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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-01
Nav Society Game,

A Denver woman will give an after
noon party soon, and instead Of having
her guests play bridge or games Of any
kind she will launch them into dis
cussion Of the Thaw case, says the
Denver Post. Her husband is going to
Arrange to have a couple of policemen
near the house all afternoon 10 quell a
possible riot
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-01
Town. Name Now dSkiddoo,n

Towns Name Now SkIdooo.
According to instructions from the
postoffice department, the name Of the
Cherry Tree Office, venango county,
has been changed to Skiddoo, says an
Oil City Pa.) special dispatch to the
Pittsburg Dispatch. The new name Is
not without significance, as the place
at one time was a populous oil center.
but is now a hamlet with less than .
dozen houses.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-01

EVERYBODY CAN HAVE NICE HAIR
NOW, and you don't have to wait around
weeks and months for results either. You
will see improvements from the very hrst
application. 80
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-01
NIGER STORIES.

"Have you got job, sam?" u
Eyes, sah."
what are you doing ?"
I'm an understudy, sah."
eyes, sab. NY wife does washin,'
and I'm her understudy."
"But have you ever been called upon
to take her placer?
NO n, sab, ! hain't got dat fan yit,
sah.'
"some folks" remarked well known
autoist, who had just returned from
tour thru some Of the southern states,
"have peculiar ideas of extravaganza.
Down in Virginia a few weeks ago I
stopped at a farm house to refill my
water jug and got into conversation
with an old negro who came out to
render me what assistance he might.
During the process of drawing the wa
ter from the well he became somewhat
confidential.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-01
c...n Rate. to tho Pacific Coast.

Commencing March l and continu-
ing until April 80 the Iowa Central
railway will have on sale reduced one-
wav tickets to Arizona, California, Ore
eon. Washington, British Columbia
Utah. Montana, Idaho and Old Mexico
rates SIS below regular fare. On We'd
nesdays thru tourist cars to Los An
geles and San Francisco are run via
Kansas City and the popular Santa
Fee System.
Call on agents for particulars, or adj
dress. A. B. Cuts, 6. p. and T. A,
Minneapolis. MINI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-01

That's all. 'Nuf said, when you say
that HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea is
the greatest family remedy on earth. 1t
does you good going and coming. 50
cents, tea or tablets. Mcbride q Will
Drug Co
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-01

Here is a story Mark Twain tells
about himself:
zone time when l was going out to
friends Of mine l told George, my me-
gro servant, to lock the house and put
the key under a stone near the steps
He agreed to do as / told him.
ut was late that night when ]
reached home, and I went to the stone
under which they key was hidden, but
1t was gone. l hunted around for about
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
Ouer-ClasslflcatlOn

The suit brought by Theodore II.
Price, New York cotton man, against
the New York cotton exchange is at
tracing no little attention. The COM
plant in this suit is voluminous doc
ument, filing over one hundred printed
pages. In substance, Mr.. Price alleges
that the grading of the New York cot
ton exchange renders deliverable on
contracts inferior cotton. The unde-
sirable residuum of the crop, OF in
ferior staple, hardly salable, Is GER
tificated by the New York cotton ex-
change and is passed along from one
dealer to another. No spinner wants
such cotton.
This is why the middling contract
in New York sells for over cent
pound less than similar contract IN
New Orleans, and the debased NE"
York contract operates to reduce the
price of the entire crop. Mr.. Price De-
lieves the New York classification has
robbed the producers of the south Of
sos, 100000 this year.
After doing deal of threatening the
New York cotton exchange has agreed
with Mr.. Price to refer the entire sub
ject of classification to referee to be
selected by the parties to the suit.
The suit is to be withdrawn, and the
two sides are to await the decision of
a referee. This may bring relief from
the scheme concocted by New England
spinners, but the chances are that a
compromise plan will be brought In
which will read plausibly, but which
will be capable of use by the entire
bear contingent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
LUxURiES IN CAMPING.

From the Outing Magazine,
However closely you confines yourself
to the bare necessities, be sure to include
one luxury. This is not so much to eat
as for the purpose of moral support
remember one trip in the, Black Hills on
which our commissary consisted quite
simply of oat meal, tea, salt and sugar.
and single can of peaches. OF course
there was game Now, If we had found
ourselves reduced to meat, mush, cat
meal pones and tea, we should after
little have felt ourselves reduced to dull
monotony, and after a little more we
should have begun to long mighty for
the feshpots of Deadwood. But that can
of peaches 'lurked in the back of our
minds. By its presence we were not re-
duced to meat mush, oat meal pones and
tea. Occasionally we would discuss grave
ly the ACCESSIBILITY of opening it; but
do not believe any of us down deep in
our heart meant 1t in sober earnest. What
was the mere tickling of the palate COM
pared with the destruction of a symbol.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Bluff Would Not Work.

"A bluff won't always work." said
travelling man at the Florence hotel last
night. II was reading the other day Of
the man who tried to get a thousand dol
lar bill changed in Chicago and was ar
rested three times because he was thought
to be one of the men who got that s178,OOO
out of the listed States sub-treasury
That reminds me of friend 1 knew in
Mississippi, who worked a bluff on a
railroad conductor several times before
he was called.
My friend made short trips on this
conductors train frequently, and when
the conductor came around for tickets he
would flash hundred dollar bill, and as
the conductor couldn't change it, he
would make his trip free of charge. 1
forgot to state that my friend was a
lumberman and always got on at a small
station where no tickets were sold.
Last week 1 was down IN that terri
tory and paid my friend a visit. We
took the train together for the usual
short trip and my friend said, shortly
after we got aboard, Watch me fix his
nibs.' didn't know what ne meant until
the ticket puncher stood before us, and
then Mr.. Lumberman flashed a century
note In answer to the call for tickets.
All right, pal, I'm ready for you,
grimly said the conductor, and he reached
into a back pocket and hauled out a
roll of bills and asked dry1y, Where
to, please? My friend realized he wos
cornered. and with sheepish grin pock-
eted his bill and said, I was only joking,
I've got the change,
THE conductor gracefully accepted the
fare remarking as he did so, I've been
on the lookout for you, pard. | thought
this was your day to work that old bluff
again, so l provided myself with the
long green just before I left home
THAT was all. and never heard of that
bluff being tried again, at least on that
road"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
BEWITCHED.

BY ]. NJ Lewis
If you've breathed the upland breezes, II
you've heard the cattle lowing,
Il you've seen the gold corn tassels nod
and sway,
Then 4 memory is with you in your COM
ing and your going
That will never, never, never go away.
If you've felt the salt spray blowing
gainst your cheek at Corpus Christi.
If you've heard the children laughing
in the sun,
If you've seen the green salt cedars,
gnarled of trunk and old and twisty.
They will coax you, coax till life is
done.
If you've looked on Padre Island stretch
misty in the distance,
If in springtime you have heard the
plover CALL,
Iexasward a voice will call you with a
coaxing. sweet insistence.
And will never, day nor night, be still
at all.
Oh, We wanderers, wherever DER the wide
world We are vending,
Texas calls We, Gals her coast and
stream and plain,
having known her there's a longing in
your heart, an ache unending,
That will turn your tagging footsteps
home again.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
The VirgInians.

II find Virginia colony in every city
1 visit, but Birmingham seems to have
a larger percentage of natives of my
state than any other southern commun-
ity," said w M. Scott of Richmond. who
is spending several days here. Virgin
ians are proverbially proud of the Old
Dominion, but they have a great way of
wandering off from home AS rule they
make good citizens wherever they settle.
l find that many of Birmingham prom
inent business and professional men are
from Virginia, and that not few wero
born and reared In Richmond. In some
cities the Virginians have organized
themselves into a society for the pur
pose of coming together at least once a
year at the banquet board. Such a So
ciety here might have a membership of
several hundred.
In travelling through the south | find
business in excellent shape. Prosperity
is in evidence in every section of Georgia
and Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
Convict Whipping in Alabama

Instead of striving to let the convicts
rate, it might be better for the states
reputation to study the humanities of
the convict situation little. Recently
IT'S convicts were leased in this state
at $4525 a month. The right to whip
the It's is implied in the contract. 1t
is a we'll understood feature of 1t, for
convict whipping is a common practice
in this state. The instrument used has
Presumably, the lash is made of
leather. At any rate, 1t is made of
something strong and biting enough to
kill its victims.
The death of Charles Ford by the
lash should be rigidly investigated by
the courts, or at any rate by the legis-
lature. Ford was whipped to death
by whom? Friends and fellow citizens.
by the people of Alabama, for the
whipping was done by an officer of the
state. and the practice of whipping con-
victs is recognized as a part of the
states convict system. 1t stands APP
proved by the people of this state.
Let us say no more about the bar
barities of Russia until the state is
relieved of this stain upon her reputa-
ton The Society of the United Chart
ties characterizes the act as diabolical,
and the legislature cannot afford to
ignore it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
Southern COLLEGES.

Il never have any patience with the
man who speaks disparagngly of south
ern colleges said an alumnus of an Ala
bama institution.
while our colleges have lacked reve-
nue. from endowments and could not be
compared with European and northern
institutions that have long had rich foun-
dations, yet they have done excellent
work and the men that they have trained
would reflect high credit on larger and
betler equipped colleges. OF course, en-
dowments we should have, and progress
is being made in this respect But there
is such thing as too much endowment,
Too much wealth sometimes brings about
an atmosphere of commercialism, and
this is not conducive to collegiate vigor."
"A little of the struggle of early days
is wholesome, and when a young man
obtains an education with the odds
against him he is all the better for it,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07

No Display at jamestown

Although the legislature voted $685.
600 for an exhibit at jamestown, thus
practically ordering one to be sent
there, yet the commissioners have de-
cided to let Alabama go unrepresented
at the greatest exposition ever seld in
the south.
The excuse is that time forbids, but
This excuse is lame to the point of ut
ter insufficiency. The entire exposi-
tion is in an incomplete state, and ex-
rerienced observers say it will not be
ready before July. An exhibit credit
able to this state could have been
placed at jamestown in the course of
thirty days. The commissioners have,
however, decided otherwise, and in
ouirers for ALBANIAN exhibits at the
exposition will go away with queer
thoughts in their minds. The state
that is full of resources will stand
uueered at Hampton Roads.
However, it is an i'll wind that blows
nobody any good. We are to retain
vulcan, at least until oxidation puts
m end to his career. A conspiracy
had arisen-secretly-to send Vulcan
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
International Press LEAGUE.

Already different press clubs through
out the United States are arranging to
send delegates to the Internation League
of Press Clubs that will meet In Birming-
ham in October said ]. A. Rountree,
chairman of the general arrangement
committee from the Birmingham club II
am in receipt of a letter from j. w. KEEL
ly, president of the Denver Press club,
saying that Denver would send delega-
ton of eight members and probably a
chartered car composed of party of
eighteen. Denver has heretofore sent
only one delegate, but this year she is
going to send a splendid representation
IL. G. Early of Reading, Pa. secre-
tary of the International League of Press
Clubs, informs me there will be a good
attendance at the coming meeting in
Birmingham, in spite of the fact that
free passes have been abolished At the
May meeting of the Birmingham Press
club the general committee will submit its
special report with recommendations re-
garding the entertainment of the visiting
newspaper men,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
Estimates Of the Wheat Crop

On Friday next the government will
issue an estimate of the condition of
the winter wheat crop on May l. It is
believed that a condition around 80
will be reported, as against condition
of 500 on April 1, and a condition of
81 on May Of last year. The yield
last year was 492, SSS,00O bushels, a
magnificent production that cannot be
duplicated this year. Close observers
put this years yield at 100000, O0O
bushels, fall Of 90,0OO,O0O bushels be-
low last years crop. Freezing weather
and snow storms and green bugs have
damaged the crop, and the country will
have to get along with decreased
crop of winter wheat.
The seeding for spring wheat is UNI
usually late, but all accounts agree
that the acreage will be large. The
hope in Minnesota is that the bulk of
the crop will be in the ground by the
end of the present week. Favorable
weather may permit the spring wheat
crop to make good the deficiency in the
winter wheat crop, although such a
result is not probable.
This month will determine the price
of bread and the size of the national
crop, and all business men are watch
ing the weather. and the reports from
the great wheat surplus states.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
Policy Of Our State Assessors

Judge Mitchell, chairman of the
state assessment board, has been STU
ting with the county commissioners OF
Morgan county, and together they have
reviewed the valuations for tax pur-
roses in that fertile river county. They
And them too low, particularly in De-
catur, and Judge Mitchell advises the
county board of Morgan to bring It's
valuations up to 60 per cent of real
value.
This is the advice that the new state
board is giving out on every hand In
every county 1t visits. But In case the
authorities of county do not act up
to this advice, 1t does not yet appear
what action the state board would
take. The state board has ample
power to enforce It's advice, and 1t is
plain that If 1t does not compel obedi-
ence its advice will soon go unheeded,
pSSOAAAO
ply board to draw its own salaries.
The state board can, in other words,
Justify its existence and it's salaries in
but one way, namely, by compelling
every county to bring its valuations
uniformly up to 60 per cent. To do
this in sixty-seven counties by October
/ Is no small task. The county that
desires to control its own affairs and
to keep out of trouble will, however,
come up at once to the 60-per-cent
level. If county does not do this it
cannot complain if the state board
steps in to push valuations fully up to
so per cent and possibly beyond 1t in
many cases.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
MARKET OF BIRMINGHAM

where the art of municipal living Is un-
dergoing a change on modern lines.
As things stand now there are not
enough iron manufactures here to con-
sumo much more than one-third or at best
two-fifths of the total pig iron product
of the district. Most of it is shipped out
to feed iron foundrles which are scattered
all over southern territory and to meet
the needs of northern and foeign manu-
facture based on pig iron. This gives Bir-
mingham's business a scope which ex-
tends as far as the international demand
of this basic commodity. At this moment
1t Is known that sales have been made
for most of the current year to the full
measure of the pig iron capacity of the
district. In their latest annual report the
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron company
credited themselves with 1915, rs as a
years profit in pig iron shipped.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
WOMEN AND CARDS,

From the New York Tribune.
The craze for card playing was dwelt
upon by the Rev. DIR. Joseph Silverman
in a recent lecture before the women
of his congregation. In the course of his
remarks he said: Truly 1t is a sad
documentary on the times that many
women devote their days and nights to
gambling-a form of pastime to which, we
had thought 1t was bad enough for some
men to have become addicted When
women stoop to wager money at the card
table and forget, in the excitement of the
play, their homes, their dear ones, their
ideals, their womanhood, their religion,
their duties to God, to their family
then surely Is the eleventh hour of spir-
itual degeneration"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York World:
woman's reason for loving a man is
that she does.
When a woman has red hair it's sign
she thinks blue garters are becoming to
her.
1t takes lot of money to raise a fam
lily, but good deal more to support them
after they are raised.
When the church is going to change
ministers a woman Is afraid the new one
might not part his hair right.
A man thinks he's a patriot because he
gets mad when anybody says some otaer
country once did a decent thing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07

to the sea and never bring him back.
But the conspirators are foiled, and
Vulcan will remain in, or rather on,
the hands of his friends while the fair
grounds remain open to the public.
When those grounds are cut up into
Elyton city lots, Vulcan will become
the property of some home maker, and
then indeed he will be in hard luck.
Then indeed he may be sent to the
melting pot, despite his historic origin,
his artistic lines and his varied career.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
THE KINGS FULL TITLE.

From the London standard.
The full title of Chulalonghorn, King of
Siam, who has just sailed for France, is:
Most high, lustrious. inyincble and
powerful monarch, crowned with 101 gol-
den crowns, each adorned with nine
species of precious gems, greatest, purest
and most divine master of immortal souls,
who sees all things. Sovereign Emperor,
under the shadow of whose wings lies
the rich and Incompatible Kingdom of
Siam, King, to whom is subject the most
fruitful of all lands lit by the sun, great
est of lords, whose palace is of fine gold
and gems, divine master of the golden
thrones, and of the white and red ele-
plants, Sovereign god of the nine kinds
of gods, King who Is like unto the sun
at it's zenith and like the full moon,
King whose glance Is more dazzling than
the. orb of the morning, King who is
abo--e all emperors, monarchs and poten-
tates of the universe. from the rising to
the setting sun.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
An Art Exhibition.

II have a suggestion to make, said a
citizen yesterday, which, if put into eff
feet, might be used with profit to the pro-
moters and no small degree of pleasure to
the public-I mean an art exhibition.
Il am sure many of our citizens have
works of art, curios rare coins, books and
other articles which would make very
creditable exhibition If they were assem-
bled In some suitable hall, such as the
armory and arranged after the fashion of
such exhibits in museums. II this exhibit
some big convention in the city and a
moderate charge of admission made 1t
would prove a financial success for some
church or charity
People who own fine pictures or pieces
of statuary are always willing to lend
them to expostions, and it would be safe
to say that the fine art exhibition at
Jamestown exposition are mostly of ar
ticles loaned for the occasion. 1t ought
to be the pleasure of those people who
possess works of beauty and value to
allow their less fortunate fellow-mortals
the pleasure of seeing them and thereby
create an interest In such objects.
Everything that tends to elevate the
senses tends to improve the, social con-
dition of mankind. Discord would drive
a musician distracted, but to the unmusi-
cial ear the filing of saw has no terrors.
People who enjoy pure air and the fra
GRANGE of flowers cannot tolerate close
and stuffy apartments. The eye of the
artist turns away from gaudy and fiaunt-
ings colors with disgust. If we want to
raise the public to higher plane it can
only be done by showing what is good
and awakening a spirit of emulation
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
Arrest of kikapoo Indians.

San Antonio, May Ga special from
Eagle Pass, says: Judge j. A. Bennett,
United States vice consul at c. P. Diaz,
left yesterday for Musquiz, Mexico, on
instructions from the state department
to investigate the reported arrest of a
number of Kickapoo Indians, thus pre-
venting them from coming to Eagle
Pass to be present at the senatorial
investigation of Indian affairs. 1t is
reported here that the Indians were
being held without apparent cause.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
Cheaper Liqhts for Atlanta.

Atlanta, May 6.-(Special.) AS the re-
suit OF the recent agitation for munich
pal lights In the city, Atlanta is to have
cheaper lights, the Georgia Railway and
Electric company today making the coun-
ell bid for five years contract, showing
a reduction of very nearby 25 per cent.
The bid of the new company, the North
Georgia Electric company, while not so
low as that of the Georgia Railway and
Electric company, is lower for domestic
and commercial purposes than the pres
ent ones charged by the Georgia Railway
and Electric company.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
Charles FairohIld surrenders,

New York, May 6-Charles s. Farchild
former president of the Security and Trust
company, and former secretary of the
United States treasury, who with George
7. Perkins was indicted for forgery in
the third degree as result of disclosures
made in the insurance investigation, sur
rendered himself in the supreme court. He
entered plea of not guilty and was held
In $4,000 for trial.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-07
NOT THE REAL THING.

From the Philadelphia Press.
30 this is the opal ring Mr.. Porrley
COVE you?" said Miss Bright, examining
1t. Are you-er-pleased with it?'
"Oh, yes replied Miss Dumley, ''bubt
you know the old superstition about
luck
"But-er-this can't bring you anything
worse than an imitation of bad luck"