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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-20
Knights of Pythias Meet.

Steel City Lodge, Knights of Pythias. entertained at social Tn their hall on Nineteenth street tonight. A large crowd was present and an interesting pro- gramme was carried out. The lodge is in a very fiourishing condition and the mem- bership is constantly growing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-20
Picnic Today.

The Pratt City and Ensley lodges of Knights of Honuor will have a joint pie nlc at Tuxedo park tomorrow. An inter estlng programme has been arranged and the occasion promises to be interesting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-20
Railroads Do Good Business.

Notwithstanding the slackness of busi- ness during the past montn the report of the Alabama Car Service association shows that the number of cars handled by the railroads that run into Ensley compares favorably with the records in other months of the year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-20
Appointed Umpire.

Joe Burk, formerly manager of the Bes- semer baseball team, in the Tri-State league. has received notification that he has been appointed umpire in the South ern league. He left tonight to enter upon his duties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-20
creensboro. Nal. coes prx.

Danville, Va, July 19.---A special to the Register from Greensboro says that the result of the local option election held in that city today was majority of 423 for the sdrys.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-20
Was Interesting Meeting.

Pratt City Lodge, No. 10S Masons, held an interesting meeting in their hall to- Tight. large crowd was in attendance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-20
F0R
 CIRCUIT ELECTION
Necessary Blanks Are All Being
 Prepared in Selma
MAKING NEW ROAD OF CLAY
Dirt Secured By Excavations Will Be Used to Improve Jeff Davis Ave nue and the Cahaba
 Road.

Selma, July 1s.-(speeial1 1-Preparation for the coming election to be held for the nomination of a circuit judge of the Fourth circuit are rapidly being complet- ed. Secretary R. D. L. Mel is in receipt of several communications from the va rious county chairfnen making inquiry when the blanks and ballots will be ship ped, many of the chairmen desiring the blanks so as to have them at the meet ings of the committees held during the past and the present week. Secretary Mel points out the impossibility of hav- ing the papers ready before Friday of this week, as the time allowed for candidates to file their declarations did not expire until last Friday night and that 1t re- quires at least a. week for the printers to get the matter out.
 The copy was given to the printers last Saturday morning and the blanks will all be in the hands of the secretary of the judicial committee not later than Thursday and will reach all the chairmen of the four counties outside of Dallas by Saturday morning at the latest hour. It requires practically the same printing for this special election as it did for the last state election except that instead of sixty-seven counties to be served only five have to be arranged for.
 Advantageous Arrangement.
 The erection of the immense grocery store for W. L. Ward &s Son, on Water street, has caused a large quantity of clay to be dug to make room for the foundations. This clay is to be used to great advantage to the city and county. Chairman M J. Meyer of the street com mittee of the city council having made an arrangement whereby the county, the city and proprietors of the store will bear the expense of loading and hauling the soil and spreading 1t on Jeff Davis avenue and the Cahaba road, one of the principal entrances to the city, which has about a half-mile of heavy sand bed. The clay is loaded in two large gravel cars and hauled to the terminus of the Union street electric line by a motor car. The county's road-making carts are then util- ized in distributing 1t over the sand bed.
 Remembered By Selma Friends.
 Fifty years ago today in Summerfeld occurred the wedding of Dr. R. D. Jack son and Miss Sarah J. Mitchell daughter of Rev. A. H. Mitchell. Today at the home of their son, Colonel and Mrs. Fred Jackson, in Birmingham, the golden anni- versary of that happy event was cele- 1 brated, and many of their old Selma and Dallas county friends, among whom they lived until few years ago, when they moved to the mineral part of the state, remembered them with congratulatory messages and tokens of esteem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-20

The Ase-Heraid Engraving Depart ment makee-Qood c0&s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-20

E. T. Shaw & Son. undertakers, an North TNentieth street. Both phones q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-20
Eczen1

How it reddens the skin, itches, oozes. dries and scales
 Some people call it letter, milk crust or salt rheum
 The suffering from it is sometimes in- tense; local applications are resorted to- they mitigate, but cannot cure.
 It proceeds from humors inherited or ac- quired and persists until these have been removed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-20
Hoods Jdrsap0rilld

positively removes them, has radically and permanently cured the worst cases, and is without an equal for all cutaneous eruptions.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
A LlTTLE HERO.

In the woman's Home Companion
Commander Booth-Tucker of The Sal
walton Army relates the following pa
thetic incident which happened at one
of their Christmas dinners:
"The pathos Of such gatherings can
easily be imagined. At the Grand
Central Palace, New York City, last
Christmas day, a bright-faced little
lad attracted u attention. He had
come to receive a basket for his fam
lily. He seemed a manly little fellow
and waited without a murmur, hold
ing fast to his precious ticket. There
were five other children in the family,
he said, all younger than he, and he
was twelve. Father had had his foot
injured six weeks before by molten
lead being spilled on 1t. Work was
none too plentiful, anyway, but now
he was unable to do it If it was to be
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
MASSACHUSETTS AND IOWA.

DeS MoineS Capital: The Boston
Commercial Bulletin for December 3
says: There are certain duties in our
own tariff that are utterly needless
from the point of view of protection.
The duties on hides and beef and coal
and wheat and timber are conspicuous
examples" The Commercial Bulletin
further says: Massachusetts is inter.
ested in reciprocity because they wish
Canadian duties lowered on our man.
ufactures, on Massachusetts shoes and
woolens and cottons and clothing and
carriages and furniture. A reciproc.
ity treaty with Canada or with any
other. country that included no conces-
sions by that country for the benefit
of our manufactures would die still
born, even if the confirming power
were not in the Unired States senate
but the Massachusetts general court
1t would appear from this editorial
that the Boston Commercial Bulletin
would like to arrange a reciprocity
treaty that would trade off the inter
SeSo VI N"S "SoNSlh a IHSI LII IuC
sake Of putting Massachusetts, manu-.
featured goods into Canada. That is
a kind of jug-handle, selfish reciproc-
ity that would not be popular in the
farming districts OF Iowa. 1t is evi.
dent that before any reciprocity trea.
ties are adopted there will have to be
an understanding as to whose inter.
ests are to be exalted and advanced.
1t would hardly be possible for Iowa
and Massachusetts to agree upon this
subject. Iowa people would want the
duties removed from boots and shoes
and wooden manufactured goods and
would like to have the duties retained
on hides and wool. Massachusetts
would want the opposite of these
propositions. Yet there are statesmen
in both sections of the country, clio,
quent Of speech, who tell us that reel
procity would be a good thing for ev,
erybody and would hurt nobody.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
OUR OLD TIME FRIENDS.

Hon. James Bridges, n Of Oska-
loosa's Oldest and most respected cit
liens, failed to get his Daily Herald
telephoned the office Of the occur
renee and stated that he must have
his paper. To miss 1t would be an
irreparable loss in the family. The
incident developed the fact that the
gentleman has been d. constant reader
and supporter Of the paper since it
was started in 1850. He was at that
time a resident of Indianapolis, north
east of this city, and became a char
ter subscriber Of the Weekly Herald.
of that publication up to the time
when the Daily was started in 1887.
Since that time he has been a con-
slant subscriber to the Daily, and to
miss a copy is like missing a meal.
The gentleman is now In his eighty
fifth year and is hale and well pre-
served. Fifty-four Of these years has
he been a reader Of the paper. This
is a record that is equalled by but
very few in the county, and points to
a friendship that has long been ap.
preciated by both the ~proprietors of
the paper and the honored subscriber.
There are hundreds Of families in the
county that have taken the Herald
since it was started, but in the most
Of them the subscription has passed
into the second and third generation,
and in some cases even into the
fourth generation. A clientage like
this is enjoyed by few papers in
Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
MUST NOT DRINK.
City of Des Moines Puts a Ban On
the Boozer. ..

Des Moines, Dec. 24.-The city Of
Des Moines, by an order from the
members Of the board of public works,
has established a precedent agalns.
drinking which may be far reaching
throughout the city. Mr.. J.. W.Camp-
bell, Of the board, suggested several
days ago that it was wrong for en-
ployes Of the city in any department
to drink while on duty. Mr.. Wise con-
Cured in the belief and devlared that
he would stand back of any order that
Mr.. Campbell was disposed to give.
"The men now understand that
there is to be no drinking of intoxicat-
ing liquors between the hours Of 8
a. m. and 5 p. M, while they are on
duty" said Mr.. Campbell this morn
ing. This rule is absolute and ap-
plies to every employee Of the city
over whom the board of public works
has Jurisdiction. If I catch any OF
our men drinking I shall Immediately
write out the mans discharge. II
Mr.. Wise concurs with me the man
will be out of a job, even IL he has
taken only a glass Of beer"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
THE SHEEP INDUSTRY.
J. =. n. Taylor instrumental in Start
ing Many New Flocks.

New Sharon Star: j. F.. H. Taylor
had n car load of fat sheep on Sat
urday and another on Mondays Chi
cago market. Both cars were shipped
from Oskaloosa. He has recently
started the following gentlemen In
the sheep industry with the follow
ing number Of breeding sheep: Clar
ence Doan, of Lynnville, 81 head; j.
Thompson, of Marshalltown, 25 head;
Charles Maine, Of Searsboro, II head:
Matthew Van Corp, of New Slaron,51
head; j. Fudge, of Searsporo, 81 head;
Mr.: Lowery, Of Taintor, 2e mead; John
A. Johnson, New Sharon, IL head;An.
drew Watland, New sharon, II head;
Ernest Miller, Moore, Il head: Tncs
Odem, Eddyville, 81 neas: Allen
Brackney, New Sharon % head; NJ
w. Barnes, Eddyville. { head; Geo
Thompson, Lacey, Al head; Rick Van
derwert, Lacey, So heac..
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
THE T~Wo>LAReEsr DAMS.

The largest dam in the world is be-
ing built at La lara, Colorado 1t rs
the work of the San Luis Valley Irri-
CATION Company and the dam will be
a qaurter of a mile long, the reservoir
200 feet wide, three and one-half
miles long and 200 feet deep. The
water gathered will irrigate a hun
dred thousand acres which is already
promised, and $3.50 and $500 per acre
will be realized in the production of
sugar beets and other vegetation.
The dimensions afford interesting
data for comparison with the dam it
is proposed to construct in the Mis-,
sissippi river at Keokuk, under the
terms of a bill now pending in con.
gress. The Keokuk water power dam
when built will be over a mile long
and the water will have a head OF
eighteen or twenty feet. The pool
thus made will be a mile or more wide
and nearly forty miles long. Inc
water power thus developed will gen,
crate from 10000 to 100000 horse
power Of electrical energy. In point
Of capacity the Keokuk power will be
second only to the possibilities a,
Niagara Falls, outranking all otners
in the United States.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
PHIL. scHALLER.

Mayor Phil Schaller, of Sac City,
one Of the justly honored and repre-
sentative citizens of Iowa, rendered
an informal reception to the citizens
of his excellent town, for which he
has done so much, in honor of the
fftieth anniversary of his coming to
Iowa. He was a youth Of sixteen
years when he became an Iowan. He
then had a brother IN Dubuque, where
he hoped to find work. At Galena,
Illinois, he found that his capital was
reduced to Sc cents in money. 1t
would cost him a dollar to go to Du-
buque by stage, so he economical, as
necessity required, by walking. He
could not walk across the river and
it cost him fifty cents to get into Du-
buque. With the remaining six cents
he bought a piece Of ginger bread and
then was penniless. Thus he began
his career in Iowa, which has been
his home ever since, though he spent
out of the state three years fighting
Tor his country in the south.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
THE o STORY.

Do you know the oIdep story
OF the Star that led the way,
When the wise men sought the Infant,
That in Bethlehem's manger lay?
In the east it shone so brightly,
Then DER Judah's hillside steep,
Where the shepherds lay in slumber
BY their flocks of quiet sheep.
Have you heard how angel voices
Sang the sweet and solemn strain?
Glory in the Highest! Glory!
Peace on earth, good will to men!
Every year the wond'rous story.
Thrills our spirits with delight,
And that star through all the ages
Makes the worlds dark pathway
bright.
Mrs. r. S~nangenberp.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
THIEF Is
Sequel Of Many SILK Robberies Sus-
tanned by the Rock Island.

Ottumwa, Dec. 24.-Bela Hinkle
formerly yardmaster for the Rocl
Island, who last August was arrested
by Special Rock Island Agent r. o
charged with the larceny of silk
from the cars of the Rock Island
road, was found guilty with a mum,
Der of others in C~hickasha, l. T.
The members of the band OF
which Hinkleis said to have been a
member, were declared to have been
scattered over the entire system,
from Chicago to the Pacific coast,
About seventeen or eighteen of the
members had already been located
and arrested and the amount OF
stolen goods recovered during the
preceding ten months were about
$4,000. How many was concerned
in the band it was impossible to es'
innate, but new discoveries were be-
ing made every day. 1t is known
positively that the work Of the band
has been carried on with consider
able system for the past four years
and it is believed that the total
amount of goods stolen will amount
to $4,000 or ore
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

had. Mother! No, mother couldn't
work, either. Shed been laid up for
some time with rheumatism.
Dear me, that is bad" sympathized
somebody. who, then, looks after
the family?"
Il takes are of the family, Ma'am,"
he answered brightly, I does the
house work, washes the children ana
looks after things
You're a brick declared the one
addressed. But as a sudden thought
struck her, who will cook the dinner
for you today?'
"And he answered with a smile, but
seriously, I will, mann
"God bless him and the others like
him.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

New Sharon Star: Judge Preston,
of this district, has set a good exam
pie by refusing any woman a divorce
on the ground of drunkenness If it be
shown that she knew her husband
to be a drunkard wne she married
him. In other words, when a woman
deliberately and knowingly sells her
self in the poorest market on earth
the judg evil let her work out her
own redemption. The best time on
earth to avoid trouble is to sidestep
when trouble Is offered at the altar.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
-"There is nobody in Iowa who

There is nobody in Iowa who is
opposed to President Roosevelt's poll
cies-and there never mas been," de.
clares the Cedar Rapids Republican.
THE president represents fairly well
the average sentiment of this state,
as OF other trans-hlleghany states,
Those who imagine that they must
create a faction to support the presi'
dent in his policies are the sheerest
kind of demagogues-and their stripe
Of demagogism is by this time pretty
well comprehended at the white
house.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

-Oelwein is to get a park. 1t is
estimated that $4,000 will be requir-
ed to purchase the ground. President
Stickney, Of the Great Western road,
is interested in the project, and has
offered to pay half the cost of the land
but the citizens are inclined to pay
for the land out Of the proceeds Of the
tax to be levied for that purpose. II
is argued, and perhaps justly, that a
community will value more highly,
something that it has paid for, rather
than a public property that has been
given it.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

"A former citizen of Webster City
went to Chicago and vas converted.
And he bethought himself Of the fact
that he had Jeaten County Treasurer
Brandrup out Of divers and sundry
taxes, and he wrote the official a pleas.
ant note and enclosed a check for the
amount. rerhaps it would pay the
boards Of supervisors to get the ad,
dress of that revivalIst and induce
him to conduct meetings in Iowa for
a few years. -
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
BIG BUSHES DEAL.
Delta Mar Trades Iowa Interests fol-
a Kansas Stock Farm.

Delta Press: M. S. Claypool has
traded his lumber interest, his res
idence property and farm for a big
stock ranch dawn in southwestern
Kansas. His farm lying four and
one-half miles west of Delta consists
Of It's acres of good land and well
improved. Both lumber yards are
included in the deal and his resi-
dence. He trades with G. d. Hitch
cock of Ulysses, Grant county. Kan
sas, and gets a ranch of 5640 acres
and $50 head Of stock, lying in the
extreme southwest portion of the
state.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
a christmas I've Thouah.

A Christmas Eve Thought.
IL Santa Claus should stumble,
AS he climbs the chimney tall
With all this ice upon it,
I'm afraid he'd ger a fall
And smash himself to pieces
To say nothing of the toys;
Dear me, what sorrow that would
bring
To all the girls and boys;
So / am going to write a note
And pin it to the gate,-
III write it large, SO he can see,
No matter if it's late
And say, Dear Santa Claus, don't try
To climb the roof tonight,
But walk right in, the doors unlocked,
The nursery's on the right"
Harriet B. Sterling.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
Red Oak Express tells

The Red Oak Express tells of a
Baldwin, Iowa, woman, who weighs
about 450 pounds, but this is not the
most peculiar thing about her. To
make a living for herself she drives
the bus of the town. The greater
part of her life She has spent as a
livery stable hostler. She wears the
cap and boots of a man, looks like a
man and acts like one. Those who
know her respect her. p
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

one OF the banks has a stocking'room
where ladies car go and take their
greenbacks from their stockings be-
fore appearing at the receiving tell
er's window. The tariff ripping scribe
should give his readers another 'hol-
Inr'O
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
First Presbyterian church {

The First Presbyterian church of
Bay City, Mich, advertised its Sun
day evening services recently in a
display ad three columns wide by
three inches deep in a prominent po-
sition in a local newspaper with graf
flying results. The church was filled
Sunday night as a result of the adyer.
Using and a large number of young
people who are usually found on the
streets we're in the audience.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
The Mannnketa Ministerial asso

The Maquoketa Ministerial asso,
citation has issued an appeal to the
public to hold no funerals on Sunday,
except where it is absolutely neces.
sary. In all probability, suggests the
Burlington Hawk-Eye, a majority OF
the good people of Maquoketa would
be very happy to go the pastors one
better and to hold no funerals on the
other six days Of the week, if it could
be so arranged.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

The boards of supervisors of Davis
and Wapello counties are holding a
joint session to consider the question
of damages liable to accure by aso
of the construction Of a drainage
ditch in the two counties. 1t will be
a mile long and cost $4,000.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

Mayor George Mattern, of Des
Moines, has discovered that it is not
illegal for saloons to have rear win,
dows, and to open them occasionally,
He recently promulgated IN order
that the zeal windows must be closed,
but has rescinded it. However, if the
back windows are used for the illegal
sale of liquor, the offenders will be
prosecuted on other grounds.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

-One of the Mormon witnesses in
the Smoot case testified the other day
that he had too many children to be
able to keep track Of them all. That
piece Of evidence should be stricken
out Of the brief sent to President
Roosevelt. 49,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
ut seems" remarks the Mariol

TT seems" remarks the Marion
Register, chat in these disastrous
Dingley tariff times nearly everybody
except newspaper publishersare bank
depositors. In Harvey Ingham's town,
Des Moines, there are so many won.
en- who have money to deposit that
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

The state board of health CT Iowa
has gone on record as indorsing the
theory that human and bovine tuber-
culosis are identical, and that the dis.
ease may be communicated by drink
ing the milk Of an infected COW.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
oskaloosa merchants

The Oskaloosa merchants who
patronize Des Moines Dailies are get
ting their fingers burned. They are
helping to build up institutions that
are advertising the Chicago and Des
Moines catalogue and mail order
houses. In other words, they are in
a business way saving off the limb
between them and the tree.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

The T%ippecanoe banner has not
yet been awarded, but it is expected
that it will go again to Monroe coun-
ty, though Dubuque is a close second.
1t goes to the county which makes the
best showing on republican plurality
as compared with the previous time.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

State Auditor Carroll has turned
into the state treasury more than SAL
900, collected in the past year from
counties delinquent in accounts with
the state. These d~elinquencies COW
cred a period of thirty-nve years in
some cases, and the labor involved in
getting the money was very heavy.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

Noting the rumor that e. E. Clark
is slated for the Office OF commissioner
of labor to succeed Carol D.Wright,
the Belle PLANE Union says: "The Sc
lection would certainly De gratifying
to Iowa railroad men, and a deserved
recognition of merit"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
"A kansas paper finds authority i

"A Kansas paper finds authority in
the Bible to show that men, not wom-
en-, ought to wipe dishes. 1t quotes
from II Kings xxi, Is: " will wipe
Jerusalem as a man wipetn a dish,
wiping it and turning it upside down.
The Chicago Chronicle, however, calls
the attention of women to the fact
that this was under the old dispense.
ton. The new testament does not
indorse it.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
.Burlington Hawk-Eye: w. T. A

Burlington Hawk-Eye: w. T. Al
len, of Oskaloosa, sold some property
which was mortgaged and vas sent
to the penitentiary for one year. Bal
liet, who sold property that had nc
value, who sold something that had
nc existence, and who sold $250,00C
worth Of it, got three months in the
county Jail.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29
latter writer's caused

Careless letter writer's caused an
accumulation of 100000 undelivered
letters at the dead letter office last
year, most of which were inadequate
5ly addressed. OF the opened letters
65,821 contained money to the amount
of S52,907.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

Christmas is the psychological
moment for maidens to test the love
of their swains," says the Marshall
town Times Republican. Buy a neck
tie for him, and if he wears it he's
yours"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-12-29

According to the commissioner Of
internal revenue there was a decrease
last year of 11,061,765 gallons in the
production Of whiskey and miscellan-
eous alcoholic drinks. The conclusion