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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-12
From the Louisville cour,er-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 XON N the 4th of March John P. Jones V/ of Nevada will have completed
 five full terms in the United States senate, and will give way to Francis c. Newlands, who has been chosen to succeed him. This service of thirty years is long, but it has been equaled by several others, and excelled by two-John Sherman of Ohio and Jus tin S. Morrill, of Vermont, each of whom served thfrty-two years. MT. Jones' how in the senate except Mir. Allison, who en- tered at the same time and so is called the father of that body.
 The first man to serve as much as thirty years in the senate was Thomas II. Ben ton of Missouri and he embalmed that distinction In a book known as Thirty Years in the Senate" He was elected in 1920 It is true that William Rufus King of Alabama is credited with thirty years service and, was elected in 1S1s But he was minister to France from 1844 to 1S46, and did not reappear in the senate till 1S4S, when he was chosen to fill a vacancy. In 1S49 he was reelected vice. president, took the oath of office in Havana and died April IS, 1853 His ser vice in the senate. therefore amounted to hardly thirty years, and, at all events. Benton concluded his service before King. Besides those mentioned, W. B. Allison of Iowa will have completed thirty years of continuous service on March 8, the
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FAINT PRAISE FOR ANkENY.

It is now said of MT Ankeny that while he is the richest man in the state he has never made any money by pressing any advantage he may have had against those who were in distress; that he has never foreclosed a mortgage on the home of man who was temporarily in distress and could not pay. AS this is said Of him after his election it is probably true, and it is greatly to his credit. Many men who have much money are careless of the means by which they increase their hoards If Mir. Ankeny is really not one of that kind, let nobody envy him any thing he has gained either in business or politics
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GUN WORTH MILLIONS.
Ownership of Revolutionary Musket
 May Settle Large Estate.

Atlantic City Dispatch to the New York
 Tribune.
 Members of the Stoy family all over the United States, including Mayor Franklin P. Stoy of Atlantic City, have been in terested in finding the possessor of a cer- tain revolutionary musKet, ownership of which may carry with it the inheritance of an estate in Troy, Pa, worth, it Is said several million dollars. letter re- eeived by Mayor stoy probably settles the question of ownership of the gun. Isaac Stoy, of Sherwood, Mich, stating that he Is it's possessor.
 Seventy years a granduncle of Isaac Stoy supposed to have been granduncIe also to Mayor Stoy's father died on the estate, and the property was leased to John Stoy, his nephew, father of Isaac.
 The leases have now expired and the estate has been taken into court for set tlement. At that time It was found that inserted in the grant to the original lease, was a clause which provided that any dispute in regard to the succession of the property was to be settled by the pos session of a revolutionary musket, which was minutely described ana spoken or as having been carried by one of the orig inal Stoys at the Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown, The musket was to be passed to the nearest heirs of the holders of the lands and to be absolute proof of owner ship.
 The hunt for the gun which followed showed that it had passed into and through the possession of several heirs, none of whom knew it's value as a proof of ownership of the Stoy estate It was treasured, however. as a memento of the valor of the original American Stoy. A few years ago it came into Isaacs pos session. Mayor Stoy has informed him of the queer circumstances under which the big bequest Is made and. backed by the remainder of the Stoy family, Isaac Stoy will make a fight for the estate
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TO A WATERFOWL.

By William Cullen Bryant. Whither midst falling dew. While glow the heavens with the last
 steps of day. Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou
 pursue
 Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowlers eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee
 wrong, AS, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink UT weedy lake. or marge of river wide, Or where the rocky pillows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that painless
 coast The desert and illimitable air Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have famed, At that far height, the cold. thin at-
 nnosphere, Yet stoops not. weary to the welcome
 land,
 Though the dark night is near. And soon that toll shall end; Soon shalt thou find summer home,
 and rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds
 shall bend - Soon, OCT thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone. the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet on my
 heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast
 given.
 And shall not soon depart. He who. from zone to zone. Guides through the boundiess sky thy
 certain flight. In the long way that must tread alone. Will lead my steps aright.
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HOLMES AND THE CIRCUS BILLS

From the New York Post.
 Justice Holmes of the Supreme court had a congenial problem in the case--are chromo-lithographic posters of circus properly protected by the copyright law? His affirmative decision carried him into regions of aesthetics rarely traversed by men of the robe, and his opinion Is ex- pressed with refreshing vivacity and good sense. First. he maintained, we may not deny the utility of circus posters, nor their essential originality Even in "a very modest grade of art is something ir- reducihle, which is one mans alone. That
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something he may copyright" Again, he contended, "the least pretentious picture has more originality in it than directories ana the like, which may be copyrighted" Pursuing his analysis further, Justice Holmes declared, evidently alluding to the exhibits in the case, that 'the ballet IS as legitimate subject for illustration as any other" All of this is obviously good sense and good law, and while we rejoice especially that alliterative stylists and -lithographic designers may claim the full protection of the copyright law' we take also modest pride in the fulhllment of our prediction that the son of the autocrat was likely to bring an ele- ment of human interest into the austere proceedings of our highest court
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The Late Father HeIdenkamp.

The venerable Rev. Father Joseph Hell denksmp, s. J., who died recently In Mo- bile, was one of the best known and most highly esteemed priests in the south He was an old and dear friend of the Rev Father James A. Meurer, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrow. In his younger days the deceased was in charge of church in wytheviIIe Va, where Father Meurer also lived years ago. The following sympathetic sketch of the dead priest Is from the Southwest Virginia En- terprise
 Father Heidenkamp is fondly remem- bered by number of the Wytheville peo- pie, both Catholics and those not of hls church. Every one loved him, he was so gentle and kind to all who knew him. He was sent as pastor to St. Mary s Catholic church in 1858 and stayed one year and returned in 1863 and remained until lS7O I when his eyes failed him so seriously that he was advised to go south and take treatment. The Jesuit fathers in Mobile invited him to stay with them untl he felt more hopeful. So he did, and after two years treatment his sight was restor- ed Then he entered the order and mas since labored many years s faithful son of St. Ignatius. It was Father Heiden- kamp who saved our town from further destruction by fire in the w"H remem- bered "Toland's Raid" Colonel Poland and many of his soldiers had been Father Heidenkamps former parishioaecs, and when they recognized the priest, they stopped and listened to his rleadings Ito spare the town from further ruiu," and, consigning the body of their dead leader to him for burial they left the town. The priest and surgeon of cloyd's Noun tain was Father Heidenkamp. He was a true soldier of Christ. May his soul rest in peace"
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WANT PALACE STREET CARS.

New Orleans Telegram to the Philadel-
 phia Public Ledger.
 The women of this city have begun a movement to have the street railway company provide palace cars They say that they cannot ride in the cars as run at present when dressed in their finest, as they are dirty, and there is no telling who tneir seatmate may be. They do not mind paying extra for such cars. There Is no likelihood that the requests of the women will be compiled with,
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Infantiis squalls make parental hurri- canes
 It makes siri biush to think how en- barraesed her husband would be If she we're married
 There arc more ways of not getting at what woman means than there are hairs on mans head.
 Common sense is an investment that yields a low psr cent, but t seldom de- faults en It's interest.
 A weman's idea of prsct!cins the ser- mons her minister breaches is to try to make her husband do it
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IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
May Sell tho MetropoIItan.

10, Lesser, who recently sold the Metro pelitan cafe to Pappageorge Bros. said yesterday that he might also sell the Metropolitan hotel some time soon,
 Everybody knows how interested l am in the subject of immigration" said Mir Lesser and am desirous of getting in a position where can devote my whole time 10 1t. There Is an immense field for immigrants here in Alabama and all that is necessary is for someone to take hold of 1t and devote his whole time to the work.
 Tt Is my ambition to do that kind of work and the sooner get at 1t the better win be satisfied"
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sauerkraut and Dill Pickles.

''The demand for sauerkraut in the United States is steadily increasing, said an old restaurant man yesterday. q can remember when 1t was eaten only by Germans, but now everybody eats it nnd next to potatoes. tomatoes and lima beans. It is the most popular dish serve. The consumption of sauerkraut has
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Vermont will still be temperate in Spots. She is now on the Mississippi basis, and Mississippi is almost a pro hibition state.
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The relations between Mir. Bryan and MT. Cleveland are still strained and peculiar. Neither fully appreciates the other
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The governor of Nebraska rises up to denounce in one breath dancing, card parties and the theatre, although no clause of the Nebraska constitution covers those subjects.
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The legislature is beginning to pass bills and do the business it was sent to Montgomery to do. Better late than never.
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Spinsterhood begins, says a young woman's club of Long Island, at the age of twenty-five. This is official and definite.
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The sun actually shone yesterday,
ovERcRoWplNo.

From the Baltimore American.
 There are faint signs that the twen- tioth century Is going to see rebellion against the sardine system of street-car traveling.
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John D. Rockefeller tried to pour oil on the troubled trust waters, and his efforts miscarried.
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Mrs. Ankeny elected her husband to the senate, it is said, but the Chicago Tribune says the senator-elect himself paid the freight.
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Japan will haye Kiuchu at the St. Louis fair, but hay fever sufferers will not be invited.
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Vermont has joined the local option states, thus reducing the consumption of moonshine whisky.
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Three members of the next con- gross, the Fifty-eighth, are already dead, and two are newly wed.
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Reggie Vanderbilt is now outranked as loser at poker by the dead and gone Hostetter.
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General Grosvenor's book is now moro talked about than Mary Mac. Lene's,
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No babies and no dogs will be ad. mitted to the new woman's hotel in New York.
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Editor Bryan shows that that mil. lonaire story Is subject to many re. bates,
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doubled. think, within the past fifteen or twenty years.
 "A great deal of kraut used to be im- ported from Germany. Meintz on the Rhine Is famous for It's sauerkraut in- dustry and thousands of tons of the product were shipped to America annual ly But Just as good sauerkraut Is made in the United States as In Germany, and all that is consumed in Birmingham is American made.
 "Dill pickles that were formerly ship ped here from Germany are now turned out on large scale in the United States. l do not believe that any dills are im- ported nowadays. The recipe for these German pickles Is very simple. The cu- cumbers are first soaked in brine. After wards they are put in fresh water and covered with grape leaves Sour grapes and dill weed or dill seed are added. And then we have the dill pickle"
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Four Territories and the Senate,

Politics and politics alone keeps Ari' zona, the Indian Territory, New Mexico and Oklahoma out of the union, and yet they are rapidly increasing ln population. as the following table
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Instead of catching Aguinalde, Gen. Fred Funston Is now catching aalmen'
 =z----.s.-------= Secure ward registration certificate today. It ia yeur last chance,
 ------------------- Senator Morgan will receive nc val entineu from Colombia,
 =z===z=zaaszz=- Venezuela does not need to adyer' tise for a list of debtors,
  The Balkan war-oloud Is full of storm warnings,
 .-------.----ss.------- Mogul engines only arc to have crews of three,
 --s.- Mrs. Nation and the Duke of Argyll are kinfolks, Secretary Root has joined the lily whites,
 The suy, pptlaIlV shune veSterday,
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Senator Morgan will receive nc val entineu from Colombia,
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Ths President is tee strenuous to bs $ seed RHgisF.
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About Persona

The Right Rev. Edward P. Allen, bishop of Mobile, arrived in Birmingham yester- day and will probably remain here for a day or two
 F. H. Harding, T. H. Smith, J. c. Jor- dan and T. G. Harding of Mlddletown, N Y, are stopping at the Hillman.
 J. c. Jones of Huntsville is at the Nor ris.
 Sam B. Smith of Chattanooga Is regis tered at the Metropolitan.
 J. E. Sanford of Huntsville is at the Hillman.
 c. F. Cross and wife of Gadsden are at the Morris.
 W. w. Baldwin of Union Springs is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 L, E. Brown of scottsboro is at the Hillman.
 J. B. Paisley of Selma is registered at the Morris.
 James L. Herring of Ashville is at the Metropolitan.
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Secure a ward registration certificate today. It ia yeur last chance,
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Venezuela does not need to adver. tise for a list of debtors,
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Ht ONLY pAll, uswselpIs II Asts,aA

But yet will make assurance double sure, and take a bona oS fate
 -Macheth.
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The Balkan war-oloud Is full of storm warnings,
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Mrs. Nation and the Duke of Argyll are kinfolks,
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Mogul engines only arc to have crews of three,
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Secretary Root has joined the lily whites,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-02-05
BUDS AND FLOWERS OF
HOME LIFE.
Pains's Celery Compound Makes and Keeps
the Children Well and Strong.
Mothers Make II the Home Medicine
For the Little Ones.

The children, God bless them, are the buds
and flowers of our homes. Without their
prattle and hearty laughter, our homes would
be desolate. They should ever be carefully
tended in childhood and youth, If we expect
them to ripen into perfect men and women.
In the home and at school, the children
have their times of i'll health and suffering.
We often note the pallid and bloodless cheeks,
heavy eyes, nervous movements, and twitch-
ings of limbs and muscles. They complain OF
headache, drowsiness, WEAKNESS, dyspepsia,
and indigestion. All such symptoms and all
ments mean that the seeds of disease will have
fast and finn hold, unless proper measures
are taken to restore perfect condition OF
health.
Thousands OF wise and prudent parents have
made their children happy, healthy, and vigor-
Gus by giving them natures medicine, Paine's
Celery Compound. In many severe and COM
plicated cases, Paine's Celery Compound has
restored health when the little ones we're given
up by physicians.
II your dear ones are not as hearty, strong,
and rugged as they should be, try the health
giving virtues of Paine's Celery Compound.
II makes and keeps the children well.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-02-05
A Just Beast.

In the days when the late archbishop
OF Canterbury, DR. Frederick Temple.
was master OF Rugby he sentenced to
expulsion a boy who was innocent of
the offense charged against him, but
who could not clear himself without
exposing the real offender. The lad
made up his mind to bear the punish
ment and wrote TO his father saying
that he was sure his family would rath.
er have him expelled than know him to
be sneak.
The father promptly sent the letter to
DR.. Temple, calling attention to a post
script in which the boy said he wished
the doctor could understand the matter
and added Temple is a beast. but he
is just beast"
1t is on record that Temple did under
stand, and the boy was not expelled
DR.. Temple, grim old man that he was
was always proud of the title "a just
beast"
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Primitive sIeds

From history we learn that the boys
In the time OF George III. coasted on
sleds made OF small board, with
beef bones as runners. But these drop.
ped out OF sight when an inventive gen.
ius built one out OF a barrel stave. for
his invention was extensively copied.
The barrel slaves were called Jump
ers" and 'slippers" and were made Of
a single barrel staye of moderate width.
to which was nailed twelve inch seat
post about amidships. piece OF bar
rel head constituted the seat. TO navi-
gate this craft required no little skill.
the revolutions performed by the rider
while "gcttin' the hang of the derned
old thing" being akin to the antics OF
tenderfoot on bucking broncho. A
more stable and docile jumper was
made by fastening two or three slaves
side by side. but these were not con
sidered as fast travellers as the single
staves.-Outing.
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CornstsIks as Feed.

Cornstalks that are free from smut
and which were cut up as soon as corn
was glazed and well shocked and
which have not bleached out badly in
rain and sun make good. safe rough
feed for horses or cattle IL cut up fine
ly. or course they must have proper
heterogeneous grain feed with them.
Stalks that were cut up late and which
are badly weather beaten have little
nutrition IN them. They are apt to
cause indigestion. as horse must eat
too much TO get little. This is partic-
ularly true of stalks In the west that
have stood in the field uncut and which
are pastured off. Even steers suffer
sometimes from eating these. Good
bright cornstalks are all right when
fed with proper grain.-Practical Farm
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Clover sickness is thing Of the past
FOR the intelligent farmer OF the pres
ent day. When IL fails to grow upon
any Of his fields. he furnishes the con.
dltions under which It's full develop
mcnt Is puSsille An examination OF
the clover roots will decide. II tuber-
Giles are found, the plants will take care
of themselves. provided OF course other
conditions are suitable. IT, on the con.
trary. they are absent. the field must
either he supplied with light dressing
or soil from field In which they are
known to exist abundantly, OF the
young plants Will perish. American
Agriculturlst.
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Still a third bill, which will have
the leagues support, is a measure alb
solutely prohibiting the sale Of liquor
to females. The argument In favor Of
this bill is that while II is bad enough
to permit the sale Of liquor to men. 1t
Is vastly worse to countenance Its sale
TO women. inasmuch as the use Of
liquor by women has the more demon
alizing effect upon the house. As q pre-
urinary to arousing enthusiastic sup
port OF these measures on the part Of
the temperance people OF the state gen
orally, the league has called an anti
saloon congress TO be held in this city
next week. Delegates have been in
hted from all church and temperance
organizations. oranges. young peoples
societies, etc, I'm the state
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To stop IN. cpayinx Rabbit.

Colonel Wv Rosamon. president Of
the Tennessee State Farmers institute
says that he has used for thirty years
the formula given below. and II APP
piled in December and March he will
guarantee that the trees will not b'
touched by rabbits:
Thoroughly mix and apply to fruit
and other trees two gallons OF hot wa
ter. hal gallon Of soft soap and q
gill Of cruG carbolic acid. and to this
add sufficient quantity OF fresh lin,
TO make a thick whitewash and apply
to the tree with n brush or rag mop
giving the tree coat from the ground
up about three feet.
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The Hud Of m Tree.

Among the curious things recently
discovered by the students Of plant life
is the fact that bud taken from one
tree and grated on another carries the
age Of the original tree with 1t. 1t has
always been believed that the bud so
transferred began wholly new life.
but this new theory-it may. after all,
be more theory than fact as yet
shows the matter In an entirely differ
ent light.
For example, il bud be taken from
tree that is twenty-five years old
with natural life of fifty years and
grated on another tree II will not live
MS long as its parent tree is entitled to
live, the full fifty years, but only for
The period of life then left to the tree.
twenty-five years.
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Advertise in the BANNER. II
will pay you
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-02-05

MIX % a Factor In Beef Production.
The milk producers OF today do not
depend OH beef cattle for milk produc-
ton. says Professor G. +. Curtiss OF
Iowa. The general impression is that
beef production and milk production
are antagonistic and that a man who
wishes To produce milk must, like the
traveller at the branching OF the road.
take Il different direction and entirely
lose sight of the other. Mix giving is
one Of the characteristics of the beef
breed which | believe to be inherent
and essential for the best results in
producing beef cattle not for the pro-
duction of milk for the sake OF milk.
but for the production of beef to the
highest utility and profit. This il con
trary TO prevailing opinion on this sub
ject, which is that the man who wishes
to produce beef bad better do il with
animals that have no tendency to milk
believe that milk production is essen.
tial TO the highest degree OF excellence
in the beef animal, to the reproductive
powers Of the animal