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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-03
IN BEHALF OF
THE CEMETERIES.

y Today being the birthday of JEFF
= ferson Davis, the members of the
y Pelham chapter, U. d. c., will meet
= with the veterans at the cemetery
= to decorate the Confederate graves.
= 1t has been requested that an urg-
= eft appeal be made through these
= columns today to the citizens of
= Birmingham who own burial lots
= in the various cemeteries, at Oak
= Hill particularly, to see that more
= care and attention be given these
. lots, Individually; the weeds cut
= down, accumulated rubbish re-
= moved, and the lots in general be
. made to present a better and more
y decent appearance
= Now that the city, under the
= Mayors direction, is making an eff
fort to improve all the conditions
y pertaining to Oak Hill and the
y other cemeteries, in grading, sod
y ding and the laying out of paths
= and roadways, the active co-opera-
= ton of all citizens in anyway in
y terested in these improvements is
y most earnestly requested.
A neglected cemetery weed
. grown and forsaken, Is one of the
sduueSl anu must lOIloli SlSHls "
y be encountered anywhere, and-a
= certain criterion OF city's status.
1t is unfortunate that such an
y appeal as this should have to be
= made at all-that the dead should
y be remembered.
y All the members of the Pelham
= chapter are requested to be present
= at Oak Hill cemetery promptly at
y $3.50 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-03

ward Pinckard will be best man. Mr.
Pinckard and his bride will take bridal
trip to Colorado and through the west,
and will be at home after August 10 at
1139 South Twelfth street.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-03
GARBER-HURsT.

Mrs. Keenan, Hurst has issued invita-
lions to the marriage of her daughter,
Margaret Louise, to Mr.. Alexander M.
CARRIER, Thursday, June IA, at a. M, at
Christ church. Bowling Green, Ky. The
wedding, which was announced some time
since, is of interest throughout the state,
where Mr.. CARRIER is prominent in po-
litical and lodge circles. He is past grand
{ Continued on TWenty-first Page)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-03
STARRATT-PlCkENS.

Miss Carrie Bland Pickens and Mr..
Andrew Wilbur Starratt of Washington
will be married on Tuesday afternoon,
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Continued on Twenty-flrst Page
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-03

A little courtesy Just accorded the So
ciety department of the Age-Herald has
been special message of appreciation
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
Tommy's Mistake.

Il think l shall go to the auction TINS
afternoon" remarked mamma, as she
and papa sat at dessert, discussing pro-
iects for their new little home. Il
heard there were to be some really line
old things for sale, and few would
scome in very handy just now
ooh. mamma, let me go too" said
Tommy. looking up from his pudding;
II should just love to 60"
what do you know about 1t, Tom
my?" father asked. Its nothing that
will interest you; you would only be
in the way"
Eyes 1 know about it." Tommy said.
stoutly. Il learned all about them in
kindergarten. You get as many's eight
things from them" added the wise
boy. much to papa's and mamma
amusement.
well my lad. gave the kindergar-
ten credit for teaching you good deal,
but I never supposed they talked of
such things What do you buy from
the auction?"
ooh. shoes, and leather, and. meat,
and bones, and candles, and glue, and
lots of things can't think Of just now''
said the little 4-year-old boy.
VERY WE'LL said mamma, "since you
are so interested you may go with me,
but think you will not enjoy it.
At tea time papa said, well, my boy,
how did you enjoy the auction this af-
ternoon?'
pretty WELL" said Tommy, only
where were they?"
"where were who?" said papa.
"why, the oxen," Tommy replied. II
couldn't see any. I saw lot of people
crowded round the house and looking
in the window, and l heard man talk
ing and shouting real loud but
couldn't see them. Mamma only staid
a little while, so we couldn't get close
to them"
How papa and mamma laughed. ESQ
it was oxen you thought you We're go
ing to see,'' they said, and then ex-
planned to their little boy what an auc-
ton Was-Child Garden.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
When a Girl waoers

Betting with a girl is funny
proposition" began the man with the
gray suit.
You bet it is" assented the one
with the red tie. I'll never try it
again"
tits just another and more agree
able phase of the gold brick game, -
chimed in the man with the silver
cigaret case as he passed it around
What did you get stuck for. Will
lamp
81 won this time" replied William,
lighting his cigaret
Eyes, the man nearly always wins,
but the girl never pays You don't
mean to tell us that you have run
across a phenomenon?"
We'll here it is. This girl and
had bet about some fool thing or
other. / didn't want to bet in the first
place for was sure 1 was right, but
she insisted that her idea was the
correct one We couldn't refer to
ANYBODY or anything at that time to
decide. so she was determined to bet,
and finally made the magnificent dec
laration that she would bet ME a quar-
ter. | laughed and said l would be
ashamed to take the money and then
she proceeded with truly feminine
proposition.
"rll tell you. she said. If win,
yo,, nav me quarter If you win, I
will pay back toll you the quarter l
borrowed the other day
"Of course laughed and told her
couldn', see where I won by any
s,,r;,e sF-oolfsft don't YOU get YOUR
quarter back?' she asked with some
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
PERFECT AUGUST DAYS.

A perfect day in Iowa in, August is
lust the sort that we have had for two
weeks past They are very warm and
cause some heat prostrations, but from
an Iowa farmers viewpoint they are
the correct thing During these nights
the thermometer has not gone below "
degrees below Zero BY o'clock the
following morning it has reached So
and then during the day fingers around
between 95 and 100 in the shade.
Work Of all kinds has been difficult.
Men who are accustomed to- out-of-
door work were obliged to knock off
for few hours during midday. The
denseness of the atmosphere has made
sultriness that was oppressive
to working man. Not for
three or four years has there been ten
days of the hot weather that we have
enjoyed since August -.
Iowa corn fields are absorbing these
blistering rays of Old Sol and smiling.
They are leaping upward and outward.
The stalks in the fields were never
higher The ears upon the stalks were
never larger The ground is just moist
enough to keep the corn advancing all
the time and now it has passed the
roasting ear stage of it's existence. A
week more of the hot weather will set
tie the race. With another weeks boil
ing sun shining down upon the oceans
of Iowa's green maize Jack Frost will
be distanced in his attempt against
King Corn in the annual chase. Iowa
farmers with clothing soaked with
perspira ton, tanning themselves with
the usual broad brimmed' straw hat are
standing in the shade of the old apple
tree and smiling. The sun shines just
as it did years ago when the south for
ty yielded seventy -f1ve bushels to the
acre They never have seen such a
stand of corn since the year they had
a big enough crop to lift the old mort
gage. ALPS well in Iowa. Let the sun
shine, let the perspiration come, and
as Old SOL looks down upon Iowa's two
and half millions he will see them
with smiling faces pointing exultantly
to the fields of corn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
Whose Say-so is Best?

With nearly all medicines put up for
sale through druggists, one has to take
the makers say-so alone as to their cura-
tive value. OF course, such testimony IS
accordingly is not to be given the same
credit as If written from disinterested
motives. Dr. Pierce's medicines. how
ever. form single and therefore striking
exception to this rule. Their claims to
the confidence of invalids does not rest
solely upon their makers say : so or
praise. Their ingredients are matters OF
separate bottle wrapper. Thus invalid
sufferers are taken into DR.. Pierce's full
confidence. Scores of leading medical
men have written enough to fill volumes
in praise of the curative value of the
several ingredients entering into these
woll-known medicines.
ical ishts as Prot. Finley Eilinswood. N. b..
Of Bennett Medical College, Chicago; Prof
Hale. Of the sfme city; Prof John na, NJ scu at
John King NJ D.. late Of Cincinnati. Ohio:
DR. Grover Coe OF New York: Dr. Bartho-
low. of Jefferson Medical College. OF Pa.
' DE- :s Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures
the worst cases Of female weakness. prolap-
sus, anteversion and retroversion and corrects
disas:reeable and weakening drains. some
times known as pelvic catarrh and multi
tude of other diseases peculiar to women.
Bear in mind. it is not patent nor even
secret medicine but the HFavorite Prescrip..
tion of regularly educated physician. OF
large experience in the cure OF womans
peculiar ailments. who frankly and confd-
ingly takes his patients into his full con-
tidence by telling them just what his PRE-
scriDtion " is composed of. OF no other medi-
cine put up for woman's special maladies
and sold through druggists. can it be said
that the maker is not afraid to deal thus
frankly. openly and honorably. by letting
every patient using the same know exactly
what she is taking.
Sick women are invited to consult DR..
Pierce, by letter, free. All correspond
ence is guarded as sacredly secret and
womanly condolences are protected by
professional privacy. Address DIR. R. V.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
How to preserve health and beauty is
told in DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Med
ical Adviser. 1t is free. For paper
covered copy send DR.. R. V. Pierce, Buf-
falo, N. Y, 81 one-cent stamps to cover
mailing only; in cloth binding 81 stamps.
DIR. Pierce's Pellets cure constipation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05

gated districts and keeping others
from finding homes there. The presi-
dent outlines what has been accom-
plished toward reclamation of arid dis
something like sixty millions of acres
of land will eventually be reclaimed by
the projects which the government has
in contemplation. Mr. Hill. however.
says that the increase in population
in the next three years will more than
populate the whole sixty million acres
and that when the government has
completed it's present projects, say III
twenty years. it will be farther behind
on it's orders for homes than 1t ever
was.
The development of agricultural
schools and experiment stations is the
most effective work our governments
can do to prepare for the people who
are to come The one disnities agri-
culture and will eventually turn to-
ward the farms the executive talent
which has heretofore sought manu-
featuring and commerce Ut is safe to
say that If jim Hill had chosen farm
ing for his profession he could today
be managing thousand ten acre
farms with a prosperous family on
every ten acres and each owning stock
in the enterprise. TIE factory farm
must come If there is to be any very
great drift of population to agricul-
ture Dignisyng the profession Will
attract, the captains of industry. Dis
coveries at the experiment stations
will furnish them the processes. Land
ownership is the ideal to be sought
by all means and to be encouraged by
every form of legislation conceivable,
but if Jim Hill ever sees farming put
on the same plane as manufacturing
and any great turning OF population
from the cities to the farm the power
Of cooperative effort must be applied,
the captains of industry must take
hold and the factory farm must come.
In this way will room enough be made
upon the land for the countless mil
lions which will crowd in among US.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
Iowa Newspapers
Observation-Disclosures
ALL ONE FAMILY.


1t is on the Astounding prosperity OF
the great agricultural west that the
WELL being OF the country Is based.
1t is to the fields of the west that the
manufacturers of the east look for
their harvest and it is there that the
trade centers look for their returns.
Even the steel industry must look for
a good share of its profits to the farms
of the west 1t is reported from Pitts
burg that the agricultural department
burg that the agricultural implement
manufacturers are starting their plants
a month or two in advance Of the usual
date, thus rejecting the prosperity OF
the west. The nation is like great
family All sections are mutually in
1terdependent and nothing illustrates 1t
better than the activity of the Pitts
burg implement factories.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
S.S.S.l CURES (K1ARRH i

away and
be
you things you wasting
allowing posons blood which produce
disease firmly rooted become disgusting troubles
but dangerous
hawking and splitting headaches dropping back into the
throat feeling Of general
debility that there for catarr This
until this The of
purify the blood s. the ideal Il
the of all impurities, blood Of all catarrhal
and and eauay checks the Of this disgusting
perfect ORDER and
this healthy blood and the body
medical
advice free The SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., A1zAN1A, O.,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
THE USE Of IRON.

The London Iron and Coal Trades
Review makes an impressive exhibit
of the recenl. extension of the use of
iron and steel along new lines. The
Is 100000 miles and great additions
are in prospect. Taking $50 tons a mile
as the avera ge requirement, some U.s.
100000 tons of rails would be needed
to relay existing mileage. besides 3d.
100000 tons for spikes, bolts, etor An
& nual repairs require some 20,000,000
tons a year. Some 100000 tons are
needed annually for equipment. Steel
ships call for some 100000 tons a
year Steel is used in building at pres
e11t, to an unprecedented extent, in
tn eform of beams, Orders, joists, win
dow frames, reinforcement of concrete
structures.
The United States alone uses over
1, 100000, tens for such purposes year.
ly, not to mention the galvanized
y SneeG sJraue, WHICH Is euOTIOuS. ASI1-
culture takes increased quantities of
steel yearly. barbed wire accounting in
the United States alone for con-
sumption eff 100000 tons. Wire nails
swell the demand for wire rods.
Il Electrical installations create an ad
ditionai market for large quantities of
L 4
steel. If We consider the demand for
I minging and other machinery, muni-
cipal water supplies, pumps, the pc
troleuin indsutry and its pipe lines, 1t
I vii be readily seen that the demand
I for iron and steel, large as it is at
I present, II of such nature as to
promise to be fairly permanent. A
world wide business depression, conse-
quent upon, war between first-class
western powers, might arrest the i'm
crease of demand for time, but the
new uses for iron assure for it large
demand, lit seems, in any case.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
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Business College, Winter School, Sum-
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Fall term begins September 4.
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MASON CITY, IOWA.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
DYING I'm THE HARNESS"


The place to die is lin the har-
ness" That is to say, it is better to
die all at once. If one gets out of
the harness. he may think he will.
kick up his heels and be merry, but
that is not an occupation to keep one
in good heart 1t is better to stick to
ones Job The worst thing that hap
pens 10 men is to turn them out to
grass. 1t does not matter if they are
privileged to say it is their grass 80
have nothing of a compulsory char
acter to do. to eat and sleep and
read medicine advertisements is to
come to the lowest estate. Yet men
are tempted to look forward to such
a time as the time when they are to
begin enjoying life. The happiness
of existence is in being busy. unless
it be with existence that is not both
cred with mental machinery. When
one is busy the time does not drag
like weight attached TO cuiprit
When one is busy the perplexity of
enemies is at the minimum, and they
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
I Jim HILLS VIEW OF THE FUTURE.

Jim Hill, who walked to ST. Paul as
a poor boy. took job as a clerk on
s a river steamboat and afterwards built
the Great Northern and organized the
Northern Securities Company, can not
be accused of being a visionary. His
ideas as to the future of this country
should take on practical form, he is
not open to the suspicion of pipe
dreams SO often charged against
newspaper. This is said in preliminary
to reference to the fact that Jim Hill
repeats the predictions recently made
by the Times Republican that the I'm
tied States will, within the single life
time of children now living, be as
densely populated as France or Ger
many is today. Mr.. Hill puts it that
fifty millions OF people must find adj
ditionaI homes in this country during
the next twenty years and that by the
middle of the present century two and
a half times the present eighty millions
of people will be living in this coun-
try. =, 4 Aaa&k9
Because of the astonishing growth in
population which Mr.. Hill sees ahead,
he is concerned about the future sup
port Of the race unless more effort is
made to move population from the
cities to the farms and to divert the
land from large farms into small
farms. He also worries over the
wastefulness of our farming methods
which wear out good wheat land just
at the time when wheat is coming in
TO the greatest demand ever known for
1t.
On the same day that Mr.. Hill was
speaking at the Minnesota state fair
of what he could see in the future,
President Roosevelt sent a letter to an
irrigation congress in Idaho calling att
tention to, the danger of people trying
to cultivate too much land in the irri-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
TWO EDUCATIONAL PROPOSITIONS.

Union labor as represented in the
British parliament has introduced an
educational demand that will attract
much attention. The proposed law
provides that not only free instruction
and free school books shall be provided
by the state but that it shall stand in a
more complete parental relation ana
furnish free all necessities such as
clothing, food, and medical attendance
until the pupil has attained the age OF
sixteen No distinction is made between
the children of rich and poor. The in
tent of the proposition is to create alb
solute equality by system of COM
munism that shall break down all
classes based on birth or affluence, and
to abolish from the educational sys-
tenn the idea of organized charity and
aims.
Another and more welcome PROPOSE
ton offered by the same bill is to make
technical instruction in some useful
trade or profession compulsory part
,of the education of every child.
Diminishing the first proposition with
out argument by reason of it's radical
ism and present impossibility, there is
something very attractive in the Sec
ond proposals One serious complaint
against our own school system is that
it sends the sixteen-year-old boy and
girl out with a mental equipment more
or less crude and ineffective and with
out any equipment at all that may be
turned into an immediate livelihood
The British trades union suggestion is
in line with Seerley's demand that our
schools teach how to do and to deal
with things When it is realized that
of more than 200 boys entered in high
school only eight are graduated and
that the others have been forced by
circumstances or have inclined to leave
own living, the charge that our high
school curriculi are centered on the
eight or less who may be anxious and
able to take college course, takes on
significance. These fifteen or sixteen
year-old boys go out to seek jobs with
electricians, stonemasons and trades
men of all sorts; they start to learn
dexterity and acquire special knowl-
edge in the avenues of effort they may
select for lifework. Most fifteen-year-
old boys are family men and fathers
within ten years. Why should not the
school system while teaching him the
rudiments of abstract learning teach
also the rudiments of the best way to
support and care for the family but
ten years ahead in the future. The
girl of twelve or thirteen is fated to be
the mistress of that family. At thirty
she may be widow with small chill
dren and smaller means. She ought
to know something more readily coined
into the money to buy bread and beef
than her conception OIL the Arthurlan
legends.
The problem of rearing family In
comfort and credit is one growing
more complicated as population in
creases and competition crowds on the
weak. Nothing can supply the willing
ness to work but it would seem wise
plan to teach how to work with hand
and eye and to dignity labor by teach
ing the first principles of its skillful-
ness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05

irritation. i ought to get that any
way | retorted Well. you wouldn't
she said conclusively. That was only
car fare. and l wouldn't insult you by
returning IT. OF course, l subsidized
then. and she considered that she had
convinced me of the error of my con-
ception of finance. It's wonderful the
way women figure out things"
Come back to the bet said the
man with the cigaret case, who was
right"
I'VE both looked the thing up the
next day and when we met soon after
ward she was jubilant. She was right
and was away off the track. Just for
fun, i made a bluff of getting out of
IT, but she insisted on having her
quarter and j handed 1t over"
We'll, is that alp queried he OF
the red tie, impatiently.
No The next day I got little
package from her. Women are fun
ny. She had sent me white wash
silk tea mighty pretty one. too-and
she had left the price mark on it. Ii
was SO cents"
He arose and threw away his cigaret
looked at the clock, said good night,
and went out.
'tHumph!" CALCULATED the red tie
man. Guess there's another chapter
yet to that story"
Can6or.
II know what you are going to say she
said.
And she stood up looking uncommonly
.'You are going to speak Of the hectic
And say you're sorry the summers dead
And no other summer was like it. you
know
And can imagine what made it so?
Now, aren't you, honestly?" Yes" ]
said.
II know what you're going to say sho
"You are going to ask if I forget
That day In June, when the woods were
wet
And you carried mc"--here she dropped
her head
"Over the creek; you are going to say
Do I remember that horrid day?
Now, aren't you, honestly?' Yes" /
said.
II know what you're going to say" sho
said,
You are going to say that since that
time
You have rather tended to run to rhyme
And"--her clear glance fell and her cheek
grew rcd
"And have 1 noticed your tone was
queer?-
Why, everybody has seen it here!
Now, aren't you, honestly" Yes"
said.
81 know what you are going to say"
said.
You're going to say you've been mue
annoyed.
And I'm short of tact-you will 81.
devoid
And I'm. clumsy and awkward. and ca
me Ted.
And bear abuse like dear old lamb.
And you'll have me anyway, just as !
am.
Now. aren't you, honestly?' "Ye-es."
she said. Henry Cuyler Bunner.