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The Republican journal., 1910-03-31
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Mrs Charles F.Shaw of Belfast were
apt and Mrs. Leighton W. Coombs
Miss Nellie Bragg and Mrs. Abbie
visiting their brother, Mr.. j. T
Maynard Keller and Cleveland
emily completed the business course
-es and Commercial College and are at
. Mr.. Foster Heal of Northport
.' --..tives in town last week. Mrs
ser and son, Mr. Newton Bunker, de-
Lag entertained the Neighborhood Club
tl e' ening, March 18th. An impromptu
a" vocal and instrumental music, rec
lnundrums, etc, was given by the
after which games We're enjoyed.
s. cake, candy and coffee were served
- ming room, which had been prettily
a1 for the occasion. . Miss Marion
Obs Eeturned to her school in North Cas-
as' saturday after a vacation of three
vs. saturday Mrs. Julia Hancock, lady
''as eighty years old, fell in the barn
'A+ her hip. She was very smart, active
aa.e and much sympathy is felt for her.
The Republican journal., 1910-03-31

ny French has gone to Hampden to
ister Mrs. Wiley. Miss Jennie
--.Had from Boston by boat last Sat
Az F. Ellis and Miss Juanita Ellis
stockton village last Sunday. Mr..
aard was in Belfast last Friday on
. Mr.. Joseph Grant and granddaugh-
'melia, visited in Belfast last Satur-
Miss Flora Erskine, who is spending
-oH a Bueksport. was here last Fri
saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George
Ee gone to Prospect to live. go. Mr..
-- scar Grieve visited at Cape Jellison
,ay-.. Mrs. Bartlett Leach arrived
well last Saturday evening by train.
.... inverse Grant was a business Wis
asst last Saturday,. Capt. Melvin
Rockport two days the past week
~toney Book sailed Friday with kiln
.yckland. Mr.. Kelley of Ashland,
he guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Styles.
have been seen here, sure sign of
The Republican journal., 1910-03-31


] friends IN town of Mr.. Clark Marden
e cry sorry to learn that he had bad il
Isl. = week. He is quite comfortable at
.s.--rg. His daughter, Mrs. Carrie Cum
is in Hampden to help care for him.
N.-len is SIS years old and until two years
- always lived in town. Since then he
s4 at the home of his daughter, Mrs
Hampden, This neighborhood was
-,s- last week by the sudden death of
r.- Evans. Although she was in poor
er death was not expected. 1t was
MINUTES from the time she was taken
--. anN peacefully to rest. Undertaken
... j. Inc remains to Searsport and servi-
.ondueted at the home of her sister,
Ger... Mir. Horace Murphy shipped
90. Of potatoes from Waldo Station re-
Ma Sidney Tibbetts has bought the
a7Yu farm and taken possession....
Marden lost new mich COW last
The Republican journal., 1910-03-31
County Correspondence.
GDeferred from last week

Ne Freda Knowlton is at work for Mrs.
-, Knowlton in Monroe. Mr.. and Mrs
v-.4 rbayer spent Sunday with relatives in
,-.o,yfIe Miss Velma Grant spent the
-.al-end with her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
7.,rss Knowlton. =. Mr.. Andrew Clements of
,l.,roe visited his daughter, Mrs. Edgar Ward,
ts,- this week Charles Holmes was in
80 village few days visiting his daughter,
Mr. Cnelmer Clark
FAST sEARSMONT.
W. and Mrs. F. P Mariner had boarder
..-,z March 18th. 1t is 81 pound boy.
Mr. and Mrs A. H. Mahoney spent day in
last Northport recently, guests of his mother,
" sarah Mahoney. -. Mr.. Howard Elms has
.,rs 20 Massachusetts, to work. -. Mr.. Leroy
,,.-.rer has started his sawmill, and those
.,.-r-7g slaves and heading sawed will do well
-. land the lumber in his mill yard. Mr. and
v-. ahr leyenseller and two children were
.---- section March Goth visiting his parents,
Me- Mrs Frank Le1enseller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
DER KAISER UND corr

From the New York Globe.
 The story is told of pompous young lieutenant. who, parading in full uni form and approaching sentry, was chal- lenged with the words.
 Halt! Who goes there?"
 Ass" was the contemptuous reply.
 Advance, ass, and give the counter sign'
 That seems to be about the way the German people feel toward their dearly beloved and much-indulged Kaiser Only the Kaiser announces himself, and gives the countersign in one and the same breath. Ass Is all that is needed. "Ad- vance, ass, and get what is coming to you," say the German people with one voice and the harmonious accord.
 Himself und Gott! It's an old habit of the Kaiser, but it was thought that right smart experience of two years ago would induce him to keep the partnership little more in the background, Hope- less assumption. Wilhelm not only crowns himself with his own crown. but, despis- ing the weakness of a Louis XIV, who had a Bossuet to help him. crowns him self with his own philosophy.
 And they called King James I of Eng land. who couldn't get over the habit. "the wisest fool in Europe" What shall they call the Kaiser?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
Fraudnlently Packed Food StuiS

No matter what tho merits of the gov ernnoent shit against the southern whole sale grocers may or may not be, yet there is one point in the matter of gro- ceries that all are agreed upon, namely, that short weight package goods should be forbidden by law The National Wholesale Grocers association. a body similar to the Southern Wholesale Gro ccrs' association, recently urged in resolution the prosecution, under the com mon law, and the criminal statutes of our various states, "of any manufacturer, wholesaler or other merchant who sells short weight or measure goods, goods in false-bottom packages or containers, or fraudulently packed food products of any kind"
 No matter how eonspicuously pack tents, it may be deceptive to the aver age consumer and all short-weight pack ages should be excluded by law from both interstate and intrastate trade. The appeal R the common law may be to some extent effective, but strong penalties are needed in order to protect the rank and hle, many of whom do not investigate deceptions of this nature Short weight goods can easily be excluded from in. terstate trade, and this would shut out the great majority of such packa ges, and Congress next winter should protect all consumers in this respect. The whole salers stand ready to second the effort land the consumers would be delighted to be relieved of frauds that are small in detail but vast in the aggregate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
SHOWING A CARD TRICK

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
 Is there anything in the world so pa thetic as the spectacle of a young man showing his favorite card trick to a bunch of girls? The slaughter goes like this-man speaks first:
 T used to know a clever trick with cards. Miss Ellen, choose card from this pack"
 .'I am to choose? Which one?'
 Any one you like"
 But how can tell, when you show me only the backs and the backs are all exactly alike?'
 Just take one at random"
 'Oh, is that fair? Well. here-Tve got the queen of diamonds.
 "Oh, you mustn't tell me what you have. I'm to tell you that. you know Put it back and take another"
 "Why can't I keep this one? I can remember it better.
 'There wouldn't be any trick. You see you are to take a card that I don't see and then I'm to find out the one you looked at"
 "Oh! Why, l don't believe you can do it! All right, I've another one''
 Look at it and put 1t back in the pack"
 What part of the pack shall put il in?"
 Anywhere you wish
 But I should think you'd want to know so you could tell which card it is. We'll there,
 Now I s,s~ffle them, so. Presto! Ii this the card you chose?"
 "Oh, I don't know-I forgot to look and see what one T took-Oh, here's May -now there are enough to play bridge May, you should have been here sooner MT. Jones has been showing us tho most wonderful card tricks!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
Protecting Export Bills of LadlDg

The plan of the Alabama Great south ern railroad for the safeguarding Of bills of lading issued by that company deserves careful consideration. The .ap- pointment of a validating agent in every town from which cotton is billed for ing the problem that the foreign bank CTS have thrust upon this country. The validating agent will attach a certificate to every bill for export shipment and he will stamp the bill of ladng and the certificate with the seal of the company This seal will be kept under lock and key by the validating agent. One-hai of the seals impression will go on the bill of lading, and one-half on the an nexed certificate. Only the original bill of lading will bear the seal and eertifi- cate. The certificate Is to the effect that the signature attached to the bill of lading is the true signature of the com pany's agent. The certificate will also ladng.
 There is no great amount of confession of liability by the railroad company in the certificate of it's validating agents, but still the certificate is a pretty ample safeguard against the issuance of spuri- ous bills of lading If the home bankers will guarantee the certified or validated bills of lading to the foreign bankers, the problem is solved. and there will be no need of further conferences on either side of the sea
 that the home bankers will consider the validation plan sufficient, but the pre- sumption is that they will. In other words, the Alabama Great Southern rail road would not have adopted the valida- ton plan if it had not received assur- ances that the plan would be considered by the home banks a sufficient safeguard in relation to export cotton,
 The honN railroads and the home banks are both interested in finding a solution of the problem by or before October l. and the hope is entertained that the validation plan of the Alabama Great Southern railroad will afford the needed protection and safeguard in shipments of export cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
CompIicated Case

According to Jack Stallings the court stenographer, who is reporting the railroad cases, the case against the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad will be taken up in Nashville Monday and continue un- til September 15. when five days will be taken up in Birmingham with the remainder of the Louisville and Nash vile testimony. On September 19 or 20 the state will begin it's evidence here.
 This is the largest case I have ever had anything to do with," said MT Stallings last night. You will appre- ciate the enormity of it when l say that if you were to read the testimony that has already been taken so as to un- derstand it you would be reading next Christmas and only half through. It is probably the most complicated case the south has ever known"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
HE HAD A PROPOSITION

From the Boston Evening Record.
 He walked into big grocery store near the South station, and, approach ing a salesman. in the true book-agent style said:
 i've a proposition that I think will interest you, sir
 You've got another guess" said the salesman.
 But I'm sure you'll be interested in It." persisted the caller.
 Now, old man, it's no use. I couldn't buy anything if l would. I'm just back from my vacation and busted"
 But I don't want to sell you any thing. l want to buy something. My proposition is this: "Tll give you 3s cents for a dozen of those eggs, and 1 will not give a cent more"
 As the eggs were plainly mark ed ''3s cents' the proposition was accepted by the salesman, who is still wonder ing where the joke comes in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03

conquest will go on until it reaches the commercial stage, and then airships may become as numerous as automobiles are at present
 Every Alabaman will have an oppor- lunitv at the state fair to study the Wright aeroplane, for the machine will be on exhibition between flights. The inspiring spectacle in the air should be by a close and even crit ical study of the invention of the famous Ohio brothers. The managers Of the state fair acted wisely in bringing here the chief wonder of the period.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
SEEING GREAT MINDS AT WORK

From the New York World
 Brains as moving pictures are prom ised by the scientists. Before us.. magni- lied 5000 times, are to be spread cerebral cells at work and at play. Screens which cannot lie are to tell whether. a mur- derer is crazy, a burglar irredeemably pad' pupil backward beyond hope. It appears that the expert witness, day in court Is to end. Even the usefulness of the civil service board may pass away before the coming combination of X-ray keenness and cinematograph mechanism. It will be no longer any joke to say that no woman-and no man-can keen a secret.
 Besides meeting the purposes of the courts, the schools, the political and business offices, the new device will add immeasurably, of course, to the resources in biography and history. Future ages will have not alone the photographs. the photographic records and the reported words of our distinguished folk of today. From plates carefully preserved they will get first-hand views of the minds of our great ones in full operation.
 Edison gray matter evolving telephones. incandescent lights, storage batteries and cement houses; the Roosevelt cerebellum revolving about perpetual letter "I'; the mind of Taft cross-sectioning the Payne tariff; the elastic intellect of Ald- rich contemplating the duty on rubber; the gold-bearing cells of Morgan, and the mental wells of Rockefeller spouting oil and platitudes-these and other presenta- tions should be to coming generations more than any pigskin library or i've foot shelf of classics. We need not add the picture lists of aspiring brains of aviators, mind-melodies of great singers and mental color schemes of eminent artists
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
Getting Ready for Next Season

Competition in the national game of baseball goes on from years end to years end. It Is constant and it is very alert. Already every strong team is preparing for the season of 1911. and the home team is face to face with heavy losses. One fine player has been drafted and two have been recalled To make good these losses and at the same time to secure stronger infeld is indeed a serious problem. At least two members of this years in- field are not strong and timely pat ters, and the team of 1911 will oer- tainly outgrow them.
 If any one thinks it Is an easy task to rebuild a team that calls for five new players of big league standing, he is overlooking the fact that scores of keen managers are looking for promising athletes. They are literally securing the minor leagues and even the back lots for them. But Manager Molesworth, backed by Nesident Baugh, knows a thing or two about the players of the country and it is pretty certain that all losses will be made good and all needful changes sat isfactorily arranged for.
 The task of 1911 is a trifle more ex- acting than that of 1910. The first full season on the new grounds should be pennant winning season and this or itself renders the search for new play CTS doubly earnest and puzzling. The flag of 1911 must feat over Rickwood Field. no matter how well the other mana gers of the league may lay their plans, or how fortunate they have been in escaping the drafts of the malor leagues
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
0nr Great American City

Greater London holds 7,42s,74o people, and Greater New York 4,766Sss. The difference is 2, 2,662,S ,S57 souls. This is very considerable difference. and New York will have to stay in second place in the list of the worlds greatest cities more than another decade. In round numbers New York is gaining over London in each 10 years about 5o0O0O people, and at that rate of gain New York would not be able to outnumber London in much less than 50 years.
 There Is, however, one fact that should he taken into consideration whenever the two greatest cities of the world are compared. Greater London has no state lines to contend with. It is, in fact, the County of London, covering IT square miles, and made up of many boroughs, one at least of them, Lewisham, contain ing considerable stretches or open coun- try or fields Lewisham lies near and back of Greenwich park. There are bor- oughs in New York but all of them are confined to the state of New York. Tubes now connect the heart of New York with New Jersey, and yet not foot of New Jersey soil can be annexed to New York. One million people are thus lost to the American city in census figures. When New York is credited with it's million of people living in New Jersey. its popula- tion is brought close to e,o0o,ooo, and pos sibly the real New York can outgrow the real London in 25 years.
 It is comforting to know that the two chief cities of the world are English speaking towns. sharing in English tra- ditions and in English literature. Shakes peare is as much the inheritance of the one city as of the other. May they both live long and prosper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
NIGHT ON THE WHITE NILE
Roosevelt Describes the Tropic spIen'
 dor of An African Landscape

From African Game Trails," in scrib-
 ner's.
 We had come down through the second of the great Nyanza lakes. AS we sailed northward, it's waters stretched behind us beyond the ken of vision, to where they were fed by streams from the mountains of the moon. On our left hand rose the drowning ranges on the other side of which the Congo forest lies like a shroud over the land. On our right we passed the mouth of the Vic dies, and its banks barren of human life because of the swarms of the fly whose bite brings the torment which ends in death. As night fell we entered the White Nile and steamed and drifted down the mighty stream. Its current swirled fin long curves between endless ranks of plumed papyrus. White and blue and red the floating water lilies covered the lagoons and the still inlets among the it's leaves and flowers stiffly above the surface. The brilliant tropic stars made lanes of light on the tapping water as we ran on through the night. The river horses roared from the reed beds, and snorted and plunged beside the boat, and orocodiles slipped suddenly into the river as we glided by. Toward morning a mist arose and through it the crescent of the dying moon shone red and lurid. Then tho all Fri- can landscapes. vast. lonely, mysterious, stretched on every side in shimmering glare of heat and light; and ahead of us the great strange river went twisting away into the distance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
LA GITANA

By William Preston Johnston. .'f As the tall lily, bending before the light breeze, Lends her lips to his kisses with playful Or the Niobe-willow, the saddest of trees Waves it's sllver-lined foliage with tremulous motion,
 So sways La Gitana, Gitana. Gitana. So waves La Gitana her light tam bourine. As bright cloudlets, at sunset. all pur- pie and gold, Slowly soar in the amethyst liquid and
 tender, Or the butterfly, fitting OCT woodland
 and wold. stoops to kiss for moment the dahlia's proud splendor,
 So glides La Gitana, Gitana, Gitana, So bends La Gitana, with light tam
 bourine. AS the mystic cicala repeats his shrill notes.
 Or the mocking-bird woos, his serenade
 singing, Or the lark. who at dawn in the mid-
 heaven floats Ger meadow and upland sends his clear
 carols ringing, So trills La Gitana, Gitana, tg ans So sings La Gitana, with AfEt taEn-
 bourine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
In Fine Spirits Over Business

James A. Wood. the well-known Bir- mingham representative of the shoe man. ufaeturers. selz, Schwab & Co.,, of Chi eago. has just returned from three weeks visit to the Windy City" where he was occupied the greater part of his time with business at the factory.
 fThe general trade situation is inn proving fast" said MT. Wood While I was in Chicago business was looking better and better every day. There has been a wonderful improvement in the tone of the commercial world within the past 30 days, and when I left Chicago everybody was saying that by october the country will have reached splen- did degree of prosperity.
 Having been looking after business in the industrial section of Alabama for many years I am in position to know this district well; and observing condi- tions as do I am very optimistic; never felt more so than I do now. Prospects for fall trade are certainly bright"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
GERMANS AND THE KAISER
People of Faderlandt Don't Take Any
 stock in Divine Right of Kings
from the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 Emperor William of Germany mis- takes the temper of the German people if he believes they will ever agree to any of his foolish assertions that his crown is from God and not from the peo- pie of the German federation,' declared H. L. Schultz of New York, naturalized German from Berlin, at the Arlington.
 'The German people in the last 20 believe any such foolishness as the di- vine right of kings. The emperor rules by permission of the states of the Ger man federation, and not because he is a Hohenzollern.
 While most of Germany is strongly kings or emperors especially, but be- cause that form of government is nee essary in the center of Europe, 1t would not mourn much were Germany to be- come a republic. The Germans believe that a monarchical form of government is necessary for the security of the em- pire, surrounded as it is by other mon- archies, but if the mass of the German people ever become convinced that republic will do as well they will simply change the form of their government at one stroke and be done with it.
 Tt is mistake to believe in this coun- try that the German people look with veneration on Emperor William, or on any of the German kings. The rulers of Germany represent to the people, not persons. but central and secure au- thority, which is vested In themselves. This Is illustrated by the fact that many of the leading socialists in the empire are in favor of mcnarchical form of gov arnment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03

sanitary sewers than usual. This is es- pecially true of the smaller cities In MIS- sissppi That state has law that makes town improvement bonds gilt-edgeo. II the town or municipality runs out or funds the bondholder is protected by nrovision for the levy of a special tax to pay the bond interest or 'o redeem the bond at maturity, as the case may be. That, of course. makes Mississippi town bond as good as goio' Yes. the towns in Alabama and MISSES sippi are waking up to the value or sahi- tary engineering. and as a consequence contractors are kept pretty busy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
cotton crop Improvement

"A few weeks ago the outlook Tor cotton in the black belt was quite dis- tressine. but there has been great 1m- provement recently and there VIII pc good deal of cotton in that secuoh of the state after all," said AL Garber' assistant cashier of the Merchants ana Mechanics bank, who keeps In close touch with middle Alabama.
 q hear that cotton in north Ala bama is in very fine shape; and as for the food crops in this state we have had no such high record as this sum mer Is making"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
Aviation At the State Fair

Let no one doubt that the managers of the Alabama state fair, to be held in this city October e-15, are striving to make it .ftra ctive. When a fair secures flights hv Wright aeroplane-two flights daily 1t hands out money generously. Such o,rhts are high-priced, and such flights ~rhtbit the new art of flying at it's best >yo matter what any aviator does in <,t. zcountry or any other country, all < 4xdebted to the Wright brothers,
 7. 6rrt demonstrated the possibility
 nauest Of the air by man. This
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
SLOW PROGRESS
From Lippincott's Magazine.

From Lippincotts Magazine.
 gentleman who had purchased a new bicycle gave his old one to an Irishman.
 You'll find the wheel useful when you are in hurry" said the gentleman to Pat.
 "Oi trust 1t will be long toime till Oi can ride it," said the Irishman.
 ''Why. have you ever tried?, asked the gentleman.
 t'Oi how was the gloomy reply. "A frnd lint me his. Oi had it three or four weeks, practicin day an -noight, an niver got so Oi could balance mesilf shtandin shtill, let alone roide it.