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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12

afford the required help by promotins
digestion, assimilation and reconstrnc.
ton OF tissue and reducing waste OF vital
nerve forces. '.'s'
1t must not be an alcoholic stin,llont-
just vegetable tonic. Meeting thesa
needs and conditions DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery has been in successful
use these forty years and has accumu.
lated record OF cures uneuualed in tha
history OF medicine. It is composed Of
nom alcoholic, glyceric extracts OF Golden
seal root, Queens root, Stone root. Black
Cherrybark, Bloodroot and Mandrake
root, and by special processes perfected by
plned IN the most exact proportions, and
their medicinal properties preserved
without the use Of alcohol as to render
II safe and efecttUs remedy for use in
me family without consulting q doctor.
Young or old can take it freely as needed.
ana now that its composition is pub.
nsned, there Is no ground for prejudice
against 1T as patent medicine or secret
medicine. 1t is neither.
FEexeea DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
NeaASsA cure constipation. Constips-
NeMeSS ton is the cause Of many dis
cure the disease. One Pellet Is gentle
Laxative, and two. mild eathastic. Drug
gists sell them. and nothing Is lust q GOOD !.
DR.. ,Pierce's great thousand-pase illus
trated Common Sense Medical Adviser
will be sent free, paper-bound, for 81 one.
cent stamps, or cloth-bound for 81 stsmps.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Ready to RESIGN

New York, Jan. S. - Frederick A.
Durham, president of the Mutual Re-
serve Fund Life association, is, accord
ing to a report, prepared to resign his
office if such action should prove advis-
able. Mf. Burnham is i'll at his home on
Seventy-eighth street. He has been con-
fined to his house for several months
as the result of operations due to an alb
.ooe, sc Tho -.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
From BIRTH ro OLD Aag

Lille is 9 constant fight Against the dan.
gers OF disease, and he holds his own tha
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
scalded to Death.

Melbank, 8. D.. Jan. 5.--A five-year-
old daughter of Morris Rabel, farmer
living near here, and a younger child
fell into tub Of boiling water. The
baby is dead and the older child is 80
badly scaldsa che Will die
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Heavy Loss BY Fire.

Bluefeld, w. Va, Jan. s.-The large
dry kiln Of the William Ritter Lumber
company at Panther, W. Va, contain
ing 100000 feet Of dressed oak and
poplar lumber, was totally destroyed
by fire Friday afternoon. with q loss
Of 100000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Death Of an Explorer

Montreal, Jan. 6. - Francis Mercier,
who gained fame as an Alaskan ex-
plorer, died here Thursday. He was
6S years old. When Alaska was coded
to the United States by Russia, MERCER
was connected with the preliminary
Organizations
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12

Itch cured in 80 minutes by Wool
ford'S Sanitary Lotion. Never fails.
Sold by ]. 81. Luers Drug Co., Cresco,
Iowa. 24m6
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
THE FREE-LuNcH CHEESE.
From the New York World.

FROM the New YORK World
The State Brewers association sends to
Albany delegation pledged to cite
against the proposed Tully- Wainwright
local option bill the alleged fact that
49, 100000 pounds of cheese are cut up in
little cubes every year for saloon free
lunches.
The trouble with that argument is that
the farmer with stub lead pencil in his
vest pocket is good deal of ready
reckoner himself. To float that $4,000 600
pounds of cheese takes 1,663.0o000O gal
Ions of various liquids. most of 1t eonsum-
ed In hotels and saloons. Each pound of
free lunch cheese, worth perhaps - cents
was chaperoned down the voracious ma
tional NAV by forty gallons of beer, re-
failing at $s6; by five quarts of wine, rang
ing from 40 cents to "a a quart. and by
three quarts of spirits, which furnish
a good many 10 cent drinks.
Perhaps the stub pencil will not stop
here, but will go on to figure out how
much more cheese the free lunch fiend
might take home to his family if sa-
looms were not so numerous. 1t is never
safe to spring figures on the man with a
pencil.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
Probation System.

Il believe that the probation system
adopted by Judge Feagln two or three
years ago in handling the young negroes,
arrested and carried before him has been
a great blessing said Dr. ". r. Petit
ford, president of the Alabama Penny
Savings bank, the negro banking institute
ton of Birmingham
AT one time there we're from GO TO 10
negro boys under Is years of age arrested
every month and they were constantly
in and out of the jail. Judge Feagin
adopted a system of sending them to
farms IN the country many miles from
railroad stations, and the plan has been
most successful.
Il do not think that nowadays there
are over ten or twelve of these little
negro boys arrested monthly and the
average is steadily decreasing. The proba-
ton officer is keeping track of all the
boys who are arrested. The first time
they appear before the judge they are
put on probation and the second time
they are sent TO a farm in the country.
ION these farms the boys learn how to
work. Many of them remain in the coun-
try and make good. honest negroes. 9th
they have learned the habit of working
and they naturally apply themselves.
only small percentage of the boys
who have been placed on probation have
run away from the farms and come back
to the city. This indicates that the plan
is n success
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
Campaign Contributions.

Forty bills looking to the publicity
In campaign contributions have been
referred to the House committee on
the election of president and vice.
president and members of Congress
and the democratic members of that
committee have tried to secure action
upon them. But their efforts have
been in vain. The bills have no doubt
been pigeon-holed, and are practically
dead bills. The republican leaders
have, ii is plain, so decreed and it will
not be possible to get any bill before
the House which will uncover cam
paign contributions in the past, or that
will prevent new levies on the corpora
lions and trusts in the future. In
other words, the way is to be left
open to the republican congressional
committee to gather in at once heavy
slush fund for the purpose of electing
another republican Congress.
It is wholly delusion to expect any
action of a different nature at the
hands of the republicans The repub-
lican party represents wealth and the
trusts, just as the democratic party
stands for the masses. The party that
has the almost solid support of the
privileged will continue to look to the
few who plumber the many, and cam,
paign contributions will be kept close
secret.
Privilege is in the saddle, in other
words, and there it win stay until the
people who do not share in it. who
are in fact its victims, are intelligent
enough to understand the situation
and to work and vote mp TO their
knowledge.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
They are worthy
To inlay heaven with stars.
-cymbeIne.
Reductions in Rates.

The Chicago Record Herald says
the railroads in the central west have
decided to reduce rates in all the six
classes of freight of their tariff sheets.
This reduction is to approximate 15
per cent, and 1t is to be applied to all
the territory between the Atlantic sea-
board and the Missouri river.
This would leave the south out of
the reduction scheme altogether, for
the Missouri falls into the Mississippi
a few miles above st. Louis. The
telegraphed account must have been
prepared from central west point of
view, for it is scarcely credible that
one-half of the country would be
granted a reduction in rates approx
mating Is per cent, and the other half
would be taxed according to the old
rates. Discrimination of that sort
sort would be hurtful to the railroads,
as well as unjust to the people below
the Missouri river.
Nearly hundred years ago COM
promise line was drawn along the
state OF Missouri, and no good came
from it. The country does not want
another Missouri compromise.
But from the Missouri to the
Atlantic seaboard cannot be reduced
without bringing about reductions 20
the gulf and to the South Atlantic
ports. If the Record-H Herald has Sc
cured trustworthy information a reduc.
tion of 10 per cent in railroad rates
will be applied, it is plain, to the en-
tire country, for the railroads are
really one great interlocked and inter.
twining system, and what is good in
one section is good in another.
The coming changes will benefit the
higher classes of freight much more
than the heavier goods, such as cot
ton and pig iron and fertilizers. The
reductions named for these articles are
less than 10 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
Foreign Mission Enthusiasm.

There has just closed in the city of
Nashville, the most remarkable foreign
mission student meeting the world has
ever SEEM" said Y. M. c. A. worker.
1.-The Young Mems and Young Women's
Christian associations of $50 colleges and
universities sent nearly 1000 representa-
tives to hear the story and appeal OF
foreign missions from the 200 mission
leaders of all denominations throughout
the world. Six thousand desired to at
tend, but the delegation was cut down
one-third There was no hall big enough
to entertain them In the city. College
football captains the crack athletes and
honor students headed many delegations.
This was the twentieth anniversary
of the Inauguration of the student volun-
teer movement. which Is a contribution of
the Y. NJ. C. A. to foreign missions. 1t
started at Mortified in 1886 when 100 men
out of 251 delegates from eighty-nine col
leges attending a summer conference vol
unteered to become foreign missionaries.
Year after year this number has been
sweled and up to January l, 1906, 2953
volunteers have sailed to the mission fields
The student volunteer movement spread
to all countries and John r. Mott, the
Y. M. C. A. college secretary became
the president. Mr.. Mott. who called this
vast meeting to order last Wednesday, re-
ported that the movement had spread to
1000 educational institutions In North
America. that 1860 students were in its
mission classes, three-fourths of whom
are volunteers. This has brought change
in the college world as the study of mis-
sion subjects was confined almost ex-
elusively to those who expected to be-
come foreign missionaries. At the fourth
meeting of the student volunteer move
ment at Toronto four years ago the hope
was expressed that 1000 volunteers might
be sent out In four years. Exactly that
number sailed within four years. Scholar
ship. as well as good health and sense,
has been demanded as an essential mis-
sionary qualification and students who
have taken university, theological and
medical courses are now at work among
the Indians, Esquimaux, Chinese, Afri-
cans. Japanese and nearly every eoun-
try In the world. Last year 10000 students
and professors, members of the Y. NJ. and
Y. w. c. AS gave over $4,000 for for
eign missions. At this conference nearly
100000 was pledged for five years in fif-
teen minutes. and without pressure"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
Soldiers of the War.

The President has signed the For
aker bill, and $4,000 Confederate
graves in the north will be provided
with marble headstones, and the
grounds holding those graves will be
| fenced and protected from animals
and unwarranted intrusion. This at
the end of forty years of peace.
The Foraker bill by no means meet
the views of Congressman Underwood,
who is perhaps little in advance of
public sentiment Our immediate
representative looks upon the civil war
as he does the war of the Roses In
English history. Those wars, too, were
civil wars. and the English people soon
ceased to discriminate between the
men who won and the men who lost.
The blood of the mother country came
from both Sides and so 1t will be in
this country. The American nation
will be commingling of Confeder-
ates and Federals, and the graves of
ancestors should be cared for alike.
The glory of either is the glory of the
nation, and the history of both is the
heritage of common country. To
consider the soldiers of the south as
aliens is unwise and unpatriotic, sim
ply because the country will spring in
part from them.
Mr.. Underwood thinks justice will
yet be done. He thinks the day will
come when there will be in the his
tory of the country a just recognition
of the southern soldiers, and neglected
graves will not then be permitted on
either side of the old political line.
| Our representative Is simply a few
years ahead of public sentiment-not
more perhaps than two or four years.
The Foraker bill will lead on to a gen
eral care by the general government
of the graves of southern soldiers to
the extent that the graves of northern
soldiers have long been cared for. This
care is confined, as rule, to those
who fell in battle, and the national
cemeteries are located on or near great
battlefields.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
JIMMY FIXED 1T.

From Harper's Weekly.
A persevering youth had called sew
eral times at the home of young lady,
to be met each time with mot at home'
Upon one OCCASION he had seen her go
in Just before he reached the gate. His
ring was answere by her small brother.
Jimmy, I'd like to see your sister, -
the determined young man said
'She amt at home Jimmy said, sur
veylng him disdainfully.
but I Just saw her come in. the
youth protested.
Cant help that Tell you what I'll do.
though" Jimmy said. condeseendingly.
you give me your pack of cigarettes.
an I'll send her down.
"You are too young to smoke. Jimmy"
do l get 'em?, Jimmy said. agrees
sively, half closing the door.
Here they are." was the conciliating
reply, and the box was handed over.
Leaving the visitor seated in the parlor
Jimmy disappeared, to return in few
minutes.
She'll be down soon," he said.
How did you work that, Jimmy?a the
youth inquired.
The boy surveyed him with an amused
grin.
"Aw I told her 1t was the fellow she's
engaged to-" he said.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09

have been granted to the blacks, but
the other colonies regard the blacks
as an inferior race. It follows there
fore, that the colonies may not be able
TO agree upon a general plan in case
of federation, which begins to be
mooted.
-Four solutions are before the peo-
pie of South Africa, namely: Equal
political rights to the blacks when
qualified; a separate political repre-.
sentation of the blacks in such man.
ner as to perpetuate white supremacy;
isolation of the blacks on reservations
of their own, and, finally, to treat the
blacks as an inferior race and give
them no political rights whatever. All
the colonies have practically adopted
the fourth plan except Cape Colony.
Negro missionaries from the Unieed
States are at work among the negroes
south of zambesi, and they are preach
ing Ethiopianism-of Africa for the
Africans. This state of affairs is be-
ginning to render the whites in South
Africa uneasy, and all see ahead, after
many years perhaps, war and blood
shed as the probable settlement of the
question of domination. South Africa
cannot go on prosperously and secure.
ly unless some settlement of the race
issue can be found, and no one now
sees how the question of supremacy
can be settled without a resort to
arms.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
Choice Office Rooms.

II have rented suit of rooms for Of
flee purposes In the Brown-Marx build
Ing" said j. r. Ryan. general manager
fthe Corona Coal and Iron company Il
have secured choice quarters at the south
west corner on the eighth floor. The price
l have to pay is most reasonable from
the renters point of view. Before the
building is ready for occupancy l could
II 1 chose, dispose of these rooms at a
fancy premium. A great deal of talk is
heard these days about exorbitant rents
in Birmingham, but considering the ele-
gance and conveniences of the Brown
Marx building the prices there are re-
markably low. This speaks well for the
liberal and far-seeing policy of the own
ers"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
IN THE FIRELIGHT.
BY Eugene Field.

BY Eugene Field.
The fire upon the hearth is low,
And there is stiffness everywhere,
While winged spirits here and there,
Like freight shadows muttering go.
And as the shadows round me creep,
A childish treble breaks the gloom,
And softly from farther room
Comes. Now | lay me down to sleep"
And somehow, with that little prayer
And that sweet treble in my ears.
Ny thoughts go back TO distant year,
And linger with a loved one there;
And as / hear my childs Amen,
My mothers faith comes back to me-
Crouehed at her side I seem to be,
And mother holds my hands again.
Oh. for an hour in that dear place,
Oh, for the peace of that dear time,
Oh. for that childish trust sublime
oh, for a glimpse of mothers facet
Yet. as the shadows round me creep,
l do not seem to be alone
Sweet magic OF that treble tone,
And "Nau< lax me- down to sleep."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
FERocloUS BEAST
Was His Own Surgeon and Did Not
Need Chloroform.

From the New York American.
Senior Lopez Is perhaps the finest specl
men of Paraguayan jaguar ever held in
captivity He Is one of the largest and
handsomest representatives of the feline
species in the Bronx Park Zoo He is
also one of the most vicious.
About five days ago Keeper Spicer no.
ticed that Senior Lopez was unusually
fierce. The big brute lay snarling and
growing in corner OF his den and sell
dom left it. When he did he limped about
on three feet and held up his left fore
paw as If in pain. There was a little track
of blood in the cage, and after close OBJ
servatlon Keeper Spicer saw that there
was large splinter of wood protruding
from inder one of the claws of the foot
AS there was no manicurist forthcom-
ing who evinced a desire to look after the
Senor's nails DIR. Blair the park physi-
clan was called into consultation. The
Senior, however Is so fierce and so alb
solutely wild. that no one would dare
to enter his cage number of methods
to overpower the animal were discussed,
and 1t had been almost decided upon the
dayice of Curator Ditmars, to chloroform
him, with the aid OF sponge at the end
of pole, when the Senior saved them
all this trouble. Yesterday morning Keep
err Spicer noticed that the jaugar was
crouching in his corner and licking his
sore paw. The cat kept this up for con-
siderable time and then seemed to bite
the paw, Sudden he jerked his head back
and fresh flow of blood told that he
had succeeded in extracting the splinter
The juagar was caught in 1900 when full
grown in trap by Paraguayan Indians
and presented to the Bronx zoo by Will
liam Mill Butler.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
From the New York Tribune.

II He only aim of the press writer's,
wv declared Mr.. Brady, lis to make
fools of us''-overlooking the fact
that mature is above art" in that re-
spect. If Mr.. Brady has been correctly
reported, he declares that "a conspiracy
exists among the critics." Mr.. Brady can
hardly know the writer's Of the press in
New York If he really thinks that they
could remain on harmonious terms long
enough to conspire about anything.
In most cases writer's for the press are
honest and industrious persons. inclined
In the right way and laboring some
times against opposition from the bust
ness office, where pressure Is brought to
bear by means of the advertising club,
against free expression of critical opin-
ion.
The conscientious writer for the press
does his work under conditions unknown
to the majority of managers or readers.
He must pass many nights In the sitting
atmosphere of crowded. ill-ventiated
theatre rendered almost intolerable by the
foul fumes of drugged tobacco smoke
waited In from the lobby, where be-
tween the acts the sapient cigarette fiends
eommngle to ask each other What do
you think of it?9 He must sometimes
contemplate shapes of architecture that
would make the heetlng trolley car seek
another route. He must listen to the nasal
twang of the national catarrh, and to
piercing feminine squeals that would
startle a sphinx. He must be tranquil
when accosted by the soap-polished thea
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
Another Vulcan Suggestion.

IF it could be arranged / think that it
would be a splendid idea to set Vulcan up
just in front of the new passenger depot.
looking down Fifth avenue said DR.. w.
d. Cooper last night.
1.-THE Vulcan election will be held to-
morrow morning and it seems to me 1t
would be good Idea to confer with the
officials of the Birmingham Terminal
company and see If they would agree to
such proposition. If Vulcan could be
set up near the union depot the iron man
would be viewed by thousands and thous-
ands of visitors to Birmingham each
year, and it would prove an invaluable
advertisement for our CITY,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
STORY OF GENERAL scHoFlELD

From the New York World.
Men who were with General Schofield
in the army recalled yesterday, when
they heard of his death, the story of how
he was dismissed from West Point. Scho-
field was the star in his class. and in
the last year was appointed as an in
structor of cadets because of his pro-
ficiency in many lines. He was great
mathematician. and one day he propound-
ed this question to the cadets IF man
on the equator without any clothes on
were to climb a pole 100 feet high how
wide a brim would his hat have to have
in order to keep him from getting sun
burned"
When the commandant heard of this
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
WILLIAM WINTER MAKES
REPLY TO MANAGER BRADY

trieal agent, who greets him with effuson
must endure the rudeness of surly, UNI
couth door-keepers and fresh" ushers,
who slide past him in the aisle under
the apparent impression that they are
In roller skating rink. He must calmly
listen to the endless chatter of gibbering
auditors, who talk of play as though
it were vaccination, and wonder if it
will take or refer to 1t as If 1t were
a porous plaster, and speculate as to
whether it will draw.
With all these annoyanees he must
keep his mind clear and his feelings un-
der control, though every nerve is ting
ling with nervous anxiety and the sense
of responsibility. He must rush frantical-
ly to his distant paper, and he must per-
form his task of criticism of the most
thin-skinned, sensitive people in the world
under adverse circumstances that would
parayze any mind not specially trained
to the task, and he must do so with the
knowledge that single slip, made in
hsate, single word misplaced may
cause his paper almost endless trouble,
and will almost certainly be made the
subject of detraction and aspersion. And
he must do all this to the best of his
ability and conscience, placidly rejecting
meanwhile that his motives will be inn
pugned, his integrity fouted, his charac-
ter traduced and his name bemred, in
the Backyard section of the press, by
every filthy scribber-and by every man
ager of the Brady type-with as little
conjunction as though he were the conn
mon cry of curs.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-09
Africa for the Africans.

British South Africa has color
line that is yearly becoming more pro
.~uounced. The Kafirs of Natal are dis
contented. and the tribes of the other
colonies are being taught pan-Afriean-
ism. In all the colonies the blacks
outnumber the whites about five to
one. and the blacks are increasing by
birth and by immigration from the
interior of the continent faster than
the whites.
The colonies disagree in the treat
ment of the overshadowing problem.
In Cape Colony equal political rights