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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
Where Household Helps Cost Less.

A SUPERB DISPLAY OF BEAuTl-
 FUL DINNER SETS.
 Probably no store in the whole Southland can match our complete s. owing in high grade China-none can surpass it. There's every design and decoration here you can call to mind, and every one is offered now at reduced prices. It's a chance to brighten the dining room at little ex- pense
 5000 quality, 56-piece sets ....$ 5.9s 15.00 quality, 1OO-piece set.... 9.4s $500 Hayiland sets ...... 24.95
 MlscELLANEous ARTICLES. Nos. 1 and best Lamp Chimneys. 5c Set plated Teaspoons ............ 1oc Set plated Tablespoons ............ 1oc Dime Dish Mops .....#........... Dc Nickelplated Lemon Squeezer. 1oc 10c Steel Chopping Knives. ...... Dc High grade pound Coffee Mill. .48c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
EDUCATIONAL. ATHENS FEMALE COLLEGE, Athens, Alabama.
EOllndptl 1Y4g

Founded 1S42.
 Owned and controlled by the Methodist Episcopal church, south. Sixty-third ses- sion begins Wednesday, September 20. 1905. Ten thousand dollars to be expended at once in enlarging and improving build ings and equipment. Steam-heated. cleo tric lights, handsome baths throughout. We offer the regular collegiate courses in Mathematics, Science. Literature and Languages. We have a full corps of able instructors, including graduates of Unl- versity of Chicago, Western College of Ohio and the Conservatory of Munich. Special advantages offered in Music and Fine Arts Health record unsurpassed. Boarding students limited to one hum dred.
 Write for catalogue at once.
 MISS MARY NORMAN MOORE,
 President,
 Athens. Ala. Sll-wed -g-3- -10-17-24
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Miss Lallar and Miss Kate Harris are visiting relatives in North Carolina.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
Alabsma Polytechnic Institute.

Su-wed- -9-s-10-17-24.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
Crockery Bargains.


 Ice Cream or Berry Dishes. -. Sc r'aney Dinner Plates es... 5c Fancy Handled Cups and Saueers.. 5c 8-inch Fancy Meat Dish. h...... sc Finch Fancy Deep Dish ...... 9e Large size Fancy Covered Dish. .2sc Large Chamber 19c Gallon Ice Water Pitcher .... .3sc Large Covered Slop Jar ....5 5sc Rolled Edge, fancy shape, Bowl and Pitcher =. -. =. =. 35c
 TOILET SETS.
 Fancy Shape Toilet Sets, assorted tints, blue. pink and green decorations: 6-piece Set, $30O kind ......... .S1.ss 10-piece Set, $5.0O kind. ........ 2.98 12-piece Set, s7.50 kind .4.48 More than hundred different de- signs in toilet sets to choose from. at prices ranging from $19S to $24.95.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11
West Virginia at the Worlds Fair.

West Virginia at the Worlds Fair.
The committee of judges ON the
fruit exhibits at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition has awarded
the West Virginia exhibit seventy
nine medals. Nine of these were
gold, representing the highest
superiority, twenty-three are silver.
and forty-seven are bronze. West
Virginia took first prize on the
method of arranging and INSTALL
ing the exhibit. The only State
exhibiting the same varieties of
fruits as West Virginia that
equalled her was Missouri.
The exhibit was in charge of s.
W. Moore, a well-known fruit
grower and horticulturist of Mason
county. He took great care in
displaying the exhibit to the best
advantage.
Many people will be surprised
to learn that West Virginia secured.
first prize on the cranberry exhibit.
The fruit which won the prize was
grown in the plats cultivated by
the Experiment Station. These
are located in the glades of Pres.
ton county. The berries compare
favorably in size with those of the
best beds in the country and have
the advantage of being deeply
colored. They have been grown
in that section for year.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11
Biography of an Editor.

The stork disappears and we
look into the cradle and behold a
male child. After running the
gauntlet of measles. mumps and
chickenpox he enters schocl. At
the age 10 he is a ed-headed.
freokle faced boy and the terror of
the neighborhood AT IL he lie an
apprentice in a printing office. at
18 he has acquired two cases of
long primer and an army press and
and is the editor of country news
paper. At 20 he is married. At
80 he is bald headed, stoop shoul
dered and the father of a large
family At 35 he is corpse in a
cheap pine coffin, and as 500 de-
linquent subscribers file past his
bier for the last look, they are
heard to say: "He was a good fell
low. but he couldn't save his mon
ey."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11
safe Robbed bY Jnms. RoY,.

Joplin, Mo.,-The oldest and
originally the largest safe in the
Southwest, which was made fa-
nous by being robbed of nearly
$4,000 thirty years ago by the
James boys at Baxter Springs,
was brought to Joplin and placed
on exhibition at the store of a
local safe company. This safe
was in II. r. Crowell's bank at
Baxter Springs when the James
boys made a raid on the institu-
ton The raiders hitched their
horses to a corncrib just back of
the bank, walked in, helped
themselves to the money and
forced Mr.. Crowell out in front
of them at side door. They
then mounted their horses, raised
their hats politely and bid Mr..
Crowell and others kind good
by and departed down the road
leading to the Indian Territory.
Several Joplin business men of
today were interested in the
Baxter bank at that time, among
them being the Wise Brothers,
P. j. Pfenning, Ed Zelleken and
Grant Davis. The safe is old
fashioned, but is still good and
strong. It has been in use in a
Galena business house several
years.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11
School Children and Public Gifts.


There has been a suggestion
that children in the public schools
be forbidden to Garry Christmas
presents totheir teachers. Upon
the ground sdvanced-that this
custom has come to be a hardship
to the parents-there is about as
much truth and sense involved as
there is in a Russian war dispatch
brought 10y a Chinese junk"
No child will be able to carry q
very valuable present TO its teacher
without the consent and help Of
its parents. and as long as neither
the child. the parents nor the
teacher complain, why should any
body else do so? Really there has
been a good deal of nonsense re-
garding the restriction to be placed
upon school children What in
convenience may be wrought to
the schools. for instance, by the
carrying to the school building of
a present for the poor on Thanks
giving Day? What stunning
knock is delivered against the
cause of education by the child's
bringing a simple wreath, on
Decoration Day, to Law upon the
grave of some soldier wpose suffer
ings and bravery made it possible
for Old Glory to float above the
school house as a sign OF perfect
security? Yet there has been OBJ
jeotion to these harmless little
tributes, and the excuses offered
were about as sensible as the at
temptf ia stop them.
Anything that may be detrimen-
tai to the harmonious working of
the schools should be stopped
Anything that, harmless in itself,
teaches phiIanthrophy and patriot
ism, ought to be fcstered. IF nof,
in the name of the American fsg,
why not?-Cleveland World.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11
He Knew What Was Wanted.

He wanted rain-not too much,
not too little, but just enough-no
more Representative Gaines is
responsible for this story of ''rain
prayer" He says it was delivered
at a religious gathering in Ten
nessee during the troubles between
the North and the South.
No rain has fallen for many
weeks, and everything was about
burned up A good preacher.
whose heart aud soul was in
the cause of the South, made
a prayer, closing with an appeal
for rain, saying:
I'VE need a refreshing shower.
Lord. Send the blessed rain and
revive the dropping vegetation
We don't want one of those light,
drizzly -drezzly rains, but regular
ground sosker and trash-lifter, but
not heavy enough. good Lord, to
raise the Cumberland River SO that
the Yankee gunboats can come in
and take Nashville"
Unfortunately it is not known
now whether the prayer of the
good minister had Immediate
response. but one cannot help but
believe that such a reasonable and
sensible appeal could not have
passed without receiving the at.
tention it deserved.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11
T. J. Clarkson. the blacksmith,

T. ]. CIarkson, the blacksmith,
has installed new device for
shoeing fractions horses that is a
dandy. The apparatus consists
of a padded platform, which. to
secure the animals in position
stands on edge being pivoted
between strong posts, and having
canvas bands and padded ropes
SO secure the horse. After get
ting the subject secured, the
frame is tilted, fguratively put
ting the horses to bed and leav-
ing all four feet in position to
work on. The main advantages
of this scheme is that horse
can not hurt himself lying down
on his side. We saw it work
and it is all right.-Exter, Cali
fornia Sun.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

A Rhode Island farmer in 1911
on his way to the polls was too
late to vote, because he stopped to
rcscue one of his pigs which was
wedged in fence crack. He was
9 FederaIist and opposed to war. A
Republican. or war man. was eleot
ed to the Legislature from his dis
triot by one vote The Legislature
elected by one vote a war senator,
whose one vote in the United
States Senate in 1912 confirmed the
nomination of jackson as Major
General of the United States Army.
General jackson became the idol
of the country. was elected Presi.
dent, kicked all the Wings ont of
office. withdrew all moneys from
national repositories and kept The
country in constant hot water all
though one Rhode Islapd farmer
who thought more of his pig than
his vote.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11
In the advertising oolums of on

In the advertising colums of one
of our contemporaries We find the
following: "I would like few
boarders. Stable room and hay
for teamsters Here follows the
name of the stable-keeper The
climate must be more salubrious
and the weather more mild in that
region than it is in these parts. II
We ever happen to sojourn in that
locality We are going to steer clear
of that hostelry unless the weather
is mighty good This thing of eat
ing baled hay and cheat cats for
breakfast after a night's sweet re-
pose stalled up alongside a stable
full of neighing nags is not what
We call trst. .class accommodations.
Weston Independent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

Having had 80 years of expert
ence In themanufacture of funeral
goods and. carrying 500 baskets in
stock. / have dropped out all the
old factory style, l have all new
designs. and am selling all the old
factory styles at net wholesale pri-
oes, If you want that kind.
/ am the only manufactures in
the State that does not wholesale
goods to undertakers-I sell di-
rect to the people, giving them the
advantage of the. extra the jobber
has to pay.
You don't have to hire a middle
man to watch the shop. loan save
you all the middle man gets, and
give you finer goods for your money
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

The Republican Governor of
Iowa should call his State Bank
Commissioners down from his perch
It is getting too personal when he
cIsims that the beef trnst IL respon.
sible for those forty bank failures
in Iowa and the suicide of eight
bank officers and the loss of $l2,
00o.000 of the peoples money. He
ought to know that the trust.
through its GO. partners, the rail
roads, furnished the money to
strangIe that Iowa idea.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

Millions Involved In Land Frauds.
The fall extent of the land
frauds is not known outside
President Rooeevelt's Cabinet,
the Department of Justice and
the Department of the interior,
but it is certain that the United
States Government lost millions
Of acres of public lands through
fraudulent entries. Certain cor
porations and wealthy men used
dummies in making these frauduE
lent entries, and also used dunn
mics IN selling from one man to
another forest land, the prices of
which they enhanced from year
to year, in the meantime log
rolling in Congress for the purr
chase of the lands by the United.
States. Timber rights in mil
lions of acres were fraudulently
taken from the Government.
Bogus titles were created,
transferred, sold aud finally plant
ed against the United States
Treasury. Innocent settlers were
forced by bogus Government
orders either to sell out for prae-
tically nothing or to abandon
their we'll cultivated acres in the
belief that they were trespassers.
Their land was taken by those
in the plot against the Govern
ment and afterward sold to the
United States. Wealthy lumber
men are known to have joined
lin these frauds. Capitalists, ii
has been ascertained. employed
cowboys to make bogus entries in
local land Offices.
The clerks in these land Offices
were bribed to transfer the claims
to other dummies, who in turn
assigned them to the principals
lin the frauds. In some instances
30, 900 acre tracts were secured.
the cream of the northwestern
country taken, and land which
rightfnlly belonged to the coun-
try was entered in the land off,
ces as having been settled for
seven years. In many cases the
land grabbers resold to innocent
purchasers; whosettitles are now
in doubt.
An entire tract in the Red
river valley of half a million
acres is said to have been filched
from the Comanche and Apache
Indians. Mineral lands were
taken from ignorant settlers, who
were dispossessed, afterward
made to appear in the titles of
others and then resold.
Forest land by the same meth
od was sold to the Government
500 per cent beyond its value.
This recital is only surface in
dication of the indication of the
evidence in possession of the
Government.
While the conspiracy, it is
said, began in Cleveland's ad-
ministration, it reached near its
height in 1902, when the receipts
went to more than Sc, ,ooo, 900 for
sales of timber and stone lands.
In 1908 they jumped to $11, ,OOO,-
600, and it was then that Secre-
tary of the Interior Hitchcock
began a thorough investigation
which SO far, has resulted in IL
indictments and 4 convictions.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

A panic prevails in Japan. owing
to the terrible expense of the war.
The depleted treasury has lent to
the great government Oskaka bank
$1,000. 600 to save il from bank
ruptcy (which would have made an
injurious impression at the present
time"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

An old man carrying a music
box got on subway train. He sat
in the middle of the car. and when
the car had filled up. and people
were hanging to the straps. he be-
gan to grind out popular airs.
Everybody looked pleased and the
musician received a round of ap-
lplause at the end of each tune.
Before the old man got off. he
walked through the oar and re-
ceived dime or a nickel from
nearly every passenger. II guess
I made as much as the subway
folks ont of that carload" he said
as he stepped out.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

The monster iron statue of VnI-
can which was exhibited by Birm.
ingham, Alabama, at the st. Louis
Fair will be displayed at the
Lewis and CLARK Centennial at
Portland next year. The statue
will remain ia st. Lonis for four
months, when it will start on, it's
long journey to the Rose City. "
Vulcan was cast in iron from q
modle built by the we'll known
sculptor, g. Moretti. and all of the
metal used in it's construction as
the minerals composing the foun
dstions. are from Alabama mines
The exhibit cost $2O.OOo and re.
quired almost a year to complete
it. Vulcan tips the scales at 1OO,-
600 pounds and stends 81 feet high
in his socks. The status will pro-
bably stand at the entrance to tbs
Mines building at the Western
Worlds Fair.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11
Besides furnishing Henry q

Besides furnishing Henry G..
Davis, the oldest man who was
ever on the presidential ticket in
the United States, West Yirginia
is believed to have the distinction
Of the Oldest Democratic voter in
the United States in the person of
Hezekiah Roby. of Marion CONN.,
ty, who cast his twentieth ballot in
a presidential election. Roby was
born March l8, 1911, and in 1928.
though not eighteen years of age,
he voted for Andrew jackson, nm
der law in Virginia permitting
any male citizen to vote who paid
q revenue or license tax -Braxton
Democrat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

The average pay of the public
school teacher in Indiana Is esti2
mated by the State Teachers Asso-
oiation tn be $420 SO per years.
This is about $500 year less than
the average pay of a street cleaner
in New York.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

Do you reniernber the little things that
rave MS 80 much pleasure when we were
youuE With what zest did we sit down to
Tie table AFTER our play was Overland eat the.
littsh and milk our mother put before MS.
r hut e ne get older i takes more TO give
~ pleasure. Mush and milk no longer
{ tastes good to us, and our digestion may be
ln1palfed. Tha best advicn we can give to
such Z pereot IL 70 tone up the stomach With
gE. Fierce, Golden Medical Discovery. It
itnatuEe inost valuable and health gfying.
eltade lfhont the use Of alcohol. It
tc11aln1 roots herbs and baIkS and 10 the
tonciatrltion Of natufe'e vitality as found
IL ( he 7eld de ntlf woods 7 hrs remedy has
iflnrF rhicll speaks well for 4 because
: II7slei i - 81 - =. ".
Pierce, fonndef Of the Ingalid idst Hotel and
Snf1icai fnstitute, a. Buffalo. N. Y, nearly
forty years aRps and has since been sold BY
druggists IN ever increasing quantities.
Some mkdicineB, tonics or compounds, en-
joy large sale for few years, then disap-
pear from the public attention, but Dr..
Piercess Golden Medical Discovery has
proved such reliable blood remedy and
tonic that It often enjoys the confidence of
several generations IN q family, and its in
creased sales year by year coming from the
Recommendation of those who have tried
Il, prove Its lasting merit, SO that every
bottle bears the stamp of public approval.
Every other blood-maker and tonic for the
stomach that we know of contains alcohol,
but DR.. Pierce guarantees that no alcohol
u contained In his Medical Discovery
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

As the result of a mass meeting
of farmers at Fort Gaines. Ca, 400
or 500 bales of cotton were piled
up in front of the warehouses of
Fort Gaines to be carried-to the
public square and burned. It is
said that 100000 bales will be
destroyed to raise prices.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

Congress will soon re-assemble
and the voice of the statesmen
will be heard through the land.
Speaker Cannon, who is a man of
few words has been heard to com.
pare Congress to the boat describ-
ed by Lincoln which was SO con
etructed that every time the whis-
tie blew the boat stopped. Not
being to hanghty too mix his
metaphors. Mr.. Cannon adde,
:eThe wheels of government, boys,
are ologged with speech
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

It is currently reported that
President Roosevelt has invited
Bob Fitzsimmons to call ON him
at the White Honse. II Teddy
wants to experience a>few minutes
of real, unadulterated .'strenuous''
life. LET him tread on the tail of
Bob,s coat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

In 1884 one of the leading rail.
roads of the United States printed
ON its timetable: .The Iooomo.
tive win ieave the depot every day
at 10 O'Clock, Il the weather ID fair.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

In England some centuries ago
tif an ordinar5 workman without
permission moved from one parish
to another in search of work or
better wages he was branded With
a hot iron.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

The grand jury method of in
vestigating violations of law is
slowly but surely being supplant-
ed by the new system of prelimi-
nary examination before a magis-
trate and the fling of information
by the prosecuting attorney.
Minnesota is the latest state to
abolish the grand jury system.
which it did at the recent election
by big majority. The new sys-
tenn is more:economical. gives bet
ter results and in time will be the
universal custom in this country.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11


A new fuel hes besn invented
By Jacob Smith. glasg work
and it has passsd 6atisfaole
test. Speaking Of this lzilole.
writer in the PhiIadelphia Record
says: II Is said to poassss moro
heat units per pound than either
coal on wood; II can Be manufactaf-
ed and sold at profit for half tie
cost Of coal and 1t does not smoke
except whom q strong draft q ussd.
Ita sncceas as q fuel for domestic
use was determined several weeks
ago, but not until this week. when
It was used beneath Che engins'
boiler, WAC its value for menufsct.
uring demonstrated. The fuel i
made largely from the Yefnss Or
pulp mills. Of which the5e are
number about Muncie Each mill
turns out thousands of ton QE re-.
fnse annually. The refuse; DON
bination of soda aud lime. e mixed
with crude oil. and the finished
pEad1ot tesembIsS putty: 4
be out With 3 spade and thrown il.
to a furnace or beneath q ahoiler
No kindling is necessary for ..
match touched to it win light read
lily. the material burning with an.
intense heat. There are no clink.
ers. and the ashes remaining after
the FIRE has burned down may be
made into a new compound, for
which Mr.. Smith has another use
A busheI basket full of the fuel
beneath Is .horse power engine.
at local factory. kept steam up
for eight honrs. It is manufactur
ed as plastersr makes his mortar
The government patent office has
called it tho "Smith fuel
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11
Not Billboards.

Uncle Sam has stepped in to
spoil of the newest developments
in advertising. 1t seems that far
mers at Ventura. Cal, got into the
habit of decorating the mail boxes
on the rural delivery routes with
signes like "Prime Sucking Pigs
For Sale," Cheap Bean Straw
For Cows" 60.
The government finally decided
that. even if it does not own them,
it could not afford to allow mail
boxes to be used for billboards
Notice has been served that ad-
vertisements on mail boxes will be
tr sted like any other DETACHMENT
of government property.-Pacifio
Cosst Advertising.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11
Good Heal tI1
to the
Children

Children especially arefond Of dainties.
and the housekeeper must look carefully
to their food.
As good cake can be made only with
good eggs. SO also cake that is health
full as well as dainty must be raised with
pure and perfect baking powder.
Royal Baking owder IS indispensable
in the preparation Of the highest quality
of food. 1t imparts that peculiar light
ness, sweetness and favor noticed IN the
finest cake, biscuit, doughnuts, crusts, ETC..
and what IS more important, renders the
food wholesome and agreeable to young
and old.
CO.,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-11

When Benjamin Franklin first
took the coach from Philadelphia
to New York he spent four days
on the journey. He tells rs as
the old driver logged along he
spent his time in knitting STOCK
ings. Two stage-ooaohes and
eight horses sufHced for ell the
commerce that was carried on bet
ween New York and Boston, and
in winter the journey occupied a
week.