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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-09
LAST OF PLASTER
 CASTS HAVE COME First Vulcan Castings Soon to
 be Turned Out SUBSCRIPTIONS TO FUND Committees Still Collecting, But spe- clal Efforts to Be Made, as More
 Money Is Needed for vuI-
 can Enterprise.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO FUND

The last car load of the plaster cast of Vulcan arrived yesterday and will be placed this morning on the side track of the Birmingham Steel and Iron com pany, where the casting Is being made. This car cantains the head and should CTS of the statue, as we'll as the arm and trident, and now that it has arrived the work of casting will be pushed as rapid ly as possible
 It is probable that night shift win have to be put to work in order that the figure may be finished on time. Max ing the casting of the beard and face of the figure Is expected to be the most difficult part and 1t will require some time.
 First Casting.
 As rapidly as it can be done the moulds for the casting are being finished, and 1t is expected at the shop that the first cast ings will be made this week. probably tomorrow or Friday.
 Yesterday morning the various Vulcan committees of the Commercial club met at the office and started out at the same time to secure subscriptions. There were only about eight or nine out of the fifty of the committeeman present, but they secured s164.50. Three of the committees had not reported last night. and it is ex- pected that their report will amount to about $200 more.
 In few days. probably this week, Fred M. Jackson. chairman of the vul- can committee and president of the Com mercial club will go to Montgomery to urge that the state make an appropria- ton of about s2500 for the exhibit Un- less considerable relief is secured from the state and something more is sec from the city it Is feared that the will be short. Mr. Jackson said ye day that the people of Birmingham not awakened to the magnitude of task the club had undertaken or men would have long since opened purse strings and contributed fiber In fact they would send in money out being asked.
 The Subscriptions.
 Yesterdays subscription list was as lows
 Aount previously reported. .......s .sls,. .u0 N. II. Sewall.. :. .. .... .. 5.O0 Womans Club. .. .. 1000 klotz x Goldman .. .. 2.50 J. L. Challfoux & Co. .. .. .. .. 25.00 Louis Saks .. .. .... 10.00 J. Friedman x Co. .. :. .. .. 5.00 >Joe & Lee Slaughter :. .. .. .. .. 500 London & Cohen :. .. .. .. .. .. leo Pennsylvania Hat Go. :. .. .. .. 500 ID. B. Norton :. .. .. .. 10.00 Patton Pharmacy .. :. .. .. .. 200 Barber Drug Company .. .. .... 200 Sim Cheek Drug Co., .. .. .. .. 200 Fies Ss Sons. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1000 Adams Drug Co., .. .. .. .. .. e. 2.O0 Gum Drug Co. :. :. .. .. .. ... 10 co Dewberry &. Sons :. .. q. .. ...... 500 Alabama Supply Co. .. :. .. .. .. 15.00 William Redd :. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3.o0 St. Nicholas Hotel .. =. =. .... 1000 Zeke Solomon .... .. .. .. e. 800 McGeever Furniture Go. .. .. .. 500 McGeever Liquor Co. .. .. .. .. .. 500 John E. Morris .. .. .. .. .. .. 1000
 Total. ....N3,37 50
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-09
Policeman Murphy Resigns.

The resignation of Policeman H. L. Murphy was accepted. He was consld- cred one of the best policemen on the force. and the department looses q good man. The place of w. s. Baton was de- clared vacant He has been before the commission frequently on charges of fail- ing to pay his debts, and was finally sus- pended indefinitely. or until he could pay his debts He has been working at the Virginia iCty mines for some times, and the commissioners decided that they might as well declare his place vacant, but give him chance to get back on the force if he pays up his debts and can come back free from pecuniary obliga- tions.
 resolution was passed to hrow out all old applications for places on the force. Those filed before January 1. 1904, will be null and any one desiring a place on the force will have to make out new appli- cation.
 Supernumaries William St. Clair, James A. Kellar and James Buckalew were elect ed to fill vacant places.
 Commissioner Jones participated in a meeting for the first time last night He was elected to succeed Z T. Rudulph, re- signed
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-08-16
The Sign Of the Patch.
Raleigh, N. @.

Mrs. Murray had advertised for a skilled gar
dener to work by the day in her yard, and some
what to her embarrassment, she was obliged to
choose between two applicants who appeared at
the same moment. As she stood on her door
step, questioning first one and then the other, she
became aware that her mother-in-law, seated on
the porch a short distance from the men and di-
rectly behind them, was frantically gesticulating.
The old lady, satisfied at last that she had at
tracted her daughter-inlaw's attention, pointed
Enthusiastically toward the less prepossessing of the
two men; and the younger woman, supposing that
her relative had some personal knowledge of the
applicant, promptly engaged him.
HAS the man ever worked for you, mother?0
asked Mrs. Murray, when the two women were
alone.
: mo" replied the old lady. IT never saw or
heard of either of 'em until now"
"Ihen why in the world did you choose the
shorter man? The other had a much better face"
"tace!" returned the old lady, briskly. "When
you pick out a man to work in the garden you
want to go by his overalls. If they're patched on
the knees you want him. If the patch is on the
seat, you don't"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-08-16
THE HOME CIRCLE
Forest Hymn.

The groves were Gods first temples. Ere man
learned
To hew the shaft and lay the architrave,
And spread the roof above them; ere he framed
The lofty vault to gather and roll back
The sound of anthems, In the darkling wood,
Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down
And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks
And applications. Let me then, at least,
Here in the shadow of this aged wood
Offer one hymn-thrice happy, if it find
Acceptance in His ear.
Father, Thy hand
Hath reared these venerable columns; Thou
Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look
down
Upon the naked earth, and forthwith rose
All these fair ranks of trees. They In Thy sun
Budded and shook their green leaves in the breeze,
And shot towards heaven. The century-Gving
crow
Whose birth was in their tops, grew old and died
Among their branches till, at last, they stood.
As now they stand, massive, and tall, and dark,
Fit shrine for humble worshipper to hold
Communion with his Maker. These dim vaults,
These winding aisles, of human pomp or pride
Report not. No fantastic carvings show
The boast of our vain race to change the form
Of Thy fair works. But Thou art here; Thou
flPst
The solitude; Thou art in the soft winds
That run along the summit of these trees
In music; Thou art in the cooler breath
That, from the Utmost darkness of the place,
Comes, scarcely felt; the barky trunks, the ground,
The fresh, moist ground, are all instinct with
Thee.
William Cullen Bryant.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-08-16

stump, broken branches, and big. saW-logs. Let
stump and branches rot, burn, or cumber the
ground; out with the logs, and on to the mills
and the markets!
In come the slow strong oxen under the whip
and yell of their drivers. The logs one by one
are secured, the word is said, the Jokes are strain
ed, and the home of the Big Poplar is left behind
forever. Through a ford of the Big Branch, on
by the Graveyard Hill, then across the Gate Field,
and down to the bank of the clear, dashing, shall
low, torrential Johns River. Here, and almost
in sight of the stump, the huge logs, already
SCARED and begrimed, are left to await a freshet
started by the splash-dams up the valley or caused
by the downpour of the clouds. Then into the
swollen, surging stream the logs are rolled. The
current seizes them, hurls them against one an
other, drags them over the grinding rocks, bears
them onward by overlooking mountains and be-
meath weeping skies, on through Sideling Hill
Gorge out of their native valley, on and on till
they are caught by the long arm of the lumber
mans boom and swung out of the water. Then
the sawyer does his work, ripping them into slabs
and planks and saw-dust; then the hot kiln, till
water and sap are gone; then the transporting
cars and the transforming factory, resawing,
planning, fitting, manufacturing; and then each
piece to it's place in residence, school-room, Office
or store, far away in the lowlands or across the
sea!
So where is the Big Poplar to-day? One plank
in a Gastonia coffin, a strip in the drawer of a
High Point desk, shavings in Lenoir, slabs at
Collettsville, a few log-splinters at Sideling Hill,
some pieces of bark in the Gate Field, and the
old stump still on the banks of the Big Branch!
VI.
[ stand by the old stump, mark it's decay, walk
around it's crumbling base: vacant air above,
where the proud tree rose; no chattering squirrel
now IN lofty boughs; no cud-chewers lying on the
grass in the leafy shade. All, no! The axe and
the OK, the river and the saw, have done their
work. The remains of the woodland giant are
scattered more widely and worse than the bones
IN the valley of Ezekiel's vision: Notwithstanding
here under the constant assault of the elements;
desks there for school children to mark up and
white; collins yonder for the burial of the dead!
Scattered, widely scattered; and there is no
prophet to recall them here and re-erect the mag
nifcent life of the past.
A dead, irrevocable love is the Big Poplar now,
but ever shall it be a sweet and living memory.
HIGHT c. MOORE.
Raleigh, N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-08-16

And how long it was in the makingl a very
prodigal with decades and even centuries; thou
sands of daily summer suns; millions of rain
drops and snow-fakes and breeze-kisses and dew
sparkles. On and on went the work of growth day
and night; up and down rushed the tide of life
spring and autumn; and above it always the sleep
less, inescapable eye of the Infinite!
Yet, you may be sure, the Big Poplar did not
reach his proud position without a life OF strug-
gle; no greatness is ever achieved without that.
The infant tree was no doubt exposed repeatedly
to the hostile tread of prowling beasts, to the
downfall of crashing limbs, or perchance to the
up-rooting, freshets of the Big Branch. Yet he
survived: survived the ice and snow and clinglng
sleet of winter; withstood the storm OF peltlng
hail and bough-breaking wind; heard unmoved
the deafening thunder reverberating through the
valley; saw the sun yelled by eclipse as if fore
casting the final Judgment; felt the shock of
earthquake, yet stood his ground! No; the Big
Poplar, like the poetic saint, was not, and could
not be-
"...... carried to the skies
On howery- beds of ease"
Beautiful, grand forest-monarch, unconquered
by any natural foes, only man shall be thy mas
ter and-thy murderer! Once in a while it was
smitten by the axe of the woodman as he cleared
away the underbrush about it making way for
pasture. Sometimes the rail-spliter would figure
on the fencing that could be made out of it, but
the Big Poplar was left standing. The house
builder saw in it an abundance of good lumber.
but the logs would be immensely large and I'M
wieldy and the saw-mill was two miles away. The
wood-getter wished for some magic wand whereby
he cOuld change If into manv cords of stove-wood
sawed and split and seasoned and stored. All, man
was cycling the Big Poplar, sizing him up, making
calculations about him, coolly getting ready for
the massacre, awaiting the opportune moment for
slaughter. Yet still the Big Poplar stood there
in the Big Branch pasture, smaller trees now
shorn from around it, the cattle grazing at it's
base or chewing the cud beneath it's summer
shade!
At last the lumberman came into that quiet
valley and surveyed the virgin forests mantling
it's crests, slopes and hollows. The siren Jingle of
silver won the consent of the neighborhood land
owners and so sentence of death was passed upon
many a fine oak, chestnut, pine, poplar, cherry and
walnut. Never mind the business side of it; that
was all right-it was a financial blessing to the
people, developing latent resources and throwing
into their hands many a dollar that would never
have gotten into the country. But what lover of
Nature can see unmoved a forest shorn of it's
glory, mangled, SCARED, mutilated, dying? Or
who would not resent the slaughter of a great tree
with early association, fraught with heart secrets
and memories, innocent as the whitest flake out of
the snow-cloud?
Of course the Big Poplar was doomed. Sharp
the axes were ground that morning.; their keen
edges were driven by brawny arms toward the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-08-16
Written for The Progressive Farmer.l
The Big Poplar: A Giant of the Woodland.

On the west side of the Big Branch, over in the
hollow beyond the Graveyard Hill, stood the Big
Poplar-a giant among his fellows, friend of the
smaller trees that looked up to him, his great
protecting limbs soaring aloft above them. With
what sauciness the gray squirrel scampered up it's
spacious trunk How safe in it's towering branches
appeared the hawk on the lookout for little chicks.
the crow gorged with sweet up-springing corn,
the sonorous "Hoot" owl on his midnight vigil!
Right by it led the path up the hollow to the
old Coffey Place; in fact, one of it's roots gave a
jolt to every cart and wagon that passed, and here
more than one boy, hurrying the COWS to the pas
ture, stumped the blood out of his toe. The sort
of a tree you would notice in a multitude of trees;
just as you have seen men whom you would single
out in an audience of a thousand or would stop
ON a busy thoroughfare to follow with your eyes
or to speak about to your companion. Such a
magnificent, kingly thing was this poplar, a very
Saul of the woodlands, head and shoulders above
all about him.
Many have been the map-changing years since
the birth of the Big Poplar in this narrow nook
some unregistered day in the long, long ago. Here
it stood before the first of an unbroken line of
Jesse Moores, back in later colonial days, cleared
away the canebrake along Johns River, carved
out a home amid these encircling mountains, and
called the valley Globe. Rattle of hintlocks at
Kings Mountain, buzz of the Hornets of Mecklen-
burg, or, earlier still, the music of the merry
y makers in Tryon's Palace and the cooling of little
Virginia Dare-were they not in those ante-wire-
less days borne hither on wings of ether to the
high topmost boughs of the Pig Poplar? Oh what
has not its mantled ears heard-what is not in
wrought in its inmost fbers? Silent sphinx of the
hills, unspeaking, majestic, yet content with BIG
Branch hollow, undiscordant neighbor for un-
numbered years.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-08-16

Sharp and keen and swift the saw seyering the
fallen trunk once, twice, thrice, four times; and
the fine old poplar is nothing now but uneven
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-05-12

The Congreg alto nalist3 are prepar-
ing to lay cement walk along the
east side Of their church property
We understand it is to be laid the
whole length Of that block. A much
needed improvement.
A bad crack was discovered 10 one
of the new plate glass windows.
recently put in the Mel. B led store.
this morning. 1t was probably caused
| by settling Of the new front The
windows cost $50 apiece.
Stops more pain, relieves more suf-
| fering, prevents more heart aches and
diseases than any other remedy. That
is what HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea will do. 35 cents in tea or tablet
form. Hanson & Emerson.
Is it impossible to organize a band
| in Sank Centre? 1t does not appear
to be hard prososition. There are
quite number of musicians living in
the city, and if the right parties took
hold of the N after it ought to be a 60,
Spring colds-nearly every one has
them, but that is no reason why they
may not be dangerous. Break up your
cough at once with Coles Cough Cure.
Your money back, if. after fair
| trial, it does not cure. % and SOC by
all druggists.
At business meeting of the Con-
gregational church, Miss Darling g
resignation as pastor of that church
was accepted. Miss Darling has been
! in hospital for serious operation
and will not be able to take up her la
bors for at least a year.
G. A. Thorson of the Glenwood
Gopher, and his brother, E. T. Thor
son, Judge of Probate of Pope county,
were in the city on Saturday. They
were on their way home from the twin
cities. While In the city they made
the Herald pleasant call.
w. E. Dobbs and family left today
for Minneapolis at which place they
will make their future home. Mr..
and Mrs. Dobbs have always made
Sank Centre their home and have
hoets of friends who regret to see
them leave, but wish them prosperity
in their new home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-05-12

Order your Sunday ice cream from
the Cafe.
New spring pattern hats at Miss
Mayberry's
Attorney N. n. Miner attended
court at St. Cloud this week.
H. F. Perry has made sewer connec.
lions for his residence on Elm-st. .
r. L. Palmer and. M. E. Shea went
to Swanville on Tuesday morning.
Nj. F. Woodbury. returned from the
Red Lake country on Saturday.
Edward VonEchon of Long Prairie,
spent another Sunday in the city
w. A. Adams. lineman of the North
Western of St. Cloud, was in the city
on Monday.
Mrs. w. o. P. Hilsdale was a Tues
day mornings St. Paul Northern
Pacific passenger.
Harry Faville went to Kenmare on
last Thursday, to look over his land
in that section.
A marriage license has been issued
to Frank Dickinson and Eta Fisher
of Sank Centre.
A. II. Hendrickson was ON the
M & I Ry. this week looking after his
numbering interests.
Mrs. W. l. Henshaw returned from
St. Cloud On Saturday, and will re-
sumo her music lessons.
Mrs. o. B. Fuller of Grey Eagle, il
in the city, the guest OF her sister
Mrs. N. q. Carpenter.
Today is Ascension day and is being
observed by the Catholic churches an6
the Episcopal church.
E. Moore, who represents TIT
Standard Oil company, has decided tt
locate here If house is obtainable.
Before you buy your cream separa.
tor investigate the "Omega Cream
separator" for saleat Hillerud & Co
II. C. Garrison of st. Paul, EN-
ployed in the Western Union Tele
graph Co., spent Sunday in the city.
Mrs. w. Sullivan of Minneapolis
is in the city for couple of month
the guest of her sister Mrs. Jane
Collins.
r. T. Greene is agent for Alfre,
Peats & Co., prize wall papers, Tn
latest designs and exclusive patterns
| Mrs. w. I. Henshaw went to Swan
vile on Tuesday. She will teac
piano at that place two days eac
week.
/ Mr.. T. w. Mann of Little Falls, wa
in the city Tuesday. He had bee
Hooking after his farming interest
hereabouts.
| The sewing machine you are lookin,
for Is the Standard, and you will fin
it at Paul Brosvik's tailoring es
Establishment. It is the best and chea1
est priced machine on the market,
1 Miss Gertrude Phelps and Cecili
Staples of Little Falls, arrived in tn
city on Tuesday for q visit with MRS
lLaF ond.
i A sure cure for burns and scalds /
lCole's Carbolisalve. Il instantl,
lstops the pain and heals without
scar. Get Cole's-if 1t isn't COLES
IL isn't Carbolisalve: Is and Soc b,
all druggists.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-05-12

Bring your lobwork to the Il erald
The Smart Set magazine will enter
tain you.
Since the adoption of the herd law
at "Ward Springs" the property
owners there are taking more pains
with their gardens than heretofore.
County Superintendent Ahles of
st. Cloud. was 10 the city on M onday.
He drove up from Melrose and visited
the schools in western Stearns.
W. 1. Henshaw has leased the T.
w. Brown residence On Maple-st.,
and will soon occupy the: same, MIR.
Brown has moved onto his farm in
Westport-
Postmaster Boobar has had the
front windows of the post Office
washed, which is decided improve
ment in appearance.
The regular May term of the dis
trict court convened at ST. Cloud on
NJ Onday morning. There are about
ffty-nine cases on the court calendar.
A. Irish, and William McCadden
are serving on the petit jury and Fl. N.
Carpenter and Henry W. Botz are
serving on the grand jury at St.
Cloud this week
Every scar on horse detracts from
its value. Coles Veterinary Carboli-
| salve is guaranteed to cure wounds
gals and cuts without scars and to re
| new the hair in it's original color. 1t
pays to keep box handy. soc and
81. 90 by all druggicts.
Mrs. Thorsen of Minneapolis, val
ued member of the Gradatim club last
| year, came up to be present at their
CAT Home.' She was the guest of
Mrs. E. j. Lewis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph GooueIi,
formerly of this city, are visiting Mrs.
Goodell's parents, who reside few
miles east, of the city. They expect to
remain a month.
G. M. Sprague is making quite ex-
tensive alterations in his residence on
Elm-st. He is building an addition
and making other improvements, and
when finished it will be a beautiful
home.
| Hon. F. E. Minnette has rented his
lThlrd-St. residence property 20 II. +.
Lux. operator at the Great Northern
depot. Mr.. Minnette will spend por-
tion of his time during the summer on
his farm.
| 81. E. Tobey, L. n. Gray, II. c..
Gray and Mr.. Nelson, managers OF
the Cold Storage plant, nave ordered
an l8-foot steam launch, which will
be placed on the Sank lake. It will be
a beauty.
i A bath with Coles Carbolisoap is a
luxury. It cools, heals and cleanses
j and has delightful odor of lavender
and violets. Use this soap once and
you will be its friend, for no other can
i compare with it. Be sure it's COLES
by all druggists.
1 Josiah Cooper has recently pur-
chased the strip of land south of the
Chris. Lewis property. and in the near
i future will erect thereon three up-to-
date cottages for rent. Work has al
i ready begun on one of them. This
will be a great Improvement to that
part of the city. Houses OF this kind
are in great demand.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-05-12

Sick headache results from dis
ordered stomach and is quickly cured
by Chamberlain Stomach and Liver
Tablets. For sale by Hanson IL
Emerson.
Clarence, the four year-old son of
D. G.. Whit comb, met with quite
painful accident on Saturday evening.
While playing In the yard he stepped
on piece Of broken glass with suffi-
cient force as to nearly sever the
first toe on the right foot. 1t was
necessary to amputate the toe.
George A. McCaskey of the Nor
thern Pacific passenger department
was in the city on Tuesday to conferr
with the company's local agent rela-
points on the branch to wards
the grounds by Messrs. Ward and
Richards and seemed highly pleased
with the appearance of things there.
Mr.. J. S. Peterson, who lives north
of town, near Fairy lake, came near
losing his house by fire a few days
ago. When discovered there was so
much smoke and fire up stairs that he
could not go up. After the fire had
burned a whole through the floor he
threw water up through the opening
and put the fire out. W. A. Morse adj
justed and paid the loss.
Mr.. and Mrs James Martyr of
Ispheming, Mich, parents OF MIS-.
James ingram, arrived In the city on
Tuesday to spend the summer with
their daughter. Mrs. ingram went to
st. Paul to meet them.
Sank Centre has one fine new auto
mobile, and will soon have two more,
which for city of this size speaks
very highly of the enterprise of some
of it's citizens. But the auto enter
prise sinks into insignifcance when
compared with the enterprise of L..
Kells, who tells the writer that he has
made arrangements with the famous
Frenchman. DeMont, for a flying
machine. Think Of tia flying ma
chineI
OoWEtTs xs n.ss Sa1v0
foe P0eA. 1aarnss Sores.