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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-22
BANKERS WANT THE
NEW SCHOOL TAX
Will Support the Issue at Com
ing Election
MEANSMUCH FOR chill DREN
Secretary Sandefur Busy Sending Let
tiers to Every Part of the County,
Thoroughly Explaining the
Plan of Assessment.
MEANS MUCH FOR Chill OREN

The bankers of Birmingham. Bessemer
of local taxation for the benefit of the
public schools of Jefferson county and
will support the issues at the special cleo
ton to be held on June 20.
The following statement has been is
sued by the heads of the larger banking
institutions in the Birmingham district
We, the undersigned, believing that the
best interests of jefferson county will
be subserved by increasing the public
school facilities and frightening the
school terms where NEEDED, give our en-
dorsement to the movement advocating
a special levy of 10 cents on the 500
worth of taxable property In Jefferson
county to be applied to the support of
the public schools within the county.
w. p. Harding, president First Ma
tional bank
e. C. Cullom, president Alabama Trust
and Savings company;
H. II. Mayberry, president Citizens
Savings Bank and Trust company;
j. b. Cobbs, president Alabama Ma
tiona bank;
Leo X. Steiner, president Steiner Bros
bank;
John II. Frye, president Traders Ma
tional bank;
Henry B. Gray president Peoples Saw
ings Bank and Trust company
Tom O. Smith, vice president Birming-
ham Trust and Savings company.
e. f. Ensen, cashier Jefferson County
Savings Bank.
Otto Marx e Co., bankers.
G. C. Mccormack president American
Trust and Savings Bank.
Tom Stobert, cashier Bank of Pratt
City.
Gordon DuBose. president First Nat
ional Bank of Ensey.
Peyton A. Eubanks, cashier First Nat
ional Bank OF Ensley.
Much Encouraged.
f. X Campbell and Henry b. Gray the
managers of the campaign for local tax
alton for the schools are very much en-
couraged over the outlook In giving out
the Statement. of the bankers Mr.. Camp
bell said
1.-THE bankers as a rule, and the bankers
of jefferson county in particular cannot
be charged with taking a purely sent-
mental view of material questions. When
they declare In favor of a business propo-
sition It is because they see 1t is helprm
to business interest. These prudent bus
mess men favor the special school tax,
and as may be seen they would not favor
it If 1t were at all hurtful to our best
interests"
Address Being Arranged.
A number of addresses are now being
arranged for in different portions of JEFF
ferson county in the interest of the issue.
The executive committee of the Jefferson
County Teachers association have in
wed acting Governor r. M Cunningham,
Congressman j. Thomas Helm of the
Fifth district. and President Alderman
of Tulane university at New Orleans to
come here and make addresses.
Secretary Sandefur of the county cam
pagn committee is hard at work address,
ing letters to the voters of Jefferson cour-
ty, which letters thoroughly explain the
assessment of 10 cents on each $100 Of
values. The headquarters of the cam
paign committee are located in the First
National Bank building seventh floor, and
will be open until after the special cleo
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-22

Special price Cabinet Man
tells. Sgd Smith Hardware
Co.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-22

IN YOUR DAYS OF YOUTH
prepare for rainy day, which is sure
to come. Sickness and trouble come
Unexpectedly to all.
THE FRUITS OF WISE PROVISION
in youth and manhood will come home
to you in competency for old age,
when you have placed your money in
a reliable bank, like the
AMERICAN TRUST AND SAVINGS
BANK,
1923 First Avenue
officers:
G. B. MCCORMACK, President.
H. L. BADHAM. Vice President.
II. 3. URQUHART. Cashier.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-22

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-22
Weather Report.
Birmingham, Saturday, May

Birmingham, Saturday, May 81.
A still further increase in temperature
has taken place during the past twenty
four hours in all sections except Iexas
and Southern Florida, the increase IN the
cotton belt being about degrees. The
average maximum temperature in the
southern states was 81 degrees, the maxi
mum ut Birmingham was 81 degrees.
Very little rain is reported in the south,
the only regions being visited by showers
being Oklahoma, Northern Texas and
Southern Florida. At Key West there
was a heavy fall of 272 inches. Light rain
fell over the plains from Northern Texas
to Montana and in New York and New
England.
Weather Conditions.
Temperature and precipitation as re-
ported by the weather bureau for select
ed southern stations during "a hours end
ing a. m: Precip-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-22

Special price Cabinet Man
tells. sgd Smith Hardware
Co.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-05
The Word Picnic.

The derivation of the word picnic is
uncertain. In London Notes and Que
ries Of 1858 attempts were made to
trace its origin.
One correspondent says:
"Under French form the word ap-
pears in speech of Robesp.erre, 'C'est
lei kqu'il doit m'accuser, ct non dams
les piquesniques.' An earlier instance
occurs in one of Lord Chesterfelds
letters, dated October, 174S."
Another writer of the same date
tries to trace the word from France
into Italy. Starting with the assumP-
ton that piquenique in French implies
a party at which each guest provides
some particular dish or performs some
special duty, he finds the Italian ex-
pressions nicchia duty and piccola IA
trihing service), and from these he
coins piccola nicchia (picnic).
A French encyclopedia, 1913, has 1t
that the word is compounded of the
simple English pick Ito choose and
nick lin the nick of time, on the spur
Of the moment). In France the term
is also used for indoor picnics.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-05

is known to have been alive In 17O3, Is
dead yet. The disposal Of claim to
more than 100000 Is at issue. So
far no death certificate in the case has
been producible, but priest has Of
fered to swear that the prince Is no
longer alive, and his deposition will be
accepted.
The House of Lords decision, which
recently gave to the twenty-four dis
sentents from union with the United
Presbyterian Church, Of Scotland, the
$5O,OOO,OOO property and 100000
cash Of the Free Church, was, In nut
shell, that, although the majority men,
bers Of a church may change their
creed and go over to another church If
they choose, they cannot carry with
them the property devoted to a church
in whose creed they no longer believe
The Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott Is a
firm believer in the value Of regular
hours of rest in the daytime Recently
in addressing a group Of theological
students he said it has been his prac-
tice for years to set aside the hour
after the midday meal as exclusively
his own, when he Is not to be disturbed
unless the house is on fire and the
fire has reached the second story"
Then he IS free to dip into poetry or
rest and mediate with folded hands as
he may choose.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-05
By Paul De Loney
TO work with renewed vieo, .
NutRor OF "Lord OF the Desert" "OregoR Sketches"
and other Pacific Coast Stories

to work with renewed vigol.
sPry down to the left, boys, pry
down to the left!'' shouted the father.
Already the exhaust Of the govern
ment launch could be heard as it slowed
up to weigh anchor at safe distance
from the aandbar.
It would only require the lowering
Of a boat and a few strokes of the oars
to land the officers upon the fishermen.
Fortune had always favored old Sea-
dog and it favored him again. With q
heavy lurch they brought the chest
from under the timbers that held it
down.
Fortune doubly favored him. When
the iron receptacle had been turned
round it was found that the keys still
remained in the lock. The captain
had possibly attempted to open it at
the last moment and had been driven
out by the waves.
Crush outside, boys; rush outside;
I will do the rest!" commanded the
stern old parent. The boys were
barely in time. They were confronted
by the officers Immediately upon climb
ing to the deck.
"In the name of the COVER nment,
men, we proclaim you our prisoners. "
calmly spoke one of the officers.
The boys looked bewildered but
spoke not in the absence of their faith
er, to whom they had always looked
for advice and guidance.
But the old man was busily engaged.
With a surprising quickness he had
opened the chest and tore from it the
register roll. Then he closed the
chest, locked it and cast the keys into
the water at the lower end of the hole
Then he climbed out through port
hole at the rear, hurriedly secreted
the roll in the sand at a safe distance
from the vessel, climbed back through
and joined his boys who we're prison
ers ON deck. But before he had hidden
the parchment upon which the ships
register was made he had turned
through it quickly. His eyes had
rested upon two names. This brought
from him the ejaculation:
"Old seadog rejoices at last; old
Seadog rejoices at last; old seadog ha'
cause to rejoicel In the language O.
the convict who swan to the Diamond
Isles, 'the world belongs to old seadol
nowI'
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-05
KIDDING DOGS OF FLEAs.

Troublesome Tormentors of Canines In
No Danger of Extinction.
Did you ever undertake to keep
dog free from feas, not whining lit
tie toy dog, but normal dog that runs
about in the grass and leads dogs
life? It's a thankless job. Every day
or two you have to sprinkle him with
powder, the smell of which Is distaste-
full to you, detestable to the dog and
abhorrent to the feas. Some of the
latter are made deathly sick, some are
MANNED and many are killed outright
but, strange to say, their public pun"
ishment does not act as deterrent on
the fleas that are not caught. The lat
ter continue to increase and multiply
just as If a flea had never been
brought to justice, and whenever they
get the chance they bite a dog.
One dog furnishes sustenance for
many generations of tieas, the most
rigid police surveillance falling to dis
courage the young and active among
them In a given length Of time you
will find q given number of feas Oh
given dog. The most vicious are tne
ones that have been sickened by thS
powder. They are also the hardest TO
kill, as they don't mind it so much
the second time. In fact after tne
third or fourth dose they seem actu'
ally to enjoy 1t. This is a condition.
not theory, as Mr.. Cleveland USED u
say. No matter how great your sym.
pathy for the dog may be you CAM
help him. You can't establish socla.
settlements in headom; you can't XIII
all the feas in the world.
It wouldn't be fair to kill all tne
dogs. The best way Is to let the dogs
and the feas fight it out among theH'
| selves
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-05

not been man of toll.
When the hair was pushed back
from his face broad intelligent fore
head was exposed. Had those fisher
men been able to read chronological
signs they would have discovered that
the aged man Before them was no or
binary being. His intellectual fore.
head, small feet and hands, dress and
general appearance indicated that he
had followed one of the professions.
In the meantime the village physi-
clan arrived and aided in resuscitating
the old man. The child gradually
passed away to sleep after it's wants
were satisfied and slept as soundly as
if its own mother still lowered over it.
It was soft sweet sleep such only as
is seen in the repose Of the innocent
before the trials and fluctuations OF
life have come to their knowledge.
Tt knew not of it's lost mother and
father, the fearful storm at sea, the
hours in the water, the terrible night
among the driftwood on the beach. It
slept in a repose akin to perfect bliss.
''she's darling little GIRL" said
the woman who had shared her own
child's clothing with the little sleeper.
'What pretty blue eyes she has,
remarked she who had warmed the
milk.
"Such dainty little limbs" said the
woman who had run about the place
ne1vously trying to do everything and
had accomplished but little.
"But look what pretty features and
sweet lips," said the one who had
nursed the child to sleep, with an air
of superiority.
The child did not exceed one month
in age. 1t was probably younger. Its
light hair, fair skin and pretty blue
eyes even at so young an age showed
that it was born beauty. Still its
features were much like those of the
Finlanders, 80 many of whom had set
tied along the Columbia in the fishing
districts.
"They think the old man is dying, "
said one of the women in a whisper
who had been watching the men work
with the aged sufferer.
ooh, such a pity" remarked the
women in subdued chorus.
"We will never learn the child's
name or anything about the tate of its
mother or father
sit must have been born on the voy-
age," said one, "for they say the ship
was Finnish vessel and has been
many weeks at sea-"
"Old seadog's action in tie matter
is mystery to everybody. Why he
made such quick haste to board the
ship is beyond all understanding. And
he actually pointed firearms at the men
when they attempted to go aboard the
vessel" said a woman who had just
been talking with her husband on the
outside. "But the officers will ravel
the matter OUT she continued as she
remembered the details OF the episode
as given her by her husband.
Then there was a commotion out
side. A fisherman had just arrived
from the sand spit. He had brought
news of the arrival of officers at the
scene of the wreck.
cold seadog and his boys are all I'M
der arrest!" was whispered from liz
to lip.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-05
Ito tie con tinued)
The Other Fellows job.

The Other Fellows job.
There's craze among us mortals that Is
cruel hard to name,
Wheresoe'er you find a human you will
find the case the same;
You may seek among the worst Of men or
seek among the best,
And you'll find that every person is pre-
cisely like the rest.
Each believes that his real calling Is
along some other line
Than the one at which he's working
take, for instance, yours and mine.
From the meanest "me-too" creature to
the leader of the mob,
There's a universal craving for ''the 9TH
er fellows job"
There are millions of positions in the
busy world to-day,
Each q drudge to him who holds it, but
to him who doesn't, play;
Every farmers broken hearted that In
youth he missed his call.
While that same unhappy farmer is the
envy of us all.
Any task you care to mention seems q
vastly better lot
Than the one especial something which
you happen to have got.
There's but one sure way to smother
Envy's heartache and her sob:
Keep too busy, at your own, to want
1.-The other fellows job"
Success.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-05
" 49, "
zEEN&}SkZNaaW'

"vou unit the profession for the usu'
al reason, l suppose" said the cus'0-
mer.
ooh no, l am the boss in my
bonse NV pride made me quit"
How was that?"
Zone day I was sitting In my snop
when heard the music OF panu' /
want to the door, as / always 90, 10
sap what kind Of drum major tney
had. Well, this day 1t was m1hstre.
band. The musicians were all oresseo
in linen busters and wore pug na's'
Thtt. drum major was foreign-looklng
fellow and wore a close-htting jacket
with fur on the edges, blue ugnts anu
blue shoes with white fur on the tops
He wore a visorless cap.
Before they came to me Chris hau-
terback, one of my neighbors, went out
and spoke to one Of the MINISTRIES VINO
looked over at me. The minstrel Went
to the drum major and he also looked
over toward me and smiled.
when he got directly in front OF me
he stopped and began doing tricks with
his wand. First he placed it one the
back of his hand and let 1t roll to MS
shoulder and then it fell almost to the
ground. He put out his foot and pal
anced it on his toe. He did every
trick you could think Of and finally
threw the wand as high as the hotel
across the street, turned a somersaul'
in the air, lifted his hat to me and
then caught the wand with the back
of his leg by the knee joint.
Il went and sold my outfit to the
second hand dealer and quit. Later
found out that the fellow was jug
gler in the show."-Chicago Daily
News.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-05
MARKS ON FINoeRNAILs
How Illness or an Accident Affect.
Them.

How Illness or an Accident Affects
Them.
"One who makes a close study of
finger nails will find many curious
things about them to excite his wonder
and interest" says an expert of such
matters In the st. Louis Globe Demo-
GRAFT but none more so than the
stories Of physical condition told In
their growth.
You know the nail Of a person in
good health grows at the rate of about
one-s1Xteenth Of an inch each week
slightly more than many authorities
DelleVe-but during illness or after an
accident or during times of mental de-
preston this growth Is not only affect
ed and retarded so far as its length
is concerned, but also as regards IFS
thickness. The very lighter illness will
thus leave an indelible mark on tho
nails which may be readily detected as
the nail grows out. If one has q sud-
den attack, such as acute rheumatism
which sends the temperature bounding
upward to 104 or 1O5 within the spaca
OF two or three hours, it will be found
on the nails, indicating the difference
Ill thickness of growth between the
time when health was enjoyed and the
thin growth of the i'll period.
IF the illness is one that comas
gradually, like typhoid fever. for ex-
ample instead of ridge a gentle in.
cine will appear on the nails, Shou,d
one nave an arm broken the thick
riage can be seen only on the fingers
OF one hand, but in all cases of general
sickness the ridges or slope apnears
on the fingers of both hands. Whom
one has passed through a period of ov-
IRENE excitement or mental depression
the fact will be imprinted on the nails
either with an abrupt ridge or a gen.
lie slope, according to the acuteness ~
the mental influence
In no instance can the marks NJ ~
ness accident or mental condition ho
clearly seen on the nail until after 49,,
growth has carried the line bevond to
"nlte or half-moon portion of If hu+
week or two subsequent to anv ~
these things the ridge or slope NAV ho
round on the nails. usually readily vic,
IDLE to the eyes; but if not. the uarL
may De found by running the tin Of Tho
niger down any of the nails -
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-05

JSuIa Nlu ne enlist.
ed in the Fifteenth Vermont regimant
Of which Senator Redfield Proctor wns
colonel. He, afterward served ia tha
First Vermont cavalry and was wound.
ed at Appomattox Station. His public
career began In the Legislature 81
1850, when he served as messenger in
the House. In 1882 he represented his
town in the House, serving on the com.
mittee on agriculture. In 1894 he was
elected Senator from Caledonia county
In 1S95-06 he was member Of tho
Board Of Railroad Commissioners. and
in 1897 was appointed a member Of the
State Board of Agriculture. He is now
serving his sixth year as secretary and
practical chairman of that body. For
over thirty years he has been a mem.
Der Of the grange, and is now serving
as master of the State organization for
the fifth term. He is a member or
the executive court of the National
Grange. His farm contains about 400
acres, and he has q reputation beyond
the borders Of the State for good but.
ter and maple sugar. He is a deacon
Of the Congregational church in East
| HardWiCk,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-05

"No," said the shoemaker, 'prass
bands are not what they used to be-"
A customer had stopped in the snop
to get his shoes repaired. The shoe-
makers remark was caused by the
passing Of a band heading political
procession.
1.-THE music is just as fine as ever
said the shoemaker, but the musl-
clans don't seem to have any great
STYLE about them. Look at that drum
major! Isn't he the worst you ever
SAW"
. "Why is it." asked the customer
humoring the shoemaker, that you
don't see any good drum majors these
days"
"Well, will tell you," he answered
.When a drum major gets to be good
wearing his beautiful uniform ana
twirling his baton, he is grand sight
Then he is so bothered and followed by
the girls that sooner or later he gets
married. Then his wife will not allow
him to stay in the band, for she knows
how irresistible he Is.
81 was a drum major once and l
could swing a baton as well as any
man in the State Our band went to
the Inauguration of Mckinley as Gov
ernor of Ohio. We were the last in
line and no attention was paid to US,
except that all the women waved their
handkerchiefs at me, until we came
in front of the place where the gov
ernor was. Then l threw my baton
into the air fifty feet, turned to the
governor, bowed, lifted my cap and
slowly placed it back upon my head,
took a step and caught the wand as it
descended. The whole street rang
with cheers. That was the happiest
moment of my life"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-05

memory in Humboldt Park, Chicago.
The statue Is the first erected to the
Polish general in the American revo-
lutionary forces by the people of his
own blood in the United States, and
the demonstration incident to the I'M
yelling was the greatest national cele-
bration ever held by the Poles in this
country. They were present from all
the cities of the West. The statue Is
of bronze, mounted on a pedestal OF
New Hampshire granite, and is about
thirty feet in height.