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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
Habits of the Black Bear.

Reginald c. Thomas in Field and Stream.
The black bear has her cubs (from one
to three in her den, during the months of
March and April and it is an interesting
thing to know that she has the power 10
give birth to her young at least two weeks
before the proper time, if driven from her
den. She will return to her cubs if let
alone. In the den she cares for her young
until the SHOWS of the north country
have sufficiently melted to permit of her
getting about, when she hits the trail'
again.
She eats nothing during the fiye months
that she hibernates except that from time
to time she will lap the ieycle which is
made by the freezing of her breath on her
paws. She ventures forth as soon as the
snow has sufficiently melted to permit
of her getting about, In bad stage of
constipation, and for several days will
eat nothing but hemlock bark and certain
roots which act as a physc When in
her normal state of health again she is
ravenously hungry, and will diligently
fish the brooks and streams in search OF
a dinner of trout, which so beautifully
stock the waters throughout this section
of the country; will hunt up the carcasses
OF deer or moose which have been over
come by the severity of the winter, or will
prey upon porcupines, by quickly putting
her paw under the stomach and roll the
porcupine on its back, then with slap,
tear out the entrails and escape the
quilts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
PASSENGERS ARE
SOMEWHAT SCARED
THOSE ABOARD AN EAST LAKE
I CAR ARE FRIGHTENED BY Al
. SWITCH ENGINE SMALL PANIC
ENSUES.

A car coming in rather late yesterday
afternoon from East Lake was stopped
for lack of motive power, near the in
tersection of two railroad tracks, and a
switch engine, seemingly headed for the
car. caused an incipent panic among
those aboard. Several men and a num-
Der of scared children jumped out, heller
SHELTER. A few of the more sturdy kept
their seats.
The engine WAS stopped at safe dis
lance away, and those who had gotten
out returned to the car, some looking
little sheepish for their unnecessary
fright, particularly the men who had
lady companions. They seemed to re-
greet the lost opportunity to have been a
trifle more heroic. 1t was remarked that
one of them took considerable interest
in the scenery all the way back. Another
whose wife, with an infant in her arms,
sat beside him, Immediately began to talk
about the new life insurance policy he
had taken out. A passenger observed that
'such little incidents, trifling in them
selves, give pretty good opportunity for
character study
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
Perkins May Retire.
May not be Candidate for Reelection
to Board of Trustees.


New York, May 2O.-(Special)--T New
York Sun says:
1t was said on good authority yesterday
that George w. Perkins probably will
not be a candidate for reelection to the
New York Life Insurance companys
board of trustees next December My,
Perhs..s, when he was questioned de-
clined to discuss the matter.
The management of the company will
have until July Is to name its ticket. 1t
was said that Mr.. Perkins, If he refused
to stand for reelection, will do so solely
because of the new Armstrong committee
laws which forbid any trustee to be pc
cuniarily interested in any transaction
with his insurance company. That will,
of course include the transactions which
a trustees firm may have with the insur-
ance company.
4 The new law is being construed by some
lawyers to mean not only that a trustee
sball not profit through his firms sale Of
bonds to a life insurance company, but
also that he shall not profit indirectly
Through underwriting syndicates. Some
bankers who are trustees have already
signfied their intention of resigning, as
the sacrifice would, they say. be too great.
Mr.. Perkins, when he was vice president
of the New York Life drawing a salary,
turned back into the New York Life his
share of the profits which j. p Morgan
n Co. made in transactions with the New
York Life
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
BIRMINGHAM MAY
GET NEW CONCERN
NEW COAL AND COKE COMPANY
TO BE D-ANNISTON
ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY
WILL INSTALL NEW CARS.

Admission, May 20.-(Speciall-It was
learned from a reliable source yesterday
afternoon that Mr.. j. A. Gaboury. who
has been working to effect the extension
of the Seaboard Air Line railway to this
city by way of Jacksonville, Will head a
new enterprise to be established at Biz
mingham soon by Birmingham and Pitts
burg capitalists, the concern to be known
as the Central Coal and Coke company,
with q capital stock of 100000 The
business of the new concern, 1t is
said will be the mining of coal and
coke, which the projectors propose to
get from large holdings in the Black
Creek formation 1t is said that there are
about ten or twelve persons interested in
the enterprise. Mr.. Gaboury is to be pres
ident and general manager. The other Of
ficers will be elected at an early date,
and projectors of the new enterprise, it
is said hope to have it duly chartered
and in operation by October /. Mr. Ga
boury has offered his home at Jackson
Vile for sale, and ii Is understood that
he will move to the Magic City at an
early date.
John r. Davis, aged rs years, died at
IL a. m yesterday at his home at Davis
town near Iron City. His death was sud-
den and quite unexpected, as he had been
sitting up, although he had been ill re-
Gently of heart dropsy. When the end
came he was sitting In chair. Mr. Davis
was one of Calhoun county's pioneer citl-
zens, having come to his late residence
about 50 years ago. He leaves a wife
and seven grown children. The funeral
was held this afternoon at o'clock I'M
der the auspices of Raglan lodge of Ma
sons, of which he was a member
Six handsome new electric cars, now
under construction for the Admission Eleo-
tric and Gas company are soon to ar
rive and be put in service by the com
pany on the oxford Lake line. These cars
are said to be very pretty and of modern
style, and will constitute a material i'm
provement i'm the service of the company
Many other improvements are contem-
plated by the company, involving the
/ expenditure of a large sum of money.
Sam Bradley a millwright, employed
at the plant of the Western Steel Car
and Foundry company. had the fingers
of one hand crushed off this morning in
bar MILL while engaged in the dis
charge of his duties.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
In the Land of the Free!

From Leslie's Weekly.
1t is not easy for an American citizen,
born and bred in an environment where
freedom of thought and action is ac-
corded to all men. except those convicted
of some actual crime, to read, without
sense of indignation, the occasional ac-
counts in the newspapers of the chase,
capture and Imprisonment of Cinnamon
guilty of no other offense than trying
to cross the Canadian border into the
United States without first subjecting
themselves to the ordeal of an official
examination Not many days since a
column story appeared in the papers de-
failing the exciting experiences of sew
eral United States inspectors in hunting
down two Cinnamon who had been SNUG
gled over the border near Newport, VT.
We are told about long chase over
mountains and through snow drifts of
strategic moves at midnight hours, of
cunning devices adopted to capture the
game" and so on, all of which is more
than painfully suggestive of the man
hunts of fugitive slave days and under
ground railroads, and hardly less repug-
nant to ones sense of right and justice.
More abhorrent still is 1t to read how
Cinnamon thus hunted down and cap
tured for trying to break into this land
of the free" are huddled like sheep into
wreathed and filthy jails along the bor-
der and there detained for long periods
like the meanest of criminals until the
authorities are ready to deport them.
Technically all this is legal and proper
under the provisions of the Chinese ex-
clusion law. but it Is none the less an
offenss against that higher law to which
all nations are amenable. and which has
its foundations in the immutable prin-
ciples of Righteousness and justice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
ORDINATION FOR
THREE BISHOPS
Continued from First Paael


secret of His power-might which was
never exercised except against evil.
''This is the Christ who is doing this
fighting today. Christ was not wont to
argue as do the wise men of this day.
When he spake, He spake as of one with
authority.
I'VE know God not intellectually, but
because he has revealed Himself to the
heart.
THE men who crave the worlds goods
because of greed, and who ignore the
suffering and poverty of their fellowmen
are the worst enemies of Christ today,
but He is going to reign until all His
enemies are conquered,
mo man is too humble to be able to
know God and to look up to Him and
say: May Father And such man is
richer than all the kings of the world
The general conference will probably
adjourn finally today at l o'clock, as
many of the delegates left last night, a
large proportion of the seats will be
vacant when the conference assemblies
this morning.
The pulpits of Birmingham were again
occupied by visiting pastors yesterday.
The weather was ideal, and the attend
ance at all places of worship was unusu-
ally large.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
AUTOMOBILE WRECKED.
One Occupant Is Killed and Several
others Injured.

Erie. Pa, May 2O-One woman is dead
and three other persons are in the hos
pital here in a serious condition as a
result of an automobile accident on the
Lake road shortly after midnight this
morning near Girard, this county. The
party had left Cleveland early in the
evening to make the run to Erie.
The wreck occurred about a mile east
of Springfield. In turning sharp curve
the machine crashed into a telegraph
pole, throwing the occupants out and
the machine turned over on top of them
Mrs. Julia G. Young. 26 years old, wife
of Albert w. Young of Cleveland is dead
The injured are: Carl p. Shurmer,
Cleveland, both legs broken; w. H.
Shurmer, father of Carl, right shoulder
broken. A. w. Young, husband of the
woman who was killed, was badly
bruised. Mrs. w. II. Shurmer and e. c..
Miller, the chauffeur. escaped with but
slight injuries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
NEGRO KILLED.
Unknown Persons are Said to Have
Shot Him.

Brewton, May 2o-(SpeeiaD. Fired Her
bert. a negro employe of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad at flomaton
Junction. was shot and killed about Z
o. clock this morning. Herbert had Just
finished transferring baggage from train
No. 8, and laid down on some crosstles
under a coach used as a. waiting room FOR
passengers, when three white men are
said to have come by and told MN 10
roll out" He made some reply when
they remarked: 1--WE will roll you out
and fired on him, the ball entering his
left temple coming out of the left eye,
death resulting in about an hour At the
inquest this morning no ciew to the per-
petrators of the crime was obtained. Her
bert is said to have been an inoffensive
hard working negro. and well-liiSed by all
the employees of the road.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
FARM ERS TO MEET.
Three Negroes Arrested on Different
Charges in Bib.

Centerville. May 20-tSpeciaD. On to-
morrow there will be "A meeting of the
members of the Farmers Union from the
various parts of Bib county at Center
Vile. A large crowd is expected Sew
eral distinguished speakers will be pres
emit and very interesting occasion is
promised,
On Thursday last Deputy Sheriffs John
W. Reddick and SUITED placed in the
county jail here three negroes. One of
them was charged with assault to muir
der, and the other two We're under in
dictments for violating the prohibition
law of Bibb county
On yesterday negro boy about eight
years old, was placed in Jail, accused
of petty larceny.
DR.. T. T.. Scholar, who has been quite
i'll for several days, is reported somewhat
improved.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
WILL NOT RECEIVE
The DEPUTATION
LOWER HOUSE RECEIVES NOTICE
THAT REPLY MUST BE DELIVER
ED TO EMPEROR THROUGH THE
MINISTRY OF THE COURT.

st. Petersburg, May 20.-A bomb was
thrown into the parliamentary camp this
AFTERNOON by a note received by Pres-
dent Mouromzff of the lower house from
Peterhof, which instead of making APP
pointment for an audience at which
the deputation could present the address
In reply to the speech from the throne
contained the information that Emperor
Nicholas would not receive the deputation.
and that the address must be presented
through the ministry of the court Discon-
certed utterly at this unexpected develop
mont the leaders of the majority In the
house hastily summoned caucus of the
constitutional democratic deputies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
CLIMATE AND Gull TURE

San Antonio Female college. San An
tonic Texas, offers excellent educationa
advantages to young ladies, and its de-
lightful and health-gi,ing climate makes
the school worth while for girls and
young women predisposed to pulmonary
troubles. Its sait-seasoned air. charged
with ozone. brings health while receiving
the very best culture. San Antonio is a
modern city of $4,000 people and much cul-
ture. and offers many advantages to stu
dents. The school does not receive con-
sumptives. but is glad to help girl
shun the dire disease II is a Method
list school. j. Z. HARRISON, Pres.
Temporarily SOB s1st ST., city,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
coNFEsSES TO CRIME.
Shot Sweetheart Because She Would
Not Marry Him.

Akron, Ohio, May 20.-The finding of the
dead body of Minnie Brendt, a young
woman of this city, early today, led to the
arrest of Leo Diebol, aged about 26 years.
According to the police Diebol has con-
fessed that he killed the girl Miss Brendt
had been missing since last Thursday
and her body was found hidden away in
haymow. Diehol. the police say, told them
that he kept the girl secreted in the hay
NOW for four days endeavoring to hit up
on some plan to avoid disgrace to both
her and himself and that he wanted to
marry her, but his mother opposed II. He
says he finally shot the girl.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
Semi-OfficIaI Denial.

Budapest May 2o.-semi- official denial
was given today to the story printed
in the Daily Ujsag Saturday to the effect
that the idea of European league
against the American economic organiza-
lions would be among the f1rst subjects
discussed by Emperor William and EN-
peror Francis Joseph when they meet
next month at Vienna. 1t is declared there
is not the slightest reason to suppose
that the Emperor win discuss any
American problems.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
MISSION TO NON-CATHoLlCS.
Paulist Father Begins Course of Dis
courses at Gate City.

The Rev. Father Sutton, a member of
the congregation of St. Paul the Apostle
began mission to non-Catholics at the
Catholic church at Pratt City last night
He will preach and answer questions
there every night this week.
The church at Gate City is attended by
the Rev. Father Bratton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
Suffers Heavy Loss.

Menominee, Mich, May 0.-The town of
Soperton, Mich, owned by the Bay Shore
Lumber company suffered heavy loss
from the forest fires. All communication
was cut off from the place until today
For a time Soperton and Wabeno people
were cut off All that saved the towns
and people from complete humiliation
was a shifting of the wind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
FUNERAL NOTICE.

The friends and acquaintance of Mrs.
George l.. Thomas, Miss Elizabeth
Thomas, George l.. Thomas and Mr.. and
Mrs W. II. Jeffries are invited to attend
the funeral of the former from the First
Presbyterian church this afternoon at 4
o. clock. The Rev. L. s. Handley. Of
catng. lnterment at Oak Hin cemetery.
The following gentlemen are requested
10 act as pail bearers: James A. Going.
!. II. Phillips. James A. Allen, Judge A.
G. Howe. T. NJ Bradley. J. II. Miller,
A. o. Lane. John S. Going.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
Michael Rock Injured.

Michael Rock, white man in the en-
ploy of the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road. while coupling cars yesterday after
noon received painful though not serious
injuries about the head. He was taken to
St Nincent's hospital.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21

one hour every day Saturday and Sunday
excepted Subjects-Taeties. military law.
field service regulations. international
lew. Examinations on questions prepared
by the general staff in ashington fol-
by the general staff in Washington fol-
Officers who do not attend the grammar
school take postgraduate course which
consists of the solution of military prob
lens prepared by the general staff and
which are gotten up with the idea that
similar problems would arise in event of
any foreign complications.
In the school for non-commissioned Of
ficers and selected privates the subjects
are drill regulations, army regulations,
union tactics, military topography and
sketehing, small arms, firing regulations
and guard duty.
For enlisted men of little or no eduea-
ton seven hours each week, the subjects
being common school branches.
A school for farriers and blacksmiths
was maintained from which were gradu-
ated twenty-four farriers and twenty-four
blacksmiths.
Glass of seventy-two enlisted men in
signalling, with flag, Photograph and Ian
tern.
In addition to ordinary drills and schools
there was supplementary target practice
a Catoosa Springs during the month of
November for recruits and third class
men chose men who made less than 40
per cent of the total possible score during
the preceding regular target practice) and
on march the preliminary instruction in
target practice was taken up. During
the winter. each troop drilled in the GYM
nasium from one to ten hours each week.
Practice Marches.
Beginning with April the practice
marches with full field equipment pre-
soribed by recent orders from the war de-
partment were taken up and will be con-
tinued henceforth. These orders prescribe
that all troops shall make one march OF
at least eighteen miles each week, one
march of at least three days each month,
and shall he in the field each year for a
period of twenty-one consecutive days,
full field equipment to be taken in each
case.
Maps and reports of the roads and coun-
try passed over are submitted and filed
away for future reference These maps
are required from both officers and non
commissioned officers and in many cases
are excellent.
On April 16 six troops left for the tar
get range at Catoesa Springs to complete
the regular seasons target practice. They
will return about the 2oth.inst.. when the
remaining six troops Will proceed to Ca
toosa Springs for the same purpose
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
PERSONAL

Miss Bertha Schwab of Toledo, O., who
formerly lived in Birmingham is on a
visit to Mr.. and Mrs. r. Schwab Rich
mond Place.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21

Washington, May 2e.--vice President and
Mrs. Fairbanks returned to-day from the
south.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
COMMITTEE GIVES
FINAL BLOW OUT
Insurance Investigators Enjoy
Dinner in Brooklyn
HUGHES GETS BIG FEE
Chairman Armstrong Gives Out De
tailed Statement of Expenses of
Legislative Investigation of
Insurance Companies.

New York, May 2O.-(special)-The New
York Sun says
The Armstrong committee, whose in
vestigation caused such an unheaval in
the life insurance business of the state
and upon whose recommendations some
very drastic provisions regulating the
business were made law, wound up its
business yesterday and celebrated the
event by holding dinner in the Hamil-
ton club in Brooklyn, of which James
McKeen, associate counsel of the commit
tee, was SO long president.
Col Lafayette b. Gleason, clerk of the
Senate and king of spellbinders, was the
only outsider present. 1t is said that his
presence was mainly due to the fact that
the committee feared that only thirteen
might show up for the dinner. The fact
that Charles E. Hughes studied law in
the office of Mr. Gleason's father in
Delhi, Delaware county, also had a bear
ing upon the matter. AS a matter of
fact there were fourteen present the
eight members of the committee; the
three counsel, the consulting aetuary, the
sergeant at arms and Colonel Gleason.
The dinner was entirely private and no
set speeches were made.
The final meeting of the committee was
held in Breton Hall hotel, which has
been its headquarters since the taking of
testimony was finished. Every member
was present, together with the counsel
and others who had taken an active part
in bringing to light the methods of the
big life insurance companies. They were
in session nearly all day and much of
the time was devoted to a tabulation of
the expenses and the allotment of coun-
al faac
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
ltemizcd Account,

The bill for printing 1000 extra copies
of the proceedings was audited at $302S52,
and the printing of the report of the
committee to the legislature cost $1,000.
Other items of expense were
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-21
Military Post School Term.

The school term in military post is
from November l to March 81. The schools
are graded according to the length of
service of the officer special courses be-
ing provided for enlisted men, as will be
seen In the following outline:
Grammar school for officers for all lieu
tenants and captains of less than ten
years service as commissioned officers.
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