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The age-herald., 1901-01-11
DEATH OF EDITOR BURBANK.
Was on Picayune Staff for Over Guar
 ter of Century.

New Orleans, January 10.-Major Nath- aniel Burbank, managing editor of the Picayune, died of heart failure this morn- ing while riding down to the off1ce He was born in Maine, and spent his boyhood fin Boston He went out as a private in the Fifteenth Massachusetts regiment in 1863, and won three brevets for, gallantry in action. He was on the staffs of Generals Canby and Phil Sheridan, and the latter had him appointed lieutenant in the regu- lar army. He preferred to remain in New Orleans after the war, to which he became attached and obtained a position in the internal revenue office. A year later, when the Daily Republican was started he went on the staff as editorial writer and drama Mc critic, and early won fame a para grapher and writer, being ranked among Americas leading humorists. A few years later, he became connected with the Pica- yune and has been one of Its chief men for a quarter of century known the country over and especially by the news paper and theatrical professions
 He was 59 years of age at the time of his death.
The age-herald., 1901-01-11

Smoke Da Costa Cigars. Da- Cost-a-Nickel.
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
.oMAeNNc. eNciprv
Meeting of Board of Managers
 Of the HilIman HOspita

It'd is probable that the next annual meet ing of the board of managers of the Hill- man Hospital may be held in the new hos pital. The reports made at the meeting of the board yesterday morning were so en- couraging as to indicate that work would be begun on the new building within a few months.
 This prospect, while gratifying to the board, will be received with great pleasure by the hundreds of friends of the hospital, the interests of the hospital having been brought so prominently forward at the great charity bazaar which was held in Decem- Der and at which between $5000 and s6o00 was cleared for the hospital fund In addi- tion to this report, which was made yes- terday, member of the board reported an additional slOOO which had been subscribed by a prominent business man of Birming- ham, who preferred that his name be with held.
 Among the reports made was that show ing receipted bills from The Age-Herald and the Ledger, the former being an amount for $250 and the latter for SIS for advertis- ing the hospital bazaar. Accompanying the receipted bills were letters generously plac- ing the columns of both papers at the dis posal of the board in promoting the inter- ests of the hospital.
 The report of Miss Otto, the hospital mat ron, showed remarkably gratifying year under the most trying conditions The number of pay patients received during the year was fifty-three. The number of char ity patients was 142 while from total of 295 patients there were only II deaths during the year.
 The splendid work of Miss Otto was en- Enthusiastically spoken of yesterday. A prominent member of the board declared that Miss Otto was the most efficient hos ptal matron that she had known in hos ptal works "She is competent and faith full and untiring," she said when the re- port of the matron was being discussed.
 A wise suggestion on the part of a mem- Der of the board was to appoint a board of finance, the members of which are to be selected from the various churches. The work of the latter board will supplement the work of the board of managers, and it's province will be to devise ways and means to augment the building fund.
 The personnel for the board of managers for 1901 will remain the same, with one ex- ception Mrs. T. A. Hamilton was elected to fill the vacancy on the board caused by Mrs Joseph McLesters absence in Europe. Mrs. L. F. Stratton decnned reelection as vice-president., and Mrs. R. s. Munger was unanimously elected. The officers for the board of 1901 are:
 President-Mrs J. Morgan Smith.
 Vice -President-Mrs. R. S. Munger.
 Secretary-Mrs. T. O. Smith.
 Treasurer-Mrs. T. H. Molton.
 The entire personnel of the board includes Mrs. L. F. Stratton, Mrs Benners, Mrs. F. G. Shephard, Mrs. c. A. Tyson, Mrs. G. Mortimer Williams, Mrs. T. Randall Mrs. J. W. Bush, Mrs. w. w. Bussey, Mrs. Morris Marx, Mrs. Henry Bernard, Mrs. T. A. Hamilton.
 The election of a medical staff and other business was postponed until next Mon- dav
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
The Eligible Bachelor Says
 Brides Should Wear Red

If the impression prevails that it is only women who criticise each other, it Is very erroneous, for nine times out of ten when a group of men are found chatting and smoking together, their conversation is ever of womans what she says, does and, l am told.-what she wears. 1 am assured that men criticise womans toilette more severely than do women themselves, and where the latter are apt to make allow ances. a man is severely critical and where he is a keen observer, the slightest imperfection cannot escape his eyes. There is, on the other hand, the man who may be suddenly impressed with the good looks of his wife and will compliment her upon the beauty of her new gowns~when it is probably a season or two old, and the only thing that ds new is the jalbot.
 I judge from what was told me recently that married men in discussing women confine their remarks to the wives of other men, while on the other hand the most discreet women in the world sometimes discuss their Husbands with other wo- men.
 But be that as 1t may, conversation in dulged in by men and which Iretends to c1dticise a womans toilette, Is the next ching to an X-ray for discovering what even the woman herself would think should escape criticism. For instance, a recent discussion among a group of unmarried men, I am told, touched upon the con- sciousness of brides. especially at the rail- way station, consciousness that one of the men attributed to the fact that every bride for the last century had gone away in gray traveling gown with hat to match
 Now, the pretty bride in her becoming grey gown should have been the last per- son to have come in for criticism, and be- cause she had the good taste to wear a hat to match ought to be set down to der credit rather than to be held up to her disadvantage. To attire herself in a soft grey gown for her wedding journey IS absolutely considerate of her, and no doubt the eligible young bachelor who was criti-
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
WHAT SHALL WE EAT
To Keep Healthy and Strong.

A healthy appetite and common sense are excellent guides to follow ip matters of diet, and a mixed diet of grains, fruits and meats is undoubtedly the best, in spite of the claims made by vegetariAns and food cranks generally.
 As compared with grains and vegetables, meat furnishes the most ntitriment tn a highly concentrated form. and is digested and asslmtlated more quickly than vege- tables of kraans.
 Dr. Julius Remusson on this subject says: Nervous persons people run down ip health and of low vitality should eat plenty of peat If tine digestion is too feeble at first it may be easily stfehgthened by the regu- iaf use of stuaft's Dyspepsia Tablets after each meal. Two of these excellent tablets taken after diBner wdll digest several thou saS sns srsas hs of r ss i s ssf or & het the sn%a @ diAstase also contained in stuadt's Tablets Cause the perfect digestion of starchy foods. like potatoes bread, etc., and no matter how weak the stomach may be, no trouble Will be experienced if a regular pfactice is made of Using Stuarts Dyspep- sia Tablets because they supply the pepsin and diastase so necessary to perfect diges- tdon and any form of indigestion and stom- ach trouble except cancer of the stomach viii be overcome by their daily use.
 That large class of people who come un- der the head of nervous dyspeptics should
 
 digestion by the systematic use of a safe, 11arniess digestive medicine like Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets composed of the natural digestive principles, peptones and diastase, which actually perform the work of dises- ton and give the abused stomach chance to rest and to furnish the body and brain with the necessary nutfiment Cheap ca ehartic medicines masquerading under the name of dyspepsia cures are useless for relief or cure of indigestion because they have absolutely no effect upon the actual digestion of food.
 Dyspepsia in all its forms is simply fail- ure of the stomach to digest food and the sensible way to solve the riddle and cure the indigestion is to make daily use at meal time of a safe preparation which Is en- dorsed by the medical profession and known to contain active digestive principles, and all this can truly be said of StuaM's Dys- pepsia Tablets
 All druggists throughout the United States Canada and Great Britain sell them at the uniform price of fifty cents for full treatment.
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
ALLEGED FRAUD
 CAUSES ARREST Several Men Are Charged With SwindIirg the Colonial h.
 surance Company

New York; January 10.-The Evening Journal says warrants have been issued for tine -nrest of four persons who are ac- cused of swindling the Colonial Insurance Company of Jersey City, by securing in surance on the lives of persons about to die and by other methods.
 The four for whom warrants were issued include a newspaper editor, the beneficia- ry under one policy, medical examiner, an undertaken and a prize-fighter, who acted as agent for the company.
 An official of the company states that ters was discovered shortly after the death of Thomas Moran, who died of con- sumption in October of last year.
 Moran, it is alleged, had policy with the Colonial Company for $27O, and this sum was paid to the beneficiary. Moran had been suffering with consumption for months before his policy was written. Both his father and mother it is said, had died of tuberculosis and there were other deaths in the family from the same cause.
 1t is claimed that when the insurance people had paid the amount of Moran's policy to the benefciaries search of the company's books was made, and it was dis covered that not one or two, but many policies had been written for persons whose identity was doubtful and in many instances entirely lacking.
 1t is further alleged that dead bodies had been placed in evidence whenever claims were made, but that it had been discovered that these bodies were nothing more or less than common hospital bodies which had been brought into Union Hill, many of them from Bellevue, for the purpose of aiding insurance swinders to obtain their plunder.
 An official of the Colonial Insurance Company says that it was discovered that Kelly had been writing bad risks and ne- was discharged In several cases, it is said, fhe grossly misrepresented the facts concerning persons whose lives he insured. The official interviewed said that three cases of fraud had come to the knowledge Qf the Company aud it was suspected that t1any fnore would be unesrthsd. Tn the thfee cases referred to all the persons ia- sured died soon after the policies on theft lives had been issued.
 In addition to Kelly Dr. Edward Jahr of West Hoboken, Thomas Martin a news paper man, and William Neeklar. an uf- derwriter, all of Union Hill, were arrested. The four men were released on s1o0o bail each. Necklar said he had not been guilty of wropg-doing and that his only connAc- tion with the matter was that be had bu- ried one of the persons insufed
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
GOV. SOB TAYLOR
On "eentiment at the Auditorium Next
 Monday Night.

Bob Taylor is a-coming '--~, From his home ip Tennessee To our home in Alabama
 His host of friends Co see, With new strings on his fiddle,
 Fresh resin on his bow; But the old-tme tears and laughter Your faces will shine thru As life's and loves old story
 He tells to you ape~. To~this hustling iroh city,
 To talk of "senfImeht.' He comes next Monday evening
 And It's only 50 cent At opr spacious Auditorium,
 To hear and see the show By this prince of wit and humor,
 So don't forget to go. Saets can be reserved tomorrow and Mon- day and the admission will be 50 cents all over the house.
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
COLONEL BRANDON
May Serve as Commandant at Univer
 sity for Remainder of Term.

It Is stated that Col. w. W. Brandon of Tuscaloosa wtll probably be selected as commandant at the university for the bal ance of the present school year. Colonel Brandon is adjutant-general of the Ala bama National Guard and one of the best informed military men in the State
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21

Mirth is natures best remedy for ills.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21

guessed they were chicken thieves, and
former experiences made 1t 100 to l
that he was right He was. He stood
poor chance of catching them, so he
called up his neighbor mile down the
road the wagon took, and asked him
to hustle out on the highway with his
two sons and three shotguns while he
would call up some other neighbors,
and the posse would soon be in pur-
suit. The thieves We're captured and
punished, the chickens were recovered
and the community relieved of n nui-
sance.
A man at Valley Mills had young
horse he valued at $1,000. 1t took sud
denly sick at night, and before he
could come to Indianapolis for n vet
Urinary surgeon and take him to the
farm the animal died. II would have
given $500 If | had had telephone"
he said. He talked about his loss
among his neighbors; they had fell
lowfeeling, and there is going to be a
telephone exchange there, with lines to
| farmers houses roundabout. One has
recently been put in mt Cumberland;
others are scheduled for Acton and
Clermont. In Perry and Decatur
townships. in this County, and In
White River Township, in Johnson
County, gangs of workmen are now
busy putting up country telephone
lines.
The manager of one of the local com
paules was asked If 1t was doing any
| thing in this line and answered: "Yes,
we are now working in the north and
northwest part of the County, In the
west and northwest besides the east
and southeast and south and southwest
| sections" 1t Is said that this pretty
generally reflects the general situation
with all the companies over the State
| So with good roads, scientifically
| built, for either his pleasure or work;
with the bicycle ready ON the back
porch, with the trolley cars whizzing
past the house, the rural mail delivery
to bring him his daily newspaper and
the telephone to keep him in instant
! touch with the markets, the farmer
has to pinch himself occasionally to see
if he really is farmer and not the
hustling resident of a metropolis-In-
dianapolis News.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21

phone is the most important use of the
highway. Trees should give way to
the telephone as they have to the max
ing of roads. Where telephones run,
trees should be set back % to 80 feet.
The country telephone lines should be
of the best material, on well-shaped
poles at least % feet high and six
inches in diameter. As time passes,
poles will probably be shortened and
the wires be as near the ground as elec-
trical conditions will permit, except at
road crossings.
MANY small exchanges are prefer
able to fewer large ones. Village ex-
changes should have connection with
town exchanges and county seat ex-
changes, and these with city and long
distance exchanges, so that the farmer
may speak to anybody anywhere. For
this he ought to have not only good
equipment, but even better equip
ment than any one else. His line should
not consist of worn-out or old material
from town and city lines. He Is much
more dependent on good service than
the city man."
Telephone rates to farmers as rule
are lower than the city charges. The
companies say the construction cost
of the country lines is much less. In
this county the farmer gets his tele-
phone for SIS year and this entities
him to free service In the city and out
side 1t within the county. Take the
New Augusta exchange as illustration.
OF rs patrons, 80 are farmers, the most
distant from the town living five
miles out. In addition to having quick
communication with 40 other farmers
he may order his groceries at five or
six stores, call two or three doctors
or veterinary surgeon, ring up two
butchers and consult with n justice of
the peace. These are all within easy
reach at New Augusta. So are two saw
mills, one grist mill and blacksmith
shop. So If he wants to borrow from
his neighbors or to get harvest help he
may know without leaving his house
whether he may get them. He can call
to his blacksmith or his barber: ANY
thing ahead of me-" ana when there
isn't hitch up his Maud S. and "be
there In a minute" Or he may mount
his bicycle or jump on the interurban
car-when the indianapolis & Logans.
port Rapid Transit Company gets
down to business. Calling up the post
office, II he hasn't rural delivery, he
may save valuable time on harvest
days, by saying: This is Gilmore; any
mail for me to-day?" In an emergency
the telephone connection with the doc
tors will requite him perhaps for the
years charges telephone charges).
Thiet-Cafching by Telephone.
The protection" aspect of the tele-
phone was well illustrated near New
Augusta The News. not long ago, told
of farmer near that town who woke
up at night in time to see two chicken
thieves drive out of the barn lot. He
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21

Telephone companies are not able to
ieep up with the demand for telephones
by farmers. They would make despe-
rate efforts to do so if they could get
The material but all factories are be-
hind the orders. The companies are
nursing this rural desire for telephones.
They wish the farmers trade.
1t is said that the necessity of meet
ing this demand is mainly responsible
for the recent call for another $5,000,-
600 on the stockholders Of the Central
Union Telephone Company by John l.
Sabin, the new President. In his circu-
lar letter to the stockholders he said:
milk or abusing one another for things
not accomplished. The people of ILL
nois, Indiana, Ohio and Iowa want tel
ephone service. Are you giving 1t with
fewer than 10000 stations? When
you have 100000 exchange stations
then you will have good start, not
before. You are not satisfying the
public because your system does not
reach far enough. There are scores
of villages and small towns that, taken
as whole, should have 100000 tele-
phones in which the Central Union has
not single instrument"
Pushing Rurai business.
According to figures given by s. p.
Sheerin, of Indianapolis, in an address
at the recent meeting of the Independ-
ent Telephone Association of the
United States, at Buffalo, the inde-
pendent companies are more largely en-
gagged in furnishing this kind of service
In Indiana than the older company. He
said the Central Union, according to its
own figures, had $4,000 telephones In
the State, while the Independent COM
panies had $4,000. 1t is probable that
the reason the independent companies
have more telephones in the rural dis
tricts is because that was a field not
cultivated by the Central Union when
1t was alone In the telephone business
In this State. The new companies
were quick to get into the neglected
field, and they are cultivating it well.
No exact figures have been gathered
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21

by the companies showing the relative
number of farmers now using the tele-
phones at their homes. AT the present
rate of construction it will be possible,
before the end of the year, to talk by
telephone to 1000 farmers in Marion
County. There are telephones in the
houses of 1,200 to 1,400 Boone County
farmers, and probably In those of an
equal number in Hendricks County.
There Is farm service from nearly all
the city and town exchanges in the gas
belt 1t Is probable that there are
farmhouse telephones in seventy of the
ninety-two Counties Of the State.
In some instances there are small
systems where three or four farmers
each get $40 telephone outfit, use the
wire fences for lines of communication,
and are thus restricted to conversations
among themselves. Such a system is
used just outside the limits Of this city,
where six families of one name on ad-
joining farms have this easy communi-
cation withone another. There is no
exchange" One ring calls one of them,
two rings call another, and so on to
six rings. In more pretentious sys-
TENS the wires are strung on bean poles
or fence posts from farm to farm, and
an exchange Is established with switch
ing facilities. The companies are dis
couraging crude equipment, however
and these homemade lines are thus
only used for strictly local purposes
The companies will not connect their
lines with them. They say chain Is
no stronger than Its weakest link, and
they will not have the general service
impaired by weak part Of 1t.
Here are some things Mr.. Sheerin
said In his Buffalo address: 1.-THE tele.
phone Is a greater boon to farmers than
to any other class. The great draw.
backs to country life are Its isolation
meager opportunities for social inter.
course and fewer opportunities for pro
lection. If the farmer is out of touch
with the market the telephone brings
his ear close to It.; the weather report
Is Drought 10 HlS uOOT 10 proleCt Ills
crops and his cattle; the telephone
saves his horses weary miles of travel
to transact his every day business.
Good Lines Desirable.
1.-THE farmer should not put up cheap
grounded telephone lines on native
poles 300 to 400 feet apart, marring
the landscape. The poorly constructed
telephone Is worse than no telephone
The line should be regarded as part of
the road itself and equally for the pur-
pose of facilitating messages. The tel
ephone is a messenger-it is a troop of
messengers. 1t should be as free from
interruption on the highways Of a coun-
try as the bearer Of writ of habeas
corpus. There is no way by which
messages can be transmitted with SC
little wear and tear to the roadway.
"The time Is not far off when tele.
phone lines will be looked on as sacred
property. In some respects the tele
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21

crop, which was rated at little more
than $3O0,OO0O00. America exported
100000 barrels Of apples last year,
and as they learn to care for apples as
they do for other fruit they will export
still more. Apples selected for quality,
size and soundness, carefully wrapped
in paper as oranges are, and boxed like
that fruit, will bring fancy prices when
apples are scarce and will prove as pay
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21
Value of the Apple Crop.

Wheat Is great crop in the United
States, but there are several others that
beat 1t in value, and among them is the
apple crop. AS nearly as statistics can
give it, the apple crop of 1900 was 215,-
600, 600 barrels, and 81 barrel Is a
fairly moderate average to put upon
them. That would yield $4,000, ,OO0
or so per cent more than the wheat
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21

ing an investment as any fruit that
can be put up. Abroad, all over Eu-
rope, American apples bring S4 bar
rel when they are selling here at 81, and,
of course, they retail for very much
larger sum. Orchard owners in this
country have just begun to learn what
may be done In the apple way.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21
Public Expenditures in Mexico.


The Mexican army of more than
25,000 men is supported upon a trihe
more than 100000 Mexican dollars a
month. The Mexican congress does
not cost $1,O00,000 a year.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21

What has become of the old-fashon.
ed child that cried SO hard that it held
its breath?
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21
CandeIaria Hall Saloon

is well-known and timely furnished and is the
most nonIlar resort In ca ldelara. The bar is
stacked with the choicest and best brands of
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21
LIQUORS AND CIGARS

To be had in the Market.
Mr. Thomas Will conduct uo.hlng but hrst'
class house, aud cordial welcome Will he ex-
tended to all guests.