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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
GOSSIP OF INTEREST
ABOUT CONFERENCE
Four-Year Time Limit for Pastors Will
Probably Be Removed as Result
of Agitation.

Considerable surprise has been express
ed among the members of the general
conference at the growing sentiment in
favor OF the removal of the time limit
for pastors. At present a minister cannot
remain in one place longer than four
years. The Northern M. E. church re-
moved the restriction some six years ago
and the change is said to be much more
satisfactory, and it is regarded as not I'M
likely that the southern conference will
take similar action before adjournment
this time.
The city pastorates especially feel the
need of having "a man remain in one To-
cality longer than four years. 1t is claim
little more than get well acquainted with
his people in four years, and that it is a
great injustice to transfer him to anoth-
err field Just at time when he has
reached point where he can do good
work for his church. Even the most con-
sentative delegates in attendance at the
present conference have come out in IA
vor of the proposition. and it is thought
that there will be little difficulty In hav-
ing it adopted by the present conference.
Among the matters which have come
before the conference attracting more
than usual attention is the proposition
of the West Texas conference to unite
the home and foreign mission societies of
the church which the women as members
have built up to such a high state of eff
ficiency. A strenuous fight will probably
be made on the proposition when it comes
UP for debate. The women are said to
be almost unanimously against it and
the outcome will be. watched with inter-
est.
The Rev. j. w. Hill of the North
Texas conference and popularity known
as "Gulliver'' is one of the influential
members of his delegation. He is the
father of the tract movement, and he
is now meeting with much encourage
ment in a plan which he has pending
before the conference for the gratutious
distribution of tracts, especially to the
hordes of foreign Immigrants now land
ing on southern shores.
The Rev. A. t. Osbron, formerly pas
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authorized today the purchase of fifty
thousand pounds
tSigned) "GREELY."
War Department, May 4. 1906.
"Greely. Major General Commanding.
Your dispatch to secretary concerning
Devors credit of 100000 received. Unless
YOU make a showing to me of the amount
of material sent you, which is unused al
ready requested in my dispatch of today.
I cannot authorize Devol to spend money
as you request, for the reason that APP
preparation has already been exceeded. III
1t be necessary to obtain meat, | can or
der a remittance sent at once from the
Red Cross funds. Confer with the relief
association on this subject.
civilian Fl. TAFT,
Secretary of War
The following dispatch was also received
from General Greedy under date of May 4:
"'rhe Eleventh infantry arrived, thus re-
lieving the military situation. Conditions
otherwise remain unchanged from yester-
days dispatches. All records called for
will be furnished Immediately on receipt
of information from subordinates who are
overworked Find difficulty in obtaining
time for detailed statements Presume
should relieve gradually henceforth."
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man; c. II. Briggs, secretary.
Finance-T. S. Garrison, chairman; 8.
J. Leftwich, secretary.
Colportage-w. r. Lambuth, chairman,
w. c.. Howard, secretary.
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The Sugar Trust.

I'm the message from the President
transmitting the report of Commissioner
Garfield, reference is made to the relations
of the railroads to the so-ealled sugar
trust, at New York, and information COM
municated to the President that the so
called sugar trust rarely If ever pays the
lawful rate for transportation. AS the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad company is known
to participate largely in the carriage of
this traffic, 1t would necessarily follow
that such information applied to that
company, and in view of this 1t is emil
nently proper that answer thereto should
be promptly made on that companys be-
half Having personal knowledge / deny
most positively and emphatcally that such
information Is true as far as the Penn
sylvania Railroad company is concerned,
on the contrary | assert positively that the
traffic of the so-caled sugar trust or
other shippers of sugar has been carried
for many years past as the lawful publish
ed tariff rate, and that no rebate or I'M
lawful concessions directly or indirectly
has been paid by our company on this
traffic.
ct is unfair and unjust to the President
that he should be misled to believing
that any such condition of affairs exists
as stated
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tor at Jackson, Mo-, has filed charges
with the episcopacy committee against
Bishop r. r. Hendrix of Kansas City
for wrongfully deposing him from his pas
torate and forever debarring him from the
ministry in Missouri.
Mr.. Osbrons troubles are said to ex-
tend over a considerable period. He en-
tered politics in 1903 by becoming candi-
date for lieutenant governor on the prohi-
btlon ticket against the protest of Bishop
Hendrix. But his greatest offense is said
to be his delivery of lectures on spiritual
ism. For this he was brought before the
st. Louis conference and deposed on the
ground that he ran off after strange doc
trines
DR.. George r. Stewart the well-known
evangelist of Columbia, Tenn, will deliver
lecture at the Jefferson theatre under
the auspices of the Y. M. c. A.
The Rev. Shepherd, a negro mission
airy, who has spent many years In the
Congo Free State, and who was charac-
terized on the floor of the conference
yesterday as "a remarkable man." will
lecture on his work In Africa at the First
Methodist Episcopal church this afternoon
at o'clock
DR.. Young j. Allen, the China mission
airy, will address sthe First church Sun
day school this morning at 10 o'clock.
At yesterdays session of the confer
ence the officers of the organized standing
committees were announced as follows:
Episcopacy-Paul Whitehead, chairma n
w. l.. helms. secretary.
Itinerancy-B. F. Lipscomb. chairman
]. II. Mccoy, secretary.
Revisals-Grove Alexander, chairman
2 r. Bennett. secretary.
Publishing Interests-W. b. Palmore,
chairman; e. b. Campbell. secretary.
Education-R. G.. Waterhouse, chair
man; John M. Moore, secretary
Church Extension-W. r. McMurry,
chairman; T. r. King. secretary.
Mssions--O. e. Brown, chairman; ].
W. Perry, secretary.
Boundaries. II. Mclean, chairman
J. d. Scott, secretary.
Temperance-E. b. Campbell, chairma n
p. F.. RAIDER. secretary.
Sunday Schools-John r. Pepper, chair
man; George NJ. Napier, secretary.
Epworth League. M. Barcus, chair
man; S. p. Cresap. secretary.
Appeals-Bishop C. B. Galloway. chair
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DR.. George r. Stewart, the well-known
evangelist of Columbia, Tenn, will deliver
a lecture at the Jefferson theatre under
the auspices of the Y. M. c. A.
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DR.. Young j. Allen, the China mission
airy, will address sthe First church Sun
day school this morning at 10 o'clock.
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PRESIDENT THAYER
DISCUSSES REPORT
Refers to 1t as Outrageous Per-
version of Facts
EXPLAINS SPECIAL RATE
Old Tariff on Oil Retained to Prevent
Product From Going From One
Refinery to Another In
Pipes.
EXPLAINS SPECIAL RATE

Philadelphia, May b.-Niee President
Thayer of the Pennsylvania railroad to-
day made the following statement con-
corning the report of Commissioner Gar
field in the Standard Oil inquiry:
"The report of Commissioner Garfield 50
far as 1t refers to our company in its re-
lations with the traffic of the Standard
Oil company, is an inexcusable and out
rageous perversion of the facts.
ut is true that there had been in effect
a special rate of cents per barrel on oil
from Olean to Rochester, and 1t had not
been withdrawn. This rate was made
originally in 1858 by the Western New
York and Pennsylvania railroads, twelve
years before the acquisition of that road
by the Pennsylvania, in order to retain the
railroad traffic which would otherwise
have gone by pipe line. The traffic to be
transported was crude oil and unfinished
products moving from one refinery to an
other belonging to the same owners At
tention having been recently called to the
wording of the tariff it was corrected so
as to clearly confne the rate to crude
oil and unfinished products thereof, as
intended. 1t is not a secret and never
has been secret. The tariff was not filed
with the interstate commerce commission
because it applies to traffic solely within
the state of New York and tariffs upon
such traffic are never filed with the COM
mission, whose jurisdiction covers only
Interstate traffic 1t was not made as
stated by the report for the purpose OF
combination with other roads to produce
secret low through rates to New England
AS to Saving.
"As to the so-called saving of $1150Oo in
1904, | presume this is based on the diff
ference between the special regular rate
and the regular classification rate. This
conveys the impression that large sum
of money was llegitimately given by the
railroad which in view of the facts above
explained is manifestly not true.
Reference is made to blind billing as
If it were some secret device. This also
is untrue The explanation of so-called
blind billing is very simple, Billing Is
another name used by railroads for mani
Testing which is record OF the shipment
made for use only of the railroad COM
pany in making proper movement OF the
traffic The public never sees a manifest,
being interested only In the rate, the bill
of lading and the freight bill The term
blind is used when manifests are made
without the details being shown, prac-
tice now infrequent, and not peculiar to
the oil traffic. It's purpose is to- save
cledcal work. This was fully explained
to Commissioner Garfeld's representative.
after an exhaustive examination by
the department of commerce on our books
and accounts being freely paid both on
state and interstate traffic-it appears
that the only case that Commissioner Gar
field was able to present for criticism in
all our relations with the Standard Oil
company is this rate on oil between Clean
and Rochester
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Week of May 7
Something Doing all the Week
Monday
7 tuesday,

Morning, Ladies' only, 10 to Il;
Afternoon, General Public
2::30 to $50, Music,
Night, Couples only admitted
to Skating Surface.
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The Rev A. t. osbron, formerly pas
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Headache, Backache and Weakness Are Symptom
of Pelvic Catarr1.
ALETTER OF GRATITUDE.


Mrs. Lizzie Lohr, 1855 w. 18th street, chicago, li
writes -
al take pleasure in writing you these few lines,
thinking there may be other women suffering as
did. had my complaints over a year. tried
different medicines and doctors also. Nothing
seemed to do me any good. The doctors wanted
to operate me.
Sat last wrote to DR.. Hartman. He told me
what allied me, and how 1 should take Peruna, L
did as he told me for four months and now L am
cured. No one tell how thankful am to him, as
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-26

need most the recognition of the law
should be most careful of the law.
MODS and threats are the negroes
greatest danger as lack of character is
their greatest weakness. The hope of
the race is not in riotous self-assertion
but in law-abiding industry. Here in
Iowa it may best assert itself by re-
forming it's largest settlement, where
murder is monthly occurrence in a
town of 1000. 1t can help to hunt
down and put out of circulation the
worthless and criminal among its
numbers who turn prejudice toward
the decent, respectable and indus
trious. There is a prejudice against
negroes in the north as in the south.
1t is we'll for colored men to realize
that it exists and however unreason-
able will continue to live. The way
to ameliorate it is not by mobs and
threats.
"The Clansman" is not likely to at
tan the popularity of Uncle Toms
Cabin" in the north. but 1t seems to
have the same right to be produced
aand protected. Imagine mob OF
Hebrews attempting to mob a Pas
sion Play because Judas 1scariot was
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-26
The Best Guaranty Of Merit
Is Open Publicity.

Every bottle Of DIR. Pierces world
famed medicines leaving the great
laboratory at Buffalo, N. Y, has print
ed upon its wrapper all the ingredients
entering into it's composition. This fact
alone places DR.. Pierce's Family Med
licines in a class all by themselves.
They cannot be classed with patent or
secret medicines because they are nei-
Their. This is why SO many unpreju-
diced physicians prescribe them and
recommend them to their patients.
They know what they are composed
Of and that the ingredients are those
endorsed by the most eminent medical
authorities.
The further fact that neither Dr.
Pierce's Golden Me,iical Discovery the
great stomach tonic, liver invigorator,
heart regulator and blood purifier. nor
his "Favorite Prescription" for weak.
OVER worked. broken down. nervous
women, contains any alcohol, also en-
titles them TO a place all by them
selves.
Many years ago, DR.. Pierce discov-
cred that chemically glycerine, Of
proper strength, is a better solvent
ana preservative of the medicinal prin-
! ciples residing in our indigenous. or
native, medicinal plants than is alco-
hol; and, furthermore, that 1t possess
es valuable medicinal properties Of its
own. being demulc.ent, nutritive, anti
septic, and most efficient antifer-
ment.
Neither Of the above medicines con-
tains alcohol, or any harmful, habit
forming drug, as will be seen from
glance at the formula printed on each
bottle wrapper. They are safe to use
and potent to cure.
Not only do physicians prescribe the
above non-secret medicines largely,
but the most intelligent people en-
pioy them people who would not
think of using the ordinary patent,
Eor secret medicines Every ingredient
entering into the composition, OF DR..
Pieree's medicines has the strongest
kind of an endorsement from leading
medical writer's OF the several schools
Of practice No other medicines put
up for like purposes has any such pro-
fessional endorsement
Dr.. Perce's Pleasant Pellets cure
constipation. Constipation is the
cause of many diseases. Cure the
cause and you cure the disease. One
Pellet is a gentle laxative, and two
q mild cathartic. Druggists sell them
and nothing Is ".iust as good Easy
to take as candy.
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Misunderstood,

A party in from South Dakota
county tells of the embarrassing ex-
perience of a boy candidate. The
young man had read of the candidates
in their trips over the country kissing
all the babies and he supposed it was
a necessary part of the campaign work.
On his first trip he stopped at a home
where there were fourteen children of
various ages. The candidate was in a
family from the old country whose re-
ligious training had taught them.
adults and children Of both sexes, to
kiss as a part Of greeting the stranger
who might enter their door. So when
the candidate entered and quickly
kissed the youngest one of the flock he
supposed a tip under the chin would
suffice for the older members of the
family, but they in turn began to throw
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-26
consol,pArs...soys...co CONSOLIDATE.

Charlie HELEN has sold the Webster
CITY Journal and nobody can blame
him for that. Hamilton county has
seldom agreed with Charles kind OF
Journalism. The young men who have
purchased the property, however, are
full of promise, and have it in them to
make a newspaper succeed. They
should open negotiations with the
Freeman Tribune right away for the
consolidation of the two dailles into
one under a stock company, which will
make room for them all to work and
prosper on one daily.
Webster City is too small a town for
two dailies, yet its merchants and its
people want real good one. AS 1t
is now every good piece of news has
to be chased by two reporters, set
into type and printed into two news
pa pers. while people must buy two
newspapers in many cases and the
merchants have to put their ads into
both. Result, the expense is doubled
for everybody and the service cheaper
ed by half.
Give Webster City one daily as good
as the other two put together. The
people will get more reading for their
money the merchants can pay higher
rates for advertising and still be get
ting it cheaper, and the publishers
will have more to show for the profits
Of their labor. Consolidate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-26
NEW TOWNS IN SOUTH DAKOTA

Florence.
Twenty miles to competing towns on
other lines. Six elevators, three lufn-
Der yards, sixty buildings in course Of
construction: will have 1000 people in
reasonable time. Country all settled.
One million bushels of grain to be mar
keted.
Brentford, Sphinx County, s. D.
Just plated. Lots at private sale.
One million bushels Of grain to be
marketed. Country all settled. In
James River Valley. Town will have
1000 people soon; cash payment when
100 lots are sold for occupancy.
cresbard, FauIk County, s. D.
Just plated, twenty miles to COM
peting towns ON other lines. Six hum
dred thousand bushels of grain to be
marketed. Country one-half settled.
Lots at private sale. No line Of BUSH
ness to be overdone Town will have
1000 people in short time. Thomas A.
Way, Town Sight Agent. Minneap polls
g. st. Louis Railroad Co., Aberdeen,
nak
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in Spirit, too; they object to being re-
garded as servants and Kitchen
mechanics" as they are called by
many We don't blame them for let
ting the kitchens yawn and yearn. The
American laboring man or woman as a
rule are the salt of the earth. 1t Is the
doless, thriftless boy or girl who is a
"snob,' and who ought to be compelled
TO work or starve. Here is TO the boy
who works and the girl who works,
who is too manly and too womanly to
stand up and be counted In the ser
want class The American boy whose
hands never bore the marks of honest
toll and the girl with the lily white
hands are usually as worthless as
last years birds nest.
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their arms about the vote-maker's neck
and kiss him. After the thirteenth Off
spring had given him the customary
greeting the old woman threw her arms
around him and gave him the smack
that all strangers who entered her door
We're entitled to, according to the
church tenants of her faith. AT this
stage OF, the proceedings the candidate
looked wistfully towards the door with
a view Of escape when his eye met the
old man coming rapidly UP to give the
stranger the kiss OF welcome, but the
young man supposed that the head of
the house was about to make trouble
because the wife had kissed him, and
he broke and ran across the pralries at
a lively pace and at last reports, was
still running
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-26
Professor Swallowed 1t All.


The scholarly William e. Byenly pro-
lessor Of mathematics at Harvard was
once asked by Il student how to develop
a retentive memory. The professor
answered that ordinary mental exer-
else was sufficient to secure good
memory, whereat the student asked
him to listen and remember several
varied items for a test. He began:
"One quart of whisky"
'Um!" said the professor.
SIX pounds of sugar, a pint Of sour
milk, three onions, half a gallon Of
molasses and two raw eggs"
"Um!" said the professor.
1.-TWO green apples twenty-six pea
nuts, one and a half .cucumbers, and
four mince pies.'
8"um!" said the professor.
A package of starch, sixty seven
cakes of yeast, and the skins of seven
bananas. Got that DOWN."
TYes," answered DR. Byerly.
How does it taste?" asked the stu
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-26
Iowa Newspapers
:issllsss..au.a acsIa,s
IOWA WORKING GIRLS.
rMarion Register.l

The Cedar Rapids Republican says
at is poor girl or woman who can
not find employment in that city, and
says further that "there are thou
sand kitchens which are yawning and
yearning for girls to go into them and
work" We suppose the situation there
is much the same as in most of the
towns and cities in the state. The
truth is that the Iowa working girl is
not hunting a situation in kitchen
not her own, howveremuch the kitch-
ems may be "yawning" and "yearn-
ing" for her. There are multiplied
thousands of girls in Iowa who have
to earn their own living who represent
as splendid a type of girlhood and
womanhood as there is in the country.
They are honest, Industrious, respecta-
Bile, intelligent. They are Independent
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Topics Of the Times

The best Square deal" is to begin
at the top and put cross In every
SQUARE straight down to the bottom.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given $1,000 to
Methodist church. She will need to
hurry faster if she is to get rid of the
interest on that s160,000,000.
The Manson Journal quotes farm
er living near Manson as stating that
he has cleared $4,000 from 16O-acre
farm in the last five years. This farm
er believes most men make the mis-
take of attempting to carry on oper-
atoms too extensively and offers ms
and his neighbors' experience in fav-
or of the moderate farm highly culti-
waited and carefully looked after as
more profitable than big farm short
of help and indifferently attended to,
This farmer has hold Of the right end
of the string. Intensive farming is
sure to settle the problem Of large
farms The rising prices of land ana
the scarcity of competent help all
tend toward 1.-The little farm we'll
TILED"
Mrs. Fudg-My husband says he just
couldn't live without his club.
Mrs. Rubbs Really! What is he. a
policeman?
Clerks employed by the Southern
Pacific railway have gone on strike
and dispatches say five hundred are
out. Naturally. Everyone concerned
in a strike is usually "out," more or
less
A Chicago newspape is agitating fol-
penal colony located somewhere In
the west Why wouldn't it be simpler
to withdraw few decent people from
Chicago and locate the colony on the
plane of least resistance and the shore
or Lake Michigan?
The Burlington Hawkeye regards
Charley Hellen's prediction of disaster
as "significant.'' The Hawkeye takes
Charley much more seriously than the
people of his own county appear to do.
He does not seem to Signify polite
ally in Hamilton as he does at Bur-
lington.
rs journalism purely commercial?''
asks the Cedar Rapids Republican.
Well, it certainly lacks some of true
altruism in Cedar Rapids.
Major General Forsyth, who died
yesterday at Columbus, Ohio, was one
of the picturesquely gallant of the
cavalry officers who followed Sheri-
dan on the one side and Forest on the
other during the civil war. He was
noted Indian fighter of the old days
and in later time he drew attention as
commanding officer when the Indians
made their last serious outbreak at
Pine Ridge agency.
BY a contract with the management
of the Astor theater women patrons of
the house will remove their hats dur
ing performance. Wagenhals &
Kemper having experienced consider
able trouble with women who enter the
playhouse bearing upon their respec-
tive marcel waves lovely New York
ana Paris creations and who refuse to
remove them, ordered new tiekts,4