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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07
A MODEL CITY.
Thriving Swiss Community in the State
of Indiana.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Indiana claims the one model city in the
United states-a city where the working
men Hwn, control and operate the factories
and fla the price of labor. Tell City is the
name o. this place. 1t is situated in Perry
county. The toilers are formed into COM
parIes and operate their factories singly
There is, however, no common purse for
citizens. Each man must make living
for his own family but the matter of en-
ployment is 81 smplified that the difficulty
of this is minimized The city was founded
in 1858 by the Swiss Colonization Society of
Cincinnati. Each factory in the city Is
owned by a stock company of citizens.
They were started years ago, the first in
1856, by small sums furnished by indiyidu-
ais. Year by year the business grew, and
as soon as a dividend was declared this
money was added to that already in the
business.
In this way new buildings were erected,
and great sums of money were eventually
invested in the industries which have made
Tell City fourishing town and famous as
manufacturing center of wooden utensils
of all kinds. Each stakeholder in a factory
at Tell City Is workingman. Each COM
pany selects its own board of managers and
superintendent. These men are always
stockholders. Each member of the corpor-
alton is entitled to as many votes as he has
shares of stock. Each laborer is paid at
the end of the week according to the
amount of work done or at a stipulated
sum per hour. A dividend is declared an
nually.
The various industries employ 595 work.
men, and represent nearly $700 900. of cap
ital. In addition to this about 200 men are
given employment by the chair factories
Gaming chairs, which work is done by hand
at the workmen's homes. The leading
products of the city are furniture, desks,
mantels, wagons, hubs, hub blocks, spokes,
brooms, baskets, shingles. railroad ties.
flour and meal, harness (wooden), slaves,
barrels, toys, wooden goods. bricks. dressed
lumber brandy, whisky, wine and beer.
There are no unemployed people at Tell
City Everybody is busy and contented.
Most of the workingmen own their own
homes.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07

them Travelled In palatial style. and with
the best of accommodations.
"Of course, they can afford to travel that
way" said an idler IN the depot yesterday.
Just think of the bonanza they have had
for the past month or two. I'd take week
off myself. il I'd made all the money they
have"
Yesterday afternoons southbound Louis
Vile and Nashville was run In two sections
the first carrying several cars of plumbers
and the regular passengers from the st.
Louis branch of the road. The second Sec
ton was about two hours behind the first
being made up in Nashville of the cars on
the regular train from Cincinnati. The
heavy SHOWS around Louisville delayed
traffic badly.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07

\ number OF young people enjoyed a
cotillon last night at the Jefferson armory.
There viii be several informal dinner
parties during the week.
The regular monthly meeting of the d.
rectors of the United Charities society will
be held Wednesday morning at 1870 o'clock.
A full attendance is desired, as a president
must be elected to fill the office made va
cant by the resignation of Mrs. French.
$3.50
The department of Current Events viii
meet this morning at IL o'clock at the Wo-
be meeting of the department of busi-
ness.
There will be meeting of the Crcche
this morning at Mrs. Nixon's.
The Aurora Literary club will meet on
Wednesday afternoon with Miss Flora Orr
at Crowder Station, South Highlands, in
stead of Miss Florence McCrossin.
One of the interesting Easter weddings
will be that of Miss Fannie May Burgamy
and John w. Patton. The ceremony will
occur at o'clock on Wednesday afternoon,
April 10, at the First Baptist church. The
wedding party will include Miss Alma
Burgamy, sister of the bride, who will be
maid of honor. Mrs. Charles Colvin will be
matron of honor. The maids are Miss
Louise Patton, Miss Mary Griffin, Miss Mae
Simmons, Miss Marie Nelson. Miss Hollon
Fonvile Leon Britain, of Atlanta, will be
best man, and the groomsmen are John
Patton, J.. Cary Thompson, Jim Johns,
Joseph Parsons, G. A. Pope and Archie
Gibson. The ushers are John Warren, Dick
Going, Ashby Cleveland and Mr.. Donahue,
of st. Louis. The wedding will unite two
popular members of society. Miss Burga-
my is an unusually pretty girl, and the an
nouncement of her approaching marriage
will be of interest in society.
The informal meeting to be hold at Mrs.
Jack w. Johnston's tomorrow morning at
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07
Had Vowed to XIII the Baron

Chicago, March 6.-Testimony was given
today in the Won Biedenfeld murder trial
tending to show that Constable Charles
Mcdonald, who was killed by Baron Won
Biedenfeld had on many occasions threat
ened to kill the Baron. and that McDon-
aids revolver contained hollow bullets full
of poison expressly intended for the Ger
man nobleman. Five witnesses told the
jury that Mcdonald had vowed to shoot the
Baron. The cross examining attacks OF
the prosecution failed to shake the evil
dence
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07
WOMAN AND SOCIETY.
ANNIE KENDsi WALKER.

y ANNIE KENDRI OK WALKER.

special permission from the committee in
charge.
At the end of three months, II another
library is desired, 1t may be secured in the
same way as the first one.
When a library has remained three
months in any district the books must be
packed in the cases as carefully as when
received and the library returned by freight
to the committee in charge.
The library shall be kept al a convenient
place, and be opened for delivering and
returning books at such time as the trustee
In charge shall direct Not less than one
hour each of three days in each week is
required. Due notice of hours and days
must be given. MRS. l.. ]. HALEY,
Chairman Travelling Library Committee.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07
PLUMBERS
Going to New Orleans to Attend Con-
vention of the Association.

A large number of plumbers passed
through the city yesterday on their way
from points in the north to New Orleans,
where the annual convention of the nation
al association is to meet this week. The
Alabama Great Southern railroad handled
a special train of them through Birming-
ham at o'clock yesterdy morning. There
were six cars Of them from New York and
Boston.
Yesterday afternoon the Louisville and
Nashville handled four or I'VE more cars
from Chicago and other points in that Sec
ton, many of the plumbers being accom-
panied by their wives and families. All Of
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07
I'm SOCIETY,".

Mrs. E. P. Parker is visiting in Mobile
Mrs. Edward II. Cabaniss is at present
in Atlanta.
Mrs. Ross, of Kentucky, who has been
the guest of Mrs. E. Erswell returned
home yesterday
Miss Zemma Webb will entertain the
Nineteenth Century, club tomorrow after
noon at $3.50 o'clock at the residence of
her sister, Mrs. Robert II. Baugh.
The Highland Book club will meet tomor-
row with Mrs. Salie Comer-Blount.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07

II o'clock for the purpose of discussing the
proposed floral parade promises to be well
attended. The slight fall of snow yester-
day morning that frosted the violets and
rose gardens was enough to discourage any
undertaking. but the brilliant sunlight In
the Afternoon had a very happy effect upon
those who are interested in the flower pa
rade. Preliminary steps will be taken at
the meeting tomorrow. and the ladies who
favor a floral parade being made feature
of the carnival week are urged to attend
the informal meeting tomorrow morning
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07
Birmingham Contractors Lucky

Coffee county, Georgia, is to have
handsome court house building at an early
date 1t will be built by a Birmingham
firm. 8. c. Thompson & Bros, contractors
of this city, were yesterday notified that
their bid for $4,000 had been accepted. The
new building will be located at Douglas,
the county seat of Coffee.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07
An al. a. N. March"

The IL. & N March," has just been is
sued by the passenger department of that
popular road, and the first copies of it We're
received yesterday by Travelling Passenger
Agent Beasley, who has just returned from
long stay with the soldiers at Albany, Ga
The march was composed by Phil Memoli
of this city, and is most catchy and at
tractive one. 1t is handsomely printed with
an L. & N. poster girl on the cover
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07
Oyster Supper at 81. John,s

An oyster supper will be given at st.
Johns parsonage tonight, to which the
public is invited. The supper is given by
the ladies of the Methodist church for the
benefit of a noble cause.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07
Serene Confidence

From the Chicago Tribune.
IT understand" said the eminent Sena-
tors friend. that your speech on the army
contracts Is going to be thoroughly dis
sected by the other fellows" -
"I hope they won't disturb it,.eblandly
replied the eminent senator; ~ r. en-
balmed In the Congressional Recofd.e y S
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-07

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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
Want your noustache beard beautiful
brown or rich black? Then use
! BUCKINGHAM'S Dye %b,shsrs TER tie
Libraries of Wooden Rook..

One department of the town mu-
scum at Cassel. Germany, is made up
Of the most singular lot of books that
ever greeted the sharp, admiring eye
Of the bibliomaniac- library of five
hundred volumes, each q perfect book
made Of different kind of wood, says
Cassells Journal. The back OF each
volume is formed of the bark of its
particular tree, the sides are of the
wood In it's mature state, the top of i'm
mature wood. and the bottom of the
same after having been dried and sea-
soned.
When opened, these remarkable
books are found to be without leaves.
the inside being 4 box containing the
flower, seed, fruit, and leaf of the tree
from which the box-book has been
made. Taking advantage of the idea
illustrated in the wooden library at
Cassel, Russia employed a cabinet
maker during the entire winter of
1S77-TS in making a library of the
woods found in the extensive Russian
forests. These were. classified and ar
ranged for the Russian exhibit at the
Paris ExpositiOns of both 1878 and
1882 AS in the Cassel library, this
Russian wood collection showed the
wood in its several growths, as well
as fruits, leaves and seeds, either nat
ural or accurately initiated in wax.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
HumOrs of the Pension Officn

\ Washington correspondent of the
New York Sun has discovered that
clerks in the pension office. endowed
with Il sense of humor, find much in
the letters coming from pension claim
ants TO bring the sOlace of amusement
to their labors. Some of these letters
are SO unique in their way that copies
are made of them as literary curiosi-
ties. Here, for instance, is an excerpt
from the letter of man who lately
made application for pension.
The way l got my war ingery was
a-ketchin Of Il hog. The hog wor Il
SOW hog and our Captin wanted her
fur forage. We was chasin the SOW
and she crawled threw hoal in rale
fence-it war Il big hOal and | thOt l
were about the sis of the hog and tried
to craw threw. but l stuck and tryin to
wigle out l throwed the rales off and
one hit me on my he'd and nocked me
senselesS. l do not think the SOW pig
had nothing to do with my line for duty
fer | did not ketch the hog. Wich she
never war caught
sympathizing neighbor endeavors
to re-enforce the claims of another ap-
plicant by testifying thus:
Il varily believe that Orville Jane
son is fatiged from earnin his leavin
becos he is too fatt ways 200 pounds
and hav family to fead-the neigh
bors think he hav dropsy but no he
hav no dropsy becos he would bust if
he had moar inSides him than he now
hav besides wich he are without vitiOus
habits or references. | 10 he hav solo
fatt and vittels in him an no dropSy.'
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
That German Vote.

Whistlng to keep their courage up,
the Republican managers are an
nouncing that the German vote is all
right" True, the German vote is ali
| right, but not in the sense that our Re.
publican friends imply
But the New York Independent,
which is not Independent ut all. so far
as its political belief is concerned, but
| is rampantly Republican, sees danger
| to the party in the disaffection from or
of the German vote. Imperialism has
no claims for the German
| citizen, and he knows too much about
| its workings in the fatherland to ap-
prove of its importation to the United
States. He does not approve of the
Philippine war, nor does he like the
attempts of administration advocates
to establish a great standing army.
Undoubtedly there will be a large eX-
odug of thoughtful German voters from
the Republican party in the campaign
| Of 1900. Promises are never made good
by the Republican machine politicians,
| and the German voters are getting
tired of those who make pledges only
| to break them. However much the
thick and thin Republican press may
protest that "the German vote is all
right the fact remains that the Ger
man press of this country almost unan-
imously oppose the war and denounce
unstintingly the doctrine of imperial
ism. Truly the German vote is all
right, but not from a Mckinley point of
view
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
NEXT YEARS POLITICAL ISSUE.

The New York Sun is very anxious
that the Democratic party shall go into
the Presidential contest next year with
the money question as the principal
and practically the only, issue. 1t
thinks that if this is done the Repubii-
cans can win as easily as they did in
1896, when, by means of enormous mis-
representation and Il huge campaign
fund contributed by the trusts and
monopolies, they managed to elect Nc
Kinley by plurality of 100000 in a
total vote of nearly 1I.000,000.
Our contemporary will not admit that
the failure of the Republican party to
undertake reformatory currency legis-
lation has induced the great majority
Of the gold Democrats, to return to their
former party associations. and by clos
ing its eyes to this patent fact it sees
another triumph of the syndicates and
the national banks ahead, If only the
trusts and imperial expansion and the
attendant dedication of militariSm can
be kept in the background during the
campaign that is to be waged year
hence.
Careful observers of the political sit
uation to-day who do not try to deceive
themselves believe that if the election
We're held next month, with the money
question as the principal issue and with
Mckinley as the Republican candidate
for the Presidency and the Democracy
led again Ey William J. Bryan, the lat
ter would win by as large Il plurality as
Hanna managed to get for his man
three years ago.
The truth is that the American peo-
pie cannot be scared by the same false
cry in two successive Presidential cleo
tons. The misrepresentation of the
Democratic position on the money ques-
ton that the Republicans INDUCED in
during the campaign of 1896 will fall
very fiat on the ears of the voters next
year, if repeated.
The voters do not want old straw
threshed over again by the stump ora
tors. They want an intelligent discus
sion of new issues as they arise, and
the party which undertakes to look
backward instead of forward is sure to
rue it. The monetary system of the
country, it is true. still needs reform
ing. but the Republican party will not
undertake the task. and the only hope
of having the work done properly rests
in the return of the Democratic party
to power: and the Democratic party
cannot he kept out of power by the
reiteration of the untruths that were
used in 1896 or any other year.-New
York News.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
Rises to New Conditions.

There is absolutely nothing in what
Mr.. Bryan is quoted as saying that will
not be heartily indorsed by every good
Democrat. Instead of its being a shelly,
ing or desertion of the silver issue, it is
anything but that. 1t means no weak
ening in support of the Chicago plat
form, nor the abandonment of sipgle
principle. 1t Is nothing else than SEN
sible understanding of political condi-
tions as they exist. recognition of which
Mr.. Bryan has given in many previous
speeches; not in exactly the same Ian
guage, perhaps. but in substance. There
is not one man in America-that is, no
man of any intelligence whatsoever
that does not understand exactly where
Mr.. Bryan stands on the currency ques
ton and every other issue.-Atlanta
Constitution
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
Tom my's Gentle Hint.

Father" asked Tommy the other
day, why is it that the boy is said to
be the father Of the man?"
Mr.. Tompkins had never given this
subject any thought, and was hardly
prepared to answer offhand.
why, why" he said stumblingly,
its so because it is suppose"
We'll, pop, since I'm your father, I'm
going to give you a ticket to the theAter
and half dollar besides. l always said
that if l was father l wouldn't be SO
stingy as the rest of them are. Go in
pop and have a good time while you're
young. l never had any chance my.
self"
Mr.. Tompkins gazed in blank aston.
ishment at Tommy. Slowly the signifi
canoe of the hint dawned upon him
Producing a silver dollar, he said:
Take it, Thomas. When you really
do become father l hope it won't be
your misfortune to have a son who is
smarter than yourself
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
Curious Japanese Cu.tom.

The Japanese have custom Of cello
brating the blossoming Of the trees by
a general holiday. This aesthetic peo
pie also regard the grouping Of flowers
as such fine art that they frequently
require their young women to take q
two years course simply in the ar
rangement of flowers. Both the Chin
ese and Japanese have a true idea OF
the value Of each blossom, leaf and
stem in the final effect Each twig,
each branch is given its place in the
study; no blossom or leaf must be
crowded; each, instead, must stand
forth in Its own beauty of form and
color
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
An Ideal Platform,

The platform adopted by the Demo-
cratic convention at Des Moines, Iowa
will be read with unalloyed pleasure by
Michigan Democrats. 1t is throughout
a thoroughly Democratic document 1t
does not indulge in glittering generali-
ties or meaningless eaten phrases. 1t
reaffirms the Chicago platform and
takes up the new issues along thor
oughly Democratic lines, and in Ian
guage that cannot be misapprehended
by any one. Its objections to the pro
posed Anglo American alliance are
forcible, and its arrangement of the
present administration admirable
Iowa, while not pivotal State. is more
nearly a typical State than Kentucky
or Ohio, and the result of the campaign
this fall, with strong platform and
n strong ticket, will be watched for
with great interest.-Grand Rapids
Democrat
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
Amelia's Discontinue.

amelia says that Georges proposal
was the most provoking thing she ever
encountered"
How sop
why, just as soon as he had asked
her to be his wife he went right on
and said, L know this is so sudden.
And what did Amelia say?'
Say! Why, she couldn't say a thing
He had just said himself the only thing
she was prepared to say
well, what did she dog
''She said, Why, it isn't SO awfully
sudden and then fell on his neck
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
mosque at Mecca. 1t is renewed and

mosque at Mecca. 1t is renewed and
sent every year at the expense of the
Sultan from COnstantinople via Cairo
where, with its escort of Bashi Ba
zouks, 1t forms part of the great
Egyptian caravan, the most importan,
of the many which annually converge
toward Mecca. Having done duty for
year, 1t is cut up and the pieces sold
as relics to wealthy pilgrims. The H.
lustrations represent portion of the
carpet being carried on mems shoul-
ders through the streets of Cairo. dur
ing the festival preceding its departure,
with two symbOlical trophies that each
year accompany the pilgrimage from
Egypt. These are the mahmal, a kind
OF canopy, and pyramidal construc-
ton containing a copy Of the Koran
Both are exquisitely embroidered in
gold upon green cloth, and are held in
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
The Silver Question,

Naturally enough, the Republican
editors are deeply exercised over the
silver question. They know that there
are gold Democrats who We're assist
ant Republicans in 1896, and they are
anxious to keep open the split in the
Democracy and secure the aid of the
gold faction. With this object in view,
they are busy declaring that the regu-
lar Democracy has abandoned silver"
hoping by this means TO arouse the pug
nacity of the silver Democrats and
cause them to antagonize the faction
which went over TO Mckinley.
1t is true that the regular Democra-
cy desire to harmoniZe differences in
the party, but it is not true that it is
prepared to abandon principles to Sc
cure this end. This fact has been de-
mOnstrated by the action of the Iowa
State Democratic convention, which re-
affirmed the Chicago platform and re-
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
Empire of pemocracy,

The issue is forming; every day y'of
continued aggression against people
struggling to be free, every shot fired
principles and traditions hallowed in
our own war for independence, brings
it nearer. When the American people
pass Judgment on this issue they de-
eide whether Democracy is dream or
substance take their stand for empire
and the divine right of kings on the
one hand. or for free republic and
equality on the other.-Omaha World
Herald
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
PERIODS OF
SUFFERING
GIVE CE
TOPERIOOS
OFJOY

died. The doctor even gave me up and
wonders how I ever lived.
81 wrote for Mrs. Pinkham's advice
at Lynn, Mass, and took her medicine
and began to get well. l took several
bottles of the Compound and used the
Sanative Wash, and can truly say that
am cured. You would hardly know
me, am feeling and looking so well.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound made me what | am. ."-MRs.
]. F. STRETCH, 461 MECHANIC ST.,
CAMDEN, N. j.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
TwO's Company.

Unless the Chicago Tribune is guilty
of creating the Rev. DR.. Fourthly out
of whole cloth-nOt ministeral-he Is
the only absent-minded gentleman who
has ever been able to suggest remedy
for his own ailment.
You are so preoccupied sometimes -
said Mrs. FOurthly, that l don't feel
safe In letting you 90 out alone"
That is to say, my dear replied tie
Rev. DR.. Fourthly, with benevolent
smile, when my mind wanders, as 1t
does occasionally, somebody ought to
go along with it,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
Unpleasant Familiarity.

"Here's an example Of how famil.
arity breeds contempt" he said, as
ae looked over the top Of his paper at
the rest of the family.
What is it?''
'"This is a Kansas paper, and under
the head of Local lettings it says
Three or four cyclones ripped through
the village since our last issue ~
Detroit Free Press.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-09-07
Once the Home OF Jen Davis.

At Fort Gibson, in the Indian Terri
tory, eighty miles south of Coffeyville,
stands the house that was occupied by
Jeff Davis while he did garrison duty
there as lieutenant before the Mex
lean war. He went to the old fort just
after marrying Gen. Taylor's daughter,
and was there several years. The old
house has been beaten by the storms
until the chimneys at the ends have
fallen.