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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

were old enough to know better. As to the individual character of handwriting he makes most excellent observation, one whose force cannot fail of apprecia- ton by those who have to do with such things.
 It is this: "In few if any signatures of man throughout his life are all the el- ements which combine to constitute it's character present at one time" In other words a signature is made up of divers characteristics, and it seldom happens that all of these are to be observed in any one signature While this fact may not impair the integrity of the, signature under examination, still it does lead to the conclusion that signature is com posite thing, and that it may and does vary in it's characteristics from time to time. By composite photography it is possible to build up a signature which shall exhibit all the essentials of the gem ulne signature, provided sufficient number are examined to give the aver age In this respect, perhaps. the im- press of a mans thumb on wax is more reliable as means of Identification than the signature, for it has been proved by Sir William Herschel and MT. Galton that in all probability mo two prints of the cuticle which covers the thumbs or fingers of different individuals are ever the same, and that the whorls and curves and figures made by the little ndges of epidermis remain curiously constant in the same individual from ear ly youth to advanced age. The chances of two finger prints being identical is less than one in sixty-four thousand mill lions"
 Taking the population of the globe at l,50O,O00, 000 it is not likely that with population forty times as great there would be found two men whose thumb prints on wax would be the same. 1t is practically impossible for two men to have the same thumb or finger marks. The New Orleans case. which happened recently. is an illustration of this prin- ciple in the Identification of criminals for the thief was identified by the marlsL Of his thumb on some sealing wax. This method has been in use in China for a long time and has been adopted by the British government in connection with the Bertillon system of physical measure ments
 Dr. Frazer's remarks on ink paper pens and eraSing materials are very much to the point, and he has devised some excellent tests. Altogether this little book of POO pages is full of practical suggestions and hirts which bank off, cialS and lawyers cannot afford to neg lect when it comes to a question of the genuineness of signatures or of docu- ments. It may be that in the, good time coming experts of all kinds shall be attached to the courts of law and their testimony given without regard to the fee in sight. This is devoutly to be wished, but until that time arrives we shall have to depend upon experts who have been employed by one side or the cther land this book might lprove a stumbling stone of no mean dimensions s1 the path of not a few. w. B. P.
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 The people of Birmingham and vicinity who appreciate fine music are looking forward with eagerness to Monday night, July 8, for the Guckenberger grand con- cert in the Southside Baptist church.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

The whole argument of MT. Bryan to- night will be based on the supposition that the government can create values. He will contend for free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and will assert that the government can maintain it at that ratio, although the commercial ratio is 32 to 1. This erro- neous idea that a government can make money was born before the dawn of civ ilization. It has taken centuries to erad- icate it, and it still exists in the minds of men who claim to be intelligent. A coined dollar is really worth no more than the same amount of metal uncoined. The government stamp-merely certifies to it's value. Stamped coins can be melted into bullion, and this is very often done. If it was really worth more it would not be melted. The same law
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02
CHEAP RATES TO DENVER, COL. National Educational Association, Denver
 Col July 5-l2


 The Kansas City, Memphis. and Bir- mingham railroad will sell round trip tickets for one fare, plus S2 association fee, good to return until September 1. This is the direct and short route from Birmingham to Denver and the only line running sleepers and free reclining chair cars beween Birmingham and Kansas City. On this occasion through sleepers and chair cars will be run from Birming- ham to Denver.
 Because of its many advantages num- Der of prominent educators of Alabama and other southern states have selected this route.
 Special arrangements with hotels and first-class boarding houses have been made at Denver at lowest possible rates for parties going over this line. Remem- Der this rate is not for teachers only, but also open to all. Tickets on sale July 4. and 6.
 It will be to the interest of those going to see or address Prof. w. A. Whittle, Birmingham, Ala, or Charles Jones, Southern Passenger agent, Birmingham, Ala, w. R. Jones, Travelling Passenger Agent, Birmingham. Ala, John A. Scott. General Agent, Memphis. Tenn. : 6-20-12t
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

The decay of the demagogue is be- coming more apparent every day. As people become more intelligent they are less swayed by the appeals of the dema- gogue. They see through his motives They love to see man take a stand and having taken his stand then stand! They honor a man who is true to his convictions, even though they differ from him. They respect great deal more the man of intelligence who tries to lead them instead of following them. They respect a great deal more the man of intelligence who tries to lead them in- stead of following them. They admire the courage which sustains a man in the face of overwhelming numbers Senator Lamar was one of the most popular men the South ever produced. One element of his popularity was his courage. On one occasion he resigned his seat in the United States Senate, and went back to Mississippi and told his countrymen that he differed from them on an important public question, and that he had resign ed his seat so that they could elect man who thought as they did. But the hon. est Mississippians were so impressed with his honesty of purpose that they unanimously reelected him. It never pays a man to pander to popular preju- dice.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02


 Dr. Persifor Frazer, in book recently company. has presentd bank officers and lawyers with a most valuable addition to their books of reference. He terms it "A Manual of the Study of Documents" to establish the individual character of handwriting and to detect fraud and forgery Availng himself of the re- searches of Salamanca, Anderson Smith. Betteridge, Galton and Chevallier wherever they bore upon the points he wished to elucidate pr. Frazer has pro duced a notable contribution to expert knowledge. and has laid the entire fra tcrnity of cashiers and lawyers under the most lasting obligations to him. Circum- stances are continually arising in which it becomes of the greatest importances to establish the genuineness of signatures. the age and authenticity of documents, the identification of criminals and the equity of legal decisions.
 The need of a book of this kind becomes the more pressing as the ant of forgery and the skill of criminals increase for the one keeps step with civilization and the other with science
 Under the general term bibliotics, Dr. Frazer includes grammaphemy, which is the elucidation of the individual char acter of handwriting, and plassophemy, which study is directed to any part of a written or printed or sculptured record, and makes use of all resources to test its genuineness."
 Although a scientist of high repute our author does not confuse the non-scientifc reader with multiplicity of technical words, nor distract his attention from the essential parts of the evidence. as has been too often the case with some who
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02
ALABAMA.
COLLINSVILLE.
Called Of on Sad Mission Whiteeappers
 Will Celebrate.

Called Oh on Sad Mission-Whitecappe
 Will Celebrate.
 Collinsville. June 30.-(Special Corre- spondence.)-Mr E. L. Wood, depot agent and telegraph operator at this place, will take his departure on this afternoon train for Nashville, Tenn. to attend the bedside of his mother, who has been there some weeks seriously ill., under the treatment of physicians Her attending physician thinks her recovery is uncer- tain and death may be expected any hour. Mrs. Woods home is at Cleye- land Tenn.
 The famous Cherokee White Cappers will give a picnic at Hoge's Cross Roads on the Fourth of July. Noted speakers have been invited to address them on that day. large crowd is expected to be in attendance and an all around good time will be enjoyed
 There was a light rainfall here today, which did much good although not half a season. A good heavy rain is much needed in this section, as crops are in much need Of it, although crops are good.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

Stephen Crane, writing to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from the City of Mex ico, says that Americans who earn sal aries in the City of Mexico are contin- ually crying that if they could only get their pay in American money and spend it in Mexican money they would be happy. Railroad fares in Mexico are usually quoted at double the mileage in the United States. That is to say, re- duced to common basis, they are equiv alent. This doubling of the rates, then, does not affect the tourist from the United States, because he thinks in American coin. but it plays havoc with the Mexican citizen. who earns his money in the coin of Mexico. The cost of prepared foods in Mexico is, when re- duced to a common basis. about the same as it is in the United States. If one goes to an American restaurant in Mexico he gets robbed, more or less, but then this
 is not important. The Mexicans them selves live cheaply. However. they do not have one-eighth of the comforts and luxury that are in the ordinary little American home. Their lives in their houses are bare and scant when meas ured with American firesides. The MeXi- can laborer earns from 1 real t614c States) per day. He lives mostly on tor tillas. which are beans His clothing consists of a cotton shirt cotton trousers
 leather sandals and straw hat. For his wages he has to work like a horse
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

For the sake of humanity New York will have to abandon the cruel method of putting criminals to death by electrocu- tion. The execution of Dr. Buchanan yesterday by that method was cruel, clumsy butchery. Dr. Newton contends that the electricity does not kill. but that death is caused by the surgeons who perform the autopsy. In view of the fact that man in Rochester was revived last week and his life saved after 5000 volts of electricity had passed through his body, some of the physicians deny stren- uously that the plan of execution now in operation in New York is a success, either from scientific or humane stand point.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

The free silver candidate for Governor of Kentucky was clothed with gilt De- mocracy and mounted on sound money horse for a purpose, and the combination will prove successful. It is a unity of Democratic strength to drive Republi- canfsm out of the Blue Grass State.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

It is a well-recognized maxim in polit- ical economy that advancing prices al- ways stimulate buying. The advance in iron and steel will cause the railroads and other consumers to send in their or lders at once for fear that prices will still further advance
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

R9-The present management of apainSt advertisers or SubScrib- CTS prior to February 1lta, 1SSo. Under decree of court accounts up to that date have been sold and transferred, hence cancelled as between the debtor and this paper.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

The sound of higher prices and better wages stiles the cry of ''cheap money" Facts, stubborn facts. are before us to combat false teaching.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

that governs commodities governs coin. If the government could make half ounce of silver worth as much as whole ounce by stamping it, it could make a half pound of iron worth pound by the same means. The mer- chants of the world accept coin accord ing to it's weight and purity. When coin loses weight by abrasion it's value is les
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

Mayor Strong of New York is not pleas ing the press of his own party Republi- can) with his reform gun, but the World counts him a bowling success as gen. llinn rafnrmer.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

The municipal reformers of American cities have learned that it is much easier to keep barber shops than whisky shops closed on Sunday. and they are proceed ing to do so.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

The cotton mill, which has been in an embryonic state for some days. is now an assured fact. The details are not yet ready for publication. but the principal arrangements have been agreed upon.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

Trilby has not yet vanished. Every crossroads town where liquor is sold has a "The Trilby" saloon. Poor Trilby.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

Miss Burroughs. the charming actress, never allows domestic afIlictions to inter- fere with business. She has brought suit for divorce from her husband, who Is a member of her company but as he is a good actor she does not intend to release l1im from his theatrical engagement.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

Congressman Bryan is called by his friends the "eagle orator of the Rockies" /" His speeches may be called rocky" for they have to do with "the rocks
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

It is said that Chauncey M. Depew has talked an $S,000,000 orphan girl into the notion of marrying him. and she will. .
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

MT Bryan will say tonight that the government has degraded silver" but the truth is that the government has honored it by keeping it on a parity with gold, although it is really worth but half as much
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

It is only the croaker who mournfully asks, "Rut will it last?" when improve ment and progress move straight ahead.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

A mine operator has bought 360 900 feet of lumber recently for props in his mine
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02
A Most Valuable Book.

Kentucky is to vote by the Australian plan for the first time.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

The Engineering and Mining Journal prepares an annual table of the world S production of gold and silver from orig inal sources so far as they are accessible to private investigators, relying on the mint reports for other countries. Its statement for the calendar year 1894 is published in it's issue of June 29 It finds the production of gold equal to $177,642,- 3l6 The latest corrected returns of the director of the mint were $1Sl ,500, ,000. The difference between the two was less than $4000000, and cannot be considered important. "The United States" says the Journal, "continues to hold the first place as a gold producer. its production exceeding that of Australasia by $1,412,- 6SS. The production of the Transvaal was $37, ,SS3, ,263, or $1, ,S77,942 less than that of the United States, and it still holds the third place. The remainder of Africa produced only $1.672.573 of gold. so that the United States production exceeded that of the whole African continent; probably, however. for the last time " The increase in gold production over 1895 according to these figures, was $19, ,204 795 The production of silver declined 1346S4 kilos. The commercial value declined much more, viz: $2S,S12,0S7.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD.
AAsE,.,n AsE,. Vol. Vol. 2 , AeE-HERALD, Vol. ?
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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

Summer weakness can be avoided if the blood is purified by Hoods Sarsa- parilla.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

When the miners were on a strike the farmers complained that they couldn't sell their produce Now the miners are getting good wages and the farmers have no difficulty in selling all they raise. The farmers are in better condition and better spirits than they have been for some time
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

In the general chorus of rejoicing over the rapid advance in iron, one of the free coinage organs sounds discordant note. It says the price of iron lacks 50 cents a ton of reaching the price it brought in the spring of 1893, which was in the midst of the panic" The panic did not occur until midsummer The first six months of 1895 were very. prosperous. Then the silver problem obtruded itself. Congress was called together to stop the purchase of silver by the government, The Senate obstructed the passage of the bill. The country became alarmed, for fear we were drifting to a silver basis. People locked up their money. Iron con tinued to fall until it reached a lower point than was ever known before. Ev- ervthing fell. When the Sherman law
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

was repealed the people again took heart of hope. They believed that the none tary system of the country would be maintained on a sound and safe basis. Prosperity Is rapidly returning. Imme- diately after the Kentucky convention declared for sound money iron jumped up S1 ton and the wages of miners ad- vanced cents a ton.
 The East Tennessee Railroad from Bristol to Chattanooga, PAP miles. has the remarkable record of only two pas sengers killed in twenty-five years This road is a great through line and aver aged dozen passenger trains each twen- ty-four hours. The number of passen- gers killed by the railroads is very small compared to the large number carried. The number of passengers carried by the railroads of this country for the year ending June 80. 1894, was 619. .GSS, ,199, and of this large number 324.w were killed and 3S04 injured. But the fatalities among employees is much greater The railroads employ nearly 100000 men. For the year ending June 30, 1894. 1923 railway em- ployes were killed and 23,422 were in- jured. But the number is decreasing with each year, owing to the use of au- tomatic appliances.
 Some people express the belief that it will hardly be-possible rof the next Con gress to do anything, since the Republi- cans have the House, the Popuiltes have the balance of power in the Senate and Grover Cleveland is in the White House. If Congress proves itself incapable of do- ing mischief the country will be happy, for we shall have two years of pros perity.
 When the miners were on strike the
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

The people of Birmingham and vicinity who appreciate fine music are looking forward with eagerness to Monday night, July g. for the Guckenberger grand con- cert in the Southside Baptist church.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02

Best for Forty Years.-Following is rom the Conecuh Record: "A farmer of Mill beat reports prospects for corn better than at any previous time in his experience, and he was man whose face indicated the trials of forty years Just think of it, the best corn crop for forty years"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1895-01-08
ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY
Only Four Minutes Ride to Center
Street.

Property within the city limits M
too high-priced to be utilized as resi-
dence property, when better and mere
comfortable homes can be secured in these
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cost The man who cares to investigate
the future growth of Phoenix and viein-
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mentioned, and their cash value thereby
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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1895-01-08
PhpniX \ Prescott SIags Lin.
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Leaves White Hills Camp Tuesday, Thursday
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man at p. m. same day.
Fare, 81; freightSc
Shortest and most direct route to the Nezs
White Hills mining camp. Stage office atstero
the W. H. Taggart Mercantile company. Extra
conveyances on application.
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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1895-01-08

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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1895-01-08
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Fergus Falls ugeblad. [volume] (Fergus Falls, Minn.) 1882-1938, 1895-11-06
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