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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25

who have failed to provide themselves
with cake of toilet soap filch tho cakes
before any Of them have been used more
than once or twice In this way thou
sands of cakes of soap are lost every day.
but what can we do?
IF we could control the waste. we
would be able to save thousands of dol
lars year 1t is a good thing for us
that some of the travelling public fights
shy of the use of the soap we supply, not
because there is anything unwholesome
about the soap itself. but because they
seem to feel that the hygienic conditions
surrounding the soap are not all that they
should be. | know that one woman
friend of mine told me that she believed
that germs could be communicated
through the water that accumulates
around cake OF soap in the holder.
Another very large item of expense
Is that of the laundry. We spend thou
sands of dollars every year in providing
individual towels for travellers
The roller towel disappeared years
ago, not only from railroad trains, but
you rarely see a roller towel now in any
puzzle Mushroom In a hotel or office
building. There was such a fuss about
1t on the part OF the patrons that 1t had
to be given up. Even in our machine
shops the roller towel is no longer used
1T Is such incidental expenses as these
that the public does not take into con-
slderation that makes the maintenance
OF a railroad very expensive thing"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
SWEEPING AN ARMoRY FLOOR.
Quite Different Proposition sfrom
Sweeping an Ordinary Room.

From the New York Sun.
1t is one thing to sweep the floor OF an
ordinary sized room in an ordinary house,
but quite another thing to sweep, say. the
floor of an armory. You can't run in
with a broom and sweep such floor as
this in a minute.
Here for instance Is one city armory
whose great assembly room measures
1eOx19O feet. That doesn't look so enor-
nous in figures, but bear in mind that a
CITY block measures on its avenue front
only about 200 feet, and SO this room
covers about the same space that would
be covered by square city block. 1t
contains an area equal to, that of be-
tween 200 and $50 very fair-sized ordinary
rooms.
The sweeping of this floor Is really a
fob of very considerable proportions,
which must be gone about systematically.
They give this floor what housewives call
q thorough sweeping at least as often as
once In two weeks, oftener If necessary;
and when they sweep it in this manner
they have nine men on the job, each
using for a broom long-handled floor
brush with a block three feet long. which
makes a very big floor brush.
They sprinkle the floor with damp saw
dust to keep the dust down. and sweep it
with the grain of the wood as the floor
ing is laid. Starting at one end and at
the side of the great floor, and as far
apart as the width of their brushes, the
men move forward along the floor In
echelon formation. That is, the second
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
Touring Through County Kerry.

sydney BROOKS, in Harper's Weekly
From Cork one goes inevitably to Kill
larney. And IL one does not dsdain to
follow royal example, one goes by the
prince of Wales Route" the route ia
ken by the present king nearly fifty years
ago. The first half OF it is by rail to
Bantry; the second, running through as
beautiful scenery as any to be found In
the entire kingdom, is by char-a-bancs.
Calling n char-a~bancs a coach unhappily
does not make 1t one and no amount of
politeness can disguise the hard and knob
by fact that the conveyances which ply
between Bantry and Glengarriff, Glengar-
riff and Kenmare, Kenmare and Killar-
ney, are, in spite of the guide-books and
local grandiloquence, char-a-bancs. and
not coaches But among the wilds OF
Kerry you could ride on a camel and still
enjoy It. Indeed, for those who find the
greatest drawbacks to a char-a- bancs In
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
PILES CURED
Suffering for Years, and Bed-ridden
From Piles, a Massachusetts
Man Is Cured BY Pyramid
pile Cure.
Trial Package Mailed Free to All Who
Send Name and Address.

81 tried the sample Of your cure you
sent to me. / used 1t and then bought
at SOC box The results were immedi-
ate and surprising to me. / assure you
| had been to a dozen of the best doctors
and paid much money to them with no
results whatever | had this affliction for
twenty years. i was In hospital for a
long time, and left it physically broken
down. | have been SO bad for months at
a time as to be unable to walk. Having
a friend who lost his life by an opera
ton, | desisted from ever having that
experiment tried on me. l owe you a debt
OF gratitude. / believe that piles would
be banished from humanity and become
an unknown thing were everyone afflicted
with them to but spend from SOC to 81
for Pyramid Pile Cure. Its speedy action
also makes 1t extremely favorable for
impatient people. 1 am yours sincerely,
George H. Bartlett. Mattapan, Mass"
Instant relief can be gotten by using
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Immediately reduces all congestion and
swelling heals all sores, ulcers and ir-
ritated parts.
The moment you start to use 1t your
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disease Is In sight.
The Pyramid Pile Cure frequently rem
ders a surgical operation unnecessary.
Don't subject yourselves to this except
as very last resort.
The Pyramid Pile Cure is put up in
the form of "easy-to-use," specially made
suppostories. They are soothing, pain
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A trial treatment will be sent you at
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without q cent OF expense to you, If you
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After you receive the sample you can
get a regular size package of Pyramid
Pile Cure at your druggists for 50 cents,
or IL he hasn't 1t, send us the money and
we will send 1t to you.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
FAC SMITH STATIONERY co.
Bell Phone 929, Peoples 1886

man moves on, line a little back of the
first the third man a little back of the
second and so on to the left of the line,
which thus forms sort of human steps.
Sweeping thus, each man back is able
to get any dust that may have crept
around that end of the brush of the man
ahead; and so they work steadily for
ward, sweeping a clean swath 27 feet in
width from one end of the room to the
other end, where the swept up damp
sawdust makes now a 27-foot long win
dow.
Then the men shift along 81 feet on the
floor and start back from that end in the
same manner, sweeping another strip
back to the end at which they began the
work; and SO they sweep back and forth
the length of the armory until they have
swept from one side of the floor to the
other and the work is completed, save
for the taking up of those windows of
sawdust now lying at regular intervals
along either end.
Such a thorough sweeping of the armo-
ry floor takes nine men half day, work.
ing steadily. Obviously to sweep this
room would take one man four days and
a half.
But sweeping the great floor is not the
only sweeping required to be done in the
armory. There are various long corri-
doris, broad or narrow, and the many
rooms of the officers and men to be
swept and the galleries and various 9TH
er spaces here and there, besides the
armory's great assembly floor; and that
great space may require besides the reg
ular sweepings, numerous other sweep
ings or attentions of various kinds and
degrees, in between, depending on how
often the great room is used, and the
uses to which it is put
If games have been held in it, the chalk
marks that may have been made on the
floor in marking spaces must be rubbed
out. If runners have been practicing on
1t, the rosin left on the floor from their
running shoes must be scrubbed out and
these places re-oled.
If the great room has been put to some
use that has left any litter or dust on the
floor, and it Is to be put Immediately to
some other use, then they give it what
the household authority for that phrase
would describe as a running over. For
this work there can be mustered on oc-
casion a force Of thirteen men, this in
GLIDING four additional men employed in
various capacities in the armory, besides
the nine men who do the general work.
which last includes. besides the sweep
ing, the keeping of the windows, with
thousands of panes of glass, clean; the
general repairs, and so on; and the thir-
teen men can run over a floor and put 1t
in duly presentable order In half an hour.
But when 1t comes to the regular thor
ough sweeping, that is the work of half
a day, with nine men on the job.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
SOAP.
10000 Cakes Needed Daily TO Supply
Trains Out of New York.

From the New York Sun.
What might seem an insignificant mat
ter, the equipplng of trains of cars with
cakes of soap for the use of passengers,
is. according to purchasing agent of a
great railroad, a very heavy item of ex-
pense every year 1t is estimated, ac-
cording to this authority, that no fewer
than 100000 individual cakes of soap leave
New York city every day as part of the
equipment Of railroad trains
One railroad alone spends something
like $4,000 year to equip the wash
rooms at either end of the coaches. The
hundreds of thousands of cakes that are
used every day in public lavatories, in
hotels, office buildings and department
stores form a big item of expense al
though 1t Is distributed among many pur-
chasers.
There Is a considerable waste which
cannot be controlled because of the dis
appearance of the cakes of soap before
they have been used more than two or
three times. The expenditure for this
commodity could probably be more than
cut in half II 1t were in the power of the
purchasers to control the waste.
1--WE spend thousands of dollars q year
for that one little commodity" q pur-
chasing agent of large railroad system
said few days ago. Every time train
of cars leaves the station in Jersey City
or the Grand Central station in New
York soap has to be provided for both
ends of each one OF the coaches
1.-The man in charge of the train has
delivered to him supply that will sat
isfy the needs of the passengers until the
train has made its trip, no matter where
its destination is. One railroad company
which I know sends out 10000 cakes of
soap every day.
1.-The only trouble about the matter is
that many Of the cleaners and other en-
pIoyes pocket some of the cakes of soap,
and then again some of the passengers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
DETAILS PLANNED
FOR CONFERENCE
DIR. j. w. NEWMAN AS RESIDENT
PASTOR AT GADsDEN HAS HAD
HIS HANDS FuLL-NEWS OF
GADsDEN.

Gadsden. November 24.-(Special DIR.
]. w. Newman, secretary of the North
Alabama conference and pastor of the
First Methodist church of this city, an
nounced today that every detail Tor the
entertainment of guests at the annual
conference which convenes in this city
next Wednesday, had been completed
Homes for four hundred delegates nave
been provided, and number additional
can be accommodated, il necessary, owing
to the liberal hospitality of the citizens.
Besides the duties of secretary of the
conference, DIR. Newman, as the enter
tanning pastor, has had an unusual
amount of work to do, and has practically
directed the entire arrangements Tor the
conference sessions On Thursday,
Thanksgiving Day, Bishop w. X. Hen
Dirk of Kansas City will preach the an
nual Thanksgiving sermon at the FIRST
Methodist church. lie will also preach
ON the Sunday morning following. The
conference will be opened "Wednesday
morning at o'clock with holy commun-
ion followed by roll call and permanent
organization. Among the important ied-
lures will be the election of the quardren-
NAL board, to serve for the ensuing
ouadrennial conference, the last one peins
held at Birmingham. There will be about
four hundred and fifty or five hundred
visitors in this city next week, as the
conference is the most important event
In the Methodist church, and many nota-
bile ministers will be in attendance.
Edward Lowe, a prominent citizen oil
Cherokee county, was the victim OF
serious accident yesterday at his cot
ton gin near Maple Grove, which may re-
suit fatally While standing near the ma
chinery a belt broke, and the end struck
him with great force on the head ana
tore away one side of his face, and other-
wise injuring him. Medical aid was quick
" summoned and he was resting easier
at last reports, but it is not thought ne
can survive the terrible shock.
sberifr -eIect b. NJ. Pike has up to the
present received 1888 applications for the
nosition of deputy sheriff under his conf
inc administration So far he has not
named any one, but it is understood that
he will have an efficient official who is
we'll posted on the duties of the ONCE 10
he his assistant Sheriff William Chand-
Ter will surrender the office to Mr.. Pike
on January a.
William Wagnon of Ball Play, IN TINS
oountv brought a drove of 300 head OF
sheep to this city yesterday ana shippeo
them to a firm in Birmingham. He has
sold 600 to the firm and this is the first
delivery. Mr.. Wagnon is the largest
sheen raiser in North Alabama, and owns
one of the finest stock farms to be found
anywhere He has made sheep raising "a
speciality for some years and nnos IL
profitable business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
REMARKABLE CASE
OF Skin Grating Where 100 Pieces OF
Cuticle Are Placed on Woman.
ON the New York American.

From the New York American.
One of the most remarkable cases of
skin grating in the history of surgery is
in progress at st. Joseph's hospital, Yonk-
ers, to save the life of Mrs. William Rus
sell of Tarrytown, member OF an old
family of Westminster county and social
leader, and yesterday the physicians were
able to announce that Mrs. Russell will
almost certainly recover
1t was necessary to find enough live
skin to cover the entire lower portion
of the body of Mrs. Russell, where the
skin had been burned away, and sevcn
persons, including Mrs. Russells 19-year-
old son, her husband, her brother-in-law,
Coroner Frank Russell, Dr. Faiella of st.
Josephs staff, and three hospital nurses
volunteered to supply the skin from their
bodies.
Thus far more than 100 pieces of cuticle
have been removed from the legs and
arms of the seven volunteers and success
fully grated on the body of Mrs. Rus
sell.
For two weeks the skin grating has
been in progress, and while success is
assured, it will be necessary to graft per-
haps 200 more pieces of skin to complete
the operation.
Only a few intimate friends knew of the
horrible accident which occurred almost
three months ago at the camp OIL the
Russell family on the st. Lawrence river
in the Thousand Islands Mrs. Russell was
cooking game over an alcohol stove when
it was overturned and exploded. Her
dress caught fire and the flames were
famed by high wind When members
of the party came. in answer to her
screams, she had been terribly burned
about the lower part of the body. The
flames were extinguished by rolling Mrs
Russell in the grass.
Mrs. Russell suffered untold agony for
several days before river steamer was
hailed, and she was taken to an Oswego
hospital.
For a month her life was despaired Of
She asked to be taken back to her home
at Tarrytown, and the request was grant
ed. and then as her strength continued
she was removed to st. Joseph's hospital
where it was finally decided to under
take the grating of new skin on practi-
cally half the body to avoid amputation
of both legs. DR.. Henry Moffat of Yoil-
kers, aided by DR.. Faiella, performed the
delicate operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell have a home at
Waterbury, Conn. Mr.. Russell is in the
steam heating apparatus business, and
has offices at No. SO Center street, in this
city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
WEEKLY AVERAGE
OF CLEARING HOUSE

New York, November 24-The state
ment of clearing house banks for the
week shows that the banks hold $44OS, 425
more than the legal reserve requirements.
This is an increase of s., O31, $780, as COM
pared with last week. The statement
Loans 81 ,043, 46S,300; increase, $4070,500.
Deposits, 1897, 965, 100; increase, 49, 4S4, co.,
Circulation, $52, 265, 400; increase, $90S, 200.
Legal tenders, $6s, 500; increase, 81, 1885,
100.
Specie. s1S5, 200; increase, ST. 09, 800.
Reserve. 1888, 1894, 700; increase, $2,9O2,90O.
Reserve required, $249, 491. 275; increase,
ss7l,15O.
Surplus, s4.4O3, 425; increase, S2,OS175O.
Ex-United States deposits. $3.50, 500; in
crease, $2,oiS925.
New York, November 24-The Financier
says this week: Last weeks official
statement Of New York Associated banks
showed quite satisfactory improvement
in conditions which, improvement was
encouraging because of expectations that
were based upon the preliminary esti-
mates that the cash item would not be
materially changed for the better, if in
deed, 1t did not disclose decrease.
The gain in cash was $2,902,900. This
was probably the result of unrecorded
movements and also of the bringing over
from the previous week of balance of
average which was not reflected in that
weeks returns.
Deposits were increased 49, $4,000 This
amount was smaller by 49, 4SS, 800 than the
sum of the gain in cash and the expan-
sion of loans and consequently the state
ment made a rema rkably had proof The
required reserve was increased 1871, 100.
deducting which from the gain in cash
left S203l,750 as the increase in surplus
reserve to s4,4OS 425. Computed upon the
basis of deposits. less those of $14,269, 500
public funds, the surplus is $3.50, $780,
Loans were expanded $4,070000, this most
likely was due to the placing in banks of
securities which had been shipped hither
from London early in the week.
The daily average of bank clearings
was 1866, 100000 or only one million less
than in the previous week. Clearlngs
on Saturday, rejecting Fridays BUSH
ness, were 1857 105,957.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
Blank Books and
Office Stationery

Money to be made In this
line. We save you money
on every blank book you buy
from US, also on typewriter
papers, carbons and ribbons.
Architect and Engineers sup
plies. See our sets Of draw
Ing instruments. Water
mans self-filling Fountain
pens, and a good pen for $l.O0
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
COCHRAN CLEANS
UP KEMPER COUNTY
Saws Meridian Is the Cleanest City Of
Its Size Between the Two
Oceans.

Meridian, Miss, November 24.-(Speciai)
81 will not eat my Christmas dinner up-
til Kemper county is cleaned out" is The
remark credited to Judge Robert Il.
Cochran when he left to open court there
three weeks ago. He has returned today,
having held the most successful court
ever held in Kemper, succeeding in WHIP
ing out both the criminal and civil dock
cts. Only two defendants on the criminal
docket were acquitted. Court opened Mon
day in Columbus, lasting but one week.
In a speech from the bench, while sem
fencing the Kemper convicted, Judge
Cochran took occasion to say that Me-
ridian was the cleanest city of It's size
between the two oceans.
The Meridian High school had an easy
time with the Columbus High school this
afternoon, winning by score of II to
All the scoring was done In the sec
ond half. In the first half the locals dis
carded football and tried tricks, failing
to make any Roadway, but in the second
half they played real football. F. Levin.
on first down, made a seventy-yard run.
With only thirty seconds to play, little
C. Levin carried the ball through the
entire Columbus team to their 20-yard
line. A big crowd was present.
So impressed are the board Of directors
of the Board of Trade that special
committee has been appointed by them
to assist In raising the necessary funds
to assist In purchasing a lot and building
a medical college, building for the re-
Gently organized Mississippi Medical col
lege. This institution opened on october
] with over forty students, and now has
an enrolment of nearly ninety. Its sue
cess has been phenomenal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
There is no Engrayer
in the City.

We mean Copper-plate and
steel die engraver. Wedding
Invitations, reception cards
and visiting cards. We have
three of the best houses In
the country that do this work
for us, that execute work for
the trade only. You will no
doubt wish to make some
gifts In this line. Illuminated
stationery, monograms ETC.,
also engraved cards.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
Captain Cooks Skull.

Honolulu, November pa skull,
believed to be that Of Captain Cook,
the discoverer of Hawaii, has been
found in cave near Kealokokua bay
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25

Hits sign shop, Pill ard avenue
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-29
Mrs. w. r. Nevln

Every dollar 1 possess is invested in
Los Angeles and am very confident of
great, prosperous future for our beau
tiful city. There is no other place in the
world that 1 would call home. The air is
more balmy, the skies more blue, and the
birds seem happier than in any other
cline. Is 1t anything to wonder at that
they know Los Angeles?
Besides the natural beauties which ap-
peal to the nature lover there is an ad-
vantage in becoming a resident from a
day of real estate Investments that in two
years have doubled or tripled the capital
invested. 1t seems no one makes mis-
take-for property in each and every sec
tion has advanced in value with the
same astounding rapidity. 1t is mar
velous, one thinks-superficially
on second thought, the reason for It are
plain enough. The people of the eastern
states. long sufferers. from oppressive
heat In summer and the biting frosts Of
winter, have discovered this land of milk
and honey where the sun casts gentle
warmth over all.
They come to see the marvel, and II
they return to their eastern homes 1t is
with the firm intention of gathering
turning to this paradise. 1t is not only
Young man go west" it has now be-
come the motto for entire families
are The Gaps s n dessn
surrounded by beautiful gardens that
seem to spring up in a night, and very
soon an air of permanency and comfort
pervades over the newly established
west. The remarkable growth of Los
Angeles is not mushroom tendency
for the charm of the climate and the
luxury of perennial flowers and fruits
impresses deeply and makes of each
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modern. and the air of cleanliness is
most refreshing to the tired eyes of
for the most part to smoke, dust and
SCOT -enVeloped towns
Prosperity Is in the air we breathe
our young men inhale It. and their con-
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that we will realize in the coming years
a greater fulfillment of the present
great promise of Los Angeles.