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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
Asks Agreement to Vote

Senator Simmons, as manager of the
tariff debate. made formal request when
the Senate took up the measure for an
agreement to vote August 25
Republicans of both the regular and
progressive elements objected. Senator
Gallinger, the republican element leader,
tried to draw the democrats in an an
nouncement of whether they proposed to
take up and pass the currency bill, but
the democrats declined to to commit them
selves on the subject.
Senators LaFolette and Bristow, both OF
whom have important amendments and
substitutes to offer to various sections of
the democratic bill declared they would
consent to no agreement for vote until
the tariff measure has been discussed in
detail and all necessary time given for de-
bate and attempted amendment. The Sem
ate democrats took up the tariff situation
in a caucus that began in the morning
and was continued after the adjournment
of the Senate tonight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15
TO SECURE
AGREEMENT TO VOTE
ON TARIFF FAILS
Republicans and Progress
sive May Cause Consider
alton of Measure Pro-
l0nged Indefinitely

Washington August 1.-THE first definite
effort of the democrats to secure an agree
ment for an early vote ON the tariff bill
failed in the Senate today when repub-
Icans served notice that consideration Of
the measure would be continued indehnite-
Is They denied the democratic charges
that they were flibustering" They in
sisted that the tariff bill would be de-
bated fully and freely before they would
consent to any agreement for final vote.
Leading senators of both parties as a
result of the days developments tonight
predicted a session of Congress that would
run until late in October or November,
Early in the day President Wilson mad
made it known that he would not approve
of any congressional recess until the cur
rency reform bill has been disposed of.
This attitude was indorsed by democratic
leaders, and those who had favored re-
cess after the passage of the tariff bill
apparently had resigned themselves to-
night to a continuous session of Congress.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
That Constabulary Band.

Filipinos have always shown par
ticuiar aptitude for music, and in few
other countries does music play such
a large part in the daily life of the
people They learn all kinds Of In
struments readily and even among the
poorest classes there are few who
have not some form Of musical accom-.
plishment. No village is without its
orchestra, which is called out on
every occasion and plays for hours ap'
parently out Of the sheer joy Of the
music. Yet the Filipinos are the one
people without a national music, and
no Filipino composition is known to
fame. They have never produced
either vocalist or an instrumentalist OF
more thon local note. All who attend.
ed the St. Louis exposition will re-
member the fine Filipino Constabulary
band which attracted so much favor.
able comment. The organization is
still in existence and no one could de-
mand finer concerts than those it
gives at dusk or the cool green Of the
Luneta at Manila, but the leader OF
the band is negro from Boston, and
no Filipino is able to take his place
Worlds Work.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
SEEK FOR THE "sUNNY SIDE'
To Look Always for the Best Is One
of the Main Secrets OF Lifes
Happiness.

One who boards train on not
dav Ia usually careful to choose seat
on the shady side. If we took as much
care to look on the sunny side as we
do to sit on the shady side this would
he q far more contented and peaceful
world.
The best of good habits to cultivate
is that of seeing things as radiant
and glorious flood of daylight shows
them, not as shapes dimly deserted IN
the gloom of a pestilential cavern
Upturn a stone in the feld-and on
the under side, the side away from the
sun YOU will fnd a damp and mouldy
foulness, with all manner OF crawling
many-legged creatures that run away
from the light because they do moi
love it. How different it Is from tne
beauty of the flowers and the Veroure
of the greersward living in the open'
and looking toward the sky! IN HE /!
is like that. We have not ascertalneu
the secret of happiness until we nave
learned to look, to work, and to i've
forever on the sunny side.-Pnllaoel
phia Ledger.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
lenfco Essn1;.e"7- Patto7fts.

A pisye OF bone jar~rlcd between the
n.olars of a Bengal tiger made the
great cat furious, but when the zoolog'
ical physicians touched the tormenting
object with the forceps she began to
relax completely, and the bone was
removed with ridiculous ease" The
Bulletin Of the geological society re
cords the case Of several other ami
mails that proved to be far more salts
factory patients than human beings.
All the great apes, for example, ara
perfect patients. But the gentle deer,
which are high-strung, nervous crea,
lures, are the most difficult Of all to
handle when i'll.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
KEEP HUNTERS FROM DiRDS
One Good Thing, and About All, That
Can Be Said for the Pestilent
Mosquito.

In the north of Canada the mosquito
teigns supreme. The swarms that rise
from streams, lakes and marshes, as
each comes to the urface and emerge,
dry, from the skin be wore when a
wiggler in the water, cannot Do
checked or resisted. Though weakly
blown aside by the wind or driven OH
by smoke, they triumph by the force
Of numbers.
There is compensation for their viz
ulent annoyance, and even for their
transmission of the germs Of malaria,
conversations more important than
the feeding Of trout and bass fry
They protect our feathered game dur
ing the nesting season and insure i'm
munity to the focks Of migrants that
rear their broods in the northern
woods The egg collector, the skin COZ
lector and all the inQuisitlVe, curious
and destructive who would otherwise
invade the woods and marshes during
the nesting season, are warned off by
that ominous and persistent hum. It
is more effective than all the game
preserving and bird-protecting stat
utes. 1t insures safety during that
HELPLESS time when the mother hi-s
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
When Rome Tried Socialism

The old agrarian law in Rome de-
creed an equal division among the
Roman people Of all lands acquired
by conquest, limiting the possessions
Of each person. 1t was first proposed
by the consul Spurius CaEsius, 4SS
B. c., and occasiored his judicial muir
der when he went out of Office in ASS.
An agrarian law was passed by the
tribune Licinius Stolo, 376; and fol
demanding extensions Tiberius Grac,
chus, in 1873, and his brother Caius
in 121, were murdered. Livius Dru.
sus. a tribune, was murdered for q
like cause in 81. Julius Caesar pro-
pitiated the plebeians By an agrariau
law in 60.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
DRUG Requires MUCH W0R
Persians Are Expert In Getting Ready
the Juice of the Poppy for
Marketing.

Opium Juice is sold II large copper
vessels by the grower to the Merchant,
in whose hands it under5oes several
processes in order to preserve it from
fermentation and decay. On sunny,
line, hot days the Persian caravan
carries where opium dealers have their
magazines present an interesting pic
ture. The juice is brought out to be
prepared into cakes for export, says
the Christian Herald.
On large wooden boards, two and a
half feet long and one and half feet
broad, the sticky mass is spread cut
with spadelike tools to permit the wa
ter it contains to evaporate. Expert
enced workers move from board to
board, turning over the layers every
now and then, that the heat and sun
may dry up the exposed surfaces and
render the opium fit for making into
cakes. In favorable weather this pro-
cess takes only an hour or so, and the
opium Is ready for the next manipula-
ton.
It Is now scraped off and Is rolled In
to stiff, dough like Jumps and handed
to a man who divides it into smaller
portions weighing one pound each,
which he passes on to molders, by
whom they are pressed into the wood
en- forms and then laid on a large
board for the final drying process.
When this is completed the cakes are
rolled up in red paper imported spe-
cially from China. One hundred and
forty-four are put in tin lined wooden
cases with poppy stem chaff as pack.
ing. The wooden cases are covered
with strong hides and sacking. Two
cases form mule load. The percent
age of morphia in Persian opium
varies from nine to twelve per cent
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
To Convert Gypsle6.

In a never-ending, restless tloe' a
million gypsies surge to and fro across
Europe. From east to west they mi
CRATE at the beginning Of summer, and
west to east IN the fall. Nowhere are
they wanted, everywhere are they
eyed with suspicion, but still every
year they wander, and the authorities
Of the countries they cross dread their
coming and are relieved when they go
There is always trouble at the
frontiers. He7e the wanderers are
stopped, questioned and often tmpris
oned as Migrants. But there Is moth
ing to do but finally let them go, and
they invariably return the next year
An effort to aid and protect these
gyps!es is being made by a Swiss
clergyman, Rev. II. Ecuyer. He haa
organized society one Of the pur
poses OF which is to instruct the gyp
sizes in the Christian religion, for these
nomads are all pagans.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
Who We Are,

There are many people who think
that the term American embassy"
should be. changed to United States
embassy" because the latter sounds
more dignifled and befitting this great
country. They do not realize, however,
that the United States" may mean
the United States Of Colombia or thu
United States Of Brazil AS matter
Of fact, we are Americans because we
live IN the United States Of America.
In Spain, however american" means
d person VINO lives in South America.
The Spa2iards call the people of this
country North Americans" or "Yan-
ices" The latter term was most
popular just before the late disturb
unce between the United States and
Spain-with the addition Of pig
Troy Record.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
He ard She,

with woman, it isn't what man
looks. It's what he says-and does.
"A woman doesn't care what a man
looks like. They'd rather a man
wouldn't be handsome, so he'll think
about them instead o. about himself
The way to please woman is to helg
her to think of nothing but herself"
"a serious young woman IS never In
any circumstances 90 interesting to .
man as light and gay pretty woman
Whatever men may pretend. 1t Is lii
born in the male to regard the femal:
as the representative Of the lighter
side Of life George Helm" By Dss'
lYid Graham Phillips.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
Bein1 Awake.

Moral reform and Improvement ara
the effort to throw off sleep. Why Is
1t that men give SO poor an account OF
their day if they have not been slum'
bering? If they had not been over
come with drowsiress th1y would have
performed something. Tho millions
are awake enough for physical labor;
but only oas IL & million is awake
enough 2cr eTactIr- intellectual exe:'
tic1, only ono ia q ".lsdseG million 10
&. po"uic Or divine LIS, TO be awake
Is to ba alive. ! h:s,os i5eYoF yet met a
,nar ul.o was cuita :.wa&o. How could
hara looked him II tho Taos?-Tno'
rCan.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24

SCME REMARKABLE REQUESTS
NOTED BY LAWYERS.
Pair OF Old Shcestrings, Left by Mil.
waukse Woman to Friend, Among
the Queersst on Record-Halr
Brush Left to Nephew.

When they opened the will Of Miss
Mathilda Tormet in Milwaukee the
other day they found that one of her
requests was 2 pair Of cid shoestrings
given to a woman relative with whom
she had been on friendly terms for
many years. There did not appear to
be any sarcasm or i'll feeling connect
ed with the legacy, and judged by the
common sense way In which the re-
mainder o. her property was bestowed
there did not seem to be ground for
the suspicion that the decedent was
not in her right mind.
The cases are numberless in which
odd things have been bequeathed and
countless have been the contests to
break wills that contain provisions
along lines similar to that Of Miss
Tommet's will. In New Orleans there
died not long ago wealthy old man
noted fer his shrewdness in business
deals. One Of the requests of his very
long will was hair brush that he
had used for many years.
lis VI uoA nc SocLNS W q hSRA-S",
Samuel Thompson Finnerty-who had
been named after the old maE-with
the proviso, however, that tie brush
should be kept in the. Finnerty family
vault one month out Of twelve and in
Q mahogany box containing an eiec-
trio belt that the decedent had worn
fcr years. The acceptance Of the
brush, conditional on carrying out the
CID mans wishes, meant that the
nephew was to inherit and enjoy two.
thirds of the estate The rest Of the
will was sound and tight in every re.
eDect, according to the lawyers.
Margaret Ann Epping OF San Fran.
sSesec !aft $500 each to tea OF her
so<aie~s about SIX years ago, but this
was the condition: Her tombstone
was to be replaced every two years
with new one on which each nephew
in turn should cause to be chiselled
an appropriate verse setting forth
his love and affection" AS the be-
quests were in the shape Of annuities
from a bulk fund the nephews in Or
der to draw upon the fund for their
income had to comply with the de-
mands of the decedent. One nephew
sued and was beaten. Although under
the terms of the will he was to forfeit
his share for contesting, the will was
so construed and interpreted that he
still received his annuity, but subject
to the new tombstone conditions.
Jabe5 Hollister Of Montreal left. his
two sons the use of a corn razor that
he-a cutler-had specially ground
and fixed up for chiropodic use. For
the sake OF their health and the risk
they ran from blood poisoning If oth.
er corn cutters were used the sons
were admonished to use no other cut
ter and cash amount was to be for.
feited if they disobeyed. One son,
after he had recovered from the shock
Of his fathers death, laughingly told
the lawyers that he had never had a
corn in his life. But the lawyers III
sisted that his father was likely to
have known whether he had or not.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24

..zvy were a.:-.cs OF the Trojans in tho
siege of Troy, where their queen, Pen
thesilia, was slain by Achilles. Theseus
and Hyppolyta, queen Of the Anazoas,
are characters in Shakespeare's mid
summer Nights Dream" The ANA,
IONS were constantly at war; and fol
ease in handling their weapons. thei,
right breasts were destroyed. from
which they derived their name. They
were supposed to have worshiped tina
moon. About $50 B. C. their queen.
Thalestris, visited Alexander the
Great, In Asia, with 900 women IN he,
train.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
What a Child Needs Most.

1t is not, after all, smattering Of
chemistry, or an acquaintance with
the habits Of bees which will carry
our children through life, but ca
pacity for doing what they do not want
to do, if it be a thing which needs to
be done. They will have to do many
things they do not want to do later
on, if their lives are going to be
worth the living, AID the sooner they
learn to stand to their guns the bet
ter for them, and for all those whose
welfare will lie in their hands,
Agnes Repplier in Atlantic Monthly.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
American Indians

When Christopher Columbus arrived
at the West Indies on his voyage OF
discovery in 1892, he felt quite sure
he had discovered islands off the coast
Of India, so he naturally dubbed the
natives Indians. Then, as a matter OF
course, on his arrival at the main
land, he continued to call the sbo-
rhymes Indians, and the name has
chung to the red man ever since.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
Do the Small Thing at Hand.

There are people who would do
great acts; but because they wait for
grea, opportunities life passes, and
the acts Of love are not done at all.
Opportunities for doing greatly sell
dom occur; life is made up Of in
finitesimals. If you compute the sum
of happiness in any given day you will
find that it was composed Of small at
tentions, kind looks, which made the
heart swell, and stirred into health
that sour, rancid film of misanthropy
which is apt to coagulate on the
stream Of our inward life, as surely
as we live in heart apart from our feb
low creatures.-F. w. Robertson.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
Cynical Nla.y Of II.

Gladstone once talked with much Cd
thusiasm Of James Russell Lowell
about the noble conduct of the United
States government In providing pen
sions to the amount Of tens Of millions
of pounds sterling year for men VIII
had served in the Civil war. Il do no.
wish to disparage the generosity o.
my countrymen," was Lowell's reply
but l may just observe that thess
persons are voters"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
His Official introduction.

An English treasury official was
once sent over to Dublin to inquire In
to the courts. He was received polite
ly by the late Lord Morris, the famous
Irish law lord and wit, who said he
would put him In communication with
the proper person, and rang the bell.
When the elderly female who acted as
court-keeper appeared, he remarked,
S. he left the room: MARY, this is
the young man that's come about the
Goals"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
Hadn't His ADVANTAGE.

A trio Of professional story-tellers
were In a coy corner of the club,
spinning yarns. Brown had just told
most unbelievable story, and the
other two glanced az each other ques-
tioningly. well, 1 assure you, gen.
tlemen," said Brown, IF l hadn't seen
1t myself I shouldn't have believed 1t. .
"Ha-h'm-well," said one of the two
doubtful ones, "you must remenbe:
old man, that we didn't see it."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
He Knew the Game,

Professor-"If person In good
health, but who imagined himself sick,
should send for you, what would you
cor Medical Student-"Give him
something to make him sick, and then
administer an antidote." Professor
Don't waste any more time here;
hang out your shingle." York
Weekly.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
Word of Popular OriQi1.

Cob is an old English word, mean
Ing a lump or chunk Of something,
and was sometimes applied to money
in a slangy sense; a COB of money, as
we now sometimes hear a wad of
money. Cob is Of uncertain origin,
but the word gobblo, as to gobble
ones food, or to eat by chunks, evil
IDENTIFY has the same root. Shake
speare speaks Of cutting something id
to gobbets, meaning small pieces.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
Her Other Half.

The four-year-old twins, who had no
playmates Of thsir own age, were de-
lighted when little girl Of three came
to visit a neighbor. After the three
children had played together for a
time, the twins, hand in hand, went to
their mother, and said, Mother,
where's the other one Of her?-
Youths Companion.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
oH.red a New Experience.

"supposing I give you your supper
said the tired-looking woman, what
will YOU do to earn it?" Madam
said Meandering Mike, "Tn give you
de opportunity of seem man go 'troo
a whole meal without findin' fault VIII
a single ting" The woman thought
a minute, and then told him TO come
in and she'd set the ts BILE.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
He Knew the Typa.

Little Bobby, who had been taken
for a Sunday walk in the park, was
much interested in watching the swans
while a keeper was feeding them.
Papa" he asked, "is that papa
swan or mamma swami"
(which one do you mean, Bobby"
"That tired looking one over there
with the feathers all pecked off the
top of it's head and the one the others
won't let get any of the bread"
THAT, my son." replied his father
sadly, without even troubling to look,
is the papa swan"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
knoM!sdne BY The Foot.

Information was formerly measured
by the page; it may soon be comput-
ed by the foot. One motion picture
firm is sending out letters announcing
that it has in stock 10000 feet of ar
chitecture, 10000 feet Of science, and
$4,000 feet of geography.-The Worlds
Work.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
author Of rThe Rupsiyat.n

Edward Fitzgerald was utterly care
less Of his fame. lie lived to be an
old man, yet not one in a million Of
his fellow countrymen regarded him
as g. poet, even if they had heard his
name mentioned as an old chum Of
Alfred Tennyson. Yet he wrote "The
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" long
years before his death. He kept it
"chucking about" apparently not
thinking it worth publishing, and when
he did print few copies nobody took
any notice of it. To-day Omar" is one
OF the most famous poems in the
world.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24

- vv,y on nor marriage With
his appreciation would DC Ie,y W., "pps ~
to treat with man Of tasnson ana
family, who may think it worm MS
while to give the advertiser gratu'
itys of $4,000 on the day OF the mar
riage-From the London Post OF jan
uary 81, Its.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
Author Poor Judae Of His Work.

If John Keble had had his way 1t Is
possible that his famous Christian
Year" might never have been publish.
cd. He was extremely averse to 1t,
and only yielded to the opportunities
of his friends and the pleadings of his
father. Even so, he refused to have
his name in the title page. In As years
it went through 1873 editions, and
since it went out of copyright theg
have ceased to be counted.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
csffsa's WORLDWIDE Spreaa.

+ is generally agreed that coffee
first grew wild in .Abyssinia, thence
being taken to Arabia, and afterward
to all parts OF the civilized world IL
which it would grow. There are some
TWENTY-FIVE different kinds of coffee
found in different parts Of Africa, still
growing wild in many sections. The
name is supposed to be derived from
the Arabic K'hawaw, or from the
Abyssinian province Of Kaffa.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
FIRST MiLTTANTs ON RECORD
Amazons Undoubtedly Were the Orb
ginaI Fighters of Their Sex In
Wariike Bands.

The Amazons were tabled tribes OF
warlike communities of women IN
Scythia, Asia and Africa. They were
said to be descendants of Scythlans oi
Cappadocia, where their husbands
having made incursions, were all slain
In ambuscades. The women formed a
feminine state, declaring matrimory a
shameful servitude. They were s&!a
to have been conquered by Theseus,
about 1881 B. C. According to Homer
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
Landed Him.

'In all my life," she said, with a
sigh. 1 have seen only one man that
would care to marry" DID ne look
like me?" he carelessly asked. Then
she flung herself into his arms, and
wanted to know what secret power
men possess that enables them to tell
when they are loved.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-10-24
JUDGES Have TO Listen to This.

A bombastic counsel was arguing a
case before jury, in the course OF
which he delivered himself of the fol-
lowing specimen of eloquence: But,
gentlemen, the whole subject is in the
dark entirely, till we come to the tes-
timony Of Mr.. B. Then it is that
the cloud of doubt begins to crack, and
the cat is let out of the bag"