of the hunters and pioneers John Hays Pike county ballads, and other of his poems, embrace much that is masterly in dialect. New England stories are a mine in dialect, and some thing of this literary resource is found in every part of the country. But let no one imagine that many will succeed in handling it with the highest success. Even the photography is not half as easy as it looks. A certain amount of genius is needed to avoid oyerdoing it. and to make it fully express what is intended, no more or less. MT. Riley has hit the mark. The standard he has set. without the least presumption, is credit to American literature. No poet who is also pedant will ever reach it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New YOrk Press.
 A womans recipe for keeping young is capacity for lying about 1t.
 The more you can like man, the more you wouldn't if you really knew him.
 The little that man wants here below he wants over and over again every few minutes with some new kind of fancy dressing.
 A woman gets mighty suspicious of what her husband has been doing when he doesn't raise tho roof because the baby cries a& night x.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
THE CITIES OF THE LAKES

From the BOSIOH 0IUUt.
 Chicago, of course, will ever be the zenith city of the unsalted seas. Buff falo. however, will do well to hold in the new census the second place among the cities of the lakes. Although she led Detroit by 65000 in 1900 the latter has leaped from 2S5,7O4 in 465,766 in the decade. Buffalo had only 352.SS7 in the former census. This gain of 63 per cent in the population of Detroit is indeed a handsome one. It is all the more won derful when due allowance is made for the fact that the city is situated on tue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
GAyNOR's LOVE OF BOOKS

Chaucers poor scholar. who would
 Rather have at his beds head
 Some boolxies bound in black and red, was not more fond of reading than Is the mayor of New York. It Is not sur prising, therefore. that MT. Gaynor should have called for a book the other day |; but 1t was rather strange circumstance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
MOST UNUSUAL CASE.

o1N cNc c1N'1 O1Ah7'1' A poet wrote a tripping measure, Of birds and bees and butterflies. And blooms the soul delights to treasure And melody and summer skies. He wove his verse with blithe abandon, Quite cheerfully and free from care. As one who stood a silver strand on And witnessed glory everywhere. On nmble feet he waltzed serenely Through twenty stanzas, more or less, Acquitting him, forsooth, not meaniy, His gayest thoughts in words to dress. A genius he for rapid scribbling- A nnny could, methinks, have told it. This proves him one beyond all quib- bling
 When he had writ his rhyme he sold 1t!
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
READY.

hEAD1. "When autumn winds are sobblng And coldly beats the rain, And there's no lit O gladness On any hill or plain, We'll dream a dream of sprlngtlme And dream of roses, too; The merry moods of April days, Her tender skies of blue. "When autumn winds are sobbing And all the world is drear, And hearts opprest by sadness Shall overbrim a tear, We'll dream of happy faces And laughter yet to be. When love shall wreathe the world
 with song
 And joy shall set us free
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
Brain Work

In a lecture to brain-workers New York authority concludes thus: 'The bulk of blood cannot be at two places at the same time. Consequently man must do his active thinking, exercising and digest ing serially if he expects to do them well and wishes to keep well himself. Whole territories of intermingling blood vessels are constantly dilating or contracting un- der the influence of the sympathetic ner- vous system and shifting the colume of circulating fluid from one part to another according to the relative claims of the several organs and systems.
 "The digestion of full meal requires about three hours, but perhaps rest of half this period is enough to insure nor nal disposal of an average repast. Ex- periments seem to show that a little leis- urely walking generally aids digestion by assisting in the muscular contractlons of the stomach It should be remempered that violent exertion immediately before eating will interfere with digestion, be- cause a tired heart will not pump enough blood for recuperation of the muscles and the process of digestion too.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
gratifying

CTS in the Standard Oil and the United States Steel corporation will receive div idends aggregating $l9.000o0O Those are big figures, but then this is big coun- try with lots of shareholders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

abouts has been keeping down in the sos this week and it is scheduled to go lower before the end of the month. For August this weather is ideal for health and comfort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
First Visit to Birmingham

'T find prosperous conditions in the south," said Charles F. Howe of Chi cago. a special representative of the Ca ble Piano company T have recently visited Richmond, Knoxville and Atlanta and found those cities fiourishing and extremely interesting considered music ally.
 This is my first visit to Birmingham. Il impresses me as being one of the mos' ra pidly growing cities in the country It is certainly larger than I had imag ined it to be. I intend to remain here two or three days in or,.er to meet some of the musical set
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

A little breeze Is stirring round-
 It fills my heart with cheer And seems to whisper, "Summerl fad Jack Frost will soon be here5'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
STARTING THE BOOM

From the Austin Statesman.
 Texas is quite a large state. but if can't make Joe Bailey President.-Age- Herald. But it can furnish the man and suggest duty to the democratic party
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
A MORNING. PRAYER.

The day returns and brings us the pret- ty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to per- form them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go bithely on our business this day, bring Us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
AGGRIEvED.

Emperor William of Germany has about 50 palaces"
 That's fine line of talk to hand | man who lives in a hall bedroom.'s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
OREYEn ORDERS

"A note from the madam"
 Said MT. Henpeck, Concluding, Feed kitty
 And don't forget check e I've been feeding kitty Until l am broke.'' And the chips on the table Proved that was no joke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

It seems quite likely that Sunny Jim will be called upon to mix matters with T. Roosevelt. If that comes to pass, he d better have a care for his mud guards
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

The world is waiting to hear what the Philadelphia psychologists say about Pro lessor Gamers young lady chimpanzee. Susie by name. The professor, who cap tured her in the French Congo, says she has a vague moral sense and the masters in psychology expect to be able to tell us of the extent of her soul develop ment. Interesting if not important.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
THAT HoBBLE SKIRT.

THAT HOBBLE SKIRT.
 "A Kansas editor says the hobble skirt has appeared in his town and it gives the wearer the appearance of frozen-toed hen on the trail of a grasshopper.'
 He might have added for the purpose of further condemnation that the hobble
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

The antomobilist planes the pedestrian end the pedestrian planes the automobil- ist Rightly or wrongly, the automoblist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

People who vilify and abuse the steam caliope seem to forget all about the time when it's strdent notes were sweet est music to their ears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A MESSAGE.

skirt is also great handicap inehustlin. for a cyclone cellar"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
APPLIES TO BOTH.

"A learned professor says the type- writer is the poetry of notion"
 "Umph! A great deal depends on the carriage"
 He was speaking of a machine" I'm speaking of the machine and the damosel who pounds it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

Damn" may or may not be profanity, but whenever we hear q preacher use it in the heat of the moment we always suspect him of knowing how to play poker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

The Georgisns also know how to make gubernatorial contests pretty close.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

The genial houseiy gets great deal of free advertising and continues quite as pestiferous as ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

The cold cream and fact lotion business will shortly begin to boom, thanks to old Sors summer work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

The colonel is on the war path in good old fashion. His remarks of yes terday read as if he were chief with the biz stick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

Shall we ever see another picture of Roosevelt and Taft standing side by side? :?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

The anti-kissing campaign seems to have fallen into innocuous desuetude
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

There is some doubt as to whether Mrs, Longworth smokes or not. Everybody knows that Vesuvius does.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

There is not threatical manager in the country right now who isn't as busy as a switch engine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

Chancellor Day is meat for the para graphers every time he opens his mouth' but silence has fallen upon him here os late.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

A weather prophet predicts an early winter and a very cold winter. IL may turn out so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

Roosevelt's journey across the country may not be exactly like a royal prog ress, but it has some of its features and is attended with a good deal more hurrah.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
PRAYER OF A BoRNEo GIRL

The battleship Maine Is still right where it was this time last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
ONE OR THE OTHER.

ONE OR THE OTHER. "Nuwed says he never walks the floor with his baby" He has a nurse for that" "No." His wife does it?' No" "A relative, maybe" No" Then he either has d patent floor or patent baby.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

HIS OPINION. i've often thought" Said William Winks, "The worst faux pas Is mixing drinks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

Washington Bureau Age-Heraid. 116 New York avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

No communication will be published without ite authors name. Re1eoteo manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are inclosed for that purposs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

Remittances can be made st current rate Of exchange. The Age Herald VIII not be responsible for money sent through the malls. Address
 THE AGE-HERA ALDs
 Birmingham. Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

From the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
 " ROM the nature of the illness, Of which the country hears with re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26

z E Morgan and T. 8. Miilsap are the onr Authorized travelling Tepressn- tstives of The Age-Herald ir i.s clrcu- lstion department
Bisbee daily review., 1910-05-29
Table Damask and Cloths Prices The
 Powerful Magnet

apparent merchandise you'll
 be more enthusiastic description opportunities prevail.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-05-29

Splendidly ailored skirts of Black Panama cloth and shepherd check worsteds in Brown. Navy. Wine and Black, side-plaited and Boz. plalted styles, trimmed with mer. cerized silk folds at the bottom
 regular SS.O0 values, special ar
 --' 21'
Bisbee daily review., 1910-05-29

Womens Oxfords in new spring lasts and feathers. Wei Kid, Pat ent Kid, DOngola and Gun Metal call, in Lace and Butcher styles, medium and heavy soles. Cuban and common sense heels. s2.OO values on sale Tuesday for S1.40.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-05-29
Dresses For Graduation

Chiffons Embroidered chsrmingy
 
 preferred shade in delicate hue Any wish modest quite designing these lovely little dresses low priced s6.5O.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-05-29

he very finest imported
 French Hemp braid un
 trimmed hats; magnificent large new shapes; also Fine hair Braids and Rough Straws. in black. burnt and white. Actually worth S10.00, Tuesday at S6.50.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.

>iihnSndl.
The growth of Shanghai beats that
OF tho gourd OF Jonah. wnicn sprang
up In night. 1t is now q modern Euro
pean city. 1t has business blocks which
might be dropped down in New York or
London and not be out Of place. and
residences which would he fine fin
Washington or Paris Along the Bund,
tho wide road which faces the river,
are dozen or more banks whose capt.
tai runs into the tens OF millions and
whose managers are so trusted that
they can dip into the pockests of the
nations and draw out at pleasure. On
the same street are clubhouses. some
or which have cost hundreds of thous.
ands OF dollars to build There are
big hotels where you can live as well
as at home, and shops. with plate glass
windows. containing European goods
fsevdy description. Shanghai! Is the
Paris of the Far East It Is one Of
the richest cities OF Asia. and Ii takes
the best Of all that is going.
In the Big Cotton Mills.
Shanghai is preparing to manufac-
ture for the new China 1t is putting
up factories and foundries and start
ing all sorts of new industries. It has
silk filaturos which are producing
pdlSs Oh raw BLK Lpf our american
weavers. modern flour mills equipped
with Milwaukee machinery. and ci-
gazette factory owned by the American
tobacco trust. which employees more
than 1000 hands. 1t has eight great
cotton mills with several hundred
thousand spindles, and some which
have 5000 or 90, 900 spindlesin single
establishment. In these mills over 10000
Chinese men. women and children are
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
!. . un,oaasa BY sool.s. vine carr Il upon nsaa.
Chinese child Much of work in he cotton
mills Is done children n a day

employed, and they are spinning and
weaving cotton quite as we'll as In any
OF our American factories. The most
of them are managed by Chinese fore
| men, and they give some idea of how
the Celestials expect to make their own
cloth in the future.
| During my stay here have visited
some of the biggest OF the cotton
factories. l went through the estab-
lishment of the Soy Chez Cotton Spin
Ing Company to-day. 1t lies on the
Whampoa River, the branch OF the
fangtse which gives Shanghai access
to the sea, and 1t is SO situated that
the bales can be landed right at the
mills and the goods shipped thousands
OF miles into the interior by means
OF the rivers. or to Japan or the United
States The suburb connected with It
is known as Hongkew. This Is great
factory centre, and its smokestacks
dot the stream. running along ITS
banks almost to the Yangtse.
Child Labor at Cents Per Day.
The buildings of the Soy Chez Com
pany cover several acres. They are Of
gray brick and are sfadowed by
smokestack which rises TO the height
OF twelve-story fiat. Entering them,
found over a thousand men, women
and children at work. went through
room after room filled with girls who
were weaving and spinning. and /
saw 200 children tending the ma
chimes. Some OF them were little tots
not higher than my waist, and many
did not reach to my shoulders. The
smaller children were pulling bas-
kets filled with bobbins here and there
about the rooms. The larger ones
We're tending the spinning mules. and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
COTTON CHINA RAISES 70 PER CENT OF IT'S OWN COTTON

its native cotton. The officials are
sending out men to study our cotton
belt: and our methods of cotton rails
ing and edicts have been issued to
encourage the growth of the crop In
all the provinces. It is claimed that
cotton Will do well in most parts OF
China. Much of the country lies In
the latitude of our Southern States.
and from Shanghai northward there
are rich plains which the experts say
are fitted for cotton growing. With
unscientific methods OF cultivation the
country Is now producing something
like 20 per cent of the raw material
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
Mrs. &. f. Hayes sag:

II was under The
doc tors treat
ment for a ffbroid
tumor. Tsuffered
with pain, sore
ness, bio ting,
and could not
walk or stand on
m y feet any
length Of time. I
wrote to Mrs.
Pinkha1n for adj
vice, followed her
actions and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

For 80 years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
ComPound has been the standard remedy for
herself who will not try this famous medicine.
Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and
has thousands of cures to its credit.
@EHBESe Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
38asahf to write her for advice She has
guided thousands to health free of charge.
Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

The natives make cigarettes nf corn
husks and bamboo leaves. They also
roll tobacco In brown paper, or late,
years, however, the rice paper cigar
used more and, more every day by
both men, women and children.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

Because your case. is a difficult
one, doctors having done you no
good, do not continue to suffer with
out giving Lydia Z. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound a trial. It surely
has cured many cases Of female ills,
suchasintiammation liberation, dis
placements. tibroid tllmors, irregu-
laritles, periodic pains, backache. etc.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
IN a SHANGHAI MILL.

it uses, and if properly farmed the
crop could be enormously increased.
The native cotton is OF short sta.
pie. 1t is brought here in boats upor
the 9angtze kiang and its tributaries
and also in seagoing junks from Ming
po and the lands farther south. 1t is
put up in bags of enormous size, but
so loosely packed that one twice as
large as feather bed weighs only
200 pounds. 1t is loaded and unloaded
by coolies who carry 1t upon their
heads from the ships to the factory.
Other farmers ship their raw cotton
In basket work bales the size of a
hogshead. The bales are opened in
the cotton yards, and the lint is some
times rebaled in packages of 500
pounds for export to the United States
and Europe. The nature of the ma
tive cotton makes it especially good
for underwear. and some OF 1t is
sent to the United States for that
purpose.
A Nation in Cotton.
Our cotton factories should send
their agents here to study the mar
ket. These people dress in cotton in
stead of silk, and the most of the cloth
used is spun and reeled by hand and
woven at home. With the new civili-
cation wages will rise. and the Chin
ese will wear more cotton than ever
before. AT present it is safe TO say
that there are at least 100000, 900 of
them who dress In such goods all the
year round. They wear only one or
two thin garments in the summer, but
in winter they have several SHIFTS we'll
wadded to keep themselves warm, and
in the northern provinces they put on
suit after suit as the weather grows
colder Indeed, some fleshy Chinese in
full winter dress have trouble in get
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

\ thousand odd girls left the cstab-s
lishment and refused to return untill
their grievance was settled. The
trouble. strange to say. came from a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
DIrs. w. X. Housh SAYS:

/ II b We b een
| completely cured
| of a severe fe-
| male trouble by
Lydia e. Pink
| hams Vegetable
| Compound, and
want to recon-
| mendit to allsuf-
| fering women. -
Il Mrs. w. X.
, HoUsH, Z East
view Ave, Gin
1 oir,,o{s nI.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
Mrs. 8. j. Barber says:

II think Lydia E.
iPinkham's Vege-
table Compound
lis the best medi-
cine in the world
for and
feel it my duty
to lie t others
know the good it
has done for me.
Three years ago
II had a tumor
which the doctor
said would have
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

Strike OF Tobacco Girls.
| One OF the Americans employed in
tho tobacco factory at Shanghai tells
/, mo they had bis strike the othef day.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

took Lydia d. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. To-day I am we'll
woman, the tumor was expelled and
my whole system strengthened. I
advise all women who are afflicted
with tumors or female troubles to
Try Lydia %. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound" = Mrs. e. +. HAYES,
1890 Washington ST., Boston, Mass.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

to be removed by an operation or I
could not live more than wear.
or two, at most. wrote Mrs. Pink
ham, at Lynn, Mass, for advice, and
took IA bottles of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and to-
day the tumor is gone and l am a
perfectly we'll woman. I hope nv
testimonial will be Of benefit to 9TH
ers:n Mrs. s. j. BARBER, Scott,
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-06-24

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The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-06-24

Mr.. end Mrs. 7. y. Harrison
and children, Blaine and '|..arts,
arrived Friday FROM uG. b, il jpc
west wheia they have D4en the
past = opfh. "@y give glowing
reports e." ccr;ider the west the
SwitzCrlan % America.
DR.. Carpenter went to Bcwd'e
Saturday to assist Dr.. Edwards
for time.
Mrs. Harry anklin ana daueh-
tels Naomi and Doris have gone
to Spirit Lake, where they will
visit relatives and finds during
the sumner.
Ray Lease of Jinbsr Lake made
a. usiness tript to Clenl.am recently
airs. Chlis LaNeil and daughter
Mildred were at MCbrioge between
trains Monday.
j. H.. Rich Of Wakta.a spent
Sunday at the Blood nome.
Hienie Weinip, who has been
quite SEX for the past two weeks,
is on the road to recovery.