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a better time These affidavits will prob- ably be very voluminous like the bill and answer and "A hours will not be sufficient time for us to read them and prepare counter affidavits."
 MT. Tillman--'I suggest, your honor, that all affidavits except as to matters re- lating to the 26 foot strip be filed AS hours before the hearing. This would give them an additional day as to matters pe- culiarly within MT. London's knowledge"
 MT Percy-"The law contemplates that we shall have a hearing on one days mo- tice and" addressing the counsel on the other side, "i, our belief that the whole case of you gentlemen is for delay"
 Mir Cabaniss-"IIow does delay hurt you?'
 MT. Percy explained that they were pre- vented from beginning work for which they had made arrangements and for which they had expended vast sums for terminals. etc.
 MT. Campbell-"Mr. John London knows as much about the Belt Line and the Elyton Land Company as MT. Alex Lon don"
 The Court-'I will require all affidavits to be filed by o'clock Thursday morn- ing the twelfth, and will hear the notice to dissolve the injunction on Friday, the thirteenth
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Ii It's Really Good It's at Ben M. Jacobs & BrOS.
Th6r6 is Nothing S6I-
 fish in Our Prices.

The merit is there. The style iG there and the guarantee is there, and we would not permit anything thai was not worthy to leave our store. Fol that reason our customers have come to feel that if it is really good it is at our sore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-08
Delightful Car Ride.

The following young ladies of Avondale escorted the young men on a delightful car ride Friday night after which refresh- ments were served. All the expenses be- ing defrayed by the young ladies. Those in the party were: Miss Ola Andrews, Miss Tony Daniels, Miss May Hayes. Mss Margeon Schwien. Miss Lizzie Carithers Miss Lula Carithers, Miss Pet tus, Miss Henderson and Miss Williams MT. G. c. Ellis, MT. John Moncrief, MT. Ellis Griswold MT. Elmer Thuston, MT. T. P. Ellis, MT. Walter Passmore. Mr T. P. Vowell and MT. Thomas Hendrix
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The Ags-tserald will give to all new subscribers on rural routes, a rural mail box, free of charge, with year'l subscription.
 For particulars, address The Age Herald or see carrier. |
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Don't fall to see the new shapes in Panama Hats to- day at Klotz & Goldman.
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GRAND JURY CRITICISES
 LOWER COURT METHODS

this evil could be abated and the names of only such witnesses sent up as were able to give testimony of value in the investigation of the cases.
 We would further recommend that the chief of police be requested to in- struct the officers who are to come before the grand jury as witnesses to keep written memorandum of the facts in the cases so that they can intelligently testi- fly when they appear; and that justices of the peace be directed to only send up with their cases the names of such wit of benefit to the state.
 "We desire to call attention to the un- sanitary condition of the public closets in the basement of the courthouse. There seems to be some defect In ventilation, and often the closets are unfit for use.
 Some complaints have been made to us in regard to the public roads in the rural districts of the county We call the at tention of the Board of Revenue to this matter"
 Attached to the report is report from J. E. Wilson and E. L. Smith that as a special committee they examined the fee book of the judge of probate and found the same neatly, and, as they think, cor- rectly kept in accordance with the law.
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The grand jury for the April term final ly adjourned yesterday. A batch of six ty-two indictments was handed in to Samuel F. Greene of the Criminal Court along with the final report of the grand jury. This shows that 252 true bills have been found during the term.
 The report Is short and chiefly criti- cizes the practice of justices of the peace and the Inferior Criminal Court for bind ing over many witnesses to the grand jury in each case, many of the witnesses knowing nothing about the facts of the case. Following Is the report in part:
 We specially desire to call the atten- ton of the court to a practice which we find prevails to an alarming extent both in the city and county precincts which has consumed no little of our time and cost the county a large sum of money in witness fees without accomplishing any good whatever. In very many instances cases have been sent up from the In- ferior Criminal Court and from justices courts with long array of witnesses, who upon being examined have sworn that they know absolutely nothing about the cases in which they were summoned. In many of these cases the witnesses were police officers who made the ar rests. We would earnestly recommend that some method be adopted by which
  all affidavits filed by Tuesday so that we will have an opportunity to prepare replies? The Belt Line is represented by several able counsel who I am sure are thoroughly competent to prepare all af- fidavts they desire.
 MT. -"Honestly and candidly there are many matters in connection with the case that I know nothing of. l have been over them rather hurriedly with MT. London"
 Mr Bradley-"We may want an aff davit from MT. London himsef.'
 MT. Cabiness-"Mr. George II. Clark Is also an important witness from whom we will want an affidavit. I met him going home sick today. He Is general mana ger of the Belt Line and knows all about its condition"
 MT Tillman-"We are the party tied up, your honor, and the one hurt by delay and we want the matters finally decided at this term of the Supreme Court. They ask for time, yet will not concede to our proposition to give them time if they will assure us that the case will go to the present term of the Supreme Court"
 Mr. Cabaniss-"If we fail to give these gentlemen atfdavits on time 1t will be matter for your honors discretion to say whether we can use them at all at the hearing"
 The Court-"As fast as they are ready the plaintiffs should file their affidavits, and none of them later than "A hours be- fore the hearing
 SUGGESTS THURSDAY.
 MT. sPerey--'I think Thursday will b
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IN THE CHURCHES.

First Baptist Church. corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-second street, Revs A. J. Dickinson, D. D., pastor. Preach- ing at Il a. m. and D. m.; Sunday school at 9;30 a. m., Prof. J. M. Dew berry, superintendent. The subject of the morning session will be Vows and Their Place fin Religious Life"
 Wesley Chapel Methodist Church, Jas- per and Seventeenth avenue. Sermon morning and night by Rev. George Ram- sey, lay preacher.
 Chapter House. 2ol1 Sixth avenue. Free library and free reading rooms open td the public daily Members of the Broth. erhood will be found in attendance every night from 7:3o to 10 o'clock, and all young nen are cordially invited to fire. quent the chapter house and make them. selves at home there
 First Methodist Church. corner Sixth avenue and Nineteenth street, Rev | D. McFerrin. D. D., pastor. Preaching al 1, a. m. on the Lords prayer At D. m a service and song. with a short talk or popular amusements. Sunday school al 9.sc a. m. Young mems meeting at 3 D m. Epworth League at 7:15 p. m.
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sUGGESTs THURSDAY.

MT. tPereY-'I think Thursday will be
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
A school For Detectives.

In Paris aspirants for positions in the
detective force are taught in a regular
school, where day after day they are
put through various exercises until
they become proficient and receive ap-
pointments or show that they have not
the detective instinct In them.
The students first are trained in the
use of their eyes and their hands. One
of the lessons consists in placing the
pupil in a brilliantly lighted room full
of furniture and ornaments. Then he
is taken to another room and required
to make sketch of the room he just
has left, indicating the position of all
the objects In 1t. He is allowed to look
at face for a minute and then re-
quired to describe the color of the hair,
the eyes, the general form, etc. He
afterward is required to pick out a
photograph of the face from among
several hundred others.
In educating the hand the student is
placed in a dark room in which are
many curious and unusual objects.
These he feels over and then writes a
description of them. He must remem-
Der even the slightest details. One test
is to let him handle gems in the dark
and then tell what they are, whether
diamonds, rubies or what not. This is,
of course, an exercise for the more ad-
vanced pupils.
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The Japanese Wax Tree.

Japan wax" as it is called, is OBJ
tained from a tree. Rhus succedanea,
which is found in Japan, China and
throughout the East Indies in general.
In the Japanese language it is called
haze or haze. The tree commences to
bear fruit when five or six years old
and Increases its product every year
till at the age of fifty years a single
tree will produce $50 to 400 pounds of
berries. from which seventy to eighty
pounds Of wax can be obtained.
The wax is formed In the middle of
the berry, between the skin and the
seed, like the pulp of grape. 1t is
extracted by boiling the berries in wa
ter and allowing it to cool, when the
wax separates from the skin and seed,
sinking to the bottom of the vessel in
a solid cake. The specific gravity of
this wax is $40 and its melting point
131 degrees f. 1t is largely used, Ell
ther alone or mixed with tallow, by
the Chinese in the manufacture of
candles.
This tree should not be confounded
with the "tallow tree of China, which
has pith of solid tallow in all trees
that have fully matured.
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
A surv,vaI ot the Prim,t,v.

A Philadelphia philosopher thus ex-
plains the general preference for wall
table In a restaurant: primitive man
ate in peril. The cave bear, the saber
tooth tiger, even some warrior Of his
own kind, was apt at any moment to
leap upon him and to devour his food
and perhaps himself. Therefore he
took his meals with his back against
clin or in the corner Of two adjoining
cliffs, If possible, and with the open
country before him. That, you see,
was the safest way for him to eat. He
could not then be surprised.
"And we still have in us that memory
of the primitive man, and we still un-
consciously, when we sit down to our
repasts, choose places that give US
wall for our protection. That and not
a desire to see things Is what causes us
to pick out walls and corners. You can
see as well from the middle Of a room
or from any other place. you know"
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
The Original squeers.

The grossest injury which Dickens
ever inflicted on fellow being was
his too accurate portrait of an inno-
cent niNn in his Squeers. That York
shire schoolmasters were, as q rule,
cruel and wicked enough it is true, but
the particular schoolma ster- who was
recognized and who recognized him
self as the original Squeers seems to
have been an exception to the rule.
1t will be remembered that Dickens
and his illustrator Travelled together
to the north of England for the pur-
pose of collecting material for Mick
leby" and especially for the Dothe-
boys episode. At Great Bridge they
visited a boarding school known as
Bowes academy. The master, William
Shaw, received the strangers with
some hauteur and did not as much as
withdraw his eyes from the operation
OF penmaking during the interview.
Phiz sketched him in the act; Boz
described the act. The personal pecul-
iarities of William Shaw were recog-
nized in Squeers. Shaw became a butt
of popular rldicule, lost his pupils and
finally died of q broken heart. Yet
there is abundant evidence to prove
that he was really excellent and kind
hearted man, who was made to suffer
for the misdeeds of his neighbors.-
Literary Era.
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PreparinR Dates.

The preparation of dried dates Is car
ried on largely at Awabi, and as the
season had now commenced took the
opportunity to observe the process and
was taken round the factories by the
sheik. The dates selected are picked
before they are quite ripe. The fac
tory had chimney about fifteen feet
high and contained several open, cir
cular, copper boilers, capable Of hold
ing five gallons each and nearly full Of
water. Into these vessels the dates are
put and allowed to simmer over a slow
fire. AS the water in the copper de-
creased from evaporation it was filed
up again, but it gradually became
inspissated by the extraction Of the
juice of the date. The fruit is left in
the water about half an hour and is
then taken out and spread on mats or
cloths in the sun to dry, after which it
becomes hard and Of a pale red color.
1t is exported in large quantities from
Muskat to India.-Geographical Jour
nal.
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When SILK Was Precious.


Common as is silk nowadays, in ear
lier times it was a most precious ma
terial. When it was first brought into
Europe, silk commanded three times
its weight in gold, and so valuable was
it deemed that in the reign of Tiberius
law was passed forbidding it to all
save noble ladies and prohibiting men
from wearing it on the ground of its
effeminacy. So unusual was it even
200 years later for man to wear silk
that every historian of the time of
Heliogabafus noted the fact that that
emperor had silk gown. For ages it
continued at an abnormally high price.
Charlemagne in the year 7S0 could
send to King Offa of Mercia no more
valuable present than two silk coats.
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
common sen.e In LAW.

When we are told that every law
must be enforced to the letter though
the heavens fall, it has brave sound,
but a wise regard for the public good
demands that the laws be 80 executed
that the heavens may not fall. The
maxim that "the extreme of the law
may be the extreme of Injustice
"summum jus, summa injur,a"-is of
venerable age and has had the approx
Rl Of the best jurisprudence as well
as the best craftsmanship Of many
centuries. 1t is not mere "sophistry"-
as somewhat hastily, 1 suppose, it has
been called-but it may well be quoted
in support of the application of simple
common sense to complicated and per-
picking exigencies. 1 think there is not
government in the world, not even
the most conscientious, that does not
refrain from rigidly enforcing to the
letter some laws standing on its statute
books, either because they are anti
quated or because such enforcement Is
practically impossible or, If beneficial,
would result in evils greater than those
which those laws are to prevent or re-
press.-Carl Schurz.
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
A Jury Exnerience.

A man who had been summoned to
serve on jury in the New York city
supreme court the other day was asked
If he had ever served on jury before.
In deep, rich brogue he replied:
'Indade OF hove. Twas on a coro-
ner's jury down beyant south Jersey.
What looked like the remains Of
corpse had been washed ashore fur
ninst a shipwreck.
"We sat in hated deliberation on
what might be the cause of death for
twelve mortal hours, whin we called
in an ixpert, who Informed us that the
remains had been dead 1000 years an
was nothin' more'n a haythen Egyp-
tian mummy.
But that was not all, for the county
refused to pay our fees on some tech
nicility Of the law. Indade OF hove
served on a jury" He was excused.
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28

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mating time. Health does more than
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A great many women covet beauty and
are constantly seeking aids to beautify
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There can be no general health for
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Am in better health than ever before Every-
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Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
Ants and Magnetism.

That ants doctor their sick by hyp-
notism and magnetism is proved by OBJ
servation. An ardent student tells how
he witnessed what may be termed a
seance in medical science among ants.
He saw several of these little creatures
emerge from the hill and noticed that
there were some among them which
were weak and maciated-invalids, in
fact. They were accompanied by
healthy members of the community,
and all made their~way toward a dis
+ant mound.
On following their movements through
glass the observer saw on this mound
a big and sturdy ant, which made some
motions in the direction of the advanc,
ing invalids. The latter went up the
mound, one by one, and submitted
themselves to treatment. This consist
ed in the physician ant passing his feel
ers over the head and body of the pa
tient in manner distinctly suggestive
Of the hypnotizing of nerves and mus
cles practiced by human doctors. Ev-
cry one went through the treatment;
then the patients went back. and the
doctor marched off in the opposite di
rectiOn.
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
Bo,ogna.s Leaning Tower.

Bologna has two great square tow
ers, the Asinelli. which is 315 feet high
and was erected in 1109, and its rival,
the Garisenda, which was built one year.
later and was originally much higher
and is rendered peculiar by its de-
cided inclination to one side. It Ia
now only 153 feet high, the width Of
one side is % feet, the walls at the
base are 6 feet 6 inches thick, while
higher up they are feet inches. It's
origin is somewhat obscure, but it was
certainly intended to outdo the Ash
mel! th were for retreat in rou-
bio Some say the original In
tentiO rs to make it lean, but 9TH
ers contend that either the ground has
settled or there was a defect In the
engineering. This unique relic was so
little thought of by one of its later pos
SCISSORS that it was sold in 1885 for 220
lire, something less than $44
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
The Fashion of the House.

A servant girl happened to be en-
gagged at a farmhouse where the mis-
treSs was known to have a hasty tenn
per.
On the first Saturday night the girl
was at the farmhouse she was told by
the mistress 10 clean the boots ready
for Sunday.
The mistress, on coming into the
kitchen later on. saw that the girl had
cleaned her own boots first. so she took
them up and threw them into tub of
water that was standing by and bounc-
ed out of the kitchen.
The girl said nothing. but when she
had cleaned the other boots she threw
them also into the water.
whatever possessed you to do that,
girl" asked the mistress on coming
again in the kitchen
The girl simply replied:
"Well, ma'am, please ma'am, I
thought it was the fashion of the
house, ma'am"-London Tit-Bits.
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
PlaHA In Insfallmenfa.

In nearly all the large cities of Spain
the theaters sell tickets for separate
acts of play. The plays are, as rule,
of the popular variety, plentifully in
terspersed with songs and dances. They
are, in short, a sort Of variety enter
tainment, with a slender thread of plot
running through them. They begin
early and end late, and large numbers
of performers are employed. Seats are
very cheap, and few people would care
to sit out the whole performance.
The result is that 1t is possible for a
small sum to buy ticket emitting the
purchaser to see one or two acts out of
five or six. The consequence is that
when the curtain comes down after an
act a large portion of the audience
leaves the house and seats are immedi-
ately taken by newcomers who have
been waiting for the end of the act
and have taken tickets for the next.
Even in grand opera and classic drama
this practice obtains in some of the
Spanish theaters.
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
London as 1t Was.

Haydn's Dictionary of Dates"
makes the statement that the old name
of the city of London was written
Lynden or Llyndin, meaning "the city
on the lake" An old tradition gives
us to understand that London was
founded by Brute, a descendant of
Eneas, and called New Troy or Troy
novant until the time of Lud, who sur
rounded the town with walls and NAM
ed it Caer-Lud, or Lud's town. This
latter is probably the correct version of
the story, if for no other reason be-
cause it is an easy matter to detect a
similarity between the expression Lud's
town and London. 1t is claimed by
some writer's that there was a city on
the same spot 1,107 years B. c., and it
is known that the Romans founded a
city there called Londinium A. D. 61.
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
MunmieSL

In estimating the value of a mummy.
its medicinal qualities are no longer
appraised, and thus the problem is cas-
Ter of solution. Its value must have
been greater when it formed a regular
part of the materia medica Until
pretty late in the eighteenth centurR
mummies entered into a great variety
of drugs. balms and other medica-
ments.
AS the genuine mummy was then ex-
pensive, recipes were given by many
ancient WITS for converting human
flesh into mummy. Usually only GER
tain portions of the body were used,
and these were beaten, dried, macerat-
ed and spfced out of all likeness to
their natural condition; hence beaten
to mummy"
Numerous illusions are made to the
practice in ancient literature, and in an
old play, Bird In a Cage" are the di-
rections, 'NIake mummy of my flesh
and sell me to the apothecaries"
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
Maspies and the stork

Once, when Joining shooting party
In England, the German emperor hap
pened to see magpie fly right over his
head. Turning round to the Duke Of
Cambridge, who was with the party,
his majesty said: 81 have just seen n
magpie. Now, I'm not a particularly
superstitious kind of a man, but don't
like to tumble across these wretched
birds, don't, indeed"
The duke laughed and said cheerful
ly: docs your majesty know our old
saying concerning the superstition
about magpies? One for sorrow, two
for mirth, three for a wedding, four for
a BIRTH Your majesty must look round
for second or third or fourth mag
pie"
"Oh, indeedr' thoughtfully replied
the kaiser. "a fourth magpie means a
birth. does it? But supposing there is
a fifth magpie, what thenf
eff you see fifth magpie," answered
the duke, very solemnly, at means
tWinsw
Amador ledger., 1902-02-28
One Cold Saved,

Logic is logic, whether it touches the
affairs of nations or a cold in the head.
The conviction, says Tit-Bits, was fore
ed upon a Liverpool woman whose
coachman, although he had been ill for
several days, appeared one morning
with his hair closely cropped.
"Why, Dennis" said the mistress,
whatever possessed you TO have your
hair cut while you had such a bad
coldP"
"WeI, num-" replied the unabashed
Dennis, 81 do be takin' notice this long
while that whiniver 1 have me hair cut
take bad cowld, so 1 thought to me-
self that now, while l had the cowld
on to me, it would be the time of all
others to go and get me hair cuttin'
done, for by that course l would save
meself just one cowld. Do you see the
power of me reasonin', mumT"