davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
BRIGHT PROSPECTS
 FOR SETTLEMENT
Controversy Between Western Rail- roads and Conductors and Train
 men May Be Adjusted.

Chicago April 3.-A settlement of the controversy between the western railroads and their conductors and trainmen seems nearer tonight than at any time since Commissioners Knapp and Neill have in- terceded in behalf of peace. After deliv- ering the ultimatum of the general man agers to the representatives of the men this afternoon a long conference was held leaders came to an agreement, which they reutiestd the two government officials 10 deliver to the managers tomorrow. While it is not known officially the exact nature of the basis of settlement agreed upon by the men, it was stated by man in au- thority that the prospects for peaceable settlement of the differences were bright tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
C. A. JOUBERT WEDS
 A VIRGINIA BELLE
Ceremony Takes Place at the H4ne of the Bride, Miss Louise Scot,
 at Amherst.

Amherst, Va, April 3.-(Speclal., +The marriage of Charles Alfred Joubfit of Birmingham, Ala, to Miss Louise Ibnta- que Scott, beautiful and noted bpe of this place. occurred here at the Fide's residence today. Many prominent Vir- ginians were present.
 Miss Scott Is one of the most tidely known and popular girls in the Etate. Her family is prominentnly eonlected with many of the oldest families II yir- ginia. Immediately after the cermony the couple left for the east. later th} will go to Birmingham to permanently re- side. Frederick Joubert of New Oteans, d brother of the groom, was preset and acted as best man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Ambassador Tower Arrives.

New York, April 3.-Ambassador Tower arrived here today on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II. Among the other passengers on the steamer were Lieut.. Gen. F. J. s. Van Lowen- field, general adjutant of Emperor Williams staff; Prof. F. Schafer and Lieut.. Col. Gustav Dickhut, who came here as Germany's representative to the dedication of the Carnegie insti- ute at Pittsburg, and Walter Wellman of the Wellman-Chicago Rccord-Her aid North Pole expedition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Get sso for santos-Dumont Airship.

New York, April 3.-The airship which was brought to this country by Santos-D -Dumont for exhibition at the St. Louis exposition and which was seized for non-payment of duty, was sold today for $50. being one of the several hundred articles in tue annual sale of unclaimed goods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Attempt to Wreck Express.

Philadelphia. April 3.-An attempt was made today to wreck a Pennsylvania ex- press train near Taconcy, a suburb. A track walker discovered break in the rail of nearly q foot, which had been takeu out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
To Consider Child Labor.

Nashville. April 3.-The senate today adopted resolution requesting Governor Patterson to call southern convention of manufacturers and labor unions to consider female and child labor ques- tions. The purpose is to promote unifom- ity of legislation on such matters and especially with reference to hours
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Greater Authorities.

He supported this statement by quota tions from President Hadley of Yale and from Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate commerce commission.
 Mr. Finley gave examples of the com petition Of producing localities of mar kets of carriers and Of commodities to show that railway charges are the out growth of economic laws and commercial conditions.
 No rate" he said, "can ever with proper consideration for the business of the country or of the carriers be adopt ed independently of these economic in terests-legislation, arbitrarily fixing the rate. In broad sense. therefore, the management Sf a railroad is powerless to fxt It's rates. It must accept the rates that are the resultant of economic and commercial forces which are as ab- solutely beyond the control of it's man. agers as the tides of the ocean. That this is true, is further shown by the fact that many railroads have never been able to ray any dividends on all of their capital stock while others are unable to pay any dividends at all. And still others are not able to pay interest on their bonded indebtedness. If a railway could adjust it's rates to its capitalization there would be no reason why any road should not earn dividends on It's capital ization and thus forever abolish receiver ships and bankruptcy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
But Reiterates That Parksr'n n Statement OnCanpaign Fusds
 Is Devoid of Truth
HARTMAN WATTS FOR
 PRESIDENTS REJ0INDER
White House Statement Says Railroad Magnate's Real interest In Politics Was He Wanted to Be Sena-
 tor-Books May Be Opened

Washington, April S.-President Roose- Welt discussed with a number of his call CTS today various features of the contro- Yersy between MT. Hartman and him. self growing out of the publication of the letters between them. He desired not to be quoted in the matter, however.
 To his friends, the President made it plain that the version of Mr. Harrimans visit preceding the election of 1904 was that Mir Hartman wanted assistance in the national republican committee to help Chairman Odell in the New York cam paign, towards whose expenses he (Har- riman had raised Sl00,O00. The President promised to communicate to Cortelyou and Bliss to see what could be done. He did in this case, he declared, just what he had done in other instances, where he had been appealed to to help in state campagins.
 To some of his visitors the President referred to the statement made public last night by Alton B. Parker in Albany in which he said that it has never been de- nied that $150,o00 was turned over by the Equitable, Mutual and New York Life Insurance companies to Mr. Corteyou's committee and that Congress has refused to make an investigation to the corpor- ate contributions of 1904 or to pass a law prohibiting such contributions in the future. on this subject the President re- ferred to statement which he mad in November, 1904, in which he said in part:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Widespread Attention.

While the controversy which has arisen between President Roosevelt and E. H. Hartman, following the publication of a letter written by E. H. Hartman to Sid ney Webster regarding the collection of a campaign fund by Mir. Hartman during the presidential campaign in 1904, is at- tracting widespread attention, politicians and others who were closely connected with the campaign do not show a dispoSi- tion at this time to disturb the subject.
 Senator Chauncey M. Depew was the only one who would add anything to the letters and statements made by the Pres ident and Mr. Hartman. He is quoted as saying:
 MT. knowledge of the s20o0O0 campaign fund was all gained after the occurrence to which MT. Hartman refers l knew nothing about il at the time, and 1t would be improper for me to mention any names in any way. I may say, however, that the money did not come from cor porations, neither from individuals whose corporation affiliations were such that they had anything to expect from the ad- ministration fin return. They were men of wealth. who necessarily had certain cor porations connections. but these did not move them in constituting the money.
 ''So far as the mentioning of my name for the position of ambassador to France is concerned, l will say positively that that matter was not broached to me until December. after the opposition to my re- election as senator had crystalized heard nothing at all about it back at election time. I will not say through what source the suggestion came that I should take the post. except that 1 was asked if I should not accept such an ap- pointmeqt and withdraw from the sena- torial contest. replied that I would not consider it, that Iny whole training and inclination impelled me to continue my service as senator and that so far as I was concerned it was the senatorship or
 (C0NTINUED OH PAGE 0.l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
No Particle of Truth.

That contributions have been made to the republican committee as contributions have been made to the democrats is not the question at issue. MT. Parker's asser- tion is in effect that contributions have been made for improper promises, direct or indirect, on the part of the recipients, but there is not one particle of truth in the statement," etc.
 Neither MT. Parker nor his supporters, the President declared, have been able to controyert or question the statement made in that answer The President said that to his own knowledge about dozen con- tributions offered by corporations had been declined by Chairman Corteyou, but that others had been accepted. A con tribution by the American Tobacco com pany, he said, had been returned. A prominent man had made a contribution of $20,000 to the republican campaign fund. Subsequently this man had made known his desire for an appointment in the dip 1omatic service in the event that the Pres fdent was elected. As soon as his motives were understood the national committee returned his contribution. The President asserted to his callers that none of the corporations that contributed to the cam paign fund in 1904 had come to him for fayors, either directly or indirectly. In this connection the President referred to the legislation enacted regarding corpor- ations during the last two years as dis proving any imputations that immunity would be shown them for their contribu- tions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
s26, 100000 Improvements.

''The Southern railway since it's organ iZation twelve years ago. he said, spent or contracted to spend and Is in the act of spending more than S26 coo for it's additions to it's facilities and for capi- talized betterments and Improvements. This means that on it's present mileage it has spent or thus has contracted to spend $i4,000 per mile, which takes every cent of it's net earnings after the payment of interest and without paying one penny of dividends or carrying one penny to surplus. The fact is. that proper divi- dends should be paid in order to create the credit on which a carrier can pro- vide itself In the money market with the means to add to it's facilities in those particulars which are essential not only to its own interest as carrier, but to the interest of the public at large
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Not Basis of Rates.

"In all the discussion the supposed re- lation between railroad capitalization and rates, I have been unable to find that anyone has attempted to formulate a comprehensive and practical scheme for passing rates on capitalization. l am con- vinced that if anyone should undertake to work out such a scheme he would soon find it to be absolutely impossible. Take the case of two railroads competing for business between two common points. One of them may be line constructed through comparatively level country at a nominal cost and the other may be through a mountainous country at very heavy cost. The capitalization of the mountain lines may, very properly be two or three times as great as that of the low grade If rates should be based on capitalization the rates on the mountain line would be two or three times those on the other and the mountain line because of it's high rates, would be put out of business between the competitive points. The loss of It's business between these points would probably make it impossible to earn from non-competitive business alone. to pay the interest on tre bont.s."
 Referring to the argument that rates are kept up in order to pay dividends on watered stock and if these payments are not made earnings could go to im- provements, Mir. Finley said that this was an entire misconception of the finan- cial situation and he greatly feared that an exaggerated idea of the earnings and wealth of the carriers was at the bot tom of much of the eXasperated public sentiment and hostile legislation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

The real reason for F. H. Harrimans S interest in the election of the state ticket in New York i'll 1904, reference to which was made in the communications which passed between him and the President, was that he desired to advance his own ambitions. It is asserted that MT. Har- riman wanted the position of senator now filled by Mir. Depew, and that this was the reason why he was anxious to have him appointed ambassador to Paris. The inference from MT. Harriman's attitude was that If Senator Depew could be in- duced to go to Paris, that Governor Hig- gins was prepared to appoint Hartman to the vacancy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Takes Shot at Jerome.

There was nothing mysterious about the publication of those letters, said Mir. Jerome "I gave them out myself open court
 But they had not been admitted in evidence" retorted Mr. Hartrdge
 Chairman Mcclure put m end to the
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-07-31

drought enabled the planters to
get their cane fields cleaned and
thoroughly we'll worked and this
done, the fine growing weather
now prevailing has it's full and
proper influence on the crops.
About the only discOrdant notes
heard are the complaints of those
on whom the daily showers may
not happen to fall. There is
enough rain for all concerned but
here and there some cane fields
don't get it. The spring plant
cane has now a chance to make
up for earlier slow growth and it
seems to be doing it. AS a whole
the agricultural situation is ex-
cellent.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-07-31
The Cane Crop.

Louisiana Planter.
From all of the sugar parishes
there comes news of hot weather
and showers, just what are want
ed, and the cane crop is reported
as growing rapidly and by
leaps and bounds" The long
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-07-31
The New Orleans Charity H0psita
Training School for Nurses.

Famous throughout the land is the
New Orleans Charity Hospital Train
ing School for Nurses, one of the
most thorough and up-tO-date insti-
tutions in the Uuited States, which
numbers among its graduates ladies
of the highest character, worthy re-
personalities of the Oldest and best
families of this and other States.
The school. which is now entering
its fifteenth year, is the O%utgrowth of
that broad humanity which would
bring to the aid of physical suffering
not only the sympathy, tenderness
and love which only a woman can
give. but the trained hand, the OBJ
servant eye, the skillful touch of that
woman whose intelligence has kept
pace with her heart, and who, taking
up this noble calling as q life work,
bends to it all the energies of her
being, all the faculties Of her soul,
and the truest impulses of her heart
that humanity may be lifted up, that
the SIGH may walk again in health and
strength.
The skilled hand, the we'll equipped
Offices of the nurse, who knows her
duty, are in constant demand, and the
call for them is ever widening. This
may especially be said of the nurses
who graduate from the New Orleans
Charity Hospstal School. Many a
woman, hitherto unconscious of the
hidden powers that lay within her,
has found in this great school the
opportunity for that study and de-
velopment which has proven not only
q most lucrative Ear of livelihood,
but far and above this, the answer to
the divine call in her heart, the re.
Spouse to the s'still small voice."
ever urging upward and onward that
human misery and pain may be re-
lieved.
The School, organized from small
beginnings and enriched by the mag
nificent bequest Of the late A. C.
Hutchinson, has grown to its present
splendid proportions, and proposes
to aggregate a class of over one
hundred students with the opening OF
the next term. Year by year has
witnessed an extension of its scope OF
work, SO that q two years. course in
this institution will not only fully
equip any intelligent. industrious
female for this great profession Of
nursing, but the experience gained in
the famous Charity Hospital, with its
unrivsled facilities and opportunitie.
for study and practice, gives its
graduated nurses q distinction thar
makes them 70 greatly sought after
that the demand for their services i.
far in excess Of the supply. An ides
of the superior advantages offered b!
the School may be gained when it il
stated that over one thousand pa
tients, male and female, of all classes
races and conditions, are treated il
Charity Hospital OF New Orleans
every month. The nurse connected
with its Training School have tn
bensot of receiving instruction ant
training at the bedside of this en0r
nous number of patients; the expert
: ence thus gained, together with tn
knowledge acquired from the faculty
OF l~eoturers, consistidg Of some of TIL
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-07-31

ablest and most distinguished medical
men in the country, e%minently fits
them to attain success and i%ndepend-
ence in their chosen profession.
The Hospital has accommodations
now for quite a number of candidates
and vacancies are constantly occurring
as nurses graduate. Applicants
should address the Directress. Chart
ty Hospital. New Orleans. La. for
full details, which are in pamphlet
form.
SOME OF THE REGULATION FOR
NURSES ATTACHED TO THE
CHARITY HOSPITAL.
The Training School for Female
Nurses. attached to the Charity Hos
pital. offers to women DESTROYS OF
becoming professional nurses en-
trance into the School for a course OF
two years instruction upon the fol-
lowing conditions:
Those wishing to enter the School
SLlOuIu apply. ciUi-ol III PNi'oh -.
letter, to the Directress. Charity Hos
| pital, New Orleans, for a blank list
of questions t. be answered. The
applicant should send, with swe
to her paper of questions a letter
from a clergyman testifying to her
good moral character and from a
physician stating that she is in sound
health.
A statement of age must accompany
each application. No applicant will
be accepted who has not attained the
age of 20.
1t is indispensable that an applicant
should have a fair English educa-
tion-should be able to write legibly
J and accurately, to keep simple ac-
counts and take notes of lectures.
During the month of probation the
pupils are boarded and lodged at the
expense of the School, but receive NO
other compensation. They are not
expected to wear the uniform of the
School, but must come provided with
dresses of washing material for wear
in the Hospital.
Those who prove satisfactory will
be accepted as pnpil-nurses for the
two-year term of the Training School.
The pay for the first year is 50 a
month and for the second year S12 a
a month, with board and lodging a
the hospital at the expense of the
School.
This sum is allowed for the dress,
textbook ard other expenses CT the
nurse in connection with her work,
and is in no wise intended as wages,
it being considered that the education
given is a full equivalent for theil
services.
The institution is strictly unsecta'
rian. There are no religious serv'
ices connected with it, and all nurses
are privileged to attend the place o
worship they prefer on Sunday
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-07-31

The Cumberland Telephone
and Telegraph Company has is
sued a new directory. 1t was
printed in The Lafayette Adver-
tiSer office.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
Comparative Color Blindness.

If IL thousand men gaze at garden
of flowers, fifty of them will see the
colors falsely. If thousand women
six or seven will perceive the hues cor
rectly. OF the six colOrs of the rain
bow, which, mingled in thousands Of
combinations, give all the varying hues
OF sky and sea. of mountain and val
ley, some are never seen by the color
blind or are felt only as light and
shade of black and white. Very few
persons are totally color blind, yellow,
blue and violet being rarely lost. To
the totally color blind all landscapes
and objects are like an engraving in
black and Edward A. Ayers In
Century.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
IN THE DEATH CHAIR.
How 1t Feels When the Killing Cur
rent Is Turned On,

He waited n seconl or an age. Then
suddenly it seemed as if he must lear
from the chair, his body was swelling
to some monstrous, impossible. inhu
man shape; his muscles were stretch.
ed, millions of hot and dreadful nee.
dies were piercing and pricking him,
stupendous roaring was in his ears.
then Il million colors-colors he had
never seen or imagined before, colors
no one had ever seen or imagined. col
Drs beyond the range of the spectrum,
new. undiscovered, summoned by some
mysterious agency from distant cor
ners of the universe-played before his
eyes. Suddenly they were shattered
by a terrific explosion in his brain
then darkness.
But, no; there was still sensation. 4
dull purple color slowly spread before
him, gradually grew lighter, expanded.
and with mighty pain he struggled.
cropping his way in torture and tor
ment over fearful obstacles from some
far distance remote as black stars in
the cold abyss Of the universe. He
struggled back to life, then an appall-
ing confusion. Il grasp of conscious
ness; he heard the ticking of the two
watches. Then through his brain there
slowly trickled a thread of thought
that squirmed and glowed like Il white
hot wire.
\ faint groan escaped the pale lips
below the black leather mask tremOr
ran through the form in the chair; there
X relaxed and was still.
It's all over. The doctor lifting his
fingers from Archie's wrist, tried to
smile and wiped the perspiration from
his face with a handkerchief From
Brand Whitlocks The Turn of the
Balance"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
Sweet Potato Pie.
ideal.

Take several sweet potatoes, and
when they have boiled themselves ten
der peel and slice them. Line the bot
tom and sides of a deep dish with
crust-the dish must be fully three
inches In depth-and upon this ar
range layer of the potatoes, butter
ing them literally. sugaring them free
ly and sprlnkling them with nutmeg.
Add next layer of very thin slices Of
dough, sprinkle with hot water, then
follow with another layer of sliced po.
tatoes and repeat until the pan is full.
The top crust follows and the pie must
then be baked for an hour or more
Miles Bradford in Bohemian Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
Euphemisms For Death.

"Decease" is now a regular form OF
word for death. But it began as q
gentle euphemism. "decessus (depar-
ture) seeming much less harsh to the
Romans than "mors." All languages
abound in euphemisms of the kind,
which go back to superstitious re-
luctance to mention death plainly that
gradually passed into a kindly desire
TO soften the idea. PASSED away"
departed" gone" expire" breathe
OUT, mo more" demise" and even
1.-THE late" are expressions of this ma
ture. Most striking of all is the Ro-
man euphemism for "he is dead, "vix-
it" (he has lived.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03

One Of the prOudest monuments to
the memory of that benevolent despot.
Peter the Great, is the imperial H.
brary of Russia, established by him in
1714. Present ranking places it third
among the worlds great libraries. pre-
coded only by the National library at
Paris and that of the British museum
at London. 1t contains million and q
half volumes and 10000 manuscripts.
The most important accession it ever
received was probably at the time OF
the suppression of the Society Of Jesus
in Russia, when most of the Jesuit
collections We're transferred to the i'm
perial library Among them was the
famous collection OF Count Zaluski,
consisting of 100000 volumes and lO.-
600 manuscripts, which had been in
stalled at the Jesuit college in Warsaw.
The most important manuscript in the
library is the "COdeX Sinaiticus" of the
Greek Bible, brought to Russia by Pro
fessor TischendOrf in 1859 from the
Convent of st. Catharine on Mount
Sinai.-New York Tribune.