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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, LEE
BY T. c. MccoRvEY.

recognized the importance of this work
 when he put 1t in his epitaph along with the authorship of the declaration of in- dependence and the founding of the Uni versity of Virginia-in which institution his ideas of freedom were made vital even in academic life But there were great services of Jefferson in the field of practical statesmanship that probablby he himself did not fully appreciate. The amount of litigation and bloodshed which he averted by the system of land sur veys devised for the wild lands of the west cannot be overestimated. Again, the time and labor which he saved for all generations of his countrymen by the proposal of our decimal system of coin age is beyond computation. But to cat alogue all of Jefferson's great benefac- tions to his country would carry this opinion far beyond it's allotted space.
 The spontaneous outburst of apprecia- tive utterances that marked the recent centenary of Lees forthcoming from all sections of the country. as freely almost from the north as from the south-af- forded abundant proof of the high place which his memory now holds in the es- teem of his countrymen of all creeds and parties, and is a prophecy of the still greater pride which all future Americans
 will feel in his achievements and charac-
 ter. As the passions of men are cooled
 
 his friends have always seen, his mar vicious genius for war and the loftiness
 of his soul in defeat. The American peo-
 ple as a whole, are beginning to recog-
 nize, what a distinguished Englishman saw more than four decades ago that Lee was made of finer clay than any of his contemporaries. If he was great in
 the field when beating back. with his ] thin gaunt lnes the overwhelming num- bers of his foes, he was greater still in the dignity and majesty with which he bore himself when the inevitable came. NO other character in American history will command stronger admiration in the ages to come, not so much for what he achieved as for what he was-for the | world has even done homage to true greatness. whether crowned with victory | or palled by defeat. Lees figure will i loom grander and grander on the back l ground of our eountry's past the further
 We get away from the fratricidal strife
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
WEEKLY AVERAGES
 OF CLEARING HOUSE

..ew York, April 1S.-The statement of clearing house banks for the week shows that the banks hold $15,S52,925 more than i the legal reserve required.
 This is d decrease of s, ,5SS, 300 as com
 pared with last week. The statement
 follows.
 Loans, $1.O99, 657,1OO; increase, s36,96S, 300.
 Deposits, B, 1,OS1, ,G61 300; increase, $44,94S,- 800.
 Circulation, $50, 23S, 500; increase, $16o,20
 Legal tenders, $73 9O2 100; increase, $l,-
 6iOGO0.
 Specie, s21296 300; increase, $6,oOS,aO
 deserve, $2S6 PCS, 400; increase, S,64s,9Oo JReserve required, $270, 415,475; increase s11 ,237,20e.
 Surplus, $l5,S52,925 decrease, $S,5Ss, 300. Ex United States deposits $23, 692,o ,o75 decrease, $S, S,346,575. The increase in loans is the largest on record for any one week. New York, April 19-The Financier says: Last weeks bank statement was some- what of a surprising exhibit chiefly be- cause of the large expansion of $3G G969 300 in loans, though the fact that immediate " prosecuting eAnlDllS lltNt ldlltu iuiiS to reflect in this item the increase there in, which was reasonably expected as the
 result of loaning operations on the stock l exchange, the augmentation of loans last week may be regarded as largely due to the arrangement of averages and, 1 therefore. readily eXplainable. The in- | crease in cash last week was $7,6iS,900 a sum moro than double that which {, was estimated on the basis of the trace
 able movement of money; the discrepancy 1 in this item may have been caused by the 1 running over of previously unreported l averages. Deposits increased $4494S,SO0. l which amount closely agrees with the | sum of the loans and the gain in cash; 1 therefore the statement made proof. 1 The reserve was augmented $l1,237 POO. ] deducting from which the increase in 1 cash, left $3,6SS,3OO, as the decrease in | surplus reserve to S5,S52'92o; computed l upon the basis of deposits, less those J of S31, 356 600 public funds-which, it may , be noted were increased S966,900 during | the week, making gain of sixteen and l four-flfths millions since March 2S the | surplus is s23,6s2,0 075. l The excess of loans over deposits was 1 last week reduced about eight millions to ] tho minimum of the year. 1 The daily movement of bank clearlngs wa s1Si,0Oo00O, against s23i,0O0,000 last | week.
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 $1 Swiss Embroideries, 49c Yard Wide flouncings, IT to P inches wide, with such a be- wildering array of beautiful pat terms that we hardly know where to begin; neat, dainty and elaborate effects. Come and see them for yourself. That's the best way to realize what genuine values there are in these S100 embroideries to- morrow for 49c yard.
 SIPS Val. Laces, 75c Bolt. Nearly two hundred bolts of fine val. and round thread laces, in new and attractive patterns, edgings and insertions; really worth SIPS bolt, for 75c-$1.50 values, $1.00.
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-HE New York Times recently ad.
 dressed the question, who nave

-HE New York Times recently ad.
 dressed the question ''who have
 been the three greatest Ameri- cans?' to the professors of history in number of the leading colleges and uni versailles of the United States. Col. T. c. McCorvey of the University of Alabama named Washington, Jefferson ana Lee. His reply to the Times question was as follows:
 To the Editor of the New York Times:
 I do not think that it Is entirely the bias of southern ancestry, birth and rear ing that turned my thoughts at once when asked to name the three greatest figures in American history. to Washing ton, the founder of the republic; to Jeff ferson, the political philosopher and prac- tieal statesman, and to Robert F.. Lee, the peerless soldier and faultless gentle man.
 There will probably be no question as to Washingtons place at the head of tho American pantheon. for the immortal words of Henry Lee on the death of his great chieftain, First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his coun- trymen," are as true now as when they were uttered in December. 1799.
 But there will be no such universal as sent to the place which is here assigned to Jefferson. As the great leader of the popular party of his day, he bitterly an- tagonized the opposing aristocratic party, ana the anmosity of the federaiists was handed down to their later-day success ors. the whigs and the republicans. Few, however. will attempt to deny that it was Jefferson's influence which made possi- ble the future characterization Of our ! government. by another great American, as one '.of the people, by the people, for the people" Aside from his influence in democratizing the government, his great est service probably to his country and to mankind was in checking the baleful influence of prestcraft in politics. As a.,e author of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, he struck death l blow to the union of church and state. | for that act was the historical forerun- ner of the provision emEelied in the first | amendment to the constitution that Con- l gress shall make no law respecting an | establishment of religion, or prohibiting 1 the free exercise thereof" He himself
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there before he began to snore, but l was Oh the job, standing at his side and waking him up in a minute and he was a little bit surprised that first time l wake him. but he remembered in a min ute and said: All right, son., and smiled and went to sleep again.
 T had to wake him like that two or three or four times a night, irregular, sometimes more, sometimes less; but we got along all right. He sure was an able snorer, and sometimes he'd start right off fuil blast from the jump but usually l was able to. get him before he'd begun to make the house tremble, and things went along that way everything all right, for about seven weeks just as nice as could be, the scheme working as slick as you could imagine; and the boss was pleased and l certainly was.
 Tt was night work, l know, but I did mt mind that; the pay was good and the work easy, and I thought I was fixed and settled in about as nice and easy q job as a man could have And then all of sudden one night this job went up the spout in a minute.
 Felt Some One Shaking Him.
 "That night, or along about quarter past in the morning, it was, while I was sitting there in the big chair waiting for the boss to turn up, I felt somebody shaking my shoulders, and shaking hard enough pretty near, to shake my head off, and then I wakes up and sees the boss standing over me.
 Governor l says. whats the mat ter9 though I knew what was the mat ter well enough
 "'Matter? he says; matter? Why, if I snore one-twenty-fifth as loud as you do l wonder they didn't put me out of tha house long ago.
 "And that's all there was to it; the governor had been d little quiter than usual that night. and not being called so often I had fallen asleep on my post and gone to snoring myself, and I suppose the boss was right about how loud l was snoring, because, as a matter of fact, I am something of a snorer; if I could rely on my snoring regular and even I could have made a fortune long ago hir- ing out as a foghorn anywhere oN the coast.
 "No wonder the governor was dis turbed I'd walked up not only him. but the whole family, and that was the last of my job there.
 "He took it just as nice as could be, in fact, he was inclined to laugh over it and think it was sort of funny, but he said he couldn't take such a risk again l and he just give me a months pay in advance and let me go.
 "And that was l..e only job of the kind l ever took. l had thought, after To been with the governor there about a month that I would make this my regular business; it was easy and good pay. and I could get plenty of other people to look after, just as l had this one, through my friend the doctor; but after this ex- perlence. when I came to consider what might happen if l should fall asleep my self, I didn't think 1t would be fair to my customers"
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Audience Ready to Help.
From the London Express.

A. a representation of Schiller's Don Carlos in Belgrade theatre the pistol with which Don Carlos should have shot the Marquis de osa refused to go off and the dscomfited actors lied behind the curtain.
 Offers, of loaded weapons were at once rlis.de by several members of the audi euce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
1. HAD ODD JOB OF
 WAKING SNORER Curious Experiences of Man ot Varied Pursuits WAS HIRED TO CURE A MAN Although It Was Night Work It Was Not Hard--All Went Well
 Until He Fell
 Asleep.
Erom the Washington Post.

From the NdSnln8 loh 5IoSl
 q guess the oldest job I ever had" saia a man who in the course of his life thus far has had many curious employ ments, twas waking up-a snorer.
 "The man I had this job with was a man of good deal more than comfort able means, and just about as nice a man as ever lived, but he certainly was a snorer This didn't use to bother him any. on his own account, but it did use to worry him because 1t disturbed other people and he tried all manner of means to stop it.
 He tied up his head when he went to bed so that he couldn't open his mouth, and he tried sleeping on his right sldo and on his left. and on his back and ly- ing straight and lying crooked and every way But nothing doing. He would get to snoring, and finally he thought up the idea himself of having somebod. to sit in his room nights and wake him up the minute his trombone started and I was the man he got. He hired me through his physician. I'd done some little work at one time and another for this doctor and he recommended me.
 And that looked like a good job to me, at the start. He was a jolly, nice man, and he fixed me up very comfort ably in sort of alcove there was in his room, with a big easy chair along side a table with @ lot of books and magazines on it, and with a high screen between the the chair and table. and his bed to shut off the light from him.
 An Ideal Joke.
 "'Now. there you are he says the first night l sat in with him, books and papers and an easy chair, and you just make yourself comfortable, only don't rustic the leaves any more than you can help, and whatever else you do don t upset this screen when you're hurryng to wake me up, because that would star tie the folks more than any snoring. And then he goes to bed.
 And he hadn't much more than got
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, in which he bore the greatest but the losing part.
 University of Alabama.
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The Windsor Portrait.


 A1 Lair after visits in the company of academicians to " indsor observed the re- semblance in the portrait there to the one at Versailles. He began a careful study of tho subject and now shows that the portraits are not only almost precise ly alike, but if the cataloguers had taken the trouble to look up the family history they would have found that two such children were impossible in either case and the style of the coiffure did not con- form to the date ascribed to the canvas M Lair finds that the portraits are clearly those of Louise de la Vallere and the two of her four children that sur vived infancy. Without calling the Wind sor portrait bogus, he intimates that it is q faulty copy. as the one at Versailles is wholly Louis XIv.." while the one at Windsor although otherwise exact, shows the feur de lys on the gown in the form as 1t appeared in the time ot Louis XVIII M. Lair finds further an acknowledged portrait of Louise de la Valliere and her two children by Mig hard, a canvas painted when her children were little order, which is practically the same as the Versailles production. The three portraits make an interesting study.
 There will be two days fete at Grasse next week at the dedication of a monu- ment to Fragonard The monument, which is by Maillard, shows the painter Sedleu on d tree trullk m all lueal 1OreSt. One of his characteristic female figures is floating behind and inspiring him.
 In the talk of the coming salon it is an nounced that more space than in former years will be given to purely decorative canvases. Many of large dimensions will be hung where they will have full light and perspective. The management brides itself on restricting the exhibits of 1500 pointing out that the independents show coco. Tho nationalist exhibition, however, will contain only 1200. One of the sensa- tions announced has a sufficiently lugu- brious suggestion. It is huge canvas typifying martial glory, showing an eques- trian atop of the pediment of the h. valades. A dominating staircase is form- ed by the bodies of the vainqushed.
 Attempts at robbery and other damages at the Louvre have led to greater pre- cautions being taken even in regard to copyists. There and in other museums hereafter aspirants must specify the par ticuar work they desire to copy and ac- company the application with references and two photographs. Foreigners '
 also be required to furnish recommenda- | tions from their country's representative | in Frence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
Sigma.

The most difficult work solicited. Herrni. tage, of course.
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Will Probably Get His Choice.

From the Topeka State Journal.
 MT. Hartman says he prefers the peni- tentiary to the poor house. Well, there seems little likelihood that MT. Hartman will ever have to go to the poor house.
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S12.50 to $3O.0O give you all the approved single and dou- ble- breasted models of smart est fashion in handsome, Weaves. MARLEY & BAUMAN,
 1924 First Ave.
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The woman who needs a new spring suit can save one third now. You had bet ter see our suits if you intend purchasing.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-07
GRANOL0DGEL,0,0,
WILL CONVENIENT
GRAND FORKS
Dates For Annual Convention
of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge
Are June 4 and 5.
CITIZENS WILL
ROYALTY ENTERTAIN
The Grand Lodge Convention
Comes a Few Days Before
U. G. T. Meeting.
CITIZENS WILL
ROYALTY ENTERTAIN

The annual convention of the grand
lodge of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows of North Dakota will be
held in Grand Forks this year on
June and 5.
lnasmuch as this grand convention
comes the first two days of the same
week with the United Commercial
Travellers gathering, the city will be
In fine condition to royalty entertain
the visiting lodge men. The week
promises to be gala one for this
city and committees, both of the local
travellers council and the Odd Eel
lows lodge, are working and porting
over the plans for the most rousing
and royal welcome ever accorded a
rush of visitors.
The Odd Fellows grand lodge con-
vention sessions will probably be
held in the local Odd Fellows hall,
but it is possible that the Commercial
club rooms will be secured Besides
the regular routine business such as
hearing reports. election of officers,
ETC., there will be drives about the
city, to and from the Town and Coun-
try club grounds, and to other neigh
boring points of interest.
The convention of the grand lodge
last year was held at Valley City,
when the present officers were put in
power: Grand master, Rev. H. P.
Cooper. Drayton; deputy grand mas
ter, H. D. Mack. Dickey; grand ward
en-, ]. H. Cook, Willow City; grand
secretary, Don Mcdonald, Grand
Forks; grand treasurer, F. NJ. Gil
more, Hope; grand representatives,
sovereign grand lodge, c. R. Greene,
Hamilton and o. A. Webster, Grand
Forks.
The Odd Fellows of the state of
North Dakota have every reason to
feel proud of their lodge for not only
is the number of individual lodges
steadily on the increase. but also the
membership of the older established
subordinate lodges. OF the latter
there are 104 in the state with eleven
new lodges since the grand conven-
ton in Valley City last June.
The Grand Forks lodge was estab-
lished on February Z, 1880. and the
roll has climbed steadily upwards I'M
til now there are 40 members. The
lodge has large three story and
basement brick block of its own,
erected in 1889 at a cost of approx
mately $4,000.
A. ]. Fairchild is noble grand of
the local organization.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-07
UNION PAINTERS Of.
GRAND FORKS
STRIKE
About Thirty Five of Them
0ut-say Employers Did
Not Keep Agreement.
CONFERENCE TO BE
HELD AT 4 O'CLOCK
Employment of Non Union
Men Cause of the
Walkout.
CONFERENCE TO BE
HELD AT 4 O'CLOCK

Claiming that the employing paint
ers of Grand Forks have failed to live
up to their agreement with the Paint
ers and Decorators union, thirty-five
wielders of the bursh are out on a
strike. The walk-out was declared on
Monday, and was responded to by
about thirty members of the union,
This morning five more quit work.
The claim is made by the strikers
that the employing painters have been
hiring non-union men, and have pre-
vailed upon several painters not to
join the union.
This afternoon at o'clock, meet
ing was scheduled to be held in Odd
Fellows hall, at which time the union
and the employing painters were to
get together. The committee of the
union claims that all of the employ
ers had signified their willingness to
be present at this meeting.
The agreement between the en-
ployers and the union was effected
some time ago. and took effect on May
l. The union men became dissatisfied
on Saturday, and Monday the strike
was declared.
The employing painters claim to
have number of men coming to the
city to take the places of strikers.
There are six employing painters in
Grand Forks.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-07
NOTES FROM UNCLE.
SANS LOCAL
BUILDING
The Mystery of the Pinkerton
Detective Canada Makes
Postal Change.

A story that is too good to put in
the drying closet is going the rounds
concerning certain Pinkerton sleuth
and a popular lady clerk at the local
federal postofice.
The Young lady who figures in the
tale of mysticism, which went bound
ing along through the light air until
the climatic or bursting point was
reached, was somewhat disconcerned
and filled with wonderment one day
last week through the persistant stick
to-tt-ive tactics of large gentleman
who stood stolidly through the long
hours of the morning in one of the
obscure corners in the large public
waiting room.
The very apt quotation "The proper
study of mankind is man." perhaps
had something to do with the case
but at any rate the fact of the pres
ence of the enigmatical stranger soon
became nOised around the interior re-
gions of the Office and all eyes for
time were conferred upon his every
move. "A Pinkerton detective watt
ing for a catch" sounded the keynote
of what seemed to be the most plau-
sdble explanation for the cabalistical
occurrence and the young lady upon
whom centers the story took upon her.
self the task of watching the finale.
The finale came, but not until two
o'clock in the afternoon when, after
several hours of scrutiny the hopes
of the postal employees was rewarded
by the appearance of-whatAa table
waitress from a local hotel. The
stranger left his position in the niche,
nd SyYoofoI x1yifh n
smile and nod and the two went
off arm in arm for a stroll.
South Sea bubble No. 2 hit the
earth with a thud.
Postmistress M. L. Bulge is expect
ed home on Wednesday. from an ex-
tended tour Of old and new Mexico.
Mail Clerk Charles Anderson, who
has been confined to his home for
fortnight past, suffering with mild
attack of small pox, is reported en-
tirely out of danger and it is expected
that he will resume his duties by the
end of the present week.
"A change has been made in the
postal agreement between Canada and
the United States, applying to second
class mail matter sent from each
country for delivery in the other. be-
ginning May 8, the new rate being 1
cent for each four ounces or fraction
thereof, but where several papers are
sent in the same package, the postage
may be affixed to the package as a
whole and the individual papers will
be properly forwarded. This will
practically increase the price which
publishers will have to pay on papers
for Canada from cent per pound to
cent per paper, as very few are sent
in packages.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-07
Old Timer Back.

Joseph Monrean, who for many
Years was a we'll known resident OF
this city, but who is now basking in
the smiles of the sunshine and flowers
of Vancouver, arrived in the city this
morning for summer visit. He came
to Grand Forks in 1885, and resided
here until three years ago. He was
once engaged in business at Thomp-
son, and during the administration OF
Mayor Dinnie, was janitor of the city
hall. He is an old soldier and Is
proud Of the fact that at seventy-two
is as spry as the new tangled man of
thirty. He will visit his two brothers
who live in this state, another who
resides in Minnesota, and sister who
lives in Michigan. The only thing his