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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20

r Paris December 19.-We are to have a IHoraI academy, which is to be started on hines similar to those which Goncourt Isketched out for his literary academy (which he hoped would put the Academic l1Grancaise on it's mettle. The originator kof the scheme is NJ Cesbron. the flower Ipainter who has brought into it those masters in his branch of art NM. Quost lRivoire, Georges, Verneuil, the theatrical land house decorators, and Roche, who hurns to such exquisite use the treasures hof the flower garden in his funeral monu- tments, which many others who have won thames as industrial art designers. ces' ibron is to the floral world what Landseer Ewas to dogs, but without those conceits Iof the latter artists which do not bear hhe test of time. He only understands the flower in it's natural surroundings, and IS really so sensitive to hints, suggestions, and promptings that he can almost hear the voices of the garden and yet more Of the field, when the springs sun has called forth flush of bloom
 Victor Hugo had the same preference for uncut flowers. Indeed cut flowers seem to him a piece with q hecatomhs which in ancient times gave Solomon temple the appearance and odors of sham bles. He carried this sentiment so far that on his eighteenth birthday, when the grand floral demonstrations made by the Parisians in his honor had come to an end, he said: "One thing deeply afflicts me. It is that people should fancy me being so barbarous as to imagine that the massacre of Riviera gardens which those pyramids of flowers involved could give me any pleasure. The growing flower in its natural place inspires me. see 1t there in it's grace and joy and it's lovely truth in it's own peculiar nature. A cut flower seems to me a murdered flower, and in short, vegetable corpse which is in few hours to be an object of dis gust"
 M. Cesbron learned to paint flowers in the garden. He cultivated the visual memory to be able to bring home from walks in the fields and forest the exact appearance of the flowers he had seen there His daughter, the coming lyrical tragedienne who not long since made her debut. has the same passion for growing Flowers and the same memory of the eye Tor their peeuliarities. Micheet. the his torian, objected to cut flowers being used In the decoration of his salon, and lived In the same house far into old age for the sake of the wide balcony on his fifth floor Nat It looked down on the Luxembourg gardens and had sunny aspect, and he could sit on 1t surrounded by growing flowers. There was also room on it to place there at night when the weather permitted the flowers growing jardnieres on the mantel fin front of the fireplace, and on the top of his desk. They remain ed out until about eleven in the forenoon. ~hen Mime. Michelet took them in until the evening came round again. He used
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
DEARTH OF CHAMPAGNE.
EngIishmen May Have Difficulty in
 Procuring the Beverage.
From the London Mail.

From the London Mall.
 The news that the 1903 vintage of cham pagne has been a complete failure will strike dsmay into the heart of the Brit ish diner. It is true that no immediate lack of this popular wine is to be an tieipated, but the hotel and restaurant keepers and the wine merchants are mak- ing not unreasonable use of their op- portunity, and are putting up the price of the earlier vintage 1898 and 1895 are already becoming scarce; 1893 and 1892 command prices which are almost pro- hibitive; it is rare to find a bottle of 1887 in good condition and the failure in quick succession of the three years 1901, 1902 and 1903 means that the worlds demand will speedily oststrip the visible demand.
 Whether in the want of champagne the entertainer and his guests will take to other wines may be debated Perhaps the chief virtue lies. and has always lain, in it's costliness; in subtlety of flavor 1t can not vie with claret or with hook or the finer kinds in the eyes of the epieure. And. as 1t will now be costlier than ever, it's vulgar virtues will be corresponding ly augmented.
 The humber purse may have to content itself with sparkling moselle or even with the elaborate confectons of the chemist disguised beneath the daintiest of tin foil; but, perhaps, he will not be very much worse off than in the past. since it is crediby reported that there is already a great demand for the harmless juice of the gooseberry, suitably manipulated, for those who set the appearance above the reality. Then there are always the years of champagne which are not known to the man of taste but which must be sold somehow. and which can not well find better use than in teaching by the headaches which they impart the virtue of self-restraint to the youthful diner. Gourmets will not greatly sorrow at this failure of champagne In their eyes the taste for this wine has always been a taint of primal imperfection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20

Probably the similarity between the arti- cles offered and himself struck his cloud ed m so long vaguely groping for the mean ; of things. He himself was an odd and end and remnant of humanity for whom nobody had any use and for whom
 there was no demand. With a pathetic flash of the humor belonging to his race, he suggested that he be put up and offer ed at auction He had been tramping un- til he was tired and hungry and nobody
 wanted him. He was tired and hungry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20

and after the forty years of freedom found it to be a failure and longed for the old days of slavery when he belonged to somebody and somewhere and at least could know where his food and clothing would come from. He was put up and sod-in Marion county, Indiana. in the year 1903, by a woman auctioneer of the Womans Christian Temperance Union. The bidding indicated a distinct decline in the commercial value of the colored brother. This one brought s2.39 on slow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
Slave Auction Revived.

From the Richmond News-Leader.
 The awe-stricken attention of all New England and Kansas is invited to the establishment of slave mart in Marion county, Indiana, under the patronage of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The press dispatches tell us that this organization was conducting recently a ''rummage" sale, which we understand to be an auction of odds and ends, rem nants and bits unused and not needed. Along came venerable colored brother. from whose wrists the hateful shackles of slavery were struck and who began to breathe the glorious air of freedom forty one years ago come next New Year. lie contemplated the rummage sale forlornly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
MANY PASSENGERS KILLED IN A YEAR A Total of 321 in the United
 States DECREASE IN FATALITIES Interstate Commerce Commission Gives Interesting Railroad Statistics in , Report for Year Ending
 June 30, 1903.
DECREASE IN FATALITIES

Figures show that total of 321 passen- gers on railroads in the United States were killed during the year ending June 3O 1903. In all 71161791O passengers were carried during that period which glVes a fatality per centage of -00O45 per thou- sand of the passengers carried,
 In train accidents 164 passengers were killed, making the percentage .O0O25. The railroads of the United States had total of 1,SS3S24 employees on their pay rolls last year and of this number S233 met their death while so employed. In train accidents 12H employees were killed. The percentage of the employees killed in accidents per thousand was therefore '95.
 There was a decrease in the number Of fatalities to passengers in train accidents, over the previous year according to the figures given in the bulletins of the in terstate commerce commission. The ln- crease in the fatalities to employees is partially accounted for, by F per cent. increase in railroad employees. Bulletin No of the interstate commerce com mission explains the matter in this way:
 "The enormous expansion of freight traffic has lead to the employment of new men so rapidly that the percentage of inexperienced men in the service was in the year under review larger than be- fore for many years"
 The following figures showing the of fieial returns for 1903 gives the operations of the railroad companies of the United States:
 Passengers carried....,........ 71,61191O Passengers carried one mile... H, 550,S SH, ,015 Tons carried l,1tg3 f,l4 Tons carried one mile..........1 IFS, 6S0, 724,S2O Number of employees. ........... 1888, PA
 The figures showing that a total of 3554 were Killed yield the following rela- tive figures:
 Passengers to one killed, 1903. ?, PIG, 566 Passengers to one killed, 1902. ......2, 123, 420 Employes to one killed 1903. ....... 4l2 Employees to one killed, 1902... AZ
 In commenting on the fatalities bulletin No makes this statement: Railroad companies are much more careful to in- elude all accidents in their reports to the commission than they did when the law requiring reports of accidents went into effect"
 The casualties in 1903 show an increase of 735, including passengers and employees over the previous year. although it Is to be seen from the following figures that a majority of these casualties were in no way connected with the movement of trains
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
Mrs. wlnslow's soothlno Syrup.

The best remedy for D1ARRHOEA. Sold by druggists In every part Of the world Re sure and ask for Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup, and take no other kind. Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS hv MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETH1NG, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD. SOFrENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN. CURES WIND COLO. and is twenty-five cents a bottle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20

bidding In the old times-and 1t is pitt iful thing when we come to think of it. negroes put up for sale had pride in bringing good prices and attracting bid ders If any of that feeling remained in this citizen he must have been mortified by the result. But kind-hearted mer- cLant bid him in, and the old negro left with his new master-who promises to give him light work and wages, if he can earn them-apparently thankful and con- tented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20


 It is a known fact that more passen- gers and employees were killed failing from cars or engines or while getting on and off than in collisions.
 A recent bulletin of the commission shows that no less than fifteen collisions occurred in one quarter, several of them serious in spite of the adoption of block signal systems by many of the railroads. Although there was a heavy increase over the preceding year in fatalities from coupling accidents. it is well to remem- Der that 1t has only been since 1900 that the number of fatalities from this class of accidents fell below 200. In 1900 there were 2S2 fatalities but five years later, when the total number of railroad em- ployes reached 7S50S4 there were 29l, against 253 for the year ending June 30, 19o3 among 1883, 224 employees.
 It is said that the chances of escape are a thousand times better on a train than moving about in a busting city.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
THE WORLDS FAIR, 1904,

IL of especial interest to every one.
To give an idea of the buildings az
they will appear when completed,
we have published a Bird's-Eye
View, 31x42, which will be mailed
on receipt of 10 cents (silver or
stamps) to prepay postage. Address
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04

To the Citizens of Baxter Springs:
The committee on Decoration for
the 4th of July ask that we all har-
mouiously unite on that day, and
that we all decorate our houses and
places of business on the morning
of the 4th, and make the old town
resplendent az never before on this
patriotic occasion. Bring out Old
Glory and let it wave from every
point of view on Saturday, July 4,
1903.
By request of Committee on Dee
grafton. WIN. CALLS, Chairman.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
Armstrong, the East Side barber.

A young man who sought a clerk.
ship in one of the departments once
asked the late Robert q, Ingersoll
for his endorsement and this was
Ingersoll's reply: "Young man, I
would rather have forty acres of
land, with a log cabin on II and the
woman love in the cabin-with a
little grassy, winding path leading
down to the spring where the water
gurgles from the lips of the earth,
whistlipg day and night to. the
white pebbles. perpetual poem
with holiyhocks growing at the
corner of the house, and the morn
ing glories blooming over the low.
matched door-with lattice work
over the window 90 that sunlight
would fall checked on the dimpled
babe In the cradle and birds-like
songs with wings-hovering in the
summer air, than be the clerk of
any government on EARTH"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04

Miami seems to be overrun with
bootleggers. Three of them were
arrested last week, however.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
WANTED-Ioo TEAMS.

Iwant 100 teams to put up hay,
Good wages. Call on me at Qua
paw, I. T. W. T. APPLE.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04

The Miami Herald says the NEWS
man is wrong in saying that the
jointist who went from here to Mi.
ami is running a Peruna place.
The Herald says he skipped from
Miami q long time ago, leaving a.
number of creditors.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
SATURDAY, JULY 4.
THE TRUANCY LAW.

Interesting Information About the
New Law.
Senate bill No. 200, which was
passed by the last Legislature
makes provisions for compulsory
education which can not be evaded
or disregarded 40 such provisions
have been heretofore. The law is
modelled after the trnancy law in
some of the Eastern states where it
has proved very successful. The
principal provisions are as follows:
Every parent or guardian having
control of children between the
ages of eight and fifteen years in
elusive, shall be required to send
such children to school for the full
term provided for in the district in
which such parent or guardian
lives provided that any pupil who
has reached the age of fourteen
years and can read and write the
English language is not required
to attend more than eight consecu-
tive weeks if actively engaged in
the support of some one dependent
upon him. Common school grad
yates and those who ars physically
and mentally incapacitated are ex-
empt from the provisions of the
law.
The county is to be divided into
not more than FIVE truant districts
and the commissioners, on the rec
of the county super
intendent are to appoint a truant
officer for each district whose duty
1t is to see that this law is obeyed.
To aid in carrying out this law, the
distaict clerk or the enumerator in
taking the school census must take
the name, age, date of birth and
residence of each child of school
age and the parent or guardian is,
required to subscribe and take an
oath or affirmation to the report he
gives. One fist of these names is
kept In the district, another filed in
the Office of the superintendent and
every teacher employed in the state
of Kansas is required before receiv-
ing each months salary to report
to the superintendent all cases of
truancy or habitual absence and
the reasons for such. Any parent
or guardian who does not comply
with the provisions of the truancy
law is subject to fine of not less
than S. nor more than SIS for each
offense. If pupil refuses to at
tend school and the parent or guar
dian declares his inability to COM
pei him to do 90 the truant officer
proceeds against such pupil az
would be done for any other disor-
derby act.
This law places our educational
system on an equal footing with
many older states and deserves the
hearty support of all good citizens.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Collins and
Mrs. Gregg have rented and moved
into the Art building on Sheridan
street.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
PROSECUTION.

Persons hunting or trespassing
In Reunion Park, or carrying away
any lumber or other property will
be prosecuted. This means bust
ness. CHAs. L. SMITH.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
The Re-Union at Cassville.

On Aug. Is, %, q and %. 1903,
promises to be the best one yet
held. From year to year this an
nual reunion has grown until 1t
has assumed immense proportions.
The excellent grounds with splen-
did spring thereon makes it de-
lightful place for such occasions.
1t is an ideal place for four days
pleasant outing. Many prominent
speakers will be present, and many
new attractions are expected. Tents
can be rented on the grounds.
Come and have four days of real
solid enjoyment. Privileges can be
obtained by addressing Committee
on Privileges, Cassville, Mo.
L. BEAsLEY, Chm.
q. n THrEIK. Sec'y,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04

All winning contestants will receive order from the
committee for the prize and presentation of order to
the donor will receive the prize.
The couple with the largest family will settle matters
with Roy Harvey.
The couple coming the greatest distance will SHOW
]. W. Grantham.
All of the mothers except the one blessed with the
prettiest baby will frown most unpleasanty our ex-
mayor and pappoose expert, c. w. Daniels.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04

Myrtle E. Price of the Gas City,
Kas., Herald was pleasant caller
at this Office Monday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04


Death has at last claimed the vic
tim of q singular disease. Nine
years ago David Yetter. of Oak
wood, Mich, was assailed with
rheumatism of q form that attacked
the joints. Progressive ossification
marked the case, the entire body
being stifened with the disease.
The victim was at length unable to
masticate food and relied on liquid
nourishment Then the jaws stiff
fened 80 that he could no longer
open his mouth. A front tooth was
extracted and through the opening
thus provided was given the nour-
ishment that added longer lease of
a life that even under such condi-
tions was preferable TO death.
When this came at last Yetter's
body had the hardness of stone.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04

George Morton, NJ. X. & T. Ry, Box
Oil st. Louis, Mo.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
o. n. THIBLE, Sec'y.

Hello-Had dinner? No! Come
to the Blue Front Cafe. Well treat
you right, give you all You can eat
and charge you zoe. Thanks, come
again. The best of everything, the
lowest In price. East side Military
street. Dunham's.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-08-20
NOTICE.

Pickett, Miss, August 17.-Editor
Brandon News: I take this plan to
correct the mistake that I have been
accused Of making in the minuets of
the Rankin County Association. Ras
Ross, ST., asked me if it was me or
the printer that made the mistake in
the valuation of Antioch church. I
want to say that the printer nor my
self did not make any mistake in that
matter. gave it in just as it was
in the Associational letter from that
church. If anybody does not think
my statement is true, come to my
house and get the letter from Antioch
church and compare it with the min
utes and you. will see that they are the
same in that case. do not say that
| did not make any mistakes in get
ting up the minutes, but this is one
casesI am not guilty of. I want to
say further that if there is any church
in the Rankin County Baptist Associ-
alton that has not received the associ-
ational letter, if the clerk will let me
know will mail him one at once
w. I'll. McLAIN.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-08-20
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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-08-20

ter tears when I saw life's bitterest
cup pressed to your lips walked with
you in the flower garden, where
bloomed the fairest flowers of spr ing
time; sat with you beside the lit
tie brooklet, where flowed the spark
ling crystal water; I sat beside you,
and smoothed away the death mist
from your brow when you seemed al
most tC Cross deaths silent river; but
the dark messenger with his icy hands
has laid me beneath the cold sod of
mother earth; there no more life IS
delightful story as of yoIe; no beauti-
full brooklet crosses my pathway on
it's course to join it's merry play
mates; streams have hushed their
cheering murmers; flowers have with
cred away and bloom no more; there's
no more the sweet songs of the birds;
hear no more the songs that mother
use to sing, nor the cooling of the
dove; you have planted flowers upon
my tomb and built a rickety barbed
wire fence around my grave, won
derful adornment indeed Now let
every one contribute little to defray
expense of building this fence. Let
flowers adorn the graves of our loved
onse, let monuments be erected to
their memory.