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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

Atlanta loses when the Coal Barons do and in that way the comfortable margin of the latter is maintained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

The simple life with walking thrown in is pulling Mayor Gaynor through in fine shape from a shot in the neck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

The lonesome in the country go to bed early, and more lonesomeness is needed in the cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01
MOST UNUSUAL.

Mrs. Pipper is remarkable woman. Really"
 "Yes. When she goes shopping she knows exactly what she wants''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

The Elkins-Abruzzi love affair of two continents is still the burning subject in our best society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

The mosquitoes of Alaska keep busy be- cause they must work While the sun shines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

Emperor William and Theodore Roose- welt are running close race in autocrat- ic speech-making.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01
LIFE

By Emerson. A train of gay and clouded days Dappled with joy and grief and praise,
 Reauty to fire uss saints to save. ..n
 Escort Us to little grave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

The colonel is plainly marching on to 1912 regardless of the country's unwritten law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01
DEPRESSION.

DEPRESSION. Tis very hard in summer time To keep the muse still sprightly; Nobody thinks up thoughts sublime, Who sleeps but little nightly And finds the days so blooming hot, So languid and so willing, He wishes he were in a spot Where mountain streams are Hitting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

Indiana remains the center of popula- ton as well as the center of literature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
INDIFFERENT.

Perhaps so; but this joke is a 1910 model with all the latest improvements"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01
RRnIrGHT TIP TO DATF

BROUGHT UP TO DATE. T have here" said the pensive jokes smith, "a joke about a freless cooker" "A hackneyed subject" growled the ed itor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

In forest lanes and dens of 1eafy gloom And other tantalizing visions woo me, The while 'tis hot as Hades in my room
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01
ABSORBED,

"A young man was writing to his best girl, when the house where he was stay ing caught fire'
 Did he escape?"
 'Yes; two fremen carried him out. still clutching his fountain pen and 24 sheets of pink paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01
A FREQUENT TYPE.

He doesn't believe in going a swift gait, you say?"
 ''No any time of day with him is time to call a halt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01
STILL HAD EIGHT MINUTES

Insurgent visitors at Beverly are few and far between.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01
DECEPTIVE FANCY

hear the voice of crystal streams low
 murmuring, l hear the wind that hurtles over hills, Green-clad with pines forever moaning In every random breeze that signs and
 thrills
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

THEY'D DIE OF SHOCK.
 Speak the truth and shame the devil" ''Id like to shame the devil, but on the other hand, some of my friends have weak hearts," PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

see the morning sunbeams glancini
 golden
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01
AInbamn'sl Big Crops

T was in Alabama in May when cot ton was being replanted on account Ol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-01

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
 If boots not to resist both wind and tide. -3 King Henry VI.
The Virginia enterprise., 1910-03-04
How Nations Feed Their Soldiers.

That an army travels on its stom.
ach has come to be accepted as the
last word in practical military prep-
aration. Accordingly, where hitherto
the stocking of the commissariat was
question more of quantity than
quality, such views no longer obtain.
The dietary scales are now subjected
to the most rigid experimental scru-
tiny. The following statement shows
that the soldier on the march is fed
neither too much nor too little-the
fare meets his needs, no more:
The Japanese dietary scale is the
most frugal. It consists of meat 7.05
ounces; vegetables, 5.29 ounces: rice.
5.64 ounces; biscuit, 20 ounces: tea
OIL ounce. Great Britain's soldier
gets in one day: Meat, w pounds.
bread, IN pounds; tea, f1ve-e,ehths
ounce; ham, one-fourth pound; sugar.
two ounces; salt and pepper. "a
ounces; vegetables. one-half pound :.
rum. ,onefourth gill. The French sol.
der on; march gets per day: Meat
$40 ounces; bread, $3.50 ounces: vee:
etables, 2.12 ounces; sugar, 0.70 ounce. :.
coffee. $50 ounce; salt, $50 ounce
Leslte's Weekly.
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HOW LAND PRICES GO UP
Site Of New Kansas City Bank Once
Sold for Eight cents-That Was
In 1886.

II you and had been on the Job in
Kansas City in 1836-that's not so
awfully long ago, either-we could
have made fortune for our heirs.
If we had put our weekly pay envelope
in real estate investments. When Watt
Webb and w. s. Webb bought 25 feet
of ground next to the Commerce build
ing on the west side Of Walnut street
between Ninth and Tenth streets from
the Ridge estate few days ago as
a site for a new building for the Mis-
souri, Savings bank, they paid at the
rate of $4,000 front foot for it. The
deed will be filed for record one day
this week. Then an architect will be
chosen to prepare plans for new
two-story bank building
"Our abstract goes back tp 1885,"
said W. 8. Webb, cashier Of the bank.
yesterday, according to the Kansas
City Times. Henry Chtles received q
patent from the government for the
land in that year. He paid $1.25 an
acre for 40 acres, which lie between
what are now Ninth and Tenth streets
The rs feet Tor the bank site is one
fifteenth Of an acre in area. SO 1t cost
in 1886 about eight cents. In 1s41.
the year my father, Watt Webb, was
born the Land sold for $4,40o. or 6s.2-s
cents for the 26 feet. 1t passed to
Thomas Smart, who decided 1t to his
daughter and son.in-law, Mrs. l. NJ.
Ridge and DR.. Ridge, in 1857. There
have been few changes In its owner.
ship"
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TALES
:Clorilla Minch and Her Lovers.
&<By Ellis Pa1het Bl1Hef@l
eHS Author offPii8s IS Pigs Etc" W.
ILLUSTRATED By PETER, NEWELL

Clorilia Minch~was a most attractive
girl in many ways, and quite a belle
of Betzville, and she would have been
married long ago if her father had had
sense enough to keep still about Clo-
rilla's feet, but as soon as Clorilla
would get lover we'll primed for the
marriage ceremony old Minch would
take him aside and explain about the
Doosenbury feet. He said he had suf-
fered all his life by the Doosenbury
feet, and he wasn't going to have an
other human man step up against
those feet unwarned. Clorilla's mother
had been a Doosenbury, and Clorilla
inherited the feet along that line.
Old Minch would say: "Now, for
iorty year I have had Maria's feet
against the small of my back every
night, and every night her feet were
like ice, and if hadn't been a martyr
by nature, and meek and mild, never
would I have stood It, And look at
me now. My back bone is froze solid
and I can't bend in the middle. Doc
Weaver says it's no use trying to thaw
it out for Maria freezes it up again
every night. And Clorilla has her
mas feet, only colder" Then he
would call attention to Clorilla's feet,
which were actually so cold that frost
gathered on the outside of her shoes
in the hottest August weather. In
cool weather they were ten times cold
er. Generally this frightened the lover
away, but not always.
Abraham Wangle was one it didn't
frighten away, and Phillipus Googe
was another, and it looked as if they
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GREAT LOVE STORES
- OF HISTORY =: -= ::::::
NELSON AND LADY HAMILTON
Copyright b1 tia Authae.l !
BY ALBERT PAYSON TERFIUNE

court. Nelson took them under his
protection and they were restored to
the throne. Admiral Caraccioli of the
revolutionist feet was Nelson's friend.
Caraccioli CHANGED to to be Lady Ham
ilton's enemy. She is credited with
persuading Nelson to forget that Car
accioli had been promised free par
don for his share in the revolt, and
to consent to the unfortunate mans
execution. This is the blackest stain
on all Nelson's record. A woman's
wiles had for once made him forget
honor, friendship and fairness.
AS time went on Nelson's infatua-
tion for Lady Hamilton grew to be the
scandal of Europe. The Admirals
faithful wife endured it for years, then
told Nelson he must once and forever
choose between Lady Hamilton and
herself. He did so. AS a result Lady
Nelson left their house, and only
once again did she set eyes on her
husband. She was not clever. She
had no weapons with which to cope
with the charms of her more beautiful
rival So Lady Hamilton won the
strange duel of wits, and Nelson was
henceforth her devoted slave. The
deserted wife (according to story
told by her grandchild) used secretly
to kiss Nelson's miniature portrait,
and spend hours gazing on it, even
when she was very old woman
Nelson was ever goaded on to fresh
and warlike enterprises by Lady Ham
ilton. She urged him to offer tn~ gov
ernment his services On important
! ,...,. campaigns, instead
| .~1a,S of wasting time
a'as~'' ashore with her.
Whether she really was ambitious to
increase his fame or merely wanted
him out of the way for time cannot
i be known. In any case, Nelson re-
garded her zeal as proof of her love
for him and warmly praised her for it.
On October %, 1905, Nelson met and
overcame the largest French feet in
an immortal sea fight off the Cape of
Trafalgar. But in the battle he re-
ce1ved death wound His last
thoughts and message are said to have
been for the woman he adored.
Lady Hamilton, after Nelson's death,
quickly squandered her small fortune.
She was cast into prison for debt. On
her release she went to France to
drag out a hand-to-mouth existence,
| dying at Calais in 1915. IT, greatest
painters in Europe had for many years
wed with one another for the privilege
of painting her portrait Many of
those portraits are still in existence,
keeping fresh the memory of a beauty
that stained the life of an otherwise
honorable, heroic man.
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BILE with fear, and she told Abraham
Wangle that she could never marry
man with an icy back, and poor Alb.
raham had to start in again, training
his back to like heat. He gradually
reduced the quantity and coldness Of
his ice pack, and then began wearing
small oil stove on the small of his
back, and in few months he could
lie right down with his back on & hot
stove and never know it. It was Just
then that Phillipus Googe forever de.
prived himself of all hopes of Gorilla
by sending her a much larger freless
heater. Clorilla said this was an in.
suit, and that she would never use q
f1reless cooker again, and to show her
hatred of Phillipus she discontinued
uselng the cooker and began resting
her feet for hours at time on cake
of ice. So Abraham Wangle had to
start in once more icing his back.
Abraham iced his back and iced it.
and then he began to be frightened
for it would not grow cold. 1t re
mained hot. He went to see Doc
Weaver about it, and Doc told him
plainly that the sudden change from
hot to cold and back to hot again had
taken the temper out of the small o1
his back, and had rendered it imper
vious to influences of temperature
and that it was like fireless cooker
now, and would remain hot as Ions
as it remained at all. So Abraham
spoke to Clorilla, and she did what
] was right and began to heat up hel
feet again. But when she tried it she
The Virginia enterprise., 1910-03-04
The Death Of the Tashi Lama.

"A Tashi Lama, when he feels the
approach of death, must, in accord
ance with the directions of the holy
law, remain in a sitting position, with
his legs tucked under him and his
hands palms upwards in his lap, for"
(says DR.. Sven Hedin in "Trans-
Himalaya; Macmillan) ''he must die
in the same attitude as the meditat-
ing Buddha. His last moments are
soothed by a number of monks, who
surround him on all sides, fill the air
with the murmur Of their prayers,
and continually PROSTATE themselves
with their hands and foreheads
on the ground, paying divine
honors to him and his departing
spirit. When he has lost conscious
ness, has no longer any control over
his body, and becomes limp, he ia
held up, and when life has flown he is
so placed that he grows rigid in the
orthodox position. The corpse ID
clothed priestly vestments .
and is placed as quickly as possible,
still in sitting fashion, in a metal
vessel, which is filled with salt and
hermetically sealed"
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reached parliament Fox asked George
If the report was true. George vehe-
mently denied it. Fox, on the strength
Of the princes assurance, made for
NAL denial in parliament that the
prince was married. A friend, meet
ing the statesman next day, said:
Il hear, Mr.. Fox, you have denied
the fact of marriage between the
prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert.
l was present at the wedding"
George, cornered in the lie, declared
that Fox had never received such de-
nfal from him, and said Indignantly to
Mrs. Fitzherbert:
maria, have you heard what Fox is
saying? He actually declares we are
not married!'
Mrs. Fitzherbert's influence on
George was all for good. She brought
out the best side of his nature and
was faithful, devoted wife to him.
Ten years later a match was
planned between the prince of Wales
and princess Caroline of Brunswick.
The king promised to pay Georges
| debts if he would marry the princess.
e.... George agreed.
Marriage. as s-o mo1 1iaee
ure. George treated Caroline with
brutal contempt, neglected her and
| spread false reports as to her char
acter. The couple finally separated.
George III. meantime went insane.
The prince was appointed regent dur.
ing the rest Of the crazy kings life
time. He used to amuse his friends
| by giving limitations of his fathers in
sane rawlings. In 1903 he and Mrs.
Fitzherbert parted. For "a years
afterward she lived, spending most of
her time in England and devoting her.
self to charity. She died in Brighton.
at the age Of 81, outliving George by
seven years. On the death of his ia.
ther, in 1920, the prince came to the
throne as George w. He was so un.
popular that people often Kissed him
when he drove through the streets.
He died in 1880, at 6S, mourned BY al.
most no one and leaving a record of
personal and official unworthiness
that has seldom been equaled.
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have shot at several though, so far as
known, none had been killed.
Although Mrs. Taylor insisted that
she was not afraid to 60 home alone.
her mother-in-law insisted that she
take the two dogs along with her for
protection. None of the men of the
family was at home, and the elder
Mrs. Taylor was unable to accompany
her even part OF the way.
So Mrs. Taylor started out, the dogs
following at her heels The first part
Of the journey was without incident,
and Mrs. Taylor was more than half
way through the woods when she
heard a noise ahead of her. The
bushes were rafting, and in an in
stant a large buck sprang into the
clearing. Blood was streaming from
the side of the deer, and he snorted
with rage.
The dogs had fallen behind, in fact,
Mrs. Taylor says she had forgotten
that they were with her.
The wounded buck lowered his head
and paved the snow.
Recovering from her first shock Of
lear, the woman, as might be expected
from one of her sex. screamed.
The scream attracted the dogs and
they came with a rush.
AS the dogs bounded into the clear
Ing the deer rushed at Mrs. Taylor.
She sprang behind the only tree that
stood In the cleared space and the
aeer rushed past her.
Then began a battle between the
buck and the dogs.
The combat lasted several minutes.
and both dogs were badly SCARED be-
tore they brought the wounded buck
10 earth. Just as the battle was fin
lshed the hunters, who had shot the
aeer appeared on the scene. They
said they had shot the animal nearly
an hour earlier and had been trailing
bim through the snow.
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Rtex4s~A

:ound that her feet were like the small
Of Abraham's back and had lost their
temper and would never become warm
again. They were like a sealed cold
storage vault and would remain cold
as long as they were feet. At present
looks as If Clorilla and Abraham were
to be forever separated, and Uncle
Ashdod Cloots says it is one of the
most striking warnings against f1irt-
ing he has ever seen, for If Gorilla had
not tried to draw Phillipus on she
would, by this time, have had a good
husband with an ice cold back to place
her ice cold feet against. But old
Minch SCOTS at this. He says that
from what he knows of Doosenbury
feet no one with feet of that kind
would ever marry a man she could
not annoy with them. The majority OF
the BetZville voters agree with him.
copyright. 1909. by w. G. Chapman)
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would stick it out and have s. tight
race for Clorilla's hand. Abraham told
old Minch that he guessed he could
stand small thing like pair - cold
feet so long as he had had fair no.
tice, and he went to work Immediately
getting into training. Every night
when he retired he took 50-pound
small of his back, hoping thus to grad.
ually become acclimated to the TEN.
perature that Clorilla's feet would he.
At first the ice gave him shivers, but
in a month or two he had become SO
used to the coldness of it that he did
not feel it at all, and he began CON-
planning that the Betzville Ice Com
pany's ice was poor ice. At the eAd
of the third month he sent up no1!h
for his ice, so as to get colder quail
ty, and each month after that he would
send further north for his ice. In a
short time the small of his back ke-
came so used to cold ice that it suffer
ed with the heat when it had no ice
on it, and he had to go around all day
with ice on his back. It melted and
ran down into his shoes, and Abraham
Wangle going along Main street sound.
ed like a cow in slushy lane.
But Phillipus Googe went about it
another way. On Clorilla's birthday
he gave her a fireless cooker. Phil
lipus hoped that If Clorilla cooked her
feet in the freless cooker every day
she would gradually cook the cold out
of them, for a fireless cooker needs
no fire, but keeps on cooking anything
that is put In it until it Is taken out
again. So every day Clorilla would
cook up a bran mash and put in the
cooker very hot, and put her feet in
It, At first the mash had habit Of
turning into a solid chunk of iced
bran Immediately npon coming in con-
tact with her feet, and then her par
ents would have to chip of the icy
mass with an ice pick, but gradually
her feet began to warm up, and they
grew warmer and warmer as the
weeks went by, until Clorilla could not
get the bran mash hot enough to feel
comfortable. Even when it was boil"
ing hot Clorilla complained that it
felt chilly to her feet, and her feet
became 80 permanently warm that
when ehe put on her shoes they
scorcAed the leather, and she had to
have special shoes made. lined with
asbestos. :, -. 49,, .~..- j.
BY that time the very thought Of
cold against her feet made her trem-
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How. often do you eat this food /

How often do you eat this foodn
A short time ago there appeared In
the columns Of one of the prominent
magazines an article on building brain
and muscle by the proper selection Of
the foods you eat.
A good many people were surprised
to find oatmeal placed at the top of the
list of foods recommended; but if the
article had appeared in an English or
Scotch paper every reader would have
expected to see first place given to
good oatmeal.
AS a matter Of fact Great Britain
and Europe come to us for tremendous
quantities of Quaker Oats because it
represents to them perfect food, being
the richest in flavor and best in clean
hness and purity, of all oatmeals.
Americans should eat more Quaker
Oats; the results would soon show
themselves in improved conditions of
health and strength. IS
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A little one-armed man and a wom-
an as wicked as she was beautiful
the naval hero of England and an ex-
chambermaid- the hero and hero
inc of this story.
The man was Horatio Nelson; the
woman, Lady Hamilton. Nelson was
the younger son of an English clergy
man. He had, as boy. craving for
the sea; received an appointment as
midshipman, and by sheer genius rose
to the ranks of admiral. He was
also created a viscount in the British
peerage, and was the nations idol.
Lady Hamilton began life as a domes.
tic servant. Her name was Emma
Harte. firing of the duties of cham
bermaid, she became waitress in q
tavern. Later, after rather doubtful
career, she attracted the notice of
old Sir William Hamilton, British am.
passador at the court of Naples, and
married him.
Nelson could not Withstand pretty
face. He had a long line Of limo
cent but ardent love affairs. AS a
mere youth he fell in love with a
Quebec girl and was with difficulty
persuaded not to marry her. Next he
Eu,. ,.. proposed to Miss
-o Andrews in the
O. west Indies The
match was broken off, and he became
enamored of Mrs. Montray, a dashine
widow.
IF 1t were not for her." he wrote
to friend, Il believe I should hang
myself"
But Mrs. Montray left the West In
fections to another widow, Mrs. Mis-
bet. To win the favor of this second
widow this national hero used to play
sea fights under the dining room
table with her children. In March
1887, he and Mrs. Nisbet were mar
ried. Nelson was at that time 80
Until he was 40 their welded life was
happy. Then trouble set in.
While Nelson was In command OF
the Mediterranean, after he thrashed
Napoleon's fleet at the battle of the
Nile, he met Lady Hamilton. Her
husband begged leave to introduce to
her "a little man who cannot boast
of being handsome, but such a man
as will one day astonfsh the world
Nelson had never seen so beautiful or
clever woman. He looked upon he1
with a sort of reverent admiration
When she used her influence at the
Naples court in behalf of the British
able ties of gratitude. Her influence
over the simple, impulsive admiral
grew to be boundless.
There was a revolt that ousted the
Neapolitan king and queen from their
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Two Votes.

The first time ran for the general
assembly one of the prominent citi-
zens of my community told me that
he was going to vote against me be-
cause when I was a shaver I threw
rotten apple at his horse. Another
prominent citizen told me that he was
going to vote for me because when
was a shaver l put a rotten egg in
buggy cushion belonging to the wom-
an he worked for and he had never
liked the woman. Think of it! And
yet such stuff has thrown the scales
where thrones have been at stake
From a speech at Norwich by former
Gov George P. Mclean of Connecti-
r1lt
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Nor on a HaIf.Djme, Either.

Nor on a HaIf-Dime, Either.
Simon Hardcastle believed with sin
cere faith that any wife who had, or
asked, more than quarter a year
for her own amusement or enjoyment
was being too horrible to contem-
plate. He came from the village store
for dinner and told what he had
heard
miranda, would you believe that
the Lords prayer could be engraved
in a space no larger than dime?"
"Well, yes, Simon." she hazarded, III
a dime is as large in the engraver's
eyes as it is in yours, should think
that he would have no difficulty at
all."-The Housekeeper.
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DEER ATTACKS 4 WOMAN;
MAST|fFs SAVE her LIFE
DOGS FIGHT WOUNDED BUCK TO
THE DEATH WHILE MRS.
TAYLOR LOOKS ON.

Johnson City, Me.-"'I never cared
for dogs. and always feared them, but
now. l love them," said Mrs. Thomas
Taylor, a bride Of three months.
whose life was saved a,few days ago
by two mastitfs owned by Edward
Taylor, her husbands brother.
Mrs. Taylor had been spending the
afternoon at the home of her hus-
bands parents. and it was growing
dusk when she started to her own
home, carrying basket OF fruit.
Between her own home and that
of her father-in-law is a short stretch
of woodland. Deer have been seen
in the vicinity lately. and hunters