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Bennington banner and reformer. (Bennington, Vt.) 1903-19??, 1903-05-21
WHEN I'M NEW YORK
LAST week

{ we bought sixty large punches of Ban +.
! anas, extra large fine fruit right of the
I docks, green. We are ripening them up
+ this week and can now offer you extra
3 fine fruit, special prices for lot of three
+ dozen or more, wholesale price by the
: bunch. We shall buy bananas this sea-
?son in lots Of sixty to one hundred
{ punches at time and our store will be !
+ headquarters for the fruit, as it has a
{ long time been for everything in the !
+ grocery line. {
/ E. E. HART !
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
Hinh Winds in Two States.

Two Arkansas counties and one Alabama county were stricken by mar row but damaging wind storms on Tuesday night. Tomatoes rarely oc- cur after nightfall, but both of the storms of Tuesday occurred in the night, and they were hundreds of miles apart.
 To say that one had any connec' tion with or relation to the other Is of course impossible, as they occurred five hundred miles apart, under doubt less diverse weather conditions. Such storms are in fact almost invariably local, springing up in a district, touch ing the earth here and there over a short course, and then disappearing into the upper air where they are either worn out or dispersed.
 Nor does the lamentable occurrence in Blount county prove that it Is in a tornado district. It Is doubtful in- deed if the oldest inhabitant in that county can recall a similar storm, and Blount is an old county, having been created in 1918, and the honored name of Gov. Willie c. Blount of Tennessee given to 1t.
 The track of the storm near Hance- vile was about sixteen miles long and one-quarter of mile wide; that of the Arkansas storm was mile wide and perhaps forty miles long, travers- ing two counties. Both occurred among big hills or mountains, and that Is about all that is known of either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10

at St. Louis, This much may be con sidered settled.
 But there Is no necessity for giving up an exhibit simply because the gov ernor of the state cannot see his way clear to an approval of sufficient ap. propriation for the making of state exhibit. Let us roost lower. Let us be willing to join two or three or four other southern states, or at least let us get together a mineral exhibit, an agricultural exhibit and an exhibit that will make known the wooded wealth of the state. All of these three ex- hibits can be gotten together by the commissioner of agriculture at incon- siderable expense.
 It will never do to stay away from St. Louis altogether. Alabama is con. nected directly with that city--it Is tied to it by at least three lines of iron rails, and it would not be best to stay away altogether. It would not pay to do so. It would be the worst policy this state could adopt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
In the Cut at CuIebra.

The French company had force of about 2000 at work in the Culebra cut of the Panama canal when the Hay-Cromwell agreement was signed on March 8, 1902, and under the terms of that agreement this force has been kept continuously at work, the United States agreeing to pay the rights were purchased. These labor CTS are chiefly Jamaican negroes, and they will be kept at work until the canal treaty is finally and fully ratified, so that in limited way we are actual ly engaged in digging the canal.
 When, however, contracts are let for the speedy construction of the canal 30000 men will be employed, and the resources of the labor market of the isthmus and of the West Indies will be taxed to the utmost. To keep an active force of 9o,000 men on the canal, at least double that number will have to be carried on the pay rolls. None of this vast number should be drawn from the southern states simply because the negroes of the south cannot stand the isthmian suns and malaria. The West India islands should be drawn upon. for all them have large numbers of idle negroes The isthmian supply of labor Is very limited.
 The Colombian congress has not been convened, but it seems to be un- derstood it will be as soon us it Is known that a majority of its members will favor ratification of the pending treaty. The proceedings of any Spanish American congress are very peculiar, and President Marroquin knows the situation, and is no doubt acting up to his knowledge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
UnmuslcaI Wolves.
1e New York Times.

From the New York Times
 An incident just reported from sivas, Turkey seems to prove that the feeling which music awakens in wolves is fright. Two musicians-a drummer and piper returning to their village from a wedding party were overtal1en by a snowstorm, and sought refuge in deserted mill. They lit a fire with some wood they found in the place, and were warming them selves when they saw a wolf emerge from A dark corner of the building. They iur,ned up on a shelf and, to their dis nav saw several more wolves join the arzt The animals rushed in their direc- tion and the drummer at loss for a mode of defense set to beating his drum, yvhereupon his companion instinctively nlaved his pipe. The effect was mar vslious. The music so terrified the wolves that they attempted to run away and, as the door was closed, they began fighting, and several of them were torn to pieces, the survivors eventually escaping through hole in the wall. This incident is vouched for by the government Gazette of Sivas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
REMARKARLE LONGEVITY.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Campbell county, East Tennessee holds the record. It Is located along the Jelico and Coal Creek coal belt. The county has only about 15ooo population. Now, there are three centenarians in one family there-Richard Vincent few months past 100; George Vincent, 102, and James Vincent 1N Another remarkable family is that named Paul. Miss Lindsay Paul Is more than 100, while her father reach- ed the age of 115. Mrs. Bette Clepper Is the oldest woman living in the county, being 110 years old She has a son who is 9O. Another elderly lady Is Dolle Sut- ton aged 105, Authorities hold that wom- en average longer lives than men, and these three instances tend to prove it, do they not? The oldest living man in Campbell county is Jacob Hatmakcr who has passed his 107th year.
 These are facts. The census of the county. taken In 1900, will bear me out in part, while I have seen some of the parties mentioned. But--yes-peoplc die there. Nine centenarinns passed away during the latter part of 1901 and the summer of 1902. The eldest was John Meyers. aged l12. John Huhbar was the youngest-100. Jennie Dessert was no and Fielding Lowe was los. Up to last spring there were living only four widows of rev olutionary soldiers. One of these, who died there, but whose name I cannot now recall, was a resident of East Ten nessee. She married veteran at 16 and died at the "early" age of SS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
OSCAR LOWELL TRlGGS.

From the New York Evening Post.
 The news that Prof. Oscar Lowell Triggs of the University of Chicago may appear as a theatrical advance agent will give joy to every friend of higher education in america Such a dazzling promotion for Professor Triggs must at once make college teaching more attractive to ann bilious young men. Hitherto the com plaint has been that the pay is small and the work leads to nothing more. A young man who might have been law yer with an income ranging from SSO00 upwards, with a prospect of a seat on the bench or perhaps a brilliant political career, might reasonably have hesitated before becoming a professor with an in- come of $S0OO or $4OoO at the utmost, and no brass bands and skyroekets. But Professor Trggs has blazed the way to new glories. For years he has been show ing his colleagues that professor of mettle can himself be both brass band and a sl1yrocket. And now a theatrical manager offers him the exceeding great reward of s70o week to travel ahead of a play called Romeo and Juliet" place the stamp of professorial approval upon thls production of hitherto unknown author, and assure the good people of In- diana and Illinois that in his way Shake- spere Is the equal of Gen. Lew Wallace or even Prof. William Cleaver Wilkin- son of the University of Chicago. This is fine, and all the more so because if Professor Triggs. keeps on developing he will inevitably become the whole show himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
A Thinking Parrot.

From the New York Times.
 M Pierre Hachet Souplet. writing in the Paris Presse on the intelligence of birds and animals, relates remarkable accom- plshment on the part of parrot. He had taught Polly to use the words "cup- board and ladder and as he climbed the latter he had succeeded in inducing the bird to articuate the word climb" Every day when the bird was brought into the laboratory a small cupboard was opened, and Polly helped herself to hemp seed. one day. however. instead of the cupboard being placed where she could reach it. 1t was hauled up near the cell ing and the ladder was placed among sev- eral other articles in the corner of the room. The question to be decided was whether the bird, seeing that the cup board was out of NJ. Hachet Souplets reach, would have sufficient intelligence to use words it knew in their proper se- quence. The first days experiment was failure. The parrot screeched Cup boardl" "Cupboard.' beating It's wings and biting the bars of it's cage in anger, but it got no farther. That day the bird received millet which it did not care for,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
cHoPlN's FUNERAL MARCH.
How 1t Was Composed, as Told By
 Elem.

From the New York Times.
 Late one summers afternoon Chopin and I sat talking in my studio.
 I spoke of music and he of painting Strange, is it not? Artists are very fond of exchanging views in this way.
 In one corner of the room stood piano and in another the complete skeleton of a man. with a large white cloth thrown ghostlike about 1t.
 I noticed that now and again Chopin's s gaze would wander, and. from my knowl- edge of the man, knew that hls thoughts were far away from me and his surround ings.
 More than that, knew that he was composing
 Presently he rose from his seat without a word walked over to the skeleton. and removed the cloth. He then carried It to the piano, and seating himself, took the hideous object upon his knees.
 A strange picture of life and death! Then drawing the white cloth round him. self and the skeleton, he held the latter's fingers over his own and began to play.
 There was no hesitation in the slow measured flow of sound which he and the skeleton conjured up.
 As the music swelled in louder strain closed my eyes for there was something weird in that picture of man and skeleton seated at the piano. with the shadows of evening deepening around them and the ever-swelling and ever-softening music filling the air with mystery.
 And I knew I was listening to conn position which would live forever
 The music ceased, and when I looked up tho piano chair was empty anu on 'ne floor lay Chopin's unconscious form' ana beside him, smashed all to pieces' was the skeleton I prized so much.
 The great composer had swooned. but his march was found.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
Growth of RltuaIisn,.

The ritual party In tke Episcopal church Of the United States Is of slow growth as compaired with the same party in the Church of England,' said q church. man who leans to the ritualists. I am without late statistics but l doubt If there are as many as twenty-five Episco- pal churches that are fully in line with the ritualistic movement. whereas In England there are nearly, If not quite. one hundred where the mass is celebrated and where the only apparent difference between 1t and the Roman mass is in the language used-one being in English and the other in Latin. In addition to those almost full fiedged rltualist churches in England. there are scores where candles, rich sacerdotal vestments. and incense are used,''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Eight new stores in Greensboro are nearly completed.
 Wheat fields throughout North Alabama promise a bountiful yield.
 Kennedy, in Lamor county. had a s1o,- 900 fire. The postoffice was burned
 
 The Marion Business league recently organized, now has a membership of nearly 100.
 It is said that wild turkeys appear to be very plentiful in several sections of the state.
 The naval recruiting office at Montgom- cry closed after having secured only four enllstments.
 Anniston Star: The indications are that Anniston will have a strong baseball team this season. The team will be composed of college men who have been doing stel- lar stunts this and last season.
 A great many strawberry crates have been ordered by fruit and vegetable growers of Fruitdale, in Washington county. and the shipping of the berries to northern markets has begun.
 The property of the Export Coal and Railroad company, which had been In litigation for some time, was sold at auc- ton and was bought by T. J. Cornwall and J. Fred Robertson for $27oo.
 
 Anniston Star: One of the heaviest rains of the season fell this morning. The rain was accompanied by slight wind and lightning. Several bridges in different portions of the city were damaged.
 Dothan slftings "When you want pos sum ax fur hit" was the text of the ser mon for Dothans First Methodist church and parsonage. It will be good again. Let's "ax" for a new one now. and "ax fur hit' till we get it.
 A. R. Robinson of Alexander City spent several days in Talladega last week Investigating the opening for ma chine shop and foundry in Talladega. MT. Robinson has two brothers associat- ed with him, and the capital to be in- vested is $15,0O0
 Coosa Democrat: Our people pay taxes and want better results. We should have some street improvement. Sidewalks should be built and kept in good con dition. Water works for fire protection should be erected and the street light subject should never be dropped.
 Weekly Corinthia: Corinth is an excel lent place for the establishment of an oil mill The territory from which to secure seed is sufficiently large to supply big concern with seed, and the shipping facili- ties are favorable. Two sets of men are contemplating this location with view of moving here to operate this kind of enterprise, and between the two the Bus mess league hopes to secure something in this line for Corinth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
No Festival This Year.

Music lovers will miss the festival this spring. but we will probably have one next year." remarked a well known chorus singer. The first. second and third festivals came out very well finan- cially. l believe but the fourth, which was the one in 1902, resulted in a deficit. All of the events were conducted by MT. Guckenberger and were excellent artis- tcally. The Thomas orchestra was at its best every time 1t came to Birmingham for festival work, and the fine Birming- ham chorus surpassed itself last year, The audiences were as large as usual, too, but the mistake, or one of the mistakes, was in charging only s1 for seats instead of S1. 20 or $1.5O the price in previous years.
 Birmingham had made a great start as festival city, and it will not rest until 1t gets back into festival line."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
NEW JERSEYS GRAND OLD MAN

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 Mir Noah Raby of New Brunswick, N J.. has just celebrated his 131th birthday One hundred and thirty-one may justly be considered a ripe old age, but Mir Raby is not satisfied. He hopes and be- lieves that he will live to be 15O, and in- asmuch as he is now and has for many years been living in a poorhouse, his ann btion is commendable and natural He is not proving to be a burden to any of his relatives, he gets his tobacco regularly and being able to move about but little the wear and tear on his clothes Is very small.
 Some people are inclined to doubt that MT Raby Is 131 years of age. He has no sttested record of his birth and his mem ory of the event is somewhat hazy, but he should have the benefit of the doubt He says he has used much tobacco all his life, and proudly declares that he never was afraid of whisky. These cir cumstances, together with the fact that he Is in a poorhouse. are in themselves sufficient to indicate that his claim of be- ing 1S1 years of age must be well founded.
 What a lorg-lived people we might be if there were whisky and tobacco and poorhouses enough to go all around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
Roof-Breaking Crows.

Paris cablegrnm to Pittsburg Dispatch.
 For q long time the public works de- partment in Victoria, B. C., had been puzzled to account for the continued leak age in the roof of the drill shed, an im- posing building with a slate roof and solid looking towers in front. In spite of fre- quent repairs, slates would persist in fall- ing down. A thorough investigation showed that the trouble was caused by crows, who swarm on the beach at low tide and dig for clans. The birds found out that clam dropped on the roof of the shed would break nicely, leaving the con- tents in a safe and convenient spot for lesurely consumption. Nearly every time q clam was dropped on the roof slate would be cracked as we'll Scarecrows have been erected. and no crows have visited the roof since.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10

Hamlet and Macbeth he acts the prin- cipal lines.
 Harlee Osborn of Livingston is at the Metropolitan. Samuel L. Cox of Carrollton is regis tered at the Hlllman. Frank N. Julian of Tuscumbia is stop ping at the Metropolitan. c. B. Deans of Mobile is at the Morris.
  William | Thomson of New York is at the St. Nicholas w.P. Lay of Gadsden is stopping at the Metropolitan. J. s. Rodgers of New Orleans is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
HOW TO SELL GOODS.

A Shopgirl In Leslie's Monthly.
 You must know how to talk with customer so that she will buy is one or the things the buyer says over and over again in his lectures down in the base ment. Even when the girl is behind the counter at work the buyer will often step up and give her a hint. For instance ne will give a new name to an old piece ot goods. There is everything in name. He came up to me one day and said: Cal that line of goods the Marlborough and 1t was not long before I had sold the entire stock The sweller name Is, the better, of course Cumberland" pins will sell much better than plain pins even if they are the same thing. French names are much In vogue, too, and they are sometimes coined. Names taken from swell sports such as "Ping-pong," are also very good sellers. Another thing, of course, which helps a girl to sell the goods Is genuine knowledge of them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Women don't mind church services as much as men because their knees are so much softer.
 Where the devil Is SO smart Is that he always lets the one he wants to con- vince do the arguing.
 The first time a girl hears q man speak with admiration of her figure she blushes with mortifcation the next time she losses her head.
 When a woman says a man is a good husband she means one who will let his wife make an idiot of herself rather than be disagreeable about 1t.
 If man will write his wife's first name all over a sheet of paper and carelessly leave it where she can find It. It will take n good many gossips to convince her that he doesn't love h<.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 N NEW YORK PAPER printed an PV editorial recently the burden of
 which was that senators and representatives in congress neglected their legislative duties to attend social functions. It bewailed what it termed aping the customs of the monarchical courts of Europe, and prayed for A return to the days of democratic simplicity" which, 1t averred, marked the early days of the republic. The solitary illustration of what 1t meant was the citing of tra- dtion that Thomas Jefferson rode on horseback 10 the capitol to be inaugurat- ed hitched his horse to the paling fence while he went Inside to take the oath, and that at the close of the inaugural cere- mony he unhtched his steed, remounted and rode to the White House.
 The editor forgot to cite the historic fact that Washington, when President. gave levees quite as formal and cere- monious as those of the court of St. James. The father of his country was an aristoerat to his finger tips Simplicity. whether democratic or republican, never characterized his official or social inter- course with his fellow-citizens. His ap- parel was in the height of the fashion ot his day. of the finest and costiest ma- terial and made in London. At his levees he and Mrs. Washington stood on a dais to receive their guests. Washington was as scrupulous in attending to the social as to the official duties of his high po- sition. yet no one then or since thought of yelling functions at him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
TWO VIEWS OF THE SOCIAL
 SIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE

If Jefferson rode to the capitol on horse back. as tradition says he did. 1t was not through any excess of democratic or re- publican simplicity" but simply because Pennsylvania avenue, which lies in hol- low all the way from Fifteenth street to the foot of Capitol hill, was then unpaved, and in the early days of March, when tho inauguration took place, was a sea of mud and impossible for vehicles unless drawn by two or three yoke of oxen. Jef- ferson, like most Americans of that day, was an accomplished horsems and gen. erally preferred riding horse pack over the muddy roads of Virginia and the boggy streets of Washington to going in any sort of vehicle.
 When David B. Hill was in the senate he, like the New York editor in question. deplored the time given to social func- tions by senators and representatives, and gave out an interview on the subject in which he declared that the only way to remedy the matter would be to bundle all the women out of Washington and keep them out as long as congress was in session. Indifferent as Hill is to per sonal or partisan criticism, he quailed be- fore the storm of indignant protest from all sections of the country that his flount- ing of women aroused and admitted that he was sorry he ever gave out that in. terview.
 Supposed all social functions were stop ped, what would be the effect? Simply that card parties-mostly poker games stag" dinners, and drinking bouts would take the place of teas. dinners, receptions and balls and the second state of the statesman would be worse than the first.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
THE 6oATlE ROWS.
Anonymous.

Anonymous
 Oh, weel may the boatie row,
 And better may she speed; And liesome may the boatie row
 That wins the bairnies' bread. The boatie rows. the boatie rows And weel may the boatie row
 That wins the bairnies' bread.
 w ' ssf I coost my line in Largo bay.
 And fishes l catched nine; Twas three to boil and three to fry. And three to bait the line. The boatie rows. the boatie rowA The boatie rows indeed, And happy be the lot O a
 Wha wishes her to speed. Oh, weel may the boatie row.
 That fills a heavy creel. And cleeds us a frae tap to tas. Aud buys our parritch meal. The boatie rows. the boatie rowe The bcatie rows indeed, And happy be the lot O a
 That wish the boatie speed. When Jamie vowed he wad be mfnA. And wan frae me my heart, Oh. muckle lighter grew my creee He swore we'd never part. The boatie rows flu weel; And muckle lighter is the load
 When love bears up the creel. My kurtch put upo' my head.
 And dressed myser ru' praw: trow my heart was dough and waA. When Jamie gade ava. But weel may the boatie row,
 And lucky be her part. And lightsome be the lassie's care That yields an honest heart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-10
Easter Music.

Brilliant music will be heard in many of the churches on Easter. It will be especially fine in the Catholic and Epis- copal churches.
 At the Episcopal Church of the Advent Choir Master E. c. Powell. In the ab- sence of a rector the Easter services Ut Il a. m. will be conducted by MT. Powell as lay reader. ard not by the Rev. Mir Hall of Ensley, as erroneously an- nounced. NIT. Hall, however. will be at the Church of the Advent Easter morn ing at 7:3o o'clock and administer holy communion.