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The National tribune., 1907-09-26
The American Conflict.
BY HORACE GREEL

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Where In He.

Does any comrade know anything
about Smith Mount, who was in some
three-months regiment and enlisted
either from Posey Vanderburg or Glib
son Counties. Ind. He belonged to some
Indiana regiment and lost his dis
charge. His family are very anxious
to locate him. L
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burials. There is a difference of opin-
ion as to the propriety of ex-Union SOL
diers taking part in memorial services
to the memory of cx-Confederate SOL
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The American. Spanish War.
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PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along th: Whole
Line.
Found His Snbcr.

In the early part of 1864 Capt. p. S.
Tinan, then Adjutant of the 9Th Ohio
Cav, was ordered to take squad of
men and report for duty at Columbus.
o. Feb. 10 he left Warrenton, came To
Washington. where he and his men
received their pay, and started west on
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The
train was captured by guerrillas be-
tween Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg.
The robbers had learned of there being
considerable money on the train, and
they made quite a haul, especially from
some of the men who had been to Bal
timore to sell their hogs. Capt. Tinan's
trunk was taken. and with it his saber
with his name engraved upon the blade.
Last Spring a member of the 9Th Ohio
Cav. visited the Post at Elkhart, Ind,
and found there on the altar saber
which had Lieut.. Tinan's name en-
graved on it. 1t appears that Capt.
Titus, S1st Ohio, was on duty in the
Shenandoah Valley, and the saber was
among a lot of property which the reg
iment gathered up. 1t was returned to
Capt Tinan June 1, 1907, after being
away from him for 43 years.
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The LIST N. J. Cav.

Daniel E. Hogbin, 1st N. ]. Cav,
Syracuse, Kan, was delighted to see
the history of his regiment in The Ma
tional Tribune. 1t looked like meeting
with the old boys u see the names CIV
en-. He was in the field when Lee sur
rendered, April 9, 1865, and it always
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

a proper proportion of the premiums collected in Alabama to be invested in this state. Other states have adopted similar propositions, and MT. Gray does not see why the drain should go on unchecked in this state.
 The hope is freely expressed that the proposition, just and business-like in itself, will also include a repeal of the special tax on foreign loans. The two propositions joined together would be an unmixed blessing to Alabama, and The Age-Herald has faith that MT. Gray will be able to secure for them the approval of a majority of both houses of the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
Sales and Fertilizers

<. The tag sales by the state depart ment of agriculture show that up to May more tons of fertilizers were sold than in the corresponding period of last year The tags sold represent S06,664 tons of fertilizers, an increase this year of 919S tons. This is not heavy increase, but even an increase of 3 per cent makes plain the intention of Alabama farmers to grow a good deal of cotton this year.
 The sale of 3o6,664 tons of commer- rial fertilizers in this state is a matter of considerable importance-a ton to every four bales of cotton grown m this state True, some of the fertilizer purchased is not put in cotton rows, but the percentage that goes to other crops is not large. In round figures, our farmers use ton of commercial fertilizers for every four bales of cot ton they grow The average price of commercial fertilizers at the farm is S20 a ton, and the fertilizer expense per bale in this state is, therefore, in round figures, $5.
 The entire fertilizer bill of this state is about six millions of dollars, or, or about double the cost of the state gov ernment. In some states fertilizer bills are c2t down by the use of barn 'nyard manures, but any considerable economy of that nature seems to be impracticable in this state, ef.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
ABSURD LENGTH OF TRIALS.

From Case and Comment.
 No expense of time or money Is too great to insure justice to an accused person, but the view of a foreigner above quoted, to the effect that our conspicu- ous and spectacular trials swell the
 lawyers heads and belittle the law"
 is shared by an increasing number of Americans It Is doubtful if many judges
 or lawyers actually believe that we'll
 nigh interminable duel between opposing
 lawyers or between lawyers and expert
 witnesses is an aid to justice. Especially when an accused has great wealth and is able to carry on an indefinite contest running through weeks and months, the question arises whether justice can be served and saved without permitting the duration of the trial to be limited by nothing except the wishes of counsel and the purse of the client.
 It is not simply a question of enor-
 nous cost to the public; it is a question of practically monopolizing the court. to the exclusion of other important busi- ness. for an indefinite period. To say that there is no remedy for these abuses is to admit a very glaring defect in our system of justice. Many times it is obvious that the real purpose of the pro- longed struggle is not uo secure but to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
Alabama Insurance Premiums

The receipts of this state from all sources in the year ended September 30, 1906, were s3,S5S,537.se. We add the cents in order to be exact. This sum covers all the money paid into the general fund, the educational fund, the pension fund and the special fund, in the last fiscal year. It shows that the state government cost the people in the fiscal year whether the money came from taxation, from licenses, from fees, from the convict depart ment, from tag sales, from the sale of lands, or from the sale of supreme court reports-all is included-and the sum total is s3,353.5S7s9.
 The life insurance companies, all foreign, took from this state last year $4,756,612 in premiums. They paid back $1,6S1, 200 in losses, thus letting the net tax of the state by the insur- ance companies stand in the calendar year 1906 at $3,0SS,412. This sum al. most equals the entire receipts of the state in the last fiscal year, and it far exceeds the taxes levied on property. There is no reason why Lieutenant Governor Gray's proposition to req
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
DEAD LETTERS.

From Harper's Weekly.
 A New York business man, while In Chicago recently, was expecting money order letter in day or two. In order to avoid any difficulty in Identification. he went to clerk in the postoffice and said:
 "I am expecting a money-order to the amount of sloo, and my name Is Thomas Blank. Here are a lot of letters addressed to me from various places. You will ob- serve the postmarks. So, you see, if I am not the man I claim to be, I must have murdered that man and possessed myself of his letters, and am now per- sonatipg him. As that Is not likely, you must admit that I am the man."
 The New Yorker, having delivered him. self of the foregoing, left the postoffice. In few days the money-order came and the man from New York repaired to the office to get his order cashed He ex- pected to find the clerk ready for him, but at first the clerk did not recollect him. Presently the New Yorker suc- ceeded in recalling himself to the mans memory.
 ''Oh yes' said the clerk, quite serious ly, you're the chap that murdered the other man!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
EVA BOOTHS POLICEMAN.

Hugh c. Weir, in the World To-Day.
 You are under arrest! You are dis turbing the peace!" snarled policeman, breaking off her first public prayer in the streets of London. She was still in her early teens, a slight slip of a girl with no means of resistance, and as the bully
 ing office frightened his grip on her arm, she was dragged shrinkingly with him.
 But the action aroused the sympathies of the rough crowd as lighted match fires a keg of gunpowder In an instant the policeman and his prisoner were sur rounded, and before the officer could raise his voice he was beaten to the pavement under shower of fists.
 It was the girl prisoner who, forget ting his rough grip and the cell to which he would have dragged her, appealed to the throng in his defense. When the crowd finally retreated, the policeman was grooming with two broken legs and mass of bruises from head to foot.
 For weeks the little girl in the big Army bonnet paid faithful visits to the helpless man in the hospital. and when he was released a warmer friend Eva Booth and her cause could not have found in all England. To this day she receives letters in a rough, sprawling hand, signed simply, Your Policeman"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
BRIDGE AND PENCILS.
Girls Learn to Sharpen Latter Because
 of the Former.
the Providence Journal.

From the Providence Journal
 There used to be theory" said she, that woman couldn't sharpen a pencil.
 "As far as I know he replied, it still holds true. Here" handing her a pencil which had not been sharpened, "let me see you put a point on it."
 She borrowed his knife, set at work and in an amazingly short time returned his pencil with a nicely rounded tip and finish to the whittled part that sur- prised him.
 "Well?' she said, inquiringly.
 You are the exception" he asserted.
 I'm not" she returned, indignantly. ''The idea that girl can't sharpen pen cil is one of the things that men have said for years and it's just as idotic as a lot of other things they say!'
 Nevertheless, repeated the man. you are an exception"
 Prove it." said the girl, "and I'll be- lieve the theory"
 That evening the man made a call on another girl and during the course of con- versation produced a second pencil which had never been sharpened. He requested his hostess to make it ready for use She looked at him in some surprise. 'rm afraid I can't do 1t very we'll" she said hestatingly. but I'll try" She did try and after half an hour of hard labor she showed him the result There was a tiny bit of lead of a weird and grotesque ap- pearance, and the wood looked as if it had been gnawed by a rat with rather dull teeth
 He took it In triumph to the first girl
 There" he said, 'is the proof of my theory"
 Docs the girl who sharpened that play bridge?" she asked.
 No" he said.
 That's the reason she can't sharpen a pencil properly! We girls who play continually have to have pencils, and am willing to admit that we couldn't make a decent point on any of them at first. But when one has to do thing it can be done. and now any one of us can sharpen a pencil as well as l did Bridge accounts for it."
 Like a good many other things" mur- mured the man as he slipped the gnawed pencil into his pocket, but give me the girl who'll ask me to do it for her.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The University.

Dr. J. W. Abercrombie, president of the University of Alabama, who was in the city yesterday, said: "The present legis- lature has been generous to the univer- sity, and we are planning for large inn provments. One or more new buildings will soon be in course of erection, and 1t will not be a great while before the university will rank with the greatest in the country.
 We are going to build up a thorough mining school, and in time we will add electrical and mechanical engineering de- partments. The trustees appreciate the fact that Alabama needs technically edu- cated men to carry on it's industrial de- velopment, and 1t has been determined that Tuscaloosa is an ideal place for tech nologieal class work. Near the university are modernly equipped mines, and an up to-date blast furnace; and we are near enough to Birmingham for our students to spend a day every week at the steel plant and other industries in the immed- late Birmingham district. After the uni versity gets it's new buildings and all the technical apparatus and workshops, no young Alabamian ambitious to become<an electrical, mining or mechanical engineer will have any excuse to go north for his education. We have already an excellent civil engineering school, first rate chem ical laboratory and the foundation for school of mines. Thus it will be seen that we have a fine start"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
THE CURES PROGRESS.

By Austin Dobson. Monsieur the Cure down the street Comes with his kind old face With his coat worn bare, and his strag-
 gling hair,
 And his green umbrella-case You may see him pass by the little
 grand Place."
 And the tiny "Hotel-de-Ville;' He smiles as he goes, to the feuriste
 Rose,
 And the Pompier Theophlle. He turns, as a rule, through the Where the noisy fsh-wives call; And his compliment pays to the belle
 Therese,''
 As she knits in her dusky stall. There's a letter to drop at the locks
 mith's shop,
 And Toto, the locksmth's niece. Has jubilant hopes, for the Cure gropes In his tails for pain d'epice. There's little dispute with merchant
 of fruit ~s Who is said to be heterodox, That will ended he with Ma fla. oui." And a pinch from the Cures box. There is also word that no one heard To the furrier's daughter Lou And pale cheek fed with a fickerina
 red And Bon Dieu garde M'sieu!' But grander way for the Sous -Prefet. And bow for Ma am selle Anne: And a mock ''off-hat'' to the Notary's
 cat,
 And a nod to the Sacristan For ever through life the Cure goes With smile on his kind old faee-- With his coat worn bare, and his strag.
 gling hair,
 And his green umbrela-case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
Books for the People

This is Library Night at the Majestic theatre, and the pretty place should be packed with the patriotic citizens, men and women, of this city. It Is not to be a money-getting meeting, but it is to be a meeting for inaugurating move ment to build a public library.
 Practically speaking the board of education will be asked to furnish a nucleus of the movement, and the city will be asked to furnish a site and maintenance funds, thus putting upon the people the sole task of erecting a library building. This prosperous city can and will put up suitable library building.
 The people will do it because they are building here a fully-equipped city, and every city holds today free pub lie library. We want library here open to all corners without money and without price. Fees are foreign to a public library. This city needs a pub lie library, and the way to get 1t is to organize and canvass the city. There is no other way, and the object of to- nights meeting is organization.
 Go to the meeting tonight, thereby lending your presence and influence to this desirable movement-this move ment to supply glaring deficiency in the city's equipment. We have hos pitals and schools and churches and a Y. M. C. A., and clubs, but no library. Go to the Majestic theatre tonight and aid to the utmost the new library movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
Texas Sentiment Changing.

'"rhere appears to be revolution of sentiment among the Texas legislators upon the question of lower passenger fares" observed travelling man at the Hotel Hillman last night.
 'I have recently been in that state and for a time there seemed to be no chance to defeat the 2-cent bill then pending in the legislature. Now I see that the bill is about on its last legs and it is an absolute certainty that the bill will not become law.
 .'rexas is a state of magnificent dis tances and there Is ground for argu- ment that the state is not thickly enough populated to justify lower rate. It will come. however, In time. but the people, I understand, have changed their minds upon the subject and have written let ters to the lawmakers asking that pas senger fares be not reduced.
 ''rhe travelling men of Arkansas were practically responsible for a reduction of passenger fares to cents in that state and the organization has been behind the movement for lower rates in many states. The general public is greater
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
For the Sake of Humanity

Charles Ford, who was whipped to death at the Pratt mines, was a county conyict-not state convict. This fact should be kept in mind, because the state board of convict inspectors super vises and cares for the state convicts.
 No one in this world supervises or cares for the county convicts after they are turned over to contractors. The last annual report of the board of convict inspectors furnishes all the explanation that is needed of the death of Charles Ford, who was whipped to death. "The county convict system" ]" says the report "if anything, is worse than ever before in it's history. The demand for labor and fees has become so great that most of them now go to the mines, where many of them are unfit for such labor; consequently, 1t is not long before they pass from this earth; for, as superintendent of one of the mines once said, that the company had only two places for a convict, one in the mines and the other in the hospital. This system should be wiped out of existence, and it can not be done too soon. If the state wishes to kill it's convicts, it should do it directly and not indirectly. Every convict in Alabama whose sentence exceeds six months should be sent to the penitentiary, and those under six months should be hired in the county of conviction. If all persons convicted of crime were, sentenced to the peni- tentiary they would be better cared for and they would be distributed accord ing to their physical condition, so that their work would be neither burden some nor dangerous to them; and, in addition to this, whenever they became sick, they would be transferred to the general hospital, where they would re- ceive the very best of attention As it is, this board has no authority or power to transfer county convict. If he develops tuberculosis or any other disease, he has to take his chances at the camp at which he Is located, and in a large proportion of cases this means death. I am well aware of the fact that this would add additional cost to the state; but, conceding this, is it not the duty of the state to see that proper treatment is accorded these poor, de- fenseless creatures, many of whom ought never have been arrested and tried at all?"
 There is nothing to add to these off cial utterances of the board of convict inspectors. They know the inhumani- ties that go with the gathering of county convicts under the fee system; they know the barbaritles of contract ors, and if the legislature has not enough humanity in It's makeup to put an end to it all, the state will have to shoulder case after case like that of Charles Ford, who was whipped to death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
Rirminaham Revisited.

When I left Birmingham sixteen years ago." said Thomas J. Boggan, people said the bottom had been knocked out of this town and l thought so myself, but now I can find no words to express my surprise at its growth and progress dur ing these years l have been absent
 T was in this city during it's boom days and saw some pretty big and quick trading done; and l was here after the boom burst and saw streets almost de- serted and the empty stores plastered oyer with notices for sale or rent, but from what I see now I know there must have been men who never lost confidence in the district and who stood by their guns during the panic that followed the years of imitation.
 II have been in Chicago ever since and have seen that city grow, but l doubt if its growth has been as rapid as Birming- ham, but Chicago Is a great city, Every person who can spare the time should visit Chicago just to see how d city con taining over two million population is governed and provided for. The drainage of the city and It's water works are sub jects which are today regarded as the best of their kind in the world, and only a few years ago they were considered as problems almost defylng solution.
 T am glad to see that many of my old friends are still here and that they have kept pace with the progress of the city, Yes, Birmingham has become d great city and the promise of even greater things seems absolutely assured"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
 N RAIDERS of "Fiona Macleod S" " Celtic stories remember the tale - of Neil Ross, the Sin Eater, a tale less horrible than that of "The Judg- ment O God" but grimmer and more creepy. Bread and salt and a saucer of water were placed on the breast of Adam Blairs corpse and for two half crowns Nell ate and drunk and took upon him the sins of the dead man With the curses of Neil on the household and his awful ending we are not now concerned. We are reminded of this story by the ac- count published recently of a similar practice still extant in Macedonia, where, by the way, the sin eater-he receives the sum of about so cents-is detested and looked on as one lost forever. It Is said that sin eating was known in ancient Greece, but the statement that it Is still observed in secluded parts of Wales Is more to our purpose.
 What was the origin of this strange use of scapegoat? They that seek con stantly warrant from the Bible point to verse in Hosea, "They eat up the sin of my people," but this plain speech of the Lord through the mouth of the prophet Is violently wrenched in the ap- plication.
 In Hereford, Eng, 1t was an old cus- tom, old when Aubrey described it about the middle of the seventeenth century, to hire at a funeral poor person to take on himself the sins of the dead man or woman A loaf of bread was given to him over the corpse with a ''mazard" or maple bowl of beer. He drank and ate and took sixpence in money, and thus freed the dead person from the necessity of walking. In North Wales milk was often substituted for beer. Some, dying