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bay window, that reaches just Co the line of the walk. The side window, facing eastward, has been converted into q doorway, opening from a new porch which will ex- tend along the east side of the house and will be ascended to by several steps from the walk to it's level. The house will be repapered and repainted throughout, and will be very comfortable and habitable.
 Last week Mir. D. l.. Reedcr returned from the camp of the h. dustrial Mining Co.,, where he has been engaged several weeks. He reports progress as satisfactory, and the new tunnel running to cut the ledge at a depth of 600 feet is going forward as fast as possible. For quite a distance it was in very hard rock, but at present it is in softer ground, more easily worked, with better progress.
 Thursday evening Mrs. Charles l.. Fowler returned from a visit in Sonora, where she had been with Mir. Fowler some ten days. Her husband met her at La Colorado, and she accompanied him to the secene of his operations beyond the Yaqui river, where he is building road for the Cieneguita Copper Co.,, between Tonichi and Cieneguita. :. From Tonichi the lady returned to La Colorado Monday, travelling in one of the great automobiles the Cieneguita Go. is running on that road.
 The street committee of the town board estimate that the cement walks and street improvements in hand and in course of construction will cost in the neighborhood of $15,000. And the improvement they will work in the appearance of the town and the convenience in walking about will be worth many times that sum. When they are completed it will be possible to walk from the court house to h. ternational street, on any of the streets west of the arroyo and to the head of Elm street, without stepping off from cement except at few dry street crossings.
 Tomorrow Sunday evening" the entertainment at the rink will be for the benefit of the Sisters hos pital, Mark Lulley, the proprietor, having generously donated the proceeds to that worthy institution. There will be reproduced the Pas sion Play with new scenes and views, the slides having been re- ceived recently from New Orleans; and there will be other and very attractive features. The Sisters are canvassing the sale of tickets, and no one should miss the oppor- tunity to aid worthy institution, embracing at the same time an opportunity to witness a first class show.
 Monday there was pleasant picnic party from Nogales out on the Santa Cruz river, in the vicin> ity of Tubac and Tumacacori. They had gone to Tubac, some as witnesses, others to keep company with the witnesses in the case that went to Tubac for hearing that day. When the court trouble was over they repaired to cottonwood grove by the river, and beneath
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well came up from San Bias for a short visit at the line city.
 Doctor II. W. Kelly has taken the residence of Captain l.. w. Mix, and occupied the premises last week.
 Saturday evening Jesse Chatham returned from Tempe, where he had been in attendance at the nor nal school.
 Friday of last week Doctor w. F. Chenoweth went to Los Angeles for a short business visit, returning home Monday evening.
 Mark Lulley has remodelled and refitted the rink throughout, and is arranging to make the same a very popular place of amusement.
 MT. J. B. Bristol has secured from the railway company a lease of the base ball ground, and steps will be taken for its improvement.
 Saturday evening Miss Edith Doherty returned home from Tempe, where she has been in attendance at the territorial normal school.
 Note the change in the advertise ment of J. M. Summey of the Elite barber shop, and the announcement 1t contains of the New Method laundry.
 Monday MT. Ramon Moreno went to the vicinity of Tubac after cattle for the Santa Cruz meat mar ket, bringing in fourteen head of good beef steers.
 Considerable warm weather is being experienced of late, but the nights generally are cool. When there are several hot days and warm nights in succession the sum- mer rains may be expected.
 MT. and Mrs. A. R. Oster came up from Guaymas Saturday even- ing, and Monday they went to Los Angeles to attend the commence ment exercises of the school from which their daughter graduated.
 Sheriff Harry J. Saxon is con- fined yet to his bed with malarial fever. He has been i'll several weeks. Doctor w. F. Chenoweth is attending the patient and doing everything possible to alleviate his condition.
 Monday evening Mayor John T. Brickwood returned from the Indian Hot Springs in Graham county, near Fort Thomas, where he re- mained some seventeen days. He was improved greatly by his stay beside the healing waters.
 Mir. w. J. Neumann is erecting one-story brick building on his Nelson avenue property, at the corner of East street. The struc- tnre is 60x22 feet in dimensions, and will be arranged for store, with two living rooms in the rear.
 Thursday afternoon there was a confagration by which a house on Sonoita avenue near Elm street Gin the cafion) was almost entirely destroyed. The fire department turned out promptly, but the water pressure did not respond to- the electric valve quickly, with a result that much valuable time was lost before an effective stream
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NOTICE.

TIE OASIS will be found on file in the following places:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-22
lOSTENTATIOUS

Display is the antithesis of cultu expression, but nothing should e> this in view. Beauty and artistic
 motive in making selections. merit demand a choice of talent materials. These in turn demand c lies the legitimate expression of we made according to these principles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-22

bee that will gather honey or a wasp that finds her chief delight in thrusting a merciess sting?
 And, if 1t Is difficult for a man to se- feet the right kind of a wife, how much more difficult for woman to make the right choice of a husbandi A woman seems to be entirely helpless Her danger is greater, and the results to her at least may be even more tragic. A man may make a success in spite of an un- happy marriage, but when a woman mar ries. man beneath her she Inevitably drops to her husbands level, and there is hardly an exception to the rule. Now, when men and women go counting, what should they do? The most important act is to go to God in prayer. God would se- lect for Isaac Rebecca and for Jacob Rachel. Surely he will select for you a marital companion and make no mis- take Philip Henry used to say to his children: Please God and you will please me-" Then at the wedding he would say: "Others wish you all happiness. I wish you all holiness; then there is no doubt that you will have all happiness" Was it a foolish caution? If we please God are we not sure to make the right move when we plight our troth under the orange blossoms? We have often heard ministers plead with wives to pray for their erring husbands. If some ministers would teach their people to pray before they entered the marital yoke, there would not be so many erring husbands to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-22

pray for nor so many broken hearted wives.
 But where should we make prayerful selections more earnest and intense than in our church work? If there is any one place set apart for the purpose of prayer and for the demonstrations of the power of prayer, that place should be the church of God, and yet l am amazed to find how often a church in the crisis of it's history neglects pray CT, and this fact is never more demon- strated than in the way the average church goes about to select a pastor.
 Selecting Pastor.
 Now, how does the average church select new pastor? First the congre- gation chooses a committee to look out for a suitable candidate This commit tee sends it's Invitations to different min isters to ask them to supply the pulpit The candidates come before the congre- gation and preach their trial sermons The congregation is divided into factions or cliuues. One faction likes one can didate because he has curly hair and creases in his trousers and has win- ming smile and is good looking. Another faction favors another man because he is endowed with a fine voice and has perfect elocution. Another candidate is rejected because he is past fifty and the church wants a young man. And so the sec saving goes on until at last a man comes along who sweeps everything by storm. he has a genius for getting calls. He has four or five good sermons. He has spent weeks and months upon them. Like the mosaics of the Alhambra, those ser mons are a patchwork of many different sermons. It would not be so bad if that minister had made them mosaic of his own discourses, but sometimes they are taken from the sermons of BSecher, Brooks or Parker. We must have this minister and have him right away!' cries the congregation. Wait" says some old conservative elder. You do not know vet who this man is. Let us investigate a little further. It is not the first ser mon or the tenth but what kind of a sermon a man can preach after he has been in the pulpit for five years, that decides whether he is good preacher or not. Then let us find out what kind of a Christian leader this man is. VIII he be a true guide? Is he right upon the doctrine of the atonement? Does he gamble at progressive euchre parties? Does he drink and dance and go to the theatre? If he does we do not want him even though he has the golden lips of A. Chrysostom. Let us pray over this matter a little while. If we ask God to lead us he will not let us make mis- take" Is the old elder right? Shall we
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rot ask God to lead us when we are about to choose a new pastor?
 Ask Gods Aid,

rot ask God to lead us when we are about to choose a new pastor?
 Ask Gods Aid
 But if we are to lead the right Chris tian life we must ask God what we shall do for others as well as what others shall do for us. "Oh, I cannot do any thing to help a person or to lead trou- bled soul to Him!" Is that so, my brother? Are you not doing yourself an injustice? The reason most of us have never done anything for Christ is because most of us have never tried. We have not the de- sire; therefore we have done nothing for Him. We do not strive; therefore, we do not achieve.
 What have you ever tried to do for God? Whom have you ever tried to lead to the Master? What aching heart have you tried to heal? Have you ever gone to God in prayer and asked Him to guide you on a gospel mission and show you where you ought to work in His name? It was very important for the disciples to ask whom they should select for the vacant position in the apostolate, but it was just as important for each one of those disciples to make the prayer like that Paul offered on the Damascus road, Lord what wilt thou have me to do?' If you get down on your Knees ana earn estly pray to God for position in His army on the battle line, there Is no doubt He will detail you for active work. Pray earnestly that God will open to you un- limited fields of gospel usefulness. And they prayed and said, Thou, Lord, which knoWest the hearts of all men, show whether of these two thou hast chosen" We are gospel soldiers, and we must go to our Divine Commander for marching orders. When you once swear your alleg- lance to Him you are never to make move in life, no matter what 1t may be. unless you first kneel down and implore the blessing and guidance of God. In your daily communication with God are you willing to do as did Matthew Henry's father? The boy was very Sick. The father said, eff the Lord will be pleased to grant me this request I will not say, as do the beggars at my door. T will never ask anything of God again. but. on the contrary. He shall hear me oftener
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-22
POISONING A FINE ART.
Scale of Prices Submitted to the Vene-
 tan Council of Ten.

From Health
 Venetian poisoners first came into noto- riety in the fifteenth century. At that period the mania for poisoning had risen to such height that the governments or the states were formally recognizing se- cret assassinations by poison and con sidering the removal of emperors, princes and powerful nobles by this method.
 The notorious Council of Ten met to consider such plans and an account and record of their proceedings still exists, giving the number of those who voted for and who voted against the proposed remoyal the reasons for the assassination and the sum to be paid for the assassina- tion
 Thus these conspirators quietly arrang- ed to take the lives of many prominent individuals, and when the deed was eX- ecuted it was registered on the margin of their official record by the significant word. "Factum.'
 On December 15. 154S John of Raguba offered the council a selection of poisons and declared ,himself ready to remove any person whom they deemed objectionable out of the way. He calmly stated his terms. which for the first successful case were to be pension of 1900 ducats a year. to be increased on the execution of further services.
 The presidents, Guoando Duoda and Pietro Guiarni, placed this matter before the council on January 4, 1544, and on a division 1t was resolved to accept this patriotic offer and to experiment first on the Emperor Maximilian. John, who had evidently reduced poisoning to fine art, submitted afterward a regular graduated tariff to the councils The highest Tee was for soisoning the <ultan, 300 ducats; for the King of Spain, 150 ducats, ln- cluding the expenses of the journey; for the Duke of Milan, 60 ducats; for the Marquis of Mantua, 50 ducats for the Pope, 1SO ducats.
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than ever and I will love God better as long as I live"
 Are you willing from now on to walk in such close communion with God that you will never cease to ask Him what He wants you to do and that your chief pleasure in life will be to find out His will and to accept and obey it cheerfully?
 Copyrighted, 1908, by Louis Klopsch.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-22

ito your measure and send it to you on sfct guar
 antee of satisfaction or money refunded and have put my price % low that anybody rich or poor can buy 1t. Remember, I make 1t to your order-send 10 to you-you itand fiji doesn't satisfy you you send 1t bacx to me and will refund your money. The banks or any responsible citzen in Marshall VIII
 tell you that is tho way do bustness-aiways abso- &utey on the square and have cold to thousands of Jnsople this way for the past nve years Remember, u1ee no salves, hsrness no lies. no fakos just afvc ou straight business dsal st prcs )c. E. MR0oKs. sets sreeks elds.. Mauhah Mleh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-22
Don't Wear
 A Truss

Brooks' Appliance Is . new scientific discovery with automatic air cush- ions that draws tho broken parts together and binds them @ you would . bro ken limb. It absolutely holds firmly and comfort ably and never slips; alwayS light and cool and conforms to every move. mont of tho body without Ohafin0 or hnrtin1. makA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-22

No matter what you take you'll like Pep-T better
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
BANKS GUILTY OF
SECOND-DEGREE MURDER

The jury in the case of Dewey
Banks, who shot and MORALLY wound
ed Hugh NJ. Carter in Parks saloon
some weeks ago, found the defendant
guilty of murder in the second degree,
late Monday night. after two hours
deliberation.
Banks took the stand in his own be-
half Monday afternoon and pleaded
self-defense. His story was that he
was standing at the bar OF the saloon
when Carter attacked Ernest Banks,
brother OF the defendant, with q
cane Ernest fed. whereupon. Banks,
alleged, Carter started for him with
cane appraised. 1t was then. he said.
that he pulled his revolver and fired
with the intention OF soaring Carter.
He did not know until later Carter had
been hit, he said.
Banks was remanded for sentence
by Judge Phelan.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
GR|D|R0N BANQUET
Of -D.P.W. MAKES
BIC HIT
PUBLIC OFFICIALS CHILLED BY
CLEVER JokE-MAkERs - THE
STREET RY. COMMISSION FAILS
TO SOLVE TRACTION PROBLEM.

Commissioner Haarer. OF the de-
partment OF public works. was the
guest OF his employees in the Hotel Ste.
Claire Monday night, the occasion be-
ing the 'griGiron" banquet Of the de-
partment. Superintendent. clerks
and foremen had arranged a bur
lesque show among themselves for
his benefit and that of other invited
guests. the list OF the latter including
Mayor-elect Philip Breitmeyer, ex-
Mayor George p. Codd. Judge James
o. Muffin, Homer Warren and John
Gillespie.
No one present was exempt from
the gibes and roasts that were passed
out during the evening and the speak
ers' table got its full share Of atten-
ton from the Joke-makers. During
the banquet. Messrs. Ullmann. J. Cole.
Gordon and Schuette did minstrel
stunts and sang several parodies, re-
CARELESS of the crowds opinion.
Then the tables were cleared and
the real fun began. Secretary w. W..
Magee presented number Of most
extraordinary estimates for consider
alton. Rondeau, Bunnell. Peter Dunn.
Frank T. Shier. Charles Krecke and
Howard c. Beck formed themselves
into street railway commission and
attempted to solve the traction prob
lem, finally giving the matter up and
passing 1t back 10 Breitmeyer.
Three men In disguise then enter
ed the hall and announced their pur-
pose to conduct an investigation OF
the ID. p. w. Their speeches and
methods were take-offs on certain
Democratic leaders. At the close OF
this investigation funeral procession
entered to the dirge-like strains OF a
well-known oriental melody and Frank
Aldrich delivered a funeral Grafton
over the remains OF Tammany.
Permits to speak were then issued
by Permit Clerk Thomas Hudson. The
ward foremen contributed a final en-
semble number. The bold investiga-
tors were identified at the close of
the banquet as Charles Becker, Chas.
Culver and X. JOS. Dever. About 125
were present at the banquet. Edward
Bullock presided and Milton Palmer
was POSTMASTER.
Among the songs that were sung
were these:
The aldermen are mighty men but they
must make a show:
They get the foreign voters, and the
voters get the dough:
The man who swings a shovel, he can
swing a ballot. too,
And they tabber at the foreman till he
doesn't know what to do.
You've got to learn Italian and a little
modern Greek.
You must be strong on German and
the Polish language speak:
You ought to know Hungarian and
also Russian Jew,
To be an ideal foreman In the d. p. w.
weed inspector rambled out with his
little bunch of line.
He looked at weeds. and measured lots.
and said the job was fine;
But when the bills were all turned In,
the treasurer gave a sigh.
He said II would be cheaper to let the
,weeds grow up to the sky.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
DEATH COMES TO
c. NJ. SCANNED

Clark NJ. Scanned, for the last ~
years representative for the Johnston
Optical Co, In the state of Michigan.
died Monday In his home. No. 81
Perry-st., of acute indigestion Mr..
Scanned was born in Syracuse, N. Y.
SO years ago. but came to Detroit
some q years ago and has lived here
ever since. For the last IL years he
was a member Of the official board OF
Simpson Methodist church and was
an active worker In that denomination.
Besides his wife, he is survived by
n daughter. Mrs. f. T. Colwell, Of De-
troit, and son, Robert s. Scanned.
OF Argyle, MINI. The funeral will
take place Thursday afternoon at
O'Clock from the home. the Rev.
Frank F. Fitchett. Of Simpson church,
to officiate.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
Or. r. w. Herbertx Dead.

~Dr. Frederick w. Herbtrtz, who has
practiced meSscine In Detroit for over
30 years. died I'm his home. No. 2l3
Antietam-st., from dropsy and the
shock of an operation on his elbow a
few weeks ago. The doctor has been
in poor health since he fractured his
leg several years ago. He was 81
years old and has practiced medicine
on Antietam-st.. for many years. Be.
sides his wife. he is survived by a
brother, Frank Herbertz. Of Detroit
The funeral VIII take place at 2
o'clock Thursday afternoon from the
homo and later from the crematory.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
PROMINENT ESSEX
COUNTY FARMER DEAD

Horatio Wigle, farmer, manufacture
err and ell operator. Is dead at his
home In Ruthven, Essex county. He
was one of the wealthiest and best
known members OF the family OF that
name. Besides his holdings in real
estate aud oil producing lands, he was
the largest stakeholder in the United
States Whiffletree Co, In Ypsilanti.
Besides his widow he leaves five chill
dren. These are DR.. Lewis Wigle and
Mrs. A. d. Clinton, OF Detroit; Rinaldo
Wigle. OF Ypsilanti; Mrs. John Craw.
ford. OF Toledo, and Miss Grace Wigie.
at home.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
MERCURY At 10;
STARTS UP AGAIN

Early risers got all the worst OF 1t
Tuesday morning. That was because
the slump in temperature reached its
bottom point at that hour with a mark
of 10 degrees above zero. This was
the crest of brief cold wave which
will be gone again by Tuesday night.
With the dying down of the arctic
gale of the past two days, there has
gone a change TO more southerly
winds and the forecast is for cloudy
weather with snow flurries and tenn
perature up close to the melting point
at which snow becomes slush. This
goes for Wednesday also, and then
we will take another guess. as the
weather Is not guaranteed to wear
more than SO hours at any time.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
Forced Drauoht Realism.

"How Is IL that Scribbler's novels
thrill with such vital. gripping, real
istic portrayal of human passions
asked banks.
Well" said Hanks, when he, gets
ready to write a novel. he orders Il
general housekeeping, sends for the
plumber To fix the gas jets. and for
the timer TO fix the stove pipes, bids
his little daughter 20 stay at home
TO practice five-fnger exercises. hires
a street piano To play German, Irish
and Italian national airs In front OF
the house. and tells his wife that her
family Is not as good as his own. Then
he sits and takes notes OF what hap
pens. "-Bfooklyn Life.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
TO PRESENT LOCAL
OPTION QUESTION

IRON MOUNTAIN. Mich, Dec. s.
The Dickinson county temperance
convention held here decided to pre-
sent the local option question at the
next spring election. The campaign
will be conducted In a vigorous man
ner by the anti-saloon league OF the
state headed by Rev. c. II. Rutledge.
representative OF the league In this
district
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
$1,000 In silver Taken.

NEW YORK, Dec. S.-The police OF
Jersey City today began search for
two burglars, a man and woman.
who we're seen to step from a
broughan, dressed in evening clothes.
and walk up the stoop OF the home
of John Williams, a wealthy merchant
at 81 Pleasant-ave., while the family
were out. The house was afterward
found ransacked and $1,000 worth OF
silver gone.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
ttarahan Denies.

CHICAGO. Dec. S.-Presldent J. T.
Harahan, of the Illinois Central rail-
way yesterday emphatically denied
the published reports that he was tn
resign the presidency OF the railroad
and would be succeeded In ONCE by
w. b. Scott, a director OF the Union
Pacific and Mobile 4 Ohio roads.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
WILSON WILL LIFT
EMBARGO WHEN POSSIBLE

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.-Secretary
OF Agriculture Wilson has notified the
delegation OF the Michigan Hay Deal
ers' association that he will lift the
embargo on hay and other products
Just as soon as he feels he can con-
sistently do SO. The Michigan hay
representatives had long talR with
Mr.. Wilson late yesterday. At least a
portion of Michigan will be relieved
from the quarantine, II was said, as
soon as conditions warrant.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-08
New Rood FACTORY Cor Wlndsor.

The Postum Cereal Co., OF Battle
Creek, has practically completed ne
gotiations for the purchase Of eight
acres of land In Windsor. upon which
they will erect $4,000 factory to
manufacture goods for Canadian
trade. They company will be exempt
from taxes for 10 years. and will be
given free water and light.