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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
AGED WOMAN DIES
 AT CALERA HOME Husband Still Lives at Age of
 12O Years HAS A NOTABLE HISTORY Was Born Before Washington Was Elected President and Was f2
 Years Old at the Death of
 the First President. I
HAS A NOTABLE HISTORY
BY REV. ]. w. CARY.

Calera, April 27.-(SpeeiaL) )-Mrs. Sarah Gibson, aged, s9 years, died at her home here this afternoon at 4:15 o'clock
 Mrs. Gibson was the wife of Austin Gibson, who is perhaps the oldest man in the country. He claims to be 120 years of age at his next birthday.
 This aged couple was on exhibition at the State Fair in Birmingham in 1905.
 They were chief attraction, when seea by thousands of the people attend ing the fair They looked feeble and ap- peared as if the end of their journey on earth was close at hand. Both of them have been sick recently. The attend ing phy sician, Dr., J. H. Gum, has ex- pected the death of Mrs. Gibson for sey- eral days, and her aged husband may follow her shortly.
 In this county, where MT Gibson has spent a great portion of his life, on the banks of the Cahaba river, there is Q beech tree still standing with MT. Austin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
Division Attcrnexa.

Huntsville, April 27.-(Specal)- 1.-The law department of the Nashville, Chattanooga ana St. Louis railway has announced the appointment of Walker and Spragins of this city as division attorneys for Ala Dama. This position was formerly held by Hon. Oscar R. Hundley, recently ap- pointed United States judge. The new attorneys are State Senator Robert E Spragins and Judge R. W. Walker, for me associate justice of the Alabama supreme court
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
News of HartselIe.

Hartselle, April 27.-(Speclal)-The Rev. l.. F. Parrish, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church. south. here has ac- cepted an invitation to preach the Odd Fellows memorial sermon at Decatur, tomorrow at Il O clock.
 J. H. Hargrove, clerk in chancery court, Birmingham. is visiting his mother here today.
 he plscatorial sportsmen are having some fine sport with trout in Flint creek, near here. They are catching some fine ones and the crop seems to be numerous. Cotton and corn are both being planted over in this section, having been killed or bighted by the freeze.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
Celebrate Anniversary.

Huntsville, April 27.-(special)-Th Odd Fellows of Meridianvile celebrated the eig..ty-eighth anniversary of their or de, yesterday with the rendition of an appropriate programme. The address of the day was made by the Rev. H. b. Rice. pastor of the Dallas Avenue Baptist church of Huntsville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY.
Youno Men of Eufauia Entertain Visit
 Ing Young Ladies.

Eufaula, April N.-(Special.) )-Memorial day was observed with interesting and impressive ceremonies which were held at the Carnegie auditorium Friday aft ernoon. The business houses all closed doors at 2 30 o'clock and the building was thronged. The stage was beautifully dec
 orated in bunting, flags and profqson
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
VIII Represent Alabama.

University, April 27.-(Special) )-Charles Edgar Rice Naw '0D, of Birmingham leaves today to represent the university in the Southern Interstate Oratorical as sociatlon contest to be held at Columbia, s. L., May 1. Rice won for the univers- ty last year over the representatives from Vanderbilt, Sewanee, University of Kentucky, South Carolina and Virginia. Rice's subject is Democracy and Cen tralizatiOn."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
Hot weather-cool place "The Sub Way"

$14.50 to Richmond and re- turn account U. c. V., Reunion via. Southern Railway, the quickest route, and the only line that operates regularly sleeper between Birmingham and Richmond only. Go the quickest way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
Card of Thanks.

Mir and Mrs. Jacob Schoettlln and fam fly desire to thank their many friends for kindnesses extended to them in their sad bereavement in the loss of their be- loved son Charlie. Also for the many beautiful floral offerings.
 April 26 1907
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
ODD FELLOWS HOLD A JOINT MEETING
ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDING OF THE oRpER-J. M.
 BARR PAYS A VISIT TO PLANT IN ANNlSToN.

Anniston, April 27.-(SpeciaL) )-Last evening there was a joint meeting of all the lodges of Odd Fellows in Anniston branch of the order, at Odd Fellows hall, in the Anniston National Bank build ing, to observe with fitting ceremonies, the anniversary of the founding of the or der in the United States
 The principal address of the occasion was delivered by Rev Walter M. Craw- ford, grand master of the order in the state, and there was short talks by number of local members. !. A pleasing feature of the occasion was also the singing of odes by members of Mountain Oak encampment Mo- 25, which has number of good voices among it's mem- bers.
 The Rev. Mr Crawford will be pleas antly remembered by many Annistonians not members of the order. When the grand lodge met here two years ago, Rev. Crawford delivered a powerful ser mon on the Sunday preceding at tile First Methodist church. He Is an eloquent and magnetic orator, and one of the most scholarly divines in the state.
 Yesterday morning Grand Master Craw- ford was the orator of the day at gigan- tic open air mass meeting of Odd Fellows at Edwardsville.
 Today he will be the principal speaker at a similar gathering at Cocharan Springs, this county.
 Constable C. M. Weaks of DeArmon- vile, who was assaulted and beaten by Henry Jones near Oxford early last Sun day morning, is slowly improving, it is said, from the effects of the fearful blows upon his head, and from which it was feared he would die. He has, to degree, recovered consciousness. but has not yet given a lucid account of the manner in which he was assaulted.
 J. M Barr, president of the Woodstock Iron and Steel corporation, arrived in the city from Norfolk via. Birmingham this morning. MT. Barr is accompanied by General Manager J. B. Darlington, and they are stopping at the Alabama hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

-0-@~-~~~---~--------~---
 Gibson's name plainly cut dated 1872 An
 other citizen, young man employed by Brown & Sanders, merchants of Calera, certified today that he saw this beech tree las. year. He represents it as bear ing the marks of great age. Austin Gib
 son claims he had 1t cut by friend. That was 95 years ago. Just think of it, a man, still living that was born in the year 1787 He would still be considered a young man If he had lived in the days of Methusaeh, but people do not live so long now. Man has been growing weaker an wiser ever since then. When Jacob came with his family to Egypt, to dwell in the land of Goshen Pharaoh requested Ja Ib to tell him how old he was. Jacob promptly replied 1he days of the years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28
Amazing.

From Harpers Bazar.
 Knicker-rhe demands for money nowa- days are simply enormous.
 Bocxer-Terrible, terrible. Here's the Pennsylvania railroad wanting $200.0OO 900, and only this morning Jones asked me to lend him a dollar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

parents came to this country. He was 52 years old when Alabama became one of the states.
 No one can look upon the form of this aged man and his wife without being impressed with the thought that to live long in this world We need to observe the laws of health and have a good con stitution.
 Mr. Gibson has been totally blind for eleven years Hence his wife has had to care for him like a child Sixty-eight years ago they were married, perhaps the officiating minister or justice of the peace has long ago gone to his reward. Thous- ands who were born on the day their lives were united have ceased to work and live. Mrs Gibson told this writer that she was twenty years of age when she took him for better or worse, while her husband was a much older man than her father. No children blessed this union. So now in their declining days the near est relative Is Mrs. Francis Seals, q neice of Mrs. Gibson. She has cared for them the best she could.
 The neighbors built the old folks a one room house last fall.
 It is said the subject of this sketch was a mighty hunter like Nimrod, when he was in the vlgor of manhood. There was plenty of large game on the Cahaba river where he lived for number of years There he owned once 40 acres of land, which has some how passed out ot his possession. He was as expert @as an Indian in trapping and hunting and from them he learned how to go in the forest and trap game It is said he once went with Andrew Jackson in the war against the Creek Indians
 I have been informed that he used to like to tell the children of his narrow escapes from the red man of the forest and the bear and panther while out hunting.
 Until recently he has had a good appe- tite but now he eats little, and it Is only short time. perhaps, and his course on earth will end. But as he has lived so long he may yet outlve some of US.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

parents came to this country. He Was g years old when Alabama became one of the states.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04
AT WAR
 OVER FAIR NURSE
Army Men at Preside Feel ln- suited at Social Equality
 Given Girl.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept @-Ar- rayed on opposing sides in a social warfare that was caused by pietty nurse stationed at the United States artillery post at Fort Baker, Captain H. B. Clarke and Lieutenant T. A. Jones have carried their enmity into the courtmartial of Sergeant Maurice Grindley. on trial for forgery and em- bezzlement the lieutenant accusing and the captain, botty as witness and counsel, defending the non-cOmmis- stoned defendant.
 Each charges the other with conduct unbecoming an officer and. gentle man.
 Lieutenant Jones said today: ''SC, Ciai .divisOH in thc post causes Cap tain Clarke to assail me. This ! vii prove Ly witnesses. witnesses who can and will tell abut the career of a nurse at the post. We called her 1ht 'Gadfly.'"
 The "Gadfly" arri1ed lhufe than a year ago. attending the 'r!fe of a captain. who was Fl. Af,cr the "a tient recovered the nuTse .umaIHed a. her guest. SlLrD social hnss MerC drawn. The families Of CCluuI Tat terson. Lieutel2nt HlEae and ieJ tenant Jones are aid. u5 1 result, tt have held alGDf rom 'aa t'm.ies q i Captain BTeecn7al. Capt.in FrEre and Lieutenant E"rJ.@In. aud n,! i Captain Clarke. whO l. uEudClIcc.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04
MRS. DANIEL SULLIVAN

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 A woman in good physical condition transmits to her children tine bless ings of a good constitution. Read what Lydia E.. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for Mrs. Sullivan, 539 E. 7th Street, Flatbush, N, Y.
 sswhat blessing Lydia E. Pinkbam g Vegetable Compound is to motherhood. 1 send you picture of my three months old baby and myself, and the photo shows the splendid condition of our health. That I am so well and the baby so healthy and happy Is entirely due to your excellent remedy Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I took it for five months before baby came and it brought me an easy confinement and kept me strong, whereas l was weak and in perfectly miserable health all the time when my first three children were born.
 Mrs. Geo. Walters of Woodlawn. H., also writes:
 'sI feel t my duty to tell of the good Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done me and to recommend 1t to all expec-
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04

barges constructed for that purpose. They will own great steamship lines which will carry our products to all the markets of the world. They will, subject to the approval of the Inter- state Commerce Commission, be en- abled to make such joint rates by land and sea as will make their ships profitable, notwithstanding he in- creased cost of American constTuc- tion and administration. There will be no need of ship subsidy to ad- vance our merchant marine. These corporations will be under fuH gov ernmental control. Their issue of stock and bonds will be subject to the approval of national officials. The national legislation covering them will guard not only the interests of the shippers and producers, but also the interests of the railway investor whose investments should be stable and should be free from the caprice of the stock market It will embrace the relations between the railroads and their employees, providing for the conciliation of disputes and the ad- zed memberc the-sedhdbei etaoinnog i justment of difficulties. It will rec ognize the fact that they are public servants, entitled to a fair compensa | tion for their service. It will frankly recognize the economic necessity of
 consolidation and combination. and
 the essentially monopolistic charsc- ter of the business, and will regulate
 consolidation, combination and mon | opoIy with a true regard for the in terests of the public served by it, tho property rights of the capital employ ed in it, and the human rights of tho
 labor employed D. it.
 We cannot take 9 broad view O the powers of the national govern ment as relating to carriers by wate
 and refuse to recognize those poweri
 as relating to carriers by rail. Trans
 portation is a national question. Int
 common carriers engaged in iuter state and foreign commerce must b.
 national agents. The laws creating them must be the laws of the nation The regulations which control then
 must be the regulations of the pa
 ton"
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04

tions and with some mystic signifi- canoe, little definite knowledge has been gained Burnoufs definition of the swastika-"a mOnOgrammatic sign of benediction of good augury'- will therefore stand until someone dis covers its origin and true meaning and traces its progress step by step through the various branches of the human race Meanwhile the public will continue to buy and wear the quaint amuIets and all sorts of uses will be made of them until dame fashion wearies of them and turns her attention to something new.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04

tant mothers to insure healthy child i'd easy birth had lost three children and was discouraged when friend advised Ee to try Lydia E. Pinkham sVegetable Com pound I did so and it not only kept me well and strong but have as healthy a child as you will find anywhere. hope other discouraged women may read this letter and take Lydia E.. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and be benefited by it as have been"
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Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04

 ton, of clarification, of bank piotec- tion, of channel opening, es well IS navigation: and the South. in this lat ter movement, is taking the lead fer national action, realizing, as it does, that the promotion of the interstate and foreign commerce vas enc of the primary causes of the union of the States as a nation.
 The demand for national action 1s to water transportatioa will include national action regarding railway transportation. ana will necessitate the creation by the nation of the great corporations which are to hand le this great commerce.
 Under national incorporation, the questions relating to inland water ways, railway and ocean transporta- tion will be solved There will be great corporations. whose lines will extend from he lakes to the gulf. Such corporations will, in transport ing bulky products. utilize the inland waterways through steamboats and
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04
THE WAVE
 Ice Cream PdrIOrS

Are now thoroughly up to date. Every thing is modern, quiet and refined.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04
BANKERS THREATEN TO OUT.

ODESSA. RUSSIA, Sept, 3 The Black Hand today suffered a severe blow by the closing of the Gray bourse and the threat Of bankers to suspend further transaction as pro- test against the anti-Semetic out rages of September ?, when three men were killed and fifty wounded
 disorders last February were followed by similar steps. and financial trans actions were then practically sus-
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04
RED HOT TALK BE-
 FORE THE CONGRESS

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Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04
WANT AMERICAN MONEY

HAVANA. Sept. 3.-Building and construction in the capital are at a standstiIl because of the strike Of masons. who demand payment of wages in American money. The strike may be the beginning of a general move for the use of American money, expected since the cigar makers strike.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS

Notice is hereby given that the an nual meeting of the Stockholders of the Cananea- Eastern Mining Company will be held September 17th, at eight CS) o'clock p. m., at the Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee, Arizona, for the pur- pose of electing Board of Directors for the ensuing year and transacting such other business as may properly come before said meeting.
 E. P. DRAPER. Secy.
 Cananea-Eastern Mining Co.,
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04
ACTRESS REGAINs SIGHT

NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-Virginia Harmed, the actress who appeared to be stricken with blindness in New Haven a few days ago, because of the strain of having many flashlight pie lures taken of scenes in the play, Anna Karenina," appears to have fully recovered her sight.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04
HOTEL oRENA-Evervtbing T

HOTEL oRENA-Everything new, richly furnished, low rates, corner Seventh and Hope, Los Angeles, Cal. For $14 you can rent rooms furnish ed complete for housekeeping; new elegant; gas range, bath, phone. 334 South Figueroa, 222 North Fremont, TAI West First, 712 Ceros, 1O11 East NiutfgsS12 West Fourth, S36 Crocker, 91t Diamond St. Los Angeles, Cal.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.

To the Stockholders of the Southwest ern Mining Company:
 You snd each of you will please take notice that a special meeting of the stockholders of the Southwestern Mining Company will be held at the office of the company at Naco, Ariz- ona, September 7th, 1907, at fGI o'clock a. m. for the purpose of con- sidering the following resolution of the board of directors adopted at a special meeting of the board held at the office of the company in South Bend. Ind. July 25th, 1907.
 SOUTHWESTERN MINING co.
 By H. M. KAUFMAN
 Secretary.
 Resolution.
 That the directors of this company are herewith authorized and instruct ed to take the necessary steps to amend the articles of incorporation as follows: "To issue s500,000 of prefer red, non-voting stock. said stock to be preferred as to assets and dividends, the interest to be at the rate Of per cent per annum, cumulative, payable semi-annualIy at such place and time as shall be fixed by the board of diTec- 1 tors. the company to have the power to redeem the preferred stock at any time after five years from date of is- sue. at it's opt.on. by giving to the holders thereof three months notice in writing and paying the interest for one year from the date of redemption to the holder of the stock so redeem ed as a bonus, the method of redemp- ] tion to be in such manner as the l! board of directors may determine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03
to your house. How much did you pay

to your house! How much did you pay
for it?''
81 didn't pay nothing for i'll mar
ried it." (Shrieks of laughter from
the large and select audience)
But if the wife is voluble of speech.
IS her husband a sphinx? If a woman
is human phonograph. is man a
clam? Not exactly-not so that you
could notice it from the road through
the binoculars. Most of the husbands
who like to joke about the wagginS
tongues Of their wives are living ex
Founders of the hot air theory They
are the chaps who have nothing to say
and devote most Of their time to say
ing 1t; they are full of persifiage, YER
bosity and prunes. When they open
their mouths their tongues run away
with them. Stand one of these tire
some expounders of the obvious up be-
side talking machine and he vii!
make 1t sound like a whisper. Man,
as he averages up. is full of bluff.
brag and buster. and that's worse than
you can say of the average woman.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03
She Hrgus Daily Short Story
Little Girl in Blue. BY Chester Harrington.
copyrighted, 1907, by Homer sprague)

We sat in the big. dim parlor watch
ing the gray day come to its gray end
Dusk had made us confidential. Phil
lipa had thrice asked il didn't want Il
light and had thrice received the same
negative answer. | was loath to spoil
the condolences.
Nov, honestly, Tod said Phillipa.
wasn't there ever n girl in your life
who was different from the rest
wasn't there one who made you think
and feel and plan as you had never
thought or felt or planned before? In
short, Tod, ut some time in your life
hasn't the girl put in an appearance?
| leaned forward eagerly,
My dear Phillipa, you certainly
know
"Bosh!" snapped she. II know just
tlF silly speech you were going to
make. | don't mean that boy and girl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03

on cIlidingly. Wei, sir, open your
heart now and disgorge the whole ro-
nance"
| laid my half consumed cigar in an
ash tray and settled myself comfort
ably.
Il think it was something like eight
years ago first met her began.
Eight years ago." echoed Phillipa.
and not q word of it to me in all this
timeE'
"She was very young then. AS say.
I met her and fell in love with her"
What was she like demanded
Phillpa.
'She was very beautiful. and she
was dressed in blue
Phillipa laughed "The first is very
definite. and the second is very impor-
tant." she-observed mockingly.
''She was dressed in blue | repeat
ed stcrnly. 1T is important l shall
carry that color to my grave
How romanticF' said she.
81 fel! In love with her.
$50 you said" she remarked impa-
| tiently. "but what made you fall in
| love with her?''
THE blue dress and her SMILE" said
l. at was a most wonderful smile.
| 1t opened up worlds you'd never
| dreamed Of | remember when | first
saw her she seemed different from all
| the other girls I'd ever seen. My heart
slipped its mornings then and there.
| could never call it my own after
ward. 1t was hers"
did she know it," asked Philipa.
81 can't say" said l. Sometimes
think she did, and again | think she
| didn't"
"Why didn't you find out?' she de
mandad.
u intended to III time. but | only
knew her year when / paused.
when what?" said Philiipa, with q
fine disregard Of grammar.
"She died. said very softly.
"Oh," said Phillipa, and then for 9
time we were silent
II was very, very lonely after that
Nothing was the same. There was {
great aching void in life that nothing
could fill''
"Why shaven't you ever mentioned
her before?" she asked.
well. it's rather painful
"Of course" she said quickly. "For
give me-"
"If the little girl in blue had lived
Phillipa," said I, 81 think my lif'
would have been very different.
know 1t would have been far happier
, She was such a quiet. trusting littl
soul. She knew nothing Of the world
nor of money, nor of ambition. She.
think, was quite content with me. An
TT vas more than content with her"