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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

Minneapolis Journal: Some leading
business men are telegraphing Con-
gresham Fletcher to stand by free
is sound. The Minnesota congressman
who surrenders to the demands of the
trusts in that matter will be kept aw-
fully busy during the campaign ex-
planning how he happened to do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24
Pensions For Kansans.

washington. Feb. Extensions have
been granted as follows:
Original-Lewellyn Osborn. lola, IS;
George Spangler, Kansas City, Sc
Increase-John w Rhame, Bavaria
$24 to $50; Patrick O'Brien. PIainville,
ST to $50: William T. Allsup, Argentine
Sc to SO; Henry Williams Pratt. S12 to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

w S. Philpot. Albany, Ca, says, de
Wits Little Early Risers did me more
famous little pills for constipation bill
iousness and liver and bowel troubles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

If the Porto Rican bill pass in its
present form the inhabitants Of the ISL
and will understand the meaning of
that well known American expressions:
"Out of the frying pan into the fire"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

Gen. Roberts appears to be in the
position of a man who has caught a
rat in trap. He has Cronje hard and
fast but doesn't know how to get him
out. If he could turn water into the
river he might drown the Boer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

The Populists will get about two
months start of the Democrats in nom
mating Mr.. Bryan, and probably win be
feeling the need of help to elect him
about Julv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

Perhaps if the Porto Rican bill in its
present form, became a law, Nicaragua
will not be so anxious for annexation
as she is now said to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

Z had dyspepsia for years. No medicine
was so effective as Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure It gave immediate relief. Two bot
ties produced marvellous results writes
L.. H. Warren, Albany. Wis. It digests
what you eat and can not fail to cure. At
all drug stores.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24
Fine Work bv an Amateur.

There is an artistic photograph on
exhibition in Swift & Holidays win
dow. 1t is a clear and accurate en-
largement of a beautiful lake scene in
the mountains. The picture deserves
especial credit as being the work of an
amateur, v. H. Waite of Oakland.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

butcher and baker and grocer. In his
work he is followed by the blessings
and the prayers of the very poor.
This is true charity-the charity of
the good Samaritan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

The legislature of Kentucky appears
TO be about to do the first sensible thing
since it convened. and that is to adjourn
and go home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

John DIR. Poseyville, Ind, says, ST
never used anything as good as One Min
ute Cough Cure. We are never without
it, Quickly breaks up coughs and colds
Cures all throat and lung troubles It's
use will prevent consumption Pleasant
to take At all drug stores
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

De Wits Witch Hazel Sa1ve is IN
equalled for piles, injuries and skin dis.
Salve Beware of all counterfeits. At ali
drug stores.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

Populists must be very much in earn
est when they call a national conven-
ton right in corn blowing time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24
Castellanes Have Reached Home.

Paris Feb. 24.-Count de CastelIane,
who with the Countess de Castellane.
left New York February Is on the
steamer La Gascogne appeared in the
chamber of deputies this afternoon.
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'p0Idno0o 90 TIM qoIuq0 uBIL9lAqs9Id
I9lsuIuls9N 9ql 10 lIdInd 9ql spIouH9d
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

An Atchison woman attributes the
failure of her married life to the fact
that her husband was the thirteenth
man who proposed to her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

A womans idea of the real sacri-
legious thing is for a pail bearer to
chew tobacco at a funeral
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

Let any man get far enough away
from the scene of his crime, and he
viii believe down in his heart that he
is innocent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

It causes a smile when a woman
says she goes into society to help her
husband in a business way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

The pressing need in General Roberts
business is a big rain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

When there is more than the usual
delay in serving the pie, guests know
that the forks had to be washed to be
brought in again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

There is some wonder that particu-
larry good brand of cigars is not named
the Don't Worry"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

When a woman gives a card party,
the men have great deal to say about
her neglect of household affairs. but
she doesn't neglect any duty, compared
with the man in politics, or the man
getting up a lodge entertainment.
Such a man doesn't show up at work
all day for several days in succession.
A woman never becomes so interested
in her social affairs that she fails to
get breakfast, at least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

Get over your little annoyanees by
recalling how trivial they would seem
to a man away off in Japan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

Every girl should have a silk petit
coat It's rustic sounds so rich she for
gets she hasn't cent in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24
GLOBE SIGHTS

IFrom the Atchison Globe1
When a boy has freckles on his back
it is a sign that he is good swimmer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-24

Railroad men look around for ex-
cuses for taking holidays as eagerly as
the school teachers.
The age-herald., 1900-08-05
BY LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER

One noon of April twenty years ago youthful newspaper worker, travelling by train from Montgomery, entered little Bir- mingham for the first time. His train stopped under the shed of the sky, at Eighteenth street and the present Railway Reservation so-called.
 The youth was fatigued and hungry He had risen from his bed in Greenville about . o'clock that morning. He hadn't slept any during the night. He was nervous In contemplating the cherished reality of at- tending his first meeting of the Press As sociation and being enrolled member or that honorable institution. His joy was great, his hopes were of splendid promise of splendid afterwhiles. He thought until his poor, silly head ached with the burden of empire. His suit of ribbed black new clothes, ready-made, with a tall coat and costing seventeen dollars, was carefully spread on a chair between his bed and moonlit window. He looked a thousand times at the new raiment, the nearest fash ionable he had ever possessed, and thou sand times it seemed to him as the robes of conqueror; albeit the burden of his thoughts was of purely intellectual vic- tories.
 Dressed in his new clothes and with a borrowed handbag, the youth hurried to
The age-herald., 1900-08-05
STORY OF THE SUNBR|CHT CITY
 AND THE SPLENDOR IF THE YEARS
Twenty Years Agone, Fifteen, Thir- teen, Ten, and the Greater Glo-
 ry That is DaWned.

dential district in the southern states were then a practically unbroken primeval for est, like the more precipitous sides of Red Mountain are today. The wild turkey strutted where now winds Highland ave- hue, now a beautiful street, and one day to be the most superb boulevard in the land. In lower South Twentieth and adjacent streets there were a few unpretentious structures, extending with broad spaces be- tween to Avenue c.
 Where the present spacious Union pas senger station stands and the noble square in which the Morris hotel is built, was in 1880 a dreary space with bushes and mud called Linn Park in honor of the pioneer who founded Birminghams first bank. So also the square in which the Alabama bank now is was vacant space. The building at the northwest corner of Twenty-frst street and Second avenue, now occupied as fruit shop and confectionery, was then new, and lower down the avenue towards Twentieth street were two storehouses, which still stand. Further down, from the Bank corner to where Saks store Is at present ornament, were, with two not able exceptions, the unhandsome struc- lures that are busy with business now.
 So the buildings in Nineteenth street. on "Paul'S'' side; the oldest structures in Sec ond avenue, between Nineteenth and Twen- ty-first streets; and those in Twentieth street, from First avenue to Third, were there twenty years agone, and 1t appears that Birminghams unsurpassed fire de- partment is far too efficient to ever suffer those ugly and squatty buildings to pass from the new Birmingham. They were but
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little less ugly twenty years ago than they are now.
 The Florence Hotel had been but recently finished, and, with its fifty feet frontage in Second avenue and its three stories, 1t Was the center of Birmingham life. Across Nineteenth street where the beautiful Peerless" building is was the rudest shack. Adjoining thereto in Second avenue were number of stores, one of which, if the memory of loved one be not at fault, was occupied by Frank P. O'Brien as hard ware and builders supplies store.
 The Jefferson county court house, new built because Birmingham had but a short time before taken Elyton's distinction as the county seat was the pride of the town and the county and was said to be "the finest in the state" It stood somewhere about the location of the present noble county building, perhaps the handsomest structure of its kind now in the south. It didn't stand many years; it might have fallen down had not the necessity for a greater structure caused its removal
 In First avenue, above Twenty-first street dwelt the Caldwells, the Walkers and other leading families, and fromNthat locality the more fashionable residential district ex- tended to Sixth avenue and westward to Eighteenth street. Fifth avenue was then, as now the most attractive residence street in Birmingham. Notable residences there were those of the late Congressman Gold smith W. Hewitt and the late Dr. Mortimer Harvey Jordan, both of blessed memory. Higher up, Capitol Park was then a rude, rough rise in the ground lying fallow for the state house that has never come.
 Birmingham was twenty years ago a vil- lage at the crossing of two railroads-the Alabama Great Southern and the South and North Alabama. Of Great Birminghams trade eleven railroads now thrive
 One noon of September fifteen years ago a passenger train from Montgomery ar- rived at Eighteenth street. Birmingham. That train brought the fresh young world conqueror who had arrived at that par ticular spot of the earth's surface five years and some odd months before. It was his second appearance in this valley. He was a tfif1e less fresh, perhaps; wasn't quite so certain that he knew everything and had power to do everything; but still fresh enough for almost any sort of young fool to be. But his mission, the condition of his mind that day, made Birmingham wonderfully beautiful. Five years had, In fact, wrought wonderful change in the city and the valley. Birmingham looked al- most as much like city as did Mont gomery, and 1t was very busy-just entering that period of marvellous activity which was to result in the boom" that amazed
The age-herald., 1900-08-05
THE BERNEY NATIONAL
 BANK 0F BIRMINGHAM
One of the Soundest and Most Prosperous Financial lnstl-
 tutions in Alabama.

1t will always be remembered that the Rernev National Bank passed through the financial crisis of the nineties with less loss to it's stockholders than any other national bank in Birmingham, and without the financial aid of single new or outside doi- lar. And today this institution is in a sounder and more fiourishing condition than it has ever been before Added to the sum of it's capital, surplus and undivided profits, approximating $25o,OOO 1t has de- posits averaging s75O.OOO, so that 1t has million dollars with which to aid in doing the banking business of growing Blrmins' ham. But while its officers and directors are ambitious and abreast with the times iIt the modern pushing banking business, prtA marily their aim Is to do nothing which is incompatible with absolute safety to tn9 banks depositors for every dollar witb which it is intrusted.
 It's president, MT. Walker Percey, has been with the bank more than decade as one of it's directors. and has the conhdencS of the community by reason of hls excels lent business judgment and upright ana conservative dealings.
 Its vice-president, MT. H. l.. Badhaml has rare gifts for financial dealings, ApQ much experience in the banking businesA Everybody knows him, everybody likes him and everybody trusts him.
 It's cashier, MT. w. w. Crawford, forQ14 erly an officer of the Berney Bank and Q the Alabama National Bank has recently been called to his present responsible pefw tion at the Berney, and his superior qu953 ties and experience. great popularity, uR dustry and alertness greatly help the e4A banding business of this institution.
 The directors of the bank, as Is well known, are among the soundest and mosl careful business men in the city. ..---siH
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ions of capital; new railroads in every di- rection; steel mills, iron mills, mills of every known industry, even to United States mint. One young fellow whom the traveller had known elsewhere had made $75,000 in seventy-fve days; another had borrowed money to pay for real estate license few months before, and had cleared half million; negro barber wasn't willing to quit with five huEsred thousand dollars profit, and had refused thousand dollars an acre for four hundred acres of woods farm boy would drink nothing but champagne at s the bottle, and not less than twelve bottles a day for himself and his friends; one saloon aver aged four hundred dollars a day clear profit, and within thirteen months one of its owners quit with a round fifty thousand dollars in cash!
 Gods! it was the widest saturnaIia of gain of which there Is any record!
 The trayeler allowed himself three ho,yrs In which to get dinner in Twentieth strest eating place. His meal consisted of house. fly soup and sole-leather steak consurnad amongst flies so numerous that they dark ened the room. Files 1t seemed that all the flies on the American continent had come to grow fat on Birmingham's boom. That memorable dinner was procured and partially consumed within time for him to reach train by which to speed away.
 From within the great iron fence at the Union passenger station the traveller saw three friends looking through the bars and smiling goodbye. They seemed to him to be the only sane persons he had seen in all that wild, turbulent, hurrahing, whoop- ing, shrieking, shouting, yelling, mad boom" of Birmingham; and they were infinitely refreshing to his aching eyes. aching ears, aching head. One of them was a man. The others were the mans beau tiful young daughters. They were not there to say goodbye to the traveller; but he loved them for being there, was grateful for their smiling goodbye. The man was then and is now an eminent Alabama mem Der of Congress. The beautiful daughters are now matrons, and have been for many years.
 One noon of September ten years ago a passenger train from Montgomery arrived in Birmingham, and amongst the passen- gers who left 1t was somewhat world worn, world-weary person. He bore the same name that was borne by the fresh youth of 1SS0 the less fresh person of 1885. the traveller whom the boom" appalled, in 1887; but he wasn't the same. The. years had worked their work. He was merely a feeble survival of world conqueror,
 IcontinIed on Page Thirty.
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eth deepoe" to make good use of his free railway passes to Tuscaloosa. It seemed that the train for Montgomery would never arrive from Mobile, but 1t did arrive, and 1t did convey him to Montgomery, where his first act was the purchase of copy of the Montgomery Advertiser and his sec Ond the purchase of a cup of vile stun called by courtesy coffee. The coffee was bad and 1t burnt his mouth.
 Afraid of being left, he made dash for the Birmingham train as if his life de- pended upon his haste. He took time to be introduced to many other newspaper work CTS, some of whom he was in the after whiles to. love very fondly, and whom he loves still. Then he opened his copy of. the Advertiser, cherished first daily newspaper he ever saw, and his eager eyes opened very wide as he read the now famous letters from Roscoe Conkiing and Thomas H. Platt resigning from the United States Senate. He felt the weight. of new national bur- den to tax his genius and try his power as great leader.
 But all that has got nothing to do with Birmingham, where the youth, with his new clothes, borrowed handbag, and national and internation burdens. arrived one noon of April twenty years ago. He found that ''th' deepoe'' of Birmingham was point in some old fields where two railway lines crossed. Hard by the stopping place of the train was an hotel called the Relay House-probably given that name because 1t was built at point where travellers could wait for trains if they were required to do so. This hotel was built of wood, and had a stairway on the outside.
 Birmingham was not good to look upon in that bright April day of 1880. The town was obtrusively new; flauntingly, flaringly fresh; raggedly, ruggedly, rudely rough. So 1t appeared to the youth, and so it doubt. less was in fact. The broad streets were wretchedly bad, being more like country lanes in the Blackbelt than thoroughfares of town of over 5000 inhabitants and al- ready called the Magic City" Gullies on either side of these streets took the place of gutters which were so ohoked that they served little purpose in draining the town. The Magic City of twenty years ago wasn't half as dusty as this great Dusty City, of 1900. There was mud when rain fell. and nipty-hard clay when the weather was dry. So deep was the mud after a few rainy days that empty wagons 'stald- ca in the principal streets. The spectacle Of wagon entirely empty and drawn by four stout mules sunk to the axles and immovable at the intersection of First ave- nue and Nineteenth street is still remem- bered.
 The South Highlands. now perhaps the most beautiful and Shermins urban resi-
The age-herald., 1900-08-05

the wordi But Birmingham's beauty as a city in 1885 was chiefly in the mental con- dition of that youth of rapidly disappearing youthfulness who had come hther on mission that promised more than he had ever soberly hoped for He was seeking the United States judge, whom he was to beg to swear him solemnly in accordance with the United States law. Court was in session upstairs somewhere in Twenty first street. The person bent on oath swear ing found the place. He also found Col onel William Denson, district attorney. Colonel Denson presented him to Judge Bruce who suspended the proceedings and administered the oath. The dear old judge, sturdy Scot, deeply sympathetic, was ex- tremely kind when he read in a document something about Dunfermline, Scotland.
 "Dumfarlinl Aye. Dumfarlin, in Fife. I was born in Falkirk, midway between Dumfarln and Glescai'
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passenger train from Montgomery arrived at the splendid new Union passenger sta- tion, Birmingham and amongst the throng of passengers who left it and lost them- selves in the mighty crowds in the streets what little there was left of the youth of seven and of two years before; and that little was travel-worn and not fresh at all
 The Birmingham of May 1887, amazed the traveller; it also dazed him. He spent two days trying to comprehend it-trying to realize the significance of Birmingham in the widest hour of the widest town bloom" ever heard of. Failing bewildered, he f1ed-fed over seas.
 Birmingham in the madness of its 'boom' was amazing. The traveller had been half way around the earth and hadn't seen anything In human activity compar- able to the street scenes of Birmingham. He had been jostled by thousands of well dressed saYdges at Broadway and Ann, Wall street and Broad; had been civilly pushed along at the Mansion house and in the Strand. had been knocked down at the Avenue de POpera and the Rue Richelieu; had been dragged two squares in the Unter Den Linden had been pushed by lunatic cotton brokers on the Liverpool flags" had lost clothing in Hamburg beer hall sorts of places; but he had never seen any thing like the Birmingham mob in May 1887.
 Men were mad. They talked of a million of people in Birmingham within twenty years; they talked of corner lots at seven hundred dollars foot seven miles from the city hall; they were certain of a dozen monumental office buildings, an equal num- Der of hotels and banks with many mill
The age-herald., 1900-08-05

YOU expect to be successful 5uring the year 1900 you must talk to the people. a useful speaking-t,ibe-it reaches all the people every day in the year.
The age-herald., 1900-08-05

Birmingham may be the epitome of cos mopolitanism, but underlying the influences that have made it a city of wealth and fashion Is the spirit that finds expression in the building and maintaining of homes for the friendless, in the erection of hos pitals and in the organization of forces to relieve the indigent. There is no .city in the south where the public-spirited and philanthropic citizens respond more liber- ally to appeals for charity, and to the con- sideratioh of the best methods by which a city may meet the demands made by the classes of people worthy of assistance and protection than do Birminghams citizens. Especially are the women of Birmingham foremost in all good works, and the his- tory of the institutions of charity In the suit of the work of philanthropic women. With Birmingham's industrial development and its marvellous growth, there is no part of its progress more interesting than the erection and maintaining of it's charity hos pitals and institutions for the uplifting of humanity. The Hillman hospital, the Hos pital of the Sisters of Charity, the Mercy Home, the United Charities, the Woman's Exchange are monuments to the work of noble women, while the Alabama Boys h. ,dustrial school, chartered by the Legis- lature, is the direct result of the earnest labor Of Alabama women, led by one of the greatest philanthropists
The age-herald., 1900-08-05
THE CHARITIES OF BIRMINGHAM.
By ANNIE kENDRICE< MALKER.


F. Robinson, Mrs s. E. Thompson, Mrs F. T. Schuler, Mrs. R. P. Means, Miss Mary Morrison