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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17
The Home-Life of Denver

''Home-life, for all of Denver's ir- responsibility and extravaganza. is, on the whole, delightful" says Woman's Home Companion for April.
 Apartment existence is prac- tically unknown, for instead of flats or apartments you see terraces, as they are called, row after row, of one or two-story houses, much alike as two peas and always of brick or stone lumber being scarce and expensive in Denver.
 Apartment houses are now being built but they are to scarce to mean anything to the average Denverite, whose ambition runs to a nice house on tidy
 bit of ground.
 "The suburbs are given over to truck farms. Suburban life, as it is known in New York, Philadelphia or Chicago plays no part in the present-day scheme of things in Denver.
 "As to incomes and their spending: A family of three, four or five, with ten thousand dollars a year at thelr
 command has mighty good time. To
 be sure, they may not save much, but
 then who can tell? A railway may run
 through their front yard tomorrow,
 and pay good price for the privilege. Or the son may stumble on a mine
 when he merely started out to hunt or to fish The optimism of Denver is sim ply astonishing.
 "The family of three (and one child is considered good measure in Denver today) lives very comfortably on five thousand dollars a year. They occupy a house which a New Yorker might envy. They keep up a pretty bit of lawn, with towering boxes and beds. They have good clothes. the husband
 and the wife each belong to club
 The wifes give a matinee party when
 she feels so inclined and her husband
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17
Rhythmic Excuse
he New York Globe.

From the New York Globe.
 At a. m. an out-of-town girl who had spent the night in the rooms of a girl friend who is a music student was cleo trified by the suddenness with which the student sprang out of bed and be- gan to thump the plano. For 15 min utes she played with speed and vigor; then, with a final discordant bang she left the piano and snuggled under the bedclothes again.
 What an idiotic proceeding com mented the candid guest
 Wasn't it?" gurgled the student
 But l get paid for 1t. I do that as an accompaniment for dumbel exercise. In the next room is a queer old chap who thinks his life depends upon a certain amount of physical culture. Years ago he formed the habit of swinging clubs and bells and things to the tumty-tum-tum of the piano. It was a strong habit-so strong that unless he has the piano ac- compartment he cannot get up courage enough to move a muscle.
 That's where I come in. He can hear plainly through this partition; so when he found was yearning to earn a little money, he proposed through the land lady that I play something lively every morning from to s:15. as a spur to ex ercise. Funny engagement, isn't it?-but mutually beneficial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17
Progressive Democracy

Joseph w Folk in the National Monthly
 The only purpose of a protective tariff is to stihe competition, and to that eX- tent create monopoly Would 1t not be better to protect the people from monopo- ty instead of protecting monopoly from the people?
 Ii Is unjust for all the people to be taxed in order to make a few very rich. The democratic party should take a clean cut stand against the system of pro- lection and against tariff for any pur- pose other than of revenue The fight should not be for free raw materials, and protection for manufactured products, or vice versa; but for no protection at all for the sake of protection. No protection for monopolyl should be the battle cry in the next campaign. The fight to lower the tariff on some articles and leave IL as it is on others, does not involve any principle, and a battle along that line would result only in a sham fight.
 I would like to see every man of every party who is opposed to the privilege of protection come into the democratic par ty and I would like to have every man In the democratic party who favors pro- lection go over to the other side. Then there would be a decisive battle between the forces of privilige and equal rights.
 Practically every article that is worn bN a human Delng IS ldAeu uuuSi lic Al drich-Payne bill in order that a few may make huge profits while the free list is conspicuous by reason of the few articles of necessity 1t contains.
 When a tariff is high enough to protect 1t must prohibit importation, and when it does that the government derives no revenue from the transaction, and the benefit goes entirely to a few manufac- turers of the articles protected. The American consumer not only pays the tariff tax on imported goods, but he pays on domestic goods a price equal to the foreign prices with the tariff tax added. AS four-fifths of all the goods consumed, according to the estimates of the treas ury department. are made at home and only one-hfth imported. the government which receives the tax only on imports, gets one-fifth of the tax, yet the system of protection requires the American con suner to pay the other four-fifths to the benehciaries of this special privilege.
 It is claimed that it is beneficial to tax the people in this manner for few so as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17
Tommy and the Worm

From the National Monthly
 There were only two pieces of cake and three hungry boys upstairs throw ing their clothes on in the race to get down first Tommy won out and rushed
 into the dining room breathlessly. That's a good boy, Tommy The early | bird gets the worm. Take a piece ot | cake,'' said his mother. Tommy looked at the cake quizzically | inspecting it from all sides. Whats the matter. Tommy" asked his mother. What are you trying to do?"
 Say, ma, which piece has the worm in it?" he inquired soberly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17
High Cost of Living AxIoms

From Jpdge.
 The price of photographs is going up" Even talk isn't cheap any more. A butcher nowadays has a great deal at stake.
 Time Is money" Nowadays when you go out shopping you have to take lots of time.
 Now that they have raised meats, I suppose the farmers will also raise veg etables this summer.
 Even airships are going up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17

occasionally entertains a few men at his house. They may both belong to the same card club. they will certainly sup down town one night in the week, and they eat the best cuts of meat
 "A Denver butcher told me that tho cheap cuts of meat had to be shipped to other points. Denver would eat only the best, and when you consider that a bricklayer, mason. carpenter or a painter is paid seven dollars a day, you understand why nothing is too good for Denver"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17

movement has begun and it will increase for some time to come. This is due to the steadily decreasing margin between our exports and imports the great amount of money taken abroad by Amer ican tourists and the rubber specula- ton in England which has diverted much money which otherwise would have gone into American securities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17
MAJOR DREYFUS IS LONELY MAN. 
Though He Lives in Heart of
 Paris He Might Be Dead
LAW SUIT RECALLS MAN
Fashion, Snys the Countess de Tredern-Two Women Claim
 HonOrs for Climbing

1 Paris, April 6.-(Special )-Madame
 Emile Zola, widow of the late novelist, has just instigated a law suit which re- minds Parisians that Major Dreyfus is still alive. Although he lives on the Bou- levard Malesherbes, in the heart of Paris, this man, who almost dismembered France might as well be dead for all the interest he now inspires. Some patriotic and impresslonable Italians, moved to ad- miration by Zola's marvellous letter 'JAccuse," made the writer a present of statue in bronze. This statue rep resented Dreyfus chained to a rock; in other words 1t represented the morose captain of Devils Island in all the horror of his position. Madame Zola presented the statue to the manager of a company which undertakes to provide healthy ten ements for the very poorest class of French unfortunates. She. desired the statue to be erected in the center of the garden where the poor people could gaze upon the work of art, and call to mind the memory of the dead novelist who wrote so much about the working man. The manager of the company however, sold the precious relic to a junk shop for s60 Now Madame Zola claims 5000 dam ages.
 The author of "JAccuse" sleeps in the Pantheon devoted to the Great men of France" But the original of the man chained to the rock is quite as dead as Zola. Clemenceau, who wrote an article in favor of his acquttal every day for IS months, will not speak to him. Though raised to the rank of major he has been forced out of the army. The officers say he has never explained why he was dis covered at midnight ransacking docu ments in the war office in department which was not his Nor has he explained his presence at the German military maneuvers nor his own admission: If 1 gave away certain military documents 1t to obtain more important ones." This caused the officers to refuse all as- sociation with Major Dreyfus in spite of his pardon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17

Ladies will be interested perhaps to hear that white bridal dresses are going out of fashion. At least this is the opin- ion of the Countess de Tredern. sister-in- law of Madame Henri Say. It is gener- ally believed the white bridal dress is a symbol of purity and virginal innocence and that it must never under any cir cumstances be changed. But the Countess de Tredern has discovered the custom of arraying brides in white simply dates back to the wedding of the ill-fated Marie Stewart, who chose a white velvet we'd ding dress, richly embroidered in pearls. Since then young brides have done like wise and for no symbolic reasons what ever.
 Dressmakers are getting bolder these days, so much so the bride of the future may appear dressed in scarlet or sky blue, after the style of Italy or Turkey. The Countess de Tredern Is quite of my opinion, that a change of bridal raiment is rapidly approaching.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17

People out in my country" said Rep resentative Martin of Colorado, believe in tilling the soil and we have some of the finest farms to be found anywhere No department of the government is more popular than the agricultural. It is the deep interest taken by Secretary Wilson in the farming of the country that makes him so strong with the people. He is practical farmer and knows just what our people want. If the east only knew of the advantages that await them by the full development of the great west there would soon be an influx of immigrants that would in a few years place the west far in advance of the east. No state of fers such inducements to capital as does Colorado.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17
A skeptic

F A Skeptic From Harper's i;azar.
 Knicker: My dear. I was detained at the office.
 Mrs. Knicker: I-don't believe it unless you have data and a scientific com panion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17
PEOPLE TAKE THE
 MIDDLE OF STREET Many Accidents Happen in
 Washington City
FOR MERCHANT MARINE
Representative Norris Advises That Ten Merchant Ships Be Built by Government and Leased
 to Panama Company
By RoDERIcK CLIFFORD

Washington, April Special )-"Al- though Washington Is noted for it's wide | streets and avenues, one would think there is less danger to the pedestrians here than in cities like Boston or New York; said Representative Trrell of Massachusetts while walking home from the capitol the other day But the fact is," he added, there are more ac- cidents here in proportion to the popula- tion than in Boston or other large cities
 l mean accidents such aa being run down by automobiles, street cars and carriages and, wagons. In Boston people do not cross the middle of the street, nor do they stand near the car tracks and wait for cars to go by, as they do in this city. Indeed many of the people seem to prefer the street to the sidewalk and the man or woman who is riding in an auto mobile must be on the constant lookout for fear of running down some passer-by. The danger of hurting some one is never absent because of the habit of the people using the streets instead of the side walks. I think 1t would be a good idea if the police would issue regulations to govern street crossings, for it would lessen the percentage of accidents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17

The work of Representative Dwight of New York as the republican whip" Is practically over for the session. as the re- maining legislation known as admins traitor measures Is In sense parti- san and hence may receive as many dem ocratic as republican votes. The time when the republican whip was busy. morning and night was during the debate on the tariff bill, and during the recent outbreak of the insurgents against Speaker Cannon. On the railroad bill and the postal savings bank bill the loss of republican votes for these two meas ures may be made up by democratic sup port and the whip is not worrying over the outcome. There is one daily pro- gramme he must carry out, however, and | that Is to see that quorum Is on hand so that the majority may not be caught mapping, as was the case when the Nor ris amendment was adopted, taking from the speaker the power to appoint the spe- cial committee to investigate the Ballin- ger-Pinchot controversy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17

Unanimous consent calendar works Ike a charm" said Representative steener- son of Minnesota, talking to a party Of insurgents Just think,' he continued, Hast unanimous consent day secured the passage of two little bills of local interest and did not have to take myself to the speakers room and ask him to recognize me on the floor to ask the consent of the House to consider my bills as before. You no longer feel that you are under obli- gations to the speaker to do what your constituents send you here to do. l am satisfied the House will never return to the old system that made every member humble himself by appealing to one man for a right that belongs to all.
 ''It Is all very well to say that the ma iority rules but 1t takes nerve to go up against an organization that for years ran things with high hand. Now 1t is all over and the majority are really in control Should the next House be dem ocratic you may depend upon 1t there will be no step backward. I believe the time Is at hand when the House will itself ap- point the committee, and thus make the speaker a presiding officer in fact, and not the leader.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17

A sort of Perry-Cook war is raging be- tween two daring women climbers. Mrs Workman, now in Algeria. informs me that she has beaten Miss Pecks record Miss Peck has been climbing the Andes, Mrs. Workman the Himalayas. Miss Peck claims to have climbed 700 feet high CT than Mrs Workman. Mrs. Workman scorns to defend herself. But she has sent down to South America and had the mountain peak measured. And the report she has received proves that Miss Peck did not climb as high as she asserts, for the very good reason that the mountain itself does not tower to that altitude. So Mrs. Bullock Workman claims to hold the record of having reached a height of 24,0OO feet above the level of the sea. Whatever the relative records of the two ladies may be, 1t is certafnthat American women are the foremost climbers in the world Mrs. Workman recently lectured here. She is a brilliant talker and In her latest lecture she threw out some pretty strong hints about making a dash for the south pole.
 "One tongue is enough for a woman" said the beautiful and witty Camille du Cast, aptly quoting crusty old Milton at a dinner recently given in honor of Paris ians born in Paris. This Is new society the Society of the Men and Women Born in Paris Madame Camille du Cast, form CT fiancee of the Prince de Sagan, Duke de Valensay, Is It's first president.
 In her invitations to the ladies she asked them to wear their most spring like costumes, so as to counteract the gloomy appearance of the mems black dress suits. Not even at a dressmakers ball have such brilliant transparent cos tunes been seen. Every lady made a speech and some of them were very bril- liant. All were witty. Madame du Cast was asked to stand up, so that every one might admire her beautiful and classic neck and shoulders which were the model for the silver statue won at the Windsor Bowling alley by Mir. r.George D. Nor gan of New York.
 As the object of this society is the beauty and establishment of Paris. many of the ladies advocated the destruction of the Eifel Tower. while others de- clared the Grand Paiais was equally in artistic The poet Montoya read poem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17

"One way to build a merchant marine.' remarked Representative Norris of Ne brasks- insurgent leader of the House. would be Scr the government to author ize the contraction of ten merchant ships and lease them to the Panama Steamship company which Is practically owned by Uncle Sam. By such means we would obtain a revenue from the ships and in case of war would have just that many ships ready for use. Such a system of building up the merchant marine would perhaps be called a subsidy, but it would be one with more merit than the scheme now advocated by the Merchant Marine league. I would not be surprised if Con gress adopted my suggestion and put 1t into practical use in the future
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17

When Representative Mann of Illinois, l the treasury watch-dog." and Speaker 1 Cannon's floor lieutenant is not in the
 House, or presiding as speaker pro tenn
 Representative Stafford of Wisconsin Is | on guard. The Badger State congress
 man is one of the brightest men in the House He Is a student and keeps thor
 oughly posted on what the House is doing. When appropriation bills are the order of the day he is always ready with the important point of order, which he knows so well how to use effectively and
 thus keep the budget down.
 The Wisconsin member is on two of the most important committees of the
 House-postoffce and postroads and in terstate and foreign commerce. The lat ter committee recently reported to the House the administrations bill amenda- | tory of the interstate commerce law, | which promises to be the chief adminis- | tration measure that will be passed at | this session. He Is also chairman of the subcommittee on postoffice and post roads having charge of the bill to codiry and reorganize the postal laws. This IS a most important measure. Collection Of the data on which the bill Is based cost the government about $50,000 MT. Staf- ford expects to have the bill and report ready to submit to the House just before the final adjournment of the session, so that the bill may become a law at the be- ginning of the session next December. The bill to codify the postal laws con tains A provision which protects news paper publishers, in that any paper ex- cluded from the mails or denied the sec ond-class privilege can appeal to the courts. Persons against whom fraud or ders are issued can also thus appeal Un- der recent court decisions such cases are denied standing for want of jurisdiction
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-05-05
SURELY LIMIT OF PREcocITY
Al Achievements Of Smart Juveniles
Fall Before That Recorded
Of Job. 80

A minister. SO often the lone man
1T various church gatherings, is some
times placed in positions that try his
patience as well as his tact. DR.. John
Kelman, q noted; Edinburgh divine, is
credited with q clever evasion in JUST
such an embarrassing position. Fol-,
lowing certain missionary meetngt
Of the ladies of his parish several Of
them had fallen into more or less
heated discussion of the precociousI
attainments Of their several sons.
x One good lady declared that her eld-'
est had mastered his alphabet at tho
unusual age Of II months. Another
maintained her child's superiority
from the fact that he had been able!
70 read Caesars Gallo War" with.
ease when only eight. A third called
upon the reverend gentleman to at
test the feat OF her youngest Aon in!
repeating the Twenty-third Psalm
whsn, but two, years old as the most
exceptional prodigy Of them all.
''Weel, ladies'" said the DOCTOR.
hesitating and smiling. It's sma use.
Il bantin' the Jacks when the Good
Dsek tells N beyond 4 doubt that
Master Job outstripped them q BY!
e0TSIn' the day no was, bora
Y0uth's Companion. 6 I,
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-05-05
NOTHING MORE THAN A SISTER
Two Good Reasons Why Beautiful
Chorus Girl Turned Down
Ardent Admirer. @
Z cannot marry you!"

II cannot marry you!"
The brilliant young chorus girl, her
face naturally flushed with her high
determination, gazed fondly but deter
minedly into the eyes Of the young
magnate whose wealth was numbered
by millions.
Cannot marry me?" he repeated.
Surely there is some mistake. l offer
you equality, and all the financial priv
ileges command. You will own your
own home, and be able to sip from the
fountain Of eternal gasoline. Why do
you refuse me?" - -a
She smiled loftily II sadly a. she re-
piled:
II do it for my art. Surrounded BY
the temptations of great wealth fear
that I would lapse into an idle crea-
ture. No! No! Archibald, it cannot be.
My art must not suffer. I thank you
for your kind offer. Believe me shall
always be your true friend. But ask
me>nothing more. Art. always. and for
all timel Besides. I am going to marry
your father" &k%& 2s"% . E@-'
And putting her pink silk tights into
her card envelope system she passed
out lnto~the night.-Life. 80
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-05-05
WAS NOT A GOOD SUBSTITUTE
Whisky Drinkers Experiment with
odorous Vegetable Brought "caII"
from Employer.

Elihu Root, at the annual dinner Of
the international Young Mems Chris
tan association in New York last
month, said that evil courses were
more difficult to conceal than men
generally believed
Take the case," said Mr.. Root, with
q smile, "of old John Bodewin. John
was lawyers confidential clerk. and
he had the pernicious habit Of going
to a neighboring saloon every morn
ing at II and taking small glass of
whisky. He was not proud of this
habit; hence, after the whisky, he al
ways took Glove.
But one morning It happened that
there were no cloves on the bar, and
John, having considered the matter,
swallowed small raw onion from the
free lunch tray. That would destroy
the tell-tale whisky odor. no doubt, a.
well as the Glove had always done,
and, 80 thinking. he returned to his
desk.
1T was a double desk. AT It he and
his employer sat face to face. John,
on his return, was soon aware that his
employer noticed something, The
mans nostrils quiversd and he shifted.
and finally. with . grimace Of dis,
gust, he broke out: go.
1ook herr. John. rye stood whisky
and Glove for 10 years. but draw the
ans at whisky and onion"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-05-05
A Soldier Yam.

Or William Arbuckls Il ! oa.it,l
speaker. . quality which has made
him axoesdi1gly popular 'at soe5Sty
dinners. He o0oe told IN snuaiue
story. at IN annual South African ain
ner. about Sir HAIRY Smith, who. IN
days gone BY. was commandaat and
governor at tho Cape. The supply
from home. and asoessar1ss at ail
kinds for the soldiers, was generally
sadly deficient, and the men were off,
On In q pitiable plight in tho way Of
clothing. There was. consequently.
much discomfort. So Sir Harry had
them on parade. said some pleasant
thinss to them, complimented them
on their soldierly appearance. told
them what splendid fellows they were.
talked Of the service they had seen
together. and 20 forth. When he had
finished. An old sergeant stepped for
ward, saluted. and remarked: "Thank
you Sir AIRY. beg pardon, Sir AIRY.
but We don't want no CANNON. ve
want boots"