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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10

THERE are 6no0 millionaires in New
 York. Some of them live on Fifth
 avenue, some on Riverside Dri se. some in other select portions of the me tropolis. Louis lives in Fourteenth street and nOt the most attractive part of it at that. Some of these wealthy men gained their millions through inheritance. some through oil, some through lumber. some through sugar, some through steel spell 1t either way you H-ish). some through their graceful methods of separating people from their money. Louis is the only one who came by his millions through. being awkward Louis was the original oull in the china shop.
 He was born awkward. he grew up lIm- berly and he Is today perhaps as clumsy a human being as you can find in all New York. Louis name is not in the Blue Book. and he is not a member of any fash ionable club. But every one Of the 5999 other millionaires in town knows him. r not personally at least by name.
 He came to America an immigrant boy from Germany. He knew but few words of the language and had almost no friends or acquaintances here. He hunted a long time before he got a job, ana when he did get one it was as a porter in the great emporium of A. T. Stewart.
 
 and indestructable wares his employer had no reason 10 complain of him. There never was a more willing porter or ono more desirous of doing his work well. He would work any length of time and was extraordinarily eager to please. But now and then, when they took Louis in to move goods in this department or that he fell into disgrace and the stock fell into fragments. He did not seem to have proper control over his arms or legs rr his body. With the best intentions in the world, Louis would pick up a perfectly in- nocent cut glass bowl-and drop it. In trying. to walk straight line he woull bump into the counter on either side of the aisle. If there was anybody in the aisle he bumped into that person. He was very apologetic, but very trying to the nerves.
 They put up with Louis for a long time because he was such a nice young man. Two or three times official orders were ss- sued to keep him out of the crockery de- partment. But that didn't hold Louis They took him into the lace department one day, where new display of the latest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10

the Fatherland and of dishes the Ger mans loved Every waking hour he was in his little saloon He broke glasses, he smashed dishes. he carommeds against tables and bumped into the bar But he made money and he made friends. He never jared his patrons feeling or their tastes.
 Louis's little beer garden became Lit tie Germany. Everything suggestive of the old country that he could think of he introduced. Scenes from, the Rhine were painted on the walls, and they were painted well. Busts of the poets and -Ihi- losophers were there, and great soldiers n0A stntesren whom the Germans loved. There was hardly German publication of any character that he did not have on file. As soon as he could afford it he in- troduced music at his place. His musi- clans were excellent and they made q speciality of German music.
 Gradually the little beer garden became too small for the business that came to Louis. He had to rent the house adjoin- ing and break through the walls to extend his restaurant service and his beer gar den. The place was earning a reputation by this time for the excellence of it's Ger man beers. Louis knew at just what tenn pCi dtdic HIS DrCin De ScINSu. soOIUc kegs were kept on ice for IA days before he had them tapped. Others he kept IS, and still others he kept 21 days. He was ss precise and careful about these nat ters as a~great violinist would be in the tuning of his fiddle
 With the increase in space there came q decided change in the character of inc patrons. Some of the most promin .nt Germans in New York came to visit Louis William Steinway and his associates took luncheon there every week day. Oswald Ottendorfer, Henry Willard and other great Germans were regular visitors Louis was climbing and beginning to make money pretty fast.
 It was about this time that the German gentlemen in Louis's line of business were much stirred by the coming to the United States of the greatest brewer in Germany, maker of the most famous of beers. Tn America society frowns on brewers In Germany man who makes good beer Is looked upon with much respect. In Eng land the brewer goes to the house of lords. This may account for the fact that when the great German brewer came
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Belgium and Great Britan have long had commissions studying and testing the various explosives, and they have pro- hibited those known to be dangerous. There are about 50 different kinds which are safe, and some of these have been found incapable of igniting mixture of fire damp and air. even with a charge 70 times as great as that of the old ex- plosives, which invariably caused an ex- plosion. Belgium restricts the amounts or the materials that may be used and the safety powders there are rapidly driv- ing out the dangerous black powders of the past.
 Belgium, France and Germany re- duire all mines to furnish arrange ments for speedy aid to the injured, and each must have rescue devices. There are penalties for both operators and miners, and also mine inspectors, who may close the mines by injunction if the laws are. not complied with. As n result the accidents are few, aver aging much less per million tons of coal than with us, As 1t is now. we tons of coal we get out.
 Mine Rescue Cars
 The bureau of mines has a number of stations scattered through the chief mining centers, and in addition. it mas recently put on six mine rescue cars. These are Pullmans. especially equipped to meet every exisency of the mine rescue work. Each has it's head quarters in the chief city of an exten- sive mining district and 1t is kept Tn such shape that 1t can leave any hour of the day or night on telegraphic summons to aid In a mine disaster
 Each car Is manned by a crew of mi ners trained in rescue work. Ie is officered by 0 mining engineer as chief and mine foreman or mine su- perintendent who has been especially trained for the purpose of assistant chief. It has also Red Cross surgeon and other men.
 These cars are hospitals on wheels
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
Life Rings on Mountains
he Scientific American.

FTUM the Sc1entlHc Amer1cHn.
 An extraordinary example of the way in which mountain may afford on & small scale an image of the earth's cii- mates, arranged in successively higher circles, has been found in the San Fran cisco peaks These ancient volcanoes rise out of a plateau having mean elevation of 7000 feet above sea level
 The peaks are encircled with zones cli vegetation, which run almost like conX tour lines around them. Between $500 nnqN ss500 feet the yellow pine is the dominant tree. From $500 to 10,s0o feet the Douglas fir, the silver fir, the cork fir and the aspen share the available ground. Be- tween l0.8O0 and Il, ,5OO fleet the Enselman q spruce and the foxtaii pine take posses- sion and ascend to the tree limit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
WITH THE NATURE TAKERS
Frog Bites Man, Bear Rides on Scenic
 Railway
Ware (Mass) Dispatch to the New York


 Ware CMass.) Dispatch to the New York World
 William IT. Dearden. secretary to Con- gressman Gillett, who, with John Nab bett. Representative c. P. Lawrence's secretary, is camping in Hardwicl, was attacked by a monster frog while dressing fish at the edge of the lake today
 Dearden shows a series of incisions on his right hand, where the frog bit him He killed the frog, which he says was so old that the cartilage of its mouth rad turned into bone and provided 1t witt, serrated jaws as hard as flint.
 The frogs legs were 14 inches long, From the New York Press.
 Keepers of the zoo in Palisades Amuse- ment park yesterday got bad scare when they found the door of the cinna- mon bears cage open and the bear miss ing. Nicholas Schenk, manager of the park, directed a search for the animal. Ten minutes after the alarm was given Bryin was found riding on the scenic railway with a small Italian boy em- ployed in the park.
 Bruin sat in the back of the car as the boy controlled the brakes in the front. When the car reached the landing the boy and the bear seemed happy. The young ster said he had made a companion of the bear and whenever he thought no one
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pr. Holmes believes that his bureau will do much to bring about closer rela- tons between the miners and the owners. They are mutually interested in 'thes.i movements to prevent accidents, and to save life. and are working together. He says that our mines are operated at a comparatively small profit, and that the European owners, owing to low wages and the high price they get for their coal, can afford to mine better and to give their workmen better conditions of safety.
 He estimates that we lose over 200, Joo,- 0oo tons of coal every year by our waste ful methods of mining, and says this loss Of life and money could be greatly re- duced by government inspection, and by the cooperation of the mine owners and miners, and perhaps of the public as we'll He tells me that of the & or $6 per ton that is paid for coal. only $1, 1t is estimated, goes back to the mine to be divided between the miner. the operator and the land owner, and that dollar pays for the equipment and de- velopment of the mine, all the labor and costs and dangers of mining operations, and the loading of the coal on the cars ready for shipment. The balance, which Is from two thirds to five sixths of the price we pay for our coal, goes to the railroads and the middlemen who handle It. This is manifestly an unfair division on the part of both the consumer and miner, and enough should be taken out to warrant the latter the best of protec- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
King Goals Death Roll


 And cruel old soul is her. Indeed there is no more terrible ilon. arch! He has 100000 slaves, who are compelled to delve in the darkness and during the past 20 years he has sacrificed upon the subterranean altars the lives of more than 3O,000 men. He killed more than 5000 in 1907, and he is now murder ing upward of 24o0 a year. In every coal camp of 1000 miners four or five heads of families annually lose their lives, ana this to say nothing of the much larger number who are wounded and malmed. in 1907, in addition to the killed, almost 5000 were injured. and Director Holmes of the bureau of mines estimates that from 5000 to 1000 are wounded or killed by mine accidents every year, and that this continues year in and year out as the decades go on
 The worst or 1t is that our death rate and accident rate are far in excess of those Of the coal regions of Europe where the mines are much deeper and inc workings far more dangerous In Belgium, which is noted for its deep mines, the average death rate per 1OOC from 1901 to 1906 was only little more than one, whereas we lost more than three miners out of each 1000 employed during eevry one of those years. The death rate in Belgium is now consider dpIy iess than one, and 1t has had a steady decline since 1860, when it was something like ours. Great Britain now kills about one and three-tenths of a man to its each 1000 miners. Russia one and eight-tenths and France least of all or only about nine-tenths of one man per 1000.
 This is so notwithstanding our coal min- ing conditions are most favorable to the safety of the worlkmen employed than those of any other part of the world The great loss of life comes from careless ness of mining. from the use of improp- CT explosives and from a lack of the means for the prevention of accidents. It is to remedy these things that the bureau of mines was created.
 The Big Pittsburg Cylinder
 The bureau of mines is branch of the interior department. It occupies a new building back of the patent office here at Washington, but its chief experi- ment stations are scattered throughout the mining regions. The most important of these is at Pittsburgh where there are all sorts or arrangements for test ing explosives and studying the resAue work, both above and below ground Cne of the most interesting pieces of apIa- iataus there Is a great steel cylinder. 100 feet long and go thick that a ma,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10

was looking he let the animal out of it's cage to take ride with him in the scenic railway. He was ordered not to let tho animal out any more.
 Boston Dispatch to the New York Press.
 There is on exhibition at Long Wharf ! today one of the strangest sea monsters ever seen in Boston. It appears to be cross betweensa a seal and turtle. its weight is more than 1000 pounds, and its age fixed by fish experts at 120 years It has the head of a turtle, but tail like seal and is covered with heavy oblong shaped shell. The unusual specimen was brought into Boston by the steamer Prince Arthur, from Yarmouth, N. s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
UNCLE SAM AND THE MINERS-By Frank C. Corpenter

Copyright, 1911, by Frank G. Carpenter
 Washington, D. q HNHIS letter is devoted to the men who work below ground. It deals with one of the most important move ments of Uncle Sam, patriarch. It shows what is being done to save the lives of the coal miners: to insure them from explo- sion. from the cagin in of the roofs and walls of the mines and from the terrible underground fires that, in blazing sheets. run from tunnel to tunnel. It relates to the bureau of mines. which, although e.- tablished by Congress only last year. has already saved many IIveS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10

Another most interesting apparatus With whiclfRiiese cars are fitted. is ons
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-20
Worst Of II.

Splendid trout fishing" the adver.
tisement said. and Slithers, who fan
cied himself as a fisherman, went
down for a days sport. He hired a
villager to accompany him, and to-
gether they walked along the banks
Of the stream.
THE midges are troublesome" COM
planned Mr.. Slithers.
AYE. sir" remarked the man; but
that amt the worst of It,"
THE bushes are very thick; I can't
get a clear cast"
AYE. sir; but that amt the worst Of
It."
1T strikes me l was an idiot to pay
two g~uineas for this fishing"
AYE, sir; but that amt the worst
of It."
II don't believe there are any fish
here"
AYE. sir; but that amt the worst
of it."
Hang 1t all, man, then what Is the
worst Of IT."
III you want to know the worst Of
It, there never were any fish here. sir"
London Tit-Bits.
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SYNOPSIS.

A foolish young tenderfoot becomes
Fascinated with the bold, artful wife of a
drunken prospector in Q western mining
They prepare to elope In q blind
ing blizzard. but are confronted by the
wife. but the chivairous boy pins a
upon himself. ff' their hight to. the
railroad station the woman's horse
9. saiii his ee oMn sna ,d the yGSu ane,pDs puts e a tss
strrup strap. Seeing he IL an impede
lment. the woman thrusts her escort into
z snow drift and rides on. Half-froxen
ne stumbles into the railroad station just
twenty-five years later, this man, George
Gormly, is a multi-millionaire In New
York. He meets Eleanor Haldane. q
beautiful and wealthy settlement worker.
Snd co-operates with her in her work;
line and finds himself frustrated In pier
and track extension plans by grating al
dermen. backed by the Gotham Traction
company. An automobile accident brings
~ announces that he Will be mayor Of
New York and redeem the city from cor
Iruption. The political declaration Of the
merchant prince produced q tremendous
sensation. The whole machinery. of the
up something damaging to Gormly. The
press heretofore unanimously favorable
70 the merchant candidate. under pres
sure. divides and the campaign WAKES
warm. A resolution is introduced grant
Ing q gratuitous renewal of the traction
franchise. Gormly offers ten million dol
lars for the franchise. Miss Haldane con-
graduates 0ormly on what h terms q
new Declaration Of Independence. and he
makes an unexpected declaration Of love.
He Is shocked by the confirmation Of his
suspicious that her father Is the head
and backbone Of the notorious traction
company which he is attempting to over
throw. Young Haldane discovers his
fathers connection with the Gotham
Traction company. and Is incensed. In
an interview between Gormly and Hal
dane the latter practically offers his
daughters hand as q bride for Gormly to
withdraw. Gormly refuses.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-20

have the right to ask you what l had
intended to ask you when the cam
paign was owe and we had won. to be
my wife,"
Are you asking me now?" cried
Miss Stewart ecstatically.
Il would be If II. was proper"
1T is proper" she said. blushing d.
vinely.
you don't mean"
"You goose!" said the girl. Il don't
love your father or your family"
Here Gormly turned and went into
the drawing room again. When he
came back, which he did not do until
summoned by Miss Stewart .hesself. he
confronted the blushing pair.
"You could not have chosen Q truer
better man than Mr.. Haldane." he
said. "And as for you, Haldane. you
are the luckiest man on earth"
He sighed with envy and regret al
he spoke.
Il want to do something for you
now" said young Haldane.
well, there is one thing you can dc
for me-"
What Is that3"
Il want to e your sister. and i'm
mediately."
Il will have her here In ten min
utes." answered the young man. tear
ing himself away from Miss Stewart
without another word.
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u .: .ss: :s:., S IS: T~hsmpson's Eye Wafer
TOO MUCH FOR HACK DRIVER
Hlgh-Soundlng Name Made Old Man
Think There Was Something
Mysterious In the Wind.

After a long. hot and dusty journey
by train the New York commercial
traveller arrived In Richmond, brushed
enough dust OF his face to make sure
that the right man was getting of.
and hailed one of the little sea-going
hacks common in the Old Dominion
city. 1t was driven by an aged negro.
Drive me to q haberdashery." said
the travelling mar surveyed his soiled
raiment with disfavor. "Yessuh," said
the negro. "Giddup." The old horse
started of at a little %stif-legged Jog
trot The driver seemed to be think
ing deeply. BY and by he pulled the
horse to q stop. and leaned backward
to his fare. "Scuse me. suh." said he.
"but wey do you all want to got"
"Drive me to q haberdashery." said
the travelling man. "Oh, yessuh." said
the negro. ITO be sure. "Giddup."
The hack ratified on for a little way,
and then the negro stopped, got on
the box and poked his head in over
the little door. "Mebbe All didn't get
dat name JUS right" said he. Would
you all mine repeatin' 1t, sub" The
travelling mar said for the third time
that he wanted to 60 to a h~aberdash-
cry. The old driver shook his gray
wool and looked grieved. "Ah'm an
ole man." said he. "Youah kin trus'
me. Wheah 10 It you really want to
gof"
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RMEBRS@
o1V~S
WHY PLANT STREET TREES
Ornament, Health, Comfort and Pro
lection Are Four Good and Sut-
fieient Reasons.

There are at least four good rea.
sons why We should plant street
trees: First. for ornament: second.
for health: third, for comfort; fourth,
for protection.
!. characterization. That street Or
namentation pays in many ways no
one will deny, but 1t pays directly In
dollars and cents. Identifying a neigh
borhood Is not q mere fad. It costs
but little more to make It attractive
than to leave 1t or make 1t unsightly.
and a wellkept, well-planted district
will not only attract. but command
residents desirable In every way. 1t
is not mere sentiment that prompts
the railroads to advertise the attrac-
tons along their lines. Beauty to
them represents cash, and each year
they spend immense sums calling at
tention to the attractions Of the sec
lions through which they pass, II
people choose a line Of travel be-
cause Of Its natural and acquired
beauties, how much more eagerly
will they seek such a place for a res
idence, That both are eagerly sought
for Is ~undisputed. Landscape beauty
10 capital. Again. not n Of us would
be satisfied to spend his life in a des-
ert, though surrounded with the me-
cessities Of life In plenty. Our ma
lures rave better and more beautiful
surroundings, and we oftimes travel
far seeking the most beautiful loca-
ton obtainable.
2. Health. Trees add greatly to the
he%althfulness of any district by cool
ing and purifying the air. the foliage
e%vaporates large quantities Of water
and the reduction Of temperature In
this way Is greatest during the hot
test and dryest weather. The foliage
also absorbs impure and therefore
harmful gases. Trees also promote
circulation Of air (due principally to
unequal temperature.)
8. Comfort. Trees add materially
to comfort either In city or country,
not alone to shade the ~passer.by.
and the idler who rests beneath their
branches, but In q climate like ours,
with perpetual sunshine, they soften
the glare and heat of the sun on side
walks.
4. Protection. Every one will read,
lily concede that street trees afford
protection from both wind and SUN,
but as a protection against fire they
are not SO well known. The chief OF
the San Francisco fire department
writes that shade trees on sidewalks
are beneficial in checking the spread
of fire. First, they are good as wind.
breaks, keeping sparks and cinders
from nearby buildings. Second, they
shield the houses, preventing them
from catching fire from the heat. He
tells Of a fire where a single large
tree prevented the destruction of a
~three-story fiat adjoining. In this
case there was considerable delay In
getting water. 80 that the fire gained
great Roadway.
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might see you, that you were brought
here. and T alone am responsible.
1T Is q most extraordinary proceed
ing" said the girl %nervously. I can't
imagine why ! was brought to you"
1T was necessary for me to see
you" returned the man.
Then why didn't you come to my
house?"
q could not"
Why not?"
There are reasons which win prob
ably render me orever an unwelcome
visitor to your house"
Il believe" said the girl slowly,
slowly. that something very serious
must have happened. or you would not
have had me brought here"
II can scarcely bear to tell you"
you alarm me beyond measured
cried the girl, pressing her hands to
her breast as II to still its wild throb-
Ebing. You must not keep me In sus-
pense any longer! What Is It that you
have to tel, met What Is It that h
likely to come between usf"
This" responded Gormly. handing
her a few typewriter sheets Of paper.
"Am I to read this" she asked. ta'
king It from him and looking very
straight at him.
He was very pale 10 and she was
scarcely less white.
Waltz" said the man. as she lifted
the paper and bent her head. Per
haps It would be more merciful to
tell you"
Just as you think best. l am q
strong woman. / a bear anything,
Is 1t about" there was q long pause
my father?"
He nodded his head.
What has he done?"
Miss Haldane," he began. II say to
you quite simply that I would rather
be dead than stand here as ! do now
with the burden Of telling you that
your father Is the head and front, the
backbone, the brains. the genius. the
everything. Of the Gotham Freight
company and the Sachem society"
my God!" exclaimed Miss Haldane,
the paper dropping from her fingers
to the floor.
She was paler than ever. She stared
at him almost in dumb Incompetent
sion. Her body swayed slightly. CORN
ly stepped closer to her, seized her
gently, supported her to a chair by
the library table. She put her face