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The Paducah weekly sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1902-19??, 1906-11-14
CALL PASTOR.
The Rev. J. s. Pate Will Come to
Second Baptist.

The congregation of the Second
Baptist church called the Rev. J. s.
Pate, of Hopkinsville, yesterday to
be the pastor. Mr.. Pate preached at
the Second Baptist church Sunday a
week ago and again yesterday He
left today for his home in Hopkins-
vile and will return to the city as
soon as he can get his household
goods packed.
The Paducah weekly sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1902-19??, 1906-11-14

Trying to induce some people to be
thankful, is thankless task.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
Iefferson's Delegation.

The subcommittee to prepare plan
under which the county primary is TO
be held, has decided to report to the
county. committee which meets on
April IA, a plan that does not include
the division of the county into legisla-
tive districts.
The county is to be congratulated
upon this action of the subcommittee,
for a proposition of doubtful constitu-
tionality is thus eliminated, and the
electors of the county are to be left
free to select the seven best men in it
to represent them in the legislature.
Let us hope great care will be taken
to put excellent democrats in nomina-
ton, and that no part of the county
will be deprived of due and proper
representation. The action of the sub
committee was wise and just, and that
of the electorate should be fair AMI
equitable.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
CHEF AND HIS KITCHEN.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The kitchen of the Astor residence would
delight the heart of a genuine house
keeper. 1t is high ceiled, big and well
lighted really being situated on the
ground floor of the house, for the dining
and drawing rooms start a full story and
a half higher One side of the kitchen,
that toward Fifth avenue, is hung from
Dashboard to eornice with shining cop
per utensils of all shapes and sizes, while
the coal and charcoal ranges on the OPP
posite side sparkle with the most subdued
luster of FURNISHED steel and German sill
YER Chef Tailland's assistants are an
under chef, a meat and pudding cook a
buttery man and two solutions. Two of
these assistants are French and one is
an Alsatian; but as the French chef has
the selection of them it is not strange
that he gives his countrymen the prefer
ence. Mrs. Aston found falkland at the
Cafe Voisn, Paris. He was engaged as
a highly recommended cook, and he did
belle his reputation. His annual wage
OF $4,000 is "A mere bagatelle of the tips
which go with his office. At Newport and
Ferncliff. whittier he goes frequently on
occasions of big house parties, Chef Tail
land is as necessary as food.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
Open Hearth Steel Rails.

The Pennsylvania railroad has been
experimenting in the wear and tear Of
steel rails. 1t has ascertained that the
ordinary Bessemer rail wears out in
places where the service is trying ION
curves and like places where the strain
is severe-in about eleven months. It
tried nickel steel rails in such places.
They wear longer, but they are brittle,
and they show fractures Unexpectedly.
The result of the Pennsylvania s
careful tests is that open-hearth steel
rails are pronounced the best, and that
road proposes hereafter to buy no
other. In Pennsylvania the open-hearth
rail costs more than Bessemer rails.
The difference in cost is not great,
however.
The experience of the London and
Northwestern agrees with the Penn
sylvania tests, and in the south the
Louisville and Nashville has found
open-hearth rails satisfactory
The determination of the Pennsyl-
vania is conclusive, for it lies in the
stronghold of the Bessemer interests.
1t is made in the very teeth of the
steel trust, and its determination will
establish the superiority of open-hearth
rails in all parts of the country
This should lead to more rail mills
in this district. The going out of Bees
semer rails should in fact throw the
weight of producing open-hearth rails
on this district, for we have better and
cheaper ores for that purpose than can
elsewhere be found lying next to fuel.
The subject is one that capitalists will
be sure to consider, and what they
say will be conclusive in this district,
for rail mills are quite beyond local
purses
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
Life Insurance Evils.

The two great evils of life insurance
in this country may be said to be the
deferred-premium scheme and the
scheme of trustees for procuring proX-
les to keep themselves in control of
accumulated assets. The two evils pull
together Through deferred premiums
great funds are accumulated which
have been and still may be used in
manipulating Wall-street securities,
and the gathering of proxies by agents
to stay in control until their stock job
bling schemes have been carried out.
1t is difficult to say which-of the two
evils is the greater, but both should
be treated as parts of one vicious
whole at Albany. The Armstrong bills
propose to put an end to all deferred
premium villainy, and they should rem
der the reelection of trustees impos-
sible until one full year has elapsed
The angry Hamilton does not pro
pose to remain silent scapegoat of
the trustees of the three big com
panies. His higher-law doctrine is
ridiculous, but outside of that doctrine
he can do much good by telling the
truth about the manner in which proX-
les are gathered. The officers and
trustees of the New York Life are en-
gagged at present in re-electing them
selves, employing for that purpose the
agents of that company, and taking
from the policy holders all needful ex-
penses. If the legislature of New York
does not render such work nugatory,
1t will be strange indeed, and Scape-
goat Hamilton will perhaps have some
thing to say on that subject.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21

a memorable engagement at Seville, 20
years ago. he succeeded in talking the
alternative at the hands of Frascuelom,
then -the best bun fighter in Spain.
From that time his real triumphs began
lie was paid from $1,000 to st2O0 for each
performance in the ring. and repeatedly
audiences, driven to frenzy of admira-
ton by his skill, threw into the ring for
him purses of money and jewels.
Mazzantinl took part in 1eoO tights and
during his career has killed over 900
bulls. Eleven times he has been injured,
ON six occasions seriously. lie has rescued
many of his fellow bull fighters from
DEATH
Mazzantini has cleared about ss.oOO,ooo
in salary and presents by his career IN
the ring. He is a favorite in Madrid So
ciety. where he is always called Don Luis,
but with other bull fighters he is not
popular, being known among them as the
"aristocrat Of the bull ring lie was al
ways devoted to his wife.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
About Persons.

NJ. s. Hansbrough, editor and part owner
of the Sheffield Reaper. was in Birming-
ham yesterday The Reaper since it came
under a new management, has developed
into one of the most progressive papers
in the state
D. w. Caughan OF Hehin is at the Bir-
mingham.
The following are registered at the Hill
man; w. H. linn OF Admission, r. w.
Harris of Winfield w. ID. Kimball of
Marion and j. ]. Bradley of Huntsville.
r. l.. Lanerty of Talladega is at the
st. Nicholas,
W. 7. Coleman of Coalburg is stopping
at the ST. Nicholas
These persons are registered at the Nor
rls: J. w. Murphy OF Admission, j. r.
Caldwell of Gadsden and E. W. Hausman
of Tuscaloosa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar NJ. <ilby have ar
rived in birmingham and are at home
with Mrs. r. J. Lide, No. PHO Tenth ave-
nue., south Mr.. kilby is the general man.
ager of the kilby Frog and Switch COM
pany at North Birmingham. which will
begin operations this week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
JURY PAID THE FINE.

From the Law Notes.
4 Texas correspondent tells how an OBJ
stinate juryman was circumvented by his
fellow judges of the facts. The offense
charge was assault with intent to muir
der After the jury had been out about
two hours it returned the following YER
dict: 1--WE, the jury. find the defendan.
guilty of aggravated assault and assess
his punishment as s25 fine and herewith
pay the fine" On inquiry as to the mean
ing of the last clause of the verdict 1t
came out that eleven of the jurors had
agreed that the defendant was not guilty,
but the twelfth doggedly hung out for
a conviction for aggravated assault and
would not consent to a punishment less
than a fine of s25. Finding it hopeless
task to bring over the obstinate one to
their way Of thinking. the eleven finally
decided to agree with him and "chipped
i'm enough to pay the fine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21

Birmingham Ala. Saturday.-A unique
thing is happening down here in Alabama
unique in history.
The people, unanimously, want Edmund
Winston Pettus to continue to serve them
in the United States Senate as long as he
lives. Yet they are preparing to hold an
election to decide upon his successor.
The reason is that when Senator Pettus'
present term expires, in 1909. he will be
lightweight, and the graveyard election
is to be held because Alabamans think
he will not live longer than that, if as
long
But Grandpa Pettus is mighty indig-
nant. He says he Is as spry as he was at
so and that he expects to live out the
whole six years of another term. He has
declared himself a candidate for re-elec-
ton the platform-"A man is as young
as he feels.
People who talk about age and age lin
itations evidently never nave heard of
Senator Pettus. Why, he had reached the
time for chloroforming, according to the
Osler doctrine back in '63-about the time
he was performing madcap pranks of dar-
ing in defence of Vicksburg.
He was a young officer then, fighting
with the Confederate army 1t seems that
the situation had become desperate; vol
unteers We're called for a foreign hope.
A brigade of reckless Texans offered for
the service, and Pettus offered to lead.
And he did lead-led where war was hot
test, and at the head of the column, his
six feet four looming large in front, that
protruding lower jaw set on taking those
works at any cost.
Where THAT tall figure rose and that
black straight name waved those Texans
followed. They loved him for his daring,
and when all was done and they learned
that he was from Alabama and not from
Texas they insisted on adopting him for
their state. and by one acclaim he was
crstened "Old Texas"
Pettus was a forty-niner He rode from
Alabama to California on horseback with
a company Of some forty of his neighbors.
He was a mere lad then of twenty-eight,
but he had already had adventures in the
Mexican war. in which he fought To
cross the continent ON horseback in 10
when railways were unknown and red
men were well known, was no Pullman
palace car affair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21

have been adopted in New Orleans.
And they are especially pleased with
the policy of publicity that the New
Orleans health board has adopted. 1t
has decided that there shall be the
fullest publicity in reporting all sus'
poets. realizing" says the Times
Democrat, that in this way only would
it be possible to prevent the disease
from getting foothold and prevent
the quarantines which result from sus-
pieion and doubt" All cases of sus-
picious Illness during the coming sea
son are to be promptly reported, and
this will obviate all need of quaran-
tines except those on intelligent and
scientific lines. The Ebrenz case has
pretty fully convinced the gulf states
that New Orleans proposes hereafter
to act with all honesty in yellow fever
matters.
But the Ebrenz case has not changed
in the least the need of federal quar-
antine for the purpose of keeping out
sporadic cases of the fever. If Con-
gress will promptly pass the Williams
Mallory bill so that federal quarantine
stations can be established before the
weather becomes hot, and all local and
state authorities will climb onto the
New Orleans platform, there will not
be much room left for trouble next
summer. The government at the sea
gates and eandor at the ports them
selves, will give us reasonable protec-
ton against the scourge next summer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
Our Nominee in 1903.

Senator Bailey and Senator Culber-
son, both Texans, have, it is said
lightning rods in position to be struck
In 1908 The Parker speech at Char
lotte seems to have added alertness to
the southern situation, but strange to
say, no aspirant appears outside of
Texas The Bailey boom is the larger
of the two Texas booms, but the Gull
berson boom should by no means be
ignored. Mr.. Culberson is Texas Sc
nior Senator, and, best of all, he was
born in Dadeville, Tallapoosa county
Alabama. Mr.. Bailey was born in Mis-
sissippi, but this should not be held up
against him. Mr.. Culberson is simply
to be congratulated upon his luck in
being born in Dadeville.
The impression is stealing over the
country that Judge Parker's advocacy
of the selection of southern man as
the nominee in 1908 is but part of a
deep-laid scheme to circumvent the
radical democrats, some of whom de.
sire the nomination of Mr. Hearst, but
more of whom desire to make Mr.
Bryan the standard-bearer in 1908. As
things stand today the latter easily
has "the pole" in the presidential race.
Mr.. Hearst is actively engaged in try
ing to beat back the Bryan wave, and
the Parker diversion may be a part of
a movement to turn down both Bryan
and Hearst. For ways that are dark
the politician is peculiar even if he be
not a heather.
One thing seems to be plain-the
democratic nomination in 1903 Is not
going a-begging. It is in demand and
Mr.. Bryan will soon be home TO look
after his fences. The entries then will
be Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. Hearst and Texan
of whom There are, two, one of whom
was born in Dadeville, where that ex
cellent newspaper, Spot Cash, is pub
lished every week in the year except
at Christmas time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
FROM ToREADoR TO FRIAR.
Grief over Loss of His Wife Drives
Famous Bull Fighter to Cloister.

From the Brooklyn Citizen.
Luis Mazzantini, the most famous bull
fighter in Spain, intends to enter the clois-
ter of the Augustine friars of the Escur-
ial in Madrid. Mazzantini is heartbroken
over the death of his wife, which occur
red recently in Mexico.
Mazzantini began life as country rail-
->road porter and for a long time he had a
hard struggle with poverty. One day some
of the youths of the village organized a
Noviada, a fight with very young bulls,
which is a popular sport in small towns.
Although he had never before faced u
bull. Mazzantni showed surprising skill.
Shortly after he duplicated his first sue
cess, and this decided him TO adopt bull
lighting, although his wife, village belle,
at first objected.
Mazzantini entered a travelling troupe OF
Novileros, as q bandrllero. the person
who throws gayly colored darts into the
bulls sides before they are Killed. lie was
diligent and soon organized troupe or
his own In his new position of 'iirst
sword he won constant praise, ana In
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
Striking Comparison.

Mayor George b. Ward and ex-Masor
". Melville Drennen were standing on
the rear platform of a crowded north
bound Highlands ear. Mayor Ward was
smoking a fragrant cigar EX-Mayor
was not-for he does not use tobacco.
II makes no difference where they had
been. Perhaps they just happened to
board the same car. They were engaged
in animated conversation; it is possible
the present chief executive was telling
the three-term Mayor all about what he
was going to do about street railway fran
ehise. Maybe Mr.. Drennen was relating
how he intends to go the state senate
nnopposed
The car reached Avenue g. and young
lady and her escort boarded and COM
menced to elbow their way through the
crowd. without turning his head the
young man remarked, well, they did not
have all this trouble with crowded cars
during the Bremen administration.
Those on the platform who heard the re-
mark laughed.
The two men-in-public-life said nothing.
They had the dry grins."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21

"a GREAT snow storm broke over
WIN Birmingham yesterday morning
about 3 o'clock. and in a short
time the city was 50 thiekly enveloped
with the flakes that traffic was tied up.
telephone and Geographic communication
cut off and people on the streets driven
TO shelter. A high wind whirled the snow
about at intervals and piled it against
Birmingham's skyscrapers In six hours
time snow lay on the sidewalks four feet
deep and all traffic for the day was sus-
pended. The trolley system was put out of
operation in short time, so that surbur-
banites could not get homo and the city
was wrapped in sem-darkness. At the
corner of Twentieth street and First ave-
nue., where the new Brown-Marx building
is being erected, a man from Ensley walk
ed into a snowdrift sixteen feet deep. He
was rescued with the aid of the steam
derrick used In lifting steel Orders for
contracting the building, Several police
men who insisted on trying to walk
their beats were found almost frozen
to death. The water In all the milk
froze, so that there was no cream"
for coffee and in the outlying dis
triets there was great suffering among
Many longed for spring. At the hour of
going to press last night, the STERN had
abated somewhat and the telegraph editor
went the subway route for an early morn
ing drink.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
MISTAKES ABOUT NICOTINE.
Doesn't Accumulate In Pipe Stems.
Little Nicotine Poisoning.

From the Washington Post.
There are probably few subjects about
which more people are misnformed than
nicotine.
Nearly every one speaks of the dark
brown substance which has about the con-
sistency and color of molasses and accu-
mulates in the stems of pipes as nicotine.
Ii is not nicotine. and it has no nicotine
in it,
1t is nothing but tar-tobacco tar dis
titled from the smoke. just as coal tar is
distilled from coal and pine tar from pine
wood. One might swallow all the tobacco
tar that rank clay pipe contains with
out serious harm. If he swallowed the
same quantity of nicotine he would prob
ably be dead inside of five minutes.
1t is the lar that stains the pipe, and It
Is the same tar that stains the cigarette
smokers fingers. 1t Is also found inside
the nostriis of one who inhales smoke,
and 1t puts an indelible stain on mus
taches.
1t is true that tobacco contains more
nicotine than any other known plant, but
nicotine is not "A plentiful article in ma
ture. The rankest Kentucky tobacco con-
tans less than s per cent of nicotine and
the finer grades of tobacco, such as Ha-
vana have less than per cent.
One often hears cigarettes condemned
because the smoker gets so much more
nicotine through inhaling the smoke. The
fact is that a cigarette smoker gets almost
no nicotine because the tobacco of which
cigarettes are made contains next to no
nicotine. Turkish and Egyptian tobaccos
carry only a trace of nicotine, and some
of them none at ALL
One often hears of nicotine poisoning
but it Is very doubtful II there is any
such thing When one is poisoned with
nicotine he dies, and he doesn't get pol
soned by smoking. There are plenty Of
good reasons why smoking should not be
carried to excess. but nicotine poisoning
is not one of them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21

have been told that there is a judge
who can snap his finger at the United
States supreme court. His name Is
Lynch, and he is present wherever
men lack respect for law and order
wherever anarchy is preferred to or
ganized society and judicial methods.
Governor Cox of Tennessee is engaged
in hot race for denomination, ana
no doubt he will wink at the Chatta-
nooga outbreak He will probably Of
fer reward for the arrest and con
viction of the lynchers, knowing full
well that none of them will be mo-
leeted.
However, Tennessee can act no
worse in such matters than Gadsden,
Andalusia and Elkmont have done, and
people in glass houses, it is said,
should throw no stones.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
Chattansoga's Bridge Execution.

The supreme court of the United
States granted stay of proceedings
in the case of a negro named Ed. John
son. who had been sentenced to be
hung in Chattanooga. One hundred
men and boys" at once took an appeal
from the decision of the supreme court.
They hung Johnson and barbarously
riddled his body with bullets. The de-
tails of the lynching were even worse
than the frontier is accustomed to in
duge in.
To the last Johnson protested his
innocence, and it would not be at all
strange if it turned out that the 100
men and boys had hanged an inno-
cent man. The decision of the su-
preme court simply granted him new
trial, which would have been held in
June if 100 men and boys" had not
otherwise decreed.
But how could 100 men and boys"
transact such business at an early
hour in the evening when police head
quarters was but four blocks away?
Why, too, was the jail left on the par
ticular night in charge of single
man?
The effect of these proceedings upon
the Zoe men and boys is something
Chattanooga should consider. They
were brutalized by the nights occur
renee, and all the rest of the people
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-21
Keeps Informed.

President Samuel Spencer of the
Southern, the Queen and Crescent and the
Mobile and Ohio, is one of the busiest
men in the United States and does not
have time to make a tour of inspection
very often; yet he knows every detail
of all that is going on along the line ="
sa.e local railroad official. HE keeps
up closely, not only with Blrmingham's
development, and the development of all
the other cities reached by his lines but
there is not am inch Of ground acquired
or needed by any of his companies that
he does not carry in his mind, so to
speak Mr.. Spencer has a marvellous ca
pacty for details as well as for handling
big problems"