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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25

and wonderful stories. He realized that Clark was bad b-a-d man, and was quite willing to talk about his soul and his fu- ture, but he would tell his story some other day-the day after to-morrow. An appointment was made for that day with Rev. Tobias Green, and he departed feel ing that he had greatly softened the heart of a desperate man.
 At o'clock on the afternon of the day designated Rev. Tobias Green put in an appearance. 1t was midwinter and the day was so cold that the preacher was well bundled up. having on a heavy over ccat and fur cap and muffer. The day was so dark that some of the halls were lighted One of the hall masters conduct ed the prescher to Clark's cell and left him. and the good man took the convict by the hand and anxiousy enqulred after the state of his health. Not more than two minutes had elapsed before the preacher was lying on the back of the bed with a gag in his mouth and his thoughts terribly mixed up from a rap on the head. When he had gotten matters strengthened out he was stripped from his shirt and drawers and his hands and feet was se- curely tied Clark had prepared himself for the job. and it was done In prompt and thorough manner Inside of ten min utes he was dressed in the preachers clothing. while the latter was covered up with the blankets. Then the convict sat with his back to the door and kept up mumbling conversation for half an hour During this time. as he himself related he poured into the preachers ear all the stories he. had overheard to the detriment of the "coth' He finally ended by sing ing a hymn. and when he passed outside the cell door he turned and said in voice meant to be hear by the hall watch man.
 'Good night, my son truly hope that this visit has been the means of doing good I will come again tomorrow if possible"
 With that he started for the hall and the watchman passed him to the wicket This was unlocked without question, as also were all other Instructions to liber- ty, and he reached the street without the slightest intolerance of liberty. He had relatives in the suburbs of the city. al- though the facts were not known to prscr officials. -and he walked straight to the house and was taken in Rev. Tobias Green remained passive until the hour came for the men to Le locked up, when he was discovered An alarm wa sat once sent out, but Clark was safe. He remain cd secreted in the house for about a month and was then shipped away and his recapture was never effected.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
Bookbindinqs in Europe.

From Harper's Weekly
 An official of the Congressional Ii. brary was recently remarking upon the difference of the bindings put mon the documents issued by the United States government and those of Eli. ropean countries.
 Here, for instance, is a volume is. sued by the French government upon fish culture,' he said. You will ob- serve that the paper, press-work and illustrations are the finest, while the binding or cover, rather, is a yerv cheap paper. A volume somewhat sim. liar is the annual report of the Smith sonian Institution in this country. but upon this report is put good binding of green cloth.
 "The reason for this is simple. prac- tically every book collector or insti- tuition in Europe has it's private bind. ing, it being possible to have this work done at very moderate rate, and the paper covers are intended merely as wrappers until the volume shall have reached it's destination. Tn this conn. try there are few individuals and some libraries which have their books bound in il private binding, but the cost of such work Is so great that fl is far from being usual
 "Ths is one reason for the fac | that the paper and press work of z French book for instance. are so mlcl | finer than those of an American bool of the same price"
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By Mrs, Frederick Nathan in the New York World.

By Mrs. Frederick Nathan in the New
 York World.
 A WOMAN may talk any amount of
 A silly twaddle in private and still be considered womanly by the sterner sex. But woman who talks sound, common sense in public is pretty sure to be dubbed unwomanly. At least that was the opprobrium that up to few years ago the woman orator provoked from even the least conservative of the sterner sex.
 Now the masculine point of view is considerably shifted. The field of public speaking has been opened to womankind and womanlke she is making good. And today the very men who defamed the feminine oratory of yesterday are calling on women to take the platform in behalf of candidates, causes and all sorts of remedial Legislation. Women are asked to raise their voices in the cause of civic righteousness. They are enlisted in all manner of anti-vice and abuse cam paigns.
 And even cergymen who read from their testaments what St. Paul said about the impropriety of women being heard in the churches, are calling on women to oc- cupy their pulpits.
 And it looks to me as if the woman ora tor product of our most recent evolu- tion, were here to stay. 1t is growing each day less and less unseemly for a woman to do aught but sit by her fire and spin. And far from being one of the unconventional of feminine practices pub lie speaking has come to be accepted as quite matter of course.
 The perfect woman of bygone days who rose while 1t was yet night to see that her household was in order, and did little else till day was done, has given way to a type of woman with a wider field of activity. Women are supposed to exercise their brains nowadays. Evidence that their gray matter is performing its ob- vious function is not received with horror
 The woman's club showed her that she possessed the germs of oratory. She grew used to addressing her fellows. And when she realized that her message de- served a greater audience she did not hes itate to venture out in the world to spread it abroad. Or maybe she did hesitate because woman has a great inheritance. thousands of generations of timdity, in- decision and a lamentable lack of self reliance. So she hestated, no doubt but got bravely over her timidity and, put ting her other oratorical faults behind her. climbed to the platforni-man's most tenaciously guarded monopoly-and, as usual, beat her masculine rivals at their own game
 For some of the cleverest public speak CTS I have ever heard have been women. Time and time again I have been to dinners and mass meetings where the only talks worth listening to were those of women
 Only last winter at public dinner, we listened disinterestedly to a half dozen of our best known after-dinner takers. to be reused from our lethargy by the sparkling address of Mrs. Donald Mclean. And her talk was one of the few extem- poraneous speeches of the evening, while
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Snake Story From India.

From the London Express
 An extraordinary adventure befell Charles and William Theobald at My sore while out shooting game for the Prince of Wales.
 Coming across cavity in the bank of a stream one of them peeped in and saw something lying there, which after a few seconds was recognized as python
 The mouth of the hole was enlarged to admit the hand and the snakes tail was seized and both men tugged at 1t till the python was dragged out Then 1t was seized by the head, around which a piece of cloth was tied.
 The Theobalds. had another peep into the hole and were surprised to see another python. This also was soon captured and placed with the first.
 They were about to leave the place when a man called out that there was yet another python in the hole. This one, after some tugging was pulled out and tied, and, to the surprise of the two young men, they found that there were still more left. They hauled the remainder out with the exception of one. which retreat ed inward and could not be reached
 Five pythons were captured in all. and they were with difficulty carried to a dog cart and brought into Mysore. They are all young and about 10 to 12 feet long.
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show it, at any rate, and in that they are one ahead of the Harvard students. They don't like us in the class room up there and they are not so careful to hide their preferences she laughing1y added
 The young women who come here gener- ally are interested only in their work and are not looking for any social fea- lures incidental to college life. Thus one young woman who graduated from Mount Holyoke college in 1905 and is talk ing work in economies here Is studying sociological problems by living at mis- sion hall
 There she has an opportunity to study practical problems in sociology She among the people whom she is
 and her daily round of pleas when not on the Yale camp
 the foreigners in that part ,
 But although the Yale co-uus uvn, |, mingle much socially with either the Yale undergraduates or the graduate students or young professors, they have their own club. NO men allowed" is the clubs motto Some of the club members do a good deal of their studying and writing there, while others only go there at rare intervals for recreation.
 In the last winter the co-eds have held scme social affairs away from the club. generally at the boarding houses where the young women live. Occasionally the wife of a young professor has been in- vited to one of these gatherings, but she was always obliged to leave her husband at home. for the motto of the club has been strictly enforced at these gatherings.
 The men students on the contrary. well come their associates among the young women at their classical. mathema tlcal and other clubs here. and frequently the paper of the evening is read by one of the co-eds. These clubs are, however so- cietles for research, and the members are interested more in the intellectual side of the affair than the social.
 Although Cupid can hardly be said to do a land office business among the co-eds. romance is sometimes the of study here at the graduate school
 year two of the members of the
 surprised thelr friends and even Il siructors under whom they had worked together by sending out wedding an- ncuncement cards just about commence ment time when both were taking a de- gree. They are teaching together thls year In a school in Texas.
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Women Orator Here to Stay

some of the accepted wits were shameless ly reading dull manuscripts.
 l remember several other dinners where the women's speeches were the features of the affairs. Whether the women were on their mettle can't tell but over and over again I have heard them outshine men speakers.
 And 1 suppose no one ever heard Maud Balllngton Booth take a great big mass meeting into her confidence and hold them spell-bound for one hour, wringing their hearts. without realizing what woman Cicero she s
 Miss Anthonys death reminds us of one of the most eloquent speakers Wo- mans Suffrage has ever boasted of.
 Then we have women who can talk on almost any subject, like Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. Mrs. Florence Kelley, Mrs. Belle de Rivera. Mrs. Lille Dev- ereux Blake, Mrs. Clarence Burns, Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer and Mrs Platt Decker.
 We have women who can talk social science, politics, reform, child labor, so- cialism and what-not-hundreds of women orators who can take the stump as easily and convincingly as any man.
 Once In a while you hear people say: But who ever heard of a woman trying to speak In public? She can't have any thing to say or the voice to make her self heard"
 But we've proved pretty eonelusively that eloquence and sorority of tone are not the monopoly of the other sex.
 Women can talk In public, have talked in public, and are continually being asked to talk in public, by men, too. For the programme of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Sclence-an association whose officers and directors are men-only five persons have been asked to make addresses, and they are all women-Miss Lillian D. Wald Miss Dorothea Richardson, Mrs J. c. Phelps Stokes, Miss Frances kellor and myself
 It looks as if the woman orator had cnrne to stay
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VALE MEN POLITE TO co.EDs.
Politer Than Harvard Men, Girl Stu
 dents say-But Cupid Isn't Busy.

New Haven.-The Yale students are more polite than the Harvard students. at least that is what the twenty-five or so Yale co-eds say. Although the Yale men dld not grow enthusiastic when it was announced q few years ago that Yale was going to follow the example of the Cambridge university and allow the wo- men to study with them, al least in the graduate school, they didn't make any violent objection to the plan. and started in at once to take the change as pleas antly IS possible. Now they have grown accustomed to reciting before an oeca- sional schoolma'am or young college alliinna. and apparently they are more a ease than the young women them selves.
 "The Yale men. even if they don't like Us around" said one of the girl students of the graduate school, "are too polite to
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An ApprecIative Reader.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 That alleged humorous stuff that Jcakley grinds out for the Daily Orbit is the most tifesome twaddle"
 Well fl seems to please some people. There's man who rides downtown with me every morning; I've noticed him chuckng over it with evident delight
 Some brainless idiot. I suppose
 NO: rather a nice-looking fellow, ex- cept for 4 wart on his nose---"
 "Oh, that's Joakley.
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Chose the Lesser Evil.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Nell-That horrid Mir. Hanson insisted upon kissing me last night.
 Belle-Why didn't you scream?
 Nell didn't want to scare the poor fellow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
He Knew.

From Harpers Weekly.
 Miss De Style: What is a good recipe for homemade fruit cake?''
 Gunbusta (dyspeptic). "Pepsin, nux vomica and blcarbonate of soda."
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All Silk Ribbons.

6-inch all-silk white ribbon, espe-
cially suitable for sash and hair use;
special on Monday and Tuesday, 900
per yard. ."..r.... ........
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UnmatchabIe Silk Offerings in The
Realization Sale

No better silks be bought anywhere that will be
priced low these included in Big Realization Sale
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Silk Remnants-Many
Kinds-25c yard.

Silk Remnants Many
Kinds-25c yard.
A special bargain table offering Of
silk remnants, including every
thing in stock less than four yards
in length. The showing includes
plain and two-tone taffetas, fancy
striped or checked taffetas,
louisenes and many others. Re-
CARELESS of value or cost we have
decided to close out all these rem
nants this week at the uniform
price Of 25c.
Extra!-Fine Black Taffetas at
69c yard.
20 pieces Of this special lot of heavy
black dress taffetas, 81 inches
wide in dull, natural or chiffon
finish. The chiffon finish is from
the best Swiss manufacturers
the others are of leading Ameri-
can makers; all are regular $1.00
goods and good values at that
price For this week we close out
this entire lot at the spe- IOc
cial price per yard 49,. wv
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Elk a
Pearl Lace Pins.

A very special offer of good pearl
lace pins, IL on a card and sold regu-
larly at 10c per card; special on Mon
day day and an Tues 6 cards for 25c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-04-13
SHAKE 1T OFF.
Rid Yourself Of Unnecessary Burdens
An Americas Citizen Shows
You How.

Don't bear unnecessary burdens.
Burdens of a bad back are unnecessary.
Get rid of them.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure bad backs
Cure lame, weak and aching backs;
Cure every form of kidney Ills
Lots of local endorsement to prove
this.
J. M. Oliver, wagon painter, with
shop at Cotton Ave. and j. fferson ST..
and living on the outskirts of Americus
has used Doan's Kidney Pills, and states
his opinion of them as follows: He
says:
They are a fine remedy. used them
for backache and can recommend
them very highly. They did for me
what everything else failed to do. They
drove the ache out of INV back. and o
disorder of the kidneys. The eecretiOns
were in bad condition being uark full of
sediment and irregular. Medicines for
internal use failed to help me and so.did
liniments. / read of how others had
been cured by Doan's Kidney Pills and
decided to try them. got box at J. G.
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the pain has left my back, the kidneys
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For sale by all dealers. Price 50cents.
Fotter- Milb1rn Go, Buffalo. New York,
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-04-13
COMES TO A FINISH
AFTER TWO DAYS.
The Visitors To Convention
Depart.
SESSION WAS A PLEASANT ONE
Annual Meeting of Women's Presby-
terrain Union Ends Yesterday Miss
Russell Volunteers 10 Go az Mis-.
slonaFy to Japan.

The annual meeting of the Womens
Presbyterian Union, in session in
Americas since Tuesday night, came
TO close yesterday afternoon and al
ready many of the delegates have de-
parted for their homes after profita
BILE session.
Twenty five or thirty Presbyterian
churches throug hout this section of the
state were represented, and great
deal of important business was traps-
acted during the meeting.
Two business sessions were held
daily, morning and afternoon.
The ladies were greatly disappointed
in the non arrival of Mr.. Fl. F. Williams,
missionary editor of the Southern
Presbyterian church and who was ex-
pected 10 deliver the address of the
occasion, but was delayed en- route here
from Nashville.
At the meeting yesterday Miss Lois
Russell, most attractive young lady
of Moultrie, volunteered to go to Japan
as missionary there for the Womens
Union.
Miss Rassell's fir was accepted
thankfully and prayerfullys and this
beautiful young Georgia girl will sail
in August for her distant field of labor.
The Women's Union will provide the
means for keeping up her work.
In the annual election of officers Mrs
Tins of Modltrie was reelected presi-
dent, Miss Gaillard of Macon general
secretary, Mrs Craine of Albany re-
cording secretary. Mrs. E. P. Morgan
of Americas organizer, Miss Flossie
Wood treasurer.
The next place of annual meeting
will be announced later by the execu
tive committee.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-04-13
WHY
Amerious People Should Take vooI,

Our well. known druggist, Mr.. J. g.
Dodson, saye, s'We do not believe there
is a man. woman or child in Americus
whom our famous cod liver oil, ssprepars-
ton Vinol will not benefit at this season
of the year.
We believe there is no need for SO
many people to drag around rundown,
tired out and debilitated, or for old PEG
pie TO remain weak and inf1rm when we
guarantee Vinol will restore health and
strength"
Continued Mr.. Dodson. For centur-
les cod liver oil has been recognized as
the Rrandest of all body. building agents
for wasted human strength and
vitality, but on account of the heavy,
nauseating and system-clogging oil
which eveIoped Its curative properties
few cou take 1t with any benefit.
In Vinol you get IN a concentrated
form every one of the curative and
strength creating elements of cod liver
oil actually taken from fresh CO.'S livers.
and without drop of Oil to unset the
stomach and retard its work
Vinol Is not Iatent medicine, and
you know what you are taking, as
everything it contains is named ON the
black label OF ever bottle
Vinol is guaranteed by over two
Thousand of the leading druggists of
the United States to create strength for
old people, rundown, tired, and debili-
tated, weak, sIckly women and children,
and after severe sickness.
We ask every person In Americas
who have hacking coughs, chronic colds,
throat and bronchial troubles, to try
Vinol on our qua -antee. It cost moth
ing If 1t falls" j. G.. Dodson Druggist
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-04-13
JUST BREATHE 1T,
Hyomei Cures Catarrh in Natural and
Rational WAY.

No dar gerOus drugs or alcoholic coz
coctions are taken into the system when
Hyomei is used In the treatment #
catarrh. Breathed through the neat
pocket inhaler that COM 80 with every
out fit, the balsamic healing of Hyomei
penetrates to the most remote cells Of
the nose, throat and lungs, killing all
catarrhal germf, healing the irritat d
mucous membrane and effecting COM
plete and permanent cure.
No medicine taken into the stomach
can possibly reach the remote cells of
the air passages, or give the immediate
relief that follows the use of Hyomei.
A few days treatment is usually all
that ia necessary to show how quickly
this remedy will cure catarrh.
So successful has Hyomei been in the
cure of catarrh among his customers,
that Dodson's Pharmacy sells it und or
positive guarantee that 1t cost moth
ing unless it gives perfect satisfaction.
Tue complete outfit sells for one dollar,
while extra bottles can be obtained for
so cents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-04-13
Human Blood Marks.

A tale of horror was told by marks of
human blood in the home of j. w. Viii.
liams, a well known merchant of BAG,
KY, He writes: Twenty years ago /
had severe hemoTrhages of the lungs,
and was mar death when I began tax
ing DIR. King New Discovery. It CONS
pletely cured me and I have remained
well ever since" It cures Hemorrhages,
Chronic Couehe, Settled Colds and
Bronchitis and is the only known cure
for Weak Lungs. Every bottle guaran-
teed by Eldridge Drug Go. 500 and $1.00.
Trial bottle free.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-04-13
CENTRAL GIVES SPECIAL RATES
Special Car and Through Service to
the Reunion.

Special Car and Through Service to
the Reunion.
For the accommodation of Camp
Sumter, No. GAG. United Confederate
Veterans and friends, the Central of
Georgia railway will furnish special
coach to leave Americus.on the 6:10 a.
m. train, Monday, April 23rd, to run
through to New Orleans.
This will enable the party to make a
daylight trip to the reunion city with
out change of cars; this train will ar
rive at New Orleans e:15 p. m. the
same day.
The route will be Central of Georgia
to Montgomery, thence Louisville and
Nashville railroad through Mobile,
Bay st. Louis and Beauvoir, Miss. the
old home of Jefferson Davis, to the
Crescent City
The rate from Americus is $3.50, and
tickets will be on sale April 23rd and
oath, limited returning to April Both.
except that By depositing tickets with
special agent and paying fee of so cts.
limit will be extended to May 2lst,
1906,
For any further information con-
corning the trip, call on J. E. High
tower, agent, Americus, Ga.